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Chapter 349 The Fat Guy's Cameo

"Even if we don't discuss where Li Wentao's extra seventh vote came from, the fact that this inexplicable seventh vote just happened to be cast for Li Wentao is too much of a coincidence."

Chu Changge raised his head: "So you suspect that there weren't only eight of us in those two buildings last night?"

Gu Mian nodded.

There is another person.

A wicked and cautious person watched their performance from a dark corner.

Ultimately, their actions determined Li Wentao's fate.

“Ghosts won’t hesitate to cast their votes for commoners,” Gu Mian continued. “If Yue Nu’s vote wasn’t for Li Wentao, then it’s certain that Li Wentao’s seventh vote came from one of Zhang Pingfan, Yuan Qinghua, or Guo Jimei. In other words, it’s one of those three…”

As Gu Mian spoke, she looked at Chu Changge and said, "There is at least one ghost."

And there's a very high chance it was the ghost that killed the fat man.

The ghost hidden among these three people is very likely the real ghost in this game.

Hanging a person as big as Fatty on a door frame is something an ordinary person simply cannot do; perhaps a player in a dungeon could manage it.

However, none of Zhang Pingfan, Yuan Qinghua, and Guo Jimei are dungeon players.

Therefore, the real ghost is hidden among these three people.

Chu Changge fell silent: "You just said that you are generous enough to cast your votes for ordinary people, so there must be a culprit among the six of us who voted for Li Wentao."

Four of the six people are dungeon players.

This makes the choice very difficult.

Just then, Chu Changge suddenly stopped, and Gu Mian turned to look at him.

Chu Changge pushed up his glasses and said, "Gu Mian, with your abilities, you couldn't have failed to see that Li Wentao wasn't a ghost last night, but you still voted."

Gu Mian chuckled: "Didn't you realize that Li Wentao wasn't a ghost? But you still voted for him."

The same reason.

007 too.

She has also experienced many dungeons. In the Fairy Tale City dungeon, she was even able to see through the dungeon's conspiracy before being assimilated, so her intelligence is definitely not low.

But her behavior last night was also unusually strange.

Without doubt or speculation, in the midst of the chaos, they cast their votes for Li Wentao.

Then there's Coco. She usually seems like a timid and kind high school student. Since she doesn't have any free time, she's the least suspicious. But last night, Gu Mian clearly saw that when Li Wentao rushed towards Pan Yue, Coco deliberately stepped on Pan Yue's foot while Pan Yue was running away, causing Pan Yue to fall to the ground, which is why Li Wentao grabbed her by the neck.

His behavior was very strange.

These dungeon players were all harboring ulterior motives, except for the fat guy who was innocent and kind, so he was the first to die.

The preparatory bell rang in the teaching building.

Gu Mian didn't stop there, but instead lifted her foot and continued walking uphill.

Chu Changge followed closely behind.

Just then, Gu Mian, who was walking in front, suddenly spoke up: "By the way, there's one more thing I want to ask."

"What?" Chu Changge's voice came from behind.

Was the person I saw last night you?

Gu Mian asked about the time he saw Chu Changge at the bottom of the building across the street yesterday.

He heard Chu Changge behind him remain silent for a few seconds before slowly uttering a single word.

"Yes."

Sure enough, Chu Changge saw him downstairs at that time, but left in a great hurry.

Because their conversation on the stairs had delayed them, the teacher had already started the lesson when Gu Mian and her companion arrived at the classroom. Perhaps because there were often students who arrived late, the teacher didn't seem to care much, merely glancing at Gu Mian and her companion before letting them into the classroom.

As soon as Gu Mian sat down, she saw her deskmate Xu Xingcheng looking over nervously.

"What's going on with you, Chu Changge, and Wang Pang? Why didn't you go back to the dorm yesterday? Wasn't Wang Pang with you?"

Xu Xingcheng looked extremely nervous, as if someone in his family was about to die.

Gu Mian turned to look at him, remained silent for a moment, and then spoke: "I remember you asked me about the game 'When Darkness Falls' yesterday."

Xu Xingcheng's expression froze, and he looked somewhat guilty: "What's wrong? You remember who the ghost is?"

“No,” Gu Mian shook her head as she looked at Xu Xingcheng, “we played a round last night.”

"What?" Xu Xingcheng looked even more guilty, his mouth slightly agape. "You guys really played a round?"

"Did you really play a round?" Gu Mian sensed something unusual about the question, as if someone had already told Xu Xingcheng and the others that they had played this game yesterday.

Gu Mian nodded calmly: "Yes, the one who was killed by the ghost last night was Fatty Wang."

After he finished speaking, Xu Xingcheng's face twitched slightly: "And then... where is he?"

"He was killed by a ghost."

"You're kidding me!"

"I did not lie to you."

At this point, Xu Xingcheng suddenly stammered, "Then... then you had a vote last night, right? Who got the most votes?"

Gu Mian looked at Xu Xingcheng: "It's Li Wentao."

Upon hearing this, Xu Xingcheng's face suddenly turned pale: "Then... what happened to Li Wentao afterward?"

Gu Mian lowered her head: "The one with the most votes is naturally eliminated."

What does "being eliminated" mean?

"died."

Just then, the teacher on the podium seemed to notice something was wrong.

"Xu Xingcheng, why do you look so pale? Aren't you going to the infirmary?"

Xu Xingcheng, whose name was called, quickly said, "I'm fine, I'm fine..."

Gu Mian noticed that the teacher didn't ask the fat boy who was absent from class, as if she didn't care at all.

What's going on? He felt something was off.

Just then, Gu Mian suddenly heard Chu Changge's voice from behind: "Look behind you."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian turned around to look.

He sat in the second-to-last row, with Chu Changge and the blackboard behind him.

At that moment, he clearly saw what was written on the blackboard: "Wang Pang requests three days' leave."

The fat man died last night, so there's absolutely no way he could have taken leave.

So this was... done by a ghost?

Xu Xingcheng, standing next to him, seemed completely oblivious to the contents of the blackboard behind him, and was sweating profusely.

After that, no matter how Gu Mian tried to subtly probe him, he kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything.

Chu Changge also noticed that something was wrong with Xu Xingcheng; his glasses, which always reflected the light, were also turning towards Xu Xingcheng from time to time.

The first class went by very quickly.

Although Gu Mian wanted to ask Xu Xingcheng more questions, he had arranged to meet 007 and the others during the first break, so he had to leave now.

(End of this chapter)