Judging from the time, the dark alley has trapped them for more than two and a half hours. Xiao Lou's full-level Tao Yuanming and Peach Blossom Spring have only existed for three hours. They are also domain cards with different functions, but the duration should be similar.
What's more, they deliberately showed weakness at the time. When he chatted with Xiao Lou, he revealed that there were not many cards left and the situation was not optimistic. This was the best time for the Hunter to take action.
What Yu Hanjiang didn't expect was that this hunter was very good at using underhanded tactics and used various illusions to confuse them, but his ability to manage expressions was very poor and his actual attack power was very average. He had interrogated so many criminal suspects, and it was very difficult for him to do so.
It is easy to tell whether the other party is lying from the subtle changes in expression, but after just asking tentatively, the other party actually exposed it directly...
This is an unexpected surprise.
Xiao Lou looked at Zuiyue Lake in front of him, was stunned for a moment, and then said, "The hunter is a girl?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded, "She should have used a card with splitting function in the end. All the girls holding umbrellas look exactly like her and will spread out to attack us according to her will. Her real weapon is the red oil paper umbrella."
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Long Sen scratched his head and said, "This girl looks about seventeen or eighteen years old. If Captain Yu hadn't tried to test her and quickly found out her true identity, we might have fallen into her hands."
Lao Mo sighed, "She is about the same age as my daughter, how could she become a hunter?"
Liu Qiao said seriously, "This girl has a lot of weird cards in her hand. Just now, Captain Yu just cut her hand. If there are healing cards, she can recover quickly. Maybe next time,
We may still meet her, so everyone must be careful."
Xiao Lou was silent for a moment and said, "Let's continue investigating."
At first, everyone thought that the route of the maze had changed, but later it was confirmed that the alley was actually a closed card space. They were not locked in the maze, but were locked into a separate realm by the hunters.
Lao Mo looked at the lake in front of him, walked a few steps according to the path in his memory, and said pleasantly, "The maze has not changed. It is still the path of the honeycomb maze from last night. There are a total of six paths around Zuiyue Lake, and there are many curves extending out."
, basically consistent with what I drew on the map.”
Liu Qiao shrugged and said, "Okay. It seems that I mistakenly blamed the gatekeeper of the square piece. The little square piece is not as perverted as I thought, and he will not change the maze every day to embarrass us."
Xiao Lou smiled and said, "If we change one every day, Lao Mo's head will explode, right? Since it's still the same maze as last night, let's go look for the Zhao family and the Chen family first."
The group of people followed Lao Mo's map and quickly found the Zhao family.
Last night they saw the bride getting married here. When they came to the door of Zhao's house tonight, they found that the door was open, bright red lanterns were lit in the yard, and the whole yard was decorated very festively.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other and walked in side by side.
The courtyard was brightly lit, and a middle-aged couple wearing red clothes stood in the center of the courtyard. They kept looking at the gate, as if they were watching someone go away.
After a while, the woman wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said with a choked sob, "We, Ze'an, have been pampered since childhood and married to a place as far away as Yuezhou. What if we are not used to it..."
The man patted her shoulder gently and comforted her, "Madam, don't worry too much. It's time for men to get married, and for women to get married. In my opinion, Xiao Ming is quite elegant, and he has a deep love for our family Ze'an. He will definitely not
She will be treated badly."
The woman reluctantly nodded and said, "I hope so."
At this moment, a girl in a pink dress sneaked past the two of them. The man heard her footsteps and said calmly, "Suisui, where are you going in the middle of the night?"
The girl stuck out her tongue and said with a smile, "Dad, I can't bear to let my sister get married. I want to see her off outside the city."
The man frowned and said, "It's so late and it's not safe for a girl like you to go out."
Zhao Zesui walked up to her father and said, "I have something very important to give to my sister. I was in such a hurry just now that I forgot about it! Don't worry, dad, I'll be right back!" After saying that, she ignored her father's obstruction and walked quickly.
Run out the door.
The girl passed by Xiao Lou, and Yu Hanjiang made a lightning-fast move to catch her, but missed her.
Her body was like a ball of air, Yu Hanjiang's hand passed directly through her shoulder, and the girl, as well as her parents, turned a blind eye to Xiao Lou and his group, as if Xiao Lou and the others did not exist at all.
Xiao Lou asked doubtfully, "Another illusion?"
Yu Hanjiang looked at the girl's back and said solemnly, "It should be a reappearance of the scene back then. Last night, we saw Zhao Ze'an getting married, and tonight is what happened in the Zhao family after she got married. These were all three years ago, on July 14th.
The scene that night.”
Xiao Lou glanced at Long Sen and Qu Wanyue, "Follow her and pay attention to safety."
Long Qu and the two men immediately used chameleon cards to merge with the floor, and quickly followed the fourth lady Zhao Zesui who ran out the door.
Yu Hanjiang whispered, "Old Mo, Xiao Liu, put on the invisibility cloak and go to the Chen family to have a look. Maybe there will be a follow-up plot."
Lao Mo and Liu Qiao nodded, turned around and went out.
The six people divided into three groups and continued to follow. Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang followed the Zhao couple into the yard.
At this time, the second young lady's escort team had left the Zhao family, and the guests had dispersed. The Zhao family and his wife went back to the house to sleep. At this moment, a regular sound of "dong dong" suddenly came from the backyard. The sound was like
It's a rattle, but it's not as crisp as the rattles I heard before.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang walked forward in the direction of the sound. Soon, they came to the most secluded courtyard - that was where the elders of the Zhao family lived as they confirmed during their investigation during the day. Xiao Lou remembered that there were people in the house.
Many copied scriptures.
A thumping sound was coming from inside the house.
Yu Hanjiang came to the door in two or two steps, poked a hole in the paper window with his finger, squinted and looked inside——
I saw an old lady with gray hair kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, twisting a long string of Buddhist beads in her right hand, and tapping the wooden fish regularly with her left hand. She was wearing a navy blue robe like a nun, her eyes were closed, and her face was dull.
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Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other.
Yu Hanjiang whispered, "When my granddaughter gets married, is she reciting sutras here to pray for her granddaughter, or is she repenting in this way and trying to wash away the sins of the descendants of the Zhao family?"
Xiao Loudao: "If the murderer's motive for exterminating the Zhao family was revenge, then the ancestors of the Zhao family must have done some bad things in the past, such as raising human animals in captivity during the famine and surviving by cannibalism? If this speculation is true, Zhao
The old lady at home can get reasonable explanations by copying scriptures, eating fast and chanting Buddha's name."
Yu Hanjiang nodded in agreement, "Well, she felt that she had sinned a lot, so she had been a vegetarian and chanting sutras in the years after the famine passed, so we found many handwritten sutras in her room."
Just as he said this, suddenly, the lights in the house went out and the sound of wooden fish stopped abruptly.
Immediately afterwards, all the red lanterns in the Zhao family's yard were extinguished. Xiao Lou thought that the murderer had arrived, and immediately turned around to look outside the door with vigilance. But the next moment, a pair of old, thin hands suddenly stretched out from the house behind him.
He came out, poked a big hole in the paper window, and pinched Xiao Lou's neck accurately and fiercely!
Xiao Lou couldn't take a breath, his face suddenly turned red from holding back, and the heavy feeling in his chest was so strong that it made his head dizzy. The cold touch of his hands passed through his skin to his mind, and Xiao Lou felt as if he was being entangled by a poisonous snake.
He felt like he was paralyzed, and the pressure on his neck became more and more intense, making him unable to breathe at all!
When Yu Hanjiang saw this scene, his eyes were about to split. With his sharp eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed the old lady's wrist and twisted it hard in the opposite direction - only to hear the crisp sound of the bones being broken rang in his ears, followed closely.
, the old lady's hand suddenly disappeared, leaving distinct finger prints on Xiao Lou's fair neck.
The pressure on his chest disappeared instantly. Xiao Lou regained his breath and coughed desperately to adjust his breathing. Yu Hanjiang gently ran his hand along his back and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay? Why did this old lady attack you suddenly?"
Xiao Lou shook his head, "It's okay. The old lady is not an illusion, she may be a hunter. Let's get out of here quickly."
Just as the two of them were about to move forward, a large number of dense traps suddenly appeared under their feet. Those traps were about to trap their feet. Yu Hanjiang reacted very quickly, put his right hand around Xiao Lou's waist, and directly
Open the Qinggong card and fly up, landing on the roof like a big bird!
However, he brought Xiao Lou down to the eaves, and dense arrows shot at them like a heavy rain!
At the same time, a huge net fell from their heads.
——Another time to catch a turtle in a jar. The hunters had already guessed that they would come to Zhao's house to investigate, and had laid a trap in advance.
Xiao Lou was nervous. The moment he saw the arrow rain and the giant net, he summoned Li Qingzhao as a conditioned reflex. The "slow sound" skill slowed down all the sharp arrows. The overwhelming arrow rain was like a movie.
Play in slow motion.
Yu Hanjiang cooperated tacitly, waved his right hand violently, and cut off all the sharp arrows that were about to hit Xiao Lou's nose. The sharp knife cut through the thorns all the way, the blade cutting iron like mud, and forcibly split open the giant net that was slowly falling.
Kouzi.
Taking advantage of the time when Li Qingzhao was reading the poem "Slow Voice", the two of them escaped from the rain of arrows without any danger.
Yu Hanjiang led the Xiaolou to rise and fall continuously, flying over the roofs and walls of the town.
I don’t know how long it took, but the two of them came to the lake. The hunters didn’t seem to catch up with them. Xiao Lou was still in shock. He exhaled softly and immediately held down the earphones and said, “Be careful, everyone, the ghost town at night is full of hunters.
They know where we want to investigate and have prepared an ambush in advance!"
Qu Wanyue's voice came quickly: "Professor Xiao, are you okay?"
Xiao Lou said, "It's okay. Please pay attention to safety and come to Zuiyue Lake to meet us."
Qu Wanyue said, "Long Sen and I followed Zhao Zesui to the gate of the town. As soon as we left the town, she disappeared. Is it because only the town is a ghost town at night, and we can't see her outside the town?"
The wedding team last night also disappeared after leaving the town, which shows that Qu Wanyue's speculation is very reasonable. At night, only the town is a ghost town, and some scenes can be recreated. They will not be seen for three years after leaving the town.
The previous plot.
Yu Hanjiang said, "You guys come back first. Where is Xiao Liu?"
Liu Qiao said, "After Mrs. Chen gave birth to the child, she was too tired and fell asleep. The child went to the wet nurse to feed her and then fell asleep. The midwife had already left, and the maids and servants were busy most of the night and fell asleep. But Chen Yu suddenly fell asleep.
He hurriedly left the house and sneaked out of the town. We followed him all the way, and just like Sister Qu said, he disappeared after leaving the town."
Xiao Lou nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. Come back and join us first, and I'll use the mark to pull you."
After he and Yu Hanjiang arrived at Zuiyue Lake, they put down Li Qingzhao's mark. Five minutes passed quickly, just in time to pull his teammates directly to him.
The six people checked the clues they found, and finally, Xiao Lou came to the conclusion: "The town at night is a ghost town, and there are a lot of hunters. Many of the scenes we saw are illusions, and they may be left behind by the obsession of the deceased."
The memory fragments and the playback of past events can give us some ideas for solving the mystery. But the limitation is that we have no way of knowing what happened after they left the town. As soon as they leave the town, the illusion will disappear."
Lao Mo said, "And I discovered that we can't get out of the town at all. There seems to be a transparent barrier at the door, sealing us in here."
Yu Hanjiang looked at the time and said, "We have been in the ghost town for more than four hours. Judging by the time, it is almost dawn. Mr. Shao has not turned on the teleport. Will something happen?"
Xiao Lou frowned worriedly, "Brother Ninth has been unable to be contacted..."
Lao Mo said, "If they don't use Peach Blossom Spring to teleport us out, there will be no way out of this ghost town at night. There will be no exit from the honeycomb maze. There is a barrier outside the town and we can't get out. And we tried it last night, and it wouldn't be dawn here at all."
I still remember that Lu Jiuchuan and others were outside the town last night. It was already dawn, but it was always dark inside the town. Lao Mo's worry was justified - without the forced teleportation from Peach Blossom Spring, they might not be able to get out of the night ghost town.
But now, Shao Qingge and Lu Jiuchuan have lost contact. Xiao Lou has no way to judge the situation outside, let alone let Shao Qingge start teleportation.
Xiao Lou asked, "Are we going to be stuck here forever?"
Yu Hanjiang was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "There may not be an exit. Although little girl Fang Pian is perverted, all the mazes she encountered before will have exits. A maze without an exit loses the meaning of the challenge."
Xiao Lou nodded, "That's right. Lao Mo, let's look for it again."
He took a few steps forward, suddenly thought of something, and looked back -
The water of Zuiyue Lake sparkles under the illumination of the moon, and the shimmering fragments of moonlight on the lake look like a disrupted path, with the end point pointing to Zuiyue Pavilion in the middle of the lake.
Xiao Lou's eyes lit up, "That pavilion. The pavilion in the middle of the lake. We didn't go up there last night. Maybe that's the center of the maze!"