deadly round table

The earthquake that destroyed the windmill came and disappeared for no reason.When Sophia brought the digging tools, she took a few hunting hats by the way. In case of another earthquake, at least it could protect her head.

Originally, the four of Jiang Wenyuan were already mentally prepared for a hard fight, but I didn't expect that Sophia alone could rival the entire demolition team. She made full use of every muscle in her body, and the four of Jiang Wenyuan assisted, only using less than one In hours, they cleaned up the wreckage of the windmill.

Jiang Wenyuan squatted down in the cleared space and carefully observed the foundation of the windmill that had not been exposed to light all year round.It was just after noon at this time, Jiang Wenyuan's back was hot from the sun, but his face facing the foundation felt as cold as a pinprick.The soil in the central part of the windmill foundation is very different from the surrounding soil, and it is likely that it has been renovated recently.

Jiang Wenyuan propped his hand on the foundation, as if he was touching a piece of ice, "Let's dig this piece up!"

This time Sophia didn't ask the four of Jiang Wenyuan to help, and picked up a hoe alone to dig up the renovated foundation.The hoe brought out wet mud, as if it had just been fished out of a pool of blood. It was so red that it exuded an ominous smell.Sophia is like a tireless machine, but in a blink of an eye, most of the people have already submerged in the pit she dug.

Jiang Wenyuan and the others stood a little far away so as not to be hit by the bloody mud thrown by Sophia from the pit.Jiang Wenyuan didn't intend to waste the waiting time, "Sophia, with your physical strength and skills, why didn't you take on the job of collecting the corpses. We just met Lyle this morning. He has more than 100 strange teeth growing on his arms. It's been very sick."

Even if it is not in the scene of a horror game, the average person will not be able to ask such pointed questions.Jiang Wenyuan dared to ask this question when Sophia's mental state was about to reach its limit. I have to say that his courage is commendable.

The other three were ready to run away at any time. Unexpectedly, Sophia was not angry and answered Jiang Wenyuan's question well, "Lyle took the initiative to collect the corpse. I told him that I would go with him work, Lyle refused my help."

Jiang Wenyuan wanted to ask more questions, but a crisp sound interrupted him.

Ka--!Sophia's hoe hit something hollow.

When the four heard the movement, they immediately moved to the edge of the pit.Sophia let go of the hoe, squatted down and used her hands to push aside the broken mud, revealing a slate cover.

In order to become stronger, Sophia worked out desperately and armed herself with muscles. In Monaga, no one was her opponent, and she was the strongest fighter.But facing this stone slab that she could lift with one finger, Sophia hesitated. The carvings on this stone slab are the traditional patterns carved on the sarcophagus by Monica to wish the dead to rest in peace.Monaga's cemetery is behind the church, and the plague burial is to the west. No villager will be buried in this place.

It wasn't until then that panic came late, and Sophia trembled uncontrollably.

Sophia was still hesitating, Jiang Wenyuan leaned on the edge of the pit with one hand, and jumped into the pit lightly.He didn't allow Sofia any time to prepare mentally, and he used his hands and feet together to use all the strength in his body to lift off the heavy sarcophagus slab.

Six skulls with worn-out warrior helmets were neatly lined up in a row, like exhibits displayed in front of everyone.

Jiang Wenyuan was panting heavily, but he didn't smell a strong smell of corpses, and there were no insects crawling out of the sarcophagus. It was obvious that someone had tidied the sarcophagus before them, and they had tidied it very carefully.

"I know their helmets. They are the guards of Catherine's sister." Sophia looked at the skull, and she didn't know when tears were streaming down her face. Leave. Chen Mian, stay away."

Jiang Wenyuan walked to the left side of the sarcophagus, "You dig from the right side, I have something very important to investigate."

Looking at Jiang Wenyuan's serious expression with chills, Sophia always felt that she couldn't say anything against it. She silently moved to the right side of the sarcophagus and started digging.Jiang Wenyuan picked up every skull and helmet and checked every corner of the sarcophagus. No, the platinum ring Chen Mian gave him was not here.

The foundation was full of ominous blood-colored soil. When Sophia and Jiang Wenyuan came out of the pit with their bodies covered in mud, Jiang Wenyuan's frosty face was like a ghost crawling out of hell.

Seeing Jiang Wenyuan's appearance, the most nervous person was undoubtedly Li Na, her heart almost rose to her throat, and she dared not approach at all, "Brother Chen, what did you find down there, is the situation not optimistic?"

Sophia unloaded the sarcophagus from her shoulders, and Jiang Wenyuan pointed to some long black marks inside the sarcophagus, "This sarcophagus has a large volume, and these marks will not be the marks left by the corruption of the head, look at the shape of the marks, More like arm bones or leg bones. Some of the bones from their torsos have been taken away."

Sophia didn't bother to clean up the dirt on her body, "Sister Catherine has six guards, which are as many as the skulls in the sarcophagus. I checked the surrounding soil when I dug the sarcophagus, and they were all compacted and there was no sign of being moved. Then Where did sister Catherine's bones go, was it taken away with the torso of the guards?"

"Don't worry. Didn't we still have a place to look for?" Zuo Zhixing put on his protective cap again, and raised his chin in the direction of the water mill, "When you were busy working, I communicated with my companion, They were originally active in the plague burial ground, and they went to your house to investigate the situation after hearing the loud noise from your house. The distance from the water mill to your home is much closer than the distance from the plague burial ground to your home, But we heard nothing in the watermill. There must be something queer in the watermill."

Only then did Sophia calm down a little. She carefully closed the lid of the sarcophagus, and took the tool she had in hand, "Then let's go to the water mill to have a look!"

After several people walked into the water mill, Li Na looked around nervously. She approached Zuo Zhixing and lowered her voice involuntarily, "Brother Zuo, do you feel that the water mill is different from when we came in just now?"

Zuo Zhixing looked around, "I don't feel any difference."

Li Na scratched her face anxiously, leaving several clear red marks on her face, "It's different, the temperature in the water mill has dropped by 1 degree compared to before, and now the sun is so strong outside, how can the temperature in the water mill drop! "

Zuo Zhixing paused slightly, "Are you sure the room temperature has dropped by 1 degree Celsius?"

Li Na was a little angry, "What time is it now, can you stop making fun of me. Don't you feel the obvious temperature difference?"

Zuo Zhixing looked at Li Na with a new look. Li Na was always getting into trouble and dragging her feet, but when the useless Li Na developed the ability to be absolutely warm, her value immediately rose several steps.When Zuo Zhixing chose teammates, he would never choose a rookie like Li Na. This time he and Li Na became teammates passively, it was entirely because of Jiang Wenyuan.

At this time, Zuo Zhixing finally began to seriously think about a question. Originally, he planned to wait for Jiang Wenyuan to take the initiative to ask him the forum ID, but Jiang Wenyuan didn't say anything.Or, he took the initiative to add Jiang Wenyuan's forum friends?

Zuo Zhixing told others about the temperature drop, "There is something in the water mill, everyone be careful."

Jiang Wenyuan looked at Li Na, "Since you can feel the subtle differences in temperature, you should also be able to find where the temperature is the lowest in the water mill, right?"

Li Na shrank her neck, "Theoretically... it's possible."

"You don't have to be too scared." Jiang Wenyuan walked to her side, "We will accompany you to walk around the water mill, and you tell us the place where the temperature is the lowest."

This was completely in the rhythm of rushing ducks to the shelves. Li Duck Na could only stand tremblingly between Jiang Wenyuan and Zuo Zhixing, and was forced to walk around the water mill.Li Na was so frightened that her face was whiter than paper. With trembling fingers, she pointed to the heavy stone millstone in the center of the water mill, "This is the millstone. The temperature around it is 0.5 degrees lower than other places. The thing that makes the room temperature lower is this." Grinding disc..."

The stone millstone of the water mill is grinded together by the upper and lower millstones, the lower fan is driven by a water wheel, and the upper fan has a handle on the edge of the smaller millstone, with a rope wrapped around the handle, which can be operated by manpower or animal power.The base of the millstone has a guide groove, and the grains ground by the millstone will flow out of the guide groove.

Sophia's figure enveloped the entire millstone, "Get out of the way, I'm going to dismantle it!"

Water mills and windmills are important tools for farmers to survive. Sophia offered to remove the mill, and it seems that she has already made up her mind in various aspects.

Sophia lightly hugged her arms, and she took off the upper grinding disc.She turned the upper millstone upside down and placed it on the ground, disassembled the power transmission gear between the water wheel and the lower millstone with her bare hands, lowered her waist, and removed the lower millstone, which was several times larger than the upper millstone, and placed it on the ground. Next to the upper fan grinding disc.After Sophia removed the two millstones, she put her palms on the grooves of the base of the millstones, but she didn't touch the base. She said to Jiang Wenyuan and the others: "The temperature of the base is higher than that of the millstones."

After the grinding disc was removed, it seemed as if an unopenable cover had been opened, and the room temperature in the water mill kept dropping. Without Li Na's absolute sense of temperature, several other people could feel the temperature change.Zuo Zhixing suggested, "Let's move the millstone outside."

Sophia worked hard for several hours, and it was inevitable that she was a little tired. She wanted to use the shape of the millstone itself to stand up sideways and push it out of the water mill.Jiang Wenyuan stopped her movement, "We will help you move it together, try not to damage the original state of the millstone."

Sophia didn't mind wasting more energy, but Jiang Wenyuan's words always made her feel weird, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Wenyuan shook his head, "I'm not sure yet, let's go out and talk about it."

Several people worked together to move the two millstones out of the water mill.

Under the scorching sun, there was nothing to hide from what was attached to the millstone.Wheat flour remains on the dense grinding grooves on the occlusal surfaces of the two grinding discs.A stone the size of a fingernail was stuck in the innermost groove of the lower fan grinding disc. Sophia swept off the wheat flour attached to the stone with her hands and picked it up.

Seeing the dignified looks of the three teammates, Li Na was very flustered. She grabbed Baimei's sleeve, "Is there something wrong with that stone? Why do you look so ugly..."

Bai Mei turned her head to look at Li Na, "That's not a stone."

Sophia closed her palms and held the stone-like thing firmly in her palms. She almost screamed, "Who did such a cruel thing! I will never spare him!"

"Sophia, I know you are very angry, but I advise you to be careful. The source of the strange tooth disease is probably the thing you are holding. If you get scratched, Catherine's spirit card may not be able to protect you " Zuo Zhixing squatted down next to the lower millstone, and soon found another small stone. He put on medical gloves and took out the small stone. He looked at it for a moment, "Looking at the shape, this should be a phalanx."

Hearing Zuo Zhixing's words, Li Na felt that her whole body had fallen into the ice cellar, and no matter how fierce the sun was, it could not bring her the slightest bit of warmth.She stammered: "Now, someone used a millstone to crush the bones of Catherine's guard. Because the skull was too big to fit into the millstone, it was left in the sarcophagus... Is that so?"

"You understand quickly. The murderer crushed the bones with strong resentment, and he used these bone fragments to cause the strange dental disease in Monica. Even including Catherine's bones, there are only seven skeletons in total. God knows Unknowingly caused a large-scale infection in the whole village, and the water source is likely to be used by the murderer." Zuo Zhixing stood up, "I'll go to the water wheel to see. Chen Mian, go find Catherine's bones, at least the skull should be Still there."

Li Na just imagined the scene of the murderer crushing human bones with a millstone, and she felt goosebumps all over her body. She trotted very consciously to keep up with Zuo Zhixing.

Sophia is still looking for the bone fragments on the remaining millstone, so she can't help for the time being.Baimei blocked Sophia's sight with her body, quietly took out a professional strong flashlight, and said to Jiang Wenyuan, "Let's go, let's go to the water mill to find the skull."

In fact, the light in the water mill was not dark, Jiang Wenyuan glanced at Baimei's flashlight, and didn't say much.They started from the entrance of the water mill and searched for suspicious places in the water mill clockwise along the wall. When Jiang asked Yuan where he found it, Baimei moved the beam of the flashlight there. They didn't miss any corner of the water mill, but they didn't. There are no traces of recent movement, and there are no hidden spaces on the ground and walls.

"Let's go out." Baimei turned off the flashlight and said to Jiang Wenyuan.

Jiang Wenyuan didn't move, his eyes were fixed on the base of the millstone. For the sake of stability, the base cannot be moved when it is built.

Bai Mei: "...you are thinking about removing the base, right? With Li Na's ability to sense temperature, if Catherine's bones are in the water mill, she must have noticed it just now."

Jiang Wenyuan turned around, "Thank you for the flashlight to help me find the ring, let's go out."

Baimei realized that she had slipped her tongue when she mentioned Li Na's warmth, "You just spent a long time examining the skull in the sarcophagus. If you were only examining the traces of the body bones, it wouldn't take that long, so I guess you are not Looking for other things. After you found out that the ring was missing, you have been in a bad mood. That platinum ring is very important to you. "

Jiang Wenyuan raised his hand and touched his cheek. The strategy game is already tiring enough. He didn't want to affect other people, so he kept deliberately covering up his anxiety about losing the ring. Unexpectedly, Baimei saw the clue, and he said frankly: "Yes. A ring given to me by someone very important, it is my talisman."

Baimei said softly, "I hope I can get it back."

The two walked out of the water mill, and Zuo Zhixing and Li Na's investigation ended.Zuo Zhixing has always been burdened by social elites, and in this kind of damn game, he looks calm and easy, but now he is so angry that he is so angry that he kicked the wet sack beside his feet, He cursed: "There are two canals on the side of the water wheel, one leads to irrigate the fields, and the other Sophia said is to bring in people's places for domestic water. The grandson who killed thousands of knives put the crushed bones into sacks , fixed at the mouth of the water channel for domestic water!"

Li Na had already vomited once before Jiang Wenyuan and Baimei came out. She wiped off the dirt from her mouth, and said fiercely, "I know who the murderer is! It must be the hotel owner! When the village head’s player formed a team, he wanted to gather some information with Leo, so he invited him to have a meal with us, but Leo refused us without even thinking about it. He never eats in hotels, and uses water from his home He has never used running water to fetch water from a tank, so he must know that there is a problem with the water source in Monaga!"

"Unfortunately, we couldn't find Catherine's body." Jiang Wenyuan said to Sophia, "I want you to recall carefully who said what to you to make you think that you are the culprit of the strange tooth disease The culprit."

Sophia said with certainty: "After Leo returned to Monaga, he asked me why I was the only one in the village who didn't get sick."

"He just questioned that you are not sick?" Jiang Wenyuan continued, "At this time, shouldn't you think that you are not sick because of your good physical fitness and strong resistance?"

Sophia's eyes widened, "And Lyle. The few times I saw Lyle recently, he would ask me if I think the strange tooth disease is sister Catherine's revenge on Monaga. Let me ask sister Catherine when I pray. "

Jiang Wenyuan nodded, "Since we already know that these bones are the cause of the strange tooth disease, there is no need to tie our hands. Sophia, the four of us are going to catch Leo, and you are going to block Lyle. We will meet at the church."

"Don't worry, I will definitely catch Lyle." Sophia seemed to be furious from behind, and her muscles twitched.

"Of course I believe in your ability. However, if Lyle is really the culprit, then he must have gone crazy, and no one knows what he will do. Leave Catherine's spirit card to me for safekeeping, so that you You won't have any worries if you catch him." Jiang Wenyuan stretched out his hand towards Sophia.

Sophia hesitated for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and handed the cloth package containing the spirit card to Jiang Wenyuan, "You must protect sister Catherine's spirit card."

Jiang Wenyuan held the spirit card firmly, "Of course."

When Jiang Wenyuan and the others returned to the hotel, it was already completely dark.

It just so happened that Leo was alone on the first floor of the hotel, and he was cleaning up the players' leftovers.When Leo heard the news of someone coming back, he was about to say hello, but when he saw Jiang Wenyuan and the others coming back, the smiles on his face froze completely, "You guys are back, you went out without eating this morning, you haven't eaten all day Things, you must be hungry, I'm going to make dinner for you."

"No need." Jiang Wenyuan looked at him coldly, "Do it!"

Zuo Zhixing clicked his tongue. Jiang Wenyuan said before arriving at the hotel that his physical strength was consumed by a strange tooth disease, and the job of arresting people could only fall on him.Leo was not Zuo Zhixing's opponent at all, and was pushed to the ground by Zuo Zhixing within a few strokes.

Leo knelt down on his knees, his face pressed to the ground, and he wailed, "What did I do wrong, why did you arrest me?"

Zuo Zhixing tied his hands behind his back, and said with a sneer, "You know that there is a problem with the water source in Monaliga, but you still use the water to cook for us, isn't that enough reason?"

Leo's howling stopped abruptly, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Do you think it's useful to be stubborn! Give up your heart!" Li Na kicked Leo several times angrily, "Sophel has already gone to catch Lyle, no one will come to rescue you!"

When Jiang Wenyuan and the others escorted the decadent Leo to the church, the church was already lit with fire.

Before they went in, they saw Lyall lying in front of the altar from the window. Lyell was beaten so badly that he couldn't move.

Sophia grabbed Lyle by the hair and lifted him up, "Say it quickly! Where did you hide Sister Catherine's body?"

Lyle spat out a bloody tooth, with a mocking smile on his face, "Catherine, Catherine, you always like to call her sister. Monaliga killed Catherine, what right do you have to call her sister. Catherine used her teeth A strange disease curses Monica, and you still respectfully call your enemy your sister. Sophie, you are so ridiculous!"

"The curse of the strange dental disease was not caused by sister Catherine at all. It was you, you, who used the bones of sister Catherine and her bodyguards to cause everyone to be infected with strange diseases." Sophie smashed Lyle's head to the ground. , "Quickly tell me the way to lift the curse."

Lyle was beaten to the point of bleeding, but his aura was not weak at all, "It's bad luck for me to be caught by you, but even if you kill me, it's useless. The curse of the strange tooth disease has no solution!"

"What?" Leo screamed when Zuo Zhixing pressed his shoulders, he broke free from Zuo Zhixing's hand and rushed into the church, "Lyle, you told me clearly that as long as you trick Sophia into destroying Catherine's spirit card, you It will cure me!"

Lyle didn't expect Leo to appear at this time. If he continues to deceive Leo, he will be forced by Sophia to lift the curse. If he can't lift the curse, the lie will be seen through, and Leo will definitely sell him of.But if the truth doesn't lift the curse, Leo will sell him now.Under the dilemma, Lyle decided to stabilize Leo first, "Of course I can cure..."

"Leo, Lyle can't cure you." Jiang Wenyuan interrupted Lyle, and he tore off Lyle's sleeve, "You count the teeth on his arm, he may die at any time, and What can I guarantee to cure you?"

Leo's lips trembled, and he looked at Lyle with hatred, "You lied to me! I want to expose everything you have done!"

Lyle wanted to speak, but Sophia blocked his mouth, and he could only make a whining sound.

"Two months ago, Lyle's father came of age and died peacefully in a dream. On the night of the wake, Lyle and I secretly drank some wine. Lyle's father was also one of the murderers who killed the noble lady. [-]. Lyle asked me, if the murderer was like his father, had not received any punishment and lived a happy life, the souls of the noble lady and the guards would never be able to be relieved. Lyle wanted to avenge the noble lady He hoped that I would bury him with everyone when he completed his revenge." Leo said painfully, "I shouldn't have promised him then..."

It wasn't until Leo finished speaking that Sophia let go of Lyle's mouth.

Lyle was in a mess, but he laughed wildly, "Leo, you hypocrite, you dare not even call Catherine's name, you are so hypocritical! You put all the responsibility on me, so why don't you Tell me about yourself?"

Now Leo and Lyle's identities have been reversed, and the person who wants to gag each other has become Leo.Zuo Zhixing stopped Leo who wanted to rush over to knock Lyle unconscious, and said coolly, "Where are you going?"

Lyle stared at Leo like a poisonous snake.

"That's right, I told you that I wanted to avenge Catherine. I told you clearly that everyone in Monica enjoys Catherine's property. No one is innocent. I want to kill all the people in Monica. People came to pay homage to Catherine. Not only did you not stop me, but you also gave me advice. You even found the bones of Catherine’s bodyguard for me. You just want to use me. After all the people in Monaga are dead, you No one will know the stains on your body, and you can pretend to be a gentleman with a clean background. Leo, I will let you die clearly. When I sent you away, I added their ashes to your send-off wine. You die deal!"

"Ahhhhh! I'm going to kill you!" Leo kept twisting his body, trying to break free from the ropes that bound his hands, "Lyle, what right do you have to say that I'm hypocritical. You're not avenging Catherine at all. , you are killing people in the name of revenge, just to satisfy your perverted wish. You want me to bury you with everyone after you bury the whole village. Such a disgusting wish is only your perverted wish. I just figured it out!"

The scene became out of control, Lyle and Leo, the two accomplices who caused the strange tooth disease, stabbed each other with words, bloody and bloody.

Sophia couldn't continue listening, she shouted violently: "Both of you, shut up!"

Under Sophia's imposing manner, both Lyle and Leo got stuck.

Sophia pointed to Lyle, "You want to destroy Sister Catherine's spirit card, so that I will also be infected with the strange tooth disease and become a member of your grave. I will not let you succeed, I will live until you die, I will burn your body to ashes and scatter your ashes in the sea far away from Monaga. You will never be able to fulfill your wish to be with Monaga forever!"

Lyle screamed, "No—!! You can kill me, but you can't separate me from Moraga!"

Sophia ignored him at all, she turned to Leo, "You want to destroy Monaga and turn yourself into a person with a clean background. I will not let your wish come true. Wait until I deal with Monaga. Well, I will wander around with the spirit card of sister Catherine, and I will tell the story of Monica to everyone I meet. Leo, I will tell your name and what you did. Even if you die, you will not be able to get rid of your sins!"

Leo shook his head frantically, his eyes were dull, "No, no, no, no, you can't do this to me... I am innocent, I am not wrong!"

Sophia shed two lines of tears, "The three of us witnessed the whole process of Catherine's sister being killed. I thought we could understand each other and find a gentler way to avenge Catherine. It turned out that all this was my wishful thinking."

Sophia took off the long sword pinned to her waist, and cut off the heads of Lyle and Leo from the front. She didn't dodge the blood sprayed by Lyle and Leo, and her whole body was drenched in blood.Sophia withdrew her long sword and looked at Jiang Wenyuan and the others who had witnessed the whole process, "Leave Monaga. Monaga's teeth are not a disease, but a curse, and you can't solve it. Chen Mian, take the spirit card of sister Catherine give me back."

Li Na sat on the last row of chairs in the church with limp legs, using the back of the front row of chairs to block her body, "Is the game over? Why didn't I see the fluorescent light from the doll?"

"Because the game is not over." Jiang Wenyuan said softly.

He opened the cloth wrapped in his arms, revealing Catherine's spirit card.

Jiang Wenyuan lowered his head, his bangs, which had not been cut for a long time, slightly blocked his eyes, blurring the abyss hidden in his eyes, he popped out the blade of the Swiss Army Knife, and held the sword against the spirit card. "Sophia, haven't you been looking for Catherine's bones? Why did you rush to kill Lyle and Leo before you found the bones? Or do you not need to ask them at all? From the very beginning, you knew that Catherine's bones were in the where."

"Am I right, Catherine?" Jiang Wenyuan raised his head and looked at Sophia, "You used the three children who witnessed you to be killed to complete revenge on Monalica. Now that your wish has been fulfilled, it's time to get the thief Give me back the ring I left."