She scrutinized Qu Yang from head to toe. Hmm, he was better at talking than Shi Jinzhe, and didn't let her shut up.
Considering this, she could lend a small helping hand, and also take the opportunity to leave quickly so she could go eat chestnuts and Sichuan peppercorns.
Shekh nodded: "Where did you come from to hide behind the mirror?"
"There's a cellar entrance behind the small building, which connects to the pipes inside. A few years ago, I climbed in along it, and the end point was behind this mirror."
How did you find out?
“As for the work, my grandfather was a carpenter. When this small building was completed, I came to help with the work. Shaodong paid me 10 yuan a day. That's when the passage was discovered.”
Meng Chengxi had just finished renovating a house in real life. Hearing the price, he felt he had been ripped off, so he asked Qu Yang, "What about your grandfather's wages?"
"100".
"That's too low." Carpentry work is definitely not priced like that. Shao Dong is probably just trying to fool people from the mountains who don't know the market prices outside. He really is a two-faced person.
Shi Jinzhe also asked, "Did you make those new pieces of furniture outside?"
Qu Yang nodded. "My skills aren't great. After my grandfather passed away, I stayed with my aunt and made a living by doing this. I thought they were going to install things in the passageway too, so I climbed in. But then the building had an accident, and Shao Dong kicked us all out. I've always remembered this passageway. I came here this time because I heard there were volunteers again..."
He frowned deeply, but when volunteers came, he came over? It seems that this Qu Yang is a key figure in the clues.
Shekh ignored what the two were talking about and continued to ask Qu Yang, "You've seen a ghost, was it that girl from school?"
"You really can see!" Qu Yang straightened up excitedly. "Her name is Li Xin. She was very close to Lin Xiaohe. After Lin Xiaohe disappeared, she came to see me once and asked me to go to Teacher Qin. But when I went to Teacher Qin's house during the day, Teacher Qin was already gone."
"Was the person still alive when we looked for them?"
"Yes, that was the last time I saw her... When we met again, Li Xin was already... a ghost."
Sheh lowered his head and remained silent. Li Xin's ability to ask him to find someone meant that she knew what was going to happen and that her death was related to this matter. Asking her should lead to Qin Jingyu.
When she ordered him around, she said, "Take me to the second room on the right. Li Xin appeared there."
There are seven ghosts in the small building. Besides the four players, there is the ghost that appeared on the first day, the unknown ghost that she didn't see yesterday, and Li Xin who just arrived yesterday.
"Is Li Xin here?"
"She came yesterday, and someone brought her back."
Shi Jinzhe helped her open the door, and Meng Chengxi carried Qu Yang behind them. The corridor was empty.
At the door of the second room, there was a large pool of blood, and the stench was overwhelming.
The four people stood at the door: "Isn't this Xu Jialu and Xie Man's room?"
Shekh touched the door with his palm: "It was Li Xin who killed her."
The room in Xu Jialu and Xie Man's room was filled with ghostly energy. Li Xin was still in a weak state yesterday and could not see the physical body, but today her strength has greatly increased. She could smell the cold aura through the door.
The door clicked open, revealing a crimson stain. Li Xin had already left, leaving only her scent behind.
Meng Chengxi covered Qu Yang's wide-open mouth to stop him from making a sound: "Xie Man is really something. She can remain unresponsive to such a loud noise in the bathroom. She and Qi Yin probably get along quite well."
Sheh glanced back at Meng Chengxi. She wasn't there last night. When Li Xin killed those two men, his aura was still in the third room. Shi Jinzhe wouldn't pay much attention to that room because it was haunted. This person was the most likely to know the specifics.
What did you hear yesterday?
“I didn’t hear anything,” Meng Chengxi said truthfully. “Yesterday, apart from a wail, there was banging on your house all night. There was no sound from next door.”
Having received no new information, Shekh could only look back at the human skin in the toilet, one dead character after another, which showed that Li Xin's hatred for Xu Jialu was very strong.
Xu Jialu also went to the school yesterday, which likely means she violated Li Xin's taboo and thus met her demise.
She asked Qu Yang, "What kind of person is Li Xin?"
“I’m not very familiar with Li Xin. I only know that she is a very good student. Teacher Qin said that she could get into a key high school and was one of the most promising students in that year to leave the mountains.”
"How many people? Who else is there? Say their names."
“Li Xin, Chai Anan, Lin Xiaohe, Xu Xiaomei.” Qu Yang pursed his lips somewhat unhappily when mentioning the last name, “But Xu Xiaomei got married and moved to another village. I feel like she’s let Teacher Qin down a bit.”
Shekh pressed on, "What about Chai Anan?"
“She went to study abroad and never came back. Her family keeps saying that Teacher Qin kidnapped her and led her astray, which is why she never came back. So I don’t like her either.”
"They haven't come back at all, and there's been no news from them?"
"Yes, their family even said she has no conscience."
Shekh turned to Shi Jinzhe and said, "We can investigate this person."
With Li Xin and Lin Xiaohe missing, Chai Anan might also be in trouble. Her absence could mean she's dead, and perhaps that unknown ghost is her.
Shi Jinzhe nodded and said to Meng Chengxi, "Then we'll go investigate Chai Anan. You go find Li Xin and Lin Xiaohe, and investigate that Xu Xiaomei if you can."
"Okay." Meng Chengxi brought up Qu Yang, "Who will he go with?"
"I want to go with her." Qu Yang didn't trust the two men. Teacher Qin always felt disgusted whenever she mentioned volunteers in charity work, so he was sure they weren't good people.
"Then come with me." Shi Jinzhe carried Shehe out of the room, and just as they left, they saw the doorknob of the third room on the right move slightly.
Li Jiaoyang came out and was startled to find someone in the corridor.
Behind her, Chen Shu also looked surprised. Weren't these veteran players supposed to go out and look for clues? Why are they still here?
Meng Chengxi: "Why are you guys all alone today? Weren't you each with one of you before?"
"Following them any longer will mean certain death." Chen Shu smiled bitterly. He thought he had been cautious enough, but who knew that these veteran players had so many sneaky items.
"I don't know if it was Qi Yin or Xie Man who put a ghost-repelling talisman in our room. Yesterday, a ghost went to our bedroom."
"So how did you survive?"
"I don't know either. I heard a knock on the door, and then I felt someone blowing cold air on me from behind, which made me very cold. But the ghost didn't do anything; it just stayed for a while and then left."
Li Jiaoyang still feels a bit scared and has lingering fear when she talks about it.
“Yes, and she gave us a hint before she left.” Chen Shu took out a piece of paper. “She told us that there was a ghost-repelling talisman in the room.”
Mengcheng Xi was a prisoner. Shi Jinzhe didn't have a spare hand to take the paper, so Shehe took it from him. She opened the paper and placed it in front of Shi Jinzhe's eyes, saying, "Read it."
"Ghost summoning talisman, two, two."
Chen Shu explained to the three of them: "Sheman and Qi Yin are both in the second-ranked room. Qi Yin even went to school yesterday, so the hint should be about the two of them."
Shi Jinzhe asked, "What did he do at school?"
Chen Shu pondered for a few seconds: "He left the books in the library in a bit of a mess, and he also took a few photos with him."
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