Chapter 26: Seeking
Unlike the clues given in the previous time, this time in the second puzzle, the clues are even more nonsensical and absurd.
Li Weiyin even felt as if he had been thrown into the desert, with only an inexplicable production drawing at hand, and even the description of the drawing had been torn out. He didn't know what he was going to do, or even how he was going to find the relevant material.
Find the betrayer.
Who is the betrayer? Betrayed whom? What is the betrayal?
Looking at those five words blankly, Li Weiyin subconsciously grinned at the corners of his mouth and laughed dryly.
Crazy, this guy is fucking crazy.
It's probably crazy to find the answer to this kind of nonsensical puzzle by yourself.
But what exactly is a betrayer?
Li Weiyin's breathing became more and more rapid. His heart was like being caught, and there was a faint pain in his heart. There seemed to be sour water gushing up in his abdomen, pouring into his esophagus, and there was excitement that made him numb.
He felt like throwing up.
Full of challenging, seemingly unsolvable puzzles.
Just what he wants.
The sound of the door shaft turning suddenly sounded, Li Weiyin jumped up from the chair, quickly picked up the piece of paper with the puzzle written on it, crumpled it into a ball, put it in his pocket, and climbed into the upper bed in three steps and two steps under the strange eyes of several roommates, and got into the quilt.
In the darkness, Li Weiyin shielded all the senses of his body and cut himself off from the world.
His thinking gradually became clearer.
Every word in the puzzle is not useless. If you don't have enough clues, you might be able to find more clues elsewhere.
When solving the first puzzle, there are also very few hints, nothing more than "the thing is in the box" and "the puzzle is the answer".
After carefully considering each possibility, it is almost certain that neither of these two clues has anything to do with "finding the betrayer".
If that's the case, are there any missing clues?
In the depths of Li Weiyin's mind, a flash of inspiration flashed.
The next day, the students of the zero-breaking class went down to the playground to assemble before six o'clock as usual, and Li Weiyin, who was hidden in the crowd, had two dark circles under his eyes, as if he had not slept all night. But deep in his eyes there was a feeling of extreme exuberance, almost fanaticism.
While the instructor counted the number of people, he looked around without a trace, and his eyes locked on a few students in the class.
Fan Lei.
Li Ran.
Tong Xiangdong.
Chen Qi.
These four people have one thing in common: they were all involved in the fire and school escape incident that conspired with Fang Chang, and after being caught, they were beaten in public.
After thinking all night, Li Weiyin thought that the "betrayer" implied by Lan Silin was among them. The so-called betrayer refers to this incident.
The reason for this is not complicated: the person entrusted by Lan Silin to bring the first puzzle to him is Fang Chang.
Why Fang Chang?
With Lan Silin's style of acting, it is impossible to do redundant and useless things. Even the clues given to him were clean and just right. And the act of deliberately asking someone to deliver the first letter did not match his usual style of acting, and Li Weiyin always had a sense of tearing.
He thinks that's the key to solving the second puzzle.
"Betrayer", related to Fang Chang.
Among the recent incidents that Fang Chang has experienced, the only one that may be related to the "betrayer" is this school skipping incident.
Speaking of which, this incident is not unrelated to Li Weiyin.
Because before the five of them began to plan to set fire to the canteen, Fang Chang had come to him and invited him to escape from Kanglong Academy together.
He decisively rejected Fang Chang's proposal at that time, and gave him enough hints that it was impossible for him to leave Kang Long in that way.
Because he knew very well about Kanglong Academy's bribery of nearby towns.
This kind of thing doesn't even need to be investigated, just simple reasoning can be understood.
The key point is the tuition fee of Kanglong Academy - the annual tuition fee of more than 100,000 yuan is enough to go to the best school in the county, but compared with this high tuition fee, Kanglong Academy is a mess in terms of teachers and food, and the monthly salary of the instructors is not even two thousand.
Where did the tuition fees go?
It is impossible to be swallowed by the mountain chief Liu Binghu alone. This method of seeking quick money and greedy for huge profits is not the style of Kanglong Academy, because this academy has existed in the mountains of Jiangxi for more than ten years, not only has it not declined, but has gradually grown into a behemoth, and the instructors will even call students to help with the expansion of the campus.
After ruling out these possibilities, it is easy to guess that a huge part of the huge tuition fees collected by Kanglong Academy are used to establish relationships around the school and control public opinion.
In this case, simply climbing out of the walls of the academy is just getting out of the wolves and into the tiger's den.
This was the reason for his refusal. Simple and straightforward.
But he never considered that the reason why Fang Chang would fail was because there was a possibility of betrayers in the team.
If there really is a so-called "betrayer", except for the four people except Fang Chang, everyone is equally suspected.
Fan Lei is the smartest of the five-member group. The plan to set fire to the canteen, the specific details and steps are arranged by him.
Li Ran is the youngest, fifteen years old, and has a good relationship with Fan Lei. According to Li Weiyin's secret investigation of the classmates, Li Ran's personality is the weakest and cannot endure hardship.
Tong Xiangdong was the last one in line when several people jumped over the window and over the wall, he failed to jump over the wall, fell from the second floor, sprained a leg, and is still lame when he walks.
And Chen Qi, from all angles, is very ordinary, although his physical fitness is not bad, he belongs to the type of thief who has a thief's heart but no courage, if it wasn't for Fang Chang's instigation, he would not have the idea of escaping the academy at all.
There is also a very crucial question: the timing of the betrayal.
If the betrayer had been premeditated, the suspicion of the betrayer would have expanded again, and it was possible that not only these four people, but everyone who had been in contact with and tried to pull into the escape team would be suspicious.
If the betrayer was improvised, then someone must have done something and changed the state of affairs while several people were fleeing. But these details, unless they are told by the group of people themselves, Li Weiyin will not know.
It will take a lot of time to collect clues, eliminate suspects one by one, and find the real betrayer.
Although he didn't understand the point of Lan Silin trying to find the betrayer on her own, Li Weiyin didn't plan to follow the rules.
Similar to the previous game-breaking, this time, he also intends to "cheat".
He wants to make the betrayer jump out on his own through reverse thinking.
No matter how delicate the layout is, there will be omissions. This time, you can get a head start.