(September 23) countdown day 98

15 km west of City C.

At the end of a mountain road connects a town that has been almost forgotten by time.

The town is Mizuki Town, which runs from west to east, like a crooked ship lying quietly in the valley. A bluestone road is about 3 kilometers long, stretching from the bow to the stern of the boat, forming the main street of the town.

The corners of the bluestone slabs are smooth and badly worn, silently recording the traces of the passage of time. Occasionally, slate disappeared, like a few unsightly patches scattered across the street. The shops on the first floor and one bottom are high and low, facing the street. Tea shops, barber shops, grocery shops, and restaurants are all available. The pavement is all wooden structure, and the ground floor is used for a living, and the upstairs is lived. On the door panels of several shops, there are still slogans from the red period, and white characters such as long live and quotations are still faintly recognizable. The door of one of the shops was closed, and a finger-thick iron bar was laid across the board, with an iron lock hanging at each end. The iron bars and locks are rusty, and along with the broken slogans, stubbornly stuck in the depths of time.

Slope down the bluestone pavement, and at the end there is a small two-story wooden building. The wooden building is the stern of the town, half-hidden in the woods. After that, it gradually transitions into the deep forests of the valley, where it blends in with the verdant mountains.

Built in the late Qing Dynasty, the wooden building was once a famous mansion in the town, owned by a family of traditional Chinese medicine. During the Revolution, the mansion was copied, and the family of traditional Chinese medicine was scattered elsewhere. A few years ago, a wealthy businessman stumbled upon this dilapidated small building and bought it to be renovated in its old appearance for occasional vacations. Later, the wealthy businessman emigrated overseas with his family, and the daughter of the wealthy businessman asked her best friend from college to take care of the wooden building on her behalf.

The good friend of the rich businessman's daughter is Yao Xiaofei, who suddenly disappeared from the world in City C.

Yao Xiaofei was standing at the door of the small building at this time.

This is the second time she has come to Mizuki Town, and her friend invited her to come once before immigrating. Yao Xiaofei also persuaded her friends to sell the small building. My friend said that selling it was like cutting off contact with this town and C City, and I thought about it, "In case I can't get along with the United States, I'll have a nest when I come back." ”

Now in danger, this small building has become Yao Xiaofei's most ideal hiding place.

She looked at it for a moment, then pushed open the courtyard door. The aisle connecting the courtyard gate to the gate on the first floor is planted with flowers and plants on both sides. The flowers and plants were neglected and spread down the aisles. She carefully walked through the aisle and opened the door.

Unlike the weather-beaten exterior, the interior of the small building is equipped with all modern facilities. In the center of the hall is a table that can be moved at any time, which can accommodate more than 10 people at the same time. The left side of the hall is connected to the kitchen, which is equipped with modern tableware and kitchen utensils; The right side is connected to the toilet, and the toilet, bathtub and other bathing equipment are the same.

On the wall at the front of the hall, a large oil painting occupies more than half of the wall, which is particularly conspicuous. The oil painting is Leonardo da Vinci's famous "Mona Lisa". Of course, this is an imitation of the original in the Louvre in Paris. For hundreds of years, thousands of people around the world have tried to decipher the Mona Lisa, or the code hidden by Leonardo da Vinci in this painting, and no one has yet discovered the full truth.

Yao Xiaofei stood in front of the oil painting, silently watching the smile of the Mona Lisa, as if she wanted to find the answer she wanted through the eyes of the person in the painting, which hid countless secrets—who was the middle-aged man who appeared at the scene of the murder in the Yuebanwan apartment, and what secrets were hidden behind him.

She looked at it for a moment, going up the built-in escalator in the hall to the second-floor hallway. To the left of the hallway are two guest bedrooms, and to the right is a master bedroom plus a study. Each bedroom has a bathroom, and the bathroom in the master bedroom is also separated by wooden panels to create a small sauna and steam room. The study has a secret door connecting the master bedroom to the balcony. The balcony is a 4-square-meter space that flies out to the right next to the study, and can also be accessed through the corridor on the second floor. A set of wooden chairs sits in the corner of the balcony, dusty. With a swipe of the index finger, a scratch is clearly left on the tabletop.

After inspecting the room, she went to the door of the courtyard, placed two empty wine bottles on the horizontal shelf behind the door panel, and then tried to keep the flowers and plants on the passage as they were, entered the hall and closed the door, took the suitcase to the second floor, and entered the study through the secret door in the master bedroom.

She turned on the desktop computer on her desk, typed in the password, and retrieved the relevant information from a hidden folder. According to the information prompts, the small building monitoring system was successfully started. Sitting in the study like this, she can see the whole building inside and out. If she connects the monitoring system to her mobile phone, she can also remotely monitor the building.

She was about to do this, but as if she remembered something, she stopped.

Sitting in a hidden secretary's room in a secret building in this hidden town, she had a little rest.

After a thrilling escape for most of the day, the stomach lost no time in protesting. She took out the food she had purchased after getting rid of the tracking vehicle in the morning, and while eating, she thought that she would have to take time to go to the town to buy more food, and some daily necessities. She didn't know how long she would have to hide here, and she believed that the man would not find her easily. "I know you have a younger sister, her name is Yao Xiaoyi, right?" she didn't dare to think about it. My sister is her weakness, a faint pain hidden in the bottom of her heart.

She shoved a snack into her mouth and opened the news website to search for news about the progress of the murder in the Moon Banwan apartment.