"What the hell is going on?! What about corpses?!! Didn't Xiao Heng confirm it just now!! Chokley couldn't believe his eyes. He said, "Absolutely impossible! The time for Xiao Heng's confirmation has been less than ten minutes now, how could it have disappeared?!! ”

Yanagihashi Pu didn't continue, he tried his best to calm down, staring into the room with wide eyes, and all of a sudden, he ran in and picked up a small charred object on the floor and asked, "Is this the victim's finger?" ”

"Probably, because it was burnt, we can't be sure, and besides, there were a lot of such burnt fingers on this carpet just now, and there should be more than one person. Now it's all gone. ”

"Do you have a handkerchief on you?" Yanagihashi asked.

"Oh, I have a small bag with me, Uncle Liu, just leave it to me for safekeeping."

"Okay," Liu Qiaopu handed his finger to Qiao Keli, and then his gaze returned to the room, making sure that it was impossible to find anything more, and then asked, "Xiao Heng said that there is an eyewitness in your room, where is she?" ”

"I'll take you right away, and now Xiaomei is taking care of her."

The two men closed the door to the murder scene, and Chokli immediately added a key from the corpse and handed it to Yanagihashi, and then their figures quickly disappeared around the bend of the stairs of the brown tower.

Or the murder in the tower is more serious than the outside, and the test questions disappear inexplicably in just a few minutes, this kind of strange incident that even an old criminal policeman like Liu Qiao Pu has never encountered.

The only thing that is certain now is that the man who hid the body must not have escaped from the brown tower, and that he would have to hide it somewhere in the tower, or enter the bell tower through the small door at the bottom of the tower, but the bell tower has no exit to me, and the small door to the bell tower is the only one who has the key. Now that the hostess is missing, how can anyone else get in?

This is the first puzzle, and then we look at the second puzzle: we can assume that the person who took the body is the murderer, and this is a high probability. You know, Xiao Mei and Jokli stayed inside the brown tower during the murder time, and the murderer may not have had a chance to take the body with him when he committed the murder, or he had something to do, so he could only wait until he came back to dispose of the body.

Thinking wildly in her head, the middle-aged woman's hands groped for the ground, which was a potholed floor covered with metal blocks of various shapes. 'Whose house is going to be renovated like this?' The middle-aged woman thought to herself, she didn't realize the danger at the moment.

Because more than once, she woke up alone in the dark, sometimes in her bedroom, sometimes in the food warehouse, and sometimes she would even get up at the dining table, on the counter, or in the snow. That's because she has a sleepwalking problem, which has never been known to anyone, and it doesn't happen very often.

But today, the middle-aged woman seems to feel that she has sleepwalked a little farther, because this place she has never been to before.

'Did I go down the mountain?' She thought again, but then she thought about it, how could she be in such a narrow space when she went down the mountain? And isn't it still dangerous on the mountain trails? The snow is so thick, how can it fall?

Even if you go down, you can't be in a metal room! I groped around with my hand and touched everything I touched, and it was warm, and I didn't feel cold at all.

The middle-aged woman squatted on the ground and thought, trying to search from her memory where she was now. At this time, he heard the "tick, tick" sound again. With a stirring in her body, she finally thought of the source of the voice, 'Am I in the bell tower of the Treacherous House now?' ’

She'd never been to the inside of the treacherous house before. It's impossible to know what the inside of the bell tower looks like, so I don't think it's strange to touch the metal pieces and pieces of metal that look like parts now.

But how did you get to the bell tower? The middle-aged woman was puzzled, even if she was sleepwalking, it was impossible to enter the door of the treacherous house, because no one would want to open the door for her?

'Whatever? Let's find a way to get there. The middle-aged woman quickened her movements, groping around for the walls she might have touched.

The walls are not flat, but exist like a circle, with some regular edges and corners. Even a middle-aged woman can touch the roof arched at the top by standing on tiptoe a little. 'Is there such a small inside the bell tower?' The middle-aged woman remembered that she had observed this bell tower many times on the periphery, and the octagonal space should be very large!

"It's such a coincidence in the world, I heard from the proprietress in the restaurant where I ate that the mirror house might need a maid, and if I really don't want to go back to the city, then it's good to work here, at least there is a comfortable environment. And the hostess here also hates being noisy, and everyone can stay in the dead man's space unchecked as long as they finish their work on time. Spiegel House is the name of the House of Tricks in the past, because it was not long after the fire broke out, so it was still called Spiegel House. ”

Yun Yeyao asked, "Is that restaurant proprietress familiar with the people here?" ”

"No, strangers are never allowed in the treacherous house, not even the businesses around it. The only people who could get in and out were me, the Horror, the butler, and the cook, and the hostess usually did not show up, so we went to the door of her room to report something; If the hostess needs it, she will let the horrors come out to us. ”

"Sister Wang, have you seen the mistress of this house?" Yun Yeyao's question was very strange, and Sister Wang looked at the actor with a puzzled look. I have served in this treacherous house for so many years, how can I not meet the mistress of this house!

But she still answered Yun Yeyao's question seriously: "Yes, I met the hostess the first time I arrived here, she is a beautiful woman, but there are too many scars on her body because of the fire. It is also said that because of the fire, it is difficult to move on both legs. ”

"Supposedly? Did you think there was anything unusual about her walking when you saw her? Yun Yeyao continued to ask.

"No, because it was Mr. Butler who came out to open the door for me, and when I met the hostess, she had been sitting in her room, and I was sitting in the living room talking to her, and the hostess was in very good spirits, and she did not look like she was suffering from mental illness at all. But in the last decade, it's been very different. Not only did the hostess stay at home, but she also stopped meeting us. Even the words are very little. ”

"You mean that the mistress of the Treacherous House hasn't appeared in front of you once in the last ten years, right?"

"Yes, not once in ten years, and I've almost forgotten what my hostess looks like. Terror is a child who grew up in this family, and at that time she was already the hostess's personal little attendant, and if the hostess did not want to talk to the housekeeper, she would tell Terror. ”

"Could it be that the murderer was discovered, and Xiaomei took that little girl to hide?"

"No way, if she wants to do something, she will definitely leave me a hint, I have just searched the room thoroughly, and I have left no information." Yan Muheng's expression at this moment was completely different from just now, he was worried that Xiao Mei would be in danger, his whole body was tense, and his face was even more difficult to see.

Yun Yeyao was also worried, but he couldn't mess around, and after thinking for a moment, Yun Yeyao said: "That's it, I think with us guarding here, it shouldn't be possible for Xiao Mei to leave the brown tower." You hurry back to the brown tower and search room by room, if you can't do it, force down the door to the bell tower at the bottom of the tower, and make sure you find someone. ”

"Grandpa Liu and I also divide the work, Grandpa Liu still has to stay in the living room to catch up with those people outside, let Sister Wang stay in the housekeeper's room to take care of the horror, I will go to other places to search. The most important thing now is to get the keys to all the doors in this villa, I'll figure this out, you can quickly go to the brown tower to check, the remaining survivors of the avalanche in Ha'ou must not let him have any more trouble. ”

"Okay, I'll keep Jokley in his room, it doesn't matter if I can't get the key, I'll break down the doors here one by one, and I won't be able to find the missing person."

"Xiao Heng, we can't make things big now, the murderer is hiding among those people outside, if it causes panic at that time, it will be beneficial for the murderer to break, and it will be very difficult for Grandpa Liu to control the situation, I still have to take the way of secret investigation, I will do my best, you go back and find it quickly."

"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. ”

That is, before that, anyone who tried to enter the room would be found unless that person had left after the horror had left. But the truth is, the mystery man entered during this impossible time, and she locked the door from the inside when the horror knocked on it.

In the previous chapter, we summarized the suspicions about the missing people, so this chapter should talk about the deceased.

So far, there are two people who have died, one of whom is a real housekeeper on the snow between the main house and the ruins. The other was the man who died in the downstairs room of Sissy. There is no need to hide the identity of this person, the three people who survived the avalanche are in addition to Sissy and a young man who look like a husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend, and a middle-aged woman.

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.

First of all, the man outside the door was not as excited as Sissy, and showed a nervous look, which made people feel as if he was really hiding from something! He pushed Sissy's body into the room, and only after closing the door did he return the warm hug to the girl. This shows that in the eyes of men at that time, it was much more important to quickly hide in the room than to respond to Sissy's enthusiasm.

Well, speaking of which, there are several characteristics of the man who knocked on the door: first, he must be very young, probably about the same age as the graduates of the six dance academies. Even if he is a little older, he should be about the same age as Yun Yeyao and Liu Hang. Therefore, people over the age of 35 in the treacherous house can be excluded, and they cannot be the ones who went to see Sissy.

Second, the man had time to break away from the crowd and not arouse the suspicion of others, that is, as long as no one followed him, or no one noticed his actions.

However, Yun Yeyao still felt the need to look for it, since when she first arrived here, the hostess of the treacherous house took care of Sister Wang and emphasized to everyone that they could not go upstairs, then it must not be meaningless nonsense. Yun Yeyao believes that there are absolutely secrets in this entertainment room that they have not discovered.

Looking at the whole room, the upholstered walls inside looked very thick, and Yun Yeyao was standing near the gate of the blue tower at this moment, with a huge ping-pong table in front of him. Beyond the table, a couch covered in a blue corduroy cloth cover can be seen. On the right side of the sofa is a simple historical bookshelf, and on the wall above the sofa, there is a TV, which is quite new, even larger than the average home TV.

To the left of the sofa is the stereo, which is almost as tall as the back of the sofa. There was nothing on the left and right hand side of the wall, and there was a leather sofa near the tower door in the back, slightly smaller than the corduroy sofa, which could probably seat two people, and if you squeezed a little, three people could sit.

(Please remember my description of the interior of the house, this is not nonsense, and most of what I describe will be used in the reasoning process later on, and some will even become part of the clue.) ）

Yun Yeyao's gaze moved from the furniture and the walls inch by inch, and on the surface, there seemed to be no flaws, and the upholstered walls were also a whole piece. But Yun Yeyao's attention is not here. He was paying attention to something special, the edges of each piece of furniture.

He noticed that the edges of the furniture were surprisingly uniform, such as the blue corduroy sofa with a grooved frame that looked like it was embedded in the wall. The edges of the bookcase are also grooved, like the leak-proof device on the edge of the table.

I don't know if you have ever seen the kind of leak-proof table top used by children for eating, that is, the edge of the square table top is connected with a circle of small grooves like a sink, once the child knocks over the water or soup, the liquid will not leak to the ground, but will accumulate in the grooves around the table.

The grooves on the edges of the bookshelves and the edge of the sofa are exactly this shape, and Yun Yeyao's eyes shifted to the sofa behind him, and he found that there were also grooves. That is, in this room, apart from the TV and stereo, there are recesses in the rest of the furniture. So the question is, what exactly are these grooves used for?

Although Liu Qiaopu's voice was not loud, it revealed a majesty, and the cook quickly replied: "Okay, I'll go!" ”

It is also true that dinner time has long passed at this moment, and even the little girl in the kitchen does not know what she is grinding, and has not prepared the meal.

Yun Ye watched the cook leave the entertainment room, and the look in his eyes gradually changed from helplessness to sharpness. The cook seems to have come out of point to mention something to him, but Yun Yeyao still doesn't fully understand the key part of it.

For example, the cook has been identifying the terrible person as the one who pushed the butler down until now, but why did she go out of her way at this time and say to herself, 'I hope the terrible thing is that she is dizzy and misunderstood'? Moreover, the words of the cook just now were clearly emphasizing that the horrors knew more about the upstairs and downstairs of the main house than they did.

Yun Yeyao felt that the old lady seemed to be hinting, she must know something? But in case some people couldn't say it clearly, they ran to him and deliberately hinted at him with words. However, now there is no one from this family in the living room outside except for the cook herself, who does she need to guard against?

Frowning, Yun Yeyao felt that there were more and more weirdness in this family, he had to remind Yan Muheng and Grandpa Liu to be more careful, he suspected that among the 18 people who came yesterday, some of them were not coming to this house for the first time, or there were people in this family who had known before, anyway, they hid their true identities.

In this way, the real suspect becomes more hidden, and Yun Yeyao feels that it is necessary for him to find a breakthrough as soon as possible. He still thinks that the breakthrough is in the recreation room.

After asking and answering like that just now, Yun Yeyao already thought of a certain possibility in his mind, and this possibility might help him open the door to the upper floor of the main house......

Yun Yeyao continued his exploration inside the recreation room of the main house, while Yan Muheng, who had a terrifying face, was in a state of anxiety in the brown tower at the moment.

It's not Xiao Mei's room, but the room where the middle-aged woman died, and when she runs, the man's mouth keeps repeating: "Black, hidden in black; The blue color catches the eye and makes me lose sight of the truth. ”

This sentence was like a magic spell, rolling back and forth between Yan Muheng's gray brain cells, making him eager to see what he had just imagined.

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Under the Terrible Lies

The girl woke up from a coma, she only felt that her eyelids were sour and she couldn't open them, and the little brain cells in her head continued to cry out for sleep. The girl was not surprised at this, it was a blessing that the man did not kill her immediately.

Yes, the girl who was hidden knows very well who the culprit is! And she knows where the criminal is now, she is the first person in this treacherous house to be hidden. That is, since early this morning, the girl has not been able to move freely.

Why? The girl thought, 'They're probably trying to make the horrors take my place entirely!' Poor little horror, forever living in the fog. ’

At this time, in a drowsy state, the girl reached out and groped around her body, her hands were rough, and it looked like they were caused by doing housework all year round. It's very similar to horror.

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?!"

"I... Ah, that...... I'd like to come and see...... No, I'm just ......" Liu Hang stood up and didn't say it clearly for a long time, which aroused Yan Muheng's suspicions even more, if he didn't have enough trust in his grandfather, Yan Muheng might have locked him up on the spot.

"Tell me what the hell you're doing here?!" Yan Muheng asked again patiently, and walked closer to Liu Hang.

Seeing the tall and terrifying man striding over with a look like he was about to eat himself, and the feet in black leather shoes made a 'fluttering' sound on the half-dried blood, Liu Hang was even more frightened and overwhelmed.

Yan Muheng waited until he got closer, only to find that Liu Hang's hand was hiding behind him and seemed to be holding something.

He didn't talk nonsense, but sped up his pace and rushed over to grab the hand, and pulled it in his direction, Yan Muheng's action was extremely fast, coupled with his great strength, he suddenly pulled Liu Hang and fell forward, almost falling face down in a pool of blood again.

"Don't look!!" Liu Hang reflexively screamed, he realized that it was not good, it was too late, and a women's short coat in his hand was exposed in front of Yan Muheng.

Yan Muheng didn't question him immediately, but frowned. The items he saw in front of him were very different from what he had imagined just now, and Yan Muheng couldn't help but feel very strange.

The most annoying thing for the old man is his grandson, he looks aggrieved at every turn, and he is not manly at all! He just wanted to continue to reprimand, but he didn't expect Liu Hang to be ahead of him this time.

Liu Hang didn't speak, but took something out of his pocket. This is just now, under Yan Muheng's fierce eyes, Liu Hang desperately buttoned off the top of the women's coat and hid it in the pocket of his clothes.

He didn't know why he had such courage, but he did it just because he was hot-headed. But now I don't regret coming to Liuhang.

Lying in the palm of Liu Hang's hand is a name tag used by the waiter, with two rows of small characters on it, the first row is written the waiter's work number, and the second row is written with three bold characters - Mu Xixi!

As soon as he saw the things in his grandson's hand, Liu Qiaopu became even more angry, he pointed at Liu Hang and said, "This is something from the murder scene?" You're wandering around in your shoes bare-handed? Do you have any common sense? Yes!! ”

Liu Hang still didn't speak, and sent the name brand to his grandfather again, his hands stretched straight in the cold wind.

After that, no matter how Liu Qiaopu scolded angrily, Liu Hang listened silently, and kept the same action to face his grandfather. Until the old man himself couldn't say any more, and snatched the waiter's name tag from Liu Hang's hand.

At this time, Liu Hang had been coming out of the brown tower for more than 20 minutes, and his hands and feet exposed to the cold air were blue and purple as if they were frozen, and he should have been in great pain.

But Liu Hang didn't flinch, he tensed his thinly dressed body and watched his grandfather put the name tag in his pocket, and then said: "Grandpa, I know Xixi, please, help me prove that Xixi is not a murderer, okay?" ”

"Who's Sissy?" Seeing his grandson like this, Liu Qiaopu also calmed down.

"It's the girl who almost died in the avalanche, she used to work as a waitress in the resort down the mountain, and I like her because I want to bring my grandfather to make sure. But I didn't expect it......" Liu Hang stopped when he said this, his lips trembled violently, he should have been too cold to stand it.

At this time, a warm down jacket was draped over Liu Hang's shoulder, and Yan Muheng's voice came from behind him.

"Teacher, Xiao Hang said that I can prove it, I think, we should almost reveal our identities to Xiao Hang! Don't scold him anymore, I feel distressed to see him like this. ”

Besides, there were several people in the restaurant at that time, and even if they didn't look, they could hear the sound of sails coming in and out! Afterwards, a few people had already entered the bathroom to see, and there was no Lian Fan at all.

Therefore, after Lian Fan arrived at the treacherous house villa, two secret rooms related to him have appeared one after another. The first is the mystery man missing out in his own room in the brown tower, and the second is the bathroom in the main house where Lian Fan disappeared.

Let's start with the mysterious missing room in the brown tower. Early in the morning, Lian Fan arrived in the dining room very early, and he should be the first to get up and leave the tower. But not the first person to walk out of the room.

In the middle of the night, two people walked out of the room before him, one was because of a cold. As soon as he came out, he knocked on Yan Muheng's door, but there was no response inside, and then, Yun Yeyao continued to go down.

He listened carefully at the door of each room, and when he heard a snoring inside, he did not knock on the door, but continued to walk down. So there should have been a snoring sound in Lian Fan's room at that time, indicating that when he came out in the middle of the night, Lian Fan was in the room.

The other was Liu Hang, who woke up from a nightmare, and he walked out of the door in the early hours of the morning, heard the barking of a black cat, and went downstairs to confirm. During this period, he did not knock on anyone's door, so Liu Hang did not know who was in the room and who was not in the room at that time.

After discovering the black cat, Liu Hang went back to his room to put on a down jacket. Still haven't communicated with anyone.

When he came out of the room again, Liu Hang saw Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng and his wife, and then, he went downstairs with Sister Wang and a few little girls to greet Qiao Keli and Lu Haoyu, who had not yet met. During this time, all interaction and communication bypassed the three rooms on the top floor.

Liu Hang knocked on Lian Fan's door before meeting Sister Wang and them, but no one responded inside, because Lian Fan was already in the restaurant at this time, and the room should be empty. After the disappearance of the mysterious man, there was no way to determine whether there was anyone in the room at that time.

All the above inferences, I don't know if you can see it? In fact, I am explaining the possible connection between Lian Fan and Liu Hang, maybe you can think about it in another way, about the disappearance of Lian Fan before and after, did Liu Hang intervene? As for Liu Hang's impossible behaviors, does Lian Fan have a chance to help?

At this time, Yan Muheng suddenly took out his mobile phone as if he had thought of something, the signal of the mobile phone was still very poor as yesterday, but he could barely get through the phone, and Yan Muheng immediately dialed a string of phone numbers.

"Hey, Xiaoyao? Where are you now? Yan Muheng asked loudly.

"I'm in the recreation room, Xiao Heng, have you found Xiao Mei and them?" Yun Yeyao's faint voice came from the other end of the earpiece, and he could hear that he was very worried about the situation on Yan Muheng's side.

"Not yet, but I've opened the door to the bell tower on my side, and I need to make sure. Xiao Yao, you go to the teacher immediately and tell him to stay near the door of the study and the hostess's room, and don't let anyone approach those two doors. ”

"Is there something wrong with the door?" Yun Yeyao asked.

"Someone will tell you about this later, anyway, you let the teacher stay there first, and then you yourself hurry to my side."

"Okay, I'll go."

Waiting for Yun Yeyao to hang up the phone, Yan Muheng turned around and said to Liu Hang: "I'll go to confirm the situation at the other end of the suspension ladder, you stay here and wait for Xiao Yao, remember, you have to tell him in detail about your actions just now, and you can't miss any details." ”

Liu Hang obviously didn't understand why Yan Muheng didn't analyze and deduce by himself, but wanted to let Yun Ye come over, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he could only nod.

Liu Hang said: "Mr. Yan, please please find Xixi, I really like her." ”

"I don't need to say this now, I'll do my best to rescue, because it's my duty, just like your grandfather! In the future, I ask you to think about your grandfather's feelings before doing things. When Yan Muheng said the last sentence, he glanced at Liu Hang with a serious expression, and then got out of the open door, stepped on the hanging ladder parallel to the front, and headed towards the bell tower.

The dense snow droplets outside immediately surrounded Yan Muheng's body, accompanied by the whirring wind from outside the door into the inside of the tower, because of anxiety, Liu Hang, who was standing at the door, did not feel the cold, he stared at Yan Muheng's back in a daze, until there was a sound of inquiry above the stairs.

Yun Yeyao continued: "No, Grandpa Liu, I just want to make sure if they have returned to the living room, so that you can let everyone go to the dining room to eat now, everyone doesn't know about the murder yet, there shouldn't be any opinions or emotions, you stay in the living room by yourself, anyway, just make sure that no one suddenly enters the brown tower." ”

"Xiao Hang said that the door of the study can be opened in reverse, and I believe that Xiao Hang will not lie. Anyway, let's talk about the specific things later, you must find a way to open the door in reverse, Xiao Heng will go down through the hanging ladder outside later, if you can meet at that time, we will study the secrets there. ”

"Do I need to stay by the door all the time?" Yanagihashi asked.

"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.

“…… All right! Qin Sen always felt that those people seemed to be hiding something from everyone, but the others didn't ask, and he didn't want to ask, so he hesitated, stood up and prepared to walk towards the restaurant.

Just as he stood up, Wen Manman poked his head out of the door of the restaurant and said, "The food is ready, come and eat!" ”

Wen Manman's greeting played a good role in urging, and the remaining few people in the living room walked towards the dining room one after another, surrounded by the figures of those people, Wen Manman secretly glanced at Liu Qiaopu, who had not yet moved, as if she had discovered something, and her expression was imperceptible.

"Then don't blame my old man for speaking badly," Liu Qiaopu said, "First of all, we're not sure if you're a suspect, right?" Secondly, what proof do you use to prove that when you deliver a message, you will not deliberately convey false news to mislead us in the direction of judgment? Also, you said that you want to help us track the suspect, but if the suspect is really found, how can we ask an ordinary person to help us track it, it is very dangerous, and the criminal police will never joke with the lives of ordinary people! ”

"Then you admit that you are all criminal police? Also, the case here isn't as simple as it seems, right?! As soon as Liu Qiaopu's voice fell, Wen Manman immediately threw two questions, which caught him off guard.

Seeing that the old man was stopped by himself, Wen Manman said: "It seems that I am right, Grandpa Liu, please, let me help you!" Otherwise, I can stay by Xiao Yao's side and let him command me, which will definitely not affect you, Mr. Yan, and Xiao Mei's search work. ”

"And, I promise, I'll stay in your sight, if not to track you, at least be an errand runner, grandpa think, if you always use the phone or run around on your own, it's easy to arouse suspicion, isn't it? I'll be Xiao Yao's mouthpiece, passing on what he found to you, I even thought about how to prevaricate those people in the restaurant, so don't refuse me anymore, okay? ”

After saying it in one breath, Wen Manman looked at Liu Qiaopu with anticris, this may be the time she said the most, not at all like her first impression of us, at this moment Wen Manman looks as willful and noisy as Meng Qi'er.

Liu Qiao Pu pondered for a while, and after weighing the pros and cons, he agreed with Wen Manman's words, "But," Liu Qiao Pu added: "You can only stay by Xiao Yun's side, you don't need to pass the word for the time being, we will contact us by text message." Unless the mobile phone has no signal at all, or one of us is in danger, specific work, let Xiao Yun and Xiao Heng arrange for you, remember, if you don't listen to them and act privately, then I will unceremoniously lock you up until the case is resolved. ”

"Uh-huh, I see, then I'll go upstairs." With that, Wen Manman prepared to go to the restaurant.

Liu Qiaopu stopped her and asked, "What reason did you use to go up?" ”

Liu Hang has nothing to do for the time being, and if he continues to watch Yun Yeyao's actions, the first thing to explain clearly is what Yan Muheng discovered? This is closely related to Xiaomei's disappearance. Yan Muheng discovered through the black cat that there might be a secret at the murder scene.

The black cat had been luring Yan Muheng's attention to it at that time, and then hid in the shadows of the wall, hiding its entire body, revealing only a pair of blue pupils.

So what is Yan Muheng's judgment? The blue object that stands out in the black, the secret hidden in the blue, these two things make him unable to see the truth. To sum it up, it's an illusion, and there is a place in the murder room where there is an optical illusion that makes people ignore the truth.

Of course, it is impossible for Yun Yeyao to know the hints brought by the black cat, so he can only rely on his instincts and judgment. The large area of blood in the center of the room had dried up, turning from bright red to brown, and in some places it had even turned black. After the entrails and corpses were removed, a little bit of minced flesh remained on the bed.

The scraps were clinging to the thick bedding and were almost all mixed with blood, and it was impossible to tell them apart without looking closely. There were also large dark brown stains on the floor around the bed.

Expand your gaze a little further, looking at the places that have not been soaked in blood, the printed tables and chairs on the right hand, and the wardrobe against the wall on the left, these furnishings are already familiar to Yun Yeyao, because every room is almost the same.

Yun Yeyao frowned and thought. He found that the wardrobe was so dirty that no one could put clothes in it, and the hidden doors of the wardrobe looked unnatural.

Most of the people's luggage was on the floor of the room, and Yun Yeyao remembered a few words from the butler, and when he first mentioned the unconscious, he said that the rooms in this tower were the best of all the rooms. Now it seems that it was clearly an excuse to put the wounded here, and no one knew the condition of the house at the time.

Then it was downstairs for breakfast, because Liu Hang mentioned that his watch was missing, and the housekeeper explained that there was no bedside table here, maybe it was put in a drawer under the bed by the maid, which was also lying. According to the previous understanding, Liu Hang got up at less than five o'clock, and the housekeeper himself admitted that all the family members of this family started working at half past five this morning.

Yun Yeyao stretched out his hand and pulled at the soft object, "It seems that someone found the anomalous color here and took the coat away, so the prisoner will be forced to cover it up with blood." This thought was like a beacon that illuminated Yun Yeyao's mind, causing him to pay attention to certain subtleties that he would not otherwise pay much attention to.

In order to cover up the deadly blackness, the prisoners cut the corpse into that shape and took out all the internal organs, just so that no place was missed. But he was in such a hurry that he had no time to confirm everything and had to leave. In this way, those men will be suspected, including Liu Hang and Lian Fan.

However, Yun Yeyao believes that it is impossible for Liu Hang to kill people, because Liu Hang has a complete alibi, and how his alibi was formed, Yun Yeyao has no way to elaborate at present, in short, Liu Hang not only helped them but also himself because of his unexpected actions.

The body continued to lean downward with the color, and among the red and black in the eyes, Yun Ye Yao found two inky blue 'pearls', just like the pupils of a cat at night.

No wonder every room is covered up with that color, it turns out that it is like this, the outside is camouflaged, and the inside is a hint, it is really a simple and practical method. Yun Yeyao sighed slightly in her heart, holding on to the edge that was no longer covered by cloth with one hand, and pulling the top of the blue 'pearl' with the other hand.

Soon, two delicate things were held in the palm of his hand, and two small black holes appeared somewhere at the same time, which did not feel so conspicuous under the cover of blood.

Half of the secrets that Yan Muheng thought of have now been cracked by Yun Yeyao, but the other half, which is even simpler, has been ignored by the actor because there is no hint of the black cat. At this moment, Yun Yeyao's attention was focused on the place that he had pushed hard just now and had not opened, and walked there again.

After Yan Muheng walked through the hanging staircase, he easily entered the bell tower, and at this time, he looked down and found something different, which made him begin to believe Liu Hang's words.

Under the body, you can actually see the eaves of the main house, although it is blocked by the white and snow-covered platform, Yan Muheng can still vaguely see the eaves raised. The platform itself is built under the suspension ladder to prevent someone from inadvertently falling and causing fatal injury, but the role of the platform here should be more than that.

The deliberately curly hair was now as messy as a straw nest, and his hands were full of pieces of flesh that he didn't know what they were. Finding someone coming in, the woman threw the thing in her hand at the person in horror, and her mouth kept screaming.

Due to the rebound of the metal wall, this scream was particularly harsh, almost deafening Yan Muheng's ears.

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?

For the first time, Yan Muheng felt that Liuqiaopu was also a little unreliable, of course he would not have thought that Wen Manman was delivering food, because in this case, few people could think of eating.

"Who allowed you to come here?" Yan Muheng blurted out and yelled at Wen Manman, the scar on his face looked particularly terrifying in the girl's eyes at the moment.

Wen Manman said tremblingly: "It was Grandpa Liu who asked me to come over to help, and also, to bring you food!" ”

"Deliver food?" Yan Muheng was a little unsure.

Wen Manman continued: "It's dinner! Have you forgotten your dinner? This time, the little girl's voice was a little louder, probably to give herself courage.

"Since it's a meal delivery, let's quickly put down the food and go back, don't come over again!" Yan Muheng was afraid that Wen Manman would see those ugly corpses further, and he would lose control and frighten the restaurant proprietress inside the bell even more.

But the little girl stood still and did not move. Yan Muheng glared at her and said, "Let you hurry up and leave and hear?!" ”

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

"It's me, Venmanman."

"Manman, haven't you gone back to the main house yet?" Sister Wang was a little puzzled and continued to ask.

"Sister Wang, open the door quickly, I have something to ask you."

Hearing Wen Manman's request, Sister Wang put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked towards the door, and when she opened the door, she saw Wen Manman standing at the door sweating profusely.

"What's wrong with you? What are you doing in such a hurry? ”

"It's nothing, let me go in." Wen Manman entered the room, closed the door with his hand, and then said to Sister Wang: "I need to change into horrible clothes now, don't ask why, wait for Mr. Yan to explain, I must change my clothes as soon as possible." Mr. Qiao, can you go to the door and wait for a while? ”

After Wen Manman finished speaking, Sister Wang and Qiao Keli looked at each other, and they didn't know what medicine she was selling in her gourd, but since Yan Muheng knew, it had something to do with the investigation, and it was possible that Yan Muheng and Yun Yeyao wanted Wen Manman to do something as a little maid.

Chokley stood up and said, "Okay, but only for ten minutes, there are sick and wounded here, I can't leave for too long." ”

"Five minutes is enough, we'll be quick." While speaking, Wen Manman was already taking off his coat in order to hurry up, and Qiao Keli had to walk towards the door immediately.

Outside, the dark-skinned, unsightly Mr. 'Chocolate' leaned against the door, and he listened carefully to the movement in the room, and now there could be no more accidents, and he had to be more careful.

Sure enough, it only took five minutes for Wen Manman to come out of the room dressed in horror, and her hairstyle was deliberately taken care of by Sister Wang, as close to the terrifying appearance as possible.

After leaving the room, she quickly ran towards the bottom of the tower where Liu Hang was, and Qiao Keli asked Sister Wang as she returned to the room, "What is she doing?" Did Mr. Yan find something from the bell tower? ”

"Maybe!" Of course, Sister Wang couldn't figure it out, so she could only answer like this.

Leaving the two men aside, it is clear to us that Venmanman's purpose is to play the role of Terror and make the proprietress in the bell trust her, so that she can rescue the proprietress of the restaurateur safely.

But Wen Manman obviously didn't want her to say any more, and the girl plucked up her courage, poked her head into the mechanical room of the big clock, put a finger to her lips, and whispered, "Shhhhhhhhhh Quiet, let's go out for a walk. ”

"Good! I'm so lonely if you don't come to work, because sometimes it's ...... to be scared."

"Shhhh The housekeeper is downstairs! We have to be careful! Wen Manman continued to signal the proprietress to silence, this time it seemed to have a little effect, the proprietress stopped talking, but she still stared at Wen Manman in a daze. There was no movement under his feet.

After guiding a few times, Wen Manman didn't let the proprietress out of the big bell, Yan Muheng, who was on the side, was a little anxious, and he asked, "Manman, what are you talking about?" Hurry up! ”

"It's almost over, Mr. Yan, be patient!" Wen Manman's voice came from inside the mechanical room, muffled, and it was obvious that she couldn't be too loud, so as not to frighten the proprietress who had managed to regain her composure.

Immediately afterwards, Wen Manman suddenly retracted his head from the big bell, Yan Muheng thought that the proprietress was coming out, so he hurriedly looked over, but he was scolded by Wen Manman: "Mr. Yan, she will be frightened again as soon as you come out, or you will retreat to Liu Hang first, and wait for me The proprietress will be safely sent to the brown tower and then take over!" ”

"But I'm walking away, what if the proprietress goes crazy and pushes you down? I can't put your safety at risk. Yan Muheng said coldly. His face can't make many expressions due to the limitations of the scar, so it always makes people feel cold.

"It doesn't matter, the proprietress has already decided that I am a terrible person, so she will not be a danger to me." ”

"Okay, then be careful yourself, and if there's anything wrong, just call me out loud, you know?" Yan Muheng left the suspension ladder uncomfortably and returned to the brown tower, but he could see that his dark eyes were still on the edge of the door, and he kept looking towards Wen Manman.

After driving away Yan Muheng, Wen Manman cautiously returned to the bell tower and said to the proprietress: "The housekeeper has left, he won't know about my part-time job in your restaurant, and you don't have to worry that I will tell the people in this family about you, come on, come outside, let's go to the snow together." ”

It's clear that what Wemanman says inside and outside the mechanical room is very different, and it's not just about reassuring the boss's wife. It seems that Wen Manman seems to know someone named Shu Xue. But what does she have to do with Shu Xue? This is really puzzling.

Liu Qiaopu always believed that Grandma Tang should be the most innocent of these people, and he had a good impression of this old lady from the beginning, but this was not the most important point. The most important thing is that Grandma Tang once opened an early education center, and she understands the basic knowledge of some simple trauma and emergency rescue.

Since she said what she said just now, it means that she has seen a little clue, so Liu Qiaopu did not directly reject her question, but took delaying measures. After the house is fully opened, the rest of the people will always know what is going on, and it is just to hide it for the time being, so as not to panic them too much.

Therefore, it is a good idea to delay it now and then act on the opportunity. If you blindly refuse strongly, it will lead to more suspicion from others.

The conversation between the two made Yaya, who was lying in Grandma Tang's arms, move slightly, and she opened her hazy eyes and asked Grandma, "What time is it?" ”

"You don't care so much, just sleep in grandma's arms with peace of mind. I'll wake you up when I get back to my room! When Grandma Tang turned around to comfort her granddaughter, she also temporarily suspended her questioning of Liu Qiaopu.

Taking advantage of this moment, Liu Qiaopu stood up and walked towards the entertainment room, after sitting for too long at night, he felt a sore back, just to see what those people in the entertainment room were doing?

Just hearing the noisy sound made Liu Qiaopu a little uneasy. At this moment, the barrier between the dining room and the kitchen has been fully opened, and in the kitchen, the fully recovered cook, Tao Muqing, and Xia Tomato, who came in to help instead of Wen Manman, are cleaning up the kitchen utensils that have not been taken care of since the afternoon.

The rest of the people were all in the recreation room, and when Liu Qiaopu entered, he happened to see Qin Sen poking his head out from behind the built-in staircase of the recreation room.

"What did you do?" Liu Qiaopu frowned and asked.

Qin Sen seemed to be very unhappy, and he said, "Grandpa Liu, I'll go to the toilet!" ”

"But there's snow on you."

"There's snow?" Qin Sen looked left and right at his shoulders, and then fiddled with his hands in his hair a few times, and sure enough, white snowflakes fell one after another.

He himself thought it was strange, and whispered, "Alas! What's going on? The window in the toilet didn't open either! As he spoke, he looked back in the direction of the toilet.

There was no one in the dark corridor, and after observing both ends of the night, Yun Yeyao quickly shifted his position. He didn't plan to listen to Liu Qiaopu's words and let Yan Muheng explore, the strange events in this house had aroused Yun Yeyao's strong interest, and he wanted to study all the truths by himself.

A glimpse of his future way of life was now dimly revealed in the remote mind of the night, and before he knew it, he began to look for the scenery he loved, a landscape between darkness and light, as mesmerizing as the flowers of hell in bloom.

Since experiencing the baptism of the goddess of tragedy, Yun Yeyao has become more and more eager to move towards the scenery of his dreams, and this desire is stronger than ever, which also makes him look forward to being able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Xie Yunmeng.

The actor had the courage to grope his way in the direction where the footsteps had just left, where there was no bottom as if it were an endless black hole, and soon, the slender figure was swallowed up by ink, and there was no trace of it anymore.

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Here we have to explain three questions first: first, why did the black cat act to guide Yan Muheng to find clues.

In fact, it is impossible for the black cat to know the clues of the homicide, and it only shows that it is a habit that it has been trained to retain. From the previous conversations between the people in the treacherous house, we can understand that the black cat is definitely not the pet of this family.

And at night, the doors at both ends of the brown tower have been sealed, how can Black Dream get in? So the only explanation is that the black cat was brought into the brown tower by someone in their luggage. And this little guy must be professionally trained, otherwise he wouldn't be so well-behaved.

Someone who knows the secrets of the Treacherous House takes the black cat into the tower and lets it out, exhibiting those strange behaviors in front of other strangers, intentionally or unintentionally reminding people of something strange about it.

Further reasoning, the reason why so many strange events happened in this house on the first day of everyone's stay may have something to do with the people who brought the black cat in. Why kill the housekeeper? Hiding the restaurateur's lady in a big clock? It's generally thought to be to protect secrets, but if we think about it the other way, it's also the fastest way to expose secrets, isn't it?