Chapter 348: Desert Forest 34
The damp and musty smell filled the entire basement like a sticky web.
Su Qingyun raised a high-intensity flashlight, and the dazzling beam of light swayed on the mottled wall, revealing several dark brown scratches hidden behind the peeling paint, like the marks left by something struggling.
"Mom...where are you?" Xiaozhe's voice sounded again.
The sound seemed to come from the depths of darkness, as thin as a thread about to break.
Su Qingyun clenched the flashlight tightly, and her knuckles turned white from the force.
She and Ye Jian looked at each other and saw fear in each other's eyes - the voice was too close, as if the person who spoke was right behind them, but when they turned around, there was only endless darkness.
"Who?" Ye Jian's voice was inexplicably tense. He took a step forward and protected Su Qingyun behind him. "Come out! Stop playing tricks!"
There was no response in the air. Instead, the sound seemed to be blown away by the wind and gradually weakened, leaving only intermittent sobs.
Su Qingyun's heart sank. She remembered that Xiaozhe lived with his parents. If Xiaozhe appeared here, his parents should be here too.
"We have to go up and take another look." Su Qingyun lowered his voice, and the flashlight swept across the basement door - it was a heavy iron door, and the iron door was not locked when they came in just now.
But now it is locked from the outside, and the door handle is rusty, looking like no one has touched it for a long time.
At this moment, a series of slow footsteps came from the stairs. "Dong, Dong, Dong," each step seemed to step on the heartbeats of the two people. As the footsteps approached, a dim light slowly penetrated, illuminating the figure at the stairs.
She was a white-haired old lady wearing a dark blue coarse cloth jacket. The wrinkles on her face were as deep as if carved by a knife, but her eyes were surprisingly bright, as if they could penetrate the darkness and stare straight into people's hearts.
Su Qingyun recognized her; she was the proprietress of this "Wilderness Hotel".
In the previous copy, she looked very old and frail, even needing to hold on to the wall when walking, but now she was standing at the stairs of the basement, her back was straight, and she had a majesty that made people dare not approach her.
"You shouldn't be here," the old lady said, her voice hoarse but clear, like sandpaper rubbing against wood. "This is not a place for living people."
Ye Jian pulled Su Qingyun behind him again and said with a smile, "We didn't want to come either, but we can't get out."
The old lady ignored Ye Jian, her eyes fell on Su Qingyun, and she said slowly: "After ten years, someone can finally hear Xiaozhe's voice."
She paused, a strange smile forming at the corner of her mouth. "Since you're here, follow the rules. I'll ask you three questions. If you answer correctly, I'll let you out. If you answer incorrectly, you can stay and accompany Xiaozhe and his mother."
"What do you mean?" Su Qingyun clenched her palms, cold sweat running down her back.
Are there gaming sessions in temporary copies?
The old lady didn't explain, but just raised her chin, her voice suddenly becoming serious: "First question, what is Xiaozhe's favorite toy?"
Su Qingyun knew too little about Xiaozhe.
She remembered that when she took Xiaozhe away from the Wilderness Hotel, Xiaozhe was holding a doll in his hand, but Xiaozhe liked to play marbles in the room.
Is it a doll or a marble?
Su Qingyun thought about it and answered marbles.
The old lady narrowed her eyes and didn't say whether it was right or wrong. She just continued to ask: "Second question, how did Lin Fangfang die?"
Lin Fangfang!
As soon as this name came out, Su Qingyun's pupils suddenly shrank.
The name of the female ghost in black is Lin Fangfang.
She actually forgot.
As for how Lin Fangfang died, the police told her at the time that Lin Fangfang was indeed killed by a guest in the hotel. They also interrogated the guest, who confessed to the crime.
"He was murdered." Su Qingyun replied.
The old lady's face darkened, and a complex emotion flashed in her eyes, like surprise. She was silent for a few seconds, then slowly opened her mouth and asked the third question: "Who killed Lin Fangfang?"
Who was it? No one told Su Qingyun who killed Lin Fangfang.
Who could it be?
Su Qingyun looked at Ye Jian.
At that time, Ye Jiantong reported the cause of Ruan Linzhi's death, but he did not tell her who killed Lin Fangfang.
Of course, she thought it was Xiaozhe's mother, but Xiaozhe's mother and father were both under police control.
Is he Xiaozhe's father or Xiaozhe's mother?
Or is it a conspiracy between two people?
No, no, no.
They shouldn’t be Xiaozhe’s parents.
If so, why did the hotel owner ask her.
Wasn't she also in the hotel that day?
Su Qingyun's eyes flickered, and finally she saw the scratches on the basement wall.
The scratches were messy, but if you looked closely, you could see that some of them looked like letters, which together formed half of the Chinese character "王".
"Boss, before I answer your question, can I ask you a question first?"
A sneer crossed the innkeeper's rag-like face.
"Ask?"
"What's your last name?"
The hotel owner uttered a word lightly, "King."
"You killed her." Su Qingyun's voice was soft, but it was filled with unquestionable certainty. "Lin Fangfang was a reporter, and you opened this hotel to rob tombs. Lin Fangfang actually came to investigate Ruan Linzhi's death, but somehow she discovered your plan, and you killed her."
As soon as Su Qingyun finished speaking, a smile appeared on the innkeeper's face. She said, "You are right. I killed Lin Fangfang, so you two are not qualified to clear the "Wilderness Inn" dungeon."
"What do you mean?" Ye Jian asked. "So you created a temporary dungeon for Su Qingyun and I to play through again?"
Ye Jian danced with the Soul-Eating Knife in his hand and said to the innkeeper, "Old woman, you may not know yet, but the dungeon rules have changed. Now you don't need to follow the rules to clear the dungeon."
After saying that, he waved his hand to chop.
Unexpectedly, when he was about to chop, a monkey-like thing suddenly jumped up behind the old woman.
It suddenly jumped onto Ye Jian's Soul-Devouring Sword, preventing Ye Jian from exerting force.
Ye Jian kept waving the Soul-Devouring Sword, but he couldn't release the power.
The old woman stretched out her long-nailed hands and attacked Su Qingyun through the iron gate.
The movement was so fast that Su Qingyun didn't have time to react.
Seeing that Su Qingyun was about to be grabbed by the other party by the shoulder, Ye Yi reached out and grabbed the old woman's wrist, and pulled hard, and the old woman's entire face was pressed against the iron gate.
Su Qingyun didn't expect that the copy that had been calm would be disturbed again. She hid behind Ye Yi and analyzed everything calmly.
Finally, she took out a skill card from her cloth bag and threw it into the air.
She closed her eyes and silently said in her heart: Wake up and let everything end.
A powerful force suddenly attacked Su Qingyun, and then she saw her, Ye Jian and Ye Yi standing on the street.
"Let's go into a building and take a look." Ye Jian suggested.
Su Qingyun refused, "Let's go find it as soon as possible."
After saying that, she looked up at Ye Jian without saying anything.
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