Chapter 41: Searching for Clues
As soon as he touched the bathroom door, Situ Cao felt a strange force coming from a certain direction.
She actually felt a trace of fear in that second.
Her fingers hesitated in mid-air for a moment, and finally, she took a deep breath and twisted the doorknob open.
Situ Cao opened the door of the bathroom, and for some reason, from just now, she had always had a good psychological quality, but she also had a feeling of wanting to escape from here.
At this time, she came to the bathroom alone, and she actually had a creepy feeling.
The toilet and bathroom were one room, and there was nothing strange in front of her. It's the kind of bathroom that is just ordinary, the toiletries on the sink are some years old, and there are a few shabby basins behind the door, but there is only one thing that makes her feel inexplicably strange.
She couldn't put into words how she felt, but she was clearly aware of the emotion.
When her gaze rested on the mirror on the wall, she finally realized where that feeling had come from.
Yes, mirrors!
There are three mirrors in this bathroom!
Except for the direction in which Situ opened the door, there was a huge mirror on each of the other three walls.
In a room of less than 20 square meters, several huge mirrors stand out.
Standing in the doorway, she only felt her heart beat to the point where her throat was about to beat.
The other side.
I went into the master bedroom, and the room had a faint musty smell because it had been unoccupied for a long time.
When I opened the wardrobe, a dilapidated smell immediately came out, and I subconsciously waved my hand to disperse the smell.
A mouse suddenly sprang out from underneath and startled me.
In front of the bedside table in the bedroom, there was still a yellowed group photo of the family, and when the first layer of the cabinet was opened, a medicine bottle inside rolled out with inertia.
I paused, but picked up the bottle anyway.
The handwriting on the bottle is a little blurry, and I can vaguely see the words 圢 and 喏.
After thinking about it, I decided to take it out anyway.
I looked around again, but there was nothing else unusual.
After searching around the room, he didn't find anything out of the ordinary, and was about to leave the room when he suddenly caught a glimpse of something white under the bed.
I crouched down and dragged it out.
It's a small white wooden box with a lock on it.
Pulled the rusty lock, but the thing was surprisingly strong.
Thinking that Zhang Qiang could try this thing, I wiped off the dust on it with a pillow towel and walked out of the room with a small white wooden box.
As soon as I walked out of the bedroom door, I happened to see Situ Cao, who looked confused, standing at the door of the bathroom opposite.
"What's wrong?" I walked up to her and looked at Situ Cao, whose face was not quite right.
Situ Cao came back to her senses at this time, she glanced at me, and turned her head to the bathroom: "Don't you think that there are too many mirrors in this bathroom?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction she was pointing.
There are large mirrors on three walls of the bathroom, reflecting the two of us. I always feel that we in the mirror seem to be a little distorted and deformed.
I subconsciously swallowed: "Do you have any other discoveries?" ”
Situ Cao shook his head: "There doesn't seem to be anything special about other places. ”
"Shall we go to the others first?" Standing in the bathroom doorway, I felt the urge to escape.
"Okay."
It seemed that she also felt the same way, and after the two discussed, they decided to go to the second bedroom next to Zhao Qiqi and Zhang Qiang to see the situation.
In the second bedroom, Zhao Qiqi was standing in front of the desk with something like a notebook and looking at something, but Zhang Qiang was lying on the chair next to the desk, looking uninterested.
Seeing the two of us coming, Zhang Qiang didn't have any guilt for being lazy.
"This house is too poor! There's no value to be looked for. He put his hands behind his head and pillowed them, looking like an old man.
I gave him an angry look: "Now it's for you to find clues, not for you to find valuable things." ”
He was about to say something to justify, when Zhao Qiqi suddenly reached out and smashed the notebook on his head.
"There's a clue." She picked up the notebook and looked at us.
When Zhang Qiang heard this, he had to touch his head and dare not speak.
"Is there any important information in this notebook?" I immediately understood and looked at my notebook in surprise.
Zhao Qiqi nodded with a smile and glanced at the small white wooden box I was holding in my arms: "Let's gather the others first." ”
A minute later, the six of them gathered again at the living room table.
"Let's talk about the clues that everyone has found!" Zhao Qiqi glanced at everyone.
"I'll do it first!" Wang Yi looked at the group, and he took out a stack of old papers with scribbles and put them in front of us.
"What is this?"
Curious, I picked up a piece of paper and looked at it in front of my eyes.
The words "Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing" are written on it, and there are some words like "Does he love me?" underneath. "When will he come back to me?" "How can I be pretty? ".
"I just turned it out from under the TV stand." Wang Yi smiled: "Although I don't know what this thing is for." ”
"Maybe people are just writing and playing, but you're serious." Zhang Qiang glanced at it casually and put the paper back on the table.
"Probably not, since let's find clues here, then, these strange points must be the key point." I deny his claims.
"Tell me, what the hell is this?" Zhang Qiang snorted coldly.
"That ......" Seeing a few of us arguing, Situ Cao next to him interrupted quietly.
Zhao Qiqi looked at her: "Did you find anything?" ”
Situ Cao was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Is this a pen fairy?" ”
"Pen Fairy?!" Zhao Qiqi seemed to suddenly remember something, and she immediately looked at us excitedly.
"That's right, this should be the pen fairy. These papers are supposed to be left behind by someone in a family of four after playing. ”
After they mentioned this, I remembered that Xiao Gang in the dormitory had also been crazy about games like summoning ghosts for a while. But since I'm not interested in this kind of thing, I didn't think about it just now.
"I found this stack of papers in the living room, and I didn't find anything else." Wang Yi smiled helplessly.
After listening to this, Situ Cao told the story of the three mirrors he had just found in the bathroom.
"Gao Wei, what did you find?" Just when I was thinking about what all this was related to, Zhao Qiqi's voice pulled me back to reality.
Under the gaze of everyone, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
"I found these ...... in the master bedroom," I said, placing the illegible bottle of medicine and the small white wooden box on the table.
Zhang Qiang took the medicine bottle curiously, shook it and found that there were still two pills in it, opened it and smelled it, he frowned instantly.
"It stinks, doesn't it?"
Dumbfounded for a moment, I looked at him angrily: "Who told you to smell casually?" Things have been left out for so long, they must have expired. ”
Zhao Qiqi took the bottle in his hand, thought for a moment and frowned: "It seems to be a medicine for calming and sleeping." ”
"Really?" I also took the medicine bottle and looked at it, but suddenly a question came to mind: "No, how do you know?" ”
Zhao Qiqi was stunned, she had always reacted very quickly, she opened her mouth and finally fell silent.
The scene was inexplicably a little embarrassing, and just when I wanted to say something to break the deadlock, Situ Cao next to me spoke again.
"Well, can you show me?" Her voice was very gentle, and she looked at us cautiously.
Situ Cao, who is usually very quiet, took the initiative to speak several times this time, which surprised me a little.
I smiled and handed the medicine bottle in my hand to her: "Here you go." ”
She nodded slightly to me, took it and looked at it, then looked at the other five with certainty: "This should be a medicine for mental illness." ”
"Could it be that there is a mental problem in this family of four?" Wang Yi also felt strange.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out." I touched my chin, then turned my head to look at Du Deming: "Deming, what have you found?" ”
Du Deming was stunned for a moment, and a smile barely appeared on his pale face: "I was in the kitchen just now, and I also found some similar ghost inviting tools." ”
As he spoke, he pulled out a few plates engraved with strange symbols.
"Could this be the legendary tool for inviting the Saucer Immortal?" I curiously looked at one of the metal plates and looked at them carefully.
"Oh, don't tell me, it's a little weird here! Why does the owner of this house like these things so much? Are you a fan of the supernatural? Zhang Qiang leaned lazily on the chair and pulled casually.
When he said that, it reminded me.
I frowned and pondered: "From the current clues, it seems that at least one of the owners of this house is a supernatural enthusiast, and it is very likely that he has some kind of mental problem, can he think of anything else?" ”
"One more point!" Zhao Qiqi suddenly raised his head: "I feel that this woman is very likely to be the mistress of the house." There is a high probability that she was abandoned by the man. ”
"What did you say?" Zhang Qiang and Wang Yi both opened their mouths in surprise.
Even Du Deming suddenly became interested, and he looked at her curiously.
"How do you see that? How do you think she must have been betrayed by her husband? I couldn't help but ask.
Zhao Qiqi pointed to the paper left by the pen fairy, and then opened the notebook in his hand: "This notebook told me." ”
"You mean, this notebook is for the hostess, and you have come to the conclusion that she was abandoned based on the information above?" I remembered the words full of resentment written on the paper, and my brain raced.
"That's right." Zhao Qiqi opened his notebook and read out the diary above:
"I thought I would have a happy family, a son, a daughter, and a reliable husband. However, everything was destroyed on that day. My husband's clothes always have other women's hair, black and long, but I have short hair! How can long hair occur? From then on, I knew that he must have had another woman outside. ”
At this point, a cold wind suddenly blew from somewhere in the originally quiet room. The wind swept through the backs of the crowd, making people shiver unconsciously.