Gently opening the sheepskin box in front of me, the dazzling light flashed, dazzling my eyes.
A box full of jewellery, gold, pearls, diamonds...
Su Yi was not attracted by these jewels. The first thing he noticed was a faint reflection inside the lid of the box.
He held the lid of the box up to the light and looked carefully. There was a hexagram engraved on it.
It is very shallow, as if it was deliberately smoothed and covered by some process. It is very difficult to see. I can vaguely make out a few complex letters and symbols, but I can't tell what words they are. It feels like an array used in some religious ceremony.
The magician took out a handful of jewels from the box, put them in his hands to taste them, and said with a click of the tongue:
"The quality is very average."
Su Yi's gaze also moved over. At first glance, these jewels were indeed dazzling and seemed to be priceless. However, after looking closely at a few of them, he found that the facets of the gems had slight defects and the weight of the diamonds was not large. The value would not be particularly high, far less than the Bai family's Pa Island gold mine, company stocks, and luxury properties around the world.
Su Yi had a question in her mind. Did Grace poison Mr. Bai's food box with blue powder just to get this little bit of jewelry? Mrs. Bai can enjoy it at any time.
Bai Ye: "How about pouring it out and seeing it?"
He had no knowledge of jewelry, so he reached out to help turn the box upside down on the bed. The jewels spilled onto the quilt, revealing an empty box.
There was a bright light at the bottom of the box, and Su Yi saw the terrifying thing at a glance:
A skeleton made of silver.
The skull's head and spine were embedded in the box, with the hands and bones stretched out in front of it, as if struggling in death, trying to grab something...
"Bingo~"
The magician snapped his fingers and read out the bloody note left by the murderer like a bard:
"…A wide mirror, with the fourth corpse on it, you are only a pair of hands away from the truth."
Su Yi also thought of this sentence. This fourth corpse might not refer to the fourth dead lawyer Chen, but this silver skeleton. The information of the corpse and the hands can match, but there is one thing that is wrong...
"Fourth? How is this number reflected?"
There was no place on this silver skull that could show a number. Su Yi counted the finger bones, ribs and other bones, but the number "four" did not match.
"I don't care about that." Bai Ye glanced at his watch. "It's already 1:40. Let's go back to the mirror and try. If it doesn't work, we can go to sleep."
A group of three people came out of Grace's room with the box and prepared to go back through the secret passage.
Squeak——
Bai Ye opened the small door on the wall, and a dark secret passage appeared before his eyes. Su Yi poked his head out from behind him:
"Where's the eldest master?"
Mr. Bai’s wheelchair can’t come in, and he said before that he would guard the door here.
"Look? On the ground." Bai Ye raised the flashlight and shone it:
On the dark ground, there were strands of hair left.
Su Yi took a half step back with some disgust. These hairs were wild and rough, unlike the soft hair of the ghost young master. They reminded him of the horrible memory of being grabbed by the ankle and dragged into the secret passage by this hair monster at the wedding.
"Did the eldest master go to lure this thing away?" Su Yi.
Bai Ye remained silent and did not answer, unwilling to praise the eldest master's heroic act of sacrifice in front of Su Yi.
"I came here after the explosion," the magician said. "The door was already closed."
When they entered Grace's room, the door leading to the secret passage was open. Young Master Bai was in charge of guarding the door. After the explosion, he found that the door was closed. Something must have happened on the way.
The magician and Bai Ye discovered a hair faintly coming out of the crack in the door. Thinking that Su Yi was still unconscious, they did not open the door hastily.
Now let's speculate that Young Master Bai must have discovered the danger during the time they entered the bathroom to investigate, so he closed the door and led the hair monster away alone. He probably didn't know that they later experienced the dripping sound bomb in the bathroom.
"Don't worry, that guy won't die."
The magician saw Su Yi frowning worriedly, his dark and watery eyes seemed to be filled with tears. His worried look made him look like a sick Xi Shi, which made people want to comfort him.
"Yeah." Su Yi responded in a low voice. With the young master's strength, he shouldn't be killed so easily. He had been caught by that hairy monster before. That thing didn't seem to have high intelligence and couldn't beat the young master.
The most urgent thing now is to go back to the cloakroom and face the full-length mirror to try whether this silver skull is useful or not, and whether it can reveal the "truth that is only a pair of hands away".
Tick, tick, tick.
Three people walked in the secret passage, Bai Ye was walking in front carrying a black sheepskin box, Su Yi was walking in the middle, and the magician was at the back. The footsteps could be heard in the empty secret passage, and from time to time they stepped on the remaining hair, making a rustling sound.
[My wife has harvested a lot tonight! One bomb and one silver skull, together we harvested 8% of the exploration level. Keep it up, surpass? That machine gun postman! - Reward 100 gold coins]
[So what is the exploration level of this newcomer now? Machine Gun Mailman No. 1 definitely can’t surpass it, right?]
Su Yi's small TV followed behind him. In order to prevent the audience from seeing him wrapped in a bath towel, he turned the screen so that it could only capture the person walking behind him.
The magician playfully waved and said hi to Su Yi's small TV, and the clown mask smiled evilly.
[Who are you? Come over here, I want to see my wife!]
[Hehe, I just like the mischievous tone of the magician. I’m definitely buying shares of the second young master!]
[+10086, the eldest young master is disabled, the third young master is arrogant, watch? The second young master takes away his sister-in-law! ]
The magician watched Su Yi's small TV and bought his stocks, with a happy smile on his face. Su Yi, who was walking in front, knew nothing about it. He turned on his own light screen and received a pop-up prompt:
[Congratulations on collecting the fragment [Silver Skull in the Box], truth exploration degree +3%]
Current truth exploration rate: 43% [hidden]
Su Yi confirmed the prompt record again. It was strange. He only added 3% of the silver skull. However, he clearly found the hexagram array on the lid of the box, but he didn't calculate the exploration degree. Could it be just an ordinary decoration?
Sizzle.
Bai Ye opened the small door of the secret passage in front, and the warm yellow light from the cloakroom shone through, and they returned to B104.
Su Yi walked through the small door and saw piles of clothes in front of him. A full-length mirror reflected a cold light.
It was almost two o'clock in the morning. Bai Ye made a quick decision, walked forward, and opened the black leather box in front of the mirror without fear, revealing a silver skull at the bottom.
One second, two seconds, three seconds of silence passed and nothing happened.
Bai Ye frowned, took another step closer, picked up the box and put the silver skull in front of the mirror, taking pictures from different angles, with a serious and cold expression, as if he would chop anyone into pieces if they dared to come out of the mirror and cause trouble.
After waiting for a long time, nothing happened.
Bai Ye threw the box aside: "It seems that this is not it."
"Tsk tsk, you're so fierce that even if the skeleton really wanted to reveal itself, it would have been scared away by you." said the magician.
Bai Ye gave him a blank look, not bothering to reply, with a look of disdain, as if to say, what can you do about it, if you have the guts, do it yourself.
“…light.”
In silence, Su Yi suddenly thought: "That sentence means: a small and dark room, a wide and large mirror. Now the light is too bright."
Click. The magician turned off the light obediently: "It's small, so do we have to close the door as well?"
Su Yi hummed, and as the door was closed, the last ray of light was swallowed up, and the cloakroom fell into darkness.
Gradually, Su Yi saw a faint light. It was the silver skull. The mirror reflected the light and became brighter.
"Hold the box with both hands and try to adjust the angle, slowly." Su Yi stood beside Bai Ye and guided the movements. If he guessed correctly, this should be some kind of optical path mechanism.
According to this line of thought, the meaning of that sentence is to place the silver skull on the table, hold the box with both hands and adjust the angle. At a certain angle, the light reflected between the silver skull and the mirror will match the light path set by the mechanism, and the mirror will open, presenting the "truth" to them.
Bai Ye shook the box to find the angle, and the reflected faint silver light became brighter and brighter. For a moment, it reached its brightest value and gathered into a bright point in the mirror. When he moved his hand, it disappeared again.
"That's the one just now!" Su Yi shouted. He stared at the mirror intently, observing the changes in the light path, and guided Bai Ye very seriously: "Be careful, be gentle, and slowly move the box inwards..."
Bai Ye did as he was told with his hands, but his eyes were fixed on Su Yi without moving.
The darkness weakened people's judgment of distance. When Su Yi was guiding his movements, his body unconsciously leaned towards him. Now the distance between them was far beyond the social distance and they were almost touching.
Bai Ye smelled a faint pleasant fragrance. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect or real. He felt that he could even sense Su Yi's blinking and fluttering eyelashes.
"Yes, that's it, don't move your hands..."
The silver light gathered on the mirror again, and Su Yi felt a sense of relief as if he had solved the last big math problem. In the thick darkness, he unconsciously moved a little closer to the white night...
Bai Ye felt a faint touch on his skin, so hot that his whole body felt like it was burning.
Years of combat experience gave him excellent night vision. Bai Ye turned his head and saw Su Yi's profile clearly. His delicate nose was upturned and his eyes were fixed on the light path between the mirror and the silver skull. The silver light like the moon in the water fell on her raised eyelashes. She spoke to him in a soft voice, her breath was as fragrant as orchid and her body was warm.
Su Yi was immersed in the mirror mechanism and had no idea that he was being stared at covetously. There was only light in his eyes, and the silver light focused on the mirror and stayed there for one second, two seconds...
Three seconds later, suddenly! With the light spot as the center, silver light meandered out like flowing mercury, outlining a maze-like light path on the mirror surface.
Su Yi was shocked by the mechanism, and the next moment, he felt a warm breath approaching him...
In the moonlight, Bai Ye lowered his head and touched Su Yi's nose with the tip of his nose.
His movements were gentle, and as soon as his nose touched hers, he moved away by himself, as if he was afraid of being rejected, like a cautious and tentative puppy.
Su Yi was stunned for a moment, and soon her face turned red. This guy Bai Ye... took advantage of the fact that no one was looking...
"Ahem, ahem."
Suddenly, the magician spoke faintly from behind: "My night vision is very good. Don't think I can't see. Third brother, please restrain yourself. Although the eldest brother is not here, you can't be so presumptuous. Look, you have made your sister-in-law blush."
Su Yi's face became even redder with annoyance. How come these people were so adept at character setting? They would tease him whenever they saw any relationship between characters. They even talked about such unethical things as three brothers fighting over his sister-in-law!
“This mirror…”
At this moment, Bai Ye suddenly said, "Something is wrong."
The maze-like silver light path faded away, and the mirror became gray, as if covered with a layer of fog, and then made a...hissing sound.
Bai Ye gripped the knife tightly, took a step forward, and protected Su Yi behind him.
This hissing sound is very faint, a bit like the sound of electric current, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.
Chi! There was a louder sound of electricity, and a black and white scene suddenly appeared on the mirror:
There was a wooden floor and a heart made of rose petals on the white wall. The withered petals stretched all the way to the bedroom. The bedroom door was ajar, leaving a gap.
Su Yi had a bad feeling in his heart that this layout should be his room B104.
The black and white picture is not very clear, it is shaking, and white noise is flashing from time to time.
"This looks like a surveillance video," the magician said. "There's a time and date in the upper right corner."
Su Yi took a look and saw that the date was today and the time was exactly when they were going to hold their wedding, at 8 p.m. tonight.
20:00:01, 02 seconds...
This scene continued until three minutes later. Starting from 20:04, there was a slight change.
"Did you... hear any sound?" Su Yi asked in a low voice.
In the mirror, a female voice humming could be heard faintly.
Su Yi listened carefully. There were no lyrics. Did it sound good? It sounded like ding... ding ding——
This tune...
He suddenly felt a chill. This was the wedding march!
The beautiful, blessing melody was sung in an eerie and sad way, mixed with crackling white noise and black and white images, and came from the mirror, exuding a very weird feeling.
Sizzle——!
Suddenly there was a very shrill sound, and Su Yi saw a hand appear on the half-open door of the bedroom!
The withered woman's hand, with its sharp long nails, scratched the door, leaving scratches.
Squeak——
The bedroom door was pushed open, and Su Yi saw a woman in a wedding dress walking out. Her hair was disheveled. She walked closer to the camera step by step, humming a wedding march softly.
After walking a few steps, Su Yi gradually discovered that her hair was getting longer and longer. From waist-length hair, it became long hair that dragged on the ground in an instant, and the blue spots of the corpse began to cover her exposed skin...
suddenly!
The space in front of her eyes was empty, and she disappeared from the living room!
The picture did not change, still showing the black and white scene, with the petals of the roses on the wall falling to the ground.
Su Yi frowned. Where did he go?
…The length of the video keeps increasing, one minute, two minutes…there is no change in the picture.
After four minutes, Bai Ye was getting a little impatient. He killed ghosts all the time, but this kind of thing couldn't scare him at all:
"Can this thing be played at double the speed? It's awfully slow."
"Is there nothing left?" Su Yi took a step forward, wanting to take a closer look at the scene in the mirror, to see if the woman or the ghost had hidden herself...
At this moment! A huge female ghost face popped up!
She crawled in front of the camera, and the whole body of the mirror showed her horror. Her rotten flesh was almost stuck under Su Yi's eyes, and she was smiling strangely with her mouth wide open...
"ah--!"
Su Yi screamed and his heart stopped. Bai Ye immediately covered his eyes with his hands. At the same time, with a click, the magician turned on the light.
The mirror returned to its calm state. There was nothing. It was quiet all around. No one was humming the eerie wedding march.
Only Su Yi's heartbeat was thump, thump, thump, faster and faster.
"... Ugh!" Su Yi covered his chest with a little pain. His heart disease...
"Su Yi, Su Yi! Where is the medicine?"
Bai Ye held him, letting him lie comfortably in his arms, with his head tilted back slightly. His movements were as skillful as if he had practiced them thousands of times. Whenever this happened in school before, Bai Ye would go back to Su Yi's school uniform pocket to get the first aid medicine and feed it to him...
But in the murder thriller script, there is no medicine to treat heart disease.
Life-saving system: "Wife, take a deep breath! It's okay, I'm watching you, remember? I can see every data of your body. Now your heart rate is not to the level where you need to take medicine. You can adjust yourself. Take a deep breath..."
Su Yi took a deep breath, and all he could hear was his own heartbeat like a drum. He felt dizzy and tried hard to adjust himself. He had to take the pills that the ghost master gave him sparingly, because the system mall only sold special medicine items used in dungeons, and there were no medicines to cure human diseases.
After about ten minutes of rest, Su Yi heard the life-saving system broadcast: "The heartbeat is gradually becoming stable. Wife, how do you feel now?"
"…fine?."
He wasn't that afraid of ghosts, otherwise his heart rate would have skyrocketed when he saw the bride ghost humming a song by the door. But the ghost just now appeared too suddenly, as if... she knew he would walk to the mirror.
"Help him to the bed and let him rest for a while." said the magician.
Su Yi was gently picked up by Bai Ye. The magician opened the door of the cloakroom, opened the quilt, and let Su Yi lie down.
Thinking that the ghost in the mirror came out of the bedroom, Su Yi felt a little creepy lying on the bed. Who knows if the ghost has slept there before? Who knows how many people died in this church...
"It's already half past two, and my brother hasn't come back yet. He might never come back."
The magician said nothing auspicious, "Sister-in-law, have a good rest. How about my third brother and I sleep on the floor under your bed and accompany you."
Su Yi was tired. He closed his eyes and said, "...It's up to you."
The magician smiled triumphantly and joyfully took out a set of single folding bed frame, bedding, quilt, duvet cover, and pillow from his backpack. It was obvious that he had planned this in advance, and Su Yi was too lazy to expose him.
Bai Ye was stubborn? He didn't prepare so much. He was just about to drag a few down jackets out of the cloakroom and use them as a mattress when he heard -
“Tick-tick.”
At the first sound, he thought he had heard it wrong because of the aftereffects of the water noise, and then:
Tick, tick, tick.
Each sound became clearer than the last, coming from the bathroom in the living room.
"Fuck." Bai Ye cursed. This dungeon didn't allow anyone to sleep. He had clearly fixed the shower head in this room when he came to Su Yi's place before, so why was there a sound of water again?
Tick, tick…
Su Yi sighed and sat up. It seemed that he had to go and have another look. The magician said:
"Is there a water drop bomb in this room?"
Bai Ye: "Shut your crow mouth!"
He stood up, turned around and said to Su Yi: "Don't get up, I'll go take a look."
"Let's go together." Su Yi said, "If something happens, I can't escape if I lie here."
The three of them came out of the bedroom and turned on the lights in the living room, making sure that everything was bright and the view was clear.
Click.
I turned on the bathroom light again, and the pale light illuminated the tiles.
When Bai Ye walked in, the first thing he saw was that the floor drain in the bathroom was blocked by his hair. The frizzy black hair clogged every mesh of the floor drain.
He frowned, turned around, and drew open the bathroom curtain. It was clean inside, with nothing inside. The shower head was also in good condition.
Tick-tick.
Suddenly, something cool dripped on the back of Bai Ye's neck.
He reached out and wiped it, and saw that his hands were sticky and bright red.
…It’s blood.
"How is it? What's going on..."
Su Yi was supported by the magician and walked to the bathroom door. Halfway through asking, he raised his head following Bai Ye's gaze and stopped asking.
He saw that a corner of the bathroom ceiling was almost soaked red, and blood was seeping down from it...
Tick, tick.
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