There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 636

Chapter 636: Chapter 550: Maybe the Murderer Isn’t Human Chapter 636: Chapter 550: Maybe the Murderer Isn’t Human As the focal point of the villagers’ hostility, Wang Tiezhu’s descent from the mountain indeed caused quite a stir.

However, with the village chief as his guarantor and other members of the Zhang Family mediating, at least for the moment, there wouldn’t be a scene of a mob beating up Wang Tiezhu.

Xu Shuo looked around.

It was actually quite easy to distinguish the people from the Wang, Zhang, and Li families; one only needed to observe their attire and complexion to roughly guess their affiliations.

And about the entire Li family’s tragic death, not many of the Wang Family had come to meddle.

Instead, there were many villagers living in the northern cottages and some people from the Zhang and Li families.

Even among the people of the Zhang Family, those carefully concealed emotions in their eyes were quite thought-provoking.

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“Village Chief, we know you’ve always been good to Tiezhu.

What if you deliberately cover for him?” A villager said sourly after being stopped from making a commotion.

“Have I been cruel to your daughter?” The Old Village Chief glared at him, “Your daughter comes to my place every day for sugar cakes, have I ever refused her?!”

As his words fell, the villager’s expression abruptly froze, then, as if realising something, he bashfully lowered his head.

Then the village chief glanced around coldly, speaking in a frosty tone, “I’ve never done anything to let Osmanthus Village down, and I’ve always tried to help out whenever the villagers need something.

Now, of course, there’s no need for me to be biased in this matter with Old Li.

What’s true is true, what’s false is false!

You have no evidence whatsoever, so stop inciting trouble, spreading rumors, and disturbing the peace of Osmanthus Village!”

His speech was firm and assertive, leaving the villagers internally mulling over their own thoughts, though on the surface, they all seemed to comply with guilty admissions of their error.

Even if they did harbor their own thoughts, those people now smartly backed away, no longer casting hostile glances at Wang Tiezhu.

Afterward, a few servants from the Zhang Family came forward to disperse the villagers crowding around the courtyard, clearing a path for the village chief.

The village chief turned to look at Wang Tiezhu beside him, intending to call him inside to examine the situation, only to see the latter looking up at something intently.

“What’s wrong?” The village chief asked as he too followed the gaze.

After seeing the two people sitting on the roof, the village chief’s eyes flickered slightly as he explained, “That girl is a scholar who came from outside a few days ago, and the younger girl is Miss Wang from a branch of the Wang Family.”

Xu Shuo nodded, “That Miss Wang is quite pretty.”

Village Chief: “…” So that’s what you’re concerned about?

…

The attractiveness of the young lady wasn’t within the scope of their investigation.

After entering the courtyard, the village chief summoned a Zhang Family servant to whisper a few words.

After listening, the servant’s complexion drastically changed, and then he hurriedly turned and left.

The village chief ordered someone to go to the graveyard to collect the bodies of the two unlucky servants and had someone else stand guard at the courtyard entrance before he stepped forward into the main hall of the Old Li family house.

Old Li died near the entrance of the main house, stabbed multiple times, with blood everywhere and his eyes wide open in death!

Xu Shuo was squatting next to Old Li, tilting his head to observe the man’s condition.

It was completely different from last night.

Now, there was no dark aura surrounding the man.

“Did you find anything?” the village chief asked as he approached.

“He died a horrible death.”

“How about saying something useful.”

“He didn’t put up any fight when he was being chopped.”

Xu Shuo put on some white gloves and gently lifted Old Li’s head to face the village chief, “Although it seems he died with his eyes wide open, there’s not a trace of fear in them.

His facial expression was just arranged to look very frightened.”

The village chief sighed, “Yesterday his wife and child were the same, no signs of struggle either.”

Xu Shuo didn’t say anything in response, and simply put the head down, then continued to check the rest of Old Li’s body.

“Actually, I initially thought Old Li was the murderer of his wife and child,” the village chief continued, “But looking at the current situation, the mastermind must be someone else, very likely someone Old Li knew well.”

“Have you ever considered it might not be a human?” Xu Shuo said slowly.

“…Huh?” The village chief was momentarily baffled.

“What, never seen a non-human murderer before?” Xu Shuo looked up at him.

“…”

The village chief still looked somewhat dazed.

In the corner Xu Shuo couldn’t see, the village chief stealthily opened his own task list to check.

[Main Mission: Find out who killed the villagers.]

First of all, exclude the bride.

After all, it was well known in Osmanthus Village that the bride liked to come out on the evenings of the seventh month’s half to kill the people of the Wang Family.

The Script Space wouldn’t assign such a simple task.

It was virtually handing the answer to him, and he knew this was impossible!

Besides, the method the murderer used to kill the villagers was with a physical weapon, and those wounds were obviously cuts from a sickle.

Furthermore, after killing, the murderer immediately fled.

If it had been the bride…

She would have probably proclaimed her deed to Osmanthus Village immediately!

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Fearing that the villagers wouldn’t know she had come out!

Therefore, the village chief had immediately ruled out the possibility of the bride being an anomaly.

But now that I think about it…

What if?

Even if the bride herself hadn’t done it, could her resentment have influenced the villagers?

After all, the bride had tormented Osmanthus Village for decades!

Decades of torment had nearly driven the villagers mad!

Under such circumstances, wouldn’t it be easy to fall under some evil spell?

Maybe the main quest was taking advantage of the players’ blind spots, leading them to overlook the obvious answer that the bride could control the villagers to commit the crime, until the very end…

It’s possible.

Xu Shuo, watching the village chief deep in thought, took his turn to ask, “What are you thinking?”

The village chief, caught in the midst of brainstorming, responded subconsciously, “Perhaps the bride?”

Xu Shuo: “…?”

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Upon seeing Xu Shuo’s puzzled look, the village chief seemed to realize something and quickly added, “Ahem, not that I’m saying it’s really her, I’m just expanding my thought process.”

Xu Shuo tilted his head, “Do you think the person you’re considering is different from the person I’m considering?”

Isn’t the bride also a person?

In Xu Shuo’s eyes, the bride, although turned into a ghost, still counted as a “person” within this script space.

After all, she was just made of resentment energy, still retained her self-awareness, and wasn’t born from that sort of darkness like those creatures.

The real concern should be.

The Abyss, right!

Xu Shuo encountered a similar situation in his third attempt at the Script Space.

——[Find the murderer who killed Qiuzi].

He started by looking for a “person”, then a “Necrophage”, and in the end, it turned out to be the mastermind “Evil God Black Dog” pulling the strings!

Stupid Script Space playing word games!

So this time, after witnessing the villagers’ manner of death firsthand and remembering the state of Old Li from last night, Xu Shuo had a hunch—the culprit behind the chaos in Osmanthus Village must also be related to the Abyss Creature.

The village chief was so dedicated to finding the murderer, probably because it related to his own main quest.

How pitiful.

He must have been confused by the wording.

Otherwise, how could he have not thought of the Abyss, especially after both had seen Old Li’s bizarre state last night?

You can’t possibly think that Old Li was just cursed, right?

At that moment, the village chief said, “After all, you know the bride’s condition; calling her a person…

well, she’s like a person, but to say she’s truly a person isn’t exactly right either.

Ghosts and spirits…

have many tricks, and besides, she might have already been…”

Hearing this, Xu Shuo roughly guessed the village chief’s line of thought.

So he simply played along lackadaisically: “Uh-huh.”

Village Chief: “…”

What’s going on?

I’ve pondered so much, and you just grunt in response?

Can you be any more dismissive?!

Just then, the servant from the Zhang Family who was standing guard outside the courtyard suddenly ran in, standing at the threshold of the main room and said, “Village chief, Miss Wang from the Wang Family also wants to come in and take a look, and she’s bringing that…

that Zhu, scholar Zhu.”

The conflicted village chief paused upon hearing this, glanced at Xu Shuo beside him, and then replied, “Let them come in.”

“…Okay.”

The somewhat nervous servant went out to relay the message, and soon two young ladies walked in.

One wore a sky-blue Chinese-style asymmetrical jacket with black trousers, her hair styled into two braids, exuding an air of literary grace, serene and gentle.

The other’s voice arrived before she did.

“Village Chief, do you know what happened at Uncle Li’s house?”

This girl was dressed in coarse hemp clothes, a beige jacket skirt, with a white scarf around her neck, her hair, long enough to reach her waist, casually draped down, completely unadorned, letting her sleek and shiny hair strands fall before her chest, appearing like an ordinary village girl.

Her way of speaking was a bit unusual, with a shrill, melodious voice that seemed to spring from deep in her throat, feigning a seductive air.

Xu Shuo sized her up, his gaze falling on the girl’s chest.

Hm, quite flat.

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