The moment the chubby boy finished speaking, discussion erupted around him.
"No way. Lin Jie exposed Li Xin as a wolf. How could he be a werewolf himself?"
"Don't underestimate Lin Jie. Maybe this was his plan..."
The chubby boy stared hard at Lin Jie. "Well? LJ?"
"Your plan was simply to sacrifice the weaker member of the werewolf team."
"To make yourself look more trustworthy."
"Am I right?"
The chubby boy's accusations went beyond what Lin Jie had anticipated.
He had never expected the seer he had found to identify him as a werewolf!
Stay calm. Stay calm...
Fortunately, Lin Jie had weathered plenty of storms. He quickly began analyzing the situation.
If the chubby boy really was the seer, then his check should also be genuine.
So Lin Jie's blank role card actually meant he was a werewolf!?
If that was true, Lin Jie was undoubtedly in an extremely bad position.
Li Xin, the werewolf everyone was attacking, was actually his teammate!
And his own werewolf identity had already been exposed.
Things looked very unfavorable for the werewolf faction.
Lin Jie silently lowered his head, seemingly deep in thought.
"Heh."
He suddenly let out a cold chuckle.
Everyone around him watched, unsure what he was going to do.
The more adversity Lin Jie faced, the more excited he became!
He raised his head.
Zhu Lun, was it? Looks like you're an expert at Werewolf.
Let's see how you fare against me, Lin Jie!
A confident smile spread across Lin Jie's face as he looked mildly at the chubby boy.
Despite his friendly expression, for some reason, the chubby boy felt distinctly unnerved.
He asked uncertainly, "Y-you, what are you smiling at?"
Lin Jie's voice was calm. "You say you're the seer. Then I have a few questions for you."
"You say Li Xin and I are teammates, and it was all an act. In that case-"
"Li Xin hadn't exposed herself at the beginning. In fact, she'd even won the trust of certain people..."
As he spoke, Lin Jie glanced at Chen Li.
Chen Li scratched his head awkwardly. He was the one Li Xin had fooled at the beginning.
"...Then why would I risk drawing attention to myself by exposing Li Xin?"
"If we were both werewolves, what difference would it make which of us won the good players' trust?"
But the chubby boy looked impatient.
"Didn't I already say it? It was your wolf team's strategy!"
"Of the two of you, you're clearly the smarter one. Keeping you alive is more valuable to the wolf team."
"So isn't it perfectly normal to sacrifice Li Xin to protect you?"
Lin Jie kept smiling. "Zhu Lun, you're an experienced Werewolf player, aren't you?"
The sudden question threw the chubby boy, but he remained on guard. "What if I am? What does that have to do with my reasoning just now?"
Lin Jie shook his head slightly. "Of course it matters."
"All your reasoning is based on ordinary Werewolf."
"In a normal game of Werewolf, sacrificing some teammates for the team's victory is common practice."
"But today's game of Werewolf can get you killed!"
Lin Jie turned to everyone and posed a question. "I'd like to ask you all: if you were Li Xin, would you willingly sacrifice yourself for two werewolf teammates you'd never met before, to ensure the team's victory?"
Naturally, everyone shook their heads.
"That's exactly the problem! In a game of life and death like this, no one would sacrifice their life for their teammates!"
"Look at Li Xin right now. Does she look like someone who successfully carried out a perfect plan?"
Everyone looked at Li Xin.
Li Xin had scratched her once-neat hair into a complete mess and bitten her fingertips bloody. She looked utterly distraught.
Lin Jie turned to the chubby boy. "So how could anyone believe your ridiculous claim that Li Xin sacrificed herself for me?"
Everyone involuntarily began to think it over.
Discussion rose around them.
"Lin Jie seems to have a point. Would a werewolf really sacrifice themselves...?"
Seeing their reactions, the chubby boy grew flustered and furious. "He's talking nonsense! Everything I said is true!"
"I'm the seer! He's a werewolf!"
At that moment, Xia Qu, the female student who had remained silent all this time, suddenly spoke up.
"I have a suggestion."
Everyone turned to look at her.
With so many people watching her, Xia Qu couldn't help growing nervous.
But she still plucked up her courage and finished.
"Earlier, when that older girl claimed seer, we asked her to explain why she'd chosen the person she checked, and describe how she'd checked them during the night."
"We used that to judge whether she really was the seer."
"So I was thinking, could we also..."
"Ask Zhu Lun to do the same?"
Director Zheng nodded. "We found a hole in Li Xin's story using that method earlier. That proves it's a good method."
"What do you say, Zhu Lun? Can you do that?"
The chubby boy took a deep breath and plopped down into his seat.
"Why not? I really am the seer, so of course I have no problem explaining."
"First, why I chose to check him."
"It's very simple."
"Phantom Thief LJ is a living legend, and he's also my idol."
"So when I got the seer role, there was no way I could resist checking him."
"But when the result came back werewolf, there was nothing I could do."
"Even if he's my idol, I have a responsibility to the good faction to report my check result faithfully."
Lin Jie inwardly scoffed.
Heh. This chubby boy really is a hypocrite.
His attitude just now had clearly shown that he wanted Lin Jie dead, yet he was still pretending LJ was his idol.
He also claimed he was taking responsibility for the good faction, when clearly Zhu Lun just wanted to win himself.
Lin Jie betrayed nothing and continued listening to the chubby boy's speech.
If the chubby boy really was the seer, then his account ought to be flawless.
But this concerned Lin Jie's life and death.
If Lin Jie really was a werewolf, he was confident that his eloquence could turn white into black and tear even a flawless speech to shreds!
He could frame the real seer as an ironclad wolf!
The chubby boy continued.
"As for what happened during the night, that's very simple too."
"During the night, I kept my eyes tightly shut and waited for God to call the seer."
"I'd already decided to check Lin Jie's role."
"I didn't think much of it then. I thought I'd find he was good."
"Then, once day came, I could give him a gold water."
Lin Jie thought to himself that this chubby boy really was an experienced Werewolf player.
"Gold water" meant "a player the seer had checked and found to be good."
It was jargon only veteran Werewolf players understood.
"So when God called me, I immediately opened my eyes."
"Just as I'd expected, once I opened my eyes, I could see."
"I quickly looked toward player number nine, where Lin Jie was sitting."
"His head was lowered, his eyes tightly shut, and he wasn't moving."
"Without hesitating, I quickly signaled a nine to God."
"Then I watched God's hand."
"But to my surprise, God actually gave me a thumbs-down!"
"That meant Lin Jie's role was werewolf!"
"I was half shocked and half nervous."
"At the same time, I also felt excited."
"My idol and I were on opposing sides. I could have a showdown with him!"
"So I closed my eyes and waited for dawn."
"That's everything that happened during the night."
The chubby boy finished in one breath and leaned back in his seat, affecting ease.
The others had yet to react, still mulling over his account.
But a faint smile had already appeared on Lin Jie's lips.
He had originally been considering how to twist the truth and forcibly find contradictions in the chubby boy's speech.
But things had turned out even simpler than Lin Jie had imagined.
Zhu Lun's speech just now already contained a fatal flaw!