"I ......"

Bai Weiwei looked at Luo Yan, her crystal eyes were wet like a frightened fawn, but the next second she turned her head and whispered, "I really didn't sleep very comfortably last night, I ...... last night It was as if I heard some 'tick, tick' sound. ”

"Ticking sounds?" Luo Yan frowned and repeated.

Bai Weiwei nodded: "I seemed to be sleeping very deeply last night, as if I heard something in a daze, at first I thought it was the sound of the rain outside the window hitting the glass surface, but the sound slowly appeared in front of my bed from far and near." ”

She gradually showed a look of fear: "I want to open my eyes to see what it is, but I don't know why I can't open my eyes as if they are glued, I just, I just keep listening to the 'tick, tick' sound, listen to ......"

Her hand holding the knife and fork began to tremble, and Liu Shiyi, who was sitting next to her, couldn't bear it, and stretched out her hand to pat her shoulder comfortably.

"Did you light incense sticks last night?" Xia Lingge asked suddenly.

Bai Weiwei was choked by the question, she raised her eyes and glanced at everyone present, but she still said after a while: "Ordered...... But I've only ordered a cut. ”

If so, it's pretty much it.

and Si Cheng glanced at each other, Xia Lingge understood a little better. Shen Yu watched their interaction, suddenly put down the milk in his hand, and the blade of his right hand was inserted straight into the soft bread, his eyes were interesting, and his voice was slightly raised: "What, you two also heard the sound last night?" ”

"I did hear some, but it quickly disappeared." Xia Lingge replied, but did not say the complete process.

After listening to their words, Luo Yan's expression became sharper: "It seems that we have to be extra careful in this game." ”

"Little masters, young ladies."

The butler appeared behind them at some point, the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose reflected the light, and his smile was gentle and polite: "Mrs. Kloster just passed the word, saying that she was a little unwell and would not come down to accompany you to eat, and the young lady and the young master can walk around at will after the meal, and there is no need to be restrained." ”

"Got it."

Luo Yan replied.

The rain outside the window was still falling, but the room was silent, and the silver-white lightning streaked through the darkness, leaving behind an explosion of thunder that terrified people's hearts.

"You can't do anything while you're just sitting."

Luo Yan pushed the plate in front of him forward and stood up: "Let's find the property treaty first, after all, this is the key for us." ”

"Okay."

All the players left their seats.

Xia Lingge was not in a hurry and slowed down with others, she wiped the corners of her mouth that was sticky with jam and then stood up just to be able to see the movements of the rest of the players, Liu Shiyi walked towards the second floor, Shen Yu is the corridor next to the hall, but after a while, Luo Yan followed in his direction.

And Bai Weiwei has always stood by her side.

"Something?"

Xia Lingge asked her.

Bai Weiwei clasped her hands and put them on her abdomen, blinking her slender eyelashes slightly, she was very well-behaved, she raised her head hesitantly and looked at Xia Lingge, hesitated for a while and said, "I, can I join you?" ”

Xia Lingge and Si Cheng looked at each other.

"Don't worry, I will never hold you back." Bai Weiwei hurriedly explained, "I—I just don't want to ...... alone"

Xia Lingge asked, "Why us?" What about Luo Yan and Liu Shiyi, wouldn't it be better to cooperate with them? ”

Bai Weiwei's eyes turned red: "They won't want me, Sister Poetic is a strong woman, Brother Luo Yan is at the helm, they won't like me who is useless, even if they don't say it, I can feel it, their patience with me has gone beyond the boundary, I don't want to, I can't bother them anymore." ”

"So you came to bother us, right......" Xia Lingge couldn't help but complain, "Let's just say is it possible, no one likes good-for-nothing people?" ”

Bai Weiwei's eyes turned even redder after hearing this.

Xia Lingge didn't feel that she had said anything wrong, but just looked at her noisy appearance of 'I will cry to you if you don't agree', her already aching temples became even more painful, she raised her hand and rubbed it and casually threw down a sentence: "Whatever you want." ”

She turned around and led Si Cheng to the study on the second floor.

Bai Weiwei looked at their backs without looking back, tightened her hand holding the hem of her skirt, and followed with her steps.

It was pitch black in the study, Si Cheng picked up the candle and lit the candle on the shelf, and the darkness was dispelled little by little to reveal the original appearance of the study, neat and orderly, much cleaner than the first time they came.

"Is there a problem here?"

Si Cheng stood beside Xia Lingge.

Xia Lingge's eyes fell to the corner, and the trash can placed there had already been a new look, so clean that he couldn't even see a little dust.

"There is a problem, but what it is is not very clear."

Xia Lingge walked to the table where Mrs. Kloster was standing before, and the photo albums that were originally placed on the table were all gone, and even the old postcards in the drawers were gone. But why is she so obsessed with photos?

Or that photo in the trash can, where was it thrown again?

Xia Lingge turned his head to look at the huge bookcase behind him, many books were neatly placed on it, according to the convention of this immoral game, he was sorry for the gimmick of the word 'horror' if he didn't make any secret passages.

She leaned against the edge of her desk and looked at the titles, most of them economics and politics, and some of the faint art registers, but her eyes froze as she turned to the third floor.

Sherlock Holmes - a book that seems extremely out of place.

She lifted her hand and took the book down.

Seeing this, Si Cheng next to him brought a candle lamp with great discernment, Xia Lingge turned the pages of the book one by one, and found that the book was brand new, and even the ink fragrance of the book itself was not completely dispersed, but from the indentation at the bottom of the book, it didn't look like it had just been bought not long ago, would there be anything in it?

She opened the pages of the book one by one, and when she turned to page 168, she found a small shallow crease at the bottom—this crease was folded up and then smoothed, and it was so shallow that it was difficult to find.

She stroked it gently, and looked at the contents of the book, which was only a scene of conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and at a cursory glance it seemed that there was no useful information to distill.

But what is this crease used for?

Is it just a simple fold?

"This crease...... It's kind of weird. ”

Si Cheng looked at the book and suddenly swallowed a little.

"What's wrong?" Xia Lingge asked.

Si Cheng stretched out his hand and flipped over the crease, "Ordinary creases are casually folded inward, but this crease is skewed upward, as if it was done on purpose." ”