Chapter 670: The Fishy, Rank Smell Mixed in with the Pine Incense?! A High-Quality Threat?

Liang Kaiqi?

Everyone immediately turned to look, their expressions shifting.

One Huang Zhenzhong was already surprising enough, but they never expected Su Yang to deduce that someone else was assisting him?

"Me?" Liang Kaiqi pointed at herself, slightly stunned.

She never imagined that Su Yang's entire analysis would take such a twist and turn the blame onto her.

This train of thought...

"Did I say something wrong?" Su Yang glanced at the corpse; due to the foul stench, he stepped back a few paces to keep a deliberate distance.

"Huang Zhenzhong wasn't stupid enough to go Nightwalker alone, carrying the risk of being punished by the rules to run a Useless errand at the stable."

"Furthermore... Yu Meng clearly saw someone sneaking in carrying something on their back."

"When they came back, their figure was bulky, and based on the varying depths of the footprints and the difference in stride length, I can be certain..."

"You went in with him and came out with him, except the corpse wasn't brought out when you left."

"I think... my second hypothesis from earlier seems more reasonable—he needed to borrow strength, and the stable was the key!"

"Borrow your strength! The stable held the Prerequisite Condition for you to activate your Innate Talent!"

"The corpse—it lets you find the Breakthrough Key!"

As soon as these words were spoken, both Huang Zhenhong and Liang Kaiqi's expressions changed.

His logic and analysis of their movements were as if he had installed surveillance on them!

And with Li Zhenhua keeping a tight 'watch' on the side, there was no possibility of deception.

With things having reached this point, a flash of resolve and determination passed through Liang Kaiqi's eyes. "What makes you so sure I participated in last night's action?"

"Where's the evidence? Just that bit of debris under the victim's fingernails?"

"Mr. Su Yang, you yourself said solving a case requires evidence; baseless speculation won't convince anyone!"

Su Yang had already anticipated she would argue like this.

So he turned his gaze to Tang Youning. "Brother Tang, you must have noticed it when you were distributing the noodles, right?"

"The smell?" Tang Youning blurted out.

"Exactly the smell!" Su Yang nodded, turned, and walked over to Liang Kaiqi, looking her up and down. He continued, "Time was tight and the Task was heavy. When you came out and left the corpse in the stable, it must have been because your Innate Talent's duration had reached its limit."

"To be precise, Huang Zhenzhong's Innate Talent time was almost up, and you had to return to the room."

"While waiting for the Cooldown Time, you must have been anxious—worried that a second trip out would draw attention with the noise, and also worried about not having enough time."

"So while you waited, you were also figuring out how to minimize the risk."

"Maybe it was panic, or maybe you weren't careful enough—you didn't clean up all the debris from the corpse. Even though you and Huang Zhenzhong put the body back in its original position, you still left a flaw."

"You believed the foul smell from the corpse's decay would perfectly cover the smell you picked up in the stable, but you forgot to clean yourself up."

As he spoke, Su Yang touched Liang Kaiqi's hair, and her body suddenly stiffened.

He took a deep breath, pulled it all the way into his Lung, then let out a long sigh. "I imagine that when you two went out a second time in the early hours and came back, you didn't have time to shower."

"To be precise, a woman can't dry her long, wet hair in such a short time."

"You were worried that walking around with wet hair would draw too much attention, so you used the room's incense."

"If I remember correctly, the room you're staying in is one of the Maid's quarters, and there was just a bit of pine incense left in the room."

"And your hair... while it's fragrant, it's also mixed with a unique, fishy, rank smell from the stable!"

"It's faint, but... it's especially pungent."

Boom!

A single stone stirred up a thousand waves!

Su Yang's words made every player present change color.

Especially Yu Meng.

She had initially thought it was just Huang Zhenzhong or Liang Kaiqi causing trouble behind the scenes.

But she never expected it to be a conspiracy between the two of them!

On the surface, their cooperation was seamless, yet the flaw was just that bit of stuff under the corpse's fingernails?

"No wonder I smelled pine incense just now." Tang Youning suddenly realized.

He had been suspicious since then, but he hadn't connected it to these aspects.

After all, carrying a corpse to the stable in the dead of night was somewhat absurd.

Now, hearing Su Yang's 'decryption,' he understood.

As one of the parties involved, Huang Zhenzhong's expression was extremely grim, dark enough to drip water.

Su Yang's deductions matched their actions by seven or eight out of ten.

His Innate Talent indeed had a duration and a long Cooldown Time.

During that period, he had to ensure no mistakes occurred.

Huang Zhenzhong had long thought that a place with a strong smell like the stable would make it easy for someone to notice something.

So after returning from the second trip, he showered immediately and scrubbed himself many times with soap.

But Liang Kaiqi couldn't let her hair air-dry naturally in a short time like a man could.

Therefore, he repeatedly urged her to make sure to clean up all loose ends, so no one could notice anything.

And Liang Kaiqi did just that, even using up all the remaining pine incense.

Yet Su Yang still saw through it.

"So... all this happened while we were sleeping last night?" Zhai Sixin said with interest.

She had thought it would be calm, but the reality was completely different.

"Spill it. What's your real purpose?" Su Yang said slowly.

"What if I don't?" Huang Zhenzhong hissed.

"Hehe…" Su Yang coldly gave a Laugh, "Then we'll pick one of you two to be voted out tonight, after all only the murderer would conceal the crime Luoshi."

The crowd all stepped forward together, forming a surrounding circle around the two.

Their gazes were hostile, each moment wrapped with murderous intent.

"Speak!" Li Zhenhua shouted loudly.

The voice was like thunder, deafening.

Liang Kaiji, pressed by the crowd's oppressive feeling, drew in their neck, their gaze extremely unpleasant.

Su Yang, seeing the two still silent, immediately added a Fire, "Alright, if either of you speaks first, that person can avoid being forced to bear the push."

"As for the one who speaks later…"

"... can only apologize to them in advance."

As Liang Kaiji gritted their teeth, ready to reveal, their wrist was suddenly seized.

Turning around, they saw Huang Zhenzhong with a calm face, "If the two of us both stay silent, what can you do with us?"

"The number of votes left is at most two; are you willing to listen to Su Yang, wasting the votes on two possibly unrelated people?"

"If you, for a moment's thrill over this matter, keep voting wrong…"

"Then everyone except the murderer will have to be buried with us!"

"I am just a Dependents, that's fine, but there are two Ascend God Seeds present; your lives are entangled with many, you surely wouldn't want to die here so easily, would you?"

Huang Zhenzhong's words were very effective; in just a moment they made people's Brow furrowed tightly, their hearts conflicted.

"Alright, alright…" Su Yang clapped repeatedly, his face showing approval.

"I haven't heard such a high-quality threat in a long time."

"Interesting!"