living in the world of reincarnation

Chapter 10 The real murderer
Mu Lan opened her eyes and found that Lu Tianming had already run out the door, A Feng was standing not far away, and Zhao Mengqi was already lying in a pool of blood on the other side.

"I'm not a murderer!" Mu Lan blurted out seeing the situation change.

Ah Feng didn't move, but just glanced at the dagger in her hand. Mu Lan knew what he was worried about. She succeeded in attacking Lu Tianming, and it seemed that she was black-hearted. This Ah Feng must be watching them around. , Seeing the three people fighting among themselves, they came out to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

"This Lu Tianming is a fake!" Mu Lan explained to Ah Feng, "I just act first."

Seeing that A Feng still didn't respond, Mu Lan quickly told everything she was thinking: "While talking to him, this Lu Tianming revealed a flaw!"

She mentioned the murder case in Renfu Community just casually. The way the murderer in the castle took out the hearts of people reminded her of this incident. She wanted to connect the same cases to figure out the murderer's psychology. Unexpectedly, she made an unexpected discovery. Renfu The murder in the community occurred in Anseong. As a reporter of Anseong Chenhui Daily, Lu Tianming showed no clue. A local media practitioner didn't know about this major case that shocked the whole country?
If this is a coincidence, then Huangdao Beer is a test. She pretended to talk about Lu Tianming’s specialty Huangdao Beer. Lu Tianming nodded and promised, but Huangdao Beer is not from Ancheng, but from her hometown Huangdao City. of.

After listening to it, Ah Feng's face changed. He pointed to the dagger in Mu Lan's hand. Seeing that the suspicion had been eliminated, Mu Lan immediately put the dagger back in her pocket, expressing her sincerity.

"Then the murderer is Lu Tianming?" Ah Feng pondered for a moment, then said, "I really didn't expect it. I thought it was Wang Qiang at first, but then I thought it was you."

"No wonder you have to kill Wang Qiang, but why do you still have me?" Mu Lan was puzzled.

"It looks like we were led by Lu Tianming, but you discovered all the clues about the castle. You are like a real guide, leading us to kill each other."

"Well, you praise me." Mu Lan chuckled, and then asked: "Have you been observing us in the dark?"

"Yes, if I can't find the real culprit, then I will kill you all." Ah Feng uttered a rather cruel sentence, which sounded arrogant, but Mu Lan, who knew his strength, thought it was true. Yes, Ah Feng really wanted to kill everyone to break the situation.

This plan was something she had thought about, but she gave up because of her own strength, and was forced to follow Lu Tianming and almost risk her life again.

"If Lu Tianming is the murderer, then he disguised himself too well, and I never found out." A Feng said.

"No, Lu Tianming is pretended to be the murderer, but Lu Tianming is not the murderer!" Mu Lan corrected.

"What?" Ah Feng was a little confused.

"That is to say, the Lu Tianming at the beginning was real. He was indeed an ordinary person who was involved in this incident just like us. But the Lu Tianming just now was the murderer. He was dropped. The real Lu Tianming may have already died. Misfortune happened."

As for when Lu Tianming was dropped, Mu Lan speculates that it must have been outside the castle not long ago, when she escaped from the pursuit of the skeleton man. After all, it was extremely dangerous at that time. Then he appeared grandly in the castle hall again.

Mu Lan was sure that there was nothing wrong with Lu Tianming at the beginning, because Lu Tianming really had no flaws in his logic, he was quick in thinking and good at summarizing, but now this Lu Tianming always exudes an indescribable feeling, spooky?Or hypocrisy?It's not that Mu Lan was too late to think about it forcibly, but because Lu Tianming had deliberately shown kindness when he was chatting with her just now.

This small and fragmented team is no longer as united as it was at the beginning. Everyone has evil intentions. Lu Tianming just now gave her a different feeling than before. This kind of observing the subtle changes in other people's emotions is her own. Mu Lan, who has had the ability since she was a child, has always been very sensitive due to lack of care. She habitually observes other people's movements and micro-expressions.

"Then we have found the real culprit, this side mission? Is it finished?" Ah Feng's eyes suddenly showed more approval when he saw Mu Lan, and he had some trust in this girl who could keep calm and analyze in danger , unknowingly followed Mu Lan's thinking.

"Find the real culprit, not the murderer." Mu Lan said: "It's like the difference between the criminal police solving the case and the eyewitness reporting the crime. If we only find out that the fake Lu Tianming is the murderer, it is not enough to meet the conditions to find the real culprit. , we have to know who the fake Lu Tianming is and how he did all this, so that we can truly find out the real murderer."

"The murderer, isn't he the Earl? The Earl pretended to be Lu Tianming." A Feng hesitated, because he found that he still couldn't explain the whole thing clearly. He couldn't even prove that the Earl was the murderer, and he didn't know the days before the murderer pretended to be Lu Tianming. How the individual died.

"The murderer should be the earl himself." Mu Lan affirmed. She observed Zhao Mengqi's body. Zhao Mengqi's eyes were wide open as if they were dead, her face was distorted, and the heart was cut open and the heart was taken out.

"The behavior of the two of you was very strange just now. Zhao Mengqi squatted on the ground and kept crying, while you waved the dagger. When I came, Lu Tianming had already killed Zhao Mengqi. He took away Zhao Mengqi's heart. Seeing me Appeared and ran."

"I have hallucinations, and Zhao Mengqi should be the same. This earl has the magic power to control people's hearts, such as illusion, witchcraft and other things. Fortunately, I have a weapon in my hand. I act first, and I will keep going even if I am deeply hallucinated." In the attacking state, the Earl attacked the defenseless Zhao Mengqi, he has been collecting hearts, he should need seven hearts, and now there are only two left."

Mu Lan looked at Ah Feng. In the end, there were only two contestants left in this killing game, and the real murderer showed a ferocious face, wanting to catch them all in one go to complete his sacrificial ceremony.

"Go out with me tomorrow to investigate. I already have some guesses."

Ah Feng nodded, he found that he had already trusted this girl, and it was actually Mu Lan who was leading the action between the two of them.

The third day came, and the sky had just dawned. Mu Lan took Ah Feng to check the corpses of An Junhang, Wang Qiang, and Xu Min in turn. Without exception, even Xu Min, who died outside the castle, had a huge wound The blood hole, the heart was taken out.

"Only Xiaode's body can't be found!" Mu Lan said solemnly, looking at the garden in the distance.

"Xiaode?" Ah Feng also suddenly thought of the man who had died outside from the beginning. Following Mu Lan's thoughts, his mind flashed, and he suddenly thought of something, "You mean?"

"The murderer is Xiaode, and he is the earl."

Mu Lan nodded and continued to analyze: "We thought he died first, but in fact he faked his death and ruled himself out of suspicion early on. , and then break down one by one."

Afeng was already shocked. He, who was always calm, was surprised by Mu Lan's reasoning and showed an unsteady expression. When he saw Mu Lan pause, he asked: "How did you determine that the murderer was Xiao De? Just by disappearing The corpse? There are other possibilities here."

"Of course it's more than that." Mu Lan smiled lightly, and said again: "Do you still remember the order in which you were on duty the first night?"

"Remember, the three people are me, Xiao De and Wang Qiang."

"After the skeleton appeared, we couldn't open the main door. The door was tampered with. Who would have the chance to do this? When I found the skeleton, Wang Qiang was on duty at night, and Wang Qiang was Xiaode before. He arranged it while we were sleeping. Everything, lock the door, and draw the skeleton over.”

"Of course this is just an inference of mine. More importantly, think about it, what does Xiaode look like?"

"Xiaode. Very ordinary, with his hair combed back." Ah Feng recalled after hearing this, and thought hard for a long time. He tried to describe Xiaode's appearance, but he couldn't continue.

"Can't remember what he looks like, what clothes and pants he is wearing, whether he is handsome or ugly." Mu Lan said: "I just think he is very ordinary, like a concept, not a real person. After the fake Lu Tianming was exposed, I found that he couldn't see his face clearly at all, and based on the ability he used to make me fall into hallucinations just now, this is probably his method, a kind of illusion, or witchcraft or something, which can make people perceive The ability to see phenomena that do not conform to common sense.”

After talking about the analysis in her heart, Mu Lan's mouth was dry. She opened the mineral water bottle and took a sip, then handed the rest of the water to Ah Feng, and continued: "Since the Earl can pretend to be Lu Tianming, then he can also pretend to be Lu Tianming." Xiaode, from the very beginning of our conversation, we revealed the reminder that he cannot leave the castle during the mission. Since he is not like us, he is naturally not restricted by the rules. He pretended to die at a distance of 500 meters, so that we could not check the body, and then He was careful not to talk too much, and he didn’t give away that he wasn’t from our modern society, and he jumped out of the box from the beginning, watching us suspect each other and kill each other.”

【Sub-quest: Find the real culprit】

mission completed
The reminder that the task was completed appeared in his mind, and this time Afeng completely believed it. He secretly sighed at Mu Lan's thoughtfulness, and at the same time he was frightened. He had never thought that the murderer was Xiao De, who died at the beginning. If Mu Lan hadn't been there, Lan, he might be as clueless as a headless fly, and finally died under the plot of the insidious murderer.

"Then what should we do?" Afeng asked.

After Mu Lan heard that the task was completed, the big stone in her heart finally fell. Her analysis was not 100% impeccable. She just summarized it based on all known clues. This is the most likely possibility.

"Get rid of the Earl!" Mu Lan said affirmatively, "After this night, it is the last time limit for this task. The Earl will not let us go easily, we cannot passively hide, we must take the initiative to attack!"

These skeletons may not be in the same camp as the murderer. If so, the earl would have a large number of skeleton monsters for him to dispatch with a wave of his hand, and the earl would not have to go off to play guessing games with them himself. From this point of view, the earl's power is also limited.

Since the skeleton and the murderer may not be on the same side, maybe she can do something in it.

Mu Lan smiled and said to Afeng: "Kill me and the earl will appear."

(End of this chapter)