Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 1395 The Mysterious Analysis of the Fern

To be honest, for a moment, Lin Yu was a little worried that after he said the code name "Monica", the fern would show a shocked expression, directly say "I didn't say Monica", and then give out an ID code name that was neither "Monica" nor "Mikan".

Fortunately, this did not happen.

Although Fern was somewhat surprised, what surprised her was clearly...

How did you know it was "Monica"?

“The Order does have a certain intelligence network. Although they couldn’t detect anything wrong with Shang Gen, they at least discovered Monica’s suspicion,” Lin Yu said calmly. “I don’t know exactly how the organization came to this conclusion, but I did receive intelligence that Monica and the Raiders are colluding.”

Fern nodded: "So 'Order' already knows this... That makes things much easier."

"To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if 'Shanggen' and 'Psychological Society' are connected, but it's highly likely that 'Monica' and 'The Raiders' are colluding."

"She really does provide materials and intelligence to the 'Raiders' and receives mass-produced [items] in return... If you investigate thoroughly, you might be able to find a lot of direct witness testimony and physical evidence."

As Fern continued speaking, Lin Yu asked again, "Then, what was her reason for killing 'Ice Americano'... was it also because 'Ice Americano' was the middleman between her and 'The Raiders'?"

“Monica doesn’t need a ‘contact person’; she contacts everyone herself… She trades directly with the ‘Heavenly King’ and ‘Lingxian’ of the ‘Raiders’ in the Ten Realms,” Fern shrugged. “I suspect it would be easy for her to kill ‘Ice Americano’ as well… because although ‘Ice Americano’ is the middleman, he seems to be intentionally collecting evidence of Monica’s collusion with the ‘Raiders’ at the behest of ‘Shang Gen’.”

"After all, 'Iced Americano' itself has connections with some members of 'The Raiders,' so it's quite appropriate for him to investigate this matter."

Lin Yu frowned upon hearing this: "He himself is not clean, yet he dares to take the initiative to investigate others?"

“Selling ‘Forum Bulletin’ to members of expelled organizations and establishing a deep cooperative relationship with ‘The Raiders’ are two completely different things. To put it in perspective, the former is at most ‘smuggling,’ while the latter falls into the category of ‘treason.’”

“You should also know that if everything is exposed, ‘Order’ will at most lock up ‘Iced Americano’ for ten days or half a month… but ‘Monica’ will probably be executed directly.”

Lin Yu nodded: "According to the rules of 'Order'... it seems that's really the case."

"Right, that's why 'Monica' had a good reason to kill him. After all, what he did could endanger 'Monica's' life—so of course she had a reason to kill him."

Fern twirled her fingers: "This is what they often say in comics: 'When you kill, you should be prepared to be killed.'"

Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief: "I see... I understand now... Judging from their motives, both of them had quite a strong motive for murder."

"But do you have any other suspects?"

Fern shook her head: "There are none in the 'Player Mutual Aid Association' for the time being. If you have to say it's because of a past feud between 'Iced Americano' and others, I've never heard of it... As for who killed him for 'competitive purposes,' nobody on the side of the road cares."

"Even if they knew about his relationship with 'Shang Gen' and were thinking of cutting off 'Shang Gen's' wings... there would be no need for that."

"Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that someone might go crazy or do something stupid—but if we consider that scenario, then everyone is a suspect."

As Fern was explaining, Lin Yu asked, "Then... what about outside of the 'Player Mutual Aid Association'?"

“Ha, besides the ‘Player Mutual Aid Association,’ isn’t that just you ‘Order’ and ‘Night Watchmen’?” Fern said, arms crossed. “That’s even less likely, isn’t it? Members of ‘Order’ have no motive to kill him… Once they have a motive, they don’t need assassination. They can just state their reasons openly and then execute him, right?”

"Although there are some particularly radical individuals in the Night Watch and the Order who don't care about procedural justice, it seems like none of them came this time—like that rather famous 'Kite'."

Lin Yu smiled awkwardly.

"Excuse me, 'Paper Kite' has indeed arrived—it's currently upstairs."

After all, it wasn't something that 'Paper Kite' was present that needed to be hidden—everyone would find out eventually after the election started, so Lin Yu simply told Fern.

These words stunned Fern: "Huh? Wasn't he not on the list you published?"

"Yes, but I transferred him here last night at the last minute."

Lin Yu said calmly.

After a moment's thought, Fern said, "Then I'll have to add 'Kite' to my list of suspects."

“To be honest, even ‘Paper Kite’ himself suspected that he did it, but I don’t think it was him,” Lin Yu said. “On the one hand, I’ve already talked to him… On the other hand, it’s because he actually has an alibi.”

Fern frowned slightly: "Isn't he upstairs? Where does his alibi come from?"

Lin Yu said in a low voice, "This is some other information I want to tell you... I learned some information through some special channels - the actual time of death of 'Iced Americano' and the four dead members of his team was around four o'clock in the morning."

"In other words, although it seemed that they died between 7:30 and 8:00, and I even met with other members of 'Order'—in reality, they were already 'dead' at that time, but we didn't realize it at all."

"Therefore, 'Paper Kite' has a solid alibi... Although he said he arrived in Shenzhen around 4 a.m., that should have been the time when the plane landed. It's impossible for him to have killed the five members of 'Ice Americano' at that time."

As Lin Yu spoke, Jue also fell into thought.

"If what you said is true, then it means that the killer may have the ability to 'keep people active after death' or the ability to 'delay death,' right?"

"This kind of ability... is not very common."

Lin Yu looked at Jue: "So, disregarding motives and considering only 'ability,' who are your candidates?"

“No one in the ‘Player Mutual Aid Association’, including ‘Monica’ and ‘Shang Gen’, has ever demonstrated a similar ability. I can’t even think of anyone whose ability system is related to this,” Fern said, shaking her head. “However… this does not mean that the people in the ‘Player Mutual Aid Association’ can be ruled out as suspects. After all, whoever possesses this ability is very likely to keep it completely secret as a secret trump card.”

Lin Yu agreed with Jue's view: "Moreover, this is also a very good ability to hide."

Fern pondered for a moment and said, "However... if we expand the scope to all 'players,' I do have a few candidates—these people are very likely to have the ability to 'cause delayed death' or something similar to 'manipulate the dead.'"

"In fact, it seems that each of them has the ability to secretly infiltrate this venue... but I don't know if these guys are in Shenzhen."

As Jue spoke, Lin Yu became somewhat curious.

Who are they?

Fern didn't hold back and said directly, "First of all, there's the 'Embalmer' from the 'Freedom Alliance.' I don't know if you've heard of them?"

The first person was indeed inside Shenzhen.

Lin Yu maintained his composure and said calmly, "I've heard of her, and I've even fought her... Although she's called an 'embalmer,' she mainly extracts abilities from corpses, and doesn't have the ability to manipulate or preserve corpses in their pre-life state, right?"

“Yes, brother, yes,” Fern said in a low voice. “I’ve fought her too… to be precise, she was trying to kill me in the [instance].

"Based on my witnessing at the time, she could ensure that the life force and soul power of a corpse would not be lost after death—although she did not demonstrate the ability to manipulate the corpse to move, she did this, which is enough to explain why you did not realize that the 'Iced Americano' was 'dead' when you saw it."

"As for making corpses move, able to converse and think freely, that's not a particularly difficult ability to achieve compared to locking down 'corpse activity and soul,' right?"

"Moreover, members of the 'Freedom Alliance' often act collectively. Even if she can't do it, other members of that organization might be able to help her."

"Fern said seriously," Lin Yu said. Although he knew that it was most likely not Xiao Yun who did it, he had to admit that Fern's analysis made sense.

If he didn't know that Xiaoyun was most likely still at the Chef's house catching up on sleep with the other members of the "Freedom Alliance," then Xiaoyun would indeed be suspicious.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I've written it down... Anything else?"

Upon hearing this, Fern continued her analysis: "There's also a 'third-tier' expert... Although he hasn't joined the organization and is relatively low-key, I've seen him make a move—the strongest 'writer' and 'pen name'."

This person was even present inside the venue.

"Her abilities are complex, and I don't understand the principles behind them... In short, she can directly influence other people's behavior and rewrite 'reality'—so if it's her, she can definitely make a dead person appear alive and act flawlessly according to their habits in life, and then suddenly die a few hours later."

"It's true," Fern analyzed.

Although this location is closer than Xiaoyun's, it is even less likely.

Because if Zuo Xi had done something like that... Lin Yu felt that the other party would have told him just now.

But Lin Yu remained calm: "The abilities of 'pen names' are indeed very strange. Are there any others?"

“And then there’s the one whose abilities are most compatible,” Fern said, deliberately lowering his voice, “the mysterious master who’s been making waves lately and has acquired the complete legacy of the first ‘Freud’…”

"Schreber!"

Lin Yu's lips twitched repeatedly, and he finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"That... is probably unlikely."