Chapter 391: Who Committed the Murder?

391: Who committed the murder?

Are you serious…? Xiao Yu’s brain was left with nothing but question marks.

What kind of case is this anyway?

Right off the bat, an AOE move?

No, there’s something wrong with this operation!

Xiao Yu blinked and continued staring at the video, hitting the pause button.

He glared coldly at the disc on a circular calligraphy chart.

And at the table beneath the disc.

As a Magic Expert, Xiao Yu knew well that magic could create countless artificial illusions.

So how could a disc move on a table all by itself?

There are just too many possibilities!

Xiao Yu was sure that Wang Dong and Team Two’s members wouldn’t miss this.

He clicked play, and the video resumed.

In the footage, six young men flashed expressions of sheer terror.

That was Xiao Yu’s deduction.

He only saw four faces—each marked with the number ‘837’ and sheer panic.

Due to the camera angle, two faces were hidden.

But it wasn’t hard to imagine the expressions on those two youths…

A disc moving on its own is downright eerie.

Especially in the dark, lit only by four candles.

Even the very air seemed to freeze.

Suddenly.

The disc halted.

An arrow on the disc pointed at a particular character.

“Think?”

Immediately, the disc moved again and stopped on a second character.

“Ask?”

On its third shift… “What?”

On the fourth… “Hmm?”

Until the disc returned to the center of the Thousand Character Chart.

Think, Ask, What?

Needless to say, not only did the six youths on the surveillance video look baffled,

even Xiao Yu’s mind went completely blank.

A shiver ran down his spine, making his heart race!

No human hand was manipulating the disc; there were many methods.

But… how could someone get a disc on the Thousand Character Chart to precisely point to a chosen character?

Xiao Yu pressed pause once more as his mind raced with analysis…

“I once saw a movie with a similar scenario,” he recalled.

Wang Dong pointed at the video and said seriously, “But that movie wasn’t all that great.”

Though his face was stern, a strange gleam flickered in his eyes.

If it wasn’t good, so what? Saying it out loud only makes it more suspicious.

“What was that movie called? Just throw a name out there…” Xiao Yu shot his older brother a glance.

That look—every man understands that glance!

“Ahem!”

Wang Dong’s face turned red as he pointed at the tablet and commanded, “Get to work!”

The world of a Middle-Aged Man is always so simple… Xiao Yu grinned.

His train of thought about the moving disc was cut short by Wang Dong.

The surveillance video continued.

At this point, the footage was veering into ghost-story territory.

The six young men trembled uncontrollably, their faces ashen.

Beads of sweat on their foreheads betrayed the intense fear and anxiety they felt.

Then, six trembling fingers pressed onto the disc.

The youths exchanged uneasy glances as one girl tried to speak,

but no sound was captured, as the camera had no audio.

However… as a Language Expert, Xiao Yu was adept at lip-reading.

By observing the girl’s mouth movements, angles, and shape, he ‘heard’ what she said.

“Disc Spirit, Disc Spirit, may I ask, have any of us done something wrong in the past?”

That sentence made Xiao Yu’s eyebrows shoot up in surprise.

Why would this girl ask such a question?

“Have any of us ever done something wrong?” Xiao Yu glared coldly at the young men on screen.

So, what exactly did you do in the past?

Asking such a question suggests someone is hiding the truth.

And what truth is it that you all want to know?

So… did you conspire together to invoke the Disc Spirit?

The surveillance video continued.

Six trembling fingers still clung to the disc.

Then, once again, the disc moved.

It shifted along with the six fingers.

Soon, the arrow on the disc pointed to several characters.

“Among you, someone committed murder.”

Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes.

His gaze fixed intently on those six fingers.

He noticed blue marks on the pads of two fingers.

What did these blue marks signify?

When pressed hard, a finger pad can turn blue.

This indicated that they were applying significant force.

And what did that imply?

It meant two people were controlling the disc!

Using their strength, they maneuvered it exactly where they intended.

“So it is!”

Muttering to himself, Xiao Yu thought, “Although I still don’t know how you managed to get the disc moving on its own the first time, this time it’s two people behind it!”

The two controlling fingers belonged to a young man and a young woman, seen with their backs turned to the camera…

Xiao Yu couldn’t read their expressions, halting further analysis.

But everyone knows—

Cheaters always have ulterior motives.

In the video, two people were clearly cheating.

What were they planning?

When the youths saw the words revealed by the Disc Spirit, their faces turned pale all over again.

Then the disc returned to its original position.

A trembling young man slowly spoke up.

Xiao Yu continued lip-reading to decipher his words.

“Disc Spirit, Disc Spirit, among the six of us… who committed the murder?”

Suddenly, the disc moved again.

But this time it shook violently in a disturbingly erratic manner.

The youths’ expressions changed dramatically, filled with dread.

They looked as if they had seen a ghost.

Unable to maintain their grip, their fingers let go of the disc.

They could only watch as the disc, vibrating rapidly, flung the six fingers aside.

Once the six youths’ fingers were flung away,

the disc began moving on its own as if guided by an unseen hand.

It dashed toward a specific spot.

One of the candles on the table was knocked over.

Immediately, another candle was toppled.

These two candles corresponded exactly to the two characters at the corners of the chart.

Disc Spirit!

The six youths panicked and scrambled away from the table.

Some were gripped by sheer terror.

Some huddled in a corner.

Some screamed in fright.

There’s a legend in the Disc Spirit game:

If your finger is flung away and a candle is knocked over,

it signifies a certain ominous event…

Disc Spirit has arrived!

In a room lit by only two candles,

everything was dim, eerie, and sinister…

An indescribable aura of horror slithered through the darkness, drifting in the candlelight.

In that suffocating atmosphere, the room was filled with a chilling dread.

Suddenly,

a red figure emerged in the surveillance video…