Chapter 170: Investigation

Only the DM and the players remained by the rice fields. They sat on a bench that appeared out of nowhere, with several notebooks on the table in front of them, making it convenient for players to record their observations.

Si Shi: "The deceased is Mao Rongjun's mother, Feng Liping. The time of death was from yesterday afternoon to night. The preliminary judgment is that she accidentally fell into the water and died. Please sort out your timelines."

Tiffany turned her pen and started. "She died yesterday, and was only discovered today?"

Sun Er: "Along the river."

Sun Jiu: "Drifted down."

Su Mian nodded and recorded it on the paper in a feigned manner, but in reality, she only wrote down the names of the few, and the last sentence was what to eat for lunch today.

"If we look at the flow rate, the place where she died yesterday should be in Ya Shan Village."

The few looked at Su Mian in surprise. "But she is Mao Rongjun's mother. Why would she run to another mountain instead of staying at home for the engagement ceremony?"

Su Mian shook her head, indicating she didn't know.

She would conduct reasonable reasoning, but she wouldn't reveal too much information, and would agree or give wrong guidance at critical moments. This was a method Su Mian often used when playing the murderer—well, in Werewolf, this role is called a "hook wolf."

Su Mian covered Sun Jiu's ears and signaled for Sun Er to start telling her timeline.

Sun Er: "We stayed in the white tile house after eating the banquet yesterday. At one o'clock in the afternoon, an old man came to distribute tasks to us, saying we had to find the impostor hidden among the guests."

"We looked for half an hour at 1:30 and couldn't find them. My sister and I separated. I was on the first floor and the front courtyard, and she was on the second and third floors."

"Two hours later, we found an old man in a wheelchair stealing shadows on the first floor, found the impostor, and completed the first day's game task."

"We helped prepare dishes at four o'clock and were together the whole time. Then, Meng Yaya and Li Meili didn't show up for the banquet in the evening. We can focus on what you two did later."

"We packed our luggage in the evening. My sister and I separated and stayed in the room the whole time."

Sun Jiu organized her wording and skipped the front directly. "After separating from my sister in the evening, I missed my father very much. I called him for an hour in the evening and then went to sleep."

Qiao Yinuo: "Zhao Ahua and I stayed in the rice fields the whole afternoon. Really, I was scared to death and didn't dare to go anywhere. Then later they called us to eat. In the evening, she helped me pull the cow to the side of the bedroom, and that's it."

Meng Yaya: "So... you two have been together the whole time and never separated?"

Tiffany nodded.

Meng Yaya: "My task was to catch chickens. It was too hard to catch. I didn't catch any after catching them all afternoon, and then... I was afraid I wouldn't complete the task, so I didn't eat. I caught them in the evening and cleaned up the chicken coop and cow shed. Over."

Qiao Yinuo looked suspicious. "You caught chickens for that long?"

Su Mian scratched her cheek calmly, feeling inexplicably embarrassed.

"After I returned to the residence, Mao Ning assigned me the task of reciting the family rules. After reciting, I fell asleep and slept until eight o'clock in the evening. I completed the task in Mao Rongjun's study at 8:30 and washed up at nine."

Looking at the current situation, actually, except for Tiffany and Qiao Yinuo, everyone had the time to commit the crime. But if the deceased died in Ya Shan Village, the players needed to focus on who lived in Ya Shan Village.

"Should we go to Ya Shan Village and take a look?"

Qiao Yinuo suggested, and everyone nodded. They found a few motorcycle masters in the village to send them to the other mountain.

Su Mian was expressionless, but her face turned black the moment she saw the motorcycle.

Which genius thought of wearing a cheongsam today? It was bad enough to wear a cheongsam, but she also had to ride a motorcycle, and these broken high heels were really killing her feet.

In an instant, her resentment increased.

The master swallowed. He was still smoking. Seeing the girl's terrifying expression, he thought he had smoked her out, so he quickly extinguished the cigarette in fright and even took out wet wipes to wipe the seat in apology.

She sat sideways, took off her high heels and held them in her hand, and grabbed the lever in the middle of the motorcycle.

The journey was very bumpy. Su Mian felt her butt was about to die before finally arriving.

Su Mian put on her high heels, stumbled when she got down, and almost couldn't stand firm. Her face was even worse, and she was depressed.

Qiao Yinuo saw the timing and pinched her face. "Little pufferfish~ why is your face so bad?"

Su Mian patted her hand away. Qiao Yinuo grinned, and seeing her face soften, she stopped teasing her.

Sun Er: "Hello."

Sun Jiu: "Have you."

Sun Er: "Seen."

Sun Jiu: "This."

Sun Er: "Person?"

The two sisters didn't know where they had gotten a photo of Feng Liping and held it up to ask an old man who was going fishing with fishing gear.

"Oh! Feng Liping, right? Didn't she come here to find her in-laws a few days ago? She was saying everywhere that her daughter-in-law was pretty. We don't know who it is..."

"Then do you know where her in-laws live?"

Tiffany asked. The old man pointed with his finger. "Seems like that side, there are a few blue tile houses, and the one with a chicken coop."

Tiffany: "Okay, thank you."

Li Meili's parents had both been taken to make statements, so Su Mian wasn't very panicked in her heart.

She followed at the end of the crowd, walking slower and slower, even falling behind by a large distance, her feet hurting so much she couldn't walk at all.

She frowned, leaned against a tree with her hand, lifted her lower leg back, and found that her heels had been worn a bit raw.

But if she didn't go, it would be easy to be regarded as playing the game passively and fall into the suspect pit.

She sighed irritably and was about to continue walking when a hand wrapped around her thigh and picked her up.

Su Mian exclaimed, her legs dangling, accidentally kicking the cloak, leaving a gray footprint on the black fabric that was particularly obvious.

It was Chen Xihuai.

It was also Si Shi.

Su Mian blinked. "Why are you here?"

Si Shi hooked his lips, and his other hand took Su Mian's high heels and held them in his hand.

"A little cat is about to bristle, so I have to come and soothe it."

"Oh."

Su Mian nodded. She was used to this form of address, although she still felt awkward every time she heard it.

"A... Chen Xihuai, put me down."

"What's wrong, afraid of being seen?"

Si Shi bumped her upward. The little cat visibly showed a look of horror, wanting to bury her face and hide in his shoulder.

"Nonsense! There are so many people here. I'll be there in a while. Anyway, it's my home. No one will notice if I go in and get a pair of shoes."

As she spoke, she struggled to get down, but Si Shi held her legs tighter. In a few steps, he pushed her against a tree. Su Mian quieted down and shrank her neck.

"What are you doing?"

"So what if there are so many people? Afraid that others will find out you are Mao Rongjun's wife, yet you are having an affair here with an official from the city?" ===== CHAPTER 171 =====