CHAPTER 32: CHAPTER 32: THIS CORPSE CAME BACK TO LIFE TWICE

Cheng Zhirang nodded, "Good analytical skills, but does this prove I’m that God? No. If my identity is truly someone madly in love, then at most, I’ve done some things I shouldn’t have for my wife, which doesn’t seem to connect with the word ’God’."

Mu Qiu, who was deeply engrossed in the case-solving, snapped back from the thrill of solving the case.

Seems like, seems like that’s the case?

Looking at Lin Banyan again, she also nodded, "You can infer he’s not a good person, but this doesn’t imply he’s that God."

Cheng Zhirang smiled at them, "Let’s go, let’s check out the performing guests."

He walked over to look at the ID badges of the two performing guests, introducing them to the camera and then reached out his hand.

"Ji Yu from Hai City Art College, Qiu Shuang, an actor from Hai City Drama Performance Center, hello, I’m Cheng Zhirang."

Mu Qiu and Lin Banyan also reached out their hands, "Hello, I’m Mu Qiu."

"Hello, I’m Lin Banyan."

Both people were a bit flattered, hurriedly reaching out to shake hands.

Mu Qiu glanced one more time at the young man named Qiu Shuang.

Without the twisted expression, he looks like a very clean young man, the kind that’s school-heartthrob looking. Good-looking and with decent acting skills, he might find a position in the entertainment industry in the future.

The scene reenactment belonging to their group had ended, and the three of them left the factory, returning to where Guan Yu was staying as agreed.

Mu Qiu recapped every situation and conversation encountered along the way, with a vague idea forming in her mind, yet still couldn’t find the right language to summarize it.

Upon returning to the opposite factory, the first thing she saw was Guan Yu’s indescribably complex expression, while the others hadn’t returned yet.

Mu Qiu felt puzzled, paused her thoughts, walked over and asked, "Sister Guan Yu, why do you have this expression?"

Guan Yu glanced at Zhu Qi, who was still lying dead beside her, seeming a little tongue-tied.

After quite a while, she finally said, "Just now Zhu Qi came back to life, twice."

"?"

Lin Banyan exclaimed in shock, "Huh?"

"The first time he came back to life, he looked at me with terror, asking for my forgiveness, saying he didn’t intentionally intervene in my family, it was my husband who couldn’t resist temptation."

Mu Qiu previously thought that as an online novel author, her imagination was broad enough, but didn’t expect that now, even those involved in formal shows have such big imaginations.

A man talking to a woman with such a green-tea rival-like statement, is this really suitable for airing?

Even Cheng Zhirang couldn’t help but furrow his brows, looking in disbelief at the dead Zhu Qi.

Zhu Qi showed a slight stiffness, indicating respect.

Voices came from the doorway as the remaining four people returned.

Beside her, Lin Banyan naturally adjusted her posture, not giving the people at the door any eye contact.

"Then what about the second time?"

"What second time?" Su Yan chimed in from behind, taking long strides to stand beside them.

Lin Banyan said nothing.

Guan Yu didn’t notice any undercurrents between the two, thoughtfully explained.

"Zhu Qi revived twice, I suspect he might be a bit split. The second time he woke up, he actually asked me who I was, even saying things like, aren’t you that poor woman from next door? Heh, doesn’t this kind of person need to be a literal corpse? I could help with that."

"Next door?" Lin Banyan grasped the keyword, "He said sorry to you the first time, which should be related to you, but the second time said it was next door, we just happen to be missing an outsider from our group."

Guan Yu rarely showed a bit of slowness, "You mean, he’s pretending to be two people?"

He really is split, huh.

"He became like this after the explosion," Su Yan confirmed, "The explosion turned him from Sister Shu Ran’s brother into two other people."

Shi Yuhuai smoothly took over, "And one just happens to be the missing person in our group, the other happens to be the missing person in Brother Cheng’s group."

One is Wang Tiezhu’s side piece, the other is Qiuqiu’s affair partner, a man and a woman.

All in the same person?!

"...Does this explosion come with possession effects?" Facing this melodramatic twist, Mu Qiu admired, "The outsider from our group just happened to die under Brother Cheng’s humanitarian glow."

"Humanitarian glow..." Cheng Zhirang was curious, "What is this?"

"Your charm."

Cheng Zhirang nodded, looking like a gentleman who had been taught a lesson.

Li Yang pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket, "Coincidentally, Sister Shu Ran and I picked up a flyer from the ground, it said the natural gas leak explosion happened because a car passed by, someone lit a cigarette, and that person died in the end."

Sister Shu Ran actively added, "The flyer came from next door, and the staff used two fans just to blow it over."

Guan Yu pursed her lips, "That’s tough on the staff, were they the two just dragging me?"

Mu Qiu held back her laughter, "So we discovered Zhu Qi’s...backstory?"

"Does this mean copying two people onto one person? What’s the point? How does it relate to God?" Li Yang asked.

"If it’s the actual sense of God, He indeed has the ability to replicate people, could it be the explosion and Zhu Qi are both the handiwork of God?"

Replicate people?

Mu Qiu felt a surge of dramatic inspiration pierce through her mind.

She opened another topic casually, asking everyone: "Have you seen ’Annihilation’? It’s a foreign movie."

Among the group, only Cheng Zhirang nodded.

Mu Qiu’s lips curled up.

Li Yang seemed puzzled: "What’s up with this movie? Is there any connection to this?"

"A little bit. Besides the sci-fi elements, the movie’s emotional line mainly talks about how a woman cheated because her husband in the special forces rarely came home. After cheating, she felt particularly guilty towards her husband, so she desperately wanted to make up for it by entering the secret base her husband went to last in order to save him. In the end, she got what she wanted, she saved her husband, and they reconciled, only that husband was actually a replica from the secret base."

It just coincidentally matched their identity setup and had the word replica come up.

Though there’s no direct arrow pointing, it now seems the self-logic has everyone unanimously beginning to suspect Cheng Zhirang.

Cheng Zhirang started a dire counterattack: "The replica indeed is the movie’s God, he became the husband and left, so if we deduce this way, the person who becomes the replica should be the one most likely to be God."

Suddenly, Zhu Qi, who was laying dead on the ground, felt enveloped by fiery gazes, rigidly and laboriously, he pulled out another slip of paper and a pen from his other sleeve, squinting as he tremblingly wrote down a line, then reverted to a dead position.

[The corpse is innocent, after all, he is already a corpse.]

Everyone fell silent for a moment: "..." Why is this corpse stealing the scene like this?