The table in the middle of the lobby on the first floor is lit with a single oil lamp. A flickering little fire was surrounded by boundless darkness, like countless black arms, constantly waving towards this light, wanting to completely extinguish it.

All the remaining people were sitting around this table at this time, and it was this fire that made everyone's faces cloudy.

"Let me ask you," Zhou Linchao took a deep breath, as if he had finally controlled his emotions, "What did you do at that time?" ”

He looked at Wang Hu in an icy tone, obviously extremely angry at the death of his slave girl.

"I said I didn't do anything!" Wang Hu was speechless, looking at the others as if he wanted to ask for help. "I saw a dark figure rushing out, and I was desperate to escape, but I ran into her. As soon as I shouted, all of you came over, and what I said was true! ”

Poor eyes, expecting everyone to believe it.

"What he said should be true." Chu Jieyun nodded, "When I heard the voice, we did all arrive, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't have time to kill people." ”

"Humph!" Zhou Linchao still didn't give up, "But at this night, you don't stay in your room, you have to go out and walk around, what are you going to do!" ”

Indeed, two people had died before, but the murderer was unknown, and it stands to reason that no one would wander around at this time for no reason to arouse suspicion.

"I ......," Wang Hu was speechless for a while. Naturally, he didn't want anyone to know his secret.

"He's following me," Qiu Shaohu suddenly spoke, and said indifferently, "Because my fire is burned out, I need someone to help me illuminate it." ”

Plain words are just telling the straightforward truth, but they have a high degree of credibility in calm.

Everyone couldn't help but look at him, and Meng Xiangping said, "What are you going to do when you come out at night?" ”

The eyes of the official cha meticulously captured the corners of Qiu Shaohu's face.

Qiu Shaohu said: "Because the roof is leaking, I need to repair it, otherwise we will all soak in water tonight." ”

These words were very logical, and from the moment they came out, they saw that there were still many traces of water on the ground that had not been cleaned.

But then everyone was even more surprised.

After a pause, Qiu Shaohu continued: "And I saw a black shadow and came face to face with it. ”

"What the hell is that?" Qin Xiang immediately asked eagerly, "Is it a ghost?" ”

"No," Qiu Shaohu shook his head affirmatively and said, "It's a man, because he has footsteps." ”

A simple sentence fell into everyone's ears, almost all of them were shocked, and in the silence, the rest of the people were relieved in their hearts.

The reason for the relief was to know that it was not a real ghost, but just someone pretending to be a ghost. After all, if you talk about Dao realm cultivation, I'm afraid that these people haven't entered the hall, and it is difficult to deal with those strange and chaotic things; But the worry is because someone can pretend to be a god among them and not be discovered, this ability is probably even more strange than the real ghost and god thing.

Everyone had their own suspicions, and the atmosphere was invisibly subtle again.

"And then," Meng Xiangping stared at Qiu Shaohu and continued, "What else did you find." ”

"I don't know anything about the rest of that shadow." Qiu Shaohu said calmly.

In the invisible corner, he quietly hid the Buddha bead in his hand deep in the cuff.

It was true that he had found the bead, but he really didn't know anything about the black shadow. He just chose to tell some truth, but not lie.

"It doesn't matter if it's a ghost or a human," Zhou Linchao's tone was not good, "The key is to find the murderer as soon as possible!" ”

"It's none of your business, it's better to explain first," Meng Xiangping said coldly: "At night, why is your female slave girl also alone?" What did you tell her to do? ”

"Is it strange that I asked her to come out because I was hungry and ordered her to go and get me something to eat?" Zhou Linchao said: "I'm afraid that something will happen outside, so I naturally want to let her out." ”

"If you're afraid of danger, let her die for you," Wang Hu couldn't help but say, "Then you're still so angry about her death?" Is this reasonable? ”

"Why is it unreasonable? Is it a contradiction that I sent her to death because she was my thing and I had the right to dispose of it, and I was angry because someone else had ruined my thing and made me have a loss? ”

Zhou Linchao is rightfully authentic.

"Really...... Lunatic. Qin Xiang said in a cold voice.

The people of the empire regarded themselves as the Zhuxia civilization, and the Xia people naturally looked down on the surrounding barbarians. For the people of Langguo Luzhou who have grudge against each other, some of them don't treat them as human beings. But something like this can't be put on the table after all.

Zhou Linchao didn't care about what others said about him, he got up and walked directly to Anu's body on the ground and lifted it, saying, "She is my thing, and she will be placed in my room when she dies." There are so many dead people today, and I don't think you want corpses to be everywhere. ”

This is the truth, after all, Zhang Qi's body is still in the corridor on the second floor and no one touches it, either because the scene is preserved, or simply no one wants to touch it.

He was killed by a man, and no one was willing to collect his body, which was also a great tragedy.

The others acquiesced to his approach, and at this time they couldn't help but follow him towards the upstairs room.

Zhou Linchao's room is the second room on the second floor, and next to it is Boss Li's room.

When passing by the first room, Meng Xiangping vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The alertness of the official made him aware of the slight changes.

One of the points is that the door of Boss Li's room was originally closed, but now the door has opened a gap, and it seems to have been opened.

Out of instinct, he vaguely felt that something was wrong, and he pushed the door open, wanting to see what was going on inside.

The moment the door opened, everyone couldn't help but stop where they were.

The situation in the room was so unexpected, everything inside had been overturned, and it was a mess, as if someone had been crazy trying to find something inside, and even the floor was eager to pry open and find it. Boss Li's own body on the bed was also thrown to the ground at random, staring at the people at the door with wide eyes, and his cloudy pupils seemed to be terrified with a roar.

Everything that is abrupt makes people shudder.

Qin Xiang finally couldn't help it anymore and yelled at Meng Xiangping: "It's really enough! County Lieutenant, should you explain to us what is the agreement between Boss Li and you? Now that so many strange things have happened, it is obvious that the other party is coming for Boss Li, what is he carrying? ”

"Yes," Chu Jieyun also said: "My shop is a small business, and I can't bear such an unwarranted disaster." ”

"No matter what that person is looking for, I feel that unless we get it, or if all of us are dead, the other party will not give up." Wang Hu shuddered.

Everyone's words are simply excited. Meng Xiangping knew that he couldn't say anything if he didn't say anything, so he had to say to everyone: "Okay, I admit that I don't know what it is, but Boss Li told me that he got something, and it is related to Yundi Village!" ”

As soon as the three words "Yundi Village" came out, everyone first had an inexplicable absurdity. What was originally just a random story told by everyone is now proven to be true?

And then it chills people's hearts. Could it really be that the survivors of Yundi Village in the story have come back here to take revenge? I thought that the false stories could come true, but what would happen next was even more unpredictable.

"It has something to do with Yundi Village, what do you mean?" Wang Hu swallowed and spitted at the mouth.

"I don't know, it's just that Boss Li told me so, saying that he got something related to Yundi Village. It seems that it appeared immediately after the story of Yundi Village spread. Meng Xiangping said in a deep voice.

"Whatever it is, there's only one way to do it now!" Putting the body of the female slave back into his room, Zhou Linchao came back directly and said, "Find!" ”

"Looking?" Everyone was puzzled.

"It's just a few of us now, and if someone does take something, it must all be in their rooms now." Zhou Linchao was categorical, "Let's all go together and search room by room." ”

"That's the case, everybody is together, then no one is making small moves." Qiu Shaohu nodded in approval.

Everyone started from the second room of Zhou Linchao's room, searched carefully, and searched until Qiu Shaohu's room at the end, and in the end, nothing suspicious was found.

"So, what now?" Finding nothing, this is not reassuring, but makes everyone more suspicious.

"Simple, keep looking." Meng Xiangping gave another proposal, "The entire inn is not limited to our room, there may be things hidden anywhere, we have to find them everywhere, and the things that Boss Li was taken away may be hidden in any corner." ”

"Now that you are willing to let us act separately, you are not afraid of what means we will use in secret." Chu Jieyun smiled slightly.

"Of course, you can't separate them at will." Meng Xiangping said: "We now have six people, in groups of two and two, in three places to find each other. This allows them to keep an eye on each other, and if something happens to one side, the others know what is wrong. ”

This proposal is indeed the safest and most efficient way to do it at the moment, and everyone has acquiesced. After all, compared to each other's suspicions, it is more heart-wrenching to not find out the secrets hidden in the dark.

As a result of the grouping, Chu Jieyun and Zhou Linchao went to search the back hall, Wang Hu and Meng Xiangping went to the front lobby, and finally Qin Xiang and Qiu Shaohu continued to search for other places on the second floor.

"You guys wait a minute," before everyone was about to leave, Qiu Shaohu suddenly said, "I still have some things to go to my room to get." ”

"You'd better hurry up and don't let us suspect you're doing it." Zhou Linchao said.

Qiu Shaohu returned to the room, closed the door first, and then suddenly groped for the wall on the side with alertness.

When a group of people finally came to search his room, he sensed that something was wrong, and there were some unnatural marks on the walls, as if someone had knocked on them.

His current room is a guest room on the second floor, and in order to facilitate the ventilation of each room, even if the doors and windows are closed, the guests will not feel depressed, Chu Jieyun deliberately asked skilled craftsmen to use tricks in the wall to arrange a lot of subtle ventilation pipes inside, which can always attract air when connected to the outside.

From a knock mark on the wall, Qiu Shaohu carefully checked it, and sure enough, he found that the ventilation pipe in this room had been destroyed.

Who did this to you? Why?

One thing Qiu Shaohu can be sure of is that the other party may not have been like this at the beginning. The other party should have planned to come directly to him, but he was not in the room at the time, so the person destroyed the ventilation duct in the wall of his room.

And it's not just this one thing that is worth caring about.

After thinking about it, Qiu Shaohu carefully took out the Buddha bead he had just found and looked at it carefully.

Meng Xiangping asked everyone to look for it separately, and he must have felt that it would not be found. After all, if Qiu Shaohu hadn't happened to touch the railing of the staircase, he wouldn't have found anything strange inside.

But what is it exactly? Why does your book react to it?

There is a small hole in the center of the beads, which is used to string threads. Qiu Shaohu looked through this gap, but what he saw was not the scene on the other side of the hole, but a vast starlight.

"Reflecting Star Stone?" Qiu Shaohu immediately knew what it was, and he had seen records about it in other books. Legend has it that the stone from the sky on the other side is made of the debris of the stars, and its function is ......

"Knock knock......" There was a knock on the door outside, Qiu Shaohu quickly put away the Buddha beads and asked, "Who?" ”

"I, you're a little too slow." Zhou Linchao's voice came.

"Got it, I'll be right out." Qiu Shaohu said.

Zhou Linchao agreed, but did not leave immediately, and after being silent outside the door for a while, he said again: "You said that the black shadow you encountered before, what else did you find." ”

"Something else? Nothing. Qiu Shaohu said: "It's too dark in the attic, I don't know anything." ”

There was no sound on the other side, and it was obvious that Zhou Linchao had left.

Looking at the closed door, Qiu Shaohu's eyes were slightly solemn.

He had long expected this situation, and after he said in public that the black shadow was a human or a ghost, he actually exposed the biggest secret.

The other party is worried about being exposed, and he will definitely rush to ask himself about the situation and see if he will be exposed.

In other words, after that, whoever is the first to come to find himself alone will be the dark shadow at that time!