Chapter 223: The House of Strange Riddles: The Beginning of Exploring the Secrets
The sudden collapse of the Asukusa Lodge should be a shocking ending for both people inside and outside.
The first time of collapse was close to 9 o'clock in the morning, at this time, the flow of people to work on the road outside was already very large, although it was a relatively remote suburban avenue, but there were not a few people from the countryside to the city to work.
What's more, it is the second day of the Saturday and Sunday, and many people have gone out to catch the car early, and some have driven by themselves, anyway, there is no pedestrians on the road at this time.
Therefore, if a house suddenly collapses on the side of the road, it will definitely attract everyone's attention, and someone will soon call the police for help.
But now the situation is that the exterior of the Asuka Grass Hotel has not changed at all, and it stands on the side of the road and is ignored by pedestrians, but the interior has changed beyond recognition.
And what about the people who are inside the house? What is their current situation?
There is no shadow of a single person in the house at the moment, except for the bricks and tiles, maybe they are buried under the broken bricks and furniture, or perhaps, they are directly pressed into the basement? There are always many kinds of guesses, but sometimes the truth is not as simple as guesswork.
The reason for the collapse of the Asuka grass house, let's put it aside for a while, and see what happened to Yun Yeyao and Mo Hai's right side.
Time: Two nights after arriving at Asukusa Lodge.
After Yun Yeyao and Mo Haiyou had dinner, they hid in the room, while Moji was still fiddling with the white plastic blocks in the living room, and her mother-in-law was also sitting next to him to help at the moment.
The other guest here, the little girl named Xuyan, had not walked out of the room since they arrived here, and had not come out for dinner.
According to the mother-in-law of the caretaker of Asuka Grass, the introduction is because she is losing weight, so she doesn't eat dinner, and the little girl is tired during the day today, so she needs to rest in the room and can't be disturbed.
This explanation seems reasonable on the surface, but it can't make Yun Yeyao and Mo Haiyou agree, when they first came here to choose a room, they once heard the sound of high heels walking in the introductory room.
If it's a tired person, why walk back and forth in high heels? She must be sleeping in her room! But this kind of thing about girls, they don't want to ask about it.
And the attention of the two people is now somewhere else, which is why Mo Haiyou moved directly from the two rooms that were far apart.
You should remember what I said before, when Yun Yeyao was still talking to Moji downstairs, Mo Haiyou entered the first room near the staircase, and after entering, he didn't come out again.
When Yun Yeyao and Moji went upstairs to look for him, they found that he didn't know when he had entered another room directly opposite. This matter, Yun Yeyao never figured it out in the evening.
Another point is that after Mo Haiyou entered the Asuka Grass Hotel, he had been smelling the smell of the hotel, and he had smelled the same smell from the staircase on the second floor and from the room. It was a pungent smell from burnt plastic, very faint, and you had to smell it carefully to feel a little bit.
In fact, this is the secret of Mr. Forensic can change rooms without leaving the door. He asked Yun Ye to observe the roof from a distance because of this smell.
Let's explain it this way: the smell comes from the inside of the house structure, not from the inside of the house!
What is called the interior of the house structure, in fact, is very simple, that is, in a specific place, such as the brick and tile and plate interlayer, this kind of place is not necessarily a space where people can be hidden or like a secret room. It could also be just a general crack or a narrower place. As long as you can hide something.
The smell of burnt plastic usually comes from the homes of some handmade people who like to make models or ornaments, and the medical examiner wants to confirm whether the corpse and the dog are horror models made by someone. If relevant evidence can be found, the murder incident mentioned by the actor can be ruled out.
He didn't believe that there would be any horrific murders, and his actions and words along the way revealed the forensic doctor's thoughts.
And the relatively frank attitude of her mother-in-law and Moji also made Yun Yeyao feel that nothing major should have happened, so at this moment, after Mo Haiyou told him about his doubts, he also agreed that it might be a model.
Except for not seeing Xie Yunmeng today, it seems that everything is going well. The actions of the two people outside the door also showed that they should be making some handmade products, and Yun Yeyao was going to wait for Mo Haiyou to tell him the secret of the room, and then go out and ask what they were making.
If it's really a life-size model, it takes a lot of skill to make people mistake it for a corpse, and Yun Yeyao thinks that he can learn from the two people outside the door and ask for advice, and then ask a small model to take back to the frightened man as a gift.
Different from the terrifying tension on Xie Yunmeng's side, the two of them were still in a relatively relaxed state of mind. So they won't be in such a hurry to study the progress of things.
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It's about nine o'clock in the evening. The mother-in-law and Moji in the living room had finished the work at hand, and at this time, Moji stood up and said, "Mother-in-law, can I go over?" ”
"Well, almost, I'm going back to my room to prepare, they should have started a long time ago, you be careful, don't inadvertently reveal your secrets, you know?"
"No problem, but I always think this plan is a bit too much, I've never played like this before." Moji hesitated, he didn't seem to think he could do well.
The mother-in-law smiled at him and said, "Everyone is waiting for your riddle, go quickly, remember to disguise yourself." ”
"Oh." After answering, Moji still didn't move, just stood on the edge of the table and watched her mother-in-law struggling downstairs with a large plate of prepared things, until her mother-in-law entered her room, and Moji didn't act.
He first walked to the door of the introduction's room, raised his hand and knocked on the door, but there was no response inside, and then Moji put his ear to the door and listened for a while, probably not hearing any sound, so he took out his spare key, opened the door and walked in.
When the door was closed, as if it was an appointment, the mother-in-law downstairs suddenly poked her head out of her room, glanced up, and muttered: "It's good to go in......"
When the old man retracted her head, we realized that her wig had been removed, and that there were only a few thin handfuls of white hair on her head, as seen by previous witnesses, and that her scalp was still tinged with an unnatural turquoise, which looked very oozing.
When the caretaker closed the door again, the living room was truly silent, and no one made any sound, as if they had fallen asleep in the room in an instant.
The night can always make everything scary and spooky, just like our two male protagonists.
Yun Yeyao and Mo Haiyou are groping their way through a dark passage at the moment, yes, the reason why Mo Haiyou asked two people to live in a room is to facilitate their actions together.
He discovers the secret that exists between the six rooms on the second floor through the strange smell, which allows them to enter any of the rooms at will without passing through the door.
However, aside from the fact that the rooms were interconnected, they had yet to discover more secrets from the passage in front of them. Nor were there any so-called life-size mannequins or corpses resembling those under door panels.
The two of them had a hard time walking, because the space here was too narrow, and the two one-meter-eight men had to shrink their bodies tightly and bend down to pass smoothly.
Yun Yeyao complained, "This is too small! ”
"Shut up," Mo Haiyou's voice was a little cold whenever he listened, and he said, "Be careful of being heard by the people next door, what we are doing now is illegal!" ”
"I know," Yun Yeyao lowered her voice a little, "but do you think this place can take us somewhere?" Is it another Asuka grass? Or is it someone's secret room? ”
Of course, Mo Haiyou couldn't answer this, so he didn't speak, just shook the hand that was holding Yun Yeyao, and signaled the actor to be calm.
The two of them walked through the twists and turns of the passage, and after a long time, they realized that they seemed to have strayed from their original tracks.
Mo Haiyou stopped, squatted in front of Yun Yeyao and said, "It seems that we are no longer on the periphery of the room on the second floor, I judge that this passage is below the first floor." ”
"You mean we went to the basement?" Yun Ye Yao approached the face of the forensic doctor and asked.
The forensic doctor took the opportunity to take the actor into his arms, so that the two people could get closer and communicate more easily, because there was no light at all, and if you turned on the phone, it was likely to be noticed by people outside the walls and windows.
Mo Haiyou continued: "Xiao Yao, I don't know if I entered the basement, but the passage is indeed extending down in a circle, if we go down again, I am afraid that the partition above will be closed suddenly, and we will have no way to go back." ”
"But what if there's a clue down there? We can't just give up! "Yun Yeyao means to continue downward, if you encounter an emergency and then find a way to solve it, it is really not possible to call and communicate with people outside or call the police for help.
Mo Haiyou didn't refute him, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, pressed it and said, "There is no signal here, it is impossible to call for help!" ”
"Xiao Zuo, how did you find out that there is no mobile phone signal?"
"My mobile phone usually has some automatic reminders, which need to use the Internet, so my network is open 24 hours a day, and if there is no signal, these automatic reminder text messages will not come."
"I just found that my phone never vibrate, so I knew there was no signal here."
"Then I'll have to go back! What a disappointment! Yun Yeyao complained.
Mo Haiyou rubbed his cheek on one side and said, "I said it, don't be so curious!" ”
"Got it, got it, then let's go back!" Yun Yeyao finished speaking, and was about to turn around, when suddenly there was a sound of Xixi Suo climbing up from the depths of the darkness, accompanied by a man's familiar shout: "Hey! Is there someone on it? ”
"Little ?!!" Yun Yeyao almost jumped up from the ground, he wanted to go down immediately, but was stopped by Mo Haiyou, and said, "I'll go, you stay here and don't move, pay attention to the movement above." ”
"Xiao Zuo, be careful." Yun Yeyao took care of it uneasily, although he stayed where he was, he didn't listen to Mo Haiyou's words at all, he paid attention to the movements above, and all his thoughts were concentrated below the passage, after all, the two most important people to him were below.
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In the woman's room, the man who had just entered was groping around on the bed, and the woman who was supposed to be in the room was nowhere to be at the moment, and the man did not show surprise at this, but just did his own work.
He took out a large bag of things from the hole under the futon, and after opening the covered fabric layer by layer, the man realized that what was inside was different from what he had seen in the afternoon.
"Huh? How did it turn into rhubarb? ”
Instead of a newly made model, the man was presented with a large yellow dog lying on the kitchen floor, the lower part of his body almost glued to the floor mat.
The man was about to guess who had moved Rhubarb to this place, when there was an additional figure of a woman he was familiar with, the occupant of the Introduction.
The appearance of the introduction surprised the man, as if she had been hiding somewhere just now, and now she suddenly came out to scare people. But the furniture in this room is clearly arranged, and there is not even a curtain, so there is no way to hide.
Without waiting for the man to ask, the introduction said, "Hey! What are you doing in my room? ”
The man was stunned by her question, and then said, "My mother-in-law asked me to come, and she said that you went over there, and I can come here to borrow your things to disguise." ”
"Yes, then I'll ask my mother-in-law!" The introduction looked very angry and was about to walk out the door. But the next second was stopped by a man.
The man's face showed a slightly embarrassed look and said, "Mother-in-law is probably gone, you can't find her!" ”
"I don't care, what are you doing in my room by yourself as a big man?" The introduction's voice raised a lot, and she didn't want to listen to the man at all, so she walked around his body and walked towards the door.
This time the man was also a little angry, "You don't know what kind of person I am, and you ......"
Suddenly, the man's words paused in the void, and he noticed that something was wrong with the back of the introductory head, which was sticky and wet, and something familiar to men had slipped under the neckline.
"You...... Not an introduction? The man blurted out.
At the same time, the woman in front of her also realized that she was wearing a goof, she did not panic, but touched the back of her head with her backhand and said, "Oops! It's really not durable, and it makes you see it so quickly. ”
The woman turned her head and looked at the stunned man in front of her, and she suddenly asked a strange question: "Do you know why the introduction only appears here, but never goes there?" ”
“…… Why? Timidity began to appear in the man's tone.
The woman walked slowly towards the man, still saying in a contemptuous tone: "Because the introduction does not exist at all, and I am the head of this house!" ”
The figures of the two men gradually overlapped each other, making their movements indistinguishable, and a moment later, a scream and the sound of broken window glass were heard in the void.
After a long time, there was movement in the room again, it was the footsteps of high heels on the floor, very harsh, but it sounded a little different from what Mo Haiyou heard in the evening.
This voice is a little slower and more coherent than before, and it feels very draggy, I don't know if it's because the shoes are too big, or the person in the high heels is not very comfortable, anyway, at the moment, the person in the high heels is moving towards the door.
It was almost midnight, but the 'Suppressed Sphinx's puzzle party never seemed to have begun, everyone was moving their own things in this room, and at the other end, in another Asuka Grass inn that they couldn't see, Xie Yunmeng and the other residents were groping in the dark for a way to see the light.