Life Dungeon Game

"You mean Jin Ya killed the chef?" Luo Luo was completely stunned. "But the time the tunnel ended the second time, Jin Ya was outside the whole time. She came out of the cubicle with us, then went to the restaurant together, and finally she even went to the food counter to get milk..."

"It seems I've done too much 'proof,' which is counterproductive."

At this moment, Jin Ya seemed to understand something as well, and smiled at He Ao.

"Yes, you used the excuse that you wanted to eat my steamed buns, went to the kitchen to get a fork, and then went to get milk separately. All of this seems to prove..."

Obviously, the chef was in the kitchen while you were outside—a near-perfect alibi.

He Ao said softly, "We have actually seen the internal structure of the kitchen. The food counter is not as small as we imagined. There is a countertop against the wall outside our line of sight."

"The forks and milk are already prepared and placed behind the wall next to the food counter. When you need them, you can simply reach out and 'take' them out."

"But didn't you go to the restaurant and order xiaolongbao first?" Luo Luo asked thoughtfully. "Jin Ya was still with us then."

"Think carefully, do you really have any memories of her being by your side?"

He asked softly.

Luo Luo was taken aback, her brain working rapidly.

She suddenly realized that during the time He Ao went to the restaurant, she had no memory of Jin Ya at all; she just subconsciously felt that 'Jin Ya should be there'.

"There are many abilities in this world that can achieve the effect of 'invisibility,' and many people possess these abilities, for example,"

He Ao looked at Jin Ya and smiled, "The 'Mystic' of Dawn."

How could a sorcerer have worked with his subordinates for so many years without revealing a single flaw, and even prevent his subordinates, who are skilled at gathering intelligence, from obtaining any information?

Unless she can get her subordinates to subconsciously 'ignore' certain details.

In fact, if Heo hadn't once possessed the 'Assassin', and if the Miracle Wand didn't contain the miracle of 'Disappearance', and if he hadn't happened to obtain the 'Secret Mage's' secret medicine recipe, he probably wouldn't have made this connection at all.

"It seems you know a lot of information. I'm starting to get curious about your identity."

Jin Ya crossed her arms in front of her, supporting her chest, and smiled. "But these are just guesses. Where did you get your evidence? I think you wouldn't trust this little girl next to you without solid evidence. We are both suspects."

Luo Luo: "I'm not young!"

“Of course,” He Ao shrugged. “At first, I also thought this guess was a bit too far-fetched, like something that would never happen. However, I followed the logic of this guess.”

Chapter 414 The Whole Truth (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"But if we want to understand exactly what happened, we need to stretch the story out a bit, starting from the point where my thoughts broke through."

He Ao looked at Jin Ya and Luo Luo and chuckled softly.

"From the moment you discovered the 'chef' was dead?" Jin Ya stared quietly at He Ao. "Is that when you started to suspect me? So what specific details did I expose? I think you wouldn't have made that connection just because I took the cutlery and milk separately."

"It's time."

He Ao shrugged, staring at Jin Ya's face. "The kitchen utensils 'make' any dish in roughly the same amount of time. I waited quite a while when you were getting me the xiaolongbao."

"But you probably took more than one serving of xiaolongbao, maybe five or six."

"Because you know that Ruoti has been hungry for quite some time. When people are hungry, they will temporarily lose their ability to think when they smell food, and xiaolongbao happens to be a very fragrant food."

"So you guess that after Ruoti smells the xiaolongbao, he won't think of any other food for a short time and will follow my choice to order one or more xiaolongbao. This way, you can hand the xiaolongbao to Ruoti as quickly as possible after I leave."

"And why do we need such a fast food preparation speed? Because you have to get back into the crowd before I can react, and at the normal food preparation speed, by the time I get back to the food cart, Ruoti should have just received his xiaolongbao."

“I don’t know what limitations your abilities have, but it seems that if you sneak out of the kitchen again when we start discussing, your ‘concealment’ will be exposed, so you need to get back into the line before we get into the dining car.”

"It turns out your guess was right. Ruoti chose the xiaolongbao as you expected. After quickly giving her the xiaolongbao, you swiftly opened the kitchen door from the other side, returned to the compartment, and followed us into the dining car."

"Your slow reaction and constant 'daydreaming' are probably also to reduce your presence so that you can completely 'hide' yourself in these special moments."

"You are very smart,"

At this point, He Ao suddenly chuckled. He walked to the window of the carriage, where some windows offered views of the magnificent scenery outside. "First of all, you didn't shorten the time by much. In addition, you have to factor in the time for meals, which indirectly weakens our perception of the meal pickup time."

"Then, when you went to get the utensils and milk, you deliberately shortened or lengthened the time slightly to create the illusion that the 'kitchen' food collection time fluctuated, thus 'normalizing' your abnormal behavior."

"In fact, when you gave me the xiaolongbao, you deliberately took a little longer."

"Theoretically speaking, you have already succeeded, because we only went to the kitchen to get food 7 times, but you interfered 4 times."

"Only my first time picking up the food, your first time picking up the food, and the last time Luo Luo picked up the food were not disturbed."

He Ao turned his head and continued looking behind him.

"So I didn't notice this at all during my second free time, which completely blocked my train of thought until the third free time when I saw Luo Luo taking food for the last time in the food truck."

"There shouldn't be any problems here either."

Jin Ya looked up at He Ao.

"Yes, your interference was almost perfect, but I have a less desirable ability: I have a good memory. My memory includes not only spatial scenes but also events that have occurred over time."

He Ao smiled and made a gap with his index finger and thumb.

"This makes me a little bit more sensitive to time than the average person."

"I realized that during the seven meal pickups, the time was on the same level three times, with very little fluctuation."

"Although the last time it was a flight attendant disguised as a chef, the kitchen is only so big, and their movement speeds are about the same, so the time difference is very small."

"Although you interfered with the food pickup time, the time during which you reduced and increased the interference was not constant. This makes the data from the four times you interfered appear abnormal compared to the three times when the time was almost stable."

He Ao clapped his hands. "At that time, I was thinking about why these seven meal pickup times seemed so orderly yet chaotic."

"Then I discovered that the three stable time data points came from three different people, while two of the four unstable data points were clearly related to you."

"And at this point, we need to talk about another matter,"

"At the end of the second free activity, Ruoti came out once in the middle. That time, I saw him holding some kind of white fabric in his hand, and I remembered what the exposed part of that white fabric looked like."

"Then, when Luo Luo was getting the food, I was surprised to find that part of the chef's gloves was very similar to, no, almost exactly the same as, the part of the white fabric I had noted down."

"But if the cook's gloves are in Roti's hands, then where is the cook? The cook is Roti, which is unlikely, so I made a bold guess,"

He Ao looked at Jin Ya, who was listening quietly to his story, and chuckled softly, “The chef was also one of the players, but he is already dead. The chefs we meet afterward are all ‘fake.’ Once I figured this out, I had a sudden realization.”

"Although I didn't have conclusive evidence at the time, I followed this clue and filled in the details one by one, and found that almost all of them could be explained reasonably."

"First of all, the chef must have died during the second tunnel crossing, which would explain why no one died during the second tunnel crossing."

"This vehicle really wants the participants to kill each other, so there should be some kind of death threshold. This threshold will not be zero, because it requires killing, but it will not be too high either. If the threshold is too high, the killer will kill everyone in one or two rounds, and the game will lose its fairness."

"So I guess this indicator should be '1', meaning that every time someone passes through the tunnel, one person will die, but only one person will die."

"When I got to this point in my speculation, a new question arose: who killed the chef?"

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Luo was now completely absorbed in the logic of her thoughts. She looked up at He Ao, anticipating what he would say next.

"Logically, the killer should have killed the chef, and then during his second period of free time, the killer would have disguised himself as the chef."

He Ao said with a smile.

Luo Luo nodded vigorously; that was exactly what she had been thinking until just now.

"That's what I thought at first too. At that time, I actually had some doubts about the flight attendants. Since the chef is a player, the flight attendants should also be players. And the place where the flight attendants are located is consistent with the place where the footsteps start each time."

"If the flight attendant disguised himself as a chef in the galley during the second free time, it could roughly explain why we were all in the dining car during the second free time, and why Kim Ah was able to go and get the food."

"But I soon realized the inconsistency in this assumption,"

He continued, "Since the killer murdered the chef, why did he use the chef's gloves to lure Roti out of the room?"

"The serial killer has the ability to kill by opening the door. If he wants to kill Ruoti, he can just open the door and kill him openly. During the time he is passing through the tunnel, he is invincible with the help of the train. It would be completely unnecessary to lure Ruoti out of the room."

"Furthermore, I noticed that Ruotie's expression before his death was one of surprise. What does surprise mean?"

He Ao looked at Luo Luo.

"This means that the person he met was not the one he expected."

Before Luo Luo could speak, Jin Ya whispered, "So, you're guessing that there's another killer on the train?"

Luo Luo turned her head away. She had just guessed it, but Jin Ya interrupted her.

"yes,"

He Ao smiled as he looked at the woman in front of him who spoke gently and dignifiedly, discussing his own affairs as if she were an outsider.

He paused, then continued softly, "Herein lies a problem: who is the person we expected to be?"

"It's the murderer who killed passenger number five! He said he already knew who the murderer was!"

Luo Luo quickly replied.

"correct."

He Ao nodded encouragingly and approvingly at Luo Luo.

"hey-hey"

Luo Luo scratched her head, then stopped, feeling that something seemed off.

“After analyzing this far, I realized that there were two murderers in this car.”

At this moment, He Ao continued, building on what he had just said.

"The person who killed the first five victims and the cook was a person, but this person was not a serial killer. She could walk on the train as it passed through the tunnel, but she did not have the absolute dominance supported by the train like a serial killer."

She was very wary of the serial killer.

"I think that because of the death toll limit, the killer who has had two 'heads' stolen in a row is now especially eager to find the 'killer' other than himself."

"At this moment, Ruoti jumped out and said that he already knew who the assassin was, which was actually an implication that the assassin should contact him."

"He was unaware of the existence of another assassin, so he naturally assumed that this assassin was the serial killer."

"As a henchman of the serial killer, he is meant to help the serial killer."

"But it's clear he helped the wrong person."

At this moment, He Ao looked at

Jin Ya said softly.

"Then this 'assassin' devised a scheme, first using the chef's gloves to lure Ruoti out, making the serial killer believe that Ruoti was the 'assassin' who could walk in the corridor while the train was passing through the tunnel, and who had stolen two of his lives."