Chapter 401: Reasoning: Forty-Nine Nights Before the Truth

"What to do? Even if we get out of here, we won't survive, it's too cold outside, Manman. The companion was a little discouraged.

Rather than being forced back by the snowstorm, she chose to gamble her luck and motioned for her companion to stand in a warmer place, while she walked to the edge of the small door and reached out to grope around the door frame.

"What are you looking for? I'm here to help, too. "My companion didn't worry about her, after all, this is the second floor, and even if there is snow in the way, it will be enough to choke if she falls.

"I ...... Looking for a wall...... Is there a ...... on the side of the wall? Ladder ......" Weymanman replied with difficulty, her face and hands numb with pain, her mouth barely open.

"You save some effort, or we will wait here for rescue, you will be frozen, and even if we find the ladder, do we have to go outside?"

"Outdoors...... At least ...... outdoors to go around to the main house...... ...... at the gate"

"Oops! You, you're really in a hurry to kill me, come back quickly, you can't get around there. After his companion had finished speaking, he stepped forward to Raven Manman.

As the two men retreated, Wemanman grabbed the edge of the door frame with one hand, and suddenly, a rectangular wooden board fell from the wall without warning, and Wemanman screamed in fright and fell to the ground.

"Whew, it's okay, your position just now is really going to fall." The companion complained and tried to pull Wen Manman in, but Wen Manman, who came to his senses, did not want to listen to her, and still struggled to the small door.

"What are you doing? Don't you want to die? ”

"It's not...... Let me see ......" Wen Manman didn't bother to say much, reached out and groped around the side of the wall, and soon, she shouted loudly: "There is, there is, here it is, the wall is hollow, we can go in!" ”

"Really?!" The companion immediately ran over and reached out to touch it, and sure enough, there was a gap between the planks and the planks, "The plank that fell just now should be sealed here, let's go in quickly." ”

"But what if the boss is inside?" Weymanman was a little worried.

The companion said, "Well, I will go in first, and if there is a man in there I will cry out at a loud voice, and he will recognize my voice and will not attack us." ”

"But he ...... just now," Wen Manman reflexively stopped his companion and stopped talking.

"Okay, Manman, don't waste any more time, it's not a way for us to wait here, in case the criminal police go down, no one will know our whereabouts anymore, so hurry up."

At the urging of her companions, Wen Manman finally climbed into the mezzanine of the wall with her, and it was much better when she got inside, and she was blocked out in an instant, and her body was much warmer.

However, when the murderer returns, the body and Cissy have been found by Xiao Mei, which will cause the murderer to have no way to dispose of the body for the second time, and he can only hide in a corner of the brown tower and wait.

After Xiao Mei found the body, the first one went to find Qiao Keli and handed over the unconscious Sissy to him for protection, and the interaction between the two people would definitely not be completed inside the room, so the murderer still had no chance to do it. Then, Qiao Keli ran to the door of the room to witness the murder scene, and then ran out to inform Yan Muheng and Yun Yeyao.

This time is a gap, because Xiao Mei stayed in Qiao Keli's room to take care of Xixi, and Lu Haoyu was still dreaming, it was impossible for anyone to find out the murderer's actions, if this was his quick action, it was possible to take the body away.

However, Yan Muheng, who came in at the end, still saw the corpse in the room, why was that? It should still be a matter of time, Qiao Keli ran to the blue tower to inform Yan Muheng first, and then he went back to the next door of his room to wake up Lu Haoyu, at this moment, with Yan Muheng's starting speed, it was certain that he was already investigating in the murder room.

In order to prevent Lu Haoyu from panicking when he saw the corpse, Yan Muheng must have closed the door of the room.

Further inference, Qiao Keli and Lu Haoyu came to the living room on the first floor, and in front of everyone, Qiao Keli had no choice but to continue acting with Liu Qiaopu. A moment later, Yan Muheng came out of the brown tower. He wasn't actually led into the living room by Liu Qiaopu's roar, Yan Muheng originally came to inform the old man of the second murder.

At this time, Chokli's identity was revealed to Liu Qiaopu for the first time, and he successfully eliminated suspicion and became a person who could be trusted.

After successfully concealing the news from everyone, Yan Muheng returned to the room where Yun Yeyao and the housekeeper were guarding the blue tower, Xiao Mei and Xixi were still waiting in Qiao Keli's room, and Qiao Keli and Liu Qiao Pu rushed to the brown tower.

In this way, it took about seven or eight minutes from Yan Muheng seeing the body come out to Liu Qiaopu entering the murder scene, although this time was the longest gap in the investigator's action, but it was not enough to support the murderer to hide all the parts of the body and then escape.

The third problem is presented to Liu Qiao Pu and Qiao Keli at this moment, that is, Xixi and Xiao Mei, who should be in Qiao Keli's room, are gone, and the originally closed door here is wide open, and it seems that it has become the third blood house. The blood on the bed once again occupied the eyes and brain of the old detective, making him feel the fear of the murderer for the first time......

There are so many strange things in her eyes that the middle-aged woman can only tremble and shout outward: "Is there anyone?" Is anyone here? ”

There was no answer, she shouted again, still no answer, the thick metal plate seemed to be soundproof, and nothing could be heard in her ears except for the heavy ticking sound.

This time, the middle-aged woman finally began to be afraid, and she began to wonder why she had come to this narrow metal object, was it really because of sleepwalking? Maybe it's because of something else......

Suddenly, he remembered those live chickens, yes, those live chickens! Today, the little girl spends the whole day in the kitchen killing the live chickens. She didn't go to the kitchen to see the little girl because she was chatting with the neighbors, and the middle-aged woman regretted it now, why didn't she ask the little girl why she wanted to kill so many live chickens?

Now it seems that maybe she saw something she shouldn't have seen, maybe someone brought this thing in, because she couldn't remember what she was doing before she came in? Memories of a long time are gone, and before this memory, shouldn't it be daytime? What kind of sleep does she sleep during the day!

The change of thought made the fear more and more intense, the middle-aged woman's lips began to tremble, her hands unconsciously rubbed the corners of her clothes, and she felt the cold sweat on her forehead dripping down.

Just as she was at a loss, the sound of the pointer moving was mixed with a slight click, as if something was being writhed.

The middle-aged woman hurriedly leaned down to the source of the sound and listened to herself, it was indeed a place that was being opened. Then, the sound of heavy friction between metals was heard, accompanied by the sound of slight human breathing. A middle-aged woman can clearly distinguish whether the breathing sound is coming from a man or a woman.

In less than a minute, some lumpy strips and slimy wet things were thrown into the space where the middle-aged woman was, and then with a click, the man outside polished the lighter.

When the first light came in, the middle-aged woman felt a burst of excitement that she was finally saved! When he opened his mouth wide and was about to cry for help, his expression stayed in the void.

Because with the light came a dead man's face with a pupil that had turned into the skull, his face was bruised, and blood was still flowing! The man's arms hung down at his sides, and he looked much longer than his body.

"And when did the butler and the cook work in the treacherous house?" Yun Yeyao continued to ask.

"The housekeeper is said to have been here when the house was first built, and as for the cook, I don't know, but she has been working here much longer than I have anyway. By the way, Mr. Yun, I want to ask, why did you let me know that Mr. Butler is dead, shouldn't you hide this from everyone? ”

"That's because I think you really love horror, and that's only part of the reason, of course. And most importantly, of all the people in this family, you have been with us the longest, and you are the least likely to commit a crime. ”

"I see, I've always thought of Terror as my daughter. I was able to stay in the treacherous house because I was terrified and begged the hostess to leave me behind, from the first sight, I don't know why, the two of us liked each other very tacitly, maybe it was really my daughter who had a spirit in the sky, so that I found happiness again! ”

"Sister Wang, I don't know if you will be angry when you hear it, but I still want to say that in the past ten years, Terror may have done a very terrible thing, this matter is definitely not in her own intention, someone must be behind the scenes, I believe that this matter at least involves the hostess, the housekeeper and the restaurant proprietor. Otherwise, they would not have disappeared and died one after another. ”

Sister Wang looked down at the little girl in her arms and said, "Horror is a kind child, and I don't believe that she would do anything illegal at all, and even if she did, it was done without her own knowledge." Sister Wang's tone was very firm, and it could be seen how much she trusted the little girl in her heart!

However, Yun Yeyao still put forward an opinion contrary to her: "Sister Wang, it's not that I don't believe in horror, but in my judgment, if horror doesn't know about it, it will be impossible to complete it." ”

"What the hell are you talking about? Why do you make such a judgment when you have only been in the house for a day and a night? ”

"What I'm trying to say is that the house of treachery may have had no mistress ten years ago, or, worse guessing, that mistress ten years ago was also a fake. In other words, it is possible that the hostess and his father Anze died together in the fire. ”

"Okay, it's no problem for me to hand over these two places!" Liu Qiao Pu has completely returned to his previous working state, and his eyes show the unique sharp color of a criminal policeman.

Sister Wang's housekeeper added on the side: "I can also help, at least I can protect the horror well, please trust me." ”

"Let you come in to take care of the horror because of our trust in you, the butler's body needs to be kept here for a while, and you and the horror need to be transferred secretly, so wait a minute, Grandpa Liu and I will cover you, you carry the horror to the third room of the brown tower, Mr. Chokli and the last avalanche survivor are there, remember, you have to say hello to Mr. Yan Muheng when you go in, he will protect you on the periphery."

"Okay, okay, I see."

Things are getting more and more tricky now, starting that morning, first the restaurant lady and the chef disappeared, and then the hostess in the room disappeared, and among several people, the proprietress was indeed imprisoned, and the detectives did not know where she was imprisoned.

According to the previous plot, it is possible that Chen Shen did not come to work at all that day, but after the avalanche last night, the chef was in the restaurant, so it is impossible for his home to be at the foot of the mountain.

Then things are a little strange, there are only restaurants and grocery stores on the mountain, except for the treacherous house, which is a simple house, and the others are both business and residential houses. Assuming the chef did leave the hostess last night to go home, his home would have been one of the grocery stores or several other restaurants.

If the chef is the owner of a grocery store or other restaurant, why would he go to work at the proprietress of the house? It would be even stranger if the chef also worked in other restaurants, because this remote mountainside, combined with the effects of avalanches, would not have much business at night, even during the day. What do you do if you don't have a business?

Anyway, this chef is a little mystery to us now, and we won't know his information until we find the hostess.

As for the hostess, Yun Yeyao had already wondered before, whether she existed or didn't exist? If the little maid is in the place of the hostess, then who is the messenger of the queen? One thing can only be said for sure, and that is that this messenger must be some member of the family in the treacherous house. Now that the housekeeper is dead, can we target our suspicions on the cook and Sister Wang?

Then we have to take a look at the time at that time, which should be within the time frame of the housekeeper's accident, that is, when Cissy woke up, it is possible that the murderer was assassinating the housekeeper somewhere, and was ready to abandon the horror and the housekeeper in the snow. Of course, this is only a rough range, and the specific time point will be left to the detectives to analyze and reason later.

At this point in time, Qin Sen, even young men like Fan, Qiao Keli, and Lu Haoyu are possible.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that Lian Fan said that he went to the toilet at the time, and now in the story, he seems to have evaporated from the world, never came out of the kitchen again, and no one even saw him enter the toilet with his own eyes.

This Lian Fan is an extremely special character in our treacherous house murder incident, so I put the first bloody secret room in his room, as for what kind of special law, please read it slowly.

Lian Fan aside, let's move on to what we just judged. Regardless of which one of those people was, we could learn from his conversation with Sissy that there must have been a criminal case before the two of them came to this treacherous house, because the man mentioned the word "call the police" in his words.

In other words, this incident is absolutely inseparable from this mysterious man and the three people who almost died in the avalanche.

The man then told Cissy to find the young man who was with him during the avalanche, and asked Cissy to pretend to be reconciled with him, and to hold him steady until he descended the mountain, and secretly called the police to arrest him. So, Sissy listened to the man's words and prepared to go to the next room to find the companion she didn't trust. She didn't know which room her companion was. That's why I went to the middle-aged woman's room by mistake and found the body.

It's a bit too dramatic, we use A, B, and C instead of the three people at the time, and A asks B to go to C, but doesn't tell B which room to find the person in. Do ordinary people have this kind of negligence?

I don't think it's possible at all, it's a matter of conditioned reflexivity, anyone, as long as it's not an old man with a bad memory, or an absent-minded child. When you ask someone to find someone, you will definitely reflexively reflect in your mind the address you want to find that person. And tell the people who go to find it.

Yun Yeyao squinted his eyes in thought, and he walked around the ping-pong table, his gaze turning back to the edge of the ping-pong table. There are no grooves on this amusement piece, but the edges are uniformly protruding outwards in a semicircle. Yun Yeyao measured the width of the semicircle with his fingers, then walked over to the blue corduroy sofa and measured the width of the inward curved part of the groove again.

He found that the two parts could coincide, but at this time he found that the edge of the sofa was not embedded in the wall, and there was not even a single gap in the wall.

Yun Yeyao tried to remove the edges of the furniture, but that didn't work, and he couldn't help but stop again. His mind suddenly thought of Xie Yunmeng's previous style of acting, so he put aside his doubts about the edge of the furniture for the time being, and used his hands to tap the surface of the wall of the upholstery.

There was a dull sound on the surface of the wall, no different from a normal soft-packed wall, and Yun Yeyao continued to grope and bang on the walls around her, without finding any place to break through.

'What's going on?' Yun Yeyao's doubts were now filled with all his gray brain cells, and he didn't even notice that the snot was left.

At this time, there was a person who reached out from the side to help Yun Yeyao wipe off his nose, this person was very short, and he almost stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arm to reach under Yun Yeyao's nose.

The actor looked back and immediately said, "Granny cook, why did you get here?" ”

"I'd like to see how you're doing? When people are old, they are always very easy to worry, especially when they saw such a terrible thing just now, alas! I really hope that my old eyes are dizzy and wrong, and I am afraid that I am like this, how can I explain to Xiao Heng. ”

"Xiao Heng?" Yun Yeyao was a little confused when she heard this name.

"It's my son who always goes to the city to work, the terrifying boyfriend, he is also called Xiao Heng, and the last word of Yan Muheng's name is the same."

"Oh, don't worry, Granny Cook! We all believe that terror cannot be someone who hurts a housekeeper, and there must be some misunderstanding in this. We'll find out. ”

"That's good! What are you doing here alone? The cook asked casually, and the old lady's face looked very worried, and her lips were bloody.

Liu Qiao Pu helped him ask for almost everyone's door keys, of course, everyone only handed over their keys after believing in the promise of the old criminal policeman, after all, the room was everyone's personal belongings. Coupled with the fact that so many things have happened now, it is not easy for them to give trust to the old criminal police.

However, even so, Yan Muheng still found nothing, all the rooms in the brown tower were now all open in front of him, starting from the first one, looking down, there were a total of 11 rooms, except for three of the blood rooms, and one empty room, there were still period rooms.

Among the seven guest rooms, Yan Muheng rummaged through, but he didn't find any place to hide people, and there were no suspicious clues at all. Standing in the middle of the stairs of the brown tower, Yan Muheng really felt that he was about to lose control, Xiao Mei was a very important person to him, and after working together for so many years, Yan Muheng had only mustered up the courage to confess to Xiao Mei so far.

However, in this place, he is about to face the risk of losing Xiaomei, how can he not be in a hurry or panic? One hand is crossed over his waist, and the other is on his lips and chin. The tall man was about to tear off the scar on his face, and he had torn a small gap between the flesh and skin.

Unconsciously, Yan Muheng's gaze shifted to the last door of hope - the small door leading to the bell tower at the bottom of the tower.

'As long as I knock open this door, I may be able to find Xiao Mei directly...... ' Yan Muheng thought, and his footsteps involuntarily walked towards the bottom of the stairs.

At this time, he felt something furry rubbing against his naked feet, he thought it was a mouse, so he raised his foot and wanted to kick the obstructive thing away, but he didn't expect to catch a glimpse of a black thing in the corner of his sight, much larger than a mouse.

'What is this?' ’

Yan Muheng's mind hadn't fully reflected what the black thing was, and it pierced through the shadow of the wall in an instant, only showing two glowing eyes, the faint blue color was like the devil's sight.

Yan Muheng is not afraid of any ghosts and monsters! He strode over to grab the little one. Unexpectedly, this thing was extremely flexible, and it suddenly rushed to another place, still not letting Yan Muheng see its appearance clearly.

But we don't stop there. If the proprietress knew Shu Xue, then judging from her performance before her disappearance, she was also familiar with horror. This cannot be overlooked. So does the proprietress think there are two little maids in the villa? No, it's not possible either.

For the proprietress of the restaurant was an inquiring person, but she had dealt with all the people who often had to go out in the treacherous house, and if there really was only one little maid, she could not be mistaken.

The thing we are facing is a contradictory problem, no matter which way you explain it, Horror and Shu Xue, Xiao Xiao and Xiao Heng are all in an overlapping position. You may say that one of them must be the hostess, but if you think about it, is it really possible?

Many years ago, when the fire broke out in the treacherous house, the hostess was already a girl in her twenties, and she is now at least about the same age as Sister Wang, or even older. It could never be a young girl like Horror or Shu Xue. Therefore, the statement that one of these two people is a hostess is also untenable.

Speaking of which, there is still a question, why did Yun Yeyao insist that the horror must have lied? Of course, the evidence should also be in the proprietress restaurant, and in the unified video warehouse, the reader can go back and take a look at my description of Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng when they searched the food warehouse.

Of those doubts, one of them could really be related to terror. Sometimes seemingly unrelated things or people often have some of the simplest connections. I can't explain any more here.

Putting that aside, between Shu Xue and the proprietress and between the horror and the proprietress what else can we find, that is, the reason why the prisoner must kidnap the proprietress is to make Shu Xue disappear completely here!

Shu Xue's range of activities is only in the treacherous house and the proprietress there, and the people in the treacherous house are now in a unified voice, so the proprietress naturally has to disappear so that Shu Xue will no longer be discovered.

On the afternoon of the first day of living in the treacherous house, when the horror was at the hostess's place, you should be able to find out that I didn't describe the chef in the restaurant at all, but the horror said that the proprietress went out with Chen Shen in the restaurant, and on this point, we can be sure that the horror lied.

After a moment, he asked, "Where did you get this dress?" ”

This sentence is really stupid, the clothes are soaked in blood, where can I get it? At the bedside where the middle-aged woman died, of course. But in fact, Yan Muheng's question blurted out, and what he originally wanted to say was: "Didn't you find something else here?" ”

But the question has been exported, Yan Muheng can only stare and wait for Liu Hang's answer, his hand is like a pliers clasping Liu Hang's wrist, Liu Hang is already grinning in pain, but he still doesn't dare to refute, which shows how timid this man is in his bones.

"Shhh...... I found this dress behind a drawer, and it is possible that this is the deceased's own belongings. After Liu Hang told the source of the clothes, he didn't forget to attach a guess.

Yan Muheng didn't care about his speculation! In this regard, Liu Hang can't deceive Yan Muheng. He said, "Don't come to this set! This dress is so small, can that aunt wear it? I think it's a good match for the girl who was unconscious here before. ”

"No, it's not her, it's definitely not her, you're mistake!!" When Liu Hang heard this, he immediately began to argue desperately, desperately denying the possibility that the clothes were left by Xixi, as if he had known Xixi before.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ You don't know that girl, do you? Yan Muheng saw a clue and asked.

"Huh? I ......" This question made Liu Hang stammer, and just as the two of them couldn't argue clearly, Liu Qiaopu's voice suddenly came from outside the gate of the brown tower.

"Hey! Little Red Guy, you're not in there! ”

"I'm here! Grandpa, I'm here. Liu Hang hurriedly replied, and wanted to push Yan Muheng away and run out of the gate.

However, Yan Muheng did not move at all, and his face did not change because of the arrival of Liu Qiaopu outside, the hand he clamped Liu Hang with a slight force, Liu Hang immediately felt a sharp pain on his wrist, and his clothes fell out of his hand uncontrollably.

After Yan Muheng caught the clothes with his hand, he let go of Liu Hang and asked him to explain the matter to his grandfather by himself. The eyes crooked by the scar stared at Liu Hang's back, as if he was about to stare at a hole.

'I hope you don't smear your grandfather's face!' ’

Liu Hang didn't expect Yan Muheng to be such a good person, he looked back at the still ugly face in some surprise.

Liu Qiaopu sighed and said: "This kid has always been a half-character, and he speaks in a slurred manner, sometimes I really don't understand what he's thinking!" Alas! If you can trust him, then tell him yourself, I have to go and see those people below, in order to chase this kid, I let Xiao Yun watch in the main house! ”

After speaking, Liuqiao Putou left without looking back, but before he left, he still handed over the name tag that Liu Hang found to Yan Muheng.

When the old man left, Yan Muheng pulled Liu Hang back into the brown tower and said, "What should I tell you, I will tell you everything later, now, let me ask you, did you notice the disappearance of Xixi and Xiaomei, so you sneaked here?" And, where did you sneak in from? ”

"Tell me, where did you sneak in?" Yan Muheng repeated his words.

"I wanted to sneak up the stairs, but my grandfather watched too closely. So I ......"

"Keep it simple! I'm telling you that both Xixi and Xiaomei are in danger right now, so you'd better say it in two sentences, hurry up! Yan Muheng urged.

Hearing that Xixi was in danger, Liu Hang was also anxious, and he said to Yan Muheng: "That's it, you come with me, and I'll show you!" ”

After saying that, Liu Hang rushed directly to the bottom of the brown tower, although Yan Muheng couldn't figure out what he wanted to do? But there was no time to ask more questions now, so he followed closely behind Liu Hang, ready to find out.

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I think you should remember what you described before, at the beginning of the story, Liu Hang was in love with a waitress in the resort, so he tricked Liuqiao Pu into traveling here, in fact, to let grandpa see the girl he fell in love with, hoping that grandpa could approve. This can prove that Liu Hang attaches great importance to Liu Qiaopu's opinion.

On the surface, these two questions seem to be a bit abrupt here, and many places have not been explained clearly, but since they have been raised, there must be clues hidden in them before. I won't explain the specific explanation now, but I can give some hints in general:

First, what Lu Bu saw and heard (one of Sister Wang, Horror, Shu Xue, and the Cook); second, a description of the wardrobe in the room; Thirdly, the order in which several men live in the brown tower. Fourth, what blood can hide; fifth, the black cat; Sixth, the man who has not yet appeared; seventh, the connection of the various rooms of the main house with the brown tower; And the eighth, what Sissy said to a strange man.

Okay, let's get down to business, now Liu Hang is taking Yan Muheng and the two of them directly to the bottom of the brown tower, and the last room is Lu Haoyu, at this moment, his room is empty and there is nothing.

Liu Hang walked to the door of Lu Haoyu's room and said to Yan Muheng, "Have you noticed any difference between this door and other doors?" ”

"Isn't it just an ordinary door?" Yan Muheng couldn't see what Liu Hang was trying to express at all, and asked with a puzzled expression.

Liu Hang didn't waste time, and said directly: "I just found out when I came out of here, this is actually the door of Mr. Lu Haoyu's room, and the door of the bell tower." Believe it or not! ”

Liu Hang closed the door, and Yan Muheng could see that the bottom edge of the door was connected to the corner at the bottom of the tower. In the brown tower, the door is not on the left side of the room, but on the top of the room. Rather, it is on the right side of the room (lower).

But what does this mean? Yan Muheng still couldn't understand it, but after a minute, Yan Muheng's eyes widened, saying that he had never seen such a strange thing in his life until now.

Because after Liu Hang opened the door in reverse, the inside became an arched hollow, and on the outside of the hollow was a hanging ladder connected to the bell tower, and the spiral staircase extended downward and forward in both directions.

"It's... How is this possible?! Yan Muheng was so surprised that his mouth couldn't close.

Liu Hang continued: "I can't explain the specific reason, you need to investigate it yourself afterwards, I can only tell you that I came up from here, and under this downward hanging staircase, is the door of the study." ”

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"Liu Hang, why are you here?" Yun Yeyao asked loudly as he ran, he didn't see anyone in the recreation room at all except Yanagihashi Pu entering the blue tower.

"It's Mr. Yan who asked me to wait for you here, I have something to tell you." Liu Hang replied, and pulled the door where Yan Muheng went out and closed it a little bit.

It was such a small movement, Yun Yeyao immediately noticed it, and said, "Isn't this the door of Mr. Lu Haoyu's room?" You're pulling it the wrong way! ”

"It's the door to Mr. Lu's room and the door to the bell tower, but we haven't figured out why you can open it in a completely different space from the front and back directions, which is one of the reasons why Mr. Yan asked you to come and see."

Then, Liu Hang repeated what he had said to Yan Muheng to Yun Yeyao, and finally he said: "I was sitting in front of the door of the study with my back against the door. While everyone's attention was focused on you and the butler, I opened the door of the study and looked inside. ”

"Actually, this is just an unintentional move, because my heart is always worried about Sissy, so I can't concentrate on what you have to say. When I opened the door of the study, I realized that I had opened it in reverse, that is, from the end of the room near the master's room, and what shocked me even more was that it was actually a snowy scene in what should have been a dark study. There is clearly a rope ladder hanging from the doorway. ”

"So you climbed the rope ladder to the top of the brown tower, and found that the last door here could be reversed, right?" Yun Yeyao asked.

"Yes, after entering here, I didn't have time to figure out what was going on, so I immediately ran to Xixi's room, I didn't know that there was a horrific murder at that time, but I just wanted to see Xixi, and when I passed by the murder room, I suddenly saw one of Sissy's clothes thrown in a pool of blood."

"I once saw Xixi wear this dress when she was in the hotel, so I immediately ran into the room and wanted to take it, but I didn't expect to be caught by Mr. Yan who came back."

"Let me ask you, what was Xiao Heng doing when you entered the brown tower?" Yun Yeyao's expression began to sharpen, and he seemed to have begun to have ideas.

After everyone entered the restaurant, Liu Qiao Pu turned around and went to pull the door of the study as Yun Yeyao said, the fixed door axis of the study door was no different from the ordinary door, and the upper, middle and lower three were neatly arranged.

Liu Qiao Pu first pulled on the fixed door shaft with his hand, but did not move at all, indicating that it was indeed tightly connected to the wall and door panel.

"Huh? How can this be opened? Xiao Yunmo isn't confused, right? The old man secretly speculated in his heart, and pushed the door panel inward, but there was still no reaction. Just as he was looking for a suitable position to pull the door outward, he heard the voice of Weinmanman behind him.

"Grandpa Liu, what are you doing? If you don't eat again, the food will be cold! ”

Liu Qiaopu was taken aback, turned around and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Wen Manman suddenly changed his words, and said a little shyly: "That... Can you involve me in an investigation of the case? I'm actually pretty smart. ”

For her boasting, Liu Qiaopu could only express helplessness: "Manman, solving the case is the job of the criminal police, you just need to wait here with peace of mind." ”

"Grandpa Liu, don't be in a hurry to refuse me, if I can help you solve the problem in front of you, let me act with that policewoman, okay?" Wen Manman was not deterred by Liu Qiaopu's stern expression, but went further.

This time, Liu Qiaopu couldn't figure it out, he said, "Do you know what I'm doing? ”

"Yes! Aren't you just going to open this door from the other side? I saw Xiao Hang do the same just now, and he managed to get out of here, don't worry, I won't tell anyone, Grandpa Liu. Wen Manman said mysteriously in a low voice.

Hearing her words, Liu Qiao Pu believed that Yun Yeyao might not be wrong, and his grandson had indeed discovered some secret. He asked, "You really saw it, so why don't you try it?" ”

Yanagihashi Pu stepped out of the way a little and let Wen Manman walk to the door.

Wen Manman did not touch the door hinges fixed on the wall like him, but groped a little bit directly in front of the door hinges, and she said as she moved: "I just saw Xiao Hang's hand accidentally touch something, and then something seems to pop open here, and then ...... Ay! That's it! ”

"Bring food to the people in the tower! I've found all the lunch boxes, it's amazing! "It's as if we're showing off.

Liu Qiao Pu was also defeated by this little girl, so she had to wave her hand to let her go, however, Wen Manman is really smart, she clearly mentioned the word policewoman in the conversation with Liu Qiao Pu, indicating that she guessed the identities of several people inside very early, and has been tight-lipped. Now, in addition to Liu Hang, the investigator's helper has more Wen Manman, and the relationship between the personnel is becoming more and more complicated.

And we still have a lot of problems to solve before, so let's hurry back to Yun Yeyao's side to see what kind of mystery he can solve!

At this moment, Yun Yeyao had only one thought in his heart, what did Yan Muheng find out about it, and asked him to hurry back there for the third time after investigating the murder scene twice. One thing can be determined, it must be related to Xiao Mei, Yan Muheng's feelings for Xiao Mei Yun Yeyao knew very well in his heart, and after determining Yan Muheng's identity, he knew it.

The reason why Yun Yeyao called Yanagihashi Pu just now was just to make sure that no one in the living room would enter the study door, or climb the suspension ladder up the brown tower where they were now. According to Yan Muheng's actions, Yun Yeyao had an intuition that maybe the disappearance of Xiaomei and Xixi was an exception among all the missing people.

In the morning, there was one thing that the housekeeper and the family lied about, and Yun Yeyao was very sure that the butler must have known about the fact that the housekeeper had gone to the restaurant hostess, and he thought that the housekeeper had not only gone to the hostess to get food, but also had other purposes.

Yun Yeyao was waiting for Liu Qiao Pu just now, and went to the kitchen to take a look. The ostensible reason was to see if dinner was ready, as it was close to eight o'clock in the evening of the day they arrived at the Treacherous House (not counting the night of the previous avalanche).

Inadvertently, Yun Yeyao saw the food reserve in the kitchen, although it was not enough for them to eat for three or four days or more, but two or three days were still enough.

Then there is no need for the horror to go to the proprietress restaurant's restaurant to get so much food, could it be that the hostess does not understand the food reserves at home, so she will let the horror go? Yun Yeyao believes that such a possibility does not exist. According to the description of the people in this family, basically the housekeeper is worried about big and small things, and the housekeeper doesn't think of replenishing food, how could the hostess think of it?

How could the maid clean Liu Hang's room before he got up? There is no need for Liu Hang to make up for the loss of his watch, so the housekeeper must be trying to cover up something.

Liu Hang is connected to Lian Fan's room, Lian Fan has already gone to the restaurant before this, could the housekeeper say this to cover the mysterious person who disappeared in Lian Fan's room? If this is the case, it can illustrate two problems: first, there is a bedside table in the room, and it is hidden, and it is possible to find a secret passage into the next room by finding the bedside table.

The second housekeeper knew that there would be a Blood House incident, and at least he knew that someone would enter Lianfan's room to do something secretly.

At this point in his thinking, the three words of the bedside table suddenly jumped to the front of Yun Yeyao's gray brain cells, and his gaze suddenly fixed on the bedside table that Liu Hang had just moved, which was a very small square piece of wooden furniture, with two small drawers, which had been completely pulled out, and the wooden frame behind it could also be seen clearly.

He immediately walked over, squatted down and observed, the outline of the bloodstains stained on the wooden frame could show that the lady's coat had been stuffed in it by someone, and it should have been dragged out after Liu Hang found it. Other than that, there was nothing in the bedside table.

Yun Yeyao looked at the inside of the clean drawer, reached in and touched it, there was not even a little dust, when ordinary people clean the house, it is impossible to wipe the inside of the drawer so spotlessly. What's more, it's a room that hasn't been used much before.

Then, the actor's fingers touched the wooden frame on the inside of the drawer, which was also spotless, and then moved backwards, and the actor tried to turn the bedside table over, but after several attempts failed, he gave up and moved his whole body to the position opposite the large bed.

He first tried to see if the bedside table could coincide with the big bed, and after confirming that it was completely impossible, Yun Yeyao's hand reached behind the bedside table and fumbled for a while, and there was no dust like just now. Then he got up and went to the bottom of the large bed, ready to inspect the drawer that the butler had spoken of.

At this time, Yun Yeyao noticed a very strange place, which made him ignore the part he had just wanted to check.

There is no time for analysis, Yan Muheng believes that Yun Yeyao will make a detailed reasoning after a while, and now, he must find someone first, Xiaomei and Xixi must not be killed by the murderer.

The tall body burrowed into the inside of the bell tower, and Yan Muheng's first impression was that it was like a pavilion, with no walls and only pillars around it. Approaching the inner edge of the bell tower, you can see why the snow and ice have piled up on the slope, and then look at the bottom of the slope, and you can clearly see the depression of the cliff where the abandoned old house is located.

'What happens if a body is thrown down from here?' Perhaps the butler did not die on the bridge, and the horror could not have had the force to push the butler down, or even break through the hard guardrail of the bridge. Yan Muheng observed and analyzed.

Confirming that there was no figure of Xiao Mei and Xixi below, Yan Muheng withdrew his gaze to the inside of the bell tower, in fact, there were no special furnishings inside, only a bench and the back mechanical room of the big clock.

This mechanical room can be opened from the back and then adjusted and repaired, as long as there is a special key, and the winding point is also on the back. However, this level is not difficult for Yan Muheng, without a key, he can find a way to open the iron door behind the clock, but it takes time.

Yan Muheng returned to the entrance of the bell tower and said loudly to Liu Hang: "Hey! Are you still there? ”

"Yes, yes, I'm always going to be here." Liu Hang replied immediately, he opened the door a little wider, and asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

"Not yet, I need to enter the mechanical room of the big bell to take a look, you guard the door, the most important thing is to keep an eye on Xiao Yao's actions at any time, if there is any danger, shout at me immediately!"

"I know, Mr. Yan, you should be careful!" Liu Hang responded.

Yan Muheng retracted back into the bell tower, and immediately began to look for suitable tools, preparing to pry open the mechanical room behind the bell, he didn't care whether the bell would be reimbursed or not, he just wanted to save people as soon as possible.

We turned our gaze back to the inside of the brown tower, where Weinman was walking towards Liu Hang with a tray full of food, the girl's pace was already light, and she was wearing cotton slippers, and she was deliberately cautious when she walked. Liu Hang didn't notice Wen Manman coming down at all.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Why do you want to drive me away at once? Maybe I can help you? There was stubbornness in Wen Manman's words.

"Help me with what? Can I help pull the person out of a pile of blood clots? Do you dare?! ”

Yan Muheng's three questions in succession did make Wen Manman have an urge to retreat, but she tried to restrain herself, and still stood in place and said: "You have a scarred face, of course the people inside will be more afraid, my cute little girl is different, maybe the restaurant proprietress will treat me as a stand-in for the little maid!" She was already trusting in Horror. ”

Yan Muheng wanted to refute, but when he heard the last few words of the little girl, he frowned and pondered. Maybe this method really works, but not necessarily.

However, it depends on whether the little girl in front of her has the guts, so Yan Muheng asked, "Do you dare?" ”

"Since I said it, I dare to do it!" Wen Manman replied unequivocally, and the expression on his flat face was particularly serious.

Yan Muheng said: "Since that's the case, don't go out quickly!" ”

"Out of what?" Wen Manman didn't react for a moment.

"Go out and find Sister Wang to change her clothes! Aren't you going to play the little maid to gain the trust of the boss lady? You have to pretend to be a little bit like that, don't you? ”

Yan Muheng's words made Wen Manman wake up like a dream, she hated her dull brain like this, so she immediately turned around and ran back in the direction of the brown tower.

After leaving the suspended ladder, Wen Manman hurried towards the top of the brown tower, ignoring even Liu Hang's voice calling her.

At this moment, in the third room on the top floor, Qiao Keli and Sister Wang were hurrying to eat, and the horror had not yet woken up. Sister Wang made a bunk for the little maid, put the extra bedding on the bed, and then let the terror lie on it, and covered it with a blanket.

After returning to the rope bridge, Wen Manman couldn't wait for Yan Muheng to see the effect of her dress, "Mr. Hero, look, am I still like it?" The words blurted out by the girl reminded Yan Muheng of a doubt he had since the morning.

Yan Muheng walked to the junction of the bell tower and the hanging ladder, and motioned for the little girl to make a soft sound, because the proprietress in the big bell was still in a state of panic and alert, and she couldn't get close at all. Outside, where Yan Muheng was standing just now, there was scattered flesh and blood thrown by the proprietress at this moment.

"I ask you, why do you keep calling me Mr. Hero, huh?" Yan Muheng asked in a low voice.

"It's a secret, and Xiao Yao's secret." Wen Manman obviously didn't want to answer this question, and Xiao Yao was mentioned in her words, which made Yan Muheng even more puzzled in an instant.

But now is not the time to ask more, Yan Muheng said to the little girl: "You go in and see if it works." Remember, don't get too close to the hostess, and if you notice something wrong, run back to me right away. There are no fences around the bell tower, so you have to be extra careful, do you know? ”

"I see, don't worry!" Wen Manman agreed, and walked to the inside of the bell tower, and as soon as she took a step or two, she turned around and asked, "Mr. Yan, are you and Xiaomei really husband and wife?" ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Xiao Mei is my girlfriend and will get married in the future. Yan Muheng didn't know what evil he had fallen into, but he actually answered this question.

As soon as his words came out, Wen Manman's face in front of him immediately dimmed, the girl didn't say anything more, and cheered up to complete her task, leaving only Yan Muheng with a question mark face standing in place.

Wen Manman cautiously approached the restaurant proprietor, the corpse and blood in the bell were now clear to the girl's eyes, and she had to choose to ignore some horror things as much as she could.

Yan Muheng had been watching Wen Manman's every move at the entrance of the bell tower, ready to rush up to help at any time, he was not sure if the proprietress would do anything to Wen Manman, and he also pinched a cold sweat in his heart.

The proprietress who had been locked up in the bell by the murderer for a long time was all focused on Yan Muheng at first, but after he left, she relaxed a little, where she was crazy about herself. It wasn't until Venmanman approached the door of the clock machine room that she realized someone was coming.

Weinman came to the Brown Tower as a helper, and now we put aside all doubts for a while, or see Weinman as a helper to develop the plot, perhaps, in a casual moment, we can solve all doubts.

After about ten minutes, Yan Muheng, who was waiting nervously in the brown tower, finally saw Wen Manman walking towards him with the proprietress of the restaurant in his arms, and the little girl was still whispering to the proprietress . Indeed, the role of horror played a role, and Yan Muheng vaguely saw that the proprietress seemed to smile.

But he felt that the smile was a little weird, as if the proprietress was looking at an old friend who had been reunited for a long time. Yan Muheng shook his head, he had never had the same keen intuition as his secret confidant and friend, so he wouldn't think about it. Just wait for the proprietress to approach, and then pull her in and keep her in a safe area.

Let them settle the restaurant proprietress well, and now we can only wait for her mental condition to recover before we can know what happened during the disappearance.

The inside of the bell tower can be said to be empty now, Yan Muheng and Wen Manman have successfully brought the proprietress into the brown tower and protected it in a safe place.

Less than two minutes after they left, a hairy head suddenly poked out from the side of the bell tower, and his hair and collar were obviously covered with snowflakes. It seemed that this man had climbed up from the outside, but the bell tower was covered with snow on all three sides, except for the side that was closed by the bell.

In other words, even if someone were lucky enough to climb up, they would have slid down a very thick and very steep snowy slope, and it would have been impossible to climb to the top of such a high bell tower. (Why is there a snow-covered slope on the side of a tall building?) You can guess for yourself. οΌ‰

Therefore, it is simply strange that this person suddenly pokes his head out! At this moment, his position was facing the back of the bell, and at a glance he could see the empty interior of the mechanical room.

After taking a closer look, the heads of the people outside slowly shrank down, just now, the conversation between Wen Manman and the proprietress was not heard by Yan Muheng, but this person could hear it clearly, his face obviously revealed a look of horror and anxiety, and the sound of his body sliding rapidly in the void could be heard, and he soon disappeared outside the range of the bell tower.

The toilet in this room is in the innermost corner of the recreation room, and Liu Qiao Pu strode in to take a look, and immediately found the reason, he said to the outside: "A piece of the window pane in the toilet is broken, probably because the wind is too strong!" Which of you is going to ask the cook, if there is anything like plastic paper, seal this place first. ”

As soon as Liu Qiaopu finished speaking, an unexpected person suddenly appeared behind him, causing the old man to stand inside the toilet door with his mouth wide open like a wooden man.

"Xiao Yun? How did you get out of here? ”

It turned out that it was Yun Yeyao who suddenly walked out from behind him. Yun Yeyao closed the door of the toilet with his hand, and said in a low voice: "Grandpa Liu, the secret is still on the top of the door, the toilet door here is the same as the door in the living room outside, it can lead to two directions." And I've already found out where exactly are the second and third floors of this main house? There are at least 11 entrances to those two places, and maybe more! ”

"What ?!!" Yun Yeyao's words made Liu Qiao Pu almost lose control of his voice, he quickly covered his mouth, Yun Yeyao was like talking about the Arabian Nights, the old man couldn't believe it at all.

"The door between the living room and the study outside, although it can be opened at both ends, but I can't figure out why it is facing two directions, and you are actually telling me that the door of this toilet is the same, what the hell are the people in this house doing?!!

"Grandpa Liu, I haven't figured it out yet, but one thing is for sure, the arrangement of each room in this house must not be as it seems on our surface, and it is possible that the brown tower and the main house are also inlaid together. And I've just found some strange decorations in the recreation room, but I haven't had time to study them yet. ”

"Grandpa Liu, you pretend to go out as if nothing happened, I'm going back to the second and third floors to investigate carefully, when I came down just now, I found that there seemed to be a noise in the dark, and there should be someone hiding inside."

"Hey, don't mess around! This kind of thing will definitely not work alone, what if the murderer is hidden inside? He's in the dark, you're in the light, and you don't have self-defense skills, so it's hard not to suffer! Xiao Yun, you are like this, you hurry back to the brown tower to inform Yan Muheng and let him go, this guy I know that few criminals can deal with him. ”

"No! I'll be worried about ......."

The murderer can kill the proprietress without much effort, but he didn't do it, which can already explain a little bit of the problem. There are also the blood-drained broiler carcasses found by Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng in the warehouse outside, these seemingly useless, but can fully attract attention, in fact, sometimes they can play a much greater role than we imagined.

Looking back at the murder scene, let's look at the second question: What clues did Yan Muheng find through the black cat?

It is also a question about the point of concentration, the overlay of the shadows, which makes the black cat's body disappear, thus highlighting its blue pupils, which are enough to focus all the attention on the blue.

It is also a seemingly useless act, but it can instantly remind people of the daily necessities that can be found in all the rooms of the treacherous houseβ€”the blue quilt cover.

Sister Wang said that the bedding in all the rooms in the tower is black lining and blue coat. Before this matter is mentioned, it should be unknown to all the people who come to the treacherous house. But Yan Muheng was an exception, in order to find the missing person, he visited almost every room in the tower.