On the morning of the third day, people discovered that Xie Junfei and his brother were missing.
"Have you searched in the villa?" Shen Yu asked.
Three girls are also helping to find it, but they find nothing.
Lin Miaomiao said, "Maybe they went out last night?"
Wang Tongtong flattened her mouth, showing fear on her face: "This place is so scary, why are they running around, and where can they go?"
Where can I go out in the middle of the night...
Shen Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, then said lightly, "I think we should go to Mr. Bud to find it."
Finding clues should be the only reason for two veteran novelists to go out regardless of the danger of the night.
It might even be a clue that would take them out of the novel.
Shen Yu and Yue Ze were about to go out, but the three girls were afraid of being left in the villa, and strongly demanded to go together.
It's just that the group of them found Xie Junfei before they reached Bud's residence.
... Or rather, a few dollars for Xie Junfei.
At the entrance of the small town, not too far from the lakeside hut, Xie Junfei's mutilated body was lying on the road, his flesh and blood were torn into several pieces, his abdominal cavity was empty, and all his internal organs were missing.
Blood was splashed all over the floor. If Xie Junfei's head was not intact, others would hardly be able to recognize his identity.
As for Xie Junfei's lonely head that rolled down in the middle of the road, the expression on his face was extremely horrified, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, as if he saw something very terrifying before he died.
Seeing the horrifying scene in front of him suddenly, Wang Tongtong, who has always been shy and timid, rolled his eyes and passed out without saying a word.
Li Qingqing's legs went limp, and she slumped on the ground, her face pale, her lips trembling and she couldn't speak.
The only one who was bolder, Lin Miaomiao, immediately retched, leaned on the wall by the side of the road, vomited upside down, and almost vomited all her bile.
Yue Ze and Shen Yu were calm, and the experienced Yue Ze even stepped forward and looked at the marks on the corpse: "He was torn apart by some kind of larger beast, and the bite marks on the wound were similar to the tooth marks of dogs. "
Lin Miaomiao, who was leaning on the wall to barely stand, covered her mouth, suppressed vomiting, and asked, "Did he be bitten to death by a ghoul? Will the ghoul come to eat us?"
No one can answer this question.
Shen Yu stared at the scarlet all over the ground, and couldn't help sighing secretly, took off his coat, and covered Xie Junfei's ferocious head, at least to give the deceased a last bit of dignity.
Regardless of the bits and pieces of meat, he put the scattered corpses together, looked around, and suddenly asked, "Is there another person?"
Zhang Keke was still missing at this time.
Shen Yu and the others decided to go to the lakeside hut, while the other two girls were overly frightened and refused to leave, supporting each other back to the villa.
And for some reason, Lin Miaomiao insisted on going with the two of them even though her hands and feet were weak from fright.
"Among the three of us, I am the oldest and the most courageous. Usually Qingqing and Tongtong are very dependent on me." Lin Miaomiao tried to hold back her tears and held her breath, "I want to protect them all the time, so I need to figure out What exactly is going on!"
Looking at this brave girl, Shen Yu sighed softly, acquiescing to her following behind them.
It's not far from the lakeside hut, and the three arrived soon.
Bud was still the same as before, trimming flowers in the warm sunshine, dressed cleanly and elegantly, no matter how he looked at it, he was just an old artist who had nothing to do with the world.
It's just that the old dog squatting at his feet is bigger than before.
Its fur is still dirty and smelly, but it is not as skinny as before, and its spirit is much better, and it no longer looks like it will die at any time.
Probably hearing footsteps, this dirty and blind black dog suddenly stood up vigilantly, about a person's height, opened its mouth towards the comer, and made a vague and sharp voice.
"Oh, Alice, a guest is here, don't be so rude, get down!" Bud scolded, kicked the black dog on the waist, then turned around and apologized to everyone, "I'm sorry, it I'm a little irritable today."
Xie Junfei was torn into several pieces by the ferocious beast, and his internal organs disappeared, but the black dog that was already dying of old age became big and fat overnight
Everyone stared at the black dog who was suddenly alive and well, with complicated eyes for a while.
Shen Yu had many questions in his mind, but in the end, he just said: "This morning, one of us died, and one of us is temporarily missing."
"Oh, God! That's too unfortunate." Bud still had a smile on his face, and said without emotion, "It must be another good thing done by the ghouls. Recently, these filthy things have become more and more rampant."
Lin Miaomiao finally couldn't help it, she stepped forward and asked, "Mr. Bard, have you ever thought that your dog..."
She pointed to "Alice": it may be a ghoul, it is the one that killed people, it is very dangerous!
Hearing these words, the black dog suddenly became more anxious, and let out a terrifying roar from its throat.
Bud touched the black dog's head, and pushed the black dog in front of Lin Miaomiao: "Don't panic, look! It's my Alice, it's just a cute little furry."
Lin Miaomiao argued: "But once our companion died, it regained its vitality, perhaps because it ate human flesh."
Bud's expression became indifferent: "Dear Miss Detective, what do you want, let me strangle my dog to death?"
"It's really dangerous, maybe killing it is a good way... ah!" Lin Miaomiao was talking, when she suddenly let out a scream.
When the black dog heard that he was going to kill him, his emotions suddenly became agitated. He jumped forward and bit Lin Miaomiao's wrist.
The dog was too close to her, and the incident happened too suddenly. Shen Yu and the two hurriedly stepped forward to rescue and separated the black dog that was clinging on.
Lin Miaomiao clutched her bleeding arm, weeping and hid behind the two of them: "I just said it's dangerous, it must be the legendary ghoul!"
"It was you who provoked it first, and my Alice got angry when you said you wanted to kill it." Old Bud held down the restless black dog, and said with deep meaning, "Be careful, Alice doesn't care about anything. can understand."
"Mad dog! Crazy old man!!" The injured Lin Miaomiao cursed and hid further away.
"Okay, respectable detectives, what is the purpose of your visit today?" Bud asked in a well-bred manner.
Shen Yu stared at him, then shifted his gaze to the black dog struggling to rush towards them, and said, "We want to bury our dead friends, but we don't have a shovel."
"So it was for the funeral."
Bud suddenly realized, and went back to the wooden house to take out a shovel: "I will lend you the one I used before. Although this engineering shovel is shorter, it is the best to use."
Shen Yu took the shovel, thanked him calmly, and left with the injured Lin Miaomiao.
Behind them, the blind old dog, still growling in the direction they left, tried to pounce on them.
After returning to the villa, the two girls who went back first rushed forward and accompanied the crying Lin Miaomiao to bandage the wound.
And Shen Yu put down the corpse wrapped in a coat in his hand, and took out a book from his arms.
The black book left behind by the dead Xie Junfei.
The characters in the books don't seem to be able to hide the novelists' books, or even feel the existence of these books, even though the novelists dangle the black books in front of their eyes every day.
So this book that was ignored by the characters was picked up by Shen Yu.
He turned the pages.
[Seven little detectives came to the small town of Rice.]
[Detective Xie Junfei found a portrait, he celebrated his success.][But he was wrong...]
[There are only six of the seven, and his story is over.]
Seven people and only six
Zhang Keke is not dead yet!
Shen Yu pondered and said: "According to the hint given in the black book, Xie Junfei died because he found the wrong portrait."
"The place where he died was very close to the lake house, so it should be related to Bud."
"It's just Zhang Keke who is still alive? Maybe it was last night, the two of them didn't go together; or, Zhang Keke escaped danger by chance; or, she has some life-saving skills..."
One less death is always a good thing!
Shen Yu put down his thoughts for a while, and turned to a new page.
Several sheets of yellowed paper fell from the pages.
He picked it up, and recognized that it seemed to be someone's diary, which probably contained a very important clue, so Xie Junfei kept holding it between the pages of the book.
Annie, Emily, Betty, Anna, Alice, ghouls...
Shen Yu browsed through all the contents of the diary at a glance, and couldn't help frowning deeply.
This is Bud's diary.
This diary was what Xie Junfei found before. He read all the content, and then followed the clues above, without distinguishing the true from the false.
And Bud's diary is very likely to be false!
He set up surveillance in the room to monitor their every move, and then this fake diary was discovered, and it was logical to deliberately mislead the person who found the diary.
But Xie Junfei and his brother are considered veterans after all, if they only had a holiday diary, they would not be so easily deceived to their lives.
There must be some other clues that misled the siblings.
He stared at the diary fragments and pondered for a moment, then picked up the borrowed engineering shovel, and said to Yue Ze: "Let's go to the room where Xie Junfei and the others lived before."
The only room where the bottom of the bed was bricked up.
As soon as they entered the door, the two smelled a looming rancid smell, which permeated the room.
There is also a huge portrait hanging on the wall of the room, with long black thick hair, blue eyes, gemstone rings on fingers, and a few small freckles on the face, very similar to Amy described in the diary Korea.
The cemetery is outside the window of the room. Standing in front of the window, you can see the high and low cross tombstones in the cemetery from a distance.
But the faint rancid smell in the room is always lingering.
Shen Yu carefully identified the source of the smell, and after a while, he fixed his eyes on the bed in the room.
The bottom of the bed was completely sealed with bricks.