Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

After clearing the snow from the door, Lin Yu pushed open the heavy metal door covered with wood and entered the hut.

The furnishings in the house are obviously different from all previous "strongholds".

Workbench-style tables and chairs, spacious single beds covered with quilts, single wardrobes, wall-mounted bookcases...

There is even a special wine cabinet and a stove with pots and pans. There are many iron cans on the stove.

Although most of the furniture is covered with dust, it can be seen...

Someone actually lived here.

Unlike those "temporary strongholds", they are not for people to live in at all!

Whoever has a decent house should have a stove.

By observing this room, Lin Yu could roughly draw a conclusion.

"The person who lives here is probably a serious and self-disciplined intellectual."

he muttered.

After all, the bed was neatly made and the tables and chairs were arranged neatly. It was almost like someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Even the books on the bookshelf and the wine in the wine cabinet are arranged in order of high and low.

At the same time, although no one has used them for a long time, the metal handle of the wine cabinet door is relatively new, and the metal door handle of the bookcase has been polished to a smooth and bright color.

From this, it is not difficult to conclude that for him, drinking is an occasional drink, but reading should be something he reads every night.

and……

After getting close to the bookshelf, you will find some English book titles written on the spines of these books.

The ‘death game’ is inseparable from reality after all...

At least the languages ​​are the same.

It's just that the English titles are a bit confusing to read.

Literally translated, it probably means...

"The Principles of Happy Mechanics", "Exceptionally Good Angry Gears", "Crazy Wrench", "Stupid Tires"...

And when I opened the bookcase and took out the books, what I saw after opening them was large areas of black paint.

Wherever there seemed to be some kind of "illustration", it was completely blacked out1.

Lin Yu could only roughly judge from the remaining words and the layout of the book...

This all seems to be some kind of academic work.

All these books point to a "subject" that Lin Yu cannot understand for the time being.

This made Lin Yu think again.

"So, this is what the owner of this room reads every night?"

"And...the black stripes are so neat and straight, it is very likely that the owners of these books blackened them intentionally."

"Then why did he do this...is he destroying these books in disguise?"

Lin Yu breathed out.

But there are better ways to destroy a book—like setting it on fire.

Lin Yu stroked the flat footers of these books and thought.

These books must have been read frequently, but there are still no missing pages or curled edges.

This explains...

The owner of this book not only loves tidiness, but also probably loves books very much and is a natural book lover.

The image of a young male scholar living alone in the ice and snow became increasingly clear and complete in Lin Yu's mind.

As for why it is a young man...

Because the clothes displayed in the wardrobe in this room are all men's coats, the colors are relatively plain - but the styles are all slim-fitting, and the pants are also stiff and straight, more suitable for young people.

And then, Lin Yu stuffed all these books back into the cabinet.

Then, he looked at the workbench.

On the wooden workbench, there was a lot of residual pencil dust around the edges.

Although the owner here has wiped it carefully, the pencil dust stuck in the cracks of the table and seeping into the small texture gaps is not so easy to clean up.

Lin Yu could tell by the fact that there was only pencil dust all around.

"Perhaps this table was once used for drawing?"

If it is just for simple writing, the pencil is not commonly used... and it is difficult to appear around the table.

Lin Yu gently knocked on the table, wanting to see if there was any hidden compartment under the obviously heavy table.

And just then...

"Boom!"

The door was pushed open.

At the door, a young man wearing a red woolen hat and handsome facial features appeared.

He looked at Lin Yu in the room, a little surprised, and then he reacted.

"Oh - you are the 'doctor' I saw before, May!"

The person who came was none other than 'Detective' Forpolo.

He looked at Lin Yu, rubbed his hands, and looked very excited.

"Zhin didn't expect to meet you here... It seems that you are also very keen, May!"

Forpolo sighed: "You came here because you discovered the strangeness here, right..."

Lin Yu looked at Forpolo and quickly switched to the personality he had faced with the 'detective' last night.

A more serious and responsible night shift doctor.

He coughed twice and said, "I happen to be mostly..."

Lin Yu continued to ask.

"Speaking of which, how did you find out there was a problem here?"

"Of course it's because I followed your example and walked around today, and then... I found that these strongholds are too 'regular'," Forpolo waved his hand and said, "Although they seem to be scattered in a haphazard manner, they are very well distributed. There is a pattern - I went to at least three places, and next to each abandoned stronghold, there are almost exactly seven strongholds! "

"If you look down from above, you will find that... all the strongholds are distributed in a perfect circle!"

"And according to my inference... the current stronghold is the center of the circle!"

Lin Yu looked at Forpolo with some surprise.

He was somewhat amazed by Forpolo's "spatial thinking" ability.

Lin Yu took out the map.

"You still have a pair of brushes, detective."

"I got the map from the NPC, so I was able to discover the clues and make this judgment."

Lin Yu said, took out the map and showed it to Forpolo.

The detective glanced at it, then calmly waved his hand.

"Sprinkle some water, you're stupid - but you're a 'doctor' and you're pretty good at reading clues from the map!"

Lin Yu nodded: "But with the help of the map, I can find more things than you - have you noticed that not only do all the strongholds on this map happen to fall within a full circle, but this full circle also happens to be able to be Divided into twelve thirty-degree sectors?”

Lin Yu said sincerely, Forpolo glanced at it, and then nodded in surprise.

"It's true! This is an interesting discovery!"

Lin Yu took a breath and then said: "Although I am a 'doctor', but... I am no worse than a 'detective' like you."

"Rather, 'doctor' and 'detective' are the best partners, right?"

When Forpolo heard this, he laughed: "What you said is that a 'doctor' can treat others and should be the 'best partner' with anyone."

Lin Yu smiled when he heard his answer.

"I see……"

Lin Yu suddenly took out the [One Sentence Lie Detector] and said, "I have a prop here that functions as a lie detector."

After finishing speaking, Lin Yu threw the lie detector towards Forpolo.

"Crack!"

The polygraph hit Forpolo and fell to the ground.

Forpolo subconsciously hid for a moment, then looked at the lie detector on the ground, and raised his head in astonishment.

"Ah? What are you doing?"

"See if you have a physical body."

Lin Yu said, already holding another prop in his hand.

The moment Forpolo lowered his head, Lin Yu had already held the "Sure Revolver" in his hand and pointed the gun at "Forpolo".

"How could someone whose name is 'Forpolo' not understand the story between a doctor and a detective..."

"But I'm still glad that you are real, fake."

"Or……"

"'Chat'."