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In such a huge villa, even a wire cannot be found.

Xie Baiyuan finally reached out to the top of Xinxin's head and asked her to borrow a hairpin.

Xinxin obediently said hello, and took off the hairpin with the khaki bear's head on it and handed it to him.

"Don't break it, it was given to me by my mother."

Although the little girl knows that there are conflicts between her parents, this does not prevent her from liking a safe and reliable father as well as a gentle and beautiful mother.

In the world of children, many things are so simple.

Xie Baiyuan: "Well, it won't be broken."

He fiddled with the hairpin in front of the lock for half a minute, and the door clicked open.

Zhu Yicheng muttered in a low voice: "...Why do you still kick the door when you have this skill?"

Xie Baiyuan raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Because of trouble."

Why bother to pry open a door that can be kicked open?

After prying this door, Xie Baiyuan went to try the one next door.

He just tried it, and sure enough, there seemed to be something blocking the door, and he couldn't pry it open.

It seems that only the door that has been opened with a key is easy to pry.

Xie Baiyuan clicked his tongue, and what Fang Li saw on his face was full of regret that he couldn't get through the loophole.

"Aren't you going in?" Fang Li asked.

Although the door opened, several cobblers were standing in the corridor, waiting for Xie Baiyuan to enter.

Xie Baiyuan walked over and pinned the bear hairpin on Xinxin's hair.

He moved very lightly, showing a rare kindness to the little girl, and even slightly bent down to pat Xinxin's hair.

Fang Li was stunned for a moment, for him, this scene felt like deja vu.

It seems that many years ago, there was such a person who gave him something, and then reached out and rubbed his head.

Fang Li was in a daze for a while, and then came back to his senses in Xie Baiyuan's questioning eyes.

"I thought about something." Fang Li walked behind Xie Baiyuan and said, "Will the master hide his wife and daughter here?"

After all, the study is the private space of the male master. Judging from the diaries and letters, the male master always locks himself in the study, and the study should hide a lot of secrets.

"It may be here, or it may be next door... the most dangerous place is the safest." Xie Baiyuan glanced at him, and suddenly said: "You are much calmer now."

Fang Li: "Huh?" He was taken aback for a moment before realizing what Xie Baiyuan meant.

Indeed, compared to the fact that he was afraid of everything he saw at the beginning, now that he can discuss these things so calmly, in a certain way, there has indeed been a big change.

It's just that he still doesn't know whether such a change is good or bad.

Fang Li was still thinking about it, when he heard Xie Baiyuan laughing beside him and said, "That's right, I've made progress, I've grown up."

Fang Li: "..." What's with your old father's reassuring tone? ?

The study room has a desk, a bookshelf, a wardrobe and a single bed for resting.

In ten years, the ash accumulated on these things can be piled up into a small mound, and the dust is flying all over people's faces, adding some trivial troubles to the search work.

For example, Xie Baiyuan, who has a bit of a cleanliness obsession, walks around inside and makes his face look long.

Fang Li looked a little funny, and he wanted to persuade Xie Baiyuan to stand up for a while, but he heard Xie Baiyuan hum in a raised tone.

"Why, did you find anything?" Zhu Yicheng popped out from under the desk with his green head, and while he was anxious not to miss the clue, he continued to tenaciously reach for something under the desk. "There's something here—hey, why is it hidden so deep? It's intentional."

He held a piece of paper the size of a palm with his fingertips.

Although the paper was torn to only a small half, it could still be seen that it was the instructions for some kind of medicine.

"This is...an antidepressant drug? It's used to treat hysteria?" Zhu Yicheng said, "The hostess mentioned in the letter that the hostess stopped taking drugs recently. Is this the drug?"

Gu Feng reminded: "The manual has been torn up, and it looks like it was torn recently."

Xie Baiyuan: "Well, I also left a handprint to show that I came here for a visit."

Fang Li leaned over to take a look, and it was true.

On the thick layer of dust on the side of the table, there is a rather conspicuous handprint, which looks like someone left it inadvertently in a hurry.

Zhu Yicheng gestured twice with his own hand, and hissed: "This size should be a woman's hand."

He called Zhao Xiaotong: "Miss, come and see if this handprint is yours."

Zhao Xiaotong was stepping on his clothes and looking through the bookshelves, when he heard this, he turned his head and gave him a look: "When did I touch that table, don't delay my work."

After being stared at, Zhu Yicheng immediately became honest: "Since it's not ours, it can only belong to those people downstairs."

After the honey incident this morning, there were only three people left downstairs, and all three were women who seemed helpless.

Maybe some of them really came in after they opened the door. After all, it cannot be ruled out that there is a second lockpicking expert like Xie Baiyuan in the team.

In addition to these, they also found a locked safe in the study.

This thing is of good quality, and it won't open no matter how hard it is dropped or beaten.

Fang Li was terrified when he saw it, he pulled Xie Baiyuan who was about to violently open the cabinet again, hesitantly said: "Let's think of another way, in case there is something in it..."

He hesitated to speak, what he wanted to say was what if the male master hid the person in the safe frantically.

Horror movies always have plots like this, let alone a safe, a person can crawl out of a shoe cabinet.

Zhu Yicheng was frightened by his statement, rubbed his goosebumps with his arms, and was about to say with an awkward smile, when he saw Xie Baiyuan rubbing his chin and looking thoughtfully for a while, he said in a very sincere tone : "You are right, there is a possibility. It is a bit difficult to stuff a pregnant woman, but it shouldn't be a problem to stuff a child."

Zhu Yicheng: "..." Are you sure you want to discuss this issue with the tone of discussing the weather?

Unable to find any more clues, they simply moved the safe down from the third floor and closed the door behind them.

Fang Li opened the diary again, this time he started from the beginning, trying to find some clues in the diary.

The host’s diary starts from the time he was diagnosed with hysteria. The names of the people who appear most often in the diary are his wife Delia, daughter Anne, doctor Colin, and Delia’s good friend Georgia.

They turned the pages so quickly that day that some details were overlooked.

This villa located on an isolated island was left by a cousin of a good friend of Dr. Colin, who had just experienced a tragedy—his wife cheated on her, eloped with a stranger, and even took her with her. They left their three-year-old son.

This cousin was also a strange person. After his wife and children were gone, he was already mentally sensitive and hanged himself in the study.

The house was left to a good friend of Dr. Colin. Because of this incident, plus being a good friend, the price for the male owner was very cheap, which was very suitable for the male owner who had just lost his job.

The host lived here with his wife and daughter, and was relatively happy at first, until one day he heard another person's voice in the study.

The voice sounded exactly like his own, full of deception.

It kept telling itself that the new housekeeper looked at Delia very wrongly, and that man was seducing Delia.

Day after day, this voice told Delia and Job's "crimes" in his ears all the time.

"But I found that it only appeared on rainy days. I told myself that it was just my inner jealousy, so they could only grow in the shadows, and once the sun was out, they couldn't hide."

"It only appears on cloudy and rainy days." Fang Li pointed to the sentence in the diary, "Could this be the law of that hand appearing?"

Assuming that the Hand in the Woods and the Steward existed at the same time, there may have been a balance between them all along.

Hands appear on rainy days, but housekeepers appear on sunny days.

"We will know this soon." Xie Baiyuan said.

Outside the window, the sky had already darkened unknowingly.Thunder and lightning streaked across, leaving a shining tail in the sky.

Today is a rainy day.