This is the first bloody feast that the House of Treachery gave us - the strange triple bloody fog, all the people and corpses that should exist are gone, all the impossible things have happened, where is the answer? It's time for the grey brain cells to come alive, and will we be able to get a reasonable explanation among the detectives?

Chapter 51: Hidden People and a Mysterious Space Filled with Ticking Sounds

The sound of "tick, tick" sounded in her ears, and in the darkness, the middle-aged woman got up from the ground at a loss, she didn't know what was going on, and she didn't know where she was? Today, the cook at home did not come to work for a day, and she and the little girl did all the work.

The little girl was always upset, and she was also worried and worried. Speaking of which, it's normal for a chef not to come to work, but why do you do it?

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.

"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. ”

"Then you should be safe!" After speaking, Yan Muheng strode towards the direction of the overpass, and his current mood was no longer enough to describe. The person with his wife's good and decent wife is nowhere to be seen in the tower, and there is no way for any man to settle down and do things.

Yun Yeyao watched Yan Muheng's back go away, and there was some loneliness in his eyes, but he quickly cheered up and returned to the housekeeper's room, and said to Liu Qiaopu: "Grandpa Liu, we need the keys to all the doors in this house now, but these keys are only available to the housekeeper and the hostess, you work hard, stabilize those people in the living room and pay attention to the housekeeper's situation here, I will find a way to find the key." It is to turn this home upside down, and to find the missing person. ”

"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.

And the deceased was this middle-aged woman who didn't know her name yet, and didn't even say a word.

We now want to analyze what clues the murder scene in the brown tower can give us! It all started with Sissy, who woke up shortly after hearing a knock on the door, and a sound that would have her open the door immediately.

It shows that the person outside the door must be someone that Xixi knows and trusts very much. Judging from the series of coherent movements from Sissi opening the door to hugging the person who came, Sissi is deeply in love with the man who knocks on the door. Of course, lovers who think about it day and night will be very excited to meet, so it is very normal to say that Sissy's behavior is very normal. But the point is that the appearance of the man outside the door makes people feel a little strange.

Yun Yeyao was looking for the key to break through in this room at the moment, Yun Yeyao asked the cook and Sister Wang how to go up to the second and third floors of the treacherous house, but they all said they didn't know.

Not to mention anything else, these two people have lived in the treacherous house for so long, and the cook is still an old servant who was here when the treacherous house was first built, and she has never even been upstairs in the main house, which is also too strange.

However, since they all swore that they had never gone up, it was impossible for Yun Yeyao to ask any further, so they had to find a way to find it themselves.

Liu Qiaopu's point of view is that this house may not have a second and third floors at all, and this statement of the old man is not unfounded, because from the outside, the house itself is not very high, and the windows are only available on the first floor.

"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.

Yun Yeyao said, "I want to find out where the door to the second floor is?" Hey, Lady Cook, did the hostess always take care that you couldn't go up to the second and third floors? ”

"Not really! Because the door to the second floor here is only known to the hostess and the housekeeper, the hostess usually does not speak, and only when the guests come or occasionally remember, they will be reminded. ”

"Then you haven't seen the butler go up to the second floor once?"

"I didn't see him enter, but I was terrified that sometimes we would talk to us at night, such as 'the master asked the housekeeper to go to the second or third floor today, and moved something,' or 'Mr. housekeeper brought something good from upstairs for the master's house.' Anyway, I often hear about these things. ”

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.

Thinking of the little horror who always wanted to get things done, the girl sobered up a little, and felt a sigh in the depths of her heart, and even sadness.

'Horror, if you really want to replace Shu Xue, then what should you do? ’

The words that the girl thought about made people feel very strange, there could only be a little maid in this treacherous house, it should be terrifying, so who is Shu Xue? This question has only been mentioned once before (please refer to Chapter 16), the little maid Shu Xue and her boyfriend who often work in restaurants, and the identities of the two of them seem to overlap with Xiao Heng, the son of the horror and the cook.

It is an indisputable fact that Shu Xue often goes to the boss's restaurant to work, and she will also let her girlfriend bring gifts to the boss, and the proprietress has also seen Less than go out with the housekeeper, she thinks that Less than is the cook's son, and Shu Xue is the little maid in the villa.

However, Yan Muheng didn't have the heart to care about this, with impatience and haste, Yan Muheng was ready to rush into the room in one go, but now he didn't care about destroying the scene, because the clues that Yan Muheng thought of were inside the scene.

The man with the scar had just stepped into the room with his front feet, and before he had even touched the blood, he saw a person squatting in a pool of blood studying something?

"Hey! Who are you?!! Yan Muheng questioned, and the sound was so loud that the people in the room were directly frightened and collapsed to the ground.

It wasn't until that person turned around that Yan Muheng found out that it was actually Liu Hang, the grandson of Liu Qiaopu! From the time the case happened to the present, he has been shrinking behind everyone and not saying a word, giving Yan Muheng the impression that he is a timid and afraid person, why did he suddenly appear at the scene of the murder now? Moreover, Yan Muheng didn't notice him coming in at all.

"What are you doing here?!"

The old man was worried that the blood stains on Liu Hang's body indicated that he might have entered one of the three blood houses, and the worst thing was that Liu Qiaopu didn't know what Liu Hang was going to do in the brown tower.

Perhaps because he didn't want to dwell on this issue now, or maybe he was afraid of hearing what his grandson would say that would make him unacceptable, Liu Qiao Pu walked straight to the other end of the overpass after yelling.

But Liu Hang, who was behind him, did not follow his grandfather, but continued to stand in front of the brown tower and watch Liu Qiao Pu until Liu Qiao Pu noticed that something was wrong and turned around again.

"What the hell do you want to do?! Do you know that this is sabotaging our investigation!! ”

"Grandpa, you only care about the investigation! Do you care about my thoughts?! Why don't you keep asking me what the hell are you going to do at the scene of the killing?! Liu Hang's eyes were firm, and his questioning tone was something that Liu Qiaopu had never heard so far.

As soon as the middle-aged woman in the second room of the brown tower was killed, Liu Hang sneaked into the scene to hide what Xixi had left behind, and even before everyone noticed, he seemed to have discovered another secret passage in the brown tower. This shows that Liu Hang has been paying attention to Xixi, and he has not forgotten his original intention of coming to the mountain.

But here the problem comes again, in order to stabilize people's hearts, Liu Qiaopu and several of their investigators did not say the death of the housekeeper, let alone the death information of the middle-aged woman. Everyone can prove that Liu Hang has stayed with everyone and never left, so how did he know that there was a murder in the brown tower? How did he know that Sissy would leave his clothes at the scene of the crime? Finally, when did he discover the secret passage?

You must know that since the afternoon, Liu Hang has been active in the living room and dining room of the main house. On the contrary, even the four men of Fan, Qin Sen, Qiao Keli and Lu Haoyu have left. Except for the missing Lian Fan, the other three were all in my brown tower.

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." ”

“！！！”

Liu Hang's words were no different from nonsense in Yan Muheng's eyes! Underneath the cantilever is the door to the study? Are you kidding?! If the cantilever hangs from the door at the base of the brown tower, it is probably in front of the window of the mistress's room, or the window of the study.

"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.

"No, this will arouse the suspicion of others, this house doesn't seem to be so simple now, including the ruins, Grandpa Liu, I guess Xiao Hang may have helped us a lot this time! After you open the study door in reverse, go to dinner with everyone, let everyone stay in the dining room after eating, and then you should pay attention to the sounds coming from both the living room and the entertainment room, and let me know if there is any strange movement, this is very important! ”

"Okay, I know, Xiao Yun, you and Xiao Heng should also pay attention to safety, the main house will be handed over to me, if that kid can really help, let him act with you, and exercise my unsuccessful grandson."

After speaking, Liu Qiaopu hung up the phone, and Qin Sen on the side asked him: "Is there something going on inside the tower?" ”

"No, they found some clues to the missing people, anyway, you don't have to worry, let's go eat first!" Yanagihashi replied to him.

At this time, we only need to make a very slender door shaft that is a little longer than the height of the door panel embedded in it, and fix it together with the door panel and the wall up and down, left and right, of course, it must be able to move like an ordinary door shaft. In this case, as long as the other end is made in this way, a hidden door gap is made on the wooden board on the side of the original door shaft, and then the ordinary door can become a two-way door.

This only explains why the door can be opened from both ends, but how the scene outside changes is unknown at this time. Now, Wen Manman is tantamount to helping Liuqiaopu solve a problem, so she began to beg Liuqiaopu to let her participate in the investigation of the case.

But the old man still shook his head and said, "How can you help a little girl?" ”

"Grandpa Liu! Don't underestimate people! I can pretend to be a missing person, pass on news for you around you, or spy on suspects, etc., anyway, it's better to have one more helper than one less! Weymanman argued.

Yun Yeyao added: "You must have listened carefully, and the entrance and exit of Xiao Heng are also hard for you to guard, if you see a strange person, you must remind him in time." ”

"Hmm."

After Yun Yeyao finished speaking, he ran straight towards the room where the middle-aged woman died. At this time, it was already close to about nine o'clock in the evening, the sky was dark, and the people below had to go back to their rooms to rest after dinner, so he had to hurry up, every problem that needed to be solved was not simple and could be solved.

Liu Hang didn't dare to slack off, after Yun Yeyao left, he hurriedly checked the three doors at the bottom of the brown tower to make sure that they had been locked from the outside, and then returned to the door of Lu Haoyu's room and looked in the direction of Yan Muheng going out.

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.

According to Yun Yeyao's movement trajectory just now, he is now facing a certain piece of furniture in the room, this furniture is completely different from when he looked at it from the door, maybe he must stand in the position of this bedside table to be able to discover the secret, in an instant, Yun Yeyao felt a sudden realization permeated.

The first disappearance case and the disappearance case of Xixi Xiaomei, Yun Yeyao already had the answer in his heart at this moment, he walked quickly in the direction he confirmed, and he also thought of a witness-

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.

Due to the conditioned reflex, coupled with not wanting to stimulate the woman in front of him even more, the man withdrew a little bit from the metal space, and then said, "Boss, I was a guest who ate at your restaurant yesterday, do you remember?" ”

It turned out that this person was the proprietress of the restaurant, who had been kept in the clock and thrown into the mechanical room where the folded corpses and entrails of the brown tower had been thrown.

Probably the proprietress was frightened out of her mind because of this, and at this moment Yan Muheng could already be sure that Xiao Mei and Xixi were not here at all, and the interior of the small mechanical room was almost occupied by the proprietress and corpses.

Yan Muheng thought about how to help the proprietress come out, but he didn't expect that the girl's screams suddenly came from the top of the hanging ladder, accompanied by the sound of the dishes falling down.

Suddenly looked back, it turned out to be Wen Manman, what is this little girl doing here? Could it be that the teacher asked her to come up?

"Sister Wang, do you mean that the color and pattern of the bedding and quilt cover in each room are the same?"

"Yes! It's the same in every room, and there's even a surplus in the warehouse. The housekeeper bought too much at that time, and we were very helpless. ”

"Warehouse? There are no warehouses here! ”

"The warehouse is in the corner of the second floor of the main house, I have never seen it, and the housekeeper himself went in to pick up things. The hostess would sometimes come by in the middle of the night. ”

"I really don't know why the main house here is so mysterious!" Qiao Keli continued to talk about the topic, whether it was useful or not, he always wanted to learn a little more information from Sister Wang.

It's a pity that Sister Wang can't provide more information, and her answer this time is only five words: "I don't know." Jockley could only continue to eat in a helpless manner.

In the midst of a brief pause, there was a knock on the door, and Sister Wang asked, "Who is it?" ”

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.

The proprietress instantly changed her face and let out an exclamation, her blood-stained hands were clenched into fists, and she put on a defensive posture, her appearance made Yan Muheng, who was hiding on the side, nervous all of a sudden, and stared at the proprietress with her eyes to guard against her next move.

However, Wen Manman didn't seem so nervous anymore, maybe she was more adaptable, and the little girl had the courage to take the initiative to start talking to the restaurant proprietor.

"Auntie, look, I'm a little maid! It's so stuffy here, should we go outside for a walk? ”