Chapter 669: Adding Feet to a Snake! What Do You Think… Miss Liang?

When those words were spoken, the atmosphere on the scene suddenly solidified.

Tang Youning knit his brows, not understanding why Su Yang had suddenly made such a move.

Was he testing?

Or perhaps he was being pretentious?

"What do you mean? Explain clearly," Li Zhenhua asked hurriedly.

"Let me speak," Yu Meng also stood up, his gaze fixed on Huang Zhenzhong, "Around eleven o'clock last night, someone, well disguised, entered the stable in the back yard and stayed inside for a full hour."

"If I recall correctly, he should have been carrying something into it."

"I didn't see exactly what it was."

"After coming out, he walked back to the room in a crouching, duck‑step, leaving numerous footprints in the back yard."

"Analysis shows his shoe size should be around size 39."

Huh?

Zhai Sixin's eyes suddenly changed, instantly shifting to look at Huang Zhenzhong and Liang Kaiqi.

"Miss Yu, what does it mean that you're looking at me? Do you think that person is me?" Huang Zhenzhong retorted.

"There's a Lie Detection ability holder present, would you dare say it's not?" Yu Meng stared down at him.

Li Zhenhua slowly rolled up his sleeves, crossed his hands under his chin, and stared at Huang Zhenzhong.

Tang Youning and Su Yang calmly moved to Huang Zhenzhong's sides, like left and right Guardians, restricting his space.

Suddenly the target of everyone's arrows, Huang Zhenzhong's expression remained unchanged as he calmly nodded, "That's right, I did sneak out last night."

"The person who went to the stable was indeed me. To be frank, I simply wanted to see whether the Coachman had left any clues—nothing more, no ulterior motive."

"During that hour, I meticulously inspected every stall, and you know the stable has no lights at night; I could only feel around with my hands."

Speaking of that, he suddenly raised his hand, exposing a dark nail groove, "This is what I left behind while feeling around; it hasn't been washed clean, smelling of strong horse urine."

Tang Youning abruptly seized his arm, lowered his head to examine, and frowned when he smelled the odor.

"Why the stable?" Yu Meng asked again.

"I already said I wanted to see whether Gu Jun had left anything," Huang Zhenzhong emphasized again.

As soon as the words fell, Yu Meng looked at Li Zhenhua.

The latter shook his head, "He didn't lie."

"And then? Did you find anything?" Su Yang asked curiously.

"The stable was a mess, fodder and junk piled together; I spent forty minutes cleaning up and got nothing," Huang Zhenzhong sighed regretfully.

"So during that hour, you spent most of the time cleaning trash, and only a small portion scooping the horse stalls?" Su Yang raised an eyebrow, half‑smiling, said.

"Li Dage has Lie Detection ability; he can discern whether I've spoken falsehoods. If you don't trust me, it shows you don't trust him either," Huang Zhenzhong said.

"I've never doubted Li Dage, but I'm puzzled by your motives," Su Yang patted his shoulder, leaned in a few steps, and continued:

"What a wonderful providential opportunity, when other players are resting you have a chance to explore alone."

"Even though the time is only a brief hour, even ten minutes could yield an Information Gap."

"And you... in the most precious time, you actually performed this bunch of useless work; don't you find it contradictory?"

"Moreover, you must know that the windows of the players' rooms can see the entire back yard, yet you still risk it."

"I think there are only two possibilities—"

"First, you deliberately exposed your position so we could know your route; when things are exposed, you can use Li Dage's innate talent to exonerate yourself."

"Second, the stable is highly special; you must complete a certain task here, but your ability alone can't achieve it, you need to borrow strength!"

As soon as the words fell, Huang Zhenzhong's body gave a barely perceptible shiver.

Though the movement was minute, Su Yang, patting his shoulder, could clearly sense it.

He smiled faintly, speaking softly, "It seems I've hit the mark; you know you can't lie, so you use yourself as a shield to cover others."

Huang Zhenzhong's eyes flickered, but he said nothing.

The situation was unfavorable to him; if he misspoke, Li Zhenhua would surely see through it.

Thus the best response was silence.

No matter how Su Yang spoke or asked, he only needed to keep his mouth shut.

However…

Tang Youning had no intention of letting him go, "I've been to that stable three or four times, inspecting it very thoroughly; you were present then, and it's clear there's no investigative value there."

"Yet you chose this exact moment to probe inside, bearing the risk you knew would be easily exposed."

"What exactly is your purpose?"

Everyone's expression instantly changed, their gazes unkindly fixed on Huang Zhenzhong.

Facing the scene, he remained unflinching, undisturbed.

Su Yang, seeing this, released his grip and said calmly, "It's fine not to speak; if the living keep silent, then we look to the dead for answers."

"I've said... compared to living liars, the dead are the most honest."

Yu Meng's heart stirred, "Are you talking about... Diana?"

Su Yang glanced at Liang Kaiqi, who had only spoken during meals so far, and said, "After I finished washing up and went down the stairs, I noticed something interesting."

"The corpse was already stiff, yet as I passed by I smelled a very faint scent of fodder."

"At first I didn't mind, but you said you were fiddling with the stable's junk last night, and there were horse‑stall marks in the nail grooves."

"Combining Miss Yu's comment that you seemed to be moving something when you entered, I think it must be the corpse!"

What?!

Everyone's complexion changed dramatically, and they all sprang to their feet at once.

"Let's go see!" Li Zhenhua was the first to step out.

Su Yang and Tang Youning walked side by side, right behind, and as they stepped out of the restaurant doorway and looked back, they saw that Huang Zhenzhong was still motionless.

"Brother Huang, shall we go take a look together?"

"Brother Su invited, how could I dare refuse," Huang Zhenhong said slowly as he followed.

The group arrived at the bottom of the stairs and saw that the corpse on the red carpet had already turned into a purple sweet‑potato shape.

The whole body was entirely bluish‑purple, rigid beyond measure.

A few flies were buzzing over it.

Yu Meng pinched her Nose while moving the corpse and asked in doubt, "Su Yang, did you really Fragrance Sense the smell of fodder?"

She had just inhaled a breath and almost got poisoned to death.

Even the world's top Fragrance Sense master would probably be unable to discern.

"He is Lie," Li Zhenhua said.

"Ha?" Yu Meng was startled.

Su Yang crouched beside the corpse, lifted her arm, pointed at the grass fragments in the Finger nail gap and said, "I indeed didn't Fragrance Sense fodder, but the corpse's Finger gap contains something unique to the Stable."

"I lied just now to probe the big fellow's reaction."

"How could a casual remark actually reveal it to me."

"The answer has already become crystal clear; Brother Huang used the situation to conceal, in fact to cover for another person who acted on the corpse."

"Last night there was not just one person and one corpse; in reality there were two people plus a corpse."

"On the return trip, beneath the bulky exterior was actually a person wrapped inside; otherwise why would the Footprints entering the Stable and those exiting differ in depth?"

"This..." Yu Meng's Pupil narrowed slightly.

Hearing Su Yang say that, it indeed seemed to be the case.

The Footprints on the return trip were deep, yet their spacing was uneven!

It was like...

a false scene deliberately created by Huang Zhenzhong.

Su Yang lowered his hand from the corpse, took a square towel from his pocket and wiped it, his gaze landing on the expressionless face of Liang Kaiqi.

"This collaborative crime method was truly ingenious, but unfortunately Brother Huang deliberately left a mark in the Finger gap, which is somewhat superfluous."

"If he hadn't done so, I couldn't have linked to this step."

"My Reasoning should be eight or nine parts out of ten close to the facts, right?"

"What do you think..."

"Miss Liang?"