Shen Junyao, Jiang Xian and Yin Weiyu observed around the first floor of the bell tower, and after seeing a lot of things, it seemed that there was nothing else to gain, so Lin Mo took them to the direction of the stairs, she stood next to the handrail at the bottom of the stairs, and pointed to the bloody handprints with her finger, Jun Yao took a few steps forward and carefully observed, but Lin Mo's hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Bloody Handprint...... One more came out!

"What's wrong?" Jun Yao was stunned when she found the movements in Lin Mo's hand, she couldn't take her eyes off the bloody handprints on the armrests, her face was frightened, and when she heard her own question-and-answer voice, she opened her mouth slightly, with a little tremor in her voice, "Blood handprints...... One more came out! ”

"One more?" Jiang Xian asked in surprise, as if she noticed that her volume was a little loud, she quickly covered her mouth and asked softly, "What does this mean?" ”

"When we came here before, we did find bloody handprints on the handrail, one is a left-hand handprint, and the remaining four are right-hand handprints, but now ......" Lin Mo was interrupted before he finished speaking, Jun Yao stretched out his hand and pointed to one of the six handprints and said, "There is an extra handprint of the right hand." It's weird...... If the number of bloody handprints corresponds to the number of missing children, then yesterday another child disappeared in the town? ”

"Wouldn't it? Another child disappeared? But the town is so big, and we just received a commission yesterday to investigate this in the town, if another child is missing, then why didn't the mayor tell us? Yin Weiyu asked.

"Maybe it happened just yesterday afternoon, after all, these children were found missing because they hadn't returned home after sunset, and if the child corresponding to this new handprint was missing yesterday and was found after sunset, we all stayed in the hotel at that time, and we wouldn't have known." Jiang Xian also stepped forward to look at the bloody handprints, Jun Yao glanced up at her, as if she suddenly thought of something, "No...... No, if the child had gone missing yesterday, we would have known. ”

"Why? How do we know? Lin Mo asked puzzled.

"Because didn't the light rain call yesterday to ask that assistant Miss Linda about the time curse and the rules? There was already a similar case of five children missing in the town, and we were commissioned by the mayor to investigate this matter, and it appeared in the town in one day yesterday. The lady of Lily's family had said earlier that the people of the town were wary of outsiders, and we must have caught their attention. For this almost isolated town, such a large place, where there are no impenetrable walls, our arrival is still known so quickly, not to mention their most cherished children. If a family's child had gone missing yesterday when we arrived, the family would have found out shortly after sunset, and the news should have spread throughout the town very quickly. Assistant Linda must also know, when Weiyu called her yesterday to ask her, it was eight o'clock, right? They asked us to solve this problem, will they not tell us about another child missing? ”

"What you say is not unreasonable, so if the child has not disappeared, what does the extra handprint here mean?" Lin Mo agreed with Jun Yao's statement, indeed, the entire background of Eternal Sleep Town is a somewhat closed town with a strong medieval style with a strange source of mysterious legends. The town's inhabitants are unpredictable and incomprehensible, and because they are different from generation to generation, they don't communicate with each other very well. However, this should be the difficulty of the system task setting, if it is a modern town, this kind of thing will not happen.

"Perhaps, a sign." Jun Yao pondered for a moment and said seriously.

"Signs?"

"Yes, we can take this extra mudra as a sign. The reason for thinking this way is very simple, Lin Mo, didn't you hear laughter, the sound of things rubbing on the ground, and the crying of children last night? If the children disappeared because of the game, could it be that the boss behind the capture of the children was playing hide and seek with the children? After all, you deduce that this bloody handprint was left by the children in a hurry on the handrail, so there are two points to think about. First, why bloody mudras? Whose blood is it? Was it the children who were injured or was it someone else's blood? Second, why are children in a hurry? They entered the bell tower inexplicably, if it was for the expedition, there was no need to be in such a hurry, only if there was danger behind them that could hurt their own lives, they would be so panicked. There were no extra handprints when you entered the bell tower yesterday, and the number of missing children in the town at that time matched the number of handprints. You heard these strange sounds last night, so could it be that the child started playing games with this boss last night, and we didn't get any news of the disappearance of the new child, at least it proves that this sentence of hide and seek is not over, at least the child has not been found. ”

"So since this is a sign and the kid hasn't been found yet, can we protect him from being caught by the boss? If we can protect success, then don't we artificially prolong the mission? Didn't you infer that the number of children is the time it takes us to complete our mission in this town? Yin Weiyu said with some excitement.

"Do you really think we can protect this child?" Jiang Xian looked directly into Yin Weiyu's eyes and asked.

"Isn't it? I think Jun Yao's reasoning is very reasonable...... Besides, it's already afternoon, and we haven't gotten any disappearance of the new child, so at least the child is safe for now. We find him, even if we can't protect him, we can use this to see the boss behind the scenes! Although Yin Weiyu lowered her voice to speak, she could still hear that she was very excited, Jiang Xian sighed, although she didn't want to dampen her enthusiasm, but the senseless hope would be even more uncomfortable, so she said, "Have you forgotten?" The main quest is about finding the missing children and then uncovering the truth about all these strange events, and from the beginning to the end, the system does not ask us to rescue or prevent the children from going missing. As a system, there is no illogical arrangement unless the system has decided from the beginning that it is impossible for us to do this. ”

"Jiang Xian is right, light rain, don't think too simply. You say you're going to find this kid and protect him, but we don't even know who he is, so how can we protect him? It would be panicked to say that we found a bloody handprint and to infer that a child from a certain family might be the next to go missing...... But after you mentioned it, I suddenly reacted to something that made me think about it very carefully. Jun Yao reached out and patted Weiyu's shoulder, signaling her to calm down, "It's been two days since we came to this town, and so far, have you seen any children in the town?" Although we said that the place we went to was the house of the resident whose children had disappeared, and there would certainly be no children in their home, the rest of the town was still living a normal life, and the children should be the same, but we did not see a single child. Neither the missing children, nor the children who are not missing, we are nowhere to be seen. ”

"Yes, it's true that we've never seen a child." Lin Mo nodded, and then said, "But after all, there have been several cases of missing children in the town, whether the missing children are because of witches or gods, the residents of the town, or not just them, even we acquiesced, right?" These missing children are dead...... No one wants to be next, so they're sure to protect their children, okay? Isn't it the clumsiest but most effective way to keep them at home and stay at home all the time? ”

"Big sister."

On the stairs leading from the first floor to the second floor, a little boy wearing a blue sailor suit actually appeared, holding a red and white leather ball in his hand, looking at Lin Mo with a smile. Lin Mo was very shocked by the appearance of the little boy, her eyes widened, and she caught a glimpse of Shen Junyao's expression in her afterglow, and she was still seriously looking at the bloody handprints on the handrail, as if she was completely unaware of what was happening on the stairs. She turned her head slightly and glanced at Jiang Xian and Yin Weiyu on the side, they didn't seem to care about the situation here, so she frowned.

This little boy is no longer human.

The phantom that stays reminds her of the identity of the little boy.

Lin Mo took a step back, his fingers moving lightly twice, as if he was making some kind of preparation.

"Big sister, are you here for me?"

The little boy was still smiling, he didn't care about Lin Mo's retreat at all, he looked at Lin Mo directly, his eyes didn't seem to stay on Shen Junyao, Jiang Xian and Yin Weiyu beside her, as if he was sure that only Lin Mo could see him.

"Lin Mo? Lin Mo, what's wrong with you......" Jun Yao noticed that Lin Mo was staring at the empty staircase with a hint of surprise, as if he had found something there. So she asked, but Lin Mo didn't react at all.

"Big sister, since you can see me, it proves that we are destined."

"Tell my big sister quietly, there's a big secret hidden here, but I can't go......"

"So, big sister, you must find this secret......"

After the little boy said this, he ran up the stairs, went up to the second floor and passed the corner, and Lin Mo couldn't see the little boy's figure.

"Wait-" Lin Mo then reacted to the meaning of the little boy's words, when he appeared, the system had its own high-risk prompt sound, but he didn't make the slightest move, leaving behind information that was important to them and disappeared?

"Lin Mo ......" Jun Yao didn't dare to scold loudly, for fear of violating the rule that you can't disturb the gods loudly in that bell tower, she could only reach out and shake Lin Mo's body back and forth vigorously, hoping to pull her consciousness back through this most primitive method, Jiang Xian and Yin Weiyu also noticed that Lin Mo was wrong, Jiang Xian raised her right hand and raised it behind Lin Mo's neck, as if she was going to knock her unconscious with a knife in the next second.

"Let's—let's go up and have a look." Just as Jiang Xian's hand was about to fall, Lin Mo suddenly turned his head to look at Jun Yao and said seriously.

The three of them were stunned for a while, no one knew what she had just experienced, Jun Yao looked at her with such a serious expression, thinking of what Xu Qingran said about her spiritual quality, so she nodded, "Okay, let's go up and have a look." ”