Yu Tang was surprised: It actually added 10 at once. I didn't expect this little devil to be so generous.
Yes, yes, it's much better than that one that adds 0.001 at once or starts with a negative 100...
Yu Tang also felt that Lu Qingyuan's favorability rating was indeed easy to increase, and when he looked at Lu Qingyuan again, he found him much more pleasing to the eye.
Thinking about the five players I had just interacted with and the rules of the game.
He asked Lu Qingyuan, "Little devil, is there really a murderer among those five people who killed Zhao Tingting?"
"Or is this just a game you set up to deliberately make them distrust each other?"
“I can’t really explain this either.” Lu Qingyuan lowered his eyes to meet Yu Tang’s gaze, still pondering what the other had said. His eyes were heavy. “After all, human nature is the most complex thing. And sometimes, knowing that a tragedy will happen but turning a blind eye is also a form of murder.”
After saying this, he took Yu Tang's hand and walked into the art building, turned into an empty classroom, and asked Yu Tang, "Do you want to see what those people are doing now?"
Yu Tang nodded, but then he said, "But I can go find them myself. Why did you drag me here?"
Before she could finish speaking, her chin was pinched by the lazy, beautiful little devil, and a shadow fell over her eyes.
Lips were sealed—
Chapter 7
Died for the villain for the fifth time (07)
The kiss came unexpectedly.
By the time Yu Tang realized what was happening and was about to punch him, Lu Qingyuan had already straightened up and asked him, "Can you see it now?"
Yu Tang blinked and found that he could see the scene of the five people escaping in front of him.
His face was full of surprise.
“Visual sharing.” Lu Qingyuan pulled up a chair, sat down, crossed his legs, and a small wisp of black flame appeared at his fingertips. He said, “I have already placed Dark Eyes around them so I can observe their actions at any time.”
The only difference is that you have to kiss to share this ability.
He pursed his lips and commented, "But your lips are quite soft, like jelly, they taste good, quite pleasing."
After saying this, he revealed an extremely narcissistic expression: "You may not know, but the number of female demons in the entire demon realm who want to be kissed by me could stretch from the Heavenly Tree to the Fire Hell Pool."
Finally, he yawned, glancing at Yu Tang with slightly reddened eyes, "You got off easy with this kiss today, so be grateful!"
Yu Tang watched him talk to himself, speechless.
He pulled up a chair and sat down, replying, "I wouldn't say I'm grateful."
"To me, when lips touch, it's just four pieces of skin rubbing together; I don't feel anything."
Lu Qingyuan was momentarily speechless.
He let out a breath after a moment, glanced at Yu Tang from head to toe, and smiled: "Sorry, I forgot you're not capable at all, so it's normal that you don't feel anything."
With old blood stuck in his throat, he simply stopped talking to Lu Qingyuan and focused on watching the images after the visual sharing.
Cheng Yuan and his group didn't dare take the elevator and only dared to take the stairs.
The art studio was on the sixteenth floor, and they stopped when they reached the thirteenth floor.
In the dimly lit emergency exit, Chen Lu managed to stop crying and whispered, "Will those two be alright?"
The others also stopped in their tracks. Wang Chen, pulling the still-shaken Bai Qin along, said, "Don't you guys think those two are suspicious?"
Wang Chen said, "When we were analyzing the murderer just now, they said they didn't know Tingting and even pointed the finger at us, saying that the murderer was among us. Didn't anyone notice such obvious attempts to sow discord?"
"Furthermore, they remained so calm even after the vengeful ghost appeared."
Especially that guy named Lu Qingyuan, he looks thin and weak.
But then he kicked open the studio door, and that Yu Tang actually dared to fight the ghost head-on with his easel! He told us to go downstairs first and we'd meet up there later…
Cheng Yuan suddenly realized: "You mean, they might be the real murderers? And they're quite skilled in combat. So, while we were escaping downhill, the two of them plotted to wipe us out?"
Zhang Ping: "Now that you mention it, their behavior does seem very suspicious."
Lu Qingyuan, who was on the first floor, smiled and glanced at Yu Tang: "Old angel, do you see? They've started to suspect you."
He shook his head: "Isn't this a classic case of good intentions being wasted?"
Slightly taken aback by the bizarre nickname "Old Angel," Yu Tang forced a smile and said, "Can you please stop calling me Old Angel? Am I that old?"
"You call me a little devil, so why can't I call you an old angel?" Lu Qingyuan propped his elbows on the chair and said deliberately, "Old angel, old angel, hey, I'll call you old angel, let's see what you can do to me."
“You childish brat…” Yu Tang ignored him and looked at the screen, saying, “Actually, it’s not all because they doubt me.”
Chen Lu: "They just saved us, so let's not think like that."
She bit her lip, her red eyes sweeping over the other four people. She secretly clenched her left wrist and said, "But we can't be too careful. I think we should split into two groups and go down the stairs on either side of the art building." She took out her phone.
"I just checked the phone. There's no signal on the sixteenth floor, but there will be a signal after we get down to the sixteenth floor. We can contact each other by phone then."
The others agreed with her reasoning and nodded in agreement.
The final group assignments have been decided.
Chen Lu, Bai Qin, and Wang Chen are in one group.
Cheng Yuan and Zhang Ping are in the same group.
Lu Qingyuan asked Yu Tang, "Having seen this far, who do you think the murderer might be?"
Yu Tang frowned and thought for a moment: "I actually have some doubts about Chen Lu. The ghost's attacks were all aimed at her, and Chen Lu's reaction to Zhao Tingting was also the strongest."
Lu Qingyuan simply smiled, switched his gaze to Chen Lu, and said, "Then let's see what Chen Lu will do next."
At night, the art building is equipped with motion-activated lights. As Chen Lu and her two companions walked along the corridor on the thirteenth floor, they coughed a few times, and all the lights turned on.
As the group of people walked by, the light quietly went out from behind, disappearing into the darkness.
"Wang Chen..." Chen Lu suddenly spoke up, "Two years ago, before Tingting committed suicide, did she go to see you?"
Wang Chen's pupils contracted slightly, then quickly returned to normal. He said, "No..."
"We had already broken up by then, and she told me never to contact her again."
Later, when she was exposed for plagiarism, I was a little worried and even called her.
But just like your situation, no one answered the phone.
"In the end, when she had her accident, I was stunned."
Chen Lu: "Oh, really?"
"Chen Lu, what do you mean?" Bai Qin looked at Chen Lu: "Do you suspect that my brother Chen is the murderer?"
She seemed to have calmed down a bit, and hugged Wang Chen's arm tighter, her soft skin pressing against the man's elbow. It was so large that she almost sank into it.
Bai Qin's gaze was fixed on Chen Lu, and she narrowed her eyes slightly: "Also, I heard from my friend that before that design competition, you lost Zhao Tingting's design draft once. Later, when she went to participate in the competition again, she was exposed for plagiarism... That really ruined her reputation overnight."
She said, "If you think about it that way, wasn't it you, my best friend, who drove Zhao Tingting to her death? What right do you have to doubt others now?"
Chen Lu's eyes widened: "That's all because of you..."
Meeting Bai Qin's gaze, Chen Lu swallowed the rest of her words, clenched her left hand, and said, "Forget it, all of that is in the past. The most important thing now is how to escape from here."
She glanced in the direction of the restroom and said, "You guys wait for me at the emergency exit, I'm going to the restroom."
Yu Tang covered her eyes and coughed, "She said she needed to go to the restroom. It's not appropriate for us to keep watching like this."
"Don't worry..." Lu Qingyuan said, "She's not really going to the toilet."
The scene unfolded exactly as Lu Qingyuan had anticipated.
Chen Lu went to the restroom, but instead of going into a stall, she took her tightly clenched right hand off her left wrist.
The silver chain left red marks on the girl's wrist. When the pressure was gone, the chain slipped off, revealing the cuts on her wrist to Yu Tang.
The scars are both new and old.
In front of the sink, Chen Lu took out the small knife she always carried from her pocket and made another cut on the overlapping scars. She trembled all over in pain, and blood slid down the sink wall, all bright red.
She looked at herself in the mirror.
Wearing a loose-fitting white silk shirt and straight-leg casual pants, with short hair past her ears and glasses, she exudes an intellectual beauty.
But the eyes hidden behind the lenses were red, swollen, and lifeless, filled with guilt and years of pent-up pain.
Silently, a girl with long, slightly wavy hair and wearing a red dress appeared behind her, her image slowly appearing in the mirror.
Chen Lu reached out and touched Zhao Tingting's face on the mirror, and tears streamed down her face.
“Tingting…”
She choked back tears and said, "I'm sorry..."
"I'm so, so sorry..."
Chapter 8
Died for the fifth time for the villain (08)
Upon hearing this, Lu Qingyuan covered his mouth with one hand, his chest trembling slightly with laughter.
"If you do something bad and kill someone, is an apology enough?" Lu Qingyuan shook his head: "Look how self-righteous these humans are."
“She doesn’t seem to be the murderer.” Yu Tang frowned and said, “I think there’s something wrong with that girl named Bai Qin. Cheng Yuan said she didn’t know Zhao Tingting. But when the game just started, the first person she thought of was Zhao Tingting.”
Moreover, judging from what she just said to Chen Lu, she seemed to know a lot about Chen Lu and Zhao Tingting's relationship, which is very unusual.
“Bai Qin…” Lu Qingyuan’s smile widened: “Alright, let’s see what this girl is doing.”
The scene shifted, revealing what Wang Chen and Bai Qin were doing, and Yu Tang choked instantly.
Inside the emergency exit, the woman wrapped her arms around the man's neck, kissing him passionately. She also held Wang Chen's hand in front of her and called him softly, "Brother Chen..."
Wang Chen was breathing heavily.
Bai Qin's back slammed against the wall, and she cried out with her neck tilted back.
"Host, I feel like vomiting." The system couldn't help but complain: [Don't they even look at the time? They're trapped in the game! They're about to die! And it's uncertain when Chen Lu will return, yet they're doing this in the emergency exit? Are they crazy? Or have they lost their minds?]
Yu Tang and the system shared the same feeling, their faces turning pale as they watched.
Turning to look at Lu Qingyuan, she saw the lazy devil propping his head up with his hand, yawning with droopy eyelids, but the smile on his lips grew wider as he mocked, "One is a born slut, and the other is a promiscuous gigolo. A bitch and a dog, a perfect match."