I'm on the scramble

The room of the deceased was covered with the messy footprints of the intruders. The police officers who came in response to the screams led a team to surround and search the door, and the scene was temporarily blocked.

When Ah Li arrived with Dun, what he saw was just such a chaotic scene.

Looking through the gaps in the crowd, one could see the three college students who were the first to discover the corpse standing uneasily aside, their faces as gray as if smeared with dead wood ash.The body of the deceased Shirose was carefully taken out of the closet by the police officer and laid flat on the ground.

Even so, her death was still too miserable to bear witness.

His eyes were wide open, his eyes were wide open, his neck was covered with purple and blue marks from the noose, and his body without internal organs became a shriveled empty shell.

"evil……"

Dun, with a keen sense of smell, saw the shocking mess of blood on the ground, and immediately couldn't help covering his mouth tightly.It took him a while to recover, and he said in a daze, "Why is this..."

(Should Shirase not be the murderer? Why was she killed?)

There are many obstacles in front of him like a mystery blocking his eyes, making it impossible for De Dun to find out the truth of the matter no matter how he thinks.

Taking advantage of the moment when he was distracted, Ah Li bypassed the crowd and walked straight into the room, not shying away from the brutal scene of the murder, and came to the side of the deceased silently.

"The victim died during the time when he returned to his room after the torture in the morning."

Aware of her arrival, the Shibasaki Police Department came to Ah Li's side, took off the police cap and put it on his chest, and recounted the tragedy in a gloomy tone.

That is to say, a life that should have been saved was lost before they had time to discover it.

"We can't continue to wait like this, otherwise there will only be more and more victims." The Shibazaki Police Department expressed his opinion after long-term thinking, his complexion was as dark as the shadows floating from the sky, and he wished to kill the source of the so-called nightmare with his own hands. .

He spat out a sentence coldly: "The [ghost thing] in this house has no humanity..."

However, Ah Li did not agree with this point of view for the time being. She turned her head, looked around the furnishings in the room, and suddenly her eyes fixed on a certain object placed on the workbench.

It was a plaster cast in the shape of a slender wrist.

"How dare you put it in such a conspicuous place openly...is it worthy of saying 'the most dangerous place is the safest place'."

As he spoke, Ah Li walked to the workbench and picked up the piece of plaster.Then, he rummaged in the toolbox for a while, picked out a bone china-colored utility knife that was almost the same material as plaster, and threw it to the middle-aged man behind him.

"The [murder weapon] that attacked Maruyama has been found, and if it is tested, it should be possible to analyze that there are still blood components belonging to the first victim remaining on the surface."

"What did you say...?" Hearing what the girl said, the Shibasaki police department still looked like they couldn't recover.

Ah Li had no choice but to sigh, and patiently explained: "That is to say, the murderer who killed Maruyama was none other than the dead person [Shirose] lying here. She didn't appear on the balcony in the early hours of yesterday, but was in Maruyama's room Li, I asked Ogura to give false testimony for this, right? You may not care about it in your heart, but in fact you are an accomplice in this murder case."

After she finished speaking, she threw the conversation straight at the boy behind the crowd, Xiao Cang suddenly turned pale when the truth was exposed: "No, that... I'm not..."

"This is impossible!"

Before he could explain all the facts clearly, Jigao, who was wearing a blanket over his shoulders, rushed out to grab the attention of others, and shouted in disbelief, "What are you talking about? Cai Caijiang is obviously dead too!"

Ah Li folded his arms around his chest, and stated sharply: "I didn't say there was only one murderer, because these are two different murders."

At this time, the accompanying forensic doctor who had finished the blood test ran over with the piece of plaster.

"Shibasaki Police Department! There is a blood reaction! It is confirmed that it is Michio Maruyama's blood!"

Everyone present including Ji Gao was stunned after hearing this, but before the people around could digest the shocking fact, there was a disturbing vibration from the ceiling, and the chandelier began to flicker and shake around.The gypsum sprayed with luminol reagent shone with bluish-white light spots in the dark room, which looked very strange.

"What's wrong with this—an earthquake?!"

In the dim and chaotic environment, the surrounding sounds began to boil.Ah Li immediately grabbed the silver-haired boy's tattered sleeve and led him out of the door.

"We're going to fight monsters, Dun Dun, come with me quickly."

"Li, Miss Li?!"

Dun was stunned, and was dragged forward by her like a kite.However, he didn't break free, but asked her in the interval of step by step: "Are we going to find the [murderer] who killed Miss Shirase?"

"That's right, it's not good to keep people waiting."

"You already know where 'she' is?!"

"of course."

Ash replied without thinking.

The answer, Yan Yong had already told her earlier.

While stepping into the darkness, she recalled what Iwanaga had said meaningfully to them when she left Kurokawa's room.

[When I was being hunted down, I found some interesting things. 】

The reason why Yan Yong was hunted down by Spider Man was precisely because she discovered a certain unknown secret when she was digging for the truth.

Ah Li took Atsushi and quickly kicked open the door of Maruyama's room on the same floor. The wooden door couldn't withstand her violence and collapsed to the ground with a bang.

The corpse lying on the ground covered with a white cloth could not hide the bloody smell, and the room was dark with no lights on, adding a bit of treachery and horror to the atmosphere.

Ah Li came not far from the corpse, but did not pay attention to the ground, but carefully observed the sculpture placed behind the corpse.

This is undoubtedly a sculpture of a young woman, with a soft figure and a compassionate expression. She has a slender neck and hangs slightly. She lowers her head and stares at the important thing she is destined to lose with her empty eye sockets, revealing a touch of sadness invisibly.

Combining with the picked up [murder weapon], the prototype of this sculpture is probably a poor man who "cut off his own wrist with a knife himself".

It is not so much an engraving, but a record of the moment that happened by the forger.

While she was concentrating on observing the sculpture, Dun seemed to see something that shouldn't exist, and the hair all over her body exploded.

"Miss, Ms. Ru-!!"

Ah Li, whose train of thought was interrupted, looked along the end of the boy's fingers, and just raised his head to meet the mirror hanging on the wall.

——To be precise, he met the long-haired woman in the mirror.

The mirror did not reflect their figures, but the appearance of a woman.

Pale and beautiful, with a gloomy and dead air lingering between his brows.

With a distance of several meters, it was still so clear that even every strand of blood in her eyeballs could be clearly seen. The hatred revealed there seemed to have poured mud into her mouth and nose, and she possessed a breathless depression. malicious.

The shattering sound only happened for a moment. Before Dun screamed, A Li mercilessly smashed the mirror with the bottom of the scabbard. The reflection of the woman disappeared instantly, and the lens fell to the ground, emitting sporadic The light is broken, and the bottom of the mirror is just a bare lead paint coating.

"Hey, this mirror is actually embedded in the wall?" Dun yelled out when he realized something was wrong.

Needless to say, Ah Li took a step forward and groped for a while under the bare mirror.As if it touched a certain mechanism, one wall of the room suddenly reversed with a bang - revealing the secret room inside the secret door.

"Dun Dun, follow me closely later and don't act rashly. People who are not inspired enough may be ineffective against this kind of [thing] attack."

After leaving this sentence, A Li took the lead and walked in.She turned on the front-facing flashlight of the phone, and slightly illuminated the surroundings through the projected warm light, and finally stopped in front of a wooden board in the secret room.

"The attack is invalid... what do you mean?"

The silver-haired boy behind him repeated her words belatedly, his face full of anxiety.

——Does it mean that ordinary physical attacks are ineffective against ghosts?

Thinking of this, Dun suddenly recalled the scene where she defeated Spider-Man before.

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said in surprise: "Could it be that, Miss Li, your ability is..."

But the other party didn't seem to hear Dun's words. Before he made a sound, the girl had already opened the wooden cover leading to the ground, stepped on the rusty ladder, and jumped into the dark and long space without hesitation.

The height below is deeper than imagined, and it probably leads to the first floor... no, it should be a deeper underground floor.

pat.

Ah Li landed on the inside of the dark, dusty narrow room, and there was a musty smell mixed with pungent potions.

Although lighting up the light source in the dark is tantamount to actively revealing one's position, Ah Li wanted to use this method to get the other party to come over to give away the head, so he shook the beam of the flashlight without thinking too much, and boldly wandered in the basement stand up.

At this time, Dun, who was following closely behind, finally climbed down the iron ladder, and quickly followed the petite figure who was shaking the light source, wishing to be next to her like a tiger: "Miss Li, don't go so fast!" , you wait for me..."

(Such a dark place is really scary——)

The little tiger cat kept mentally suggesting that he was being stared at by a pair of bloody eyes in the dark. He was so frightened that his whole body was chilling, and he couldn't help but grabbed the senior's sleeve like a little girl.

"We came out to work under the signboard of [Armed Detective Agency]. Don't be so timid, Dun Dun."

It's a pity that Ah Li, as the veteran of the detective agency, has no time to take care of the feelings of the newcomers, and puts all his heart on the adventure, walking around with his tiger-shaped pendant.Even though she is small in stature, this girl can give people a sense of reliability.

"It turns out that it's normal for a car to overturn when you're sleeping on someone's 'grave mound'—this is where countless murders directly occurred."

The basement is filled with intense darkness, and wherever you can see, there are dried and hardened blood clots on the walls and floors.Portrait sculptures with different postures are distributed around, lifelike, and the flashlight light source projected by the mobile phone casts their shadows crookedly, as if these "figures" will move in the next second, which makes people feel inexplicably horrified.

There are also many wooden frames covered with mottled blood on the wall. In addition, there is an iron bed pretending to be an operating table with stinky old blood spilled, and bottles and cans on the table. This must be the building. The place where the owner of the mansion dismembers the 'material'.

The timid Dun dared not pay too much attention to the surrounding situation. Under the condition of high mental tension, he only felt that his shoulders seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and he gradually had difficulty breathing. As a result, he accidentally bumped into the corner of a certain table when he was distracted , dropped to a glass container above.

Dun immediately caught it in a panic, and when he saw the real body of the object in his hand, he couldn't help gasping: "Hiss——"

The glass jar was filled with formalin, and a stiff and whitish human head was constantly floating in the transparent liquid.

'sorry Sorry sorry……'

Constantly making a million long apologies in his heart, Dun returned the glass jar containing the head to its original place with trembling hands.

"Miss Li, Miss Li, let's leave quickly, this place is really too dangerous..." He said without tears, feeling that strange things might jump out of the surroundings every minute.

"I came down because I knew it was dangerous." However, Ah Li, who was shaking the phone's light source in front of him, didn't even look at him, and still focused on looking at the current environment.

Others are cautious in investigating cases, but she is as easy as dancing on a graveyard.

After looking around half a circle, Ah Li wanted to say something to Dun and turned his head, but stopped when he saw him.

"Dun Dun, what is lying on your back?"