Neverland

Xu Muzhou immediately thought of the unlucky gardener mentioned in Earl Robert's diary.

"Providing flowers with flesh and blood" is completely different from the psychological impact of the literal description and the actual scene. Xu Muzhou frowned and rewrapped this bone.

"Is it the gardener in the diary?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"More than that." Song Yan stood at the intersection of the path, and she didn't seem to want Xu Muzhou to go in for a field visit.

"There are a lot of them. I picked a few places at random to dig, and I found this kind of broken bones underneath." Song Yan paused, and then said: "There are still broken pieces of meat that haven't completely rotted."

A breeze blew over the rose bushes behind Song Yan, and the gentle and white rose buds swayed gently. The fragrance of the roses enveloped Xu Muzhou, gently stuck to the corner of his clothes, and then drifted away with the breeze.

In the rich and strong fragrance of flowers, the stench of countless flesh and blood is buried.

"I roughly took a look, and these minced meats are in batches." Song Yan said: "Some have been completely rotted and turned into mud, and some are still very new, and some muscle texture can still be seen... But I roughly flipped through the meat. I looked for it, and the latest batch is already rotting.”

"Can you tell how long ago it was?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Half a month." Song Yan said: "It may be a little shorter than this time, after all, it will rot faster if it is cut too finely."

Xu Muzhou took a step back, motioning for Song Yan to follow him outside.Xu Muzhou is no longer overreacting to life and death, but he still feels awkward about the fact that he may be stepping on a dismembered corpse.

"It's not just the servants in the castle." Xu Muzhou said: "The number of servants in Earl Robert's manor is very limited, and it's one thing that he can't afford to kill him like this. If he kills servants so frequently, I'm afraid the castle will In the early days, people were panicked."

"It can be seen from the bone age of some large bones that those broken corpses are not very old." Song Yan walked side by side with Xu Muzhou, and said, "About seventeen or eighteen years old."

"Is this something that can be seen with the naked eye?" Xu Muzhou asked in surprise, "Don't fool me just because I'm an engineering student."

"People who work in Neverland." Song Yan said with a smile: "There must be some ability to eat."

For some reason, Xu Muzhou subconsciously remembered the newspapers he saw in Robert's bedroom in the morning - those young girls who disappeared for no reason in nearby villages and towns.

But he couldn't figure it out for a while, if there was an inevitable connection between the two, why did Robert abduct the girls and then dismember their corpses to make flower fertilizer.

Xu Muzhou always felt that there was a certain link missing between the two.

"I saw a report in Yan Ge Na before." Xu Muzhou said: "The towns and villages under Robert's jurisdiction have lost many school-age girls at different time points, and their ages are exactly [-] or [-] years old. .”

"You mean to say that the broken bones appearing in the rose bushes are those girls?" Song Yan asked.

"I can't rule out the possibility." Xu Muzhou said, "I even think this possibility is very high."

"Picture what." Song Yan said very directly: "Rape first and then kill?"

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Xu Muzhou thought about Earl Robert's legs that were equivalent to nothing, and then thought about Yan Cen who was now wearing that identity, and his mood was very complicated.

Being too rich in associative ability also has disadvantages, Xu Muzhou shook his head, and wiped out the unsightly coding screen in his mind.

Xu Muzhou said this to Song Yan, and he had already walked to the gate of the castle.The dance in the banquet hall was still going on, Xu Muzhou thought about it, took Song Yan up the stairs, and walked to the door of the room originally assigned to him.

"Don't you live in Yan Cen's?" Song Yan asked.

"I'm just here to find something." Xu Muzhou said as he found the room key from his pocket, unlocked the door and walked in.

When Xu Muzhou arrived at the manor yesterday, he was called away by Yan Cen before he had time to formally settle in this room. No one has touched this room.Xu Muzhou looked around and found his suitcase lying beside the bedside table.

"Sit whatever you want." Xu Muzhou half-kneeled on the ground and unlocked the suitcase, and greeted casually.

Song Yan closed the door, sat on the bed, and watched Xu Muzhou rummaging through the box with interest.

"What are you looking for?" Song Yan asked.

"Look for clues." Xu Muzhou said.

Song Yan was almost amused by him, and said: "Your identity was created by Neverland, and you are not a character in the world line. How can you have any clues here?"

Xu Muzhou turned a deaf ear, and continued to search in the luggage.He remembered that when he entered the room before, he stuffed the invitation card into the box, but he didn't know where it was stuffed for a while.He didn't concentrate on finding things, throwing whatever he saw, Song Yan silently moved away from him, so as to avoid being thrown all over her clothes.

It wasn't until Xu Muzhou turned the suitcase upside down that he found the invitation hidden at the bottom.

"It's true that I have retained my identity." Xu Muzhou simply sat on the ground and said while opening the envelope, "But in order to make my identity not appear obtrusive in this world, Neverland will also pay attention to my identity. Make some adjustments, right?"

"Of course." Song Yan said, "Otherwise 'Xu Muzhou' wouldn't be able to attend the banquet."

Xu Muzhou discovered this problem in the last world, and Neverland will perfect Xu Muzhou's identity according to the actual situation of the world line, just like the "intermittent amnesia" in the last world, in this world There must also be perfect content for Neverland.

It wasn't just "Russell"'s last name, there must be something else.

"Russell has a noble surname, but I am very young and have no title." Xu Muzhou said, "So I cannot be invited by Robert. This means—"

"You are also one of the people Catherine invited." Song Yan said.

"Yes." Xu Muzhou said as he turned the invitation over, and unsurprisingly saw another message on the back.He had just come to this timeline when he saw the invitation before, and the light inside the carriage was dim, so that he didn't realize that there were other contents on the back.

Just like the nursery rhyme written on the back of Gail's invitation, the back of the invitation in Xu Muzhou's hand has drawn an extremely realistic painting with a fine brush.

"What is this painting—" Song Yan leaned over to identify it: "What bug?"

"It's a fly." Xu Muzhou said, "—we are bystanders."

"What bystander?" Song Yan was stunned.

"Catherine left a puzzle for everyone." Xu Muzhou threw the invitation on the bed, found a pen and notepad from the suitcase, sat next to Song Yan, opened a new page and began to write and draw .

"Catherine invited some non-aristocratic people from society - many of them are literary and artistic workers." Xu Muzhou said: "She asked musicians to compose a song with the theme of moonlight for her. A nursery rhyme was left on the back of the invitation."

"Who killed the mockingbird?" Soo-yeon asks.

"Yes." Xu Muzhou asked, "Have you heard this nursery rhyme?"

"I've heard it, but I don't remember clearly." Song Yan said: "I just remember it was a very famous nursery rhyme, and there are a bunch of villains in it."

Xu Muzhou was immediately shocked by Song Yan's simple and crude interpretation.

"Isn't it right?" Song Yan said suspiciously: "I remember that there is no good person."

"...That's right." Xu Muzhou nodded and said sincerely, "Very right."

"In this nursery rhyme, the robin is the victim of death, and the sparrow is the murderer of the robin." Xu Muzhou said, wrote down the nursery rhyme silently, tore off the page and handed it to Song Yan.

"Flies are bystanders." Xu Muzhou pointed at the invitation card while speaking: "That is, us."

When he spoke, Song Yan had already finished reading the nursery rhyme.

"I can understand what you mean." Song Yan said: "Your thinking may be right—everyone in this manor probably occupies their own position, and Catherine will not invite these inexplicable people for no reason Participate in the wedding banquet, but the question is, is Robert the sparrow who will be 'judged'?"

"I'm not sure." Xu Muzhou shook his head: "If I saw this thing yesterday, I might make such a judgment. But now, I always feel that Catherine's feelings for Robert will not be right. He used such a serious matter as 'judgment'... After all, Catherine didn't think Robert was guilty."

"Not necessarily." Song Yan said: "After all, whoever says 'judgment' must judge the guilty."

"What do you mean?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"The painting on the back of the invitation is a fly, isn't it?" Song Yan said: "At least until now, there has been no 'judge', and you and others can be counted as bystanders for the time being—then if the judge is Catherine herself."

"Don't forget." Song Yan said: "On Robert, there is still unfinished obsession with Catherine."

Xu Muzhou thought for a while, unscrewed the pen in his hand, and drew a horizontal axis with one end point on the blank page of the notebook.

Xu Muzhou drew a few more random points on this axis, divided it into seven equal parts, then made a cross on the first frame, and divided two arrows on the second frame, and wrote "Mockingbird" and "Missing Maiden" two things.

"In this kind of ambiguous nursery rhyme, anyone can play any role." Xu Muzhou's pen tip landed on the words "missing girl". He pondered for a moment, circled it, and said: "I think this Things need to be checked."

"Do you think Catherine will know about this?" Song Yan calmly reminded him: "Catherine is kind and gentle, and the probability of her knowing such an extremely private matter is very small... What you are looking for is Catherine's obsession, and It's not here to do justice."

Xu Muzhou didn't answer, but asked, "Have you ever played reasoning games?"

"I've played a little bit." Song Yan said, "Very little."

"Case reasoning games are not like real life. There are many clues for you to explore." Xu Muzhou said: "In order to simplify unnecessary expenses, the game setting team will only set the main line of the game, and then set up the game on the basis of the main line. There are many confusing clues for players to choose from. So in theory, as long as you find all the clues, you will be able to pass the level."

"The same goes for clearing missions...Since we have come to the mission center, we should check all the doubts we can find out, and there will always be a correct answer." Xu Muzhou said with a smile: "Although it is a stupid way, but Fortunately, it’s a hundred trials.”