: Guderian's Surprise

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"What an innocent girl," Ye Sheng thought, looking at Su Xiaoqiang asking the question.

I have to admit, she is a very beautiful young woman. If I hadn't done my research beforehand, I might have really mistaken her for a mixed-race person.

"This is something money can't buy; it's an innate quality, like those geniuses who suddenly appeared in the long history of humankind."

Ye Sheng explained simply.

They haven't even passed the interview yet, and revealing too much will only increase the amount of brainwashing work when they leave.

Hearing Ye Sheng's words, Su Xiaoqiang nodded obediently, her eyes showing some disappointment.

"However, it's not entirely impossible. If you have enough credits, the school might be able to help."

For reasons unknown, perhaps out of pity, Ye Sheng added one last sentence.

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoqiang's eyes, which had dimmed, lit up again.

"One cut through water" couldn't help but look around, and Lin Zhiying knew what he was looking at.

Why didn't Shuu Toku Aki, Ye Sheng's partner, appear?

However, based on my experience in my previous life, not all interviewers are present during an interview.

"Alright, time is limited. Since everyone has no questions, let's begin the interviews."

The small snake, formed from his spirit, carried a stack of documents to him.

Ye Sheng took a gold-plated fountain pen from his breast pocket.

There are quite a few gold-related elements in this room.

The pen spun in Ye Sheng's hand, its body reflecting the overhead light, a point of light bobbing up and down.

"Beep beep beep."

Ye Sheng's cell phone suddenly rang.

He put down his pen, took out his phone from his pocket, glanced at it, and his expression suddenly changed.

"Excuse me, I'll be out for 10 minutes. You are all free to move around in the room until I return."

Ye Sheng spoke somewhat embarrassedly.

After saying that, he actually took his phone and walked out of the room.

Ye Sheng, the interviewer, left, but no one in the room immediately got up and moved around.

"I heard a story about a company that would deliberately drop a crumpled piece of paper on the floor during an interview to test the interviewee."

"So I think the interviewer leaving is itself a test."

Zhao Menghua seemed to have seen through everything and spoke up.

He felt that there was nothing wrong with his reasoning.

Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence that the call came at the exact moment the interviewer was preparing for the interview?

This time, I won. Zhao Menghua glanced at Lin Zhiying discreetly.

He was surprised to find that Lin Zhiying had actually gotten up from the sofa.

What is this guy doing? Doesn't he care about this interview at all?

Or perhaps, he possessed unparalleled self-confidence.

"You might have forgotten the second half: the only interviewee who picked up the crumpled paper got the job and became the company's cleaner the next day."

Lin Zhiying glanced at him with the look of someone looking at an idiot. This guy is so dramatic, who makes him happy?

He slowly got up and looked around the room.

Players like "Five-Second Hand Speed" and "Blue Dream Sky" also stood up.

"One Cut Through Water" jogged over to Lin Zhiying's side.

"Boss, Zhao Menghua's words make a lot of sense. How can you be so confident?"

Before Lin Zhiying was the liquor cabinet where Ye Sheng had just taken out the wine glasses and Dragon Blood Whisky.

He shook his head regretfully; the cabinet was locked.

"It's simple, because we didn't receive any task instructions for the interview."

"Don't forget, the interview task we received before was only the first stage. If this is really the second stage, the system will give us a task notification."

That makes sense. Upon hearing Lin Zhiying's explanation, "One cut cuts water" slapped his forehead.

How could I have forgotten this?

Lin Zhiying continued walking around the room, which was more like a collection room than a reception room, with all sorts of strange and unusual things displayed around it.

Among them are wooden totems from primitive tribes, as well as strangely shaped skeletons of unknown creatures.

There seem to be quite a few of these strange things in the room.

Lin Zhiying slowly stopped, and in front of him was an old-fashioned wooden pendulum clock.

In the glass below, a pendulum swings back and forth, and at the very top is a finely crafted little wooden house.

If he's not mistaken, at a fixed time, a mechanism will pop out the little bird stored inside to give him a reminder.

The reason Lin Zhiying stopped was because of a red decoration hanging on the door of the small wooden house above.

He slowly opened the wooden door, and next to the bird lay a beautifully crafted dagger.

That's not the key point; the key point is that the dagger also has a red tinge on it.

Lin Zhiying took the dagger in his hand.

He turned around and found Zhao Menghua looking at him. Upon realizing he had been discovered, Zhao Menghua immediately turned away.

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Chen Wenwen found it all so magical; everything that happened today felt like an adventure straight out of "Alice in Wonderland." (Note 1)

She was curious about what the outside world would look like in the so-called "mirror world".

With this in mind, Chen Wenwen walked to the window and gently pulled back the curtains that were covering most of the room.

"Splash!"

Before Chen Wenwen could even look out the window, she felt a heavy object slide out from under the curtains and knock her to the ground.

Chen Wenwen subconsciously reached out to push away the heavy object pressing down on her, and in the process, her palm came into contact with a lot of liquid.

The sticky feeling made her feel uncomfortable. She looked down and was startled by what she saw.

What was pressing down on her was not something else, but a person whose fate was unknown, and the sticky substance on her hands was dripping blood.

"ah!!!"

A scream erupted from Chen Wenwen's throat.

Lin Zhiying and the others rushed over as soon as they heard the noise.

With messy hair, the obese middle-aged man, resembling Einstein, was lying face down on the ground.

Zhao Menghua pulled Chen Wenwen out from under the middle-aged man and comforted the frightened Chen Wenwen, who was curled up in a ball.

"Wait, why are they hugging?"

"One cut and water is gone," Chen Wenwen retorted, her face immediately turning red to the roots of her ears.

Lin Zhiying and "Lan Mengtian" looked at the figure lying on the ground with some surprise.

A large pool of blood flowed from his mouth onto the carpet, his chest remaining completely still.

It's clear from the looks of it that he's not going to make it.

Professor Guderian.

Lin Zhiying had imagined countless ways Professor Guderian would make his entrance, but he never expected it to be like this.

Professor Guderian, is he dead?

Ye Sheng, who had gone out, heard the screams and immediately rushed back.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Ye Sheng pushed through the crowd and immediately spotted Professor Guderian lying on the ground.

"Professor, what's going on?"

Ye Sheng ran his fingers over the area below his nose, and a chill ran through him.

There was no breath; the person was dead.

He moved Guderian's body a little further out, and under the light, everyone could see it clearly.

Guderian had a gaping hole in his chest, clearly indicating that he was dead beyond any doubt.

"His heart was pierced and shattered by a sharp object, causing instant death. The estimated time of death is no more than thirty minutes."

Ye Sheng spoke with a cold expression.

Based on his years of experience at Kassel College, he immediately recognized the cause of the wound.

Lu Mingfei, whose face was pale, seemed to understand something upon hearing these words.

If the time of death was within thirty minutes, that's exactly the time these interviewees entered the room.

In other words, the murderer is very likely among them!

Lu Mingfei's expression instantly tensed up.

An atmosphere tinged with a mixture of emotions enveloped the room.

"I'll call the police right now."

Su Xiaoqiang was the first NPC to react.

"No."

As he stood up, Ye Sheng reached out to stop him.

"The police won't be able to get here. I'll take full responsibility for what happens next."

After saying this, Ye Sheng looked around seriously, as if searching to see if anyone was missing.

"Please remain here for the time being and cooperate with the investigation."

As he finished speaking, the main entrance door and all the windows slammed shut with heavy steel plates, completely sealing the area off.

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Note that this refers to the book *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, which describes the fantastical journey of the young girl Alice.

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