6.Officer

"You kid don't stir up trouble." Officer Li glared at Qiao Jiajin and said very sternly, "You're a moneylender and I'm a police officer, who do you think people will believe?"

Qi Xia looked at the crowd that was making a lot of noise, he knew that Officer Li shouldn't be lying, he really was a criminal police officer.

But he was going in the wrong direction.

Maybe it was his professional nature, maybe it was his sense of justice, he always wanted to organize the crowd in an orderly manner.

Halfway through the intermission, the crowd gradually lost their voices.

Qi Xia had already said 「My name is Li Ming」 countless times in his mind during this time, until he was a bit distracted himself.

After all, he had been lying next to a corpse with a broken head, making it impossible to meditate.

Blood dripped down the table and onto the floor, the crowd had been sharing a room with this corpse for almost an hour now, and a weird stench began to waft out.

Qi Xia absently looked at the corpse beside him, his pants were already filthy.

After a person died, all sorts of organs would lose the restraint of muscle power for a short period of time, causing incontinence.

A foul odor had hit the room even before the corpse's stench arrived.

Qi Xia and another girl sat on both sides of the corpse, the girl seemed to be very upset by the odor and kept covering her mouth and nose with her hand.

After another ten minutes had passed, the goat head finally spoke up and said, "The twenty minute intermission is over, the game resumes."

The young man called Han Yimo from the party fixed his mind, exhaled deeply then said, "My name is Han Yimo, I'm a web novel writer."

"Before I came here, I was writing the grand finale of a novel in a rented house, and since hundreds of characters debuted in the book, almost all of them had to make an appearance during the grand finale, so I was concentrating on my writing, and I didn't hear the commotion outside at all."

"Even ... I don't even know when I had an earthquake or when I lost consciousness ..."

The story Han Yimo was telling was different from everyone else's, and so far, he seemed to be completely 'independent' and ended abruptly after just three or five sentences.

"That's it?" The stocky man was slightly stunned, "You say a 'I don't know' and call it a day?"

"Because I can't lie, there's no need for me to make up an answer just to pander to everyone." Han Yimo's voice was inexplicably convincing even though it wasn't loud.

"Okay ... then next." Officer Li, his face still skeptical, spoke again, "It's that lady's turn."

"Hey, cop." Qiao Jiajin was a little dissatisfied with the attitude of this Officer Li in front of him, "Everyone is a 'participant', don't make yourself look like a captain."

"Someone has to come out and organize everyone, right?" Officer Li argued, "As I said, only one of us is the enemy, and the remaining eight must unite."

"Then it's not your turn to command here." Qiao Jiajin didn't take Officer Li's words to heart at all, "I might be afraid of you outside, but in this situation now, who knows if you're a 'liar' or not."

"The two of you should stop arguing." The cool woman opened her mouth to interrupt the two.

This cool woman had accused Goat Head of imprisoning the crowd for twenty-four hours from the very beginning, and seemed organized and very calm.

Seeing the duo calm down, she continued, "This so-called 'game', no matter who wins in the end, there is a possibility that the remaining people will be regarded as 'indirect killers', after all, it was us who collectively voted for the human goat to kill him, and that's what you should be thinking about."

Hearing these words, Qi Xia's face moved slightly.

If he had really gotten out of this room alive, then he had indeed 'killed' the remaining eight people.

But then what could be done?

The card in front of himself was a genuine 『Liar』, who would be willing to voluntarily give up their own life so that the others could live?

"My name is Zhang Chenze, and I am a lawyer." The cool woman wrapped her arms around herself and spoke expressionlessly, "I'm sorry to meet you all in such a weird place, otherwise I would have handed over my business card."

The crowd simply couldn't understand this Zhang Chenze's humor, but it looked like she herself didn't care.

"Before I came here, I was organizing the court opening materials. My client was cheated out of two million dollars, the amount involved is huge and of a bad nature."

The crowd's expressions were as normal when they said the figure 'two million', but Qiao Jiajin was visibly shocked for a moment and asked, "Two million?"

"That's right, two million. It is said that lawyers are the most impartial and selfless people, but we also have personal feelings, and the fact that that man has borrowed from loan sharks in order to support his family is very worrying. But the illegal loan is another case, it has nothing to do with me."

"When the earthquake, I was driving to meet the person concerned, on Qingyang Avenue, just past the Dufu Cao Tang, through the Wuhou Temple neighborhood, I remember ... that I was not driving fast, about forty mph or so, and suddenly I saw the ground not far in front of me cracked."

"I immediately braked and stopped steadily in front of the crack, but I did not expect the car behind me to avoid it, and a continuous rear-end collision occurred."

"All I heard was a few loud bangs and the car was jacked into the crack, then I passed out and came here."

Another segment of the story ended, and at this point there were just three more people left to tell.

"The Wuhou Shrine ...," said Dr. Zhao after a moment's thought, "is that the Wuhou Shrine in Chengdu?"

"Yes, I work in Chengdu."

It seems that this earthquake spread all over the country.

It was really too hard to guess who was lying just based on this strange story after strange story.

"It's my turn next." Officer Li looked at the crowd, "I've already said my name earlier, my name is Li Shangwu, I'm a criminal police officer, a native of Inner Mongolia."

"Before I came here, I was squatting on a fraudster, and according to reliable sources, we have the exact whereabouts of the suspect."

"This suspect has swindled a huge amount of money, as much as two million dollars, the first fraud case with a huge amount of money that our city has received this year."

"My colleagues and I have been watching from the car, just waiting for that fraudster to show up."

"But that suspect was smarter than we thought, he seemed to smell something dangerous and didn't show up for three days in a row."

"We ate and drank all in the car for the past three days, and our spirits were about to break down."

"But do you know what is harder for a grown man than having nothing to eat or drink?"

"It's running out of cigarettes."

"We didn't even have a cigarette left on either of us, and as a matter of principle we should never leave our posts, but it was so hard to be without a cigarette."

"So I asked my colleague to run to buy cigarettes while I kept a close eye on the entrances and exits of the suspect's residence."

"But what I didn't expect was that not long after my colleague left, the whole earth began to shake violently, and I wanted to get out of the car to see what was going on, but suddenly I was strangled from behind with a thin thread around my neck."

"Although we are both very good at close combat, the thin thread strangled from the back seat of the car was very difficult to handle. Not only could I not touch the person behind me at all, I was also unable to remove the thin thread from my neck."

At this point the crowd stared at Officer Lee and realized that there was indeed a reddish mark on his neck.

"So I immediately lowered the seat and regained my breath, but I couldn't turn around; after all, I'm tall and my legs were stuck under the steering wheel."

"The man behind me took advantage of the fact that I was lying down, and I don't know what he used to hit me hard on the head, and I lost consciousness."

The crowd couldn't help but begin to be skeptical after hearing Officer Lee's words.

He recounted a completely different situation; before him, all the participants were injured and unconscious due to accidents.

Only he had been attacked and came here.

If one had to choose the most suspicious person among the crowd, wouldn't it be him?