Chapter 40 [Fourth Day Part Two]

MAY 19, 2022~ 8ONI

Un-edited so please don’t kill me if you find anything wrong, please gently commenting so I can fix it.
Thank you.

“No way,” Yang Song rolled her eyes.
“We have all seen what happened last night.
Li Sinian, I don’t know if you are short-sighted or have other plans.
Liu Xin is dead to me.
Today if I don’t vote him out, I’m afraid I won’t be able to sleep at night.”

Li Sinian shook his head and said, “Liu Xin can’t be a werewolf.
I checked it.
You can choose to not believe me but the machine will never lie.
If you insist he is a werewolf, why did he act yesterday? Yesterday no matter how you try, you didn’t find out he is a wolf.
Didn’t his act yesterday equal him seeking death?”

Fang Daichuan lowered his head and frowned.

“It is a fact that Liu Xin recognizes me as a seer, right? You have seen what happened last night.
Liu Xin told me ‘I will kill you, because you are a seer.’* Isn’t this letting the cat out of the bag? If he really is a Werewolf, what benefit does uncovering himself bring to him?” Li Sinian has been struggling with the fever but his body is still hanging on there.
While his speech is not as vigorous as before, his tone is firm.

(T/N : On chapter 32)

Indeed, everyone who was present last night had heard Liu Xin’s bomb and he admitted that Li Sinian was the real seer.
In the middle of miserable wind and rain, he laughed wildly and said: ” My life in exchange for the seer’s, what a bargain!”*

(T/N : On chapter 33)

Yang Song frowned suspiciously: “Of course the benefit is to take away the real seer! He even said he will exchange his life with the seer and you still tell me that he is not a werewolf? Is it possible that both of you are werewolves? Yesterday it was Fang Daichuan who says he is the seer.
How did Liu Xin know that Fang Daichuan is a fraud and you are the real one? Don’t tell me that you two discuss it at night?” The more she said the more suspicious she became.

They are engaging in heated conversation but Liu Xin doesn’t seem to care.
He acts as if he is watching a show.
He doesn’t respond to anyone’s words nor does he talk with anyone, as if what is happening right now has nothing to do with him.

The other people on the table also act like they are watching the show, anyway, the reality is what happens really has nothing to do with them.
Chen Hui wanted to help but was held back by Du Wei.
The girl looked back at her boyfriend, bit her lip and lowered her head.

Li Sinian looked around for some time and took in everyone’s reaction.
He smiled bitterly at Yang Song: “Do you think being a seer is a good thing? If he hadn’t uncovered me, Fang Daichuan would have shielded me.
So why would I use two wolves to act? As for how he figures out my role, I thought about it last night.
After thinking about it carefully, the only reason I exposed to Liu Xin is that I use the word “先知“.
While everyone else uses “预言家“.”

(T/N : Lengthy explanation below, also yes I purposely leave that word in Mandarin so reader can see the difference compared to using English word)

Fang Daichuan suddenly had an epiphany.

He was wondering last night that even if Liu Xin is a werewolf, why would Liu Xin know that he is not the real seer and why is he aiming for Li Sinian’s life.
Indeed, most of the werewolf games that he have played and watched before, the role that can check people are usually called 预言家.
I don’t know if the island owner is playing tricks, or simply wants to go with retro theme; the word on character card is indeed a 先知.
Li Sinian had a slip of the tongue.
Under normal circumstances, it would be unreasonable for that to happen.
When the others used the common name, only the person who had obtained the real card would accidentally say the word on the card.

“Everyone has a misunderstanding.
You are all looking for wolves using board game logic, but don’t forget that this is a real killing game.
A life for a life is the least rewarding way to play because even if the wolves win so what? You still die.” Li Sinian half leaned back on the chair, looking exhausted, his face was terribly pale, only a pair of light-colored eyes shining sharply looking intently at Liu Xin’s expression, he explained, “As long as you get out of this misunderstanding, many things can be understood.
Liu Xin is not a wolf, so he dared to attack me and was not afraid of my counterattack.
He can attack me but I can’t fight back.
Where did his poison come from? When you search Zhao Chu on the first day, only three bottles of poison were found on him, where is the remaining bottle then? In the neck of the beer belly? Or is it hidden by someone? Here I also advise you werewolves to go back and carefully look for the poison you have hidden to see if it is still there.
In the real killing game, you don’t need to be a wolf; as long as you have the poison you can kill people.”

Liu Xin raised his lips and smiled, and he couldn’t help applauding Li Sinian: “Wonderful, your logic is impeccable, but the facts are far less exciting than you think.
I am not as scheming as you think.
The process of things is very simple.
My previous role is indeed in the villager faction.
I found an item card hidden in the woods, which contains a bottle of poison and a faction transfer card.
After you verify my identity, I use the machine to switch to the werewolf faction.
I am afraid that you will find out so I choose to kill you first.
This is the whole truth.”

Li Sinian shook his head: “I don’t believe it, if I were you, after deliberately making me check you and after successfully changing faction, I will definitely won’t use poison to kill the real seer.”

Li Sinian sneered, his voice loud and clear: “Because you are not a dumbass.”

Liu Xin’s expression changed a little.

“I guess,” Li Sinian stared at Liu Xin’s face, “Your role should be one that has the upper hand in voting, is it an idiot? Or some wild card? Since you are not trying to save your life, in the context of the real killing game, I can only use off-game logic.
You deliberately distract everyone and pull aggro.
Who are you protecting? This person can’t be Mrs.
Song.
You didn’t mean to vote for her yesterday.
It is not Du Chaosheng either, who is familiar with you on the surface, because he is dead.
It should be someone who seems to have nothing to do with you on the surface, but we will eventually suspect in the days to come.”

Li Sinian’s eyelashes trembled slightly as he lifted his eyes abruptly, his gaze pinning Liu Xin in place as he picked his lips and asked, “Is it Niu Xinyan or Du Wei?”

Liu Xin’s expression hardened.

His fingers rubbed his chin, he hadn’t slept all night and looked a little sluggish, with a slight stubble on his chin, he looked dishevelled and desolate, except for his eyes, which were burning brightly.
He placed his gaze on Liu Xin’s wrist, “The main link seems to be on Du Chaosheng.
You and he wear the same watch.
Are you a couple? You were originally his subordinate, and you are familiar with him.
Listening to the way you talk, you seem to be engaged in finance-related work.
Are you his asset consultant?* Or a financial lawyer?* There seems to be some “secrets” between Du Chaosheng and his secretary.
You know about these things so you must have a close relationship.
Du Chaosheng once visited Niu Xinyan’s room at night.
He seems to know that she lived as a widow for many years yet he still visited the widow’s place at night.
Perhaps you have had a connection with Niu Xinyan all these years? Or was it with the secretary back then? Is Du Wei the secretary’s son?”

https://www.investmentmagazine.com.au/2009/04/selecting-the-right-asset-consultant-the-tom-babic-way/

https://bestaccreditedcolleges.org/articles/finance-lawyer-job-description-duties-and-requirements.html

Every time Li Sinian said something, Liu Xin’s expression became uglier.
Du Wei was shocked by his hypothesis that he turned his head and looked at Liu Xin in bewilderment, only to see that Liu Xin’s face was ghostly pale.

“Don’t spout nonsense!” Niu Xinyan was so angry that she almost cursed.
She has a good temper and rarely gets angry.
She has been gentle and soft all the time but she was shocked by Li Sinian’s irresponsible speculation and so angry that her voice was octave higher, “I’m innocent, whether it is Du Chaosheng or Liu Xin, it has nothing to do with me, don’t slander me!”

Li Sinian hooked the corner of his mouth and said insincerely, “Then I apologise to you, this is not a wild guess, since I was unfortunate enough to draw seer, I have to be responsible for everyone, don’t you think so? Forgive me for offending you.”

Oh come on, Fang Daichuan internally rolled his eyes; you kiss your own son.
You call yourself innocent? Fang Daichuan’s brain can’t keep up with Li Sinian so he just took Niu Xinyan’s reaction as a pretentious act and fake performance.

“In summary, don’t vote for Liu Xin today.
Before I can figure out his purpose, I implore you to keep him for a round.
Even if it is true he is really switching sides, he only has one poison bottle in his hand so he is not a threat to us.
“Li Sinian said sincerely, “Let’s vote for Ding Zihui today.”

(T/N : Alright so about this, as you can see on chapter 10, the word on the card are [先知, Xiānzhī] which means seer but other people usually said it as [预言家, Yùyán jiā] which is still a seer or prophet.
Actually I probably should have used the word ‘seer’ and ‘prophet’ differently but I didn’t.
For example, this dialogue from chapter 27

“…Who is the seer? You must have checked me last night.
Come out and tell us your result.”

It’s a pity, Fang Daichuan thought, the seer has already determined that you are a wolf so he didn’t check you.

Both are using [预言家] which yes again, either ‘seer/prophet’ fit but well, since this is Werewolf game story, I decided to use proper term, seer instead of prophet because, in my humble opinion, is the right thing to do.

I will admit this is one of my mistakes, I realised my translation isn’t perfect so if you noticed something wrong, please tell me so I can fix and learn from it.

Anyway if I ever got times maybe I will make sure to use ‘seer’ and ‘prophet’ differently so you, the reader, can pick up the clues as fast as Sinian but for now, let just move on because after this I will keep using the term ‘seer’ since there is no longer any mention of this clues.
Thank you for reading these lengthy notes.)