There was a heavy rain outside the window, the wind was howling, and the lights and shadows inside the house were swaying and creaking.
Lin Yu's figure crouching at his desk reading papers was cast on the wall behind him by the dim candlelight, looking like a ghost with teeth and claws.
[Case File One: Old Corpse in Xiaohe Village]
"There is a fifty-three-year-old woman in Xiaohe Village. She is usually very greedy and likes to use other people's leverage to extort small profits. The villagers don't like to associate with her. One day, her temperament suddenly changed. She went around to apologize, but no one wanted to
Reconciled with her. The old woman became more and more desperate day by day, and on the seventh day she was wailing all night, disturbing the whole village and unable to sleep."
"On the eighth day, the villagers found the old woman dead at home, with a face like a dead tree and a shriveled body. After an inquest, the old woman's body had lost all blood and water, her internal organs had been hollowed out, and only a piece of skin and a skeleton were left.
A mummy that has been dead for thousands of years.”
Lin Yu closed the case file in his hand, closed his eyes and meditated.
From this volume alone, it is impossible to tell what the key point of such an incident is.
With this in mind, Lin Yu opened the second case file.
[Case File 2: Thousand Tongue Girl from Heshang Village]
"There is a 20-year-old peasant woman in Heshang Village. She has a shrewd personality, bad words, and loves to gossip about people. The villagers are afraid to avoid her. One day, she suddenly threatens to kill everyone who usually avoids her. The villagers just think that she is angry and has nothing to do with her.
People took her words seriously. The peasant woman became more and more irritable day by day. On the seventh day, she was knocking on the door with a kitchen knife, so frightened that no one in the village dared to open the door all night."
"On the eighth day, the villagers found the peasant woman dead by the dry well. Her tongue stuck out of her mouth and bifurcated into two smaller tongues at the tip of her tongue. The tip of the small tongue bifurcated again. In this way, the whole tongue looked like a
It was like a meat blanket covering her body, which was extremely scary and disgusting. After inspection, it was found that the peasant woman's tongue had more than a thousand small tongues branched out."
Lin Yu closed the case file in his hand again, put his forehead in thought.
Judging from these two case files, there are three things that the deceased have in common. First, they are both female. Second, they are both hated people. Third, from the time of abnormality to death.
It lasted seven days in total.
As for the conditions of death, I can't find any similarities.
There were some drops of sweat on Lin Yu's forehead. If he couldn't find the key point, I'm afraid...
Wiping his sweat, he continued to open the third case file.
[Case File 3: Giant-hearted Man from Huangsha Village]
"There is a 31-year-old river worker in Huangsha Village. He has a bold personality and a sense of justice. He is always willing to fight against injustice and is willing to help others. He is well-known in the village. However, one day he suddenly asked the villagers who had been helped by him to come to thank him. Everyone who came to the door came to thank him.
He had to prepare a hundred catties of rice and flour and ten catties of meat. Although the villagers visited him personally as he said, no one could satisfy his request."
"I never thought that the river worker would not just give up, but would intensify his efforts and make higher and higher demands every day. On the seventh day, he even asked every villager to donate all their property to him, which made the whole village feel disgusted with him."
"On the eighth day, the villagers found Hegong suddenly dead on the river beach. His upper body was swollen like a ball, and his head, feet and limbs were like fleshy buds hanging on the ball. After investigation, they found that this phenomenon was because Hegong's heart had become enlarged inexplicably.
Stretch your body into a deformed shape."
Lin Yu's hand holding the case file began to tremble.
Judging from this third case file, two of the common points found previously have been overturned. The river worker is neither a woman nor a hated person. Only the third point remains the same.
But just knowing that the date of death is seven days is meaningless and cannot explain anything.
Lin Yu doesn't think this point will be the key point.
But if you still can’t find the key point, then...
"No, that's not right." Lin Yu swallowed hard, his voice trembling, and muttered to himself: "The second point is still the same, they are all hated people. Although the river workers were charitable at first, but later on
In the end, you will be hated by others.”
After thinking about this, Lin Yu seemed to be grasping at a life-saving straw, but then his breathing became extremely rapid.
"Okay, it's so cold. Why is the back of the chair so cold?"
A pair of hands that were shaking like sifting chaff tremblingly touched back. After touching for a while, he realized that his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
Lin Yu didn't dare to look back, for fear of seeing something weird.
He opened the fourth case file tremblingly and tried to calm down.
[Case File 4: Compound-Eyed Girl from Xiamen Village]
After flipping through it quickly, I opened the fifth case file.
[Case File 5: Skinless Man in Xiaohu Village]
The sixth book...
The seventh book...
Soon, a total of seven case files were read.
The more Lin Yu read, the more confused he became. He could not find the key points in common among several cases. Only one thing was the same, that is, the victims all died seven days later.
"Seven days to die? Seven days to die! Today is the seventh day, I..."
Tick--
Tick--
I don't know what happened, but from time to time there was a ticking sound behind me, as if some liquid was dripping on the floor.
"The roof of the house is leaking, is it leaking?"
"No, how can the roof leak? The roof of my Lin Mansion will never leak!"
Lin Yu didn't dare to look back. Not only did he not dare to look, he also closed his eyes tightly.
"What is the key to these cases? What is it?"
"If I find the key point, I can survive. As long as I find the key point, I can survive..."
The ticking sound was getting closer and closer to him.
Sudden……
The air behind him became extremely cold, as if he had entered an ice cellar.
At this moment, Lin Yu figured it out, and he finally knew where the key point was.
The victims in these case files are of different ages and genders, their personalities and preferences are completely different, and their methods of death are even more bizarre.
But the similarity is not only about "Seven Days to Die", there is also a very crucial similarity.
"It's too late, it's too late!"
"Hehehe, it's too late. If I could have figured it out earlier, why would this happen?"
"I think I, the eldest young master of the Lin family, am so unhappy setting up cages and walking birds on weekdays. How can I care about such trivial matters?"
"But now, hahaha, it's too late, everything is too late..."
Lin Yu knew what the key to survival was.
Just don't mind your own business.
There are seven case files, and each victim is a nosy person, so they are found by evil spirits.
As a person who grew up in a honeypot, he had always only cared about enjoying happiness. How could he care about the life and death of some poor villagers? But in the end...
With a plop.
Lin Yu's body slipped weakly from the chair and fell to the ground.
There is no breath at all, and he is too dead to die.
Immediately afterwards, an extra eye suddenly appeared on his face, and another one appeared after a breath.
One after another, if it can't grow on the face, it will grow on the body.
But suddenly, these eyes faded away one after another and returned to their original appearance.
And his fair and fair face, which had lost its color, slowly turned rosy again.
"Master, are you okay?"
A crisp voice of inquiry came from the outer room, apparently disturbed by the movement inside.
"Master? Master?"
After the man shouted twice more, he pushed the door open with a creak.
"Master..."
A beautiful little maid walked in from outside the door. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Lin Yu lying on the ground silently.
"No, something happened to the eldest young master. Something happened to the eldest young master..."