[Quick Transmigration] Take away the bloody protagonist

Zhou Mao poured hot water into the bathtub with a copper pot, and then tested the water temperature with his hands.

"Okay." He nodded, walked to Paul's side, and helped him unbutton his clothes.

In this world, Zhou Mao's home has a shower head, but only cold water.Because there are not many people who install hot water pipes at home in this era.

And Paul is more old-fashioned aristocratic, there is no shower at home, only a huge carved bathtub placed in the center of a bedroom.It is very troublesome to boil water and pour water to clean the bathtub every time you take a bath.

But according to Paul, anyway, his life is too long to be wasted at will, so for him, washing every day is no problem.Since Zhou Mao lived with him, he seems to be more enthusiastic about taking a bath.They always drag Zhou Mao into the bathtub to soak together when they disagree.

Watching Zhou Mao help him undress, Paul raised the corner of his mouth, leaned into his ear and whispered, "You really think I came back to take a shower?"

Zhou Mao's ears were red. He picked up the coat he had just taken off and stuck it on Paul's face: "If you tell me to wash it, wash it, don't talk so much nonsense."

Then he lowered his head to unbutton Paul's shirt, and said in a low voice while unbuttoning, "You haven't showered for so many days, what do you want to do, at least wait until you've washed it before doing it."

Paul laughed. He quickly undressed and sat in the bathtub.Zhou Mao added some cold water to the copper pot, put his hands on the back of Paul's head and let him lie beside the bathtub, carefully wet his hair.

"Is the water hot?" he asked softly as he poured water on Paul's hair.

"The water temperature is just right." Paul raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Mao through his forehead.There were some drops of water on his eyelashes, and Zhou Mao gently wiped them off with his hands.

The hot steam made Zhou Mao's fair skin glow pink. The shirt was stuck to his body, and the color of his chest was printed through the thin fabric.

Paul's throat moved.

"Let's wash together." He turned over and grabbed Zhou Mao's arm with his wet hands.

"Don't move around." Zhou Mao almost sprinkled water into Paul's eyes, and said angrily, "I washed it yesterday. I won't wash it today."

However, Paul didn't care about Zhou Mao's answer, and pulled Zhou Mao into the bathtub directly with his hands.A lot of hot water splashed onto the floor, and Zhou Mao was soaked all over. He instinctively struggled to remember, but was held tightly by Paul.

"I can't take it anymore." Paul stroked Zhou Mao's body and kissed his lips: "Let's start now."

Zhou Mao was taken aback for a moment, then blushed and sighed.Forget it, it's the same if you come early or late, you can't hide anyway.Zhou Mao thought helplessly.He gave up struggling and wrapped his arms around Paul's neck.

【ah.I really want to write a bathtub scene.But no. By the author]

The two of them have been tossing and turning for an unknown period of time. After the water in the bathtub was tossed, it was transferred to the bed.Paul's energy seemed endless, and he didn't stop until Zhou Mao was exhausted and almost lost consciousness.

"What time is it?" Zhou Mao lay on the bed, being held in Paul's arms, and asked dying.

Paul reached out and took out Zhou Mao's pocket watch for a look: "9 o'clock." He added: "It should be in the morning."

Zhou Mao closed his eyes silently.Paul must return to the police station by 5pm.Most of the day's free time I finally got was spent on doing this kind of thing.

Paul seemed to see Zhou Mao's thoughts. "I came out to do this kind of thing." He kissed Zhou Mao's hair lightly: "Besides being able to make|love, there is no difference between home and prison to me. Because no matter where you are, you are always by my side."

Zhou Mao pursed his lips and shrank into Paul's arms: "I wanted to go to a dim sum shop with you yesterday." He said, "That shop only opens after 8 pm, and there are many people queuing up It sells a kind of snack called blood cake, which can only be eaten in the store, and it is said that vampires eat it and are full of praise."

He chuckled: "I want to see how a real vampire would feel after eating it."

Paul froze for a moment, then gently hugged Zhou Mao tighter: "Let's go together after I am free."

He kissed Zhou Mao's lips again: "Anyway, we still have a lot of time."

After Zhou Mao and Paul slept together, they returned to the police station.Paul consciously returned to the cell in the basement.Zhou Mao finished sorting out the documents, and after the people from the police station left, he also walked to the basement.

Before arriving at Paul's cell, Zhou Mao came to the warehouse as usual to help Paul find some books to read.There is a large box of hardcover books left by someone in the warehouse.The box is divided into several layers. Most of the books on the first layer have been read by Paul. Zhou Mao removed these books, and when he opened the second layer, he found that there were several English original books inside.

Although this world claims to be based on the United Kingdom, all languages ​​are written in Chinese.When the English books appeared in front of him, Zhou Mao actually had an illusion of chaotic time and space.

Zhou Mao looked at the book carefully.As a fan of mystery novels, he can recognize these books even in English. They are Ellery Quinn's "Tragedy Series", which are "The Tragedy of X", "The Tragedy of Y" and "The Tragedy of Z" ".

Zhou Mao took out a book and flipped through it.He recognized the title of the book, but the content inside gave him a headache for a person who had barely passed the fourth and sixth grades.After reading two pages, he put the book back in the box.

When he pressed the spine and inserted the book into the box, the author's name on the spine suddenly attracted Zhou Mao's attention. ElleryQueen is the English wording of Ellery Quinn.

"It turns out that 'Queen' is the transliteration of 'queen'." Zhou Mao found it interesting and couldn't help talking to himself.

Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, the little poem about the No Footprint Murder case appeared in Zhou Mao's mind again.

Fortunato is dead

Negroes in Oslo have brought in judges

hunchback says

I will run diagonally in 16 black squares

Find the coordinate system that removes the right angles

Under the guidance of my brother named queen

26,11,5

to his grave

"Under the guidance of a brother named Queen"

Zhou Mao's hand pressing the spine of the book trembled.

Ellery Queen, ElleryQueen, his name is Queen.

The writer Quinn is not a single person, but a pseudonym shared by a pair of cousins.

According to the first half of the poem alluding to "None Survived" and "The Time the Bishop Killed", the sentence "under the guidance of the brother named Queen" undoubtedly refers to Ellery Queen.

And what about the previous sentence?Zhou Mao thought about it. Does the sentence "find the coordinate system that deletes the right angle" imply that it is not the real coordinate system, but the three books "The Tragedy of X", "The Tragedy of Y", and "The Tragedy of Z"?

If it really refers to these three books, then the phrase "delete the right angle" should mean to delete the two books "The Tragedy of X" and "The Tragedy of Y", and then only the "Tragedy of Z" is left. book.

Zhou Mao took "The Tragedy of Z" out of the box, took a few other books, and went upstairs to get a note with a small poem from the folder before returning to Paul's cell.

"Why is it so slow today?" Seeing Zhou Mao coming in, Paul took him to sit beside him.

"Well... I thought of something." Zhou Mao stammered, he hesitated, and asked Paul, "Do you know the book "The Tragedy of Z"?"

Paul's expression froze for a moment.He looked at Zhou Mao, and slowly reached out to stroke the back of his hand.

"The last book in the poem, you found it." He lowered his head and whispered.

"I found it." Zhou Mao nodded, then shook his head again: "But I don't know what the three books in the poem really mean."

"Numbers," Paul said.

Zhou Mao looked at him suspiciously.

"I'm reminding you." Paul smiled slightly, "Numbers."

"Words imply numbers, and numbers point to words," he said. "That's the biggest hint I can give you."

Immediately, he flicked Zhou Mao's forehead lightly: "Let me see if your little head can guess the answer."

"Number?" Zhou Mao pondered, then looked at the note with the poem written on it.

If it is said that "numbers point to words", what words do 26,11,5, [-], and [-] in the poem represent?

Zhou Mao tried hard to think if there were any special words for these three numbers, but he couldn't think of any.

He flicked across the first half of the poem with his fingertips, and suddenly realized something wrong.

The first four sentences of the poem, while specifying the novel, also point out the dead in the novel.

As for the content of "The Tragedy of Z", there is no other information related to the novel except for the numbers whose meanings are unknown.

Zhou Mao thought for a while, he turned to page 26 of "The Tragedy of Z", and then looked for the fifth word on line 11.

"Warwick St." (Woweike Street) Zhou Mao read it lightly. There is also a street in their city called Warwick Street, which is a well-known wealthy area.I don't know if it will be related.

Zhou Mao looked up at Paul, who smiled at him but didn't speak.

Zhou Mao is not sure whether this method is correct.He first recorded Woweike Street on a piece of paper, and tentatively regarded it as the answer of "numbers point to words".Then look back at the first four lines of the poem.

"Words imply numbers..." Zhou Mao murmured.How do these words imply numbers?

"The Negroes of Oslo Call for Judges".Oslo refers to the author's name, blacks have 10 little blacks, and the judge is the fifth dead in this novel... Zhou Mao silently counted.

And the hunchbacked person in the next row is the third deceased in another novel.

Could the sequential numbers of the deceased, together with the Rue Vecchio, form an address?

Zhou Mao quickly took out the household registration booklet, and began to search for the residents living at No. 53 Woweike Street.After a while, Zhou Mao found it. No. 53 Woweike Street seemed to be the home of a very old and wealthy widow.Zhou Mao looked left and right, but he didn't see any tricks.

He sighed and wrote the widow's name on the paper.It is estimated that this is not the correct answer, let's think about it in another way.Zhou Mao silently thought

"Maomao." Paul, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke. "You're thinking in the right direction. But you got the order of the dead wrong in the first novel."

He stared at Zhou Mao: "The judge is not the fifth deceased."

yes!Zhou Mao slapped his forehead suddenly.The judge is not the fifth person to die, he is a very important character in the novel, and he is the last to die.

Then, the number represented by the text is not 53, but 103.

Zhou Mao quickly flipped through the household registration book and found the information of the head of household at No. 103 Woweike Street.

John Gray, owner of the wine estate.Raised a son and a daughter.

Current Status: Missing.

Zhou Mao silently looked at the small print on the household register.

Clearly, the riddle of the poem was solved.

The author has something to say:

Z's Tragedy in the original English version on page 26, line 11, the fifth word is warwick, this paragraph was made up by me.All in all, it's a simple word-finding game.

and No Survival Although everyone should have read it, I still have to be careful not to spoil the novel as much as possible... hope there is no spoiler