[R18] I only like your personality [Entertainment Circle] – “I Only Like Your Personality [Entertainment Circle]” Chapter 16 [English]

Chapter 16 Fishing in troubled waters

Not long after leaving, an announcement from the program team came from the indoor speakers: “Players, please note that there are still thirty minutes left before all members vote for execution. The countdown will be displayed on everyone’s mobile phone screen. Please decide on the suspected killer within the specified time and go to the dining table to complete the execution together.”

Are you so pressed for time?Xia Xiqing frowned unconsciously.

This kind of game is similar to Werewolf. Everyone’s identity is in the black box. No one can see it and can only doubt each other. Even voting is conducted anonymously through mobile phones. No one knows who the people around them will vote for.

If you make a hasty decision, you may kill innocent people by mistake and even affect the final outcome.

To be honest, this is just a reality show, an insignificant game, but Xia Xiqing hates the failed “GAME OVER” the most.He is the type of person who lives for the pursuit of victory.

Decisions cannot be made casually without evidence to back up the facts.

Xia Xiqing led Shang Sirui to the previous hostess’s room, and met Cen Xun and Ruan Xiao who were still inside.Until this moment, Xia Xiqing still believed that there was a killer among them, but he had no evidence and not enough clues to prove it.

If tempted…it would be too easy to be exposed.

“Xi Qing,” to his surprise, Ruan Xiao was the first to call him, “I want to ask you some questions about painting. I don’t know much about art.”

Xia Xiqing smiled gentlemanly, “Of course.”

Shang Sirui laughed, “I don’t know why, but the picture of you two in the same frame made me think of the romantic love story between an aristocratic lady and an artist, hahaha.”

The atmosphere that was originally tense because of the countdown became much more lively, but Cen Chen broke the delicate balance.

Her cold face was always expressionless, but now it showed some suspicion. The dark red lipstick made her face even colder. “You study art? I don’t understand why an art student can solve these problems so quickly? Is it all due to your artistic talent?”

Although these words are all based on reasonable speculations, anyone who doesn’t know Xia Xiqing might say such things, but Cen Xun is obviously more hostile, which makes Xia Xiqing feel very uncomfortable, or to be precise, unhappy.

But he still smiled and replied, “I study art, but mathematics is my hobby. As Van Gogh said, his paintings are precise calculations. An artist who can be called an excellent artist often has a strong mathematical foundation or a keen mathematical sense.”

Shang Sirui, who was standing aside, laughed at the second part of the sentence, “Xi Qing is also very good at painting, but he is really good at mathematics. When we were in that room just now, many of them were solved by Xi Qing, who is at the level of a great master.”

Xia Xiqing frowned slightly, which was a very subtle and short action. He felt something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn’t tell whether it was because of whose words or the atmosphere.

“Really?” Cen Xun smiled, “I have been guessing whether Killer himself has more information than ordinary players, otherwise he would be too disadvantaged to fight alone. So… what if you are not an ordinary player yourself?”

By asking this, is she testing herself, or is she trying to bite her back?Xia Xiqing couldn’t be sure, but he knew very well that his current situation was very dangerous.

Everyone was waiting for Xia Xiqing’s answer, but he showed a flawless smile. He looked friendly and gentle, but his words were very decisive.

“If I were really a killer, the first thing I would do is ‘kill’ Zhou Ziheng.”

Cen Chen obviously did not expect that he would say such a thing. In her eyes, Xia Xiqing and Zhou Ziheng are equal to allies. “But you have been together since you cracked the room. You are not…”

“What now? Are he and I together?” Xia Xiqing crossed his arms and leaned against the wall with a smile, “Where is Ziheng now?” He glanced at the people around him, Ruan Xiao’s face still showed no expression, Cen Chen stopped talking, but Shang Sirui laughed a few times, “No way, I don’t think it is Ziheng brother, he has been solving the puzzle seriously…”

“Me too.” Xia Xiqing blinked, “Am I not solving the puzzle very seriously?”

He paused and continued, “Let me tell you a very important piece of information. From the beginning, it was more difficult for me to escape than Zhou Ziheng. My hands and feet were all tied up, and even my eyes were blindfolded, but he could easily escape easily. You might as well think about it, how could the program team make it so difficult for Killer? On the contrary, it was Ziheng who had the clearest idea from the beginning. According to your point of view, Cen Chen, isn’t it possible that he got the script?”

After saying that, Cen Xun looked at Xia Xiqing with a complicated expression. Xia Xiqing, who was talking nonsense seriously, also looked at her without fear. After a moment, Cen Xun raised his feet and was about to leave the room, but was stopped by Xia Xiqing, “I advise you not to go find him. If he is really his identity, you will definitely not survive.”

Cen Xun’s footsteps paused. Although she was not so willing, she had to admit that what Xia Xiqing said did make sense.

Xia Xiqing observed the expression on her face and smiled to herself.

Mathematics can really only be regarded as a hobby, and teasing people’s minds is what he is really good at.

He couldn’t let himself be thrown out like this.With such a rhythm, he believed that he could not sway people like Ruan Xiao, and it was an ineffective interference. But Cen Chen was different. If the ticket in her hand was for herself at the beginning, then after her thoughts were disrupted, she might give it to someone, which would seize the opportunity for her to survive.For a safe person like Zhou Ziheng, it doesn’t matter if he has Cen Chen’s vote.

But who will Shang Sirui vote for?Xia Xiqing looked at him and found that he was in a daze, as if he was thinking about something.

“Don’t guess yet,” Ruan Xiao calmly broke the deadlock, “You’d better tell me about these paintings.” Xia Xiqing nodded in disbelief, stood up straight and walked to Ruan Xiaodi’s side. He raised his finger and pointed at the “Unknown Girl” on the wall, “Do you want to ask about this one?”

Ruan Xiao, who was looking up at “Unknown Girl”, nodded first, and quickly gave a negative answer, “Not just this one, I think there is something wrong with the paintings in every room. These paintings cannot be randomly picked as decorations by the program team.”

Although Ruan Xiao had many fewer clues than He and Zhou Ziheng, her intuition was correct. Xia Xiqing understood what she meant, so she said, “You are right, but not every room has paintings. Except for the living room, I remember…” He looked at Shang Sirui beside him, “There were no paintings in your original room, right.”

Shang Sirui was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment, “Yes, there are no paintings in my room, nor in the living room.”

Why did he hesitate?

“Didn’t you draw anything when you entered the room?” Xia Xiqing asked again.

This time Shang Sirui did not hesitate and answered with certainty: “Yes.”

Xia Xiqing nodded slowly and took his eyes away from Shang Sirui’s face. At this moment, Cen Xun proposed to go back to his original room. Before leaving, he looked back at Shang Sirui and said, “Sirui, come here and help me move the bed. I want to see if there are any clues below.”

Shang Sirui said oh and followed Cen Xun out.

After such a long time, Zhou Ziheng should have been found… Xia Xiqing was still a little worried, fearing that he would be interfered by Cen Chen and Shang Sirui in finding clues.

Now the most critical clue lies in Zhou Ziheng’s hands.

Until he heard the sound of the closet door closing, Ruan Xiao took out a folded piece of paper from his dinner bag and handed it directly to Xia Xiqing without saying anything.

This move was unexpected, but also reasonable.This Ruan Xiao is indeed a smart man. By making such a decision, she has most likely eliminated her own suspicion.

Xia Xiqing took the paper and took a look.

This was the inside page of a medical record, and a line of words written on it quickly captured his attention.

[Patient, male, fourteen years old, diagnosed with bipolar disorder.]

Bipolar disorder, isn’t that manic depression?When you are depressed, you will experience low mood. When you are manic, you will have difficulty controlling your emotions, and you will do some extreme things that are beyond your control.

“Where did you find it?” Xia Xiqing was a little surprised. He instantly thought of the empty medical record in Shang Sirui’s room.

“In Shang Sirui’s room, it’s hidden in a coat in the closet.” Ruan Xiao replied softly, “It’s very deep. It doesn’t feel like the way the show team puts out clues.”

Wrong.

It was wrong from the start.

Xia Xiqing leaned against the wall, running through everything that had happened before in his mind, only to realize that from the initial meeting, almost every conversation and action was a carefully set trap, waiting for him to jump.

He originally thought that according to the setting of the general program, there must be one guest among the guests who took the “Muggle” script, but he got the wrong person. The person who really knew nothing about it was actually Cen Chen, who seemed to be inaccessible.Not only that, but his inherent bias against third parties also leads to deviations in his judgment.

Xia Xiqing’s eyes were blank, and he quickly thought about the killer’s tactics in a short period of time. If he could use execution as a public elimination method, coupled with his dark power, then he could get rid of two people.

Needless to say, these two people must be he and Zhou Ziheng.

After analyzing all possible solutions from a killer’s perspective, Xia Xiqing finally understood.He raised his eyes and looked at Ruan Xiao, “Help me act in a play.”

Ruan Xiao felt something was wrong. This person obviously knew who the killer was, and the voting was about to begin. At this time, shouldn’t the safest way be to recruit the players on the field to ensure that they would not be voted out?But he was clearly trying to cause trouble like this, “What are you going to do?”

Xia Xiqing scratched the hair on his forehead back and licked his dry lower lip unconsciously.

“Suicide attack.”