Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

Under Hundred-Tempered Steel’s narration, the entire sequence of events finally came to light.

Everything that happened here was not a ”murder case,” but a scam orchestrated by the deceased Radish himself.

Lin Yu spread his hands: ”So, in the end, there actually isn’t any murderer.”

But Good Night sensed something was off.

”Ah, shit, that’s not right,” Good Night said, stroking his chin, ”If there’s no murderer, what about that ’Craftsman’ who committed suicide?”

Good Night was naturally referring to Cassia Seed.

Upon hearing this, Lotus’s expression also darkened: ”Yeah... Cassia Seed would never commit suicide.”

”And if it was a plan devised by Teacher Radish, he would absolutely never let Cassia Seed sacrifice himself.”

Lin Yu shook his head: ”You’ve also misunderstood... this point confused me at the time too.”

”But actually... this matter has nothing to do with the occurrence of the entire case;on the contrary, it is actually the ’result’.”

”Cassia Seed wasn’t involved in the whole incident, but he was killed because of it... If I’m not mistaken, he was probably implanted with some kind of hidden psychological suggestion by the people from the ’Psychological Society’ a long time ago,” Lin Yu analyzed, ”It would only trigger on the day Radish died... After being triggered, Cassia Seed would likely fall into a state of cognitive confusion.”

”He would convince himself he was the murderer and develop a strong desire to commit suicide to atone. You can tell from the ’suicide note’ he wrote;it’s completely unlike something a person in a normal mental state could write.”

After Lin Yu finished speaking, Lotus rubbed his hair.

”Damn it... it’s those bastards from the ’Psychological Society’! They’re truly a bunch of beasts!”

After discovering there was no murderer behind Radish’s death, although the guilt in Lotus’s heart lessened somewhat, because he lost the object of his ”hatred,” he couldn’t help but feel somewhat lost.

But Lin Yu’s words just now gave him a new target and goal for revenge!

Of course, this was also something Lin Yu was happy to see—he didn’t mind causing trouble for the ’Psychological Society’.

Phoenix also confirmed this explanation: ”Our plan indeed did not include ’Cassia Seed’... The only thing we did to him was, when we confirmed there was absolutely no way to prolong Mr. Radish’s life any further, have ’Chris’ operate to cut off his perception of the outside world for a short while—including your fainting spell that night, Lotus, that was also Chris’s doing.”

Good Night nodded: ”That all makes sense, but is it really such a coincidence?”

”It’s not a coincidence, but someone leaked the information,” Lin Yu said, ”All of this was a setup based on the ’Psychological Society’ being aware of this scam.”

”Their arrangements were exploited by someone... and the purpose of the ’Psychological Society’ was probably to use Cassia Seed’s death to directly escalate the ’change’ that Grandpa Radish originally hoped for into a more intense situation.”

Fu Luo then added: ”Think about it, if we hadn’t realized this, and Cassia Seed died leaving a suicide note... because there was this ’scapegoat’ to shoulder all the blame, all of Grandpa Radish’s hard work would have been in vain.”

”The change he wanted would simply degenerate into a situation where those people fight for power and profit.”

Lotus trembled with anger: ”They’re truly a bunch of scum who deserve to die! To trample on Teacher Radish’s last wishes like this!”

Li Hua, who had been on standby all this time, finally spoke up.

”Wait... you just mentioned a leak, so you mean, among these five people, someone colluded with the ’Psychological Society,’ right?”

He looked at Phoenix, Bright King, Hundred-Tempered Steel, Paper Kite, and Chris, and said slowly.

”Hey, why are you pinning a new crime on us again?”

Chris said discontentedly.

”Otherwise, did Radish tell the ’Psychological Society’ all this himself?”

Li Hua pushed up his glasses and said coldly.

”There’s also a sixth person,” Paper Kite said calmly, ”And that person’s suspicion should be much greater than ours, because he was definitely the first to know about the plan.”

”We were all executors of this plan, but the proposer of the plan wasn’t Radish himself either... At the very least, someone gave him suggestions.”

Lin Yu nodded: ”There is indeed such a guy. He even ran into my dream last night, putting on an act and giving me hints.”

”If I’m not mistaken, he’s the one who leaked Radish’s plan to the ’Psychological Society’.”

Fu Luo spat: ”That guy really has no professional ethics... and loves to stir up trouble.”

Lotus frowned: ”Who is that guy?”

Phoenix shook her head: ”To be honest, we don’t know either... I thought he was someone from your ’Player Mutual Aid Association’.”

”Based on our preliminary guess, it should be a guy called ’Twenty’.”

Good Night chimed in.

As soon as the character ”Twenty” was mentioned, everyone instantly showed expressions of sudden realization.

”So that’s it, it’s that bastard.”

Hundred-Tempered Steel slapped his thigh and said.

”And the lost 【Super Genetically Modified Radish】 might very well be in his hands too!”

This northeastern man said excitedly.

Lotus was stunned: ”What?! That 【item】 wasn’t taken by you guys? Didn’t he tell you to keep it safe?”

For a moment, the expressions on everyone’s faces were a bit awkward.

”We originally planned to go take it after you and Cassia Seed fell asleep, but when we went over, we found it was already missing...”

”We’ve been looking for it these past few days too.”

Phoenix said softly.

Seagull spoke urgently: ”Then it might really have fallen into the hands of the ’Psychological Society’, it’s over... If we go look for it now, we might still make it in time!”

While everyone was in chaos, Li Hua calmly pulled a carrot from his chest.

”Ding—”

As the perfectly shaped carrot, shimmering with golden light, was taken out, it emitted a crisp sound effect, its dazzling radiance illuminating the entire room brilliantly.

”No need, I’ve already got it.”

Li Hua said calmly.

Lin Yu sighed: ”I knew it.”

After he told Li Hua the information he got from Twenty, seeing Li Hua’s reaction at the time—not continuing the topic and even hurriedly interrupting him—Lin Yu vaguely guessed...

This guy probably ”had an idea.”

When the range of choices narrowed down to a certain extent, the ’Gambler’s ability was enough to lock onto the option.

And with Li Hua’s abilities, once he locked onto who took the carrot, getting his hands on the thing was, of course, a piece of cake.

Looking at the radish in Li Hua’s hand, Phoenix was somewhat displeased.

”What the heck, if it was already in your hands... why didn’t you say so earlier?”

”I only got it not long ago, and I only just confirmed now that you guys aren’t the ’murderers’,” Li Hua said calmly, then looked at Seagull, ”And... you can start defending yourself now, Seagull.”