Chapter Sixty-Four: The Key Point

  In the depths of my mind, I'm filled with doubts. Everything is difficult to connect logically. The mysterious assassins and secret passages are inexplicable. It seems that Shen Wan wants everyone to uncover the secrets of the castle. But these secrets are already known to Shen Wan. All this doesn't make any sense at all. However, it makes perfect sense for the assassins, as they're lured by oil paintings and gold, dispersing to search individually. Yet, most areas of the castle have no surveillance, so how can the assassins quickly find their prey even with guns, night vision devices, and familiarity with the castle's layout?

  Is it indiscriminate shooting? No. If so, there wouldn't be just two deaths.

  "I've found it, I've found it." A man in his forties excitedly ran down from the second floor to the dining room, holding a trump card. It was Little Wang. He hastily ran up to Lin's face and asked: "Is it, is it?"

  Lin Guanjia didn't rush to answer, picked up the poker card and went to the Golden Stage. He took out a small device and scanned the QR code on the poker card. Then he looked at the screen of the device and nodded: "Congratulations, this kilogram of gold is yours."

  The man took the gold, bit it and raised it up shouting: "Yes."

  Everyone asked: "Where did you find it?"

  "Second floor!" The man said: "In an old castle room, found under an old typewriter."

  Yu Ming saw Du Qingqing fidgeting and said, "Don't be in a hurry, I haven't figured out the last two questions yet."

  Du Qingqing asked: "When did you become a detective?"

  "Conan has watched too many," Yu Ming replied. Of course, Yu Ming didn't have the same level of professional forensic knowledge as Li Fu, he just positioned everything as a scam, a high-input scam. From this perspective, everything is relatively clear. Yu Ming had two questions: First, what was Shen Wan's goal? Second, was the killer within Shen Wan's calculations?

  The twenty people selected by Muhai are not random. They were carefully chosen by Shen Wan to participate in the scam. In other words, those who passed the initial selection were not the targets of the scam, but rather decoys used to confuse and distract. The gold and poker cards were all used to create confusion. The real target was one of the people with a number after 030.

  Ye Zhan watched the lip language, two questions? Only two questions left? He still had a knot of mystery that hadn't been solved. Ye Zhan couldn't help but pull Yu Ming aside to ask him clearly what the two questions were. Yu Ming pulled Zhang Nuonan and said: "At noon when we ate, I think there are three suspicious people at the dinner table, 041, 043, and 030. Now that the first two are dead, do you think it's possible to find 030 and ask him if he has any clues?"

  A flash of lightning cut across, a figure fell from top to bottom, landing on the empty ground in front of the restaurant. Someone shouted loudly, Zhang Nuo let everyone retreat and went out of the restaurant himself. In a moment, Zhang Nuo came back and said to Ming Dao: "030 is dead. Shot in the back too."

  Zhang Nuon turned around and said loudly, "There is a ruthless killer in this mansion. Everyone stay on the first floor dining room position to protect each other, do not leave alone. Li Fu, you come with me."

  Li Fu and Zhang Nuonan went to the second floor to take a look, then to the third floor. They discovered the scene of 030 falling from the building. From the scene, it can be seen that 030 was hit and killed. The murderer dragged him to the railing and threw him down. The shell casings at the scene were exactly the same as those in the first two murder cases.

  "Can the helicopter come over?"

  "There is no suitable landing site for the helicopter on this side of the estate. Moreover, the heavy rain is accompanied by thunder and lightning, and the terrain is high. In addition, since we did not actively seek help, it would be difficult for the helicopter to take off."

  "How many more people will have to die?"

  Zhang Nuo didn't speak, there were about forty contestants, twelve in the dining hall. Three people died. More than twenty people scattered throughout the castle, perhaps some had been harmed, perhaps some were lost, perhaps some knew nothing and were still focused on finding treasure.

  ……

  A scam must have a purpose. The most common one is to get money. Less often, it's for revenge or entertainment. Shen Wan's wealth can rule out the possibility of wanting money or entertainment. That leaves only one possibility: revenge. The 300 million is bait to lure the enemy to the mansion. Why would the enemy come? Shen Wan probably doesn't know who the enemy is; otherwise, with his wealth, he could hire a hitman to hunt down the target.

  Tie clip, 300 million... Yu Ming started biting his fingernails, what's the connection...

  "Don't bite your nails." Du Qingqing pushed Yu Ming's hand away just like she would with her nagging sister.

  Yu Ming's mind was completely disrupted by this sudden realization, and it took him two seconds to come back to his senses. Yu Ming nodded: "En en." He thought about it himself, reversing the scam. Right, reversing the scam. Suppose Shen Wan used 30 million to lure in enemies, but what about the killer? Did Shen Wan hire a killer himself? Or was the appearance of the killer calculated into the scam? There must be a crucial factor that he hadn't thought of, and he couldn't piece together all the events into an elaborate scam.

  "Stop biting your nails," Du Qingqing corrected again.

  Ye Zhan wanted to get rid of Du Qingqing, he observed Yu Ming and saw his eyes flashing, but was interrupted by Du Qingqing twice, which made him furious. Huh? Why can this kid figure out what I couldn't? It's impossible for me to be dumber than him.

  Yu Ming turned around and walked towards the self-service restaurant. He picked up a bread and put it on the tablecloth, pretending it was Shen Wan, then picked up another bread as Lin Guanjia. Then he sprinkled some breadcrumbs to represent the contestants, how could he tell which breadcrumbs were his own? Yu Ming looked at the people in the dining hall, then looked surprised and serious for a few moments. He looked back at the breadcrumbs, then walked directly to the second floor.

  Yu Ming stood on the second floor and turned around, saying: "Don't follow me."

  Ye Zhan hummed and turned on the flashlight, walking forward. Then he entered the darkness. Ye Zhan took out a night vision device from his bag to observe Yu Ming. Yu Ming looked around, took out the flashlight, disassembled it, and then pulled out a GPS chip from inside.

  It's indeed Shen Wan who is behind the scenes. It's likely that he hired an assassin. However, this raises another question. If Shen Wan needed to hire an assassin to kill his target, there was no need to hold this game at all; he could have simply bought off the assassin and had them take care of it. Why go through so much trouble? The key point is still unclear. With the bridge explosion, the locator, and the elaborate sea selection process, all these steps could have been skipped. Moreover, why did Shen Wan want revenge in the first place? For whom was he seeking revenge?

  Ye Zhan took out a locator from his flashlight and cursed in his heart. He had been ambushed, and someone had set him up. After taking out the locator, he was almost certain that Shen Wan was the mastermind behind it all. Because according to Zhang Nuonan's words, only Shen Wan's room in the entire villa had a backup power source. And this locator's range was only 800 meters.

  Yu Ming shouted: "Ye Zhan."

  "...". Ye Zhan slipped into the darkness and then took off his night vision goggles to answer: "What's up." This action seemed somewhat obscene.

  Ye Zhan walked over and said to Yu Ming: "Can you take me to where the body of 043 was found?"

  "Go."

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  PS2: The previous chapters had an error in the gold price conversion, which has been corrected. Thank you to the readers for pointing it out. Xiaomi has integrity and would never say that the unit is US dollars, even if I did, you wouldn't believe me anyway.