90: Chapter 90 The Eternal Resting Palace 17

Both were experienced veteran players, and faced with this situation, they tacitly chose to cooperate.

One was responsible for tapping the surrounding wall tiles, while the other carefully felt around the floor, attempting to find any possible mechanisms or hidden doors.

As for Luo Yuejian, there was no way she would go up there and join in the fun.

What if she triggered another mechanism by accident?

Therefore, she stayed safely and comfortably on that circular Reservoir, pretending to look for clues.

On the side of the Reservoir against the wall, there was a water outlet, with some sediment piled up below it, already covered in a thick layer of dust.

From these signs, it could be inferred that no water had passed through here for a very long time.

Luo Yuejian also glanced at the sediment; indeed, it was all useless debris.

Luo Yuejian feigned effort here for a while before she started wandering aimlessly around the Stone Room, not doing anything, just walking.

As a water storage room, this Stone Room was clearly a place without any useful information, and the walls had no strange symbols, which made Luo Yuejian feel quite relieved.

The Man in the Suit and the Man in Black Turtleneck beside him were still circling in front of the stone door; it looked like they wouldn't be able to open it anytime soon.

Luo Yuejian dawdled around the Stone Room while sighing inwardly, thinking to herself that it would have been great if she could have dragged out the time like this in the last game. Now that she thought about it, she had actually encountered a Vampire just that once in the previous game, and such a lethal weapon hadn't provided any help to her mission at all—was that reasonable?

After circling around and coming back, when she saw the Reservoir, Luo Yuejian was instantly stunned and froze in place.

She felt a chill run down her back, and a sense of horror suddenly gripped her heart.

Because in that Reservoir, which should have been empty, a corpse had suddenly appeared!

The owner of this corpse was none other than the Leather Jacket Man whom Luo Yuejian had previously seen with her own eyes being gnawed on by insects until he was unrecognizable, without even his skin left!

But Luo Yuejian remembered very clearly that after the Leather Jacket Man was gnawed on by the insects, not even his skin was left; how could this complete corpse in front of her possibly appear?

What on earth was going on?

She was dumbfounded on her side, while the Man in the Suit on the other side was somewhat irritable because he couldn't find any clues.

He subconsciously wanted to turn back to check on Luo Yuejian's situation, and as he turned his head, he immediately spotted the corpse that had abruptly appeared in the Reservoir.

The Man in the Suit's expression changed, and he quickly ran to Luo Yuejian's side, staring at the corpse of the Leather Jacket Man in the Reservoir, his brows tightly knitted together: "What is this? Wasn't he dead?"

"No..." His heart tightened suddenly. His mind raced, and he immediately realized the point that felt wrong.

With so many Poisonous Insects in the tomb, densely packed into every fork in the passage, if the Leather Jacket Man had really died from these Poisonous Insects, then his corpse could not possibly have been preserved so well.

Unless... someone had hidden his corpse in advance.

This thought flashed through his mind. The Man in the Suit reacted extremely quickly, instantly realizing something. He jerked his head around, his gaze shooting sharply toward the Man in Black Turtleneck who was standing motionless in front of the stone door.

The expression of the Man in Black Turtleneck, however, appeared very cold, as if he were not at all surprised by the abruptly appeared corpse of the Leather Jacket Man.

Receiving the gaze of the Man in the Suit, he even smiled slightly, "What is it? Didn't you disappear in the beginning just to make me and the Leather Jacket Man kill each other?"

"As you wished, why are you surprised?"

The Man in the Suit was silent for a moment before asking: "When did you kill the Leather Jacket Man?"

He remembered clearly that at that time in the passage, when he and the White-haired Girl wanted to go back to check on the situation of the other two players, they only saw the Leather Jacket Man alone, while the Man in Black Turtleneck had disappeared.

Later, Luo Yuejian volunteered to follow the Leather Jacket Man, but then she mysteriously disappeared, and after that, the Man in the Suit followed the Leather Jacket Man until the insect swarm broke out.

Putting it this way, could it be that the Man in Black Turtleneck killed the Leather Jacket Man when the insect swarm broke out?

But this contradicted what Luo Yuejian had said.

Luo Yuejian had said that she saw with her own eyes the Leather Jacket Man being devoured in the insect swarm.

Luo Yuejian had no reason to lie about such a thing.

The Man in the Suit couldn't help but frown; the timeline just wouldn't straighten out, which made him feel somewhat irritable.

However, he was very clear about one thing: the person lying was not Luo Yuejian; it could only be the Man in Black Turtleneck.

"That was a long time ago." The Man in Black Turtleneck's tone was very casual, as if he were just talking about a trivial matter. He smiled, "It should have been when you disappeared for the first time that I took care of him."

How could this be possible?! Luo Yuejian was shocked beyond measure, finding it hard to believe.

But at that time, she and the Man in the Suit had clearly seen the Leather Jacket Man with their own eyes, hadn't they? The Leather Jacket Man had clearly still been alive at that time.

After hearing the words of the Man in Black Turtleneck, the Man in the Suit seemed to think of something and fell into a brief contemplation.

After a while, he seemed to have suddenly figured something out, and his gaze became somewhat solemn.

"You used an item?" The Man in the Suit stared fixedly at the Man in Black Turtleneck, "Could it be that the Leather Jacket Man we saw later was always you?"

The Man in Black Turtleneck did not answer, noncommittal.

His gaze suddenly turned to Luo Yuejian, a hint of coldness in his eyes, "You aren't surprised at all; it seems you indeed knew long ago that the Leather Jacket Man was me."

Luo Yuejian: ?

Excuse her? Where did this guy get the idea that she knew long ago? She had clearly just learned this truth, alright!

Luo Yuejian was almost angered into laughter; she often couldn't understand the thought processes of these players.

However, on second thought, Luo Yuejian suddenly remembered that it seemed both of these players had always believed she knew the secret that the oil lamp could attract Poisonous Insects; that is to say, they were very likely suspecting that she had deliberately set a trap to screw over the Leather Jacket Man.

And now, the Leather Jacket Man had turned into the Man in Black Turtleneck... she suddenly realized, no wonder the Man in Black Turtleneck had been looking at her so strangely; it turned out he thought she had set him up!

This was good, this was good. Luo Yuejian bloomed with joy inwardly, thinking to herself that this was just perfect; if this Man in Black Turtleneck held a grudge against her and decided to take her out later, that would be absolutely perfect.

The words Luo Yuejian was about to use to defend herself were swallowed back down. She looked directly at the Man in Black Turtleneck, her gaze indifferent and her tone flat.

"So what if I did?"