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[Chapter 482, Secrets on the Roster]

Just as Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci climbed out of the window, the man's footsteps came to the door of the study. The wooden door was pushed open with a "squeak". The two squatted outside the window, holding their breath, pricking up their ears and listening to the room. movement.

Qin Feng walked to the bookcase and took out a book from the bookshelf. The bookcase suddenly opened in front of him, revealing a secret door. He picked up a candle lamp in his right hand and walked down the steps, leaving only two people. He has a thin, tall back figure.

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

Lu Jiuchuan gently held Tang Ci's wrist and whispered: "Retreat first."

The two left the yard quickly.

The weather outside was sunny, but Lu Jiuchuan always felt that this alley exuded a strange eerie feeling. Maybe it was because the old branches and leaves on the roadside were so lush that the sunlight in the entire alley was blocked by the leaves, casting a large shadow.

After a while, the two walked out of Xiushui Lane. People were coming and going on the street, and the sun was shining brightly above our heads. The bustle and noise on the street formed a sharp contrast with the quiet Xiushui Lane.

Lu Jiuchuan took Tang Ci towards the inn.

After arriving at a deserted corner, Lu Jiuchuan held down his earphones and whispered to Xiao Lou: "During our investigation, the mayor suddenly came home. He didn't have time to search carefully, so he only used a drone to take pictures of key information about his home. Bring him. The inn is for you?"

Xiao Lou asked: "Do you still have time to use your invisibility cloak?"

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

Xiao Lou said: "Five minutes should be enough. You go to the alley behind the inn. Han Jiang and I live in the second room from the left on the second floor. I will open the window then, and you can fly in directly with Qinggong and take everyone away." Leave the machine to me."

Lu Jiuchuan said "Okay" and speeded up with Tang Ci.

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

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang are waiting for them.

Sensing a gust of wind blowing in, Xiao Lou hurriedly asked with concern: "Brother Ninth? Are you okay?"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "It went smoothly. Qin Feng probably didn't notice us?"

Tang Ci said: "Not necessarily. The lock on the cabinet was opened with a master key, and all the information was restored. But although we didn't enter the secret room in the study, he might be able to see whether the mechanism has been opened. Come out? We can't be sure if the mechanism on his bookcase has been tampered with."

Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "If he finds that someone broke into the study and opened the secret room, will he destroy the evidence? Did Mr. Tang use a drone to film the scene inside the secret room?"

Tang Ci was helpless: "The situation was urgent, so we could only do this."

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

The card-sized surveillance screen began to play back the footage just recorded.

In the picture, the vision goes down a dark staircase to a wide secret room. The surrounding walls are built with blue stone bricks. There are kerosene lamps on the walls. Although the light is dim, you can still see clearly inside the room. furnishings.

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

Red rattles are originally children's toys, but they are hung densely in the cold underground chamber. Instead, people can't help but think of "torture tools in cells"...

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

Lu Jiuchuan looked at the image and couldn't help complaining: "The room is full of rattles. Does he have any obsession with rattles? He had a fight with someone because of rattles when he was a child... Or should I say that rattles are very memorable to him? Meaningful toy?”

Yu Hanjiang said: "Many killers have this habit of using specific props as their identity."

Xiao Lou enlarged the footage from the drone surveillance, and after comparing it carefully, he said: "These rattles don't just have tigers on them, they also have the patterns of the Chinese zodiac..." He paused and looked back at the crowd. : "Do you think it is possible that the mayor is the murderer?"

Tang Ci said: "The clues are too obvious, it shouldn't be that simple, right?"

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 another interference. However, this mayor must have something to do with the murderer."

Tang Ci flicked his finger and called up another piece of information captured by the drone.

A stack of books appeared on the screen. Lu Jiuchuan was turning the pages quickly. The drone clearly captured the contents of each page. On one of them, more than 90% of the people's names were marked with a red cross.

Xiao Lou was startled: "Is this a murder record book? Or did he cross out the dead people from the list?"

The order is important. If a person's name is crossed out first and then the person dies, it means that the murderer is "planning to kill" and this list is a list of enemies he wants to take revenge on; on the contrary, if a person is crossed out after he or she dies, the murderer is "planning to kill". With his name in mind, it is possible that this register was only used to record the dead residents of 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 wiped out,

, there are still many people whose names have been crossed out on this list. Whether these people are dead or alive and the cause of death must be found out. He looked at Lu Jiuchuan and said, "Time is running out and the murderer is very brutal. You must pay attention to safety during the investigation." "

Lu Jiuchuan nodded: "Don't worry, leave it to us."

Xiao Lou said: "There are too many people who need to be investigated. You two are too busy. Let's call in two more people to help you." He held down the earphones and said: "Long Sen, Qu Wanyue, you two use the Chameleon Card to follow Ninth Brother. When you go out for reconnaissance, I will use the headset channel to tell you where you are going, and you need to find out whether some people are alive or dead."

Qu Wanyue quickly replied: "Understood."

This roster, in addition to names and birth dates, also records the specific location of everyone's residence in the town, which is convenient for everyone to investigate. Long Qu and the two crawled on the ground with chameleon cards, while Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci pretended to be traveling in the town. The four of them walked around the town in accordance with Xiao Lou's assignment, investigating each house.

The afternoon passed quickly. The four detectives visited the residences of all the people recorded on the roster, and then they were 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 about 50 years old who lives alone."

Qu Wanyuehui reported: "Qi Mingwei, an old man in his 60s, lives with his son and daughter-in-law, and has a newborn grandson. I passed by their house just now. The family is quite rich and the yard is very elegant. By the way, his son looks very familiar to me, he should be the young man who passed by the alley behind the inn today to buy a rattle for his child."

Xiao Lou was stunned and asked, "Are you sure it's him?"

Qu Wanyue said: "I read it right. They are dressed exactly the same. He is holding the rattle with a lamb painted on it. The maid who told him to go home is amusing the child with the rattle."

Long Sen added: "People from the Yu family are also here. The two brothers Yu Liang and Yu Rui on the roster live near Xiushui Lane. I just saw their brothers going out together."

Tang Ci said: "The people I checked are all missing for unknown reasons."

It seems that this roster has a secret. Some of the people with crossed names have disappeared - that is, they were killed by the murderer. Others are alive and well and will definitely become the murderer's next target.

Xiao Lou asked: "People have been missing over the years. Don't the residents of the town have any suspicion?"

Lu Jiuchuan said helplessly: "They all believe that this is a 'violent ghost seeking life.' Those who have never harmed anyone are not worried about this. They think that as long as they sleep honestly after dark, no evil ghost will find their heads." And once someone disappears in the town, everyone will talk privately, saying that they must have harmed others and were retaliated by evil spirits."

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

Lu Jiuchuan said: "It is said that someone in the town has actually seen a ghost. We just passed by a house and heard the children crying. The elders used the ghost to scare them. The story was told vividly..."

Tang Ci then recited the story told by the old man: "On a rainy night three years ago, the procession of seeing off a bride was possessed by a fierce ghost. The ghost's face was as white as paper, lips as red as blood, he was dressed in white, and his hair was long. The hair falls down and covers the face, making it difficult to see the face. The hair can still fly everywhere, and suddenly stretches several feet and wraps around the person's neck."

Xiao Lou: "..."

The rumors are getting more and more bizarre.

Ye Qi couldn't help but complain: "This female ghost sounds a lot like Nie Xiaoqian from A Chinese Ghost Story?"

Shao Qingge interjected: "The legend of the evil ghost should not have appeared for no reason. The murderer is using this method to confuse the public and cover up his murderous crimes. Maybe the evil ghost is him pretending to be."

Xiao Lou also agreed with Mr. Shao's guess and said: "The murderer started committing crimes three years ago. Judging from the records in the roster, there have been a total of 53 people missing in the past three years. Except for the Zhao family and the Chen family who were wiped out, all others They are scattered old people living alone, and not many people notice their death. There are currently 34 people on the list who are still alive."

Yu Hanjiang said: "The murderer has already become mentally abnormal after killing so many people. We have to find a way to stop him."

Lu Jiuchuan said: "The current problem is that the murderer is active at night, and at night, we cannot enter the normal town and will only be forced into the 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 without restraint without worrying about our interference."

Tang Ci added: "If we informed the 34 people who are still alive in advance and asked them to be careful, they would definitely not believe us."

Ye Qi scratched his head and said, "It's really troublesome. We are all strangers from other places. Suddenly we say, 'Someone will kill you, run away.' They will think we are mentally ill, right? How should we give an early warning?"

Liu Qiao suggested: "How about putting a rattle in each house and putting a note on it, writing in big red letters: Tonight at midnight, the evil ghost is asking for his life - can you scare them away?"

Everyone: "..."

Xiao Liu's idea sounds like a prank.

Of course, people who have done something wrong might be scared away by her method. But it is more likely to be self-defeating, because it will force the murderer. Maybe the murderer will be more brutal and let the entire town be buried with him?

Xiao Lou lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of a way: "The way he kills people is to control 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: "What a good idea! Intercepting people in the mountains and forests outside the town can save people first and secondly.

Come, maybe we can catch the murderer on the spot. Even if you can't catch him, you can at least get some clues. "

Dusk is approaching, and the setting sun on the horizon dyes the sunset into a flame-like color. Xiao Lou stood by the window and glanced at the sky in the distance, with a worried look on his face: "It's getting dark soon. Let's eat enough to recharge ourselves and get ready for action tonight."

He looked at Yu Hanjiang, who understood and immediately said: "Xiao Lou, I, Long, Qu, Mo and Qiao, a team of six sneaked into the town to find out the secrets of the ghost town at night. Brother Jiu, Mr. Tang, Hua Ying and Gui Senior, go to the woods to intercept the murderer. Mr. Shao and Xiaoye hide as liaisons, open a paradise outside the town, and are ready to teleport teammates in case of danger."

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

Xiao Lou always felt that things were not that simple.

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