Time: Around 8:30 a.m. the next morning after arriving at Asukusa Lodge

At this moment, all the people in the house already knew about Xiao Rou's killing, and Granny Yan, who was cooking downstairs, was no exception, so now, no one went down to eat breakfast on a large table on the table downstairs.

Fortunately, the weather was warm, and people didn't care if the food was getting colder.

Granny Yan was holding the preserved model in her hand, which was originally a replica with terrifying overtones, but she didn't show any surprise or fear in her mother-in-law's eyes.

She just took the thing in her hand and looked at it over and over again, and after a long time, Granny Yan spoke: "Isn't this a 'suppressed Sphinx?!' ”

"What? What is the 'Suppressed Sphinx'? Xie Yunmeng, who was examining the corpse, turned around and asked.

Granny Yan didn't explain immediately, she turned the model to Mr. Criminal Police and asked, "Do you think there is anything strange about the human figure behind this wooden board?" ”

Xie Yunmeng stood up, walked up to his mother-in-law and said, "Let's be straightforward, now that there has been a homicide, let's not speculate on this kind of trivial matter, is it another kind of prank you are doing!" ”

"No, it has nothing to do with pranks, it's a hobby of my sister."

"Your sister?" This time, not only Xie Yunmeng, but even the young men and women around her mother-in-law were a little surprised, because they had never heard that Granny Yan actually had an older sister.

The mother-in-law continued, "My sister is a very good model maker, and the life-size model dolls she makes are exactly the same as real people, and they are completely indistinguishable. However, my sister's hobby is to make cannibalistic models as terrifying as the Sphinx, and sometimes she will deliberately modify them. ”

"For example, you can create a lot of wounds on your face or something to make it scary, but it's a prop for pranks."

"Don't you little girls often ask me to make props for guessing puzzles and pranks? My sister made all of these things, and sometimes, she would appear in my place as a housekeeper for the day. Because the two of us look alike, usually when she doesn't wear makeup, no one can tell the difference between the two of us. ”

"So mother-in-law, where is your sister now?" Xiaowei asked, and she pulled a strand of long curly hair behind her ear, and her eyes revealed a look of eagerness to know. But her subtle expression was ignored by Xie Yunmeng and her mother-in-law.

The mother-in-law continued: "I don't know either! Sometimes she's far away, sometimes she's close. My sister is very fun-loving and adores the Sphinx, so I can't keep track of her movements. ”

At this time, Phantom trembled and asked, "So... All the riddles we guessed here were come up with by your sister? "She doesn't seem to have recovered from the horror of the murder just now.

However, this phantom sentence attracted Xie Yunmeng's attention, he felt that the little girl's words sounded awkward, but he just couldn't think of what was awkward.

Xie Yunmeng is not a person who likes to think very much, and he usually puts things behind him if he doesn't have anything to do with work or Yun Yeyao.

So after a few seconds, Xie Yunmeng brought the topic back to square one and asked, "Granny Yan, you quickly explain what the 'suppressed Sphinx' is, and answer them slowly when you have time for other things in the future." ”

"Oh, it's actually very simple," Granny Yan replied, "Isn't my sister very obsessed with the Sphinx and likes to play riddles?" She has a good friend in S City, and both of them are very fond of the riddles of the Sphinx, and often communicate through letters. ”

"Once, they offered to make a different Sphinx and hide a special riddle inside its head as the theme of the party. Then my sister made the Sphinx head behind the door panel and named it 'The Suppressed Sphinx'. ”

"The meaning is that there is only a monster with a head left, and it is also pressed by the door panel, it is impossible to eat people anymore, and in the end it can only scare strangers with a terrifying appearance. In fact, this meaning is a puzzle, and she told me and the host about the puzzle in advance, and hoped to make it the theme of the meeting. ”

"Now that this kind of thing has happened, I can't hide it anymore, although I only got the riddle in advance, and I didn't have a specific notice of what to do, but I think these models must have been handed over by Mr. Duan's girlfriend to Phantom and let her take them, my sister and her habits are not very good, they just like to scare people before they come out with riddles."

As soon as the mother-in-law's words fell, Xie Yunmeng immediately asked, "You mean that these models were given to Phantom by Mo Li?" So is Molly one of the leaders of the party? ”

"No, I don't know what the suppressed Sphinx is, I don't know what puzzle is going to come out today, and I thought it was all a prank done by someone here!!" Molly immediately retorted that she didn't want to be the center of attention.

Granny Yan also explained: "It's not Mo Li, it's Mr. Duan's girlfriend in S City, she is my sister's old friend, but they all call each other by pen names, I don't know what the name of this little girl is." ”

"Mr. Duan, do you have a few girlfriends?" Xie Yunmeng looked at Duan Hongye with some consternation, he didn't expect this man to look submissive, and he was still so attentive in middle age.

"Mr. Xie, don't look at Mr. Duan like this, he is a very good person among girls, all the girls here are his friends, but the girlfriend is only the one in S City." Granny Yan's words made Xie Yunmeng a little confused, and he looked at Duan Hongye, hoping to get an explanation.

Sighing, Duan Hongye said: "This is also a game, in fact, Mo Li and I are not boyfriend and girlfriend, but in these two days of party, she is my 'girlfriend', which is a bit like tearing off a name tag alliance." ”

"Cheng Ji and I will pick a companion from each of these little girls and call ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend, but in fact, we have no relationship with each other, that is, when guessing riddles and pranks, Cheng Ji and I will take special care of this girlfriend, for example, our guessing results will be counted as hers, and if she is mischievoked, we will also protect and so on."

"Anyway, when I met you at the hotel, because Moli said that I was her boyfriend or something, it was hard to refute." Duan Hongye finished speaking in one breath, and his face looked very calm.

Granny Yan asked Xie Yunmeng, "Is there anything else you want to know?" Mr. Detective. ”

"Not for the time being, these words just now don't have much effect on the homicide, Xiao Rou can be sure that she was stabbed to death, and this person has long been prepared, because a knife pierced the heart. I think that if it weren't for someone who knew a little bit about medical skills, then the murderer must have gone through repeated practice to be so accurate in an instant. ”

"Do any of you here have studied medicine?" Xie Yunmeng asked.

Regarding this question, everyone present shook their heads and denied it, none of them had a regular job, and they relied on some small businesses to support their living expenses, so it was impossible for there to be a doctor or nurse in it.

Xie Yunmeng took the model into his arms, then looked at the corpse lying on the ground again, and said, "There is no other way now but to let the corpse lie in this hall." No one can move the scene until the police arrive. We need to call the police immediately, and then your meeting today probably won't be able to continue, and I want everyone to go home and leave this place for the police to deal with. ”

As soon as Xie Yunmeng's words fell, all the men and women immediately let out a dejected sound, as if someone had taken away their beloved toys, and none of them wanted to go home temporarily.

Granny Yan was also very unhappy, but after all, she was an elder, and her control ability was much better than that of ordinary young people, so she helped Xie Yunmeng persuade everyone: "Why don't you organize it again after a while, and then I will let my sister come up with a few fun puzzles." Today, please listen to Mr. Xie's words, hurry downstairs to finish breakfast, and go home to rest first!

"Okay!" Duan Hongye said: "Then everyone go back to the room to pack their luggage, this ending is really disappointing." After saying that, he walked back to the room by himself, while the other little girls and Cheng Ji also returned to pack their luggage.

In an instant, only the mother-in-law and Xie Yunmeng were left in the living room, and the mother-in-law asked them loudly, "Don't you have breakfast?" ”

"No, no one has the appetite to eat in this situation, so we packed our bags and left directly." The person who answered was still Duan Hongye.

While he was speaking, Xie Yunmeng was taking out his mobile phone and wanted to dial Yun Yeyao's phone to inform him of the situation here.

And after hearing Duan Hongye's answer, the mother-in-law complained and walked downstairs, meaning that she had wasted all the breakfast she had made! It's not always a thing that makes people happy, anyway.

At this moment, no one could have expected that an accident was about to happen, just when the mother-in-law had just stepped down the stairs and Xie Yunmeng's phone had not yet been connected, the Asuka Grass Hotel began a sudden change.

Without warning, the roof of the entire house collapsed in an instant, as if it had been hit by the hammer of the demolition company, and in an instant, the brick and wall ash fell on everyone's heads like rain, and the room and living room were filled with the sound of falling and screaming.

Xie Yunmeng really thought that the house had collapsed, he rushed downstairs to protect his mother-in-law, and he didn't see clearly who the person in front of him was, so he suddenly pounced on her and used his body to block the danger for the old man.

So, what exactly happened to Asuka Grass? Will everyone really be pinned down under a collapsed house? Perhaps, this is the curse set by the 'Suppressed Sphinx', and the demon with only its head needs blood to appease the resentment in its heart!