Neverland

As if confirming Xu Muzhou's thoughts, the girl went straight to Joseph's room.

Before entering the door, the dagger in her hand slid down a little bit. She held the dagger of unknown material in her hand. The jet-black blade shone with a penetrating metallic luster. Looking at it, there was a feeling of "seeing blood to seal the throat". Stance.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Xu Muzhou said, "The most poisonous woman's heart."

"It also depends on the situation." Yan Cen said: "Viciousness does not depend on gender."

After saying this, the two of them fell silent at the same time, and looked at Joseph's half-closed door in unison.

The giant clock on Xu Muzhou's head slowly moved forward by a small notch, and Joseph's room was still quiet, without any sound.

"It's a bit strange." Xu Muzhou said: "The girl looks thin and small, even if Joseph is asleep, it should be very difficult to kill him with a knife... Why is there no sound of struggle and resistance?"

Yan Cen looked at the door, but did not speak for now.

After a while, there was a dull sound of heavy objects falling in the room, the door of Joseph's room was reopened, and the girl nimbly got out from the half-open door.

The dagger in her sleeve is now being held in her hand, with the blade pointing downwards, and bright red blood drops drop by drop along the blood groove on the ground, leaving a winding line of blood behind the girl following her footsteps.

The sound of blood dripping on the ground sounds very clear, accompanied by the friction of the clock above the head and the sound of the waves outside, it is like a horror movie scene.

Xu Muzhou clicked his tongue and rubbed the goose bumps on his hands.

At the same time, the girl who was about to go upstairs suddenly stopped and looked back without warning.

Xu Muzhou was caught off guard and met her eyes, subconsciously took half a step back, and the cool wind swished on his back.

Yan Cen raised his hand to support Xu Muzhou's back, helping him stabilize his mind.

"Damn." Xu Muzhou gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "Can she see us?"

I don’t know if it’s because he witnessed the murder scene just now, when Xu Muzhou looks at the girl now, he feels that the girl has an extra layer of filter called "cruel and merciless". Like a layer of skin.

The girl's eyes were sharp, but they were full of extremely complex emotions. Those emotions were mixed together, and they were as thick as the dark night outside.

At this moment, Xu Muzhou didn't know what to do, and suddenly understood the emotion in the opponent's eyes.

In the mirrored "real world" just now and the current "past", the emotions in the girl's eyes are exactly the same.

——It was an extremely resentful look, entangled with resentment and dissatisfaction, and a little secret madness.

That madness seemed to be the source of her behavior, Xu Muzhou looked at her expression, and for some reason suddenly remembered the lioness whose cub was taken away.

But the girl obviously didn't see the two of them. She stopped to look for a while, but found nothing, turned her head and went up the stairs again.

It wasn't until the girl returned to his room and closed the door that Xu Muzhou breathed a sigh of relief.

"So nervous?" Yan Cen said with a smile: "The clothes are all wet."

Xu Muzhou glanced at the girl's door with lingering fear, and for the first time did not reply, but leaned on Yan Cen's arm, let out a long breath, and said: "After all, we are facing the murderer directly, let alone the murderer He looked like he wanted to kill me before."

"Look at a soft and weak little girl." Xu Muzhou said: "Such a ruthless attack, does this mean that she has been imprisoned here for ten years and has become a psychopath?"

Yan Cen didn't answer, but asked, "Want to take a look?"

"Should go." Xu Muzhou said: "Look at the situation, maybe she just went to scrape Joseph's bone to cure the poison."

But having said that, Xu Muzhou knew in his heart that the "Mr. Joseph" who is a big and a little rough, probably has more bad luck than good luck.

Of course, the facts were not too different from Xu Muzhou's imagination. The only thing that surprised Xu Muzhou was that Joseph didn't die peacefully on the bed, but lay face down on the ground, as if he had been taken from him. It fell off the bed.

Large swaths of blood spread from under his body, which hadn't completely solidified yet.

As soon as Xu Muzhou entered the door, he saw the 20-centimeter valgus wound on the back of his heart.

——What a ruthless strike, Xu Muzhou thought.

Yan Cen brushed Xu Muzhou's shoulder and walked in front of him, squatting down in front of Joseph first, and checked his situation.

Joseph's eyes were half-opened and half-closed, and his body was still not completely cooled, showing a soft warmth.

But the blood stains under his body and the hideous wound on his back undoubtedly meant that his vitality was running out, and the current situation was just the last illusion of the passing stage of life.

In the illusion, Yan Cen could not actually contact Joseph, and what he could see was actually very limited.

But fortunately, although Joseph was lying on the floor, because of the angle of his fall, his head fell a little crooked, and there was a slight bulge on his neck, so he could still see some clues from the side.

It was not until he saw this that Xu Muzhou realized that it might not be the deep and long wound on the back of his heart that killed him.

——Because there was also a deep bone wound on Joseph's neck.

The wound appeared to be more penetrating than the one on the back, traversing Joseph's entire neck bone, nearly severing his entire neck.

The blood was still flowing out, Xu Muzhou looked at it coldly, and felt that it was a bit like the scar on the girl's own neck.

"This is the fatal wound." Yan Cen stretched out his hand and gestured near the wound, made a touch gesture, and said, "It kills with one knife, clean and tidy."

After staying in the mission world for so long, Xu Muzhou can be regarded as "well-informed", and his acceptance of corpses has greatly increased, so he also stepped forward, avoiding the blood all over the ground, and squatted down beside Yan Cen.

"What about the latter one?" Xu Muzhou said, "It was formed after death?"

Xu Muzhou knew that Yan Cen singled out this comment, which meant that there must be differences between the two wounds.

Sure enough, Yan Cen stretched out his hand and pressed Joseph's chest, and said, "Yes, he should have lost his breath before getting the wound at the back, so the amount of bleeding is a bit off...and his heart was dug out .”

"...What kind of mentality is this?" Xu Muzhou complained.

"The wound on his back is very messy." Yan Cen pointed to the wound and said, "It seems that Duan stubble has been stabbed several times, but there is only one wound, most likely because of shaking hands."

"I'm not afraid when I kill people for no reason, but I'm afraid when I dig my heart." Xu Muzhou paused, and suddenly said: "...I suddenly have a guess."

Yan Cen withdrew his hand, stood up from the ground, and asked, "What?"

"I think there is only one Toya here." Xu Muzhou looked up at him and said, "Even if two 'persons' are reflected in something like a 'mirror', there is actually only one entity... Since this castle is in In the mirror, then I have reason to suspect that the 'witch' is also in the mirror."

"I think the 'witch' is indeed Toya." Xu Muzhou said, "In other words, this girl is Toya."

As soon as he finished speaking, the illusion in front of him suddenly became erratic, Xu Muzhou's feet were empty, and he fell down.

At the same time, the hydrangea flower on Yan Cen's wrist, which had been silent for a long time, finally started to respond as if it had successfully restarted.

The progress bar immediately began to float, and with the speed of Xu Muzhou's fall, it fell all the way, and finally stopped at the center of the hydrangea petals.

This time the "past" ended more shaky than every time before. When Xu Muzhou finally stood firm with his support on the wall, he simply felt that he was thrown out of the front-loading washing machine.

He leaned on the wall and retched twice, he couldn't help but thankful that the black bread was too hard to swallow, otherwise he would definitely spit it out now.

Xu Muzhou glanced at Yan Cen's hand in his busy schedule, and said sadly: "It's a move, the progress bar of this mission is too hard to keep up with."

After staying in the illusion of the "past" for so long, but in the real world, it was only a few moments. Xu Muzhou supported the wall and stood firm, and found that the witch who had "disappeared" had not actually left. Instead, he was standing a few steps away, looking at him gloomyly.

Xu Muzhou wiped the corners of his mouth, stood up, smiled suddenly, and said to her: "You can understand me, right?"

The girl... no, it should be "Tuoya", the tip of her ear moved, but there was no response.

She couldn't speak at all, Xu Muzhou didn't expect any strong feedback from her, but walked up to Yan Cen's side nonchalantly, picked up his wrist and looked at the hydrangea on it.

Yan Cen was manipulated by him cooperatively, allowing him to play his best.

"Two-thirds." Xu Muzhou said: "It's not too much, and it's not too much. It's because if this is a reasoning game, now that the cause of Joseph's death has been found, it seems to be too big. It looks like the ending is over, but looking at the progress now, it has not reached the final ending."

"But it's a lot less..." Xu Muzhou paused, and said, "If you look at this as the task of 'dispelling obsession', this progress is a bit too much."

"After all, we haven't done anything yet, we were just forced to 'watch' the whole process of you killing Joseph." Xu Muzhou said, "That's right, Witch Toya."

"Tuoya" can also be regarded as a determined person to a certain extent. She still stood there like a sculpture, staring at Xu Muzhou stubbornly with that kind of resentful eyes.

"Actually, why do you hate me, and what do you hate about Joseph?" Xu Muzhou said, "Actually, there is a problem that I didn't understand until just now... I have been thinking about your obsession before. On Joseph, even when you entered the door, I was still wondering if your obsession was to resent Joseph, me, and the outsiders who came to this castle."

"But after watching two-thirds of this, I don't think so anymore." Xu Muzhou put down Yan Cen's hand, took two steps in the direction of "Tuoya" with his hands behind his back, and said meaningfully: "Because compared to To kill me, you seem to be more interested in the process of 'happening'."