Newspaper Boy

Chapter 97 The Second Deduction

The vampire’s "World Ablaze" is a vampire.

Zhang Yuanqing's anger suddenly stalled. He didn't question whether the information Zhao Chenghuang gave was true because the other party's role was a werewolf, the vampire's nemesis.

The werewolf's skill seemed to be related to smell. He identified David's vampire identity from the scent of the pottery jar.

"David is a vampire." Zhang Yuanqing immediately thought of the parchment that recorded the history of the Lances family. "The Lances family is a witch family, and witches have extremely Yin constitutions. Their blood must be a material rich in spirituality. Also beings of the night, David's lurking in the Lances family is also aimed at the witch beneath the ground."

Zhao Chenghuang suddenly understood and said excitedly, "All the clues in the room are useful. David is coveting the witch under the castle. He is lurking in the castle, secretly destroying the seal, so Yalans heard cat calls at night, because the witch is gradually recovering."

The threads of the matter gradually became clear.

Zhang Yuanqing glanced at him, "But David doesn't seem to be the murderer!"

Zhao Chenghuang seemed to have been doused with cold water, wanting to say something but stopping. Zhang Yuanqing's face glowed with white light, and that treacherous face became even more gloomy: "Yalans was indeed poisoned. Dong Fajiu's suspicion has been reduced, but if the murderer isn't David, it must be Dong Fajiu."

However, using Dong Fajiu as the murderer to reverse engineer the case couldn't explain many details. Dong Fajiu and David were different roles. David's poison couldn't have fallen into Dong Fajiu's hands. If it was like he just said, that Dong Fajiu had stolen David's poison, then it could only be said that the castle mystery was playing with them, and it wasn't a proper reasoning case at all.

If Dong Fajiu could steal poison, then other roles could steal too. The possibilities were impossible to deduce.

This kind of "dungeon" wouldn't be so childish. The poison was found in David's room, so the act of poisoning Yalans must be related to David.

Actually, once it was confirmed that Yalans died from poison, Dong Fajiu's suspicion could be ruled out, but the result of the planchette pointed very clearly: if it wasn't David, it must be Dong Fajiu, unless 'd' had other meanings.

But in the information collected so far, there were no "d" clues to support his reasoning. The above should be a name without mistake.

All sorts of situations put Zhang Yuanqing's reasoning into a dead end.

After a few seconds, he looked at Zhao Chenghuang and hooked the corner of his mouth: "There are three minutes before night falls. Go to Dong Fajiu's room. If he stole the pottery jar, there should be residual clues in the room." Zhao Chenghuang's eyes lit up, and he quickly left David's room.

As the two walked through the corridor, Zhao Chenghuang suddenly stopped and sniffed, "There's a strange smell."

He followed the smell and looked at the human-shaped outline in the corridor, which was the approximate outline left by Sun Miaomiao after her death. The two stopped and looked back.

"Miaomiao has a candle smell on her body," Zhao Chenghuang said, withdrawing his gaze, and said, "There isn't much time left. Let's go to your room."

The two came to Dong Fajiu's room. Zhao Chenghuang walked slowly along the wall, twitching his nose, sniffing the entire room very seriously, and shook his head, "There's no smell of poison."

The walls of the castle were thick granite, and the doors and windows were tightly closed. If Dong Fajiu had stolen poison, the werewolf's sense of smell would be able to detect it.

Zhang Yuanqing nodded.

"Now we can confirm that there is no intersection between irrelevant roles. David's poison won't appear in Dong Fajiu's room. Among the six roles, Dong Fajiu and Yalans are one plot line, Daniel and Luen are one plot line, Luen and David are one plot line, and David and Sandy Lances are one line."

"The poison is in David's room. If David isn't the murderer, then the most likely murderer is someone who intersects with him. Luen can be ruled out, so who are the most suspicious people?"

Zhao Chenghuang suddenly opened his eyes wide, "Miaomiao? No, Sandy Lances... Why would she kill her own mother?"

"That love letter is the reason. She fell in love with David, the vampire, but her mother Ya.Lans wanted to marry her to a local noble."

Zhang Yuanqing sneered, "So she became malicious and poisoned her mother to death. What a sinister plot."

He didn't really want to sneer, but his pale face naturally carried ridicule and sarcasm.

"But she didn't need to poison her mother. Wouldn't it be better to elope with David?" Zhao Chenghuang shook his head and said.

What if David instigated it? Don't forget David's identity and the reason he was lurking in the castle.

Zhang Yuanqing said, "I even suspect that the method to unlock the witch's seal was also tricked by David from Sandy Lances, coaxing his daughter to poison her mother to death, plotting her family's seal. Not a bad plan, I really like it!"

Zhao Chenghuang was silent for a few seconds and then said with a serious expression:

"These are all speculations, without evidence to support them."

"There are only six people in total. Not David, not Dong Fajiu, so only Sandy Lances is left."

Zhang Yuanqing said, "There isn't much time left. We can have a public vote. There's less than a minute before night falls."

Zhao Chenghuang said in a deep voice, "Ju Mang, you were so confident when you publicly voted for David. We've already missed once. If we miss again, Guan Ya will die, Miaomiao will die, and Red Rooster and World Ablaze will also die."

"I need evidence to prove that Sandy Lances is the murderer, evidence."

It wasn't that he didn't support Yuanshi, but this was related to the life and death of his partners, and there was no room for error.

Even if Yuanshi Tianzun's analysis made sense, without evidence, Zhao Chenghuang didn't dare to gamble with the lives of Sun Miaomiao and others. The more he cared, the more cautious he was.

Zhang Yuanqing's face was gloomy: "Sun Miaomiao is already dead. Sandy Lances's room will never be opened. This is the situation now. We can only gamble."

The two heard a sharp and shrill meow in their ears.

Night fell!

Before the night shrouded them, Zhao Chenghuang whispered, "There's still half an hour. Don't rush to publicly vote. If I die, I hope you re-examine the puzzle. If you die, I will too."

His voice stopped abruptly.

A moment later, the night receded, and dawn arrived. Zhao Chenghuang stood stiffly on the ground, turning into a corpse. The reasoning team was only Zhang Yuanqing left.

At this time, Zhang Yuanqing had already returned to his original appearance. The night sealed the white face, along with the selfish, gloomy, and cunning personality.

He subconsciously raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead, thought for a moment, and put it down again.

If he activated the white face, he would definitely publicly vote for Sandy Lances without hesitation. Zhao Chenghuang's dying words made Zhang Yuanqing choose to abandon the white face.

"Then re-examine the puzzle one more time." He closed his eyes, visualized his biological father's appearance, again and again, letting his brain power gradually boil, triggering the old illness.

Soon, chaotic pictures and meaningless noise filled his mind. What was different from before was that Zhang Yuanqing could easily bear the burden brought by the boiling of his brain power. After waiting quietly for a few seconds, the noise disappeared, and the pictures became orderly. Starting from when they entered the Ancient Castle Mystery, all the pictures replayed frame by frame, clearly and slowly.

Day 1: Enter the castle, find Ya.Lans's room, survey the death scene, find the castle's basement, discover the witch's seal.

Return to the castle, open Dong Fajiu's room door.

That night, Red Rooster died.

Day 2: Open the room of Daniel, the demon hunter, discover werewolf information, and then he used points to redeem the planchette skill.

When the scene of the planchette revelation replayed, as the pictures flashed frame by frame, Zhang Yuanqing saw it more clearly. He suddenly froze.

At this moment, he saw with absolute clarity that the ice pen wrote not "d" on the table, but the letters "c" and "i". It was just that at the time, the ice pen was melting. The melting water made the two closely connected letters blend together, turning them into "d".

That night, Sun Miaomiao died, leaving only a charred human-shaped outline at the scene.

Day 3: Open David's room. That night, World Ablaze died, the attempt to identify the murderer failed, and Zhai Cai died.

The memory quickly ended. After "re-examining" the whole process, Zhang Yuanqing listed three anomalies.

The planchette's result was "c" and "i".

World Ablaze had no skills!

Sun Miaomiao did not leave a corpse after her death, but a charred human-shaped outline.

"What do c and i mean?" Zhang Yuanqing frowned. "Could it not be a name? But I saw that the planchette's request was to kill Ya.Lans's murderer, so the result must directly point to the murderer. Besides the name, what else directly points to the murderer?"