Chapter 8 Chapter Eight: The Soul in the Attic

The atmosphere suddenly became very strange, and after a moment of silence, Zhu Yikai said, "Look at this bone again." "There are only bones left. It is difficult to determine the time and cause of death, but it is certain that this is a little girl, at most eleven or twelve years old, no more than fourteen years old. Legend has it that Li Nana committed suicide by cutting her wrists, but her two hand bones There are no knife marks on it." "Could it be because of his young age and his lack of strength that he failed to cut the bone?" The red skirt worn by the skeleton had a high collar, and there were marks of cutting with a sharp weapon. Bai Xiaozhou unbuttoned it, and saw a scar on the neck bone: "She was killed by someone cutting her throat!"

"Throat cut?" Bai Xiaozhou recalled the hallucination he saw when he entered the study yesterday, the girl's throat was torn as if cut by a knife. "That legend is false. Li Nana didn't commit suicide, but was murdered! The murderer cut her throat and hid her in this table." "Who is so vicious to do such a cruel thing to such a little girl?" Qu Siqi was filled with righteous indignation. "Such rumors spread in Li's mansion to cover up the murder. And the secret compartment under the table must be known only to the extremely important people in the family." Zhu Yikai said with a sullen face.

"You mean, she was killed by her own relatives?" "I'm not interested in who killed her." Bai Xiaozhou turned his face to look at the fresh female corpse next to him. "You don't believe she was killed by a ghost?" "Do you believe it?" Bai Xiaozhou asked back, and the two teenagers remained silent. The phone rang again at the right time, Zhu Yikai picked up the phone, and the mechanical voice said, "Congratulations on passing the second level." "Stop talking nonsense, what is the third level?" "Go out of the gate and walk 30 meters to the left, there will be an old man begging, he will tell you the third pass."

After hanging up the phone, Bai Xiaozhou asked him, "What about these two corpses?" It is impossible to call the police, Zhu Yikai thought for a while and said: "Move to the bedroom and deal with it after the matter is over." The three carried the body to the bedroom, covered it carefully with a white cloth, and went out to look for the beggar.The children gathered around to play with the paper, and the wind came from nowhere, blowing the paper all over the place.The children picked up pieces of paper everywhere, one of them threw himself in front of Bai Xiaozhou, and Bai Xiaozhou supported him: "Be careful, don't fall."

The little boy had a big bald head, he raised his head and smiled at her, his white teeth were clean and beautiful. For some reason, Bai Xiaozhou felt creepy. Hurriedly walking around the child, Zhu Yikai held her back: "Look." She turned her head and saw an old beggar sitting in a very narrow alley. He was wearing a tattered sweater. It was so dark that I couldn't even open my eyes. "What's the third level?" Bai Xiaozhou went straight over and asked in a low voice. The beggar stretched out his hand tremblingly, picked up the bowl in front of him, and said in a hoarse voice: "Miss, give me some, good people are rewarded."

Bai Xiaozhou nudged Zhu Yikai with his elbow, Zhu Yikai took the money obediently, the beggar put the bowl back in satisfaction, closed his eyes and rested.Bai Xiaozhou was in a hurry, and just about to speak, Zhu Yikai suddenly pressed her shoulder, leaned over and picked up a 50-cent note from the bowl, on the back was written a line of small words in pencil: Find out what the girl is wearing within half an hour Red clothes, red shoes, and hairpins. The three of them stayed for half a minute, when suddenly the phone in their pocket beeped softly, and a stopwatch-like countdown popped up on the screen.The three turned around and ran back. When they rushed into the bedroom, they were all stunned.There was still a bloody smell in the air, and there were still traces of corpses on the floor, but the two corpses were gone.

"I should have thought a long time ago that those perverts will not leave any evidence." Zhu Yikai said in a deep voice, "Now we still have twenty-five minutes to find out the clothes worn by the corpse." "The house is so big, how can I find it?" Qu Siqi said angrily. The two stared straight at him with four eyes, making his hair stand on end. "You, what are you going to do?" Zhu Yikai patted him on the shoulder: "You should understand what we mean." Qu Siqi could see the past and the future, if he could see what happened just now, it would be easy to find those clothes.

Cold sweat broke out on Qu Siqi's forehead: "It's not like you don't know, this...is beyond my control, or tomorrow's lottery..." "Forget about the lottery." Bai Xiaozhou pressed his shoulders and told him to sit down on the bed, "When do you usually have inspiration?" "Uh..." Qu Siqi thought hard for a long time, "When it's dangerous?" "Very good." Bai Xiaozhou grabbed his arm and pulled him to the window. He had a bad feeling. "You, what are you going to do?" "Siqi, I've offended you." Bai Xiaozhou pushed him out of the window, and Qu Siqi yelled in fright: "Hey, if you have something to say, please speak up, help!"

"Xiaozhou." Zhu Yikai walked over.Bai Xiaozhou turned his face to look at him and said, "Don't worry, I have a measure." "You misunderstood, I mean, I should do this kind of manual work." After saying that, he grabbed Qu Siqi's legs and let him hang upside down outside the window.Qu Siqi was so frightened that he yelled, "Zhu Yikai, you wait for me, I must kill you!" "Any inspiration?" "No." Zhu Yikai let go of one foot, Qu Siqi's face turned pale, a huge fear rushed towards him like a flood, several images flashed quickly before his eyes, and several people dressed like ordinary citizens entered the room, silently and quickly Move the corpse out, and then there are a few simple and broken scenes.

"Pull me up, I saw it!" Zhu Yikai pulled him up unhurriedly, his legs were weak, he looked at him sadly, and greeted the eighteen generations of his ancestors in his heart. "What did you see?" Bai Xiaozhou asked impatiently. "I only see three images, one of the fireplace, one of the attic and one of the basement." "Very good." Zhu Yikai patted his head, "You still have some use." Qu Siqi finally couldn't hold back, raised his hand and punched him.Bai Xiaozhou rushed over to protect him: "Okay, okay, when it's over, I'll treat you to a big meal to apologize, okay?"

"Yes." Zhu Yikai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, "Men should be more magnanimous and don't lose face in front of girls." Qu Siqi wanted to cry but had no tears. With a friend like this, he was really miserable for eight lifetimes. There was a fireplace in the living room on the ground floor, which was empty and dusty.Bai Xiaozhou was about to go in and have a look, but was held down by Qu Siqi: "Wait a minute." "What's wrong?" Qu Siqi signaled the two to stand far away, then picked up a stone and threw it in. Suddenly, a ball of flames erupted in the fireplace, and the scorching air forced him to retreat again and again. "It's so cruel." After the flame was extinguished, Qu Siqi waved his hand to disperse the thick smoke in front of him, groped in the fireplace for a while, and took out an asbestos bag, in which lay a red hairpin quietly. "It's really convenient to have a 'prophet'." Bai Xiaozhou felt lingering fear, and she was only one step away from turning into a roast suckling pig. Judging from the external structure of Li's mansion, there is an attic, but the three of them searched for a long time but could not find the stairs leading to the attic.As time passed by, Zhu Yikai decided to enter from the outside.He opened the window in the corridor on the second floor, grabbed the window lattice, jumped up, and jumped up deftly.Bai Xiaozhou stuck her head out and saw him standing outside the window of the attic, the place to step was extremely narrow, she said worriedly: "Be careful." Qu Siqi rolled his eyes, it would be better if he fell to his death. The window was plugged with a latch, Zhu Yikai's eyes were focused on the latch, and the latch opened with a "click", and he quickly jumped in with a vigorous figure.This attic has been closed for many years, and it is full of stale smells. Although it is narrow, it looks like a bedroom. Unlike other rooms in the mansion, the furniture here is of low quality and the style is very simple. , many of them are decayed. Could this be the servant's room?But there is obviously only one bed here, and the size of the bed can only sleep one person. Which servant is so dignified that he can live in a room by himself? There are a lot of sundries piled up in the house, and it is very difficult to find them. Zhu Yikai took out his mobile phone. In order to avoid tracking, he unplugged the battery these days, and now it doesn't matter. "Si Qi, where are the things?" "Are there any flowers in the attic?" "Flowers? Fake flowers?" "No, it's a real flower." Zhu Yikai found it incredible that this attic has been closed for so many years, how could there be real flowers?Could it be that those people left behind? He looked around and his eyes fell on the quilt on the bed.The quilt was scattered, some places were dirty, and some places were clean.It seems that this quilt was folded not long ago.He went straight over, lifted the quilt, and there was indeed a fresh yellow tulip lying inside. "I found a tulip." He said to Qu Siqi on the other end of the phone, "And then?" "I don't know. In the picture I saw, there was only this tulip." useless.He cursed in his heart and hung up the phone.What does it mean that the other party left this tulip?The flower language of tulip is hopeless love, is it related to love? He searched for the bed carefully.When he bent down and checked the bottom of the bed, he saw a pair of little feet wearing a pair of red leather shoes, walking quickly across the bed. Startled, he raised his head, the room was empty and there was no one there. "Who?" He asked in a low voice, and the only answer he got was the wind from nowhere.He seemed to remember something, licked his index finger, and raised it to the air.This is a sniper's way of testing the wind direction. He turned his face to look at the wall inside, moved the table with countless sundries away, and was about to hold the doorknob, but the doorknob turned by itself. Startled, he took two steps back, drew out the scimitar, and stared at the doorknob. The doorknob turned very slowly, and the few short seconds seemed as long as a century. With a "click", the door opened slowly and slowly, and the door hinge made a harsh "creak" sound , I heard my teeth sore. There is nothing inside the door, just an ordinary utility room, with some unknown sundries piled up, including pots and pans.He walked in cautiously, his eyes quickly swept around, but there was no one there.His scimitar was gradually lowered, but he heard Qu Siqi shouting: "Be careful!" He turned around suddenly, and saw a strange person stuck to the wall, holding a long and thick awl in his hand, and rushed towards him. There was no escape from him. A white light suddenly crossed in front of him, the awl just pierced the white light, the killer felt a strong thrust towards him, he retreated hurriedly, spun a few times in the air, and hung on the chandelier.Qu Siqi held a broken sword in his hand, and a white light protruded from the break, making it into a complete sword. The killer could feel the cold killing intent overflowing from that sword. Zhu Yikai wondered, "Where did you find the sword?" "Given by Teacher Long." He jumped up, stabbing the killer with his sword light.The killer grabbed the wires of the chandelier and circled around like a poisonous snake, stabbing Qu Siqi with the awl in his hand like a snake letter.That sword seemed to have a soul. Qu Siqi originally only knew how to embroider his legs, but now he was extremely brave, as if possessed by a master.In just a few strokes, the killer was swept away by the sword, and a huge gash was split from his left shoulder to his chest, and blood spattered everywhere.With a low cry, he fled out of the room. Zhu Yikai had already guarded the door, and the two fought.Zhu Yikai is ruthless enough to focus on his wounds, and he finds it more and more difficult.Suddenly seeing Bai Xiaozhou standing outside, he hooked the corner of his mouth, raised a cold and sinister smile, made a feint move towards Zhu Yikai, threw himself beside Bai Xiaozhou, pulled her into his arms, and pierced her throat with the awl in his hand , said in a deep voice, "Stand back, everyone!" The two teenagers flinched and had to take a few steps back.At this moment, two killers broke in through the window, both holding a one-foot-long iron awl in their hands. They were both wearing slippery plastic-like clothes, and Bai Xiaozhou's right hand was useless to them.The teenagers were so anxious that cold sweat oozed from their foreheads. "Put down your weapons obediently," said the leader. "We can make your death easier." "Do you guys like killing people that much?" Bai Xiaozhou suddenly raised his head, his eyes were deep and bright, and the killer holding her was stunned for a moment when he saw his own shadow in her pupils. "Then why not kill yourself for pleasure?" The killer's gaze became dull, he picked up the awl, and stabbed it into his own throat fiercely, blood sprayed Bai Xiaozhou's face like a collapsing snow mountain.The other two killers were startled, and just about to attack, Bai Xiaozhou suddenly turned his head and looked at them coldly: "Why don't you hurry up and attack, what are you waiting for?" The iron awls of the two stopped in mid-air, then turned back and pierced their own throats accurately. The splashed blood left countless blood spots on the mottled wall, like a beautiful abstract painting. The two teenagers stared dumbfounded. They couldn't believe that the girl in front of them was actually the Bai Xiaozhou with whom they lived and quarreled day and night. Bai Xiaozhou's strength seemed to be taken away in an instant, his body tilted, Zhu Yikai strode up and hugged her waist.She supported his shoulders and stood firm: "Thank you, I'm fine." "All right?" Zhu Yikai frowned, "Are you sure?" "I'm really fine, just a little dizzy." Zhu Yikai turned to look at the three corpses, and remained silent.Qu Siqi hesitated for a moment: "Xiao Zhou, do you feel that there is something wrong with you recently?"