Qiu Shanbei is dead.

It was Ning Liang who discovered it. He got up very early and left the tent to wash up before six in the morning. As soon as he went out, he saw the curtain of Qiu Shanbei's tent was scattered in a mess.

On some instinct, he walked over.

Qiu Shanbei's face was pale, his clothes were disheveled, and his body was twisted into an exaggerated arc as he fell at the entrance of the tent. His right hand stretched out towards the tent entrance like a claw, and had already stiffened into a stone statue.

"There are at least ten bloody bites on his body, and there are bruises on his neck and limbs from being entangled." Ning Liang frowned and told everyone his findings.

It is already eight o'clock in the morning. In the camping site, the early morning sun is shining brightly and the air is fresh and sweet.

They didn't dare move the body for fear of disturbing the scene. They gathered around the entrance of the tent with grim expressions, looking at the tragic scene inside.

"It's a snake." Gu Changliu looked at it coldly and uttered this answer through his thin lips.

When they learned that no one had secretly killed him, everyone's expressions became even more subtle.

"...Snake?" He Zhi repeated in a low voice. Her already uncomfortable body became even more shaky.

She leaned on Wu Feishui hastily, looking around, as if looking for a figure that couldn't possibly exist, muttering to herself: "Impossible... Absolutely impossible..."

Her sharp nails pinched Wu Feishui's palms so hard that it hurt. She endured the pain and asked, "What's impossible? Sister Xiaozhi, who are you looking for?"

He Zhi suddenly seemed to remember something, her eyes lit up, she turned her head and looked at Bai Yunliu fiercely: "It's you! It's you, right! You led the snake into his tent!"

He Fei frowned: "Xiao Zhi, don't talk nonsense."

"I didn't!" He Zhi's voice was so excited that it even broke. "Some time ago, some time ago, I kept having nightmares... I couldn't fall asleep, but Bai Yunliu said she could make perfume, and that as long as I sprayed her perfume, I would be able to sleep well! But..."

Most people in the circle knew about that accident. He Zhi was attacked by a snake hanging on a tree while visiting her own garden. She was so frightened that she has not recovered yet.

Everyone couldn't help but cast suspicious looks at Bai Yunliu.

Bai Yunliu stood there, her expression very sad because of Qiu Shanbei's death. Suddenly facing He Zhi's accusation, she felt even more angry and unable to defend herself: "I have already apologized to you! I really didn't know that the tranquilizing water had an ingredient that would attract snakes! Later, I threw away all the medicine! My servants can testify to this."

"You're lying! It's you! You asked that person to deliver medicine to Qiu Shanbei yesterday, right? There must be something wrong with the ointment you gave him! It was you who attracted the snake and killed him!"

"If there was really something wrong with my ointment, why didn't I attract the snake?" Bai Yunliu's voice trembled. She blinked tiredly, "I really just wanted to send the medicine because I was afraid that his wound would get infected."

She suddenly thought of something and looked at Zhang Chunliang: "You know, the lid wasn't closed properly yesterday and a little bit of the ointment accidentally came out. Did you get it on too?"

Zhang Chunliang suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention. This little incident did happen when delivering the medicine yesterday, so he nodded honestly.

"But he was not bitten by the snake." Bai Yunliu sighed softly, looking very helpless in the face of He Zhijiao's arrogant accusations.

He Zhi was obviously in a neurotic state. She seemed to be avoiding something and stubbornly believed that Bai Yunliu was the one behind it.

"Enough, Xiaozhi, you've been a little noisy today." Gu Changliu's voice was still as gentle as usual, but without his usual elegant smile.

His cold gaze made He Zhi shut up timidly. She staggered back unconsciously and fell to the ground.

"I saw the ointment. It was on his table. Shanbei didn't apply it." Gu Changliu motioned for everyone to look inside the tent.

On the desk where Qiu Shanbei placed his computer, there was an opened box of ointment. The ointment was white and moist, very complete, with no signs of having been used.

"What if its smell can attract snakes? My perfume is because of the smell..." Frightened by Gu Changliu, He Zhi's voice was obviously much softer, but she was still relentless.

Bai Yunliu seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. She took a deep breath, and under the surprised gaze of everyone, she actually stepped over the corpse at the entrance of the tent, walked to the ointment, reached out and scooped out a large piece of the ointment and applied it on her left arm.

"Does this prove my innocence?" Bai Yunliu walked out of the tent and looked at He Zhi with a hidden indifference in his eyes.

He Zhi stammered and finally stopped talking.

"If you ask me..." Bai Yunliu was irritated, with a hint of sneer on his face, "I am a suspect, but He Fei had a conflict with him yesterday, so he is more suspicious. Of course... maybe... it's He Anyi's wronged spirit who's come to claim his life."

Everyone was shocked, and He Fei's face turned pale.

"After all." Bai Yunliu looked at everyone word by word, "Qiu Shanbei insulted her yesterday, and her death was related to the snake, wasn't it?"

No one spoke, and the air was filled with a stiff and cold atmosphere, as if there really was such a ghost, standing quietly beside everyone, watching their every action with malice.

"Everyone, listen to me." Ning Liang interrupted their mutual suspicion and raised his mobile phone.

"I called the police, but there was no signal," he said solemnly.

Everyone took out their cell phones, and as expected, everyone's cell phones turned into bricks, unable to send out any signals.

"Are you crazy? Is this place so desolate that even satellite reception can't be achieved?" He Fei couldn't believe it and even wanted to laugh.

He seemed to have a premonition of something, and his heart felt terribly cold.

Zhang Chunliang frowned. Among so many people, he was actually most concerned about Zhang Yuan, who had the weakest presence.

He joined the camping suddenly, so he didn't have his own tent and had to sleep together with Zhang Yuan.

Last night, he vaguely felt in his dream that Zhang Yuan had left the tent.

But today he behaved very normally. He was panicked when facing the corpse, and faced with all kinds of suspicions and reasonings from people, his eyes couldn't help but follow the guesses and thoughts.

It's so normal that no one would pay attention to this unlikable little person, but his performance is so real and mediocre.

But it seemed so abnormal precisely because it was too normal. Zhang Chunliang had not forgotten his strange behavior yesterday.

Could he be the "two-faced man"? A man who seems to be a bully, cowardly and unlovable, but secretly a murderer who uses snakes to kill people, this answer seems very reasonable.

[The system detects that the player has already guessed, whether to submit the answer. Time remaining for the task: 6 days]

Zhang Chunliang thought about it and asked himself silently, "What happens if I submit the wrong answer?"

[If the answer is wrong once, the player will lose 50 life points. 】

...It was a trap. If he didn't ask the system and gave the answer directly, if the answer was wrong, he would only have 50 life points left! This meant that he had to answer completely and accurately next time. If he got it wrong, he would die.

"I need to think about it again." Zhang Chunliang rejected the system in his heart.

He felt a little uneasy, always feeling that he had missed something. It seemed that he had forgotten something very important since the system issued the task, but he couldn't remember it no matter how hard he tried.

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