bullyxtreme Chapter 381: Who Is the Murderer, After All?
Chapter 381: Who Is the Murderer, After All?
After all, with the mask on, Wang Qin didn't know the real identity of the person opposite her.So just enjoy it and then let her go?
But this had nothing to do with Xu Ernian anymore.
Xu Ernian had now returned to his own tent, zipping up the tent flap.
He carefully took out two laminated gold sheets from his backpack.
On one of the gold sheets were the characters for "small treasure".
The other gold sheet differed from the first by just one character.
But that single character difference created a price gap of 900,000 yuan between these two identical 1-gram gold sheets.
This was precisely a large treasure.
After the game ended, it could be exchanged for 1,000,000 Chinese yuan.
Xu Ernian passionately kissed both gold sheets several times, then carefully placed them back into the hidden compartment of his backpack.
...
After Xu Ernian returned to his tent, Jiang Ran also went back to his tent. Of course, he returned to Zhong Hui's tent, as he had been assigned to share a tent with Zhong Hui.
At this moment, he lay inside the tent with his eyes closed.
He wanted to rely on the Danger Warning System to determine who the murderer was.
But this function, after he returned to the campsite, changed from points +1 to points +3.
Points +3 was Liu Sha.
This was absolutely correct.
But who was this suddenly appearing +1?
The newcomer Xu Ernian did not trigger a danger warning prompt.
As for the others, namely these former university classmates, from the moment they met, including at the foot of the mountain, there had never been a flash of danger warning.
Yet after he returned to the campsite, there was that sudden, fleeting +1.
This indicated that it should be one of these former university classmates of his who had killed Jiang Weixin.
Therefore, it changed from having no danger warning to having a danger warning. And this danger warning was a danger to him.
Wang Qingzhao, Fatty, the short guy and his girlfriend the ordinary girl.
Zhong Hui, the Freckled Girl.
Wang Haoran.
The murderer was among them.
According to Wang Qin, the murderer was the white-masked man.
Based on the two times the white-masked man appeared.
The first appearance.
Wang Qingzhao, Fatty, the short guy and his girlfriend the ordinary girl, the Freckled Girl, and he himself went to the ancient pagoda.
No one knew where Wang Haoran and Liu Sha went.
Everyone had an alibi.
Only Zhong Hui had no alibi.
He had strongly insisted on staying at the campsite, not wanting to go, so he had the time.
The time of the second appearance.
Everyone had an alibi.
But based on the first time, only Zhong Hui had no alibi.
Reasoning from this, the second time, Zhong Hui went with the Freckled Girl to find Wang Haoran and Liu Sha.
It seemed he had an alibi, but if the Freckled Girl was his accomplice, covering for him...
In that case...
Hey, there's another one.
Wang Haoran and Liu Sha.
Even though they could vouch for each other, if they were also accomplices...
Both the first and second times, they also had sufficient time...
They could also be the murderer...
But this possibility was relatively small, because Liu Sha only met them today.
Or perhaps, Liu Sha actually knew Wang Haoran long ago? Was she arranged in advance?
Finally, there was another possibility: Wang Qin killed Jiang Weixin and deliberately framed the white-masked man.
After all, Jiang Ran was also very puzzled: why did the white-masked man only kill Jiang Weixin and not kill Wang Qin?
"What the hell? Am I Conan? How come just participating in a classmate mountain climb, I can also encounter a murder case?!"
Jiang Ran complained internally.
The next moment, he suddenly rolled over, as if he had thought of something.
Damn, he was sharing a tent with Zhong Hui.
Zhong Hui had a high probability of being the murderer!
If Zhong Hui wanted to kill him, wouldn't he be in great danger?!
But changing his train of thought.
He and Zhong Hui had no grudge either?
He probably wouldn't kill him.
But changing his thought again, what grudge did Zhong Hui have with Jiang Weixin?
The most terrifying thing isn't murder with a reason.
It's murder with absolutely no reason.
Jiang Ran was thinking whether he should propose changing tents to sleep in?
But would such an unexplained action attract Zhong Hui's attention, making him mistakenly think he had discovered something, and thus kill him?
"Jiang Ran, want some mung bean soup?"
Just as Jiang Ran was lying there, Zhong Hui walked in carrying a bowl of mung bean soup.
The surface of the mung bean soup was a pale green, looking very appetizing, especially since this bowl of soup was cold, with visible ice cubes inside.
It was a holy relic for relieving summer heat.
Looking at that bowl of mung bean soup, Jiang Ran shook his head.
Seeing this, Zhong Hui carried the mung bean soup and walked out.
Past 10 PM.
Everyone had returned to their respective tents.
Because Zhong Hui was on the first half of the night watch, he was outside.
As for Jiang Ran, who had been inside the tent the whole time, he also hadn't fallen asleep.
He didn't know what time it was, perhaps midnight, when Zhong Hui returned.
After returning, he directly lay down on the other side of the tent, and within a few minutes, the sound of Zhong Hui's snoring could be heard.
Jiang Ran really couldn't sleep.
Mainly because having a suspected murderer beside him gave him absolutely no sense of security.
Therefore, he quietly unzipped the tent flap, crawled out of the tent, then zipped it back up.
"Phew"
Outside the tent, he took a deep breath.
The air in the mountains was very fresh, and taking this breath felt very comfortable.
After finishing this breath.
He opened his eyes and looked around. The surroundings were completely silent.
Except for the area around the outdoor camping light in the middle of the campsite, everything else was in shadow, or even deeper darkness.
"Huh, where's Fatty?"
Jiang Ran walked toward the outdoor camping light but didn't see Fatty, who was supposed to be on watch for the second half of the night.
Where had that Fatty gone?
Jiang Ran also didn't dare to shout or make noise, lest he wake the others.
Therefore, he just wandered around the campsite, looking for people.
He found the tent shared by Fatty and Wang Haoran.
It turned out, both people inside that tent were gone.
At this point, Jiang Ran suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Immediately after, he seemed to hear some rustling, dragging sounds.
He took a few steps toward the sound.
He saw, in a shadowy place not well-lit by an outdoor camping light's glow, a person who looked like a ball, pulling on the arms of another person with both hands.
And this other person was lying on the ground, as if already unconscious.
Judging by the situation, the person who looked like a ball was pulling the person lying on the ground, not knowing where he intended to move him.
The face of the ball-like person flickered in and out of the faint residual light from time to time.
That was Fatty's face. As for the unconscious person on the ground, the side of his face that flickered into view was clearly Wang Haoran.
Jiang Ran originally wanted to secretly follow, to see what Fatty was doing to Wang Haoran.
But at this moment, many TV dramas, movies, and novels he had seen before suddenly flashed through his mind.
They had similar plots.
The male protagonist or a supporting character discovers the traces of an evil person and goes to follow alone.
Only to end up getting killed in the end.
Every time he saw such a plot.
Jiang Ran found it quite ridiculous.
And now, this kind of situation was happening to himself.
Therefore, Jiang Ran, being very smart, stood still and spoke toward the interweaving of light and shadow over there.
"Fatty, what are you doing?"
This voice wasn't loud, but in the silent campsite area, it could carry quite far.
Fatty over there clearly froze, then the action of dragging Wang Haoran obviously stopped.
After stopping, Fatty released Wang Haoran's arms and straightened his back.
His gaze turned toward Jiang Ran's direction.
When their eyes met, Fatty suddenly smiled.
"It's nothing, Jiang Ran, you're dreaming."
Jiang Ran used his hand to pinch his own arm. It hurt.
Then he displayed his right arm that he had just pinched.
"It hurts, I'm not dreaming."