Chapter 1 What is He Rushing to Do?

Listening to Mu Chen's survival-instinct-filled reply, Mingmei didn't know why, but she wanted to laugh a little. She hadn't even asked yet, and the other party's reply was already out.

[Host, don't be fooled by his words. Maybe that's what he wants! He's just pretending!]

[Oh~]

Mingmei's reply was perfunctory enough.

Gui Gui's attitude towards Mu Chen was exactly the same as her godfather's.

Mingmei could probably guess what her godfather had said to Gui Gui.

Gui Gui, unaware that it had been exposed, was currently watching its host and Mu Chen getting closer and closer, feeling extremely sad!

The mission that Lord Liu Liu had given it; it, couldn't do it!

"Do you want to go in and take a look? I'll keep watch for you."

Seeing Mingmei staring at him without speaking, Mu Chen lowered his eyes slightly and focused on Mingmei. "If anything happens, just call me, and I'll come in."

"Okay."

After Mingmei nodded in agreement, she turned and entered the door. Because Mu Chen had noticed the door in the previous room at first glance, Mingmei subconsciously looked at Lu Xiaoyao and their room door, and the result was…

Huh?

The door wasn't even latched?

So careless?

Mingmei frowned in confusion and turned around, only to see that one person was missing from the two beds in the room.

Mingmei approached the person who was tightly wrapped in the blanket, with only half of their small head exposed, and realized it was Lu Xiaoyao.

So, was this sleeping position custom-made for her by the system, or did she come up with the pose herself?

Mingmei glanced at the empty bed on the other side and scanned the room, making sure there was nothing that would embarrass Mu Chen. Then, she called Mu Chen in.

Hearing Mingmei call him, Mu Chen still kept his eyes down when he entered the room, not looking around. Seeing his appearance of adhering to "male virtue," Gui Gui didn't know what to say in the background.

It had just accused him of pretending, but now he'd been inside for a while and his eyeballs hadn't even moved. It couldn't find a way to criticize him.

Seeing him like this, Mingmei was very happy, but she still said with a hint of arrogance, "Come and see, only Lu Xiaoyao is here in this room. Bai Xiao isn't in the room."

As Mingmei spoke, Mu Chen looked up at the bed. Sure enough, apart from Lu Xiaoyao, the other bed was empty.

However, Mu Chen looked at it, took two steps forward, stood by Bai Xiao's bed, and stared for a while before saying, "She's in the room."

As he spoke, he used his toe to indicate for Mingmei to look under the bed.

Sure enough, when Mingmei bent down and looked under the empty bed, she saw Bai Xiao holding a dagger, lying motionless under the bed with her eyes closed. Mingmei didn't know what to say for a moment.

"She's…" Mingmei looked at Mu Chen, but Mu Chen said, "I guess she has the lowest favorability among the players today. She's feeling guilty and wants to save herself."

"She wants to save herself but didn't come to me to buy a boxed lunch?" Tonight, not only Lu Xiaoyao, but even those who bought boxed lunches the day before yesterday could come and buy them again.

"I guess she forgot. You don't know how many small actions they've been doing in private tonight." Mu Chen was too lazy to talk about it. They wanted to cooperate with each other, but they were also deceiving, hiding, and testing each other. Thinking of this, Mu Chen glanced at Lu Xiaoyao again, "Except for her."

"She wants to save herself, so… the door…" Mingmei pointed to the door that wasn't latched, "Has someone already been here and didn't find her?"

"No."

Mu Chen looked at Lu Xiaoyao sleeping on the bed with a smile that was not a smile, and said, "Bai Xiao is diverting the blame."

"It would be fine if she just hid under the bed herself. But, she put Lu Xiaoyao on her bed and left the door unlatched. Look at Lu Xiaoyao's sleeping posture. If someone really comes in, isn't Lu Xiaoyao looking for a scapegoat?"

"How do you know?" Mingmei was surprised. They had only been in here for a while. How did Mu Chen know?

"The wrinkles on the two beds are different." Mu Chen pointed to the wrinkles on the empty bed, and then pointed to the one under Lu Xiaoyao. "The edges of Lu Xiaoyao's current bed sheet are still very smooth. Apart from some wrinkles under her, there are no other wrinkles."

"On the contrary, on Bai Xiao's bed… even if no one is sleeping there, the bed doesn't look too tidy. There are quite a few wrinkles, which isn't the habit of a student in the combat command class."

"So that's how it is." After being reminded by Mu Chen, Mingmei also remembered that when she usually went to Lu Xiaoyao's dorm to play, her dorm wasn't tidy, and the bed, of course, wasn't very neat either.

Sometimes, she could even roll the quilt into a nest.

Looking at it this way, Mingmei also felt that the bed Lu Xiaoyao was lying on didn't look like she could have made it.

"Isn't Bai Xiao afraid of Lu Xiaoyao finding out if she frames her like this?"

"She can find out?" Regarding Mingmei's question, Mu Chen thought about Lu Xiaoyao's slowness and really didn't think Lu Xiaoyao would find anything.

Mingmei: … Was he really saying that Lu Xiaoyao wasn't very smart so bluntly?

"Then what now…"

Thinking of Bai Xiao doing this, Mingmei felt uncomfortable, but she also understood the nature of this game. "Are we going to wait here and see what happens?"

Mu Chen shook his head. "It's not necessarily Bai Xiao who will die tonight."

"Hmm? What else do you know?"

"I'll know if my guess is right when I see it."

As Mu Chen spoke, he led Mingmei out. As soon as they reached the door, he suddenly heard footsteps not far away. He raised his hand slightly to stop her, and Mingmei stopped as well.

Following Mu Chen's gaze, Mingmei and Mu Chen saw a person walking out of the darkness in the corridor.

He was holding an axe in his hand and a long knife at his waist. The moonlight shining through the windows of the corridor made the blade's edge look even more cold and shining. It was the butler!

Even though Mingmei knew the script, that the butler was the murderer at night, it didn't mean that she wouldn't be afraid when she suddenly saw the butler making an appearance like this.

However, watching the butler's usually gentle face with a twisted expression walking towards them, getting closer and closer, Mingmei even suspected that the other party had discovered that they were going to come. Now seeing the butler running towards them, Mingmei wanted to run away!

But in the next second, she discovered that the butler, with a twisted face, quickly brushed past her, not even looking at them, and running away hastily without stopping!

"What is he rushing to d—"

Mingmei hadn't finished saying "o," when she discovered that the butler, who had run not far away, suddenly shuddered, as if he had been electrocuted. Then, he leaned against the wall opposite Julian and the others' door and started vomiting…

"Judging by the direction, he either came out of my room or from Zhen Po's room." Mu Chen didn't feel uncomfortable at all looking at the butler's vomiting back. "But seeing that there was no one in my room wouldn't make his expression so ugly, nor would he vomit. It should be from Zhen Po's room."

As Mu Chen spoke, he looked at Mingmei again. "Besides, he has a good impression of me."

"Did you check your favorability?"

"No." Mu Chen shook his head, but he was quite confident. "I guessed from other people's expressions when they looked at me."

At dinner, Mu Chen saw Bai Xiao's expression, as well as Julian and Lou Jia, who were always looking at him with vigilance. He knew that he wasn't at the bottom.

"If you don't believe me, we can go and see whose door has been opened."

Mingmei's curiosity had been piqued by what he said, and she was about to follow him to see what was going on. So, the two of them walked towards Mu Chen's and Zhen Po's rooms. However, the two rooms at the end of the corridor were both closed…