Chapter 19: Morton's Orphanage

"Please help us find out the truth." After they opened all the doors to the room, a woman's voice came from the large room outside, which sounded quite normal. It shouldn't be some deliberately scary ghost.

When Zhao Bai'an saw the woman's white nurse uniform, he guessed that it was probably the female nurse who worked with Ms. Ace back then. On the way to ask for help, she also confirmed her identity as the head nurse.

"I was Morton's head nurse, and because there were so many children who needed a lot of nurses to take care of, we set up a nurse department like a hospital."

Because there is no clock in the room, and items such as mobile phones cannot be brought in. Zhao Bai'an: They don't know how long they have spent now. But it seems that the physical evidence that should have been found has been almost found, and it has entered the next link.

The next thing they have to do is to find out the truth about the arson case, although the head nurse seems to be a normal person, all the people involved in the story should be trapped here by ghosts at the moment. The ghost is not allowed to die because of confusion and resentment. As long as the reasoning club that strayed into this place helps them deduce the truth of the matter, they will be able to get out of this orphanage.

The head nurse slowly explained the clues of the suspect: "I remember that before the arson, there were four children who were suspicious, and they all behaved strangely. ”

"Emily was the last child to come to Morton, and she behaved strangely when she first stepped through the door, and it seemed to us that she was very different from the children around her, she didn't like to interact with people, and she didn't like to be in a busy place......"

"Ellen has always been Morton's little brother, and the children here basically listen to him, but since the fight, Ellen's status seems to be getting lower and lower, and even children in orphanages dare to resist him."

"Cullen was Morton's most gifted child, but he was always very lonely and unliked by children. We always wanted to help him, but we were afraid that it would backfire and make the situation worse, and he himself was very distant from us. So we had to endure it all the time, waiting for him to grow on his own. ”

"The last girl, Bazaar, is Morton's most contagious girl, and you may find it strange when I say this, why would I say she is suspicious when she is very contagious and lively, right? Because of her eyes, I can occasionally see a very shrewd look in her eyes, as if she can see the world more thoroughly than adults, which makes people shudder. But none of us know where it comes from......"

Listening to the head nurse's story, Zhao Bai'an and they had a clear understanding of the problems that needed to be solved. Under such a premise, it is only necessary to deduce who is the arsonist.

But since she left, they felt immediately stuck. Obviously, the previous part has been very smooth, although I don't know the exact time, but I always feel that I have cracked many small mechanisms by dividing five by two. However, when it came to choosing who was the arsonist, the team of four had to brainstorm while rediscovering the scene.

"You say, isn't it Karen? Let's take a look over here..."The first thing to re-enter is Karen's room, which is very talented in drawing, and the room is full of his creations. After Xu Xiao took a few paintings from the wall, he said to the others.

She turned all the paintings she had taken down, revealing the words hidden behind them.

"With you, Xu Xiao! This is the second time today, looking for a hidden text expert! The president couldn't help but praise her again.

It's just that the words behind this made everyone gasp.

Almost all the space behind the painting ......is filled with the words "disgust" or "hate" in the horizontal and vertical lines of "disgust", and the paper, which was supposed to be white, is now almost black. Negative emotions are like a black hole that hits everyone's senses.

Turning back to the front of the original painting makes the original fragments of the good life very comedogenic.

"This kid seems to be lively on the surface, but in fact he is dark inside." The president gave a conclusion after reading it.

Xu Xiao nodded approvingly: "So I said, could it be the fire set by Karen?" ”

"No, I don't think so." Chen Yudi felt that something was wrong in the face of such rapid development.

He took a few paintings from Xu Xiao's hand: "Are all the other paintings on the wall all written on the back?" ”

"No, no, I've seen them all, only these are the ones on them." Xu Xiao casually flipped through the few remaining paintings on the wall to show others, and sure enough, there were white and ordinary canvases behind them.

"Something seems wrong." The president nodded and motioned for Chen Yudi to spread the paintings separately on the ground so that they could be observed together.

Almost all of the people on the screen are children, and the immature brushstrokes depict scenes of happy daily life. Each face is the same, replaced by two crooked eyes and a crooked mouth. Everyone on the canvas seemed very happy.

Under the sun, a few children were sweating profusely eating ice cream; Everyone is playing house together, and it seems to be reproducing the story of "The Little Match Girl"; The children were cultivating vegetables in the fruit and vegetable garden with farming tools in their hands, and their clothes were soaked with sweat; Everyone sang hand in hand around the campfire in the dark night......

Yes! That's it!

It turns out that the common denominator is this!

Although Zhao Bai'an couldn't come up with the beginning and end of all the events, the sudden flash of inspiration at least allowed her to get through the strangeness of this link.

"Hot... The common denominator of all is heat. The last bonfire picture woke up Zhao Bai'an.

"What?" Xu Xiao was a little puzzled.

Zhao Bai'an had no choice but to give a further explanation: "There is only one thing that all the paintings with words such as nasty have in common, and that is that the scene in the painting is very hot. ”

"So Karen is probably actually very disgusted with strong heat, and we need to think carefully about whether he is an arsonist or not." Chen Yudi continued her words.

"That's right." Zhao Bai'an nodded at him.

Oh yes! When she had read it before, she remembered that there seemed to be something mentioned in his diary.

Zhao Bai'an rummaged through Karen's bed again to find his diary, and I have to say that it was actually quite well hidden. At that time, it was Xu Xiao who rummaged through it, and judging from her performance several times, it directly reflected that she was an expert in finding hidden objects.

"It's my ninth birthday, but a fire took away all the important people around me the other day. It was supposed to be a happy day, why did everything turn out like this! I miss them so much, and I wish they could celebrate my birthday like I used to.'"

Zhao Baian turned to the page at the end of the diary, and when he first read it, he felt that there was nothing wrong. But I don't know why, after knowing that Karen hates the intense heat, the first thing that flashes in his mind is the words in the diary of this day.

After re-reading the diary spread out in her hand, Chen Yudi said what Zhao Bai'an was thinking: "If Cullen hated the strong heat after the fire, and didn't mention the words he wrote behind these paintings for the time being, then according to his depressed mood at the time, how could he paint these paintings full of walls full of happy coexistence with his friends?" ”

"That's right. But I don't think that's the only place where the discord is violated...... But I just can't catch this wandering feeling. ”

After listening to Zhao Bai'an's words, Chen Yudi took the diary from her hand and continued to read the short lines repeatedly.

If you really can't do it, you might just forget it, maybe it's just a blind feeling.

Zhao Bai'an looked at him frowning, and he hadn't said this sentence yet. Chen Yudi closed the diary and said with some excitement: "Bai An! I know! ”

He then ran out of Cullen's room, trotted all the way to the dean's room, rummaged through it, and ran back with a booklet.

"Look at this!"

He opened the orphanage registration form, and on the page of Cullen it read: Cullen, male, joined Morton Orphanage at the age of 11.

"11 years old!" Xu Xiao also realized something.

"It seems that this diary has been tampered with, and the number of pages has been reversed." The president looked closely at the old diary bound with thread, and continued to reason, "Cullen may have experienced two fires, and the one recorded in the diary may be the reason for the loss of his parents. Every year, children come to the orphanage, and if we all think that they came because of famine, we are misled and go astray. ”

"That's right, a very reasonable assumption." Zhao Baian agrees with the president's words very much, in the early stage, he seemed to be in a very poor state because he was always worried that ghosts would haunt, but now his reasoning ability seems to be finally online.

In your words and my words, Karen's story was pieced together by everyone.

"I see!" Xu Xiao seemed to have been opened up to the second pulse of Ren Du, and his eyes lit up a lot after listening to the inferences of the three of them.

"So in that case, Cullen can be said to be cleared of suspicion. It's as if he was designed, and the arsonist should be someone else. Chen Yudi sorted out his thoughts and came to a conclusion.

"That's right, that's right, I agree with what Chen Yudi said, I was too hasty at first. So who would be the arsonist in that case? ”