The injured Shan Mingze rushed into the room where Liu Qiao Pu and the nine people were, he looked exhausted, the strips of cloth wrapped around his face were soaked with sweat, and after rushing into the room, Shan Mingze ran directly to Liu Qiao Pu's side.

"Grandpa Liu, I ......"

"What are you!" Liu Qiaopu saw that Shan Mingze seemed to be a little energetic, and his voice also raised a lot, "Where did you run just now?" ”

The old man was questioning Shan Mingze about his disappearance from the entertainment room, but Shan Mingze only knew a strong breath, and he couldn't answer clearly, at this time, Lian Fan behind them stood up and said: "Grandpa Liu, Shan Mingze is not credible at all, I think he had a whole day to act yesterday, and he ran away again this morning, who knows what he was going to do!" ”

Lian Fan finished the accusatory words in one breath and glared at Shan Mingze, as if he wanted him to hurry up and turn himself in to the criminal police.

Shan Mingze, who had not yet caught his breath, did not immediately refute Lian Fan, but looked at Liu Qiaopu and said, "Grandpa Liu, please believe me, I really didn't kill anyone, I just went to chase the murderer." ”

"Chasing the murderer? So how did you end up here again? Yanagihashi asked sternly.

"I don't know! I followed the murderer around the room, not figuring out the route. Finally got around here! I thought the killer had burst into the room and saw you. ”

"But why didn't you notify the detective directly when you found out about the murderer? But you have to chase it yourself, aren't you afraid of danger? Lian Fan behind him continued to make trouble.

Shan Mingze's mood at the moment changed from fatigue to panic, and he defended loudly: "I saw Grandpa Liu fall down, and a black shadow disappeared from the bathroom, so I chased in, Mr. Xie and Miss Mei were not in the house at that time, if I notified, it would only cause everyone's panic, and you will directly suspect that I am lying." ”

"Because no one sees the shadow but me, does it?"

Shan Mingze's rebuttal did not attract much sympathy, everyone still questioned him deeply, and it is no wonder that in this villa besieged by heavy snow, any little suspicion will be infinitely expanded, not to mention that Shan Mingze is indeed very suspicious, at least yesterday he did have time to commit the crime.

The two men walked through Meng Qi'er's room one after the other, and came to the door of a certain room in the secret passage behind, Yun Yeyao said: "Everyone is inside, but you can't go in, you just need to know that they are all safe, you must stay by my side and help me." ”

Yan Muheng didn't speak, walked up and knocked on the door, and there was immediately a sound of footsteps in the room that was quiet just now. There was a woman asking, "Who!" "When this woman heard the voice, it was Sister Wang.

Yan Muheng breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the door: "Sister Wang, I'm Yan Muheng, can I go in?" ”

He really wanted to enter the room and stay with everyone, but Sister Wang's voice seemed very hesitant, many people in the room did not trust Yan Muheng, accompanied by Sister Wang's voice, the two people outside the door could hear a man talking beside her, and they couldn't hear whose voice it was. There were also some people walking around the room.

Yan Muheng asked again: "Sister Wang, can I go in?" ”

"I'm sorry! Now Grandpa Liu is in a coma, and everyone's opinions are not unanimous, or you should stay with Mr. Yun. Sister Wang's voice looked very apologetic.

Yun Yeyao said on the side: "Xiao Heng, you have already determined everyone's location, anyway, except for the restaurant and here, they won't go to other places, what is the matter with everyone during the day today?" We all meet here, Xiaomeng and Xiaoxiao will be around at any time to protect us, let's hurry up and start moving. ”

"Action? What should I do? Yan Muheng asked.

"Of course, it's to find clues that the murderer left in the secret passage, there were so many things that happened yesterday that none of us checked them carefully, except for revolving around the corpse, we were investigating the secret space of the house. There have been two homicides in a row here, and there is a wall smashed by Xiao Meng not far away, so we must first find out the cause of death of Meng Qier and Shu Xue. ”

"Moreover, I also have some questions for you to verify about Meng Qi'er."

When Yun Yeyao mentioned Meng Qi'er, it was obvious that something in Yan Muheng's pupils was fleeting. Yun Yeyao didn't miss it, he kept his original appearance and said, "This is not the place to ask questions, let's go upstairs now." ”

What Yun Yeyao said was very reasonable, and Yan Muheng couldn't find a reason to refute it, and he didn't let him act alone, so what was there to be afraid of, so Yan Muheng decided to do what Yun Yeyao said and improvise.

With the help of Ms. Wen and Shan Mingze, Yun Yeyao successfully deceived Yan Muheng into letting him act with him, and the two of them went to investigate the place where Meng Qi'er died, Yun Yeyao seemed to want to hide from Xie Yunmeng and investigate all the death scenes one by one, but the purpose of his insistence on being with Yan Muheng should be related to Yan Muheng's own behavior.

Now let's summarize the location of each group of people and their behavior so far on the morning of December 31, Xie Yunmeng and Tang Meiya's ancestors were in the basement on the first floor of the main house, they found a new skeleton, and there seemed to be a new space under the floor covered by the skeleton, and at this moment they were exploring the secrets hidden below.

Liu Qiaopu took the remaining nine people and Shan Mingze, who was injured on his face, in the secret door behind the entertainment room, the mechanism of this secret door has not yet been explained, it was secretly opened by Yun Yeyao in the middle of the night, but it is possible that the real murderer is among these nine people, so it is possible that the murderer of the secret door of the entertainment room also knows.

After sobering up, Ms. Wen has been reluctant to tell the truth about Wen Manman's life, and she is unwilling to admit that Wen Manman and Wen Shuxue are her daughters, but she promised the criminal police to help with Shan Mingze, Ms. Wen and Shan Mingze, who was not injured on her face, are in the hidden room directly behind the wardrobe in Meng Qier's room at the moment.

Yan Muheng returned to the inside of the treacherous house, fainted in the entrance because of frostbite from the wind and snow, and when he woke up, he was confused by the sudden headache and saw some scenes that should not belong to reality. We don't know if Yan Muheng is in a coma again at this time? But then, a dark shadow took his place in the hallway.

The identity of this black shadow is unknown, maybe there is some kind of relationship between him and Yan Muheng, maybe nothing at all. He didn't kill Yan Muheng, but planned to leave immediately and enter the main house from somewhere else, so that the rest of the people would not see him. But since Xie Yunmeng had locked the door, the black shadow was locked in the house.

In desperation, the shadow could only pretend to be panicked, preparing to enter the main house to deceive the remaining people. But this is very strange, you must know that all the people are basically in the house now, and only Xixi and Yan Muheng are on the periphery (the grocery store owner and his wife are not counted). What kind of identity does the black shadow intend to appear, if he plays the role of an investigator, he will be debunked by Yanagihashi Pu and Yun Yeyao at a glance.

Xie Yunmeng was in charge of the bookshelves in the high places, and Yaya was in charge of the bookshelves in the low places, Tang Meiya had been helping her granddaughter sort out the books on the side, and within a few minutes, all the extra books disappeared on the bookshelf, which was also to prevent the murderer from guessing where they had put the bones based on the books on the ground.

After getting off the bookshelf, Xie Yunmeng entered the open floor and went to check if there was any danger at the lower entrance, and after making sure that the entrance was unobstructed, Xie Yunmeng led Tang Meiya's ancestor into the hidden underground staircase.

But when they walked up the winding stairs, they saw not another dark room as they had imagined, but a rock cave that Xiao Xiao had just visited, which turned out to be another entrance and exit to the rock cave.

The further down the wooden staircase extended, the more serious the decay became, because of the dampness, the place close to the rock steps was almost impossible to tread on, Xie Yunmeng could only avoid suspicion, and carried the grandfather and grandson directly to the top of the rock steps. But this move made Yaya's girlish feelings seem to be stronger, and Tang Meiya paid attention to her granddaughter from time to time and let her walk behind her.

Xie Yunmeng deliberately slowed down his pace and walked forward in order to take care of Tang Meiya's ancestors, and while recalling the appearance of the hole in the ground that Mei Xiaoxiao told him, he judged the direction of the three people. There are a lot of forks in the rocky holes, and if she hadn't identified the place she had entered in the first place, she would probably have lost her way like a sail.

But what Xie Yunmeng saw was not like this at all, they walked for a long time without seeing any forks in the road, the rocky passage was also very wide, and there was no mud or water on the road in the middle, just a little slippery. The three of them had been walking for about ten minutes before he finally saw the first fork in the road, which was on their left.

Tang Meiya was about to take Yaya to turn to the left, but she didn't expect Xie Yunmeng to grab her and say, "Don't worry, I'll take a look." ”

The action in the cave in the rock is gradually developing in the right direction, and Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng are standing at the place where Meng Qi'er died and talking.

Yun Yeyao looked at the hollow wall and said, "Xiao Heng, who do you think the skeleton here should be?" ”

His question was a little reluctant, because even if Yan Muheng was very familiar with the treacherous house, with his age, it was impossible for him to know about the past, Yan Muheng said, "How can I know? ”

"Then how could you possibly find Shu Xue who has been hidden in this house for so long?" Yun Yeyao asked rhetorically.

Yan Muheng looked at the skeleton that fell out of the wall and said, "Because Shu Xue is the person I love, Shu Xue and I were matched by Mr. Housekeeper, and it was he who brought Shu Xue to me." ”

"And what about the horror?"

"I don't know what you're trying to ask?" Yan Muheng replied: "I am very distressed and frightened, because she has no father and mother, but I ......"

"Lie!" Yun Yeyao didn't even look at Yan Muheng, so he said these two words, and his tone was very affirmative.

Yan Muheng asked him, "Why do you think I'm lying?" ”

"Because the person you love is not these two girls at all, do you know the Dark Forest? I saw it in my dreams, and there, I saw you and I saw myself. And you keep calling me Eternal, although I don't understand what it means, but from your eyes, I can see love. It's that kind of deep, unforgettable love. ”

I thought that Yan Muheng would avoid it silently, but he never expected that after hearing this, his emotions were extremely intense, and he roared angrily: "I have never loved Eternal at all, he will always be so selfish and vicious, I love ......"

"Who do you love?" Yun Yeyao turned around and asked, his expression was indifferent, and he looked like he didn't care about himself.

Yan Muheng instantly realized that he had leaked his words, but now there was no way to retract the words, so he could only swallow the end of the words back into his stomach and no longer speak.

Time passed minute by minute, and the bell tower had not made a sound at all since last night, probably because the blood of the corpse had penetrated deep into the machine, causing the parts to stagnate.

The longer Yanagihashi delayed, the more uneasy the nine people who remained behind the walls of the recreation room, some of whom were wearing watches, kept raising their wrists to check the time. The feeling of being suffocated and breathless in a small, crowded space can swell indefinitely, especially in the event of a horrific event and there is no way to escape, but no one wants to object to it.

After all, it's still relatively safe here, everyone can fully monitor the actions of others, and if the murderer is unfortunate enough to be here, they will also become a turtle in the urn together.

Among all of them, only Liu Qiaopu and Shan Mingze are two exceptions, and the old man has ulterior motives and is deliberately covering up his emotions. And Shan Mingze was swollen and red because of the wound on his face, and he couldn't see any expression.

He covered his face with his hands, his lower eyelids and the entire bridge of his nose were swollen like steamed buns, which even affected his gaze, Shan Mingze could only look up and look at the ceiling.

Sister Wang and the cook's mother-in-law couldn't bear to see him like this, because gauze alone had no anti-inflammatory drugs, and it couldn't have any practical effect. Sister Wang gently broke the hands that were holding her tightly, leaned close to Liuqiao and said, "Otherwise, I will press the medicine just now into powder and put it on Mr. Shan's wound, so that he should accept it." ”

"It's useless, I think he's wary of us and won't touch medicine." Liu Qiaopu replied in a low voice, his eyes were also focused on Shan Mingze.

"But it's easy to get infected like this, his wound is so deep, I don't know if it hurts the nerves!" Sister Wang sighed and said, "I have to let him take some medicine, or Grandpa Liu, you have to think of a way?" ”

Sister Wang's words made sense, they should really help this young man, so Liu Qiaopu shouted at Shan Mingze: "Boy, come here." ”

Shan Mingze didn't understand what the old man was going to do? After being stunned for a few seconds, he slowly stood up and walked towards Liuqiao Pu and Sister Wang, walking a little unbalanced, probably because his eyes could not fully see the ground.

Before Shan Mingze could stand still, Liu Qiaopu took out a white pill from his pocket, tore off two pills from it, handed one of them to Sister Wang, and stuffed the other into his mouth, and then said, "Take the medicine!" It's an anti-inflammatory, it's not toxic!! ”

"Now, I don't want to hide it from everyone, the other maid is the restaurant proprietor, her name is Wen Yuya, when the fire broke out, the hostess lost her mind and almost wronged him as a murderer, and afterwards in order to compensate, she paid for her to open a restaurant on the side of the mountain road to make a living."

"The hostess once instructed me and the housekeeper not to tell anyone about Wen Yuya. So for so many years, we haven't even told Xiao Wang and Terror. ”

The topic has completely deviated from the matter of Shan Mingze's wound, and it has also attracted everyone's attention, and everyone leaned forward to listen to the cook's mother-in-law continue to narrate.

Liu Qiao Pu also sat up completely straight with the help of Lian Fan, and he asked, "Do you know about Ms. Wen's two daughters?" ”

"Yuya has never had a daughter! She had a relationship with Mr. Housekeeper back then, but then I don't know why? The two of them seemed to be blushing, and they never dated again. After Yuya went to live in the restaurant, she never married. I also secretly introduced my boyfriend to her, but Yuya refused, saying that she was more free to live alone. ”

"So Wen Manman and Wen Shuxue are not the daughters of the boss?" Liu Qiaopu asked the question before he remembered that the cook did not hear the story of Wen Manman last night, and she was asleep at that time.

Sure enough, the cook looked confused and asked, "When did Man Man become Yuya's daughter?" ”

When Sister Wang explained the story told by Wen Manman to her, a strange thing had to attract everyone's attention, because the conversation between the cook and Liu Qiaopu had been going on until now, but Wen Manman had not heard the voice of rebuttal, what was she doing?

'Now is not the time to ask Grandma Tang about the details of the past, wait until Yu Ze is caught! Xie Yunmeng thought, looked at the leaking rock prostheses on the ground, and suddenly had a good idea, he forced these things to clump together, and then stuffed them into the inside of the small door.

It takes a lot of effort because the filling is thick and the surface is still damp, making it easy to slip out when squeezed into tight spaces. It was indeed not easy for Xie Yunmeng to let them block the only entrance and exit of the brick wall, that is, to make it impossible for the people inside to push it open, and to prevent the filling from slipping out.

In addition, the mechanism attached to the table must also be destroyed, otherwise, the people inside may use the power of the mechanism to push outward. Xie Yunmeng planned to make the entrance and exit completely useless, forcing the people hiding inside to move in the direction of the main house. However, the brick walls have no windows at all, and the filling is damp, so it is likely that every crevice will be blocked when stuffed, and if there is no other entrance and exit inside the door, the person hiding inside may suffocate to death.

But Xie Yunmeng didn't seem to realize the danger of this situation, he motioned to Tang Meiya's ancestor to keep quiet, and listened to the sound inside the wall, there was no movement inside, not even the sound of clothes and shoes rubbing. Xie Yunmeng guessed that the person inside was probably no longer there, so he began to carry out his own ideas, he used all his strength to push the rock prosthesis into the narrow entrance, and after a few minutes, the narrow gap was stuffed to the brim, and there was hardly any gap to be seen.

Yaya was very curious about Xie Yunmeng's approach, and she didn't want to ask too much for the time being, so she focused all her attention on Mr. Criminal Police, and didn't look at her grandmother at all. Therefore, Tang Meiya's panic that was revealed in an instant was not seen by anyone.

Xie Yunmeng kept gathering the filling on the ground and stuffed it into the wall, and the entrance couldn't fit it, so he hard-topped it inside, Yaya only felt that she heard the 'click' sound of wood due to the pressure next to her ears, and it felt like a human bone that was about to break, and she couldn't help but be a little scared.

She couldn't help but ask, "Brother Xiaomeng, what are you doing?" ”

Xie Yunmeng took Tang Meiya's ancestor and grandson to check the corpse in the basement, as for what method Liu Qiaopu used, so that the corpse would not decay to the point of changing its appearance, he would explain it later.

The old criminal police with most of the parties will not carry out operations for the time being, so let's let it go, and we will shift our attention to Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng.

They didn't find the person following behind them, Yun Yeyao's attention was focused on the wall that was opened by Xie Yunmeng, dealing with Yan Muheng was one thing, and on the other hand, he also had to carefully inspect this place. Yan Muheng is not in danger at the moment, Yun Yeyao is very clear about this.

The bricks and cement in the walls are in a state of shattering, and no matter how strong Mr. Detective is, it is impossible to destroy them to this extent, indicating that everything in this wall has long been corroded to the point that it is impossible to look good. Does the murderer know about the walls? The answer is yes, the murderer must know, so he let go of the angry Xie Yunmeng to smash the wall.

The secret passage in the tower is only separated from the main staircase by a wall, and there are no rooms on either side of the corner of the wall on the left-hand side near the top of the blue tower, so this is the only place where the staircase can be seen directly when opened. There is only this place that can expose Xie Yunmeng to everyone faster. Judging from this point alone, the murderer's motive for framing the criminal police is very obvious.

But the key question is what exactly does the skeleton mean to the murderer? The problem starts with the wallpaper in the blue tower passage, the wall in the blue tower is actually the same as the outside, it doesn't look like there is much paint peeling, and the whole is very intact. So why cover all the walls that aren't damaged with wallpaper?

If someone wants to cover up the skeleton, then it is completely possible to customize the wallpaper of only that wall, as long as the edge of the wallpaper is carefully docked with the gap in the corner of the wall, it is generally unlikely to be noticed. But why did the killer seal all the walls in the secret passages of the Blue Tower with wallpaper? Not only is this a huge amount of work, but it's also easy to detect, isn't it?