The red and black flags swayed, and the huge clock ticked, making the central square quiet.

Yu Xing's words made Ling Heng fall silent. After a few seconds, he said, "I don't understand what you mean. Chen Jiu doesn't know anything."

As expected, it was a denial. Yu Xing ignored it and continued to poke at Ling Heng's heart, "This plan, you two secretly discussed it while sitting in the coffee chair, right? The curse on me just now was planted by her when she attracted my attention by pretending to be enthusiastic about you after getting off the coffee chair, right?"

He sat back down calmly, crossed his legs, and looked mischievous, forming a sharp contrast with Ling Heng. "You have basically identified the deceased, but now there's one more person to kill, me. You realized that I suspected you, so you decided to kill two people. Of course, to ensure accuracy, both of them have to be killed by Chen Jiu. However, since you have taken up one spot as an accomplice, Xie Ze and I cannot know Chen Jiu's identity at the same time, hence the current situation."

He pointed to the model tower in the square. "You deliberately invited me here to make me think that you would die under her hands and mistake you for the killer."

Ling Heng pursed his lips and glanced in the direction of Chen Jiu.

"But unfortunately, when I said all this, she had already lost," Yu Xing said calmly, knowing what he was looking at.

Ling Heng withdrew his gaze and asked, "You don't have direct evidence, do you?"

"Hmm?" Yu Xing neither confirmed nor denied.

"Then how did you determine that the killer is Chen Jiu and not me?"

"Your mouth. The ability to merge the sacrifice's abilities with one's personality has different effects on each deductionist. How could a researcher like you develop an ability that leaves the experimental subject incomplete?" Yu Xing smiled with a malicious tone. "What is revealed in a person's subconscious is the most irrefutable. Are you feeling upset, little scientist?"

This was truly an astonishing line of reasoning.

"Heh... Can it be done like this?" Ling Heng felt a slight sense of humiliation. Clearly, in this logical deduction, as long as he misled a little, he could make people uncertain. However, this person in front of him dispelled all the fog with some strange details.

He took a deep breath. "But it doesn't matter. As for Chen Jiu, she will also pass the curse onto someone else. As long as I kill you and prevent you from talking, there will still be two people who know the truth."

Yu Xing shrugged. "A little too late. Look behind you."

What?

He was facing away from the central square model tower, and behind him was the tower itself. Ling Heng wasn't afraid of being deceived and quickly turned his head.

Zhao Yijiu's cold face, as if someone owed him a million, suddenly appeared two meters behind him.

There was also Wang Jue, sneaking behind them.

Yu Xing asked, "Did you all hear?"

Zhao Yijiu replied, "Heard."

Yu Xing asked, "Do you believe it?"

Zhao Yijiu replied, "I believe."

Wang Jue said, "You're amazing, no wonder Zhao Yijiu didn't let me shout at you!"

Just now, Wang Jue and Zhao Yijiu saw Yu Xing and Ling Heng in the square, and Yu Xing also saw them.

Yu Xing pointed to the model tower, and Wang Jue was about to ask what it meant when Zhao Yijiu covered his mouth and pulled him down to eavesdrop behind the tower.

It turned out that the gesture was to make them stay quiet and hide.

Zhao Yijiu was agile and secretive in his movements, and unexpectedly, Wang Jue was not bad either. He managed to follow closely behind Zhao Yijiu without making any unnecessary noise.

Now, there was no turning back for Ling Heng—or rather, for Chen Jiu.

Ling Heng sighed, his body moved, probably trying to run, but Zhao Yijiu stepped forward and grabbed Ling Heng's wrist.

"There are no rules that say suspects and detectives can't kill," Zhao Yijiu said coldly, his words even more ruthless.

Yu Xing became happy. "Great, go ahead and do it. If it weren't for my powerful sacrifice just now, I would have already died. I'm so pitiful."

Wang Jue said, "...?"

Why does it feel like something is not right?

Ah, right, Yu Xing changes his attitude so quickly. He must be a cunning person!

Zhao Yijiu stared coldly at Ling Heng, and Ling Heng met his gaze with a gloomy yet elegant look. Then, he slightly turned his head and said to Yu Xing, "I'll keep him under control, you can proceed."

A glimmer of strangeness flashed in Yu Xing's eyes. "That works too."

When they entered this deduction, they didn't bring anything except their clothes. Zhao Yijiu had a dagger at least, but Yu Xing either had to use the Mourning Candle Tears or some other method that could be done with bare hands.

Yu Xing reached out and grabbed Ling Heng's neck.

The moment his finger touched Ling Heng's skin, Ling Heng felt a particularly cold aura flowing into him from the other person's body, making him shiver.Later, a pulling force came from his neck, causing him to take a step forward involuntarily. The coldness that Yu Xing had passed to him suddenly erupted, making Zhao Yijiu unable to hold onto his hand and let go.

Yu Xing also suddenly retracted his hand as if he had been pricked by a needle. Ling Heng looked at him in confusion and saw Yu Xing mouth a few words to him - "Run away."

At that moment, he suddenly realized that Yu Xing didn't actually want to kill him.

Without thinking, Ling Heng pushed Yu Xing away and ran towards Chen Jiu.

Yu Xing was pushed and couldn't stand steady, sitting on the ground: "Damn, he's so strong..."

"What the hell, how is he able to run away when you two had him restrained?" Wang Jue was dumbfounded on the side. He only saw Yu Xing grabbing Ling Heng's neck, and Ling Heng suddenly took a step forward, releasing a terrifying aura that broke through the restraints of the two.

"That kind of cold aura..." Zhao Yijiu looked down at his hand. There was a thin layer of ice forming in his palm. "It's lethal."

His gaze shifted to Yu Xing: "Are you okay, sickly child?"

"I'm fine..." Yu Xing said, and his hand supporting his body suddenly touched something hard.

He looked down and saw that his fingertip was pressing on a small ruby the size of a thumbnail.

What is this?

He recalled.

It seemed to be the ruby that fell off when Alice came out and brushed her skirt.

With a thought, he decided to keep it since they were so fated to meet. He put the ruby into his pants pocket.

Then he stood up and rubbed his butt.

Regarding letting Ling Heng go...

Jokingly, Chen Jiu and Ling Heng should both be members of the Prism organization.

Chen Jiu would probably face the punishment of death if she failed the game. He needed to leave her alive so that he could track down the more core members along with Ling Heng.

So Ling Heng had to stay alive, but it wasn't easy to explain this to Zhao Yijiu. He could only resort to this plan.

"Now that he's gone, there's no need to chase him." Yu Xing said, "Chen Jiu probably succeeded as well. If they're smart, they'll hide and not let us find them after they regroup."

"So what do we do now?" Wang Jue thought for a moment. He had gathered all four clues and two identities.

"Well, you don't have anything to do now." Yu Xing nodded, "I need to help Brother Jiu start another game. He's the detective, and we're missing one clue."

Zhao Yijiu glanced at him sideways, "What about Xie Ze? Aren't you going to take care of him?"

Yu Xing smiled, "Why should I bother with him? Although he's not the murderer in the real-life Rui Bo murder case, if I'm not mistaken, he should also be a killer."

"Oh?"

Zhao Yijiu was somewhat surprised by this statement, and Wang Jue was even more curious.

"What do you mean?"

"In the past two months in Mijin City, three women have been killed by having their throats slit. The police have determined that it was the work of one person. Although the killer hasn't been caught, the suspects have been narrowed down. Currently, there are three suspects, and one of them is a white-collar worker from a listed company. I forgot her name, but her age, height, and other characteristics match Xie Ze."

Wang Jue's face was shocked, "Damn, how do you know?"

"I have a friend... Little brother, your expression is exaggerated." Yu Xing glanced at Wang Jue with a meaningful look.

Zhao Yijiu sighed inwardly - it's this excuse again.

He didn't know if this friend really existed or if Yu Xing was just making it up.

After that, Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu entered the haunted house. The haunted house was mostly filled with scares. They placed the clue paper in the mouth of a skull prop, and Zhao Yijiu used a dagger to prevent the skull from closing, casually glanced at the clue, and then threw it away.

The clues had already lost their meaning.

While they were in action, Wang Jue sat outside the haunted house, waiting and also paying attention to whether Chen Jiu and Ling Heng would come to ambush him.

It turned out that he was overthinking it. He didn't see the shadow of those two until Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu safely came out.

Sitting alone outside for a while, Wang Jue also figured out what had happened earlier. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. When Yu Xing walked over to him, he could still hear him muttering quietly:

"I'm convinced, brother, you're too decisive. Haven't you considered the possibility that you might have guessed the details wrong and everything would be a mistake?"

"If that happens..." Yu Xing glanced at him, "I might as well find a tofu and smash my head with it."

"Commit suicide?" Wang Jue instinctively responded.

Yu Xing said, "Eat it, and then regret how I made a mistake."

"..."

After that, they endured for another four hours.

The clock in the central square turned back to midnight again, and the broadcast sounded throughout the amusement park: "The game has ended. The amusement park experience time for this session has ended."

"Game winners: Wang Jue, Heng, Xing, Leng Jiu."

"Game losers: Ghost Letter, Ze."

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"Punishment for losing: Death."

Indeed, it was death... Yu Xing looked up at a point in the void.

There was his aura on Ling Heng, so he could track Ling Heng's location at any time.Chen Jiu should have been with him, witnessing the death of the girl he liked right before his eyes. What kind of feeling would that evoke in the hearts of the members of the Single Prism?

He really wanted to watch that scene.

However, the paradise didn't give him the chance. He stood still, suddenly felt light-headed, and his whole body floated up.

No, that's not quite accurate. It should be said that at this moment, they seemed to have lost their physical bodies, leaving only their consciousness, weightlessly flying upwards.

Yu Xing couldn't see the consciousness of Zhao Yijiu and Wang Jue, but he could vaguely discern that they were not far away.

Their consciousness floated up into the sky, and under the effect of a repulsive force, they were pushed further and further away.

Yu Xing gradually saw the full view of the paradise, and then saw Alice walking out from the body of the clock that was resetting.

"Congratulations on leaving Alice's Paradise!"

Her hollow voice echoed in the ears of every deductionist.

Alice stood in front of the square, looking up and watching the consciousness of several deductionists retreat and leave. A vivid smile suddenly appeared on her mechanical face.

It was as if a specter, pretending to be a non-living entity, suddenly dropped its disguise at this moment.

Yu Xing looked down from a bird's-eye view, a realization dawned on him.

Is this really a paradise?

Sure enough, the next moment, the steampunk-style paradise in the deductionists' view was peeled away like pieces of torn paper, revealing its true dark nature.

Black smoke billowed out from the facilities that looked as if they had been burnt, and Alice shed her somewhat beautiful appearance, turning into a black, withered devil dressed in Lolita fashion.

Suddenly, the paradise of gears and metal turned into a withered and decayed... hell.

Forcing absurdity from real events, the rules of the absurd world must have many loopholes.

Just like various game test servers and Ubisoft's works, bugs are the norm.

Therefore, Alice's Paradise is in an initial state, very immature, and its attitude towards visitors...

Yu Xing felt that this place was actually an alternative hell.

A hell specifically for punishing criminals.

Amputation, suffocation, roasting, scaring, suspicion, mutual killing...

All under the guise of amusement, bringing physical and mental punishment to them, the deductionists.

Why would he think so?

Because Yu Xing didn't believe that such a deduction would coincidentally gather two Single Prisms, a serial killer, and himself - not exactly a good person either.

As for Zhao Yijiu and Wang Jue, he had a premonition that they must also have their own dark pasts.

Alice became extremely ugly, her face pitted and wrinkled, her black skin seemed to have been drained of moisture, leaving only two crimson eyes still emitting a red glow.

She lovingly touched her skirt, suddenly noticing that a gem was missing from the hem.

She immediately showed a ferocious expression and screamed, "Who took my gem!"

Her gaze wandered for a while, then locked onto Yu Xing's consciousness, "You - thief, return my gem!"

Yu Xing: "Oh, crap."

The next moment, his vision blurred to the extreme, and when it cleared, he was back in front of the sports equipment storage room, blocked by a crowd of people. The four-plus hours he spent in the deduction game was just a blink of an eye in reality.

But when he pinched the small red gem in his pocket and turned his head, Zhu Yan's strange gaze hadn't had time to retract and was caught by him.

"Why are you looking at me?" He smiled.

In the eyes of others, he should have been standing here all the time, just possibly lost in thought for a moment.

But Zhu Yan squeezed a few steps out of the crowd and looked at him, "Where have you been just now?"