There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

Chapter 243: Chapter 235

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At that moment, the identity he was portraying finally emerged from behind the curtains. He quickly scanned the room and swiftly pocketed the bloodstained candlestick from the floor, then leaped out the window and rapidly escaped from the study.

The old wall clock showed the time had reached 9:57 PM.

The screen gradually went dark.

The plot had come to an end.@@novelbin@@

This part of the plot was all the information his assumed identity could provide him.

And the once dark cinema began to brighten gradually, with the outlines of other players becoming faintly visible around him.

“Snap!”

The sound of lights being turned on echoed in his ears.

The space was instantly filled with brightness.

Chen Yi could now clearly see the space around him; they were sitting at a rather large dining table, with nine other players seated as well.

No one spoke right away.

Obviously, everyone was contemplating the plot they had just witnessed.

But Chen Yi closed his eyes tightly, quickly conjuring up the last image he had seen upon leaving the study and immediately comparing it in his mind with the scene before the woman had entered the study.

Three seconds later,

his eyes snapped open, a glint of sharpness flickering within.

After the woman left, the room had been swept of one particular item, something he had initially overlooked.

It was a plate on the desk, holding three small pastries.

This was very strange.

A woman barges into a murder scene, doesn’t scream, remains extremely calm, alters the will, and then takes away the plate with the pastries—does that make sense?

It makes no sense at all.

Clearly, this woman also wanted the deceased out of the way, or perhaps she played some role in the scenario—she might even have colluded with his character to commit murder?

That’s impossible.

Otherwise, there’d be no need for his character to hide.

So there was only one possibility left.

The woman also planned to kill the old man—her method was poison, hidden in those pastries, and her entering the study was likely to see if the poison had taken effect.

And since there were four indentations on the plate but only three pastries, it meant that one had been eaten by the old man.

So… it was now unclear whether the victim died from his candlestick or from the poison.

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes in thought for a long time before suddenly chuckling—this map was somewhat intriguing. It seemed there was not just one murderer; no, there should be only one murderer, but there were more than one person with murderous intent who took action.

More than two, in fact.

There had to be at least three.

Only the player who inflicted the fatal injury upon the old man would be the real murderer.

In this case, even he could not be sure whether his character was the murderer, since his perspective did not include the actual striking of the old man, nor was he certain where the fatal injury was inflicted.

This was interesting.

At that moment, there were ten players sitting at the dining table, including him. Among these, only three were female. Among these three female players, one was likely the suspected murderer.

His seat was on the left side of the dining table, the first one.

He was in a relatively advantageous position—at least he knew about the woman’s existence, and she had not noticed him, provided… his character hadn’t exposed his shoes from under the curtains.

Just then—

The blond youngster sitting at the last seat on the right side of the dining table suddenly slapped the table, his face full of disdain as he loudly declared, “What’s so difficult about this map? Let me do the reasoning. According to the August rule, all players cannot lie.”

“All we have to do is start from me and each say ‘I am not the murderer’ four times, and that’s it.”

“With the August rule, anyone who lies more than four times will die on the spot.”

“The one who dies will naturally be the murderer, and the rest of us can easily pass the level,” he said triumphantly.

“I’ll start. I am not the murderer, I am not the murderer, I am not the murderer…”

After repeating several times.

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The brash young man with yellow hair turned his head provocatively toward the besuited middle-aged man beside him, “I’m done talking, it’s your turn. If you’re too scared to speak, then you’re the killer, and we’ll simply vote for you.”

The middle-aged man in the suit didn’t speak; he just closed his eyes tightly and leaned back in his chair, his facial expression somewhat displeased, without uttering a word.

He utterly ignored the young man with yellow hair.

“Hey!”

Seeing this, the young man with yellow hair rolled up his sleeves, stood up on his chair, and looking down at everyone with excitement, said, “You see, he doesn’t dare to speak. What does that tell you? It means he’s definitely the killer!”

“I want to start a vote!”

“He’s the killer!”

The young man with yellow hair pointed straight at the middle-aged man in the suit beside him.

“Ding, a player has initiated a vote. Please decide whether to start this vote. If more than three people agree, the first round of voting for this game will begin.”

“There are only three voting opportunities in a game, so please be cautious with your chance.”

“Players, please make your choice within 10 seconds.”

However—

When the countdown reached the last second, apart from the young man with yellow hair, not a single person raised their hand.

“Ding, the number of votes is insufficient. The voting has not been initiated, and there are still three voting opportunities in this round.”

“What do you mean by this?”

The young man with yellow hair was momentarily stunned, then standing on the chair, he roared in anger, “He’s the killer! I’ve already figured out who the killer is, why aren’t you voting?”

“Are you covering for him?”

“Could it be that you’re all killers?”

“Alright.”

At that moment.

A student wearing glasses, sitting opposite the yellow-haired young man, spoke expressionlessly, “Stop barking like a dog. I always thought that the kind of yellow-haired youngsters in novels who bark excessively were just the result of the author’s lack of creativity, but here it turns out to be completely realistic.”

“He doesn’t want to talk, not because he’s admitting to being the killer, but because he’s utterly uninterested in engaging with you. He thinks you’re stupid.”

“Everyone knows this map is specifically created for the August rules. Do you think you can clear it that easily? Do you take the Snow Sea Project Team for fools?”

“I can even guarantee that even if all ten players here declare four times each that they are not the killer, no one would drop dead.”

“You believe me or not?”

“The August rule of not lying is idealistic, not materialistic.”

“Judging whether you lie or not is not based on the material form of things, but on your inner judgment of the matter.”

“Do you understand this statement?”

“Dyeing your hair yellow, you look like you’ve never been to school for a day, as if your brain is filled with nothing but crap. Did your mother give birth to you just so you could dye your hair yellow, or is it that your mother’s hair is yellow and she passed on the color to you when you were born?”

“…”

After these words fell, all the players looked stiff where they stood.

“Brother…”

Next to the glasses-wearing student, a young man dressed in work overalls and pants, his face showing an odd expression, said, “You’re really aggressive, but… isn’t your mouth a bit too dirty?”

Mart rules dictate that when you insult someone, you don’t bring in family members.

Clearly, this guy didn’t adhere to Mart rules.

“I lack refinement.”

The glasses-wearing student adjusted his collar calmly and said, “I’m a native of Black Trench City, I’ve been this way since I was a child.”

“Cursing is just a dirty mouth.”

“But if you swallow the curse words, that’s a dirty heart.”

Then, looking rather provocatively at the opposite yellow-haired man, who was already livid with rage, the student sneered, “What about your mom?”

And at that moment—

A notification rang in the ears of all the players.

“Ding, the first round of clue collection begins.”

“All players must state one sentence with a clue that is truly useful to the case.”

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