The four of them walked around Alice's house, and the courtyard looked a little cluttered, as if no one had cleaned it for a long time. The whole villa is an "L" shaped structure, the house on the left side is shorter, and the first floor is a large transparent glass, behind the glass is like a display table, on which there should be a lot of things, but now it is covered by a huge black cloth, and it is impossible to see what is underneath. A room on the second floor of the house on the right is lit up red, and there is a vague shadow behind half of the curtains, and the whole scene looks very strange.

"This time, Jun Yao and I will ask, Jiang Xian, you and Chen Yang will wait for us at the gate of the courtyard." After Xu Qingran finished speaking, he and Jun Yao walked into the courtyard, walked through the raunchy garden, and walked towards the gold-trimmed white gate. Jun Yao noticed that the decoration style of this villa was different from the other houses she had seen in the town, and there was an indescribable sense of disobedience, so Jun Yao looked around and pondered. Xu Qingran, who was standing in front of her, naturally didn't know what she was doing, Xu Qingran raised his hand and pressed the communicator at the door, and the bell rang out, but no one replied. So Xu Qingran pressed the doorbell a few times, and finally a grumpy middle-aged uncle appeared in the display screen on the communicator, "Who are you!" I'm not deaf! ”

The grumpy uncle was wearing a casual home dress that looked like he hadn't washed for half a month, and he had a dark red waist around him, and his brown curly hair looked like a chicken coop because he hadn't been taken care of for too long, and all in all, he looked very decadent.

Xu Qingran was a little stunned by the uncle's voice, but Jun Yao reacted quickly and hurriedly stepped forward, "Hello, we were invited by the mayor, and there have been a lot of strange things in the town recently, so we are here to investigate." ”

The uncle was silent for a while, as if he was waiting for Shen Junyao's next words, "Your daughter Alice...... It seems to be missing, so we're here today to ask about what happened before she disappeared. ”

didn't know that Jun Yao's words had stabbed him, and he suddenly became angry, "Get out!" Get out of here! I don't need you to ask questions! Fuck off, James, Jack, Julie...... And the rest of you, you don't have a good thing! Get out, get out of here! As he spoke, the uncle disappeared into the picture, and then Jun Yao heard the doorknob being twisted violently, Xu Qingran reacted that this person was about to rush out, Jun Yao was still staring at the display screen, so he didn't think much about it, and directly grabbed Jun Yao's wrist and ran out, when the two ran out of the courtyard, the uncle kicked the door open, stood at the door, and stared at them with big eyes.

Xu Qingran and Shen Junyao were standing outside the courtyard as far as his eyes could see, and the uncle was standing at the door, so deadlocked, he didn't come out, they didn't go in, and after a long time, the uncle turned around and slammed the door hard.

"Ahh So that's it! Jun Yao clapped her hands and suddenly realized, "Look at this building, is it a typical modern European luxury style?" The whole is mainly ivory white and gold, although the courtyard is a little chaotic but you can still see its former beauty, the first floor is decorated with red sheds on both sides of the outward, and there are small potted plants under the windows on each floor on the two sides of the interior to decorate, and even the communicator we just used is the kind with a display screen. This villa is out of place in the whole town because it is decorated in a style that does not match the rest of the building. ”

"So far, this home has been decorated in a different style from the Middle Ages, so could it be that the other missing children's homes are also in this style?" Xu Qingran nodded, very much agreed with Jun Yao's judgment on the decoration style, to be honest, he didn't observe it so carefully, and even the style could be detected so quickly.

"I don't think it's likely, the other group went to West 1-1 on the straight avenue where we walked from Sunset Square to Street Park, and if the décor of this home is also modern, then we should have noticed it earlier. But in fact, we have come all the way, until now Jun Yao pointed out that this building, the whole town from the residential houses, the decoration and layout of the streets, and the public buildings such as the square park bell tower, all present a very uniform medieval style. So far, this one is the only exception. Jiang Xian shook her head and expressed her opinion, and then she remembered that the two of them ran out of it in a hurry as if they were running for their lives, and asked, "What did you say inside?" How did you run out like this? ”

The two glanced at each other, as if they saw apologies in each other's eyes, Jun Yao opened his mouth and replied, "We just went to ring the doorbell, and after a long time, a middle-aged uncle came over, so I went up to explain the intention, and wanted to ask him about his daughter's disappearance, but as soon as he heard me say that her daughter was missing, he began to rage without saying a word, and scolded us to get out and say that we didn't have a good thing, and at the same time seemed to rush out and beat us." ”

"His whole state is very abnormal, except for the violent temper, the whole person looks very decadent, as if he has been hit by some very big blow, I guess his series of behaviors are due to the disappearance of his daughter Alice." Xu Qingran recalled the state of the middle-aged uncle just now, "When he just scolded us to get out, did he still say the names of a few people?" He spoke so loudly, so close to the microphone that I could hear it indistinctly. ”

"Hmm...... I didn't hear it very clearly, but I could hear the mayor's name. Mayor James, right? Jun Yao recalled the long list of curses that the uncle had just made, and after thinking about it carefully, he seemed to have said the names of the three people, but the only thing she had a little impression of was the name of Mayor James that she had seen on the initial main quest page.

"It seems that there is such a name, it should be talking about the mayor, but his daughter is missing, what does it have to do with the mayor, and who are the other people in his mouth? Why did he have such a big feud with them? Or what is the connection between these people and his daughter's disappearance? ”

"Or ...... Go back and ask? Chen Yang has been listening to the analysis of several people, and feels that he can't help anything, he belongs to the person who is fishing in this group, and finally there is a question that he can understand, he feels that he needs to speak to brush up his sense of existence.

Xu Qingran and Shen Junyao were silent for a while.

Think about the irritable appearance of the uncle just now, and then look at the posture he just kicked open the door and rushed out, for these questions to go back and ask him again to get answers, it is really okay but not necessary.

The atmosphere cooled down, and Chen Yang felt that he had said the wrong thing again.

Jiang Xian opened her mouth to break the silence at this time, "I see that the sun is about to set, and it doesn't make sense for us to stalemate at this door, presumably the other group should ask something, why don't we go back to the hotel and meet them first, exchange the situation, and then have dinner and rest?" ”

Xu Qingran came back to his senses and nodded, "Okay, then let's go to the Eternal Sleep Hotel." ”

Pushing open the door of the Eternal Sleep Inn, the hall was empty, and it seemed that the other group of people who had gone to inquire had not returned, which was a good thing, at least it proved that the group was not closed like them, and should be able to ask something. Jun Yao's gaze fell on the wall behind the front desk again, and then she opened her mouth wide in surprise, "Do you think this place is different from before?" ”

Xu Qingran, who was sitting on the small table next to him and scribbling and analyzing on the small notebook with a pen, raised his head when he heard this, and looked around vigilantly, but he didn't notice anything wrong, so he frowned and asked, "What did you find?" ”

"This place seems to be newer than before......" Jun Yao said as she approached the wall, reaching out to touch the texture, and then she approached the clocks again, reaching out and taking the nearest one that she could reach to take a closer look at his surface, "Whether it's the wall or the clock, it's new." The texture of the wall is very handy, there is no wear, it should have been renovated for a long time, and the surface of the clock is very bright, and the inside of the clock is also very clean, there is no dust, it is definitely just used. ”

"Maybe it's been renovated recently? There's nothing strange about it. Jiang Xian didn't understand what Jun Yao meant when she said this, Jun Yao shook her head and hung the clock back, "No, it's been more than a month since strange things happened in Eternal Sleep Town, and the mayor said that because the rumors formed by these strange things spread outside, the travelers from outside didn't dare to come, and according to the time we came in, it was a month and a half, which was what February looked like." The town of Eternal Sleep is deep in the mountains, and it is still relatively cold in February, so it is obviously impossible to renovate the inn. And at the beginning of spring in March, strange things began to happen in the bell tower, and there were all kinds of panic in the town, and no one would take care of the inn. But if you push it any further, it is impossible to leave such a new mark, the most important thing is that I remember the first time we entered the hotel, the wall full of clocks had traces of broken wallpaper, because the area of peeling off was a bit large, so I was more impressed, probably ...... It's in this one piece. Jun Yao pointed to a certain place on the wall and drew a circle, Xu Qingran frowned and meditated, as if he was recalling the scene of entering the hotel for the first time, and then he looked at the sofa sharply and walked over slowly.

"You're right, it's not the same place as the first time we came." Xu Qingran clearly remembers the first time he came, sitting on the sofa, when his hand touched the soft touch, the result was that the armrest of the sofa was broken a little bit, causing the sponge to be exposed, and now this sofa is unusually new from beginning to end, let alone a hole.

"Tick-tick-tock-" Suddenly there was a sound of a huge clock hand turning, Jun Yao subconsciously turned her head to look at the clock hanging on the wall, and the next second Jun Yao regretted the decision she made, because she saw a pair of hands, holding the clock she had just hung up, and when she turned around, her hair seemed to sweep to those hands, so the clock gradually melted into the wall, and those hands stretched out towards her.

"Run-" Jiang Xian shouted to herself behind her, Jun Yao found that the hands that were about to reach her suddenly stopped in mid-air, so she didn't think about it, and used her fastest speed to move away from the wall, standing beside Jiang Xian, Jun Yao saw that every clock was hugged by a pair of hands.

Jiang Xian had a scepter in her hand, which seemed to be a prop that could pause time, and Jun Yao was already standing beside her, so she put the scepter away and exhaled heavily, "Fortunately, I caught up with ......"

[Spirit Scepter: A special prop, you can pause time, you can pause for up to five minutes, pausing for more than one minute will have a load on the user, and the longer you use it, the greater the load damage on your body. Cooldown time is eight hours. 】

Xu Qingran looked at the hands on the wall seriously, after Jiang Xian withdrew the props to recover the time, the hands that were about to grab Jun Yao pounced in the air, it seemed to be very unwilling, and it actually stretched out another section from the wall, increasing the scope of the capture. But no matter how much it tried to show its teeth and claws, it couldn't touch anything, so it slowly returned to the wall. After the hands returned to the wall, the clock reappeared on the wall, and then the other hands holding the clock disappeared one after another.

When everything was calm, Xu Qingran glanced at Jun Yao, "It's okay." ”

Jun Yao admitted that she was indeed frightened when she saw those hands, but she didn't feel anything after that, especially when she saw the hands and the clock on the whole wall, Jun Yao had only one thought in her heart: That's it?

"The time on the clock began to go backwards...... Jun Yao looked at the wall that almost killed him again, the clock did return to normal, but the hands on the clock were going backwards, at first the hands went against the clock, but gradually they increased their speed, and then turned rapidly.

"You ...... Look at the walls! The walls are aging, and the white walls are starting to turn yellow......" Chen Yang covered his mouth in surprise, and his finger trembled a little as he pointed at the wall.

Xu Qingran looked down at the floor and found that the floor was also beginning to show old marks, he frowned, "Something is wrong with this hotel!" We need to get out of here! ”

Jiang Xian looked back at the door, but found that the doorknob of the gate was rusty, she rummaged in the prop column, but failed to find a suitable prop, Jun Yao also found the fact that the door could not be opened, a brush suddenly appeared in her hand, strode closer to the door, Jun Yao drew an identical one on the top of the rusty doorknob, and after the golden powder faded, a brand new handle appeared. Jun Yao put Ma Liangbi back into her backpack and tried to see if the door could be opened, she turned her head to look at the three of them, "Come here, the door can be opened, let's go out first!" ”

The door was opened, and it was Ai Yu and Yin Weiyu who were holding attack weapons head-on, it seemed that the door was pushed open too suddenly, both of them were stunned, and Lin Mo behind him looked at the four of them and breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally come out." ”

"What are you doing...... What's going on? Xu Qingran saw the two people holding the props and Lin Mo, who was a little weak on the side, "Is it because of us?" ”

"We just came back, and as soon as we stood at the gate and were about to open the door, Lin Mo suddenly became uncomfortable, and then she pointed to the door and said that there was a void spirit inside. Then we were about to retreat, but she said that the four of you are in danger inside, and there is no way we can only go in to help, but we found that the door could not be opened, and then suddenly the door stretched out a lot of hands and rushed towards us, it was too sudden for us to react at all, as a result, Lin Mo cut his hands and sprinkled some blood on the door, those hands were temporarily scared back, we took out props and wanted to fight back, and after cutting off those outstretched hands, we were about to find a way to break into the door, and you suddenly opened the door from the inside. Ai Yu explained the current situation, and Lin Mo said softly, "They're gone, let's go in quickly......"

As soon as the words fell, Lin Mo fell down as if he had lost his strength, fortunately Zhao Xiao was closer to her and caught her, Xu Qingran hurriedly stepped forward to help carry Lin Mo up, Jun Yao looked back at the hotel, "Do we still want to go in?" I feel like it's really dangerous here......"

"We have to go in, and if we don't get into the house before sunset, we will be cursed by time."