Chapter 19: Reflections on the First Floor of the Basement
The living room in the basement was a mess, all the cups, plates and dishes fell to the floor, the chandelier shook and broke two booms, the last one was also in danger, and all five people in the basement fell on the carpet and table.
Mrs. Lucifer went to the kitchen to check the equipment and food as soon as possible, Xie Yunmeng checked the power supply in the room and simply repaired the chandelier, and Yun Yeyao helped Mo Haiyou to check the people in the room one by one, but fortunately he didn't die, but he just passed out.
"Someone must have put sleeping pills in their coffee." Mo Hai said while checking on the right side that the pain of his bare feet made cold sweat break out on his head, and Yun Yeyao could only try his best to support half of his body and reduce the burden on his bare feet.
After everyone finished checking, Mo Haiyou sat on the sofa like a paralyzed person, and before he could catch his breath, there was an exclamation from Mrs. Lucifer in the kitchen, at this time, Xie Yunmeng was still repairing the chandelier on the table, and Yun Ye ran towards the kitchen in a hurry without thinking about it, and Xie Yunmeng's shout came from behind him.
"Xiao Yao, beware of traps!!"
"I know, I'll be careful!!" By the time the response sounded, Yun Yeyao had disappeared behind the kitchen door.
Hurriedly screwing the last few screws, Xie Yunmeng jumped off the table and followed towards the kitchen, what he was most worried about was Yun Yeyao's safety.
The kitchen on the basement floor is north of the living room, separated from the living room by a regular wooden sliding door. The staircase from above is located to the west of the living room, where one-third of the floor is much higher than the other two-thirds, and there are three steps between the floors. The raised part is connected to the balcony.
The balcony is located on the south side of the living room, and the balcony on the basement level has no glass walls and cannot be seen outside. To the east of the living room is a whole wall covered with old-fashioned plain wallpaper that looks like a dandelion pattern.
The other furniture and carpets are the same as the sofa cushions. The paintings and cuckoo clocks hanging in the middle of the stairs on both sides are also the same as those upstairs, except that the cuckoo clocks here are not broken, and the cuckoos can tell the time normally.
In the living room, there was only one conscious person left in the living room, and he sat on the sofa and fell into deep thought, thinking about making the injury on his foot seem to be less painful.
All the mobile phones were taken away, and when he was checking his body just now, Mo Haiyou secretly touched everyone's pockets, there was no mobile phone, and there was no one on him. There were no mobile phones on the tables around or on the coffee tables.
Who has the opportunity to take all the phones away? Mrs. Lucifer ex-Lady? No, it can't be, to take away everyone's phones upstairs and downstairs, she doesn't have the time to commit the crime. These people downstairs? It's impossible, it seems that the drug is in a coffee cup, and when they leave, they have already drunk coffee, and they will faint soon, and it is impossible to sneak upstairs to get their mobile phones.
If everyone here is an accomplice, then there are only two possibilities: first, it is a prank directed by Mrs. Lucifer and all but the three of them are involved. But this possibility has been dismissed, as two corpses have appeared, and although one of them only has a head, it is impossible for the prank to have a real corpse.
The second possibility is that there is a vicious murderer hiding in this house, and he is ready to kill everyone, so he will steal everyone's mobile phones and activate the house mechanism to besiege them. But there is one place that makes no sense here, when they are upstairs with Mrs. Lucifer, this living room can be said to be a completely sealed space.
There is no road downstairs to the outside, and there are a few of them upstairs, taking advantage of the darkness to sneak away from their sight?
Mo Haiyou thought about the activity trajectory of a few people upstairs just now, and Mrs. Lucifer was looking for something in the room with a candle in her hand, and the direction at that time was on the edge of the door, and the candle light could faintly illuminate the outline of part of the door. It is certain that no one walked out of the gate at that time. Later, Xie Yunmeng and Mrs. Lucifer went to check the power supply, and walked around the house with candles, and it was even more impossible for the murderer to escape.
Xiao Yao said that the murderer was an outsider, Mo Haiyou actually agreed with this, the question is what kind of outsider, which needs to be thought about. How did the murderer drug the people downstairs? If he can stun everyone, why doesn't he just kill them? If he did it just now, he would definitely be able to do it without knowing it.
If Xiao Yao's judgment is wrong, there is a murderer hidden among these people, it is indeed impossible for him to kill people here, because the only person who is alive will immediately become the object of suspicion, but if the murderer is an outsider, it can only mean that there must be a hiding place on the two underground floors that they have not yet discovered.
Mo Haiyou raised his eyes and looked around, his feet moving gently on the ground, avoiding the hair of the woman under the sofa and some stains.