"I..." Yu Tang was about to speak when Lu Qingyuan raised his hand, which was clasped with Yu Tang's, and said, "We are a same-sex couple who were planning to go on a trip. We just parked our car in the parking lot of the scenic area and ended up here."
He stared at Lu Qingyuan, his face full of surprise.
He suspected that Lu Qingyuan would fabricate an identity and infiltrate the players.
But I never expected that the other party would actually tie me to him!
In such a situation, if the other party does something extreme, he, as the boyfriend, certainly cannot escape responsibility!
“Actually, we…” Yu Tang was about to retort when Cheng Yuan spoke up.
"Oh, I see." He smiled. "I was wondering why you two were wearing matching outfits."
"Oh, they're a couple."
I'm completely speechless.
“I just heard that voice mention Zhao Tingting and the time of the suicide case,” Lu Qingyuan said. “I vaguely remember that.”
He asked, "Could it be that this Zhao Tingting is the plagiarist from that design competition two years ago?"
"Not long after the plagiarism was exposed, she committed suicide, and the case was never solved." Lu Qingyuan asked doubtfully, "That voice said to find the murderer. Could it be that this case wasn't suicide, but murder?"
Cheng Yuan nodded: "Yes, it's that Zhao Tingting."
However, he added, "But at that time we all thought Zhao Tingting committed suicide. Chen Lu and Zhang Ping were devastated for a long time after they found out."
He led Yu Tang and Lu Qingyuan to the other four people, pointed at the couple, and said, "His name is Wang Chen, he's a senior this year, he used to be in the same class as Zhao Tingting, and they dated for a while. But they broke up before she committed suicide. Her name is Bai Qin, she's a freshman, and she doesn't know Zhao Tingting at all."
He then pointed to Zhang Ping and another girl and said, "The two of them are named Zhang Ping and Chen Lu. Zhang Ping and Zhao Tingting are childhood sweethearts. They studied physical education and he used to have a crush on Zhao Tingting."
He never confessed his feelings, and later, seeing that she had a boyfriend, he gave up.
Chen Lu was Zhao Tingting's best friend from high school; she studied education at a different school than the rest of us. But we often saw each other at gatherings.
"And what about you?" Yu Tang looked up at him. "What's your relationship with Zhao Tingting?"
Cheng Yuan paused for a moment, scratched his head, and his face turned slightly red. He glanced at Chen Lu and said, "I'm Zhang Ping's buddy, but I haven't had much contact with Zhao Tingting."
"Then what I really wanted to do was take this opportunity to confess my feelings to Chen Lu..."
The atmosphere around them froze immediately after he said that.
Chen Lu subconsciously stepped back towards Zhang Ping, not daring to look at Cheng Yuan.
Yu Tang and Lu Qingyuan understood immediately and didn't ask any more questions. They simply introduced themselves and then pulled up a chair with the five people to sit together and start the meeting.
Zhang Ping: "I just observed that the layout of this studio is almost exactly the same as the studio where Tingting committed suicide."
Located on the sixteenth floor of the art building, the door was locked. But I figured I could probably break it open with brute force. The only problem was, how would we get back to the real world after breaking down that door? I couldn't think of a solution.
Yu Tang noticed that the other four people had different expressions when he spoke, and Chen Lu kept unconsciously touching a silver bracelet on her left wrist.
Lu Qingyuan said, "Therefore, I think if we really want to leave here, we still have to do as the voice instructed and find the real culprit."
His gaze swept over the five people's faces, and he said, "Yu Tang and I have only heard of Zhao Tingting's name from the news reports; we've never even met her. So, we're the first to be ruled out as suspects."
He pointed to the five people: "Then, the real murderer who killed Zhao Tingting can only be found among the five of you."
Chen Lu couldn't help but shout, "How could I possibly kill Tingting!"
Her eyes were slightly red, as if recalling painful memories, and she said, "After Tingting was exposed for plagiarism, I immediately called her, but she wouldn't answer. I went to her dorm to look for her, but I couldn't find her. Later, the next news I heard about her... was that she committed suicide..."
She covered her face and sobbed softly. Cheng Yuan quickly took out a tissue from his bag and handed it to her.
Cheng Yuan frowned as he looked at Lu Qingyuan: "I know these people to some extent. They had no motive to kill Zhao Tingting, and the police said it was suicide..."
"ah!"
Bai Qin suddenly screamed, pointing towards the window: "Ghost! Ghost! There really is a ghost!"
As everyone looked, they saw a disheveled woman wearing a red dress lying on the transparent glass, her five fingers shaped like claws, her sharp nails scraping down from top to bottom like diamond carving knives.
The piercing sound almost caused everyone to experience tinnitus.
"Qinqin! Get out of the way!"
Wang Chen shouted and pulled the girl into his arms. The next moment, a sharp shard of glass came flying and stuck in the chair where Bai Qin was sitting!
Chapter 6
Died for the villain for the fifth time (06)
Everyone was shocked and immediately got up and scattered. Zhang Ping grabbed Chen Lu and barely managed to dodge Zhao Tingting's attack.
The red-clad ghost tilted its head, revealing a face as pale as paper, with pupils that were pitch black, and long, black hair that moved without wind.
"Tingting... are you really Tingting?" Chen Lu looked at the vengeful ghost, her tears falling even faster. She said, "If you really have been wronged, can you tell me? I will do everything in my power to get justice for you..."
But the vengeful ghost clearly wouldn't listen to this, and with its right hand forming a claw, it went after Chen Lu again.
Suddenly, there was a loud thud behind him, and he stumbled as the plaster statue hit him.
He stared at Cheng Yuan.
Cheng Yuan shouted, "Zhang Ping! Kick the door open! Lead everyone and escape!"
Before he could finish speaking, the tightly locked door was kicked open with a bang, but it wasn't Zhang Ping who did it; it was Lu Qingyuan.
The devil, with his languid and handsome appearance, smoothed his slightly disheveled hair and said, "Go on, no need to thank me."
Yu Tang was so disgusted by his vain and narcissistic behavior that he grabbed a chair and smashed it on the ghost, making it turn its attention to him.
Then he grabbed a metal easel to block the ghost's sharp claws and shouted, "You guys go first, meet up downstairs later!"
Upon hearing this, the five men quickly fled.
As they walked away into the distance, Lu Qingyuan suddenly burst out laughing.
He asked Yu Tang, "Mr. Angel, are you stupid?"
Yu Tang was stunned for a moment. Before he could react to the meaning behind Lu Qingyuan's words, the fierce ghost that had been fighting with him just now instantly stopped.
Then he jumped out of the broken window and disappeared outside.
Yutang was shocked.
"That ghost's target isn't you at all. Sending them to the first floor is just sending them to their deaths!"
"Otherwise, why do you think I would have a sudden burst of kindness and kick the door open?"
With his little fangs showing, Lu Qingyuan's smile widened even more: "Mr. Angel, I must say, you're incredibly gullible..."
"Looking at it this way, in this game you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Yu Tang walked a few steps to the window, bent forward, and stepped on it with one foot.
The night wind tousled his tousled hair, and his black silk shirt billowed gently before he leaped without hesitation!
Lu Qingyuan was stunned for half a second, then almost immediately rushed over and jumped down. His huge black wings unfurled, and he grabbed Yu Tang's waist, gritting his teeth and saying, "Do you want to die?!"
"Don't you know that in this game, you've been stripped of all your abilities, and you're no different from an ordinary human being?!"
Yu Tang was startled and subconsciously said, "You didn't say that either."
Realizing belatedly that he hadn't said it, the devil's expression instantly turned awkward, and he snorted through his nose.
He sneered, "Even if I didn't say it, you're still a complete idiot."
Lu Qingyuan placed Yu Tang on the ground and then retracted the black wings.
Yu Tang was about to chase after the vengeful ghost, but Lu Qingyuan grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him back to his side.
"I was just kidding you," Lu Qingyuan said. "The rules of the game are to find the murderer within 72 hours. This vengeful ghost was just to scare them and make them fight amongst themselves."
At this point, Lu Qingyuan's dark eyes subtly turned crimson, and the corners of his mouth curled up in an excited yet wicked smile.
"What happens next is what's interesting."
"But you're really stupid, angel." Lu Qingyuan stared at Yu Tang's face: "How come you believe everything I say?"
"Didn't the angels who died at my hands tell you after they were reborn not to believe what I say?"
During the month that the black mist enveloped Yu Tang, he recalled the original owner's memories several times and gained a deeper understanding of Lu Qingyuan.
His previous criticism of Lu Qingyuan was merely a matter of venting his anger.
The real Lu Qingyuan was ridiculously powerful; hundreds, if not thousands, of angels had died at his hands.
Moreover, after these angels were reborn from the Heavenly Tree, they refused to go down to find Lu Qingyuan no matter what.
It even got to the point where they would tremble all over whenever Lu Qingyuan was mentioned in front of them.
They said this demon was cunning and evil, and had no heart at all.
It is an existence that no one can influence.
And this evil will eventually make Lu Qingyuan reap what he sows.
Yu Tang was indeed assigned this mission because he was a newcomer.
but……
Yu Tang looked up at Lu Qingyuan, glancing left and right, but didn't find him particularly scary.
At most, he's a little bit narcissistic and immature, but otherwise he's pretty normal, isn't he?
“But the agreement we made was genuine,” Yu Tang said to him. “And you said before that if I could hold out and not fall, you would release me, and you did.”
"Isn't this all the truth?"
Thinking of this, Yu Tang smiled and said, "I don't think you can lie about everything you say, which is why I believe what you say."
"In my eyes, this isn't stupidity; it just shows that I still have the most basic trust in you."
Lu Qingyuan was stunned.
After a long pause, he frowned and sneered, "Stupid is stupid, what are you trying to argue about?"
"I don't need anyone's trust."
"That's the most useless thing to me."
[Ding—Lu Qingyuan's favorability +10, current favorability 10. Oh ho, as expected, every main god is a hypocrite—]
The system burst out laughing.