Star Trace Gate

In the tea room.

While Ren was deep in thought, he heard Song Mingzhe calling him.

He came back to his senses dimly, saluted and said, "Master."

Song Mingzhe first waved his hand to signal the seven master craftsmen to leave, and then he instructed Ren Ye and Yin Hu: "I suddenly remembered that there is one thing I haven't done yet."

As he spoke, he walked to the desk, wrote down an address on a piece of paper, and handed it to Yin Hu: "There is a person imprisoned here. Go pick him up and call me. Remember, you two are my confidants, and this is my family affair. Don't make it public. After you're done, just pretend nothing happened. Do you understand?"

Yin Hu took the address and looked at it, and said in confusion: "Damn, isn't this the address of the villa?"

Upon hearing this, Ren Ye immediately clasped his fists and said, "I understand."

"Go ahead." Song Mingzhe waved his hand.

"Yes!"

After the two of them saluted, they left in a hurry.

……

Soon, in the car downstairs.

Ren Ye glanced at the address Yin Hu handed over, frowned and muttered: "There is a person imprisoned in the villa? Isn't this the ending of Song An in the previous scene? Damn, this guy has spent several years in a prison room, so pitiful...!"

"A battle is about to break out in Fulai County, and Song Mingzhe is preparing to send him away." Yinhu added.

Ren Ye started the car and drove to the villa with ease.

On the way, Yinhu said with a strange expression: "Shabao, don't you think that some of the information revealed in the first round of tasks is more like a hint. One of the eight people must be a traitor, and this person wants to steal Song Mingzhe's craftsmanship experience and find an opportunity to kill the other seven master craftsmen and plunder their accumulation... This plot seems to be very similar to the situation in our team."

"The tiger licks the cat's hole, you finally come to your senses." Ren also nodded slightly.

"What the hell are these allegorical sayings of yours? Are you trying to make yourself look cultured?!" Yinhu was a little crazy. He felt that among the people in the team, except himself and the old cadres, there was no normal person.

"I also think this is an allusion." Ren Ye frowned and replied, "Look, killing the other seven people and looting their accumulation... This sounds very general at first glance. But if you want to compare it concretely, then what is the accumulation of our eight players?"

Yin Hu was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Of course it's the gold coins and the fragments of the autobiography."

"Why did Brother Hong die so suddenly? If someone was behind this, what was the motive for killing him?" Ren Ye asked again, guiding him: "Put this motive in the context of the entire Star Gate approaching its end and everyone reaching the final sprint. Also, when we first entered the sect, what was the necessary winning condition that the Heavenly Dao Rules reminded us of?!"

Even a fool could understand the meaning of this kind of nanny-like guidance.

Therefore, Brother Hu suddenly had an epiphany and said instinctively, "The necessary condition for winning is - gold coins. After eight days, only the player who obtains the most gold coins can lead the way guide - Song Yi. Also, the fragments of the autobiography are equally important. Not only can they affect the final reward, but if you can piece them together by yourself, you will also get a large amount of gold coins as a reward. Oh oh oh oh oh, I see. If someone secretly killed Brother Hong, it must be to snatch the fragments of the autobiography and the gold coins... because the Star Gate is almost over, and everyone has reached the final sprint stage."

"Sandbag, you are really thin!"

After Yin Hu praised excitedly, his expression suddenly froze: "Huh? No, no... You are wrong. You forgot that we found scattered gold and fragments of the autobiography at the scene where Brother Hong died..."

"If I were the one who was secretly doing this, I would never take all the gold coins and autobiography fragments. That's too stupid. I must leave some behind to give everyone the impression that I'm not killing for personal gain. That way, I can put the blame on 'Heaven' and make everyone feel that it's the mechanism that's killing people." Ren Ye said hoarsely, "Only three of Hongge's legacy gold coins and a fragment of the autobiography were found at the scene. The most important thing is that the fragment of the autobiography is a duplicate... It was obtained by several other players who formed a group together on the day we went to Changsheng Temple. It's not the only scarce one."

"That makes sense. He left some gold coins and a fragment of his autobiography deliberately to distract everyone." Yin Hu nodded slightly. "The scene was very chaotic, and there were corpses burning everywhere. We simply couldn't stay there for a long time to inspect the scene."

"Brother Hong at least has a fragment of his autobiography, and it is the only one." Ren Ye suddenly said.

"you know?!"

"Yes, because on the first day, we completed a mission together." Ren Ye replied firmly: "The fragment of the autobiography belongs to Song An, and only he has it. Of course, this is only what I know, he may have more in his hand..."

Yin Hu thought carefully for a long time: "Is it possible that the deaths of that woman and Xiao Yuan were also caused by someone using the rules to kill people?"

"It's hard to say."

Ren also shook his head and said, "When the woman and Xiao Yuan died, the gold coins and fragments of the autobiography book exploded, and they were in the mourning hall... Everyone can see it. And the murder in the closed room at 8:30 is the core mechanism. I think it is difficult for others to take advantage of this rule."

"Yeah." Yinhu nodded slightly.

"I feel that if someone is really playing tricks, he will definitely make another move in this round." Ren Ye said this, and suddenly turned his head to look at Yin Hu: "Who do you think that person is?"

Yin Hu was stunned by the look and frowned, "Damn it, you don't suspect it's me, do you?!"

This almost made Ren Ye's CPU burn out. He was silent for a moment and said speechlessly: "Smart people can pretend to be stupid, but stupid people can hardly pretend to be smart. Brother Hu, don't be so sensitive. In my heart, you are very innocent and you are always drooling..."

"Oh."

Yin Hu breathed a sigh of relief, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly shouted: "You bastard, are you scolding me?!"

……

Night, around 10 o'clock.

The car stopped in front of the villa. Ren Ye and Yin Hu got out hurriedly and walked straight into the yard.

This is a reflection of the past, an evolution of everything in the past, so there are not so many weeds in the yard, and it doesn't look desolate. However, under the dim moonlight, there are still shadowy animals running.

A gust of cold wind blew, and the two did not dare to delay for a moment. They went straight to the gate, only to see that the main door of the villa was slightly open.

"Why is the door open?" Yinhu instantly perked up.

"You are behind, I am in front."

After Ren Ye gave a serious instruction, he slowly opened the door and walked in.

The temperature in the room was slightly warmer, and a strong smell of blood came over.

Ren Ye looked at the familiar environment around him and walked towards the stairs.

Yinhu kept a distance of three to five meters from him, following behind, ready to call for the big knife at any time.

Just like that, the two of them walked one after the other, ensuring that there would be no blind spots, all the way to the second-floor lobby, and turned their heads to look at the eight rooms.

In the hall, there were seven rooms with closed doors and one room with an open door. It was the Li room where Ren Ye had lived.

He recalled briefly that in the last scene of Tiangong Tower, Song An was imprisoned in the Li room on the second floor after his right leg was chopped off by his father.

"The door is open?!"

Yin Hu walked over in an instant and focused his attention to sense inside the room: "Nothing."

"Whoosh!"

Ren also stepped into the room, turned his head and looked around, and saw that the place was full of life. The trash can was full, and there were many books, game consoles and other entertainment items on the table.

However, Song An, who was originally imprisoned here, disappeared!

What about others?

Did he run away by himself?

No, no, no, this is unlikely. Song An should not be able to open the door lock from inside the room.

Ren Ye walked over to the bed, looked down at the slightly messy bedding, frowned and said, "She left very suddenly... and it's been a long time."

"how do you know?"

Yin Hu asked.

"Wipe your drool and turn your head to look at the table." Ren Ye said softly, "There is an unfinished breakfast there, and the bedding looks like he just got up. This means that he suddenly left while he was having breakfast."

"Um?!!"

At this moment, Yinhu suddenly exuded a huge power of perception, and his nose twitched wildly as he began to sniff fiercely.

Ren also turned back to look at him: "What's wrong?"

"Something's not right."

Yinhu sniffed fiercely and took a few steps inside the room.

Ren Ye saw that he was behaving strangely, so he did not interrupt him.

Yinhu walked past the bed, bent over, sniffed all the way out of the room, went downstairs along the second-floor hall, and headed towards the back door of the villa.

Ren also followed all the way and turned his head to look around, and saw that the doors in the corridor were still closed and could not be opened.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the back door of the main building together, and Yinhu finally stopped.

Moonlight shone in from the window. Yin Hu slowly turned his head and said with a very strange expression: "...Do you remember the smell I told you about when we came back from Jingming Lake?"

"Of course I remember. Didn't you say that the man in the crescent-shaped black robe had a scent similar to perfumed powder on his body, thus covering up his own scent?" Ren nodded.

Yin Hu pointed at the corridor he was walking through and whispered, "From the Lizi room where Song An disappeared all the way here... there is the same smell as the man in black robe, very faint... ordinary people can't smell it at all, but I can."

Ren was stunned for a moment and asked urgently: "Are you sure?!"

"Don't question my sense of smell. When we were in Houtu, my second brother's concubine was unfaithful. I could smell it just by sniffing." Yinhu replied proudly.

King Huai didn't have time to think about why his second brother's concubine would let him smell it. He just stood there blankly and murmured softly: "In other words, the man in the crescent-shaped black robe has been here before and appeared in Song An's room. In other words, he is the one who rescued Song An with a high probability?!"

"That's it."

"Can you continue to follow that scent?"

"No, the smell outside is very mixed and it stops at the door." Yin Hu shook his head.

“Damn it…!”

Ren also felt that he had grasped an important clue, and clenched his fists and said, "Who on earth came here?!"

"Woo!"

A gust of cold wind blew into the corridor from outside through the crack in the door.

At this moment, a childish voice sounded in the consciousness space: "Congratulations on your prosperity, congratulations on your prosperity... Boss, I feel a strong breath of ghosts... spreading out from here."

"Um?!"

Ren Ye heard this and his eyes lit up instantly: "Good baby, start your performance!"