"Well, shall we open this box?" Yug saw that the crowd had fallen silent again, and proposed.

Boxes and Keys: This is the longest time we've left out our key items since they've been in the hands of them.

"Yes, we can talk about the system later, and getting through this world first is the priority at the moment." Xu Yi seconded.

He took out the key, which was delicate, and the handle was a silver ring with a delicate pattern engraved on it. The crow that serves as the key head is also carved to life.

He took the box in Xi Yue's hand, turned it upside down, and placed the crow key in the bottom depression, and after fitting perfectly, he only heard a click, the box popped open automatically, and a black thing fell to the ground.

"What is this?" Xi Yue squatted down and wanted to pick it up with her hands.

"Wait a minute!" Yug suddenly stopped with a voice, "This looks like a human tongue!" That's right. It's a human tongue after it has been dried! ”

His words made everyone shiver, but after Xi Yue hesitated for a moment, she still picked up her tongue and put it back in the box, Xu Yi sincerely admired this girl's ability to bear it at the moment.

Seeing Xu Yi's eyes, Xi Yue reluctantly smiled and said, "When you experience a few more worlds, you will get used to it." ”

Her words made everyone's faces a little pale, and these worlds were too heavy, forcing such a delicate little girl to hold her tongue with her bare hands, and her face did not change and her heart did not beat.

"How can you tell it's a human tongue?" Xu Yi took his eyes off Xi Yue, he looked at the black dry piece of meat in the box, and wondered.

"I'm a pre-forensic doctor, and I'm still in my third year of college, but I've gone out with my teacher to practice." Yug didn't want to mention it, and it seemed that the practice did not leave a good impression on him.

Xu Yi nodded thoughtfully, and then, he suddenly had an epiphany: "This is most likely Aunt He's tongue." ”

"How do you know who this tongue belongs to?" Yug asked, confused.

"When she tried to speak in the living room, I looked into her mouth, and I really didn't see a tongue." Xu Yi replied while recalling the scene at that time.

"Wait a minute, there's a symbol in the box." Xi Yue said suddenly, she originally wanted to put the box away, but the moment she closed the lid, she suddenly made a discovery.

Ignoring the slight disgusted "———" sounds from the people around her, she took out the air-dried tongue and looked carefully at the inside of the box.

The symbols inside the box are engraved, and the carving is somewhat rough, a kind of text that they can't read is tightly packed together to form a ring.

They took turns looking at it, but no one could understand the symbol, so they had to give up. Xi Yue put her tongue back into the box and put it into the space storage bag.

"It's safe at the moment, and there's so much debris, we should do a good search, maybe there will be any clues." Xu Yi looked around the room and made a suggestion.

This utility room has been abandoned for a long time, and you can see that the miscellaneous items are covered with a layer of dust.

"Well, let's look here first." Since knowing that Xu Yi's intelligence is S, Xi Yue will not question his decision-making at all.

"Then let's assign the task first, everyone chooses a corner of the room to start, and then searches the center." Xu Yi said after taking a look at the situation at the scene.

"I'll look for it too, I'll do my best to help." Li Yuanliang didn't know when he had gotten up from the ground and smiled flatteringly.

"Yes, you can choose a place to start." When Xu Yi faced Li Yuanliang, his tone suddenly became cold.

"Okay, okay." Li Yuanliang nodded again and again, for some reason, after Xu Yi spoke, there was always an urge to comply.

Then the four of them began to rummage, and there was no sound in the room.

Xu Yi patiently picked up the things on the ground one by one and observed. There was everything on the floor, broken shoes, broken basins, old books, newspapers and magazines.

Xu Yi noticed that the time of newspapers and magazines was in 2001, among them, October 2001 had the most newspaper pages, when is it now? All he knew was that it was Ellie's birthday, and the horror world didn't give them an exact time.

He suddenly remembered that he hadn't checked his phone carefully before, and quickly took it out. He was very unaccustomed to opening the flip phone, and the phone showed that it was October 20, 2010, and the software in it was only a few basic software that came with the system, and the mobile phone had no signal.

According to the time of this world, it was 9 years ago, they and Elle were separated for ten years, and the time of the newspaper was a year after they were separated.

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to the others: "Please find out all the newspapers from October 2001, and I will do a tidying up." ”

Everyone agreed, and began to focus on finding the newspaper, and before they knew it, Xu Yi had become a leader, probably because of the big guy with an S intelligence rating, people habitually relied on him to solve puzzles.

Soon, Xu Yi had a thick stack of newspapers in front of him, and he began to flip through it quickly, Xu Yi's speed reading ability was excellent, and he could know the general content of an article almost with just a glance.

All the reports were uneventful until he turned to the October 21, 2001 issue of the newspaper. One story caught his attention.

"At around 8 p.m. on October 20, a fire broke out in a residential building in the Ru'an Community on Shanyangpo, and the cause of the fire is under investigation."

On the side of the report, there are photos of the victims of the fire holding mosaics, as well as their names and ages. Among them, there is a girl with a kitten hairpin on her head, a high school student, with a mosaic on her face, the name below is Ai (18 years old) and a woman with the same mosaic on her face, dressed like a middle-aged woman, the name below is He (39 years old), and there are two words "mother and daughter" in the middle of the photo of the two of them.

"Found it!" Xu Yi said in a low voice.

Several others approached him.

"You guys look at your phone first, is it October 20, 2010?" Xu Yi asked.

Seeing that everyone nodded, he continued: "This should be the current time in this world, and the report proves that 9 years ago today, Elle and her mother were killed in a fire. And we haven't seen each other for ten years after graduating from high school, which means that Elle died on her birthday a year after graduating. Another important point is that her mother's surname is Ho. ”

"Aunt He!" Yug was surprised and said, "Could it be that the person named Aunt He is actually Ellie's mother?" Are they all ghosts? But why didn't Elle call her mom but Aunt Cheng? ”

"With the current clues, it is not possible to determine whether Aunt He is Elle's mother, but even if it is not Elle's mother, it must have something to do with Elle's mother." Xu Yi said, he flipped through a few more newspapers, and then his expression froze.

"1020 fire investigation report: The fire was found to be an accident caused by self-immolation, and the self-immolator was Ai, a woman who had just turned 18 years old and lived in Room 302 of Building 5. According to the autopsy, his mother He had died before the fire, and was stabbed into the heart with a sharp object.

According to the descriptions of Ai's classmates and teachers, it is likely that Ai Li has a mental illness, and she has attacked her classmates for no reason until the classmates are seriously injured.

As for the cause of the case, the police will do further investigation.

"It's likely that Elle killed her mother and then set herself on fire." Xu Yi said softly, remembering the resentful look in which Ellie looked at Aunt He.

"This woman is terrible, isn't it?" Yug said, shaking his head.

"Xi Yue, are these horror worlds real parallel time and space or completely fictional virtual worlds?" Xu Yi asked suddenly.

"I don't know about that, I don't think I have enough authority to know that." Xi Yue shook her head and said.

Xu Yi vaguely remembers that he once saw an old case of an 18-year-old girl killing her mother and setting herself on fire on the Internet, which is a bit similar to the things in this horror world, but the old case that Xu Yi saw in real life happened in 1990, and the place where it happened was not in a residential building, but in a large shopping mall, and the deceased were only the mother and daughter, causing no other casualties.

Although they couldn't get a definite answer, Xu Yi didn't continue to dwell on this issue, and everyone returned to their respective territories and continued to search, until Yuge's surprised exclamation interrupted everyone.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yi asked.

Yug smiled embarrassedly when he saw that everyone's eyes were on him.

"I found a letter in a high school Chinese book, and the content of the letter is related to you." Yuge looked at Xu Yi and said.

In the horror world, a letter related to oneself is never a good thing, Xu Yi thought helplessly: Who let his luck be F.