Chapter 27: Clues from the Lucky Game Player
Su Xiao successfully resisted Alice's clone, so she no longer came to harass him.
"Where did that little girl go?"
The words of the third brother of the National Football Team interrupted Su Xiao's thoughts. He suddenly remembered that last night, Room 1 was the first to be attacked, and he had heard the detective loli's shout.
Creak~
The door to Room 1 was pushed open, and the detective loli walked out step by step, her pupils somewhat dim. Like a walking corpse, she descended the stairs and sat on the sofa beside Su Xiao.
"Hey."
Su Xiao nudged the detective loli.
"Sister Alice~"
The detective loli cupped her cheeks with both hands, a blush spreading across her face.
"Oh?"
Su Xiao paused, then carefully examined the detective loli.
At this moment, the detective loli had a mysterious blush, her smile so lewd it could rot, as if she had been force-fed hundreds of pounds of aphrodisiac.
"This... seems broken. Look at her, drooling from smiling."
The third brother of the National Football Team leaned in with his big face.
Su Xiao pushed the third brother aside, grabbed the detective loli by the collar, and channeled Cyan Steel Shadow Energy into his hand.
Slap, slap, slap...
Su Xiao delivered several heavy slaps to the detective loli's face, a true back-and-forth beating. The third brother of the National Football Team winced as he watched.
After Su Xiao gave the detective loli a few of her "favorite" big mouthfuls, she thudded onto the sofa.
"Huh? What happened to me? My face hurts so much~"
The detective loli slowly came to, then suddenly remembered something and immediately hugged her shoulders.
"I was night-attacked by Alice last night!"
The detective loli's breathing quickened, her eyes wide open.
"You're not dead yet, are you."
The third brother of the National Football Team was unimpressed.
"What do you know? Last night, I... I..."
The detective loli couldn't bring herself to say it. She couldn't exactly say that last night, Alice stripped her naked and used her as a shivering body pillow for an hour.
"That damn old woman, such a disgrace!!"
Tears welled up in the detective loli's eyes. As a third-rank contractor, being stripped and used as a body pillow was hardly better than death.
"We have to find her..."
As the detective loli spoke, a pink light suddenly flashed in her pupils.
"Sister Alice~"
The detective loli's cheeks flushed again, her expression one of being completely wrecked. Seeing this, the third brother closed his eyes in despair. Until the game ended, the detective loli would likely be in this state often.
"Brother Bai Ye, it's just us two now."
The third brother of the National Football Team straightened up. Su Xiao grunted in acknowledgment and said nothing more. He picked up a piece of white paper from the stone table—this was the information provided by that lucky game player.
Seeing the content on the white paper, Su Xiao felt a headache coming on. The content was far too "rich."
【O*】
That was all on the white paper. He couldn't tell if it was the letter O or a drawing of an egg, and the * symbol beside it was even more ambiguous.
"A woman with a sick sense of humor."
Su Xiao muttered, referring to Alice. The current situation was deliberately created by Alice. He could act freely because Alice couldn't do anything to him, while the third brother of the National Football Team was intellectually despised by Alice, and he had no right to question anything.
The detective loli alternated between normal and corrupted states. She was normal for about 30 seconds, then turned into a corrupted loli for 5 to 10 minutes.
The known clues were a mess. Fatty Pi, Glasses, and the first and second brothers of the National Football Team couldn't leave their rooms during the day and couldn't transmit information outside. The third brother had already tested this—those rooms were sealed by a barrier.
As for the dead Catwoman, she was another "black hole." Who knew if she was really dead, or if Alice's clone, in desperation, had sacrificed some game fun and chosen to "commit suicide" to confuse others.
The game had progressed to this point, vastly different from previous games. Personal grudges were involved. Sacrificing a clone to kill Su Xiao was something Alice herself would welcome.
What none of the players knew was that this game was no longer about Alice's amusement; personal enmity was mixed in.
As Su Xiao was summarizing the clues, the white paper on the stone table was picked up by the detective loli, who had temporarily regained her senses.
"From what we know, there's a 60% chance or more that Alice is hiding among Fatty Pi, Glasses, and the first and second brothers of the National Football Team. Of course, Catwoman can't be ruled out, but the probability is lower. The clues on this paper are too sparse. Is it a circle? The letter O? Or a blood type? And what does the * symbol mean?"
The detective loli spoke rapidly, but she wasn't finished.
"If we want to be safe, first question the deceased No. 5. If we want to take a risk, question No. 3 or No. 4. We..."
Before she could finish, her body suddenly leaned toward Su Xiao.
"Sister Alice~"
Su Xiao pushed the detective loli away. She was climbing onto him like a raccoon, disturbing his thoughts.
"No. 3, No. 4, No. 5. No. 6, No. 7..."
Su Xiao was very troubled. He felt his brain cells were "burning." This game was far too mind-bending.
"O shape, what does that represent?"
Su Xiao's gaze swept over the number plates of the eight rooms. Perhaps the clue was among them.
"O, O, O, O your sister!"
Su Xiao tossed the white paper aside. What kind of idiot left such a clue? The scope was so broad. Even if they had drawn a sow, Su Xiao could have narrowed the suspect down to a female. But no, they had to draw an O. Truly idiotic.
"Idiot?"
Su Xiao looked at the third brother of the National Football Team.
"Brother Bai Ye, why are you cursing me?"
The third brother's expression turned awkward.
"I wasn't talking about you. The person who drew this isn't an idiot; the clue is just a bit complicated."
Su Xiao stood up and picked up the white paper. He took a pen from his storage space and drew a line from the * symbol to the center of the O shape.
"Third brother, what does this look like to you?"
A smile gradually appeared on Su Xiao's face.
"Uh... a broken egg?"
The third brother smiled sheepishly.
"No, it looks a lot like a broken pair of glasses."
Smack!
The third brother slapped his thigh and suddenly stood up.
"So that's it! Awesome, Brother Bai Ye!"
The third brother was excited. Who Alice was seemed obvious.
"What happened?"
The detective loli woke up, and the third brother immediately relayed the known information to her. But before he could finish, the detective loli showed that "happy" smile again, making the third brother very awkward.
"Brother Bai Ye, it should be correct. Such an obvious hint—the gold-rimmed glasses guy is Alice in disguise. Looking closely, it really is a broken pair of glasses."
"It is indeed a broken pair of glasses, but it can't directly express identity. That's the O+* combination."
Su Xiao lowered his eyelids. From the current situation, Alice could do a lot within the game rules, like making contractors other than him violate the rules and imprisoning them in their rooms.
"If it were just to express the keyword 'glasses,' there would be no need to add the * to represent broken glasses. That complicates the information. If I were the gold-rimmed glasses guy and wanted to express that I am Alice, I would use a simpler method, not something as complex as 'broken glasses.'"
Although Su Xiao wasn't good at reasoning, he could synthesize the known information. It was like combat—by continuously engaging the enemy, you learn their fighting style.
"I think I know who Alice is."