Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Strange Door

Sally's words took everyone by surprise.

"What do you mean you haven't seen a corpse?" The locust interjected, glaring angrily at Sally, his eyes full of anger.

Hearing the thunderous sound of the locust, Sally choked on her fear. Li Yi glanced at the locust with a slightly reproachful look, which calmed Sally's emotions.

"I'm just worried that as soon as this girl gets frightened, she will start talking nonsense." The locust slammed his fist into the doorway, this time without much force and without smashing any holes, but even so, his amazing strength almost made the entire ship tremble a little.

"It's okay, I'll ask." Li Yi glared at the locust and patted Sally on the back gently.

"You said you haven't seen a corpse, what's the matter?"

"That's it...... Didn't see it. Sally looked like she was about to cry, and she really couldn't explain it. This made Li Yi a little crying and laughing.

"When you say you haven't seen it, do you mean that you haven't seen a corpse at all, or have you seen a corpse, but it's gone?" Li Yi began to help Sally organize her thoughts.

"It's just that I haven't seen it in the first place!" Sally was adamant.

No wonder Sally wasn't so surprised when she came in. Li Yi raised his head and glanced at the locust, the big man did not have any change in expression, and stared at Sally motionlessly.

"Why?" Li Yi asked.

"Why?" Sally's eyes widened, she looked at Li Yi and began to reminisce. "At that time, I wanted to go into the room and see what was going on...... But I didn't go in. ”

"The door is locked, and it's locked from the inside." Sally said.

"Are you sure?" Li Yi felt that Sally's words were a little incredible.

"You can't be wrong." Sally's eyes sparkled, and she pulled a bunch of keys from her neckline and jingled them. "This is the key, the door of the general cabin, we can all open it, although we generally don't rush in, but as long as the door is not locked, we can come in."

Li Yi thought about Guan Qiao here, stood up, he wandered behind the door, and his slender fingers picked up the door lock. The door is made of yellow wood with a light specific gravity, and Li Yi does not distinguish the wood material, which is obviously not a common tree species in the interior. He gently stroked the wooden door, and the whole thing was intact.

Li Yi's attention was the lock on the door. He noticed that this kind of lock could not be reversed, which was more common in the inland 80s, and was a simple spring structure, and as far as he knew of "friends", there were not a few "masters" who could easily open this kind of lock.

The anti-lock is actually very simple, it is a common padlock in the 80s, not an electronic lock or a tongue plug lock, although the padlock structure is very simple, but relative to the tongue plug structure, it is not easy to force open.

Li Yi touched the chains and ditches on the lock, and to his surprise, both were in good condition.

"Are you sure you want to lock it up?" Li Yi asked again.

Sally nodded, and she stood on tiptoe, her small hand grasping the padlock.

"I'm pretty sure, because the door itself wasn't locked from the outside, and I think the guest probably forgot about it, but as soon as I pushed the door, I found it hanging." Sally frowned and continued.

"Then I smell the blood in the house." Sally, as if unwilling to continue, suddenly stopped.

"The smell of blood?" Li Yi frowned, and repeatedly studied the structure of the padlock, the lock of the padlock and the depth of the ditch were sufficient, and there were no traces of destruction, it was obvious that it could not be a forcibly damaged door.

"So you're going to look for locusts right away?

Li Yi glanced at the locust and asked.

"Nope." Sally shook her head, at this time, the young girl seemed to have calmed down, as far as the children Li Yi knew, this girl's mood was indeed different.

"I've tried banging on the door and getting in, or that way." Sally said. "You close the door and lock it."

Li Yi nodded, watched Sally withdraw to the door, he closed the door and slid the head of the padlock into the ditch, so that the padlock was fastened, and it was impossible to open the door from the outside unless the door was broken together.

"For me, there's another way." Sally was a little proud, she suddenly removed the thick cotton core sleeves on her arms, and her smooth and slender arms were exposed.

Sally slammed the door open in front of everyone, and the padlock door leaked a gap, just enough for Sally's arm to enter, and she didn't hesitate to put her hand inside.

"Like this, I'll be able to open the door from the inside." Sally said and did the same, leaning against the door, her arms reaching into the room, groping around the walls and tugging at the padlock.

"That's, this, that's it." Although she touched the lock, Sally's arm was not long enough after all, she used her strength to feed, and her little face was flushed, so she took off the padlock behind the door, and the wooden door that lost resistance was immediately opened by Sally's weight.

Sally saw that her steps were unsteady and she was about to fall, so Li Yi, who was standing behind the door, took Sally and gently lowered her sleeves.

Li Yi's eyes were focused on Sally's arm, the pale red arm with some sunburn marks was smooth and beautiful, but at the shoulder, he noticed a trace coiled around the arm and spreading half of his body.

Sally also seemed to notice Li Yi's gaze, and she immediately withdrew her arm, covering it with one hand, her face crimson.

Li Yi didn't ask much, he looked at the padlock attentively.

"So you were allowed to come in?" Li Yi asked with a frown. "So, Sally, why don't you come in?"

"I ...... I don't know. Sally was a little flustered, her face and breath were a little confused.

"Don't be nervous, just tell me what you remember. I don't doubt you, rest assured. Li Yi patted Sally on the shoulder.

Sally nodded.

"Usually, except for the eldest sister, no one else knows, and I haven't mentioned it much, because I don't usually open the door like this." Sally explained.

"Big sister?" Li Yi asked.

"It's the foreman we cleaned up, and she's on vacation today, so she's not there." Sally squinted, suddenly her tone was a little meaningful, and she lowered her voice and said to Li Yi: "You don't have eyes, her figure is the best." ”

I don't know where this little girl learned the philistine slang, which almost made Li Yi a little dazed, he smiled, relieved the embarrassment, and continued to ask: "Then you were worried about this that day, so you didn't go in?" ”

Sally shook her head and bit her lip.

"I can't get in." She said firmly.

Now everyone began to talk, they saw Sally enter the house, and now the little girl seemed to be crazy, saying that she couldn't get in.

"Mr. Li Yi, I don't think you should waste time on this girl." The locust clasped her hands in front of her chest and sneered: "She can't talk by herself, she can't get in front and back, she can't get in if she locks the door, she can unlock it, and she can't see the corpse, let me tell you, she has a mental problem." ”

The locust poked himself in the temple, emphasizing his mental "diagnosis" of Sally.

Li Yi smiled and didn't say anything

Sound. There was also some discussion in the crowd, and the inconsistencies and upside-down statements against the little girl were no longer credible.

"Can't get in." Li Yi tossed and turned repeatedly, and began to wander left and right in the house. "The smell of blood, the smell of blood."

"Sally, do you think there are any bodies in the room?" Li Yi stopped, looked at Sally, and asked.

"I don't know." Sally still couldn't answer.

"This girl, I don't know anything." The locust couldn't hold back his temperament, and his thick arms were about to push Sally aside, but Li Yi stopped him.

"Don't worry, I already know what's going on." Li Yi replied confidently.

"But she said she didn't know." The locust was stunned, looking puzzled.

"Not knowing is also a kind of information, isn't it?" Li Yi smiled and subconsciously touched the padlock, which was shaped like a weight, playing with it in his hand.

"Don't know? Anything else? There was a complicated light in the locust's eyes.

"Of course." Li Yi squatted down and looked at Sally. "You say you don't know, meaning you can't see what's going on in the room, can I say that?"

As soon as Li Yi's question was raised, a "huh" sound came out of the crowd.

"This ......," Sally nodded, shrinking her head. It's really weird, usually I can see the room through the crack in the door, but not this time. ”

Li Yi smiled and patted Sally's head, a hint of sharpness flashed in her eyes.

"I have a general understanding of the situation." He replied with a smile. "It's not surprising to you, it's actually very simple, it's just a little trick, and it's only natural that Sally can't get into the room."

"But she's just demonstrated it all." There was a smell of gunpowder in the locust's tone, and the object of everyone's suspicion gradually turned to Sally, and the spearhead seemed to be pointed at one person.

"If it were a normal padlock, Sally would have been able to get in, just like we had just done with it. But you might as well think about it, if Sally really wants to hide it, why would she go out of her way to show it to us? Li Yi's eyes shone brightly.

"What kind of reasoning is this!" Discontent erupted in the crowd.

"That's it, you can say it both positively and negatively!"

"You mean, in such a short period of time, did the murderer change all the door locks?"

As soon as these words were uttered, the crowd burst into laughter, but after a moment, everyone fell silent, and the sharp eyes of the locusts swept over everyone.

"If I'm not wrong about my assumptions, the padlock is stuck in the doorway, and you just need to turn the chain around the handle on the lock and easily get the door stuck, like this."

Li Yi held the chain, bypassed the lock on the door, and after about two laps, locked the door again.

"In this case, you can try to push the door." Li Yi stood in the room, and his voice buzzed out.

Someone stepped forward to try, pressed one hand on the door, pushed in, just turned the fan, the door was pulled by the iron chain, and it couldn't move, no matter how hard it tried, it was useless.

"Such a gap, let alone put your hand in, even if you take a look at it quietly, I'm afraid you can't see anything clearly."

Li Yi said with a smile. "It's just the smell of blood, am I right?"

"...... so"

A few good deeds stepped forward and stood in front of the door, but from the outside in, they really couldn't see anything, and they couldn't even put their fingers into the door.

Li Yi unlocked the door lock and came to a conclusion.

"So Sally, objectively speaking, is not the first discoverer of the corpse."