eurekapd Chapter 23 Cold
Chapter 23 Cold
"You're sick." Yan Xun chuckled inwardly, speaking to the audience who were watching him from who-knows-where.
"I advise you not to do this, there's no possibility between us." After saying that, he made a throat-slitting gesture.
He asked the system in his mind again whether Gui Yuchong had done anything strange after he fell asleep—otherwise, why would the audience suddenly ship him and Gui Yuchong as a couple?
【No!】The system assured me confidently, 【I saw it clearly. After you fell asleep, he seemed sleepy too, and then he fell asleep hugging his pillow.】
The system confidently told Yan Xun, "If anything goes wrong, I will definitely notify you."
Yan Xun didn't distrust the system—he just had doubts about its level. Since it was a system that bordered on being a heartthrob, he felt it couldn't handle overly complex tasks.
What were the comments saying while I was asleep?
【Let me see.】The system started looking at the comments in the background.
It looked at it carefully for a while, and the content was basically the same—
What's so interesting about this TV show?
Does anyone know what the secret of the Mei Mei Building might be?
This dungeon seems really difficult.
[Unexpectedly, Yan Xun actually guessed the answer to Task 1.]
[The streamer is amazing!]
The system read everything aloud. As it read, it noticed a change in Yan Xun's expression. It cautiously observed Yan Xun, asking, "[...Is there a problem?]"
"Are our viewers in the live stream really that normal?" Yan Xun said.
"His speech sounds like a machine."
Based on his understanding of the people in the live stream, they would never send such normal comments. If the system didn't report anything wrong, then there was most likely a problem with the comments.
He glanced at the clock in the room; it was 9 p.m., and there was still an hour before the curfew.
Thinking of this, he walked to the bedroom and said to Gui Yuchong, who was standing in front of the table eating bread, "I'm going out for a bit."
Gui Yuchong looked at him, swallowed the bread in his mouth, and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go find some intelligence." Yan Xun said, one hand in his pocket and the other leaning against the doorframe. "I'll go alone."
Gui Yuchong looked somewhat disappointed. "...Ah, I want to go too."
"I'll hurry by myself," Yan Xun said.
He looked at Gui Yuchong, who was clutching a piece of bread, and said, "I'll call you if there's a problem."
Although Gui Yuchong was somewhat reluctant, he still nodded, "Come back soon."
……
As Yan Xun left room 404, he looked back one last time.
"Tell me, why am I a tenant while Gui Yuchong is a resident?" Yan Xun was still pondering their identities in this stage. Since they had been assigned rooms and identities, it shouldn't be useless information.
The system simply couldn't answer such a complex question, so it could only remain silent.
Yan Xun didn't go anywhere else, but chose to go back to the 5th floor.
But when he went downstairs, he found that the building's floors were malfunctioning again, with the 11th floor appearing below them.
Yan Xun looked at the sign for the 11th floor, hesitated for a moment, and then decided to go and see the two people in 1101 first.
……
Standing in front of room 1101, Yan Xun rang the doorbell.
He didn't have high hopes, after all, the security guard didn't know how long he would keep the two of them locked up.
Unexpectedly, after the doorbell rang three times, the door to apartment 1101 opened, and Li Wu appeared before Yan Xun, drying his hair.
"Hi." Yan Xun raised his hand and waved.
Li Wu paused in drying his hair, then pulled off the towel and looked Yan Xun up and down a few times.
Yan Xun let him look her over, and even took a step back, raised her hands, and turned around in front of him. "Is this alright?"
"Come in and talk." Li Wu turned his head, gesturing for him to enter the room first.
Yan Xun didn't stand on ceremony and went straight into room 1101.
After entering the room, he realized that the champagne-wearing man was not there. "Your roommate didn't come back?" he asked Li Wu, who had just closed the door.
"His suspicion hasn't been ruled out yet." Li Wu didn't seem to be a talkative person.
After returning to the house, he went into the room and took out a hoodie and trousers—as if he didn't take Yan Xun seriously at all, he simply untied the towel in front of him, put on the trousers and hoodie, and then turned to look at Yan Xun.
"What do you want from me?"
“I thought you would ask about Mission 1 first,” Yan Xun said.
"It seems you've all completed Mission 1?" Li Wu asked.
"almost."
“I’ve finished too.” Li Wu said this while staring at Yan Xun.
He felt that the other party had come over mostly to exchange the answer to Mission 1 for clues and information—now that he knew he had already completed Mission 1, Yan Xun would most likely be disappointed.
Unexpectedly, the expression on Yan Xun's face was more one of confusion than disappointment.
"When did you complete Task 1?" Yan Xun asked immediately.
“In the interrogation room,” Li Wu answered subconsciously. After he finished speaking, he understood why Yan Xun had asked him this question, and then quickly reported the time when he found the answer to Task 1.
—That time coincided with the time when Gui Yuchong completed Mission 1.
Yan Xun wasn't sure if it was because Li Wu was in the interrogation room that his system broadcast was blocked, or if it was because...
Gui Yuchong doesn't need to complete the task?
"What is your role in this level?" Yan Xun asked.
"The tenant of 1101 is Li Wu, an adventure enthusiast," Li Wu quickly revealed without hiding anything.
Yan Xun's question and hesitation had already made him realize a certain guess.
"You suspect your roommate."
"You suspect he's not a player."
Yan Xun hadn't expected Li Wu to be so direct. He looked at Li Wu's still expressionless face and asked, "You don't seem surprised?"
He essentially acquiesced to Li Wu's question.
“Chi Yuan is a player too.” Li Wu got straight to the point, explaining why he wasn’t surprised, and also confirming Yan Xun’s guess—
"There is indeed one extra person among us."
Yan Xun was speechless at this point. Although he had long suspected Gui Yuchong, the most troublesome thing now was: where was Gui Yuchong himself?
After much deliberation, Yan Xun could only sigh deeply, "Let's go to 508."
These players appeared in room 508 as soon as they appeared. Since Gui Yuchong is not the real person, it can only prove one thing.
The opponent was replaced as soon as they entered the game.
……
When the two arrived at 508, it was less than 30 minutes before 10 p.m.
The door to room 508 was still open. "Search separately," Yan Xun said.
Then, ignoring Li Wu, he went straight into the bedroom.
He remembered that when he came to the bedroom before, he always felt a strange smell. He had already searched under the bed, and the only places left where someone could hide... Yan Xun's gaze couldn't help but fall on the wardrobe in the bedroom.
He took a deep breath and opened the wardrobe door—
Among the disheveled clothes was a curled-up corpse.
The other person looked peaceful, and it seemed that he had not suffered much when he died. He looked almost exactly like that "Gui Yuchong", except that he was younger and looked to be no more than 20 years old.
Yan Xun reached out and touched Gui Yuchong.
It's cold.
It seems to be completely dead.