The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Most of the clues found so far are indirect clues, and there is no direct evidence related to the murderer.And Xiao Lou deduced that the relatives of the murderer starved to death in the famine 20 years ago, so they came back to take revenge. This is also based on the speculation of criminal psychology.As Lu Jiuchuan said, it is really difficult to find the relationship between the person who had the accident 20 years ago and the murderer.

In the time span of 20 years, most of the evidence has been lost, not to mention, most of the insiders are probably dead, and the relevant people are likely to be killed by the murderer, such as the Zhao family and the Chen family.

Lu Jiuchuan looked back at Yu Hanjiang and asked, "Do you have any good ideas? After all, you are the most professional in investigating cases."

Yu Hanjiang said: "Our current identity is just a passing visitor who happened to come to the town, and it is not convenient to conduct a large-scale visit and investigation, because that would scare the snake away."

Xiao Lou agreed: "It's really not like the 8-of-hearts secret room this time. At that time, Han Jiang was the new magistrate, and it was logical to investigate the murder case. But now, we live in an inn, and going in and out every day will attract suspicion. There are still hidden hunters in the town, and we have to avoid their pursuit..."

He paused, looked at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Let Mr. Shao and Xiaoye investigate, what do you think?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Yes. Shao Qingge has a lot of money, and sometimes asking for news, giving money is a good choice. Today he and Ye Qi dropped by to buy clothes, and they found a lot of useful clues."

Lu Jiuchuan suggested: "There is also Huaying, she is still acting alone at present. Shao Qingge's way of inquiring about news is to use money to buy people's hearts. Huaying's inquiring about information is more straightforward-directly use a dagger to force people to tell the truth."

The person to inquire about the news has been determined, the key is, how should I ask?

Xiao Lou thought for a while, then pressed the earphones and said, "Boss Shao, Xiaoye, Huaying, please go to the town, you can pretend that you have relatives and friends in Qingfeng Town, whose whereabouts were unknown 20 years ago, you are here If you are looking for relatives and friends, try to find the old people in the small town to find out the details of the famine 20 years ago, maybe you will get something.”

Chu Huaying responded and quickly sneaked into the town.

Shao Qingge asked: "When are you coming back? Don't I need to stay at the inn to teleport?"

Xiao Loudao: "We still have to investigate at the mass grave, you give the transmission card to Teacher Qu, and I will contact her before I come back."

Shao Qingge said: "Okay, I'll take Ye Qi out for a stroll."

After finishing the call, Xiao Lou led the three of them to continue searching the mass grave. Most of the corpses here were randomly piled up, but some of them had tombstones with the names of the tomb owners written on them.In the mass grave during the day, the tombstones were not as densely packed as they were seen last night, but there were hundreds of them, so the four of them had to check one by one.

On the way to find the tombstone, they found that Chen Yu's family, including the midwife they saw last night, were all dead, but they didn't see the body of the newborn baby.

Yu Hanjiang said: "We went to Chen's house last night and heard the cry of the child. For no reason, the adults all came to the mass grave, and the child was left behind? Where did the child's body go?"

Xiao Loudao: "I don't know, it seems that no baby's body was found in the entire mass grave."

Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help scolding the pervert: "Could it be that the murderer has special hobbies? For example, eating a baby's heart to practice martial arts or something? Fuck, it's disgusting!"

Tang Ci: "..."

This possibility cannot be ruled out. This murderer is different from any murderer you have encountered in the past.

Xiao Loudao: "If the murderer really killed for revenge, would he come to worship at his relative's grave?"

Hearing this, Yu Hanjiang quickly scanned the mass grave with his sharp eyes, and did not find any food for worship in front of the tombstone, but found scraps of paper left by burning paper money near a tombstone, and black ash.

Yu Hanjiang walked over quickly, knelt down, picked up some black powder with his fingers, held it up to his nose and smelled it. After a while, he pointed to the tombstone and said firmly, "Someone came here this morning and burned some paper money."

Tang Ci was puzzled: "Are you sure it's this morning?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Well, the paper money has not been completely burned. The lower layer of black ash is covered with muddy water, but the upper layer is dry. If the person who burned the paper came before yesterday, the torrential rain last night should have completely wet the ashes. It is dry, which proves that he must have just come here early this morning to burn paper for the tomb owner."

No wonder Yu Hanjiang touched the ashes with his own hands.

Last night's torrential rain would have soaked everything, and the surface of the ash was dry, evidently left this morning.

Xiao Lou speculated: "Could it be the murderer who came to burn the paper money for the deceased? Look carefully at this tombstone. The name of the deceased is not engraved on it."

The names of the deceased are mostly written on the surrounding tombstones, such as "the tomb of my father Li Qingyun".

But the tombstone in front of him was only a stone, and nothing was written on it.The Feng Shui location of the tombstone is quite good. It is backed by a big tree. In summer, the dense branches and leaves will cast a large area of ​​shade, just covering the tombstone in the shade of the tree. It can be seen that the person who erected the tombstone was very caring and chose a tree for the deceased. A good place.

Tang Ci looked up at the tree, and said, "So, the murderer came to the mass grave this morning, and we just missed him?"

Lu Jiuchuan suddenly remembered something, and patted his forehead vigorously: "By the way, when I went up the mountain just now, I climbed up from the bottom of the cliff along the vines. Come and see, this vine is a bit strange. I guess, the murderer probably did it along the way." climbed up on vines."

Yu Hanjiang got up immediately: "Quick, the vines are probably destroyed!"

The four of them walked like flying, and Yu Hanjiang simply used the Qinggong card to bring Xiao Lou back to the edge of the cliff on the top of the mountain.

Xiao Lou poked his head out and looked down—there was a thick white mist under the cliff, and there was indeed a vine woven of grass and trees hanging on the edge of the steep cliff. This vine was as thick as an adult man's arm, running along the wall drop down.However, due to the occlusion of the dense fog in the mountains, it is not clear whether the end of the vines has reached the bottom of the mountain.

Yu Hanjiang said: "I'll go down and have a look."

He grabbed the vine with one hand, flew down with the qinggong card, and landed on the cliff with both feet. After a few seconds, Yu Hanjiang flew back to the top of the mountain, and said in a low voice: "The vine was cut off from the middle. If we rush down without a card in hand, we will fall to pieces."

Xiao Lou was startled: "It seems that the murderer has already found us?"

Lu Jiuchuan's face suddenly changed: "Could it be that Orion?"

Tang Ci shook his head and said: "Probably not. Orion looks very young, estimated to be around 25 years old. He said that he has lived here for 10 years. When we asked him just now, he also honestly told us about the rainy night 3 years ago. From what I saw and heard, I thought I saw the ghost bride, and trembled with fright... she doesn't look like that kind of cruel murderer."

If he really is the murderer, then his acting skills are too superb.

Lu Jiuchuan thought for a while, and said: "You are right. There shouldn't be a secret room that allows us to find the murderer directly. Therefore, the murderer has been lurking at the bottom of the mountain. When I climbed up the vine just now, he took the opportunity to give the vine to him. Cut off, cut off this road, do you want to trap us on the mountain?"

Xiao Lou wondered: "However, these zombies don't turn into corpses during the day, so we can go down the mountain by another road? It won't help if he cuts off the vines, right?"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Lou heard a strange rustling sound coming from his ears.

He looked back and saw a large number of zombies, as if they had been awakened by something, and they were densely surrounded by them. The tide-like crowd of zombies made Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help cursing: "Fuck, corpses change during the day? Tell me Unreasonable?"

Yu Hanjiang said with a sullen face: "Our thinking is too simple. Crisis does not only appear at night."

Xiao Lou hastily pressed the voice headset, and said to Qu Wanyue, "Teacher Qu, send it quickly!"

He quickly took out the compasses, trying to draw an invincible circle to protect everyone, but at the moment he took out the compasses, a female zombie in red suddenly threw out the red satin in her hand!

The group of female zombies in the wedding party was more powerful than the other, and it was the bride Zhao Ze'an who shot. Her eyes were red and her expression was dull, but her movements were much more flexible than the other zombies.Xiao Lou felt his wrist go numb, and the compass in his hand was shot down to the bottom of the cliff unexpectedly.

Seeing that the red silk was about to wrap around Xiao Lou's waist, Yu Hanjiang had sharp eyes and quick hands, and flew up into the air with Xiao Lou in his arms, and decisively slashed down with the saber in his hand, splitting the silk in two!

Zhao Ze'an's weapon was cut off, and she immediately went berserk. She let out a piercing roar, and rushed towards Yu Hanjiang.

Next to them, Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci were also surrounded by zombies. Tang Ci was forced to retreat step by step, so he could only release his mechanical drone to bomb the zombies. Lu Jiuchuan took out a sharp sword and waved it in front of him to stop the zombies. As he approached, he yelled sharply: "Xiao Tang, hurry up and call the wolf king to delay!"

The White Wolf King was a card given to Tang Ci by Lu Jiuchuan not long ago. Tang Ci remembered this card and immediately summoned the White Wolf King.

Wolf King's 2 skills can summon dozens of little wolves to assist in combat.As Tang Ci used his skills, dozens of vicious little wolves suddenly appeared around him.According to the master's will, they quickly wrestled with the zombies!

Wolves are also extremely vicious animals. Although the number is much lower than that of zombies, they can bite off the legs of zombies and hold them back.

The scene was extremely chaotic for a while.

Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan quickly shuttled through the crowd of zombies, cutting off all the approaching zombies in half. Xiao Lou felt that the whole mass grave was like a purgatory on earth!

He said frightenedly: "Does the murderer know some kind of sorcery?"

Tang Ci stared palely at Brother Nine among the zombies. Hearing this, his hands trembled slightly, and said: "Since what I encountered this time is a copy of the supernatural theme, the murderer can control the actions of the living and the dead. Not surprising."

Recalling what Orion said three years ago, Tang Ci was even more certain of this.

On that rainy night 3 years ago, Orion, who lived in the mountains, saw a procession to welcome the bride. All the people walked towards the mass grave neatly and stiffly without making any sound.

If the murderer hadn't controlled the actions of these people, how could so many people run to the mass grave in the middle of the night like "marionettes"?

Xiao Lou frowned and said, "The murderer has a kind of sorcery that can manipulate humans to act according to his instructions, and can also manipulate the corpses of the dead? It seems that the zombies in the mass graves were deliberately manipulated by the murderer to besiege us?"

Not far away, Yu Hanjiang heard this, and hurriedly said: "I can't delay with Brother Jiu for too long, let Qu Wanyue start the teleportation quickly!"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "It will take 5 minutes for Li Qingzhao's mark to take effect. If it doesn't work, let's go to Taohuayuan first?"

Xiao Lou said: "Okay, retreat quickly!"

Lu Jiuchuan immediately opened the Peach Blossom Spring, and the scenery in front of the four of them changed, and they all appeared under the peach blossom tree.

Xiao Lou remembered that the last scene when he left the mass grave was the dull expression of the zombie bride.

The faces of the four were all ugly, Tang Ci said softly: "The murderer has mastered our movements, this is troublesome."

Lu Jiuchuan said: "No wonder this secret room is called a battle royale. This **** murderer also regards us as the target to kill? Moreover, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. We must be more careful in every step in the future."

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and asked, "Teacher Qu, have you marked it? Take us back to the inn."

Qu Wanyue said: "There is still half a minute, are you all okay?"

Xiao Lou looked at his teammates around him, and said, "Fortunately, he ran fast and was not injured."

Half a minute passed quickly, and Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang were dragged back to the Tianzihao room of the inn by Li Qingzhao's sign. From the perspective of the waiter and the owner of the inn, it seemed that they had never gone out.

Recalling the experience just now, Xiao Lou was really scared.

The murderer encountered in the secret room this time was so evil that he could control the actions of living people and make people follow his will, running to the mass grave like a marionette in the middle of the night.

Now, the murderer has discovered that they are investigating this matter, what if the teammates are also manipulated?

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou immediately pressed the earphones and said: "Mr. Shao, Xiaoye, Huaying, you all come back as soon as possible! The murderer this time is very dangerous, we have to discuss the countermeasures."