Non-Human Seeking Re-employment

C1.5

Chapter 5 - Reward (One Toffee)

There was no error in the logic he derived his answer from, but it was not the right answer.

It was just...

Zhou Wenyan lowered his head to see Shen Dongqing frowning in frustration, and he could not help feeling funny.

Although this was the first time he met this young man, he wanted to be closer to him in an inexplicable way.

"I'll give you a simple hint," Zhou Wenyan ignored the system sounding in his ear as he said slowly, "Maybe what you are looking for isn't just the person who killed Mr. A."

The conditions to clear the novice level were usually not difficult, and they were more like brain teasers.

Oftentimes, however, players would be confused by the system's prompts and walk themselves into the dead end. As long as the questions were taken apart, they could easily find the correct answer.

While the others were still thinking about the meaning of the sentence, Shen Dongqing's eyes lit up and he blurted out: "In actuality, everyone is a murderer."

The person who took an axe and hacked away was Mr. A, and he killed the hostess, his insane mother and his twin daughters.

But they were holding Mr. A's funeral now, which was to say that the four people who had turned into ghosts had killed Mr. A. Therefore, in this house, through and through, no one was spared.

Thus, every one of them was a murderer.

"Bingo!" Zhou Wenyan snapped his fingers, "Your guess is correct."

He stood up. Before he took a step forward, he turned around again and took out something from his trench coat pocket before he placed it in Shen Dongqing's palm. Under a doubtful gaze, he smiled slightly: "Reward."

Saying that, Zhou Wenyan strode out of the hall.

The bus was still parked outside and the door opened silently.

Zhou Wenyan got on. Then, he looked back at the house and slanted his head before he uttered soundlessly: "See you next time."

Beep—

The door closed and set off. Despite the partition of glass, his blurred silhouette was still visible.

The bus drove off at a leisurely speed and it was eventually swallowed by the darkness as if it had entered another world.

Shen Dongqing opened his hand.

Lying in his palm.... A toffee?

A candy paper with a small bunny printed on it was wrapped around the spherical candy, and it was extremely cute and it smelled of milk.

Shen Dongqing peeled away the paper and tossed the toffee into his mouth. The rich taste of milk suffused through his mouth and he squinted his eyes from the sweetness. Before the toffee could fully melt, he saw the scene suddenly change.

Everyone disappeared from his sight.

The hostess, who looked fairly younger, was wearing a cheerful smile as she walked in, and the light and shadow behind her was blurred instead of being a deep, entrenching darkness.

This was the complete story.

The hostess had married into this family and gave birth to pair of lively and cute little girls, and life was blessed and perfect. However, there was one regrettable imperfection: it was that Mr. A was short-tempered, and he constantly suspected that the hostess had an ambiguous relationship with the tenant next door, and he even doubted whether his twin daughters were his own children.