Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 232 Confess to Me 5
"Are you sure you saw them all come out normally? The person with the dyed white hair walking normally? Did you see his face?" Zheng Yan pressed.

The other person's heart was in their throat from the series of questions, and their sleepy eyes widened.

"Is it normal? The handsome guy with the dyed white hair was hugging his girlfriend, and his legs... his legs were straight, but I didn't see his face."

The hesitant, stumbling answer conveyed a sense of impending doom.

After saying that, perhaps feeling that the responsibility was going to fall on her, she quickly explained, "We've been playing all night, and everyone is very tired. The men and women are huddled together, hugging and discussing who performed better earlier. As for me, the plot doesn't scare me anymore, I'm just sleepy, and I haven't been staring at them that closely... Could it be that something's wrong with this handsome guy?"

The problems were minor; her expression clearly said, "I hope this person doesn't die on my post."

"Don't be nervous," Zheng Yan breathed a sigh of relief. "You mean you didn't see his face, and you're not even sure if he's walking normally? Think back, was someone next to him helping him walk?"

"Right? Anyway, they all crammed together. Usually, people who come to play this game are quite scared, especially when a group of guys bring girls to play. When they leave, they're all huddled together, and their feelings immediately intensify... Anyway, I don't really remember it very clearly." He sweated more and more as he spoke.

Tan Ming gently comforted her for a few moments, then asked to inquire with the NPC staff who were playing with her.

As a result, the other person started sweating even more.

Tan Jia raised an eyebrow: "What, weren't your employees playing along with them? They should have noticed what was happening, and there should be NPCs in every room, right?"

"Well... we host a lot of people at once, so that many people who don't know the script can play together, making the reactions more realistic and creating a better atmosphere. Also, the NPCs aren't fixed in one place; they move around to different locations. Different players encounter different NPCs and have different conversations, which leads to different storylines. This is one of the main reasons why our script is so popular."

"Furthermore, in live-action murder mystery games, everyone is required to keep their phones off. This is partly to prevent photos from revealing the central storyline, which would quickly diminish the game's appeal, and partly to keep everyone focused on playing the game..."

Her voice gradually softened as the criminal investigation team frowned in response, then suddenly rose again: "But we have surveillance! We've installed surveillance cameras in the most terrifying areas. Although they're in the corridors, this unfinished building is very open, so one camera can capture many places."

Tan Jia and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

I've been here for half an hour, and I've been doing breathing exercises.

"Then pull up the surveillance footage and take a look."

Finally, something useful appeared in the surveillance footage.

Although it was nighttime, the eerie red lights made it difficult to distinguish whether the running and screaming people were male or female, but the deceased's clothes were easy to identify.

There are no shots of the face directly.

“Look at those two girls who were following him? Especially the one with the long hair.” Tan Jia pointed to a girl who had been abandoned in the surveillance footage.

She appeared to be wearing a red dress, and after opening a door, she screamed in terror upon seeing something.

The deceased and another girl behind her shoved her through the door, then turned and ran, laughing as they went. "It seems like only this girl was truly terrified; her screams were the most genuine." Even through the surveillance footage, you could feel how piercing her screams were; towards the end, she even seemed a little dazed.

"Moreover, the relationship between the deceased and her was unusual. At first, they were always together, and they even put their arms around each other," Tan Ming said.

The person at the murder mystery game shop cautiously added, "Yes, they seem to be a couple."

"Boyfriend and girlfriend? The kind of boyfriend and girlfriend who switch partners halfway through a game and start hugging and cuddling?" Tan Jia asked, pointing to the latest clip in the surveillance video.

The deceased and another short-haired girl were embracing and appeared to have kissed. Meanwhile, the long-haired girl in the red dress was screaming in fear in another corridor.

“That’s normal,” the person at the murder mystery game shop blurted out. After saying that, he seemed to realize that saying this in front of the police exposed a moral problem, so he tried to make amends.

"I'm not saying that cheating is normal, I mean... sigh, there are quite a few people coming here to play murder mystery games, and I feel like most of the guys who come are here to find love, to enjoy having girls on both sides, thinking that when girls get scared they'll run into their arms, just like playing a game with a girl, they enjoy that feeling of being trusted and relied upon. The girls who come aren't just here for the horror theme either... anyway, besides enjoying solving mysteries and cases, they're here to develop relationships."

Tan Jia revealed a subtle expression.

So the murderer killed the victim in a fit of anger because of relationship problems?
But the act of exposing the body doesn't make sense.

The video is still playing. At around 2:45 a.m., the deceased and the girl in the long-haired red dress entered a room. Then the deceased came out first and ran to the next plot trigger point with the others.

The girl in the red dress came out last, looking around at the doorway as if she were very scared.

The deceased was never seen again after 3:14 a.m.

Until the game ended, he was helped out by the girl in the red dress and several other people in the team, his head down. The group was so close together that it looked like he could still walk upright.

As for the short-haired girl, she was isolated outside the small group and couldn't squeeze in even if she wanted to.

The red lights were still on, and in the deliberately created terrifying scene, even if they had some blood on them and their expressions were unnatural, it all seemed quite normal.

After watching the surveillance footage, Zheng Yan realized, "So there were accomplices."

"But why did those people help her?" Tan Jia felt that another important question had arisen. "What reason did the murderer give that would make those people willingly help to cover up the truth? Weren't they afraid when they saw the victim's bloodied and mangled face?"

They were all friends, and they went out to have fun. Friend A killed Friend B in an extremely cruel way, and then asked them to help transport the body away. This was equivalent to asking them to cover up the cause of Friend B's death and to bear the blame. Why would they agree to that?

"Was it because they had a better relationship with the murderer? Or was it because others were present when the victim was killed, and they were all in cahoots?"

“The direction of our thinking is correct,” Zheng Yan said. “It’s either because of relationships or because of shared interests. But the fact that they moved the body to the bar and caused such a huge panic clearly means they’re trying to make a big scene. Relationships aren’t enough. It’s more likely that they have shared interests.”

What common interest did they all share? Was it because the deceased did something that made them all want to kill him?