Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 933 Survivors
Wu Xian rolled his eyes.

These evil spirits not only want the answer, but also the solution. Do they think this is a math word problem?

"If I don't tell you, can we enter the Death Gate?"

"If the answer is correct, then you can go in."

"What benefits will I get if I tell you?"

The scene fell silent, and neither the hoarse nor the clear voice responded.

Wu Xian remained silent for a moment. He believed that the questions from these two evil spirits were not meaningless, and that answering them or not might lead to completely different results.

"Okay, I said."

Wu Xian coughed lightly and began to explain his reasoning.

"After I found Liu Nana, I realized that there were other beings in the darkness, and that this person could kill and use some method to lure me."

"The evil spirits lurking in the darkness must be the two of you."

"So, if I want to answer the question correctly, I need to figure out three things."

A hoarse voice asked, "Which three things?"

"First, control variables and reduce factors that affect the true answer."

"Second, find out the conditions under which you two committed the murder."

"Third, identify the differences between the living and the dead."

A clear voice spoke: "You killed Liu Nana to control the variables?"

"Yes."

Wu Xian nodded in agreement. After understanding the dismantling strategy, he immediately and ruthlessly killed Liu Nana.

“Liu Nana’s existence is quite troublesome. She is far from the main force, and I cannot control or know whether she is alive or dead. Although she was alive at the time, after I left her, you may or may not kill her… Therefore, it is very important to make her situation certain.”

Even if Wu Xian killed Liu Nana, she would be resurrected after the next time time reset. Moreover, the evil spirit was likely listening to his analysis nearby at the time, so Wu Xian did not notify Liu Nana and directly killed her.

"Here, including myself, there is a life and a death."

"Wait a minute!" A hoarse voice interrupted Wu Xian's analysis: "Before you met Liu Nana, you also encountered Shi Yan's corpse. How could the death toll be one?"

Wu Xian's lips curled up.

"Shi Yan is five and a half meters to my left, and Liu Nana is eight and a half meters behind me."

“When I went to find her, I took very careful steps, each step was half a meter. The accidental killing was at most two or three centimeters away. I took eight steps, which should have only covered four meters, but I encountered Shi Yan’s body, which should have been five and a half meters to my left.”

"At that moment, I may have misremembered, or the extreme environment may have interfered with my progress."

"So I went back to the starting point, took sixteen steps backward, a distance of eight meters, and then I met Liu Nana. Her position was exactly the same as I remembered."

"This proves that I haven't misremembered, and my steps were very precise, so..."

"The corpse I encountered was used to mislead my judgment. The real Shi Yan was alive and well behind the corpse."

A clear voice interrupted again: "Since you guessed she was still alive, why don't you go and check on her along the way?"

“There’s no need for that. She’s part of your deception. As long as I pretend I haven’t discovered her, I’ll be safe. If I go to see her, she’ll have to die, and it will also alert you, potentially leading to more complicated restrictions.”

"At this point, I've confirmed that there are two lives and one death, and I've controlled the variables. Next, I need to figure out your rules for killing."

“I have never been attacked, and Liu Nana, who had no fighting ability whatsoever, also survived the last time time was reset.”

"So the first rule is that you can't harm the person who answers the question."

“Next, I went to the vicinity of the red line and communicated with them one by one. Their conversations confirmed to me that, apart from me, everyone else would only be immune to attacks when they were holding the red line. If they were far from the red line, they would be ambushed in the dark, like Fang Aimin…” “This is your second rule for attacks.”

By this point, Wu Xian had already resolved the first two issues.

The next problem to solve is how to distinguish the real from the fake among the five newcomers, and to find out who is the real one and who is an evil spirit in disguise.

Wu Xian paused for a moment, then continued to explain his thoughts:
"Qi Liang and Luo Caixia both have unique abilities, so I can easily confirm that these two are alive. The problem lies with the remaining three."

"Although Xu Dayu and Wan Siming had just started dating, they were separated for a while when Wan Siming went to explore the direction of the Death Gate."

"When Wan Siming explored the Gate of Death, he said he hadn't encountered anyone, but when I went there, Fang Aimin was at the entrance of the Gate of Death."

"None of the three of them could prove their abilities, and their statements contradicted each other. From my perspective, each of them was highly suspicious."

"But from some clues, we can see quite a few suspicious points..."

“Since Xu Dayu and Wan Siming discovered that they can communicate by touching each other, there’s no need to only search towards the death gate. They will definitely look for others towards the life gate. Fang Aimin doesn’t need to emphasize that he can’t prove the truth…”

The hoarse voice asked in surprise, "Is this how you deduced the true number of people?"

"No, actually I used a fairly simple method."

"But if you want to show it, it would be best to do so when it's light out, so the effect of the show will be better. That shouldn't be against the rules, right? Anyway, I've already answered correctly."

After Wu Xian finished speaking, there was a two-second silence, and then a clear voice was heard shouting.

"The gates of death have been opened, and all things have returned to normal..."

After that shout, the noise returned to my ears, and the darkness was drawn back into the avoidance sign like a curtain.

Wu Xian felt completely comfortable.

In real life, absolute quiet is rare. Places that people consider quiet, such as a bedroom at midnight, still have environmental noise levels of around 10 to 30 decibels.

That is precisely why the absolute silence is so unbearable.

After he could see, Wu Xian blinked.

Grabbing his hand was a withered palm covered in gray and white fur. The owner of the palm was a monster with a husky appearance, and the hoarse voice came from him. Behind him stood a tall figure with a bull's head, and the clear voice came from him.

These two look like the Ox-Head and Horse-Face figures from mythology.

However, judging from the bloody stitched wounds on their necks, they are definitely not the real deal from the myth.

Next, Wu Xian looked at the newcomer.

Liu Nana's arms hung limply, and blood was dripping from her neck.

Shi Yan had just opened her eyes when she realized that she was the only one who hadn't been touched during the entire process, which had accumulated into immense psychological pressure. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw a corpse that looked exactly like her, and she couldn't help but scream before rolling her eyes back and fainting.

Qi Liang and Luo Caixia both held the red thread obediently, their faces showing confusion as if they didn't understand the situation.

Fang Aimin was covered in blood, sitting on the ground with his hand raised, holding a red thread, his face as pale as paper.

As for Wan Siming and Xu Dayu...

The two bodies had been tortured beyond recognition, lying on either side of the red line, their blood staining the ground red.

Five survivors. Wu Xian answered correctly.

The horse-faced evil spirit, gripping Wu Xian's hand, urged, "Now you can demonstrate."

Wu Xian nodded, then he extended his other hand.

(End of this chapter)