Time: Early morning of the next day

Duan Hongye was lying on the bed alone, and there was suddenly one more person in the Asuka Grass Hotel today, which made him very uncomfortable, but he couldn't say anything if he was invited by Mo Li, after all, for him, Mo Li was the real leader in the past two days.

'Is it really the dominant player?' Not the day after tomorrow. Duan Hongye thought and sat up from the single bed. He was wearing a striped black shirt, and he looked very young, and he didn't look like he was in his forties at all.

The left hand was habitually raised in front of his eyes, wanting to see the time, but he didn't expect to see an empty wrist. Duan Hongye then remembered, he took off his watch and put it on the bedside table. The man reached for the surface of the bedside table again.

After touching it for a long time and not getting the watch, Duan Hongye was a little strange, he turned on the light and found that he didn't know when, the watch was pushed to the ground by himself.

Helplessly lifting the blanket, Duan Hongye didn't want to step out of bed, so he could only bend down as much as he could to pick up the silver men's watch on the ground.

Just as his fingers were about to touch the surface, a woman's voice came overhead: "Mr. Duan, it's so late, what are you doing?" ”

The woman's voice was young, like a dew-stained wild rose in the morning. couldn't help but make Duan Hongye feel a little tempted instantly. Under such a quiet dark sky, what man would guard against a rose that represents love?

So, Duan Hongye quickly straightened up, looked at the woman who spoke to him, and replied in a mocking tone, "Xiaowei, I'm picking up my watch." ”

"Pick up a watch? But why did Mr. Duan think of his watch in the middle of the night? Isn't it someone you're waiting for? Xiao Wei threw out the question as she approached Duan Hongye. She showed a dream-like expression, which added a charm to her heavily makeup face.

Duan Hongye couldn't help but be a little fascinated, he looked at Xiao Wei's face coming over, squinted his eyes, and the darkness in his pupils was heavy. The silver-gray watch between his fingers slowly slid down to the bed.

At this time, he suddenly noticed that the long skirt on Xiaowei's body was sticky with something that Duan Hongye was very familiar with, and immediately, the man's hand gently pushed away a little Xiaowei's body, and his pupils widened.

"Have you ever been to Asuka Grass?"

"What did you say?" Xiaowei asked rhetorically for unknown reasons.

Duan Hongye pointed to a small part of the cuffs of her dress and said, "Look at it yourself, what is that, Granny Yan would never take these things out of the house." ”

"Asuka grass... I'm flying in the bird grass right now! Xiaowei replied suspiciously, her eyes telling Duan Hongye that she didn't know anything.

But Duan Hongye didn't believe her so easily, he and Moji had always been cautious about the matter of Asuka Grass. Duan Hongye continued to ask, "Who did you come with here?" ”

This time, Xiaowei was completely disinterested, and sat down on the sofa opposite the bedside table, she pursed her red lips and replied, "I came here with Cheng Ji, Qiaoqiao, Xiaorou and Phantom." ”

Duan Hongye glanced down at his watch when Xiao Wei spoke, at 3:25 in the morning, it seems that they either bought a new train ticket, or they lived here yesterday, otherwise with the train ticket time he knew before, Xiao Wei and the others would definitely not have arrived at Asuka Grass in advance.

He was able to use that special method in advance, Duan Hongye believed that Xiaowei and those girls would not know, and as for Moji, he would not tell them.

Thinking of this, Duan Hongye asked Xiaowei: "Has Cheng Ji been with you all the time?" ”

"No, we called him before we arrived and asked him to pick us up at the train station, and then we would come over to Asuka Grass Hotel together."

After learning what he wanted to know, Duan Hongye looked at Xiaowei again, her makeup was very strong today, and she seemed to have drunk a little wine, her whole face was flushed, and with her long curly hair, she looked much better than usual.

"Xiaowei, did you do your hair?" Duan Hongye asked, she felt that Xiaowei's hairstyle was particularly similar to his girlfriend who stayed in S City.

Xiaowei ruffled a handful of her hair, smiled and said, "Yes! I don't really like short hair at all, don't you like it too? In that way, can you follow me? ”

Xiaowei's attitude of asking questions was careless, as if she was making an inferior joke, but Duan Hongye didn't mind, after all, he came here to make these little girls happy, so he said: "I have already paid attention to each of you, and I have never blocked you." ”

"Humph! Flim tongue, you just know the Chihuahua! Don't think we can't see it, it's useless for you and Chihua to cover it up! Xiao Wei seemed to be indeed drunk, and she actually opened her mouth to say something that she would never have told Duan Hongye in normal times.

Duan Hongye was stunned for a moment, the shock was only a matter of a second for him, and then, he smoothed out his messy hair because of sleep, got off the bed, walked up to Xiaowei and said, "Xiaowei, you have been drinking, the smell of wine and perfume is not good together." ”

"Who wants you to care, you can't marry a Chihuahua anyway, we all have a chance, don't we?" Xiao Wei instantly regained that dream-like charming feeling, and said to Duan Hongye.

Duan Hongye's eyes showed tenderness, and he kissed her forehead and said, "You are all my dearest sisters, there is no difference, a Chihuahua is a Chihuahua, and it will always be the same." This is our life, and one day, each and every one of you will find a good home. Okay, now go back to your room, and let Granny Yan know that you stole the key to my room door, and you will be scolded again. ”

Between the words, Duan Hongye picked up Xiaowei and sent her to the door of another room in the hall, and before opening it, he didn't forget to add: "Cheer up tomorrow and eat more Xiaoji's Western plum cake." ”

After sending the girl back to his room, Duan Hongye was about to turn around and go back to sleep, when he accidentally saw a clock hanging on the wall, and the hands on the disc showed that the time was 5:46 in the morning. Duan Hongye couldn't help but look at the watch in his hand again, 3:43!

"There is a difference of two hours, so the little girls didn't leave early, is my watch wrong?" Duan Hongye said to himself. He re-timed his watch as he walked. When the time was adjusted to the same, Duan Hongye's figure also disappeared into the room again.

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The morning glow has not yet illuminated the sky, but there has been movement in the living room of the thousand birds, the girl's head carefully poked out of the room, she was attracted by the sound of the door closing just now, three watches in the middle of the night, is there anyone who can't sleep like her?

Looking left and right at the dimly lit living room, the girl walked out of the room, holding a large bag in her hand that she didn't know what it was, and the weight should be heavy, so the girl walked slowly in a strange posture of hunched over.

Hoping in her heart that no one would come out at this time, the girl tried her best to speed herself up. Finally at the edge of the large table, the girl crouched down to place the package on the floor, and then removed a square piece from the table.

Pick up the package again and place it firmly on the table. After opening the fabric, the girl seemed even more panicked, and even her hands were a little trembling, she took out the contents of the package as well, put them neatly on the table, and after putting them down, she carefully adjusted them with her hands before leaving the scene.

At this moment, the hand of the clock on the wall points to 6 o'clock in the morning, which is the time when the caretaker's mother-in-law gets up to make breakfast. The girl did not immediately return to the room, but tore what appeared to be rubber gloves from her hands, and then hid the gloves in the large pockets hidden under the wide skirt along with the empty package, and began to brew emotions.

After more than ten seconds, I saw that the girl slowly opened her mouth wide, and a pair of eyes gradually showed a look of horror, and then in an instant, screams filled the entire living room, and she stepped back, as if she had encountered something terrible, and screamed desperately.

Until she lured everyone downstairs and in the room out, for the sake of realism, the girl kept her body close to the corner of the wall, ready to go limp.

But this move did not succeed, a pair of powerful hands caught her, and then a rich baritone voice sounded from the top of her head: "What's wrong with you?" ”

The girl looked up, she could swear that she had never seen such a tempting man in real life in her life, tall, charming, full of confidence and sunshine and unhurried temperament, like a prince who came to protect the princess.

The girl forgot what she had just done, and her whole face flushed, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm a guest invited by Miss Mo."

Less than half a second after Xie Yunmeng's words were spoken, the girl in his arms suddenly jumped up as if she had heard some big news, and shouted loudly to the other people who came out: "Mr. Duan and Mo Li have finally done a good thing, everyone come and see...... Belch!! ”

By the time she realized that this would ruin the prank she had so hard arranged, the others had been watching her for a long time to hear an explanation.

Moli, who was woken up, was the most helpless person at the moment, because she also had a part in this prank, she pointed to the girl in front of her and said, "Phantom, can you be reliable?" ”

"I ...... It's not because you've brought in new guests that I didn't control it. That," Phantom suddenly hooked Xie Yunmeng's arm and said, "Mo Li, can you introduce your friend to me?" ”

Her words made Duan Hongye, Mo Li and Xie Yunmeng all have a black line on their heads, Duan Hongye was especially annoyed, he had just been disturbed by Xiaowei's good dreams, and now there is another illusion, it is too much.

He strode up to Phantom, pulled away her hands that were holding Xie Yunmeng and said, "This is a friend that Moji met first, he will come this afternoon, what do you think, wait for Moji to come and tell him." Anyway, now behave normally for me, the boss invited you to come for free food and lodging, not to let you scare away the guests!! ”

"I see!" Phantom reluctantly left Xie Yunmeng's side, and a little face like an apple, red fluttering continued to turn in Xie Yunmeng's direction.

To be honest, although this illusion character is not flattering, but the face is really beautiful, a small goose egg face, a little pouting lips, but it is not obvious, which shows her cuteness, but it does not make people feel abrupt.

There are shallow pear sockets on both cheeks, small curly bobs scattered around the ears, jet-black hair sets off snow-white skin, and a pair of big eyes with smart pupils, just like a masterpiece of a famous painter.

But such a beautiful girl, with a bad character, will not attract the attention of the men, especially the two men present.

After Phantom left, Xie Yunmeng said thank you to Duan Hongye and prepared to go back to change his clothes, he was still wearing sleeping clothes and pants, which was very unseemly.

Duan Hongye didn't stop Xie Yunmeng, but turned his head to look at the big table where Phantom had stood just now, this was a square self-shuffling mahjong table, which had never been used since it was bought.

Therefore, my mother-in-law has already asked someone to remove the movable wooden board in the middle of the mahjong table and retransform it into an ordinary table for putting things, only the color still retains its original appearance.

After Duan Hongye glanced at the things on it, he turned his head and asked Xiaowei and Mo Li, "Did you two instruct Phantom to do this?" ”

"It's not me!" Xiaowei immediately denied it.

"I just had an idea, but I really don't know where she got the things on the table." Mo Li said that there was no need for her to lie to Duan Hongye, because now he was her boyfriend, and he could also be said to be a companion on a front.

Duan Hongye looked back at the door of Xie Yunmeng's room, and found that Xie Yunmeng had not yet come out of it, he suddenly reached out and took away a small thing on the table in front of everyone, and then made a silent gesture towards everyone before continuing the conversation.

"Anyway, Phantom herself will never be able to come up with it, there must be some of you who have come up with her idea, and she is involved."

"Didn't Mo Li admit it herself just now, she gave the illusion of the idea, and it's not right for you to say such things." Xiao Rou, who wore a long pink coat over her pajamas, said that she was fully awake.

Hearing Xiao Rou's words, Mo Li immediately retorted: "I didn't, I just said that I helped Phantom come up with a little idea, and I said, I don't even know where I got the things on the table!" Mr. Duan questioned me and Xiaowei from the beginning, didn't you hear it? ”

Duan Hongye said: "Don't fight around, anyway, this time it's too much......

"Do you play this game a lot?" Xie Yunmeng's voice suddenly sounded in place of Duan Hongye, startling everyone, he didn't know when he was already standing behind Duan Hongye, holding a piece of phantom that had just been put on the table.

Xie Yunmeng's current appearance is not at all as serious and sharp as he looked yesterday, because he changed into a light-colored casual dress today, a very fashionable one, which was picked out by Yun Yeyao for him at first glance. And there is also a tie clip tucked on the neckline, although it doesn't match, but it's not ugly.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Xie Yunmeng for a moment, including another young man who had not opened his mouth until now, his name was Cheng Ji.

It stands to reason that it should be the Chihuahua in Xiaowei's mouth, but he is not a very handsome man, there is a small scar on his round face, which extends to the neck, as if it is burned, and his eyes are not very godly.

If you follow everyone's description before, Xiao Ji and Xie Yunmeng, who met Duan Hongye and his girlfriend at the airport in S City, should be the most suitable for the appearance of Chihuahua, but if you judge according to what Xiao Wei said to Duan Hongye, this Mr. Cheng Zheng should be a Chihuahua.

Now let's not solve the problem of identity, let's take a look at what strange things they have put on the table after they discussed it in the morning?

In fact, this thing has also appeared in stories told by theater actors before, and of course the shape cannot be those colorful powders, but a miniature version of the mother-in-law's 'corpse' model under the door panel.

Each one is half a meter long and a dozen centimeters wide, and is made exactly like the real thing. Xie Yunmeng turned this thing over and over again and looked at it many times, and he confirmed that it was exactly the same as mentioned in the actor's story, and this thing made him believe that there was some secret in the Asuka Grass Villa.

Raising his head and looking around at everyone, Xie Yunmeng showed a puzzled look, this time he was not pretending, he did have a lot of doubts in his heart.

Duan Hongye was obviously a little flustered, he tried to take the things in Xie Yunmeng's hand, but was avoided by the tall man, and Xie Yunmeng's eyes looking at the model made him afraid, after all, he didn't know what the identity of this man was.

"Don't get me wrong," Duan explained; "We're just playing pranks, and that's what this party is all about, weird riddles and pranks."

"Isn't it a prank to make something scary? It's better to call it a horror game. Xie Yunmeng said in a joking tone, but his eyes didn't look like a joke at all.

At this time, Xie Yunmeng also saw the layout of the Asuka Grass Hotel clearly, everything was the same as what the actor told him, which aroused his interest in finding out more, so the mentality of coping with yesterday was completely gone.

At this moment, Xie Yunmeng and Duan Hongye are standing on the edge of the mahjong table, the room on the second floor is a circular hall around the center, starting from the first room on their right, the occupants are: Xie Yunmeng, Xiaowei, Qiaoqiao, Xiaorou, Phantom, Cheng Ji, Duan Hongye.

Xie Yunmeng's door was facing the staircase going down, and except for him and Duan Hongye, the other five people were standing near their door.

And the mother-in-law downstairs, although she was attracted just now, has long since returned to the kitchen to continue her work, and she is no longer surprised by this 'activity' of the little girls, and she is not interested in seeing what is on the table.

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The demon had never expected Xie Yunmeng to suddenly come and stir things up, and he had never wanted others to get involved in his pranks, because this pranks were a prelude to the real murder.

In order to win everyone's trust, he has been preparing for a long time. Now Mr. Detective, who has suddenly joined, has made everything out of control again.

Yes, the demon knew that the person in front of him was a criminal policeman, he had seen it in the newspaper, and it was said that he was a very powerful criminal policeman.

It seems that I have to be careful, I must not clash with him head-on, what does Duan Hongye mean by bringing him over, has he already noticed something, impossible! The demon thought to himself, but his face was still acting with everyone present.

There's no way to go according to the plan, I have to make a new plan quickly, and first of all the girl must not stay, because she knows too much, and I can't give her a chance to speak." ’

The demon moved his feet, closer to his first target, no, not the person he had just thought of, but something, something that no one was paying attention to.

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"Alas! What's the matter with you, turn on the light, my porridge is going to be boiled! The mother-in-law of the caretaker opened the kitchen door and yelled upstairs, these little guys, how many times have they told them, they can't affect their work, they just don't listen.

But no one responded to him, and the mother-in-law was stunned, she waited for a few seconds, but still did not hear a response, so she walked straight towards the main valve of the power supply, which was in her room.

When the house was bright again, the mother-in-law shouted upstairs again, "Mr. Duan, what happened?" ”

"Ahh It's okay, mother-in-law I'm sorry, we don't know why the power suddenly tripped, you can rest assured, everyone didn't do anything strange. ”

"That's good, remember to come down at seven o'clock on time for dinner." After the mother-in-law finished speaking, she went back into the kitchen, she didn't look upstairs carefully, and was still worried about the pot of porridge in the kitchen.

Realizing that his mother-in-law didn't find out what was in front of them, Duan Hongye breathed a sigh of relief, he was finally able to recover from the shock and answer his mother-in-law's question, and now, his eyes were staring directly at Xie Yunmeng's side.

The detective was also confused by the scene in front of him. Just as he was about to ask about the origin of the things in his hand, all the lights in the hall on the second floor suddenly went out, although there was a little light outside the window that was not completely dark, but the lights went out undoubtedly attracted the attention of everyone, including himself.

From the trip to the mother-in-law reopening the main valve, it was only five or six minutes in total, and no one was running around, in Xie Yunmeng's impression, the people he saw during this time were still standing in their original positions, only slightly changed.

Of course, there are some surprises and panics, but none of them seem to be afraid, and perhaps most of them still think that what is happening is a prank that they are completely unaware of.

It wasn't until his gaze turned back to Duan Hongye's face that the criminal policeman asked, "Mr. Duan, what are you looking at?" ”

“…… What's on the table...... Nope. Duan Hongye stretched out his hand and pointed to the mahjong table on Xie Yunmeng's left hand, and said intermittently.

Xie Yunmeng turned his head to look, and sure enough, the table was empty, there was nothing left, he moved a few steps and looked under the table, it was also empty. This time, the detective's expression became serious, and he said to everyone present, "Who are you who took the things on the table?" ”

But everyone shook their heads at him, indicating that they hadn't done it.

Duan Hongye interjected: "I don't think anyone will take it, there are only me and you on the edge of the table, and neither of them has ever come close." ”

Xie Yunmeng shook his head, although he agreed with Duan Hongye's statement, but experience told him that nothing is absolute, the criminal policeman looked at the only remaining model in his palm and said: "I think this thing is not just a prank, the person who made it may want to convey something to you, but the addition of me, a stranger, made him feel scared, so he deliberately tripped the power supply and took the things on the table." “

"Isn't this the plot of the suspense? Mr. Xie, you shouldn't be a writer! Melly asked curiously, and then she continued, "We do sometimes do some unusual pranks between us, but it must not be as horrible as you think. Or something irreversible really happens, we just love to play. ”

"As far as I know, these things were to be taken away in the original plan of Phantom and someone, and then let everyone guess who the person who took it was, of course, Phantom didn't tell me the specific process here, and I guess he didn't know it himself."

With that, Molly's gaze looked at Phantom not far away, who was looking at her with a strange and surprised look, and Molly smiled at Phantom, indicating that their plans were best not to be concealed on such occasions, as it would arouse unnecessary suspicion.

Retracting her gaze, Mo Li was ready to listen to Xie Yunmeng's words in reply, but in the next second, she was shocked to see Cheng Ji walking in the direction of Xie Yunmeng and Duan Hongye. Cheng Ji said: "Mr. Xie, I saw you in the newspaper, you are a criminal policeman, right?" ”

In an instant, everyone's impression of Xie Yunmeng had all changed, just because of this profession that scared them, even the look of fascination in the phantom eyes weakened a lot.

Of course, their changes did not escape Xie Yunmeng's eyes, and he had seen too much of this kind of change and surprise caused by his identity, which could only show one thing, that is, these people had some 'little secrets' that could not be made by the criminal police aware.

At this time, there was a person in the crowd who was shivering, not because of the cold, but because of fear, Xie Yunmeng's identity was the real fear for this person. To hide her unnaturalness, she retreated to the door and stood against the panel.

Everyone's attention was focused on Xie Yunmeng at the moment, and no one noticed her abnormal behavior. The man's hand touched the doorknob of his own door, and he was finally relieved.

'Fortunately, no one here knows what I did, maybe the detectives didn't come here for that, after all, I'm not killing people and setting fires...... Well? What is this? ”

She touched a handful of wet and sticky disgusting things in her palm, stuck to the doorknob of her room, she put her hand on the tip of her nose and sniffed it, and immediately a fishy stench, with a little smell of burnt plastic, rushed into her nasal passages, making her dizzy.

The man jerked to one side, but fortunately the door frame was blocked and did not fall to the floor, but what she had hidden in the wide hem of her skirt showed her head from the impact.

"What's that? Phantom? Xiao Rou on the side immediately grabbed the thing in the phantom skirt and asked.

"That's just the bag that put the model just now, don't pull it, the skirt is going to break." Phantom grabbed the corner of his puffy skirt and slapped Xiao Rou's hand away in annoyance.

It was this action, all of a sudden, Xiao Rou began to twitch, she staggered and fell to the ground, everyone was caught off guard, Phantom was even about to cry, she didn't do anything!

She didn't care about the hem of her skirt, and went to pull Xiaorou's body backwards, and the two of them fell down together due to inertia, and fell to the ground with a phantom scream.

The whole person of the illusion pressed on Xiao Rou's chest and stomach, and Xiao Rou was still twitching under the illusion body, and looked at Xie Yunmeng with wide eyes, as if she wanted to tell him something, but she couldn't say anything anyway.

Xie Yunmeng rushed over with an arrow step, Duan Hongye, who had reacted, followed closely behind him, and when Xie Yunmeng pulled up the illusion from the ground, everyone finally saw clearly why Xiao Rou suddenly fell.

Xiao Rou's heart has a sharp knife edge protruding outward, and blood keeps pouring out from around the knife edge, and even the phantom hair and face are all stained with Xiao Rou's blood.

"Fantasy! What the hell did you do?!! Duan Hongye asked loudly towards the illusion, and the little girl was so frightened that she huddled tightly in Xie Yunmeng's arms and didn't dare to show her face, and she could hear her uncontrollable dull crying.

Xie Yunmeng pondered for a while, then turned his head and said to everyone: "Phantom should have done nothing, you guys have taken a closer look, Xiao Rou's knife was inserted from the back, which means that someone hurt her from behind." Phantom has always been directly in front of Xiao Rou, and it is impossible for her to make a move. ”

"So...... Is it a coincidence? ”

This sentence made everyone's guess instantly shift to Qiaoqiao, who was standing behind Xiao Rou at the time, Qiaoqiao and Phantom have a little blood relationship, so the two people look very similar, and Qiaoqiao's appearance looks a little more mature.

But at this time, there is no maturity and childishness, Xiaorou is already powerless, and the knife is right in her heart, so no matter who everyone points the finger at, everyone will be frightened and panicked.

Qiaoqiao herself is not a bold girl, and her character in her bones is actually not much different from fantasy. At this time, she turned pale with fright, and said, "Don't wronged good people indiscriminately! I didn't do it, I didn't even have a knife. ”

"Then did you see the person who attacked Xiaorou?" Xie Yunmeng asked, he maintained a calm and amiable expression, at this time, he must not frighten the person concerned first, otherwise he will not get the answer he wants.

"I really don't know! Everyone was standing there just now, and no one had ever approached Xiao Rou's back at all. ”

"Did you notice anything out of the ordinary?"

"This ......"

"Let me state one thing first," Xie Yunmeng said, "I didn't interrogate you as a murderer, I just wanted to know the facts, any subtleties you can remember, even if they have nothing to do with the murder, you can tell me the truth." But I warn you one thing, never lie to me! ”

“…… No, I, I can't remember. Qiaoqiao tried to stabilize her emotions and thought for a while before speaking.

Hearing Qiaoqiao say this, Xie Yunmeng turned around and asked Duan Hongye and Cheng Ji, "Do you have Xiaorou's boyfriend among the two?" ”

The two men didn't understand, and he asked what he meant by that. I had to shake my head in denial, and then, Xie Yunmeng said to them: "I am going to lift Xiao Rou's clothes now to examine her wounds, as well as the appearance of the murder weapon, all of you present must give me a testimony to prove that I have not done anything wrong to Xiao Rou." ”

"This ...... Of course, we can prove it. Duan Hongye paused before picking up the conversation.