In the ancient and mysterious castle, I was sleeping in the middle of the night when suddenly a skeleton appeared at the head of the bed... So exciting.
So exciting.
Jian Jing understood Kimberly's fear very well. If it were someone else, they would have the same result. She kindly said, "Drink some hot water to calm your nerves."
Kimberly didn't listen at all and kept screaming: "Did you see it? Oh my God! What's going on? It's so scary, honey, I can't believe my eyes."
Carl couldn't help but hold her hand hard, begging her to calm down.
At this time, Mary also came up from downstairs. She brought a glass of gin very experiencedly: "You need this."
"Oh, yes, I need it." Kimberly took it with trembling hands, took a big sip, and the rise and fall of her chest gradually subsided.
Jian Jing: Why do foreigners drink alcohol when they are frightened
"What is this?" Mary stared at the skull, puzzled.
"Bones," Si Yingjie answered kindly, "but it may not be real."
Jian Jing walked over, squatted down and observed for a while, then refuted him with certainty: "No, it's true. The skull wall is thin and smooth, the brow bulge is small, the brow arch is not obvious, and the cheekbones are low... It's a female."
I thought about it for a while, "The nasal bone is high and narrow, and the nasal spine is well developed." I seemed unsure, so I opened the measurement software on my mobile phone, measured the width and height of the nose, and calculated a nose index, but the value was too small.
The jaw-frontal index, zygomatico-orbital index and alpha index were measured again and all were greater than the critical point.
So he happily announced: "It's the Caucasian race."
other people:"… "
"How old?" Hollen asked.
Jian Jing lifted up the heavy court dress (?), roughly checked the condition of the ribs, tibia and other bones, and estimated a rough age range: "20-30 years old."
"Who is this?" Mary asked, "Why are you here?"
Leo stood at the door and answered palely: "I don't know."
Carl said: "It doesn't matter who it is. The person has been dead for so long. The question is who let him in? Why scare my wife?"
Jian Jing had already walked around the guest room: "Is the door locked?"
Kimberly clenched the tissue tightly and shouted, "Of course!"
"You opened the door for us?"
"No, the door is open," Carl said. "When I came over, I saw that the door was always open."
Jian Jing walked to the side of the wall, pointed at the open small door and asked: "Did you come in from this side? Do you live next door?"
Carl nodded.
Jian Jing was a little puzzled.
She had discovered before that several guest rooms were connected to each other. In addition to the large door facing the corridor, there was also a small door next to it that led to the adjacent rooms.
Of course, the wicket can be bolted on both sides.
She asked Kimberly again, "Did you lock the side door?"
Kimberly shook her head.
"That's strange," she thought. "I was the second one to come. The door was open at the time. Karl didn't come in through this door. Who opened the door to the corridor?"
Kimberly's voice suddenly rose: "It must be the one who released the skeleton!"
"Impossible." Mary said, "I gave you the room keys. There is only one key for each room."
Jian Jing turned her head towards the small round table by the window, where indeed a cell phone and a pair of keys were placed.
But the door lock is intact.
Jian Jing wanted to ask Kimberly about the consequences, but she was trembling all over and swallowed her words back: "Then let's deal with this skeleton."
"Let me do it." Bear George took the responsibility and picked up the skeleton. "Leo, how about putting it in the cellar?"
Leo said, "It's too far, put it in..." He pointed to the room at the end of the corridor, "There."
Xiong George was surprised: "The library?"
Leo nodded without explaining: "Kimberly, are you okay? Do you need me to change your room?"
Kimberly said excitedly: "Of course, I don't want to sleep in this damn place anymore."
"There should be an empty room on the third floor, but it only has a small dressing room." Leo apologized, "Please make do with it and deal with it tomorrow, okay?"
Kimberly nodded hurriedly and asked in fear and anger: "To be honest, I still don't understand... Is it a ghost? Or a human?"
"It's just an excessive prank." Leo said softly, "I will figure this out. Don't worry, please have a good rest. Mary?"
"Follow me." Mary walked ahead.
Having said that, Kimberly didn't dare to ask any more questions. She muttered a few words and was helped away by her husband.
Leo looked towards Kang Mucheng and smiled bitterly: "This is such a bad night."
"If you encounter any trouble, it's best not to hide it." Kang Mucheng frowned, "Although it looks like a prank now, I don't think it will end here."
Leo was silent.
Jian Jing fully agrees: "At first glance, it's just a corpse to scare people, but no one knows whether it will be murder next time."
"I don't think so." Leo comforted her, "Don't be afraid."
"Why? Do you know who did it?"
Leo hesitated and said, "Jane, this is not a topic suitable for girls."
"Leo, don't underestimate her." Unexpectedly, Kang Mucheng spoke before her and said seriously, "She is a brave girl."
Jian Jing had never thought that she would hear such an evaluation from him and was greatly surprised.
Leo looked at him, then looked at her, and smiled: "Well, in fact, this kind of thing often happens in Winter Castle. This is not the first time."
English is not her native language, so Jian Jing was a little unsure: "Wait, did you say 'often'?"
"Yes." He looked into the distance, into the rolling torrent of history, and said slowly, "For the past three hundred years, some inexplicable strange things have always happened here, but no outsiders have ever died."
Jian Jing: "Outsider?"
"Please don't worry," Leo said, "This is our family's custom. We like to spend the last moments of our lives in the castle."
"I see." She nodded, and then asked in confusion, "What do you mean by unexplainable strange things?"
"Strange noises in the middle of the night, doors of certain rooms suddenly opening, paintings hanging on the stairs being inexplicably moved, bugs in cakes... My childhood was filled with similar strange things."
Jian Jing frowned: "Haven't you ever doubted it?"
"Jane, sometimes, it's better to turn a blind eye than to get to the bottom of things." Leo said warmly, "I know very well that there are no ghosts in the world. It's just that people occasionally do things... that go against their will."
Was this to confirm Mary's statement that the people in the town were deliberately targeting the Sal family? Jane Jing thought to herself.
"Mucheng, take your little friend back. It's too late." Leo pressed his temple tiredly. The shadow of the corridor light swallowed half of his body and pulled him into an old Gothic movie.
The biting cold wind blew across the legs exposed outside the silk nightgown.
Jian Jing thought about it and said no more: "Good night, Leo."
"Good night."
Back in the warm bed, Jian Jing lost her sleepiness. No matter who played the prank in the middle of the night, since he could appear in Kimberly's room, he could also appear at her bedside.
That's a bit scary.
She turned over and comforted herself that if there really was any life-threatening accident, the system would definitely pop up a task in her sleep at the first moment.
[System: Thank you for the host's trust. This system is dedicated to serving you]
Jian Jing: Very good, I’m sleepy.
Jian Jing slept very soundly this time. The fatigue from the long journey broke out and she slept for a full twelve hours.
But today was still a terrible blizzard. When I woke up, the room was still dark, making me think it was only four or five o'clock in the morning.
She stayed in bed for a while, playing with her cell phone.
The signal is average, the video cannot be refreshed, and I can only watch WeChat.
In the friend group, Ji Yunyun posted her test papers on WeChat Moments and complained about the miserable life of senior high school students; Zuo Xin stayed up late to prepare for class and complained that today's students know too much; Liang Yi solved a case and celebrated with his colleagues by eating hot pot.
The life of ordinary people is full of fireworks and popularity.
Another grouping of ylq: Screenwriter Xu is satirizing a TV series, implying that the script is plagiarized; Director Huang is promoting "Devil Doctor 2" and helping his friends to forward the promotion of the new movie; Director Mei is talking about the release date of "Rose Gold" and thanking friends for their support; Zheng Keyan is promoting a new drama, she is not the lead actor this time, but the producer...
Just, very glamorous and very busy.
In private messages, the graduate student group was discussing material downloads, and the teacher shared a paid account for them to download some materials and papers.
Several classmates replied: [Received]
She also replied one.
Jiang Baiyan sent her a short video of Pudding weighing himself and announcing the good news: [News! Pudding successfully lost 3 pounds last month!]
She couldn't help but reply: [It's not easy]
Jiang Baiyan: [qaq]
The monsoon passed, and he was just a dead person on his social media accounts, occasionally reappearing.
After doing all this and waking up, Jian Jing thought about it and searched for "Winter Castle" on the Internet.
To no avail.
I searched for "Sarvik Lutz" again, but found that it was a transliteration and I didn't know the original text, so naturally I had no clues.
Finally, with a nonchalant attitude, I casually searched for "August Hollen".
A social networking site page pops up.
She clicked on it out of curiosity and ended up seeing a lot of familiar faces - she had to thank Morningstar for the "Love in Paris" marketing event, which once again educated passers-by about the major European royal families in this world.
That’s right, some of those faces are famous people from a European royal family.
One of the old men, also named Huo Lun, was involved in a serious sexual assault scandal last month. Jian Jing searched the news based on her memory and finally found out the origin of the surname "Huolun".
My hunch was right, Hollen was not a complete surname. However, the once ancient and glorious aristocratic surname had lost its original glory with the decline of the royal family.
The current Holland family still has close ties with various European royal families, but that’s all.
August Hollen is not like his relatives, who have been involved in ugly scandals, but looking at the photos on his social media accounts, you can tell that he is also a playboy.
That's not the point.
The point is, she saw Melanie's face in a group photo taken half a year ago.
Among all the women with high noses and deep eyes, her black dress was very simple, but her temperament was still outstanding. She had a mysterious and cold temperament, which was in great contrast with the other socialites who were extravagant and dissolute.
Jian Jing saved the photo and couldn't help wondering, was the person who poisoned Melanie targeting the Sal family or her personally
[Received a new message]
I clicked on it and it was a message from Kang Mucheng: [Are you awake?]
She: [Starting right now]
Kang Mucheng: [Don’t worry, everyone is in a bad mood, it’s okay to have lunch in the room]
Jian Jing has been lying there for so long that her bones are sore: [I finally got up]
Kang Mucheng: [I am in the library]
Jian Jing was shocked: [Stay with a corpse?]
He said: [No, that thing is gone]