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Chapter 81 The Killing Game (Part 11)

"What are the workers' wages and benefits like?"

"How is the medical care at the mining city hospital?"

Do you know Frandi?

Frandi was the respiratory physician who was hit and killed by Gu Mian in her tricycle, and his employee ID card is still in Gu Mian's possession.

The fat man listened to Gu Mian's question with a blank expression. He still remembered that the main quest of this instance was to obtain "Golden Hu's Redemption".

So far, they haven't found any clues about Jin Hu, and Gu Mian doesn't seem to want to ask about it.

These three questions clearly stumped Sean.

The face fell silent. It didn't know which of these questions Gu Mian knew the answers to. If it lied, its face might disappear in the next second. It only instinctively answered the questions that posed the least threat to itself.

After a long pause, Sean finally chose a question with difficulty: "The workers' wages and benefits... are definitely not low. Although they are sometimes asked to work overtime, they are always paid overtime."

"I see," Gu Mian stroked her chin. "This is the last round of questions. Answer them truthfully and you'll be safe."

Without giving Sean much time, he immediately asked three more questions.

"What's the combination to your safe?"

"Have any medical disputes occurred at the mining city hospital?"

"How is the worker's health?"

Sean breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the three questions, and then prepared to answer the first one.

"The safe's combination is..."

But it immediately realized that only it knew the combination to the safe, and there was no way the person in front of it could know the combination.

It is absolutely certain that Gu Mian does not know the answer to the first question.

In that case...

Sean, feeling smug, offered to give a fake password.

Just as it had made up two numbers and was about to continue, its not-so-bright brain suddenly realized something.

Why is this person's conversation gradually veering towards the hospital? This is precisely what they least want others to know.

Sean tried to look at Gu Mian, but his face was completely covered, and he couldn't see anything at all.

"Are you lying to me!"

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "You noticed that?"

Gu Mian's "deception" is mainly manifested in the statement, "You'll be safe once you answer truthfully."

In fact, when Sean's face came down on his head, Gu Mian had no intention of letting that face stay there any longer.

Two minutes later, Gu Mian walked through the dark mine tunnel, clutching a forcibly torn-off face in her hand.

They had already turned back to prepare to return to the ground.

The fat man stayed close behind Gu Mian, seemingly still not understanding the significance of the questions she had asked. He asked, puzzled, "Doctor... why did you ask those strange questions?"

He also claimed to know some of the answers to the questions.

As far as Fatty knew, Gu Mian seemed to know none of the answers to these questions.

Gu Mian had already put on his jacket. He pulled a travel journal from his pocket: "Of course, it's to get information out of them."

"In fact, I don't know any of the answers, but I know that riots don't happen for no reason. If you live in a stable and peaceful era, with enough food and clothing, you certainly wouldn't rebel for no reason, right?"

The fat man thought about it seriously for a while before nodding in complete agreement: "Yes, unless I want to get shot."

"So I want to find out the truth behind the riots."

“If I asked Sean directly, I wouldn’t know even if he lied, so I changed the questioning method. I gave him three questions and let him choose one, and told him that I knew the answers to some of the questions. This way, he wouldn’t lie easily, but would instead avoid the important ones…”

The fat man was somewhat confused: "Avoiding the important and focusing on the trivial?"

Gu Mian patiently said, "Think about it, what if you were a murderer..."

Upon hearing this, the fat man's lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to refute that he was not a murderer, but he swallowed the words back.

"When the police arrest you for questioning, you should know what it means to downplay your strengths, right? If the police ask you three questions to choose from, you will definitely choose the one that poses the least threat to you."

"I asked it questions not to get clues directly, but to analyze which questions posed a greater threat to it through its choices."

"Its excuse is that the riots were caused by interests, but I found that it carefully avoided all issues related to hospitals."

"Actually, some hospital-related questions are very simple, such as 'Do you know Frandi?'"

"This question only requires a yes or no answer, but it's overly cautious, seemingly unwilling to touch on anything related to the hospital."

"Therefore, I suspected that the riots back then might have been related to the hospital, so I forced the topic towards the hospital."

"However, I asked a question that was a bit too obvious at the end, and its not-so-good brain figured it out, so I couldn't continue asking."

As Gu Mian spoke, she glanced at Sean's face in her hand.

This face was forcibly ripped off, and when it was ripped off, it let out an extremely piercing scream, the content of which was something like Gu Mian being a liar.

He glanced at the fat man behind him again: "Did you understand?"

The fat man nodded, then shook his head: "I think I understand... Doctor, do we need to go to the hospital after we leave?"

Gu Mian said, "Of course, I guess Jin Hu is probably a coal miner who has had a dispute with the hospital. You should be able to find relevant information at the hospital."

The two walked towards the well while talking.

"Speaking of which," the fat man continued, "if we had encountered the natives here, we wouldn't have needed to go through all this trouble, right? This whole game of playing games and asking questions is exhausting."

"Not necessarily. The natives involved in this killing game may not know the history of the restricted area. They may only know that there was a riot here, and later, an anomaly occurred here, which led to it being designated as a restricted area."

"There may be such places somewhere in our world, but of course we will never know the specifics."

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