I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 634, pages 2.3-18: Guess Who I Am

"What is this?" Ming Jin raised an eyebrow, looking at the card in Fei's hand, and asked in confusion.

With a slight glance at the boy in front of her, Fei took a step back, holding the card in one hand and raising the pistol slightly in the other.

Ming Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Fei thoughtfully, and said, "You're going to attack me?"

"According to Daolin, if there's only one 'ghost' per map, then once the 'ghost' appears on that map, the suspicion that you're the 'ghost' seems to be cleared. But if you're not, then your brother must be the 'ghost.' So here we need to distinguish who the two of you are?"

Fei paused, then asked again, "Are you really Ming Jin?"

"Why do you say that?" he chuckled and asked in return.

“You must be Mingxi,” Fei said again.

'Ming Jin' didn't speak, but just looked at Fei with a light smile. Behind her round-framed glasses, her lake-blue eyes gleamed with a dangerous and unfathomable darkness.

“You two brothers look exactly alike. If I really tried to tell you apart, I wouldn’t be able to. But… your actions are constantly revealing one thing: Mingjin is a ‘ghost.’” Fei said with certainty, holding a pistol steadily at him.

"What's the reason?" He raised his hand, picked up the sniper rifle slung over his back, glanced at Fei with an ambiguous expression, and asked.

"Three. First, according to the information I have, Ming Jin is skilled with a bow, so he should be very adept at using ranged weapons. After obtaining the supplies, 'Ming Xi' claimed to be a sharpshooter. Assuming he is the real Ming Xi and you are the real Ming Jin, then you wouldn't have missed hitting a live target at that short distance."

Secondly, assuming you are indeed the same person, it means your bracelets have been swapped. Those who know you know that Mingjin's bracelet is black, and Mingxi's bracelet is white.

You claim to be Ming Jin, but the bracelet is white, clearly indicating that you're deliberately revealing either that you exchanged bracelets to mislead others, or that you're intentionally revealing that you're not Ming Jin. Regardless of the reason, your behavior makes Ming Jin highly suspicious.

Assuming you swapped bracelets, and you, Mingjin, took Mingxi's color, then your behavior on this map could be interpreted as deliberately protecting the 'ghost,' which reveals the information that 'Mingjin has a problem.'

Assuming you deliberately swapped identities but didn't exchange the bracelets, then you are Mingxi impersonating Mingjin. Your behavior in this instance is causing trouble under Mingjin's name, still revealing the information that 'Mingjin has a problem'.

Third, when the body was discovered, I heard that you stayed in the same place, and even when you went out, you stayed with Mu Yegui. Although others may also be suspected of being 'ghosts', the most likely suspect is your brother.

Since you're not the ghost in this map, and your brother is the ghost, based on the information you revealed, the ghost must be Ming Jin. If the ghost is Ming Jin, then you must be Ming Xi. Therefore, the one who killed that person must be Ming Jin, who was a ghost but hadn't used her identity yet, but whose identity was discovered.

Of course, what truly convinced me he was the "ghost" was this card. The bald-nosed crow can be represented by the word "rook," which also stands for liar or rook (a piece in chess). The liar can be interpreted as both of you lying, meaning you two swapped identities. As for the rook…

Mingjin loves playing Chinese chess (international chess) and once compared herself to a rook (the castle in chess). Your piece, however, is a knight, which fundamentally distinguishes the two of you.

The iris-purple eyes quietly looked at the boy in front of him. After he finished speaking, he shut his mouth, but showed no intention of putting down his gun, even though he had confirmed that the other party was not an enemy.

The boy raised an eyebrow helplessly, then sighed softly, took off his round-framed glasses and put them in his pocket, saying with a troubled expression, "This is a headache. If I get recognized like this, it will be really difficult to cooperate with Mingjin later." Mingxi raised her hand and pressed down on Fei's pistol, slowly lowering it, and said, "I am Mingxi, disguised as Mingjin. The real Mingjin is currently with Kroya on map four. We exchanged identities when we stayed behind to collect supplies, and the exchange was completed when we returned. It was Jin's idea; I was just cooperating."

He looked up at the darkening sky, his lake-blue eyes filled with a hint of melancholy. "I'm finding it harder and harder to understand him. I know he's always carrying something on his shoulders, but he's never willing to let me share it with him, even though we're twins. Yet I'm not much different from an outsider. Only when he occasionally reveals his emotions can I feel his endurance and pain."

Just then, the cell phones in their pockets vibrated.

Mingxi took out her phone and glanced down at it.

Crown Princess [Witch] Chloe has left the group chat.

“I knew it.” Mingxi said knowingly. “Mingjin has a death list. Chloe is just the first one. Although you’re not on the list, you should still be careful.”

"A list of the dead?" Fei frowned slightly, puzzled.

“He’s carrying out a plan. We’re all pawns, and those not on the board are discarded pieces, beings that must be eliminated. There are still three months left…” Mingxi murmured.

Mingxi pointed to a certain spot, "Jin told me that there's a library on this map that's only open during dungeons and can't be accessed normally. This library contains some information about this time period. Could you help me distract the 'ghost'? I want to look something up."

Fei gave Mingxi a deep look, then nodded and turned to walk towards the crossroads.

"Thanks, brother. I'll treat you to some tea made by Jin when we get out~" Mingxi waved to Fei's retreating figure and said with a light laugh.

Fei staggered upon hearing Mingxi's words. Could Mingjin's tea really be drunk? He had heard Ji Rong say that he once drank Mingjin's tea and had to go to the toilet three times.

Among the crown princes, Ming Jin has the worst tea-making skills.

"Is it really that bad? It's perfectly fine to drink it like water, or are your standards for tea just too high?" Mingxi muttered to herself.

Seeing this, Dao Lin outside the frame sighed and said, "Tea is something that should be demanding; otherwise, it loses its meaning."

"Daolin, I found a small gap, it seems like it can..." Mu Yegui squatted in a corner, his cold silver eyes fixed on a certain spot, and said softly.

Dao Lin pondered their conversation and suddenly asked, "What do you know about Ming Jin's death list?"

Mu Yegui was slightly taken aback. "He didn't tell me."

"Is that so? It seems we need to get out of here quickly..." Dao Lin sighed softly.

Zhang Fei practically recited all of his lines from the story.
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(End of this chapter)