Her answer can prove that He Si's father, that is, Qin Ruilan's son-in-law, is a paper figure that has not appeared before and makes Mrs. Xu jealous.

Since the paper figure who used violence against He Si has returned home, and He Si must stay with her father every day, it is very likely that this violent person is her father.

Qi Yan said tentatively: "By the way, there is a strange graffiti on the back of my sheet music, I am not at home when I go to the competition during this time, I don't know who painted it as a prank, the graffiti is painted on a washing machine, and the washing machine is a broken human body, very disgusting......"

He Si raised his head and glanced at him strangely: "I remember that you painted it yourself, don't you remember?" ”

Qi Zhen pretended to scratch his head in embarrassment: "Eh, is it?" ”

He Si: "When I went to play with you, you told me, saying that the nearby classmates were spreading that there was a monster on the fifth floor of our apartment, who would kill girls, catch them and dismember them, and then throw them into the washing machine, turn on the switch of the washing machine and stir, and wash the dismembered girls to swelling and white..."

Qi Jiu: "Oh, I remembered when you said that..."

It turns out that the eerie graffiti behind the sheet music depicts an urban legend that circulates near an apartment building.

The monster who kills the girl on the fifth floor of the apartment... Does this have anything to do with 502 Nian Nian worshipping God in his dreams, and 079 that guy guiding the stroller he sees?

At this moment, Qi Yan had already heard the sound of the male paper man closing the door and turning back, and hurried to ask, "Do you live in 307 with your father?" It's been a long time since I've been playing with you, and I almost forgot. ”

He Si nodded: "Yes, it was my grandmother's room before, but then I lived with my father." ”

Qi Jiu: "When did it start?" ”

It's a pity that before He Si could answer, the door of 405 was pushed by the male paper man.

The paper man He Si's body trembled obviously, and then silently buried his head in eating dumplings, the male paper man walked over, reluctantly handed the red envelope to Qi Ji and Qi Xiaonian, Qi Ji smiled contentedly and said: "Happy New Year!" ”

Male paper man: "......"

At this moment, the TV that was originally replaying the Chinese New Year's Eve party suddenly flashed, and the snowflake noise covered the screen.

Mrs. Xu complained: "This TV is old, and it will be like this from time to time, and it can't receive a signal." ”

As she spoke, she got up, walked to the TV and patted it hard, "One cure will be fine." ”

Under Mrs. Xu's violent "treatment", the originally noisy TV stopped for a few seconds, and then it was as if the power had suddenly failed, and all the pictures disappeared.

"Hey, isn't it good this time? Completely broken? Mrs. Xu slapped the TV again.

Mrs. Xu leaned down to check, and after about ten seconds, the blacked-out TV screen came back on, and the party continued, but it was obviously not last night's replay party.

A paper man host who has never seen it holds the microphone and smiles stiffly and exaggeratedly at the audience in front of the TV -

"On this happy New Year's Day night, all our performance staff wish you a happy family, all the best, we will set up a prize guessing puzzle at today's party, if you are interested in participating in our guessing activities, welcome to call us to inform us of the answer you guessed, our prize guessing phone is: 0079-0101011, please say the six words "Spring Festival prize quiz" when the phone is connected, there will be the corresponding staff to record the answer for you, if your riddle is correct, Not only will you get the best wishes for the new year, but you will also unlock a second puzzle. ”

"Our riddle tonight is: Who in your family, is the murderer?"

The paper man host giggled, the noise that had disappeared reappeared on the screen, and the TV flashed back to last night's replay.

However, Qi Yan has already written down the phone number and specific rules for the prize guess.

Chapter 208: Year (27)

The riddle direction of the prize quiz has been very clear, and the riddle must meet two conditions: the first is Mrs. Xu and her family, and the second is that he has killed someone.

Players who have seen Lin Peilan's old newspaper know very well that Qin Ruilan's daughter Qin Mo was sentenced to death on suspicion of intentional homicide, so in the eyes of all players, this so-called riddle is very simple and can be answered with your eyes closed.

But there is a premise for participating in this quiz: who is the murderer in your family.

Obviously, among the players here, only Qi Ji and Qi Xiaonian, who got their family identity cards, can dial the prize guessing phone to promote this plot line.

Qi Xiaonian confirmed with Qi Zhen: "If you judge according to the newspaper clues given by Lin Peilan, there is no doubt that the murderer is He Xiang's mother Qin Mo, right?" ”

Qi Ji asked rhetorically: "That's the case, but why does the copy hide the information about the victim in the newspaper?" ”

"That's right... But what does this have to do with guessing the murderer...? Qi Xiaonian fell into thinking, if he lived by himself, he would never be entangled in who was the victim in the link where he needed to guess the murderer, because this was already beyond the program, and the riddle did not need the victim's information.

But Qi Xiaonian now knows very well that his brother will make clear the intricate logical lines hidden behind the answer before giving a simple answer, and sometimes it seems to be just a simple answer, but it is actually just the tip of the iceberg.

Qi Zhen: "We still don't know who the deceased is and how many people are killed, so there is no way to accurately say the murderer. ”

Qi Xiaonian frowned: "You mean, the victim is not just one person, but the murderer is also..."

Qi Jiu: "This is just my speculation, judging from the information of the missing person notice, it is now basically certain that the missing He Xiang had encountered an accident at that time, and judging from the attitude of the person who answered the phone, as well as the plot clues given by the copy, He Xiang is likely to be killed, but maybe she is not the only victim, except for Mrs. Xu, all of whom are family members who have passed away." ”

Qi Xiaonian was slightly stunned, he was already used to the setting of "paper man" in the copy, and he almost ignored that the paper man itself symbolized death.

Qi Zhen quickly cleared up the information he got tonight:

First, judging from He Si's "obedience" to the male paper man's father and the content of the morning's call for help, her father seems to have a strong desire to control, and there is a tendency for domestic violence, Mrs. Xu and her family more or less understand this, so Mrs. Xu has been very jealous of this male paper man since last night, and even does not open the door for him when watching the party;

Second, He Xiang's missing person notice does not have his father's contact information, only his grandmother and mother's are listed, which is a bit worrying;

Third, the male paper man deliberately mentioned the washing machine with Mrs. Xu, and the yin and yang weirdness seemed to imply something, from the graffiti on the back of the piano score, and the strange content of the washing machine described by He Si, the washing machine has a metaphor of "killing girls" in the copy, so the male paper man is likely to be related to the "killing girls" incident.

Perhaps, it was not Qin Mo, who was accused of murder, who killed him, but this controlling and violent father who hid behind Sven's mask?

And now that he is in the "Paper Man Who Shouldn't Go Home" side quest, the plot in front of him is triggered as the progress of the side quest, so the prize guess must revolve around the characters of this side quest......

Qi Yan decided to take a gamble.

"Grandma, can I borrow a phone? I'm going to take part in a quiz with a prize on TV. Qi Yan said with a well-behaved and cautious look.

Because the room was so quiet, Qi Jiu's voice seemed extremely abrupt, and all the paper people looked at him.

Mrs. Xu looked at Qi Jiu fixedly, and saw that Qi Xiaonian, who was sitting next to Qi Jiu, was sitting on pins and needles, but Qi Jiu dipped the vinegar dish next to him with dumplings like no one: "I want to get the New Year's prize that the host said, and then share it with my grandmother and family." ”

Mrs. Xu looked at him: "Duoxi, do you have an answer?" ”

Qi Yan hesitated for a moment and nodded: "I want to give it a try." ”

"Then come with me, I have a phone in my room." Mrs. Xu stood up from the main seat of the table and said to Qi.

"Okay, thank you, grandma." Qi Yan followed Mrs. Xu away from the dinner table, and he noticed with his spare eyes that the male paper man had been staring at him all the time, and his stiff face revealed the suspicion and fear that the paper man should not have.

Qi Zhen pretended not to see anything, and under the guidance of Mrs. Xu, he went all the way to room 401.

Of course, he knew that there was a phone in Mrs. Xu's room, after all, in order to lure Mrs. Xu away, he had called back this number more than once, and tried everything.

Mrs. Xu's room was very dimly lit, and the curtains covered most of the windows, perhaps because the windows had not been opened for ventilation all year round, and there was a "smell of old man" similar to a mixture of fat and herbs fermenting in the stuffy space.

"I've been in this room for too long and no one has come, the air is a little stuffy, don't mind." As she spoke, Mrs. Xu lit the lamp and opened the window to ventilate the room that had been closed for a long time.

Qi Yan noticed that in addition to the medicine bottles on the north wall of Mrs. Xu's room, there was a bookshelf taller than a person on the south wall, and the shelves were full of picture books.

Qi Zhen took a closer look, and the authors of the picture books were all Xu Zhiwen, and the author of the "Year" was the same person.

Mrs. Xu noticed Qi Yan's gaze and said in a distant and calm tone, "Although your little uncle left in a hurry, he left me a lot of thoughts. ”

It turned out that Xu Zhiwen was also Mrs. Xu's child, that is, Duoxi Duole's uncle.

Mrs. Xu pointed to the old-fashioned red phone on the bedside table: "Go ahead, I use this phone a lot, and I can get through." ”

Qi Yan sat on the edge of the bed, he had already written down the rules for participating in the TV prize guessing, dialed 0079-0101011 and waited for two seconds, and then there was a "beep-beep-" connection tone on the phone.

"Hey, hello, this is the New Year's party program team, is there anything you can do to help you?" A sweet but mechanical female voice came from the phone, perhaps because of the bad signal, her voice was intermittent, mixed with the screeching sound of electricity.

"There is a prize quiz for the Spring Festival." Qi Zhen said these six words according to the rules given by the host.

There was a two-second pause on the other end of the phone: "Welcome to our prize quiz activity, do you have the answer to tonight's puzzle?" ”

"Who do you think is the murderer in your family?"

Qi Jiu: "The murderer is, Qin Mo, and her husband, who is He Si's father. ”

"Zila"——

There was another unpleasant sound of electricity.

"Congratulations to this viewer for answering correctly," the originally mechanical female voice became soft and light, but it also became more and more distorted, "You will get a New Year's gift from the program team, and the gift will be delivered to you by mail, please pay attention to it." ”

Bet right!

Qi Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"At the same time, you have started our new round of prize guessing activities, and the second puzzle set by our program team is: How to make Qin Mo go home?"

"You are welcome to call our program hotline again to participate in the guessing activity, of course, you can also confirm the answer through your own practical actions, and thank you for your trust and support to our program team, goodbye."

The phone was hung up by the other party, and Qi Jiu's hand holding the phone was slightly sweaty.

Regarding "how to let Qin Mo go home", since it has been set as a riddle by the program team, it will not be such a "simple" operation as letting the guest die.

The system beeps –

[Congratulations on finding important plot clues and obtaining the truth of the side plot, the current progress of "Paper Man Who Shouldn't Go Home": 70%]

【Attention! The current progress bar triggers a new risk factor]

【Warning! The closer this side plot gets to the truth, the easier it is for the demon to tear off the disguise mask and reveal his dangerous true face! 】

It seems that as Qi Ji guesses the true appearance of the male paper man Sven scum under the mask, it will show a dangerous side and even pose a threat to the survival of the player.

But now Qi Ji is not afraid to compete with NPCs for force value.

Qi Jiu: "Thank you for the reminder, Teacher System, that's just right, I don't need to tear the mask for it personally, it saves trouble." ”

Mrs. Xu stood aside, looking at the "little granddaughter" who called to participate in the party's prize-winning quiz without saying a word, and listened to the conversation between her and the program team members.

"Dohi, you know those things? Who told you that? After Qi Yan hung up the phone, Mrs. Xu cautiously sat beside him and asked.

Qi Jiu: "Grandma, why don't you want to disappear because your cousin killed her, right?" ”

Mrs. Xu sighed and didn't make a sound.

This question is acquiesced.

Now that the topic has been opened, Qi Yan naturally didn't want to waste this opportunity, and continued to ask: "Is it only us children who don't know about this?" Is the strange talk of murder in the apartment circulating nearby related to this incident? ”

"That guy has a human face and a beast's heart, because He Si is a girl, and He Si is also the second child... So he's... He just—" Mrs. Xu's hand on her knee began to tremble, as if unwilling to recall the cruel past.

Although Mrs. Xu didn't say everything, Qi Yan already understood the motive of the male paper man to kill He Xiang.

Such a cruel tragedy was not unique in that era.

"If that's the case, why didn't you call the police at the time?" Qi Zhen asked.

Mrs. Xu trembled so hard that she kept shaking her head vigorously: "What's the use?" It's all too normal for such a small baby to die in an accident..."

"So..."Qi Ji thought of seeing Qin Mo's suspected murder in the newspaper, and understood in an instant, "In order to avenge my newborn child, my cousin gave my cousin..."

Mrs. Xu immediately raised her hand, covered her ears and covered Qi Jiu's mouth like a bell, forbidding him to tell the truth.