Just as 007 also stayed in place following Keke's words, she suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder.
She imdiately turned to look, and what t her eyes was Yue Nu's face.
By now, Yue Nu too had taken a good look at everyone around her.
Aside from one boy whom she didn't recognize, 007, Keke, and iren Chu could all be accessed through their player interfaces, their nicknas hinting at the nas they used in this instance.
However, the nickna of the guy carrying a large guitar on the side was not like the others.
It was the Green Doctor.
Yue Nu swiftly ran through the list of twelve nas in her head and found that none matched up with 'Doctor'.
Then she rembered the special na "Gu Mian" on the list, and couldn't help but squint her eyes.
Upon seeing Yue Nu, Li Yibai imdiately spoke, sowhat excitedly, "Where were you last night?"
Yue Nu furrowed her brows slightly.
Looking at his deanor, it seed that sothing must have happened to them last night, and it was likely that these few had cast the seven votes for Li Wentao.
She glanced at 007 in front of her, "Isn't it normal for to go ho every night? Last night, I was taken ho... I received a call at three in the morning asking to vote. Do you guys know what happened?"
As she spoke, she looked at Li Yibai as if waiting for his reply.
Gu Mian looked at Yue Nu, who had appeared out of nowhere. He checked her player interface; her in-ga nickna was indeed "Yue Nu."
So, she had been taken ho yesterday. No wonder she had disappeared inexplicably.
And not only that, but Yue Nu apparently received the ga's voting notification last night via a phone call, which ant that no matter where you were, you would receive the voting notification on ti.
However, speaking of last night's vote...
At this point, Li Yibai's voice echoed from the side, his words increasing in volu, seemingly having found soone to confide in.
He was different from the others who had faced those instances before. The most horrifying thing in his life had been bumping into the class teacher while dating.
He was just an ordinary person, yet he was unexpectedly pulled into this bloody and terrifying ga.
Engaging in a struggle of killing or being killed.
"You don't know..." Li Yibai raised his voice to Yue Nu, "It's that ga, the Close Your Eyes ga we played! It's still going on; the ghost is still killing! We were suddenly sowhere else last night... There were two buildings, two ominous buildings, then... Wang Pan and Li Wentao died!"
Yue Nu put on a shocked expression. Gu Mian noticed that she wasn't actually shocked, but was just pretending in front of Li Yibai.
Yue Nu widened her eyes, exclaiming, "How did this happen!? Did soone die last night? I was puzzled to hear on the phone yesterday that Li Wentao had been voted out by seven people. I didn't expect it to be because of this ga... But does the person with the most votes in each round die?"
Li Yibai firmly replied, "They die! We saw him die with our own eyes!"
But just as his eager retort was about to spill out, a slightly plump middle-aged man suddenly approached.
Gu Mian saw Li Yibai, who forrly had his mouth open, suddenly shut it tight.
This seed to be a teacher from Li Yibai's class.
Indeed, as the slightly plump middle-aged man approached, he stared at Li Yibai with a strange look, "What are you doing here? It's so late, shouldn't you be in class?"
They all knew if they told the class teacher about what happened last night, they would all be considered insane and sent ho individually.
No one dared to be alone under these circumstances.
Keke and Li Yibai imdiately nodded like chicks pecking at grain, not daring to retort.
Under the man's gaze, the two quickly walked away.
The middle-aged man gave the remaining Gu Mian and the others a weird look, then followed after Keke and Li Yibai.
Li Yibai, who seed anxious, had to leave. He turned back to look at Gu Mian and the others several tis, seemingly trying to sneak back.
But the middle-aged man was following them closely, giving the two no chance to break away.
Watching Keke and Li Yibai's retreating figures, 007 said, "Is it really okay to let them go like this?"
Gu Mian shook his head slightly, "Well, sooner or later we have to go to their class to find people."
Last night's absentees, Yuan Qinghua, Guo Jii, and Zhang Pingfan, were all in the sa class as Keke. They were bound to find them anyway.
With no outsiders present, Yue Nu dropped her shocked expression and turned to Gu Mian, "My na is Yue Nu. What's yours? You seem to be aware that your nickna is a bit unusual."
007 frowned at Yue Nu.
She felt like Yue Nu had so inexplicable hostility towards Gu Mian, but then she let it go, figuring that Yue Nu had probably deduced sothing about Gu Mian's identity.
The hostility was probably due to the thirty thousand Ga Coins.
Gu Mian did not really mind Yue Nu's hostility; he just glanced at her and said, "You can call Gu Mian."
They would have to get along with her in the instance for many days to co, and the na wasn't easily hidden anyway.
Upon hearing the reply, Yue Nu withdrew her gaze, seemingly completely oblivious to the na Gu Mian.
"By the way," Yue Nu turned to look at 007 again, "Can you tell what happened last night? Not in too much detail, just the cause and the result will do."
007 simply said, "Last night, we were inexplicably sent to two large buildings. Pan Yue witnessed sothing during the process and beca convinced that Li Wentao was the ghost. So at three o'clock in the morning, apart from Li Wentao himself... all of us voted for Li Wentao."
Upon hearing this, Yue Nu's face showed an expression of "just as I thought."
007 continued, "The one killed by the ghost last night... it was Wang Pan, just like us, an instance player. Pan Yue beca sowhat ntally unstable after she voted and learned that Li Wentao was not a ghost, then disappeared to who knows where."
Listening to these words, Yue Nu frowned, "Besides , who else was not teleported last night?"
007 didn't hesitate to na them, "Besides you, there were Zhang Pingfan, Guo Jii, and Yuan Qinghua."
"You've co back to school to find us—those who weren't teleported last night—haven't you? Even though we weren't with you last night, we're still under suspicion," Yue Nu said.
Gu Mian nodded, "Correct."
Unfortunately, none of these three were in his class.
Yue Nu looked at Gu Mian again, "Did you find any clues about the ghost last night? Even though you voted for the wrong person, you should've found so clues, right? Which of the remaining ten people do you find suspicious?"
"None," Gu Mian shook his head. "Aside from Keke, every person last night had a significant amount of unaccounted ti. The tilines of all individuals allowed them to carry out a murder."
Yue Nu frowned, "You guys really are…"
Gu Mian interrupted her, "Did you vote last night?"
Yue Nu seed a bit unhappy that her words were suddenly interrupted, but she answered, "Yes, last night I…"
But before she could finish, Gu Mian saw a woman walking towards them, who seed like a teacher.
Right now, it was school working hours, and occasionally, a few teachers passed by them.
Gu Mian ordinarily wouldn't have paid much attention to this, but at this mont, Yue Nu's expression suddenly changed, and she even stopped mid-sentence.
007's expression also changed.
Imdiately after, 007 quickly spoke, "The horoom teacher is coming. We have to go back to class. I'll go check if Pan Yue returned to school. When shall we et back up?"
Li Wentao from their class had already been killed. His body could be discovered at any ti, and in the anti, neither of them could draw any attention with unusual behavior, or they would be easily suspected.
If they ended up becoming suspects, they might get detained for twenty-four hours.
The instance was always changing rapidly. No one knew what could happen in those twenty-four hours.
Gu Mian pondered for a mont, "We won't delay for too long. We'll co find you after the first class ends."
"Okay." 007 nodded lightly, then quickly left with Yue Nu.
Only Gu Mian and Chu Changge were left there at that mont.
Gu Mian looked at Chu Changge, who stood beside him, "Should we head back to the classroom?"
His deskmate, Xu Xingcheng, seed to have sothing to do with this ga. Gu Mian wanted to find out more about his deskmate.
Chu Changge gave a slight nod.
The two headed towards their classroom.
After they had walked a short distance, Gu Mian suddenly said, "Oh right, did you notice sothing?"
Chu Changge spoke in a soft voice, "Hmm, what are you talking about?"
They had now reached the ground floor of the teaching building.
Most of the students were sitting in the classrooms by now, and the floor was practically deserted.
Gu Mian continued, "Regarding the voting, last night there were eight voters and three abstentions."
He rembered that last night, he, Chu Changge, 007, Keke, Li Yibai, and Pan Yue—all six of them—voted for Li Wentao.
Li Wentao, who was nearly out of his mind, had also participated in the vote. His vote, made in anger, was for Pan Yue.
Thus, all seven present had voted.
Six votes for Li Wentao, one vote for Pan Yue.
But Li Wentao received seven votes last night. This ant that among the four who were absent, one of them had also voted for Li Wentao.
That's why Gu Mian asked Yue Nu earlier if she voted.
She did vote, but she left hastily before she could say who she voted for.
"In theory, Yue Nu should have been Li Wentao's seventh vote…"
Gu Mian suddenly fell silent.
They had already started ascending the stairs.
Chu Changge's eyeglasses flashed in the light. It was a few seconds before he said, "But you thought Yue Nu's tone didn't sound like she voted for Li Wentao, right?"
Exactly.
Gu Mian nodded.
Yue Nu's statents, such as "I was baffled yesterday when I heard on the phone that Li Wentao got seven votes" and "Although you voted for the wrong person," completely lacked any implication that she had also voted for Li Wentao.
So, it's very likely she voted for soone else.
"But we knew that there were only eight people who voted last night," Gu Mian frowned, "the seven of us plus Yue Nu makes eight. But if she didn't vote for Li Wentao, who cast the seventh vote for him?"
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