The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Qu Wanyue looked at the scene inside the house and was taken aback. She immediately told Xiao Lou what she saw: "Professor Xiao, the bride is hung on the hanging beam. If she is motionless, she should be dead."

Xiao Lou was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Yu Hanjiang: "How could it be so fast? Didn't she just return to her new house after worship?"

Yu Hanjiang frowned and remained silent for a moment before saying, "Our guess is probably wrong."

According to the description of the incident by the residents of the small town, the bride returned to the new house after paying homage, the groom drank with the guests in the backyard, and did not return to the room drunk until early in the morning, and then found the bride hanging herself from the beam—according to this sequence of events , both Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang believed that the bride was killed by the murderer mixed with the guests during the time when the groom was toasting.

From the end of the chapel to the discovery of the bride's body, there was an hour, that is, two hours.The murderer had plenty of time to plan to kill the bride, which is why Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang lay on the roof as soon as they entered the yard, staring at the guest seats intently—they wanted to lock in the latest bride by carefully observing the expressions and movements of the guests. A possible murderer.

However, during the few minutes they observed on the roof, there was no abnormality in the guest seats, and all the seats were occupied, which proved that no one had left during this period.

You can't kill people in the air without leaving the guest seats, so the murderer should not be among these guests.

Then who would kill the bride?

Both Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang were thinking about this question, and Qu Wanyue's voice sounded through the earphones: "Professor Xiao, there is no one in the new house now, do you want to come over for an autopsy?"

Xiao Lou came back to his senses and said softly, "Okay, let's go there now."

He asked Liu Qiao and Lao Mo to stay on the roof and stare at the guest seats, while he and Yu Hanjiang turned over and went down from the roof, and walked quickly to the new house from the path behind the yard.

The distance between the backyard and the new house is about 50 meters. If the bride screams after discovering the murderer, the guests will definitely hear it.According to the description of the residents in the small town, the bride "suicide", indicating that she did not make a cry for help when she was killed.

Yu Hanjiang was walking while observing the surrounding environment. There was an artificial pond in the backyard, which was full of lotus flowers. In the early spring, the lotus flowers had not bloomed yet, and a large lot of lotus leaves covered the top of the pond. Through the hazy moonlight, the water in the pond could be vaguely seen. Very clear.

Sensing Yu Hanjiang's thoughts, Xiao Lou responded in his mind: "The pond of the Long family is very large, and there are so many lotus leaves that can be used as a natural barrier. Do you suspect that the murderer is lurking in the pond?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "No one left the guest seats, the murderer must not be among the guests. Since the murderer is very good at swimming, it is indeed a good choice to hide in a hidden pond in advance."

Xiao Lou glanced at the pond covered with lotus leaves, and said softly into the earphone: "Let's go to the autopsy first. Lao Mo continues to stare at the guests. Xiao Liu, you transform into a mermaid princess, and then put on the invisibility cloak and go into the water to have a look. Look. Stay safe."

Liu Qiao responded quickly: "Got it."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang turned around and walked to the door of the new house. Long Qu and the two had turned into the color of the wall and stuck their bodies against the wall. Seeing them coming, Long Sen said: "There is no one in the room, and those matchmakers and maids don't know where they went. , and only the bride is left hanging on the hanging beam."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang had long been accustomed to hearing the "wall" speak suddenly. Xiao Lou turned to the wall on the right and said, "Please take a look at the door. Someone is coming and let us know with earphones. Hanjiang and I will go in and have a look."

Qu Wanyue's voice came from the left wall: "Alright, be careful."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang gently pushed open the door, and as soon as they entered, they saw the bride in a red wedding dress hanging on the beam, her tongue sticking out of her mouth, her body was stiff, and she had lost her breath a long time ago.

The house was lit with bright red wedding candles, and the flickering candlelight reflected the pale face of the bride. The way the woman stuck out her tongue looked a little scary.The widened eyes seemed to be staring at Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang intently.

Fortunately, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang were mentally strong. When they met the bride's eyes, Yu Hanjiang simply flew up and put the bride off the hanging beam.Xiao Lou took a step forward, carefully observed the marks on the neck of the corpse, and quickly came to a conclusion: "Judging from the surface features of the corpse, Lin Wanqing was indeed hanged to death."

This conclusion surprised the teammates, but everyone quickly calmed down—on the surface, it did not represent the truth.

Yu Hanjiang said: "You mean, she was strangled to death and then hung on the hanging beam?"

Xiao Lou pointed to the marks on her neck, and said: "If you strangle the hanging corpse, since it was already dead when it was hung on the hanging beam, the blood flow stopped, and the hanging position will show horizontal, uniform, closed strangulation marks; and The person who hanged himself was still alive when he was hanging on the hanging beam, and the blood flow was blocked. The constriction formed on the neck should be the darkest at the bottom, spreading to both sides, and the color becomes lighter as it goes up, which is consistent with the mark on Lin Wanqing's neck Moreover, obvious blue-purple corpse spots appeared on her body due to lack of oxygen, and the toes of her feet were completely drooping, which are all in line with the characteristics of a hanged person."

Yu Hanjiang had heard Xiao Lou talk about the difference between "suicide by hanging" and "hanging someone after strangling" in previous cases.Upon closer inspection, the marks on Lin Wanqing's neck really do not look like a hanging corpse after being strangled to death.

Yu Hanjiang said: "However, there are two cases of hanging yourself. One is hanging yourself up, and the other is hanging yourself up forcibly by the murderer. I prefer the latter."

Xiao Lou also thought of this, nodded and said: "The murderer should have subdued her quickly in the dark, and then hung her on the hanging beam, so that she could not call for help and struggle, and was hanged alive. You see, she hanged herself It's kind of weird."

Yu Hanjiang said: "Ordinary people use white silk to hang themselves, but she uses hair... Such long hair is not her own."

Xiao Lou frowned and looked at the braid hanging on the hanging beam, remembering that the hair of all the women at the bottom of Zuiyue Lake was tied together by water plants, he said thoughtfully: "The murderer seems to have a strange obsession with 'hair'. Read. The braid that hanged Lin Wanqing was more than two meters long, right? Most women don’t keep their hair so long. This braid is probably made of several people’s hair mixed with special materials. .”

Xiao Lou leaned over to check the strangle marks on the neck of the deceased. At this moment, the female corpse lying on the ground disappeared like a ghost. Immediately afterwards, the red curtains of the entire new house suddenly flew into the air.

The red cloths quickly surrounded the two of them as if they were spiritual.

Xiao Lou was taken aback: "A hunter?!"

A cold light flashed in Yu Hanjiang's eyes, he quickly backed away with one arm around Xiao Lou's waist, and the saber in the other hand slashed down neatly—however, these red cloths were made of unknown material, so they couldn't be used with a knife Split.

Seeing that the two of them were about to be wrapped in red cloth like zongzi, Lao Mo's voice suddenly sounded in the earphones: "All the guests in the backyard have disappeared. They disappeared in place, just like a movie."

Qu Wanyue said nervously: "Professor Xiao, the candles in the room went out, did something happen?"

Xiao Lou quickly calmed down: "Everyone, be careful, this place is full of hunters!"

Qu Wanyue and Long Sen wanted to come in to help, but they found that the door of the room was like an iron wall and could not be pushed open at all.

At this moment, the whole yard suddenly ignited a fire, and the roof of the building where Lao Mo was located was instantly submerged in flames, and Lao Mo screamed loudly from the heat wave rising from the sky.

At the same time, dense arrows shot towards Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou's new house——

Qu Wanyue and Long Sen turned pale with shock. Although they could use chameleon cards to disguise themselves as the color of the surrounding environment. At this moment, they were sticking to the wall, so they couldn't be seen on the surface, but their bodies still existed.

With so many arrows, wouldn't they be shot as hedgehogs if they kept sticking to the wall?

Qu Wanyue made a decisive decision and directly activated the King of Dance card. With the blessing of the King of Dance buff, her body was as flexible as a fish, and she quickly sprinted to the distance close to the ground.Long Sen was not as flexible as her, but at critical moments, Long Sen was not slow to react. He immediately activated the zombie jumping card, making his legs instantly eight meters long, jumped into the air, and dodged all the sharp arrows.

The dense rain of arrows shot from under him, Long Sen made a false alarm, and looked back, the iron wall that he and Qu Wanyue could not break through, could be pierced by sharp arrows?

Long Sen was stunned for a moment, and when he saw a sharp arrow shooting into the room, he hurriedly shouted: "Captain Yu, Professor Xiao, are you all right?!"

The situation of Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang was not good at this time either, their vision was completely blocked by the red curtain.

The two-meter-high red cloth surrounded them in the center, and the red cloth kept spinning, like a red tornado. Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang couldn't see anything, let alone Long Sen and Qu Wanyue who were outside were almost shot. hedgehog.

However, Yu Hanjiang's ears are extremely sensitive - his eyes can't see, but his ears can hear the sound of sharp arrows piercing the air!

Before he had time to speak, Xiao Lou decisively took out the compasses and quickly drew a circle on the ground—with a tacit understanding, Yu Hanjiang didn't need to speak, and Xiao Lou also sensed the sound of sharp arrows in his mind.

Due to time constraints, the two had no time to communicate, but their tacit understanding did not require verbal communication at the critical moment.

The diameter of the circle Xiao Lou drew was only about one meter. Yu Hanjiang took a step back and stuck to Xiao Lou tightly back to back, hiding in the invincible circle that lasted for 10 minutes.

Almost as soon as Xiao Lou finished drawing the invincible circle, those sharp arrows pierced the red cloth and shot at the transparent barrier in unison.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Lou's heart was pounding.

If it wasn't for the decisive reaction, even if it was only a second away, he and Yu Hanjiang would have been shot into hedgehogs by now!

Block their field of vision with a red cloth, and then shoot the two of them with a rain of arrows. The red cloth that cannot be split and the dense rain of arrows must be card effects, and apart from them, only the hunter has Such a powerful card.

The marriage plot just now should be a replay of the scene two years ago, which was the clues related to the case provided to them by the ghost city at night.But after the replay of the plot ended, the hunter who appeared caught everyone off guard.

Seeing that the compass barrier he had set up was submerged by dense sharp arrows in a blink of an eye, Xiao Lou felt lingering fear, and he was slightly relieved—at least, the sharp arrows could not penetrate the compass barrier.

Xiao Lou pressed the voice headset: "Are you all okay?"

Qu Wanyue and Long Sen replied one after another: "It's okay, I run fast." "I'm okay, I jumped on a tree."

Liu Qiaodao: "In the pond..."

Before she finished speaking, there was a piercing "squeak" sound in the earphones, as if something was crazily surging in the water, Liu Qiao said in surprise: "There are a lot of water ghosts here, I don't know if it's a card effect or hunting. in disguise!"

Xiao Lou choked for breath, and hurriedly said, "Xiao Liu, come out!"

Liu Qiao gritted her teeth. Fortunately, she opened the Mermaid Princess card and swam so fast that she was not entangled by those things.Seeing those strange water ghosts, Liu Qiao decisively took out Aisha, and directly activated the ice and snow skills, freezing the entire pond.

At the moment when the water in the pool froze into ice, Liu Qiao flew up lightly and jumped out of the pond in a thrilling manner.

The water ghosts in the pool all turned into ice sculptures.

Liu Qiao exhaled lightly: "I almost fell into their trap. These people are so insidious that they hide under the lotus leaves!"

Yu Hanjiang asked: "Are you all right?"

Liu Qiao said, "I'm fine. By the way, where's Uncle Mo?"

There was no response from the earphones, Xiao Lou worried: "Old Mo?"

Qu Wanyue also became nervous: "Just now, I saw that the room where Lao Mo was staying seemed to be on fire?"

After a while, Old Mo's hoarse voice sounded through the earphones: "Ahem, cough, the house suddenly caught fire, and I was almost burnt...Fortunately, I made a closed box out of marble to hide."

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou are the safest at this time. After all, the invincible circle can last for 10 minutes. During this time, no one can break through the protection of the invincible circle.

The surrounding red curtains were still spinning around, making people dizzy. Yu Hanjiang closed his eyes slightly, and said in a low voice: "You four, be careful and hide from the hunter. Xiao Liu Qinggong is the fastest. Go out and find a place to put Li Qingzhao's mark to teleport us."

Liu Qiao said, "Understood."

Yu Hanjiang followed up and said in his mind: "The murderer of the Shenhu case, I probably guessed who it is."

Xiao Lou was startled: "From which detail did you find out?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "Hang Lin Wanqing's hair, don't you think that the braiding method is somewhat similar to vines?"

Xiao Lou suddenly realized.

Although the vines on the cliffs of the back mountain had been destroyed, Xiao Lou still remembered that the vines were extremely strong and were woven together with weeds and branches.The hair of hanged Lin Wanqing was braided in exactly the same way.