The two reacted instantly, and rushed downstairs in a hurry. The further down you go, the stronger the smell of blood becomes.

"Wait!" Liang Yunxiao stopped suddenly, stretched out his hand to stop Ye Yu behind him, and raised his head in the direction of the main entrance of the villa.

Ye Yu looked forward, and suddenly his limbs stiffened, and he stood on the stairs.

A figure was hanging from the glass window next to the door, swaying in the torrential rain. The wind was mixed with blood, and it was pouring blood into the room through the broken glass window, and the lightning outside the window streaked by, reflecting the bloody face of the figure.

Chen ...... Chen Tao!! ”

Ye Yu looked at Chen Tao, who was no longer human, in front of him, and suddenly felt like he was about to vomit.

I saw Chen Tao wearing a plastic raincoat, drooping his head, his eyes wide open, and his expression distorted. A cable tightly wrapped around his neck, hanging it out, making him look like a giant sunny day doll.

However, what is even more shocking is that there is an axe stuck in the back of his head, and the depth of the inlay makes the skull crack a two-finger-thick slit from the top like a watermelon, and the blood mixed with the brain pulp leaks out along the gap in the head, and slips down the raincoat sticky, which is really miserable.

Ye Yu covered his mouth and tried to calm down the tumbling river and sea in his stomach, and he didn't dare to step forward for a while—although there was nothing in his stomach to vomit.

Liang Yunxiao on the side didn't have Ye Yu's exaggerated reaction at all, but vigilantly scanned the hall several times with a flashlight, and after making sure that no one was hiding in the dark, he carefully approached Chen Tao who was hanging out of the window, and began to observe carefully through the window that there was no glass.

Judging from Chen Tao's tragic physical condition, there is absolutely no possibility of survival, and on the outside, except for the crack in the back of his head, there are no other obvious external injuries, it seems that he should have been killed by someone from behind.

Liang Yunxiao poked his head out and looked up along the cable around Chen Tao's neck, only to see that the wire was extending straight upward, and the other end seemed to be tied to the edge of the balcony directly above.

Retracting his head, Liang Yunxiao's gaze swept from the broken glass scattered on the floor in the window to the door next to him. Under the broken window, the floor was already wet, and the sound just now should have been caused by Chen Tao's body falling and breaking the window from the outside; The floor near the main entrance is still very dry, and it seems that the wind and rain have not affected this area.

"It seems that not only has I completed the 'Brain Marrow', but I have even made up for the 'Broken Throat' that I didn't finish before." Liang Yunxiao sighed and looked at Ye Yu, who was still standing at the top of the stairs. "He must have been hacked to death and thrown from the roof, we need to go up there and have a look."

Ye Yu recovered from the shock and subconsciously looked up.

"A period of time has passed since Chen Tao was thrown down, will the murderer still be on the balcony?"

"I don't know, we need to be careful."

Saying that, Liang Yunxiao picked up a decoration building material piled up in the corner, tried to wave it, and then threw it to Ye Yu.

"Take a stick to defend yourself, and if someone does attack you, you can block it."

"What about you?" Ye Yu took the stick and asked.

"I don't need to."

Liang Yunxiao replied lightly, turned around and was about to walk up the stairs, when he suddenly heard a rough voice from the second floor.

"What's wrong? What happened? Zhou Hao was wearing a vest and pants, looking at the two of them from the staircase on the second floor with sleepy eyes, looking like he had just been woken up.

"Chen Tao is dead." Liang Yunxiao said lightly.

"What...... What the?! Zhou Hao opened his mouth wide, hurriedly rushed downstairs through Liang Yunxiao's side, and couldn't help but gasp after seeing Chen Tao's tragic situation.

"This ...... This must have been done by the murderer again! It's so cruel! Zhou Hao looked at Chen Tao hanging out of the window, his face full of pain. We have to go to the balcony and put him down, we can't let him hang like this, it's so pathetic......"

Liang Yunxiao raised his eyes, silently swept his gaze over Zhou Hao's face, and then smiled like he was fine: "Hehe, we are about to go up there to check it." ”

"I'll go with you too!" Zhou Hao shouted hurriedly. "The balcony is open-air and it's raining heavily, so I can find you two raincoats."

"Let him come along." Ye Yu opened his mouth. "Now that another one has died, I don't know where the murderer is lurking, it's too dangerous to leave Zhou Hao alone."

Liang Yunxiao shrugged noncommittally, turned around and walked upstairs, and Ye Yu and Zhou Hao also hurriedly followed.

The thick iron door of the balcony isolated the wind and rain on the top floor, and the three of them tiptoed close to the iron door, Liang Yunxiao pressed his hand on the doorknob, turned his head and signaled to the two behind him, Ye Yu nodded nervously, and clenched the wooden stick in his hand.

Three...... Two...... One!

After silently counting three times, Liang Yunxiao slammed open the iron door, and suddenly a violent storm invaded the three of them from the outdoor balcony.

Ye Yu was caught off guard by the heavy rain of beans rushing to his face, and couldn't help but turn his head and squint, and when he turned his head again, he found that Liang Yunxiao had already taken the lead on the balcony, and was scanning the surroundings with a flashlight.

"How's it going?" Ye Yu and Zhou Hao followed and stepped forward and asked.

"As you can see, there is not half a figure." Liang Yunxiao smiled. "But sure enough, there's a wire bolted here."

As he spoke, Liang Yunxiao shone the flashlight on the corner of the balcony guardrail, and saw a black cable tied to a large guardrail in front of Ye Yu on the left.

The trio approached the guardrail and looked down cautiously. At the bottom of the wire, Chen Tao's body was swaying in the wind below.

"Team Zhou, is this cable something from the team?" Ye Yu asked Zhou Hao.

"This line is something to be used for construction, and it is usually piled up in the utility room on the third floor, and there is no lock in that place, so theoretically anyone can get it." Zhou Hao replied.

"It seems that Chen Tao should have been hacked to death here and then thrown down." Ye Yu analyzed. "But why did the murderer choose to do it here and deliberately throw the corpse? Is it just to make up for the prophecy of "cutting your throat"? ”

"I guess it's so that I don't leave a trace." Liang Yunxiao snorted lightly. "I'm not sure if the killer killed someone on the balcony, but it's the open air, the wind and rain are so strong, and it's been a while, and even any traces have been washed away by the storm, which is the ideal environment for the murderer to commit the crime. Is that right? Captain Zhou. ”

Saying that, Liang Yunxiao smiled and turned to look at Zhou Hao behind him, and the latter seemed to have just come back from the Leng Shen and seemed to be a little absent-minded.

"Huh? Oh...... Yes, this murderer is too cunning! Zhou Hao casually said two perfunctory sentences.

"However, even so, it is not without clues." Liang Yunxiao changed his words.

"What...... What clues? Zhou Hao looked a little nervous.

"Well, what do you see on that windowsill?" Liang Yunxiao approached the edge of the balcony and shone the flashlight to a room on the second floor.

Zhou Hao and Ye Yu hurriedly leaned over, stretched out their heads and looked down to the left.

I saw half of a strip of cloth torn from a bed sheet stretching down from the windowsill of a room on the second floor, drifting in the wind. The window of that room was not closed, and one end of the cloth rope was tied to the inside of the windowsill, but the part that extended out was torn at the middle and lower ends, and the broken half seemed to be falling under the windowsill.

"It's ...... Chen Tao's room! Zhou Hao recognized it at a glance. Did someone sneak into his room from the outside? ”

"Probably not." Ye Yu retracted his head and said calmly. "One end of the strip of cloth is tied to the windowsill, and it can only be that the people inside can go out."

In other words, someone climbed out from the windowsill of Chen Tao's room...... Could it be him? Liang Yunxiao lowered his head and muttered to himself.

Ye Yu suddenly thought of something and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhou Hao in a hurry.

"Anyway...... It's so cold here, and the wind is so strong that I can't hear the words clearly, so let's put Chen Tao down first and go back inside. Zhou Hao proposed.

"Okay...... The rain was indeed too heavy. Ye Yu wrapped a raincoat, but it didn't seem to be useful, the rain went straight down the neckline, wetting the clothes inside.

The three of them braved the wind and rain to hurriedly untie the cable on the guardrail, and there was a "bang" downstairs, and Chen Tao's body should have fallen to the ground.

Leaving the balcony, Ye Yu and the others went straight to the gate on the first floor and dragged Chen Tao's body in.

"Tsk, why did the people who should have stayed in the room die outside......" Liang Yunxiao looked at Chen Tao's miserable corpse and shook his head gently.

"Actually...... I just wanted to say that. Ye Yu turned to look at the two. About forty-five minutes ago, when I was in my room, I accidentally saw Chen Tao appear in the garden downstairs through the window. Now that I found the strip of cloth on Chen Tao's windowsill, it proves that I am not mistaken, he should have sneaked outside by himself. ”

"What?" Zhou Hao suddenly looked surprised. "You...... What else do you see! ”

"I only saw him running to a corner of the garden alone, and I didn't see anyone else."

Zhou Hao quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but all this was secretly seen by Liang Yunxiao beside him.

"But in this way, there is a contradiction." Liang Yunxiao took his eyes off Zhou Hao's face and raised new questions at the same time.

"Since Chen Tao had climbed outside before, why did he appear inside the villa inexplicably and be thrown off the balcony? I've looked at the floor near the main entrance, and it's not damp at all, so it shouldn't be possible to get in and out from the main entrance. ”

"Could it be that you climbed back from that strip of cloth on the windowsill again?" Zhou Hao asked.

"Don't forget, the strip of cloth on the windowsill was cut off in the middle and bottom, and it should have been torn when he climbed out, and it was impossible for him to climb back along the strip of cloth."

"Then it's strange, how the hell did he come back? It doesn't have to be teleported, right? Ye Yu was puzzled.

For a moment, the three fell silent.

The torrential rain outside the house did not stop at all, and the wind raged through the broken glass windows in the hall, blowing down the black cloth that covered Zheng Qiu's portrait.

The lightning lit up the dim hall for a moment, and at this moment, Ye Yu suddenly noticed that something seemed wrong with the portrait of Zheng Qiu.

"The portrait...... It doesn't seem to be the same as before! Ye Yu stared at Zheng Qiu's face in the portrait in front of him, and couldn't help but take a step back in shock.

The other two hurriedly pointed their flashlights at the portrait and immediately noticed something strange.

"He's laughing......," Ye Yu's forehead broke out in cold sweat. Zheng Qiu in the painting is laughing! ”