035, The truth of darkness

As the rain fell, there were rustling sounds everywhere in the mountain.

The maids looked at the girl in front of them and continued to maintain the surprise on their faces. But Citrus smiled and shook their heads.

"It's a pity that I'm not a ghost. The sword I had last night was really dangerous, and I thought I was dead."

The girl smiled, reached out to cover her right chest and continued-

"If I hadn't been born with my heart on the right side, I'm afraid I'd be really dead now."

"You're lying."

The idiot decisively exposes the lies of the citrus that reappears.

"You said I'm lying?"

Citrus frowned, shook her head helplessly, and said, "I didn't lie at all. And I just got the news, and it was a complete misunderstanding for me to attack you all. Someone used fake news to deceive me..."

"No, you were not cheated. The people who were really cheated are everyone here, including me."

The idiot took another step. Facing the idiot's coldness, the two mercenaries unconsciously gave way and allowed him to walk forward and stood ten steps away in front of Citrus. However, after he stood at this distance, four mercenaries immediately stepped forward and blocked him.

"From the beginning, this was a scam. It was like the world was filled with all kinds of fake gems, and everything was the best drama of 'killing yourself' through your careful planning and use. To be honest, the performance was wonderful, and it was an almost perfectly produced meticulous scam."

Again and again, she was called a liar, and Citrus's face gradually became ugly. But she didn't have an attack because she believed that her arrangement was perfect. It was impossible for anyone to fully see the strangeness in this matter.

"Haha, since you are so stubborn that I am lying to others, then do you have any evidence?"

Citrus smiles charmingly, and it smiles very sweetly.

The idiot's response was very cold, as cold as the winter.

"have."

“And, there are quite a few.”

The idiot turned his head and looked at the mad dog who had not been put on his mouth. He slowly said-

"Mad Dog, do you remember the hot pot restaurant explosion when we first met?"

The mad dog thought about it and decided to follow the idiot's words and said, "Remember. What's wrong?"

"Do you think something is wrong with that fire?"

"Haha, there are many things that are wrong. Any accident is simply assassination."

"I'm not asking this. But from an objective perspective, do you think that the assassination itself shouldn't have happened."

In an instant, the mad dog was stunned.

The idiot didn't ask her to answer, but continued to speak on his own-

"If I remember correctly, Citrus is the second princess of the Gem Empire. Remember, she is the 'second princess'. That is to say, she will only be able to ascend the throne of the queen unless her eldest sister died and she did not leave any female offspring. But before that, she was just an ordinary royal family member."

"So, is it unreasonable for such a royal member to send killers one after another?"

"If it were 'you', how would you deal with this second princess?"

The sentence "you" was said to the mad dog, and the meaning was very obvious, which generally refers to hidden currents.

The mad dog lowered his head and thought about it. Gradually, her face became frozen.

"That's right... If it were us, we wouldn't kill her, but would try our best to hold her hostage. After all, the living second princess is more useful than the dead second princess. Moreover, I heard that the queen loves her sister very much. It is always more cost-effective to save her life than killing her. But if that's the case..."

The mad dog raised his head, stared at the citrus over there with confusion, and slowly said—

"Why... all the killers that appeared on this journey, whether it was the hot pot restaurant, the hot spring hotel, or the open-air place...every time, those people went straight to her life?"

The idiot nodded, turned his head, and looked at the citrus over there again. After sorting out his thoughts for a little, he stretched out his two fingers and continued—

"The second point is that in the morning when we were about to leave in Huoquan Town, something happened that many people didn't know about here. In our maid team, there was a person missing."

"It's my roommate! My friend disappeared that day!!!"

The three maids who told the idiot that day that she told her roommates were missing and shouted in unison.

"But, she must have sneaked away and returned home, right?"

"She didn't go home." The idiot stared at Citrus, "on the contrary, she will never go home."

Next, the idiot told me that he saw the soil in the hotel courtyard being deliberately turned over, looking for clues, and finally found the tooth-decayed jaw bone in the incinerator. When he heard that his roommate was no longer alive, the maid who cared about his friend's most eyes turned black and fainted in the arms of his companion.

"Ah... this must have been done by the people who came to assassinate me that day... They are so cruel."

The idiot nodded, agreed with Citrus's words, and continued: "You are right, it was indeed the one who assassinated you. But I kept wondering why they wanted to kill that girl? What is the reason for it? Time quickly gave me a very important reminder."

"34 minus 1, still equals 34."

Citrus's face twitched and said, "What are you talking about? 34 minus 1 equals 33. Why don't you know such a simple arithmetic?"

"Yes... According to normal circumstances, in addition to the Lemon Princess played by Mad Dog, 33 maids should have been recruited. During this meal time, Mad Dog would first eat a portion of "Lemon Princess Second" in order to disguise himself, and then disguise himself as Jones to get a meal coupon and eat a portion of "Jones". So, the total number of people is exactly 34. After removing the dead maid, only 33 should be given a meal coupon to eat."

"However, after several days of observation of the meal coupon, I discovered an incredible situation. The number of people who should have decreased did not decrease. The number of people who had been dining several times remained at 34."

"At the beginning, I thought someone had gotten in. But thinking about it carefully isn't right, because everyone here is arranged in a four-person group mode. If strange faces appear around their group actions, someone will definitely notice it. But the problem is that no one notices any strangers appear."

Hearing this, Citrus's face suddenly changed. The idiot obviously noticed her face and snorted-

"Did you notice it? That's right. The maid who was killed was not because of anything else, but because of the maid's uniform on her. The intruder who I thought was impossible to appear was wearing the clothes of the deceased and mixed in."

"In addition, in order to protect you with the role of "Jones" in this trip, Mad Dog always staggered the positions of all maids, and even the meal time was scattered, which caused very few situations where you could see all maids at once. It was this arrangement that made the person ambush smoothly and wait for an opportunity to take action."

"But... isn't it?" At this time, Maine spoke, and she said in confusion, "Miss Kennedy, you said just now that if a stranger appears, we will definitely pay attention. But the problem is, we really don't notice strangers? Everyone, right?"

Amid the shouts of "right", the idiot was not panicked at all. He took a breath and said-

"Ah. I didn't notice it, of course. Because this intruder didn't pretend to be a stranger at all. He was pretending to be a very familiar person. Moreover, the disguise was perfect, and it was impossible to see it in this journey where there was almost no gathering of all."

Maine said in surprise: "What? Is there such a disguise?! Miss Kennedy, who is the disguise of that infiltrator?!"

The idiot suddenly stretched out his finger, shook it gently, and said, "Before this, Maine, answer me a question."

"Ah? Ah, you said."

"How old do you think the queen of this year's Gem Empire should be."

Citrus lowered her head, and cold sweat broke out on her face. However, Mai Ni frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Absolutely...it's at least almost thirty..."

"No, last year, the Queen of the Gem Empire only held her 20th birthday." The Mad Dog seemed to understand something, and the doubt on her face had dissipated.

The idiot nodded: "Yes. Very young. And I can guarantee that the queen is probably not twenty years old yet. It is very likely that this queen is only a few hours, even dozens of minutes, or even dozens of seconds older than the second princess in front of us."

In an instant, everyone present understood something. Everyone turned their heads and stared at the citrus over there. Some of the mercenaries of Gray Shadows opened their mouths even widened, and some of them struggled to tear off the gray shadow badge on their shoulders, revealing the gem badge below!

"That's right. The 'Lemon Princess' we met last night was the current queen of the Gem Empire. That is, the twin sister of the second Citrus Princess in front of us. The two sisters are all twins from appearance to height!"

Boom————!

The rain was shining with lightning, and it increased its momentum again.

The dark valley seemed to be brighter at this moment.

"And you—"

The idiot stretched out his finger and pointed directly at the citrus that bowed his head and said nothing.

"Yesterday, in front of us, you killed her with your own hands."

"Kill the Queen of the Gem Empire."

"Kill your twin sister!"
Chapter completed!