Time has not left any obvious traces on Lin Jiangdan's face. He looks only in his twenties when he is in his thirties.
"You just said it wasn't completely suicide. What's going on?" Normally, when a player enters a dungeon, they need to collect information, perform reasoning while saving their lives, solve puzzles, find out the truth, and solve the obsession of mysterious objects.
But Xia Qimiao found a shortcut and asked the deceased directly.
"I wanted to use a near-death experience in the painting, so the fatal injury was caused by myself. But I didn't really want to die. I discussed with my assistant to let her bring someone to rescue me at the last minute, but she didn't come. Didn't I do it? It’s really stupid to trust the wrong person for something you’re not using.”
She spoke lightly, as if she was not scolding herself.
"But my death is not completely worthless. Didn't this attract you here, host?"
She clasped her hands and raised them to her chest, in the posture of a believer praying to her god.
"You are the most beautiful and powerful of all the kings I have ever seen. Can I draw a picture for you?"
"It's not necessary, this is just one of my skins," Xia Qimiao lied as she opened her mouth. She didn't want to see herself appear bloody on the canvas, "Have you seen many trick kings?"
"Yes, when I first became a monster, they asked me to paint, but most of them only dared to stay in their own place. No one could maintain a flawless appearance in his field of magic for a long time like you. Human form.”
Xia Qimiao: ...Is it possible that I am originally a human being? She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Based on this alone?"
"Of course not. Even an ignorant creature like me has heard a thing or two about the fame of Happy Home. I never thought that a weak creature like me would be lucky enough to live in it. Thank you to the host, and..."
"Although you have suppressed your aura very well, I can still feel a bit of the terrifying pressure of King Gui that is far above me." Lin Jiangdan hesitated for a moment, and finally told the truth. She felt This is the original poster's test for her.
Sure enough, she couldn't feel any of the King of Creatures' aura the next second.
This shows that the original poster can suppress it perfectly, but just leaked it a little bit to test her. She should have passed.
She felt that she had performed well, and then praised: "I don't feel it at all now. You are so powerful."
Xia Qimiao, who had just sealed [Status-King of Deceptions (B)] into the warehouse, didn't know the twists and turns in Lin Jiangdan's heart. She breathed a sigh of relief when she found the source.
Last week, on the second day after she first entered the game, [Asuka] issued an emergency post. Members of the organization encountered a monster disguised as a player in the S-level dungeon. There were ten people in the game at the beginning, but only one of them escaped in the end: him.
This post sparked heated discussions, and most players said that if they found out that their teammates might be monsters, they would rather kill them by mistake than let them go.
She didn't want to be the one killed by mistake, so she had to be careful.
"What are you going to do next, revenge?"
"No need, she will seek death on her own," Lin Jiangdan looked at the ground with a deep gaze, and then turned back, "And I have been given a new life. If you allow me, then I want to return to my new home now. .”
"I also want to move this painting back as a warning," Lin Jiangdan clicked on the painting at his feet, "but don't worry, I won't put such an ugly work out to embarrass you."
Xia Qimiao nodded, and the strange object disappeared together with the painting. There was not even a trace of blood on the ground, as if nothing had happened.
She let out a long sigh of relief, put the hook back into the toolbar, and continued to hold the flashlight.
Although she has obtained the reference answer by fixing the bug, she still has to reason on her own to prove it.
She needs to find out the assistant's motive for harming people, otherwise the rating will probably be the same as hers, only F.
Perhaps stimulating the murderer to make her self-destruct was also a way, but Xia Qimiao never met the assistant from the beginning again.
She found a "Student Development Diary" in the mezzanine of Lin Jiangdan's bedroom bookcase. She taught her assistant as a student, but the results were not satisfactory.
There was a letter asking for leave. The assistant asked for two months' leave, and the end date is today.
Why is there still an alibi, a forgery?
Xia Qimiao reread the last few pages——
"Xiao Wei came back early. She seems to be in a bad mood. Let her rest for a few days."
"Why can't she be found? My family members all said they didn't see her."
"I found her. It turns out she was in the basement."
The record ended abruptly, and the last date was seven days before Lin Jiangdan's death.
There is one hour left before the end of the instance.
Because it was not a confrontational dungeon and there was no conflict of interest between everyone, Xia Qimiao successfully persuaded the other two teammates to exchange information.
She erased her communication with the monster and provided her stepson's information and the diary.
The man with glasses ruled out Mr. Zheng as a suspect. He and the deceased were only married in name but not in actual fact. It was a family marriage and there was no personal emotional entanglement. The two had always lived separately.
The tall woman said that Secretary Sasha was a puzzle. She wore a red dress because the deceased had said before that she did not want to see only people wearing black and white in front of the grave. In fact, their relationship was very good.
"Sasha said that the assistant was jealous of the painter and thought that everything the painter had came from money and status."
"The beginner's book is simple because there are few people, and the elimination method can be used to deduce who is the murderer." The man with glasses put away the information, "Also, no mystery has come out so far. I thought it would hinder us from finding clues."
Unknown to everyone, the object of their affections had chains passed through their shoulders and was nailed to the basement wall.
The frame marks left by the movement of the painting can still be seen on the wall, and the strange object is hung in the center, exactly coinciding with the original position of the portrait.
"Why did you come to me first? Do I look that weak?" The D-class man, no, the man codenamed Kestrel looked at the struggling evil spirit.
"To be honest, I haven't begun to doubt you yet. I don't have the ability of the Phoenix. She can tell who is a monster at a glance, but I can't."
Kestrel glanced at the watch, dragged a chair over and dusted it off and sat down: "I'm a gamer. I just want to get the most rewards. There's still time. Maybe we can talk."
Seeing the strange thing, he didn't reply and just struggled. A ball of blue light appeared between his fingers. The strange thing struggled even harder and roared at the kestrel.
"I wonder if I can ask the boss for reimbursement when I go back." He waved his finger, and his energy flew towards the strange object and sank into its body.
Seeing that there was no change, he threw a few more balls, and did not stop until it returned to its roughly human form: "Let's talk?"
The monster laughed shrilly: "You don't even know that the King of Monsters has infiltrated among you, and you still want to talk about it? Wait for death."
Xia Qimiao sneezed.
