Turning back time to when Mu Qin and the others arrived at the utility room at the back door of the church to find the ladder.
At the time when they had seen that the door of the utility room had been kicked open, the inside was flipped into a mess, and the ladder was missing, Mu Qin had guessed that Zhou Yue had been a step ahead of them in getting the key. Thus, Mu Qin intended to change their plans. Mu Qin decided that he and Xu Fu would go attract the killer, allowing Qiu Zijia to go search for the hidden exit. However, Xu Fu needed to give his Chariot card to Qiu Zijia to carry.
“Give the Chariot to Qiu Zijia!?” When Xu Fu first heard this suggestion, he looked at Mu Qin like he was mentally handicapped, “Are you crazy? What’s the use of him taking that card? He’s only going to look for a hidden exit, not wrestling the killer! He has neither the build nor the guts. He’ll only waste the value of the Chariot!”
“So, you think you won’t waste the value of this card?” Mu Qin calmly refuted Xu Fu and even looked Xu Fu up and down, focusing on Xu Fu’s limping leg, “Look at your leg, Xu Fu… Even if you use this card, the Chariot’s effect also can’t immediately restore your leg injury. Even if the Chariot increases every aspect of your physical ability, your speed under the influence of the injury might still be inferior to the killer. This means that you will easily be overtaken. Using the Chariot not only can’t protect your life, but it might even create the opposite effect.”
“As if my leg wasn’t caused by you!” Xu Fu gnashed his teeth a little. He couldn’t understand Mu Qin’s thoughts, “Moreover… alright then. Even if what you said is right, I have no way to fully display the worth of this card, yet Qiu Zijia has the ability to display it? This card might as well be handed over to you!”
“No, I can’t,” Mu Qin thought of Zhou Yue, sighed, and shook his head, “That killer won’t be fooled by me.”
“Why wouldn’t he be fooled by you?” Xu Fu felt that Mu Qin’s insistence was very strange.
Mu Qin knew that his words would really cause people to become suspicious. He thought about it and decided to smoothly change the subject, “Now, we are all very clear that we only have two paths to pick from. Either we recapture the key from the killer, or we take the hidden exit.”
Xu Fu listened and felt extremely puzzled, “I just don’t understand. How did the killer know that the key was on the second floor of the church? Could it be that he also has a Fool card!?”
Mu Qin’s thoughts made a turn, and an excuse came to mind, “Cheng Guoxu also has a Fool card. After you killed him, did you take his card?”
“I wouldn’t take anything from that scum!” Xu Fu heard Mu Qin mention Cheng Guoxu and was infuriated, hate making his teeth itch, “I only care about whipping the corpse, god! He really died too easily. I seriously can’t let go!”
Mu Qin grabbed the opportunity and said, “So, you didn’t take Cheng Guoxu’s card, then the killer most likely took it and used it.”
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Mu Qin said, “I don’t know if he can use it or not, but let’s first assume the worst-case scenario. Let’s assume he can use it.”
“Suppose he used the tarot card and found that the exit key was on the second floor of the church. Then, he went to the second floor and got the key. At this time, there’s an enormous possibility that he would choose to wait on the second floor of the church, because to find the key, we would certainly go to the church too. He doesn’t need to waste time looking for us and only needs to wait there for use to go over.”
Mu Qin began a series of analyses, “In this case, we need to come up with a way to deal with him. Just like what I said just now, we only have two options. Option one is to reclaim the key. Option two is to take the hidden exit.”
Xu Fu sincerely listened to Mu Qin’s analysis and interjected, “But both of these paths are extremely difficult.”
“The levels of difficulty are different,” Mu Qin continued to analyze, “First think about the path of the hidden exit. Neither you nor I have a deep enough understanding of the hidden exit. Moreover, you said earlier that opening the hidden exit requires satisfying some harsh requirements. We also aren’t clear about the requirements. In the situation where so many innate requirements are missing, even if we use Qiu Zijia’s Fool card and find the exit, perhaps we still won’t be able to open the hidden exit in the end. The hope of using the hidden exit to escape is entirely uncertain, brimming with the unknown and uncertainties. I don’t recommend using this kind of method to escape.”
Xu Fu frowned, “Then what you mean is to take the path of snatching back the key?”
“That’s right. Compared to looking for a hidden exit that’s who-knows-where and fulfilling those unknown BS conditions, why not directly deal with the difficult problem before us. Let’s come up with a simple and effective method and directly win back the exit key from the killer.”
“But how do we get it back?” Xu Fu still felt it was really unreliable. It was primarily that the chances of getting the key back from the killer, this matter, were way too slim.
Mu Qin lifted his eyes and stared at Xu Fu, “I’m very curious. Previously, how in the world did you ‘kill’ the killer? What I’m saying is that the killer, with his whole body dripping with blood, lay in the stairwell and pretended to be dead. The wounds on his body should be your masterpiece, right.”
“I don’t know,” Xu Fu briefly explained the ins and outs, “I picked up a knife in the church, and right when I was holding it and looking at it, a person sprang out from behind me and attacked me. I instinctively turned around and used the knife to block, and as a result, inexplicably cut onto the other’s face. Afterwards, the two of us started fighting. There were many slashes, that angle… was entirely him meeting and running into the edge of my knife on his own.”
“Coming up to the edge of your knife? So that’s how it was,” Mu Qin thought for a bit and said, “So your knife was also acquired in the church at that time, right? Why didn’t you just explain it to us at the start, instead choosing to capture Han Li?”
“I didn’t know you guys were also there. When I went over, I only saw that woman shrieking at the corpse. My mind was also very flustered at the time, scared that I would be mistakenly considered the killer by people. Thus, I simply just brought that woman away,” Xu Fu said, “I learned from that woman’s mouth that she used to be this orphanage’s staff. As a result, thinking about that little sister of mine that died here, I was absolutely furious, and the thought of putting this woman to death arose.”
“Mu Qin assessed him, “You’re seriously ruthless. Just because you don’t know the possibility of what’s true or false, you want to murder others. No wonder you went to jail because of manslaughter.”
“The problem we’re discussing now shouldn’t be whether I’m vicious or not, this kind of matter, right!?” Xu Fu was somewhat impatient. He was fully aware of his character flaws and moreover wasn’t planning on changing himself in the slightest. He acknowledged his vile nature. He continued his ways as before. Looking at this point, Xu Fu, this person, contrarily still had a bit of integrity.
Xu Fu impatiently said to Mu Qin, “Stop wasting time. Say your plan!”
“After listening to your speculation, I think we should hand over the Chariot card to Qiu Zijia to use even more so,” Mu Qin looked back at Qiu Zijia, who was trembling and silent behind him, “He’s our optimal candidate for breaking through this difficult problem.”
“Why!?” Xu Fu still didn’t understand.
“This killer is very scheming,” Mu Qin said, “He knows to fake death to mislead our line of sight and knows to shift the blame to you to disturb our thinking. He even took away the door key before us. He’ll even stay in the church and hang around until we go over… Do you think he won’t be able to tell that we’re deliberately attracting his attention?”
Xu Fu seemed to comprehend what Mu Qin meant, “What you’re saying is that even if we go attract his attention, he still won’t be fooled by us, right?”
“Right. He won’t be fooled,” precisely speaking, Zhou Yue wouldn’t be fooled by Mu Qin. Zhou Yue knew what Mu Qin wanted to do. Zhou Yue understood Mu Qin.
It was exactly because of mutual understanding that Mu Qin needed to take extraordinary measures. He needed to do things against Zhou Yue’s expectations. The unexpected was forever a weakness.
Mu Qin said, “The matter of snatching back the key from the killer, regardless of whether it’s you or me doing it, we will both arouse the killer’s vigilance. Once he’s on guard, he won’t rashly approach us. If we can’t get close, the matter of snatching the key will be impossible, but Qiu Zijia is different.”
Mu Qin pulled over Qiu Zijia, who was standing behind him, as he spoke. Qiu Zijia’s complexion had become deathly pale as he listened to them speak, his body covered with cold sweat. Contrarily, Mu Qin seemed to have made up his mind, saying, “First, let’s give the Chariot to Qiu Zijia and pretend to let Qiu Zijia go search for that hidden exit or whatever. Then, we’ll go attract the killer’s attention. We don’t need to be too deliberate, but the killer will definitely be able to tell we’re luring him. So, he won’t be fooled. He won’t pursue us, instead continuing to hang around the church to patrol. Soon after, he’ll find Qiu Zijia. He’ll take Qiu Zijia as a weakling who can’t even truss a chicken, an existence that can be effortlessly killed.”
Mu Qin’s word scared Qiu Zijia so much his complexion changed from white to cyan, trembling as he asked Mu Qin, “Mu Qin… you… you’re letting me go to the killer…”
“Precisely, letting you go,” Mu Qin seriously stared at Qiu Zijia, “I want you to pretend to be powerless to resist. The killer doesn’t have a knife right now. In order to kill you, he might choose some other method. The easiest and fastest one is to break your neck. In order to snap your neck, he will get close to you. And so, you can take the opportunity while you’re close to him to steal away the key that’s on him. After stealing the key, use the Chariot to shake off the killer and immediately rush towards the exit door. We will go over and obstruct the killer for you to stall for time!”
“No… no! I can’t do it!” Qiu Zijia already felt like he was going to suffocate listening to Mu Qin elaborate. Especially when Mu Qin said the killer intended to break his neck, this sentence, Qiu Zijia even instinctively reached out and covered his own neck.
“You can do it,” Mu Qin steadily gazed at Qiu Zijia. His gaze contained belief towards Qiu Zijia, “Only you can do it.”
After speaking, Mu Qin looked towards Xu Fu and stretched his hand out to Xu Fu, asking him to hand over the Chariot card in his possession.
Xu Fu finished listening to Mu Qin’s entire plan and had no choice but to admit the Mu Qin’s plan could basically be called flawless. His grasp of the killer’s mind was too good, good enough that it was like he had an extremely deep understanding towards the person who was the killer.
Was it my misperception?
Xu Fu vaguely thought. He always felt that something was off about Mu Qin. He felt that Mu Qin seemed to be hiding something, but then he also couldn’t say what in the world was off about Mu Qin and what in the world he was hiding. Moreover, this plan of Mu Qin’s… was indeed pretty good.
“Alright then,” Xu Fu wasn’t someone who was very good at thinking. Most of the time, he liked to act based on his intuition. He saw that kind of serious and focused line of sight of Mu Qin’s. He decided to believe Mu Qin, so he reached into his pocket, fished out his Chariot, and handed it over to Mu Qin.
BunnyGod: Xu Fu, honey… trust your gut. It’s not your misperception.
Everything is coming to an end!! Will they manage to survive? I hope yes because if they didn’t the novel would end with too little chapters
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
well it says there is 200 anf smt chapers dont u worry we have a long time till the enddd ..thankfully xo
Pretty solid plan. Knowing what they know of the killer, it makes sense to lure him in with the “weak” player.
Thanks for the chapter <3
Xu Fu, you’re getting played. I really hope you survive this one.
Thank you for the chapter <3
Thanks for the chapter!
thank you for the chapter! ah how I love when the Author builds up tension by adding new informations on each chapter instead of just stuffing you with the solution…
I hope xu fu will survive
This is the first time I’m opposing the protagonist team 😂🥲