Survival game: my plug-ins can stack up

Is this some kind of mark?

But what is the special meaning?

Revealed the identity of the murderer? Or do both of these items come from the same store in Dudu? Or maybe they belong to the same brand?

Zhao Xun kept thinking in his heart and the movements of his hands did not stop.

After he saw the mark, he put the cork into the mouth of the glass bottle again and held the glass bottle with a natural expression.

No flaws were exposed.

Even Fan Xiaodan, who had been paying attention to Zhao Xun's movements, did not notice that Zhao Xun had made other discoveries.

Zhao Xun did not intend to tell anyone else about this discovery.

He has not forgotten that there are two players in this dream game.

If Fan Xiaodan's side tasks are the same as his, then there is a conflict of interest between them.

The task of "killing a serial killer" is difficult to complete with other players.

Even if two people act at the same time, it may only be determined that the player who dealt the fatal blow to the killer has completed the side mission.

To take a step back, even if no matter who gave the fatal blow, it would be considered as two players killing the serial killer together and completing the side mission together, so the points would probably be divided equally.

Why should he share points with Fan Xiaodan?

He and Fan Xiaodan didn't know each other at all.

He is not a good person.

Although it is uncertain whether this trace can identify the murderer, it is a clue that he will not voluntarily reveal.

"Then what do you mean now?" Jiang Shuai was besieged by everyone's words and became a little angry. "You think Xiaomei and I are the murderers?"

"We are really wronged!" Liu Mei was so anxious that she almost cried. "We have no reason to kill Grandpa Feng! He is so kind. I have been feeling unwell during this period and have been recuperating in the apartment. Grandpa Feng and Feng Grandma cooks nutritious meals for me in different ways every day without charging me any extra money. How could I have the thought of killing such a good person? "

"That's right!" Compared with Liu Mei's aggrieved look, Jiang Shuai looked much more confident, "We have no reason to kill Grandpa Feng! We are not psychopaths. It is impossible for others to treat us well, but we have murderous intentions. ?”

"But such obvious evidence appeared in the room of the two of you," Dou Yaohui questioned, "and it was so well hidden, how could you explain it clearly?"

"Didn't I tell you everything? This must be the murderer's way of setting the blame on us!" Jiang Shuai said plausibly, "Xiaomei and I were not in the room for an hour each in the morning. The murderer wanted to hide these things in our room. Here, there is plenty of time.”

"Yes," Liu Mei nodded repeatedly, "Our room door is not locked. It would be easy for the murderer to sneak in."

"There is some truth to this." Gu Xiaoyun said with some entanglement, "According to the timeline we compiled before, Liu Mei went to the kitchen to have breakfast around ten o'clock and chatted with Grandpa Feng and Grandma Feng for half an hour. Later, she went out for a date at 11:30, came back at 12, and was not in the room for another half an hour."

"Me too!" Jiang Shuai said proactively, "I went to the kitchen at 10:30 and asked Grandpa Feng to help me fix the TV. I helped Grandma Feng handle the ingredients in the kitchen and stayed there for about half an hour. time. Then I go on a date and am out of the room for another half hour."

Everyone fell silent, not knowing what to say for a moment.

But everyone looked at Jiang Shuai and Liu Mei with complicated eyes, not knowing how to look at these two people.

murderer?

Or is he a good person being framed?

"After all, there is no conclusive evidence to prove that you two are the murderers." Zhao Xun said, "You may be blamed by the murderer, but you also have enough time to commit the crime - whether it is poisoning or destroying the suspension bridge, You all have enough time.”

"We have no reason to commit the crime!" Jiang Shuai became a little anxious, "I have said it several times, we have no reason to kill Grandpa Feng at all. Based on this alone, we should be ruled out as suspects!"

"Don't forget, everyone present has no grudge against Grandpa Feng, and no one has a reason to kill Grandpa Feng." Zhao Xun reminded calmly, "So, you want to use this reason to clear yourself of suspicion. , is impossible.”

"That's right," Fan Xiaodan nodded in agreement, "From our actual situation, the fact that we have no grudge against Grandpa Feng cannot be used as a reason to rule out suspicion."

Seeing everyone's suspicion of him and Liu Mei gradually deepening, Jiang Shuai finally became furious.

Perhaps his mind turned faster when he was anxious, but he suddenly thought of something.

He immediately said: "There are still several rooms that have not been searched! You can't suspect us as the murderers just because you found two suspicious things in our room. Maybe there are suspicious things in other people's rooms?"

"That's true." Grandma Feng, who had been silent until now, finally spoke, "We should search all other rooms."

"Okay," Fan Xiaodan readily agreed, "After searching all the rooms and finding all the suspicious items, we will decide who is the most suspicious."

No one else had any objections to this.

Everyone was still divided into two groups according to the previous division. Zhao Xun led three people to search the third floor, while Fan Xiaodan and four others continued to work on the second floor.

Until sunset and dusk fell, everyone finally rummaged through the remaining rooms.

Unfortunately, nothing more suspicious was found.

The two groups gathered in the living room on the first floor and shared their search results with each other.

After hearing this result, both Jiang Shuai and Liu Mei looked unhappy.

Liu Mei was so nervous that she turned pale. Her lips were trembling and she kept mumbling: "We must have been framed. We are really not the murderers who killed Grandpa Feng...Grandpa Feng is so good, how could I kill him?" ?”

"Why did the murderer target the two of us?" Jiang Shuai slammed the coffee table angrily, "Why did he frame the two of us? Is there any grudge between the murderer and the two of us?"

"If we follow your logic," Zhao Xun did not rush to refute Jiang Shuai, but just followed Jiang Shuai's words and asked, "Who do you think the other people living in the apartment have a grudge against you?"

Jiang Shuai was stunned and couldn't speak for a while.

Although he is not a gentle person, he is not someone who goes around causing trouble.

Even if these neighbors don't like him, they can't hate him, let alone make enemies with anyone.

How could he name someone who had a grudge against him?

Liu Mei murmured: "I...I can't make enemies with others."

She is an introvert by nature. She speaks little and doesn't like to have conflicts with others. Even if she occasionally has a different opinion on something, she won't speak it out. How can she have enmity with others?

"In this case, there is no possibility that someone who has a grudge against you will blame you." After Zhao Xun said this, his eyes stayed on Jiang Shuai for a few seconds.

Jiang Shuai felt uncomfortable being looked at by Zhao Xun, and he immediately stood up: "Maybe we ourselves feel that we have no conflicts with others, but this murderer has long disliked both of us! Moreover, if he is a psychopath, he will blame us There is no reason to kill someone, isn’t this normal?”

I have never eaten pork and I have seen pigs running away.

I have never personally experienced a murder case, but I have always watched various TV series and anime.

There are not many psychopaths who kill purely for the sake of killing, but they do exist.

Maybe they were just so unlucky that they encountered such a psychopath?

"What you said is indeed a possibility." Fan Xiaodan stood up and said, "But you and Liu Mei are the most suspected now, and we have to take certain measures against you."

"What do you want?" Liu Mei looked up at Fan Xiaodan, her eyes full of fear.

"We are innocent, you can't hurt us!" Jiang Shuai stood in front of Liu Mei and glared at Fan Xiaodan and Zhao Xun.

"Don't worry, we won't hurt you until we find conclusive evidence." Fan Xiaodan's tone was as gentle as possible, as if he didn't want to scare Liu Mei, who was about to cry, "Just in case you really are. Murderer, we have to tie you up first.”

"What?" Jiang Shuai stared, "You can't do this! We are..."

"This is what should be done." Zhao Xun interrupted Jiang Shuai, "Not only that, I suggest that everyone sleep in the living room tonight and not spread out. Everyone supervises each other to prevent the murderer from committing another crime to the greatest extent."

He looked at Jiang Shuai and Liu Mei with sincere eyes: "If someone else is killed while you are tied up, it will prove that you are not the murderer."

Jiang Shuai and Liu Mei were silent for a moment.

They had to admit that what Zhao Xun said made some sense.

But luckily, they are going to be tied up, and I feel a little uneasy no matter how I think about it.

Liu Mei tried to open her mouth several times before finally speaking out the fear in her heart: "What if the murderer kills us first while we are tied up?"

"That can only be considered bad luck for you." Zhao Xun's eyes were still sincere.

But he made Jiang handsome and said: "You don't take our lives seriously!"

Seeing Zhao Xun's sincere eyes, he thought Zhao Xun could say something decent.

What does all this mean?

Not human words at all!

"I will stay by your side," Fan Xiaodan immediately comforted Jiang Shuai and Liu Mei, "or we can arrange to take turns keeping vigil, so that the murderer will have no chance to take action."

Hearing this, Jiang Shuai's face looked a little better.

"What you said is so personal." After he said this to Fan Xiaodan, he glared at Zhao Xun to express his dissatisfaction.

Zhao Xun pretended not to see it.

In fact, he felt that if the murderers were not Jiang Shuai and Liu Mei, then there is a high probability that the next target of the real murderer would not be these two people.

Since the real murderer wants to blame these two people, he must hope that everyone will believe that these two people are the murderers.

If killing these two people directly proves that they are innocent, then the real murderer's previous plan to frame the crime will be ruined.

Everyone will be suspicious of the remaining people, and the probability of the real culprit being suspected will increase.

Isn’t this causing trouble for yourself?

However, he did not say this out loud, nor did he propose a vigil. He had to leave some room for the real culprit.

If the real culprit never gets another chance to strike, it means it will be difficult for him to find the real culprit.

His mission is not to keep the remaining NPCs alive, but to find and kill the real culprit.

So he didn't care so much whether the NPCs were dead or alive. What he cared about was whether he could catch the murderer.

"In that case, I will tie you up." Seeing that Jiang Shuai's attitude was not as repulsive as before, Fan Xiaodan looked around, pointed to the dining chairs near the dining table not far away, and said, "Just tie them to the chairs." Go up and put the chair next to the sofa."

Liu Mei looked at Jiang Shuai for help, but there was still worry and fear in her eyes.

She didn't want to be tied up, but she knew she couldn't refuse.

She understood that what Fan Xiaodan and Zhao Xun said had their own reasons, but the feeling of being tied up and controlled... was too scary.

Jiang Shuai looked at Liu Mei's pitiful appearance and suddenly felt distressed. He hugged Liu Mei and tried to use his body temperature to make Liu Mei feel a little safer.

After struggling for a moment, he looked up at Fan Xiaodan: "If we can prove our innocence, we can be aggrieved and let you tie us up. But you must ensure our safety. You must arrange for people to take turns to watch the night, otherwise if we are If you kill the murderer, I will never let you go."

"I promise." Fan Xiaodan solemnly promised.

"Then tie him up." Jiang Shuai looked like he was dying heroically.

Liu Mei shrank in Jiang Shuai's arms. Her lips moved several times, but she didn't say a word in rebuttal.

So Fan Xiaodan turned to look at Grandma Feng: "Grandma Feng, please give me some ropes."

"I don't have any hemp rope to tie people up here." Grandma Feng sighed.

"Are there any sheets that are not commonly used?" Zhao Xun asked Grandma Feng, "You can tear the sheets into strips and use them as ropes to tie people up."

"Yes." Grandma Feng staggered to the bottom of the stairs on the first floor, where a small storage room was built with wooden cabinets.

She opened the storage room, leaned in and rummaged for a while, and took out an old and yellowed bed sheet.

"This sheet can no longer be used, but I bought it when I got married and have never been willing to throw it away." Grandma Feng handed the sheet to Fan Xiaodan, "Now...as long as we can find the murderer, anything will work."

Her old man is gone, so what's the use of keeping these sheets?

"I also want a pair of scissors." Fan Xiaodan said to Grandma Feng.

Grandma Feng went to the kitchen cabinet and took out a pair of large scissors.

"Cut it into strips of cloth and soak them in water. The binding will be stronger." Zhao Xun reminded Fan Xiaodan.

Fan Xiaodan raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Xun: "Aren't you an ordinary white-collar worker in a company? How come you still know about this?"

"Wet fabric will increase its toughness. I think this is common sense." Zhao Xun responded without changing his expression. "What I understand is common sense, but I just applied it flexibly to the current situation."

Fan Xiaodan felt that what Zhao Xun said made sense, so she didn't ask any more questions. She waved to Zhao Xun: "Then come and help me. I can't work alone."

"Okay." After Zhao Xun finished speaking, he looked at the others, "You all stay in the living room, don't move around at will, and supervise each other. Once someone makes an excuse to act alone, he will be regarded as the number one suspect."

After hearing the last sentence, even those who originally wanted to refute stopped thinking and sat down on the sofa one by one.

Zhao Xun and Fan Xiaodan went to the bathroom together. One person was responsible for cutting the sheets into strips, and the other was responsible for soaking the strips with water.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the two of them to be alone together, Zhao Xun said to Fan Xiaodan: "You haven't answered my previous question."

Fan Xiaodan paused, and she asked in confusion: "What's the problem?"

Zhao Xun very patiently repeated what he had asked a few hours ago: "Why were you chosen to be a volunteer?"

"This." Fan Xiaodan remembered that Zhao Xun had asked this question when they were in the restaurant.

It was only later that the topic was brought aside by others.

She didn't expect that Zhao Xun would still remember this matter after so long.

"This seems to have nothing to do with the content of the dream game." She lowered her head again and continued busy cutting strips of cloth.

"It really has nothing to do with it." Zhao Xun smiled, his tone was very relaxed, as if he raised this topic just for a simple chat without any purpose, "It's just that among the players who live in the same box as me, there happened to be volunteers. I’m more curious about volunteers.”

"So that's it." Fan Xiaodan expressed her understanding. After thinking about it, she asked, "How much do you know about the volunteer who lives with you?"

"Not much," Zhao Xun shrugged, "but he is quite responsible and wants to gather the surviving volunteers and leave the Endless Train together."

"This man has lofty ideals." Fan Xiaodan smiled.

Her smile was light, not mocking, but rather admiring.

"I think he is too idealistic." Zhao Xun also smiled, "It is difficult to realize his wish."

"Indeed." Fan Xiaodan nodded in agreement.

After a few seconds of silence, she spoke again: "I was not chosen, I was replaced by someone else."

Zhao Xun raised his eyebrows slightly, but he was not surprised by this.

Regardless of the social level, regardless of the strength of oneself, there are selfless and selfish people.

Some people volunteer to be volunteers and strive for lofty ideals. Naturally, there are also people who are unwilling to wade into this muddy water and just want to protect themselves.

It is normal for substitutions to occur.

"Are you someone else who was forced to take over?" Zhao Xun asked.

If you voluntarily become a volunteer, you can sign up on your own initiative and there is no need to take on someone else's identity.

It would not make sense if Fan Xiaodan was kicked down by the authorities because she was not strong enough, and she wanted to become a volunteer so much that she chose to bribe someone else to take over someone else's identity.

Fan Xiaodan's condition and temperament are not like those from a well-off family.

Coupled with the look of exhaustion and boredom that Fan Xiaodan showed from time to time, it seemed like he was forced to stay in a place that he didn't want to be at all.

"Half and half." Fan Xiaodan had no intention of shifting all the responsibility to others. "I don't want to board the endless train, but under the conditions of sufficient benefits, I agreed to take over the other person's identity."

"It seems that the person who asked you to take over his identity has a very powerful family background." Zhao Xun hit the nail on the head.

To be able to succeed under the official's nose, all the information and files must be changed. This is not something that can be achieved simply by having money.

"Yes." Fan Xiaodan nodded, "His family is indeed very powerful."

"I'm a little curious, what benefits did that person give you, so that you are willing to give up your life." Zhao Xun finished cutting the sheets and twisted Fan Xiaodan's soaked cloth strips one by one into a semi-dry and slightly wet look.

Fan Xiaodan boarded the Endless Train in August.

At that time, it had been almost a year since the Endless Train appeared, but no player had ever gotten off the train.

For everyone outside, boarding the train is a dead end.

The hope of getting off the bus alive was too slim.

Unless they are people with lofty ideals and a certain degree of confidence in their own abilities, it is impossible for anyone else to agree to get on the bus just for a small profit.

"After becoming a volunteer, the official will provide a generous subsidy to the volunteer's family, and the person who asks me to take over the identity will also give double the reward." Fan Xiaodan smiled bitterly, "My mother has cancer and is in urgent need of treatment, and I I’m so short of money that I can’t afford expensive treatment.”

According to the original agreement, she could not reveal to anyone that she had become a volunteer in place of someone else.

But she felt that there was no telling how long she could survive in these survival games. All the players who boarded the endless train would probably never get off the train in their lifetime.

Those who are lucky can live a few more years before dying, while those who are unlucky can die within a few days.

Even if she tells her secret, it will never be heard from the Endless Train.

She didn't need to worry about offending anyone in that family by revealing the information.

"It turns out it's to save your mother." Zhao Xun showed a clear look, and then naturally changed the topic, "Speaking of which, not every volunteer who boarded the Endless Train is very powerful, but some A small number of people were forced to take over the original volunteers’ identities.”

"That's not entirely the reason." Fan Xiaodan smiled, with a bit of sarcasm in his eyes, "The original volunteers should all be powerful characters, but after nearly a year of failure, the talent in District 10 has suffered heavy losses. , where can I recruit so many top talents in a short period of time?”

Zhao Xun nodded, expressing understanding.

He had speculated about this before, and the overall strength of the volunteers was showing a gradual downward trend.

"What's more, the month I boarded the Endless Train, many people in the government lost confidence. They continued to send volunteers just with a glimmer of hope and to show the outside world." Fan Xiaodan rubbed his eyebrows, as if mentioning such a thing It made her feel even more tired, "Not only has the volunteer selection system been much looser, but the review is not as strict as it was originally, so the people below can do more tricks."

"But the volunteers dispatched in September all look quite sunny," Zhao Xun said. "The one who lives with me is the volunteer in September."

Fan Xiaodan was stunned, as if he did not expect that the situation would actually improve in September.

After a moment of silence, she spoke: "Perhaps the official has a new policy, or maybe the official management in charge of this aspect has changed a group of people. Anyway, at that time, only the management still maintained its original intention. One, but his position is not high enough to control the overall situation."

Thanks to [Oh Pineapple] for the January ticket, [Traveler] for the January ticket, and [Death Disaster_2] for the June ticket~