[Comprehensive crime] The name of the murderer

It was dark under the empty subway platform, only the emergency lights emitted a faint light, and the homeless in twos and threes gathered under the emergency lights, either sitting or lying down, all in a look of lovelessness.

There is no projection screen and mobile phone here, so the homeless people can't see the faces of Tang Sisi and Shen Ming, but the two still dare not be careless, they walked to a corner farthest from the crowd with their heads down, and communicated with each other in a low voice.

Shen Ming: "Now the entire New York City area is full of animals. This group of things are rampant and have a strong smell. It must be able to buy us some time. I will find a way to send you out of America first."

Tang Sisi hesitated for a moment, once she left Metes' life, she didn't know where to get the materials for making the "Witch's Key".

"I'll go back to the library first to at least find out what else is needed to make the 'Witch's Key. If I can find these things in other places, of course it would be best to leave the United States."

After the two discussed it, Tang Sisi took out the keel from the backpack, and the two came to a corner that could not be seen by surveillance. Shen Ming stood at the corner to watch for her, while Tang Sisi entered the illusion of the dragon's nest.

A few seconds later, Shen Ming smelled the familiar smell of burning vegetation, and walked towards the keel placed in the corner.He immediately frowned—this skull was snow-white, with no traces of graffiti, obviously not the one that brought them into the library.

There are three keels in the backpack, one is Tang Sisi's small reception room when he first came to this world, the other is the library, and they have not inspected the third one yet.

Just when he was about to call out Tang Sisi who had entered the wrong place, he heard a loud voice coming from the distance of the subway.He immediately put away the skull and came out to check the situation outside.

I saw a team of patrolling policemen entering the underground passage and questioning the homeless in the passage one by one, but judging from the thin number of people on the other side, it should be just people who cast a net to search a large area, and the other party is not sure that they are here.

But Shen Ming still didn't dare to be careless, he hurriedly jumped off the subway platform, and ran all the way to the depths of the dark and deep track.

Tang Sisi didn't know what was going on outside. After the fog in front of her eyes cleared, she was shocked to find that the place she was in was not a library, but a strange area as complicated as a honeycomb. Judging by the remaining golden traces on the four walls, This should also be a dragon's lair, but the structure is completely different from the places I have been to before.

This place is like an ant's nest, with many narrow passages that only allow one person to pass through, and the passages are connected to egg-shaped spaces of different sizes.The lair extends up, down, left, and right in all directions. She walked for more than ten minutes without repeating the same path. It is roughly estimated that this place is at least a thousand square meters.

There are some small pink fluorescent mushrooms growing on the walls of the ant nest. These small mushrooms can sense sound. Whenever someone passes by, the pink mushrooms will quickly change from dark to bright. When she yells or claps her hands, the brightness of the mushrooms It will be improved again, and it turns out to be a very intelligent voice-activated light source.

Since Tang Sisi came, she was not in a hurry to leave, she wanted to see what this place was for.

About 20 minutes later, she came to a relatively spacious cave. There were small pink mushrooms growing on the top of the cave, and a clear lake below. Some clamshells the size of wheels were sparsely arranged, and at this moment when the clamshells were opened, there were more than a dozen fist-sized pearls stored in each clamshell.These pearls are shining brightly, emitting a more dazzling light than the mushrooms above, illuminating the entire cave in a golden and jade-like splendor.

Tang Sisi looked at the scene in front of her in amazement, and she was very happy, so she took off her shoes and socks, wanting to test the temperature of the water, but when she put her feet into the water, she found that she couldn't step on it at all. The water looks cool and clear, but it feels like the softest down, supporting her feet firmly.

So Tang Sisi stepped on the lake with her other foot, and she walked towards the center of the lake step by step as if she was stepping on a soft quilt. A fantastic combination of light and shadow.

There is a closed clam floating in the center of the lake. When Tang Sisi came close, the clam opened naturally. There are notebooks, jewelry, magic props, cola, and even half a box of chocolates in the umbrella between three or five pearls. ...

It seems that this is the place where Metess takes her daily rest.

Tang Sisi rummaged through the clam shells, took out a cowhide book, and then she closed the opened clam shells again, using it as a table to start reading.

These dozens of notebooks turned out to be Metes' diary during the Witch Trial.At that time, she was very young and did not know much about magic, so the diary of this period did not record much about magic. Most of the time she vented her loneliness and helplessness, describing her fear of being precarious with sadness.

During this rough search, Tang Sisi discovered a detail that could not be ignored. Metes often had a strange dream during those dark days.

In the dream, there was a young and handsome man who often accompanied her to comfort her. They constructed a boundless and fantasy world in the dream.She was still young at that time, neither her shallow wisdom nor her thin body was enough to fight against the wrath that the whole world poured on the witch. It was that person who taught her the way to avoid, the courage to face the world, and get along with others. wisdom, and the ability to preserve oneself.Like a ray of light, he led Metes through those unbearable years.

There were too many diaries, and Tang Sisi couldn't read them all in one go, but she could vaguely guess that this man should not be just a split personality from Mei Tess, after all, with Mei Tess's age and experience at that time, no matter how Even if she splits, she can't split a personality beyond her body knowledge.

Tang Sisi became sleepy while thinking.

The water surface here is too soft and the temperature is too suitable. She just leaned back slightly, and a wave rushed over, condensing into the shape of a deck chair behind her, and when she turned over again, another wave rushed over to cover her. It landed on her body, wrapping her like a soft quilt.

As her breath became longer and longer, the light of the mushroom became dimmer, so Tang Sisi gradually lost consciousness in the thought of "I don't want to sleep"...

no!I can't fall asleep!I still have to hurry up and find clues to make the Witch's Key!

Tang Sisi got up vigorously.

But for some reason, her body was extremely tired. Not only was it difficult to open her eyes, but she couldn't even control her hands and feet, as if she had been exhausted by a high-intensity marathon, and she might fall to the ground in the next second.

Her mind was as heavy as lead, and her vision was suppressed by the heavy head, and then she saw a black shadow gradually rising through the deep lake.

She tilted her head, frowned, and stared at the black shadow until it gradually became clear in her sight.I saw a pale man floating up from the bottom of the lake, his eyes were slightly closed, his long hair was disheveled, and his limbs were suspended in the water, like a drowned corpse.

"Ahhh—" Tang Sisi screamed out, but her legs and feet were weak and she couldn't stand up.

But this lifeless corpse stopped when it was about to surface, and the thin layer of the lake seemed to be an insurmountable barrier, separating him and Tang Sisi in two worlds.

Tang Sisi calmed down for a few seconds, making sure that he really had no way to break through the lake, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the "corpse" who was close at hand suddenly opened his eyes, scaring Tang Sisi almost to stop his heartbeat.

The man weakly raised his hands and pressed them on the lake, and said to Tang Sisi in an inaudible voice, "Save her..."

Tang Sisi suddenly remembered that she had heard this voice when she was dreaming in the library, so she forcibly calmed down and asked, "Who are you saving?"

However, this brief meeting ended soon, and the man dived back to the bottom of the lake, leaving only a void voice behind.

"See... see... that... my lord..."

Tang Sisi lay on the lake and yelled, "Who are you talking about!"

But before the other party could answer, he had already turned into a shadow and disappeared at the bottom of the lake with rippling water plants.

At this moment, Tang Sisi also lost consciousness due to exhaustion, but after she closed her eyes, her whole body suddenly jolted. When she sat up from the ground again, she realized that she had just had a dream.

"It's this person again—" Tang Sisi shook her head and looked at the bottom of the lake, only to see that the water was crystal clear, completely different from the weird atmosphere in the dream, and there was no place to hide people at all.

She turned her head and saw the diary laid out on the clamshell, and suddenly realized that the man she saw in her dream might be related to the boy in Metes' diary.

But this is not the same at all!This guy in my dream is like a water ghost, really scary, and the opposite of the sunny and cute boy in the diary!

In any case, this dreamland sparkling in the lake left a serious psychological shadow on her, and Tang Sisi decided to leave here to look elsewhere.

When she climbed out of the cave, she suddenly heard human footsteps from far away.

She froze for a moment, and crawled towards the direction of the sound. After five or six minutes, a downward exit appeared in front of her eyes. From this, she looked down and saw that this ten-square-sized room was dressed as a gypsy girl. In the fortune-telling room, all kinds of divination supplies are hung on the walls, and there is still a wooden table and a crystal ball on the thick wool blanket. At this time, a woman with gray temples is kneeling in front of the crystal ball and praying for something.

When the woman saw Metes, she sat down on the ground in fright, and said tremblingly, "Are you a witch?"

Tang Sisi jumped down and stood in front of the woman: "Who are you?"

The woman swallowed hard, and summoned up the courage to say to her, "I'm here to make a deal with you." She pulled out the necklace around her neck, which was a drop-shaped pendant, "I know you're looking for 'Mermaid's tears'."

Tang Sisi raised her eyebrows. This is indeed a necessary material for making the Witch's Medicine. There is nowhere to find it. It takes no effort to get it. Someone actually delivered this thing to the door!

She sat cross-legged opposite the woman: "Okay, how much do you want?"

"Money?" The woman laughed, "No, I don't need money, I want to go back to the past, they say you can do anything, shouldn't it be difficult?"

Tang Sisi had seen this kind of rebirth spell in the magic book, but the price of this spell was too expensive.

"Do you know how much it costs to be reborn to go back to the past? How many years you go back, the total amount of life will be doubled. If you are 50 years old this year, and you can live 30 years, go back 10 years, then you will Become 40 years old, and you can live for 10 years. And the rebirth spell can only change your appearance, it can't affect the external world, and it can't restore anything at all."

"I know, I know, this is not something you should worry about."

Tang Si thought for a while, then asked her: "So how old do you want to go back?"

"I want to go back to my 25 years old to fulfill a wish."

Tang Sisi looked at the other party in amazement - back to 25 years old, 50 years would be subtracted from her life, but the remaining life of this woman may not be enough for 50 years.

"You said the same thing to me last time. If I sign the contract before midnight today, I only have seven days left in my life, which is enough for me. But please hurry up, I have no time to waste."