Is it a coincidence
Xin Meng didn't believe it. Since there were six, it must be pointing out clues.
But he had searched carefully just now, and there was indeed nothing special in this room...
Could it be...
He couldn't help but walked to the six thermos bottles and looked at them carefully. This time he finally discovered the problem - the corks of these six thermos bottles had gone somewhere.
He picked up one of them and took a look inside. It was empty. He was not in a hurry. Then he looked at each one one by one. When he found the fourth one, he saw that there was indeed a newspaper rolled inside.
"It's hidden deep enough." Xin Meng muttered. He took out the newspaper and looked at it through the light from the window. This time he roughly glanced at other pages. When he didn't find anything, he immediately carefully checked the legal page skillfully. stand up.
"A few days ago, an accident occurred in a kindergarten in our city. A five-year-old girl was scalded by scalding boiling water while fetching water from the hot water room. She died after being sent to the hospital. The specific case is under investigation."
Another murder.
And judging from the previous situation, it is definitely not a real "accidental case", but a murder.
This time the prop is... a thermos bottle
No matter what, take it first and talk about it later.
Xin Meng grabbed one and handed it to You Yi, and put one in her inventory.
The footsteps outside lingered for about ten minutes, then gradually went away.
You Yi gently opened the door a crack, looked outside for a while, and waved to Xin Meng. Xin Meng was in a hurry and didn't pay attention while walking. His toes accidentally hooked the red plastic bucket on the ground. The plastic bucket was on the ground. It rolled around on the ground a few times, and something made of metal fell out.
"This is... a key?" Xin Meng bent down, picked up the thing, and spread it in the palm of his hand. It turned out to be a small silver metal key with a small key ring and a red thread tied to it. .
"It's a bit small, it doesn't look like a door key." You Yi also came over and looked at the small, old key together.
"Cabinet? Drawer?" Xin Meng really couldn't remember where to use this key. Along the way, they encountered several locked cabinets and drawers. There were four or five drawers in the kitchen alone. There are too many cabinets with locks, let alone locks elsewhere, to be counted on two hands.
"Do you want to try them one by one?" Xin Meng twitched the corner of her mouth, but she was not very willing to do so. The entire building, with all the locked areas, might not be able to be opened in three days and three nights.
"Let's search the surrounding rooms first." You Yi knew what he was thinking and didn't force it.
The two walked out of the house and tried in the two nearby rooms, but nothing could be opened.
When she came out, when she saw the wall of the corridor, an idea suddenly flashed in Xin Meng's mind and she said, "Why don't you go to the principal's office and see if you can open the lock of the information cabinet there."
After all, compared to other rooms that have no obvious special characteristics, the status of the principal's room is unique. There may be two kitchens and five activity rooms, but there is absolutely no chance that there will be more than one principal's room.
You Yi nodded, and the two of them carefully avoided the ghost children wandering around, climbed up to the top floor, and entered the principal's office.
The director's office was exactly the same as when they left. The boss's chair carrying the skeleton stood there quietly. Dust visible to the naked eye floated in the air, making it very quiet.
Xin Meng took the key and tried it on the drawer under the desk first, but it didn't open. Then she went to the information cabinet and tried the one on the left, but it didn't open. Then she tried the one on the right again. This time, she only heard the lock cylinder click. Quietly, it’s open!
There were only a bunch of scattered documents in the file cabinet. Xin Meng took them out and was about to take a closer look when he was pulled by You Yi.
"Something is coming, let's go!"
Xin Meng didn't ask him how he knew. He immediately took a roll of information and tucked it under his arm. He followed You Yi and ran out of the principal's office. Passing by the stairs, he quickly got into the corridor on the other side and found a room to hide in. Got in.
As soon as I closed the door, I heard noisy footsteps outside, and several children rushed up!
They kicked open the door to the principal's office and rummaged through boxes and cabinets to look for things. When they finally couldn't find the target, they let out an inhuman roar that made people's hair stand on end!
When Xin Meng saw this situation, she felt something in her heart and asked You Yi quietly, "Have we triggered any conditions?"
You Yi didn't nod or shake his head, he just said, "Maybe I found some kind of special clue."
Xin Meng pondered for a while, "Most of the children are outside the door now, and we have cloth sticks and thermos bottles in our hands. Do you want to go out and gamble?"
You Yi rejected his proposal this time: "Read the information first."
Xin Meng took out the documents and counted them. There were about thirty pieces of A4 paper and an empty brown paper bag, which should have been used to place these documents before. Now the drawstring on it has broken and there are also scratches on the corners. Traces of tearing.
He gave half of the paper to You Yi, and Xin Meng looked at the other half.
Because they were compiled randomly out of necessity, the information is either face-up or back-side.
He didn't know if it was a coincidence or not, but when he saw the first page of the information, he clicked through it. When he opened it, he saw a very familiar photo—
Above, the little boy who was smothered to death by a pillow and "transcended" by them was lowering his head slightly and staring at the camera with a gloomy gaze. The evil ferocity and weird innocence were mixed together, as if from the photo. The call is ready to come out!
Xin Meng was startled. After she regained her composure, she had to work hard to tell herself that this was just an old photo, and the person in it was a child, not a ferocious beast that chose people to eat.
Next to and below the photo is a profile of the little boy's life.
The name was ordinary, but at first glance it was a pseudonym. The date of birth was vague, only the age, which was clearly written: 5 years old.
Further down, there was a large section of handwriting, which was what really surprised him.
[On June 21, 20XX, Pingping was four years old. His father hacked him to death with a kitchen knife because his mother had cheated on her. Pingping was at the scene at the time. When the police arrived, his face was expressionless. The police thought he was frightened. He wanted to comfort him, but found that he was in an unusually calm mood, which frightened the policeman so much that he could not speak. Although later investigations revealed that his father had a history of domestic violence that abused his mother for a long time, and the child may have been used to it, the police still privately called him a monster.]
[On July 3, XXXX, he had no other guardian. A policewoman kindly took him home to take care of him. However, because of an inappropriate word, she picked up a kitchen knife and chased him. He looked exactly like his father. The kitchen knife was later taken away. He picked up a rag and a stick and beat the policewoman seriously, causing her family to kick her out and become a street child.]
[On September 30, XXXX, I will enter the kindergarten from under the overpass.]
The handwriting is exactly the same as the handwriting of the kindergarten principal that I saw before. It seems to be the kindergarten principal's record.
This is not all, there is a shocking small text at the bottom:
[On December 25, XXXX, I tried hard, but tragedy still happened... I don’t blame Ping Ping, it’s because I didn’t work hard enough.]
"It seems that this child is the one who beat his companion to death with a stick," Xin Meng whispered. "He has a miserable past and a criminal record. The director of this kindergarten still accepted him, but it only lasted less than three years." Months later, he killed another person, but the director of the garden took all the responsibility on his own."
Scroll down further and you will find all the personal files of the children. Surprisingly, every child has a similar past. Several of them were picked up by the principal from the alley under the overpass on the street, and the youngest The child is only three years old.
Of course, more people also came here because of the reputation, and threw those problem children to the principal to deal with, and then turned around and disappeared.
The principal is indeed a rare and kind-hearted person. She tolerates these children, provides a home for these children, and never looks at them with discriminatory eyes. She recruits several female volunteers to take care of the lives of these children.
However, everything seemed to be cursed by the devil. After a little boy named Pingping killed the first person, everything changed. The two volunteers were so frightened that they went insane and immediately resigned and left the kindergarten. The heavy burden was all over their heads. On the remaining people, the already overloaded managers had no time to take into account the situation of each child, which ultimately led to one murder after another.
These contents are seen from one of the pieces of paper. The handwriting on it is messy and hard, which shows the inner struggle and pain of the writer. The preface and the follow-up are inconsistent with the expression, which is not so much a record as a vent.
It seems that the director can't bear the pressure and is going crazy.
There were several large and messy words written at the bottom of the paper. Xin Meng used the light to identify them for a long time before she saw that what was written was: "Can I still save them? I can't even save myself!"
After Xin Meng read it, her heart felt blocked, and she couldn't help complaining, "This game is really true. In order to create horror, it actually created a lot of such stories. It's too extreme."
You Yi flipped through the paper with almost the same content in his hand and said calmly: "It's not all a story."
"What?" Xin Meng was stunned.
"The influence of parents on their children is so huge that ordinary people cannot imagine it. There are no inherently vicious children, only parents who have seriously neglected their duties." You Yi said, "The game just takes out the most typical examples in the entire world and puts them together. It is precisely when we come together that we can create such a shocking effect.”
"The influence of parents?" Xin Meng thought about it for a while, and it seemed that it was indeed the case, "But what does it have to do with us clearing the customs?"
This time, even You Yi didn't think of anything more, and he didn't need to think about it. His suggestion was to just wait and see what happens and act on the spot.
Xin Meng tidied the documents and put them back into the leather bag. She was wondering whether to find a more obvious place in the room to put them down for other teammates to see, when she suddenly heard a loud noise from downstairs!