Top Horror Novelist - Chapter 13-1

Ah Si wanted to force Chi Yiyin in the name of group interests, but he didn’t think that Chi Yiyin would actually ignore his authority and goodwill, and regarded him as air.

What made Ah Si’s teeth itch with hatred was that Tong Yao also spoke for Chi Yiyin.

But Chi Yiyin’s leisurely and ignorant attitude made Ah Si had to take the initiative to share some useful information in order to keep his position among the players.

Ah Si said: “I believe that all the old players here have seen a lot of recorded and broadcast materials before entering the instance, but the aunt NPC really rarely appeared.”

Chi Yiyin frowned imperceptibly, and listened attentively.

Generally speaking, as long as players know which instance they were about to enter, they would start making corresponding preparations.

The most common method was to purchase recorded and broadcast videos in the live broadcast hall.

The later players will step on the death or success of their predecessors to pass the instance.

But “Dear Home” is not the same.

This instance has another oddity—it never had a complete recording and broadcast material.

However, this point was insignificant compared to other illustrious instances, so few people would mention it.

Even if some people questioned it, most would think that it’s just because no one had ever been able to pass the level.

But Ah Si said that was not the case.

He bought almost all the screen recordings, but found that no one could live broadcast until the third day. Even if the player was still alive at that time, and the live broadcast continued, there was only the messy sound of electric current in the recorded screen, and snowflakes covering the image.

The longest recording only vaguely recorded dense fog, the main gate of the mansion opened automatically, and a tall man appeared at the gate. He’d raise his head silently and slowly, and looked at the camera.

But before he could see the man’s face clearly, the video stopped abruptly, and the player was declared to be dead.

Later players analyzed the recording and agreed that the man was the master of the Ma family who had returned home.

This was also one of the reasons why Master Ma was recognized as the instance’s boss.

In other shorter recordings, although there were very few, the housekeeper in the form of a skeleton did appear several times, and the younger siblings who turned into ghosts.

Only the role of aunt appeared twice only.

One time, she and the other younger siblings fell in a pool of blood and died.

Another time, the aunt had just appeared at the gate of the mansion.

——Then she exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

Some players showed disappointing expressions, but Ah Si told his information with confidence.

“However, although the aunt failed to leave many clues in the video, I still found some information, starting with Madam Ma.”

Madam Ma and the aunt are actually not full-blooded sisters. In that era when the old and the new were changing, Madam Ma was a direct descendant and married the well-matched Master Ma. While the aunt was born from a concubine and married a countryside gentleman.

But after the two got married respectively, they kept in touch and had a good relationship. The aunt often came to visit Ma’s mansion, and Master Ma also helped the aunt’s family a lot.

This time, Madam Ma was seriously ill, and Master Ma left the house. The aunt, who had always been diligent, had not come to see her sick sister for a long time.

It wasn’t until the young miss Ma Yuze came home that the aunt quickly ran over to the door.

“Don’t you find it strange?”

Ah Si said: “Her sister is sick, but she doesn’t come to help and not care about it. However, she immediately ran over when her eldest niece came home, and I just saw Chi Yiyin…”

He looked at Chi Yiyin with a sneer, pretending to be puzzled, and said, “The relationship between Chi Yiyin and the aunt seems to be pretty good, doesn’t it?”

The rest of the people didn’t know that Chi Yiyin used the aunt to complete the mission, but they all saw the two of them coming in together arm in arm, especially Chi Yiyin also saved the aunt once.

Under Ah Si’s guidance and hints, several players looked at Chi Yiyin suspiciously.

“Speaking of which, the murderer who killed a player on the train has not been found yet.”

Ah Si deliberately brought up this matter, and said, “But Chi Yiyin, you should know, right? I think you seemed to have stayed on the train for a while at that time, and you should have found evidence that can identify the murderer, right?”

These words were implying that Chi Yiyin was the murderer, and staying longer was to destroy the evidence, and now there was no evidence to prove it.

Under Ah Si’s lead, two or three players questioned Chi Yiyin, even if they didn’t suspect that he was the murderer, they also asked him if he had reached an agreement with the aunt.

“Someone closed their eyes, is it because they are afraid of their tricks being seen by others?”

A middle-aged player sneered: “Don’t you want to rely on NPCs to pass the level?”

Tong Yao immediately became angry, and stood up. She soon slapped the table: “You fart!”

Several players on the long table quarreled, but neither Ah Si nor Chi Yiyin spoke. One smiled coldly and maliciously, and the other closed his eyes, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

Chi Yiyin’s face seemed to be calm, but his heart was already roaring.

He really didn’t know the identity of the aunt, but he was the only one who knew the existence of the female ghost, and he was very clear about the female ghost’s hatred for her aunt.

When Ah Si talked about the life experience of Madam Ma and her sister, Chi Yiyin immediately reconstructed the image of the aunt in his mind.

As the wife of a countryside gentleman, the aunt was too fashionable.

Most women in this era still wore old-fashioned long skirts. Cheongsam still exposes the skin in various places, which would be labeled as shameless and immoral.

And the aunt was not only wearing a well-fitting cheongsam, but also a pair of small high heels, and her hair had been permed. It was not an exaggeration to say that she came back from Shanghai.

The first possibility Chi Yiyin could think of was funding from the Ma family.

But he immediately realized that the aunt’s expression at that time was that she regarded herself as the madam of the Ma family, and she was not in a state of being short-handed. Moreover, the housekeeper’s attitude towards her was too respectful, and even had a faint tendency to please…

Could it be, the aunt and Master Ma?

No, if it was just like this, Ma Yuze wouldn’t hate her aunt so much.

Chi Yiyin frowned, and his focus fell on Ah Si’s sentence, “The aunt will only come back when the young miss comes back.”

The aunt came here for Ma Yuze. Looking at it now, she is a utilitarian person, and the type that won’t get up early if there were no benefits. Is there anything about Ma Yuze that the aunt wants?

While he was smoothing out his thoughts, the other players were still arguing endlessly, and as the battle situation gradually escalated, some players asked Ah Si to comment, so even Ah Si had to be coerced into it.

At this time, Tong Yao showed her meticulous control of information, and tried to prove to Ah Si that Chi Yiyin was innocent and definitely not a murderer.

After all, as an old player, she is very aware of the malice among players.

Even if the instance has a rule of “one person dies, minus one day,” that was equivalent to binding the interests of all players, so that players will not easily attack each other.

But in the end, there was only one person who could get the rich property of the instance boss.

Although Tong Yao was not willing to face that possibility, she was already guessing that the players would kill each other and fight for that piece of property.

For this reason, it was not impossible for players to eliminate the most powerful competitor in advance.

—As long as all of them agreed.

Although Chi Yiyin had not opened his eyes, his hands under the table had never been idle. He had been sending messages to Tong Yao, telling her what to do, how to guide the players to actively reveal information that he doesn’t have, and to provoke the relationship between players.

He doesn’t understand the game field, but he understands human nature.

Once they are tightly hugged into a group by the opposite side, number alone is enough to pose as a threat.

Chi Yiyin was not afraid of those people’s IQ, even if all the other players joined forces to deal with him, he could still get away smoothly.

However, he didn’t like wasting time on stupid people, and he didn’t want to procrastinate on things that could be solved quickly.

And…. 

From Ah Si’s words just now, Chi Yiyin had discovered that the other party does hold some valuable information.

And this happened to be what he lacked.

So Chi Yiyin sent a message to Tong Yao, telling her to use his method to extract the information from the opposite party, and then isolate him one by one.

Tong Yao looked at Chi Yiyin who still closed his eyes and resting his mind, as if he was indifferent to the situation. She smiled briefly, and then immediately rejoined the scolding battle, one against four.

“Ah Si, you keep saying that you want to be united, but why do I remember that I saw your sales post on the black market before?”

Tong Yao sneered, and threw a bomb: “As early as a few days ago, you have listed the wealth of the Ma family in this instance as a list, and hung it on the black market, right? Including the props that may drop in this instance, and even the instance boss itself… Are you so confident that you can pass this instance smoothly?”

The players who were noisy just now quieted down in an instant, and looked at Ah Si in astonishment with doubts in their eyes.

All the old players present knew that the black market transactions cannot be breached. If you posted a post to sell, you must have something corresponding to sell it to the buyer.

Dared to post it in advance, and with details, it only showed one thing – Ah Si rushed to get all the rewards early on, and he was bound to get it, and he would not give it to anyone.

But in this way, there will only be one person who cleared the instance, and the rest… will all die.

Ah Si can’t be trusted!

He clearly wanted to kill them one by one after gaining their trust.

Although they didn’t know how Ah Si hid his post so that the instance players except Tong Yao didn’t notice it, but this aroused the players’ doubts about Ah Si even more.

The already fragile trust collapsed in an instant.

Ah Si was obviously flustered for a moment, but quickly calmed down. He pointed at Tong Yao and said, “What’s so good about Chi Yiyin that lets you charge forward for him like this? Let me tell you, weren’t you just pretending to not know him when you get in the train?”

He glanced at Li Li and his companion vaguely, and said meaningfully: “Everyone knows that this instance is difficult, and some of them took the initiative to choose this instance, but they brought their companion. But some people showed their companion openly, while the other just sneak around like mice.”

“Tong Yao, don’t you and Chi Yiyin just want us to be suspicious of each other, and after we kill each other, the two of you will be the one to benefit from it?”

Ah Si sneered: “Do you think that everyone here is an idiot and can’t see your trick?”

The few players who trusted Ah Si at the beginning looked suspiciously at Tong Yao and Chi Yiyin again.

“Ah Si is right, Tong Yao is indeed suspicious, and so is that Chi Yiyin…”

“Could he have used a special prop to change his profile? Although there are a large number of people in the game field, anyone with strength is well known, but such a person has never been seen.”

“And he also triggered the entire instance’s hatred value… This kind of thing, how can it be triggered so easily? He did it on purpose, didn’t he plan to kill us from a long time ago?”

The two players sitting around Ah Si immediately agreed, pointing their finger at Chi Yiyin sentence by sentence.

The newcomers were completely confused, and all looked at the attitudes of these old players to make choices. The rest of the newcomers, who didn’t think there was anything wrong with Chi Yiyin at first, gradually became suspicious.

Tong Yao was so angry that she wanted to flip the table, but Chi Yiyin’s reminder from under the table managed to calm her down. She stood there without saying a word, and only looked at the faces of the players in front of her with a sneer.

Seeing that Tong Yao had stopped talking, Ah Si thought it was because she didn’t have any words, and immediately became complacent.

He cleared his throat and successfully reaped the silence on the long table, which made Ah Si very satisfied.

“Based on my 10 years of experience in the game field, I really think that Chi Yiyin and Tong Yao are very suspicious. I was just wondering, since they are a man and woman. Could they be the famous couple on the Morning Star List?”

After Ah Si finished speaking, he paused deliberately.

Then he continued to say, “But I don’t want to wrong Chi Yiyin at will. After all, in my opinion, if you help each other, you will have a better chance at passing the level. Otherwise, let’s be fair.”

Ah Si grinned and said slowly, “Let’s vote to decide whether Chi Yiyin is right or not. If most people think Chi Yiyin is dangerous, let’s…”
Kill him.