Chapter 5 Who is the Last Thief?

  An Yi quietly looked ahead at the burning bonfire, waiting for the voting results to appear after a short while.

  No. 7: No. 2, No. 6, No. 8, No. 9, No. 10 (4 votes)

  No. 14: No. 3 (1 vote)

  Abstained: No. 1, No. 5, No. 13

  The voting results appeared as the bonfire flared up. The darkness that shrouded the man in work uniform No. 7 also retreated at the same time.

  Following closely behind the figure of No. 7 work uniform... was a giant excavator claw on his head.

  With a loud crash, the excavator's huge claw smashed heavily onto the body of the man in work uniform No. 7.

  After the excavator's big claws disappeared, even the outline of the corpse of the No. 7 work uniform man could not be distinguished at all.

  The '7' printed next to corpse No. 7 changed bit by bit until it became a character for 'people'.

  $$ The bonfire went out, and looking at the inky blackness around him, An Yi's face changed color.

  No. 7 work uniform male is civilian! What about No. 9...

  Combined with what the girl in the No. 9 cheongsam said earlier, she is absolutely not that kind of person.

  If it's not a rioting crowd, then No. 9 dares to report and kill, it can only be thieves or yamen runners.

  If a thief were to jump out of this circle, report 7 numbers and kill one, wouldn't that be sending someone to their death?

  But... if No. 9 isn't a thief, then he can only be a yamen runner. But if he's a yamen runner, why would he report an unknown identity to be killed?

  All sorts of possibilities kept flashing through An Yi's mind.

  The bonfire reignited, and the figure of the 8th job uniform woman also emerged from the darkness.

  A steel stake was fiercely stabbed into the chest of the No. 8 office lady, followed by a second one, a third one...

  In an instant, one by one, the steel nails pierced into the plump body of the office lady, turning her into a human hedgehog.

  Fresh blood flowed from the ends of the steel nails, dripping down and falling onto the ground.

  The blood-stained '8' slowly changed into a '衙' character.

  "Number 9, please speak up." A dull voice emerged, and the girl in the dress, Number 9, appeared out of the darkness. Her pretty face looked rather unsightly.

  "I didn't think I'd dodge my own slash, but somehow I still ended up killing a fellow officer!" The girl in the No. 9 dress bit her lip: "I'm indeed an officer."

  "The reason I reported No. 7 as an unknown identity was on the one hand to save luck and inspection opportunities, and on the other hand to avoid a knife." The girl in the No. 9 dress sighed: "I know my credibility is very low now, so please everyone listen carefully to what I have to say next."

  "Our first night, we actually investigated No. 15 instead of No. 3! The reason is that one of our companions had encountered the little girl who was No. 15 in a previous game and said she was quite good, so they wanted to check her out first!"

  "If it wasn't for the fact that we checked her on the first night, with her speech in the first round being like a gambler's psychology, it's possible that we would have pushed her out of the game in the first round!"

  "In fact, No. 15 didn't disappoint us either, she took a knife for our team in the second round."

  "And No. 3... was actually the second one we checked that night! As for why No. 16 gave this unknown identity a household registration in the first place, I suppose it's a conspiracy!"

  "If No. 3 is indeed the thief, under what circumstances would he go back to retrieve this ID in the first round? There's only one possibility: that among the 12, 13 and 14 PK packages lost by No. 16, there was a situation where the thief was present!"

  "This is like using a 16th-ranked official's token to lure the 3rd-ranked one; it can also be considered a strategy of forcing, good, for, or prostitute."

  "Even if the third ring really turned against this civilian, we wouldn't go to rescue the 16th comrade! And at night, we won't go to investigate the third ring again, but use the 16th's corpse to 'frame' the second ring and kill the third, 12th, 13th, and 14th!"

  "Of course, to be on the safe side, during the first round, when 3 was about to vote for 14, I deliberately ignored him and voted for 12, just in case 3 really was a thief who could resist temptation!"

  "Moreover, to avoid any unexpected events, the vote of condolence for No. 16 in the first round was also cast for No. 4! The vote of condolence for No. 16, plus my speech and No. 8's speech after No. 3, even if No. 3 is a thief, we can still eliminate him in the second round!"

  However, in the first round of No. 3 without anti-16 civilian certificate, our second night must check his! If he is a thief, then the possibility of thieves among 12, 13, and 14 will be very low! But in fact, No. 3 is indeed a civilian!

  "On the second day, which was yesterday, our companion No. 8 asked to be tied up with No. 6, because No. 6 had previously chatted with No. 4 thief, but the situation of the previous ticket was very strange!"

  "Although we haven't found No. 6 yet, we think the thief's face value is really high! Therefore, No. 8 and his companions had to bind themselves with No. 6 in order to survive, just to intimidate her!"

  "I thought No. 8 would definitely be safe, so I also wanted to avoid a knife, and reported the unknown identity of No. 7 for elimination. If I was right, it's a gain; if wrong, I could still avoid a knife! In fact, I did manage to avoid one... But..."

  "But we investigated No. 6 last night! No. 6 is indeed a thief! What's even more unexpected is that she actually dared to go and kill No. 8, who was tied up with her!"

  "If it were just that, and someone still questioned my words, then think about the previous voting results! I reported 7 for kill, but 8 firmly followed me to vote for 7! Why? Because 8 is on the same team as me!"

  "Tonight I will definitely be killed by the knife, so let's make a will in advance! After listening to a round of speeches, I may go up and read my will. If there is a will ticket, the next day the person who drew the will ticket will leave first; if not, then someone from 13 or 14 will come out, and we'll try to get two chances for investigation!"

  $$The scar-faced man No. 10 tightened his face again and said another sentence: "I believe in No. 9."

  "9's words are indeed plausible. However... " The bespectacled man, No. 13, paused for a moment: "It's also possible that 9 is a thief making his last struggle and trying to steal 3's citizen ID!"

  An Yi didn't speak up at first, but instead recalled the speech of the girl in the No. 9 cheongsam and compared it with various clues from before in her mind.

  After a moment of contemplation, An Yi slowly spoke up: "The 16th and 8th are two fallen yamen tokens! And yet the thief still has three more! Meanwhile, the 9th is now standing out, either wanting to control the scene or confirm their identity as the thief token; or perhaps it's just a madman who wants to wield a knife and go wild! Untrustworthy!"

  Although An Yi said he didn't believe in No. 9 on the surface, in fact, An Yi had already confirmed that No. 9 was definitely Zhang Yeba's trump card!

  No. 9 said that the first night inspection of No. 15 was completely consistent with the speech of No. 16 in the first round! Otherwise... No. 16 would not have ignored No. 15's speech, and even deliberately pretended to be annoyed, to highlight that No. 15 might be on the same team as him.

  Ke Anwei's heart was more and more convinced that No. 9 was a yamen runner, but he couldn't say so.

  Two officers fell to the ground, but there were still three thieves on the scene. The officers were at a disadvantage! At this time, someone with a knife must come out.

  How can he withstand this knife? An Yi is on the PK stage, and this knife will definitely not be able to withstand it!

  Who can hold this knife on the field? No. 3!

  As long as An Yi shows that he doesn't believe in No. 9, and No. 3 stands up to vouch for him, continuing to pretend to be a low-ranking citizen of No. 9's identity, and defining No. 9 as a rioter, it is possible to let No. 3 take the fall!

  Of course... with No. 9 being so obvious, it's really hard to take this knife!

  It's hard to say, but isn't there always a glimmer of hope? What if, what if the thief really believed it?

  "Number 1, please speak."

  The 99 candles had just been relit when No. 1 Sleepyhead Fatso started repeating that sentence again: "I know nothing, I know nothing..."

  "Number 9, what is it after all?" Number 2 beer girl didn't ask herself to leave like before, but her words returned to being completely unconstructive again.

  $$3 Butter Young Master This time around, he didn't insist on coming out with An Yi's 14th... but...

  The moment No. 3 Butter Boy spoke out, An Yi's face turned green!

  "No. 14's speech this time is not bad, and we can temporarily rule out the possibility of being a thief!" No. 3 Creamy Young Master nodded: "No. 9 is indeed impossible to be a yamen! Because I, No. 3, am the yamen!"

  "In fact, we investigated No. 11 on the first night, but No. 11 was cleared; On the second night, we investigated No. 7, but No. 7 was reported and killed by No. 9! I thought No. 9 might be a rioter in the previous round, so I insisted on pushing No. 14 to be eliminated..."

  "Last night I checked No. 9 and found out that No. 9 was actually a thief!"

  "Don't question my yin-yang identity! My 16th yin-yang companion, the reason why I threw away my citizen's certificate in the first circle was actually because there was a yin-yang officer in the PK package. As for who it was, the thief can use a knife to determine!"

  $$ An Yi originally intended to go as No. 3 to pretend to be No. 9, but...

  This is indeed a low blow, but it's a bit too much! Directly deducted a kill! This No. 3 obviously doesn't believe that No. 9 is a yamen!

  Can't be a yamen runner just because you weren't cut by a knife at night?

  There are still 3 thieves on the scene, obviously wanting to return to the ballot. In the daytime, they smashed the No. 9 official to death!

  As for No. 3 Li Dian... in An Yi's opinion, it was complete nonsense!

  The order of checking people for No. 3 is barely acceptable, but why did No. 16 give the certificate to the official No. 3 at the first lap?

  Are you going to send a yamen's head? Not satisfied with just one yamen dying, want two to die directly?

  Fine! Let's just say it's to throw a low-ranking official into the PK package, but No. 16 can actually push one and put that official and another person in the second circle of the PK package!

  And...the vote type for the first round is wrong!

  No. 12 is the one who was knocked down by the crowd! There's only An Yi and No. 14 left in that PK package, as well as No. 13!

  An Yi clearly knows his own identity as a commoner. So according to No. 3's words, is No. 13 a yamen runner?

  But in the first round of PK, 16 and 8, these two official cards did not start with 12 or their own 14! Aren't they afraid that 13 will be smashed out at the starting hand?

  No. 13 is absolutely impossible as a yamen runner, and An Yi himself is not a yamen runner, so... No. 3 creamy young master is obviously just talking nonsense.

  That... to take a step back, the 3rd butter young master only told half a lie. There were no yamen runners on the PK stage, but he was one. However...

  No. 3 is a government official, how can he completely fail to bring over the votes of No. 8 and No. 16? He only managed to bring over the vote of that little girl from No. 15 who was only seven or eight years old?

  And... Girl No. 15 is a civilian! She and Cream Puff Boy No. 3 only boarded the ship to carry knives!

  Where is the 3rd butter junior's attendant companion? The 3rd butter junior is completely isolated!

  Always being bitten by him, An Yi also acknowledged it, after all he was just a civilian in a PK package. But...

  This No. 3 cream boy is not even as good as that No. 12 middle school student!

  Don't be afraid of being a middle school student! What's scary is some people who stubbornly live in their own world!

  This No. 3 creamer is a turtle! Biting onto Qing Shan and refusing to let go, only knowing how to follow his own analysis.