Chapter 20 [Second Night – One]

JULY 9, 2021~ 8ONI

Editor : reii

A storm was raging. The evening the sky and the sea were all covered by dark clouds, and the world seemed to be at a standstill. The violent wind and waves splashed high into the sky, almost like it would overturn the entire island. Fortunately, the villa was brightly lit. After dinner, nobody dared to go out or even walk around inside in this weather. They all gathered in the hall on the first floor. Ding Zihui turned on all the lights in the house. Fang Daichuan couldn’t help but imagine how beautiful the scene would be if it was taken using aerial photography equipment. ——A dark island engulfed by wind and rain, a sole villa lit up above the hill, as if it was about to be swallowed up by dark waves.

Deng— Deng—

(T/N: Onomatopoeia. Raw are 当)

The clock on the second floor struck eight times, indicating the werewolves’ time to strike had begun.

Fang Daichuan saw Ding Zihui, who sat next to him, trembling.

“I have an idea,” Fang Daichuan began, cleared his throat then continued, “If we continue like this, we will all die sooner or later.”

Yang Song sat at the head of the table, biting her nails. On the first day, her ten nails had been painted a mango-color, but now two of her nails had been chewed bald. She raised her head when she heard this.

Fang Daichuan suggested firmly, “We will be sitting here tonight. Whoever wants to go to the bathroom should go either alone or in a group.”

Everyone looked at each other, this was indeed the best way to survive the night.

“How about a body search? If we find someone who has wolf poison on their body or in their room, things will be fine if we destroy the poison.” He finally dropped the bomb.

There was a subtle change in everyone’s expressions. Fang Daichuan felt a little strange. He could guess why the wolves might be reluctant but everyone seemed to be hesitant and he couldn’t understand why.

“Is there a problem?” Fang Daichuan asked.

Niu Xinyan was the first to shake her head: “It’s not a problem, but the body search is a bit too much. You can see we have so many girls here.”

Fang Daichuan responded, “Then let the girls search each other.”

“Then what if the girls are all wolves, or the men are all wolves?” Chen Hui said, “Although the probability is small, it might still happen.”

The old lady Song coughed, “Rather than being searched by you, I would rather be poisoned to death. I can’t do such a shameful thing.”

This is a collective rejection. Fang Daichuan’s face instantly became ugly.

Li Sinian sneered, stood up, and left. Fang Daichuan hurriedly enquired, “Where are you going?”

“I told you before it won’t work, you see.” He shrugged. “I won’t play along with you anymore. Didn’t you say we should either go alone or in a group? You all can sit here while I go out and explore.”

“You must be a wolf!” Yang Song raised her eyesbrows. “Is it because you feel guilty?”

Li Sinian turned around and smiled sardonically.

Fang Daichuan hurriedly intervened. “He is not a wolf! I personally guarantee it!”

“Shut up! He is a wolf! From the beginning, he was always suspicious!” Yang Song glared at Fang Daichuan before turning away to continue yelling at Li Sinian. “If you are not a wolf, tell me how you’re so familiar with this island?! If you’re not a wolf, what is your identity?!”

Li Sinian raised his head and snorted coldly. His smile did not reach his eyes and his gaze was sharp. Yang Song however, was not afraid, and stared back at him.

Suddenly, Li Sinian started to strip. He stretched out his hand and took off his shirt. The white cotton short sleeves were thrown to the ground, revealing his lean upper body, a faint scar on his chest, and muscles that were so white they reflected the lamp light.

“Come on,” Li Sinian opened his arm and said to Yang Song, “Come on, search me. If you can find anything on me, then you don’t even need to vote for me tomorrow. I will kill myself right here. How about that?”

Yang Song sneered rolled up her sleeves.

“Calm down!” Fang Daichuan was so agitated that he stood up as he watched the R18 scene taking place in the hall.

Li Sinian stretched out his hand to stop him, raised his eyebrows at Yang Song leisurely and smiled. “Let’s do this peacefully, search me and then everyone else together. That way no one can deny the result.”

Wonderful! Fang Daichuan understood Li Sinian’s intentions and wanted to clap, using his hands and feet. He was smarter this time so he controlled his mouth for fear that Li Sinian’s plan would be ruined.

Yang Song fell hook line and sinker for it.

She pointed at Li Si Nian. “Don’t move! You wait here!” After that, she ran upstairs.

The crowd hadn’t had time to react before they saw Yang Song running down the stairs, standing in front of Li Sinian with a cardboard box in her hand, and dumping all the contents on the ground. A few bottles of purified water, a few compressed biscuits, clothes and a small pocket watch were scattered in front of her.

“These are all of my belongings. The water and clothes are from you. I admitted that I violated the rules for the pocket watch. I hid it in my pocket. This is all I have. If you don’t believe me, go and check my room.” Yang Song raised her head and sneered. She also took off her top. The tight-fitting sports undershirt she wore was exposed. It could be seen that there was a lot of material on her chest. She threw away her top and wanted to take off her shorts, but Fang Daichuan stopped her.

This is not a joke, on the uninhabited island, men and women mixed together. It’s messy enough, there’s no need to add more fuel to the fire. Yang Song’s shorts were very ordinary, the kind that girls often wear in summer. They were short and tight. There was no place to stuff things in aside from the back pocket. It could be seen at a glance that she hadn’t hidden anything in there even if she didn’t take them off.

Old Mrs. Song covered her face and kept yelling, “God! Shameless!” It seemed that she was very uncomfortable seeing how bold the youth acted.

“Shut up!” Yang Song did not have a good temper.

Li Sinian didn’t care about the situation in front of him at all, his face didn’t change one bit. Fang Daichuan even suspected that even if Yang Song were to strip naked in front of him, he would have no reaction at all*. He just nodded and spread his arms, “Search me. My room is at the end of the corridor. I brought nothing here. You can search the room to check.”

(T/N: That’s because only you can move him…*cough* Ok let’s get back to the story)

“Oh, right,” he pointed to Fang Daichuan, “I stayed in his room for a while. You can check his room too.”

Taking that as a cue, Fang Daichuan stood up. “Anyway, let’s search everyone’s room. Let’s do a body search first starting with Li Sinian. After that, we go upstairs and search the rooms with everyone supervising each other.”

Under everyone’s gaze, Li Sinian slowly took off his pants, and the brass buttons of his jeans made a crisp sound when they fell on the ground.

Yang Song knelt down to search his pants pockets but found nothing inside. She stared at Li Sinian blankly for a while, then threw the pants in her hand back to the ground bitterly.

“Wait a minute!” Boss Du’s eyes were sharp. He pointed at Li Sinian’s left hand and said, “What are you wearing on your hand?”

If not for him, Fang Daichuan wouldn’t have noticed that Li Sinian was wearing something on his left hand. Fang Daichuan took a closer look. Li Sinian openly showed his hand. He wore a silver tail ring on his left pinky finger. It was a very thin and plain ring with no patterns or diamonds. He stretched out his hand and took the ring off his finger. It seemed that he had worn it for many years, and it was very difficult to take off. He threw it to Boss Du, explaining, “It’s just a ring, a keepsake from my mother.”

Du Chaosheng raised the ring to his eye and looked at it under the light for a while. It turned out to be a common ring. The inside was engraved with two letters: L&F.

“Lee and Flores*,” Li Sinian explained, “my parents’ engagement ring, my mom left it to me when she died.”

(T/N: This is in English on raw. For confused people, read the link below. The surname Li is read as ‘Lee’ in many overseas country)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_(surname_%E6%9D%8E)

Du Chaosheng threw the ring back to Li Sinian.

Li Sinian didn’t wear the ring. He bent over to pick up his pants, put them on, and shrugged. “Alright, so who’s next?”

Someone took the initiative to step forward. At this time, if they were not cooperating with the body search, they would look suspicious. Perhaps because the wolves also thought of that, this time, no one refused, not even the “shy” old lady Song. They all compromised and were searched by Ding Zihui.

The result, of course, was nothing.

Except for the small things people smuggled in, no wolf poison nor wolf cards were found.

 “What is this?” Fang Daichuan asked, pointing to a small brocade bag*.

Du Wei opened the bag and let Fang Daichuan see. Inside was a bookmark-like thing with a poem on it. “This was given to me by Chen Hui. It’s used to pray for blessings. It’s very effective.” On Chen Hui’s side, she also found that Ding Zihui had something similar, a cross necklace. She said she used it to pray.

A big boss like Du Chaosheng had a very expensive watch. Liu Xin was also wearing one on his hand.

Du Chaosheng glanced at Liu Xin’s wrist. “Do you also like this brand?” He and Liu Xin were chatting while searching each other. The two of them, Fang Daichuan and Du Wei, the four men and the four women are at the other end of the long table. Li Sinian and Yang Song, who had been dressed, sat on a long table, one on each end, looking at everyone.

Fang Daichuan was searching Du Wei, and he heard the two people behind him chatting with each other as they searched their partner’s bodies, their voices were very low.

He heard Liu Xin saying with a laugh, “I just bought it following the trend.”

“I haven’t seen you wearing it before.” Du Chaosheng commented casually.

“I don’t think this brand looks good in you until you reach a certain age,” Liu Xin smiled, “I’ve only started wearing it recently.”

Du Chaosheng nodded indifferently, and commented. “This series is gender-neutral. A lot of women and young people also wear it.”

Li Sinian was right. Fang Daichuan’s eyes rolled while his ears were pricked up to listen. These two actually knew each other. Aside from Li Sinian and myself, the remaining people have complicated and bizarre relationships.

Niu Xinyan was wearing a Guanyin* jade with the character “cow”[牛] engraved on the backside, which wasn’t unusual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin

“Then let’s go upstairs. Let’s go together and search the rooms one by one. After this, everyone will go inside their own rooms and sleep, and no one will open their door to others.” Liu Xin smiled and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. “I hope the search will bear fruit.”

(T/N: Oh ho, everyone actually know each others huh, wonder what is their relationship~~~)