Sure enough, Lin Jie himself was the Seer who had yet to reveal himself!
He smiled at God, who nodded back appreciatively.
"Seer, please choose the player you wish to inspect."
Lin Jie let out a soft breath and looked around.
Apart from the two heaps of corpses in seats 3 and 5, the remaining players sat motionless with their eyes tightly shut.
Who should I inspect?
Logically speaking, Li Xin and Zhu Lun were both wolves, and tonight, the Witch would poison Li Xin.
The Seer should try to find the third wolf with his inspection to get the most value out of it.
But...
Lin Jie looked toward Li Xin.
She was still in the same position as before nightfall, slumped over the table with her head buried in her arms, completely motionless.
That meant Li Xin could not be a Werewolf.
Lin Jie had a special trick when playing Werewolf.
He called it "memory comparison."
If he suspected someone might be a Werewolf, he would memorize their posture before closing his eyes at nightfall.
If that person was a wolf, they would open their eyes during the night to act and signal a number to the moderator.
So a Werewolf's posture would definitely have changed.
And now, the Werewolves' action phase had already ended.
He only needed to compare Li Xin's current posture with the one he had memorized before nightfall to determine whether she had opened her eyes during the Werewolves' turn.
Lin Jie watched Li Xin intently.
Why was her posture exactly the same as before nightfall?
Li Xin never opened her eyes last night!
That meant she wasn't a Werewolf at all!
Had all my earlier judgments really been wrong?
Were Li Xin and Zhu Lun just two good players messing around?
And were the three real Werewolves still hiding among everyone else?
If that was true, the good faction was in grave danger!
If Li Xin really was good, all my earlier judgments would have to be scrapped!
Her role was crucial!
So even though Li Xin was about to be poisoned by the Witch, Lin Jie had to take the risk and inspect her role.
Having made up his mind, Lin Jie began his inspection.
He reached out and held up two fingers to God.
Inspect player 2, Li Xin.
God nodded and raised his hand.
"Watch my hand signal. A thumbs-up means good; a wolf claw means Werewolf. This person's alignment is..."
A wolf claw. A wolf claw...
Lin Jie repeated the words silently, his eyes fixed on God's hand.
If it was a wolf claw, that would prove I'd been worrying over nothing. The good faction would have a huge advantage.
But things did not go as he wished.
God closed his fist and gave Lin Jie a thumbs-up.
Player 2, Li Xin: good.
A bolt from the blue.
The worst had happened.
"Seer, please close your eyes."
Damn it!
Before closing his eyes, Lin Jie shot Li Xin a furious glare.
If you're good, why did you lie and pretend to be the Seer!
Li Xin's bizarre play had undoubtedly put the good faction at an extreme disadvantage.
Now, the dead chubby boy could not have been a Werewolf either.
To think they really had wrongfully killed a good player during the day.
No, things were even worse than mistakenly killing one good player!
If Li Xin was good, that meant one irrefutable fact!
The good faction had already lost!
Counting the crazy old man who had openly claimed Villager, Li Xin who was about to be poisoned, and whoever would be killed by the wolves tonight...
The good faction was about to lose four players.
Only two good players would remain.
Meanwhile, the Werewolves had lost no one. All three were still alive.
Soon, the Werewolves could announce that they controlled the vote and claim a flawless victory.
It was an unwinnable dead end.
There was no way to turn things around.
The good faction had lost.
Once he understood that, Lin Jie suddenly felt completely at ease.
When there had still been hope of winning, Lin Jie had been terribly tense, struggling with every step, afraid of making a single wrong move.
But now that the fatal ending was truly approaching, Lin Jie grew calm instead.
He sat upright, quietly waiting for daybreak.
"All players have finished acting. Day has broken. Please open your eyes."
"No one died last night."
Lin Jie's eyes suddenly widened.
No one died?
That meant the game wasn't over yet!
"Woohoo!!!"
Everyone cheered at the news.
"The Guard's a badass!" Chen Li began clapping the instant he heard that no one had died.
The others also wore smiles of varying degrees.
After witnessing so many terrifying deaths, their emotions had been suppressed for a long time and desperately needed an outlet.
This deathless night allowed everyone's taut nerves to relax. It was a rare chance to catch their breath.
"Ahem, listen." Director Zheng suddenly interrupted the celebration. "I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but a deathless night isn't necessarily a good thing, is it?"
He suddenly pointed in one direction. "Witch, can you explain why this woman is still sitting here?"
Everyone looked where he was pointing.
Li Xin was slumped in her seat, looking as though she had narrowly escaped death.
"Yeah, exactly! What's with the Witch? There's an obvious wolf sitting right here, but they didn't use the poison?"
Amid the murmured discussion, a timid female voice suddenly spoke up.
"I think... maybe the Witch was afraid of poisoning the wrong person and wanted to be more cautious, so she didn't use her ability last night?"
The speaker was Xia Qu. She still had not gotten used to speaking in front of so many people.
The man in the suit frowned. "Your explanation isn't right."
"Listen, everyone. It makes perfect sense that the Witch didn't use the poison!"
He drew everyone's attention.
"Have you forgotten that the Witch didn't use the antidote on the first day?"
Everyone came to their senses.
"According to the rules, the Witch cannot use both potions on the same day!"
"With both the antidote and poison still available, the Witch chose to prioritize the antidote and save the player the Werewolves killed today."
"That's why no one died last night."
"That's the real reason Li Xin wasn't poisoned."
Everyone found that reasonable and nodded.
"Right, right. I completely forgot the Witch still had the antidote."
"So there's a rule that the Witch can't use both potions on the same day."
"The antidote really should come first."
Player 8, Liu Yunyun, suddenly spoke. "Could you be the Witch, Mr. Zhou?"
"After all, only the Witch would know the Witch's rules in such detail, and only the Witch would know exactly what happened at night."
Hearing this, everyone looked at Zhou Lan.
In their eyes, Zhou Lan really did seem very much like the Witch.
But Zhou Lan kept a stern face. "I can't say whether I'm the Witch or not, and everyone should stop focusing on my role."
"After all, the Witch is also a priority target for the Werewolves."
"If the Guard thinks I seem like the Witch, they can prioritize protecting me."
Those words were essentially an admission that he was the Witch.
Everyone tacitly fell silent.
Liu Yunyun also realized she had asked the wrong question and hurriedly changed the subject. "All right, let's stop worrying about who the Witch is. What we should be discussing is who to execute today."
As she spoke, she stared at Li Xin.
But Li Xin shook her head in panic. "I really am not a Werewolf!"
Zheng Yi spoke in a low voice. "All right. I'm sure no one has any doubts about who we should execute today."
"Li Xin, you escaped death because the Witch needed to save someone last night."
"But today, you can only meet the end a Werewolf deserves."
"I propose that we unanimously vote to execute Li Xin today."
Li Xin had thought she would die during the night. When she suddenly heard that no one had died, she instantly felt as though she had been given a new lease on life.
But now she faced execution the following day. These drastic ups and downs had already brought her to a mental breakdown.
Besides, she was good.
A good player, accused of being a wolf by everyone.
She covered her face, tears flowing endlessly as she murmured, "Someone save me... someone save me..."
Zheng Yi mercilessly raised his hand and signaled the number 2.
"No objections, I assume?"
Seeing this, the others began raising their arms as well.
An innocent person was about to be executed.
"Wait!" The voice was firm and powerful.
Li Xin looked up as though she had seen her savior.
Lin Jie stepped forward and loudly objected.
"I object!"