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Chi Yiyin was not the first to leave the boudoir.

Although he was the first player to discover something wrong with the piano sound, he was delayed because of the conversation with the female ghost, so when he left the boudoir, only Tong Yao and the middle-aged guy were the ones left on the other boudoirs.

Chi Yiyin has a clear understanding on everyone’s personality, and knew how they would act according to their personality, so it was not a surprise seeing the red lights in several boudoirs.

But to his surprise, the female student’s boudoir was also lit up with a red light, and the word “囍” was pasted outside the door.

This means that the owner was no longer in the room, and the real “sister” had returned.

Sure enough, his guess that the female student was not a newcomer was right, so there was no audience randomly chosen from her live broadcast room.

If it was a female student who was scared to death, how could she bravely explore a completely unfamiliar and dangerous place?

The possibility that Chi Yiyin could think of was that the female student wanted to confuse other people as a newcomer was to reduce other people’s guard against her, so that she could have enough time and opportunity to do her own thing.

For example, leaving the boudoir in the middle of the night to find the music box.

He didn’t know what the cautious female student was looking for, but he knew that the female student ignored the danger coming from behind her.

The red lit boudoir was not a good thing.

——Chi Yiyin realized the meaning of the system’s prompt when he saw the female ghost in his room and the woman in wedding dress outside the door.

There was no reason not to leave the boudoir. In fact, what it wanted to express was that if the truth about Ma Yuze couldn’t be found, and her hatred was not eliminated, then the Ma Yuze who died on the wedding night will come back here and solve her own resentment with her own hands.

In other words… the player’s “sister” identity in the instance will be replaced. They wouldn’t appear as “sister”, but as themselves, or something else.

Although Chi Yiyin had yet to figure out what was wrong with his identity, he instinctively felt that losing his “sister” identity would make things more dangerous for the players in the instance.

Like a wild beast breaking into a human home.

In contrast, Jing Cha’s room was still shrouded in a silent darkness.

Chi Yiyin was not surprised by this.

Among the two players who came in randomly, he could see through the middle-aged man could at a simple glance, which made Chi Yiyin lose interest in him immediately, but Jing Cha was different.

Like top hunters who meet in the dark, they are aware of each other’s breath, knowing that an existence similar to themselves is on the opposite side.

For example, now, he was feeling someone’s malice towards him in the garden.

Chi Yiyin, who had left the courtyard where the boudoir was located, had just entered the garden when he was keenly aware that someone was watching him coldly from the direction of the rockery. As if checking the prey’s weakness while waiting for an opportunity to catch it in the dark.

Chi Yiyin was not panicked from being targeted, he slowly stood still, looked at the rockery calmly, and revealed the other party’s identity with one word.

“Li Li, are you waiting for me?”

The courtyard was quiet, not even the faceless servant was there. Everything was shrouded in darkness.

A figure slowly emerged from behind the rockery.

But it was not Li Li, but Li Li’s companion.

He stood still not far from Chi Yiyin, tilted his head, and smiled: “Li Li said that I made a mistake in my judgment and regarded the tiger as a kitty. I still don’t believe it. But looking at it now, it seems that my eyes aren’t looking properly.”

The light moved, and when the man’s face was finally exposed to the light, Chi Yiyin squinted his eyes, and quietly swept behind him with his peripheral vision.

Sure enough, since his companion was here, Li Li was right behind him, and the pair of partners wanted to pinch him back and forth.

Seeing that Chi Yiyin had discovered him, Li Li no longer hide, and slowly stepped out of the darkness with a smile: “Chi Yiyin, we seem to have a lot to say. Did you forget the truth you promised to tell me before?”

His smile held no warmth: “I don’t want to hear you playing word games anymore, Chi Yiyin, my patience has a limit. If you don’t tell me the truth, I’m sorry. You can only die here.”

The audience who were still wondering why Chi Yiyin stopped suddenly, immediately exploded when they saw this scene.

[Fuck! Li Li is going to be ruthless!]

[Although Li Li does not have a separate ranking in the Heavenly List, he and his partner have a joint ranking in the Heavenly List. Obviously, they also came here for those legendary rewards. If the anchor blocked their way of making money, he won’t have a good end.]

[Now we can only hope that they are still worried about the rule one day deduction from one death. But there isn’t much hope. After all, as long as you can get useful information from the anchor and pass the instance, then the time is irrelevant.]

[Come on! Li Li, you dare point directly? The anchor is not dead until now… Mother, you know that I almost fell asleep waiting?]

[It’s over, it’s over, it’s bad luck for the anchor.]

Chi Yiyin didn’t respond to Li Li’s killing intent, he didn’t even change his expression. He simply stood there leisurely.

“I thought you guys would use a more refined approach instead of robbing halfway.”

He looked around and smiled: “Even if you hear the truth from me… Li Li, let me ask you, do you trust me?”

“How is that possible.”

Li Li didn’t even think about it, and immediately answered.

Then he was half a beat slow to react, and his eyes towards Chi Yiyin gradually became serious.

Chi Yiyin nodded clearly, and said: “That’s right, even if I tell you the true information, you still won’t believe what I said. You don’t know which sentence is true and which is a lie, and you can’t be sure if I’m lying or not. Would that sentence just happen to lead to your death?”

“Would you like to try it yourself?”

He laughed softly: “Although you seem to have great confidence in yourself in terms of force, but believe me, I am better at word games.”

“So, do you want to take a gamble? Bet on whether what I tell you is the truth or a lie. If you lose the bet…”

Chi Yiyin turned around slowly, looked at Li Li and said with a smile, “Then your life will be on the line.”

The atmosphere in the courtyard instantly dropped to freezing point, and even the people before the live broadcast unconsciously held their breath, not daring to breathe out.

[Is he crazy? How dare you talk to someone who wants to kill you like this? Tired of life?]

[…Crazy, so fucking crazy. He said that Li Li was gambling with his life, isn’t he as well? At any rate, Li Li still has time, but he has offended others, and now he has to die.]

Li Li observed Chi Yiyin with gloomy eyes, as if he was judging the truth of his words.

But Chi Yiyin was always smiling, and there was even a hint of expectation in his eyes, with no flaws in his expression.

After a while, Li Li looked back past Chi Yiyin, and exchanged glances with his companion.

“You don’t need to tell me the specific information.”

Li Li warned: “Tell me, where are you going now?”

The smile on Chi Yiyin’s lips deepened, he pretended to hesitate for a moment, then turned sideways to look in the direction of Madam Ma’s room.

“Because Madam Ma’s family has never shown up, and after dawn today, her family will come back, so I want to go to her place before then.”

He said softly: “The four children of the Ma family are all born to Madam Ma. Since the children all like this to their mother, maybe a breakthrough can be found through her.”

Li Li and his companion quickly exchanged glances, and gestured to each other with gestures that only they could understand, preventing Chi Yiyin from communicating.

Soon, Li Li made a decision.

“You don’t need to go to Madam Ma’s place, we will help you.”

Li Li looked at Chi Yiyin seriously, and said to him: “But before that, you have to tell me the truth about the aunt.”

Chi Yiyin nodded happily: “Okay.”

He told Li Li exactly what he thought about the aunt, but he skipped the scene he saw in his nightmare. He also did not say that the aunt also appeared on the wedding night, taking the place of Madam Ma.

People don’t want to believe what other people tell them, but they want to believe their own judgment.

—Even if it is wrong.

Chi Yiyin told Li Li an insignificant lie. He told the other party that he was good at word games, but in fact, he preferred to observe people’s psychology.

For him, whether it is written words or speech, it is actually the speculation and control of the human species. Analyze the opponent’s personality, and then grasp the most likely way of doing things. Start the layout a dozen steps in advance, list all the possible reactions of the opponent, and make corresponding preparations one by one.

Although the aunt is an important NPC, she was the reason why the entire Ma family was destroyed in the end, and even caused the female ghost to go crazy and out of control. If it wasn’t for Chi Yiyin’s presence, the female ghost would have done more than almost killed her.

But in Chi Yiyin’s view, to Ma Yuze, the aunt was far less important than Madam Ma.

The aunt brought death to Ma Yuze, but it was her own mother’s death that Ma Yuze felt deeply guilty about.

That’s why when he went to check Madam Ma’s room earlier, he met the woman in wedding dress there.

The female ghost didn’t know why Madam Ma died, but Chi Yiyin saw the mummy in that room with his own eyes – the woman in the wedding dress who died on the wedding night knew it.

She had been standing there, like a little girl persistently waiting in place after getting lost, as if she was still waiting for her mother to come back and find her.

Whoever goes to Madam. Ma’s room will meet the woman in a wedding dress.

Chi Yiyin used up the housekeeper as a tool man, and relied on his own understanding of Ma Yuze to get out of the attack range of the woman in wedding dress. What about Li Li?

He began to look forward to Li Li’s escape method.

Or—his manner of death.

“I haven’t told Tong Yao the whole truth about the aunt. Please continue to help me keep the secret.”

Chi Yiyin blinked at Li Li, and said with a relaxed smile, “After all, you don’t like your partner lying to you, right?”

The companion sneered, and said contemptuously: “There is no need to try to provoke the relationship between Li Li and me. We have experienced more dangers together than you can imagine. It is not something you can provoke.”

Chi Yiyin smiled meaningfully: “How will you know if you don’t try?”

The companion rolled his eyes, put his hands in his pockets, turned around and walked towards Madam Ma’s room first: “Li Li, you come and deal with him. I’ll go over to see the situation first. Then you hurry and catch up.”

Li Li responded. Then took out a weapon, and walked slowly towards Chi Yiyin.

Chi Yiyin lifted his slender eyelashes, looked at Li Li who was gradually approaching him, and laughed.

He didn’t seem surprised that Li Li would try to kill him after he gave the answer, but he wasn’t afraid either.

He even smiled and asked Li Li back: “Do you believe what I said is right?”

Li Li frowned and paused: “What do you mean?”

“Perhaps, I have tampered with Madam Ma’s room, planning to let you go and never return? Maybe the key information is not with Madam Ma?”

Chi Yiyin kindly reminded the other party: “Don’t forget, I was away for a long time during the dinner, and that was enough for me to set up a trap to deal with all of you.”

“Li Li, now come and guess which of my words is true and which is false.”

He said with a smile: “Of course, if you kill me, there will be no definite answer to everything—how is it. Do you want to try?”

People need a reference point for judging the authenticity of reality, just like the reference line of a lie detector. The truth and lies are clearly separated, so that he will not get lost in the lies.

Such as your name, your experience.

But Chi Yiyin took the initiative to build a benchmark for Li Li time and time again, and mercilessly smashed it when he believed it to be true, destroying the benchmark and blurring the boundary between truth and lies.

After repeated several times, Li Li finally lost the ability to judge Chi Yiyin’s words, showing a trace of bewilderment.

But at this time, Chi Yiyin changed his previous pressing styl and stopped instead. Patiently giving Li Li enough time to think, and took the initiative to let him analyze.

On the contrary, Li Li became more vigilant, suspecting that Chi Yiyin was procrastinating for time to do something. Under nervousness, loopholes in thinking were more likely to occur, and details would be ignored.

“It seems that it is difficult for you to make a choice.”

Chi Yiyin said happily: “Otherwise, let me help you choose—go to Madam Ma’s room to verify whether what I said is correct. If it is correct, it will not be too late for you to come back and kill me. If it is wrong, I can provide you with other information.”

“How about it, does it sound easier than choosing one of the two?”

Chi Yiyin could see that Li Li’s forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat.

He is nervous.

His companion had already gone to Madam Ma’s room first. If there was any danger there, his companion would be in trouble. If Chi Yiyin hadn’t lied, and his companion had found the truth from Madam Ma… one person would get more money than two people.

Even though he had partnered with his partner for many years, Li Li knew how rich the rewards of this instance are, and few people would be able to resist the temptation of getting rich overnight. Even relatives and friends would turn against each other for this, let alone them.

Li Li didn’t realize at all that his thoughts had been led away by Chi Yiyin unconsciously.

He stared at Chi Yiyin for a moment, then slowly put down his weapon, and walked towards Madam Ma’s room with a cold face: “Just do as you said.”

“A piece of advice, Chi Yiyin. If you want to survive, you better not lie to me.”

Li Li looked at Chi Yiyin coldly, and said: “Gushu Town is very big, but the only place open to players is the mansion, which is as big as the mouth of a well. Even if you escape, you can’t escape from here, and wait for me to come back… “

Chi Yiyin smiled gracefully, and nodded in greeting: “I’ll be at your disposal.”

——As long as you still have your life to deal with me at that time.

Li Li had already walked out for a few steps, but after thinking about it, he turned to look at Chi Yiyin with complicated eyes.

“I thought about becoming a partner with you, but unfortunately, you are too crazy. We may not get along.”

Li Li said: “Or, if you give up your sympathy for ‘sister’ and switch to our side and fulfill Master Ma’s wish together, we still have a chance to cooperate. “

Chi Yiyin raised his eyebrows in surprise. He didn’t expect Li Li to have such thoughts.

But he quickly laughed, grasping his emotions just right, and slowly shook his head: “No need. I know what I’m doing. But Li Li, do you know what you’re doing?”

“I know. I’m trying to survive.”

Li Li frowned, with complicated eyes: “Chi Yiyin, I know your fate is good. You people on the Morning Star List have all awakened your abilities. You are born with an advantage over us. When we are struggling to survive in the instance, you can easily survive by relying on your talent and natural strength.”

“I don’t envy you, but Chi Yiyin, don’t think that you have the right to criticize people like us who are trying to survive.”

… Awakened?

Chi Yiyin was surprised.

He was very aware that his awakened power was different from that of ordinary people, but he kept his mouth shut. Except for the dead orphanage dean—who was now under the yellow spring, and could no longer think of bullying helpless children at will.

Apart from him, no one alive knows the secret.

However, now the word “awakened” easily came out of Li Li’s mouth.

Not one. He uses “you people”. There are a group of people—all players on The Morning Star List, who have awakened their power.

Chi Yiyin quickly reflected that what Li Li said was not his awakened power, but his identity, “The Pope” or “The Butcher”, which Li Li thought as those awakened power.

He was still smiling, motionless, without showing any surprise.

“If I have no worries about my life, food and clothing, I am willing to be kind and save the beggar on the roadside. But Chi Yiyin, people like you will not understand my situation. Kindness is too much of a luxury for me.”

Li Li said softly, “Ma Yuze is very pitiful. But I have no strength to pity her, and even ruin my own chance to live for her.”

“I don’t know if this is the difference between you and me, but”

Li Li looked directly at Chi Yiyin and wanted him to see the sincerity in his eyes: “will you put your life and sympathy for others on both sides of the scale?”

“Chi Yiyin, if I can’t become a partner with a person like you, it will make me feel refret for a long time. If we work together, we can successfully solve more instances and move to a higher position. So please consider my words and give me the answer when I come back.”

Chi Yiyin nodded. He was still calm in the face of the person who threatened to kill him. He even smiled to show his understanding.

“If you can’t be a partner, you can’t stay as an enemy. I can understand.”

He stood tall and upright. When standing in the place, he appeared gentle and elegant, and had no attack force.

Seeing this, Li Li thought that Chi Yiyin had heard what he said, and agreed. So he gave him a sigh and smiled. He nodded to Chi Yiyin and walked away quickly.

Everyone has the heart to cherish talents. When they see good characters, they always have no heart to let them be destroyed, and so does Li Li. He knew that if he could cooperate with Chi Yiyin, he’d be able to go higher.

It was not until Li Li’s figure disappeared in the courtyard that Chi Yiyin stepped forward again.

However, he did not go to Madam Ma’s room at all, but went to the direction of the main house, following the way that the woman in wedding dress pointed out for him.