Chapter 22: CH 22

JULY 30, 2021~ 8ONI

Editor: Jue

“Because Zhao Chu and I are the same age and,” Old lady Song widened her eyes, “we knew each other before! I felt strange when I saw him on the first day. He has obviously retired for many years, so why did he come back to this island? Of course I’m going to personally ask him!”

Boss Du raised his eyebrows: “So the matter between you and Zhao Chu is just between the two of you. It has nothing to do with your game’s role, right?”

Old lady Song nodded with her mouth slanted.

“Niu Xinyan, you are trying to divert everyone’s attention,” the old lady tilted her neck and glanced at Niu Xinyan, “You came to this island to get close to me, right? Is Niu Nahan your older brother? Or your younger brother? You blame his death on me, so now you want to make me die!”

Niu Xinyan looked up at her, and smiled bitterly: “I know why you said that to me this morning. You want to test me by saying something about cows and sheep. I can tell you very clearly that you had misunderstood me. I don’t have an older brother or younger brother. I don’t know if Li Sinian can testify for me…”

“Of course he is willing to testify for you!” The old lady Song interrupted her sharply, “You are working together! Your family member is dead, he is the boss’s subordinate, so you must be partnering with the boss. Did you do this to trace down the cause of your brother’s death back then?!”

(T/N: Again the boss is written in English in raw. Apologize for the constant t/n but I have to do this, sorry for people who hate t/n in the middle of the story, this is just how I translate)

Yang Song quickly raised his eyes: “Then, are you admitting that you killed someone before? What? Are you afraid of being found out?”

“I didn’t!” Mrs. Song said firmly, “God knows that I haven’t killed anyone. I have a clear conscience!”

Niu Xinyan nodded: “I don’t care if you killed someone or not. Anyway, to sign up this game, you need to submit your hukou* and ID card. I am an only child, I don’t even know…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou

“I told you to tell everything!” The old lady interrupted her, “Tell everything! If what you say is true, people will believe it!”

Li Sinian knocked on the table with his index finger knuckles: “Don’t interrupt, let her talk!”

The old lady rolled her eyes and shut her mouth angrily.

Niu Xinyan exhaled and continued: “I don’t even know who Niu Nahan you are talking about. I don’t understand why you keep bothering me like this? Is it just because my surname is Niu?”

Li Sinian raised his hand to testify: “Although the credibility is a bit weak coming from me, I have indeed dealt with the information. She is an only child. If she has not forged her documents, I can vouch for her.”

“Then tell me your purpose for entering the island!” Old lady Song sneered and asked Niu Xinyan, “Are you really short of money?”

“That has nothing to do with this killing game.” Niu Xinyan’s voice was not loud, her tone was gentle and her argument was solid. “Right now we are not talking about our own affairs. Also, who came to this island without any purpose? Don’t bring that now, —— You said it yourself, you felt that Zhao Chu’s reaction was wrong since yesterday and you suspected that he was a wolf. Then why, in the middle of the night, after realizing that the other person’s identity as the wolf, your next reaction was going to his bedroom? He is a big man, it would be easy for him to kill an old lady of your age with a single shot. I’m not going to ask why Zhao Chu didn’t poison you. The most important thing here is that your behavior is inconsistent. All of us who have played Werewolf Killing know that someone with inconsistency must be a wolf. You contacted a wolf in private and yet you voted for him. This inconsistent behavior, unless you can give me a convincing reason, otherwise I will continue to vote for you tomorrow morning.”

“Let me explain it again!” The old lady Song was a little anxious, and she tapped the table with a pen as she said, “I don’t know how to play Werewolf. I’ve never played any popular stuff among young people! Don’t push your young people’s habits on me! It won’t work. I went to find Zhao Chu because I was curious about why he came here. I haven’t seen him for many years and I suddenly saw him here. I think it’s weird, don’t you understand?! I was going to test him! Just like I checked the relationship between you and Niu Nahan. I assessed his intentions, and I voted him to death, these are two different things!”

Niu Xinyan shook her head: “Anyway, I am not convinced, unless you can explain why he didn’t kill you. Otherwise no matter how many things you say, you are still self-contradictory. Everyone here is afraid of death.”

“Then you vote for me!” The old lady Song slammed the notebook on the table.

The thunder was cracking outside, adding an extra pressure to the already tense atmosphere.

“Have you two finished talking?” Li Sinian asked.

Niu Xinyan nodded, and said in a low voice, “That’s all.”

“Anyway I am not a wolf!” The old lady fumed so much that it looked like a breath of flame was almost shot out from her nostrils.

(T/N: This is what the author wrote and no, she did not transforming here, this is not a supernatural novel lol)

(E/N: This author really used dramatic words to convey the situation more vividly, more hard work for us ~~~)

Ding Zihui glanced at Fang Daichuan: “Then I should say it. I… I voted for Zhao Chu. I don’t know anything, and I was attacked on the first day. I was completely scared out of my mind. To anyone who just said that I may be a wolf and the attack on the first night was me acting misleading, I just want to say, I don’t have to do that at all. Even if I were a wolf, as long as I didn’t do anything, I would be able to hide. Why should I act and take a risk on the first night?”

“Wolf doing self-harm,” Liu Xin interjected, “self-harming on the first night to receive the antidote, isn’t that a common tactic?”

Ding Zihui silently curled his lips: “Please, this is not a board game, this is a real life and death game, okay? If I harmed myself, the witch might not even save me. Is the witch that stupid that they will use antidote for someone else? Obviously they will keep it for themself. Even the seer doesn’t dare to come out and show themself and say I am a wolf. Why would I do that to myself? So I am really in the villager faction. You don’t need to doubt me.”

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Fang Daichuan didn’t pay attention to Ding Zihui’s words. His focus was still on Niu Xinyan and the old lady Song attacking each other. He had no doubt about Ding Zihui’s identity. So he bowed his head and scribbled on paper, pretending to be listening to Ding Zihui’s speech. In fact, he had been trying to analyze the old lady Song’s speech. He found that these people are really logical when they speak, and everyone is familiar with the routines and gameplay of Werewolf Killing. 

But logically, for people who dare to play this kind of real-life werewolf game, even if they don’t know how to play before, after signing the contract, they would immediately try to get  to know everything about it. So thinking this way made him suspicious about the old lady Song’s statement.

Ding Zihui had finished talking.

Fang Daichuan raised his head, adhering to the principle of the more you said, the more mistakes you might make, and said succinctly: “My logic is the same as Mrs. Song. That is why I voted for Zhao Chu. That is all.”

The next one was Li Si Nian.

Li Sinian pondered for a while: “For now, we can assume that there are three sets of logic; villager logic, off-game logic and wolf logic. First, villager logic, this is the people who want to catch the wolf wholeheartedly. That is, relatively speaking, their behavior and their vote are all for the sake of catching wolves. What Ding Zihui said just now makes sense. Fang Daichuan also has been asking everyone to do body searches from the beginning of the game. Honestly, I don’t doubt his identity. Yang Song voted for me and her logic is correct. My identity is really suspicious. That’s why although she voted for me, she did it because she wanted to catch a wolf. I don’t doubt her.”

“But Niu Xinyan, you voted for Mrs. Song. This logic I can’t understand. Since you have identified Zhao Chu as a wolf, why did you not vote for the wolf? You want to vote for someone whose identity you are not so sure about? This is the first point of my doubt.”

“I am unsure that Zhao Chu is a wolf. I had only confirmed it after his death.” Niu Xinyan looked straight into Li Sinian’s eyes. “The one I suspect the most has always been Mrs. Song. She doesn’t make any sense, so I will always vote for her because of that.”

Li Sinian shook his head: “No.”

He spread his hand out: “You think the old lady Song is making no sense because, although she knew that Zhao Chu is a wolf, she still went to Zhao Chu’s room. Her words and her actions are clashing and she may not have a good identity so she must be a wolf. This is your logic, right?”

Niu Xinyan nodded.

“Then it doesn’t make sense,” Li Sinian touched his left lip and smiled slightly. “The base point of your logic is that you recognized Zhao Chu as a wolf. If you were not sure that Zhao Chu was a wolf, then there was nothing wrong with this behavior of Mrs. Song. Yet you say you are most suspicious of Old Mrs. Song?”

Niu Xinyan opened her mouth to argue.

Li Sinian quickly said, “You don’t have to be nervous though. You are not necessarily a wolf. As I said earlier, there are three sets of logic for everyone sitting here. Assuming that you are not a wolf, your behavior can be fully explained by using the second logic.——”

“You are not catching a wolf, you are playing off the game. Although I testified for you that you have no older brothers or younger brothers, I think Mrs. Song’s hostility towards you is not unreasonable and Niu doesn’t seem to be a very common surname. It’s possible that you really didn’t care about who the wolf was and from the beginning, you have set your target. I’ll give you a doubt.”

Fang Daichuan completely forgot to record and looked at Li Sinian in shock, as if he could see his brain running at high speed through his skull. He suddenly felt ashamed of his own brain.

However, while he was immersed in Li Sinian’s speech, Fang Daichuan’s gaze inadvertently caught a glimpse of Li Sinian’s right thumb and index finger, rubbing at high frequency under the table.

What is this? Fang Daichuan was taken aback. Is he excited or nervous? He pretended to inadvertently raise his head to look at Li Sinian, but saw Li Sinian looking in Yang Song’s direction intentionally or unknowingly, with some unclear doubts in his eyes.

Sensing Fang Daichuan’s gaze on him, Li Sinian stealthily shook his head. He gestured to Fang Daichuan under the table and motioned to go back.

“It’s not like that, listen to me,” Niu Xinyan retorted softly, “My vote for Song Xinran has nothing to do with whether I recognize Zhao Chu as a wolf. I voted for Song Xinran because her logic didn’t make sense. She said herself that she had confirmed Zhao Chu as a wolf, but then she went to Zhao Chu’s room alone. I just do not approve of her logic, and it has nothing to do with whether I recognize Zhao Chu as a wolf.”

Li Sinian rubbed his fingers and nodded: “Well, if that is the case, then I will temporarily dispel my doubts about you. But Mrs. Song, I really do not understand your actions. Either you are a wolf, or you have something that made you sure that Zhao Chu would not dare to kill you. If you can’t say it, then I can only vote for you.”

This is quite polite. If Fang Daichuan were speaking, he would probably just yell at someone’s face: What the hell are you hiding? If you don’t tell me, I will recognize you as a wolf.

“I’m using the second logic you just said!” Mrs. Song argued loudly, “I knew Zhao Chu before! I don’t believe that he would poison me on the first night, so I dared to enter his room to test him! It’s such a simple logic and you twisted it around to your liking! How could I be a wolf? If I am a wolf, why would I vote Zhao Chu to death?! What good is it for me?!”

She didn’t answer Li Sinian’s question directly. Li Sinian didn’t talk to her again, he smiled and shouted, “Next.”

Du Wei and Chen Hui glanced at each other. Du Wei said: “Chen Hui and I have discussed it. We both voted for Boss Du in the first round. The logic is what I have said in the first round. I think we shouldn’t think about who is a wolf or who is a villager. We also don’t have to catch wolves, that will complicate things. This is not a werewolf killing. This is a real murder case. The murderer must have a key factor: the motive of killing for self-protection. With all wolves have, the modus operandi-the injection of wolf venom, the focus is still on all wolves. But the most important thing is the time of the crime. I think from the time of the crime, the most suspicious is Boss Du. Therefore, we have given two votes to Boss Du. It’s as simple as that. I’m done.”

Chen Hui decisively called out next.

Boss Du nodded repeatedly: “My attitude is also very clear. Li Sinian and I cannot be the murderer. Why are you still focused on the time? It’s true that the two of us were the last to go up, but don’t forget. Everyone had twenty minutes of free time! During this period, doesn’t anyone have a chance to knock on the door and stab him with a needle? What’s more, Li Sinian said that there were four bottles of venom in the wolf’s hand, and three were found on Zhao Chu’s body. It is obvious that the murderer is Zhao Chu. Why do they insist on attacking me all the time? I doubt you two very much now.”

Liu Xin is the last. He pushed his glasses: “I voted for Zhao Chu. The logic is the same as yours. Obviously, it has been proven that he is a wolf. For Du Wei and Chen Hui, I don’t really doubt them. Although they are acting hostile toward Boss Du, I think it is because there is not much information. For others…. I really can’t think of anyone else, except for Mrs. Song. But I don’t know.…I can’t make any meaningful assumptions, so let’s just wait for the time being. Tonight I actually want to see who would die, but emotionally I hope everyone can be safe and no one has to die anymore. That is all I want to say, so shall we end this meeting?”

“Wait, don’t go!” Li Sinian raised his head and slowly looked at the nine people around the long table. A lightning flashed into a silvery white light in the distance, and the thunder rolled, tearing apart the stagnant air.

Li Sinian turned his head and said, “No, someone lied, and the votes are not right.”

(T/N: The details about the votes will show up next chapter, but since I am nice *cough* I will tell you why Sinian said that someone is lying, Zhao Chu will had 6 votes if everyone tell the truth but the result from first vote, pic below so you don’t have to go back to chapter 16, show he only had 5 votes)

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