In the ancient and mysterious castle, in the middle of the night, a skeleton suddenly appeared at the head of the bed... Exciting.

Too exciting.

Jian Jing understood Kimberly's fear very well. If it were someone else, the result would be similar. She kindly said: "Drink some hot water to suppress your fear."

But Kimberly didn't listen at all and kept screaming: "Did you see it? Oh my God! What's going on? It's so scary, dear, I can't believe my eyes."

Carl had to hold her hand tightly and beg her to calm down.

At this time, Mary also came up from downstairs. She brought a glass of gin very experiencedly: "You need this."

"Oh, yes, I need it." Kimberly took it with trembling hands, took a big sip, and the rise and fall of her chest gradually calmed down.

Jian Jing: Why do foreigners drink alcohol when they are frightened?

"What is this?" Mary stared at the skull, puzzled.

"Bone." Si Yingjie kindly replied, "But it may not be real."

Jian Jing walked over, squatted down to observe for a while, and refuted him with certainty: "No, it is real. The skull wall is thin and smooth, the brow is not prominent, the brow arch is not obvious, the cheekbones are low... It is a female."

After thinking for a while, "The nasal bone is high and narrow, and the nasal spine is well developed." It seems that she is not sure, and she opened the measurement software in her mobile phone, measured the nose width and height, and calculated a nose index, which is too small.

Then measured the jaw index, orbital index, and Alpha index, all of which are greater than the critical point.

So she happily announced: "It is a European race."

Others: "..."

"What about age?" Holen asked.

Jian Jing lifted up the heavy court dress (?), roughly checked the condition of the ribs, tibia and other bones, and guessed a rough age range: "20-30 years old."

"Who is this?" Mary asked, "Why are you here?"

Leo stood at the door and answered palely: "I don't know."

Carl said: "It doesn't matter who it is. The person has been dead for so long. The question is who let it in? Why scare my wife?"

Jian Jing has already made a small circle in the guest room: "Did you lock the door?"

Kimberly clenched the tissue and shouted: "Of course!"

"Did you open the door for us?"

"No, the door is open." Carl said, "When I came here, I saw that the main door was always open."

Jian Jing walked to the side of the wall, pointed to the open small door and asked: "Did you come in from here? Do you live next door?"

Carl nodded.

Jian Jing was a little puzzled.

She had discovered before that several guest rooms were connected to each other. In addition to the main door facing the corridor, there was also a small door on the side that led to the adjacent room.

Of course, the small door could be bolted on both sides.

She asked Kimberly again: "Did you lock the side door?"

Kimberly shook her head.

"That's strange," she thought, "I was the second person to come, and the door was open at the time. Carl didn't come in through this door, so who opened the door to the corridor?"

Kimberly's voice suddenly rose: "Of course it was the person who put the skeleton there!"

"Impossible," Mary said, "I gave you the keys to the rooms. There is only one key in each room."

Jane looked at the small round table by the window, where there was indeed a cell phone and a key.

But the door lock was intact.

Jian Jing wanted to ask Kimberly what happened, but seeing her trembling all over, she swallowed her words: "Then let's deal with this skeleton."

"Let me do it." Xiong Qiaozhi took the lead and picked up the skeleton rack, "Leo, how about putting it in the cellar?"

Leo said, "It's too far, put it in..." He pointed to the room at the end of the corridor, "There."

Xiong Qiaozhi was surprised: "The library?"

Leo nodded without explaining: "Kimberly, are you okay? Do you need to change your room?"

Kimberly said excitedly: "Of course, I don't want to sleep in this damn place anymore."

"There should be an empty room on the third floor, but it only has a small dressing room." Leo apologized, "Please make do with it for now and deal with it tomorrow, okay?"

Kimberly nodded hurriedly, and asked in fear and anger: "To be honest, I still don't understand... Is it a ghost? Or a person?" "

It's an excessive prank." Leo said softly, "I will figure it out, don't worry, please have a good rest. Mary?"

"Come with me." Mary walked in front.

At this point, Kimberly didn't want to ask any more questions, muttered a few words, and was led away by her husband.

Leo looked at Kang Mucheng and smiled bitterly: "This is such a bad night."

"If you encounter any trouble, it's best not to choose to hide it." Kang Mucheng frowned, "Although it looks like a prank now, I don't think it's over."

Leo was silent.

Jian Jing completely agreed: "It seems that they just put a corpse to scare people, but no one knows whether they will kill people next time."

"I don't think so." Leo comforted her, "You don't have to be afraid."

"Why, do you know who did it?"

Leo hesitated, "Jane, this is not a topic suitable for girls."

"Leo, don't underestimate her." Unexpectedly, Kang Mucheng spoke before her and said seriously, "She is a brave girl."

Jian Jing never thought that she would get such an evaluation from him, and was very surprised.

Leo looked at him, then at her, and smiled: "Well, in fact, this kind of thing often happens in Winter Castle. This is not the first time."

English is not her native language, so Jian Jing had to confirm: "Wait, did you say 'often'?"

"Yes." He cast his gaze into the distance, the rolling torrent of history, and said slowly, "For three hundred years, there have always been some inexplicable strange things happening here, but no outsiders have ever died."

Jian Jing: "Outsider?"

"Please don't worry," Leo said, "This is our family's habit. We like to spend the last moments of our lives in the castle."

"So that's how it is." She nodded, then wondered again, "What do you mean by unexplainable strange things?"

"Strange noises in the middle of the night, the door of a room suddenly opening, the paintings on the stairs inexplicably repositioned, bugs in the cake... My childhood has been filled with similar strange things."

Jian Jing frowned: "Didn't you ever doubt it?"

"Jane, sometimes, it's better to turn a blind eye than to find out the truth." Leo said gently, "I know very well that there are no ghosts in the world, but people occasionally do some... actions that go against their original intentions."

Is this confirming what Mary said, that the people in the town deliberately targeted the Sal family? Jian Jing thought to herself.

"Mucheng, take your little friend back, it's too late." Leo pressed his temples tiredly, and the shadow of the corridor light swallowed half of his body, pulling him into an old Gothic movie.

The biting cold wind blew across the legs exposed outside the silk nightgown.

Jian Jing thought for a moment and said no more: "Good night, Leo."

"Good night."

Returning to the warm quilt, Jian Jing lost her sleepiness. Regardless of who played a prank in the middle of the night, since he could appear in Kimberly's room, he could also appear at her bedside.

This is a bit scary.

She turned over and comforted herself that if there was any life-threatening accident, the system would definitely pop up a task in her sleep as soon as possible.

[System: Thank you for the host's trust, this system is dedicated to serving you]

Jian Jing: Very good, I'm sleepy.

This time, Jian Jing slept very deeply, and the fatigue from the long journey broke out. She slept for a full twelve hours.

But today was still a bad blizzard. When she woke up, the room was still dark, making people mistakenly think it was only four or five o'clock in the morning.

She stayed in bed for a while and played with her mobile phone.

The signal was average, and the video could not be swiped, so she could only watch WeChat.

In the friend group, Ji Yunyun posted her test papers on WeChat Moments and complained about the miserable life of senior high school students; Zuo Xin stayed up late to prepare for class and complained that today's students know too much; Liang Yi solved another case and celebrated with his colleagues by eating hot pot.

The lives of ordinary people are full of fireworks and popularity.

Another YLQ group: Writer Xu was satirizing a TV series, implying that the script was plagiarized; Director Huang was doing preheating promotion for "Devil Doctor 2" and forwarding the promotion of the new movie for friends; Director Mei was talking about the release schedule of "Rose Gold" and thanked friends for their support; Zheng Keyan was promoting a new drama. She was not the lead actor this time, but a producer...

So, very glamorous and busy.

In private messages, the graduate student group was discussing data downloads, and the teacher shared a paid account for them to download some data and papers.

Several classmates replied: [Received]

She also replied.

Jiang Baiyan sent her a small video, which was Pudding weighing himself and announcing the good news: [Report! Pudding successfully lost 3 pounds last month! ]

She couldn't help but reply: [It's not easy]

Jiang Baiyan: [QAQ]

Monsoon passed, he is just a dead man on the social account, occasionally stealing corpses.

After doing all this, I woke up and thought about it quietly, and searched "Lindung Castle" on the Internet.

No result.

Then searched "Salviklutz", because it was a transliteration, I didn't know the original text, so naturally there was no clue.

Finally, with a dispensable mentality, I searched "August Hollen" casually.

A page of a social networking site popped up.

She clicked in to browse out of curiosity, and saw a lot of familiar faces-here I must thank Morning Star for the "Love in Paris" marketing event, which has repeatedly popularized the major European royal families in this world for passers-by.

That's right, some of the faces are well-known people from a royal family in Europe.

One of the old men also had the last name of Hollen, and just last month he broke out in a heinous sexual assault scandal. Jian Jing searched the news based on her memory, and finally dug out the origin of the last name "Hollen".

Her hunch was right, Hollen was not a complete last name. However, that once ancient and glorious noble last name has lost its original aura with the decline of the royal family.

The current Hollen family still has close ties with the royal families of Europe, but that's all.

August Hollen was not like his relatives, who had caused ugly scandals, but looking at the photos on his social account, you can tell that he is also a playboy.

This is not the point.

The point is that she saw Melanie's face in a group photo taken half a year ago.

Among the many women with high noses and deep eyes, her black dress was very simple, but her temperament was still outstanding, with a mysterious and cold temperament, which was in great contrast with other socialites who were indulged in luxury.

Jian Jing saved this photo and couldn't help wondering, was the person who poisoned Melanie targeting the Sar family or herself?

[You received a new message]

Clicked it, it was from Kang Mucheng: [Are you awake?]

She: [Get up now]

Kang Mucheng: [Don't worry, everyone is in a bad mood, you can order lunch to the room]

Jian Jing's bones were sore from lying down: [I'm going to get up]

Kang Mucheng: [I'm in the library]

Jian Jing was shocked: [Stay with the corpse?]

But he said: [No, that thing is gone]