Chapter Eighty-Six: Nighttime Changes

After waiting for about two hours, the dinner was finally pushed up by Ling Qi, the small cart had three floors, the first two floors, each floor had at least six dishes, a total of about twelve dishes (and some side dishes overlapped together), and the last layer was drinks, in fact, most of them were some foreign wine and red wine, which should belong to the enjoyment of some upper-class people.

After seeing Ling Qi, Qin Jian also left the bookshelf, looking at the books on the bookshelf when he was wandering in front of the bookshelf before, and he looked in the direction of Ling Yu from time to time, at that time, Ling Yu was chatting with Zhang Xiaoqian, and the distance was still a little close, he couldn't tell the feeling in his heart, although he knew that Ling Yu might be approaching Zhang Xiaoqian for what purpose, but he knew in his heart that he didn't want to see this scene, but it was clear that this was the case, and he couldn't help but look at it.

On those bookshelves, Qin Jian saw Zhang Xiaoqian's work "The Man with a Cold Face" and so on, Zhang Xiaoqian is a modern mystery novelist, according to convention, he is now only close to thirty years old, and the master Jin Xi at the end of the last century has been dead for ninety-nine years, so when Jin Xi died, Zhang Xiaoqian should not have been born yet, that is to say, the books on these bookshelves are not collected by Jin Xi, Qin Jian guessed that this is likely to be done by Ling Qi, Because he is the only one who has the ability to move around at will in this museum, not even himself and Ling Yu.

When Qin Jian walked to the seat next to Ling Yu, Ling Qi had already put all the food on the table, leaving the last layer of wine unfinished. Qin Jian sat down beside Ling Yu, and his body seemed to subconsciously get closer to Ling Yu.

Finally, Ling Qi put the drinks on the table and looked at everyone who had already sat down and said to them:

"Okay guys, this is your dinner tonight, the next six days will basically be like this, at the time of the evening, I will call you to this room as today, you can end the day's clue search, and lunch I will also be ready on time, but lunch is not forced to leave the exhibition hall of the collection of objects, you can continue to observe the clues in the hall, and then, after dinner, you can go back to the room to rest, or continue to stay in this room to discuss, but do not enter the exhibition hall, I will also lock that door, and finally wish you a pleasant meal! ”

After Ling Qi finished his last sentence, he bowed to them and left the room respectfully, the direction he was walking in was not the direction of the living corridor, but the direction of the exhibition hall, and as Ling Qi closed the door of the room, everyone in this room heard a crisp sound of the door locking. No, it should be two sounds, like this push-down handle door generally has two layers of locks, just to be on the safe side.

Now the door was locked, and they didn't have to think about how to sneak into the exhibition hall at night, but luckily each of them had a toilet in their bedroom, so they didn't have to worry about their physiology. Everyone sat down to eat quietly, Qin Jian brought a wine glass to him, he opened a bottle of red wine and poured a glass, compared to foreign wine, Qin Jian still likes red wine a little more, probably because he likes the color of red wine.

That dark red is like blood leaking, it has become one of the colors that make up Qin Jian's life, he picked up the goblet full of red wine and put it in front of his nose and gently shook the wine glass in his hand, this bottle of red wine doesn't seem to need a decanter, there is no precipitation in the glass, it seems that these wines Ling Qi has already dealt with it. Qin Jian enjoyed the taste of red wine. When you close your eyes, only the tip of your nose touches the glass.

Even though there was only purple grapes and alcohol in the red wine, he looked like a vampire sucking blood. It makes people shudder when they see it.

However, these Ling Yu and the others have long been used to it, they would go out to dinner when they solved the case before, and Qin Jian would only drink red wine, and they looked exactly the same as now.

After enjoying the taste of red wine, Qin Jian drank all the red wine in the wine glass in his hand, and slowly filled another glass, but this cup he did not drink it quickly, but put it next to him, picked up the tableware and began to eat.

Chu Ming, who was beside Shu Xiaoran, didn't drink, and he had a cup of coffee in his hand, probably because he and Xiao Ran were about to get married.

I don't know how long I ate dinner, Chu Ming looked down at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, it took them about an hour to eat dinner, after dinner, Qin Jian and Ling Yu planned to go back to the room, and Zhang Xiaoqian seemed to want to stay in this room for a while, it should be to sort out his notes, maybe it was more likely that Yin Fei'er, who didn't eat dinner, would come down for dinner.

Chu Ming and Shu Xiaoran had also returned to the room, Ling Yu was the last to leave, of course, except for Zhang Xiaoqian, when Ling Yu walked to the other door of the room, she glanced back, there was still some food left on the table, what she was wondering about was that the door of the room had been locked, how would Ling Qi clean it up, would it be until tomorrow morning?

She just thought about it and closed the door of the room and left the room, and in the end there was only Zhang Xiaoqian left in this room, if he was bored alone and didn't want to go back to his room, he could still look for his novels on the bookshelf and look through them.

It was already night, but the darkness was still falling, and it seemed that there was not a single creature cry around the Museum of the Dead, and there was only the wailing of ghosts from hell in this resentful realm.

Shu Xiaoran, who returned to the room, lay down on the bed and covered the quilt after washing in the bathroom, and then Chu Ming also finished washing and went to bed to cover the quilt. The two of them leaned on the head of the bed, and the two of them wore their pajamas as if they were about to start the night chat mode.

The light in the room had not been turned off yet, Xiao Ran and Chu Ming were very close, and her wet hair touched Chu Ming's cheeks, probably because her hair touched water stains when she washed her face.

Immediately after that, Xiao Ran leaned on Chu Ming's shoulder, and the body fragrance on her body also entered Chu Ming's nasal cavity little by little, and after driving for a day, Xiao Ran was really tired.

Xiao Ran, who was on Chu Ming's shoulder, didn't speak loudly, she just wanted to tell Chu Ming about her observations today, and she also asked about Chu Ming's observations.

"Did you notice the famous painting on the wall today?"

"Well," Chu Ming nodded: "All the paintings are wooden frames, and the time on them is after 1900, but only one painting is framed by a metal frame, and the time on the painting is before 1900, it seems to be 1882, but all the paintings have a common feature, they are all composed of a variety of colors, to be precise, all the items in the exhibition hall are painted with graffiti, but the single color on these paintings can form a pattern." ”

"So you've found it all." Xiao Ran said to Chu Ming, his voice was a little louder than just now, and he didn't sound so sleepy.

"However, I have never understood what the gap in the ground means, according to the convention, there is no river near this place, although it is often cloudy, but it does not rain, and when it rains, the eaves of the room will not be flooded, this gap does not look like it is for drainage, on the contrary, a place like a museum should be fireproof, but there is no fire alarm in that exhibition hall, and there is no fire extinguisher, but I did find some small cameras on the walls of that hall."

"I guess it's a monitor." Xiao Ran said.

"Yes, there is more than one of these small monitors in that exhibition hall, most of them are on the walls, but there is no one on the ceiling, which is something I can't figure out, generally speaking, the ceiling is the best place to install cameras, and it is also the best place to have a viewing angle, and installing two on the ceiling is equivalent to installing four or five on the wall, I don't know what the purpose of this is."

"And then there's the room where we just ate, which is also monitored, but it's mounted on the ceiling, and it looks like there are only two of them."

When Chu Ming was talking, Xiao Ran's expression was a little nervous, and Chu Ming knew what Xiao Ran was thinking:

"However, you don't have to worry, I have already checked this room, and there is no monitoring equipment in it, including the corridor outside."

Hearing Chu Ming say this, Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, what time is it, go to bed early, and the search will continue tomorrow." Chu Ming saw that there was no clock in this room, and he knew that Xiao Ran had a watch, which he gave to her.

Xiao Ran looked for his watch from the bedside table, and suddenly the expression on his face suddenly turned pale.

"The watch is gone!"

Xiao Ran was a little flustered all of a sudden, it was the first gift Chu Ming gave him, except for the ring, and Xiao Ran remembered that he didn't take off the watch when he was washing just now.

She thought carefully that during the afternoon search, her arm seemed to touch an object on top of the cabinet, and it was probably at that time that the watch slipped off her hand.

But now Ling Qi has closed the door of that room, and the passage connecting the two rooms has been closed, and there is no way to get out now, and if you want to retrieve your watch, you can only wait for tomorrow.

After Xiao Ran turned off the light in the room, she lay down with Chu Ming, she snuggled in Chu Ming's arms, and fell asleep in front of her warm chest.

Midnight is approaching, and everyone seems to be unaware that the museum is making a faint noise, and something seems to be changing during the night, but everyone has fallen asleep, and when the next day dawn comes, maybe they will see the world after the night change.