"Who is it?!"

Xu Ruili snorted, and subconsciously touched the Qingluan crossbow hanging on his waist.

"Who's pretending to be a ghost here?"

Liu Haofei also shouted solemnly, without the slightest fear in his voice.

"Dada...... Da Da ...... Da Da Da ...... Dada......"

However, instead of stopping, the footsteps that had been at the end of the cloister suddenly became urgent, and the sound became closer and closer, as if the wild beast was rapidly approaching the two, but the two of them could not see anything.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Xu Rui held the Qingluan crossbow and faced the dark corridor, unable to pull the trigger for a long time, because he couldn't see the enemy in his eyes at all!

But in a short moment, the sound of hurried footsteps had already arrived in front of them, and the two of them were shocked, and they had prepared for the worst, but the sound did not stop, and it passed by the two of them non-stop and came behind them.

"Hey......

Before the two could react, she let out a bitter sneer behind them.

That thing went straight through us?!

At this moment, Xu Rui only felt his heart beat suddenly, and the hairs on his back instantly stood upside down, and he quickly turned the Qingluan crossbow to aim backwards.

But behind him was still a deep and dark corridor, and there was no half figure at all where the sound came from!

An evening breeze blew, and the jujube trees in the courtyard made a rustling sound, and the sneer and footsteps were all gone, as if they had never appeared.

"How so?!"

Xu Rui's heart jumped, the hand holding the Qingluan crossbow shook slightly, and before he could figure out what was going on, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the corridor.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!"

Several officers of the Criminal Department were late and rushed to the two of them quickly.

"She's gone."

Liu Haofei patted Xu Rui on the shoulder, Xu Rui was stunned, looked at him strangely, and saw that his face was full of regret, as if he was disappointed because he couldn't figure out the truth about the female ghost.

Xu Rui frowned, and looked at the messengers again, the messengers were out of breath, obviously hurrying from outside Liu's mansion.

"Where have you been?"

Liu Haofei asked coldly.

The chief officer wiped his cold sweat and said: "Back to the adults, the one who just delivered the meal came, and the little ones all went to the front hall to eat, and they hurriedly rushed over when they heard the movement here." ”

"Eat? Why don't you change shifts when you eat? ”

Liu Haofei asked again.

The officer replied, "The two adults are meditating inside, and the messenger said that they did not know that we were coming, and that the food prepared was not enough, so let the little ones hurry up and get it, otherwise the two adults will be hungry."

The little one was afraid that the adults would be hungry, and he thought that it would take a while to get the food, and the Tang Mansion was surrounded by three circles inside and three circles outside, and it was very safe, so he beckoned the brothers to go and grab the food first. ”

Xu Rui saw that the few errands who rushed over really had a few bowls of rice in their hands, and he thought that they were not lying, but all this was really so coincidental, or did someone deliberately want to act for himself?

If it is really acting, then what is the purpose of the actor? It can't be just to scare yourself, right?

Thinking of this, Xu Rui suddenly realized a possibility, and hurriedly asked the chief officer: "Everyone has gone to dinner?" Even Jinyiwei and Dongchang's fanzi went? ”

The errand officer didn't know why Xu Rui was suddenly so excited, and nodded in amazement.

Xu Rui's face changed: "Oh no! ”

"What's wrong?"

Liu Haofei asked puzzled.

Xu Rui grabbed Liu Haofei's wrist and said, "Where is the maid?" ”

Liu Haofei said: "I asked her to take her to the wing room to wait for interrogation......

Before he finished speaking, Liu Haofei's face suddenly changed, and the corridor where the footsteps came from was not the only way to the wing? Don't......

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he lifted his official robe and ran to the wing, Xu Rui followed closely behind him, not falling a step.

Seeing that the two adults were in such a hurry, the servants hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and also ran after them to the side room.

In the wing, the doors and windows of the room where the maid was located were closed, and there were candles lit inside.

But the strange thing is that Liu Haofei pushed the door violently, and the door didn't move.

Xu Rui was stunned, and hurriedly ran to the window to pull hard, but the window that should have been opened as soon as it was pulled still did not move at all, obviously the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

"Break the door!"

Liu Haofei exhaled urgently.

The officer behind him suddenly flew up and kicked the door open with a "pop".

As soon as the door opened, everyone was shocked.

It turned out that the maid in the room and the two brocade guards who were responsible for protecting her fell unconscious on their chairs, as if they were asleep.

Liu Haofei was the first to rush into the room, as if he was startled by the situation in the house, and let go of the room, frozen in place.

Xu Rui hurriedly rushed in, not caring about the difference between men and women, and immediately stretched out two fingers and pressed them on the maid's carotid artery, and his heart suddenly became half cold.

The maid still has residual warmth around her neck, but she has no pulse, she is dead, and she has just died!

He ripped off the maid's clothes and wanted to check the fatal wound, but heard Liu Haofei behind him speak faintly.

"Don't look at it, there will be no wounds, and it will die inexplicably, this is exactly the same as when this official first came to the Tang Mansion, except for Tang Jiuguang, Mrs. Tang and the personal maid, the rest of the more than a hundred deceased people are like this!"

Xu Rui was shocked, and then saw that the faces of the three deceased in the room were peaceful, as if they were asleep, which was indeed the same as the deceased he had just examined today.

He looked around, and his heart was slightly startled.

This room was a small reception room, with only one table and four chairs, and no one could be hidden except for the beams.

The doors and windows were locked from the inside, and regardless of why the people inside locked the doors and windows, this room was a real secret room.

"Murder in a closed room!"

Thinking of these five words, Xu Rui suddenly felt a little headache.

In addition, compared to the murder itself, another thing made Xu Rui even more frightened, the murderer was able to continue to kill people in the well-protected Tang Mansion, and the time was exactly right, and he used such a strange method, which can at least explain a few problems.

First, he or they could freely enter and leave the Tang Mansion under the strict supervision of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and the Criminal Department.

Second, he or they are well aware of the actions of their own people.

Third, the people or forces that can achieve the first two points must not be simple, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition.

Fourth, the errand officer who suddenly went to dinner, the female ghost who appeared inexplicably, and the murder case in the closed room in full view of everyone, all kinds of signs made Xu Rui come to a shocking conclusion that there must be an internal ghost in the "joint investigation team", whose status is not low, and it lurks around him.

At this moment, Xu Rui's eyes swept over the maid's clothes that had been pulled apart, and suddenly found that there was a warm jade pendant hanging from her close-fitting clothes.

He looked left and right, and saw that everyone was checking the other corpses, and did not pay attention to his movements, so he secretly took out the jade pendant.

Take a closer look, this jade pendant is only the length of the index finger, but the material is extremely high, the front of the jade pendant is engraved with a Tang character, at a glance it is an extremely valuable thing, it can never belong to a maid.

"Ahh

Suddenly, there were several exclamations in the room, Xu Rui's heart was shocked, and he hid the jade pendant in his sleeve.

Before he could turn his head to see what was going on, he heard Liu Haofei suddenly say in a daze: "Lord Xu, do you say that the female ghost really exists?" ”

Xu Rui turned his head in confusion, only to see Liu Haofei pushing open the window, his eyes were round, his mouth was big, and everyone was the same as him, looking out of the window in horror.

Xu Rui said that it was not good, and hurriedly followed their gaze to look out the window, only to see that there was a woman in white with a cloak on the white wall in the north, who was facing away from everyone, floating in the air gloomily.

Xu Rui's pupils shrank suddenly, this was the first time he had seen the so-called female ghost so truly, and the values and worldview that he had always adhered to in his heart suddenly wavered at this moment.

However, it was only for a moment, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in Xu Rui's mind, and his stunned face instantly recovered, and he sneered: "Ghost, it's really everywhere!" ”