Card Room - 347. Chapter 497-498

[Chapter 497, twenty years ago]

Ren Yuan said, “Actually, after more than half of the bandits on the mountain died in internal fighting, the town was calm for several days. Many people who survived would go out to exchange food during the day, and some would go to the woods outside to find food. , Relying on weeds and wild fruits to continue their lives. Unexpectedly, some of the remaining people are frantic and start to arrest and eat human flesh!”

Ye Qi carefully sorted out the timeline of the story he told, and concluded: “In other words, when the famine just started, a group of robbers appeared in Qingfeng Town and broke into the house to rob gold and silver treasures. Those people went outside the woods. A bandit village was built on the mountain, and as a result, the bandit village was in civil strife. Someone killed their companions and ran away with the treasure… Then, another hunting dog organization appeared in the town?”

Ren Yuan nodded and said, “That’s it.”

Ye Qi glanced at Shao Qingge and asked in his mind, “Could it be the same group of people?”

Shao Qingge said: “You mean, the one who killed his companions and ran away with the treasure was the same group of people who founded the Hound Organization?”

Ye Qi seriously analyzed: “Robbery is the first, arresting and cannibalism are behind. Obviously, those who robbed the treasure were in an internal disturbance due to uneven distribution of the spoils. Several cruel people simply killed their companions and embezzled large sums of money. However, there are famines everywhere. They run away with money and go to other places. They may also be robbed by bandits in other places. It is better to go back to the small town to be safe. I know it best.”

Shao Qingge carefully pondered what Ye Qi said, and agreed: “It makes sense. In such troubled times, running away with money is actually very dangerous. On the contrary, the people in Qingfeng Town are very familiar with them, knowing which ones are not easy to provoke and which ones are. Soft persimmons that can be squeezed at will. Therefore, they return here with money to bully the weak and old women and children who are unable to resist.”

Ye Qi said: “This can also explain why they wear masks. After all, it is not a good thing to live by cannibalism, and it will also affect the reputation of future generations. With a large amount of treasure in their hands, they can take it off when the famine passes. The mask has changed, and he has become a local rich man with a head and a face.”

If this is the case, the perpetrator has a very deep heart. Perhaps from the moment he took a few brothers to robbery, he planned a way out for himself.

Thinking of this, Ye Qi looked at Ren Yuan and asked, “Big Brother Ren, the person who smashed your shop and took the silver from your store, did he also wear a mask?”

Ren Yuan stunned: “How do you know?”

Ye Qi knew it, and continued to ask, “I guess. You masked your face during the robbery, so that you might be recognized? These people must be acquaintances in your town. By the way, the masks they wore were organized by the hounds. Do people wear the same mask?”

Ren Yuan was very impressed with these people and immediately shook his head and said, “It’s not the same. The gang of people who robbed were all masked with black kerchiefs; while the one who arrested that night was wearing a black grimace mask with some on it. Strange pattern.”

Shao Qingge raised his eyebrows and said, “Grimace mask? Can you tell who owns it?”

Ren Yuan smiled bitterly: “It’s sold everywhere during the Mid-Year Festival, and anyone can buy it. I don’t know who those people are just by looking at the masks. Moreover, the voices are not familiar to me. They must have deliberately lowered their voices to speak People can’t hear.”

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge looked at each other and continued to communicate with each other carefully.

Shao Qingge said: “If your speculation is correct, these people are quite smart and deliberately put on different masks, making the residents of the town mistakenly believe that the robbery gang and the later hunting dog organization are not the same group of people.”

Ye Qi said: “I don’t think there will be too many people in this’hounds’ team. After all, if you have swallowed so many treasures, it will not be easy to distribute if there are too many people. Moreover, normal people can’t do things like cannibalism. Very much. Most likely, they are a few friends who usually have a relatively strong relationship. After discussing them, they agreed to act together.”

Shao Qingge also thinks this way: “Why don’t we go and explore this organization after dark?”

Ye Qi did not directly agree. He was silent for a moment and asked in confusion: “There is a question, how long can we stay in the world twenty years ago? Should we send it back after dark or dawn, or should we stay here forever? here?”

Shao Qingge was stunned by Ye Qi’s question-he ignored the key.

I remember that at that time, Xiao Lou arranged three teams to act separately. Xiao Lou led the team to the ghost town at night, and Brother Nine led the team to the woods to intercept the possible murderer. He and Ye Qi waited to send at the door of the town at any time. Xiao Lou will also Two Tao Yuanming cards were given to him, so as not to cool down the transfer skills at that time.

However, after coming out of Taohuayuan, he and Ye Qi came to the world twenty years ago.

Time was completely messed up, the team’s voice headset was still in my ears, but I never heard a voice from my teammates again.

How should they go back to meet Xiaolou? Can I go back?

Shao Qingge frowned slightly, and said, “Well, all questions will have to wait until midnight tonight. This time the secret room seems to be the moment when day and night alternate. After midnight, if we are not teleported back, it means that …We are likely to be left twenty years ago.”

Ye Qi was a little confused: “But if that’s the case, how should we contact Professor Xiao and the others?”

Shao Qingge was helpless: “I didn’t think of a good idea. I would look at it as I walked, and first check the hound organization before I talk about it.”

This can only be done, if zero o’clock can be sent back, their worries are somewhat redundant.

Ren Yuan found that the brothers were in a silent daze. He thought they were frightened, so he coughed and comforted: “You two, this thing is really horrible, but don’t worry too much. I will accept you. My jewelry will definitely help you. I have a way. The three of us will never starve to death together.”

Ye Qi glanced at the food on the ground and said, “You can eat these sweet potatoes for several months by yourself. If you add our brothers, you can only eat them for a month? Do you have any other way to eat them?”

Ren Yuan nodded: “In the woods outside the town, there is a place to find food.”

Ye Qi pretended to be grateful and said, “Brother Ren, then I beg you.”

After dark, Ren Yuan greeted the two to act together.

He was already wearing old clothes that could not see the color, he found some mud and wiped it on his face, made some weeds in his hair, and then surreptitiously led Ye Qi and Shao Qingge out of the cave.

In order to avoid being suspected by him, Ye Qi and Shao Qingge did not use the displacement card, and followed him all the way, leaning on the waist and gently walking forward against the wall. About half an hour, the three walked out of Qingfeng Town.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, and the surroundings were so quiet that only the breathing and footsteps of three people remained.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Ren Yuan led the two into the woods.

The trees in the forest have long since dried up, so it should be winter in season. The cold wind was piercing, and Ye Qi’s teeth trembled from the cold. Shao Qingge shook his hand lightly and asked in his mind: “Is it cold?”

Ye Qi said: “It’s okay, you can bear it.”

Compared with the hungry and cold people, the two of them are at least not hungry and wear several layers of clothes.

After a while, Ren Yuan said, “Just ahead.”

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge followed him forward and found that this was a cliff. Ye Qi looked up and saw the mountain when he first entered K’s Secret Chamber. I remember that in the night when it was raining heavily, the mass grave on the top of the mountain suddenly changed. Numerous zombies crawled out of the grave and forced them to the edge of the cliff.

The cliff is bottomless, and they have no way to go back. In the end, Brother Nine and Mr. Tang flew down the mountain on the Vermillion Bird, found a safe place, and directly sent everyone away. The next day, when Brother Nine and the others went to investigate, they found that under the cliff of this mountain was originally a forest, and a vine had been hanging down from the top of the mountain.

According to Xiao Lou’s speculation, the murderer probably relied on this vine to climb the mountain.

But now, this cliff appeared in front of Ye Qi and Shao Qingge.

There is one more…

Thick and long vines.

For unknown reasons, Ye Qi and Shao Qingge suddenly felt the blood chill all over their bodies, as if they were splashed with cold water in a cold winter.

Ren Yuan knows this place.

He even climbed slowly along the vine.

Ye Qi shuddered suddenly, and said in his mind: “Mr. Shao, maybe you gave the sapphire necklace to the murderer again!”

Shao Qingge: “…”

At the time in the Q secret room, Shao Qingge gave the sapphire necklace to Xiao Lou’s sister, Xiao Rou, and it was finally confirmed that Xiao Rou was also a clone and was an accomplice of the big boss behind the scenes.

He is not so bad luck, twice in a row, gave the props of “increasing favorability” to the boss, right?

At this moment, Ren Yuan turned his head and grinned: “Don’t be stunned, just climb up with me.”

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge: “…”

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[Chapter 497, the world three years ago]

After the four of Lu Jiuchuan returned to the inn, Chu Huaying offered to suggest: “We still left too few clues for Xiao Lou. Those five people who saw ghosts in the night were just suspicious, but there was no evidence to prove whether they were related to the murderer. I I think we still have to keep staring at Qin Feng’s line. The mayor’s performance has always been strange.”

Gui Yuanzhang asked, “Huaying, do you want to follow him?”

Chu Huaying nodded and said decisively: “My physical fitness has been strengthened by cards. Even without the help of the cloak of invisibility, I can quietly follow behind him without being noticed by him.”

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: “Of course I can rest assured of Huaying’s tracking ability. I will leave the clue to follow Qin Feng to you.”

Chu Huaying: “Okay, I will act when it gets dark.”

Lu Jiuchuan looked at Tang Ci and lowered his voice: “Has the drones on the Zhao family been arranged?”

“Well, the person who arranged the mourning hall for the Zhao family should appear soon.”

Lu Jiuchuan said again: “There is another person who needs attention. The woman who was crying in Chen’s house today said that her sister had a child and she came to visit. Qin Feng didn’t know her and asked if she came from a different place. Maybe we Can you find some clues about her sister, that is, Mrs. Chen Yu?”

Gui Yuan Zhang said, “Leave this person to me. I just saw her staying in the Fulai Inn.”

Tang Ci said: “The remaining five witnesses of ghosts, let Brother Nine and I investigate.”

Everyone assigned the task.

At night, the four moved separately.

Chu Huaying flew to Qin Feng’s residence like a ghost and climbed to the roof silently.

The light was on in the study, and Qin Feng was looking at the book he wrote down by the candlelight with a thoughtful look on his face. I don’t know how long he has passed, but he has maintained this movement, motionless like a statue.

Chu Huaying also waited patiently on the roof.

Finally, Qin Feng stood up, frowned, blew out the candle, put on a coat, and turned to go out.

It was late at night, most people were already asleep, the town was very quiet, and occasionally some crickets could be heard. Qin Feng deliberately lightened his steps and walked quickly to the southeast of the town. Chu Huaying followed him like a ghost.

To Chu Huaying’s surprise, he actually walked to the door of the shop where Xue Ersao sold tofu.

He seemed to hesitate, pacing back and forth at the door.

Chu Huaying was puzzled—when I was inquiring around the town today, Ersao Xue told people that she saw Li Gui with her own eyes last night. Therefore, Chu Huaying also listened to the neighbors’ talk about this matter and knew this Xue Er’s wife married the second young master of the Xue family and her husband died of illness within a few days. She became a widow and supported the tofu shop alone.

Qin Feng came to Xue Ersao’s door in the middle of the night. Could it be that the two of them have an impure relationship?

Chu Huaying concentrated and continued to stare at the door.

After a while, Qin Feng seemed to have made up his mind and stepped forward and gently buckled the door lock.

The room was lit by a warm yellow candle, and a thin woman put on a cloak and opened the door. The soft moonlight shone on her face, making her look a little pale, but this woman has beautiful brows and beautiful features, especially Those eyes were especially black and bright against the white skin.

She saw the person in front of her and chuckled, “I guessed it was you. Why, come to me to investigate in the middle of the night?”

Qin Feng looked around for a while: “Can you go in and say?”

Xue Er’s wife said: “My husband is no longer there. Is it appropriate for you to enter my house in the middle of the night?”

Qin Feng coughed and said solemnly: “I have something serious to ask you.”

Xue Ersao smiled and opened the door, Qin Feng entered the house, and she locked the door from the inside.

Chu Huaying immediately flew over the tree, made a jump, and landed on the roof lightly, lifted a tile, and looked inside the house.

Qin Feng sat in the guest seat and Xue Ersao poured him a cup of tea. He didn’t drink it. He looked at each other and asked in a low voice: “I’m here, I just want to ask you a word.”

Ersao Xue still had a smile on her face: “Is it about the ghosts?”

“Yeah. Last night, five people said that they saw Li Gui with their own eyes. I clearly remember that there was only one thunder after the rain stopped. You said that when Li Gui appeared, there was thunder in the sky. Is it true?”

“Of course it is true. I was so frightened that my legs were weak, and I hurried back to the house.”

“Old Uncle Liu, Zhang Chengyu, and Lin Yueran also said that they saw a ghost during the thunder. The four of you live in different locations in the east, south, west, and north of the town. How could you see the ghost at the same time as the thunder?”

“Really? They saw it too?” Xue Ersao pretended to be surprised: “A ghost can float around. I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe she can appear in many places at the same time?”

Qin Feng stared at her deeply: “Then, do you know that Old Uncle Liu has bad ears and often misheards? He lives in the nearest place to Zhao’s family. Last night, when the second lady of the Zhao family was married, she was on the street. A string of firecrackers, did he misunderstand the sound of firecrackers as thunder?”

He paused and said slowly: “I asked Zhang and Lin in the afternoon. They didn’t seem to be lying. Moreover, Brother Lin’s son Doudou also said that when the ghost appeared, he was thundering, and the children did not. May lie. So…”

The woman’s face changed, she put away her smile, and said coldly: “You suspect, I’m lying?”

Qin Feng sighed lightly, looking at her with complicated eyes, and said: “Ningshuang, we grew up together, can’t you tell the truth in front of me?”

The woman said lightly: “Han Ningshuang is dead, don’t call me that.”

Qin Feng was silent for a moment before he said, “Okay, Ersao Xue. It wasn’t a ghost killing you at all last night…You were pretending to be a scary female ghost, right?”

The corners of the woman’s lips raised a hint of sarcasm: “You are too high to look at me, how can I fly around in the sky?”

Qin Feng said: “But you can make kites-white kites.”

woman:”…………”

Chu Huaying hid on the roof, listening to the conversation between the two, surprised.

First, Qin Feng and Xue Ersao have known each other since childhood, and Qin Feng found loopholes in the five people’s descriptions of Li Gui, and finally proved that Xue Ersao was lying.

Second, Xue Ersao’s real name is Han Ningshuang, and she knows how to make kites. She is very likely to make a white kite. She wears a woman’s white dress with black hair to disguise the appearance of a ghost, and then uses the wind to fly the kite into the sky. , People mistakenly think that “the ghost is floating in the sky”.

And she herself, pretending to be one of the frightened witnesses, actually committed the crime in secret…

The trajectory of her movement is the trajectory of witnesses in the small town seeing the “Ghost”.

The first person I saw was Old Uncle Liu who lived nearby. He misunderstood the sound of firecrackers when Miss Zhao was married as thunder.

The second one I saw was the proprietress in the center of the town. She didn’t hear the thunder.

The third one I saw was Zhang and Lin who lived in the north and west of Qingfeng Town. When Xue Ersao took the kite to the northwest, a thunderstorm sounded in the sky. In the northwest, the closest location to the exit of the town, she threw away the kite and followed the welcoming party to leave the town.

However, she ignored the details of the thunder. Old Uncle Liu was the first to speak, “I saw a female ghost during the thunderstorm.” She followed closely. She wanted to lower her suspicion, but she did not expect to be self-defeating, but was revealed by Qin Feng. .

Ersao Xue was silent for a long time, and then said with a smile: “Do you think I have such a great ability to make the 20 or so members of the Zhao family and the Chen family disappear overnight?”

Qin Feng shook his head: “I’m not sure. We separated when we were eighteen. In the following years, I don’t know where you went or what you did.”

A look of pain flashed in his eyes, he lowered his head slightly, and pressed his throat: “I came back to Qingfeng Town just to wait for you. I thought you might be able to go home and take a look so that I can find you. It’s just that. I didn’t expect it to be Xue Zhao and Mrs. Xue who he married back from a foreign country.”

The room fell silent.

After a while, Xue Ersao sighed lightly and said: “Xue Zhao saved my life. I married him to repay his kindness. At the time, I didn’t know he was from Qingfeng Town. If I knew it, I would never Follow him back to this sad place.” She paused, then said softly, “I thought you were dead long ago.”

Qin Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head: “I was also rescued by a kind person.”

The room fell silent again, and both seemed to be lost in memories.

A lot of information was blurred in their conversation, but it was certain that they knew each other at a young age. Moreover, Qin Feng has always been unmarried, and many matchmakers broke through his house and told him that he had rejected all of them. The person he was waiting for was the second sister Xue, formerly Han Ningshuang’s childhood sweetheart.

The light in the room was dim, and the shadows of the two were thrown on the wall and swayed slightly.

Qin Feng stared at the shadow on the wall in a daze. Han Ningshuang used a bamboo stick to pull the wick, and said blankly: “For the sake of our childhood acquaintances, I can tell you that the Zhao family The people of the Chen family deserved their sins, so don’t keep investigating them persistently. You won’t forget how they treated their mother-in-law in the first place, right?”

Qin Feng’s face was pale and did not reply.

Han Ningshuang said word by word: “They chopped off her mother-in-law’s hands and boiled in a pot; chopped her legs into meat, and cut off her ears to soak in wine…”

Qin Feng said sharply: “Stop talking!”

Han Ningshuang stopped describing, her expression cold.

Qin Feng stood up desperately, and said: “I hate them too! But those animals who deserve to die are already dead, and they are not as guilty as their wives and children. The descendants of the Zhao family and the Chen family were as old as ours. What do you know?”

Han Ningshuang sneered, “Don’t those children survive after eating the meat of their mother-in-law? Why can’t they pay back the sins their ancestors did?”

Qin Feng: “…”

Han Ningshuang said, “Blood debts and blood are paid for, it is justified. Qin Feng, I advise you not to check it anymore, otherwise, I might do it to you.” She paused and said, “It’s getting late, you should go back. When I came to my place in the middle of the night, people would gossip when they were seen.”

Qin Feng stood up with an ugly expression, took two steps and then turned around and said, “Where did you take those people?”

Han Ningshuang sneered: “I won’t tell you. Of course, you can expose me in front of everyone tomorrow, saying that I flew a kite and pretended to be a ghost on the night of July 14th, saying that I killed the Zhao family and the Chen family. More than 20 people, and then tied me to a wooden frame according to the rules left by my ancestors, and burned to death.”

Qin Feng’s face was green and white: “You are so stubborn! What is the difference between you killing innocents and those beasts? Should I really not bear to expose you?”

Han Ningshuang turned around, leaving him a back of his head, and ignored him.

Qin Feng slammed out the door with a look of despair.

Chu Huaying watched this scene on the roof, not knowing what to say. She followed Qin Feng back home and found that Qin Feng was sitting down at the table, picked up a writing brush, dipped it with red paint, and marked all the names on the roster with red crosses one by one.

Qin Feng blew out the candles and fell asleep in his clothes. Chu Huaying flew to the street next to him, held down the earphones, and quickly told Lu Jiuchuan all the information he had seen.

Lu Jiuchuan was startled after hearing this: “Could it be that Han Ningshuang is the murderer?”

Tang Ci said, “The so-called ghosts were originally her white kites. In other words, during the famine that year, the “mother-in-law” she had said was captured by the hunting dog organization and tortured to death. She and Qin Feng should be both mother-in-laws. The raised child was lucky enough to escape from Qingfeng Town, but after a few years, the two of them were separated somehow.”

Lu Jiuchuan followed Tang Ci’s speculation: “Qin Feng likes her and went back to the town to wait for her. She was rescued by a young man named Xue Zhao, married to Xue Zhao, and became Xue Ersao. Back to Qingfeng Town, she told Xiao Xiao The people in the town have retaliated wildly?”

“I remember that the drone captured the information of everyone in the town.” Tang Ci opened the drone and took a look, and said: “Calculated by Xue Ersao’s age, when the famine happened 20 years ago, she was only 9 years old. The zodiac is… Tiger.”

On the surface of the rattle, there was exactly a little tiger painted on it.

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After the double-shift is restored, the rhythm will speed up after the double-shift, and this case will soon come to light.

Everyone can guess who the murderer is:)