The Anarchic Consort c1-1376

by Warring Young Seven

  "Are you quite done?!" Chen Feiyang's hands were tightly clenched, and his expression was also beginning to look nasty.

  Guo Tingting stood her ground and looked like she still wanted to say something.

  However, she was interrupted by Helian Weiwei. "It's true that this murderer is quite stupid. But there are very few men who aren't blind, so they're only worthy of getting played around by women like Dong Sichun, and only those who don't end up in such a situation are worthy of you. So Miss Tingting, besides this, what else did you see?"

  "Halfway through making out, they suddenly started arguing. But perhaps they were afraid that someone else might hear them, so they kept their voices low but I could see them pushing each other. Eventually they moved to another area that I couldn't see and I didn't see them anymore. I suppose they made up after that. I was bored watching them and I was really sleepy that day, so I fell asleep after that." After Guo Tingting finished saying this, she let out a heavy sigh. "Besides this, I'm not hiding anything else. Actually, there are many other things about Dong Sichun that I don't want to talk about. As her roommate, I know all about which professor she's sleeping with and what sort of attitude she had towards these men, but she was pretty amazing at covering all this up. I'm not sure if I should say that women understand women better, or that all these men are just brainless."

  Chapter 1080 - She Actually Saw the Murderer

  Neither of the two boys had a pleasant look on their faces.

  Helian Weiwei didn't care about what they thought and looked at Guo Tingting. "That's all you saw?"

  "Yes." When Guo Tingting answered her, she didn't look into Helian Weiwei's eyes.

  Helian Weiwei paused. "If I were you, I would choose to tell the truth now."

  Guo Tingting was a bit uneasy. "Can you guarantee that the murderer won't kill me?"

  "Of course." Helian Weiwei smiled. "And I will know who he is very soon."

  Guo Tingting hesitated, then she said, "I had really fallen asleep, but because I didn't close the window, I woke up from being bitten by mosquitoes. I was about to get up to get mosquito repellent when I heard the sound of something heavy falling from across the room. I looked up and saw a figure standing on the rooftop and this person seemed to be looking downwards."

  "In other words, you saw Dong Sichun's murderer?" Helian Weiwei's eyes narrowed. "Why didn't you tell the police about such an important matter?"

  Guo Tingting hurriedly explained, "They didn't ask me about these things at all. Moreover, the school clearly wanted to suppress this matter. I wasn't sure if Dong Sichun had committed suicide or if she had been killed either. Surely I couldn't simply say such things, right?"

  "None of these things are the main point, right?" Helian Weiwei's voice was very indifferent. "You didn't say it because you didn't like Dong Sichun in the first place. In addition, there was only half a year before you would graduate. You didn't want to get into any trouble because of this matter."

  Guo Tingting paused for a moment and her entire face flushed red. "I really didn't like her. She was just a s.l.u.t, so why should I take the risk to speak up for her?"

  "Alright, then let me ask you another question. Since you didn't tell the police about this matter, who did you tell?" Helian Weiwei hit the nail on the head. After all, this was the key to determining the murderer this time.

  Guo Tingting shook her head and her face was filled with confusion. "I'm the only one who knows about this."

  "Think about it carefully, have you unintentionally revealed it before?" Helian Weiwei tried to jolt Guo Tingting's memory. "Particularly during the recent months?"

  Guo Tingting shook her head again, but then she suddenly seemed to have thought of something. "I have a habit of writing short stories, so I wrote this as part of a short story and posted it on my social media. Only my friends can see these stories. Is there a problem? I changed all the names and I didn't even mention the time nor place."

  "If the killer saw it, then there's a problem." Helian Weiwei's voice remained quiet. "If I'm not wrong, the police must have asked you many times if you saw anything on the rooftop that night. After all, your hostel block is very near to the building she jumped down from, and your curtains were drawn. If you weren't in deep sleep, you would definitely have seen something. The police asked you these questions, and then you posted this short story, so the murderer would be able to draw the link and conclude that you must have lied back then. Perhaps this killer is very stupid when it comes to judging a woman's character, but he's very clever in other aspects. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to use this escape room to murder someone."

  Guo Tingting's eyes trembled. Once she thought of how all her actions had been observed by the murderer, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart.

  Helian Weiwei continued, "That's why he mistakenly thought that Zhang Heng was the murderer who killed Dong Sichun. It's because of this short story you posted. To him, the only other person on the rooftop that night was Zhang Heng, so the person who pushed Dong Sichun down had to be Zhang Heng."

  "It wasn't Zhang Heng!" Guo Tingting vehemently denied it. "I never said that the figure I saw was Zhang Heng."

  Helian Weiwei's gaze calmly focused on her. "It's true that you never said that the figure you saw was Zhang Heng, but you also didn't tell the murderer if that figure you saw was tall or thin, or fat or skinny, and that's how he ended up killing the wrong person."

  By now, Guo Tingting no longer spoke and only lowered her head.

  "What I want to investigate isn't the previous case, but this one." After Helian Weiwei got to this point, she lifted her eyelids and glanced at Chen Feiyang. "Mr. Chen, now that things have come to this, are you still going to say that all of this is irrelevant and absurd?"

  Chen Feiyang did not speak but his fists were tightly clenched. "I know you suspect me, but I can tell you that I have never killed anyone. Since it is a murder case within an escape room, then it must have been planned right from the designing of this room. But I don't own this escape room, so no matter how much research on mechanisms I've done, it's impossible for me to install and trigger mechanisms within a room that I'm not familiar with."

  "Regarding this escape room, I believe there are strategies posted online about how to get through the various stages. Since all of you already know the backstory of this escape room, it's not impossible to run a search on all the mechanisms it contains," Helian Weiwei slowly explained. "Besides, you were the one leading the whole way, and you were the fastest at solving clues. Even though you guys never made it to the last lock, it's very obvious that the thought process of the killer would be the fastest. This particular escape room fulfils all the things he's been thinking about, and that's why he chose to kill here, isn't it so?"Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-anarchic-consort_11046205305246905/she-actually-saw-the-murderer_50925501149146669 for visiting.

  Chen Feiyang wasn't sure how to refute Helian Weiwei when she explained things like this, but he was a top student after all and his thought processes moved quickly. "You've said so much, but where's the evidence? Without finding any evidence, you've already concluded that I'm the murderer?"

  "I didn't conclude that you're the murderer." Helian Weiwei unexpectedly dropped this bombshell.

  Chen Feiyang was stunned.

  The other three also thought that Helian Weiwei had determined that Chen Feiyang was the murderer. After all, he seemed the most suspicious so far. Also, it was obvious that Helian Weiwei suspected him right from the beginning. Why was she saying that she didn't suspect him now?

  "I need to ask the shopkeeper of this place some things before I can organize my thoughts. So for now, let's go out first." Helian Weiwei's fingers stroked the steel pipes and looked at the red words on the wall. Each word represented a kind of original sin.

  Jealousy, arrogance, ind
ifference..

  Once she matched those sins with the right colors, she soon found a pattern.

  With this six-digit password, Helian Weiwei once again successfully opened the last safe.

  Only one sentence was written: I've brought them here.

  That one line was typed out, so it was impossible to tell who wrote it, and it was just another prop in this escape room.

  Other than the letter, there was only one key. It seemed to symbolize the end of the story, and only one person could walk out.

  Helian Weiwei curved her thin lips, picked up the key and walked to the side.

  The wooden door opened with a click. The shopkeeper was already standing worriedly outside the door as he waited for them in the courtyard. He seemed surprised that the six of them made it out so quickly and he peered at his watch. "You've made it out in just 40 minutes?" They didn't even ask for a clue! That was insane! He'd never run into such genius players before.

  Helian Weiwei faintly acknowledged his compliment and turned her body. The sunlight from the courtyard shone into the last room they came out of.

  When the shopkeeper saw those steel pipes protruding out from the walls, his head immediately spun!

  Chapter 1081 - Found the Murderer

  "All of you are ok, right?" Cold sweat immediately covered the shopkeeper's forehead. He hadn't forgotten how the last young man died. He had been stabbed to death by these steel pipes!

  Helian Weiwei laughed lightly. "There was a small accident, but it was all within our control. We were in too much of a hurry when we entered just now, so there were many things that we didn't ask in detail. Shopkeeper, do you still remember when these students first came here, which one told you they wanted to play in the escape room with the Sobbing House theme?"

  "I don't remember it very clearly, but now that you ask, I think it was this young man." The shopkeeper turned his head and looked at Chen Feiyang.

  Chen Feiyang sneered. "We decided to come here together. When I called to make the reservation, they were all right next to me. I wasn't the one who suggested it."

  Helian Weiwei only glanced at him and didn't respond to him. Instead, she furrowed her eyebrows.

  She still felt that something was very strange.

  That's right!

  "Shopkeeper, why are these steel pipes so sharp?" Helian Weiwei looked at the shopkeeper's face and tried to see if she could gather any clues from his expression. "Aren't you afraid that someone might get hurt while going through this escape room?"

  The shopkeeper paused for a moment, then said, "The design of the game doesn't include steel pipes coming out like that, so I'm also very puzzled as to where these steel pipes came from!"

  "These steel pipes would have been fitted during the renovation process. You're the shopkeeper here, so how can you say you don't know where these steel pipes came from?" Helian Weiwei didn't accept this response.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-anarchic-consort_11046205305246905/found-the-murderer_50925502206114961 for visiting.

  When the shopkeeper heard Helian Weiwei's question, he realized she must have misunderstood. "Miss, I know a thing or two about fengshui, but I'm really not familiar with these mechanisms. Besides, I wasn't the one who designed this room either. Those in this industry have to come up with a new theme and puzzles from time to time to maintain interest, otherwise the customers would be able to read up on the puzzles on the internet and solve everything quickly, and they'll lose interest very quickly. It's very important for us to attract returning customers, so we have to keep changing the theme in order to keep them coming back. These youngsters are a good example. It's not their first time at my shop. They've come before that terrible incident happened, and back then, there were six of them."

  "Wait a minute, you're saying that when they came to play through Sobbing House, it wasn't their first time coming to this shop?" Helian Weiwei's eyes suddenly flashed and were filled with sharpness.

  "That's right. Is there a problem?" The shop owner looked at Helian Weiwei strangely.

  The rest didn't understand why Helian Weiwei would react like this either.

  After all, they really couldn't guess what Helian Weiwei could possibly be thinking about.

  Helian Weiwei looked at those steel pipes again, and a shocking thought popped up in her mind: "When did the Sobbing House theme come out? Did they come to play not long after this theme came out?"

  "How do you know?" The shop owner looked at Helian Weiwei in surprise. "In fact, before Sobbing House was open to customers, one of them called me, but I don't remember who it was. I think it was a boy. He asked me when the new theme would be open to customers, and I was puzzled, because I hadn't announced anything about a new theme online, and I was quite upset that this youngster had found out."

  Helian Weiwei's eyes shone even more brightly. "You mean he knew in advance that you were going to do this Sobbing House theme?"

  "Yes! Don't you think it's strange?" The shopkeeper was still shaking his head.

  But Helian Weiwei had grasped the deciding factor.

  The person who knew in advance about Sobbing House was the murderer!

  She was still wavering between the two boys.

  If she could get evidence of who this person was, everything would be easy to solve!

  Helian Weiwei replayed the recordings they heard when they entered the escape room in her mind.

  Every room's unlock code, every voice recording, and even every scene's arrangement were all related to Dong Sichun's death.

  If the scene of the murder reflected the killer's innermost d.e.s.i.r.e.

  Then wasn't this too much of a coincidence?

  Helian Weiwei suddenly paused and turned to look at the shopkeeper. "You said that you weren't the one who designed this room. So how did Sobbing House come about?"

  "Ah, this." The shopkeeper tilted his head as he tried to recall. "I remember that at that time, I put a post in the online shop to solicit ideas. On one hand, I wanted the shop to be more popular. On the other hand, I could use this as an inspiration to create more escape rooms. Business in the shop had always been good, so I would give bonuses to those who provided ideas. The bonuses weren't much, ranging from 200 to 1000 bucks..."

  "But you didn't expect to receive a complete design for the perfect escape room," Helian Weiwei cut the shopkeeper off and spoke very clearly. "This design not only gave you ideas, but actually planned the entire room out, including the backstory, the script for the recordings, and even the design of the mechanism. Everything in this design would make the room very terrifying yet mysterious at the same time, which was totally the ideal escape room to you, so you just took the other party's proposal wholesale."

  The shop owner was completely shocked. He really didn't think that she would guess what happened to this extent!

  "Master, were you able to use divination to reach this conclusion?"

  Helian Weiwei smiled and didn't answer his question. Instead, she asked, "Have you ever seen the person who provided the design?"

  "No, but the plan he provided was too perfect. Even the operation of the mechanism and the content of the hints given by the walkie-talkie were all in the plan. It was also very easy to construct. I did say that I would treat him to a meal, but ever since he gave me the plan for the secret room, none of my emails to him made it through, and I did not even know where to send the money." The shopkeeper shook his head regretfully. "But I can see that this person really loves to play such escape room games. His thoughts were very meticulous and even included the design of the mechanisms and a detailed blueprint of the room. He's really incredible!"

  Helian Weiwei laughed again and the corners of her mouth curved into a faint teasing smile. "I think I know who the murderer is now."

  "Murderer? " The shopkeeper did not understand. "What murderer?"

  Helian Weiwei lo
oked at him. "Shopkeeper, Zhang Heng's death at your place was not an accident, but a long-planned conspiracy."

  Chapter 1082 - The Venomous-tongued Baili Jiajue Protects Weiwei

  The shopkeeper was stunned again and this time, his entire head was ringing in shock.

  "Who is it? Who is the murderer? " Guo Tingting's voice became sharp and she really didn't have any rationality to speak of right now.

  Helian Weiwei didn't know how to communicate with this kind of person. She ignored Guo Tingting altogether and only said to the shopkeeper, "Can you still find the original email in your mailbox?"

  "Yes, I can. I've been keeping it, I didn't delete it! " The shopkeeper was about to turn on the computer when he added, "However, the other party also didn't use a local email address. He mentioned at the beginning of our conversation that he was overseas, and eventually he stopped replying altogether. Look, these are all the emails I tried to send him. I wanted to send him money too, but I'm not sure if his email changed because he's overseas, and I couldn't contact him at all."

  Helian Weiwei kept a faint smile on. "This person is not abroad at all. That was just a lie he made up."

  "Eh?" The shop owner's eyes widened again.

  Helian Weiwei held her phone to the computer screen and a photo of the screen's contents appeared on her phone.

  "What are you doing?" Why was she taking a photo at this time?