On a rainy night, the school beauty knocked on my door and asked for shelter

Chapter 183 More Knowledge!

The conversation quickly moved into the public chat phase, with the host guiding everyone to focus on issues such as the concert mishaps, details of the power outage, instrument malfunctions, and controversies surrounding the guest list.

After playing through the first scene, Su Yuqing and the others gradually became immersed in the game and started to feel like they were in their roles.

Everyone began to consider the role of their own identity and how to find the murderer.

The murderer was thinking about how to openly reveal some information about himself while also concealing himself well.

After the first scene, due to the scarcity of clues, even a veteran detective like Chen Mo was unable to immediately determine who was at fault.

However, he had already noticed something unusual.

With the second act, the Crimson Dawn begins.

The twelve people began to search for evidence in groups:
Group A (Su/Zhou/Gu/Lu) investigated the concert hall and the secret passage.

This group is the core group. Apart from Chen Mo, the other three are playing for the first time, so they don't suspect anyone around them at all.

They naively believed that the murderer was among the four suspects.

However, their mutual suspicion did not cause them to withhold information, which actually made it easier for Chen Mo to obtain more clues.

During this group's search, Chen Mo discovered the anomaly of the mechanical pendulum.

This was one of the killer's tricks, and it has now been exposed.

Seeing Chen Mo leading his team with such efficiency, the host couldn't help but smile and glance at Chen Mo.

As expected, the sheriff was the right choice.

Group B (Shen/Chen/Jiang/Pei) inspected the study and basement, and found bloodstains in the secret passage.

Team C (the Cheng brothers/Lin/Wen) searched the servants' quarters and found a blurry photo of twins together.

Soon everyone returned to the hall and began sharing clues.

After Lin Ranhai and Luo Yunxi returned to the hall, they originally intended to conceal the crucial clue of the twins' photo together.

Although it was Zhao Yueyue's first time playing this game, she played it with exceptional seriousness, writing down all the survey information in the notebook handed out by the host.

She shared this crucial discovery, providing Chen Mo with important information.

The difficulty of this game lies in this: two criminals act in the same group, while only the other two good people can obtain clues from this group.

With the two prisoners working together, they can significantly hinder and disrupt the investigation conducted by the two innocent people.

Xiao Yue, who was in the same group as them, was easily fooled.

Zhao Yueyue was mainly because she wasn't familiar with the three of them, so she mostly acted and took notes on her own. When they approached her, she would only respond politely and not engage in any deeper conversations.

Therefore, they did not succeed in interfering with Zhao Yueyue.

Of course, the clues about the twins are not only revealed by the photos, but also by the fact that the character played by Zhou Hao knows some inside information.

After all the clues aligned, Chen Mo began to think about the key clue of the twins.

All characters have age information.

Chen Mo discovers that the gardener and housekeeper played by Lin Ranhai and Luo Yunxi are exactly the same age. There are also four confusing points: the painter played by Lin Yu'an is also the same age as them.

There are two girls of the same age, and Jiang Yuemian, played by Chu Mengyao, is also the same age as them.

These distractors are somewhat useful.

However, it's basically the same for Chen Mo. After all, you can't use the presumption of guilt in real cases, but the presumption of guilt is very effective in this kind of game.

He immediately identified Lin Ranhai and is now using the presumption of guilt to pinpoint clues about him, which is naturally becoming more and more accurate.

Seeing that Chen Mo had collected almost everything, the host began to guide everyone into the final scene.

Act Three: Echoes of Rebirth!
Timeline Reassembly: Players submit time cards, and their authenticity is verified through a musical score code (the treble clef corresponds to a DNA double helix).
Memory Fragments: Complete special missions to obtain fragments of other people's memories (such as a fortune teller's prophecy or a maid's secret room layout diagram).

Final Choice: Key witnesses can expose the twins or choose to remain silent, affecting the branching endings.
By obtaining fragments of others' memories, one can fill in gaps in the clues that others have missed. This is also a method used by the servants to fill in the gaps when they haven't found any information about the twins.

During this period, Lin Ranhai's intelligence was quite extraordinary.

If it weren't for Chen Mo's presence, he would almost have shifted the blame to his companion and Lin Yu'an.

The character played by Lin Yu-an is somewhat similar to him; he is taciturn and easily framed.

Given that their ages match those of the characters played by Luo Yunxi, they can easily be assumed to be twins.

Furthermore, the discovery that his paintings contained a hidden code to the master bedroom's secret passage further fueled suspicion against him.

After his guidance, the group almost correctly identified one prisoner as real and the other as fake.

If all of them are identified as false criminals, it will be very difficult for them to be exonerated.

Unless the other ten people are all Muggles.

However, during the trip, Lin Ranhai discovered that Chen Mo's strength was terrifying.

He had almost figured out the truth, and if he didn't quickly muddy the waters, he would be exposed.

Now the only option is to cut off an arm to survive, and use half-truths and half-lies to get through the ordeal.

When a lie is mixed with 50% truth, it is easy for people to believe it. Especially since Lin Yu'an is a member of the suspect group, Lin Ranhai's statement is even more believable.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Lin Ranhai tried to turn the tide, Chen Mo still discovered the problem.

How could a gardener obtain so much information? Some of this information, such as the anomaly of the mechanical pendulum, was deliberately kept secret by Chen Mo.

This trick was kept secret by the four people who knew about it, so only the murderer himself would know about it.

While making his deductions, Lin Ranhai inadvertently revealed this crucial clue.

This is a major vulnerability.

However, everyone else was so engrossed in their own thoughts that they didn't notice the flaw in the story.

Even Lin Yu'an himself, after hearing Lin Ranhai's analysis, almost thought he was the murderer.

After all, he had never played this game before, and he didn't know if the real culprit might not know his own identity, thus allowing the player to impersonate him and better conceal his identity.

However, Chen Mo had already deciphered all the core tricks and schemes.

Although the doors and windows of the concert hall were locked from the inside and the body was hanging, there was a second space in the locked room where the crime occurred. A secret passage connected the study and the servants' passage, and the mechanical pendulum in the attic created the illusion of a time difference.

You can then obtain an alibi.

Fortunately, there was a message in the sheet music, and the incomplete sheet music was actually a codebook. The staff corresponded to the manor floor plan, and the note values ​​pointed to the location of the secret room mechanism (deciphered by combining the arrangement of the black keys on the piano).

As for the most crucial twin plot, the butler Cheng Muhan and the gardener Cheng Muyun are twins who switch identities through disguise:

At the time of the incident, Cheng Muhan created a locked room in the concert hall.

Cheng Muyun used mechanical devices to forge alibis.

The two share butler privileges, control the entire manor key system, and can take turns appearing in public to obtain alibis.

Chen Mo sorted through all the clues and deduced the final culprit by using Lin Ranhai's linguistic inconsistencies and his mechanical abilities shown in the game.

Everyone was immediately amazed after hearing this.

After all, Chen Mo knew almost as much as they did, yet he was able to deduce so much information, which was truly unexpected.

But that's not the point. The point is that Chen Mo gained a better understanding of Lin Ranhai through this game. He discovered that Lin Ranhai was extremely cunning and eloquent. At the same time, he also discovered the relationship between Xiao Yue and Lin Ranhai.

In the records of his past life, Lin Ranhai's alibi was created by Xiao Yue.

But if Xiao Yue was in love and letting Lin Ranhai lead her by the nose, then her testimony wouldn't be so reliable!

(End of this chapter)