Chapter 50
Chapter 50
“Huh? You… you figured something out?” Fu Yang asked.
Could he really have discovered some incredible clue?
“Uh… hmph. Because he isn’t Liu Sibo at all!” Liu Ye declared, dropping a bombshell.
“What? How-how could you tell?” Fu Yang said in shock.
“Uh, I… he…”
Liu Ye blinked, thinking to himself, Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li… Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li… Zhao… Zhao…
“He’s Zhao Ze!”
“Zhao Ze? Then the one who was with us is…”
“Uh… what do you think?”
Liu Ye threw the question back at him, a profound look spreading across his face.
It was as if a thunderclap exploded in Fu Yang’s mind. If what Liu Ye said was true, and the dead man was Zhao Ze, then the living one had to be…
“Liu Sibo!”
“Exactly!!! That’s him!”
Liu Ye clapped his hands excitedly. Damn, that was close. He’d almost blown it.
“How? How could it be him? He’s mute!”
“…So what, he’s not allowed to get cured? Technology’s so advanced nowadays. Snip, they cut out his tonsils or whatever, and he’s cured! Why not?”
“But what about his face? What’s going on with his face?”
“Plastic surgery!”
Liu Ye felt like he was getting into the groove. That was right. This had to be what happened!
“But back when we were on the island, we clearly saw Zhao Ze get on the boat with us. If he was Liu Sibo, there’s no way we wouldn’t have noticed!” Fu Yang said.
“Because you were all poisoned at the time.”
Just then, a voice rang out. Liu Ye and Fu Yang turned around and saw John sitting weakly in the doorway, clutching his chest.
When he saw Liu Ye, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then walked over.
“He drugged you back then. You thought you were fine, but in reality, you’d already been poisoned. That was when you mistook Zhao Ze for Liu Sibo, and Liu Sibo for Zhao Ze.”
“How could…” Fu Yang had never imagined that this was what had happened.
“But… but if that’s the case, then what happened to us these past few days? Was Zhao Ze taking revenge on us?”
“That’s right.”
John slowly walked over, holding a bottle of soda in his hand.
“This is water from the island. Someone put something in it. That thing makes people lose their grip on reality, which is why your memories started having problems. And all of this was Zhao Ze’s revenge against you, because you were the ones who killed him!”
He came up to them, then stumbled and lunged toward Liu Ye.
But Liu Ye dodged out of the way in an instant.
“Brother Liu, you could at least help me up,” John said with a wry smile from the floor.
“You’re not John!”
Who would have thought Liu Ye would utter yet another shocking statement?
“Brother Liu, what nonsense are you talking about? If I’m not John, then who am I?”
Liu Ye: “…”
I don’t know either. I was just so caught up in playing detective that it slipped out!
“Of course you’re not John. Because I am!”
At that moment, another voice came from the doorway.
Another John walked in, also clutching his chest.
“You’re not dead?”
Fake John frowned.
“Sorry. Next time, you should aim for the neck. My heart is on the right,” John said calmly.
“Heh. Talk about bad luck.” Fake John spread his hands, then wiped a hand over his face, restoring his appearance to Liu Sibo’s.
Then he looked at Liu Ye and said somewhat helplessly, “As expected of you. No wonder that guy worships you so much. Can you tell me exactly how you figured it out?”
Liu Ye: “…”
“Flowing water has no shape, and drifting wind leaves no trace.”
When Liu Sibo heard this, he nodded.
“I see. So I gave myself away in the little details? Fair enough. You did spend some time with Zhao Na, after all. She must have told you something.”
“Cough, cough, cough… Mm, yeah,” Liu Ye mumbled vaguely.
“So you suspected me all the way back then? Impressive. We hadn’t even met at that point, had we?” Liu Sibo said helplessly.
There was nothing he could do about it. Sometimes luck was just like that. You thought everything was going smoothly, only to run straight into someone like this.
“I want to ask you something,” John said.
“Go ahead.”
“Since you’d already replaced Zhao Ze, and even went to such lengths to kill off his entire family, why did you still come back here with them?”
That was the part John couldn’t understand. According to the information his friend had dug up, this guy had even killed the doctor from the hospital back then. Anyone familiar with Zhao Ze had been eliminated-yet Fu Yang and the others had somehow been left alive.
Liu Sibo’s expression instantly darkened.
“Because I forgot!”
“Forgot?”
“That’s right. When I first left the island, my memories were only a little hazy. But slowly, they vanished completely. And it wasn’t just me. They were the same. Then, a few days ago, Teacher Wang Xu invited us to come get together again, so I came to the island with them.”
John understood at once. So that was it. That explained everything.
“All right. Since you already know, you can die in peace now, can’t you?”
Liu Sibo clapped his hands. Then, four Terror figures appeared behind him.
Xie Baoguo, half his head missing; Lyu Jicheng, chopped into eighteen pieces; Zhao Na, swollen from head to toe; and Huang Shiya, disfigured, with a massive wound across her neck.
Clearly, when John had gone in to watch the movie, Zhao Na and Wang Zixuan had both been killed by him. Huang Shiya had escaped. In the end, she had thought she had recovered her memories, but before she could say anything, she died.
“Honestly, I had no choice. If you didn’t die, then I would. So I’ll have to trouble you all a little.”
Then he looked at Fu Yang.
“Fu Yang, you’re actually already dead too. Zhao Na killed you. She pushed you off the cliff. Of course, I avenged you as well. I killed her! Now you’re all reunited. You can play games together again. Hahahahaha…”
Liu Sibo burst into maniacal laughter, while Fu Yang froze. Then, memories instantly surfaced in his mind.
He could clearly remember Liu Ye’s face…
“Aaaah!!!”
Fu Yang clutched his head and screamed. In that moment, he remembered again-the terror Liu Ye had brought him!
Liu Sibo: “…”
Impossible! How could he not be dead?
Unless…
He whipped his head toward Liu Ye.
“So you planned this from the very beginning! What a brilliant move!”
“I should have realized it sooner. You were clearly able to save Fu Yang, so why did you still let him end up so miserable? So that’s it. You did it on purpose. You guessed everything long ago, then deliberately tortured Fu Yang and planted a trap in his mind, making sure that the moment he felt fear, the first person he thought of would be you!”
Fu Yang stared at Liu Ye in shock. He had always thought Liu Ye was messing with him on purpose. He never imagined this was the reason. Liu Ye had actually gone to such painstaking lengths for him.
Liu Ye: “…”
“Hmph. What else did you think? Brother Liu’s abilities aren’t something you could ever understand,” John said smugly.
“No, I didn’t… Don’t talk nonsense…”
“Brother Liu, you don’t need to say anything. We all understand!”
Fu Yang excitedly grabbed Liu Ye’s hand.
So Liu Ye really had been protecting him. And to think he’d misunderstood him like that before. He was such a bastard. Once they got back, he would definitely have his agent give Liu Ye a raise!
Liu Ye: “…”