Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2: Death Arrives

Captain!

I couldn’t believe that I was the captain!

This meant that after each round of voting, I had a chance to check a person’s ident.i.ty!

If I found the Howler, I could tell everyone by the second voting, a.s.semble all our votes, and kill the Howler!

But if I exposed myself too early, when we fell asleep, the Howlers would definitely prioritize me as their target.

The instructions for viewing other people’s ident.i.ties were written on the role card. There were photos on my phone. If I clicked on the person’s picture, the special app on my phone would display the person’s ident.i.ty accordingly. I could only use it once after each voting.

Did the people who kidnapped us install this special app onto my phone?

I didn’t know. I put away my role card, and observed other people’s facial expressions.

Shock, fear, indifference, excitement; I really couldn’t tell who were the Howlers.

The cold, handsome looking guy, Shang Zhiyuan, spoke again,

“Doesn’t matter if we believe the announcement or not, we should all take out our phones and see if we can contact anyone. After that, we should examine the plane cabin and the cabin doors to see if we can find the real captain and flight attendants. If nothing works and we find a parachute, we could leave on our own.”

Shang Zhiyuan was not the leader, but he made a lot of sense. Everyone took out their phones, but none of them had signals so we couldn’t contact anyone.

Someone checked out the flight cabin and the cabin doors, but besides the food storage and the bathroom, all the cabin doors were locked. We couldn’t find the captain and the flight attendants anywhere. On this entire plane, there were only the fifteen of us.

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Was there no other way besides following the orders of that sick b.a.s.t.a.r.d from the announcement and having the fifteen of us kill each other?

Who is that sick b.a.s.t.a.r.d? And why is he doing this?

I couldn’t figure it out, but my stomach was rumbling, so I followed other people’s lead and took a tray of airline meal to fill myself up.

When everyone was done eating, it was already 12 o’clock, and the harsh flight announcement sounded once again,

“It will soon be 1300 hours, everyone please vote as soon as possible. Pick a Howler to kill, or the plane will crash and everyone will die!”

Everyone became silent. After all, the announcement was forcing us to murder. No one wanted to speak up first.

Once again, the cold, handsome guy Shang Zhiyuan broke the silence,

“Let’s not talk about killing now. How about we vote first?”

With Shang Zhiyuan having spoken up, people finally started responding. Out of my expectations, it was the Fuerdai Qian Duoduo.

“But who should we choose? It seems like the role cards were randomly distributed, so anyone could be the Howler. Even if we vote out a person, are we really going to commit murder? And who should do it?”

I wasn’t expecting the person responding to be Qian Duoduo. You really can’t judge a person by how they look. Even though Qian Duoduo looked like a braindead Fuerdai, what he said was actually profound.

But what surprised me even more was the next person who spoke up: the little girl who burst into tears earlier.

“But… But if we don’t kill anyone, everyone is going to die. I don’t want to die. I still want to go to Nanking to look for my mom.”

The girl cried even harder as she spoke. Shang Zhiyuan walked beside the girl, patted her on her tiny head and said,

“Don’t be afraid. For the first voting, no one knows anyone’s role. Just pick whoever you don’t like, and see who’s unlucky.”

Shang Zhiyuan’s suggestion didn’t do him any good, because as soon as he finished talking, the middle-aged official stood up and said,

“Gelaozi! The sight of you bothers me somethin’ fierce. Ever since this s.h.i.+t happened, you seem ta fancy yourself the leader. You got somethin’ ta say ‘bout errything, don’tcha? The way I see it, if you’re not in with the kidnappers, you’re one of the f.u.c.king Howlers. If we all pick him, problem solved!”

Seems like the middle-aged official was taking it all out on Shang Zhiyuan who stood out the most because he couldn’t find the leader of this kidnapping to talk to.

Shang Zhiyuan just responded with a cold smile,

“I told you, I’m only a pa.s.senger.”

This irritated the middle-aged official even more,

“Hmph! Any Howler worth his salt would say they ain’t no Howler!”

The electronic watch in the plane cabin was almost at 1300 hours. Qian Duoduo also stood up and said,

“How about this, I count to three, and everyone point at the person who you think is the Howler.”

“One…two…three!”