Card Room - 332. Mime private 482

【Chapter 482, Secrets on the Roster】

Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci just turned the window out, and the sound of the man’s footsteps came to the door of the study. The wooden door was pushed open with a “creak”. The two squatted outside the window, holding their breath, and pricked their ears to listen to the room. The movement.

Qin Feng walked to the bookcase and pulled out a book from the shelf. The bookcase separated suddenly in front of him, revealing a hidden door. He picked up a candlelight in his right hand and walked down the steps, leaving only two A thin, tall figure from the back.

The door of the bookcase closed slowly after he entered the secret room, as if nothing happened just now.

Lu Jiuchuan gently held Tang Ci’s wrist and whispered: “Retreat first.”

The two quickly left the yard.

The weather outside is fine, but Lu Jiuchuan always feels that this alley exudes a strange gloom. It may be because the old branches and leaves on the roadside are too lush, and the sun in the whole alley is blocked by leaves, shrouded in a large shadow.

After a while, the two walked out of Xiushui Lane. People come and go on the street, the sun is shining, and the bustle and noise on the street form a sharp contrast with the quiet Xiushui Lane.

Lu Jiuchuan took Tang Ci to the direction of the inn.

After arriving in a corner with no one, Lu Jiuchuan pressed his earphones and whispered towards Xiao Loulou: “The mayor suddenly went home while we were investigating. He didn’t have time to conduct a thorough search. He only used a drone to take a picture of key information about his home. Give you the inn?”

Xiao Lou asked: “Does your invisibility cloak still have time?”

Tang Ci glanced at the countdown and said, “There are 5 minutes left.”

Xiao Lou said: “5 minutes should be in time. You walk the small alley behind the inn, and Han Jiang and I live in the second room from the left on the second floor. When that happens, I will open the window, and you will fly in without any effort. Give the machine to me.”

Lu Jiuchuan said “Okay” and accelerated with Tang Ci.

The invisible two people came and went freely in the town. The residents only felt that a breeze was blowing by them. In a blink of an eye, the two of Jiutang came to the alley designated by Xiaolou. Lu Jiuchuan looked up and saw it. The window of a guest room on the second floor was wide open. He took Tang Ci and jumped directly into the room.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang are waiting for them.

Perceiving a gust of wind coming in, Xiao Lou hurriedly said: “Brother Nine? Are you all right?”

Lu Jiuchuan said, “It’s going well, Qin Feng shouldn’t find us?”

Tang Ci said: “Not necessarily. The lock on the cabinet was opened with a universal key, and all the information was restored. But in the secret room of the study, although we didn’t go in, has the mechanism been opened may he be able to see it? Come out? We can’t be sure if the mechanism on his bookcase has moved.”

Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, “If he finds someone broke into the study and opened the secret room, will the evidence be destroyed? Mr. Tang used a drone to photograph the inside of the secret room?”

Tang Ci was helpless: “The situation was urgent at the time, and we could only do this.”

He took the drone out, handed it to Xiao Lou, and opened the surveillance image.

The card-sized monitoring screen starts to play back the clips just recorded.

In the picture, the field of vision is going down a dark stairway to a wide secret room. The surrounding walls are covered with blue stone bricks, and there are kerosene lamps on the walls. Although the light is dim, you can clearly see the inside of the house. Furnishings.

What shocked Xiao Lou was that the walls around the secret room were covered with rattles!

The red rattle, originally a child’s toy, can be hung densely in the cold underground chamber, but it makes people involuntarily think of “the torture instrument in the cell”…

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, the latter lowered his voice and said, “This Qin Feng is very suspicious.”

Lu Jiuchuan looked at the image and couldn’t help but vomit: “The room is full of rattles. Does he have any obsession with rattles? When he was a kid, he fought with people because of rattles… Or, the rattles are very memorable to him. Meaningful toy?”

Yu Hanjiang said: “Many killers have the habit of using specific props as their identity.”

Xiao Lou zoomed in on the screen of the drone monitoring, and after careful comparison, he said: “These rattles are not just tigers on the drum surface, but the zodiac signs…” He paused and looked back at the crowd. : “Do you think the mayor is likely to be the murderer?”

Tang Ci said: “The clue is too obvious, shouldn’t it be that simple?”

Yu Hanjiang also said: “With the personality of the gatekeeper, it is unlikely that we will find the murderer directly at the beginning. It may be a distraction. However, the mayor must have something to do with the murderer.”

With a light swipe of Tang Ci’s finger, he called up another document captured by the drone.

I saw a stack of books in the screen. Lu Jiuchuan was quickly turning the pages. The drone clearly captured the content on each page. In one of them, more than 90% of the people’s names were marked with a red cross.

Xiao Lou was stunned: “Is this a homicide record book? Or is the dead person crossed off by him?”

The order is very important. If the name of a person is crossed out first, and the person dies later, then the murderer is “planning to kill”. This roster is the list of enemies he wants to avenge; on the contrary, if someone dies, then cross out. His name, then this roster is probably just to record the dead residents in the town.

Yu Hanjiang said: “This information is very important. We can follow this clue to investigate. In addition to the Zhao family and Chen family who were destroyed, there are many names on this roster that have been crossed out. These people are dead or alive. , The cause of death must be investigated clearly.” He looked at Lu Jiuchuan, and said, “Time is pressing, and the murderer is very cruel. Be sure to pay attention to safety when investigating.”

Lu Jiuchuan nodded: “Don’t worry, leave it to us.”

Xiao Lou said: “There are too many people to check, you two can’t be too busy, so I can transfer two more people to help you.” He held down the headset, and said: “Long Sen, Qu Wanyue, the two use chameleon cards to follow Brother Jiu together. When you go out to investigate, I will use the headset channel to tell you where you are going. You need to find out the lives and deaths of some people.”

Qu Wanyue quickly replied: “Understood.”

In addition to the name and birth date, this roster also records the specific location of everyone living in the town, which is convenient for everyone to investigate. The two of Long Qu used chameleon cards to crawl on the ground, while Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci pretended to travel in the small town. The four of them circled the town in a full circle according to Xiao Lou’s distribution, and investigated one by one.

The afternoon passed quickly. The investigative group of four went through the residences of all the people recorded on the roster, and then was surprised to find that some people were dead, and some were still alive.

Lu Jiuchuan said, “The person named Lin Zhaokuan on the roster is still alive. He is an old man living alone in his 50s.”

Qu Wanyuehui reported: “Qi Mingwei, an old man in his 60s, lives with his son, daughter-in-law, and a new-born grandson. Passing by their house just now, the house is quite rich, and the yard is very stylish. By the way, his son looks familiar to me. It should be the young man who passed the alley behind the inn today and bought a rattle for his child.”

Xiao Lou was startled, and asked, “Is it him?”

Qu Wanyue said: “I’m not mistaken. He is dressed exactly the same. He is holding the rattle with a lamb in his hand. The maid who called him home is using the rattle to tease the child.”

Long Sen added: “The members of the Yu family are also there. The two brothers Yu Liang and Yu Rui on the roster live near Xiushui Lane. I saw their brothers go out together just now.”

Tang Ci said: “The people I checked were all missing for unknown reasons.”

It seems that this roster is hidden behind the scenes. Some of the people whose names have been crossed have disappeared-that is, they have been killed by the murderer, and some are alive and well, and they will definitely become the next target of the murderer.

Xiao Lou asked: “There have been people missing these years, don’t the residents in the small town have any doubts?”

Lu Jiuchuan said helplessly: “They all believe that this is a’great ghost’s life’. Those who have not harmed people are not worried about this. They think that as long as they sleep honestly after dark, no ghost will find their heads. And once someone disappears in the town, everyone will talk privately, saying that they must have harmed people and were retaliated by the ghost.”

Li Gui’s statement has completely brainwashed the people in the small town.

Lu Jiuchuan said: “It is said that someone in the town has really seen a ghost. We passed by a house just now and heard the children crying. The elders scared them with ghosts. The story is very vivid…”

Tang Ci followed up and retelled the story of the old population to everyone: “On the rainy night three years ago, the team that sent the relatives was hooked by the ghost. The ghost’s face was as white as paper, the lips were red as blood, and he was dressed in white and long hair. The drape fell down to cover his face, and he couldn’t see his face clearly. The hair could fly around, suddenly stretched a few feet, and wrapped around a person’s neck.”

Xiao Lou: “…”

The rumors are really getting more and more bizarre.

Ye Qi couldn’t help but complain: “This female ghost, sounds a lot like Nie Xiaoqian of a Chinese Ghost Story?”

Shao Qingge interjected: “The legend of the ghost shouldn’t have appeared for no reason. The murderer is using this method to confuse the audience to cover up his crime of murder. Maybe, the ghost was pretending to be.”

Xiao Lou also agreed with Mr. Shao’s speculation and said: “The murderer started committing the crime three years ago. According to the records of the roster, a total of 53 people have disappeared in the past three years. They are scattered old people living alone who have died and few people noticed. There are currently 34 people on the roster who are still alive.”

Yu Hanjiang said: “The murderer has killed so many people, and his psychology has long been abnormal. We have to find a way to stop him.”

Lu Jiuchuan said: “The current problem is that the murderer is active at night, and when it comes to night, we cannot enter a normal town and will only be forced into a ghost town. The night ghost town and the night town are two different spaces. We can’t meet the murderer in the ghost town, so the murderer can continue to kill people unscrupulously without worrying about our interference.”

Tang Ci added: “If we notify the 34 people who are still alive in advance and let them be careful, they will definitely not believe us.”

Ye Qi scratched his head and said: “It’s really troublesome. We are all strangers from other places. We suddenly came up and said,’Someone will kill you, run quickly.’ They think our brains are sick? How should we warn them?”

Liu Qiao suggested: “Or, each house puts a rattle with a note on it and writes in scarlet letters: Tonight, when I am son, the ghosts are killing them-can you scare them away?”

Everyone: “…”

Xiao Liu’s brain is like a prank no matter how it sounds.

Of course, people who have done bad things may really be scared off by her method. But it is more likely to be self-defeating, because it will rush the murderer, maybe the murderer will be more brutal and let the whole town be buried?

Xiao Lou lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of a way: “The way he kills is to manipulate people’s will and lead them to the mass graves on the top of the mountain. Although we can’t enter the town at night to meet the murderer, we can Intercepted halfway.”

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: “Good idea! Intercept in the forest outside the town, one can save people, and second, maybe you can catch the murderer on the spot. Even if you can’t catch it, you can at least find some clues.”

As dusk approaches, the setting sun on the horizon dyes the sunset glow into a flame-like color. Xiao Lou stood by the window and looked at the sky in the distance, with a worried expression on his face: “It’s getting dark soon. Let’s eat and replenish ourselves, and prepare to act tonight.”

He looked at Yu Hanjiang, the latter understood, and immediately said: “Me, Xiaolou, and Dragon, Qu, Mo, and Qiao, the six-man team sneaked into the town to find out the secrets of the ghost town at night. Brother Nine, Mr. Tang, Huaying and Gui Senior, go to the woods to intercept the murderer. Shao and Xiaoye hid as a liaison and opened a peach blossom field outside the town, ready to send teammates in danger at any time.”

The night is coming, what will be the survival problems they face?

Xiao Lou always felt that things were not that simple.