"Then do you think I look like a living person or a dead person?"
Qin Zhibo suddenly leaned over and put his face in front of the short-haired girl.
Since he had just washed his face in the bathroom, Qin Zhibo's face was clean at this time and looked neater than the slightly messy short-haired girl.
"you……"
The short-haired girl shook her head tremblingly, "When we woke up just now, we found that you were not breathing and you were bleeding a lot. We thought you were dead, so..."
"I'm sorry, we really didn't mean to leave you!"
The short-haired girl bowed her head to Qin Zhibo and apologized, but it was Qin Zhibo who was frightened.
I'm not breathing?
And shed a lot of blood?
Qin Zhibo remembered that he did bleed, but it shouldn't be a lot, right?
And who says that if a person bleeds, he will definitely die?
But if you don’t breathe, you are probably not far from death...
Am I really dead?
Qin Zhibo quickly used his left hand to test the pulse on his right wrist and neck.
If you press your fingers a little harder, you can feel the pulse beating, which is the rhythm of life.
Qin Zhibo judged from this that he was still alive.
What is the situation the short-haired girl is talking about?
Bleeding + apnea may be hemorrhagic shock.
But if it was a shock, it would be impossible for him to recover so quickly and still be able to do intense movements.
Could it be...
Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of a possibility.
He quickly opened the system mall and checked the products inside.
As of last week, the mall props are no longer refreshed, and most of the props in the mall have been purchased, except for the last one.
However, this prop has now disappeared.
When I opened the prop bar again, I saw something that looked like a "blood bottle" in the latest prop bar location.
[Curse of Bloodborne]
[The mysterious curse spread in the lost ancient capital "Yarnan"]
[Those who are cursed will receive the grace of blood originating from the blood of the ancient gods]
[Since it is a curse, you must suffer it]
[Under the indescribable power, your dreams will be connected with the ancient gods]
[The more times you receive grace, the more your spirit will fall into it]
["Stranger, blood gives you rebirth, blood makes you crazy! What choice will you make?"]
…
Qin Zhibo immediately understood when he saw this item appearing in his item list and saw that his general skill proficiency had been reduced by 22,000 points accordingly.
This prop can actually be purchased passively!
The so-called passive purchase means that when the host is in an emergency, he will purchase and use it himself.
The situation just now should have been extremely dangerous, which triggered the condition for purchase.
And coincidentally, Qin Zhibo hasn't used much of the main quest reward he got from Enkai last time.
Judging from the icon, the so-called [Curse of Bloodborne] is something like a blood bottle, and the deep red liquid inside should be blood.
Just now, I lost too much blood and went into shock. After the blood bottle was filled, my body was repaired.
Judging from the introduction of the props, the blood in this blood bottle is not ordinary human blood, but "divine blood" originating from ancient gods.
Because of this, it has a powerful healing effect on the human body.
Correspondingly, Qin Zhibo saw some weird things in his dream.
The good news is that this blood bottle can be reused. There is no cooling time and no specified injuries that can be used. It is almost equivalent to half a death-free gold medal.
Do you want to become the soul protagonist in the world of Conan?
The bad news is that every time the blood bottle is used in the future, the connection between the dream and the ancient god will be further deepened.
When you sink deeper and deeper, even if you have an iron will, you are not sure you will be immune to its influence.
Qin Zhibo thought for a moment and could only accept the status quo.
There was no way to retreat, not to mention that this blood bottle had indeed saved his life.
After withdrawing his thoughts, Qin Zhibo asked the short-haired girl again.
"Except for you three, where are the others?"
The short-haired girl shook her head, "I don't know either... We were all planning to leave here together, but suddenly the surroundings became dark and everyone dispersed."
"Darkness?" Qin Zhibo wondered, "Why is it dark? Isn't there a power outage?"
There is still a power outage in the villa, but our eyes have gradually adapted and we are able to see each other clearly.
The short-haired girl still shook her head, "I don't know, it's just that the surroundings suddenly became very dark, so dark that you couldn't even see each other's voices..."
After listening to the short-haired girl's description, Qin Zhibo remembered the "mysterious man" who appeared in the corridor before, and made the floor of the second floor collapse as soon as he stretched out his hand.
Could it be this person's fault?
"Then the girl who came with me was also with you before?"
The short-haired girl shook her head again, "No, when we woke up, she was gone..."
If the short-haired girl hadn't been frightened into insanity, then Koizumi Anko would have been the first to wake up?
But if she woke up first, she probably wouldn't have ignored her serious injury, let alone been so frightened that she wanted to escape quickly.
After all, the two of them had a life-long friendship in Enkai. What kind of storms and waves have they not seen before?
As a result, Koizumi Anko will most likely disappear passively.
Maybe he was kidnapped by that mysterious man...
Qin Zhibo put on the magic extractor, closed his eyes and thought of Koizumi Hongzi's appearance, and a direction quickly came to his mind.
The distance is not far, still inside the villa.
From the direction, it is between the meditation on the east side.
After confirming the location, Qin Zhibo planned to go to the rescue.
At this time, the man with glasses who had just fainted slowly opened his eyes.
"Mr. Qin? You..."
Seeing the famous detective come back from the dead, the man with glasses was obviously shocked.
But Qin Zhibo didn't have time to explain to him anymore, and directly explained, "Is it okay for you two to transport that fat man out?"
The guy with the eyes and the girl with the short hair looked at each other. One had a broken shoulder and the other had thin arms and legs. It was really not easy to handle a 200-pound fat man.
However, Qin Zhibo didn't care so much anymore, "When you get outside, drive away directly. When you get to a place with signal, call the police as soon as possible."
After saying that, Qin Zhibo stood up and wanted to leave.
The man with glasses quickly stopped him, "Mr. Qin, where are you going?"
Qin Zhibo looked back, his eyes cold and his expression serious.
"Of course it's to reveal all the truth tonight."
…
After coming down from the second floor, Qin Zhibo did not go to the meditation room immediately.
In the corridor leading to the meditation, he turned a corner and walked into the kitchen.
When he came to the gas stove, he turned on the gas knob and allowed the flammable and explosive gas to be released into the air.
Then he found a candle from the cupboard and took out a small cake from the refrigerator.
Candles can be used to light.
Small cakes can be used to replenish physical strength.
Qin Zhibo took the candle to the corridor, lit it, and placed it quietly on the ground in the middle of the corridor.
The next step is likely to be a tough battle, and you must be prepared in advance.
As for the truth of the case, Qin Zhibo also had some speculations in his mind.
On the surface, Huang Maonan has confessed, and various evidence points to him being the murderer.
But this case is not as simple as it seems.
There is a power within this that humans cannot understand.
Just like the content of the "Dark Magical Girl" manga...
Qin Zhibo walked towards the meditation room while chewing a small cake.
In the corridor, there was only the sound of leather shoes stepping on the marble floor, making it extremely quiet.
The door of the meditation room was closed tightly, and behind the frosted glass with magnificent patterns, there was a faint light of fire.
Qin Zhibo narrowed his eyes slightly, threw aside the remaining snack paper in his hand, pushed the door open and entered.
squeak--
As the door opened, the view behind the door was revealed to Qin Zhibo.
Qin Zhibo's eyes quickly scanned and he immediately spotted Koizumi Hongzi lying on the round table.
The place where the body of the blonde girl originally lay was now replaced by the unconscious Koizumi Anko.
The blonde girl was just discarded on the ground like used trash.
A closer look revealed that the blonde girl had a huge wound on her wrist, and a lot of blood was flowing out.
Beside the blonde girl, a cloaked figure was squatting next to him, collecting the blood in a small bucket.
Qin Zhibo's pupils shrank suddenly.
He recognized that this person was the person who appeared in the corridor just now and caused the floor of the second floor to collapse.
When Qin Zhibo barged in, the other person in the room couldn't help but be shocked.
"You, how are you still alive?!"
Qin Zhibo turned to look at the other person.
This person is none other than the yellow-haired man.
"Aren't you already dead?"
It can be seen that Huang Maonan was very surprised by Qin Zhibo's "resurrection from the dead".
But Qin Zhibo just smiled slightly and said in a slightly mocking tone: "Even this person is reluctant to die, how can I be willing to die?"
"Am I right? The former maid of the villa..."
"No, it should be Miss Yayuan Huang."
Qin Zhibo turned to look at the cloaked figure squatting next to the blonde girl.
And this man seemed to have finished what he was doing at this time. He placed the bucket of blood on the ground, stood up slowly, and took off the hood on his head.
Under the hood is an ordinary-looking woman's face.
"How did you know?"
The woman neither admitted nor refused, she asked calmly.
Qin Zhibo smiled again and said lightly: "From the moment you appeared, I had doubts about your identity."
"Actually, I should have thought of it earlier... Mr. Mifune said that he placed a bug in the villa, but in fact this operation is quite difficult."
"In a villa with such a large area, not only must bugs be installed so that they cannot be discovered for a long time, but they must also be recovered without leaving a trace."
"The most critical issue is that this is a suburb. Even if the signal in this villa is relatively strong, it is only relatively strong."
"The best eavesdropping equipment currently on the market cannot transmit the eavesdropped signals to urban areas dozens of kilometers away."
Qin Zhibo didn't pay attention to this doubt at first.
When it was confirmed that there were other people in the villa, it suddenly became clear.
Due to the [Topographic Survey], no eavesdropping device can escape Qin Zhibo's sight.
But in fact, no bugs were found in the villa, and there were no traces of bugs being installed.
If you are a yellow-haired man, it will be difficult to recover all the bugs in such a large building, and even placing them will be a problem.
Because Hirasaka's office and bedroom are integrated, and Hirasaka spends most of his time in the office and has the habit of locking the door.
There is also the problem of equipment. The signal transmission distance and strength of existing eavesdropping equipment do not support ultra-long-distance monitoring.
As long as you are not careful, you may miss key information generated by key encounters.
But in fact, Huang Maonan is very clear about the plans of Hirasaka and others.
Even the various arrangements and equipment in the seance ceremony are well understood, even down to the size of each poster.
In fact, as long as these props deviate slightly from the ideal state, such as the motor power is not large enough or the poster size is not large enough, the entire secret room murder plan will come to nothing.
This is an amount of information that can be obtained by more than just eavesdropping.
In other words, there is a helper beside the yellow-haired man who can obtain information more easily and directly.
In this way, the maid who just "disappeared" last week is very suspicious.
According to the information obtained from Officer Megure, the maid had terminated her employment relationship with Hirasaka normally, but did not return home, causing her family to report the crime.
But the day after the police were about to apply for a search warrant, the maid appeared in another place, which eliminated the possibility of filing a case.
Judging from this result, it is too coincidental.
Just as the police were about to search the villa, the maid appeared in their sight.
It was obvious that the "maid" did not want the police to search the villa.
So is there anything in the villa?
Based on the currently known information, one important thing that is still missing is the corpse of Yahara Huang from a year ago.
When Hirasaka accidentally killed Masahara Huang, causing the body to have a concussion injury on the back of the head, he did not dare to throw the body directly into the lake.
Because once the body is recovered by the police for autopsy, everyone's lies will be self-evident.
The body was hidden in the villa, but the "maid" who was in the same camp as the yellow-haired man did not want the body to be discovered by the police and exposed to the world. Qin Zhibo could only think of one possibility.
This may not be from reality, but from the comic "Dark Magic Girl".
In this comic, the protagonist Kira, who was reborn after death, once fished out the body of his predecessor from the river and used some kind of black magic to enhance his magic power.
Combined with the collapse of the floor just now and the sudden darkness of the vision of several people around, this is obviously beyond human power...
Finally, Qin Zhibo came to a conclusion.
The yellow-haired man conspired with the maid, and the maid was Yayuan Huang who died a year ago.
Seeing that the woman at the round table did not answer, Qin Zhibo continued.
"And one more thing……"
"Although the police did not announce that there was kira written on the floor when the editor died, in fact, Hirasaka and the doctor already knew this clue during the conversation at tonight's seance ceremony."
"Mr. Mifune, since you have been eavesdropping on Hirasaka for a long time, you should naturally know this information, and know that it was left by Miss Utakura in order to protect you."
"But you still chose to kill her..."
"This was not a mistake in judgment, in which he accidentally killed the person who was protecting him."
"But Miss Utakaura herself meets one of the conditions for casting a certain spell, right?"