Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

"There is another guess..."

"If the mastermind who wanted to kill me and Jiang Qiqi were two different groups of people, and the purpose of killing me was an accounting issue, then what was the reason for the other group of people to frame Jiang Qiqi?"

"Did they want to confuse the public and deliberately send out a descendant of the Sakurajima people to attract firepower, so that Jiang Qiqi can bear all the responsibilities?"

Qin Shang didn't notice the eyes behind him.

As soon as I went downstairs, all kinds of chaotic and complicated speculations kept popping up in my mind.

Still immersed in his own world.

"Then, the suspects are the players in this instance who are also descendants of the Sakurajima people or traitors, as well as the boss of Hongguang Machinery Factory, or the wife of the former accountant Mr. Luo."

"Whether it's the boss or Mr. Luo's wife, their purpose in asking me to re-do the accounts is not pure from the perspective of a 21st century person who has watched a lot of 'legal education programs'. It's definitely not as simple as checking the accounts!"

"But my intuition tells me that these two things are still one and the same!"

The sixth sense is sometimes very accurate. Take dating as an example. If your partner rarely talks on the phone with you at night, asking about your well-being, you have to wait until he or she says good night before going to bed.

So, if one day she suddenly calls you repeatedly and behaves extremely abnormally, there are two things that may require your attention.

Either you cheated, and your partner began to feel panic or heart palpitations, and felt uneasy and chose to make a series of life-threatening calls.

Or your partner has cheated on you, and she feels guilty and thinks she has done something wrong to you. And even though she has done something wrong to you, it may not have satisfied her needs in some way, so she starts to think about your good points again.

There are basically two possibilities for the latter situation, one is before the affair and the other is after the affair.

If he calls you before cheating, it means he wants to confirm your movements today to avoid being caught by you in the future.

If it happens after you cheated, it basically means that your partner has fallen for someone else but doesn't want to break up with you, or maybe it's just because of hormones or personal reasons that he or she wants to "have some fun" with other members of the opposite sex, so he or she goes out on a date with other members of the opposite sex behind your back, or does something inappropriate.

Including but not limited to intimate actions such as kissing, hugging and lifting up, but maybe his (her) ultimate purpose of cheating this time was to have a fleeting romance, and he (she) will have to suffer in the end.

But unfortunately, due to some objective factors, the other party fails to meet the cheating party's needs in this regard.

Then, with the blessing of guilt, and when they are emotionally unstable due to not achieving their ultimate goal, they will think of their partner, and start a series of life-threatening calls to you, trying to seek compensation for the lost emotional value from you.

Qin Shang is the kind of person who has a very accurate sixth sense.

He still vaguely remembers the year he graduated from technical secondary school. On the day he received the admission letter, he felt anxious from the moment he woke up. And then he heard the news of his mother's death...

"My guess at the moment is that the people who forged my handwriting to lure Jiang Qiqi to the shore and threw me into the sea were the same group of people. So the account issue and the group that identified the Sakurajima people were most likely the mastermind behind the explosion."

As he walked towards the Hongguang Machinery Factory, Qin Shang had already made a plan in his mind.

The first thing is to find the boss.

This person was the insider mentioned in the background board. It was from him that the character currently in the copy got the information that someone would soon come from Jincheng, bringing with him the insider traitor leader, to identify the descendants of Sakurajima devils and other spies.

If you want to get the list of people who came to Jiangcheng today, it is easiest to start from the boss.

There is another point that Qin Shang also wants to confirm.

That is, why the other party needs to re-do the accounts!

When he arrived at the bottom of the Hongguang Machinery Factory building, Qin Shang had basically sorted out the timeline of what had happened.

The timeline in the background board was probably a few days ago, when I was chatting with my boss and I accidentally heard him reveal that soon a team of leaders and dignitaries from Jincheng and sheriffs would come to Jiangcheng to hunt down the descendants of the Japanese and spies hiding among the people in Xitang Town.

The boss also claimed that this group of people brought an insider who was a former traitor leader to identify the person.

So, in panic, the copy of himself left clues for his wife.

Told his wife who was in the copy.

Then today came. After getting off work at around 7 o'clock this evening, Jiang Qiqi did not go home immediately. Instead, she went to the shore, used a small boat to board the big ship, and tried to find her mission target.

Unfortunately, Jiang Qiqi did not see her target and alarmed other sheriffs on the deck.

So, in order to protect herself, Jiang Qiqi chose to jump off the boat and escape.

At this time, the person who was Jiang Qiqi's target was no longer on the boat.

In other words, this person was originally in the team that set out from Jincheng to Xitang Town to arrest people, but because a player replaced the identity of this character in the story under the background board, the player obtained the information given by Shenlu and knew in advance that someone was about to assassinate him.

He had already escaped from the big ship before Jiang Qiqi boarded the ship.

After that, Jiang Qiqi swam to the shore and returned home. Suddenly, she saw a small note left at home by someone pretending to be in my handwriting, threatening to meet her by the lake, and then she set off again back to the shore.

At that time, I happened to be seen floating on the sea like a rootless duckweed.

I didn't have any memory of that time, and even the background board didn't mention why I appeared at sea.

This means that I was probably framed for murder and thrown into the sea.

Just as my consciousness was sinking and I fainted, the dungeon was opened and I replaced the character in this story...

"Hiss! Now, if it weren't for the little note pretending to be written in my handwriting that made Jiang Qiqi come back, I might have exploded and drowned in the sea."

Thinking of this, Qin Shang raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose in astonishment, showing a look of surprise.

So could it be that Jiang Qiqi is part of the other party's plan to rescue her?

Their purpose is not to kill me?

...Hiss, no, that's not right.

When I appeared, according to the time node, the character I was in in this copy should have woken up. In this way, perhaps in the original real story, this character, even without the help of his wife, could very likely swim back to the shore alone relying on the instinct of survival.

I was drugged and thrown into the sea, but that's how it is.

Is the dosage of medicine given by the other party a little too small?

Could it be that the person who wants to kill me doesn't necessarily have to kill me?

After all, there are many ways to kill someone, and knocking someone out and throwing them into the sea is definitely the most clumsy way. Isn't it better to just knock them out and kill them with a knife?

China is not like Sakurajima, which had a knife ban in a certain era. If you buy a kitchen knife, you have to go to the community to register it...

So, does that mean the other party doesn’t want to kill me?

He pursed his lips in confusion;

"No, no, no, that's not right... I'm thinking like a gamer."

"In the dungeon, some characters may have a purpose in mind when doing certain things, but it is also normal that an accident occurs and the purpose is not achieved. In the 90s, although the mafia societies were entrenched in various parts of China, local forces were rampant."

"But most of them are in the form of associations, and ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to come into contact with these illegal organizations that commit murder and robbery."

"But entrepreneurs are different. If the boss of Hongguang Machinery Factory wanted to kill me, he could have contacted the local underworld forces for help. At that time, hiring someone to kill someone and taking my place in jail could be done by paying money. No matter how poor Hongguang Machinery Factory was, the boss wouldn't hire two gangsters to kill me. So if the boss wanted to kill me, he shouldn't have used the method of throwing himself into the sea..."

Qin Shang frowned, his left and right brain fighting each other wildly, and he covered his temples with his hands, brows furious.

If the boss of Hongguang Machinery Factory wanted to kill himself, from the perspective of a modern person in the 21st century.

There is no need to do it yourself. Just find two little brothers involved in gangs, and give them some money to settle the matter when the crime is exposed.

If they weren't discovered, everything would be fine. This was also a common practice used by bosses in that era.

But if it was the boss himself who did it, he had never done such a thing before, so it is understandable that he had no experience when he drugged himself.

Moreover, for a factory owner who has been in decline since the 90s, one can get a glimpse of his character just from the two declining people introduced in the background.

The 90s was a golden age.

Before the Internet came along, doing business was not about integrity, but about speed, accuracy and ruthlessness.

Speed means information asymmetry, and business relies on information asymmetry at all times.

Accurate represents resources and channels, while ruthless represents courage and opportunities.

But the last two are particularly important. A business owner who caught up with the business boom but started to go downhill in the 90s definitely does not have any of the advantages of a modern businessman.

Therefore, the boss of Hongguang Machinery Factory was neither a ruthless person nor a person with good connections, and even his courage and insight were not good enough. This is why the business went downhill in the 90s, a golden era.

"Such a person fits the latter guess..."

"He wanted to kill me, but he had no experience in killing people and had never seen blood on his hands, so he thought of killing me by drugging me and drowning me."

"Well, if that's the case, then Jiang Qiqi's appearance on the shore couldn't have been caused by this person, right?"

"A kind-hearted person wanted to return to his roots, so he used my name to kindly inform my wife to meet him on the shore, in order to let her collect my body!"

Indeed, entrepreneurs without courage naturally do not have the courage to deal with criminal and evil groups.

The gangsters in the 90s were really scary, not the ghost lights in Hong Kong movies.

They might even have a troll in their hands, and if they have a disagreement, they might start a fight over territory while eating fried noodles on the roadside.

Especially at that time, the mafia still relied on collecting protection fees to survive, and it could be said that each one was more ruthless than the other...

In that era, any entrepreneur who did business honestly would probably be eaten to the bone without leaving anything.

Of course, from another perspective, those who were able to do successful business in that era basically all had some connection with this aspect.

This has been the case for businessmen since ancient times.

You have to flatter and please everyone, and deal with all kinds of people.

"I think I know why Hongguang Machinery Factory started to go downhill."

The boss’s personality is definitely one of the reasons.

Although it is not the core reason, an entrepreneur without courage can only stand on the cusp of the trend and act like a pig to take advantage of the situation and then leave. Such an entrepreneur can still bring blessings to future generations.

The fear is that people will mistake the dividends of the times for their own abilities and do nothing.

In the end, I didn't make any money, I didn't get any fame, and there was no profit at all.

The wealth accumulated from dividends in the early years was consumed in the subsequent advancement...

Well, I’m not sure about the boss’s personality!

You can only be sure if you meet him in person.

You can’t pass the dungeon just by guessing!

While Qin Shang was thinking, he had already walked to the vicinity of the Hongguang Machinery Factory. The factory environment was very similar to some small workshops in small counties around some big cities today.

The walls are aging and cracked, the buildings are low, and the park has no technological content.

There are no other tall buildings around, except for the rows of streets and low earthen houses with various small shops and fast food signs hung on them. You can smell a strong strange odor when you pass by such places.

In fact, such small workshops were the norm in the 90s. After all, the concept of science and technology industrial parks did not exist in that era. The assembly lines still relied on manual operation by workers, with an almost -hour shift system. There was no other sound in the quiet factory except for the sound of some crude machines running non-stop.

However, in the 21st century, even until 2025, these small workshops have not disappeared.

If you don’t believe it, you can go for a walk around the city where you are currently located and you will definitely be surprised.