Chapter 596: Chapter 595: Behave Yourself, Stop Playing Dumb

However, seeing Mu Qiu all eager to join in the fun, it seems she doesn’t care much about it.

Cheng Zhirang shook his head with a smile, sighed inwardly, and began to concentrate on dealing with this crisis.

Oh, it wasn’t exactly dealing with the crisis, since he just confessed directly.

"Yes, I discovered the first card. It was indeed after our discussion that Shen Zhousong hid, and taking you to the museum was indeed to catch everything in one go."

Despite the casual tone, the phrase "catch everything in one go" was said with remarkable confidence.

Han Xizheng recalled the experiences so far and said skeptically, "But we just strolled around the museum and didn’t encounter any doctor monsters."

Sometimes people intuitively trust the first analysis they hear. It’s similar to the primacy effect, even if they know the first analysis might not be correct, the impression it leaves is the deepest.

Mu Qiu smirked at the back.

The camera shifted to another angle, zooming out from Mu Qiu’s position until it also included Cheng Zhirang in the frame.

Half of their figures overlapped, the angle perfectly showing that both their mouths were curled upwards simultaneously.

Except one was calm, and the other’s eyes had an air of having everything under control.

Cheng Zhirang tilted his head slightly and told Han Xizheng, "It doesn’t need to be onsite." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"Certainly not," Guan Yu stared at Cheng Zhirang’s expression, asserting with certainty, "Brother Cheng, you’re still deceiving us."

Chu Qiu, stuck to the wall like Guan Yu, although with a cheeky grin, possessed the same strong observational and analytical skills as Guan Yu, steadily verifying his guesses based on Cheng Zhirang’s expression.

"The first monster isn’t any doctor, it’s something else. Could be a painting, could be color, even space.

But we just checked the place where Guo Yin disappeared, and there were no paintings, no works similar to those in the museum gallery, no colors and such. This indicates it’s not those.

What do both places have in common? Is it sound? Dust? Light?"

With each possibility he suggested, everyone seriously looked at Cheng Zhirang, but as an actor, he remained unfazed and unaffected.

Chu Qiu squinted his eyes for another guess: "Is it the door?"

Though he hadn’t read many imaginative novels, he’d seen one or two sci-fi movies with doors as elements.

Cheng Zhirang snapped his fingers and raised an eyebrow slightly: "Absolutely right. Once the monster effects take place, anyone who enters that door can’t escape."

Mu Qiu clicked her tongue inwardly, thinking this person’s deception skills were quite polished now.

After the thought, she acted with even smoother deceptive skills, frowning in feigned bewilderment and paused for two seconds, then exclaimed in disbelief.

"Doesn’t this mean us entering looking for the photographer counts as well?!"

Opposite, Guan Yu replied, "What do you think? Can a door recognize family members?"

"...Let me think, what kind of monster is a door, what kind of crappy monster is this."

Coming up with a realistic monster called "door" is quite challenging.

Zhao Yu was just watching her performance, his calm face now numb.

Given her frequency of lying, if one took a nap, the next second upon waking, the story might have progressed to a fake death escape plot.

Zhao Yu: Hold on, don’t yawn, Su Yan might be watching on camera.

"Ah, I know! It’s..."

"Behave, stop acting foolish," Cheng Zhirang turned back with a gentle smile and said to her,

"Since you already know it’s a name composed of letters and numbers, it means you’ve seen the file card. Where did you see it? Did you find it on the file card yourself?"

Well, a sharp hit. Sweet talk followed by a scolding, caught Mu Qiu so off guard she couldn’t react properly.

Two seconds in silence, she coughed, touched her burning ears, and stuck to her deception until the end.

"No need to see it to guess, considering it’s from my book’s plot. Plus, after seeing the anomalies at a few other locations, it’s easy to guess."

"Guess what? That the monster is a door? Then when you entered the fast-food restaurant entrance, you’d all have been wiped out. You’re not that dumb."

Is this a compliment? Makes one a bit embarrassed.

Before she could respond, Cheng Zhirang turned back and said to Guan Yu and the others:

"Though I’m reluctant to reveal what the monster represented by the first card is, for fear of panic, I can say directly, what was said earlier is false, the monster isn’t a door."

Implicitly: My girlfriend tends to talk nonsense, don’t believe her.

Pausing, he added: "Nor is it a doctor."

Done, with just a few words, he managed to clear up the confused mess Mu Qiu and Li Yang had stirred up.

The first card was in his hands, the monster wasn’t a door nor some ghost doctor, but something else elusive.

Moreover, Mu Qiu likely already found a file card, and it might be the recently activated second card, or the third unactivated one.

The interruption came swift and sharp, drawing everyone’s gaze onto her.

Mu Qiu inwardly cursed and regretted agreeing to such a ridiculous suggestion of answering a question for cash earlier!

Men are no good! Should have let him starve into elimination!

Zhao Yu felt he could hear her chest panting and huffing, after a nap, unexpectedly the plot had twisted into this thrilling scenario.

"Should we just rush out now?"

Mu Qiu: "Do you think we’d be blocked?"

"What’s there to fear, everyone’s doomed anyway."

"...Makes some sense."

Her eyes shone, she patted her legs, stood up pulling Zhao Yu with her, with a look of "I’ve been exposed, I can only confess for leniency now."

"Alright, since it’s all been unraveled, I’ll say some truths.

The monster Cheng got isn’t a door, nor a doctor, Li Yang tricked you all. I indeed guessed what it is, it’s glass."

Cheng Zhirang raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Glass?" Chen Yi asked curiously, "Just some random pieces of glass? But there’re pieces everywhere in this ruin."

Zhao Yu pulled her back a step, out of Cheng Zhirang’s direct attack range, and cooperated to answer Chen Song’s question.

"To be precise, it’s broken glass. Because there’re pieces everywhere, the card Cheng Zhirang holds is indeed a big weapon. By the way, there’s particularly a lot of broken glass in the museum."

Guan Yu: "Broken glass is everywhere, but how does glass conduct a massacre?"

"Mu Qiu, do you know?" Han Xizheng asked.

Mu Qiu shook herself energetically, flicked her long ponytail behind, somehow feeling a sacred halo around her now.

"Let me, the master, explain to you. This adorable being with broken glass as its main body has a rather eye-opening name, called SCP-813.

enjoys collecting eyes, it jumps into the person’s eye it fancies and parasitizes, then chills them to the bone, and joyfully goes to find the next victim."

"Holy crap," Shi Yuhuai calmly cursed with a not-so-dirty word.