Is it? ”

"I think............ Remu said something at that time. ”

"What? What was said? ”

"The knife is across my neck."

"Did Remu say that?"

"Yes. I said it several times before I put a dagger across Lei Mu's neck........."

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"What you said is true?"

"I don't remember it very really. It's vague like that........."

"So you can't be sure for yourself. Is it possible that that itself is your hallucination? ”

Instead of answering my question directly, he looked at Feng Ji: "What do you say?" Wind Days!! Am I right? You should also remember. ”

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Feng Ji lowered his eyes and said nothing. Seeing him like this, Silence suddenly raised his voice.

"Didn't you also put a knife across Remu's neck? Say it!! Isn't it? ”

“………”

"Don't pretend you don't know. Not beat around the bush!! ”

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No matter how Lone asked, Feng Ji didn't say a word, and then whispered: "That's your hallucination." ”

Silence rolled his eyes, and was speechless for a moment.

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At this time, An Zheng, who had been silent, spoke.

"I .........," he said, in a low voice, "I think I'm like that too." ”

"How?"

He blinked his mantis-like eyes: "It's that Reimu once asked me to threaten ......... with a knife."

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"How? I'm not lying, am I? Silence seemed relieved.

"What about the wind dagger? Wasn't he knocked unconscious? ”

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"My head is groggy, I seem to have woken up once........." said the wind dagger after a pause.

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"That's right, that's it. Raimu said that to everyone, and as a result, he was literally cut off his throat. The same goes for Wind Dagger and Anzheng........."

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"It seems that this is the way it is." I looked at the four young men, "It's not like someone is trying to harm her. It may have been just a coincidental accident, but in the end, even a small life was lost........."

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The four "suspects" were motionless, only their eyes were rolling around, eavesdropping at each other's expressions.

I feel like a big man who solves cases.

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"But no matter what, after all, someone still killed her indirectly, and that hasn't changed. I don't know who is here? Anyone can do it. It may be Lonely, Young Master Fengji, it may be An Zheng, or it may be the wind dagger who woke up after being knocked unconscious. That's the way it is. ”

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"I'd like to know more about this person——— Thunderwood."

I said to the four people who were silent, "Yesterday, where was Young Master Feng Ji and Silence and how did you meet her?" Where did she come from? For example, where do you live? What do you do? When and for what purpose did you come here? Etcetera. ”

"Why do you ask this?" Feng Ji glared at me unconvinced, and asked rhetorically, "Regardless of these things, isn't it okay?" ”

"That's not going to work. Got it? This is important. I was a little disappointed and said to him briefly, "The murderer is among us, and if you want to find the murderer, you have to find out everything, understand?" Gentleman!! ”

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Looks like he understood, and the wind nodded smoothly. I'll go on.

"Where and how did you meet her?"

"I met it on my way back." Wind a few times over a cup of new tea. I was about to take a sip, but my hands were shaking and I couldn't hold the lid of the teacup.

"Let's be more detailed."

"I met it on the road. At that time, Lei Mu was carrying a burden and walking on the road alone, so I stepped forward to take a look, and she happily accosted me. On the way, I mentioned this courtyard house to her, and she offered to come and see it. ”

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"Where did you meet her? Is it a crowded place? ”

"I think there was no one around." Silence seemed to understand the purpose of my question, and said in a casual manner, "We were in the woods at the time, and it was getting dark. ”

"Did you take her into any shops?"

Feng Ji and Silent shook their heads together.

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I'm still not at ease.

"Just back?"

"Yes."

"Straight back."

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It seems to be easier to do.

Hearing them say that, I guess only the five of us know about her coming here.

"Okay, got it. Next question. I continued to ask, "What kind of person is she?" Can you tell me everything you know? ”

"She doesn't talk much about herself." Feng Ji finally drank the tea: "We asked a lot, but she smiled and parted."

"Is she here alone?"

That's what she said. She said that she was a boundless person, wandering around, waiting for the silver to run out, and then finding a new job. ”

"Where is my hometown?"

"I guess it's Kyoto."

"Is it a lady from a big family?"

"Probably not. She was older than us, and she didn't speak in a similar tone. It is estimated that it is in the hidden building. Let's take persuasion, for example, it's too skilled........."

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That shameless man——— Feng Ji's words obviously had such a meaning. But yesterday he was doing this to win Reimagi's heart.

I despise him in my heart.

"She didn't say anything about her parents, her brothers, or anything?"

"This ........."

Feng Ji tilted his neck, and the silence sitting next to him was also in the same posture.

But An Zheng lowered his head and spoke: "I heard it." ”

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"Really?"

"Yesterday, in this wooden chair ——— this room, she spoke to me a few things. At that time, Feng Ji and Silent Zhi happened to leave for a while. ”

"What did you say?"

She asked me why I was so sad and asked me if I was bothered by anything. I said no. She said, 'It's useless to worry, I've always been alone, but try not to worry.' ’”

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"Alone all the time? That is to say——— she has no relatives. ”

"And .........," An Zheng continued to bow his head and said, "how do you say it?" She seemed a little unusual. I always felt that she was not so much moving from the heart as she was self-deprecating. ”

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"What do you mean by that?"

"How so? It can be said to be self-light, right? ”

"Self-lightened?"

"Yes."

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I nodded, and thought of the face of the dead woman in the large room, and suddenly felt a pity that I had never felt before.

Because I think this person has also experienced hardship and frustration in more than 20 years. What is her past? Now, that's not something I should be thinking about, and I don't want to think about it.

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In conclusion, two things can now be determined.

First, she is a wanderer;

Second, no one but us knows that Fengji and Silence brought her here.

One can also be added, that is, she has no relatives.

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Later, the wind dagger said that he wanted to check her baggage, saying that he might know something.

Her baggage was placed on the second floor, in the room of the wind table.

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I told the wind table to take it down quickly.

With that, I left the young men behind and went to the kitchen to make them tea.

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The sun is almost setting.

The bellies of the young men must have been empty, but none of them cried out to be hungry.

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Looking through the small hole in the kitchen window (like the other windows, it is all black window paper, and a small hole can be broken) looked out, and I noticed that the sky was beginning to change dramatically.

It looks like a heavy rain is coming.

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"It's going to rain, isn't it?"

I couldn't help but mutter. The whole sky was covered with thick dark clouds.

The trees in the forest swayed in the wind with moisture, and the earth was already moved. The whole house was filled with the stench of corpses, but outside it was a different story. I stared at it for a long time.

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We looked into Remu's baggage and understood two or three things.

First of all, her hometown, her age.

Her hometown is Liling City. As for the age, I don't remember, but I remember that it was about 25 years old.

And we also understand that the name "Thunderwood" is not her real name.

Why she used this fake name——— we have no way of knowing, we can only guess.

When we learned her real name, we felt that the name "Thunderwood" was made up (isn't it a bit like the name of a barbarian clan leader in the past).

However, here, I will not write her real name for the time being.

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After that, I began to help them hide this tragic incident that happened in the big room.

I deliberately didn't write Lei Mu's real name here just in case, for fear that outsiders would see this notebook (I don't think anyone will see it). It's a precautionary measure.

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Okay———

When we did a general investigation and understanding of the matter itself, I became more convinced.

———That is, except for the five of us, we will never let outsiders know about Remu's severed throat.

The next question we had to consider was what to do with Thunderwood's corpse. It can't be kept in a large room all the time, and it must be buried in the soil as soon as possible.

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"Bury in the woods." Feng Ji opened his mouth first, "The five of us will go to the depths of the old forest, and then everyone will ......... together."

"That's fine, but it's probably not the best way to do it." I say.

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"So ......"

"What should I do?"

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If there is no other way, it will only be buried in the forest. Is there any other way......... I thought in my head.

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At this time, the wind dagger seemed to see through my thoughts, "How about burying it in the wall?" ”

"Bury it in the wall, will this work?"

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Yesterday, Silence told Lei Mu a nonsense story——— in the past, Li Yu drove away his daughter-in-law, and then slaughtered the black dog and buried the black dog in the wall.

Sometimes......... The development of things is really wonderful and wonderful, and it is ridiculous to say that it is ridiculous.

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This method of the wind dagger makes me very difficult.

If Lei Mu's body is buried in the wall of the "Dog Meat Workshop", it means that I, the caretaker of the "Dog Meat Workshop", will stay here for the rest of my life.

I'm a grave keeper.

I wanted to refute it immediately, but after thinking about it for a while, I gave up.

After all, there's no better way to do it now.

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"That's what I thought too." I tried to keep my tone as calm as I could, "If you do that, no one else will know about it." Of course, if the house is demolished, it will be a different matter. I looked straight at Feng Ji, "Young Master, what do you see?" ”

He said incoherently, "Huh? What? What exactly are you trying to say? ”

"In the future, please be very careful, and don't let the master sell or tear down this house. What do you think? ”

"That's the thing. Feel relieved!! The old man was very fond of what I said. I just said I like this house very much........."

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"Okay. Now it seems that there is no problem. I nodded alone and looked at the other three people's expressions.

"Uncle Pu Tian, do you think this is okay?" The wind dagger tilted his neck, and seemed a little sullen, "Although I said this method, I still want to ask, if it is really buried in the wall of the house, don't you feel uncomfortable?" ”

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"Of course it won't be comfortable." I said lightly, "But, how to say that?" At my age, I don't have much to do with it. I'm pretty indifferent to life or death. Of course, there are many people who are just the opposite——— there should be a little more of them. ”

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"But ........."

"What? You don't believe me? ”

"No, that's not what I meant."

"I've done a lot, and now I should be all in the same boat." I looked straight into the dagger's eyes, "Don't worry. I will not rebel against you. For the sake of you young people, I am willing to be a grave keeper. ”

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So, the five of us began to move from the big room to the firewood room.

Inside the front of the hall, adjacent to the kitchen, there is a room dedicated to firewood, and in the woodroom there is a small staircase leading to the cellar.

Under my leadership, several young people carried Lei Mu and walked down the small ladder.

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The cellar was quite large, stretching from directly below the firewood room to the hall and to the east side of the large room.

Such a large room can only be illuminated by white lanterns hanging from the four corners.

Even if all four lanterns were lit, there would still be many places where they would not shine, and it would be dark.

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Under my leadership, the young men placed the bodies in front of the east wall and looked around the dimly lit room with trepidation.

The ground is adobe. The roof was low, and the tallest of the tallest heads were about to hit the top.

Next to the small staircase there was a wooden shelf for stuffing, but nothing else.

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I walked around the room silently for a moment, thinking about which wall to tear down.

The young men looked at me with bated breath.

After a while, the wind dagger shouted, "Uncle Putian!" ”

At the time, I was walking towards the cellar. Hearing the voice, he turned his head and pointed the wind dagger at this side.

"Is that a door?"

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The door he was pointing to was at the very top of the innermost part of the western side of the cellar.

It was a black wooden door that could only be passed through by one person.

When he asked me this, I didn't know how to answer for a moment, but I quickly shook my head gently.

"That door doesn't work."

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"Do you want to open it and have a look?" The wind dagger was still confused.

So, I walked over to the door and pushed it.

"Look."

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When I opened it, I saw a dark gray wall on the opposite side of the door.

The wind dagger looked straight at him, and the other three young men stood behind him.

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I explained it to them.

"This was what it was like five years ago when I was hired as a caretaker of the old house. I also don't understand why there is a wall here. ”

I left the door, walked to the wall on the left, and pointed.

"Just bury it here." I looked at them, "There's an iron pickaxe there, which of you is going to break this wall first." ”

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The four of them looked at each other silently, and soon, Feng Ji jumped out, "I'm coming, I'm coming!" ”

He brought the pickaxe over, and his steps seemed heavy, and it was obvious that he didn't usually do heavy work.

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"This one!!"

I pointed to the wall again, then walked away from him.

"Okay!!" He muttered under his breath, picking up something that wasn't used to it.

But———

Something unexpected happened.

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After the wind picked up the iron pickaxe, he lost his balance, slipped under his feet, and slammed into the wall inside.

The blow to his shoulder was not light, and he threw away the iron pickaxe and fell to his knees without a sound.

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"It doesn't matter, right?"

I hurried over.

Feng Ji held his shoulders and nodded slightly.

"Legs and feet don't obey .........," he said, holding on to the wall (the one opposite the door) and preparing to stand up.

It was then that a loud "ah" came from the gloomy cellar.

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"What's wrong? Wind Dagger!! ”

"What's wrong?"

It turned out to be the wind dagger, and he stared straight at me and the wind ji.

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"What's that?"

He raised his right hand and pointed straight at the shoulder of Feng Ji, who was about to stand up.

I finally saw it.

——— on that wall, a hole the size of a palm appeared.

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"Wind a few times, get out of the way!!" The wind dagger walked to the wall. I'm leaning over too.

"It was just knocked out." I say.

But the wind dagger was still very sullen and crooked its neck.

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"But this .........," he leaned over, looking into the hole, "......... Ay? Uncle Putian, look!! ”

"What's wrong?"

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"There's a room in there."

"Really?"

The wind dagger didn't speak, but stuck his right arm into the small hole. Reach all the way to near your shoulders.

———There's a big open space inside this wall.

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"Could it be that this wall was built later?"

The wind dagger pulled his arm out: "It seems like this." Since you had it before you came, I can't figure it out as Master Li......... Are there lanterns? ”

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"Hey, hey, Wind Dagger!!" Feng Ji mixed in and said, "Don't care so much, bury it first." ”

"So, let's take a look at the situation inside." Feng Dagger unceremoniously replied to his cousin, "If it's really a room inside, then we don't have to dig the wall again, just put the corpse inside, then it's done." ”

The wind had nothing to say and could only keep his mouth shut.

Lonely and Ann were standing in the distance, looking at this side, I turned back to them and said, "There is a white lantern on that shelf, you can bring it." ”

"Okay, okay."

An Zheng stammered yes and hurriedly ran over.

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After a while, An Zheng took the white lantern and trotted back.

The wind dagger took the white lantern, lit it, and shone it into the small hole.

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"I can't see it very clearly, but it doesn't seem to be a room, it's a hallway——— let's break this wall."

After saying that, the wind dagger picked up the iron pickaxe that the wind table threw on the ground. He stood firm and took the iron pickaxe, so as not to suffer in vain like Feng Ji.

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The earthen wall was not very strong, and it didn't take much effort for the wind dagger to smash the small hole.

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It took another quarter of an hour to make a small hole for a person to pass through.

The wind dagger put down his pickaxe, picked up the white lantern again, took a deep breath, and looked back at the others.

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"Let's go inside!!"

After saying that, the wind dagger walked in first.

I made up my mind and followed.

The remaining three followed in fear.

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Wind Dagger guessed correctly, it was not a "room", but a "corridor".

The narrow corridor, less than three feet wide, stretched into the depths of darkness. There was an indescribable stench inside, I don't know if it was moldy or rancid.

There is a bit of moisture underfoot, probably groundwater seeping out.

Relying on the faint light of the white lantern in the hand of the wind dagger, we walked slowly forward.

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A foot ahead, the walkway made a big bend to the right.

The wind dagger was about to turn around when he suddenly screamed.

"Oh my God!!"

The voice echoed through the dark cavernous clearing.

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"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" The people behind shouted.

We gathered in a circle and slowly approached the wind dagger.

He stood blankly around the corner, his eyes staring straight ahead.

In the dim light of the white lantern, I saw something there.........

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Like the wind dagger, Feng Ji, Silence, and An Zheng also screamed.

"This, this ........."

Feng pulled his legs and wanted to run, but An Zhengze covered his mouth with two hands.

"What's that?"

Because of fear, even Silence's voice changed, and he repeatedly nagged a word.

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"It's terrible, this, it's terrible........."

What we saw at the time was the white bones of a man.

She wears a light blue dress and a hat on her head.

White Bone remained seated, leaning against the wall and his legs hanging on the ground. At his feet, there was the white bones of a small four-legged animal.

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