It turned out that this panicked mask man was just a "pusher" who stuffed a small card into the crack of the door of the hotel room.

That's why he sneaked up in the hotel, and then was targeted by the security guards and fled all the way into the elevator.

And these small cards in his satchel are evidence of his "crime". Of course, the mask man has to protect desperately, and he refuses to open anything.

Going to other hotels to send your own small cards is a taboo in the industry. Once caught, it is possible to be disabled.

Sure enough, seeing these small cards flying out of the satchel, the security guard's face became even more ugly. He raised the electric baton in his hand and was about to drop it on the mask man.

The man in the mask was so frightened that his knees weakened and he fell to his knees:

"Big brother...... I...... I was wrong, I won't dare next time!, but ...... But I also sent out small cards, I really don't have the courage to kill...... Ouch! you ...... Don't hit me...... Don't hit ......."

The security guard put one hand on the neck of the masked man, lifted him up, and pressed him on the mirror inside the elevator to rub it.

"That'...... What is that? look!" Lu suddenly screamed, pointing to the mirror in the elevator, her face full of horror.

Following her gaze, everyone saw that the mirror actually had a yellow pattern, as if it had been hastily drawn with a yellow paint pen.

The pattern is a circle, and inside the circle are two short upper arcs and a long lower arc.

This is a smiling face, much like the smiling expression in QQ.

？？？

Tang Yi suddenly remembered the latest article he had seen on Mr. Ke's official account on the subway when he came:

"Explosion! Grimace Murder Incident! Nantang Binhu Hotel built on the 'mass grave'?"

Could it be that the content mentioned in that article was not made up by Mr. Ke?

Just then, the lights in the elevator began to flicker rapidly again, and then went out again.

The elevator was plunged into darkness again.

"......" everyone.

Ten seconds later, the elevator boiled again.

"Everyone, be quiet!"

"Don't panic! what's there to panic about?"

"Calm down!

It's a pity that the elevator broke down, the lights went out, and the middle-aged lady was killed...... In the face of this series of accidents, few people have been able to calm down.

In a narrow elevator, as long as one person messes around, everyone else will follow.

So it quickly became a chaotic situation in the elevator again.

Tang Lu hugged his head and face and put his back on the elevator door.

He remembered the content of Mr. Ke's official account article, saying that this Nantang Binhu Hotel had two murders in the past month.

One was the suicide of a hotel guest who jumped off the building, and the other was the sudden death of a heart attack by a cleaner in the hotel.

Although it seemed to be two ordinary accidents, a smiling face painted with yellow paint pen was found in the guest's room and the cleaner's lounge.

It's exactly like this smiling face on the mirror in the elevator at the moment.

Tang Yi thought of this, and to be honest, he admired the courage of this Teacher Ke.

In these years, you have to risk your life to write an official account?

Suddenly, a soft body crashed into Tang Lu's arms.

This is clearly a woman.

In the elevator, except for the middle-aged lady who has been killed, only Xiaolu is a woman.

Sure enough, he then heard the screams of Xiaolu in his arms, and then another strong wind hit, as if someone was rushing towards him.

Could it be that the murderer of the middle-aged noblewoman still wants to kill?

When Tang Lu was frightened, he hurriedly punched out against the incoming wind.

There was a muffled sound of "bang", Tang Yan's fist hit the bridge of the opponent's nose, and there was a sound of breaking in a trance. Then the man staggered back several steps in quick succession.

Immediately after that, everyone's eyes lit up, and the lights in the elevator began to flicker again and come back on.

Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and looked around.

The situation is a bit chaotic.

The burly security guard was pressing on the masked man who handed out small cards, and the two of them were hugging each other and scuffling each other on the ground.

A girl leaned on Tang Lu's arms, grabbing his clothes with two hands, it was the frightened Xiaolu.

In the corner of the elevator not far away, there was Teacher Ke lying on the ground, motionless. The head hung right on the corpse of the middle-aged noblewoman, right in the middle of her legs.

Could it be that in the short time when the lights went out just now, even Teacher Ke was killed?

Xiao Lu was so frightened that her face was pale, and she hurriedly pushed Tang Lu away and pointed to Teacher Ke in the corner.

Who knew that Teacher Ke's "corpse" suddenly moved, got up from the ground slowly, turned his head and asked sharply:

"Who just hit me?"

Around Mr. Ke's nose, there was a large area of clearly visible redness and swelling, and the lenses on both sides of the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose were also completely shattered at this time.

In the face of Teacher Ke's question, the conditioned reflex from 9 years of compulsory education + 3 years of high school education + 4 years of university education training made Tang Lu almost raise his hand to admit it.

Fortunately, he controlled it in time, perfectly interpreting the difference between humans and animals.

Anyway, it turned out to be just a false alarm, and it's good that Mr. Ke didn't die.

I still have a lot to ask this old fox.

Then everyone realized that the hotel waiter had now collapsed next to his cart. There was also a dagger stuck in his chest, revealing only a short hilt.

Blood continued to ooze from the wound, staining the white shirt on his chest with a large patch of red.

Everyone's faces turned pale.

In the darkness just now, the murderer of the middle-aged lady has once again started to kill?

"You...... You ......" the hotel waiter on the ground suddenly spoke.

He's not dead yet!

He raised his hand, pointed hard at the burly security guard, and said intermittently with his last breath:

“...... You...... I...... I didn't ...... before I haven't seen you!"

After saying this, the waiter didn't wait for everyone to come forward to rescue, and his eyes widened on the spot, and he died of anger.

The dagger pierced the heart, apparently fatally.

Thinking about his last words before he died, a waiter at Nantang Binhu Hotel actually said that he had never seen this burly security guard?

What does this mean?

Everyone's eyes immediately fixed on the security guard in the elevator.

The security guard's face was gloomy until this moment, and he didn't panic a little until now. He had no choice but to let go of the mask man on the ground and slowly stood up from the ground.

"I've only been on the job for a few days, so many of my colleagues in the hotel don't know me yet......" The security guard continued while defending himself and cautiously alerting everyone present:

“...... Just now, in the dark, I kept scuffling with this guy who handed out small cards, and I didn't have a chance to kill this waiter. ”

Speaking of this, the security guard reached out and lifted the masked man on the ground, yelled at him, and said:

"You bear witness for me!"

The masked man in mid-air trembled with fright, and hurriedly nodded vigorously.

So the murderer wasn't this burly security guard?

The five people alive in the elevator look at me and I look at you, and you can see horror and doubt in your eyes.

What is this?

Serial and sustainable killings in confined spaces?

Even as a "dead man", Tang Lu felt that the atmosphere was a little terrifying.

"Enough! you all listen to me!" Mr. Ke said suddenly.

He took off the broken glasses from his face, and smiled.

The aura crushes the audience.

"In the past month, there have been two homicides in this Nantang Lakeside Hotel. Although two seemingly unrelated accidents, judging from Professor Ke's more than 20 years of experience in solving cases, there must be a mystery behind these two murders, and even a huge conspiracy!

So I reasoned at the time, that these two deceased did not die by accident, but most likely died of murder, and most likely the same murderer did it!

So I took the two murders of Nantang Binhu Hotel as the prototype of my creation, wrote an article on the official account of 'Grimace Murder', and made up many non-existent plots. In one of them, a smiling face painted with a yellow paint pen was found in the guest room where he committed suicide by jumping off a building and in the hotel cleaner's lounge where he died of a sudden heart attack......

Speaking of this, Mr. Ke stretched out his hand and pointed to the yellow pattern on the mirror in the elevator and sneered:

"It's such a smiley face pattern, exactly the same as the one described in my article, but-

The plot in my article is simply made up! There is no such thing as a 'grimace' from beginning to end.

But now, the plot I made up is actually in reality!"

This smiling face is here now!"

Teacher Ke's expression was already a little excited.

As a university teacher, associate professor of history, and a lover of suspense and reasoning, he clearly feels that he has finally shouldered a heavy responsibility. So he coldly glanced at everyone in the elevator and concluded word by word:

"So from today's elevator failure to the killing of a middle-aged lady and a hotel waiter, all of this is obviously aimed at me, Professor Ke Nanke, and someone is deliberately trying to challenge me!

And this person is not only the murderer who killed the middle-aged lady and the hotel waiter in the dark just now, but it is even very likely that he is the real murderer who caused the 'suicide' of the hotel guest and the 'sudden death of heart disease' of the hotel cleaner before!"

"......" Xiaolu.

"......" security.

"......" mask man

"......" Tang Xuan.

As a cultural person, Mr. Ke did make it easy to understand, so that everyone present understood what he meant.

Since the article on the "Grimace Murder Case" in the official account was made up by Mr. Ke, the smiling face that currently appears on the mirror in the elevator is obviously someone who has read Mr. Ke's official account article and imitated the plot in the article.

Then the other party's purpose is clear at a glance, it is the author of the official account "Professor Ke will take you to solve strange cases", that is, he specially came to Nantang Binhu Hotel to write Mr. Ke.

But why did the murderer kill the middle-aged lady and the hotel waiter?

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but gasp:

"The murderer wants to kill not only Mr. Ke, but everyone trapped in the elevator!"