The Anarchic Consort

Chapter 1072: Approaching the Truth

Helian Weiwei raised her head and looked at each of the students.

What could make one kill someone they considered a relatively good friend?

And why would this person decide to do it within an escape room like this?

She had to continue to search for evidence. At the very least, she had to find out if there was any conflict between this group of students.

Most murders at this age were crimes of passion.

After all, there was nothing else they would gain or profit from killing another person at this stage in life.

But here lay another problem.

Although these people often hung out together, none of them were dating each other. So how could a crime of passion happen?

Helian Weiwei also couldn’t figure this out. She looked at the photo in her hand again. There were six people in the photo. One of the faces looked like it had been scratched off with a knife, and there was a sentence written below the photo: Have you already forgotten my name?

“What’s going on?” Helian Weiwei asked the boy with the walkie-talkie, “When you first came here, was the photo also like this?”

The boy nodded, “Yes.”

“I see.” Helian Weiwei’s eyes narrowed, “Does one of the locks require a four letter word in English?”

The other boy was surprised, “How did you know?” She clearly hadn’t checked the locks here just now.

“It’s very obvious that there’s a hint in this photo.” Helian Weiwei used the flashlight to take a photo of the name of the person whose face had been crossed out. “This person’s name is Chen Hong, so the password is Hong. H-O-N-G.”

Xiao Jingtian looked at Helian Weiwei in shock.

In just a few minutes, they had already opened the second lock.

The four of them remembered spending a full ten minutes just trying to solve the puzzle for the first lock, and they couldn’t get the second lock to open at all.

If they hadn’t asked the shopkeeper for a hint and the shopkeeper told them to look for the sentence on the photo, they wouldn’t have thought of the password for the lock at all.

“You’re really very smart!” The timid girl couldn’t help but compliment Helian Weiwei.

Helian Weiwei laughed quietly and purposely answered casually, “Actually, girls don’t have to be so smart. They just need to be pretty like you, then the boys will like you.”

“That’s not true.” The girl’s face was red from the compliment, but she raised her head at the same time, so she clearly enjoyed being complimented by Helian Weiwei.

The rest of them also relaxed because of Helian Weiwei’s casual banter. After chatting a bit more among themselves, they didn’t feel as scared as when they first walked in.

“The five of you often hang out together, so have any of you thought about going further and getting a girlfriend?” Helian Weiwei asked the boy holding the walkie-talkie.

He pushed the glasses on his nose up. “I haven’t thought about it.”

“Oh? He hasn’t thought about it, then what about you?” Helian Weiwei looked at the boy who was flipping through the clues. “You’re so tall, and you’ve got a rugged face. Don’t tell me you haven’t thought about finding a girlfriend?”

As soon as Helian Weiwei said this, the expressions of all four of them changed at the same time.

Xiao Jingtian in particular, was a little pale for some reason.

The timid girl and the boy holding the walkie-talkie looked at each other, then quickly looked away.

It was obvious that they were all hiding something.

Helian Weiwei stopped in her footsteps and looked at all of them with her arms crossed. After some time, she said to Xiao Jingtian, “Miss Xiao, since you want to resolve this issue, then you have to tell me everything without hiding any secrets. Otherwise, it’s very hard for me to resolve your issue.”

“We don’t have to talk about that matter, right?” mumbled the timid girl quietly as she looked at the boy with the rugged face.

The boy looked down and said, “It’s alright, let’s just talk about it. Since it’ll be helpful to our situation, we should just say it.”

“Alright then.” Xiao Jingtian wrung her hands before continuing, “A long time ago, there were actually six of us who hung out together. But for some unknown reason, one fine day, Dong Sichun suddenly jumped off a building an committed suicide, so we were all very depressed for a period of time. Dong Sichun was very pretty and got along with everyone easily. We all liked her very much and all the boys wanted to woo her, but she only liked Feiyang. She would always wait for Feiyang to finish his basketball game, wash Feiyang’s clothes, and did many other things just to get close to Feiyang. But before she could get together with him, she...”

Xiao Jingtian paused here.

Helian Weiwei now knew that this rugged and handsome boy was called Chen Feiyang.

But were things really as simple as the way Xiao Jingtian put it?

Under normal circumstances, the more beautiful a girl was, the more jealousy she attracted.

How could it be possible for everyone to like her?

Helian Weiwei was almost 100% sure that at least that very timid girl didn’t like this girl called Dong Sichun very much.

Because when Xiao Jingtian talked about how Dong Sichun went after Chen Feiyang, the timid girl clearly made a face.

The relationship between these six people seemed ordinary, but in reality, it was very complicated.

Three boys and three girls.

Generally speaking, it was a balanced ratio.

But if these three girls liked the same boy.

Then things would become very complicated.

From what she saw earlier, Helian Weiwei was sure that the timid girl, Xiao Jingtian and even Dong Sichun who committed suicide, all liked this boy called Chen Feiyang.

So what sort of love life did the other two boys have?

Helian Weiwei had no way of knowing.

But her intuition told her that Dong Sichun’s suicide a year ago was closely tied to this murder case.

Helian Weiwei glanced at the photo again and connected it to the room’s backstory.

Was it a coincidence?

There were also six people, one had died, and there were five of them left.

When these students played in this room the first time, there were five of them too.

Countless cases in the past showed that the scene of the murder would unconsciously reflect the strongest desire of the murderer in the depths of his heart.

All the recordings and furnishings in this room seemed to be emphasizing that these people should not forget the dead person!

If they forgot and didn’t repent of their sins, then they had to die.

That’s why this murder case occurred!

Without the information from Monkey’s investigation, Helian Weiwei would definitely have suspected the shop owner again. For example, she guessed that the shopkeeper might be Dong Sichun’s brother or some other relative, but he wasn’t.

The shopkeeper was really completely unrelated to these students.

Then who was trying to send this message to them?

Helian Weiwei almost instantly eliminated two people in her heart, and she was left with just two of them.

That was Chen Feiyang and the boy with the walkie-talkie.

It was very simple.

Because the person who did this definitely liked Dong Sichun very much!