Infinite Murder Mystery Game: The Beauty with a Delicate Palm

As soon as Su Mian finished speaking, the sound of shattering glass startled her. A dead crow flew to Su Mian's feet, its body still twitching weakly.

Su Mian suppressed her gloomy gaze and covered her mouth and nose with a piece of paper.

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, the woman didn't react much, but Mr. Guan slammed his hand on the table and stood up, his face filled with fear. "Madam, I told you long ago, that day wasn't suitable..."

"Alright, that's all in the past."

The woman interrupted him.

Seeing that the two had no intention of continuing the conversation, Su Mian raised her wet eyes and put her hands together.

"Could you please tell me what happened?"

Mrs. Guan hesitated, but the girl bit her lip, her eyes slightly red, "Xiaoxiao... is my best friend."

"Don't cry, child."

Madam Guan sighed, wiped away Su Mian's tears, and then began to recount her story.

"We came here a year ago today, and Xiaoxiao... wasn't originally the child we wanted to adopt."

"Yes, the first one we chose was a child named Yutong."

Mr. Guan echoed, his fingers clasped together, a bitter expression on his face, "Who knew such an unlucky thing would happen that day?"

"Excuse me for asking, but...is Yutong...dead?"

【You're being too presumptuous, Mianmian.】

4399 popped up again at some point.

A hint of surprise flashed in Madam Guan's eyes. "Yes, she is dead."

"He died in the abandoned well at your orphanage."

"Our original intention was to take Yutong home, but the child disappeared before leaving. Since the contract hadn't been signed yet, we decided to choose another one, and that's how we chose Xiaoxiao."

"We gave them all the jade tokens, and then a child suddenly told us that Yutong had died in the well at the orphanage. When we arrived... she had already been burned to ashes."

The man put his arm around Mrs. Guan and patted her gently to comfort her, then shook his head and sighed, "We felt it was bad luck, so we didn't take any of them."

Su Mian nodded gently. "I understand."

In this way, all the previous clues are connected.

She remembered the nursery rhyme that Guan Xiaoxiao led the group in singing on their first day in the cafeteria.

"The moonlight is bright, and my heart is filled with unease."

"The younger sister sings while hiding at the bottom of the well"

"A new friend every day"

"Come down and play hide-and-seek with me."

This younger sister is probably referring to Yu Tong, because they should have been a family. The hanging doll is a manifestation of the resentment of Guan Xiaoxiao, the older sister.

She could have been taken away and lived a happy and prosperous childhood, but because of this accident, she lost her family and remained in the orphanage.

Then...who killed Yutong?

Who killed Guan Xiaoxiao?

What does "true orphan" refer to?

She was still missing a file, a file from the orphanage last year. Apart from what Yu Mao Mao had let slip at the beginning, if they knew which of the five of them had been in the orphanage a year ago, the truth would gradually come to light.

Su Mian thanked the two of them, walked out of the room, and took out the map that the old woman had given her.

[Mianmian...you don't want to go to the dean's office, do you?]

Su Mian's expression was indifferent, her eyelashes drooping slightly to cover her eyes. She didn't show any emotion when she heard this, but a quick glint of cunning flashed in her eyes. She turned to look at the office at the end of the corridor and murmured something.

"I'm just a silly kid who loves playing hide-and-seek and accidentally hid in the dean's office."

【…】

4399: I only bound to you because you seemed honest.

It was getting a little anxious.

Are you really not afraid?! Mianmian, think about your ex-boyfriend, he's still lying in the infirmary right now!

Su Mian's ear was already pressed against the door. "Of course I'm afraid of him, but didn't you say that as long as I don't cross his bottom line, everything will be fine?"

"Besides..."

Inside, all was quiet. Su Mian gently turned the handle, and the door opened easily.

"The door wasn't locked, which doesn't clearly suggest that players go inside to look for clues."

……

That seems to make sense.

But no player has ever done this so blatantly before!

4399 is now filled with regret. Why did it have to be so sarcastic and tell its host all this?! It's one thing to gossip behind someone's back, but to say that someone looks like a university professor when they're not actually one!

Oh no, oh no, will its host be hacked to pieces...?

Feeling uneasy, 4399 tiptoed and closed the door.

Just as she expected, the map did not mark "archives room".

Therefore, all the files must have been locked in the dean's office.

Su Mian approached the cabinet that occupied an entire wall, with labels for the date neatly pasted on the lower left corner of each cabinet.

However, the key was casually inserted into the lock, which made the office owner seem particularly relaxed.

She quickly found last year's filing cabinet, and with a gentle pull, the old drawer made an unpleasant scraping sound.

Su Mian pulled out a thick stack of documents, her eyes quickly scanning each file.

Lin Xiaofan, Sihan, Kailuo...

The corresponding person is...

Zhou Yichen, Yu Mao Mao, and Wang Zhe.

So they were all adopted by the Sunshine Orphanage last year.

She and Wen Zirui only entered the orphanage this year.

To confirm, she quietly opened this year's filing cabinet and quickly flipped through it.

Sure enough, it clearly contained information about Miguo and Xu Yiyi.

However, Su Mian noticed a chilling difference.

This year's orphan files include a previously unseen section of information: weight.

She stared intently at it.

21.3 grams.

19.8 grams.

24.1 grams.

Page after page, the numbers are almost always between 18 and 24 grams.

Su Mian frowned, her fingertips gently stroking a corner of the paper—a subconscious action as she pondered.

How could a normal child weigh just over 20 grams?

Twenty grams is a unit of measurement that can describe a small piece of chocolate, or the weight of a hummingbird, but it is far from enough to support a living child.

A thought suddenly flashed through her mind, as if some ancient metaphor had been awakened from the depths of her memory.

...21 grams.

That is a number that has been controversial in both medical and philosophical history: In the early 20th century, an American doctor claimed that the weight a person loses at the moment of death is the mass of the soul, which is 21 grams.

Although it was later proven to have no scientific basis, this number became a symbol of the "existence of the soul" in an almost absurd way.

At that moment, Su Mian suddenly remembered that she had drawn a similar scenario in a murder mystery game: "The Absurd 21 Grams".

In that game, one of the players existed as a ghost, and she happened to play the role of the "murderer".

Therefore, she has a particularly deep memory of this number.

If we follow this line of thinking, then... does that mean all the children in the orphanage are already dead?