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Chapter 37 - 37 17 Classmate's Murder Logic

37: Chapter 17 Classmate’s Murder Logic 37: Chapter 17 Classmate’s Murder Logic Lin Yi also wanted to look, but he didn’t.

The more he restrained himself, the more restless and unbearable his heart became.

Finally, he decided to do something that would definitely bring his attention back on track—reviewing events.

So he took a deep breath, closed the comic book, and then fixed his eyes on the nurse on the cover, while in his mind, he reinserted the survival conclusion he had deduced back into the entire event that followed the classroom lights flickering, beginning to analyze and search for the reason he had been targeted by that classmate.

…

Fortunately, Lin Yi was in the habit of checking his watch, which allowed him to match most of the details with their respective times when he began reviewing.

“If I remember correctly, the lights in the classroom went completely out before 22:00, and at 22:00 sharp, that thing outside the door walked into the classroom.”

“Based on the security guard’s actions later, it seemed that after that thing entered the classroom, it just stayed at the lecturer’s position…”

“It’s also possible that the thing moved, but I’ll first assume it stayed at the lecturer’s position.”

That thing did not affect the review, so Lin Yi’s attention wasn’t on it.

“At 22:02, Little Genius turned on his flashlight…

and then that classmate found him and killed him…”

“The flashlight fell to the ground, shone on me, and when that classmate bent down to pick up the flashlight, he saw me, and then we tussled in three rounds…”

“After the tussle, that classmate dragged Little Genius’s body around the classroom, and the other off classmates gradually left their seats, then the classroom was filled with screams…”

“At 22:43, the security guard came and took that thing from the lectern out of the classroom, and after the classroom door was closed, the lights gradually returned to normal…”

“The lights seemed to flicker before the security guard appeared, but it’s temporarily uncertain whether this is related to the security guard…”

The first review flashed through his mind like a fast-forwarded movie, and it seemed that he found nothing.

“Something seems wrong, do I feel like I’ve overlooked something very crucial?” Lin Yi couldn’t help but frown.

But fortunately, what was not lacking in this night’s study session was time, and Lin Yi quickly started his second review.

After the second review, he found three points:

[1.

Little Genius turned on the flashlight, attracted the first classmate who left his seat, and got killed by the classmate.]

[2.

The classmate picked up the flashlight, saw him, but didn’t find him and didn’t kill him.]

[3.

The other classmates seemed to be hurt.]

But there was no logical connection between these three points, so Lin Yi could only continue to start the third review, then the fourth, the fifth…

But after repeatedly reviewing several times, he suddenly realized a problem—that classmate didn’t actually see him when picking up the flashlight!

“That classmate is blind, he couldn’t see me at all!”

“Wrong, all wrong, all wrong!”

“I’ve been off with my review logic from the very start!”

“So, I’ll first ensure the Law of Survival remains unchanged, then add the condition ‘classmate has no vision,’ and review to find the logic…”

The Law of Survival is:

[Don’t think mentally, ignore reality in your actions.]

The additional condition is:

[Classmate is without vision.]

Then…

the light from the flashlight wasn’t actually the reason that induced the classmate to attack Little Genius.

“So what was the trigger that caused that classmate to start acting?”

Lin Yi recollected seriously…

And then he realized he had overlooked another key condition—namely, the words that that classmate had said while searching for him.

Those words might not have been spoken by the classmate himself, but they had definitely rung in his ears.

“If I’m not mistaken, those words were probably…

asking me to look at him?”

[“Look at me…”]

[“Have a look at me…”]

[“I know…

you can see me…”]

[“Quickly, have a look at me…”]

[“Please…”]]

“‘I know you can see me,’ ‘Quickly, have a look at me’…”

Lin Yi mumbled these phrases over and over again in his mind.

Suddenly, as if a flash of brilliance swept through the vast night, a streak of silver-white light flashed behind his brain!

“Clang—”

His eyes suddenly lit up, and it was as if he could hear the BGM of “A scheming kid always touching your belly” ringing in his ears.

Just like that bespectacled young detective who had unraveled the logic chain and was about to unfold the final deduction.

The truth was—

“You would only be found and killed by that classmate if you clearly saw him!”

“Little Genius turned on the flashlight, leading him to see the classmate, triggering something in that classmate’s mechanism, resulting in his own death!”

“That classmate picked up the flashlight not because the beam drew his attention but because he heard a noise and wanted to capture it.”

This point, Lin Yi clearly remembered in his review, that after the classmate bent down, he did not find the flashlight straight away, but touched around the floor a few times before finding it.

And after the lights in the classroom were restored, that classmate didn’t turn off the flashlight; instead, he kept touching it in his hands, seemingly curious about it.

“So, he clearly looked at me, but he never really saw me.”

“But it was my glance that inadvertently caught some of his image, causing a ‘brushing’ effect with his killing mechanism.”

“He begged me to look at him, and if I had seen him, he would have killed me instantly!”

“But I didn’t look at him, so I didn’t enter into his killing mechanism, and that’s how I narrowly escaped!”