No one objected. In fact, many people had already thought about searching the rooms themselves, but they just couldn’t bring themselves to say it. Having the victim, Cong Shui, bring it up was just right.
With everyone around them having been attacked, the players were anxious and eager to find the hidden killer lurking in the shadows.
So, Qian Ming helped support Cong Shui, and they started searching from the first room.
There were ten rooms in total. Wang Gaoyuan lived in 201, across from an empty room, with the late Wu Zhiwen next door.
Tang Zhixin was in 204, Qian Ming in 205, Cong Shui in 206, then An Suisui in 207, Jian Shi in 208, Xia Xuan in 209, and the eliminated Wen Yue as well.
Of the ten rooms, three were now empty. Cong Shui decided to start the search from Xia Xuan’s room.
Whether it was because the werewolves were too cautious or for some other reason, nothing suspicious was found in the first few rooms.
Until they entered Tang Zhixin’s room.
“You say you’re not a werewolf, then what’s this!” Cong Shui demanded, holding up a tuft of gray-white wolf fur found in the window curtain, his voice cold.
Tang Zhixin denied it desperately, “I don’t know, I—I’m really not a werewolf!”
“You say you’re not, and that’s it?” Cong Shui panted, pressing further, “Where’s your proof? How can you prove you’re not a werewolf?”
Tang Zhixin was speechless. There really was no way to prove it.
The identity cards disappeared as soon as the players touched them; only the player themselves knew their role.
With everyone staring at him with suspicion, Tang Zhixin grew frantic. Suddenly, an idea struck him and he shouted, “I’m not a werewolf, I’m the Witch! I still have a bottle of poison!”
An Suisui was stunned. Tang Zhixin was the Witch?
“Shouldn’t the Witch also have an antidote? Why do you only have poison? Where’s your antidote?” An Suisui’s rapid-fire questions left Tang Zhixin dumbfounded. He hesitated for a long time, and seeing the others’ increasingly skeptical looks, he gritted his teeth and finally revealed what he’d been hiding.
“I did have an antidote, but I used it last night.”
“You saved Wu Zhiwen?”
An Suisui’s eyes widened. Could a player killed by the werewolves really be revived?
Tang Zhixin didn’t dare meet her eyes and mumbled, “No, I didn’t save him. The antidote can also be used to protect your room from being entered by the werewolves.”
At this point, Tang Zhixin suddenly became agitated.
“Last night, a werewolf tried to open my door. If it weren’t for the antidote protecting me, I’d be dead! The werewolf tried to kill me!”
An Suisui hesitated after hearing this. “You mean the werewolf tried to kill you last night, but how do you know?”
“I heard the door being opened! But I had the antidote’s protection, so they couldn’t get in!”
Is that so? An Suisui wasn’t sure if Tang Zhixin was telling the truth.
She hadn’t verified Tang Zhixin’s identity, nor did she know if there would be a sound when the werewolves tried to open a door. After all, under normal circumstances, they weren’t supposed to hear anything outside their rooms after dark.
The others didn’t know either.
Cong Shui was clearly unconvinced. “If the werewolf never got into your room, then how did the wolf fur get in here?”
“How should I know?”
“Then you still can’t prove what you’re saying is true. I could say I’m the Prophet and claim I checked you and you’re a werewolf. No one has any evidence, so we can all just say whatever we want.”
“I—I still have a bottle of poison!”
“So you want to poison someone just to prove your identity?”
“…”
Tang Zhixin was stumped. Without the antidote, the Witch really had no way to prove their identity.
No one believed Tang Zhixin, not even An Suisui or Jian Shi spoke up for him. They really couldn’t find a reason to refute the others’ questions.
At dinner, Tang Zhixin was voted out.
An Suisui felt anxious. To be honest, she thought there was something odd about Tang Zhixin’s situation, but she couldn’t find any solid evidence.
As night fell, Jian Shi heard a banging sound outside his door. When he opened it, he saw An Suisui holding a candlestick, banging it against the doorframe.
“What are you doing?”
An Suisui turned around and saw not only Jian Shi, but also other players secretly watching her.
“I want to take the door down,” An Suisui said. “If I take the door down, maybe I’ll be able to see the werewolves leave their rooms at night.”
All the players: ???
You can do that?
Jian Shi considered it. It was actually a pretty good idea.
“Step aside.”
He pushed An Suisui aside, closed the door, and then kicked the door hard.
With a bang, the wooden door slammed into the wall.
Jian Shi: “Oops, missed. Let’s try again.”
An Suisui: “If you try again, are you going to take down my wall too?”
Jian Shi smiled, “Then let’s take it down. What’s the difference between a door and a wall? As long as we can see outside, it’s fine.”
An Suisui was speechless. That made sense, but also didn’t seem quite right.
Under Jian Shi’s violent efforts, An Suisui’s door finally gave way and crashed to the floor.
After taking down An Suisui’s door, Jian Shi took down his own as well.
“Can’t leave a little girl to face the werewolves alone, right?” he said.
Their wild actions stunned everyone. The idea sounded good, but it was risky. What if the werewolves went on a rampage with no doors to stop them?
With doors, only one person could die each night. Now, with all the doors gone, would the werewolves just go from room to room killing everyone?
Who knew what the werewolves’ rules were, or if they could kill so many people at once.
After some hesitation, the others decided not to follow An Suisui’s example and take down their doors.
At ten o’clock, night fell.
An Suisui and Jian Shi sat at their doorways, facing each other.
The rooms were actually quite far apart. Even without doors, there was now an invisible transparent barrier where the door used to be, preventing An Suisui from sticking her head out to look around.
So the two of them could only see the doors to the rooms on their left and right.
Opposite An Suisui were Cong Shui, Jian Shi, and Wen Yue.
Opposite Jian Shi were Xia Xuan, An Suisui, and Qian Ming.
Further down were the eliminated Tang Zhixin, the deceased Wu Zhiwen, and Wang Gaoyuan, who was the farthest away—those rooms they couldn’t see.
Their actions that night were seen by everyone. Maybe the werewolves would choose to wait and not act, which would actually be to An Suisui’s advantage.
An Suisui had to make her prediction before ten o’clock, and she didn’t miss the chance that night.
Jian Shi raised his hand and pointed to the room farthest away.
An Suisui made a beastly pouncing gesture.
Wang Gaoyuan is a werewolf.
Creak—
The door opened, and the werewolf Wang Gaoyuan left his room, slowly walking toward the two of them.
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