I'm not Yingjie

Qianjie roared and punched the dead tree next to him. The snow fell on his shoulders, but he shook off the snow with his shoulders trembling with anger.

"I know who it is."

What no one expected was that Lin, who had remained silent after seeing the corpse, spoke in an indifferent tone at this moment.

He raised his head and looked at one of the people with sharp eyes.

……

A missing person case occurred at a gathering of fourteen people in a mountain villa.

The roads were blocked, communications were cut off, thirteen people were killed one after another, and the murderer was lurking in a mansion!

The breakup of former friends.

The confusing truth.

A terrifying and bizarre prophecy.

A deep hidden grudge.

A dispute of love, hate and passion.

A series of tragedies and puzzles surrounding the strange prophecy of the fate of thirteen people are unfolding here!

The one who sees through all this is an ordinary person who looks young and is still a young man in reality, Lin!

“Hey, isn’t this too cliché?”

April Fools' Day Special: The annihilation of Yingjie in Snow Mountain Villa

"I know who it is."

Lin looked at one of the people, and he pointed his finger at that...

……

"It's Qianjie, or rather Kevin disguised as Qianjie."

"..."

As the cold voice interrupted the story, the atmosphere that had been brewing was swept away.

Everyone looked silently at the helmeted man who ruined the atmosphere. He picked up his tea and took a sip as if nothing had happened, as if he didn't notice other people's gazes.

Alicia, who deliberately turned off the lights and used her tone to create an extreme suspenseful atmosphere, looked at him with a resentful look.

"It's not hard to guess. You specifically reminded me of Qianjie's appearance and voice after he was replaced. You should be able to tell it by ear." Lin Sao tried a circle, "...Why are you looking at me like that? Wei Erwei, at least you can tell by ear."

"Uh..." Wei Erwei spread her hands under Alicia's gaze and said, "Lin, do you know what is the most taboo in magic? It is to have your tricks and techniques seen through. If they are exposed during the performance, then it is a failed magic trick."

"But wasn't Alicia talking about the novel she was planning to write?"

"..."

Weiwei slapped her forehead.

Hopeless.

"The murderer... is it Brother Kevin?"

At this time, Gray Xiu raised her hand and asked, and the person she was asking was Lin.

Lin looked at Alicia.

"...Hmph, never mind. Since you've already said it, just finish it." Alicia puffed up her cheeks and snorted.

Since the parties involved have said so, Lin naturally revealed the answer to the mystery of this unfinished story without hesitation: "There are two murderers. One is Kevin who killed Qianjie and then disguised himself as Qianjie, and the other is Su who disappeared from the beginning."

"Lin, wait a minute." Su asked curiously after hearing his name, "According to what Alicia said and your analysis in the story, shouldn't the other murderer be a woman?"

"Lin in the story never thought that the other murderer was a woman. Footprints are the easiest misleading traces to disguise. The simplest inference is the depth of those footprints." Lin explained calmly, "The story specifically mentioned the depth of the footprints. In normal suspense and mystery novels, the murderers are all characters who have already appeared. There will be no characters who have no information about them. But the weight of the women in the story is not enough to leave deep footprints on the snow."

At this moment, Mebius looked at Alicia subtly, and Alicia smiled back.

"So the footprints were actually the murderer misleading others into wearing shoes of female size. Based on the males who appeared and excluded Kevin and Kosmo who seemed to be dead, there was only one male without a body, and that was Sue."

The others also looked at Alysia for confirmation, and she nodded: "These are also what I planned to let Lin say in the story... Is this considered jumping out of the original framework and arranging a new story now?"

"Then let's continue analyzing the information in the story. First of all, Su's disappearance is the first trick. The information in time is not equal." Lin put a finger on it and analyzed calmly, "The story specifically mentioned the signal problem before and after the snowstorm in order to create the illusion that 'Su was late and was killed on the way to the villa', making readers believe that Kevin and Eden made the call after Su was killed."

"But this raises a question. The place where the phone fell is not very far from the villa. Can Su, who had already arrived nearby before the snowstorm, be considered 'late'?"

"One of the missed calls was probably from Kevin to test whether Su's fake death was perfect and whether the signal had been blocked. The figure that Grace saw was Su, who had already arrived and was preparing to kill someone."

It must be said that when a complicated and strange thing is simply explained and analyzed, the original sense of mystery and horror is swept away. Moreover, under Lin's seemingly flat voice, it does not seem scary at all...

"But this is reverse reasoning based on the information that 'Su is one of the murderers'. It is indeed difficult to guess that the other murderer is Su before the clue of the footprints outside the house is announced."

Lin Chengxin’s praise made Alicia’s nose go up to the sky.

"Then there was the first real murder in the story, which was the murder of Kevin. Kevin was tied to a dead tree and burned to death. The murderer locked the door and returned to the crowd. There were actually some rather straightforward loopholes. For example, if one wanted to lock the door without using the spare key, one only had to lock the door and then go outside through the window of another room, put it in Kevin's room, and then return the same way, thus creating the illusion that the spare key had been stolen."

"The actual murder process was similar to the locked-door process. The murderer went to the victim's room, knocked him out, and then went out through the window and tied him to a tree. After setting the room on fire, he returned to his room through the window and came out from another place to show that he had just arrived at the crime scene."

"And the reason why we can tell that Qianjie was Kevin in disguise is because with Qianjie's personality, after hearing what Abonya said, he would question her on the spot, and would not come to me privately to report it. I'm afraid that what Abonya told me before she died was also this incident, and this also exposed Kevin's disguise."

"Of course, there are other clues, such as the unusual places I found when investigating the footprints. It is probably that the marks outside the windows of each room are different. Kevin's room has traces of entering and exiting. This is also what we said when the story was about to reveal the mystery."

Kevin and Qianjie, who were used as materials, did not show any reaction. Kevin closed his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking. Qianjie listened to Lin's explanation with his ears cinched, and seemed to be very engaged.

"The second murder was committed by luring Kosmo to the second floor and letting Su do the killing. Kevin, disguised as Qianjie, told Kosmo that he had something to discuss alone and asked him to wait on the second floor. After seeing Qianjie and I talking alone, Kosmo would relax his guard and be ambushed when he came to the second floor. Kevin, who was not present, would not be a suspect."

"The third and fourth incidents happened at the same time. The method was simple: diverting attention. Judging from the order of the thirteen people's fates, we should have thought that Pado would die first. But in fact, after Su killed Ying, when everyone was in chaos, Kevin returned to the villa and smothered Pado to death."

Padu, who was covered with the quilt, looked pale. She looked at Kevin, who was resting with his eyes closed, and said, "Kai, Kevin, you won't do that."

“…” Kevin shook his head speechlessly.

"The subsequent plot is unknown, but from the current clues, the murderer has been identified, so the fate of the thirteen people cannot be continued. There is a problem with your story structure."

As for Lin's correction, Alicia was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Of course I know. Isn't Lin in the story also going to reveal the identity of the murderer? The fate of the thirteen people will be extended to the third murderer hiding in the dark after the murderer is revealed... It's just that the plot hasn't reached that point yet. Um... There are obviously a lot of love, hatred and vengeance that I want to tell."

"……who is it?"

"Of course it's me. Hehe, the narrator of the story is the biggest murderer. How about it? Isn't it amazing?"

"……Maybe."

Lin shook his head and stood up, glancing at the heavy snow outside the window: "Let's take a rest...our vacation should also be over."

"To be precise, it is the Thirteen Heroes' vacation and their monitors' working hours." Mobius corrected appropriately, her eyes always falling on Lin playfully.

Lin said nothing and walked towards the second floor of the villa, his steps steady and powerful.

Yes, they are running out of time.

How much time is left before the next Herrscher appears...

……

"The narrator of the story is the biggest murderer..."

The pink-haired girl sat in front of the window in the moonlight, smiling softly.

Both her story and their story are yet to be continued.

Whether it's the murderer in the story or the real murderer...

Asking for leave today

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Chapter 57: Chance

"Bam—"

A streak of azure blue cut through the inky black in the billowing smoke, breaking through the smoke screen and punching the assassin on the forehead, like a watermelon hitting a truck, breaking into pieces on the spot.

He pulled out the collapse bomb from his waist and threw it at the group of dead soldiers, detonating it in the air. The collapse bomb developed with the power of the Herrscher of the Void swept away everything around it. After the white light dissipated, even the corpses could not be fully assembled.

The collapse bomb is not actually an explosion, but is similar to a phase shift device that teleports objects within a certain range to another space, but it is simpler and more crude, does not select a specific target, and does not have a return setting.

Because it cuts objects at the spatial level, most substances cannot withstand it, but it is also very dangerous. If there are people within its range, there is only the possibility of accidental injury.

After clearing out the dead soldiers in this area, Lin stopped and scanned the surroundings to see if there were any surviving Honkai creatures.

The area he was responsible for was very small. To be precise, there was no area that was responsible for by a single person. This time the cleanup operation was a collective one, with one hundred and twenty-one soldiers participating in the cleanup of the same area. This was something that was hard to imagine in the past when only two teams at most would be dispatched to carry out the cleanup mission.

Lin Danchun simply cleaned faster than anyone else, so a large area around him was left empty.

After making sure that there was no activity of Honkai energy around, he walked towards Sakura's coordinates.

This time the cleanup mission was quite special. A small-scale Honkai broke out in a busy city. The 19th branch blocked the entire area three minutes after the Honkai broke out, and deployed soldiers and armed puppets to clean up the Honkai creatures and rescue the survivors.

In fact, in recent years, more and more Honkai have occurred in cities, especially small and medium-sized Honkai and some hard-to-detect Honkai creatures lurking in the city.

In addition, after the severely damaged Fire Moth shifted its control over the outside world to a second reorganization of the internal affairs, some ordinary people have begun to realize that something is wrong with this world.

Perhaps, the day when Honkai Impact 3 and Fire Moth are revealed to the public will come sooner than we think.

"Are you done?" Sakura just put the knife back into the sheath. She performed a simple salute to the corpse, which was considered the most basic mourning for these people who were transformed into dead warriors by the Honkai.

"It actually happened in the center of the city..." Ying, who rarely participated in ordinary missions, said in a low voice with emotion, then turned her head and glanced at Lin, "Have you returned?"

Lin nodded gently: "The finishing touches will be carried out by the fifth and fourteenth teams."

"Okay..." Ying quickly came to Lin's side and walked with him to the transport plane, "Are you carrying out any secret missions recently?"

“…No.” Lin knew why Ying asked this.

In the past two days, when he had no missions, he would leave the 19th branch and go out. No one knew where he was going, and then he would come back a few hours later without any equipment.

Judging from this somewhat sneaky behavior, it does feel a bit like a solo secret mission.

However, Lin always answered questions. He said: "I was investigating something in an Australian city... I met a different person."

The person who observed the city from another perspective like him left some impression on him.

People are in a hurry, and most people in Australia have become like zombies, but that person actually observes and explores. Although Lin inferred from her few words that she could not really look at other people from the perspective of people's needs, and she was also doing artistic work, but she would calm down and walk to the streets of the city to watch the most ordinary people, Lin still gave her a certain recognition.

He also unexpectedly discovered that the person seemed to be visiting various cities. When he went out to investigate the abnormally high temperature in Australia, he occasionally saw her walking on the streets of the city wearing a hat, mask and sunglasses.

Since there were few other similar outfits in the summer, he was easily recognized.

But this was just a minor episode, and Lin focused more of his energy on the investigation.

To be honest, this temperature anomaly is very similar to the fifth collapse.

Everything needs to be discussed with Mei again...

"Wait a minute, Lin, the Honkai energy reaction in an area is rising rapidly." At this time, Himiko's communication made Lin and Sakura, who were about to board the transport plane, stop.

There are only two possibilities for a sharp increase in Honkai energy reaction.

One is the occurrence of some unknown Honkai phenomenon, and the other is the birth of high-level Honkai energy creatures.

And now, it is obviously the latter.

"From the total amount of Honkai energy reaction, it should be just a mutated lower-level Honkai beast. The coordinates have been transmitted to you."

Most of the people participating in the cleanup this time were new recruits who had only undergone simulation training. It was already quite good that they could clean up the dead soldiers and ordinary Honkai beasts in their first actual combat. Some special Honkai beasts required experienced veterans like them to clean up.

It's just a mutated lower-level Honkai beast, so Lin and Ying are enough. The other veterans probably can't get away, so they will be left to deal with it.

"Let's go."

……

"Miss Eden, where have you been again? Do you know how much more work you've added to my workload by running around all day?" The agent sighed to the red-haired woman as he rolled down the window while sitting in the driver's seat. "What if someone recognizes us?"

"No, how can they care about a singer nowadays?"

The woman called Eden shook her head, opened the car door, sat down, and spoke steadily.

"'A singer', before you say that, take a look at your ranking in the global influence rankings..."

"That doesn't affect me as just a singer." Eden looked out of the car worriedly, "When will this kind of thing end..."

"So you've said it yourself, you're just a singer, you just do what a singer should do, sing and cheer for them, isn't that enough?" The manager didn't fail to understand Eden's thoughts, but she obviously wanted to be more open-minded, "They have their things to do, and you have your things to do. The world can't function properly just because of your kindness, but only when everyone does what they should do."

"……Maybe."