Players, Please Board the Train

Without He Pu’s direction, the self-playing instruments stopped, but among the players, aside from You Qiwen who recovered first, everyone else’s limbs were still numb. They hadn’t expected the final confrontation to arrive so quickly, and now there were non-mission players present. While everyone was hostile towards He Pu, they also began to suspect and guard against each other.

Looking at the players whose legs were trembling, Fleischer scoffed, ”This act is really boring. How did you start suspecting me?”

He was asking You Qiwen. Xu Huo had distrusted all players from the very beginning, which wasn’t surprising, but You Qiwen had even signed his cooperation contract earlier. He wanted to know when he had given himself away.

”I felt something was off about you when you had us sign the contract,” You Qiwen said. ”The contract itself doesn’t have much binding force. Judging from the outcome, if someone found the vanished guests but didn’t want to tell the other players, this contract would only cause infighting among the players ahead of time.”

”However, that’s not solid evidence. Everyone is desperate to complete the mission. Later, when Mr. Xu mentioned there were non-mission players, I still didn’t suspect you. What really made you suspicious was Li Chao.” You Qiwen continued, ”You said Li Chao was stubbornly acting alone, but Li Chao’s actions were actually planned with you.”

”You agreed to cooperate with him, but in reality, you never left the room.”

”This happened in my room. How would you know that?” Fleischer paused, then suddenly looked at Wei Landeng, who was behind Liu Zhengping.

Wei Landeng, who had been beaten to within an inch of her life moments ago, spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and struggled to stand up. A mocking smile appeared on her pale face. ”You used the contract to constrain others, but the contract itself is also a medium.”

She didn’t explain in detail, but the others understood. Fleischer had used the contract to set a trap for others, and Wei Landeng had also used the contact with the contract to set a trap for him, learning about what happened in his room through some method.

”No wonder you signed without hesitation back then,” Fleischer said with a dark expression. ”In that case, why did you still go with me to deal with Mr. Dong?””Because we also wanted to know Mr. Dong’s stance,” You Qiwen took over, his gaze sweeping over the motionless Mr. Dong, the ice-sealed Hu Shan, and finally settling on He Pu, who was listening to the story on the stage. ”Six against four is no sure win, but six against two is a different story.”

”You knew about Li Chao’s death, so you must have completed the mission through him too,” Fleischer said.

You Qiwen and Wei Landeng didn’t answer. In fact, they hadn’t found Li Chao’s body; they had only seen Hu Shan take him away.

Seeing their silence, Fleischer turned to Liu Zhengping and the other two. ”Looks like you three fools still haven’t completed the first mission.”

Liu Zhengping had gotten along well with You Qiwen after entering the dungeon, but now he appeared very calm. ”If I were You Qiwen, I would have done the same.”

They just happened to enter the same dungeon together; they weren’t friends. This couldn’t be considered betrayal.

At that moment, You Qiwen turned and slashed three times at the wall behind him. According to Xu Huo, this location should be the wardrobe inside the wall, and the body was inside!

However, as the wall cracked, the wooden boards inside also fell away, revealing an empty wardrobe.

”If you guessed I was a non-mission player, how could you not guess I would tell Mr. He about this in advance?” Fleischer chuckled. ”I didn’t expect you to be so loyal.”

It wasn’t that they couldn’t guess. Xu Huo narrowed his eyes slightly. Rather, You Qiwen and Wei Landeng weren’t as perceptive as they claimed to have been about Fleischer from the start.

”Clap.” He Pu gently clapped his hands, his voice filled with amusement. ”The lies were quite convincing.”

You Qiwen and Wei Landeng’s expressions changed slightly, but He Pu walked down from the stage and said, ”They didn’t fail to guess that I would move the body. They were deliberately waiting for this opportunity.”

”Because they were afraid that even in the music room, they might not be able to find the body with certainty. That’s why they claimed to have completed the mission. This way, I might be less vigilant against them since they supposedly found the vanished guests. Whether I took the puppet from the wardrobe or not, they would have a chance.”

”Look, now the puppet isn’t in the wardrobe. That girl pretending to be dead will definitely take advantage of the chaos during the fight to slip out and search for the body.”

Wei Landeng was the only female player present. After hearing He Pu’s words, her expression froze, and then she straightened her back as if she hadn’t been injured at all.

”I didn’t expect to be seen through so quickly,” You Qiwen also took two steps toward the door. What he had said earlier was indeed a mixture of bluffing and guessing. Wei Landeng’s characteristic wasn’t as powerful as imagined. He suspected Fleischer but didn’t have concrete evidence until Fleischer’s sneak attack just now. Desperate for a way to break the deadlock, he reluctantly resorted to this tactic.

Just as He Pu said, he wanted to take advantage of He Pu moving the body to let Wei Landeng seize the opportunity to search.

”Such a bunch of children,” He Pu looked at them as if with pity. ”Didn’t you ever consider that I might hide the body somewhere you could never possibly find?”

”Impossible!” You Qiwen retorted. ”You are the dungeon boss. You must follow the dungeon rules. No dungeon is an inescapable death trap. If you hide the body somewhere players can never find, it means this dungeon cannot be solved. That already violates the game rules.”

He Pu’s smile was elusive, and he didn’t comment on the rebuttal.

You Qiwen gritted his teeth, then turned to Xu Huo. ”I can tell you the truth about the guests’ disappearance, but you must promise to help us complete the first mission!”

”No problem,” Xu Huo drew his Crimson Sword.

”It’s too boring living here,” He Pu said, not taking them seriously at all, speaking unhurriedly. ”I’m also very curious about what this so-called truth is. Speak up. If you guess correctly, I might let you off.”

You Qiwen paused, his gaze sharp as he stared at He Pu.

”Speak,” He Pu glanced at his watch. ”I’ll give you five minutes starting now. If you can’t satisfy me within five minutes, then you all die.”

Five minutes.

You Qiwen glanced at Mr. Dong, then declared with conviction, ”Because you are not the real He Pu at all!”

”You impersonated the real He Pu to become the master here, using his identity to slaughter players. But due to dungeon restrictions, you can’t easily act personally. That’s why you secretly brought in other players to act on your behalf, not only wanting to kill players but also wanting to kill Mr. Dong along with them!”

What he said was indeed something the other players hadn’t considered. However, the two key figures in this truth, He Pu and Mr. Dong, didn’t even bat an eyelid, completely unshaken by his ”truth.”

You Qiwen looked at Xu Huo for confirmation. Not receiving affirmation, sweat instantly broke out on his forehead. His shocked gaze shifted between these two men, then turned back to Fleischer. ”Are you cooperating in the killings? Was I wrong?!”

”You’re not wrong, but you only guessed a small part correctly,” Xu Huo raised his sword, signaling Fleischer to step aside. Then he walked to stand in front of Mr. Dong, facing He Pu, and smiled with a sigh of relief. ”Thanks to you giving yourself away, otherwise I really wouldn’t have guessed this truth.”