Han Yu usually doesn't sleep very deeply, and in an unfamiliar environment, it is even more difficult to fall asleep when encountering such a strange and difficult case.

The Gu family's mansion is very large, and there are at least twenty rooms on the third floor, and Han Yu and Zhou Erya are arranged in the guest rooms on the second floor on the east side.

The rooms of the two were next to each other, separated by a wall.

Han Yu tossed and turned on the bed, and the small bed creaked, but Zhou Erya's room was very quiet, and there was no sound at all, as if there was no one living at all.

"Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou!"

Han Yu couldn't help but want to chat with Zhou Erya about the case, he knocked on the wall and called softly.

There was no response from the other side.

"Did you fall asleep so early?" Han Yu muttered and shook his head, staring at the fluorescent lamp on the ceiling with wide eyes.

This new type of bulb will have a dark blue light on the edges, showing a metallic coldness, making people feel that there is no warmth in the room, unlike the dim atmosphere of incandescent lamps.

Han Yu got up and pulled the light line.

The darkness instantly eroded the entire room, and Han Yu felt a chill soaking in it. At the same moment, he keenly noticed a light passing by outside the window.

"Someone's in the garden!"

He sat up, tore open a corner of the curtain, and looked downstairs.

The light flickered and disappeared, and there was silence outside the window.

The window of the guest room is facing the garden of the Gu family, separated by a shrub, which is actually the murder scene of Gu Bailu's death.

At this time, the body has been removed and placed in the side hall on the first floor, which is temporarily used as a mourning hall, and white candles have been lit and white lanterns have been hung, but the date of the funeral has not been set for the time being-Old Man Gu's meaning seems to be to find out the murderer.

The seeping white light shrouded a small flower bed in the west, but Han Yu was sure that the light just now was not coming from that direction.

Like the glow of a flashlight.

Han Yu thought about it for a while and looked at his watch, it was already eleven forty-five in the middle of the night.

In this era of common early bedtime, everyone should sleep soundly in their rooms, who would be active in the dark garden where the murder had just occurred?

Even if you are not afraid of the dark, are you not afraid of ghosts?

"Could it be that the killer wants to eliminate some evidence?"

They scrutinized the area around the scene during the day and found nothing, but the killer could also leave something behind and have to deal with it at night.

Thinking of this, Han Yu became nervous.

He thought about twisting the handle to open the door, trotted to Zhou Erya's door, and knocked on the door hurriedly.

"Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou!"

The door opened silently.

Zhou Erya was meticulously dressed, standing quietly at the door, looking at him silently.

Han Yu was stunned by the neatly dressed him: "You...... You haven't slept yet? ”

The light was on in the room, and the mattress was not messy, could it be that Zhou Erya had been sitting quietly in the dark?

"Not sleepy yet."

Zhou Erya didn't seem to intend to explain what he was doing, he frowned slightly and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I just saw what looks like there's someone in the garden."

Han Yu remembered the matter, didn't care about paying attention to irrelevant issues, and hurriedly pulled Zhou Erya downstairs.

Zhou Erya also became vigilant: "Let's go and see, you go and wake up Adjutant Cai, don't alarm others." ”

The atmosphere in the Gu Mansion is very depressing and tense now, and the strings in everyone's heads are very tight, and the slightest wind and grass may cause chaos.

Besides, everyone in the Western-style restaurant may be suspicious, even if they are looking for someone to help, they have to find someone who can be trusted.

Zhou Erya went downstairs, and Han Yu went to the first floor to wake up Adjutant Cai.

Adjutant Cai moved quickly, and in just one minute, he put on his military uniform and rushed to the door, which made people suspect that he, like Zhou Erya, had not slept at all.

The three of them flashlights carefully walked through the garden paths, patrolling in all directions.

"There was a gazebo in the depths of the garden, and next to it there was a flower room, where the gardener usually lived—but because of the murder, he did not dare to stay alone, and slept in the servant's room."

"So...... There's no one over there tonight. ”

Zhou Erya's brows furrowed, and a worried look appeared on her face.

Unsupervised no-man's land often means danger.

The eaves of the pavilion hooked the night, there were cracks on the wooden pillars, and a few spider silks fluttered in the wind, it seemed that the people of the Gu family did not often come here to move.

Han Yu squatted down and found a cigarette butt on the ground.

"Harder cigarettes, they shouldn't be smoked by gardeners."

The cigarette butts were still fresh, probably left over from just now, and there was a faint smell of smoke in the air.

Zhou Erya looked around, "Someone from the Gu family should have been here." ”

He lowered his head, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, and as far as his eyes could see, a patch of grass had been crushed, as if there were traces of dragging.

- This does not bode well.

"Let's take a look."

Zhou Erya motioned to Adjutant Cai.

Adjutant Cai pulled out the Browning pistol at his waist, bent on his waist, and walked forward slowly.

He's really experienced a hail of bullets, and of course he doesn't care about this kind of small scene.

"What will happen?"

Han Yu also had an ominous premonition, and he asked Zhou Erya, as if he was asking himself.

Zhou Erya gently tapped on the wooden pillars of the pavilion, listened to the empty sound, and said in a low voice: "It may be the worst outcome." ”

The worst outcome of a murder case is that the case has not been solved, and new victims have appeared.

Han Yu's heart tightened suddenly.

"Ahhh

On the other side of the forest, suddenly there was the sound of a woman crying and laughing, and a white shadow swept diagonally in the distance.

Han Yu was about to chase after him, but Adjutant Cai retreated from the grove with a serious face.

"There's a corpse in there."

He paused, looked at Zhou Erya, and said in a low voice: "It's the eldest son of the Gu family, Gu Qingming." ”

What the?

Han Yu was surprised, he had always felt that this eldest brother was suspicious, but he didn't expect him to die here.

Although death did not clear all his suspicions, it at least proved that there was another murderer.

"Is there anything special about the way you die?"

Zhou Erya is very calm and calm, he hates the breath of death, but he is not afraid of the arrival of death.

No matter how weird and terrible the dead were, in his eyes, it only increased the interest of research.

Adjutant Cai hesitated for a while, he also felt that the situation was weird, so he said very carefully: "Gu Qingming's fatal injury should be broken by someone. But...... The thumb, index and middle fingers of his right hand were cut off at the same root. ”

"Fingers?"

Han Yu and Zhou Erya glanced at each other.

Is this a sign of the Weaver's revenge?

Adjutant Cai nodded and added: "It looks like it was cut in a hurry, and the wound is still torn." The rest of the fingers were still intact, and when I looked at them roughly, there were no severed fingers nearby. ”

Is it because we're coming too fast? Han Yu muttered in his heart.

The murderer did not have enough time to set up the scene, and after discovering that several of them were coming this way, he hurriedly ran away, and he did not have time to cut off all his fingers, let alone finish placing them one by one.

"And besides that, there's this."

Adjutant Cai raised his hand, and a dead textile lady in the palm of his hand was stained with blood, reflecting an eerie glow in the moonlight.

Han Yu's stomach churned, and his face turned white.