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Chapter 925

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The second daylight ended quickly. Now there were three main suspects: Pi Pang, the glasses man, and the Cat Woman.

Su Xiao had considered fighting the three of them to force Alice out, but this method was not practical; there was no mutual trust among the eight people.

Once Su Xiao attacked one of the three, the other two would not sit idly by. Moreover, Alice could choose not to reveal her identity. One must know that there was only one way to end the game: to identify who Alice's clone was, not to kill Alice's clone. If one couldn't identify who Alice's clone was, killing her clone would be useless. Unless one could kill her at night, in which case Alice wouldn't be able to show up in the subsequent daylight, and one would only need to question those who didn't show up during the daylight.

Bai Zhou was different. If Alice's clone chose to hide all the time, even if Su Xiao killed Alice in her disguised state, the game wouldn't end; instead, it would be more troublesome. If he killed the wrong person, he would lose a chance to question. Everyone had a right to question, and those who died couldn't use their right to question. This was obvious. What was headache-inducing was that Alice's clone also had a right to question.

Pi Pang, the glasses man, and the Cat Woman wouldn't sacrifice themselves for the sake of others, and it might even be a counterproductive self-sacrifice.

Therefore, killing during the daylight was useless and would even have a counterproductive effect. There was only one way to end the game: to find out who Alice's clone was. There was no other way.

Initially, Su Xiao felt that this game was similar to Werewolf. After a preliminary understanding, he found that compared to this game, Werewolf was simply too simple.

The game rules were formulated in Alice's favor, and there was no fairness to speak of. Alice basically wouldn't show any flaws, and after seven game days passed, Alice would win. This was the biggest weakness of the contractor side.

The contractors' disadvantage was indeed great. However, after the first night, this disadvantage disappeared because Alice chose to attack Su Xiao. She didn't kill Su Xiao, which put Alice at a disadvantage.

What Su Xiao didn't know was that Alice doing this was indeed a personal vendetta; she had once almost been hanged on the Void Platform by the Shadow of Law-Extermination.

Su Xiao knew he wasn't Alice, so the remaining suspects were only Pi Pang, the glasses man, the Cat Woman, the eldest brother, and the second brother.

Among these five, Pi Pang, the glasses man, and the Cat Woman were suspicious, and among these three, Pi Pang and the Cat Woman were more likely to be Alice.

By tomorrow, Su Xiao would choose one of Pi Pang or the Cat Woman to question. As for catering to the public to question himself, he had no intention of doing that at all. If others wanted to suspect him, let them suspect; it had nothing to do with him. In the final analysis, the eight people could calmly discuss who Alice was because of the game rules; victory was the key.

Returning to the room, Su Xiao waited for the night to fall.

The room became dim again. Bubu Wang lay lazily on the bed; it could guess that Alice wouldn't come tonight. Unless Alice was playing the game passively, she wouldn't come to attack Su Xiao tonight.

In the pitch-black corridor, a door opened silently, and a figure walked out. The figure's footsteps were silent, and its form changed while moving, turning into Alice's clone wrapped in black mist.

Alice's clone wasn't in a hurry to choose a room. She first walked down the stairs, sat on the sofa, and looked up at rooms 1 through 8.

"I can't do anything to him for the time being. With that existence's protection, I can't use other methods to kill him except for the regular means in the game, nor can I break the game's rules."

Alice's clone sighed, dismissing the thought of attacking Su Xiao again.

"It's time to enjoy the game. That little girl is very smart. Alice likes this kind of player the most, especially the expression on that little girl's face when she collapses..."

Alice stood up and walked toward Room 1.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged in the room, listening to the sound of high heels stepping on the floor. Suddenly, a shout appeared.

"Ya... Yameidie!!"

A loud shout came from the room next door, and Su Xiao opened his eyes.

"Wait, what are you doing, woo~"

The sound in Room 1 next door disappeared.

"Was she harmed? Unexpectedly, Alice actually went to attack her."

Alice's actions made Su Xiao very puzzled. Under normal circumstances, the other party shouldn't attack Detective Xiao Luoli. There was only one reason: Alice wasn't playing to win; she was just enjoying the game. Thinking this way, Detective Xiao Luoli's reasoning ability would undoubtedly increase the fun of the game.

In Su Xiao's view, Detective Xiao Luoli was very likely to live to the end. Now it seemed that was not the case.

After the sound next door disappeared, the surroundings were dead silent. This dead silence lasted for two hours.

Upon receiving this series of prompts, Su Xiao's pupils constricted. The Cat Woman was dead. Pi Pang, the glasses man, and the eldest and second brothers of the National Football Team were all unable to leave their rooms on the third daylight because they violated the game rules.

It was just one night, and the situation turned from an advantage to a major disadvantage. Now, the only ones who could move freely were Su Xiao, Detective Xiao Luoli, and the third brother. Detective Xiao Luoli was actually attacked but didn't die, which was somewhat surprising.

The third brother was too honest, so his role in this game was not great. In other words, the only ones who could ferret out Alice were Su Xiao and Detective Xiao Luoli.

The situation took a shocking turn. Alice, who was originally at a disadvantage, became at a major advantage in just one night. As for how Pi Pang, the glasses man, and the eldest and second brothers violated the rules, one didn't need to think to know it must have been caused by Alice's clone.

It wasn't that there was no good news; that lucky player had already provided a small amount of information, and that information was crucial.

In Su Xiao's view, that contractor's encounter was not lucky at all. The other party couldn't directly participate in the game, and their life and death depended entirely on the performance of the other seven people. This wasn't luck, but bad luck.

Su Xiao walked out of the room and happened to meet the third brother. The two didn't speak, just went downstairs and sat on the sofa.

Only three people could move freely, and Su Xiao was the only one with the right to question. It wasn't that Alice's clone deliberately left Su Xiao to make the game difficult, but after the fight on the first night, Alice's clone knew she couldn't do anything to Su Xiao. This was also the reason she didn't go to find Su Xiao last night.

Su Xiao could retain this only usable right to question not because he was lucky, but because he was strong enough. This reminded him of the line of blood on the ceiling he had seen before, which read: 'On the third floor, strength is the hard truth. Alice's clone is not impossible to fight.'

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