[Seeing this means that you have escaped to a safe place. I don’t have much time, but I must tell you something before I die. I hope you can take this story out as my atonement...]
The more Zhao Zichao read, the more he felt something was wrong. He scratched his head and said casually: "You are obviously going to die, but you still insist on locking this letter in the cabinet. Obviously you don't want us to see it, right?"
"It's indeed quite strange," Lin Xi frowned. "Looking at the tone of the letter, the person who wrote it is quite anxious, but I don't understand why he hid this letter. If I want to see this letter,
Not only do you need to crack the mechanism to enter the secret passage, but you also need to be involved in Go. Well... forget it, let's read on."
[I am a doctor, and people call me a witch doctor. I am ashamed to say that I only have some folk remedies passed down by my master. I was called a miracle doctor by several landowners in the county. In fact, I only cured the diseases of two or three families. Now that I think about it, I am a doctor.
, it’s all retribution...]
[Three months ago, I saw in a newspaper in the county town that the Ye family of Qianluoshan paid a high price to hire a famous doctor for diagnosis and treatment. I was just a barefoot doctor and was not capable of treating such strange diseases, but I became obsessed with money and relied on my reputation to spread far and wide.
, so I received treatment for this strange disease, thinking that I had no choice but to use ghosts and gods to excuse it. At that time, I never imagined that the price of this trip would be my life.]
"Damn, what a One Hundred Years of Solitude type of opening!" Zhao Zichao finally couldn't bear it anymore, he complained: "Does this sound like what a dying person would say? To explain so many things in one breath, is this a last note or a novel?
!”
Lin Xi looked at her watch. There were still 19 minutes until the end of the game. She said helplessly: "You must know that people always have a lot to say before they die. If they don't finish talking before they die, why should they talk to the Lord of Hell after they die?"
go?"
"It seems...it makes sense..."
The next line of writing is even more sloppy, in sharp contrast to the neatness of the first line of writing.
It can be seen that the doctor is writing more and more urgently, obviously knowing that he will not live much longer.
[After I accepted this errand, I only brought a few common medicinal materials and a few Western medicines and hurried to the Ye family mansion. Ye Liangchen's illness was indeed unusual. His breath was stable, neither fire nor cold, but he was drowsy and unable to wake up.
, as if I was possessed by an evil spirit, I could only fool around until I met...]
The next large paragraph was too blurry for the two of them to see clearly. Looking at the situation above, it seemed that someone had deliberately erased it, and it seemed that someone did not want others to know the content of the following paragraphs.
This further shows that someone is concealing the truth about Ye Liangchen's condition.
[...I feel guilty. How could a few drops of blood kill people out of thin air? Who knew that the landowner's so-called marriage proposal would turn out to be such a stupid thing!]
[Now that the matter has come to an end, I have also received money from Mr. Ye’s family, so naturally I will not spread this scandal to outsiders. According to the landlord’s request, the poor girl’s body must be kept for seven days. It is said that some medicine was used to make her
The body cannot be corrupted. Before this incident, he even fired all the servants in the villa, leaving only me, him and his son...]
…
It's another big blur that can't be seen clearly.
But then, the following words made both of them look a little solemn.
[It’s a chessboard! The whole house is a game of chess! No wonder it’s seven days, he wants to...]
Up to this point, there is another long blank paragraph. Rather than someone erasing it, it seems more like the doctor didn't write at all.
There is no trace of ink at the end of the volume, and it looks like his story ended abruptly.
The two of them looked at each other, with a hint of surprise in their eyes.
"What does this house have to do with the chess game?" Zhao Zichao looked around and patted the dust on his hands, "And this landlord..."
Lin Xi was silent for a moment, and then brought up the only item left in the task bar:
[Find all the participants in the murder and restore the scene as much as possible.]
She said: "According to the doctor's last words, the most suspect person should be the landlord. Not only was Ye Wuchen acquiesced in this behavior, but he also paid hush money to ask the doctor not to spread the news..."
"You are really cruel to your own daughter."
"These are secondary. The most important thing is how to restore the scene of the crime. In other words, we must first find the scene of the crime... According to Master's speculation, there should be a cellar or icehouse in the mansion, otherwise the expression on Ye Nan'an's face
It can't be that weird..."
Zhao Zichao nodded, then closed the taskbar. He seemed to suddenly think of something: "By the way, when we entered the door just now, wasn't there a door to the bungalow that couldn't be opened? The shape of the keyhole and the key seemed to be just right.
Right!"
"They are all cross-shaped..." Lin Xi picked up the key and tried hard to restore the shape of the keyhole in his mind, "Can't it be such a coincidence that you can open that door and this box at the same time?"
Under the candlelight, the shadows of the two people were very short, looking particularly weak in the empty hall.
"Is there such a possibility," Lin Xi guessed, "Maybe the key can open two locks intentionally? The designer wants us to open the box and the door at the same time to achieve some of his purposes..."
"Tsk, forget it, we don't have time to think about this anymore," Zhao Zichao immediately made his judgment, "I think... we should try it first whether it works or not. As you said before... we can't keep waiting for Master.
Come out."
Lin Xi picked up the candle on the ground and stood up. She turned around and locked her eyes on the dark door: "That's right, there are only ten minutes left. If there is no news from Master,
We can only rely on ourselves."
The two quickly walked out of the door of the villa, and the strange courtyard was still in front of them.
Lin Xi unlocked the locked door, while Zhao Zichao was observing something in front of the temple he had briefly investigated.
The process of unlocking the door was easier than they thought. There was no additional puzzle to solve. They just inserted the key and twisted it slightly, and the door opened.
"Ahem..." Lin Xi coughed twice, fanned the dust in front of him, then turned around and shouted: "The door is open!"
"It's coming, it's coming," Zhao Zichao responded slightly surprised when he heard this, "Is it such a coincidence? The box and the door lock actually use the same key..."
"Yes, I think it's too coincidental..." Lin Xi opened the door and dispersed the dust in the door.
The bungalow is very small and seems very cramped compared to the spaciousness of the villa.
The two of them walked into the room cautiously with candles and lighters. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
