When he returned to the hall, what Su Zimo saw was a small fire with a shovel sitting down in front of the mirror in the hall, looking like he was lost. Cheng Yun was covering the torn apart decorative mirror again at the fastest speed.
"What's going on?" Doctor Jin asked in surprise.
"I don't want to see what will appear in the mirror?" Xiaohuo, who was screaming with fright just now, touched his nose and got up from the ground, and said angrily, "I hear you don't let me do it. There is always an urge to try something.”
"I didn't watch him." Cheng Yun apologized and went back to the dining table to look at Su Zimo and the others who had rushed back, "How is it? Did you find any new clues?"
Su Zimo looked at Cheng Yun who was standing there. He didn't know why the trainee was standing here. If he was really a trainee who was escaping from the twentieth nightmare world, then he definitely didn't want to pass the level. Nightmare world.
If the other party is the "beast" that the madman calls people who kill people and steal treasures, then he has been staying here, which means that he has found the target he wants to hunt and is constantly looking for opportunities to shoot.
Su Zimo observed Cheng Yun's expression for a while, but couldn't see any special emotions for a while.
"It doesn't matter if you don't find a clue." Cheng Yun took Su Zimo's moment of silence as frustration, and his face showed the initial relieved smile, "After all, it is a nightmare world with five-day difficulty, and the way to clear the level must not be very simple. "
"Captain Cheng, Mr. Su has no nightmares anymore, that's why he tried so hard to pass the level." Qi Xiaomin seems to have understood Su Zimo's active performance as a strong desire to survive, which may be seen by the practitioners. Su Zimo, a newcomer, was shining brightly, but he didn't find it strange. "If you can't pass the customs, is there any way for you, Captain Cheng, to prevent Mr. Su from being punished by death?"
"Or you can divide some of my nightmares into the past." Qi Xiaomin's eyes were a little firm, "Actually, I still saved a little bit."
"Sorry, except for the slave mark, I have never heard of the method of giving Nightmare Points." Cheng Yun shook his head, "There is no way to escape death penalty other than Nightmare Points, otherwise those who dodge the second Those who have experienced ten nightmare worlds don’t have to have such a headache.”
"Strange." Jin Lei next to her held her chin with her fingers and looked at Cheng Yun meaningfully, "When the madman talked about the twentieth nightmare world before, I thought you didn't know about the experiencers."
"I heard some." Cheng Yun forced a smile.
"Actually, Mr. Fang and I discovered something." Su Zimo nodded gratefully to Qi Xiaomin, and then said, "There are at least four owners of the villa, a couple, a daughter and an old man."
"Is there an old man? This is a new clue. I don't know how it will help you find a chance for survival?" Cheng Yun's expression looked serious, but if you add the maid outfit he is wearing now, there is no serious atmosphere at all .
"Everyone already knows the layout of the first floor." Su Zimo looked around and found that even Mr. Fang Qin and Dr. Jin had not responded, so he could only say, "There are some problems with the layout of the third floor. "
"The layout of the third floor starts at the entrance of the stairs, which is the large washroom, the family doctor's bedroom, the study room, the toy room, and the master bedroom." Su Zimo sighed, "If the master bedroom is a house for a family of three, then the sick elderly should Where do you live?"
"Second floor!" Dr. Jin responded immediately this time, "The second floor is an old man!"
"And it may be an old man who is withdrawn and a little indifferent to the things around him." Su Zimo looked at the manuscript in his hand, except for the sentence on the first page of the manuscript, "It's better to be in a busy city than to walk on a lonely mountain". Other content in the manuscript also expresses the old man's indifference to the surrounding things, but because the manuscript itself is prose, and the writing style is very abstract, Su Zimo, who did not resonate, except for many seemingly gorgeous sentences and beautiful pens Beyond the words, no useful information has been obtained from the manuscript.
"Will the old man live in the master bedroom? Didn't it say that the owner of the villa might not live here, but just leave the patient alone in the villa?" Dr. Jin asked.
"No." The answer was Liu Xu, who had been to the master bedroom once before, and he said with certainty, "The master bedroom does not contain any supplies for the elderly, and the wardrobe does indeed contain clothes for a family of three, but the quantity is relatively small. It's not like a long-term stay."
"Then we can be sure that most of the time, only servants, family doctors and sick old people live in this villa." After tossing for three "days", Su Zimo and the others finally came to the first definite conclusion. .
All nodded in agreement.
"So the question now is, are the ghosts in this villa the servants headed by the housekeeper and the family doctor, or maybe the old man on the second floor?" Su Zimo said, looking at Xiaohuo over there, "Brother Xiaohuo, what did you see in the mirror?"
"Of course it's a ghost! A ghost with blood all over its body! The most frightening one!" Xiaohuo stretched out his left hand with a bloody handprint on it, and exaggeratedly said, "If it wasn't for my brother, I would react. Hurry up, I was caught by the ghost in the mirror!"
Did he think wrong
After listening to Xiaohuo's words, Su Zimo felt that the first "Pay attention to the mirror" in the task reminder of their experiencers might really just ask them to be careful about the ghosts in the mirror? Before Xiaohuo tried it himself, Su Zimo originally thought that the words "pay attention to the mirror" could also be interpreted as—
[There are very important clues in the mirror, please be sure to pay attention. ]
But the fact is that Xiaohuo's hand was caught by the ghost in the mirror
"We need to sort out the clues." Jin Lei took out her portable notebook again and spread it out on the dining table, "Because we don't know the chronological order, we sorted it out from the floor and the characters."
"The first is the servant who lives on the first floor. We can reasonably speculate from the contents of the safe that the financial power and accounts of the villa are in the hands of the housekeeper, and he may even be the mastermind of everything. Then the housekeeper brings The people and an irresponsible family doctor took over the villa like bandits, got money through fake accounts, and lived a more dashing life than the patients they were supposed to take care of." Dr. Kim struggled to straighten himself out ideas.
"And they may have sold the precious ancient books collected by the old man in the study at a low price, and thus obtained a large amount of wealth in the safe." Su Zimo almost forgot to tell the source of the money.
"That's why after getting that money, the ledger is not that important to them." Dr. Jin said, scratching his chin with the pen, "Su Xiaoshuai, can you think of anything else when the clue is here? question?"
"The old man who lives here is an educated elder." Su Zimo thought for a while, "After encountering so many absurd things done by the housekeeper, is there really no way for the old man to resist? The owner spent so much money, and never thought of asking the old man for verification? What is it that allows the housekeeper and the others to play the villa owner's family with applause so brazenly?"
"Maybe it's because the old man is very ill, or has lost consciousness? He has become a vegetable?" Qi Xiaomin racked his brains for a while.
"If the patient is really seriously ill, the patient should not be left alone in the villa and only be taken care of by a family doctor." Su Zimo shook his head, "If the old man is in a vegetative state, then the monthly medical expenses will be It should be fixed, it is impossible for the housekeeper to move so many hands and feet on the ledger."
"So one of the keys to solving the puzzle is what is wrong with the old man." Dr. Jin recorded this, "Is there anything else?"
"And... what happened to everyone in this villa in the end?" Su Zimo looked around at the dilapidated villa that had apparently been abandoned for a long time, "The driver's room contains the keys to a famous car, and the bodyguard's room With his favorite tactical pen, and even a safe with money hidden in the housekeeper's room, where will these people end up running?"
When Su Zimo was thinking about it, he accidentally blurted out "the most beloved tactical pen", the information that can only be read from the remarks, but the other practitioners around didn't seem to notice it, and they all showed a thoughtful expression.
"Maybe something happened?" At this time, Xiaohuo raised his hand like a good student, "The ghost I saw in the mirror just now is not an old man at all, it may be one of those servants. After all, if it is In my words, as long as there is a chance to run away, I will definitely take the money away, along with the things I love and the means of transportation for running away."
"Then this story is..." Dr. Jin gestured on the note.
"Three generations of happy grandparents and grandchildren originally lived here. To be precise, a family of three who may be happy and an old man with a bad temper. Later, the old man may have fallen ill, and the family of three also left the villa for some reason."
"At the same time, the old man's children have left enough servants and a family doctor in the villa. The purpose should be to take good care of the sick old man, and even give the housekeeper the right to make advance payments every month, and the children themselves It's just a regular check of the ledger and the doctor's work log." Dr. Jin added, "Many children think that this kind of care is filial piety, but it's really easy to get into trouble."
"The children of the elderly think they are well cared for, but in fact they are full of mistakes. The housekeeper took the lead in making false accounts, and initially deducted the elderly's medical-related expenses to satisfy the personal desires of himself and others in the villa."
"Later, the appetite of the housekeeper and others grew, and the money they needed finally exceeded the warning line for the elderly and children. As long as they took another step forward, their free and unrestrained life would be completely terminated. So the housekeeper stopped doing it. Fake accounts, turn to... As Su Zimo said, secretly sell precious ancient books in exchange for money, so as to enjoy a more luxurious life."
"We don't know what happened later, but the servants in the villa and the family doctor are very likely dead, and the seriously ill old man should also be dead. What the housekeepers did in the end probably didn't usher in anything. It's a good result, it's a pleasure to hear."
Dr. Jin combed through all the clues and told a story that could be woven with the current clues, and finally asked: "So, where is the silver lining in this world? We play the role of these servants who have done many evil things. , and for what?"
"I'm afraid, we will have to wait for this 'day' to pass before we can get new clues." Su Zimo felt that Dr. Jin had connected all the clues together, and as of now, there are really no new clues.
"You guys are really amazing." Cheng Yun was not relieved to hear this fairly complete story, and even had a thoughtful expression on his face, "I just feel that time flies by so fast, but I didn't expect you to actually So much to discover."
Cheng Yun's tone gave Su Zimo a very bad feeling. He seemed to be surprised by the clues that Su Zimo and the others had obtained, but this surprise was not mixed with surprise and relief, but rather unpleasant. .
"After all, this Nightmare World really met a lot of good children." As if he didn't feel Cheng Yun's weirdness, Mr. Fang Qin stroked his beard with relief, "It's worse than those encountered in the Nightmare World in the past. The child is so much better that an old man like me can play games with a group of bear children, this old man can't bear it anymore."
Obviously, like Su Zimo, Mr. Fang has encountered many troublesome newcomers.
"After all, not every newcomer is as good as Zimo." Du Xin, who was sitting beside Su Zimo's eyes suddenly dimmed, "I thought that after four years passed, I would become better, but I didn't expect that in the nightmare Your role in the world is not as powerful as you, Zimo. I used to think that you were from another world, but now you still feel that way to me... "
"Hey, Du Xin." Feeling that Du Xin's mood was a little wrong, Qi Xiaomin reminded softly.
"It's nothing, it's just a sudden feeling." Du Xin smiled and narrowed his eyes, "After a long time, the relationship between me and you, Zimo, seems to be left with the words 'Shoushan No. 1 Middle School'. Sometimes I actually think... If the reason for your transfer is really the same as the rumors, the gap between us may not be so big. However, private doctors and so on don't seem to be affordable to ordinary people. "
Du Xin kept squinting and smiling, but Su Zimo didn't feel comfortable.
[squeak-squeak-]
At this time, the familiar creaking sound appeared again at the top of the hall. All the practitioners did not panic this time, but prepared to get up and organize their clothes as if they were used to it, looking forward to what new clues would appear after waking up this time.
It's just that the drowsiness this time came more quickly and fiercely than before. Su Zimo didn't even have time to reach out and grab the copy of "The Butler's Self-cultivation" that he put on the dining table, so he fell asleep uncontrollably.
"Ah... ah ah..."
In the darkness, just as Su Zimo regained consciousness, he heard the still vague and incomprehensible voice ringing in his ears again.
As before, there was still the sound of the "creaking" of heavy objects pressing on the wooden floor, and the sound of something constantly being slapped, making people feel that the "that" who appeared in the dark was in a very anxious state. state.
"Ahhh! Umm..."
Although he couldn't distinguish the other party's language, Su Zimo could feel the sense of urgency more and more from his voice. When the urgency reached its extreme, it even felt like crying and whimpering.
"Is there anyone?" At this moment, Qi Xiaomin's voice suddenly came from the darkness. As Qi Xiaomin's voice sounded, the vague whimpering and the creaking of the floor showed signs of slowly disappearing.
Su Zimo was obviously not in a room alone at the moment, so he subconsciously responded, "I am."
Just the second after Su Zimo made his voice, he suddenly felt a gust of wind coming from behind him. Knowing that the entire villa was a "secret room" without wind, Su Zimo did not hesitate to hit the wind. He threw out the metal pen in the direction of the man, guessing that the one who would attack at this time should be the Specter hidden in the villa.
"Well!"
But in the next second, Su Zimo felt that the stick in his hand hit something real, not a ghost, but a human! He even heard a muffled groan from that direction!
Although Su Zimo has never used a stick to deal with people, he has dealt with a lot of ghosts, so he can be sure that the ghost he hit just now is not a ghost!
Did he accidentally injure other practitioners
No, if it was an accidental injury, how could the person hit by Su Zimo be so quiet? It was as if he was restraining himself from making a sound!
In the darkness, Qi Xiaomin, who was hiding on the side, suddenly turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, so that Su Zimo could see clearly that he was in a relatively large maid's room through the weak light, while Qi Xiaomin, Cheng Yunhe and the others sitting opposite him. Du Xin, the three practitioners in maid costumes.
Their previous guess was correct, and after wearing clothes that could identify them, they appeared in the "correct" room.
But now the serious problem is...
It seemed that someone wanted to attack Su Zimo just now.
Su Zimo looked at Cheng Yun and Du Xin in front of him, but found that neither of them had any special expressions on their faces. They just covered their eyes because of the sudden light, and they looked dazzling.
Knowing that it was not safe in the dark room, Su Zimo took the lead in pushing away the maids' room and walked out. , was the first to return to the candle-lit hall.
Even though it was already the third "day", the candles in the hall did not seem to be consumed, and they were still as bright as day.
"The clue of role-playing should be correct." Su Zimo's body seemed to be less gentle and more chill than before, he looked at the practitioners around him seriously, "There is not much time left, I think We can start to consider forcibly removing the blockade on the second floor, there must be clues that everyone wants to find on the second floor of this villa."
At that moment, Su Zimo's eyes hidden behind the lenses seemed to have an irresistible light, and the aura of the whole person seemed to be a little different from before.
Not only clues, if Su Zimo can't find the ghost weapon on the second floor, then he doesn't need to continue to stay in this nightmare world. After all, he has no interest in being a thorn in the eyes of humans inexplicably when he is targeted by Specter.
"Just ask Captain Cheng Yun to stay in the hall and wait." Su Zimo turned to look at Cheng Yun who rubbed his eyes, and the corner of his mouth suddenly curled up, "With you here, we will definitely be safer."