Du Lingyu didn't struggle from the nightmare reality for a long time, Xi Shengnan killed Xiayu? When everyone first came to this world, Xiayu was already dead, right? Even if you put aside all the emotional colors, this thing is not true, because Xi Shengnan has no time to commit the crime at all.
Du Lingyu rubbed his temples. Whenever he was very nervous, he was prone to migraines. This time, not only did he have a migraine, but his ears also started ringing.
Du Lingyu managed to calm himself down a little, only then did he realize that Cao Youning had gotten up and stood beside the bed at some point. of humble incomprehension.
Mu Yiran seemed to be saying something to the brigade officer. Du Lingyu listened to each word, but found that his comprehension ability was too poor, and Mu Yiran seemed to be deliberately talking in a detour, he seemed to be avoiding it. What, and try their best to make the other party understand their intentions.
By the way, it's time. Mu Yiran couldn't directly talk about time with the people from the Lantern Brigade, so he mostly used words like "lighting on and off".
Fortunately, the brigade officer's comprehension ability is much stronger than that of Du Lingyu. At this time, he nodded and said, "I understand that although Xi Shengnan is suspected of murder, she is also a victim. Besides, the deceased has passed away... I'll take a moment. Someone will send a magnifying glass, and we must find a way to find out the source of this poison from the medical books."
magnifier? Mu Yiran actually asked for a magnifying glass, and it was from the hand of the brigade officer. Du Lingyu felt incredible, and gradually understood why these old members could experience so many paintings together. In addition to the tacit cooperation of the team, having an excellent leader is also a must.
The brigade officer was finally about to leave. He turned around and said to the crowd, "I will send someone to put the dead body in the coffin in a moment. It will be frozen first, and then put into the frozen ground for safety."
It seems that this is the world's ultimate preservation of the dead.
Lu Heng wiped his eyes and said, "Can we deliver it then?"
Lord Brigade Officer: "Yes."
The door opened and closed, and there were only twelve members left in the room, along with Xi Shengnan, who was lying on the bed slowly and stiffly.
"Why? I really don't understand." It was Luo Xiao who spoke, and he hugged Xinchun tightly at this moment: "When we came, that Xiayu was already dead, why did Sister Xi's knife end up on her body? And those two knives were brought in from the outside world! The timing doesn't match at all!"
"So, the time in this world is completely disordered, and it is precisely because of this disorder that the residents here become ignorant of time." Shao Ling said.
"If they really ignore time, why do they have such an important ceremony as turning on the lights and turning them off?" Zhu Haowen was speaking, "I think they are more afraid of time, even in awe, so the time-related Everything will be classified as taboo."
Mu Yiran walked to the wooden cabinet and looked at the ashes of the pile of incense in the corner, and half of the incense that was slowly burning in the ashes: "Only half of the second incense has been burned."
"What's the length of the second incense stick?" Qin Ci asked.
Mu Yiran took out a long unburned incense stick: "I took the incense according to this length, I marked it with a pen, and a section can burn for about 4 hours. Last night I used 5 times the length of the incense stick, which means that it can burn for 20 hours under normal circumstances."
"Yes, only in this way can we make up 24 hours of day and night." Qin Ci pondered.
Qin Ci came over to take a closer look at the burning incense, and it could be seen that the incense had not been extinguished last night: "According to the current length, there are still about three-fifths of the total length left, that is to say, last night The incense burned for only 8 hours."
Cao Youning rubbed his eyes: "I think I slept for a long time last night, definitely more than 8 hours."
Many people also expressed the same feeling.
Luo Xun looked at Ke Xun who was standing next to him: "Brother, are we counting a day or half a day now? Yesterday there were 4 hours of daylight, plus 8 hours after the lights were turned off, that's only 12 hours, don't you think? There are two sets of day and night in a day here?"
Ke Xun seemed to remember something: "I'm going to look at the seven lines carved on the wall outside us, maybe something has changed."
Du Lingyu really didn't want to stay in a room with a dead person. Although the dead person was very close to him before his death, death is death. It's one thing to feel uncomfortable, and it's another thing to stay by the corpse's side.
Du Lingyu couldn't contain the fear in his heart, and when he saw Ke Xun going out, he followed him out.
The lights outside had returned to the bright lights of yesterday, and Du Lingyu followed Ke Xun closely. The tall man always gave people a sense of security.
Ke Xun came to the wall of the corridor, and there were still seven vertical lines deeply engraved on it, which had not changed at all.
Ke Xun's index finger touched the 7 vertical lines, feeling the sharp bumps: "I always feel that these 7 lines have stories, and there must be clues hidden in them."
The light makes people feel warm, but also makes people feel at ease. Du Lingyu feels that his body is getting warmer, and at this time, he carefully observes the 7 lines on the wall.
"Do you think that these seven lines were not drawn by the same person?" Du Lingyu expressed his opinion.
Ke Xun observed carefully, and found that the first three lines were drawn straight and powerful, while some of the last four lines were slightly slanted, some were slightly shorter, and some had slightly shallow scratches.
Du Lingyu pursed his slightly dry lips, pointed at the seventh vertical line with a slightly trembling finger, and said, "You see this line is very shallow, and it slopes sharply to the lower left corner, just like when I write Arabic numerals. habit like that…”
The latter words may make people feel unlucky, but Du Lingyu still said it: "I don't know why, I always feel that the last line seems to be drawn by me."
Ke Xun couldn't help turning his face to look at Du Lingyu, wondering why this girl suddenly said this.
"I don't know either, maybe it's a girl's intuition," Du Lingyu forced a smile, this topic is a bit scary, and he doesn't have any basis for it, "Anyway, when I was a child, I went to school to write numbers in Tianzi Geben. At the time, my mother strictly asked me to write it diagonally, so all the numbers I wrote were slanted severely... Also, I see that although this wall is made of wood, it is also a very solid wood, I don't think it is possible for me to draw Going out of the depths of the first few lines..."
Du Lingyu gradually stopped talking, feeling that the cold hairs on his face were about to stand up, and somehow felt nervous and uncomfortable.
Ke Xun stretched out his hand, paused in mid-air, and then lightly patted Du Lingyu on the shoulder: "In the world in the painting, crying and tension are useless, we have to go all out to find clues if we want to save our lives. However, I think the analysis you just made is very useful."
Du Lingyu tried his best to stop trembling: "Thank you."
"In fact, everyone has their own characteristics and potential. If everyone can bring them into play, then we will not be far away from painting." Ke Xun's eyes are still looking at the seven lines on the wall, since Du Lingyu After making the remarks just now, Ke Xun always felt that these seven lines were also looking at him.
Du Lingyu nodded and wrapped the old cotton robe tightly around her body, which made herself feel warmer: "Also, when I woke up in the morning, I smelled some strange scents on Sister Xi's seat."
"fragrance?"
"Yes, that scent is very special. It's completely different from the scent we ordered at night, and the scent is so light that it's hard for ordinary people to smell it." Du Lingyu subconsciously sniffed his clothes. Sleeves, "My clothes are still stained with a little smell, probably because I suffered Sister Xi recently last night."
Ke Xun stared at Du Lingyu intently: "Have you always been so sensitive to scents?"
Du Lingyu nodded: "I'm more interested in perfume, and I have been taking perfume classes in my spare time for the past two years, so I may be more sensitive to the smell."
When Ke Xun and Du Lingyu returned to the room, Qin Ci was flipping through the medical book, because the words on it were very small, Qin Ci squinted his eyes and labored to check: "I didn't read this carefully yesterday. This book, I just found out that the first half of this book is about medicine, and the second half is about poison."
Ke Xun gently interrupted Qin Ci: "Xiao Du has some research on fragrance, she smelled a strange fragrance on Xi Shengnan's body."
Hearing this, Qin Ci hurriedly turned back a few pages: "There is a part here that specifically records the use of spices as poison. Could it be..."
All eyes were on Qin Ci, and in the whole room only the sound of turning the book could be heard, page by page, like the hands of a clock slowly flowing.
As the voice stopped abruptly, Qin Ci's hand stopped on a certain page and no longer turned the book: "It's strange, a page was torn off."
Everyone gathered to look, and saw that a certain page of the medical book was torn off neatly. Because it was torn very close, it would be impossible to find it if you didn't turn to this page.
Qin Ci looked at the previous page and the next page: "These records are all about the method of making poison with spices, and the torn page should be the same."
Everyone was silent for a long time, and finally it was Wei Dong who spoke up: "That is to say, the murderer secretly tore this page, and then made poison with spices according to the above formula, and poisoned Xi Shengnan to death last night
"However, how did the murderer start? There are so many people in our house. If he uses incense to poison, then he will poison all of us. It is impossible to poison only one Xi Shengnan."
What Wei Dong said is very reasonable, and this matter is indeed difficult to explain.
Qin Ci walked to Xi Shengnan's body, lifted the cloth towel and took a closer look: "According to the situation of her poisoning, I think she should have taken a lot of poison. Only when the poison enters her body will it cause such serious consequences."
"Doctor Qin, do you mean that Sheng Nan took poison?" Lu Heng said, "We all eat together all the time. She didn't eat anything else alone."
Shao Ling: "Let's think about it carefully, don't let go of any detail, the lack of two knives in that set of knives was caused by our negligence. Everyone think about it, you were eating or drinking yesterday. Was Xi Shengnan always with you all the time?"
Just when everyone was frowning and thinking hard, Mai Peng suddenly said: "I see, maybe it was the bottle of hot sauce. It seemed that she was the only one who ate the hot sauce yesterday."
Hearing this, Qin Ci took out the bottle of hot sauce in the cabinet with a cloth towel, and opened the lid on it.
A spicy smell permeated the room, Du Lingyu stepped forward, frowned and sniffed carefully: "Because the spicy smell is concealed, the smell is much lighter, but there is still a little bit, that is, Xi That smell on my sister's body."
Mai Peng sighed: "Sister Xi and I are the only ones who eat spicy food. Yesterday, I didn't dare to touch chili because I had a bad cold, so she was the only one who ate it."
It's not that the old members don't eat any chili peppers, but the label on the bottle of hot sauce says: Extra Hot Chili Sauce, so it is prohibitive.
Qin Ci took out a set of needles from his package: "There are special poison-testing needles here, which seem to be a special product of this world."
Mai Peng was a little puzzled: "Isn't it only possible to test arsenic's frost with silver needles? The one in Sister Xi should not be arsenic's frost poison."
Qin Ci: "This is not a silver needle. The color and texture of these needles are very special. It should be a special poison test needle. Let me try it."
In the end, the needle stuck in the hot sauce turned a jet black color.