However, the night was not peaceful. We didn't get through the night.

"Ah!!h

A loud female scream came from downstairs, followed by a chaotic noise, human voices, footsteps, and the shattering of some bottle falling to the ground, mixed with the sound of the wind howling outside the window and the dense sound of rain.

Azure and I were woken up almost at the same time. I looked up, looked up at Azure who was lying on the bed and was just as confused as I was, and then quickly got up and rushed out the door before I could get dressed.

At this time, the wind was blowing outside the villa. As I went downstairs, the snow-white lightning reflected my shadow on the wall from time to time. These were accompanied by the rumbling of thunder outside and the rustling of raindrops hitting the ground. Azure and I ran to the top of the stairs and found that the lights in the entire villa hall had been turned off, and the whole living room was pitch black.

But we could still vaguely see the figure downstairs.

I didn't care so much, and ran down the stairs as fast as I could, shouting as I ran:

"Wu Xi, is that you? What's going on down here, are you all okay?! ”

Her voice could be heard from the darkness below:

"Brother Feng, great, you're still there! Come and see! Something happened! ”

Hearing her words, my heart tightened, and my heartbeat began to gradually increase. Such a rainy night, such a dark and thunderstormy night, really does not remind people of anything good.

I followed the sound to find Wu Xi. Teal is not far behind. Zhang Yiming, Qingliu and Li Hao, who were still sleeping on the sofa, were also woken up by our voices at this time, and they looked at us suspiciously, obviously not knowing what was going on.

In the darkness, I could faintly see her frightened expression, a pair of huge eyes glaring at me like bells, and her eyes were full of twinkle of fear. Through the faint light outside the window, I could see her pale face and trembling lips.

"What's going on?" Seeing this, the other three immediately began to feel alert.

Wu Xi turned around tremblingly, raised a hand, and pointed to our back on the head.

At this time, a lightning bolt outside the window instantly pierced the night sky, and also illuminated the entire hall of the villa.

It was a corpse. It was hanging steadily from a chandelier not far above our heads. Through the light of lightning, we can clearly see that the corpse is staring at us with round eyes and a wide open mouth, as if some comedian is laughing at us from above.

Lightning shone out of her white face and lifeless body. That corpse is none other than Hong Jialu, who has not appeared tonight.

After we got the bodies down from the heights, everyone fell silent. The six of us, just like that, surrounded the corpse, in the utter darkness of the hall, silent. Every now and then, a flash or two of lightning outside the window illuminates the hall, and through the lightning, Hong Jialu's white corpse feels more and more unreal.

I closed my eyes, completely unexpectedly that such a thing would happen when I came to a class reunion.

"Let's examine the body." Qing Liu's words broke the silence.

is also a policeman, Qingliu always seems exceptionally calm in such matters. The rest of us stared at him, with a hint of helplessness and despair in our eyes. At this time, Wu Xi, who found the body, did not bear such a fright, she wrapped her hands around her shoulders, squatted on the ground tremblingly, and cried loudly.

I can understand how she feels. Maybe as a criminal investigation policeman, or he has long been accustomed to such scenes, but Wu Xi is just a criminal investigation consultant after all, and he often only sits in the office to understand all the information about the crime and provide the direction of the idea of solving the case, and does not often come to the scene in person.

Weilan squatted down and hugged Wu Xi, trying to comfort her emotions. The other four of us men looked at each other, nodded tacitly, and began to try to examine Hong Jialu's body in such an environment.

"Haozi, you are the owner of this villa, go find the power switch. We need light. Teal, call the police. "I said to Li Hao and Weilan.

Weilan, who was still comforting Wu Xi, turned around and nodded at me, and then took out her mobile phone from her pocket to dial.

"Well, the power is outside the house near the garage, I might have to wait a little while to come over, you can use this for a while." As he spoke, he took a candle from a cabinet at the other end of the living room, handed it to us, and went to check the power.

We lit a few candles with a lighter and placed the candles around the corpse.

Such a picture is very weird. Qingliu and I, Zhang Yiming, and the three of us surrounded Hong Jialu's corpse, it was pitch black all around, a circle of candles was lit around the corpse, the faint light of the candles was like hazy fireworks, next to it was Wu Xi who was squatting on the ground and crying, and outside the room was the howling wind and lightning that pierced the sky from time to time.

"Shao Feng," Wei Lan said at this time, "there is no signal. Now it's impossible to call outside at all. ”

"It may be that the storm destroyed the nearby telephone lines, and there are not many telephone lines in this mountain forest, and it is very likely that they have been damaged by lightning." Zhang Yiming said.

"Aren't we trapped in this hellish place?!" Hearing our words, Wu Xi, who was still crying, suddenly screamed again.

"Don't get excited. Otherwise, I'll drive to the police station right now and tell them to hurry here. Zhang Yiming said.

I thought to myself, that's the only way. Otherwise, we could really be trapped here, not to mention the fact that a human corpse has just been found here.

"Yiming, be careful. The rain was too heavy, and the distance was relatively long, so drive slowly. We'll leave it to us," I said.

Zhang Yiming looked at us, nodded solemnly, and then picked up the key on the table, put on his clothes and pushed the door out.

Qingliu and I continued to examine the body.

"The corpse's neck was blue, and there were signs of strangulation. There is an obvious blunt force trauma to the back of the head, if it is preliminary...... It should be something like a hammer. The cause of death is not known, but no other obvious trauma has been seen, and it can be tentatively judged to be death by asphyxiation...... Wait, what is this......"

Qing Liu said skillfully, but he seemed to have suddenly discovered something.

I followed his hand and looked over with the help of the faint light, and saw that there was a very thin black line on Hong Jialu's neck, which could not be seen if I didn't look closely.

"This is ......" he reached over and touched the black line, which was like a fragile hair, suddenly breaking a small gap.