nt before he spoke, “Yes, I used to be left-handed.
But I deliberately practised using my right hand because it was not convenient for the students to take notes when I was writing on the blackboard with my left hand in class.
I have been using my right hand for more than thirty years, but I didn’t expect you to be so observant.
So much time has passed that I had forgotten that I was still a left-handed person at heart.”

“Are you suspecting that the murderer is me? Don’t forget, you also said the killer was a strong man, 175-180 tall.
I’m only 170 tall and I suffer from Parkinson’s.
My hands simply don’t have enough strength to do that sort of thing.”

“Yeah.” Li Cancan called out, “Anyone of us here can be a suspect, but Elder Shen should be the least suspected ah.
He’s so old, let alone breaking someone’s neck; he can’t even leave a mark if he choked them, right?”

The rain beat on the glass and the wind blew violently.
Outside the window was a strange scene, but it was particularly silent in the hotel.

In silence, Bai Lixin said something that sent chills down everyone’s spine, “What if the murder happened thirty years ago?”

Bai Lixin stood up and walked over to the radio.
“The radio provided the information that first made me suspicious.
In the contact details at the end, the family of the missing person left a landline number.
And this landline number starts with the two-digits, 01.”

“If I remember correctly, the first batch of landlines in our country only had two-digit area codes, and it wasn’t until the nineties that they changed to three-digit numbers.”

Xia Chi thought for a moment and added, “It was in ’95 that the national unified code was changed to a three-digit landline area code.”

Everyone’s eyes flushed over, and Xia Chi coughed nervously, “I saw it when I was revising for the comprehensive general knowledge for the college entrance exam.”

Bai Lixin continued, “The rattan suitcase with the body was weaved with a decades-old craft.
In addition, the clothes and shoes of the deceased are all over thirty years old.
The structure of the house we were in, the style of the lamps, the wiring structure, and so on are all decades old.”

“The deceased looked young, only about twenty years old, which matched the age mentioned on the radio, indicating that the time of disappearance and death was close.”

“Seeing that the body had not decayed yet, we subconsciously thought the murder happened so recently that we ignored the time,” Bai Lixin walked over to the body as lightning fell behind him through the window, bringing another eerie blue mysterious glow, “but in reality, this is a case that occurred at least thirty years ago.”

“Everyone, how old were you thirty years ago?”

The crowd was horrified.

How old were they thirty years ago?

Those who were born early were only wearing diapers by then, while those who were born late were not even embryos!

Liang Xi’s voice trembled a little, “Elder Shen said he’s only 170 cm tall, but he’s an old man now.
Bones shrink as the body ages.
If we go back 30 years, he’d be at least 175 or taller!”

Zhou Guang was shocked, “He has been leading us to suspect Yang Hao, and it was his words that provoked Yang Hao in the beginning.
The rules of the game said that those who got the most votes and those who filled in the wrong answer would be punished.
If we all wrote Yang Hao in the end, he could write his name in peace.
That way, he writes the correct answer but is not the one with the most votes.”

Li Cancan’s scalp tingled, “And we would all die.”

Everyone looked at Shen Gudao in unison, their eyes filled with disbelief.

They had been fooled by this man from the very beginning!

Shen Gudao had been the first person they ruled out; old people and children had always been the two groups that could make people easily put their guard down.

They really couldn’t imagine that the clear-eyed and gentle university professor could be the murderer.

[Ding! Player Bai Lixin submitted his answer in 31 minutes and 20 seconds.]

[Ding! Congratulations to Player Bai Lixin! His answer is correct, and he receives 50 points for the correct answer.
The remaining time is 23 hours, 28 minutes, and 40 seconds, which translates into another 50 points.
Excellent performance on the field means an additional 50 bonus points.]

[Congratulations to Player Bai Lixin, who has earned a total of 150 points for this warm-up session.]

The cold electronic voice suddenly rang out, and the crowd snapped out of their fear, following Bai Lixin’s speed as they quickly filled in their answers.

Only Li Cancan was still a little hesitant: “Even if he’s vicious, it’s still a human life and we don’t have the judicial power, right?”

Zhou Guang’s hand holding the pen stopped abruptly.

He was a law student, of course, he knew the precision of the law.
Even if Shen Gudao was the murderer, they should not be the ones to decide whether the other party lived or died.

Bai Lixin, “Look down and take a good look at the footprints on the ground.”

The crowd immediately lowered their heads.
There was a circle of wet footprints on the ground, and the ends of the footprints connected to Bai Lixin’s position.

Was there water on Bai Lixin’s shoes? Where did he get it from?

“It’s the rattan suitcase!” Xia Chi called out, “The carpet around the rattan suitcase is soaked in a puddle of water.
Bai Lixin and Elder Shen both went over, but only Bai Lixin showed shoe prints!”

Stepping on water but not leaving footprints, was that still human?

Several people got a chill down their spines and stiffened their necks to look at Shen Gudao.

At this moment, Shen Gudao no longer looked amiable.
He looked at Bai Lixin with resentment, his eyes like poisonous snakes.

The shock of the crowd was soon replaced by fear as they realised that something did not seem right with Shen Gu Dao.

He walked stiffly, turning his neck in a very uncoordinated manner, and his eyes even rotated uncontrollably in their sockets.
His skin showed an eerie greenish-white color, which had not been obvious under the dim kerosene lamp.

Several people drew in a cold breath.

Liang Xi’s voice was trembling, “This…Is this a zombie NPC?”

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