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Everyone looked on in astonishment as Ling Song slowly got up from the ground.
"In fact, he didn't die. I saved him yesterday," A Liang said, helping Ling Song to his feet. "Then I had him pretend to be dead here. Wang Gang, the notes and pendant you left gave us a psychological hint that led us to misjudge the order of the victims. When I shouted 'corpse!' it also served as a psychological cue for you.
Moreover, seeing Ling Song's condition at that time would have made you believe he was dead. Initially, I suspected Liang Xueli, thinking he might have secretly returned to kill the boss. However, when I met Ling Song last night, he told me he had been with Liang Xueli the whole time and only separated after six o'clock. Therefore, he had no opportunity to commit the crime. Thus, the entire criminal process was orchestrated by you, just as I mentioned earlier!"
"But Ling Song's unexpected disappearance and supposed death undoubtedly disrupted your plan. You intended to frame him from the start, so you stole his dagger when he wasn't paying attention before he left, creating an atmosphere of terror. This means that every victim had to have a pendant and a note at their time of death, making the entire process interconnected. That's why you rushed ahead to block our view, standing by the corpse and tossing the prepared pendant and note beside it. The pendant is small; if there are only one or two, it's easy for you to hide on your person.
And because everyone checked each other the day before but still encountered surprises, no one checked again afterward. The reason I chose evening was that it made it convenient for you to act. Unlike before, this time the note appeared in a crumpled form. You crumpled it first so that it wouldn't be blown away by the wind when thrown.
And this played right into my trap! You were the first to come into contact with the corpse. Earlier, I deliberately had Rongrong pretend to slip so that you would be the first to reach Ling Song's 'body.' Only the first person to arrive at the 'corpse' has the chance to throw down the pendant and note! Now, what do you have to say?"
Wang Gang stood there in shock, unable to utter a word.
"By the way, let me tell you one more thing: there can never be a perfect crime in this world; every evil act has its flaws!"
A Liang stepped forward. "The trap I set was merely intended to force you into revealing yourself. Even if you hadn't fallen for it, there would still be other evidence. If we check Xu Renbin's room key now, we will find only your fingerprints and his on it—no one else's. This is because everyone checked Xiao Xin's room key at that time, not Xu Renbin's. This is also one of the loopholes in your entire criminal process. After Xiao Xin was harmed, I kept all the keys safe; they haven't been tampered with..."
"I... I've lost..." Wang Gang murmured as he stood there with his head down.
"Now, what we want to know is why you did this?" A Liang stared directly at him.
"Why? Why?" Wang Gang remained frozen in place, repeating those same few words.
Suddenly, he shouted hysterically, "They all deserve to die! They are the ones who killed Xiao Qing!"
After shouting for a while, Wang Gang regained his composure and slowly began to speak. "Do you all remember this time last year? A girl died here. Do you know who she was? She was my childhood friend, Xiao Qing. We grew up together, and I have always had a crush on her. She always saw me as her brother, but I never minded; as long as I could see her happy, that was enough for me.
"Xiao Qing came here to collect plant specimens because she heard that this island had rare plants not found elsewhere. Coincidentally, Xu Renbin was also here treasure hunting, and they both stayed at the same inn. However, on the night of the Qixi Festival last year, Xiao Qing returned home in high spirits, which aroused the suspicion of three men. Under their questioning, Xiao Qing told them she had found treasure.
Then these three heartless guys followed Xiao Qing into the forest. When Xiao Qing stopped by a small pond, they thought it was the treasure location and pressured her to hand over the treasure. Unbeknownst to them, Xiao Qing slipped and fell into the pond. Despite her desperate struggles, these three men remained indifferent."
"Eventually, she sank beneath the surface. However, they did not find any treasure; it was truly a twist of fate."
"Later, I came to the island to investigate the truth behind Xiao Qing's death and accidentally overheard their conversation. Thus, I planned today's revenge. Your zodiac signs, hobbies, specialties, and characteristics were all carefully selected by me. I even arranged for Liang Xueli and Ling Song to go into the forest together; otherwise, Xu Renbin's immediate poisoning would have been exposed. The entire plan unfolded roughly as you have deduced..."
"I told Xu Renbin and Xiao Xin about a plan that could bring them immense wealth; both of them are quite greedy. I convinced Xiao Xin to partner with Xu Renbin to kill the boss. Xiao Xin quickly agreed because she would inherit the boss's estate. We first hid the jewelry; we left a note to confuse everyone’s attention and make it seem like an outsider was responsible."
"Next, I informed Xu Renbin that the pendant in the restaurant indeed related to the treasure and that the boss had deciphered its secrets. Both Xiao Xin and I knew about this secret. Now that the boss was dead, if we killed Xiao Xin, the treasure could be split between just the two of us. Since finding the treasure still required Xu Renbin's skills and experience, he did not suspect that I would turn against him; instead, he acted as my weapon.
I laid out the murder plan for him and instructed him to place a third note on Xiao Xin's body. Then I deceived him into believing my next target was Sun Miaoyan because she also knew about the treasure's secret; a second note would be placed beside her body to help clear Xu Renbin's suspicion. He believed me completely.
This is why I needed others to be poisoned first—to ensure he wouldn’t suspect he was my final target. He killed Xiao Xin as I wished; of course, he could not escape his own fate either. I killed him and placed the pendant on him; everything fell within my plan."
"However, Ling Song's disappearance was indeed an unexpected turn for me. My initial plan was to focus everyone's suspicion on him by stealing his dagger for murder. Additionally, the pendant and notes were meant to create an atmosphere of cursed killings so that everyone would distrust each other; this would facilitate my actions. Yet I did not know whether Ling Song was still alive or not; if his death differed from everyone else's, it would undoubtedly ruin my perfect murder plan—and that was precisely where I fell into a trap.
"I hid other pendants in my climbing water bottle; once filled with water, no one would suspect anything. However, this one piece of jewelry had to be kept on me at all times—but still, there were flaws in my meticulous planning..."
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