Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 498 Scapegoat

Yu Shijiu didn't; he was far enough away.

On the screen, Xiao Li was still saying, "I told you, you shouldn't have come back."

I shouldn't have come back...

Yu Shijiu, resting her chin on her hand, repeated the sentence in her mind and raised an eyebrow.

The man in the iron cage is Xiao Li's "brother"... Connecting this with Xiao Li's statement, could he boldly guess that the man was once also a member of the hotel staff?

But he later escaped from the Fuling Hotel.

But now they've chosen to return to the Fuling Hotel...

On the screen, as Xiao Li drew closer to the camera, his eyes gradually turned fierce and sinister.

"When I sent you away, I told you more than once to get away from here, to leave here forever. Why did you come back?"

"I need your explanation."

On the screen, Xiao Li sneered, "If you don't have one, since you're willing to seek death, I'll grant your wish."

As soon as Xiao Li finished speaking, the screen suddenly started flickering with many static dots again.

"and many more!!!"

Xu Han suddenly spoke up, taking a quick step forward, "Brother Chen, could you lean back a little more?!"

Chen Yi frowned and nodded, "Okay."

"Then, then let's zoom back a little, just a tiny bit, until we get a close-up of Xiao Li's eyes."

Xu Han said.

Chen Yi did as instructed.

But for some reason, even when the scene was reversed, the hazy snowflakes around the screen continued to appear and spread, and the whole screen began to shake slightly.

Xu Han stared at Xiao Li's eyes, which appeared infinitely magnified in the camera's view on the screen, and took a step back in shock.

"This, the person in these eyes..."

He Lingling seemed to have guessed something, and her breathing became rapid.

Xu Han: "It's that one, it's that male reporter..."

"..."

Chen Yi's heart skipped a beat.

The static on the screen increased, and the video recorder, which was constantly making crackling noises, seemed to be electrocuted, going black and then back on. The paused face of Xiao Li in the video was gradually fragmented into pieces by the static.

Yu Shijiu leaned back in her office chair, "Male reporter... um, male reporter and manager..."

He raised his hand and touched the chubby guy who was resting his head on his knees, and said thoughtfully:

"The man in the photo and the man in the iron cage are the same person, as is the manager, and now with the addition of the male reporter... were they all the same person all along?"

"..." Chen Yi had a headache. "Are you sure? Didn't you say you didn't see what the other person looked like that night?"

As he spoke, Chen Yi turned his head to look at He Lingling, who remained silent.

He Lingling shook her head, "At that time, I was already blind."

Xu Han, the only one who had seen the male reporter before, panicked. "It really is him! I remember him very clearly! Although, although I couldn't see his face clearly because of the darkness, I'm sure it's him!"

Xu Han was so anxious he was scratching his head and cheeks. Just as he was about to continue speaking, Yu Shijiu interrupted him, saying:

"He was also the one who jumped to his death."

Yu Shijiu added, "Oh right, he's also the manager."

"..."

Xu Han was so shocked he was speechless: "...No, isn't it tiring for him to take on so many jobs?"

"...I don't know if we're tired or not," He Lingling said, also starting to feel a bit of a headache. "I just know we're pretty tired."

Based on current observations, all the important NPCs at the Fuling Hotel appear to be the same person...

"Why do I feel weird?"

Xu Han muttered, "How come it's all the same person..."

"..."

Something suddenly flashed through Yu Shijiu's mind.

His breath hitched slightly, and he subconsciously looked up at the video recorder that was still playing in front of him—

Just then, the video recorder screen, which was full of static, suddenly went black. A few seconds later, it started playing new footage again.

It's Xiao Li again.

Xiao Li was hanging in the lobby of the Fuling Hotel, covered in blood. Her bones were exposed from her arms down, and blood dripped from the rotting flesh. The only part of her body that was intact was her face.

“…This time, the perspective,” Chen Yi said in a low voice, “is upward.”

Yu Shijiu resumed normal breathing, raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, and said ambiguously:

"It's increasingly resembling a single person's perspective."

Tick-tock... tick-tock... tick-tock...

The sound of blood droplets splashing on the hotel lobby floor was extremely loud, like a series of terrifying, towering waves, or like a bizarre, bloody melody slowly seeping into the depths of one's heart.

The four people and one cat watching this scene on the screen all felt a chill run down their spines.

Xu Han swallowed and turned around, but didn't see anything.

Why is it suddenly so cold...?

"Her hand."

He Lingling suddenly spoke up, "There's only a tiny bit of bone between her wrist and the ropes binding her."

He Lingling's voice was trembling when she said this.

It was because of this sentence that Chen Yi, Yu Shijiu, and Xu Han saw Xiao Li's wrists being suspended.

The skin and flesh on his wrist looked as if it had been ripped open by a sharp weapon, revealing red flesh, bloody veins, and a few remnants of white bone.

This is massacre.

But in the previous scene, Xiao Li was still a manager at the Fuling Hotel. Why did she suddenly become the victim of torture and murder in this scene?

Chen Yi guessed something. He quickly took out the photos and newspapers he had hidden in his pocket and soon found some text in one of the newspapers that seemed to be about illegal activities taking place in the Fuling Hotel.

The report reads as follows: "An anonymous member of the public has reported that the Fuling Hotel is engaged in a series of horrific acts, including illegal live dismemberment and the creation of deformed human body sculptures... However, the report has not been accepted, and the photos submitted along with the report have been labeled as photoshopped. It is understood that this was a staged act by a female employee who has worked at the Fuling Hotel for many years because her salary was not in line with her personal needs."

In a short section in the corner of the newspaper, the black text was almost suffocating, its pungent smell almost piercing through the paper.

"So, it wasn't her who reported it."

He Lingling felt a bit conflicted.

She wasn't stupid. Connecting the dots with the male reporter she met in the storeroom the night before last, and the anxious and impatient words he uttered, He Lingling could easily make sense of the current events.

"She took the blame."

Chen Yi sighed, "She took the blame for the manager."

Yu Shijiu nodded, adding, "A bit silly."

In every game instance, there are always a few NPCs as silly as Xiao Li.

Xuexue is like that, Uncle Gong is like that, even that stepmother...

Yu Shijiu didn't want to think about it anymore.

He felt that humans were indeed quite complex.

Whether it's stupid or not is another matter.

Chen Yi was getting a little anxious. He felt like he was missing something, but he couldn't figure it out for the moment, so he could only continue playing the videotape.