Yun Ni nodded, extended her finger, and pointed at the spot Cheng Shi indicated.
Then...
With a "swish," before anyone could react, she had already straightened up.
And nothing happened to Wei Guan.
?
It's over?
Did she poke it?
Wasn't that a bit too fast?
The players were all startled by Yun Ni's speed; they were still confirming whether Yun Ni had actually gone in, as Wei Guan's corpse showed no reaction at all.
Only Cheng Shi smiled, guessing what Yun Ni had done.
In an extremely short time, she had turned her finger into a thin line and poked it into Wei Guan's heart.
Assassin Miss's ability to flatten her body is stronger than He thought.
Looking at it this way, the dagger might just be her disguise.
When it comes to killing, no weapon is more convenient than having your entire body be a weapon.
But the corpse being completely unresponsive was somewhat abnormal.
A dead person's heart stops beating, so there wouldn't be a gush of blood, but not gushing doesn't mean no bleeding. When external force breaks the organ wall, dark red blood is bound to ooze out.
Fang Jue seemed to have also noticed this problem; He said uncertainly:
"Is there something wrong with the heart?"
Smart!
Cheng Shi nodded, pulled out a scalpel from his personal space, and skillfully began the dissection.
Wei Guan's chest cavity was dismantled in seconds by a pair of nimble hands moving up and down.
Everyone gathered around to look and found that his chest cavity was full of flesh and blood, but it was missing one thing.
"The heart... disappeared???"
Du Xiguang looked at the place where the corpse's heart had disappeared in astonishment, his brow furrowed tightly, as if some thoughts were stirring in his mind.
And Cheng Shi nodded and explained:
"Through skin sensation, one can perceive the direction and pressure gradient of the internal muscles and fascia of the human body. When I felt his chest, I found that the pressure at Wei Guan's heart was much lower than that of a typical dead person.
Now you see it too, his heart was stolen."
"Stolen? That doesn't sound like stealing. To make a part of a person's body disappear directly, doesn't it sound more like a method of annihilation?"
As soon as Fang Jue finished speaking, everyone looked at Yun Ni.
Yun Ni was stunned for a moment, then shrugged indifferently.
Her attitude was very clear: it had nothing to do with her.
Everyone naturally knew it wasn't her doing; they were just asking her if annihilation had similar methods.
Even Cheng Shi was silently wondering if He had missed an annihilation killer.
But just then, while Yun Ni was also frowning in thought, Du Xiguang suddenly stood up and, with a slightly solemn expression, drew a circle in front of himself.
Golden light formed a ring, and looking through the ring, the opposite side was no longer the current street scene, but a... library!
This ring seemed to open up time and space, making one side the present and the other the past.
Visually, it was quite shocking.
"Borrowing the Book of That Time.
Let me flip through it, I remember there seems to be a divine item that is very similar to this."
Du Xiguang reached his hand through the ring and quickly searched the bookshelves. Before long, He found a book and pulled the shadow of the book into reality.
The paper, like light and shadow, flipped rapidly under his fingertips, and within a few breaths, He had a result.
"Found it!
I said this way of dying felt so familiar: a terrified expression, a missing heart.
When Fear Arrives, SSS From God-level dagger, from the Garuda Kingdom underground, it is a demigod item stained with the double Divinity of corruption and Death.
This dagger does not need to be stabbed into the body; it only needs to select a target and then wait. When that unlucky person feels fear, his heart will be stripped away and offered to Death.
He dies silently.
You are right, this is indeed very similar to a curse, but it is harder to guard against."
As soon as He finished speaking, everyone's faces darkened.
Demigod item!
Another demigod item.
In front of a dagger of this level, 2400 and 1400 were no different; they were both just lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
"Such a similar Death, and you didn't think of it until now? And you're still His follower."
Yun Ni looked at Du Xiguang with disdain, as if doubting whether He was a follower of Memory.
Du Xiguang's expression didn't change; He adjusted his glasses and said:
"Precisely because I am His follower, I don't need Memory."
Saying that, He threw the memory book, which had turned into light and shadow, back into the opened memory, and then the golden ring instantly dissipated in the air.
Cheng Shi heard this and looked at him with a meaningful expression.
Du Xiguang lied.
He didn't not need memory.
Perhaps, He had already lost the right to have his own memory.
It is said that His followers exchange their own memories with Him for some extra power.
He wonders what talent Du Xiguang exchanged for sacrificing his memory ability?
Fang Jue was a man who got things done; He didn't participate in the idle chat and stated his deduction with a grim face.
"The killer is in the hotel."
That's right! The killer is in the hotel.
This dagger is very strange, but it still has a prerequisite, which is that a lucky person needs to be selected beforehand.
With Wei Guan's skill, or rather, with his vigilance as a Hunter, He wouldn't fail to notice people in the night, nor would He fail to notice someone following him after leaving the hotel.
So there is only one possibility: He was marked before leaving the hotel!
The good news is that the two people's provocation did indeed work.
The bad news is that it was too much; one of the actors died.
However, having a direction is better than searching aimlessly like a headless fly; at least the killer can now be locked down within the hotel.
"There's still one more question..."
Cheng Shi frowned and added:
"Have you ever thought about what it is that could make a person like Wei Guan feel fear?"
Undoubtedly, the moment the murder weapon was discovered, the method of killing was confirmed.
The killer only needs to hide in the dark and mark the target; as for the rest...
Leave it to the deceased himself.
The so-called startled by the sound of the wind and cranes, and seeing the reflection of a bow in a cup as a snake, are all like this.
Once the fear of Death quietly spreads in a certain area, the solitary Walkers in the night will become paranoid.
At this point, the killer doesn't need to do anything extra; a sound on the quiet street, a gust of wind under the cloudy moon, could all become the last straw that breaks the camel's back, taking the victim's life.
But Wei Guan is different.
He is a follower of foolishness, the mortal enemy of all ignorance!
Such petty tricks are probably beneath his notice.
The closer a person gets to Truth, the more He will be stripped of human emotions.
Would He really feel fear?
The answer is yes.
Because his Death is the best proof.
But the question is, what is the fear that killed a follower of foolishness?
Are the people present confident that they won't be afraid in the face of this fear?
Cheng Shi was unsure.
Not just him, everyone was unsure.
Of course, there is also a more urgent question facing everyone now than this one.
That is:
Should they go back to the hotel tonight?
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