Chapter 249: Should we proceed to the third round of challenge?

Chapter 249: Should we proceed to the third round of challenge?

Chapter 249: Are we going to have a third round of challenges?

Luo Xi nodded: "That's exactly what I meant."

Affinity was stunned for a moment, then smiled, with disdain and a hint of competitiveness on his face: "You found the stolen goods from under the bed in the female neighbor's bedroom, and the investigation of the crime scene can also confirm that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime. The crime happened between 8 and 9 o'clock in the evening. It should be a female neighbor who came to visit. From the tea she drank and the female slippers on the ground, it can be seen that the female neighbor killed people out of greed. And the female neighbor is missing. This is almost absconding from the crime. From the clues, details, and the location of the stolen goods, it can be confirmed. Is there any other possibility in this situation?"

Luo Xi did not refute. He looked at the corpse in the bedroom over there.

"You were the one examining the body. How tall was she? How much did she weigh?"

"Uh, this..." Affinity was stunned. He didn't pay attention to these.

The hook-nosed man immediately went in and came out quickly, saying, "The deceased is 1.69 meters tall and weighs about 60 kilograms."

"Where is the female neighbor?" Luo Xi asked again.

The hook-nosed man was stunned for a moment, and the friendly man immediately frowned: "We have never seen the female neighbor from beginning to end, so who knows her body shape."

He was just halfway through his words when Affinity froze. Then he remembered something and rushed out like crazy, probably going back to the previous bedroom to investigate.

Some of the people present knew what he was going to do, but some were still confused.

Soon the affinity returned.

His expression was gloomy, and he said to Luo Xi helplessly: "You saw it a long time ago, right?"

Luo Xi said nothing.

Affinity continued: "From the photos on the bedroom wall over there and the size of the clothes in the closet, we can roughly judge that his height is no more than 1.6 meters and his weight is only about 50 kilograms."

After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized.

How could a woman who has neither height nor weight advantage strangle another person who has both height and weight advantage to death?

It's like a child trying to kill an adult.

It's not that it can't be done, it's just that it's difficult.

"When a person is dying, he or she will fight back desperately, with greater strength than usual. However, there were no obvious signs of a fight at the crime scene, and the deceased had many wounds on her body. On the contrary, there was no skin tissue from the murderer under her fingernails. In other words, she was almost completely suppressed during the entire process of being killed, and was finally strangled to death!" The hooked nose also realized some details that he had overlooked before, and added.

"Then there is only one possibility. The murderer's power is much greater than that of the deceased. Therefore, the female neighbor cannot be the murderer."

At this moment, the phone suddenly rang at the crime scene.

This shocked everyone.

No one answered it, and everyone looked at Luo Xi.

Now, the job of "answering the phone" has become the exclusive privilege of "robbers".

But Luo Xi did not answer it, but said to Qinheli: "You answer it, and write down what it says."

After saying that, he walked towards the door.

Then he stood at the door, as if waiting for someone.

Who is he waiting for?

Soon, everyone had the answer.

The heavy footsteps sounded again.

The administrator is here.

The pressure came almost instantly. The last time the administrator came over, he executed the high school girl violently. What about this time?

Who will be executed?

Knowing that someone will die, and that person might be you, is an extremely torturous feeling.

Soon the tall figure of the administrator appeared at the door.

He swept his eyes around and finally focused on the hooked nose.

"Liu Furong, you are under arrest, according to"

Just the first half of the sentence made everyone's expressions turn into ice and fire. The hook-nosed man's expression darkened. He reacted almost immediately and pinched a card in his hand, but the administrator was faster. At this moment, he had raised his gun and pointed it at the former.

"The murderer is a male neighbor!"

Luo Xi suddenly said something at this time.

Lao Ma didn't shoot, but he didn't put the gun down either. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Luo Xi.

"What's the reason?"

"The first phone call was the evidence. The man called his wife and said a woman had been killed in the next room and that the case had never been solved. He shouldn't know the details of the case, especially whether it had been solved."

"Ah"

Lao Ma laughed dryly, seeming to feel sorry and a little unsatisfied, but he finally put away his gun. "Congratulations, you passed the second round of the game. The result is better than I expected."

"Then please follow me to collect your clearance rewards."

After saying that, Lao Ma walked forward, went down the stairs at the crime scene, opened a locked door, and entered another reception room.

Everyone followed down, with different moods.

The hook-nosed man managed to escape death, and he looked at Luo Xi with gratitude in his eyes.

And took the initiative to say: "Thank you!"

If Luo Xi hadn't spoken at the last moment, he would have been shot in the head like the high school girl before.

End this cycle day early.

For veterans like them, this is definitely not cost-effective.

The others were celebrating, but Affinity had a strange expression on his face, muttering, "It's so easy to pass the level?"

The mature woman next to him couldn't help but ask, "Is it easy? That's because Mr. Robber is here, otherwise another person would have died just now. I calculated that the time difference between the two roll calls is only about five minutes, which means that one person dies every five minutes. The most important thing is that if the person who holds the key clue to the reasoning dies, it can almost be declared that the whole team is wiped out. In this case, do you still think it's easy?"

Affinity didn't seem to care about this interrogative answer. He just smiled and said, "I was only referring to the mystery plot. If the naming mechanism is added, it will of course become a difficult mode. There is no doubt about that."

Compared to them, the nervous man and the odd job man looked relieved, as if they had escaped death.

If they hadn't had to stay to share the reward, they might have left the place.

"The last time I came here, it was just a simple reasoning game. It wasn't that dangerous. The rewards were average, but they were in line with safety expectations. Who could have thought it would be so dangerous this time? Fortunately, I survived." The tense man muttered.

Apparently he's been to this scene before.

"Me too. I remember the last time, we were playing poker. I'm pretty good at it and I even earned a few cards. If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn't have come." The odd job man also felt relieved.

The strong man sneered at the two men.

"Your level is too low. I don't know how you advanced the awakening time. But the last cycle was very strange. I was eating and resting outside, and suddenly the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, as if something exploded. Then I entered the next cycle. I felt that I was implicated. It might also be that there was a gas leak explosion nearby. In short, I was extremely unlucky."

The sturdy man said casually.

Like complaining.

However, the nervous man and the odd job man next to them were both stunned when they heard it.

"It happened to us too. I was in a scene and it suddenly exploded. I thought I accidentally triggered the death mechanism. It turns out you heard the sound too." After the tense man finished speaking, the odd-job man couldn't wait to ask, "So, our last cycle was suddenly interrupted? That's not right. Nothing like this has happened before."

“How many cycle days have you experienced?”

"Me? Forty-one, not many!"

"Not many. I have been through more than fifty cycle days and have never seen or heard of such a unified interruption and restart on a cycle day."

The discussion among the three people quickly spread because other people were also interested in the topic.

Including mature women, hooked noses and friendliness, even the dull men started discussing.

The game is over and he has cleared the level, so he doesn't need to play dumb anymore.

"This matter is indeed very strange. Even though I have gone through hundreds of cycle days, I have never encountered it. But in fact, the existence of the Day of Imprisonment may be much longer than we can imagine. So the fact that it has not appeared in known memories does not mean that similar things have not happened in the distant past." The analysis of the hooked nose was obviously more rational, objective and neutral.

"That's just a possible guess. There is another possibility. The unexpected interruption of the cycle day is indeed the first time. If we make assumptions based on this possibility, we will come to another conclusion. An extremely special and major event must have occurred during the day of confinement." Affinity gave another explanation.

Obviously, these two are at the same level.

"What is this extremely special and major event?" the tense man asked.

"I don't know." Affinity shook his head: "But we can regard this incident as a starting point. It is difficult to investigate what happened before this starting point, but we can observe and record what happened after. Even if this incident was an accident, or even caused by a 'recollector', then the other party must have subsequent actions."

"What? Is this true? Was it done by some amnesiac? Who has such ability?" The odd job man thought for a moment and questioned.

His subconscious mind is, we all have two arms and two legs, a head and a mouth, so why can others do it but he can’t?
This is not reasonable.

Deep down, he is a very strong-willed person, especially after surviving for more than forty cycles. He saw some of the people who had regained their memories with him in the past, and even some who were stronger than him, being pulled behind him and turned into amnesiacs, while he had walked step by step to the present, and his self-confidence became more and more obvious.

But at the same time, he is very sensitive. If others look down on him, he will hold a grudge and then retaliate.

"Some powerful memory restorers have methods beyond our imagination. You think that surviving a hundred cycle days is considered a master, but in fact, some real veterans may have survived thousands of cycle days, or even more. So if these memory restorers did something, it might really be the beginning of some kind of change. I personally think that this kind of change is a good thing, and I am very optimistic about it."

What started as a discussion between two or three people soon spread to almost everyone present.

Jingle bell bell~
The administrator, Lao Ma, pressed the front desk bell, interrupting the increasingly lively discussion.

"Here are the rewards for completing the first and second rounds of the game. There are a total of twenty cards. You can distribute them among yourselves. However, as an administrator, I need to remind you that there is actually a third round of challenges in my level scene. Whether you participate is up to you. I can only say that the rewards for the third round are more generous, even beyond your imagination. Of course, more generous rewards mean more dangerous rules. Benefits and risks always coexist."

"As for whether or not to participate, you need to vote. Please note that you can only leave if everyone chooses not to participate. Otherwise, you must stay and participate in the third round of game challenges!"

(End of this chapter)