Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Death of the Girl in Red

"Siqi, check online immediately to see if there is a girl in this house who committed suicide." He said. "You don't need to do any research to know this. I did a lot of research when I was working on a supernatural website." "Have you ever built a supernatural website?" Bai Xiaozhou asked in surprise, and Qu Siqi waved his hands again and again: "It happened when I was young, and a hero doesn't mention being brave." "Don't interrupt Xiaozhou." Zhu Yikai said, "Siqi, let's hear it." "Back then, Li Jialing had a son and a daughter. The daughter was Li Nana, who was only twelve years old. She was very beautiful. Li Jialing loved her very much. She could have whatever she wanted. But just a week before Li Jialing's family was killed. , She committed suicide suddenly, and she died very strangely." He spoke vividly, pausing for a moment at every critical moment, and Zhu Yikai said dissatisfiedly: "Please don't whet our appetite, you are not Zhang Zhen telling stories."

"That's what I say, don't listen to me." "Enough!" Bai Xiaozhou said angrily, "When are you still arguing, do you want to go out and fight? Si Qi, go ahead!" Zhu Yikai rolled his eyes, and Qu Siqi glared at him: "She died on the night of the total lunar eclipse, and it happened that there was a power outage in this area, and the whole house could not be seen. The maids lit candles and delivered supper to Li Nana who was alone in the study. , and found that she was dead. She committed suicide by cutting her wrists, wearing a scarlet dress, a scarlet bow on her head, and scarlet leather shoes on her feet. The blood flowing from her wrists stained all the books on the table red. Maid I was so scared that I threw away the candlestick and ran away. After calling my wife and the housekeeper, I found that blood was everywhere, but the body was gone. Then the whole family dispatched and searched the entire mansion, but Li Nana was not found. She seemed to have evaporated from the world Same. The police officers at that time came to inquire, and the servants said that the Li family did not have red dresses and leather shoes at all, and the young lady was not wearing red clothes before she entered the study."

"Does Li Nana have a reason to commit suicide?" "I don't know about this, and the information on the Internet didn't mention it." Qu Siqi said mysteriously, "But in the week after Li Nana committed suicide, the mansion was haunted, and the servants often saw the girl in red walking in the study. Walking, as if looking for something. One night, Madam was awakened by footsteps in the middle of the night, and saw Li Nana's figure reflected in the dressing mirror, covered in blood. Madam was frightened, and Li Jialing was going to invite a mage to perform the practice of saving the dead, but still Before I had time to ask, there was a murder."

"It seems that this Li Nana is probably not dead." Bai Xiaozhou said, "It was a total lunar eclipse that night and there was a power outage. The study was very dark. The maid only saw blood on the ground and a girl in red lying there. Confirm that it is a corpse." "Why did she do this?" Zhu Yikai said, "She is only twelve years old." "Perhaps someone ordered her to do it. The twelve-year-old's outlook on life has not yet formed, and it is easy to be used by others." "Why don't you go to the study to have a look." Qu Siqi held the structural diagram, "From the perspective of the structure of the house, the later owner did not change the structure of the house. You see, the study has a secret passage leading to the third room on the second floor. Maybe Li Nana left quietly through this secret passage at that time."

The three of them walked up the steep stairs. For some reason, the stairs leading to the second floor of this mansion were very high, like a tower.The floor is wooden and "creaks" when stepped on. The second floor is even darker than the first floor, with wall lamps on the wall covered with thick dust.Zhu Yikai took out a flashlight as if conjuring, and seeing the surprised eyes of the two, he said, "I bought it at the small grocery store at the end of this street." "Why didn't I see him shopping?" Qu Siqi whispered. "I don't seem to have seen it either." Bai Xiaozhou also muttered in a low voice.

"He doesn't have a treasure bag with a robot cat, does he?" "Hey, I heard everything." Zhu Yikai glanced at the two, "Hurry up, we don't have much time." At the end of the corridor is the study room of that year. This door has not been opened for some time, and the doorknob is already rusted.Zhu Yikai tried to open it with his mind, but finally gave up and kicked the door open. The smell of blood became stronger, and Bai Xiaozhou saw books and blood all over the room.A girl in red was sitting on a chair with her back facing her, holding a knife in her right hand, and there was a gash on her left wrist, and beads of blood dripped down her fingers.

The girl stood up and turned her head slowly. She had a pure and lovely face, her skin was as white as snow, and her eyes were big and bright.The wind rolled up her long hair, a strange smile appeared on her face, a gap was suddenly split in her delicate neck, as if someone was slowly slashing it with a knife, blood gushed out like a spring, turning her red The skirt was dyed a deep black. "Xiao Zhou." Zhu Yikai pressed her shoulder, and she woke up suddenly.When I looked again, the study room was dilapidated, with only a few scattered books scattered on the floor.The tables and chairs are still there, but the mahogany chair only has three legs left.

"The structural diagram says that the secret passage is behind this bookshelf." Qu Siqi pushed hard, but the bookshelf suddenly moved aside quickly, and he staggered and almost fell down. "Zhu Yikai!" He roared angrily, "Are you really trying to find trouble today?" "Where is the secret passage?" Zhu Yikai pointed behind him and said, he turned his head and saw a wall, Qu Siqi stepped forward and knocked, the voice was very dense, there was no secret passage inside. "Could we be tricked again?" Qu Siqi unfolded the structural diagram, "Is this diagram fake?"

"In ancient times, when a craftsman built a house for the Gaomen compound, he would hand over a blueprint full of secret passages to the master, so that the master could refer to which secret passages could be kept and which ones would not be used. After the master made a choice, the craftsman I will draw another blueprint, and this one is the final draft. I think the one you are holding is just the first draft." Zhu Yikai laughed, "That's how my old house was built." "You know why you didn't say it sooner?" Qu Siqi's forehead was full of veins and was about to explode when Bai Xiaozhou's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Come and see, there is something here."

There was a pocket watch quietly lying in the drawer of the wooden table. It was very old and worn, but it was clean without much dust.Bai Xiaozhou picked it up and opened it, the pointer was still moving, and a photo was pasted on the watch cover. Her scalp was numb for a while. In the photo, an innocent little girl was snuggled up with a white skeleton. The girl smiled sweetly and beautifully. There were two beautiful dimples at the corners of her mouth, and a pair of black and bright eyes. Eye. Isn't this girl the girl in her hallucination when she first entered the study? "Who is this man? Li Jialing?" Qu Siqi said.

Bai Xiaozhou was stunned for a moment, and when he looked again, there was no skeleton in the photo. The girl was snuggling up to a bookish man in his thirties, wearing a pair of glasses. "Could this be Li Nana?" "It's been nearly a hundred years, and the house has changed hands several times. Even if there is, it shouldn't be in such an eye-catching place." Zhu Yikai said, "This is the clue left by those perverts. Since it is a game, it is natural to have clues to be fun. .” "So, maybe it's really Li Nana's stuff." Qu Siqi looked out the window, "It's getting darker and darker, this haunted house is really not safe at night, there is a small hotel opposite, why don't we go and have a rest, and come back tomorrow morning .” At this time, the three of them felt that their stomachs were rumbling and their stomachs were beating like drums, and they really needed to take a break.After leaving the haunted house, Bai Xiaozhou couldn't help but look back, and suddenly there was a flash of red in a certain window on the second floor. The small hotel opposite is indeed worthy of the word "small". A room is only ten square meters, and just enough to fit a bed.Qu Siqi and Zhu Yikai didn't dare to ask for one room this time, so they had to open three.Then they ordered three bowls of noodles with fried sauce. Zhu Yikai thought it was dirty and didn't eat much, but Bai Xiaozhou and Qu Siqi ate very happily. Zhu Yikai talked about waste oil in order to express his indignation, but the two turned a deaf ear.It wasn't until the two big bowls were eaten, and Qu Siqi even finished Zhu Yikai's bowl, that he patted Kaizi on the shoulder: "What gutter oil, your taste is too light, once I saw a corpse with a brain burst, come out I still ate tofu nao.” Zhu Yikai said calmly, "Do you dare to eat while looking at that corpse?" Qu Siqi was calmer than him: "I haven't tried it, but I can try it next time." Bai Xiaozhou rolled his eyes, felt a terrible headache, went back to sleep.This sleep was very heavy. She thought she would sleep until dawn, but she woke up in the middle of the night, and couldn't fall asleep anyway. She had to get up to read grandpa's notes. Before she could take out the notebook, the phone rang. The caller ID is an anonymous call, and Bai Xiaozhou knows that it must be from that pervert.Sure enough, the familiar and disgusting mechanical voice came from the microphone: "The daughter who committed suicide has appeared." After saying that, she hung up the phone. She was shocked and turned her head sideways. The window was facing the second floor of Li's mansion. There was a red shadow standing in one of the windows, the night was too dark, and the distance was too far to see clearly. She came out in a hurry and knocked on the doors of Qu Siqi and Zhu Yikai's room. Strangely, no one answered after knocking for a long time.She felt a little chilly in her heart, and went downstairs to find the hotel owner. The female owner rubbed her sleepy eyes and opened the door for her cursing.The two rooms are empty, the beds are neatly folded, it doesn't look like someone has lived in it. "Where is my friend?" She asked the boss anxiously, who gave her a blank look: "How do I know? I said girl, the more handsome a man is, the more unreliable he is. Have you been played by those two boys? " Bai Xiaozhou was so anxious that cold sweat broke out on his forehead: "You have been at the front desk, and you didn't see them leave?" The female boss yawned: "Maybe they left while I was going to the toilet. I run a hotel, not a prison, so I can control when people leave?" Bai Xiaozhou stomped her feet angrily, turned around and walked out, the female boss stopped her: "Wait, you haven't paid yet." "If you want to stay tonight, what kind of money will you give me? You will pay at noon the day after tomorrow!" Bai Xiaozhou tossed her a sentence, and quickly ran out of the hotel with his silver medal in sprinting in elementary school, and ran towards the mansion across the road. Pushing open the door of the mansion, the moonlight slowly spilled into the house, covering the pieces of white cloth covering the furniture with a layer of light frost, which looked like a mortuary at first glance. "Siqi! Kaizi!" She yelled, but no one answered, but there was a "creaking" sound from upstairs, as if someone was walking slowly through the corridor. She went out and picked up a wooden stick with nails. She didn't have a flashlight, so she had to light the kerosene lamp by the door and carried it up to the second floor.The corridor was empty, filled with dust and the smell of blood, disgusting.She swallowed and said in a low voice, "Siqi, Kaizi, is it you?" A door next to the corridor suddenly opened without a sound. Bai Xiaozhou remembered clearly that they had checked before, and every room here was locked. She took a breath, walked over step by step, stood at the door, and said in a deep voice, "Who, get out!" This seemed to be a girl's boudoir. There was no furniture or anything, only a canopy bed and a full-length mirror. A layer of paper was pasted on the mirror, which seemed to be covering something important.The wind blew up the gauze curtain on the canopy bed, like the white silk used by a ghost to hang himself.Under the gauze curtain, there seemed to be a person lying down. When she thought of Qu Siqi and Zhu Yikai, she couldn't care less about anything, she hurried in, and the door slammed shut behind her, she didn't care.As soon as the gauze curtain was lifted, there was a woman lying on the bed, a woman wearing a red skirt, red shoes, and a red butterfly hairpin. Her hand trembled, and she almost missed the kerosene lamp, and the woman's eyes opened in the shaking of the flame.Her head became hot, not only did she not run, but she rushed towards the woman and grabbed her neck with her right hand. The hands were cold, and the woman's neck was slippery, like some kind of plastic sheet. The woman sat up suddenly, holding an electric baton in her hand, and punched her stomach. She let out a low cry and fell to the ground. Consciousness gradually blurred, she forced her eyes open, and saw the woman in red walking towards her with a sneer.Can she be sure that this person is not a ghost, but a killer sent by those perverts? She was careless. She suddenly found that the full-length mirror standing beside her had been torn off the paper at some point. The mirror surface was clear and bright, reflecting the grayness and darkness of the room, and a little scarlet. She suddenly realized that the girl in the mirror was not the woman in front of her who was holding a rope and trying to strangle herself, but a very young girl, eleven or twelve years old, with a red dress, red shoes, red hairpin, and blurry face , the footsteps were so light that they could hardly be heard, floating over from the door like a ghost. The darkness filled the air, and she fell into a deep sleep. After an unknown amount of time, she was shaken awake, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the anxious faces of Qu Siqi and Zhu Yikai: "Siqi, Kaizi, are you all right?" She was completely sleepless, and pinched their arms to make sure They're real people, "Where did you guys go last night?" "We slept together in the room last night and didn't go anywhere." Zhu Yikai frowned and said, "It's you who didn't see anyone early in the morning. Do you know how worried we are?" Bai Xiaozhou was at a loss, looked around, she was lying in the horrible bedroom last night, it was already dawn, the paper on the full-length mirror was well pasted, there was no trace of tearing at all. "How come..." She felt her head hurt a little, rubbed her temples, and told what happened last night. The two teenagers looked at each other: "Xiao Zhou, the hotel we stayed in has only one male boss. Where is there a female boss?" ?” Bai Xiaozhou gasped, and wanted to say something, but saw the eyes of the two teenagers on her hand. She lowered her head, and saw that she was holding a red cloth strip in her hand, as if torn from her clothes. down. "This is..." She remembered that the woman was about to strangle herself to death last night, she grabbed her skirt in a panic, and then passed out. "There are also here." Zhu Yikai picked up a small piece of cloth by the door.Going out sideways, he saw a piece under the door of the study, so he walked over and pushed the door open. A strong smell of blood came to his nostrils, and he saw a pool of blood. The big, heavy desk was bleeding drop by drop, and the bright red blood was blooming like poppies on the floor. Qu Siqi and Bai Xiaozhou followed, their faces changed a little.Without saying a word, Zhu Yikai walked over and knocked on the inside of the table. This big wooden table was different from ordinary desks. It was bigger and thicker than ordinary ones, and it was nailed to the ground so it couldn't be moved.He groped under the table and found a keyhole. He said: "This table uses people's visual illusion to hide part of the space. In fact, there is a hidden compartment under this big drawer." He reached out and touched the keyhole, and only heard a "click". The wooden plank at the bottom opened suddenly, and two huge masses rolled out. The smell of blood and corruption exploded in the room like a stink bomb. Zhu Yikai held his nose and stepped back quickly, patting the dust on his body in disgust. Those were two people, to be exact, a skeleton and a fresh female corpse. They all wore red dresses, red shoes, and red hairpins on their heads. "Is this the woman who attacked you last night?" Qu Siqi asked. "Last night was too dark, I couldn't see that woman's face clearly." Bai Xiaozhou's face turned pale, "But, I know this woman, she is the female boss who opened the door for me last night." The two teenagers looked at each other without speaking. Bai Xiaozhou carefully inspected the fresh female corpse. The red skirt was torn to pieces. Under the skirt, she wore a tights made of a special material, covering her whole body, presumably to prevent the poison on her right hand.Bai Xiaozhou looked at the bloody chest: "It was a sharp instrument that pierced the body and died." "What sharp weapon? A knife? A sword?" Bai Xiaozhou was silent for a moment, picked up the boned hand for a closer look, then put it on the female corpse for comparison, raised his head and looked at them: "It was pierced by this hand."