Chapter 26 The Truth Behind the News

　　The big events of the weekend eventually appeared before everyone’s eyes in the form of newspaper headlines.

　　In just two days, three players had withdrawn from the game, all in the form of death.

　　"Hu Yue and Li Yuan 'committed suicide out of fear of punishment' in prison?"

　　Yesterday morning, Julian took the initiative to come to Mingmei in the afternoon to tell Mingmei, Bai Xiao, and Yuan Fang about what happened.

　　They were shocked at the time, but Julian didn't elaborate on the specifics.

　　For example, why Hu Yue acted, what exactly happened—Julian said that he didn’t know, and that Hu Yue couldn’t explain why either.

　　At the time, apart from Mingmei, who knew from Lu Xiaoyao's perspective that Julian was deliberately hiding something and pretending to test their reactions, the others were completely clueless.

　　They even began to suspect Julian because of this.

　　Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang had realized when Qi Hai Kui and Li Yuan made those "backstabbing" moves that these players might betray each other.

　　Not only did the things that happened in the past two days make the newspaper today, but they were also front-page news.

　　There was no way around it; who wouldn't want to see such an eye-catching gimmick as "#A Certain University Teacher Actually Had a Late-Night Affair with a Married Young Woman…#"

　　The content was not only explosive but also scary.

　　The two were having an affair, killing people, and burying corpses, and now they have committed suicide out of fear of punishment. Anyone who saw this would have to exclaim, "Wow!"

　　It was just too explosive, and Yuan Fang and Bai Xiao's thoughts were in turmoil for a while.

　　"Could it be that the Boss discovered something?"

　　Bai Xiao, who was guessing about this, had a hint of fear flashing in her eyes. She and Yuan Fang had noticed Julian's evasive attitude yesterday.

　　However, they were more inclined to believe that Julian didn't say something because he was intimidated by some unknown threat and didn't dare to say it.

　　"Do you think they were willing?"

　　A faint guess grew in Yuan Fang's heart. These things might be related to the Boss. Just like Bai Xiao guessed, maybe Mona had discovered something?

　　And Julian was threatened by the Boss and had secretly defected to Mona?

　　"It's also possible that Hu Yue discovered that Qi Hai Kui and Li Yuan had defected to the Boss, and that's why she acted,"

　　Bai Xiao thought about it and felt that Hu Yue was a decisive person with brains.

　　In the end, she decided to believe in Hu Yue, and they discussed the question of why Hu Yue would do these things if she found out about it.

　　"By the way, where's Mingmei? You're the only one in the store this morning."

　　Bai Xiao came to the store today and was so focused on the newspaper with Yuan Fang, talking about the half-true and half-false content in the news for a long time, that she only now realized that Mingmei wasn't in the store.

　　"Mingmei has been out a lot these days. I'm not too sure." Yuan Fang shook his head. "But it seems like she discovered something."

　　…

　　"Tell me, how much does Hu Yue have to believe in Lu Xiaoyao?"

　　What made the Enforcer more and more speechless was that Mingmei had now progressed to coming to him during the day, buying two breakfasts, and calling it treating him to breakfast.

　　As a result, Mingmei's mouth hadn't stopped since he sat down, and she had been organizing the news she had heard these past two days.

　　"It can't be helped if she doesn't believe her; no one can get closer to Mona than Lu Xiaoyao…"

　　As he said this, the Enforcer sucked the soft tofu pudding into his mouth, and then seemed to remember something, but he didn't say anything, just ate another steamed bun.

　　"Also… Mona used to have a good female friend…" Mingmei frowned, thought for a moment, and then mentioned Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang, saying that in the original story setting, Mona did have a good female friend.

　　It wasn't Lu Xiaoyao's character; in fact, she was already dead.

　　"Do you know what the plot of this girl was in the original story?"

　　"There's no story. Mona actually didn't have any friends in high school in the original story."

　　"Eh?"

　　"This girl who grew up with her moved away later and had a new beginning and new friends in another place. They kept in touch by writing letters.

　　Mona knew that she had gone to a completely new place, a completely new beginning, and that everything in her life was going very smoothly. In the letters, between the lines, it was as if the taste of sunshine was spread all over, that kind of…"

　　"For Mona, whose mentality was already unbalanced, those letters were actually the fuse?"

　　After listening to what he said, Mingmei offered her own opinion.

　　"No~" The Enforcer shook his head and said with a smile that Mingmei had underestimated Mona's twisted mentality.

　　"She was actually very happy. Her mother gave her a new father, and she also went to a new environment. Everything was a new beginning for her. Her good friend was learning to start over, and she was also starting a new beginning."

　　Listening to the Enforcer's description, Mingmei didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Mona. Just listening, it was easier to understand as two little sisters writing letters to each other, encouraging each other.

　　"So, Mona's new beginning was to kill all the people she didn't like and imprison the people she liked by her side." Mingmei didn't feel good after hearing this sentence from the Enforcer.

　　Mingmei: ???

　　"Mona has no guilt about these things at all; she even thinks it's justified and that as long as they like each other, anything is okay."

　　Mingmei: ??

　　Something didn't sound right!

　　"So, in the original story, her silent blackening was unknown even to herself. After she took control of that body, she learned about her original story arrangement. She didn't understand why she had to do that and why she had such a tragic ending after doing it."

　　The Enforcer was talking eloquently, completely unaware that Mingmei's eyes were not right.

　　"So, she later thought that she would see what it would be like when other people had the same experience as her… What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

　　As he spoke, the Enforcer saw that Mingmei's eyes were becoming more and more strange.

　　"Why didn't you say these things the other day?"

　　"I didn't know the other day."

　　"You know today?"

　　"I specially asked someone to find out some information." The Enforcer emphasized the word "someone." Mingmei immediately heard who he was talking about.

　　This person can still contact her uncle in the game?

　　[Ghostie, can I contact my uncle in the game?]

　　[Under normal circumstances, it is not allowed, but you have the right to contact someone in an emergency.]

　　[Then tell me, who has higher authority, me or that person?]

　　Ghostie: [I advise you to know your place.]

　　Mingmei: [????]

　　"Don't worry, you can also talk to people if you need to." The Enforcer smiled and smiled again as he looked at Mingmei's increasingly suspicious expression.

　　While Mingmei was distracted, he finished his breakfast. He seemed to think Mingmei was a little annoying, so he said, "If you still want to find out anything, I think you can start with Mona's mother."