Chapter 43: The Meddlesome Player Dies!
'Meddlesome players must die!'
'How should we kill him, her, or it?'
Chen Ran glanced at the contents on the Xuan Paper, then looked at the bookshelf in front of him, and finally rested his gaze on the Hourglass on the desk.
Organizing his words, he said, "Don't you guys find it strange? There are twenty numbered Glass Beads in the Hourglass, visibly twenty sheets of Xuan Paper, and exactly twenty Players among us."
The Middle-aged Uncle pondered for a moment. "Are you saying it's one person, one paper, and one number?"
Chen Ran ignored him.
He continued speaking at his own pace. "On the desk, the eight characters on the first sheet of Xuan Paper read: 'The land has four aspects, qi comes from eight directions.' This originates from the Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar Guo Pu's Book of Burials, a Feng Shui text focusing on Dragon Vein Seeking and Acupoint Spotting."
The crowd noticed that his phrasing lacked evasive words like 'should,' 'probably,' 'possibly,' or 'perhaps,' which were typically used to avoid telling a lie.
'He is telling the truth!'