Chapter 157： ultimate challenge

Rongzhi: [This game has more than one murderer. 】

Lu Shijin: [I know. Moreover, players may not know whether they are the real murderer themselves, so they must first find out their motives and methods of killing. 】

Rongzhi: [Yes. For the time being, don't expose what we know, and act on a whim. 】

Lu Shijin: [Good. 】

Rong Zhi said that, Lu Shijin understood why he pretended not to know him before.

If it is seen by other players that they know each other, they will definitely become the target of everyone's fire, and they will be thrown out first.

Although there is already a grouping behavior among the players, this alliance is not stable, and the relationship between Rongzhi and Lu Shijin, which they have known before, is too threatening to them.

The phone didn't vibrate anymore, I thought the conversation with Rongzhi was over, but the screen suddenly lit up again.

Rongzhi: [Which room are you in? 】

Lu Shijin: [204]

Rongzhi: [I am next to you. 】

Lu Shijin was about to ask who was next door, when a few knocks on the wall suddenly sounded from the head of the bed.

After Lu Shijin heard it, he got up and knocked on the wall in response.

After getting a response, there was no movement there, and the room was completely quiet.

Lu Shijin lay down again, and after knowing that the two rooms were connected, he felt inexplicably at ease, and his nervous mood relaxed a lot.

Rongzhi is Pei Wen. He is no longer alone. With a partner who can fight side by side, his chances of winning this game can be said to be very high.

As soon as his mood is relaxed, sleepiness will surge up. Even in the game copy, his body needs to sleep and eat.

So Lu Shijin fell asleep in a daze. I don't know how long it took, and suddenly there was a loud noise from upstairs, which woke Lu Shijin, who was not very sound asleep.

Lu Shijin's consciousness was instantly awake, and he raised his ears alertly to listen to the movement upstairs, as if something fell to the ground, but he soon returned to silence.

Lu Shijin picked up his phone and glanced at it. It was almost one o'clock in the morning, and it was so late. Mr. Lu should have rested a long time ago. Who is in Mr. Lu's room? What happened inside?

Lu Shijin got up from the bed and wanted to open the door and go out to check the situation, but the door seemed to be locked from the outside, no matter how he twisted the door handle, he couldn't open it.

It seems that without the permission of the APP, he cannot leave this room one step.

Lu Shijin's drowsiness was completely gone. It felt like he knew something bad would happen, but he was powerless to stop it, so he could only wait quietly for his fate to come.

What are the other players doing at this moment?

Will they also wait for the dawn with their eyes open?

Lu Shijin thought about it, picked up the phone, and sent a message to Rongzhi.

Now, apart from Rongzhi, he couldn't find anyone else to talk to. Fortunately, there was Rongzhi, otherwise, this suffocating silence would drive people crazy.

Lu Shijin: [Did you sleep? 】

I thought that Rongzhi would not reply to the message soon, but I did not expect that Rongzhi would reply in the next second.

Rongzhi: [Not yet. 】

Lu Shijin: [Have you heard the voice upstairs? 】

Rongzhi: [What voice? 】

Well, he didn't hear it, only Lu Shijin, who was directly below Mr. Lu's room, heard it.

Since he decided to believe in Rongzhi, Lu Shijin didn't hesitate to share clues with him, and told Rongzhi about the strange voice he heard just now.

Rongzhi: [What time do you hear the sound? 】

Lu Shijin: [It's less than 1 am. 】

Rongzhi: [Remember this point in time, this is a useful clue. 】

Lu Shijin: [Hmm...]

Both of them tacitly did not ask each other, and there was a subtle tacit understanding about each other's clues and murderous intentions.

Because it is not yet the last moment, since you choose to trust each other, choosing not to ask anything at this time is the best way to trust each other. Otherwise, the more you ask, the more doubts and suspicions in your heart will grow slowly even if the other party answers.

Having traveled through so many worlds, Lu Shijin has a very thorough understanding of human nature. Human nature is the most untested thing, so sometimes he has to pretend to be a little confused.

Lu Shijin: [This is your last mission? 】

Rong: [Yes. The same to you? 】

Lu Shijin: [Hmm. 】After thinking for a while, he sent another message in the past: 【If the task is completed, what is your wish? 】

Rongzhi: [Back to the real world. 】

This desire is the same as his.

Lu Shijin was not surprised either, because he had investigated Rongzhi's suicide by jumping off a building and discovered some unknown inside stories, but unfortunately he was accidentally involved in a car accident before he could dig deeper into the truth.

Rongzhi: [How about you? 】

Lu Shijin: [Same as you. By the way, I know you didn't kill yourself. 】

Rongzhi: [Oh? 】

Lu Shijin: [I don't believe that you are the kind of person who is greedy for profit. 】

Rongzhi: [Why? 】

Lu Shijin can almost imagine it, raising his eyebrows with a puzzled look, and replied: [Intuition at first. Later, I investigated your company and found that the president of your group is very problematic. Did you offend him? Framed by him? 】

Rongzhi: [Have you investigated me? 】

Lu Shijin: [Yes, I don't think you are someone who would commit suicide. 】

Rongzhi didn't know what was wrong, and it took a while to reply, and asked Lu Shijin: [How did you come here? 】

Lu Shijin: [Car accident, accident. 】

Rongzhi: [I’m afraid it’s not an accident. 】

When Lu Shijin heard him say this, his heart sank: [? ? ? 】

Rongzhi: [You investigated my affairs and violated the interests of some people, so you should have been retaliated against. 】

Lu Shijin thought about it, yes, why didn't he suspect that the car accident was not an accident?

The boss had repeatedly ordered him to stop investigating the matter that led to suicide, but he didn't listen. In the end, the boss told him that if the investigation continued, the consequences would be at your own risk!

Is a car accident a consequence? His death was not an accident, but a deliberate murder? !

Lu Shi's back will be cold in the future, and his hand holding the phone is shaking slightly, so it is! I see!

Rongzhi: [Sorry, you were implicated by me. 】

Lu Shijin took a deep breath and calmed down for a while, and replied to Rongzhi: [Don't say that, it's none of your business. It is the duty of journalists to dig out the truth and let the world know the truth. From the moment I stepped into this business, I was ready. 】

Rongzhi: [So we have to go back together. 】

Lu Shijin was inexplicably encouraged. He and Rongzhi now not only have a common goal, but also a common enemy, and the alliance between them has become stronger.

Lu Shijin: [Well, go back together! 】

Chatting and chatting, unknowingly, where the sea level and the sky meet outside the window, fish maw white appears, which is a sign of the rising sun.

It was dawn, and the game was finally about to begin.

Lu Shi didn't sleep much all night. In order to refresh himself, he first took a shower, changed his clothes, and then quietly waited for the APP to issue instructions.

It wasn't until the sky was bright, almost eight in the morning, that the phone vibrated.

"The housekeeper went to wake up Mr. Lu in the morning and knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response from the room. After the housekeeper opened the door and went in, he found that Mr. Lu had a knife stuck in his chest and died on the bed. The captain had already sent someone to block the scene, and the The case has been reported, and the police will arrive in three days at the earliest. The captain judged that the murderer should be among the ten of you. Now, please gather in the banquet hall on the first floor."

As a former veteran player who killed the script, Lu Shijin understands that this is for them to do an alibi.

Lu Shijin tried to twist the doorknob on the door, but this time he opened the door easily and walked out.

Those who left the room at the same time as him were Rongzhi from 203 next door, as well as the resident of 205, Mr. Lu's mistress, Miss Gao.

Miss Gao changed into a big red dress with hip wraps. The skirt was very short, reaching only above the knees, showing her hot figure unabashedly. When she came out to see Lu Shijin and Rongzhi, she didn't say hello, raised her chin like a A proud peacock walked right past them.

Miss Gao left and took a fragrant wind with her. Lu Shijin noticed it and smelled it. It was the woody perfume he smelled yesterday.

Lu Shijin and Rongzhi looked at each other, but they looked away quickly, pretending not to know each other very tacitly, and walked downstairs one after the other.

The rest of the people had already gone downstairs, and everyone still sat in the same seats as yesterday's dinner party, except that the person sitting in the original Mr. Lu's seat became the captain of the ship, and the butler stood beside him.

"Everyone," the captain, a dignified man in his fifties, looked up at everyone present with a serious expression and said, "At eight in the morning, the housekeeper went to wake up Mr. Lu, only to find that Mr. Lu died in the In his room, Mr. Lu had a knife stuck in his chest, but whether the knife was the cause of his death, because there is no way to conduct an autopsy on Mr. Lu's body, the result is still unknown. Preliminary judgment, Mr. Lu The time of death is between one and two in the morning. We are already on our way back to the voyage, and the police will send people to investigate as soon as possible, but it will take three days at the earliest. And I think the real culprit is you people Among them, and it is very likely that the crime will continue, so please cooperate with my investigation, find the murderer as soon as possible, and prevent the tragedy from happening again. Now, please tell me what you did last night. "

After the captain finished speaking, he swept over the faces of the ten people in turn, and asked in a deep voice, "Who should start first?"

If the gun is the first bird, it is easy to become the target of public criticism. Everyone understands this principle, so everyone is silent for a while, and no one wants to be the first person to speak.

Suddenly Lu Shijin heard a contemptuous laughter next to him, and when he turned his head, it turned out that Miss Gao was sneering.

"A bunch of cowards, you don't dare to say it, so let's start with me." Miss Gao stretched out her hand painted with bright red nail polish, brushed her hair, and said casually, "After dinner last night, I'll be back. The room was rested. At about ten o'clock in the evening, the housekeeper came to me and said that Mr. Lu wanted to see me, so I went over. After chatting with Mr. Lu for about a quarter of an hour, I went downstairs and went back to my room to sleep. until this morning."

Captain: "Can anyone prove that you stayed in your room all night and didn't come out?"

"Mr. Captain, what do you mean?" Miss Gao squinted at the captain, raised her red lips and chuckled, "I live alone, so naturally no one can help me prove it, do you think that last night? Is there anyone else in my room?"

The captain was indifferent to Miss Gao's teasing: "that is to say, no one can prove that you haven't left the room after meeting Mr. Lu last night, right?"

When Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Li saw that the captain didn't buy Miss Gao's account, they sneered and sneered at the same time. Miss Gao felt embarrassed and rolled her eyes at the two of them, nodding angrily and saying yes.

The captain flipped through the documents at hand, "I heard that you were a nurse before?"

Miss Gao: "Yes."

The captain asked, "Can you tell me how you and Mr. Lu met?"

Miss Gao said lightly, "Once Mr. Lu got sick and was admitted to the VIP ward of our hospital, I took care of him, that's all."

It turned out that the doctor-patient relationship turned into a lover, and Miss Gao was only in her thirties. With Mr. Lu's age, it was more than enough to be his father. Miss Gao was willing to be Mr. Lu's mistress, not for money or for anything else.

Therefore, Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Li looked at Miss Gao with even more contempt.

Although the current "Miss Gao" is just like them, she's just a player, not the real Miss Gao, but sometimes a woman is hostile to another woman, it's just so unreasonable.

"Who's next?" the captain asked.

Lu Zhongze next to Miss Gao raised his hand, "Me. I went to my uncle at about a quarter past eight and chatted with him about some personal matters. I came down after ten minutes. Then I went to the deck outside to smoke. After a cigarette, watching the night scene and the sea breeze blowing, I went back to my room to sleep at about nine o'clock, and I stayed there until this morning, and no one could prove to me that I never left the room."

The captain asked, "Who can prove to you during this time on deck?"

Lu Zhongze pointed to Mr. Li opposite, "My uncle, he also came out to smoke, right, uncle?"

Mr. Li glanced at Lu Zhongze, lowered his eyes, and said "um" with no expression.

The captain's face turned to Mr. Li: "Mr. Li, what did you do last night?"

Mr. Li coughed and said, "After dinner last night, I first went back to the room with my wife to rest. At about eight o'clock, my wife said she was going to go to a beautician for beauty treatments, so I went with her and waited for her. During the beauty treatment time, I was bored, so I went to hang out outside the cabin, just like Lu Zhongze said, at nine o'clock, my wife finished the beauty treatment, I went back to the room with her to rest, until this morning, I and I My wife can attest to each other that the two of us hadn't left the room from nine o'clock last night until being called out this morning."

"The two of you are husband and wife. You can prove to each other. Can you believe what you say? Who knows if you are covering each other up." Miss Gao asked coldly.

Mrs. Li gave her a cool look, and said without a smile: "This lady, you can't talk nonsense when you open your mouth, I said we have never gone out, you think we are lying, then ask you Is there any evidence?"

Miss Gao smiled: "Evidence, I'll find it later."

Lu Shijin was watching the fun. It was just the beginning. The two women tore each other off. Sure enough, where there are women, there will be gunpowder smoke.

The captain didn't have time to pay attention to their quarrel, and turned to ask Mr. Feng and Mrs. Feng and his wife, "Please tell me where you went last night."

Mrs. Feng said: "After dinner last night, we also went back to our room first. Then at about nine o'clock, my father called me over. We chatted for a while and then I went back to my room. I checked the time. , it was about half past nine, then my husband and I rested, and didn't leave the room until I heard that my father had an accident this morning."

The captain asked Mr. Feng, "Did Mr. Li go out between 9:00 and 9:30 last night?"

Mr. Feng shook his head: "I'm seasick, so I've been resting in my room and never went out."

Then the captain asked the others. Rongzhi was the first person everyone knew to see Mr. Lu after dinner, and then Lu Shijin. They both said that after seeing Mr. Lu, they went back to the room and never went out again. .

Nephew Li and the nanny both claimed that they had not gone out after returning to their respective rooms after dinner.

According to the timeline sorted out by everyone's confessions, Rongzhi and Mr. Lu went back to the room together. At eight o'clock Lu Shijin went to Mr. Lu, followed by a quarter past eight, and Lu Zhongze also went to Mr. Lu, and left ten minutes later. On the deck, Mr. Li, who was accompanying Mrs. Li out for a beauty treatment, was knocked down. The two left the deck together at nine o'clock and went back to their rooms. Mrs. Feng went to Mr. Lu at nine o'clock and left at half past nine. Miss Gao went there at ten o'clock. Mr. Lu, left at 11:10.

And last night, there were only nephew Li, Mr. Feng and the nanny who had neither seen Mr. Lu nor left his room.

After listening to everyone's alibi, the captain did not obtain any effective information that could help him determine who the murderer was.

"I want to remind you again that the murderer is among you. If you don't catch him, he may still attack the next person, so please ensure the authenticity of the information you provide me, otherwise it will be detrimental to the case. Detective, do you understand?"

In short, only a murderer can lie.

Lu Shijin laughed inwardly. Nine out of ten people present thought that he was the murderer. Who could tell which sentence was true and which was false.

Lu Shijin pondered secretly. From everyone's confessions, he knew that after 11:15, no one went to find Mr. Lu again, but what happened to the unusual noise in Mr. Lu's room that he heard at 1:00 a.m. Woolen cloth?

There are still many mysteries waiting to be solved.

The captain sorted out the documents for recording the confession, stood up and announced: "Okay, I already know what happened last night, now please go back to your room, don't walk around on the boat, if there is anything else that needs everyone's cooperation, I'll invite you all over again."

Everyone looked at each other, hoping to find clues on other people's faces as a basis for judging the murderer, but none of the players who could enter the ultimate mission was a fuel-efficient lamp, and everyone was quite calm and could not find any flaws.

People left the banquet hall one by one, and after returning to their rooms, their mobile phones vibrated, and it was the APP that issued new instructions.

Lu Shijin picked it up and took a look, and the screen read: "The first round of voting to identify the murderer is about to begin. The player with the most votes, whether it is the real murderer or not, will lose the game. Each player has one vote in his hand and can choose to vote. , you can also choose to abstain. If the true culprit is found in this round of voting, the player who voted correctly will win, and the rest will lose the game. If the true culprit is not found in this round, the player who voted wrong will be voted wrong in the next round of voting. Participation is prohibited."

That is to say, you can choose to vote or not to vote. If you do not vote, the murderer will be found by other players, and those who do not vote and those who vote wrong will lose the game. If it is, even if the next round determines who the murderer is, it will not be possible to vote.

Therefore, each round of voting must be very cautious. You may lose if you vote wrong, or you may lose if you don't vote.

The information obtained in the first round is very limited, and no one can judge who lied and did what. Therefore, in fact, the safest method is to abstain from voting in the first round.

Of course, there will definitely be people who take a gamble and guess a murderer blindly. If they vote correctly, it is good. If they vote wrong, it will have no effect on him except that he cannot vote in the second round. It can also rule out a wrong option and remove an opponent. .

Lu Shijin was hesitating whether he should vote for this, when he received a message from Rongzhi on his mobile phone.

Rongzhi: [Don't vote in the first round. 】

In fact, Lu Shijin also thinks so. The first round of voting is too risky, and the APP will definitely release more clues to help find the real culprit, so there is really no need to rush the first vote.

Lu Shijin: [Understood. 】

Just after returning to the past, the APP issued another command.

"The meeting room area on the first floor is now open. Players can go to the meeting room to sort out clues and discuss. Only three players can discuss together at a time."

Lu Shijin is a little confused, what is this game? Encourage them to stick together?

Not ten players participate in the discussion together, but three at a time. In fact, even if the discussion is discussed, the information obtained is very limited, not to mention the opportunity for the real murderer to put smoke bombs in it and disturb the audiovisual.

Such discussions, in fact, are meaningless and only make things more confusing.

This kind of unnecessary discussion, no one should participate in the past stupidly, maybe it will make people think that they are the real murderer, after all, only the real murderer will be anxious to know what information they have.

Just as Lu Shijin wanted to send a message to Rongzhi not to participate in the discussion, Rongzhi's message was sent one step ahead of him.

Rongzhi: [Go, when necessary, you can pour dirty water on me. 】

Lu Shijin was greatly puzzled: [? ? ? Why? 】

Big brother, you are already very suspicious, okay?

Rongzhi: [One is to make people believe that we are not in the same group, and the other is that at present, I am the most suspicious, but the more I emphasize this point, the more suspicious others will be. The answer is not so simple, the attention on me Instead, it will divert away, so you have to go. 】

Lu Shijin blinked at the phone, and what Rongzhi said seemed to make sense.

In case someone is uneasy and kind, thinking of fighting to the death and breaking the net, and throwing Rongzhi directly, wouldn't it be a disaster.

That's right, at this time, he needs to come out and help his teammates to divert their attention!

Lu Shijin agreed to Rongzhi. Since he decided to go to the living room to participate in the discussion, he must hurry up. After all, there are only three places.

Lu Shijin hurriedly cleaned up, opened the door and went downstairs. When he passed Rongzhi's room, he suddenly felt something. Before leaving, he sent Rongzhi a message and asked him: [By the way, who do you think the murderer will be? 】

The easy reply is very simple: [I don't believe in intuition, I only believe in evidence. 】