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The food He Qingtian brought had a shorter shelf life, so she shared her milk and bread, solving everyone's breakfast problem today.
The instructor led everyone to the living room and, while they ate, reassured them, "Don't worry too much for now. The competition team will connect with the training center every seven days. Two days have already passed. We only need to stay here for five days at most before we can get in touch with the outside world."
This is also the reason why the instructor decisively gave up and chose to stay in the villa and wait for rescue after discovering that going through the back mountain was not feasible.
Everyone felt more at ease, and their originally tense spirits relaxed a little.
After breakfast, the instructor instructed, "I'm going to check the network cable. You guys stay in the living room. As usual, don't be alone. Try to stay together. Remember?"
He Qingtian said: "Teacher, are you okay alone? I'll go with you."
The instructor thought about it and nodded: "Okay."
The instructor took He Qingtian away, and the rest of the people gathered in the living room.
The man with earrings and Liang Xiaonuo were sitting close to each other, talking quietly. After one night, their relationship became much better.
The red-haired man was left out and didn't speak to the other two.
It was time for lunch, but the instructor and He Qingtian still hadn't returned.
Shen Anyan asked, "Is anyone hungry?"
Everyone sat there for the whole morning and didn't consume much energy, so no one asked to eat.
The red-haired man, on the other hand, looked a little conflicted, as if he wanted to say something.
Shen Anyan looked at the other party and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
The red-haired man said, "Um...I want to go to the bathroom."
Shen Anyan nodded: "Zhou Tian and I will go with you, and you can find another boy to accompany you."
"Ah?" Zhou Tian was a little confused when he was called out for no reason, but he still stood up from the sofa and prepared to leave at any time.
The red-haired man glanced at the man with earrings. The latter seemed a little reluctant, but still stood up and said, "Let's go."
The four of them walked towards the bathroom together. There were two bathrooms on the first floor of the villa. The bathroom for men had a picture of a little man with a bow tie on the door.
Arriving at the place, Shen Anyan and Zhou Tian stopped at the door. Shen Anyan said, "If there is anything, just shout inside."
The red-haired man agreed and went in with the man with earrings.
When they entered the bathroom, they were the only two left. The man with earrings frowned and urged, "Hurry up, and leave as soon as you're done."
Ever since the first murder, the relationship between the man with the earrings and the group had been strained. He hadn't shown it clearly at first, but when it was just him and the red-haired man left in the original group, the estrangement became clear.
The red-haired man said nothing and went to the bathroom in silence. The man with the earrings made a disgusted "tsk" sound, turned his back, and walked to the door to wait for him.
The bathroom wasn't big, with a toilet in one corner and a sink in the opposite corner. The man with the earrings stood near the sink. It was incredibly quiet, and after a while, he felt a bit creepy. So, he asked impatiently, "Are you done?"
"Pah--"
A strange sound was heard, and the man with earrings felt something strange and warm on his cheek.
He raised his hand to wipe it, and when he looked at it in front of his eyes, he found that it was a smear of blood.
Blood?
He turned his eyes in a daze, and his peripheral vision happened to sweep across the mirror, and he saw a headless corpse reflected in it.
…
“Ahhhhhh—”
A terrified scream was heard in the bathroom.
Shen Anyan quickly opened the curtain and walked in, only to see the man with earrings lying on the ground and the body of the red-haired man hanging in front of the toilet.
His body stood in a strange posture, like a hung rag doll, with most of his neck cut open, his head and body connected together, and blood gushing out from his neck.
Zhou Tian followed in and was shocked when he saw this scene: "What's going on?"
Chen Anyan stopped the other party from going forward to investigate. She moved forward carefully step by step, observing the surroundings carefully with each step before moving forward.
Despite this, she still accidentally cut a small cut on the side of her face when she approached the red-haired man.
Shen Anyan let out a soft "hiss" and stepped back a little. Then he concentrated on observing his surroundings for a long time before he discovered the cause of the red-haired man's death.
A circle of thin threads was wrapped around the opponent's neck, and the ends of the threads were connected to the toilet lid, forming an ingenious mechanism. When someone opened the toilet lid, these threads would immediately straighten, and their sharpness could instantly cut a person's neck.
It was unknown what this thin thread was made of. It was flexible, sharp, and very easy to hide. This was why Shen Anyan didn't notice it immediately and was scratched by it instead.
She frowned, stepped back, and told the two people beside her about her discovery.
Zhou Tian took a deep breath and said, "No, this is too dangerous. Not only do we have to be on guard against that perverted killer, but we also have to be on guard against any life-threatening clues that might suddenly appear from somewhere in this house."
Shen Anyan sighed: "That's probably it. Let's walk slower on the way back and find something to put ahead to explore the way."
After she finished speaking, she looked at the man with the earrings and asked, "Can you still walk?"
The man with earrings looked like he needed to take a break, so Shen Anyan didn't rush him. Instead, he briefly summarized what happened in the bathroom, especially emphasizing that everyone should not walk around the villa at will, and then sent it to the group.
By the time the message was sent, the man with the earrings had almost recovered. Shen Anyan then took a broom and held it in front of her to scout the way. The remaining two followed behind her, with the man with the earrings in the middle and Zhou Tian at the rear.
After meeting in the living room, the expressions of the others were not very good either. Obviously, they had also read the message sent by Shen Anyan.
Liang Xiaonuo looked at the man with earrings worriedly, then moved closer to him and whispered to comfort him.
Lin Shuang frowned and asked, "What does that thread look like? Is it really that powerful? Is there any way to see it more conspicuously?"
Shen Anyan pinched her brows and accidentally touched the wound on her face when she reached out. She took a deep breath and explained, "It happened suddenly. I was in a hurry to come back and discuss it with you, so I didn't pay attention to it. But if the light is stronger, I should be able to see it more clearly. You can use a flashlight to illuminate it when you walk around, or find something long to hold in front of you."
After discussing it for a while, they still had no clue, so they had to wait for the instructor to come back to discuss it. After Shen Anyan sat down on the sofa, Gu Cijiang also came and sat down beside him. He pointed at the wound on his face and asked softly: "How did you get hurt?"
Shen Anyan smiled and said, "It was just an accidental scratch, a minor injury, nothing serious."
Although the wound wasn't very deep, it still bled a little. Gu Cijiang gently pressed the wound with a piece of paper and said distressedly, "I have alcohol and Band-Aids, but unfortunately they are all in the room. I should have brought them out earlier."
Her phone vibrated slightly, a notification that someone had sent her a message. It must have been her instructor or He Qingtian. But her lover was touching her face—yes, that's what Shen Anyan thought anyway. Naturally, she didn't want this operation to end too soon, so she decided to wait and check the message, letting Gu Cijiang apply pressure to her wound for a while longer.
Unfortunately, this wonderful idea did not come true, because two more screams were heard from the other side.
Gu Cijiang moved his hand away from the other person's wound, and Shen Anyan had to turn his head regretfully and look at the source of the two screams - the man with the earrings and Liang Xiaonuo.
She asked, “What’s wrong?”
The man with earrings said, "You...you guys, check your phone...the messages in the group..."
After hearing this, several people lowered their heads to look. Shen Anyan turned on the screen and a new message popped up immediately -
Zhao Xixi: Didn’t you say we should gather in the corridor? Why don’t I see you?
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