After walking down the third floor, Ren Xuan immediately ran to the door impatiently.
"Hey!"
Bang! He slammed the door hard without hesitation, and the result was as expected... .!
"it hurts!?"
"Why isn't the door open?"
Taking a few steps back, Ren Xuan rubbed his shoulders and looked at Gu Moli innocently, but Gu Moli ignored him and looked at Hua Qiong with an apologetic expression: "I'm sorry, I said you were a fool before, it seems that I underestimated the bottom line of fools."
"Hello!"
"Stop talking, stupidity is contagious."
“Hmm!”
Ren Xuan felt greatly insulted, but he had no way to refute, so he had to walk back to the team obediently and said in a sullen tone: "... Then where do you think the exit is? If it's not the front door, it can't be a window or something like that, right?"
"Is it the toilet?"
Unexpectedly, Zhuge gave his answer.
After a brief pause, Hua Qiong quickly responded: "... ah, that's right."
"What's right?"
"The perfect secret room."
After knowing that Ren Xuan was an idiot, Gu Moli immediately took out the proper attitude to deal with an idiot, showing a kind and amiable smile and said: "Yun Xiaoyue's perfect disappearance in the toilet should have been a perfect secret room, but it no longer exists because of Li Shaohua's doubts."
"But even if the two of them colluded with each other to explain Yun Xiaoyue's disappearance."
“There’s actually only one way.”
"The toilet was small, with no room to hide. The only door was watched by Zhuge, so it was impossible to sneak out. Most importantly, there was blood in the toilet."
"Blood?"
"From Li Shaohua's own account, it was as if a basin of blood was thrown at her, and the bloodstains at the scene were indeed like that. But the problem is, if everything is true, then the amount of blood in the toilet is more than the amount of blood that should be in a human body."
"... .How do you know?"
“I’ve tested it before.”
Gu Moli skipped the topic with a simple sentence, and then continued: "In short, I want to make a living person disappear from that toilet."
"No matter how you think about it, the only reason is that the toilet has more than one exit from the main door..."
“…I see.”
After Gu Moli's explanation, Ren Xuan also sorted out his thoughts: "That's why I said the exit might be in the toilet, because that was the secret passage that Yun Xiaoyue used to leave the secret room?"
"correct."
Gu Moli nodded, then strode towards the toilet and opened the door.
However... .
"Nothing?"
"What's going on?"
... .The toilet that appeared in front of everyone was exactly the same as before. Blood stained almost every corner, even the ceiling, like a red prison.
"Nonsense, if it's a secret passage, how could it appear so easily? I just followed the curse and at most just unlocked the secret passage."
Gu Moli looked at the toilet and continued, "Just imagine, if this scene was created by Li Shaohua and Yun Xiaoyue together, how did they do it? Yun Xiaoyue, who left, was responsible for splashing the blood, while Li Shaohua knelt on the ground and let Yun Xiaoyue do it."
"First, if the entrance to the secret passage is on the wall, the blood that was spilled there is likely to seep into the gap between the entrance and the wall, no matter how small the gap is. In this case, it is unlikely to be on the wall. Secondly, based on the same reason, if the blood is spread everywhere, then when Yun Xiaoyue left, the blood might seep into the secret passage, and the corresponding traces would still be formed when the entrance closed."
"So... it has to be somewhere with no blood, or very little blood."
"That is to say..."
Everyone's attention was quickly focused on the only place with no blood around it and bloodstains only near the lid.
toilet.
In other words: It is possible that Yun Xiaoyue was sucked into the toilet!
"Is this the entrance to the secret passage?"
"Try it?"
Gu Moli walked forward, felt around the toilet, and finally pressed the large and small flush buttons in turn, and then pressed both at the same time.
Click!
The familiar mechanism sound was rang out again, and then, as everyone watched in surprise, the toilet lid closed automatically, and then the gap between it and the ground rapidly widened, and the entire toilet and the surrounding floor tiles floated up slightly, and then began to flip over again, and the entire toilet actually flipped into the ground.
But at the same time, something that was originally underground also turned up.
That is... ..
"... a stone tablet?"
The stone tablet is the same as the one standing at the entrance of Phantom City, and the corresponding characters are also engraved on it.
"Only the wise who understand the truth of the Shadow Kingdom can lead to the Shadow Kingdom."
"Do you want to solve more puzzles?!"
"It has come to this point, and you are still doing this kind of thing. It's just like..."
"... .game."
Gu Moli expressed what everyone was thinking.
That’s right, a clearly structured puzzle, hard indicators that require investigating the entire villa, sudden cases, and corresponding clues, what’s the difference between this and a game
"Now that we are here, let's just untie it."
"The so-called truth about the Kingdom of Shadows should be that, the final puzzle involving this phantom city that suddenly appeared out of nowhere within three minutes."
Gu Moli smiled slightly, and then looked at the stone tablet: "Do you need me to tell you directly? In fact, the clue was given when the toilet flipped into the ground just now... Well, about this, Hua Qiong, do you remember what was on the original construction site when we came here before?"
"Eh?" Hua Qiong was stunned when she was called on to answer the question. Although she lacked some abilities, her memory was actually quite good: "I remember... well, some cement pipes and a small wooden house, but the wooden house was locked. It should have been a resting place for workers before it was abandoned..."
"Where is that cabin?"
"Where... .!?"
Hua Qiong reacted quickly. She had a quick mind and had investigated the construction site very carefully before. As long as she imagined the locations of the construction site and the Phantom City in her mind and compared them, she could easily come up with the answer.
That's right.
"... here!"
"Yes! This bathroom! It's very close to the original location of the cabin! So...!"
"Ruzi is teachable."
Gu Moli made a correct gesture and said, "At first I thought that the Phantom City might be underground, but after careful consideration I still felt that it was not very realistic. After all, if it was like an underground castle floating up, it would be difficult to ensure that the original ground was used as an exit without any flaws."
"For example, if the castle comes out from underground, then the existing construction site on the ground is the exit. How do we open this exit? Put it underground? In this case, we need to operate in two steps. First, we need to collect the surface of the construction site, and then let the castle rise slowly from the ground."
"But if we want to complete it within three minutes, it is actually quite difficult. We need support machinery that can pull the surface of the construction site underground, and a crane to push the Phantom City to the ground. It also requires two steps of operation, which is not very realistic. So after thinking it over again and again, I gave up this idea."
"But in fact, the essence of this idea is not wrong. It's just that the construction of the Phantom City is more ingenious. They didn't make it so complicated. They just built a Phantom City upside down directly under the construction site and installed a flipping machine."
"When it is really needed, we only need to turn the construction site over, and it will be done in one step, making the Phantom City appear out of thin air in its original place. It will definitely take less time than the first method. If the investment and technology are sufficient, the corresponding mechanical sounds can be eliminated."
"Flip.... in three minutes?"
"With current technology and an incredible amount of money, it should be possible to solve the engineering problem. Besides, no matter how incredible the facts are, as long as there is enough evidence, it is the only truth. The interior of Phantom City also proves this point."
"Inside....?"
"All that furniture is sealed, right? The tables and chairs can't be moved, the vases can't be moved, the chandeliers are fixed, everything is locked, and it's very secure. Why do they do this? The superficial explanation is that the Phantom Duke doesn't allow outsiders to take anything away."
"But that's a bit far-fetched, isn't it? Is there a better explanation?"
Zhuge, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke at this time: "... Is it to prevent the things inside the Phantom City from remaining the same when it is turned over from underground to above ground?"
“Correct.”
"Indeed... ..that explains it."
"so... ."
"The truth about the Shadow Kingdom is that the Phantom City was originally located underground, and it flipped to the surface within three minutes. That's it. It's actually not that difficult."
Click!
As soon as Gu Moli finished speaking, the stone tablet in front of everyone made a mechanical sound again, and then it, along with the wall behind it, retreated to the next room, revealing its base. There, a dark hole with a staircase appeared in front of everyone.