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Chapter 296 The Truth Is Actually Like This? The Eternal Proof Has Emerged on the Ocean of Barron! (Part 1)

Almost instinctively, Xia Fa was about to say the name of Dao Mi's fiancée.

That is, Bédère Trey.

This is based on a very simple logic: the almost fictional character "Fakker the Rich," or rather, a character created by Phil's split personality or imagination, is known only to Domi and Phil.

A fictional character known only to Doomi and Philier, after Philier's mysterious death, suddenly prompts Beda to ask Doomi who the wealthy Fakeke is...

If you think about it carefully, this matter can even give you a chilling feeling...

However, Xia Fa immediately refuted this inference.

The reason is simple: Bédal had no motive to kill Philier.

Phil is Doomi's brother, business partner, and close friend who started the business together.

Unless Bedeille is insane, she would kill Philil; that would be tantamount to ruining Domi's future.

After all, based on his three past experiences as "Doumi," he could see that the rubber factory's success was almost entirely due to Philil's efforts.

Daomi certainly played a significant role, but it was likely a role that could be easily replaced, such as personnel management, work arrangement, and accounting.

Another point of doubt is that, according to the case details, Philell was violently hacked open in the face and chest cavity by a weapon such as an axe, with his internal organs spilling out onto the ground.

In this situation, how could it be possible for someone with Bedeille's delicate figure and gentle personality?

So... who could have killed him?

Xia Fa quickly began to think, because he had a premonition that the chaotic void wouldn't give him much time.

It's unlikely that it was Bedell, and by the same token, it's also unlikely that it was Bedell's father, the investor Tregue.

Treger, who values ​​every investment deal, is almost the person who most wants the highly capable Philell to be alive.

As for rice...

As Phil's brother, best friend, and partner in the fight, what reason did Domi have to kill Phil?
It seems there was no motive...

It has to be said that this is truly a riddle posed by the Chaos Void. Xia Fa has solved countless riddles, but this is the first time he has ever felt a headache coming on.

But just then, the voice rang out again.

"Tell me, tell me, who killed Philell? Tell me, you must already have the answer in your heart, even if it's the most unlikely answer."

For some reason, the voice seemed more persuasive and gentle, far less grand and majestic than the voice that had initially emanated from the chaotic void.

not right...

In that instant, Xia Fa suddenly realized something, and his nerves jolted.

Something is wrong, very wrong.

This sound...

Suddenly, he raised his head and looked at the seemingly empty chaos. His expression became slightly blank and slightly frightened as he spoke, his voice trembling.

"I...I don't know."

Faced with the question posed by the chaotic void behind the second Primordial Gate, Xia Fa dared to say such a thing, which would probably seem unbelievable to any other entity present.

In a sense, this is almost tantamount to suicide; at the very least, one will be expelled from the Chaos Void.

But just then, the chaos began to fade from Xia Fa's eyes.

The pungent smell of disinfectant wafted over, and a cacophony of sounds filled the air—strange laughter, voices, howls, the crashing of tables and chairs during a chase, and shouts and angry rebukes.

Xia Fa suddenly found himself lying down instead of standing, and his whole body was tightly bound by restraints, while he was wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown.

He immediately noticed the rusty railings of the hospital bed and a ward that was not clean and tidy, but rather somewhat dilapidated.

Not far ahead, at the head of the bed, stood a psychiatrist in a white coat.

He held an old, brownish notebook in his hand, the small metal rings that held the pages together even showing signs of chipping or falling off, and the pen in his hand also had some paint chipping off.

Clearly, this mental hospital is severely underfunded and is on the verge of collapse.

Or rather, they don't receive much funding to begin with.

The psychiatrist, with a large, dark brown beard, merely glanced at Xia Fa before shaking his head.
"The effects of the No. 63 psycho-inducing drug have already worn off so quickly...?"

However, he still seemed unwilling to give up and tried asking again:
"Domi, you really don't know who killed Phil?"

"do not know."

Xia Fa replied again with a blank expression, but secretly thought to himself, "Just as I expected."

Everything before was a trap set for him by the Chaos Void!
The Primordial Undying Guardians behind the first Primordial Mithril are indeed incredibly terrifying; once they form a battle formation, they can even defy the righteous gods.

However, the chaotic void behind the second Primordial Mithril is probably even more dangerous than the Primordial Undying Guardians!

This chaotic void first allowed him to experience three different life experiences as a "Taoist rice".

Immediately afterwards, they took him back to the chaos, and deliberately called out his real name, "Xia Fa".

Xia Fa knew that this would immediately create a suggestion that he had returned to the chaotic void, freed himself from the identity of "Dao Mi," and could make any guesses.

With both Bedell and Tregue virtually innocent, after much thought, he began to suspect that it might be "Doomi" himself.

Once it's out of your mouth, it's all over.

Because, at the moment when the voice in the chaotic void suddenly changed from majestic and grand to persuasive, he once again became "Daomi," and was in this mental hospital, which was probably a place specifically for detaining prisoners, under the influence of the No. 63 mental induction drug.

If he confesses that he is the murderer as "Doomi," he will likely be immediately transferred out of the mental hospital and sentenced to death!
At that time, Doomi's charge will likely be "pretending to be mentally ill in an attempt to get away with it," but he will still be tricked into giving a confession by the psychiatrist.

And without a doubt, having become Daomi himself, with all his extraordinary power gone, he had no way to escape the death penalty.

With the supreme power of the Chaos Void, which could temporarily isolate the extraordinary power within his body, Xia Fa had no doubt that after being sentenced to death as a Dao Mi, he would probably really die.

Fortunately, just as the voice changed from overwhelming and intimidating to persuasive, I was in a very alert state and noticed something was wrong.

I almost, I almost got tricked and killed by this chaotic void...

Xia Fa felt fortunate. Although he was bound and his supernatural power was indeed blocked once again, he remained remarkably calm.

The chaotic void... instead of shattering him with its overwhelming power as soon as he entered, it set up a test that was almost like a trap, indicating that there was indeed a way to successfully pass through it.

So, what exactly is the method?

How can I find the real killer and exonerate the character I'm playing, Domi, so he can regain his freedom?
Then, will I be able to break out of the chaotic void?

After much thought, Xia Fa realized that this was the only possibility.

But who is the murderer?
At that very moment, the psychiatrist, seemingly still unwilling to give up, spoke up again.

This time, his expression subtly carried a threat, and a cold smile appeared on his lips:

“Domi, you don’t need to make excuses anymore. On the day Phil died, just two hours later, a neighbor saw you passing by the apartment where Phil lived looking flustered.”

"At the crime scene, there was a blood-stained coat, and there were traces of blood being washed off in the bathroom."

"You're quite clever; you didn't leave any of your hair or fingerprints on that coat. Otherwise, you would have been arrested and executed for heinous murder long ago!"

Despite the psychiatrist's threats, Xia Fa's expression became increasingly calm and composed.

He lay his head on the pillow, looking at the psychiatrist with his pupils pointing upwards and a slight smile playing on his lips.

"I know who the murderer is."

Upon hearing this, the psychiatrist's expression suddenly brightened, and his dark brown beard twitched slightly. He immediately said:

"Who? You've finally admitted it?"

Xia Fa shook his head:
"Actually... there is no murderer."

The psychiatrist's face darkened:
"Domi, are you kidding me?"

The psychiatrist seemed to have a very bad temper, and looked like he was about to walk over and slap Xia Fa or grab him by the collar.

Xia Fa, however, maintained his calm smile.

“Philip died at my hands, but I acted in self-defense.”

The psychiatrist suddenly froze, stopping right in front of the bed.

He seemed completely unprepared for Xia Fa's response.

Does this count as an admission, or a denial?

Xia Fa lay more calmly on the bed, his expression becoming extremely determined:

"From now on, no matter what you ask, I will only stick to this statement: I killed Philiel in self-defense, and theoretically, I am innocent."

The moment those words were spoken, everything before Xia Fa's eyes began to change rapidly.

It felt like several months had passed in the blink of an eye. During those months, the psychiatrist with the dark brown beard came countless times, as did many police superintendents and other psychiatrists.

Countless figures hurried past the mental hospital, all of them asking "Domi," played by Xia Fa, questions, but no matter how they asked, they only received words related to "self-defense." Outside the window, the maple leaves turned green and then yellow; finally, autumn arrived quickly.

When the leaves fall and the autumn wind blows, the rapidly passing time suddenly becomes normal.

Fortunately, since time passes quickly, only a few minutes had passed in Xia Fa's perception, so he wasn't bored while waiting.

The ward was empty at the moment, but then, with a creak, the blue, peeling iron door was pushed open from the outside.

The man with the dark brown beard who entered was surprisingly dressed in a standard police superintendent's uniform, instead of the white coat of a psychiatrist.

"Domi, you've really suffered these past year and a half."

The man with the dark brown beard was all smiles—a genuine smile, a relieved smile, a smile of having solved a major case.

He was holding a document in his hand, and casually handed it over:

“We found a large pile of letters in Philil’s hometown. Since his parents had long passed away, the village chief was in charge of receiving the letters, and they had never been opened. Fortunately, because of this, we preserved the evidence of his crimes.”

Upon hearing the words "evidence of a crime," Xia Fa felt a complete sense of relief.

Then the man with the dark brown beard continued:
“These letters… are all very strange. They are all addressed to a man called ‘Millionaire Fakeke,’ but according to our investigation, there is no such millionaire in either this city or his hometown.”

"However, we found evidence of your innocence in the last letter he sent to the village."

As he spoke, he opened the document, which was a notebook containing a transcription of all of Philell's letters.

The real letters were naturally kept in the police station's archives and could not be taken out.

The dark brown-bearded superintendent turned to the latest page, seemingly intending to show it to Xia Fa, but he himself knew the contents of this page by heart:
“In this letter, Phil told the wealthy Fakke that he suspected you would conspire with your fiancée and father-in-law to oust him, so he planned to strike first and kill you, thus preventing your business alliance from forming and ensuring his safety.”

Xia Fa's gaze swept over the lines of text on that page, and he saw that it was indeed the case.

Although the letter was a copy and Phil's original handwriting was no longer visible, he could still sense Phil's mania, anxiety, doubt, and deep-seated hatred for Doomi just from the content between the lines.

The man with the dark brown beard laughed:
"Just come back with us to make a statement, and you'll be officially exonerated. Go back now; your fiancée has been waiting for you at home for a year."

Seeing the genuinely kind smile on the face of the dark brown-bearded police superintendent, Xia Fa suddenly realized that he seemed to only want to solve this major case and bring the real culprit who killed Philier to justice.

Fortunately, I'm about to break out of the chaotic void, so I don't need to worry about so much anymore.

Sure enough, the moment the dark brown-bearded police superintendent finished speaking, chaos spread out, engulfing everything like a tidal wave.

Xia Fa felt the restraints binding him loosen, and his supernatural power returned to his body. The connection between his spiritual intuition and the teleportation hub remained intact.

He looked around and found himself in a circular cave.

Directly in front of the cave was an even smaller ancient mithril door, about the size of a normal room.

The ancient mithril door no longer bears the intricate and obscure patterns, but instead appears rough yet smooth, giving it an impression of being indestructible and even completely unshakeable.

For some reason, Xia Fa even had a premonition that this ancient mithril gate was extremely thick, with a diameter of tens or even hundreds of kilometers.

"This is the third Ancient Mithril Gate?"

Xia Fa clicked his tongue in amazement. No wonder it took five physical beings working together to break through.

He waited a while, and seeing that none of the other entities had broken through the chaotic void, he had no choice but to wait patiently.

At the same time, Xia Fa was also quite moved.

The truly crucial information from the test presented by that chaotic void just now actually came from inside the mental hospital.

Or rather, it lies in the key information that "Doomi, as a mental patient suspected of committing a serious murder, was detained in this mental hospital."

The dark brown-bearded police superintendent said that Dao Mi was highly suspected of murder. Combined with the fact that Dao Mi had become a mental patient, a coherent clue was completely connected in Xia Fa's mind.

First, Phil was killed by Doomi, but Doomi had absolutely no motive to kill Phil.

Therefore, the only possibility is that... Doomi acted under duress.

What could force Dominic to do this?

The only thing Xia Fa could think of was when Domi was forced to kill Philil when he faced a life-threatening situation.

However, this alone does not seem to explain why Domi would hack Philier to pieces, splitting his face and chest apart.

Except for one situation.

That is, Philell went to extremes, deeply wronged Doomi, wanted to kill Doomi, and said many things that would lead to a complete break between the two.

Doomi was nearly killed, but he managed to kill Philiel in return, which is why he took this action that was almost a form of "venting his anger".

This was partly because he was wronged by Phil, and partly because... at that time, under such extreme circumstances, Domi's mentality had been driven to some abnormality.

Therefore, after killing Phil and quickly cleaning up the scene, he felt guilty and later incoherently mentioned "Rich Man Fakeke".

This led to the strange question posed by Domi's fiancée, Bedell, at the upscale restaurant that day: who was "Millionaire Fakeke"?

As for Bedell's feigned sadness at Philil's funeral, it was because... Bedell probably wasn't very familiar with Philil, and seeing her fiancé so sad, she had no choice but to follow suit.

Domi himself, after killing his best friend in self-defense, finally broke down under the mental pressure. This may have been due to the suspicion and questioning from the police superintendent, which led to Domi being imprisoned in a mental hospital.

That mental hospital is probably specifically for holding suspected serious criminals, which is why it looks so dilapidated. There's no need to be so polite when dealing with serious criminals.

As for why Philell chose to kill Doomi...

As Phil himself wrote in a letter to "Millionaire Fakeke," he was so eager to succeed and to become like Fakeke.

But his good friend, Doomi, won the favor of investor Treig's daughter, and soon became Doomi's fiancée.

Under such circumstances, Philier, who was already under great mental pressure due to opening the rubber factory, was prone to suspicion.

On one side are the investors, and on the other is his best friend who owns the same shares as him, and his best friend is about to marry the investor's daughter...

He was terribly worried that, just as he was about to become a millionaire, everything would be taken away from him.

Phil has probably seen plenty of this kind of thing since he was a child.

Taking all of the above into account, the truth of the matter is not difficult to deduce.

However, even after successfully solving the puzzle and escaping the chaotic void, Xia Fa still had to admit that the puzzle was far too difficult, with very little information available.

Not to mention, they almost fell into a trap set by the Chaos Void...

After waiting for a while, finally, strange ripples appeared in the circular cave.

The physical form of the bard emerged from the fluctuations.

To Xia Fa's surprise, the bard looked exhausted, as if his mental energy was about to be completely depleted.

The bard saw Xiafa at first glance, or rather, he saw the glutton who seemed to be wrapped in an extremely blurry mosaic.

He was taken aback at first, seemingly not expecting that a physical entity would appear before him, but upon seeing that it was Lord Gluttony, he revealed an expression of "I knew it".

"Your Excellency, Glutton, you do seem to be stronger than me..."

After the bard uttered this remark, he suddenly asked curiously:

Was what you experienced a battle?

Just as Xia Fa was about to speak, maintaining his serious demeanor, the space began to fluctuate again.

Two figures emerged from the crowd, one after the other; they were a gourmet and a fanatical tomb raider.

The difference is that these two individuals are covered in blood, with horrific wounds all over their bodies, and they are panting heavily, giving the impression that they are at their last gasp.

Based on what the bard had just said, Xia Fa immediately understood that these two entities had probably undergone a combat-type test.

So, it seems that the trials in this chaotic void are divided into combat and puzzle-solving types?
Fortunately, the test I was going through was a puzzle-solving test. If it had been a combat test, given that both the gourmet and the fanatical tomb raider were seriously injured, wouldn't I have been in even worse shape?
Of course, you can also just run away when the time comes...

The moment the Gourmet and the Fanatical Tomb Raider appeared, they saw the Bard and the Glutton. Both of them showed no surprise, but they both glanced at Xia Fa, the Glutton, a few more times.

Then, he showed a rather puzzled expression.

Seeing this, the bard laughed:
"When I first saw that Lord Gluttony was also facing a puzzle-solving challenge, I was just as surprised as you were. Of course, it's also possible that Lord Gluttony is too strong, and although he faced a combat-type challenge, he was completely unharmed."

Xia Fa chose not to explain at this point. After all, he was not a real entity. It was a good choice to remain mysterious in front of these entities that were as powerful as Outer Gods or even close to True Gods and were extremely strange.

"There are already four of us, we just need one more..."

Seeing that Lord Gluttony seemed unwilling to explain, the bard changed the subject.

The avid tomb raiders and gourmets were also filled with anticipation. Only one more person was needed to break through the Chaotic Void so that everyone could try to open the third and final door of the Taigu Mithril Gate.

When that time comes, upon entering the Primordial Eternal Sea, you can freely choose any Eternal Certificate...

But just then, Xia Fa's body swayed inexplicably, and a graceful and gentle figure appeared before him.

It was Bedell, whom I had seen in the Chaos Void before!

She smiled very gently, but then said something that Xia Fa never expected.

(End of this chapter)