"What's wrong?"
The young master next to him turned around and asked with concern: "Is the chair uncomfortable?"
"...No." Su Yi shook his head and sat down with his thighs together. The young master's scrutinizing eyes were fixed on her skirt, as if he could penetrate the layers of gauze and see her stockings that were stretched open by something stuffed in them.
"Are you really okay? If the chair is uncomfortable, just change it."
Su Yi shook his head in denial, fearing that the young master would notice something. They spoke in a low voice so as not to disturb the postman Fang who was narrating his experience. The other players were listening attentively.
Postman Fang said that when the wedding started, the pastor, the bride and groom stood on the stage to take the oath, and he and Grace watched from the audience. After the oath was over, the bride and groom came down to toast the guests, and they stayed there.
Because both of them were not at a high level, they didn't dare to run around. During the conversation, they talked about their thoughts on script-killing games, such as how they were afraid and found it difficult, until the power went out.
After the power outage, Postman Fang was panicked for a while, then he took out his flashlight and shone it on with a bright white light. He didn't dare to walk around, and he advised Grace to stay where she was and observe the situation like him.
Afterwards, Grace reminded him that a yellow flashlight was lit up. Postman Fang thought that other players would definitely go over to see what was going on when they saw the yellow light, and he couldn't be left alone, so he told Grace that they should go over and take a look as well.
"Su Xin's mother disappeared at that time." Young Master Bai spoke up and explained the yellow light of his flashlight: "It must be a ghost. The yellow light came on when I confirmed that he was not around me."
Su Yi: "That ghost pretended to be a young master, sitting in a wheelchair, and kept leading me over there. I later realized something was wrong, but I didn't dare to resist."
"He held your hand?" Bai Shen asked in a bad tone.
"...Yeah." Su Yi admitted quietly, silently hiding the fact that her legs were tangled with hair and that something was stuffed into her stockings by a ghost, and only talked about the result:
"Then I deliberately said that my shoelaces were untied and stopped. The ghost didn't seem to have any intention of killing me. Then the lights came on and he disappeared."
"It sounds like... this ghost doesn't seem to be very bad." Miss Peng said, "Then let's go back to Grace's question. Since the first sentence on the player was: It's so dark, why is there a power outage? I think from that moment on, the person who replaced Grace appeared."
Lawyer Chen agreed: "When the power was on, everyone could see the person. No matter how much the doll resembled Grace, it couldn't replace the real person. So I guess Grace was replaced when the power went out."
Lin, the maid: "The question is how? How did the murderer determine Grace's location in the dark, and then take her away and hang her on such a high glass?"
Bai Shen looked up at the stained glass window. He had never been interested in reasoning and solving cases, but he spoke for the first time, as if he wanted to show off in front of someone:
“The church windows are cleaned regularly.”
Everyone: …?
Bai Shen pointed in the air, and a church floor plan immediately appeared in his hand and he spread it out.
Everyone saw a small secret door marked next to the glass window on the building plan. Behind the door was a passage for cleaning staff to go up.
Ms. Peng: “Where did you get the map?”
Bai Shen: "This church is now my private property."
The magician taunted, "As expected of you, the legitimate successor?"
Old pastor: "This passage leads to the corridor outside the wedding hall, so the murderer needs to find Grace in the dark first, knock her out or kill her directly, drag her to the corridor outside, crawl into the passage, and then hang on the glass window, and finally return to the venue along the same route. This...is unrealistic."
Lin Nu? Maid: "Wait, I remember the Bai family has a secret passage."
Ms. Peng: "Yes, the young master went to the round table conference room through the secret passage, and it was much faster than those of us who didn't use the secret passage. Can the secret passage be directly connected to this passage with the glass window? Do you have a construction plan of the secret passage?"
"There is no complete map." Bai Shen took out the secret passage map, "Only a partial map of the secret passage."
Lin, the maid, took a look. It was a construction plan of the underground floor of the church. Each room was connected by a secret passage in secret:
"Wow, Bai Shen, your lounge leads directly to your sister-in-law's room? Yeah."
Bai Shen tightened his grip on the map, and wrinkles appeared on the map. Su Yi blushed at the teasing.
Young Master Bai glanced at Young Master Bai and Su Yi, and said nothing with magnanimity.
Lin, the maid, said, "I think this secret passage in the dungeon must be useful, so I suspect that the secret passages should be spread all over the church. There must be a secret passage in the wedding hall that can lead to the secret door next to the glass window. The murderer is very familiar with the Bai family and used this secret passage to hang the body up and then return the same way."
The old pastor disagreed: "I hope everyone will not forget that we are divided into twos. This is also the purpose of my proposal to divide into groups in the first place. That is to say, if one of us takes advantage of the power outage to kill Grace, even if he takes the secret passage faster, he will not be able to hide it."
There was silence.
The old pastor said: "Everyone heard what the player said at the end. The murderer was talking to us in real time. But when I observed everyone present, no one was talking."
Su Yi felt that what he said was right. There must be a method... or a mechanism that allowed the murderer to do all this.
Lawyer Chen: "I think we should search the whole place first. Let's spread out and look for a secret passage in the whole hall. If there is one, it should be under a floor tile."
Boom, boom, boom, boom…
The hall was filled with the sound of people knocking on the floor tiles, solid and heavy thumps.
Su Yi and the eldest young master were in a team responsible for checking the floor tiles near the wedding oath stand. The eldest young master knocked on a few tiles, all of which were solid, and then gradually knocked on the side.
This place is the key area where the accidents occurred twice, Su Yi thought. Postman Fang said that before the power outage, he and Grace were watching the wedding oath in the audience, and Young Master Bai's second bride had an accident during the wedding oath, both of which were near this location.
There must be something here...
Young Master Bai knocked on many tiles to no avail. Finally, Su Yi pointed to the bottom of the swearing-in platform:
"I want to go there and take a look."
He was small enough to fit into the hole in the table, but Young Master Bai was tall and strong, so he couldn't get in.
It was very dark in the hole in the table. Su Yi first stuck her head in, observing the situation like a cautious little animal, and then crawled in. Most of her body was in the hole in the table of the oath-taking platform, leaving only a small part of her white gauze skirt exposed outside.
No one can see him now, not even the eldest young master can see him.
Su Yi breathed a sigh of relief. He did not start checking the floor tiles immediately, but began to lift her skirt layer by layer.
He wants to take that thing out of the stockings!
[Shashasha, my wife is lifting her skirt to seduce me, hehehehehe!!]
Su Yi was startled when a row of pink comments appeared in front of him. He was so focused on the plot of the script-killing game that he forgot the existence of the small TV. Fortunately... his skirt was quite large, and he had been treated like that by the ghost master before. The audience might know what happened, but at least they couldn't see it.
Su Yi turned the small TV around to face the dark wall of the table.
[Wow wow wow help! It’s dark, I can’t see my wife!]
[What is my wife doing? Why don’t you let us see it?]
[It must be the work of the ghost master in front! Didn’t he say he would give his wife something? He must have stuffed it in some unspeakable place, bad dog!]
Su Yi lifted the last layer of her gauze skirt, revealing her legs in white silk stockings.
He gently pulled open the edge of the lace stockings. His thighs were red and had been tightened beyond recognition. The intricate lace was like a brand on his skin.
I really have to take off these uncomfortable stockings!
Su Yi tried to pull the stockings off her legs with her hands, but the stockings slipped down a little, and a red warning popped up in front of her eyes:
[Players do not have the privilege of wearing and taking off stockings freely. It is forbidden to take off stockings without permission. Forcible violation will be regarded as a violation and will be severely punished.]
Su Yi: "..."
He had no choice but to pull the stockings back up and put them on, then reached out to hook the edge to open them a little, put his fingers in to grope, and took out the square object that the ghost master had given him.
This thing is very light and has the texture of a plastic box. Su Yi knew what it was as soon as he took it out. The ghost master did not lie to him. It was indeed something he would definitely use. He was very familiar with it:
Digoxin tablets are cardiotonic drugs, mainly used to treat acute and chronic heart failure such as congenital heart disease.
It can quickly control soaring heart rate and atrial fibrillation and help the heart return to normal. It was a commonly used medicine for Su Yi during his lifetime.
——That ghost...knows him?
"Su Yi, did you find anything inside?"
The eldest young master's voice was heard outside.
"Not yet." Su Yi put away the pills carefully, "I'll observe it for a while."
He tapped the surrounding floor tiles lightly with his knuckles. After a while, he realized that one of the tiles was wrong. It felt empty when he tapped it!
Su Yi: "Found it! There should be a secret passage under this floor tile."
[Congratulations! You are the first to discover the truth fragment: the secret passage under the table hole, the truth exploration degree +2%, the current exploration degree is 17%]
Young Master Bai turned around and notified the players in other groups to come over and take a look.
Su Yi's small TV screen was filled with comments, all congratulating him?, and there were even more gold coin rewards:
[My wife is so smart! She found the secret passage that no one else found so quickly!]
[This newcomer is just around the corner. I originally thought he was just a pretty face, but I didn't expect he could find a secret passage. I'll invest in him first. At least he unlocked 2% of the exploration level, right?]
[Emmmm, how come this new player hides their exploration level? It’s 8% now, isn’t it? 8% is a hurdle for new players. Only if they can get past it can they have great potential. I’ll wait and see.]
[Your small TV is still very popular. Currently 718 people are watching it. You have received 32 gold coins through rewards. Congratulations on entering the 70th place of [Top 100 Newcomers]. You have moved from the third page to the second page. Your small TV will get more exposure! ]
Su Yi received this information calmly. Many people's thinking stopped after discovering the secret passage, especially when a series of system rewards and small TV barrages popped up, which distracted their attention.
But Su Yi continued to think along the line of thought of the secret passage...
The old pastor mentioned before that if the murderer wanted to kill Grace, he had to find her in the dark, do it, and then drag her into the passage without making any noise and being noticed by people at the scene. This was a bit unreasonable.
Su Yi was planning in his mind, if he was the murderer, he would not do such a troublesome thing, he would set a trap and wait for Grace to walk herself into the tiger's mouth.
In other words, it is possible that no one brought Grace into the secret passage, but that Grace entered the secret passage on her own initiative after the power outage.
In the secret passage or in the secret passage itself? There must be something she desperately wants.
Su Yi thought about it, and rubbed his fingers carefully around the floor tiles, looking for flaws.
After a while, his delicate fingertips felt a small uneven mark:
[725380]
It's a string of six digits!
[Congratulations to player Su Yi for obtaining the truth fragment again: [number on the floor tile], truth exploration degree +3%, current exploration degree: 20%]
The six-digit number can easily be associated with a password. Combined with Grace's situation, Su Yi quickly figured it out: it was Mr. Bai's inheritance!
After Mr. Bai died, Lawyer Chen summoned the eldest and third sons, and Grace to the study to read out the estate. Su Yi suspected that Grace might have received something like a safe, but she didn't know the password.
The killer used this information to guide Grace here to obtain the six-digit code.
So Grace and Postman Fang stood at the place closest to the swearing-in platform from the beginning. After the power outage, she carried Postman Fang on her back and crawled into the hole in the table. After she touched the six-digit number...
She was killed.
With a sense of uneasiness in his heart, Su Yi turned around and wanted to escape from the hole in the table...
Suddenly! The floor tiles of the secret passage were turned over, and a withered hand stretched out and fiercely grabbed his ankle!
“Ah—ah!”
Before Su Yi could even utter a cry, a drugged wet rag covered his mouth and nose!
He held his breath for a moment, not inhaling any air. The hands that grabbed him were extremely powerful, and they suddenly pulled him into the secret passage...
“Su Yi——!”
The delicate bride fell into the rabbit hole like Alice. Su Yi heard the young master's anxious shout, but the entrance to the secret passage was too small for the young master to get in.
After the floor tiles at the entrance were turned over, they were quickly covered back, and the secret passage was plunged into darkness again.
Su Yi couldn't see anything. Her wide skirt was stuck in the secret passage. She couldn't move and could only let the monster's big hand drag her down...
This horrible thing ignored his struggle and dragged him around roughly like prey. Su Yi's naked back was scratched and it was burning with pain.
Compared to the ghost master who can communicate well, this thing is more like a ghost!
My heart...is failing...!
Su Yi began to feel short of breath, and waves of sharp pain came from his heart.
Patients with congenital heart disease simply cannot stand this kind of high-speed fall and violent movements, and their heart rates are getting faster and faster... Su Yi stretched out his hand with difficulty while being dragged, trying to take the medicine that the ghost master gave him.
At this moment, the wedding ring on his ring finger suddenly emitted a ruby light, flickering slightly a few times, as if it was connected to some strange signal...
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