Died at Four in the Morning?

The words exploded through the classroom like a thunderclap! Everyone's pupils contracted.

"What?! A Faceling!"

The fat man was the first to stand, trembling slightly as he picked up a stick.

"A F-Faceling?"

Everyone still vividly remembered the state Zhang Lei and the other person had died in yesterday. Fear of the Facelings could overwhelm everyone's minds!

Li Wei froze too. He had been hiding among the crowd the whole time. He was in Lin Yang's camp, had been there when the food was collected, and had been at the forefront of the fight.

He was chewing bread now. He turned his head and stared blankly at Lin Yang.

"What did you say?"

But Lin Yang wasn't intimidated in the least. With plenty of men at his disposal, now was the perfect chance to kill this Faceling in one decisive move!

He said, "Li Wei is a Faceling!"

Li Wei's expression was stiff as he forced an ugly smile.

"Lin Yang, what are you talking about? How could I be a Faceling? Is this because we had a little scuffle in the storage room yesterday, and now you think I'm a Faceling?"

Lin Yang said coldly, "Li Wei! Stop pretending. You're a Faceling!"

Li Wei laughed. "I'm a Faceling? How come I didn't know? You're the one who made the rule against killing people at random, and now you want to kill someone for your own selfish reasons?"

Li Wei's words did make quite a few people fall into thought.

"Yeah, Li Wei was right at the front during the fight just now. He even shared some food with me. How could he be a Faceling?"

"Lin Yang, if he offended you, we can help you beat him up, but isn't it a bit much to slander him by calling him a Faceling?"

Many people fell into thought. Some thought they couldn't kill him, while others thought they could.

For the first time, the fat man and the young man presented a united front. "Pah! Lin Yang says he's a Faceling, so he must be a Faceling! Stop pretending!"

Li Wei stared coldly at Lin Yang and said, "How can you prove I'm a Faceling? Or... are you the seer?"

As he said this, a barely perceptible hint of madness lurked in his eyes.

Someone beside him chimed in. "Yeah, how can you prove he's a Faceling?"

Lin Yang's mind raced. He had already prepared an answer.

"I'm not the seer, but I have proof."

"Proof? What proof?" everyone asked in confusion.

Lin Yang pointed at his hand. "There's blood on his hand!"

Everyone froze for a moment at that, their gazes falling on his hand.

Li Wei deliberately tried to avoid them, but the fat man immediately stepped forward and seized his hand.

Sure enough, some dried red marks remained on his palm! Unless they were mistaken, that was blood!

"Blood! It really is blood!"

Everyone drew a sharp breath, and the way they looked at Li Wei changed.

Li Wei didn't panic. He put on a stiff expression. "What does having blood on me prove?"

The young man in the hoodie said, "It proves you killed someone!"

"No! I got this blood on me when I fought them!" Li Wei pointed at the muscular men.

He looked at the group, the corners of his mouth lifting again. "You've all got some blood on your palms too, don't you? Can you really decide I'm a Faceling based on that alone?"

He looked utterly confused.

His words were logical and clear. To everyone watching, he didn't seem like a Faceling at all!

The muscular man, eager to see more trouble, walked over with his arms folded and said,

"Yeah, I've got to say something fair here! You're calling him a Faceling for no reason, and after he helped you fight just now, too!"

He pointed at Lin Yang.

"What are you going to do if this kid accuses you of being a Faceling next?"

At that, everyone felt threatened. They looked at one another.

"That's true... A little blood isn't enough to prove he's a Faceling. I've got blood on my hands too."

But Lin Yang stepped forward and said,

"I won't falsely accuse a good person, and I won't wrongly kill an innocent one. I can prove he got this blood on him when he killed Zhang Lei!"

Everyone froze. "How can you prove it?"

Lin Yang's gaze fell on Jiang Yu'an.

"Jiang Yu'an was my high school classmate. I remember she became a professional forensic pathologist after graduating from university. That means she can determine whether this blood was left there last night!"

Everyone's eyes lit up at that. They looked at Jiang Yu'an as though she were a national treasure.

"Is that true? If we have a professional forensic pathologist here, then she really can test it!"

Jiang Yu'an's expression changed. She wanted to say something, but in the end, she looked into Lin Yang's eyes. Their gazes met, and after a moment's thought, she nodded.

"I am a forensic pathologist. I can test it."

Everyone looked excited. "Then hurry up and test it!"

Li Wei was the only one in the room whose expression was extremely ugly. But he couldn't back down now, so he could only walk over to Jiang Yu'an.

He stiffly held out his hand, revealing several dried drops of blood on his palm and fingertips.

Jiang Yu'an placed his hand on the table.

Everyone stopped breathing for a second! The fat man's hand had already closed around a craft knife! Lin Yang stood behind Li Wei with a length of rope in his hand. As soon as Jiang Yu'an gave them the test result, they would make their move!

Jiang Yu'an's throat bobbed, and her breathing grew heavier. She spoke in professional terms.

"Human blood detected on the hand... dried bloodstains. Based on a physicochemical examination of the bloodstains' age, they are estimated to have formed approximately... eighteen hours before today's examination."

Eighteen hours!

The fat man let out an earth-shaking shout. "Eighteen hours?! Wouldn't that be midnight last night?!"

"It's him!! He's a Faceling!"

Lin Yang said, "The evidence is conclusive! Kill him!"

Li Wei's expression shifted again and again, gradually twisting!

"No..."

Li Wei's face twitched as he said, "No! Eighteen hours ago was midnight! That guy died at four in the morning! How could it..."

Everyone drew a sharp breath.

Lin Yang sneered. "He died at four in the morning?"