Chapter 698: Everyone Was Wrong! The Dead Scolded Back to Life?!

Dong—

The bell rang loudly.

"The voting phase begins; players have thirty minutes of free discussion time, and when the time is up they may raise their hands to vote!"

Again?!

Liang Kaiji's corner of the eye twitched slightly, forcing herself to calm down, "This is the last chance; if the murderer still hasn't been chosen, the time will be deducted again, and besides the real killer…"

"Everyone will die!"

Li Zhenhua, fully aware of the seriousness, couldn't help but jam his finger into his mouth, gnawing hard on the edge of his nail.

Tang Youning still wore a bewildered expression, his eyes full of incomprehension.

He still couldn't understand why, after Su Yang's death, the game hadn't ended.

"It shouldn't… shouldn't be…"

He believed his reasoning was completely correct; Su Yang's many words were just an attempt to frame someone else and deliberately stall the time.

And in his eyes, Yu Meng and Li Zhenhua were both fools.

Used as a gun.

If not for his "Silence" Innate Talent evolving to shield the Hang Execution news, Su Yang's plot would surely have succeeded.

Recalling Su Yang's previous behavior, he increasingly felt that all of this was intentional.

The so‑called "misfortune water eastward," deliberately pinning a shit bowl on his head, trying to use the Rule's Hand to kill himself.

Yet now that Su Yang is dead, the game still hasn't ended?!

That just shows…

They were all wrong!

Wrong in an absurd, outrageous way!

The murderer wasn't among the Cook or the Count at all.

But hidden in the Dark Place, silently watching the two tear each other apart.

Then the fisherman profits!

"What a sinister move," Tang Youning clenched his teeth, his gloomy expression sweeping over the faces of the remaining players.

He tried to read clues from their expressions or eyes.

But they, like Tang Youning, had blackened eyes and heads full of question marks.

They had no idea where the problem lay.

"Shall we re‑analyze it?" Yu Meng suggested.

"With just this bit of Luoshi, we've gone over it enough to be sick of it; what else is there to reason about?" Zhai Sixin said.

"Is there perhaps a missing point that hasn't been mentioned?" Li Zhenhua asked.

"Even if there is, could we really kill someone based on a trivial Luoshi? What if we misjudge?" Liang Kaiji hammered the table.

"Then what do we do? Just stare blankly?" Yu Meng's face showed doubt as she said, "By the way, Miss Liang's character also seems to have been tampered with by Gu Jun, could it be…"

"You suspect me?" Liang Kaiji furrowed her brows, displeased, "It has nothing to do with the eight characters; I said I'm the victim!"

"That's not right!" Li Zhenhua thought carefully, then said, "If Gu Jun doesn't know you, why would he mess with you?"

"How would I know." Liang Kaiji shook her head.

Zhai Sixin's eyes flickered, she lifted her voice slightly, "Gu Jun indeed doesn't know her, but he has heard of her."

Ha?

Everyone was stunned.

Tang Youning, as if discovering a New Continent, instinctively withdrew his hand from the table, "You're also from the Old Era Remnant Faction?!"

Liang Kaiji didn't deny it, calmly nodding, "That's right, I, Miss Zhai, and Gu Jun are players from the same era."

"But I don't know them, have never intersected, and have no special Task."

"So I have no idea why Gu Jun would do this; I only just learned that the character I truly play is Diana Mitchell."

"And Diana is the deceased; our Task is to find the murderer. Could you think the murderer might be me?"

"She, someone who would stop at nothing to climb up, how could she end up in a suicide situation?"

"Can you use your brains?"

Tang Youning, holding a different view, retorted, "Why can't it be suicide?"

He stood up, pointing at the severed head on the table, "Su Yang found Sean Davidson's True Body inside Stone Gate and took the head from his neck."

"The one steering the overall situation from outside has always been Rex."

"From this we infer that Diana didn't know this person was a Fake Earl."

"She paid enough sunk cost, including offering her own body; later, when she realized, she was despondent and entertained suicidal thoughts."

Liang Kaiji sneered, "Don't you think your reasoning is contradictory?"

"First, even if Diana didn't know she served a Fake Earl, that doesn't contradict her desire to become a top person."

"Second, she earned enough money by selling slaves; even if she learned the truth, she wouldn't self‑destruct."

"Even if it's fake, so what? Whoever she makes money for is the patron; what significance does that identity have for accountability?"

Based on character, Diana is certainly not someone who would easily entertain thoughts of suicide.

Everything she does stems from a single "profit" motive.

She wouldn't easily go against money.

Tang Youning laughed sarcastically, "Then who do you say the murderer is?"

Liang Kaiji glanced at the three remaining unvoted players and said, "The Countess, the Security Guard, and the Maid are all suspects."

"It's just that we lack sufficient evidence to support it."

"Pah!"

When those words were spoken, Li Zhenhua immediately spat, "What difference does your saying have from farting?"

"If I had evidence, would I still need to listen to your long‑winded rant here?"

"Su Yang is already dead, the only person on the scene who touched the truth is dead, who else do you expect to solve the case?"

"You… you…… still you?"

"Anyway, if this round doesn't hit anyone, the whole bunch will die together, becoming clueless ghosts on Yellow Springs Road."

Tang Youning grew increasingly indignant as he thought about it.

Su Yang's death was one thing, but he didn't even leave anything behind.

It left them as clueless as headless flies.

"Even dead, you still harm people; you're truly a troublemaker!"

After cursing in his heart, he still felt unsatisfied.

He then rose, stood by the window, Finger at the outside Execution Platform's Silhouette, and shouted, "Dead yet you still won't let anyone rest; in the next life, reincarnate as a fish— you Vision Perception I fish you or not?"

Li Zhenhua, his head throbbing, tugged at his collar, "What meaning does saying this now have? The dead cannot be revived."

"We can't possibly expect Su Yang to come back to life and answer our questions, can we?"

Tang Youning let out a cold snort, "Bring a whip, I will lash him hard."

As soon as the words fell, an anomaly suddenly erupted!

Only then, one of the two Silhouettes on the Execution Platform suddenly moved.

"Hm?" Tang Youning at first thought his anger‑induced heart attack had produced a hallucination, and rubbed his eyes.

"Stop looking, no matter how harsh your scolding, you can't scold out evidence," Li Zhenhua sighed.

"Wait, something's wrong!" Tang Youning's eyes widened, staring straight at Su Yang's corpse leg.

"What could be wrong? Could Su Yang really have been revived by your scolding?" Li Zhenhua shook his head, stood and looked outward.

Yet as he cast his Vision Perception outward, he beheld a scene impossible to forget in this lifetime.

"The corpse" kept convulsing, the iron chains being tugged made a clank.

This commotion drew everyone over, crowding around the window.

"This…" Yu Meng, shocked, covered their Mouth.

"My God!"

Li Zhenhua pressed his constantly rising chest, trying to restrain his Crazy beating heart.

"Did you really revive him by scolding?"