Life Dungeon Game

The flight attendant seemed to notice that He Ao was looking behind him, so he stepped aside slightly to make way for him. "If you have any questions, you can ask me."

"Thank you."

He Ao didn't stand on ceremony; he walked directly to the connecting door and grasped the doorknob.

These two doors were sliding doors. He Ao pulled them slightly to the sides, and the two doors trembled, but did not open.

The structural strength of these two doors is the same as that of the exterior structure of the carriage.

He released his grip and glanced at the small staircase to the side of the front door. He suddenly noticed a small shelf embedded in the partition wall on the side of the staircase.

This shelf was exactly the same as the one he had seen in his cubicle, except that it was completely empty.

He withdrew his gaze, walked past the flight attendant, and returned to the corridor.

"Brother Hao Yi, what happened?"

Lin Chichi looked at him with a puzzled expression.

“It’s nothing,” He Ao shook his head, glanced at the people in the corridor, Ruo Ti, Jin Ya, Lin Chichi, and Luo Luo were all there, “Wait here for me, I’ll go check the dining car.”

After saying that, he walked straight to the dining car.

"This guy is definitely hiding something from us."

Ruoti watched He'ao's retreating figure, said something in Middle-earth, and then quickly followed after He'ao.

He Ao ignored him, only glancing at him out of the corner of his eye.

The two walked through the connecting area and arrived at the dining car.

He Ao glanced at the small door to the kitchen; it remained tightly closed.

He quickly walked around to the food counter, with Ruoti following behind him.

He Ao placed his hand on the bar counter and said to the food counter, "One order of xiaolongbao, please."

"Wait"

A hoarse voice came from behind the food pick-up area.

After a while, a hand wearing white gloves slapped a basket of xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) onto the food counter.

Is the chef alright too...?

He Ao frowned, picked up the steaming hot xiaolongbao, and walked back.

Ruoti looked at the steamed buns in He'ao's hand and swallowed hard. He had lived in the Central Plains and loved its food.

After He Ao left, he looked around and walked to the food counter. "One basket, no, two baskets of xiaolongbao, please."

"Wait"

A hoarse voice slowly rose into the air.

Soon, two fresh baskets of xiaolongbao were placed on the food counter.

If you're really starving, just grab a xiaolongbao and start eating.

At this moment, He Ao also walked back to the compartment while pondering.

"Brother Hao Yi, are you hungry?"

Lin Chichi looked at the steamed buns in He Ao's hand, sniffed, and asked softly.

"Ah."

He Ao looked up at everyone and said, "Let's go to the dining car first."

When the group of four returned to the dining car, Ruoti had already wolfed down two baskets of steamed buns. When he saw the group approaching, he pulled the steamers behind him to block their view.

Luo Luo looked up at him and casually said, "You didn't wipe your mouth clean."

"If you all eat and I don't, it makes me seem like I'm not fitting in."

If he couldn't hide it any longer, he simply wiped his mouth and said it directly.

He Ao looked at Ruo Ti, who was wiping her mouth while blocking the steamer, and vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember what it was for a moment.

The crowd formed a circle again.

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Although Ruoti had been trying to seize power from Heo, he still chose to obey Heo's orders when Heo organized everyone to think together.

In this game where you can vote to kill, being alone means you are very likely to be ostracized and killed by the group.

"No one died this time. Did anyone find anything when you went through the tunnel? I didn't hear anything."

He Ao said this in two languages.

After he finished speaking, he gestured to start with Lin Chichi.

Lin Chichi glanced around and said, "I didn't hear anything or feel anything either."

Next was Luo Luo, who shook her head. "I didn't hear anything either, but I think it's unreasonable for the killer not to kill anyone this time, so we must have missed some information."

Next was Jin Ya, and He Ao translated the speeches of the previous two people for her.

Jin Ya paused for a moment, seemingly processing the information, then slowly said, "About an hour into the countdown, I heard what sounded like light footsteps at the door,"

She glanced at He Ao, then at Luo Luo and Lin Chichi, and thought for a moment, "I heard footsteps, but they didn't. The last time I heard footsteps was with that younger sister."

She pointed at Lin Chichi, "Then the girl in the next cubicle died, so this time the murderer might have wanted to kill you, but for some reason gave up."

He Ao translated Jin Ya's analysis and shared it with others.

"So, what exactly happened when the train went through the tunnel last time that made the killer change his mind?"

Luo Luo sat between Jin Ya and Lin Chichi, resting her head on her hand as she pondered intently.

"Perhaps there's another possibility: I also heard footsteps when there was about an hour left in the countdown,"

Ruo Ti smiled, sat up straight, and looked at He Ao, who was sitting next to him.

"The man in front of us is the murderer. He started from his own cubicle, passed by Jin Ya's cubicle, and came to my cubicle door, intending to kill me, but in the end he gave up. That's why Jin Ya and I heard the footsteps. Since he is the murderer, he naturally couldn't hear his own footsteps."

"But Hao Yi heard footsteps outside the door last time."

Luo Luo retorted in a deep voice.

"Lying? Anyone can do that."

Ruoti leaned back in his chair. "Last time, we all knew the deceased had a conflict with him, so he had to make up a plausible lie. He's the murderer, so he naturally knows which cubicles he passed through and where he should have heard footsteps. And think about it,"

He smiled as he looked at everyone.

"Last time he walked all the way to my door, then went back to kill the passenger in compartment number five, passing by his own compartment once in between, so he remembers it."

"This time he started directly from his own cubicle and walked to my cubicle door, forgetting where he started. Isn't that normal?"

He spoke with absolute certainty and confidence, as if He Ao were indeed the murderer.

He Ao rubbed his temples. If you remove some of the forced explanations, there is still some logic to what he said.

The main problem was that he spoke with such confidence that He Ao almost believed he was a serial killer.

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Based on your logic, the likelihood of you being the murderer is clearly much higher.

Luo Luo frowned her cute little eyebrows. "Look, the first time we went through the tunnel, the footsteps started from you and stopped at Chi Chi. The second time, they started from you and stopped at Jin Ya."

"Hao Yi already had a conflict with the passenger in compartment 5. He didn't need to go to Jin Ya's and your compartments to kill the passenger in compartment 5. If you were the murderer, you would have to go through Jin Ya's compartments to start from your compartment. Wouldn't that make more sense?"

"From this perspective, following this logic, the possibility that you are the murderer is greater than that that of Hao Yi."

Luo Luo raised her eyebrows and looked at Ruo Ti with a slightly cute yet provocative gaze.

He Ao looked at Luo Luo's cute little face and narrowed his eyes slightly. This 'older sister' in the form of a loli should have some basic investigative experience and would not easily trust someone.

But what she's doing now is protecting He Ao.

"It's possible he's deliberately trying to frame me..."

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

He clearly realized that this was a vicious cycle, and that his accusations were merely speculation without any evidence and could not explain everything.

For example, when Luo Luo first passed through the tunnel, she heard what sounded like a dead person falling to the ground an hour earlier than everyone else heard the footsteps.

"Hmm, you've finally figured it out?"

Luo Luo looked at Ruo Ti and blinked, "Your brain is actually better than I thought."

She's a bit sarcastic.

He Ao chuckled to himself.

Lin Chichi was completely bewildered and couldn't join the conversation, while Jin Ya couldn't understand a word and just blinked beside her.

Ruo Ti took a deep breath and realized that Luo Luo was firmly standing with He Ao. He chuckled softly and slowly stood up.

"No matter how you defend him, the facts cannot be changed. You all have props, right? You believe in the power of those props, right?"

He looked up at He Ao and said, "I already know who killed the passenger in compartment 5. Facts speak louder than words. The more confident you are now, the more desperate you will be when you die."

After saying that, he got up and left the restaurant, heading towards the private car compartment.

Just then, he encountered a flight attendant standing next to compartment number seven, seemingly waiting for everyone to make a decision.

He glanced at the fact that the cabin door to compartment number seven had been locked by the flight attendant, sneered, and returned to his own compartment number one.

The people who remained in the restaurant were all a bit confused. Even Luo Luo was stunned by Ruo Ti's powerful aura and couldn't quite figure out what was going on.

Although his words made no sense, he was very confident.

Confidence is contagious.

Of course, it's not entirely without support. Everyone has props, and it seems that the effects of the props are not the same. So it's possible that there is some kind of prop that can reveal the 'real culprit'.

Because the effects of the props, like one's identity, cannot be revealed, no one can determine whether Ruoti's statement is true or false.

But this time, it's as if Ruoti is using his own props to identify He'ao.

Lin Chichi looked at He Ao, then at Luo Luo, somewhat at a loss.

"I still choose to believe Hao Yi."