Cultivation Kill

A smartwatch light illuminated.

"Watch out for the dual blades!" Shen Zige warned, then stepped towards the smartwatch.

Someone else stepped onto the smartwatch faster than him.

The valley seemed to shatter like a mirror. Shen Zige was pulled back as if by someone, and the surrounding scenery rushed past him. Soon he was pulled to a round table with eight large chairs around it, each carved with a different kind of ferocious animal.

A transparent sphere of light floats on the round table, rotating continuously.

A voice came from inside the sphere of light: "First round of meetings, please have the first speaker speak."

A beam of light shot out from the sphere, illuminating the man who had adopted the alias "Hot Shadow." The animal pattern on the man's back seemed to come alive, pacing on the chair.

"Ah—I'm the first to speak?" said the man using the pseudonym Hokage. "Let's see who's dead... Senju, who killed Senju!"

“Everyone was standing on the stone platform at the time. I was the closest to Senju, but I didn’t kill him. If I had, why would I have stepped on the alarm to report it? I could have waited for my assassin teammates to kill one more person!” The man, who went by the pseudonym Hokage, continued. “By the way, I also had Goku, Ziya, and one other person with me at the time. I don’t remember them very well because it got dark too quickly.”

"Please choose to speak clockwise or counterclockwise," the light sphere said.

"Counterclockwise." The man, using the alias Hokage, observed the crowd and immediately made his decision.

The seat to the right of the Naruto man lit up, and he found himself unable to make any sound.

“I am Adam, and I will speak second,” the man in the suit said. “This guy who reported the crime stabbed himself. He called this person Qian something...yes, Qian Shou, right in front of me. He stabbed Qian Shou. I rushed over to report the crime, but he stepped on it himself. Unanimous vote to send him flying! Pass.”

“I’m the third to speak, I am Ziya,” said the guy using the alias Ziya. “It got dark very quickly, and I was completely stunned. I didn’t react at all. Then I came from the valley to the round table. What happened? I’m a good person, pass.”

"I'm the fourth to speak, I'm Wukong." The woman who had been crying earlier said in a sobbing voice, "Before dark, I was standing quite far away, with Zige next to me, and I think there was someone else. Once it gets dark in the valley, you can't see anything, you can only rely on your hearing. I don't have much information, so it's more likely that the person who reported the crime is the one who's here. Also, Ziya, you're the third to speak, and you didn't mention who was with you. Your speech was very half-hearted, and your identity is very suspicious. I'll pass if I hear Superman's vote."

Although she was sad, she still tried her best to finish what she wanted to say. She made a prayer gesture with her hands, hoping that she could clear the secret realm.

The fifth chair lights up.

"I'm the fifth to speak," said the bearded man using the pseudonym Conan. "With this detective's intervention, the game is over! I'm standing next to Goku, but she didn't mention me. She might have been nervous and forgotten, but I assure you neither of us used knives. As for the man in the suit who calls himself Adam, I think he's highly likely to be a bad guy. First of all, the Hokage, who was the first to call the police, didn't mention him at all. And in my opinion, the Hokage's status is at least better than his. He was the one who called the police, yet he directly tried to crush the Hokage and even voted him out unanimously? I'll just vote you out unanimously, Adam in the suit!"

The sixth chair lights up.

"I'm the sixth to speak, I'm Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Chu!" the muscular man said. "From what I've heard from those above, I think everyone before me is a good person. Zige is the most suspicious. He was the best at deduction in front of the stone platform. So if we can't find the most suspicious person, then Zige is the most suspicious, because he's probably the best at hiding among all of us. Pass!"

This guy plays by his emotions, and when he tries to figure out who's a bad guy, he doesn't rely on logic, he just guesses.

However, Shen Zige couldn't argue with him. If others acted recklessly and you followed suit, you would be eliminated. In this secret realm game, elimination meant death.

The lights on Shen Zige's chair back turned on.

"As expected, your muscles have completely taken over your brain! I'm the seventh to speak," Shen Zige said. "There's no reason for you to criticize me. Either you don't know your place, or you're a fool."

"The man in the suit was not far from me when he descended into the valley." Shen Zige thought for a moment and continued, "He was the assassin who was mixed in with the crowd. When he was in the valley, his movements were aimed at killing me. It was dark at the time, and I had Superman and Wukong by my side. They didn't use their knives this round, so we threw out the man in the suit first. We'll deal with the remaining assassin next round. Pass."

The eighth chair lit up, and it was the last person's turn to speak.

"Hello everyone, I'll be the last to speak," said the man using the pseudonym Superman. "We all come from Earth, to this strange place, and to this werewolf-like game. Everyone is in a bad mood, nervous and at a loss, which I understand. But this Star Realm Corporation is too powerful; it's not something we can fight against. So if we want to survive, we have to participate seriously, not talk nonsense or speak emotionally, and analyze things calmly and rationally."

Shen Zige immediately understood that Superman was playing the sympathy and concern card to get closer to everyone and try to win their approval. However, he had already finished speaking and could not speak anymore. His mouth seemed to be locked and he could not open it. His body seemed to be acupunctured and he could not move. Only his mind could still move.

The man, using the alias Superman, swept his gaze across the crowd and continued, "Based on what you've all said, I've summarized it all. A unanimous vote to eliminate Hokage! He confessed to the crime! It happened so fast, the werewolves didn't even have time to make two cuts. This shows he was nervous after the murder and acted rashly in his haste, using the report to elevate his status. Since he was the one who killed him, no one else could have reported it as close as him, so the werewolves didn't have time to make two cuts. Everyone, listen to my vote, a unanimous vote to eliminate him!"

"Voting will now begin," the simulated light sphere announced in a mechanical tone.

The smartwatch's mirror displayed various people's portraits, and Shen Zige clicked on the man in the suit without hesitation.

Ten seconds later.

"The voting results are now being announced."

The ball of light projected into the air, and the text floated in the air before freezing, displaying: Speaker No. 2 has three votes, and Speaker No. 1 has five votes.

"Based on the voting results, speaker number one is out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ferocious animal on the chair behind the man using the alias "Naruto" roared, jumped off the chair, and its body rapidly expanded, swallowing him whole with a gulp.

Everyone trembled, leaning forward as far as possible to get away from the back of the chair, fearing that the animal on it would swallow them up as well.

No, the good guys were voted out by the vote-buying frenzy! Shen Zige thought to herself that in this April Fool's Day prank, the vote-buying position is invincible.

Two other people shared the same thought as Shen Zige. They also noticed that the voting format was incorrect and understood that Superman's identity was not a good one.

"The second round begins, and the projection is randomly re-projected onto the valley."

The sphere of light projected seven beams of light outwards, enveloping everyone and moving them into the valley.