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

"Don't look for it anymore. It's me... If you don't stand up and expose Mrs. Luo's conspiracy, then I should stand up."

At this moment, an old voice sounded from the crowd.

Qin Shang subconsciously turned his head to look.

I saw an old lady with gray hair walking out slowly.

When he saw this witch, a string of question marks flashed through Qin Shang's mind again. No... what was going on?

Why does it seem like you, an NPC, have something to do with it?

Oh no, looking at her appearance, the tone of her voice, she definitely can't be an NPC...

"The letter on your table at home asking your wife to go to the shore was written by me."

"My character in the dungeon originally planned to tell your wife everything, but I didn't expect you to survive the drowning. Plus, you two were together at the time, so it wasn't convenient for me to call your wife over alone to explain Brother Hong's plan, so I didn't tell her..."

The old woman with wrinkles on her face pushed through the crowd and walked into the factory.

Hong Ge's mother, Old Lady Xue! ?

It's you! ?

Then you...why are you gathering everyone together?

Qin Shang's face was filled with astonishment.

"My mission is to confess the sins of my son, Hong Ge, and clarify the truth."

"Let the accountant's wife know about this!"

"I think it's probably because, after Mrs. Xue in the background thought she knew the whole plan, she felt a little sorry for it, feeling sorry for the innocent accountant couple."

"So, under the name of Mr. Luo, I placed a letter signed by Mr. Luo in every room of the staff dormitory and asked them to come to the old factory to talk. This way, I could naturally disclose the conspiracy of my son in the copy."

"No matter what their respective tasks are, by then, this matter will surely spread through word of mouth and reach the ears of the accountant's wife, and I'll have accomplished my mission."

Hearing this, Qin Shang's mouth twitched; "Wait, my mind is a little confused."

"So you're a player?"

The fortune teller, Mrs. Xue, raised her chin and said "hmm".

"Then why didn't you sign your name when you gathered everyone here?"

"I'm just an old woman, and I'm the mother of the owner of Hongguang Machinery Factory. I'm crazy all the time. If I ask you to come to the old factory, will you come?"

"Then why do you use Mr. Luo's signature?"

The gray-haired old lady shrugged indifferently;

"Because if you use someone else's, you're likely to crash. What if you bump into the owner right after you put the envelope down? That would be embarrassing, right? But Mr. Luo won't do that. He's a cripple, and with only a speed of five or six meters per minute, there's no way we could collide."

Hearing this, Qin Shang's mouth twitched. He felt that it was really inconvenient to be set up as a disabled person in the copy!

When people try to pass on the blame, the first person they think of is you...

So now, the main mission and several major events related to the background board in the copy have basically identified the real culprit.

The murderer of the explosion was Mr. Luo's lover. The person who installed the bomb on the ship was also Mr. Luo's lover. The enemy who jumped off the ship and ran away, who was originally Jiang Qiqi's target, was Mr. Luo's lover. Jiang Qiqi's role in this copy was to kill Mr. Luo's lover.

After all, he is the first person to know that there is something wrong with the accounts.

Besides the two people who embezzled the machinery factory's funds, there was also the new accountant Qin...

As a result, he would be asked to do accounting and make false accounts, which would definitely make him very distressed. This matter might have reached the ears of his wife Jiang Qiqi!

Ah, I understand!

"No wonder you said back then that you were helping her with the accounts in order to protect your own family. But whether she was willing to cooperate with you or not is another matter. The "she" you were referring to back then was Mr. Luo's lover!"

The reason why accountants do their accounting in the copy is to keep their jobs?

So when Jiang Qiqi and I returned to the staff dormitory after leaving the shore and saw the hip-hop boy, he said, "Strange, didn't Brother Qin say a while ago that the boss wanted him to do the accounts for the past six months, and Brother Qin was so anxious that he had to work overtime recently?"

Being overwhelmed is related to accounting...

In the original real event, the new accountant must have been quite distressed after taking up the post under the dual threats of Brother Hong and Mr. Luo's lover, right?

Falsifying accounts is an act that goes against morality and the law, and if you are caught you will go to jail.

This is equivalent to being dragged into the water and helping the evil.

But if you don't do it, it will be difficult to keep your job.

Therefore, the driving force behind Jiang Qiqi's behavior in the copy was probably because Mr. Luo's lover threatened her family and forced Accountant Qin to cook the books. So in order to stop her husband from being distressed and becoming a pawn used by Mr. Luo's lover and Brother Hong, she tried to kill Mr. Luo's lover.

However, Jiang Qiqi didn't know at first that someone wanted to kill me. It was just a coincidence that she ran into me on the shore when I just appeared in the copy.

Because of the letter that Old Mrs. Xue left in my name.

Brother Hong is a tool used by Mr. Luo's lover, a chess piece who thinks he is a chess player.

Brother Hong’s son was a discarded pawn used to attract fire.

As for me, I was a poor guy who was almost asked by my boss to take the blame, and even brutally killed the cows and horses that talked back to me.

Mrs. Xue’s mission was to reveal the truth to my wife, probably for the purpose of atonement.

Yin Baoan's mission is to find out the real culprit of the bombing, so the person Yin Gongzi wants to arrest is not Brother Hong, but Teacher Luo's lover.

That's not right. After Brother Hong... that is, 'Python Swallowing Dragon' entered the dungeon, why did Shenlu ask him to stay in the factory for a while longer?

Is the purpose just to advance the main storyline and provide clues to other latecomers?

No, that's not right.

...He just killed a debtor, oh, I understand!

In the real historical event, Brother Hong probably didn't leave after killing people.

Because he was worried that the debtor and other companions had also come to Xitang Town.

When Mr. Luo mistakenly thought that the body on the ground was Brother Hong, he took advantage of the situation and continued to stay in the factory, trying to wait and see if anyone else would come to check the accounts later.

Imagine that there were about two or three debtors who came incognito to investigate at the beginning. After one of their companions went to visit the boss of Hongguang Machinery Factory in the afternoon, they did not see that companion come back in the evening. There was also a rumor that the deceased was Brother Hong. What was outrageous was that their companion was also missing. Would they come up with the idea of going to Hongguang Machinery Factory to look for someone?

Definitely...

Brother Hong was just sitting back and waiting, trying to see if he could find out one or two of the debtor's other companions who came to Jiangcheng this time!

Well……

Brother Hong, Teacher Luo, and Teacher Luo’s lover are all in the same group!

I remembered that when Mr. Luo met his wife (the wife in the dungeon, "colleague in real life"), they had a conversation. At that time, the woman said that there were only three of us from the North Shore area entering the dungeon this time.

So, she didn't lie.

When Qin Shang thought of this, his eyes widened again and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Teacher Luo's lover.

"hiss!"

"So, you're really not an 'Observer'!?"

"I still have the same question, what is an observer?"

Facing the astonished looks of the other players around him, Qin Shang could clearly see that among the various players in the field, most of them didn't even know what the concept of "observer" meant.

Too……

The race of "gods" is still too far away for the players present who are mostly in the Order Realm and the Lawful Realm.

It seems that even the five elders of the cabinet may not know more about the matter of "God" than Qin Shang.

On the high platform, the old woman on the other side saw Qin Shang’s brows knitted together, and immediately glared at him unhappily.

If this expression appears on a young and beautiful girl, it would indeed be full of charm.

But in Qin Shang's world, this woman was an old lady in her forties.

Just think about it, how would it feel if a woman in her forties with crow’s feet around her eyes made eyes at you?

I feel such an indescribable chill in my heart!

You are such a fool. Why are you still making expressions like a 17 or 18-year-old girl at your age?

Qin Shang took a deep breath and touched the goose bumps on his arms.

Oh, I remembered it!

The next moment, Qin Shang slapped the back of his head.

In the copy, we are all the characters we play in the copy. What others see of us is not our original appearance, but the appearance of the characters we play in the historical events in the copy.

In other words, I saw that Mrs. Xue was an old woman and Mr. Luo's lover was a middle-aged woman.

But in fact, this is just the divine road that blocked their true appearance. The original appearance of these people might be young girls.

However, this has nothing to do with the death of the hip-hop boy...

"Wait, wait, wait, something's still wrong. Since you said you didn't kill Brother Hong's son..."

"Then who killed that non-mainstream hip-hop boy called Shamatte?!"

The next moment, Qin Shang felt a strong sense of vigilance in his heart.

"One more question, where is the account book?"

"Has anyone seen the account book that Mrs. Luo used to keep accounts?"

Qin Shang said the previous sentence in a hoarse voice while turning his head to the dozens of players below the stage. After the voice fell, the players present looked at each other and shook their heads.

Qin Shang showed a look of astonishment, and suddenly looked at Teacher Luo's lover with a serious gaze.

"When was the last time your character in this background saw an account book?"

"It was yesterday, in Brother Hong's drawer."

Mr. Luo's lover curled her lips. Although she felt a little disgusted with "licking the cockroach's feet", her answer was frank.

Her mission is to find the account book, regardless of whether the sin is exposed or not. From the player's perspective, she is not worried that she will not be able to complete the main task in the copy. This is the special feature of the experience copy brawl.

It is not like a confrontational copy. Once the camps are divided, only one side can complete the main line.

Even if you ruined the plot of the character I played in the dungeon, what does this have to do with me as the player?

The conspiracy planned by the character I play is completely different from my main quest...

Qin Shang was stunned when he heard this.

Was it still in the drawer yesterday?

"Then, who else knows about this? Who else knows that the account book is in that drawer in Brother Hong's office?"

Mr. Luo's lover gave a wry smile;

"What do you think?"

Brother Hong, and his son! ?

"That account book... no wonder you suspected that kid took it!"

"But I didn't find any account books near the body. And if you didn't kill him, then how did Brother Hong's son die?"

wrong……

Something is still wrong!

Up to now, I don’t seem to have found any signs that the player’s main quest can be completed... although I have almost figured out the relationships between the characters in the main storyline.

But what's going on? To me, none of these people in the field seem to have any chance of completing their main quest?

Whether it's Mrs. Xue who has to clarify the whole truth to Jiang Qiqi, or Mr. Luo's wife who has found the account book, or me who needs to protect my wife for 72 hours, or Yin Baoan who needs to find out the real culprit of the bombing, and Brother Hong who is the "Python Swallowing Dragon" who needs to escape legal punishment... Why do I feel like there is an invisible big hand that is interfering with our normal advancement of the mission?

"Damn, what a smell! Ugh, I'm going to vomit..."

"Did you smell it?"

"It stinks..."

"Fuck, who farted?"

"How can this be a fart smell? It's something rotten."

At this moment, exclamations suddenly rang out from the crowd.

The commotion among other players also attracted the attention of Qin Shang and others on the platform.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying airflow visible to the naked eye suddenly swept through the entire old factory building from the gate, and a strong stench instantly filled the air.

Qin Shang choked, retched, and quickly covered his mouth and nose with a dark face.

Fuck...what the hell is this? It smells so bad, right?

At the same time, fragmented images suddenly flashed through his mind, and he began to recall the smell he smelled when he entered the staff dormitory to find Jiang Qiqi.

At this moment, the sudden stench was exactly the same as the smell at that time.

The next moment, his expression darkened.

When I went upstairs and saw Jiang Qiqi, I forgot a lot of things, especially when I saw the corpse and heard the information provided by my wife.

There was so much information that my brain almost crashed, so I didn't think about the screams I heard downstairs at that time.

If the person had just been killed, Jiang Qiqi should definitely be able to run into the murderer who killed the hip-hop boy when she arrived at the scene.

If the person had been dead for some time, then where did the scream come from?

Fuck!

Got cheated!

That wave was problematic. Was someone setting up a trap to deliberately attract my attention and make me go upstairs quickly?

"'Lick the cockroach's feet', I've heard so much about it!"

"You're looking for the account book now, right? Look, is this the thing?"

The next moment, a sinister voice sounded from the gate of the old factory.

Mrs. Luo, who was standing next to him, subconsciously frowned and shone the flashlight in her hand towards the other person, and the man's face was immediately revealed.

"Ah!? Holy shit, this is terrifying..."

"What the fuck is this?"

"Oh my god, what a ghost!"

Several nearby players exclaimed in surprise at once.

Qin Shang was also shocked after seeing the other person's face clearly.

I saw a rotten figure with holes all over his body standing at the gate.

It was a charred corpse.

The body was shriveled, with many wounds, blood vessels, organs, and various tissues exposed to everyone's sight.

With every breath he took, large swarms of maggots slid down his body, which was extremely disgusting.

He was wearing a black cloak and his eyes were empty.

But for some reason, everyone who looked into his eyes had the illusion that they were being locked in a gaze filled with extremely evil intent.

The next second, the figure grinned, revealing a mouthful of smelly and rotten teeth, and held up a thick stack of things in his hand.

"That...that could be the account book!"

Beside him, Mrs. Luo couldn't help but widen her eyes.

"'Lick the cockroach's feet', you seem to be looking for me too?"