Chapter 73: Eating Candy

"The box already contains the standard answers to the ten questions just now. Officer Qi, thank you for being a teacher once and comparing everyone's answers. Oh! By the way, for the sake of ritual..." As she spoke, Zhong Kui clapped her hands twice, and Meng Apo took out a blackboard from the inner room.

Zhong Kui stood up, handed a piece of chalk to He Zhixin, and said: "Lao He, you represent everyone and count the votes."

He Zhixin lost all his blood, sitting in his seat and not standing up for a long time.

But Zhong Kui leaned so close, those ethereal eyes staring at his face, as if there was a kind of magic, making him unable to resist her instructions.

After a few minutes of awkward stalemate, He Zhixin still lost to Zhong Kui, took the chalk from Zhong Kui's hand unwillingly, and walked to the blackboard under everyone's gaze.

On the other side, Qi Fei had already organized everyone's answers and compared them with the standard answers one by one.

The results of the ten questions came out quickly.

Wang Dakang got zero points, and the others only answered one or two questions correctly, presumably by guessing.

Only He Zhixin, behind his name were two complete "Zheng" characters—he answered all ten questions correctly.

Wang Dakang complained loudly: "Ten years have passed. At that time, I was busy saving people. Who the hell cares about these broken details!"

However, the others were silent, staring at He Zhixin's back. He faced the blackboard and didn't turn around for a long time.

Zhong Kui's sweet yet cold voice came: "Yes, Wang Dakang, you are absolutely right. Ten years have passed, so many details, who would remember them all?" She said, standing up from the chair, the sound of high heels "clack, clack, clack" coming from behind He Zhixin.

"I think even a fool knows who the final winner of this game is, right?" Zhong Kui took out a "candy" and leaned toward He Zhixin again.

In the gloomy room, Xiao You's childish voice came: "Mom, I want to eat candy."

Xiao You was probably the only one at the scene who envied He Zhixin.

"An extreme egoist is most suitable for such a game. Congratulations," Zhong Kui said sarcastically. He Zhixin opposite her stood stiffly in place like a statue.

Zhong Kui whispered in He Zhixin's ear: "Is it possible that there is poison in your chalk? If you don't eat this antidote within a minute, the possibility of being saved is very small."

He Zhixin turned his head to look at Zhong Kui suddenly.

Zhong Kui showed a big smile, but there was no feeling of joy, only endless threats.

Not to mention He Zhixin was terrified, even Qi Fei on the side was shaken—Zhong Kui's smile perfectly matched the monster's face that appeared repeatedly in previous cases in his mind, that smile that seemed to come from heaven, but was so close to the devil when looked at closely.

He Zhixin dropped the chalk in horror because his fingertips had begun to go numb.

"It's okay, you don't have to believe it. However, you know I can kill people; we are the same kind." Zhong Kui's eyes stared at He Zhixin, and the terrible pressure made He Zhixin unable to breathe.

He snatched the pill from Zhong Kui's hand and stuffed it into his mouth. However, the moment he swallowed it, his face changed immediately. He suddenly fell to the ground, retching, so disgusted that he couldn't even speak.

"What did you feed me?!" He Zhixin vomited until his veins bulged, his eyes red, asking intermittently.

"Here is..." Zhong Kui elongated her voice, "Chen Liangdi's cephalosporin pills, the dust from Old Lin's house, Yue Fengsheng's vomit, plus the corpse water of Old Yu and Ai Lili mixed together. How is it, is it exceptionally delicious? That kind of deathly rot, have you imagined it countless times in the dead of night? Oh, no, you dare not imagine it; they never dirtied your hands. You just used your dark schemes to let them rot with this building."

He Zhixin shook his head stubbornly: "I don't know what you are talking about!"

At this time, Zhong Kui's expression suddenly changed, as if she had changed into another person, and said to He Zhixin in a low voice: "A-Xin, I was so good to you, introduced you to work, taught you the craft of lock picking, but you, for the sake of the house, not only killed me, but also splashed dirty water on me after I died. Are you really not afraid of heaven's punishment for doing this?"

He Zhixin's face changed, looking at Zhong Kui tremblingly: "You, who are you?"

"You don't even remember me? The thing I shouldn't have done most was discuss the handling of Guiyue Apartment's property with you. From that time on, you made up your mind that I would become the scapegoat for everything, right? I knew it. When I discussed it with you, your expression of having no reaction at all was because long before me, you had gone to inquire that the houses in Guiyue Apartment were to be sold, and there was only one way, which was for one person to take the property deed of the whole building to buy it back from the company, right?"

"You are scaring me. I don't believe it. I don't know anything!" He Zhixin denied firmly. He wanted to clench his fists to hit someone, but because of the reward antidote, he was weak all over. On one side was the churning stomach, and on the other was the sudden mental blow. Under the astonished eyes of everyone, he trembled all over.

"Lao He, it wouldn't be Old Yu coming back..." Zhao Xiaozhen reminded He Zhixin inappropriately.

"Nonsense! Old Yu didn't die at all. I saw it. It was he who stole the trash cans to hide the corpse, he who copied everyone's keys, he who..." As he spoke, he couldn't help but vomit again.

"Clap, clap, clap..." Applause sounded at the scene, and Zhong Kui "praised" sarcastically: "Truly impeccable! But how did you know all this?"

"I, I guessed it!" He Zhixin's eyes dodged.

Zhong Kui suddenly leaned in front of He Zhixin, so close that she was about to touch him. He Zhixin was so scared that he fell from the chair and backed away.

"A-Xin, I'm so cold. That place is cold and wet. What kind of place is it?" Zhong Kui stared at He Zhixin with straight eyes, holding herself with both hands, as if she were really cold.

"You are not Old Yu, you are not..." He Zhixin denied stubbornly.

"I want to tell them how you killed me, I want to tell them where you hid me, which mountain you hid me in, why you put me in someone else's grave?..."

When he heard this, He Zhixin's expression, which was close to collapse, recovered instantly, just like a defeated beast suddenly finding a flaw in the hunter. He shouted as if he was afraid of missing this counterattack opportunity: "You are lying! Old Yu never left this building!" ===== CHAPTER 74 =====