Ming Ke: When the villain accidentally mixes into the protagonist group

Miyano Shiho looked at the clock on the wall. The hour hand on the clock was gradually approaching 4, and the minute hand pointed at the number 10. "We can go out in eight hours. At that time, the mission will truly end. After all, We want to investigate the flow of time in the clock tower, and we have to stay here for seventy-two hours anyway, otherwise the organization will judge our mission as a failure."

Mingyue smiled and said nothing, but sighed silently in her heart, Sister Shiho, she is still so gentle.

"I don't want to fail the mission. Those punishments..." Miyano Shiho hesitated, tilting his head towards the door and biting his lower lip, "I don't know what happened to the other two people."

Akai Shuichi was thinking about the punishment that Shirley said, but his eyes were looking at the kitchen door. The door was opened after Mingyue extinguished all the light sources. After all, a closed door is more likely to reveal their location, and he is adapting to it. After the darkness, I was still confident that I could subdue the intruder with one move.

"It's been a long time since I've heard anything from them."

Mingyue leaned against the wall and stood by the door. She stuck her head out and listened. "Maybe he is hiding. After all, there are many doors and secret passages in this bell tower."

Miyano Shiho walked to Mingyue and whispered: "I'm worried that they have been killed. The murderer is most likely to avenge Miss Forever."

Akai Shuichi stood behind the two girls and paid careful attention to the surroundings. "Although the cuts on the wedding dress are about the same width and the marks are a bit messy, they don't look like the hesitation wounds or test wounds of the suicide. Generally, the hesitation wounds of suicide are on the Abdomen, rarely in chest.”

"Well, it is indeed doubtful, but the traces on a skirt are not enough to support the argument of homicide. After all, I did not see the scene and the body with my own eyes." Mingyue lowered her voice and replied, "The conclusion of suicide was officially reported, and it was said Someone witnessed the entire suicide process."

Akai Shuichi looked at Mingyue and said, "It can't be those people."

"There is a probability that they should have been minors ten years ago. Due to the protection principle, their names did not appear in the files, and they were only represented by code names."

Miyano Shiho sighed, "This bell tower is really weird. There are stairs inside and a secret passage outside."

Suddenly all three of them looked at the window that was almost close to the ceiling. The window was dim.

"I remember that sunlight would come through this window during the day, although it was very weak." Miyano Shiho tiptoed under the window, followed by Mingyue and Akai Shuichi.

Miyano Shiho continued: "I calculated the outer corridor. If it is such a small window, it is actually difficult for light to come in, unless there is a larger window on the other side. But before entering this mansion, we I didn’t see windows like that outside.”

Akai Shuichi stared at the window and narrowed his eyes slightly, "That means there may be some mechanisms in the outer corridor on the third floor."

Miyano Shiho nodded, "Every room on the fourth floor has an organic door. There are also such secret passages on the fifth and sixth floors. There may also be one on the third floor, but we don't know where the mechanism door is and how to open it. How was it."

"According to the location of the stairs in the outer corridor, there should be no mechanism door in the kitchen." Mingyue's lips curled up slightly, "Directly above us are rooms No. 8, No. 9, and No. 10. However, the rooms corresponding to the stairs It’s number three, number seven, number 11.”

Miyano Shiho looked at Mingyue with his half-moon eyes, "You've already been fined? So you came here directly after being injured. Have you never thought about what would happen if the inference was wrong?"

"Uh...Actually, I just wanted to come over and get some weapons. Besides, I really didn't expect to get hurt." Mingyue sighed helplessly, "Actually, it was just a little bit close, and I was able to escape."

But Miyano Shiho turned his head away, not looking at the bright moon.

Mingyue felt a little helpless. She had no choice but to do this in such an unexpected situation. The secret that had been hidden was ruthlessly revealed, which reminded Mingyue of the big bad card she had drawn [the hidden secret will be revealed].

Maybe the divination things will happen, maybe the prophecies will become reality, just like their current situation.

At that time, there was only one person who was predicted to die by the fortune teller Taichi Nonomiya. Currently, there is only one person alive, Ryota Fukunishi. Will he be killed? Will we get out of here safely?

Maybe at that time I should step forward and ask when my death date will be? Unfortunately……

Akai Shuichi's voice interrupted Mingyue's thinking.

"How is the wound?" Akai Shuichi looked at Mingyue. He could not clearly see the condition of the wound in the dim vision. Although he had some guesses in his heart, he still expressed his doubts.

Mingyue raised her arms and moved her shoulders, "It's back to normal."

Miyano Shiho turned his head and stared at Mingyue's right shoulder, bit his lip, and couldn't help but said: "Do you know that it is very risky for you to do this! If you..."

Mingyue looked at Miyano Shiho. There was something sparkling in her eyes, like tears. She quickly walked over, took Miyano Shiho's hand, and said softly: "I'm really fine. I'm really fine now. And the effect of the medicine has also faded a lot.”

After Miyano Shiho took a few deep breaths, he did not continue the previous topic, but said in a calm tone, "Above the dining room is Room 11, above the study is Room 3, and above the hall corresponds to Room 7."

Mingyue took over the topic and continued: "Besides Room 7 is the corridor that connects to the clock tower in the past."

"Are you sure?" Akai Shuichi's pupils shrank. If that's the case, maybe there is a secret passage in the corridor.

Miyano Shiho held his chin and calculated silently in his mind, "It should be correct, but we have never been to the outer corridor on the third floor, and the specific situation is not clear. And if this is really the case, then there should be a secret behind the wall of the hall Space. So our investigation is not over, and there is not much time left. We have to find a way to get out of here."

"Sister Shiho, it seems like this is the first time you are so concerned about the investigation." Ming Yue couldn't help laughing when she saw Miyano Shiho being so serious.

Miyano Shiho rolled his eyes and bit his lip, "In the past, Gin and I came out to investigate together. No matter what the result was, it was Gin and those peripheral members who were punished. Now I'm out to investigate with you. I don't want to see it. To any one of you..."

Miyano Shiho pursed his lips. The words were on his lips, but he didn't want to say them out.

"It was my dereliction of duty this time." Akai Shuichi apologized sincerely, "What will be the punishment if you fail?"

Miyano Shiho shuddered and folded his hands around his chest, as if he thought of something terrible.

Mingyue hugged Miyano Shiho and glanced at Akai Shuichi, "Do you really want to know?"

Akai Shuichi noticed something was wrong with Miyano Shiho, and looked at Ming Yue. His eyes were very bright in the darkness, but his gaze seemed a little evil at this time, "Should we go to the outer corridor to investigate, maybe we can find a way out. "

"Ley, if someone wants to ambush us at this time, where will he choose?"

Akai Shuichi was stunned by Ming Yue's question. He frowned and thought for a moment, "Room 6, near the destroyed door of the agency."

"Yes, the trap is ready, just waiting for us to jump in." Mingyue glanced at Miyano Shiho, whose mood was gradually stabilizing, and continued, "The people waiting for us there may have drugs or weapons in their hands. There may be more than one person.”

Akai Shuichi clenched his fist, "The current dark situation is indeed very disadvantageous for us. Maybe we can wait until after six o'clock and wait for the sun to shine in through the skylight on the roof."

"Do you think that's a real skylight? Does the light coming through really come from sunlight?" Mingyue looked at the dark spiral staircase.

At this time, the clock on the wall in the "future" clock tower has the hour hand pointing to the number 5 and the minute hand pointing to the number 12. Maybe the darkness will end in an hour.

After Akai Shuichi thought for a moment, he did not understand what Mingyue wanted to express.

"There is a summer festival outside right now. There is a fireworks display from 8 to 10 pm every night. It's just that we didn't hear the sound. It's strange that there are windows but we can't see the change in light. We can obviously feel the sunrise. It's sunset, but you can't see the flash of fireworks." Mingyue said with a smile.

Miyano Shiho raised his head and looked at the window, "This window is fake. If lights or other lighting equipment are installed behind the glass, by adjusting the intensity of the light, it will make us feel that this wall is the exterior wall, and what is projected through the window is Sunshine. But why did the people who built this bell tower do this?"

"These mysteries may require us to leave here to figure it out, including the real purpose of inviting them here." Mingyue also looked at the window with sharp eyes.

Akai Shuichi evaluated the height and size of the window. At that size, only Ming Yue might be able to pass through safely, but he did not want any girl to leave his area, so he said: "The sound of breaking the glass is loud and will attract others' attention. Expose our position."

"Mr. Bodyguard, you can't get through, and maybe the passage behind the glass is not the passage we expected?" Ming Yue looked at Akai Shuichi with half-moon eyes.

Akai Shuichi was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth raised, "Then we have only one way, and we can only go to Room 6."

"Hunters waiting for prey will squat beside the trap, but I don't want to be someone else's prey." Mingyue frowned, "Going to the fourth floor or higher will attract the other party's attention. After all, judging from the current situation, we The only option is the spiral staircase.”

Miyano Shiho looked at Mingyue, "Are you sure you can open the machine door?"

"I can't find the location of the mechanism that triggers the two doors on the outside of the hall, but the other doors should be related to clocks, just like all the doors on the fourth floor are glazed clocks." Mingyue continued to talk about her plan, "According to our previous deduction, the third floor should also have organic doors, and they are all next to the stairs. As long as we enter the outer corridor, we can go to other floors of this clock tower, and I suspect there are also mechanical doors that can leave here."

Several people came to the kitchen door again and looked at the other three rooms on the third floor. In the hall, the body of Atsushi Utsumi was still lying there. The door of the study room opposite was open, and there were the most clocks and bookshelves inside. There should also be the dining room next to it. There is a mechanical door and it is closest to the kitchen.

Akai Shuichi asked in a low voice: "Where are we going?"

"Although the restaurant is the closest to us, going to the restaurant will reveal our whereabouts. The lobby door may be between the two corridors, and it may be a closed space. Although the study is the farthest from us, there is no way to go around the lobby. If we pass by, the people in room six won’t notice us.”

Mingyue nodded and agreed with Miyano Shiho's analysis. She took a pair of scissors and cut off the hem of the overly long spiritual clothes to reveal her white calves. She also wrapped the cut pieces of cloth around the outside of her shoes to reduce the noise generated when walking. sound.

Shuichi Akai and Shiho Miyano did the same.

Mingyue squatted on the ground to help Miyano Shiho tie a piece of cloth on his feet, but Akai Shuichi saw a cold light on Mingyue's thigh. After a closer look, several knives were fixed on the thigh with cloth strips.

Several people walked out of the kitchen quietly. When they passed through the hall, Mingyue glanced into the hall and basically confirmed that there should be an agency door in the direction of Utsumi Atsushi's feet, but now was not the time to crack it.

Arriving at the door of the study, Akai Shuichi first checked the entire interior of the study and found nothing suspicious. The clock on the wall was ticking, and the six o'clock bell was about to ring in the clock tower.

Mingyue walked to the middle of the study and looked at the clock on the wall. For a while, she couldn't find the location of the mechanism. After the bell rang, a little light appeared on the window.

This may or may not be a good thing.

Shuichi Akai folded up the chairs and used his height advantage to reach the window. He stretched his neck and looked in the window. The thick paint blocked his sight. He reached out and picked off a little, but found that it was irrelevant to see what was behind the glass, so he had to give up.

After the bell rang, Mingyue took the clock off the wall and carefully pried open the back cover of the clock. Sure enough, there was a mini bomb embedded in it.

Akai Shuichi's pupils shrank suddenly when he saw it. He opened the back covers of other clocks one by one and found that every clock had them. He frowned and said softly: "This bomb does not have a ignition device?"

Mingyue nodded, "Yes, it's very strange, and it doesn't look like it was newly installed from the traces."

"Judging from the aging of the packaging material, it is at least five years old." Shuichi Akai removed a mini bomb. Maybe this cannot be called a bomb, but more like a firecracker or tightly wrapped gunpowder.

Mingyue looked at the clock in Akai Shuichi's hand, "The clock has been running for at least twenty years, which can be seen from the damaged coating on the edges."

After Akai Shuichi checked all the clocks, he threw them in the corner.

Miyano Shiho looked at the only clock on the wall and said softly: "That should be it."

The clock couldn't be taken off the wall. It seemed like something had locked it firmly to the wall, with the pendulum swinging regularly.

Mingyue moved a chair, stood on tiptoes in front of the clock, reached out and carefully removed the glass from the dial, and the hands were still spinning rhythmically.

His ear was pressed against the wall, and a finger blocked the direction of the second hand.

despair.

It's the sound of gears.

Mingyue flicked the hands of the watch quickly with her fingers, and listened carefully to the sound of the gears in the wall rotating, distinguishing the difference in the sound of each gear.

After a while.

Click!

A crack appeared in the wall, and Ming Yue almost fell into it, but fortunately Akai Shuichi reached out to hold her up.

After landing, Mingyue stuck the chair on the door of the machine and said quickly: "Let's get out of here quickly."

Several people jumped into the outer corridor, and the first thing they saw was the stairs.

Mingyue was faster and had already reached the stairs leading to the second floor. "Go down first, that person may find out soon."

"Who could be the person you are talking about?" Miyano Shiho followed closely.

Akai Shuichi looked around and looked at where the window should be, only to find that there was a wall there, and his eyes became sharp. It's really like a prison here, even the changes in light must be controlled in your hands.

What about time?

Mingyue and the others came to the second floor, stacked many cardboard boxes in the outer corridor, and found a secret corner to hide. Then they heard footsteps coming from the third floor. Fortunately, there was only one person.

Akai Shuichi stood in front of the girls and paid attention to the movements around them.

A dark figure came to the study and found the machine door stuck by the chair and the clock abandoned in the corner of the study. He gritted his teeth, moved the chair away, closed the machine door slowly, and patrolled the dark secret passage. Afterwards, go upstairs.

Mingyue heard the footsteps gradually disappearing and whispered: "That person went upstairs."

Akai Shuichi looked at the cardboard boxes around him and felt something was strange. He opened one at random and his eyes widened at the contents inside.

Mingyue and Miyano Shiho came over and took a breath of air.

It's all dynamite.

Miyano Shiho lowered his voice and said, "They want to blow us up in this bell tower."

Mingyue looked through a few more boxes and said with a smile: "The art of explosion? The only one who can do this is the museum owner."

"Do you doubt Gu Ezhi?" Akai Shuichi looked at Mingyue.

Mingyue shook her head, "Don't you think these are similar to the miniature bombs in the clock?"

Miyano Shiho knelt down, checked the dust accumulation, and reached out to press the carton. The outer shell of the carton was a little brittle, and he whispered: "Although this place has been cleaned, you can still see that there are some explosives here." It’s time.”

"In other words, the museum owner has been planning these things for a long time." Mingyue discovered that these explosives were connected in series and connected to the floor. The cardboard boxes were just used to cover people's ears and eyes, and they were everywhere as far as the eye could see.

After walking around the outer corridor on the second floor, everyone went downstairs to the first floor. They saw cardboard boxes. When they opened them, they found, as expected, they were full of explosives.

Akai Shuichi's eyes were sharp, "We have to leave here as soon as possible."

Mingyue put her ear against the outer wall. After listening for a long time, she slowly said, "I didn't hear any sound. It would be nice if there were fireworks now." Suddenly she stroked her fingertips and stretched out her hand again to trace across the smooth wall.

There was water at the fingertips, and he looked up at the ceiling.

"Oops!" Mingyue put away her usual smile and said seriously, "We have to leave here and go to the sixth floor, where we may have a chance of survival."

Miyano Shiho looked puzzled, "What did you find?"

"This is not the first floor at all, but the underground." Mingyue hammered the wall, "So I can't hear anything."

Everyone returned to the third floor again and walked quietly in the outer corridor. They found that the door of the study room had been closed. They continued to move forward and found a wall blocking the way forward. They turned around and walked to the other side, passing by the study room and the dining room. Behind the door of the machine, a third staircase appeared in front of everyone, and the same wall also blocked the way.

"Our initial inference was correct. There is no mechanism door in the kitchen, and there is a secret place on the wall behind the hall." Mingyue looked at the stairs and said, "Let's go upstairs and have a look."

"Future" clock tower floor plan (PS: The first, second, fifth and sixth floors are similar.)

Miyano Shiho grabbed Mingyue and lowered his voice and said, "The top of this staircase is room No. 6. Someone may be waiting for us to go up."

"No, after we open the door, that person will not continue to stay there." Shuichi Akai answered seriously for Miyano Shiho, "Because the prey has broken through the encirclement, the hunter will not stick to the trap."

Miyano Shiho was still not reassured, while Ming Yue had already walked up the stairs and came to the broken machine door in Room 6.

Looking at the room through the gap, the room was still dark with no lights, but at the spiral staircase in the center of the bell tower, there was indeed a bright light coming in. Then the light shined brightly. Mingyue saw the clock on the wall at this time, and the hour hand pointed to the number 8. The minute hand points to 12.

Side view of the stairs of the "future" bell tower

In the foreign-style hotel outside the clock tower, the owner Tomomasa Furuega and Ikumi Gunda were playing shogi, and Ireland took the black tea handed over by the housekeeper Ibo.

"Master Chi, the sunshine is so beautiful today. When Miss Forever was still alive, she often said she wanted to dance in this sunshine." Butler Ibo put the black tea next to Gunda Ikumi's hand.

Gunda Ikumi thanked them and looked up at the clock, "They will come out of the bell tower in three hours, and we can go in and visit."

"Of course." Gu'ezhi ate one of Gunda Ikumi's infantry and held it on his fingertips to examine it. "If you could turn back time, what would you two want to do?"

This question shocked Ireland, but his face remained calm and he just smiled and said: "This is really a good question."

But Ikumi Gunada was thoughtful, "If I could turn back time, I hope I could go back to my childhood and live my beautiful childhood again."

"If it's possible, I hope so." Gu Ezhi's eyes were full of affection, and he gently placed a chess piece on the chessboard, with a warm smile still on his face, "I accept."

Gunda Ikumi glanced at the chessboard and sighed, "The gym leader is so awesome. How many games have I lost?"

At this time, Butler Yibo, with a smile on his face, said softly: "Master Zhi, let me prepare the ingredients for lunch first. Miss Forever becoming a Buddha on her birthday is something worth celebrating."

“Please be sure to prepare something generous.”

Butler Yibo said goodbye and left, but Gu Ezhi still took the two distinguished guests to play chess, chat and drink tea.

Ireland looked thoughtfully at the three bell towers in the daylight.

The door to the kitchen of the mansion not far away was closed, but the familiar sound of chopping vegetables came from inside.

In the "Future" clock tower, Mingyue and others arrived at the sixth floor and carefully searched for the exit in the outer corridor. The structure of the sixth floor was almost the same as that of the fifth floor, but one of the three machine doors was open.

Akai Shuichi immediately became vigilant, protecting the girls by his side and looking for a place to hide.

Fu Xiliang's weak voice reached everyone's ears, "Who are you?"

Then there was a muffled sound of falling to the ground.

Miyano Shiho trembled all over, covering his mouth with his hand, trying not to make any sound, and his body was a little stiff.

Da da……

Ta da, da da...

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, but there was no obstruction in the outer corridor on the sixth floor. Everyone could only slowly step back, trying to use the circular characteristics to block the view of the incoming person.

huh~

A crossbow arrow flew over.

Then a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of Mingyue and the others, and Mingyue saw the damaged sleeve on the visitor's right arm.

huh~

Another arrow flew towards several people.

Ding dong!

The sound of metal clanging together.

The arrow thrown by Mingyue flew and collided with the tip of the arrow, causing the arrow's direction to change.

Ding dong!

The arrow and the knife collided again.

Akai Shuichi protected Miyano Shiho and ran downstairs. Just as he was about to rush over and subdue the man, the other party raised his crossbow and fired several arrows, then disappeared in a flash.

Mingyue picked up the knife from the ground, tied it back to her leg, and looked thoughtfully at the direction where the man disappeared.

"It feels weird, right?" Akai Shuichi pulled the arrow out of the wall. There seemed to be something painted on the tip of the arrow. Mingyue leaned over and smelled it, a kind of narcotic smell.

Miyano Shiho breathed out slowly, "Fukunishi Ryo is too evil and unlucky. Now except for the disappeared Mikoto Kokoji and the missing Terai Mitsue, maybe we are the only ones left, and they were probably killed as well."

Mingyue thought for a while and said softly: "I want to go to the sixth floor to take a look."

"Put the knife away. If that person appears again, I may have a way to subdue him." Akai Shuichi looked serious.

Mingyue Banyue looked at Akai Shuichi, "My cooperation with you is basically zero. Maybe the knife I throw will still stick to you."

Shuichi Akai said seriously: "I will try my best to avoid this happening."

Everyone came to the sixth floor again. The previously opened door was not closed, and a sense of conspiracy spread in the air.

Mingyue held the knife in her hand, and Akai Shuichi was also ready, but the man in the spiritual clothes did not appear.

Soft light penetrated through the stained glass. Ryota Fukoshi was tied up and died next to the carousel. At this time, the body was still warm, with an arrow stuck in his throat, and blood was still pouring out.

At this time, the hour hand of the clock on the wall points to the number 9, and the minute hand points to the number 12.

"There are still three hours." Miyano Shiho muttered to himself as he looked at the clock on the wall. Then he thought of the explosives downstairs, and a bad feeling came over him.

But now all the lights are on...

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Preview of the next chapter: Escape! Escape from this clock tower quickly!