There was a man and a woman sitting on the armchair. They were both dressed in gorgeous clothes and their faces could not be seen clearly, but their temperaments were calm and majestic, a bit like the master and mistress of an old house in a costume drama.

The lady said, "My daughter is already sixteen years old. It's time for her to get married. Have you found a good family?"

The master stroked his beard and said, "The young master of the Zhang family is seventeen years old, handsome and talented, and a good match for our daughter."

The lady nodded. "Then we should start preparing for the marriage. I heard that a skilled embroiderer has recently arrived in the city and is asking a high price. I will ask her to make my daughter's wedding dress."

The screen darkens and then brightens again, and the second act begins.

At the head of the table, the lady was seated, and several grey figures were kneeling on the ground.

The lady angrily said, "I used to think you were good people, but now that I'm too busy with my marriage to take care of you, you actually dared to steal the treasures from the mansion for a full six months. You're so audacious!"

The gray figures kowtowed relentlessly, "Madam! We are innocent! We are all elders in the mansion, how could we possibly steal anything from the mansion!"

Madam: "How do you explain the things in your house? Why did you go in and out of the pawnshop a few days ago? Now that there are witnesses and evidence, you still dare to quibble! Beat me up and kick me out!"

The figures were dragged away wailing, and the second act ended.

In the third scene, the master is sitting, and in front of him stands a figure who looks like a shopkeeper, who is bowing and reporting something to the master.

"I currently owe the Qian family 500 taels, the Zhou family 800 taels, and the Sihai Trading Company 1,200 taels..."

The master was surprised and asked, "How could you owe so much money?"

The shopkeeper said, "Boss, our business has been down since half a year ago, and now the situation is getting even more difficult. The only solution now is to sell the shop on West Street..."

The master was stunned for a long time, nodded with difficulty, and sighed, "You go and do it."

The screen slowly darkened.

The seven of them waited for a while, and when they saw the screen start playing again from the first scene, they gathered together to study the plot.

Fourth Brother: "From what you read, it seems like this family was once doing well, but then fell on hard times?"

Chang Xu: "But what does this have to do with the wedding dress? You didn't spend all your money on embroidering the wedding dress, did you?"

Zhou Tong pondered and said, "Both the second and third acts mentioned the time period, which was half a year ago. It should be that since the marriage was decided, the Li family's luck has been getting worse and worse."

She spread her hands and said, "There's too little information right now, and I can't piece together the truth yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, the red candle on the upper table floated up again and flew to the left wall.

The wall fell down with a loud bang, revealing an upward staircase behind it.

The boys clapped their hands one after another, saying that this mechanism was great and grand!

Everyone followed Hongzhu upstairs.

There are two rooms upstairs, one on each side. There is a staircase at one end of the corridor in the middle and a wall at the other end.

They first opened the room on the left, which was a study.

Opposite the door was a desk, upon which were placed brushes, inkstones, and paper. Behind it was a small bookshelf, on which were placed some storybooks, as well as small trinkets like dolls and clay figurines. It was basically used as a treasure chest, and it was clear that the owner of the room was not much of a reader.

In addition, the most common thing in the house is paintings, some of which are scattered on the ground, some are collected in painting jars, and some are stuffed into the corners. They are all signed by the same person, and the handwriting is very beautiful and lovely.

Someone said, "These must have been painted by Miss Li. She's only sixteen, and it's amazing that she could paint like this."

Zhou Tong nodded in agreement and sat down at the desk.

There is also a painting hanging on the opposite wall. It shows a little girl in a pomegranate red skirt, looking around with a bright smile. It is a self-portrait of Miss Li.

She couldn't help but smile at the portrait, and opened the desk compartment, revealing a diary.

After calling the others over, Zhou Tong opened the diary.

Page 1, "No one came to play with me today...Rou'er, Fen'er and the others haven't contacted me since they started preparing for their wedding. What kind of a trap is this for getting married? How can someone never come back?"

Page 2, "Today, my mother said that it's time for me to get married, but I don't want to get married! I don't want to leave home, I don't want to leave my father and mother!"

Page 3: "The embroiderer my mother recently hired is so good at it! If I could wear her wedding gown, I'd be able to get married too! She embroidered a butterfly handkerchief for me and put it together with the gifts Rou'er and Fen'er gave me!"

The diary only had three pages, and at the back was a blank sheet of paper splattered with ink.

Zhou Tong pried open the book and saw, "The back is torn off."

The few of them had no choice but to study the previous content. Chang Xu said, "Rou'er and Fen'er should be Miss Li's close friends. What does it mean to stop contacting them?"

The fourth brother suddenly had an idea. "Could it be that these girls also disappeared while preparing for their marriages, just like Miss Li?"

Zhou Tong quickly scanned the diary again. "Let's look for this butterfly handkerchief first. Is it in the study?"

The others shook their heads, "We've looked everywhere, but nothing."

They were now attracted by the plot and were eager to know the truth. After making sure that it was not here, they immediately went to the other side.

Opposite is Miss Li's boudoir, with a dressing table next to the window and a step-out bed next to it.

The seven people divided into groups to search and finally found a small wooden box under the bed.

When I opened it, there was a butterfly handkerchief, a butterfly hairpin, and a pair of butterfly earrings inside.

The fourth child: "Why are there only butterflies? Is this a clue?"

Everyone else shook their heads, but Zhou Tong turned over the box and found a compartment at the bottom, which contained a diary.

The fourth picture said, "There's something downstairs... How terrifying! No wonder my father and mother... I'm going to hide my wedding dress so they can't find me! Hide it somewhere only I can go!"

A boy hugged his arms tightly, "Here it comes! The unknown horror is coming!"

Chang Xu frowned, "Why can't we find her after we hide the wedding dress? And where is the place where only she can go?"

Zhou Tong pondered slowly, "She's a lady from a wealthy family and rarely goes out. She must be hiding in the mansion. And she lives in the Embroidery Tower, so the probability of her hiding here is the highest."

Chang Xu was inspired by her, "Only places she can go... the boudoir and study. There must be very few people who can enter, but she is not alone. Her mother and the maids who serve her can definitely enter."

Zhou Tong: "Currently, Miss Li has shown the following traits: she likes to keep a diary, has a simple personality, doesn't like reading, and likes to draw..."

Chang Xu and she looked at each other, and they both reacted at the same time: "In the painting!"

After saying that, they ran out together.

The others looked at each other and asked, "Is our little Liuzi really that smart?"

The fourth child: "Love makes people excellent..."

In the study, Zhou Tong ran to the self-portrait and found that the expression of the person in it had changed. The little girl who had been smiling brightly was now about to cry.

Zhou Tong couldn't help but whisper, "Don't worry, we will help you." As she spoke, she reached into the painting.

Sure enough, the painting was also a projection. After putting my hand in it, I felt a slight chill.

Was it dry ice? Zhou Tong was distracted by her thoughts, her hands groping around, feeling the texture of the fabric and grabbing it immediately.

She withdrew her hand and pulled out an extremely gorgeous wedding dress from the portrait.

As soon as the fourth brother and his companions ran in and saw this scene, they began to clap their hands and shout, "This is the first time I've seen a mechanism hidden in a painting! Fengdu is awesome!"

Zhou Tong was also a little excited. She was completely into the game and said, "Let's go downstairs quickly."

However, when they ran to the first floor, they found that the door was still locked. Not only that, but the first floor was also much darker than before.

The red candle still flew around them, providing the only light.

The fourth brother was with a few of his brothers and said softly, "I have a feeling something terrible is about to happen... Zhang Lei may be a coward and annoying, but he's quite courageous. What happened just now couldn't scare him."

Little did they know that Zhang Lei was not playing the same game as them.

Someone chimed in, "So, we're going to be scared to death next, right?"

Zhou Tong frowned in disgust when she heard Zhang Lei's name, and then said, "The fourth diary entry says 'downstairs'. Could it be downstairs?"

Chang Xu: "You mean there's a secret room down there? That makes sense! Let's look for it!"

Soon, someone shouted, "There's a pull ring here!"

He pulled it up, revealing a dark tunnel underneath.

The red candle flew into the cave, and the candles on both sides of the tunnel burned one by one from the doorway inward.

The boy exclaimed: "This special effect is amazing!"

Several people jumped down one by one and walked into the tunnel. They soon found two sets of prop skeletons.

Seeing the clothes on the corpse, several people were shocked. "This is, Master Li and Madam Li! They died in the basement of the embroidery building? Did Miss Li know?"

Several people sighed, feeling that it was cruel whether they knew it or not...

As we continued walking further in, we saw more and more corpses, all of whom were servants and stewards of the Li family.

The fourth brother couldn't help but say, "What kind of deep hatred is this? It's like wiping out the whole family!"

Chang Xu was still recording with his phone, not daring to watch. "It must be some kind of non-human creature. Think about it, when people eat chicken, do they consider whether it's from the same family? There's even a dish called 'Mother and Child Reunion'!"

The fourth brother grinned and stepped over a corpse, "Thanks, brother. I haven't felt like eating chicken lately."

At the end of the tunnel is a stone chamber. A prop stone door has fallen at the entrance, and a hole has been knocked open by something.

"It seems that the Li family discovered this thing and wanted to lock it in the stone chamber with a stone door, but it ran out. This should be the place to fight the BOSS." Zhou Tong said.

Everyone agreed, but, "Where is the boss? How do we get him out?"

Just as I was thinking, I heard a boy suddenly scream, "Something grabbed my waist!"

He screamed in pain and was quickly dragged towards the wall!

Zhou Tong shouted, "Quickly read the command!"

The boy was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Soldier! Soldier... Soldier something something... What's the point..."

He was muttering something as he was dragged into the wall.

Zhou Tong held her forehead with her hand, "Doesn't he know the Nine-Character Mantra?"

The boys in the same dormitory: "..."

At the same time, another boy yelled, "Fuck, I got pulled over too! I don't know the command!"

This time it was even faster, he was dragged away in a flash.

The remaining five people: "..."

Zhou Tong said haggardly, "Please recite the command."

The four boys were silent for a moment, then took out their cards and started reciting.

The author has something to say:

The shadowy woman in the backstage arranged the boys neatly and shook her head, "College students nowadays can't even memorize nine characters!" Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution between 2022-05-07 14:12:13 and 2022-05-08 14:57:53——

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