"Oh, you're here, but I've found it."

When I wanted to ask Ban Zhi a few more words, Yin Yan's familiar voice suddenly joined in, and at this moment, I suddenly heard it, very similar to the bloody murderer in a horror movie, and the strange words when he found the object he wanted to slaughter.

Is it because we are playing hide and seek now, Yin Yan is playing a ghost, and I have indescribable entanglements with Ban Zhi, so I feel that if Yin Yan suddenly appears, it will give me goosebumps?

I looked up and looked at Yin Yan who was walking slowly from a distance, his expression was natural, at most a little joy to find us, when I turned my eyes back to Ban Zhi's expression, I found that her whole body froze, I even saw a trace of panic and fear in her eyes, and when I looked closely, Yin Yan had already come to us.

This is also the first time that the four of us with complex emotional entanglements are alone together, and Yin Yan didn't feel it when he was standing in the distance just now, and the air seemed to freeze when they were facing each other.

Especially when Yin Yan had a smile on the corner of his mouth, but his gaze was extremely complicated, Qiu Shishi was unhappy and pulled me back, deliberately separating me from Yin Yan.

Yin Yan woke up because of Qiu Shishi's actions, I don't know if it was to hide his emotions, or really pity his fiancée, he put his hand on Ban Zhi's shoulder, and said to Ban Zhi affectionately: "I said that I would find you quickly, but you also let me find it, since I found it, go back to the waterfall." ”

He nodded to us, and took Ban Zhi as he turned and walked forward.

Seriously, this is the first time I have seen him interact with Ban Zhi on this trip, although Ban Zhi is standing next to Yin Yan except just now.

Qiu Shishi took me by the hand and slowly followed me back, thinking of the hexagram that Qiu Shiren calculated, I asked the man in front of me, "Who have you found?" We're not the last. ”

"No," Yin Yan looked back, he had always been old and serious, and he actually smiled a little naughty, "There is still one person who has not been found." ”

I'm a little curious, it's been more than an hour now, we have set the range, and we can't run far, does it mean that there is a person who can hide, and that person won't come out until he finds us, so the hexagram says, it's no different if we go out early or late?

I was no longer so afraid of the fiancée in front of me, and we were some distance away from them, so in order to show that I was no longer affected by the emotional wounds of the year, I pretended to be natural and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"You might as well guess?"

I thought for a moment: "My brother? Yan Bin? Xu Yingjun? Zhang Ying? Xu Guanyang? ”

I guessed everyone, and finally I was surprised: "Merry? ”

Yin Yan finally nodded: "Yes, it's her." ”

I was really surprised this time.

Not to mention others, Yan Bin is the leader of the serious crime team, I heard that he was the best at hiding himself in the jungle when he was a soldier before, but even he was found, but Mei Li was not found? Could it be that Yan Bin and these people are all like us, they are all impatient to hide and run out by themselves? It's impossible, Yan Bin and Xu Yingjun, if nothing else, patience should be very good.

I still didn't really want to chat with Yin Yan, I always felt weird to communicate with him, so even if I was curious, I didn't ask anymore, until I returned to the outside of the waterfall and saw my brother's people, I grabbed Xu Guanyang and asked, "I remember when I started hiding, wasn't Mei Li with you?" ”

"Yes, I found a place, but there can only be one person hidden in that place, so I gave it to her, and after letting her hide it, I found a place again, because time is not hidden enough, and I was the first to be found by Yin Yan." He was a little indignant when he said this.

"Is Merry still hiding in the same place you found her?"

Xu Guanyang actually shook his head: "No, when Yin Yan went to look for someone else, I secretly went to see it while he was away, the place was empty, Mei Li was not there, I don't know where she went to hide later." ”

After Yin Xiang took us to the outside of the waterfall, he set off again to look for Mei Li, but after looking for a while and still couldn't find it, we all followed a look for it, at this time it was already dark, and after playing for almost two hours, it was almost time to go back.

We all shouted Mei Li's name together to let her out, to make sure that she was the last one, she had already won, and it just so happened that Xu Guanyang was the first to be found, she could make a request to Xu Guanyang, and Mei Li was looking forward to this request.

But no matter how we shouted, Mei Li didn't come out, and we didn't even make a sound, and we couldn't find her, and we looked for her for half an hour, and everyone was a little panicked.

"Where do you think she's going?" Zhang Ying asked Xu Guanyang, Xu Guanyang stroked his hair irritably, "How do I know, I said that I found a good hiding place for her to hide, I just took you to see it, she is not there at all, okay, damn, I knew that I wouldn't bring her here, I thought she was sensible and smart enough, but now it seems that it is a trouble." ”

In his words, he alluded to Mei Li's unreliability since last night.

"It's not going to be a long run, is it?" Zhang Ying said uneasily, "She was looking for a place to hide, and she accidentally ran too far, which is very possible." Speaking of this, she panicked herself, "You say, will she run into the danger zone?" ”

"Merry is not such a stupid person." Xu Guanyang himself said that the women around him came and went, and finally came here with him and his best friend, how to do it without any means, although since last night, Xu Guanyang has been a little disgusted with her, but it does not prevent him from giving her a high evaluation.

"But if she hadn't gone too far, why wouldn't she have heard us call her?"

Listening to everyone's arguments, I looked at Poet Qiu, although Yan Bin and my brother Panhald both knew the identity of Poet Qiu, but Xu Guanyang, Xu Yingjun and others didn't know about it, and they might even not know that there were really ghosts in this world, so Poet Qiu has always been with everyone as an ordinary person.

But I'm uneasy now, combined with all the previous circumstances, I always feel that something may have happened to Mei Li, and I have to turn to the poet for help.

"Do you have any personal belongings for Merry?" Qiu Shishi said directly to Xu Guanyang.

"What?" Xu Guanyang glared at the Qiu poet in confusion, Yan Bin immediately understood what the Qiu poet meant, and patted Xu Guanyang's head, "You just say if there is one, don't you know that the Qiu poet can be called a divine dog?" ”

I kicked Yan Bin unceremoniously: "You are the dog, your whole family is a dog!" ”

Xu Guanyang still found a silk scarf of Mei Li and gave it to Qiu Shishi, Qiu Shiren took the silk scarf in his hand, as if checking something, in fact, the silk scarf was folded into strips by him and placed flat in his hand, only I saw that the outward end of the silk scarf was slightly cocked like a snake's head, pointing in a certain direction.

Qiu Shiren walked in that direction first, and everyone followed for some reason, and then returned to the waterfall, and finally, Qiu Shiren looked at the big waterfall that went straight down.

The others were puzzled and asked, "Merry can't be hiding in the hole behind the waterfall, right?" ”

Yin Yan said: "I don't know about this, I waited in that cave for ten minutes and came out to look for you, and then I don't know if Mei Li took advantage of me to leave and then ran back there to hide." ”

"The waterfall is so loud, if she can't hear us calling her inside, it's possible, right?"

"Wouldn't you just go in and have a look?"

Just as everyone set off and wanted to climb up the hole from the edge of the waterfall, Zhang Ying, who had been staring at the waterfall, screamed in horror: "Ah-"

Xu Yingjun immediately hugged his wife and asked nervously, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhang Ying shrank in her husband's arms, tremblingly stretched out her finger to point to the waterfall, everyone subconsciously stared at the waterfall, and gradually found that in the water that rushed straight down like a roll of white cloth, there seemed to be a person hidden in the water.

Because the waterfall is very thick, everyone couldn't find it at first, but because the water is clear enough, after staring at it for a few minutes, you can still see the figure that seems to be reflected in it, and it is very vague, and it is impossible to determine whether it is really a person, or if there is a strange rock in the waterfall that resembles a human shape.

Yin Yu immediately said: "That place is on the edge of the cave inside, let's hurry up and take a look." ”

Everyone followed without saying a word, not to mention anything else, Yan Bin and Xu Yingjun were policemen, and even Zhang Ying was taken by Xu Yingjun to climb up to the waterfall.

As soon as I got into the waterfall and stood outside the curtain hole, I saw a person hanging on the wall on the other side of the curtain hole that was still flowing with water.

We slowly approached with a shocked expression, and after seeing it clearly, Zhang Ying screamed uncontrollably again, and I couldn't help but cover my mouth.

Mei Li, on that stone wall, the clothes on her body were changed, it was a princess tutu, unexpectedly familiar, it took me a long time to remember, it was exactly the same as the doll Xu Guanyang I saw in her room last night, the difference was in size.

But at this time, Mei Li, her hands were nailed to the stone wall flat, and her feet were also nailed to the stone wall with her feet slightly open, she had a pair of eyes open, her gray hair was tied into a braid and hung to one side, and the water on the stone wall flowed through her body, flowing out of her feet, with red blood and other currents.

My body was a little weak, and I felt deeper self-blame.

I had already realized that something was wrong with Mei Li, and I had already felt that there was a trace of weirdness everywhere here, why did I agree to play hide and seek, if I didn't play, if everyone had been together, wouldn't Mei Li have been hung on this stone wall in such a cruel way?

Qiu Shishi put his hand on my shoulder and passed the heat for me: "This has nothing to do with you, I didn't even find out earlier, and this kind of thing happened right under my nose, and I was even more derelict in my duty." ”

I took Qiu Shishi's hand and looked at him, he sighed and scratched my palm, then broke away from my hand, and stepped forward with Yan Bin and Xu Yingjun to examine the body.

Before the inspection, Xu Yingjun took photos of the scene first, and Yan Bin even took out the disposable gloves he carried with him and distributed them to the two of them.

He first touched the pulse on Merry's neck, as well as her breath, to make sure that Merry was dead...... Then, he and Xu Yingjun tried to pick off the iron nails nailed to their wrists, trying to let Mei Li lie down first, and in the process of moving, they found that Mei Li's body was completely stiff.

Under normal circumstances, it appears within 1 to 3 hours after death, starting from the part, it takes 4 to 6 hours for the zombie to extend to the whole body, and it takes at least 9 to 12 hours to be completely stiff, Mei Li has no other wounds on her body except for the place where her limbs have been nailed by iron nails, it is very likely that she died of excessive blood loss, from the beginning of playing peek-a-boo, to now it is three hours, it is completely not stiff to this extent, even if it will change the time when immersed in water, it is impossible.

After the initial inspection, Yan Bin summoned us to the curtain cave to ask about our respective timelines.

In this matter, either the ghosts are haunted, or the murderer is among us, unless someone else also runs here, and has been hiding in the shadows without being discovered by us, but in any case, several of us are the most suspicious.

Xu Guanyang was the first to say: "I was the first to be found by Yin Yan, after he found me, I went back to the place where Mei Li was hidden, and I didn't find her, so I walked to the waterfall, and met Handsome and Zhang Ying who were also found on the way, and then the three of us have been together." ”

As he spoke, his expression was a little wrong, he hung his head slightly, and he was still in a trance, thinking that Mei Li's sudden death hit him hard, no matter how he said it, she was also his woman, he looked calm, and talked about the timeline, but his mental outlook was not very good.

"He's right," Xu Yingjun continued, "My wife and I have a bigger goal, we didn't hide well and were found by Yin Yan, and we wanted to wait for everyone at the waterfall, so we ran into Guan Yang, whether it was hiding for ten minutes, or being found in about ten minutes, we didn't have time to commit the crime." ”

Panji patted him on the shoulder to reassure, and then spoke: "I'm the fourth, since they were all on the waterfall after they were found, then it is impossible for me to be found after them, and it is impossible to commit the crime." ”

Otherwise, how would he leave the waterfall and find somewhere else? Unless there is another exit from this curtain hole.

After the pan halberd is Yan Bin, and then there is me and Qiu Shishi and ran to find me for an inexplicable Ban Zhi, if there is no other exit from the curtain cave, then it is unlikely that we will be found later, and it is indeed the murderer.

Yin Yan was the last to say: "I will wait in this curtain cave for ten minutes, and after ten minutes I will go out to find you, in these ten minutes, Mei Li spent most of her time with Guan Yang, and then I found Guan Yang as fast as possible, so I don't have time to kill Mei Li and nail her to the wall, which will take a certain amount of time to complete." After that, I was on the way to find you, and on the waterfall, Guan Yang and Yingjun have been there, which can prove that I have not been back during this period. ”

So he's not too suspicious either.

Now, it is impossible to determine the time of Merry's death, and I don't even know how she died, when did she enter the curtain cave?

"I'm wondering," Xu Yingjun pondered, "is it possible that there really be someone else hiding around us besides us?" ”

Zhang Ying shrank beside Xu Yingjun and looked behind her suspiciously: "As soon as you say that, I always feel that someone is secretly staring at us." ”

Xu Yingjun hurriedly hugged his wife: "Don't be afraid, don't leave me, huh?" ”

Yin Yan nodded in agreement: "I also think it's very possible, a few of us, except for Guan Yang, we didn't know her before this, why kill her?" It's impossible to run through the ocean, and he's not a fool, isn't killing someone the most suspicious at this time? I still feel that we, or Mei Li herself, have been targeted by someone and followed here. ”

As he spoke, he took a stone and drew on the ground: "It is very likely that after I waited for ten minutes, I went out to look for you, and Mei Li sneaked back into the curtain cave at this time, and the murderer followed her into the curtain hole, and then killed her, and then they were all waiting outside, and he couldn't get out, but we found that Mei Li was not found, and when we all went out to look for Mei Li together, it was just when the murderer left." ”

Yan Bin, who had been silent and contemplating, nodded subconsciously: "There is such a possibility." ”

Then he looked up at the poet: "Do you have anything else to discover?" ”

He has worked with Qiu Shishi several times, and knows that even if he is not a ghost, Qiu Shishi's meticulous observation is also very helpful in solving unsolved cases.

Qiu Shiren said lightly: "I think we should go back to the villa first, find a way to call the police, and then ......" He looked around at everyone, "Hurry up and get out of here." ”

Yan Bin immediately realized something and stood up: "Yes, you are right." ”

He turned to Xu Yingjun and said, "Let's work together to bring Mei Li's body back to the villa first, and call the police as soon as possible, it's best if a police officer can come up quickly, or not, we'd better leave quickly." ”

"Okay." Xu Yingjun naturally had no opinion, but he still had questions: "What's wrong?" ”

Yan Bin walked towards Mei Li with him and said, "This matter is very wrong, if someone really does something to Mei Li, it will be difficult to protect it...... He won't do anything to us, and more importantly, our whereabouts are obviously exposed, and it's impossible to say whether it's a person hiding in the shadows, the only thing that is certain is that this place is not safe. Also, if we find an unknown deceased, it is normal to call the police, and if the police come to protect us, we may be able to be safer. ”

Yan Bin and Xu Yingjun were in charge of carrying Mei Li, and the others were close to each other, and when they came out of the waterfall, they found that it was completely dark.

"Dead people." I followed everyone next to the poet Qiu and spoke to him in a low voice, "I didn't see Mei Li's soul, there is no soul after death, under normal circumstances, it may be killed by ghosts, and the soul is devoured, if the murderer is a human, Mei Li's soul should be there." ”

The nail that nailed Mei Li is not a corpse nail, which means that Mei Li's soul is not in her body either.

Qiu Shishi took the opportunity to wrap his arms around my shrunken shoulders, and his voice was deep: "Merry's corpse is wrong. ”

"Huh?" I looked up at him, "What's wrong?" Is she stiffening too quickly? ”

"Not only that, after a person dies, for a long time, the body contains a certain breath of life, even after it is completely stiff, but I don't feel right in Mei Li's body at all, just like ......"

"What?"

Qiu Shishi's eyes were cold: "That's a fake corpse." ”

"But...... "Yan Bin, when they examined the body, I was also standing aside, it really didn't look like a fake body.

"I know," the poet saw my thoughts, "I just said what I felt, not that it must be fake." ”

I simply leaned over him and asked him to carry me away: "Dead man, I'm a little uneasy in my heart, it's the first time I've ...... like this Clueless. ”

"That's because you relied too much on your own energy before, you can see the black gas, you can clearly see the ghosts, you can always see these to find clues, but now, there are no evil ghosts around, except for Yin Yan and your sister Ban Zhi, who can't see the black gas, the black gas on other people's bodies is normal, and you naturally don't know what to do."

I nodded thoughtfully: "What about me?" ”

"It's very simple, treat yourself as an ordinary person, just like the first time you met Guan Chuan."

……

Back at the villa, knowing that Mei Li among us was actually dead, the good housekeeper and Xiao Qiu Xiaodong were shocked and panicked, it is said that this place has never happened until now, at this time, the good housekeeper admitted that in order to ensure the safety of the guests, in the range of the danger area, there is a power grid, so that those fierce beasts will not haunt the place where the guests play.

And this place is very hidden, guests come to play once to provide a very high fee, so they don't need many guests at all, only know a group of guests at a time, and the guests are similar to Yin Yan's identity, at the same time, during the hospitality, the passage to this side will be intercepted, and no one else will be allowed to enter and exit, so as to ensure that the unfavorable elements will be mixed in and hurt the guests.

The so-called camping experience life, in the final analysis, is to make these noble sons and ladies happy in a safe environment.

However, so many protective measures were done, and as a result, someone still died, and still died in that way.

Hearing Yan Bin ask him to call the police quickly, their mobile phone signal was completely empty, and they couldn't let them call out, from the time he saw the good housekeeper, he behaved very calmly, this time he inevitably showed panic, and answered twice, before he raised his foot and ran to the telephone.

I thought of one thing, raised my eyebrows and said: "In the general detective, at this time, the phone can't go out, either the signal is blocked, or the phone line is cut. ”

As soon as my words fell, the good housekeeper ran back with a slightly panicked face: "The phone can't be called, I suspect that the phone line may have been cut." ”

All eyes were on me.

"......," I said angrily, "look at what I'm doing, it's not my crow's mouth." ”

Yin Yan sighed: "It's not your crow's mouth, but if someone doesn't want us to contact the outside world, then we probably won't be able to go down the mountain now." ”

The good housekeeper's face changed, and he immediately said to Xiaoqiu Xiaodong: "Go to the cliff and have a look......"

"Let's go too." Yan Bin kept his face calm and took the first step to go out, and everyone else hurriedly followed, including Xiaoqiu and Xiaodong.

Then, standing on the edge of the cliff, we saw that the only wooden bridge that could enter and exit Linxun Mountain was broken.