Early the next morning.

Lin Lei had already developed the habit of waking up early, so as always, he got up early.

After a day's walk yesterday, he was really tired, and Lin Lei slept well at night.

It was getting dark, and the blizzard outside had stopped last night.

Lin Lei got dressed and came to the first floor to find that everyone hadn't gotten up.

Lin Lei took a piece of French bread from the kitchen and soaked it in a glass of milk, which was considered breakfast.

After eating breakfast, Lin Lei saw that the people hadn't gotten up yet, so he took out two hundred-dollar bills from his pocket, put them on the table, and wrote a note by the way to express his gratitude.

Lin Lei has been a police officer for a long time, and it is inevitable that there are many strange thoughts in his mind many times - but it is one thing to think about it, and it is another thing to say it, you can't meet anyone and anything, so just rely on the case!

His top priority now is to go to Anchorage to meet with Lu Yun and Qiao Yan, and he has no time to delay here.

After packing up, Lin Lei left Cook Hill alone.

……

Around eight o'clock, everyone in Cook Hill woke up.

Daniel went to McGovern's room to see it, only to open the door and find that McGovern wasn't in the room at all. Just as he was about to go to see Rios's room again, a sad Kelly appeared in front of him.

"Kelly, why are you so pale?" asked Daniel.

Kelly frowned and said, "Did you see Gibson?"

"What? He hasn't come back yet?"

"yes. I waited for him in my room last night until after twelve o'clock, when the snow had long since stopped. But he never returned. But he's usually a night owl, so I didn't pay much attention to it, so I slept alone. Who knew that this morning _ came, and there was still no one around. This ......"

"Really?" said Daniel, curious, "McGovern also disappeared for the night. He pointed to McGovern's room and motioned for Kelly to come in and take a look.

After hearing this, Kelly became even more anxious: "You say, will something happen to them?"

"I don't know. Daniel suddenly thought of the one who disappeared with him last night, and Rios, "Let's go and see Rios." Maybe they were together last night. ”

However, to their surprise, there was no one in Ríos's room.

"How so?" said Kelly's eyes filled with doubt.

"I think let's call everyone here and discuss it again. In this way, Robert, who had just woken up, was called together into the living room of the big house.

At this time, Kelly found that Lin Lei, who had stayed overnight last night, was not there, and later saw the banknotes and notes on the table, and realized that the police officer surnamed Lin had left early in the morning.

Lin Lei was just a passerby, he left away, and they left money and thank-you letters, so no one discussed him anymore, and everyone's conversation focused on the three people who didn't come back last night.

"How so? The three of them disappeared together? Could it be that they went somewhere together?" asked Robert.

"I don't know, I have a very bad feeling...... Kelly said with a sad face.

Robert gave his opinion: "Why don't we go out and look for it?"

"Where to find it, this place is so big, it's all wilderness!" Daniel's brow furrowed.

Kelly couldn't sit still, and said, "Let's go, let's go and see—didn't you say there are some cabins around here? Maybe a few of them are in the cabins?"

Since Kelly was so anxious, Daniel and Robert nodded in agreement. And so, the three of them came out of Cook Hill and walked towards the cabins.

After walking for about ten minutes, everyone came to a very spacious open space. After yesterday's heavy snowfall, this clearing should have been nowhere to be found except for a white piece of snow. However, it was at the center of this clearing that there was a man lying on his stomach.

"Ah, Kelly, look!" exclaimed Robert, in amazement, "someone!"

The crowd hurried to look in the direction Robert pointed.

Kelly blurted out, "Who is it?"

Daniel said, "Just go and see. ”

"Wait. Robert stopped the group, with a puzzled expression on his face: "There is not a single footprint on this land, how did he get there?"

"Oh, just wake him up and ask, I guess he fainted from exhaustion, right?" With that, Daniel was the first to stride over, and the rest of the people hurried towards the man.

"Oh, it's Gibson!" Kelly shouted, running towards Gibson.

Kelly, who was supposed to be at the end, suddenly ran to the front. Seeing this, Robert teased: "Sure enough, the power of love is great. ”

Just as Daniel was about to answer, he suddenly heard Kelly screaming.

They hurried over, but found lying on the floor, with their faces turned sideways, their eyes wide, and their mouths wide open. The worst thing was that there was a large patch of crimson blood under him, and his breathing had stopped.

"Gibson!Gibson!" Kelly cried as she knelt beside Gibson's body.

"How...... How so?!" Daniel looked shocked.

Only Robert said to Kelly, who was at a loss beside him, a little calmly: "Quick, call the police." ”

When I woke up in the morning, the mobile phone signal had been restored, and it seemed that the telecom company had repaired the base station early in the morning - in this day and age, the impact of no mobile phone signal on life is too great......

Daniel, who finally came back to his senses, quickly took out his mobile phone. Just as he was about to call the police, his mobile phone rang suddenly!

"It's McGovern's call!" Daniel exclaimed.

On the phone, McGovern said he had returned to Cook Hills, only to find no one in the house, so he called Daniel.

Daniel told McGovern about the situation, and McGovern was also taken aback and told everyone to come back quickly.

After hanging up, Daniel called the nearby police station and reported the murder to the police......

The trio then hurried back to Cook Hill to meet McGovern.

The charcoal fire in the fireplace illuminated the halls of Cook Hill Cottage red. The crowd around the fireplace was all blank.

Daniel had already called the police just now, but then the police called again, saying that there was an avalanche on the only road here, and it would take some time to clear the road, and they didn't know how long it would take, so for the time being, the police had to come to Cook Hills......

"What are we going to do? there's a murderer here!" Kelly cried anxiously.

"How do you know that the murderer is one of us?" asked Robert, who had not spoken for a long time, "perhaps the murderer was a robber who happened to meet on the road." So as long as we all stay together, there must be no problem. ”

"No, no, no!" said Kelly, jumping to her feet, crying, "I've seen too much of this to get us together and cut us off from the outside! We'll be killed one by one by the murderers!"

McGovern walked up to Kelly and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, we're all together, it's fine." ”

"You...... How do I know you're not a murderer?" said Kelly, trembling.

"This ......" McGovern didn't know how to answer her for a while, so he could only touch the wound on the back of his head and smile bitterly, "I'm also a victim!"

McGovern had already told everyone what had happened to him, and he had been at the old hunter Kevin's house last night, and the attentive Kelly had made a special call to Kevin to confirm the matter.

"According to the TV series, those who always pretend to be victims but don't die are usually murderers!" Kelly shouted.

Hearing this, McGovern just shook his head, he really didn't know how to explain, he could only squeeze out a sentence: "You also said, it's a TV series - I've been with Kevin yesterday, and it's the first time I've seen him, so it's impossible to collude, right?"

Kelly thought about it, seemed to believe it, and whispered: "But is the murder in the closed room different?"

"Murder in a closed room?" Daniel asked with a frown, "Where is the murder in a closed room?"

"Because of Gibson's corpse scene, no footprints were found. Without waiting for Kelly to speak, Robert on the side said loudly, "I think this is what Kelly said about the secret room!"

Daniel thought for a moment and replied, "I see. But wasn't it snowing yesterday? If Gibson had been killed before the snow stopped, the tracks would have been obscured by the snow. Besides, when we found Gibson's body, he was covered with a thick layer of snow. That at least proves that the snow didn't stop when he died, right?"

"That's right. Kelly and Robert nodded their heads.

"I think the most suspicious person is Rios right now. He has been disappearing since yesterday afternoon and has not been seen since. Kelly reasoned again.

"That's true. So, Kelly, you don't have to doubt McGovern. Robert glanced at McGovern and spoke for him.

"No, he's not a murderer!" Kelly seemed to remember something, and the more she spoke, the more excited she became, "After the murderer killed the most suspicious person, he hid the body, and then made us think that he absconded in fear of the crime - in fact, the real murderer is someone else!"

Robert smiled bitterly and said, "Miss Kelly, your imagination is too rich, isn't it? I think he must be hatching something!"

Kelly didn't continue talking, just squatted on the ground, hugged her head and cried.

Daniel kindly walked over to her, put his arm around her shoulder, and said, "Kelly, why don't you go to the room and rest." ”

When Kelly heard this, she immediately pushed him away, "You want me to die! If you enter the room alone, you will definitely die! If you kill me, you don't want to be alone! From now on, I want to be with you!"

Everyone was a little crying and laughing.

"McGovern, you usually have the most ideas, what do we do now?" Robert asked McGovern.

McGovern thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said: "Although Kelly is a little nervous, I have to admit that what she said also has some truth, it's better for us to stay together and wait......"

"Well, well—" Daniel and Robert said in unison.

That's it, four people, you look at me, I look at you, sit on the sofa and don't say a word.

The atmosphere is really weird......