Chapter 299: The Secret of the Bell Tower II

Everything in the bell tower fell silent, except for two corpses and a mess inside the mechanical room. ~Sui~Dream~Small~Say~щww~suimеng~lāThere are still many footprints and fingerprints in the mechanical room of the big bell, except for the ones that Eternal himself had to leave behind, the rest should be Wen Yuya, and there may be one or two fingerprints of the murderer, which were left when he abandoned the body, but it is not certain.

The cold wind still howled in the open space, and the cantilever connecting the bell tower and the tower was constantly swayed by the cold wind, as if it would break and fall into the snow at any moment.

Underneath the cantilevers, the perimeter of the hostess's room was obscured by a protruding rooftop where Xie Yunmeng had once entered the walls. Looking around to the front of the bell tower, the hands on the dial of the big clock had already stopped moving, frozen by ice, and the reason for stopping walking was very simple, the mechanical room was vandalized, and the destruction was Wen Yuya and those large and small corpses.

The hour and minute hands of the bell stopped at 9:30 a.m., and no one had heard it ring for the past few days, indicating that the bell stopped working on the first day that everyone entered the treacherous house, and that Wen Yuya had been locked up in the mechanical room before 9:30 a.m. on February 30, when Yun Yeyao had not yet gone to look for her, which was another evidence of a horrible lie.

The iron rings around the dial of the large clock are rusty, and all the parts on it seem to be frozen, reflecting a layer of light peculiar to winter. With the exception of the dial, the top of the tower is open on all three sides, and the cold wind howls around the tower, and snowflakes drift into the tower, even in the mechanical room and the sink, but it does not pile up, thanks to the tower's protruding eaves.

The thick tiles on the eaves are connected to the brown tower, blocking the snowflakes from covering a large area of the standing place, and the place where the two eaves are connected is just above the cantilever ladder, so there is basically no snow on the cantilever ladder, and the rope will not freeze very much if it is not damp, and people can move between the bell tower and the tower normally.

In the door of Lu Haoyu's room that is opened in reverse, you can clearly see the appearance of the two corpses, looking from the outside to the inside, due to the temperature difference at the door, some ice layers have slightly melted, but the body surface temperature does not feel much changed, and the cold outside still prevails.

It was almost the early hours of the third day, and no one could care about it for the time being, except Eternal, and before I knew it, the whole tower seemed to shake, and one of the arms of the headless corpse moved outside the door frame, and the hanging ladder swayed slightly because of the instability on one side. It seems that the effect of the sand has spread to the tower, and the 'Solitaire' villa is about to start its final mode, and Yun Yeyao must solve the remaining puzzles as soon as possible.

We handed over the secret of the bell tower to Eternal, the black cat had awakened him, and the 'Eternal Heart' at this moment looked like a night away, the bangs that covered the eyebrows, the eyes that were as bright and charming, the black pupils were confused, the carefully carved face had no fat on it, the facial lines were soft, the diamond-shaped lips were sexy, and the skin looked as delicate as the gentle sun in winter, which made people want to touch and get closer.

The black cat lay on Eternal's chest, quietly watching him open his eyes, the blue pupils were facing the jet-black jewel-like eyes, and Eternal couldn't help but blurt out: "Blue pearls? ”

"Meow~"

A light call made Eternal come back to his senses instantly, it was not a blue pearl lying on his body, but a black cat, he propped up his upper body, and wanted to stroke the black cat's head with his hand, but he didn't expect the little guy to jump away, and he didn't want to be touched, as if the intimacy and anxiety just now were fake.

Getting up from the ground, Eternal wanted to lean down again to get close to the black cat, but it ran into the dark shadows just like it did when it treated Xie Yunmeng, leaving only a pair of blue pupils to look at the person, it seems that this reaction must have been trained for a long time. Treat everyone, and maybe the black cat does the same, it is trained to be a helping hand when others need help, and when someone really wants to approach, it must be avoided.

Is the attitude between trust and distrust the same as that of its owner? Eternal saw that the black cat was a well-trained pet and must have an owner, so he stopped interacting with it and just said, "Thank you." He walked towards the door of the room, but after ten seconds, he stopped helplessly, because the black cat was pulling at his clothes under the bed behind his back.

"Hey, don't move, I'll wear these clothes later, it's not good if they're torn." Eternal stopped the black cat, but it was completely useless, so he reached out to hug the black cat's body, and the little guy noticed that a hand reached behind him, and immediately put down the clothes in his mouth, and ran to the corner of the wall, staring at the man.

When the man took a few steps back, he did the same to bite the clothes under the bed, and after repeating it several times, even Eternal's patience was exhausted, and he took advantage of his unpreparedness to step on the tail of the black cat, and this time, the little guy had nothing but screaming, and could only spin in place in an attempt to break free from the restraints behind him.

"Say, don't mess with my clothes, I'm going to go back for an autopsy now, and you can go somewhere else."

Eternal reached out again to pick up the black cat like a disobedient child, and suddenly heard a girl's voice behind him: "Xiao Yao, this is my pet, it will not leave the tower without my orders." ”

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On the third floor, everyone returned to the entrance and exit connected to the small bathroom and stairwell, Xie Yunmeng was worried at this time, Xiao Yao was seriously injured, it was impossible to climb into the narrow secret passage, and he couldn't carry Xiao Yao in, what should I do?

Mr. Detective asked the others to go first, and he stayed to discuss countermeasures with the teacher. Liu Qiao Pu is also very worried about Yun Yeyao's condition, he touches the actor's forehead from time to time to make sure that he has a fever due to infection, the medical equipment in this house is extremely limited, there are not many anti-inflammatory drugs and white medicine, and there are several injured people to take care of, his grandson Liu Hang is also one of them, and he is a seriously injured person like Yun Yeyao.

Liu Hang can still act independently, which is a great luck in misfortune, he did not follow the others into the secret passage exit, but stayed by his grandfather's side to standby, and the horror is also by his side at this moment, maintaining a resigned appearance. She had been thinking about the little girl Shu Xue in the past, and she didn't want to leave the third floor in her heart.

And Horror knows why the sand on the third floor leaks out, and she also knows that Yun Yeyao's reasoning is only half correct, and half of it is hidden in Horror's heart, so she has been hesitating to help Mr. Actor one last time, which can be regarded as a good thing to make up for the damage she caused to Shu Xue.

Suppressing Shu Xue's influence on her, she stood there quietly and listened to the conversation of the criminal police.

Liu Qiaopu said: "Xiaohang, is there any other way to leave from the third floor?" ”

"Grandpa, yes, but it used to be a lot of wasted time, and I'm not sure how to open it. Now we are in the center of danger, Xiao Yao said, the sand will flow to the center of the floor of the hexagonal room, condense, plus the gravity of the water, crush the first floor near the center of the hostess's room and living room, once the first floor is crushed, the second floor and the third floor must collapse together, these wooden walls, are not made of a single piece of wood, the gaps are also very loose, if the bottom collapses, it will be difficult to maintain a complete form. ”

Liu Qiaopu nodded, agreeing with Sun Tzu's analysis, he urged: "Xiaohang, don't talk nonsense, we know these truths, you hurry up and talk about the situation of the other entrance." “

Liu Hang said: "Actually, grandpa, you also know that you can enter and exit there, because isn't it from where Manman left the stairwell?" ”

"You mean the room where Lian Fan died?" Yanagihashi asked.

"Yes, the wall separating that room from the stairwell can be opened, but only from the inside, and nothing can be done from the outside. The mechanism is between the single bed and the wall, and I really don't know how to open it, because when I entered, it was opened from the inside, and I didn't have time to study the mechanism myself. ”

"Anyway, we have to give it a try, Xiao Yao definitely won't be able to get out of here." Xie Yunmeng said that he looked at Yun Yeyao distressedly, holding Mr. Actor's body with one hand, and reaching into the clothes behind him with the other hand, determining the condition of the wound.

Yun Yeyao blushed and hugged the neck of the criminal policeman, buried his face in his chest, felt the warm breath, and was a little drowsy, after all, in the past few days, he has had a cold and an injury, and he has not slept for two consecutive nights, and a strong person like Xie Yunmeng can't bear it, let alone Mr. Actor, who usually doesn't do much physical work.

Chapter 300 deals with the structure of the restaurant and the reasoning of the mysterious deceased

We have mentioned the structural system of the 'Solitaire' villa many times before, and the structure of the restaurant is also roughly explained, from which we can analyze the similarities and infer the original intention of Wen Yuya when she was away from the restaurant.

Before that, there is one more thing that must be raised, that is, there are some problems with Shu Xue, who has always appeared as a hidden character like Eternal in the course of the case, her life and death are not clear, and her relationship with Wen Manman and Wen Yuya is also on the verge of ambiguity.

Shu Xue must be an important existence for Wen Yuya, as can be seen from the part where Wen Manman pretended to be a maid and took Wen Yuya out of the bell mechanical room, at that time, Wen Yuya quieted down as soon as she saw Wen Manman, and blurted out Shu Xue, this reaction can show that, first, Wen Yuya knows Shu Xue and is impressed, and she can still be quiet because of Shu Xue's appearance when she loses her mind. Second, there are indeed similarities in the appearance of Wen Manman and Shu Xue, and the claim that they are related by blood is not groundless, which corroborates Wen Manman's statement.

In Wen Yu Ya'an, Wen Manman's words were also very strange, not only did she not want Mr. Criminal Police to hear their conversation, but she also deceived Wen Yu Yaruo Mr. Butler outside, telling her not to make a big noise, take her for a walk and so on.

What do these words emphasize? First of all, Mr. Butler is clear about Shu Xue's affairs, and preventing Shu Xue and Wen Yuya from meeting, it is possible that Mr. Butler also has a share, so Wen Yuya is very afraid that he will know that Shu Xue appears in front of him. Secondly, Wen Yuya may have a handle in the hands of some people in the treacherous house, such as horror, housekeeper, and so on. This handle can touch the law, causing Wen Yuya to dare not mention Shu Xue and things related to the past.

The matter of Wen Yuya's two daughters, in addition to Wen Manman, Horror and the cook have all mentioned it, and they should have seen Wen Yuya's daughter with their own eyes. It seems that Horror should know more than the Cook Lady at present, especially about Shu Xue's true identity.

After the horror was revealed by Yun Yeyao, from her memories, we know that she thought that Wen Yuya abandoned her young daughter Shu Xue back then, and she never asked about Shu Xue's condition until now after leaving the treacherous house, but in fact, before she went to the restaurant to be a little maid, Shu Xue had been helping out in Wen Yuya's restaurant as a little maid, and the time of entry and exit every morning and evening was almost the same as that of Horror, if this is the case, then it can be said that Wen Yuya and Shu Xue have not forgotten each other, And Shu Xue was still alive a few years after the fire in the treacherous house.

But many circumstances show that the girl who works in the restaurant like Horror is probably not Shu Xue herself, first of all, it is a matter of age, assuming that Wen Manman's narrative is the truth, Shu Xue is her sister, when Wen Yuya sent her down the mountain to find her adoptive parents, Wen Manman was only four and a half years old, that is to say, Shu Xue was just a toddler who had just learned to walk.

Not long after sending Wen Manman away, a fire broke out in the treacherous house, the side house was completely burned down, and An Ze was also confirmed dead by the police, even if in a few years, when the treacherous house recovered, Shu Xue was at most a ten-year-old dissatisfied child, and her understanding of many things was not enough, so it was impossible to go to Wen Yuya's restaurant to work, and it was impossible to use time to go out early and return late to avoid the sight of the family in the treacherous house.

Secondly, it involves the issue of appearance, even if Wen Yuya missed her daughter too much at that time, was controlled by her subconscious personality, and ignored her age, it is impossible not to even see what her daughter looks like, when she grows up, she will always be seven or eight points similar to when she was a child, and her face shape and temperament may change, but her facial features, especially her eyebrows and eyes, will never change greatly.

At that time, Mr. Housekeeper and Kitchen Lady Mother-in-law would never be able to play the role of a girl, and the only person who could pretend to be Shu Xue to deceive Wen Yuya was Horror (hostess Anqian), in order to maintain the girl's posture and appearance, Horror did not hesitate to use her father's remaining property to have plastic surgery, although she left some plastic surgery sequelae, but she also successfully deceived the eyes of the people around her, and incarnated as a little maid in and out of the treacherous house, secretly managing the villa left by her father.

After the death of his father, there is a fundamental reason why he still does not dare to appear as Anqian, and this reason needs to be reasoned by Yun Yeyao, I will not explain it here, let's go back to the current problem, let's look at the horror, the appearance of Wen Yuya and Wen Manman, the appearance of Wen Yuya and Wen Manman has been described in the first and second chapters, and they are also women with good temperaments.

When describing Wen Yuya, he resembles a well-maintained middle-aged proprietress in the city, and he looks less than 40 years old, and his facial features are very eye-catching. The description of Venmanman is that her facial features are not ugly, except for her flat face shape. And the body temperament is very good, belonging to the type that can attract men's attention. Aside from the final plot, judging from the description at the beginning, it is not impossible that Wen Yuya and Wen Manman have similarities.

But horror is different, when the mysterious person disappeared in Lianfan's room, we described the appearance of horror, and to sum it up, it is not beautiful, and it is difficult to attract the attention of those around you. Except for some flat faces, other places are far from Wen Manman and Wen Yuya. This can also explain why he was wearing a cloak and a hat and kept his head down when he was tricked into playing the role of Wen Manman when he went up to the third floor again.

It is absolutely impossible to play Shu Xue in front of Wen Yuya for a long time with such a look, so to sum up, two conclusions are drawn, first, the little maid named Shu Xue, who worked in the restaurant in the past, could never be played by Horror; Second, Shu Xue herself is unlikely to work in a restaurant due to her age, unless the previous claims about Shu Xue are overturned and new evidence is found.

Also, from the perspective of horror itself, after An Ze's death, she has actually gotten rid of her father's control, and the treacherous house is basically her and Mr. Housekeeper, there is no need to deliberately go to Wen Yuya's restaurant to work for Shu Xue's business, if she is forced to play Shu Xue and is exposed, it will involve things that Wen Yuya does not know, which may be unfavorable to her.

As long as the horror pretends to have nothing to do with Shu Xue's disappearance, even if Wen Yuya asks, she won't get any results.

It's another thing for her to later work at Wen Yuya's restaurant as herself, maybe Horror discovers that something is changing in the Strange House that is beyond her control, or maybe she feels that it is no longer safe to stay in the Strange House during the day, which may be her motivation to use the time trajectory to work in the restaurant and avoid the Strange House family.

At present, in the treacherous house, to find a breakthrough in Shu Xue's identity, the first thing is that it is best to be able to speak, tell the criminal police and the interrogator what happened in the past, and how she used Shu Xue to get out of control, she should be the person who knows Shu Xue the most besides Wen Yuya. The second is to confirm whether the words of the cook's mother-in-law are true, and maybe you can get more clues about Wen Yuya and her two daughters.

The third is to start with Wen Manman to find out whether Wen Manman is Wen Yuya's eldest daughter, if so, then the reason why Wen Yuya gave her away back then is likely to involve the secret hidden in the treacherous house fire, and it can also involve Shu Xue.

At present, the people in the house have no time to take care of Shu Xue, let's take a look at the situation on Wen Manman's side, after inspecting the restaurant, Wen Manman came to a similar structural inference as the treacherous house owner's house, this little girl is very smart, from the beginning of his conversation with Yun Yeyao, we can get a glimpse of one or two.

The structure of the restaurant has several important points, first, the water valve on the roof; second, the sand in the walls; Thirdly, how much load-bearing capacity does the cement brick structure wall on the first floor have? Fourth, what else is in the walls besides sand? Fifth, where did the mysterious intruder she discovered enter the inn? Sixth, what does the corpse in the snow have to do with the case? Does it have something to do with someone in action in the treacherous house right now?

None of these questions can be explained in one sentence or two, but we will look at them one by one, and compare them with the structure of the treacherous owner's house.

The water valve on the roof, which was activated by someone on the night of February 30 and continued to sprinkle water around the house until the whole house froze over, at first glance it seemed like an attempt to trap the grocer and his wife from getting out of the restaurant, but when you think about it, there was no point in doing so, the grocery store owner and his wife had nothing to do with the murder in the house. They have been on the periphery, and they don't know much about the facts of the murder, just helping the criminal police take care of Sissy.

Why would anyone want to trap them? This doesn't make sense, so the purpose of sprinkling water around the entire house is not to restrict the movement of the grocery store owner couple, nor to scare them away. Because there was no evidence of a crime in the house, only the walls and sand did not indicate anything, it was impossible for the grocer owner and his wife to think of any similarities between the structure of the restaurant and the spooky house, and ran into the treacherous house to confirm it.

The same is true for Wen Manman, who doesn't know what is going on in the Strange House, only that everyone is still looking for clues around the murder case. The activation of the water valve at night caused the air conditioner and all power sources on the first floor to be unusable, forcing everyone to go up to the second floor for heating, which is equivalent to increasing the risk factor according to the current analysis. But again, there is no point in killing these people, unless they are involved in the secrets of the past, or they are likely to know the secrets of the past.

Is it possible that the murderer's purpose was to get these people upstairs to discover the secrets of the house? Or is it that the one who finds a way to get these people upstairs is not the murderer at all, but the person who wants to restore the truth? It has to be said that according to the degree of interconnectedness of the characters in the house now, the probability of this possibility is still very high. Perhaps it was the child who had been abducted and trafficked who came back for revenge and used various methods to unravel the secrets of the house, and it is possible that several young dance academy students and the previous deceased could be one of them.

In short, the activation of the water valve now seems to have accomplished only two things, the first being for the grocery store owner and his wife to find the decomposing corpses in the snow. The second is to trap everyone on the second floor in disguise to prompt them to study the details found in the structure of the house.

The sand leaking out of the wall must have something to do with the sprinkling process at night, but the fact that the sand is dry suggests that the perimeter of the wall may have been coated with a waterproof layer, with the exception of the small room where Wen Yuya once lived, because the water was channeled from there, and it was not surprising that it was damp inside.

There is another evidence that the wall on the second floor is waterproof, that is, the air conditioner, before Wen Manman's analysis, the air conditioning on the second floor and the first floor should be set up separately The power supply, as long as the perimeter of the wall on the second floor is waterproof, it will not be affected. The outdoor unit of the air conditioner can be installed in the wall mezzanine, and the drain pipe of the air conditioner will be fine through the perimeter of the wall on the first floor, and it is impossible for the water to go up from the first floor.

This also proves why the sand is dry. But why is sand leakage related to water? Because of the action of ice and water, a large amount of flowing water meets the cold air and forms thick ice overnight, which after a period of time, causes the walls of the wooden structure to deform.

Let's put it this way, the first floor is a cement brick structure, and the walls are relatively resistant in all aspects. The second floor is different, although the wood is waterproofed, but it is likely that due to the fact that the texture is not hard enough, or the quality is not good, it will bend and deform inward under the pressure of the thickened ice, squeezing the sand in the wall, and over time, some sand will have to be pushed out of the gap in the inner wall.

Next, let's look at the third point, how much load-bearing capacity does the cement brick wall on the first floor have, here we just refer to how much gravity it can withstand from the top down, the topic returns to the structure of the treacherous house, and I found that the load-bearing wall between the entertainment room and the dining room on the first floor of the main house of the treacherous house is not as strong as it seems, and the wall has several characteristics, which are very worthy of our attention.

First. After the soft cladding layer of the load-bearing wall is removed, the cement surface inside is very rough, and there are many sharp small spines protruding there, as if the cement was deliberately printed with a mold before drying.

Second, the chairs in several rooms on the first floor can be used as a support for the wall, how to say, the protrusion on the wall can just be stuck into the small hole in the back of the chair to form a fixed point, if the whole wall is put on top of the chair, can it increase a lot of load-bearing capacity? This is uncertain for the time being, but the possibility cannot be ruled out.

Third, back to the solidity of the wall, although Mei Xiaoxiao has been professionally trained, she will not shake the cement wall with one foot, if it is not for the loose inside of the wall, or the foundation is unstable, she will not be able to shake half a point in any case. Moreover, it doesn't matter if one wall is like this, if the other load-bearing walls are like this, it means that the first floor is very easy to crush, and the danger factor is greatly increased.

So let's analyze and see, is this true for every load-bearing wall on the first floor? The answer is no, at least not with the four walls of the living room and the remaining three walls of the dining room. The only room that has been softly renovated is the recreation room, and the rest of the room is painted directly on the walls, which is very smooth and flat.

In other words, it is likely that the wall that has only been kicked by the small one is very loose, and where is the center point of this wall? Under the floor at the entrance of the organ on the second floor of the main house, it is very likely that all the sand hoarded on the second floor will be concentrated here, if this is really the case, it confirms that Yun Yeyao has indeed made a fatal mistake in reasoning, the sand will not flow to the center point of the floor of the hexagonal room, but will all concentrate on the most vulnerable point of the load-bearing wall on the first floor, posing a deadly threat to the survivors in the recreation room!

Moreover, if the people on the third floor of the main house are still wandering near the entrance, they will also die because of the collapse anytime and anywhere. Yun Yeyao's injury at this point may save their lives, because Mr. Actor is seriously injured and cannot enter and exit through the narrow secret passage, so Xie Yunmeng decided to take him back to the innermost room of the corridor on the third floor, and find a way to return to the stairwell before entering the third floor through the notched wall above.

Although the corridor is circuitous, the outermost entrance and the innermost room are almost next to each other, but there is no shortcut to go back, you can only pass through the winding corridor again, and there will be a long time, if everyone gives up the entrance and exit on the top of the small bathroom and leaves, and follows the criminal police actors, then they are very likely to avoid the danger of the collapse of the house and save their lives before reaching the innermost room.

The mysterious man who acted by the water tank on the second floor, his thoughts can make us sure that the owner of the treacherous house will only collapse half, and the other half that remains is the last hiding place for the murderer and his accomplices, they can only keep their secrets by taking advantage of the collapse of the house to put the criminal police and detectives to death, because now Yun Yeyao's plan has made many people who are impossible to open their mouths all tell their secrets, and the detective's reasoning is getting closer and closer to the core, and the murderer will become more and more afraid, Perhaps this is the fundamental reason why he ventured into the final process of the house.

Now that we've talked about the key points of the heavy walls in the treacherous house, let's take a look at what new clues can be given to us compared to the load-bearing walls of restaurants.