Lobby.

Ning Qing, Lin Yu, and Chu Xiaohe each sat in a corner around the fire.

Do not interfere with each other, do not communicate with each other.

It had been more than half an hour since Wan Kun and his wife went upstairs to investigate.

It's been too long.

Even if the two of them check it carefully, ten minutes is enough.

Ning Qing didn't see the two of them return for a long time, and a trace of worry couldn't help but rise in her heart, and she immediately spoke: "I'll take a look." ”

After speaking, he took his flashlight and walked to the stairs, but he stopped at the staircase on the first floor for a long time and did not step on the steps.

He hesitated, did not dare to go up.

In the end, I chose to call out loudly on the first floor, hoping that something would be rewarded.

"Wan Kun—"

"Wan Kun—"

"When you hear it, you should say it!"

"Yao Silian—"

"Yao Silian—"

“...”

A shout spread and echoed in the narrow corridor, and it lasted for a long time.

Long... Still no response.

Ning Qing was silent, her brows furrowed slightly.

I couldn't help but feel a sense of foreboding in my heart, wondering if something had happened to the other party.

The two of them went up for a long time, except for the faint sound of the door opening and closing at the beginning, and there was no movement at the back.

What the hell is going on, not even a single shout can be heard!

He wanted to go upstairs to find out, but his legs kept switching back and forth between stepping and closing his feet, and he hesitated for a long time.

"Whew~"

With a long exhale, he suppressed the thoughts that were about to stir in his head, and gave up the idea of going upstairs to investigate.

is worried that Wan Kun and his wife may have encountered an accident, and they are also worried about whether this is a trap set by the other party, luring themselves and Lin Yu and others to come up alone to check.

After all, a murderer is a murderer, so how can we talk about trust and peace.

He didn't dare to bet on this possibility, and there was no need to bet.

If the other party has already encountered an accident, even if he goes up by himself, it will be more than lucky.

If it's just a trap set by the other party, although he is not scary with his skills, he is also afraid of a disaster.

Then he turned around and returned to the lobby, and as soon as he sat down, he remembered Lin Yu's inquiry.

"No response?"

"Hmm." Ning Qing nodded.

After that, there was no word, and the lobby fell into a new round of silence again.

Long

Lin Yu thought for a while and said, "I pondered, with the current situation, the Wankun couple should no longer think about what means to use. ”

glanced up at Ning Qing and Chu Xiaohe, and then analyzed: "It's very likely that something happened, otherwise there wouldn't have been a response at all." ”

This is indeed the biggest possibility, as long as the Wan Kun couple are not stupid, they don't have to deliberately set a trap, and continue to maintain a relationship of mutual checks and balances with everyone, and they can go their separate ways when the rain is over tomorrow.

"I don't think we should go up and have a look? Otherwise, it would be too passive and tortured to stay! Lin Yu proposed.

Ning Qing glanced up at him, and quickly withdrew his gaze, silent.

"I'm going to go to you two, I'm not interested in their lives anyway." Chu Xiaohe's two pairs of eyelids were weakly deaf, yawning slightly, and looking tired.

"Brother Ning, are you sure you don't want to go with me to have a look?" Lin Yu asked.

Ning Qing shook her head: "No." ”

When Lin saw the two of them with such an attitude, he understood that no one would go to the second floor with him, but he didn't care, and said with an indifferent face: "Okay, since you two are afraid of this and that, it seems that I can only go up and take a look myself." ”

The words fell, and he left.

Chu Xiaohe saw Lin Yu's figure disappear before he said lightly: "Hmm... Another one went to die... That's nice! ”

Hearing this, Ning Qing's eyes froze and said, "It seems that you really know something!" ”

"No, I don't know anything, just know very well that they will die!"

......

...

Lin Yu held a knife in his right hand, held a flashlight in his left hand, and stepped on the narrow steps step by step, with thoughts in his heart.

If it is really the trap of the Wan Kun couple, it may not be possible to say how afraid they are, even if they are defeated with their own skills, at least they can get out of the way.

No matter how bad it is, he can still shout loudly for help, he doesn't believe that Ning Qing will sit idly by and watch, after all, they are all grasshoppers on a rope.

As long as he encounters an accident, the Wankun couple will be the strongest party, and the balance of mutual restraint will be broken at that time, which will only be bad and not good for Ning Qing.

He is not afraid of the living, let alone the dead.

Even the figure of the child who appeared mysteriously before, he never thought about the ghosts and gods.

When murdering a family of three in the Jiangcheng community, in order to disguise it as a false impression of the soul restoration case, he stayed with the corpse for several days.

Don't talk about ghosts and gods, I haven't even seen ghosts.

And the deaths of Wang Guangsheng and Zhang Jiaming have always been a mystery hanging in everyone's hearts.

Everyone doesn't admit that it was their own hands, so unless both of them were killed by another hidden murderer, otherwise, Lin Yu thinks that this can't be explained at all.

So

He was more inclined to believe that it was a trap for the Wankun couple, or that the Wankun couple had been killed by a strange murderer hiding on the island.

At this moment, his ears twitched slightly, and the flashlight slammed into the wooden plank above the staircase, and then up the small attic.

This is... The sound of glass marbles falling, sliding on the floor?

There is also the chaotic footsteps of children running in small steps, as if chasing slippery glass marbles.

Lin Yu held his breath and listened attentively, wanting to listen more carefully and get more information.

As a result, just a dozen seconds later, the small sound from upstairs had disappeared.

He learned ventriloquist skills from his elders since he was a child, and he knows the sounds produced by the collision of various objects.

What I just heard was indeed the sound of glass marbles and children's footsteps, yes, the question is where the children came from in the abandoned houses in the deserted village.

Standing still, his brow furrowed tighter and tighter, and after a while, the corners of his mouth began to turn up slightly, and he grinned wider.

In the end, it turned into a cruel and terrifying laugh that was even more cruel and terrifying than that of the demon, and the white teeth that were exposed were extremely sharp and terrifying.

'Oh yes! I almost forgot that there was a child in the courtyard. ’

'It should be you!' ’

Lin Yu put all his thoughts in his heart, but showed them on his face, "Let my brother come and see what you look like..."

Then he swept directly past the room on the second floor and walked straight to the small attic on the third floor.

'The footsteps are getting clearer...'

Listening to the faint footsteps overhead, the strange smile on his face grew stronger and stronger, and each step was slow and graceful, like a man-eating demon crawling out of hell.

It was neither long nor short, and soon he was standing in front of the wooden door of the small attic.

This was the first time he had been on the third floor, and he had no idea what the world was like behind the door.

Looking at the closed small wooden door, he did not push it open and walked in, but gently pressed his ear against the door panel.

There was another sound of glass marbles falling, the soft snort of a child, and the chaotic sound of chasing footsteps.