There was a big old clock, and its beautifully carved pendulum was slowly swinging from side to side.

What's going on? There is such a strange thing! In the old house a hundred years ago, in the living room where no one had been in for 20 years, there was a big clock, still moving!

"Tick-tock, tick-answer", the voice is slow, but rhythmic.

Lang Xiaobai stepped forward gently, opened the glass cover on the outside of the pendulum, and looked inside. At this moment, the gear suddenly "creaked", and then:

Knock, knock, knock......

The clock began to tell the time. Lang Xiaobai involuntarily took a few steps back, and Yingzi walked over to him, holding his hand tightly in his own.

The chiming bell rang eight times, followed by another "squeak", and the gears stopped, leaving only the pendulum to continue to make a "tick-answer, tick-answer" swing sound.

This clock has not been wound for twenty years, so why is it still swinging and chimeling? It's a strange thing. In order to find out this problem, Lang Xiaobai went to check the situation inside the glass cover again, and finally, he found a black cylinder resting on the back of the pendulum.

"Huh! This is an old-fashioned telescope. ”

It was a long, telescopic telescope that was often used by crews and fishermen. "Why is there such a thing in the bell? And who put it here?"

Lang Xiaobai began to search around to see if there was any reason to solve this question. He then walked into a small room next door.

This room is dedicated to the placement of weapons. At the doorway, three specimens of deer's heads with bifurcated features hang from the door. Leaning against the wall is a gun carriage with various types of Riffles and shotguns neatly arranged. Many weapons are also displayed in the glass case, such as pistols, short knives used for hunting, broadswords, powder cartridges and bullet pouches, etc.

There is no trace that anyone has ever touched this place, but Lang Xiaobai's eyes are very sharp. He noticed that a gun was missing from the extremely neatly arranged gun carriage, which looked like a tooth was missing from a neat row of teeth.

"Who took this Lyfort?...... Why?...... Ah! Maybe hair

Something terrible happened......"

Lang Xiaobai was as keen as a police dog, and he seemed to smell a smell of murder and crime. At this time, I only heard Yingzi say: Mr. Lang, look here. ”

Lang Xiaobai looked in the direction Yingzi pointed and saw a calendar, and the date on it was September 5th.

"Oh! September 5th, it's today!"

Yes! Why is this happening? September 5th is the day of the annual hunt in Kangjiazhuang. On this day, many distinguished guests are entertained, and in the evening, the host and guests drink and dance in the large dining room. Isn't this the date shown in this calendar hanging on a pillar exactly this day?

"Hmm! This will not be a pure coincidence. There must be some surprising but intimate relationship between this date and the annual hunting feast.

"But what happened! It's unclear, but one thing is for sure, it must have something to do with the telescope, the alarm clock, and the missing Lyph. If the relationship can be found, then the mystery can be solved. ”

And then, the truth in that mystery...... Yes? I'm sure it was an absolutely horrible case. I had a very strange instinct that I could see the bloody crime scene,...... and the disgusting bloody ......"

Lang Xiaobai closed his eyes and pondered. It was a manly face, facial muscles were tight, brows were tightly locked, and lips were tightly closed, Yingzi noticed his expression, as if she was a little scared, she looked at him with bated breath, ha! Maybe he's thinking about something?...... He was making an unusual deduction with his brilliant mind, as if a sophisticated machine were running.

Soon he opened his eyes, bright eyes that shone brightly, but after a moment they returned to their original gentleness, and a smile appeared from the corners of his mouth. Yingzi's mood relaxed.

"Yingzi, let's go up to the attic!" Lang Xiaobai said energetically.

"Okay, but I really don't want to go, this ancient village is too scary, and it's all some mysteries that people can't guess. And in that attic that is about to collapse, I don't know what more terrible things will happen, I am scared to death!"

"However, you can't solve this mystery without seeing it yourself, especially the mystery of the telescope, which can only be solved by going up to the attic."

"And why?"

"There are forests all over this ancient village, and telescopes are useless, but there are people who use them. So let's see where it is...... That attic is above the forest, and maybe that telescope can come in handy above the attic. The telescope must have been used in that tower, and we can also look around with the telescope there, and perhaps find something to be discovered, so that the mystery of the clock and the fifth of September can be solved. Come, let's go!"

The two men then walked down the dark hallway all the way inside. The staircase is at the end of the hallway. Climb the stairs to reach the top of the ancient city.

It was a small rooftop garden, surrounded by a low wall about two feet high, which had been fenced off from enemy bullets.

There were a lot of bullet holes at the top of the low wall for shooting, but now, these holes were blocked by dirt and the right block, and it was impossible to see outside

What is the reason for this? It's as if there's some kind of secret here. ”

Lang Xiaobai bent down and jumped onto the low wall, he was a very good athlete, he was very skillful, standing on the two-meter-high low wall and looking around.

It's just picturesque.

The endless forest stretched out in front of him, the branches and leaves of the trees creaking in the wind, shining in the moonlight, like a sea of silver.

"What's that?"

In the far woods, there is a rather strange half-tilted white tower. "Yingzi, please bring me the binoculars."

"Okay!" As he spoke, Yingzi handed the telescope to Lang Xiaobai. He took it and adjusted the focus.

"It's really exactly what I thought! It's horrible!" Lang Xiaobai muttered quietly.

"What's wrong! Mr. Lang, what do you see?" Yingzi asked in surprise.

"No, it's better not to look at it." As he spoke, Lang Xiaobai jumped off the low wall lightly.

"So what the hell do you see, let me see it too!"

Lang Xiaobai shook his head. However, Yingzi is still blindly pestering him driven by curiosity. Therefore, Lang Xiaobai had to take out his seven tools, dig up the stones and soil that blocked the gun hole, and then he poked the telescope out of the gun hole

"Alright, see for yourself! But don't be scared of that!"

Yingzi put her eyes on the binoculars, focused on the leaning tower, looked at it for a while, and suddenly screamed in fear. She quickly covered her eyes with her hands, and then sat limply on the ground.