"Not you who killed her? What does that mean?" Long Ruiquan's pupils dilated, revealing a surprised expression. "Liang Fang wasn't killed by you?" The guardian, disguised as Jiang Yi, was silent for a second. "I thought my expression was standard enough. Now you make me doubt whether I'm even speaking your human language." "In short, the dead woman named Liang Fang wasn't killed by me. When I found her, she was already a corpse." Even Long Ruiquan was stunned. Shouldn't the guardian be the only one responsible for killing people in this instance? Could it be that one of them has a side quest that requires killing teammates? Or is there some extremely dangerous existence in this instance? Swallowing his saliva, Long Ruiquan suddenly felt that this instance had become strange. He originally thought that all he had to do was help the guardian disguised as Jiang Yi conceal their identity, and the main quest of this instance could be easily completed. But now it seems… perhaps things are far from as simple as he had imagined. —— In the last room on the first floor, Xu Tong reached out and selected one of the treasures.
In mid-air, a pearl necklace slowly landed in Xu Tong's hand. 「Name: Pearl Necklace (Genuine)」 「Type: Plot Item (Cannot be taken out of the instance)」 「Quality: Excellent」 「Carrying Requirement: None」 「Effect: Can provide progress worth 240000 game currency during the final settlement」 「Evaluation: A delicate pearl necklace, each pearl of which can be sold for a considerable price. After stringing them together, it gains more collection value, and its natural value also rises accordingly」 "In that case, the question marks on the first floor should be cleared," Xu Tong said, sorting out the valuables in his and Pei Wenyu's hands. After completely clearing the entire first floor, the two still had a considerable harvest. The total value of all the contents has exceeded a full 600,000 game currency. They only need to obtain treasures worth 400,000 more game currency to meet the prerequisite for completing the main quest. Pei Wenyu slightly raised her head, looking at the stairs leading to the upper floor. "I don't know how much treasure they've collected now. Based on their previous performance, I feel that we'd better make the worst preparations. It's possible that neither of them has collected a single treasure." Xu Tong didn't care about that. He glanced at the time on his pocket watch. Soon the next day would also pass. They had turned the entire first floor upside down in two days and found treasures worth 600,000 game currency. The progress wasn't slow. Not to mention that at the beginning of the instance, they also delayed some time. They also lost a lot of time when confirming Liang Fang's death and exchanging information. If they speed up a bit in the next day, it's not completely impossible to collect the remaining 400,000 worth of treasures. "Let's go to the third floor," Xu Tong suggested. "Didn't we say before that we'll meet on the third floor after searching the corresponding floors? Liang Fang should have also encountered the attack when going upstairs." Pei Wenyu didn't refuse. Following behind Xu Tong, she once again came to the stairs leading from the first floor to the second floor. Liang Fang's body was still lying here. The blood gushing out of her neck had basically dried up. That hideous expression was as if she had seen some extremely terrifying scene before her death. Xu Tong glanced at Liang Fang's body and observed the steps, as if trying to analyze how she was killed. At this moment, before Xu Tong's observation yielded any results, a stream of information suddenly popped up in his mind.
[Your brain has discovered a clue. Liang Fang's cause of death was not due to excessive blood loss. The cut in her neck was not the cause of her death. She was already a corpse before her neck was cut and a large amount of blood was lost] Noticing this string of information in his mind, Xu Tong immediately frowned. Already a corpse before that? Good fellow, that is to say, someone tampered with the corpse after it was discovered in order to confuse the public? Generally speaking, even accomplices wouldn't necessarily tamper with the corpse, after all, the risk is high, and they might expose themselves. But, under certain circumstances, this person would have to tamper with it. That is, the cause of death is too obvious. If the deceased died from a gunshot, then the person with the gun is naturally the most suspicious person. If this happens, tampering with the corpse to confuse the public becomes very important. "That is to say, the person who cut the corpse's throat knew that the wound was obvious and would immediately expose the identity of the real murderer, so they did this?" Just as Xu Tong was thinking, a stream of information once again appeared in his mind. [Your brain, in order to prove that it is smarter than you, has begun high-frequency information processing, and has even deduced part of the truth. Long Ruiquan cut the corpse's neck in order to hide the guardian's identity] "Damn, is that necessary?" Xu Tong was speechless. My brain is actually proving that it is smarter than me, which has a sense of ambidextrous fighting. This sentence, even if posted online, may be scolded by others as idiotic. But since his brain has deduced it, the situation is clear. He has learned all the side quests of all the survivors. Long Ruiquan's side quest is to help the guardian conceal their identity. His side quest is to have the guardian kill him, thereby completing the resurrection and obtaining powerful power. Pei Wenyu's side quest is to attack the space dominator, at least causing effective damage. Looking at it this way, Jiang Yi is the unlucky guy whose identity was taken away by the guardian. He only needs to find Jiang Yi next, and then induce him to kill him once to complete his side quest. "Very good, then what to do next is to find Jiang Yi, find a way to get him to act with me, and then lure him to kill me." Anyway, he can be resurrected after death, Xu Tong is not worried at all. Saying that, Xu Tong continued forward, and began to walk towards the stairs connecting the second and third floors. But just as he walked over, he suddenly found Pei Wenyu stopped on the stairs, her eyebrows slightly furrowed. Discovering that Xu Tong had walked over, Pei Wenyu waved at him, "I think you'd better come and see this." "What's wrong?" Xu Tong walked to Pei Wenyu's side, his gaze looking in the direction she was pointing. A corpse was lying on the stairs connecting the second and third floors, its death was tragic, but this time the neck was not cut open, but there was a gash on the neck that seemed to have been gnawed by termites. But that's not the most important thing.
The most important thing is that the corpse lying on the ground. Is Jiang Yi's.