"Xiao Ma, you leave the room first and go to the security booth to hide." Li Yuebai raised his face from the computer, and warned decisively and solemnly.
That weird figure must be a dormant vampire, and the worst possible thing is that it's still in this room!
"Okay, okay..." Ma Xiaoting was too scared to approach Xu Lili's room at first. When she heard this, she nodded obediently, and then walked back step by step. Although she was very curious about what was on the computer, she was afraid. Curiosity still prevailed.
At this time, her mobile phone rang, it was the voice of instant messaging tool.
Ma Xiaoting was taken aback, she took out her phone reflexively, and opened it.
It was from Wu He.
Wu He: Xiaoting, what is Lili doing
Wu He: Lili sent me a photo before, which scared me to death, and then she didn't reply to me for a long time, did you see her
Wu He: [picture]
Wu He: This is the one, I don’t know what app she used to make the picture...
That terrifying photo was displayed on the screen of Ma Xiaoting's phone.
"Ah!" Ma Xiaoting let out a wailing scream, the phone slipped from her hand, and then she fainted to the ground.
She worked so late, didn't eat dinner, and was in a state of fear all the time, and her spirits were tense. Now this photo became the last straw that crushed her.
Li Yuebai lifted her from the ground, moved her to the sofa, and pulled the blanket beside her to cover her. I tried my pulse and breath, but nothing serious, just fainted from fright. In the current situation, it might not be safe to send her out, so we can only let her stay here temporarily.
Then, he turned on all the lights in the rented room, and checked the room carefully. From the conspicuous places, to the cabinets and drawers, there was no trace of the vampire's dormant body.
Could it be that it has escaped
Xu Lili's body is here, why is it not possessed
"Is Wu He suspicious?" Ye Qing asked, "If he hadn't sent the picture to Ma Xiaoting..."
"Not necessarily, I think Wu He is normal so far." Li Yuebai said: "Another person would do the same thing."
Now is the era of instant messaging. When a friend suddenly sends a scary photo and doesn’t respond to the message, the first reaction is of course to ask the people who live with him.
Ye Qing first opened Xu Lili's personal homepage. Since the boot has already set a password, so her personal homepage is directly logged in. There are some public diaries and private diaries on it.
Public diaries are normal, but private diaries are...
It was all strange ravings.
This kind of rambling started on July 20th, when Xu Lili published a diary titled: I really want to open a box. The content is a stream of consciousness, full of ramblings about how much I want to open a box, how strong this desire is.
"Want to open a box? Is this a metaphor? Want to solve a certain problem, want to release yourself?" Li Yuebai couldn't tell for a while whether the diary had anything to do with the case.
The boys and girls in the second grade in his class have this kind of stream of consciousness in their daily diaries, and they often say, "In this dark world, I am like a lotus flower stuck in the mud..."
It would be silly to take it all seriously.
On July 30, that is, a few days ago, Xu Lili published another diary titled: I really want a necklace. It's also a stream of consciousness, the content is how that necklace tempts her, how it makes her want to get it desperately, even if she desperately wants to get it.
This kind of feeling is easier to understand. I am afraid that everyone will have it. Like precious jewelry, like game consoles, like mobile phones... For a girl of Xu Lili's age, there is a necklace that she particularly wants.
The log could not find any important doubts, and Li Yuebai instructed Ye Qing to open the online shopping platform, log in with the account by default, and then open the "Purchased Items" list.
They were all cheap daily necessities, clothes and the like, and I didn't find any particularly expensive necklace purchase records.
They have searched the whole room just now, and there are several necklaces. According to Ma Xiaoting's identification, they are all cheap ordinary brands and ordinary styles, and none of them fit the tone of love and rareness in the diary.
Li Yuebai frowned, looking at the list scrolling down bit by bit, his mind was full of threads, tangled together like twine and couldn't be untied.
"Okay, slow down here." Li Yuebai put one hand on the table and the other on Ye Qing's shoulder.
"Slower?"
"The drop-down speed of the list is a bit slower, and it's almost July 20th." Li Yuebai frowned and stared at the screen: "On July 20th, Xu Lili published a somewhat strange diary, which may be related to the things she bought. .”
Strangely, there is no record of purchases on July 20th, and she didn't buy anything that day.
"Then keep scrolling down, maybe I didn't buy it on July 20, but received it on July 20!" Li Yuebai said.
Soon, a special "purchased item" message was pulled to the front.
The purchase date is July 1st, and it is promised to arrive within 20 days...
The time is just right!
Look at the introduction of that item—there are no photos, only text introduction: ancient castle stones.
The detailed introduction is that a centuries-old rural castle collapsed in the eastern suburbs of Landshut, Germany, and the fallen stones were sold to tourists as souvenirs, each priced at only a few euros. The photos and videos before the collapse of the castle are attached below. The scenery is really good. The color of the castle is dark black, not big, simple and heavy.
Selling bricks? This is not uncommon. There is a long-standing joke in the chicken soup circle for the soul - when the Statue of Liberty is finished, the builder is worried, what should be done with the remaining waste? As a result, a clever employee proposed: Process the remaining waste materials into small Statues of Liberty and sell them to tourists! So I made a lot of money... Regardless of whether the joke is true or not, this kind of business model is everywhere in modern society. It is not surprising at all. Li Yuebai himself has bought souvenirs made of leftover wood from a certain tourist attraction .
When they were rummaging through Xu Lili's belongings, they found the only thing with a different style of painting in a pile of sundries. It was a black, square stone. wrong.
The two clues can be connected together, but I don't know what to do.
After receiving the castle stones, Xu Lili posted a diary saying: I want to open a box...
Stones, boxes, stones, boxes... Visually, there are similarities.
Could it be that the box refers to the castle stones
Li Yuebai squatted down, dug out the stone, and held it in his hands—not very heavy, about the same size as ordinary bricks, but half the weight, black basalt, rough, and could not find any openings that could be opened.
If it was the box, did Xu Lili successfully open it? Has it been turned on and then turned off, or has it never been turned on
Recalling the eager tone in that diary, Li Yuebai guessed that Xu Lili must have opened the box, otherwise, she wouldn't stop mentioning the box.
Can this thing really be opened? Li Yuebai and Shi Kui stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, looking at each other with disgust, they couldn't find the trick after tossing for a long time, so they had no choice but to hand the Shi Kui into Ye Qing's hands.
Ye Qing took it and weighed it: "The weight is wrong."
"It's lighter than ordinary bricks, at most one kilogram." Li Yuebai estimated.
"The weight is 983.5 grams, and the internal structure is a bit complicated." Ye Qing slumped his face and tapped on the stone with his slender fingers: "There is a cavity inside. There is a cylindrical channel, T-shaped…”
Li Yuebai looked confused: "Xiaoye, do you have an X-ray scanning function?"
"I can't see it, I guessed it based on the knocking sound." Ye Qing didn't blink, making people wonder if what he said was true or not.
Forget it, I've already traveled through time anyway, and it's not a bad thing to have one more companion with special abilities.
Ye Qing took a piece of paper and roughly drew the inferred internal structure.
After finishing the painting, Li Yuebai took it over to take a look, and suddenly realized, isn't this a variant of "Luban lock"
When I was young, I always sold that kind of toys at the gate of the school. There were wooden ones and iron ones. There were several in a set. At the same time, as long as you find the correct disassembly method, you can disassemble them. These small toys are sometimes called "Luban locks" and sometimes "Kongming locks". Even now, you can still buy it.
There is a kind of Luban lock, which is a square wooden box. It is impossible to open it directly. It can only be tilted in a certain direction, and then tilted in another vertical direction. The heavy item is transported to a critical point before it can be opened.
The situation of the castle stones is a bit more complicated—there is a labyrinth-shaped passage with twists and turns inside, and there is a small stone ball in the passage. The stone ball must be transported to the end of the passage before it can be opened.
"You come." Li Yuebai resolutely handed over this task to Ye Qing.
Ye Qing may really have special abilities, he has a particularly keen perception of numbers, calculations, weights, shapes, etc. Chinese teacher Li Yuebai is ashamed of himself.
Ye Qing closed his eyes, held the stone with both hands, and turned it lightly—no matter what he did, his expression was very serious and focused, without any sense of arrogance and disdain as a genius, just like just now, no matter how simple the computer password is, he I will also try to crack it seriously, and after successfully cracking it, my expression is still motionless. It's completely different from Li Yuebai who is busy bragging and showing off as soon as he solves any problem.
Not long after, there was a muffled clicking sound inside the castle stone, and then it opened.
Li Yuebai has read some martial arts novels, and always feels that if the mysterious box is opened, there may be some poisonous smoke, poisonous needles, etc., so he subconsciously shot out, walked around behind Ye Qing, and covered it. His muzzle, pulled back.
Ye Qing was pulled by him and almost lost his balance.
Fortunately, nothing remarkable came out of the stone.
In the cavity inside lay a small coffin, black, rough in workmanship, simple in shape, with no visible material, and several deep strangulation marks on the surface of the coffin.
At this point, Li Yuebai was sure that this thing was related to Xu Lili's death.