The six Xiaolou people returned to Qingfeng Town in the daytime. The residents of the town were preparing lunch. The smell of food was wafting around the streets. People had kind smiles on their faces. It was impossible to tell that in such a peaceful town,
There are actually two cold-blooded, cruel murderers hiding in the house.
Qin Feng's roster is a key piece of physical evidence. The people marked with a red cross on the roster are all people who have disappeared in Qingfeng Town in recent years. Except for the Zhao family, the Chen family must have been led to the mass graves by the murderer.
, which murderer the other missing people were killed by has not yet been determined, Xiao Lou plans to investigate one by one.
He first screened out all the women on the roster who were around 18 years old.
Except for Zhao Zesui, the fourth daughter of the Zhao family, the number of remaining girls is exactly the same as the number of corpses found at the bottom of the lake. In other words, in the past few years, all the missing girls in the town were dragged into the lake and drowned by murderer No. 2.
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Xiao Lou thought about it for a moment and said to his teammates: "The families of these girls are still there. I guess they have been brainwashed by the rumors of 'spirit ghosts seeking their lives' and have not continued to trace the whereabouts of the missing people. We have to find a way to let them see for themselves
We saw the body at the bottom of the lake, so we can launch an investigation."
Yu Hanjiang agreed: "The murderer is hiding in the dark, and we have been very passive. Besides, our identity is just a passing tourist, and it is not convenient to directly ask for clues about the deceased. But if we 'accidentally' discover the body in the lake,
Their mayor must come forward to investigate this matter."
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other and said in tacit understanding: "Lead the snake out of the hole, use Qin Feng, the mayor, and use his mouth to investigate the truth about the girl's drowning case."
After confirming this, Xiao Lou started to make arrangements.
The six of them have to perform a scene.
After lunch, the weather was hot, so Liu Qiao and Lao Mo went to the lake to enjoy the cool weather and pretend to enjoy the scenery.
Liu Qiao was lying on the edge of the fence and looking into the distance. Suddenly, her foot slipped and she fell into the lake with a "plop". She opened her mouth and shouted: "Help...help..."
Seeing that her head was submerged by the lake water as she struggled, Lao Mo's expression changed and he hurried to the lake. He was sweating profusely and his face turned pale: "Who can save my apprentice? She fell into the lake.
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Yu Hanjiang, Xiao Lou, Long Sen, and Qu Wanyue "happened" to pass by here and heard the cry for help. Yu Hanjiang strode to the lakeside. There were already many onlookers around. He squeezed into the crowd and asked in a low voice: "Old man
,What's wrong?"
Lao Mo pointed to the lake in a panic: "My apprentice accidentally fell into the lake. The lake is unresponsive. If she sinks, will she be drowned?"
Without saying a word, Yu Hanjiang took off his coat and stuffed it into Xiao Lou's hand, and said to Long Sen: "Help!"
The two jumped into the lake one after the other.
The people around also poked their heads out and looked at the lake curiously. Some people whispered: "If you fell for so long and didn't respond, can you still be saved?" "Not necessarily. If this girl is not lucky, she can still survive if she is fished out.
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Xiao Lou looked nervously at the position where Yu Hanjiang jumped.
Yu Hanjiang and Long Sen had already sunk into the lake to look for someone—of course they were not looking for Liu Qiao, but the female corpse at the bottom of the lake. According to the original plan, when they rescued Liu Qiao, they would also move the water plants and remove the female corpse.
It was also dragged ashore by the way, and the onlookers would definitely be shocked. At the same time, they could also take the opportunity to investigate the clues of the corpse sinking at the bottom of the lake.
The problem is that they found the female body in the ghost town at night last night. Now it is Qingfeng Town during the day. Will there still be a body in the lake? If the inference is wrong, the scene will be in vain.
Xiao Lou waited uneasily for a moment. Suddenly, Yu Hanjiang floated to the lake with the "dying" Liu Qiao. Lao Mo immediately ran over excitedly and said: "Xiao Qiao, are you okay?"
Liu Qiao coughed desperately and coughed up a lot of lake water. He finally recovered and said with a white face: "Am I still alive?"
Lao Mo was ecstatic, touched her wet hair and said, "That's great! Thank you so much for this savior."
Liu Qiao turned to look at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Brother, thank you for saving me."
Several people acted hard, and the onlookers applauded. After watching the excitement, everyone should disperse. But at this moment, Long Sen, who had just jumped into the lake, suddenly dragged a woman in red to the surface and said: "Old man
, is this your apprentice?"
Old Mo was stunned for a moment, looked at the girl Long Sen dragged out, and said: "This...whose girl is this?!"
Long Sen laid the woman in red flat on the ground and said, "Not your apprentice?"
Lao Mo said: "My apprentice has been rescued. I don't know this girl!"
The onlookers looked horrified - one girl jumped down, but two were rescued. What kind of situation is this? Moreover, the woman in red seems to be dead? Her skin is as pale as paper, her face is swollen, and her appearance cannot be seen clearly.
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Yu Hanjiang took a step forward with a serious expression, squatted down and looked at the body on the ground, and said, "I'm afraid this girl has been dead for more than a day or two. Has anyone committed suicide in the small town recently by throwing herself into the lake?"
An aunt next to her said: "I haven't heard of any girl committing suicide! A year ago, several girls disappeared on the Ghost Festival. It was said that they were seduced by evil ghosts and made ghost wives?"
The middle-aged man said: "Why does the jade pendant on this girl's waist look familiar to me?"
An old woman asked doubtfully: "Isn't this the lady of the Lin family? The jade pendant seems to have the word 'Lin' written on it. By the way, their lady also disappeared on the Ghost Festival. Unexpectedly, she fell into the lake... Sigh...
, commit evil!”
People around were talking a lot. Soon, someone went to notify the mayor Qin Feng.
When Qin Feng rushed to the scene, the crowd was surrounding the body. He pushed aside the crowd and came to the body. He looked at Yu Hanjiang and asked in a low voice: "Did you discover the body?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "Yes. This girl accidentally fell into the water. My guards and I went to the lake to rescue people. Unexpectedly, we would rescue a female body from the bottom of the lake."
Qin Feng knelt down with a frown, carefully inspected the condition of the body, and finally came to the conclusion: "It should have been drowned."
Xiao Loudao: "I just heard everyone say that this Miss Lin disappeared on the Ghost Festival and was seduced by a ghost to become a ghost wife. How could she suddenly fall into the water and drown?"
Qin Feng said coldly: "Outsiders should not ask too much about our Qingfeng Town affairs."
He stood up and said to the two men following him: "Give this girl's body a good burial."
Then, he turned around and walked away neatly.
Xiao Lou: "..."
The plot NPC did not cooperate with the investigation at all.
According to common sense, there were so many girls missing in the town, and the body of one of them was found in the lake. Shouldn't the lake be searched thoroughly to see if other people had also fallen into the water and died? But the mayor actually buried the body.
Turn around and walk away, pretending like nothing happened?
He originally wanted to use Qin Feng's help to collect clues, but he didn't expect that Qin Feng didn't follow common sense and Xiao Lou's wishful thinking came to nothing. He glanced at Yu Hanjiang and followed the crowd to disperse.
After returning to the inn, Xiao Lou said helplessly: "The plot characters in the secret room this time are not affected by us at all. It seems that it is impossible to ask Qin Feng for help. We have to find clues on our own. What's more, Qin Feng's
The suspicion has not been ruled out."
Qu Wanyue said: "The rattle in the secret room of Qin Feng's study and the red-crossed roster. These evidences are too obvious. Why do I feel that he does not look like the murderer?"
Xiao Loudao: "I don't think he is the murderer, but he must be one of the insiders. However, the clues he knows will not be told to us, and judging from his reaction just now, he is very repulsive to others investigating this matter.
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Yu Hanjiang suddenly thought of something, frowned and said: "By the way, someone has been offering incense to the Zhao family's mourning hall. The survivor of the Zhao family's extermination case is probably the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family who did not appear in the memorial tablet. She was also involved in this case.
The key. We have to go to the Zhao family again to see if anyone went to the mourning hall to light incense today."
Xiao Lou also wanted to go to the scene again. When he and Yu Hanjiang went to the Zhao family yesterday, they found that the mourning hall was decorated a bit strangely. The room was filled with memorial tablets of the Zhao family, and three sticks of incense were lit. Apparently someone had given them to them for a long time.
Incense.
Nighttime is another space, and they won't be able to meet this person who is offering incense. If they go there during the day, they might find something else.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said: "Let's go to Chen's house and Zhao's house again to see if there are any missing clues."
The group put on their invisibility cloaks and quickly arrived at Chen's house.
At that time, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang did not search the Chen family. Liu Qiao and Lao Mo investigated. The key clues Liu Qiao found were a rattle and a letter written by Chen Yu to his father-in-law. Now, Xiao Lou searched again and found that
No other useful clues were found, but a hidden cellar in the Chen family's backyard caught Xiao Lou's attention.
When he walked to the door of the cellar, he always felt that there was something strange and eerie about the dark cellar. The cold wind went straight into his neck, which made Xiao Lou sneeze. He looked at the iron door that locked the cellar and asked Liu Qiao: "
Xiao Liu, have you gone down here to see it?"
Liu Qiao was a little embarrassed: "Professor Xiao, time is tight. I didn't realize there was a cellar here."
When Yu Hanjiang heard this, he also came over and said, "Cellars are usually used to store wine, right?"
Xiao Lou said: "This door is locked, I have to go down and take a look."
Long Sen took the initiative to walk ahead, broke the door lock, quickly walked around the wall and said, "The aroma of wine is very strong. There is indeed a lot of good wine hidden in this cellar."
What does this mean? Chen Yu likes to drink wine?
Xiao Lou didn't worry about this for the time being, and took everyone to the Zhao family's mourning hall again.
Sure enough, three more incense sticks were lit in the incense burner at the front of the mourning hall. At this time, the three incense sticks were about to burn out, indicating that the person who lit the incense had left here for some time.
Xiao Lou looked around carefully, trying to find any clues left by the person who offered the incense...
However, the other party was very cautious and did not leave even a hair.
Just when Xiao Lou regretted that there was no gain in this investigation, his eyes suddenly fixed on the cantilever beam on the roof. In the middle of the cantilever beam, there was a spider the size of a palm lying down.
Xiao Lou pointed there: "Look!"
Qu Wanyue was startled by the spider and said, "This spider seems motionless?"
Yu Hanjiang said calmly: "That's not a living spider, but Chu Huaying's spider mark."
Everyone has seen Huaying's spider mark before, and it can indeed be fake.
Xiao Lou was overjoyed: "This is the clue Huaying left for us!"
Yu Hanjiang flew up, climbed onto the cantilever beam with his left hand, and carefully searched with his right hand in the cracks of the cantilever beam. Sure enough, he found a letter, and when he opened it, he saw that it was the vigorous and powerful calligraphy of the old man Gui.
However, the content of the letter made everyone look at each other in shock.
I saw that the first line read: "Nine, Tang, Chu, Gui, the four of us traveled to the world three years ago and can't go back."