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【Chapter 505, Silver】

Shao Qingge thought of using silver to leave clues, firstly because silver was the currency in circulation in ancient times. Secondly, although silver will oxidize over time, as long as no one deliberately destroys it, it is not a problem to keep engraving on silver for 20 years. The third thing is that in the Q room, Mr. Shao bought a safe at the bank and used the star coin numbers as Morse code to leave clues. This approach just gave Shao Qingge some inspiration.

Ye Qi asked doubtfully: "In these troubled times, where can we find so much money?"

Shao Qingge thought for a while, took out the ATM machine from the card bag, and said with a smile: "I used to think that the [ATM machine] card was too useless as an S card, but now I realize that it is actually very useful. Not only can you withdraw money anytime and anywhere, but you can also convert it into corresponding currencies according to different secret room worlds."

Ye Qi's eyes lit up: "I remember the previous interstellar secret room. You could withdraw star coins directly from your ATM. Can you withdraw silver directly this time? The silver is so big, how do you spit it out from the ATM?"

Shao Qingge said: "This S card can change its appearance according to different worlds. For example, now, if I want to withdraw the silver needed in this world, the currency throughput port of the ATM will become larger. After inputting the data, all that will be spit out is Silver taels."

Ye Qi: "..."

It is indeed an S card. With this card in hand, you will never be short of money in any world.

Shao Qingge has a large amount of deposits in his card, which would be even more numerous if converted into silver. He looked at the data display on the cash machine, took out a few hundred taels of white silver, and said to Ye Qi in his mind: "I plan to engrave all the clues we found on the silver, and then put the silver taels into wooden boxes. Buried in Xiaolou where they might find it."

Ye Qi couldn't help but complain: "In twenty years, what if the money you buried is found by others and taken away as treasure?"

Shao Qingge was also worried about this. He thought for a moment and said, "Let's take a good look back. In Qingfeng Town twenty years from now, are there any places in Qingfeng Town that Xiao Lou and the others will pass by, but few others are willing to go to?"

Ye Qi blurted out: "Zhao family and Chen family? Professor Xiao and the others will go to these two places to investigate. Since the two families disappeared inexplicably, the residents of other small towns believed the rumors of ghosts seeking their lives, thinking that these two places were Haunted houses usually don’t come close.”

Shao Qingge raised a question: "However, it was seventeen years later that the Zhao family and the Chen family became haunted houses, which was three years ago in the world where Xiao Lou and the others lived. In the next seventeen years, these two families They have not disappeared, especially the Zhao family, which has always been occupied by people. If they want to renovate the yard, build a house, and dig out the clues we have hidden, wouldn’t our efforts be in vain?”

Ye Qi was stunned for a moment, and then he realized the problem of time.

Assume that the world where Xiao Lou lives is world 0, the murder occurred 3 years ago, and he and Shao Qingge lived 20 years ago. Then, during the 17 years from 3 years ago to 20 years ago, the lives of the Zhao family and the Chen family Nothing happened to the person, so the clues were naturally not suitable to stay in their home.

What's more, in today's world, most of the courtyards in Qingfeng Town are dilapidated, there is no Zuiyue Lake in the middle of the town, and there is no Fulai Inn. It is completely incomparable with the neat and orderly Qingfeng Town 20 years later. In other words, many courtyards were built several years later, including those of the Zhao family and the Chen family.

Ye Qi scratched his head: "What should we do? Is there any place that few outsiders go to that Professor Xiao and the others will definitely go to?" He carefully went through everyone's experience since entering the secret room in his mind, and suddenly his eyes lit up. , said: "I think of a place, do you think it will work?"

After hearing Ye Qi's words in his mind, Shao Qingge smiled slightly: "I know what to do."

***

The world three years ago.

Tang Ci and Lu Jiuchuan found the eldest daughter-in-law Qin Yurou and her son in the Zhao family, and confirmed that the Zhao family's mourning hall was decorated by this woman.

In fact, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang had already analyzed this, because the Zhao family's mourning hall contained the memorial tablets of their grandparents, parents, and the younger generation of four brothers and sisters, Zhao Zeping, Zhao Ze'an, Zhao Zeshun, and Zhao Zesui, but Zhao Zeping's wife and children were missing.

If the Zhao family is completely wiped out, there will be no descendants to enshrine their spiritual tablets. Since someone has arranged a mourning hall for the Zhao family, it must be the survivor of the family extermination case.

Qin Yurou took the child and left the Zhao family. Tang Ci and Lu Jiuchuan looked at each other and continued to search the Zhao family.

What puzzled the two people was that the rattle was not in the room of Zhao Zeping, the eldest son of Zhao.

"When the crime occurred three years ago, the Zhao family did not have a rattle. However, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang searched the Zhao family and found a rattle with a tiger pattern painted on the drum surface..." Tang Ci was silent for a moment and analyzed softly: "If , the rattle was left by the murderer when he committed the crime, so we should be able to find it. But it turned out that Xiao Lou found it three years later, but we did not find it at the time of the crime. This proves that the rattle belongs to the Zhao family. Only after the disappearance did someone deliberately stay in the Zhao family."

Lu Jiuchuan frowned and said, "The murderer came back and left the rattle after a while? Or is it not left by the murderer, but by someone else?"

Tang Ci thought for a while and said, "There is probably someone else. We have to continue to use drones to monitor the movements of the Zhao family."

Lu Jiuchuan said: "If someone else placed the rattle in the Zhao family, then the one in the Chen family was probably placed by the same person? Why don't we go to the Chen family to check."

Tang Ci nodded and left Zhao's house with Lu Jiuchuan.

Late at night, Qingfeng Town is illuminated by the soft moonlight

It was shrouded, and not a single pedestrian could be seen on the street.

The two of them climbed over the walls and quickly arrived at Chen's house. At this time, the Chen family was empty and dark. Tang Ci was about to go in. Suddenly, Lu Jiuchuan gently took Tang Ci's hand and whispered in his ear: "There is someone in the yard!"

Tang Ci didn't notice the situation in the yard at all, but Lu Jiuchuan reacted sharply and saw the black shadow hidden in the darkness at a glance. He pulled Tang Ci and hid behind a big tree. The two of them held their breaths and were not at ease. Dare to come out and stare intently at the door of Chen's house. I saw the man in black quickly coming out of Chen's yard, turning around and walking towards the end of the alley.

The light was dim at night, and the other person was wearing black clothes. The two of them couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, so they had to follow him quietly.

The man in black walked very fast and was obviously very familiar with the roads in the town. After walking through several corners in a row, he disappeared at the end of Xiushui Lane, where Qin Feng lived.

Lu Jiuchuan looked at Tang Ci and frowned slightly: "Is that man in black just now Qin Feng?"

Tang Ci was confused: "What did he go to Chen's house for? Could it be that... he was the one who played the rattle?"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Go back and take a look."

The two turned back to Chen's house and walked into the residence of Chen Yu and his wife. Mrs. Chen had just given birth to a child. There was a cradle in the bedroom, and there were a lot of children's clothes next to it. Lu Jiuchuan picked up the luminous pearl and looked closer. With the faint light of the luminous pearl, the two of them suddenly discovered a familiar bird in the cradle. rattle.

——It is the rattle with a tiger painted on the drum surface.

Three years later, Liu Qiao and Lao Mo entered Chen's house for the first time, and Liu Qiao found the rattle.

It turns out that this was not left by the murderer, but by Qin Feng.

The two left Chen's house temporarily and returned to the inn.

Neither Chu Huaying nor Gui Yuanzhang slept, and the four of them summarized and analyzed the clues found today.

Lu Jiuchuan touched his chin and said: "What Qin Feng did was very strange. He first asked Han Ningshuang to question him, then returned home, changed into black clothes and secretly went to the Chen family. In the cradle of the Chen family's newborn child, he left a The only thing on the drum is a rattle with a tiger painted on it.”

Tang Ci said: "The children of the Chen family are not born in the year of tiger. Qin Feng left a rattle with a tiger painted on it, but it seems to be a reminder?"

Gui Yuanzhang said: "It is now certain that Han Ningshuang knows who the murderer is. She flew a white kite on the night of the crime to create rumors of 'a ghost threatening his life'. This is definitely not a coincidence, but she and the murderer had discussed it in advance. The murderer At that time, outside the town, special rattle sounds were used to lure the Zhao family and Chen family to the mass graves, while Han Ningshuang stayed in the town to fly kites to create mystery."

Chu Huaying said calmly: "There should be several children raised by my mother-in-law. It is very likely that they are joining forces for revenge. Qin Feng did not participate in this revenge plan, but he had obviously guessed who the murderer was and what the murderer was going to do. The target of revenge, so over the years, he only recorded on the list those who had been killed and those who might be killed, but did not stop him."

Huaying's words suddenly opened up a new way of thinking to Tang Ci.

Qin Feng's roster did record the names of many people, some were killed and some were still alive.

He knew the murderer and the target of the murderer's revenge, so he compiled the list. This is a more reasonable speculation.

Tang Ci carefully sorted out the context of the whole incident and said: "During the famine twenty years ago, the mother-in-law who raised them was tortured to death. Those people cut off her hands and feet and used them to eat, leaving them for the children. He suffered a serious psychological shadow. When he grew up, Han Ningshuang and others came back for revenge. Qin Feng did not know about this because he had been separated from Han Ningshuang many years ago. "

He paused and continued his analysis: "However, the Zhao family and the Chen family were all missing, and there were loopholes in Li Gui's testimony. Qin Feng immediately thought of Han Ningshuang, so he went to Han Ningshuang for verification. Han Ningshuang confessed in front of Qin Feng. She committed all the crimes, but Qin Feng does not believe that she did it alone. Now it seems that Qin Feng already knows who the murderer is."

Lu Jiuchuan agreed: "Three years later, there are still people missing in the world, which proves that this crime team has been cleaning up the descendants of those who killed my mother-in-law. Qin Feng was an insider, but he did not stop it. His mood should be very contradictory, since Judging from his conversation with Han Ningshuang, he personally did not agree with the extreme approach of annihilating a whole family; on the other hand, he could not let go of his mother-in-law's death. He had no position to stop his friends from avenging her mother-in-law. Therefore, he would Doing such a contradictory thing?”

Tang Ci looked at him and said, "That's right. After all, Qin Feng is a child raised by his mother-in-law. He can't stop his friends from avenging her mother-in-law, but he doesn't want the people in Qingfeng Town to be wiped out one by one. Therefore, he took the initiative to help the Zhao family, The Chen family left behind the clue 'rattle', probably hoping that one day in the future, someone else would be able to find out the murderer of the family massacre and stop these people from going crazy for revenge?"

He couldn't stop it, but he couldn't bear the slaughter of innocent descendants in the town, so he left clues at the crime scene so that Qin Feng's unusual behavior could be explained.

Lu Jiuchuan said: "How many children does my mother-in-law have? We have to follow Han Ningshuang. She must know the murderer. Qin Feng has already alerted her. Maybe she will find the murderer to discuss the next plan?"

Chu Huaying stood up calmly and said, "Leave tracking to me. I won't sleep tonight, so I'll just keep an eye on her."

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Okay, Huaying, be careful."

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[Chapter 506, clues left by teammates]

Chu Huaying soon arrived at Han Ningshuang's house, lying on the roof, listening to what was going on inside.

Han Ningshuang had already fallen asleep after Qin Feng left, but not long after, she seemed unable to sleep, so she simply changed her clothes

Black clothes sneaked out, Chu Huaying narrowed his eyes and immediately followed her.

Chu Huaying's physical qualities have been strengthened, and she can move as fast as lightning. She can follow the opponent from a distance and make the opponent unaware. No matter how vigilant Han Ningshuang was, she did not notice the ghostly presence of Chu Huaying behind her.

Han Ningshuang walked quickly and soon walked out of the town and entered the woods.

The soft moonlight shrouded the woods. Han Ningshuang looked serious and rushed towards the mass grave.

At the end of the woods is a cliff, above which is the top of the mass grave.

Han Ningshuang grabbed the vine with both hands and climbed up quickly. She was obviously very familiar with this place. Her feet accurately stepped into the man-made pits on both sides of the vines, and like a nimble monkey, she climbed to the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye.

Chu Huaying's arms could be extended. When Han Ningshuang climbed more than half way, she stretched out her arms, used the sunken stone pit on the cliff as a leverage point, climbed up quickly, jumped, and landed lightly on the top of the mountain.

After Han Ningshuang climbed to the top of the cliff, she walked towards the mass grave. Chu Huaying did not dare to follow her too close and kept a distance from her. After a while, Han Ningshuang stopped and Chu Huaying hurriedly ducked behind a tombstone.

A black figure appeared in the field of vision, standing in front of Han Ningshuang, with a hoarse voice: "Why are you here?"

Han Ningshuang said: "Aran, I was too careless and there was a loophole in my words. Qin Feng already knew that the disappearance of the Zhao family and Chen family was related to me. He also guessed that I was flying a kite and pretending to be a female ghost."

The man let out a soft "ha" and said with a half-smile: "Qin Feng is indeed smart. I had already guessed that he would know. After all, we are the only ones who have a blood feud with the Zhao family and the Chen family." He shrugged. He shrugged and said, "It doesn't matter. Even if Qin Feng knew it, he wouldn't stop it. Has he forgotten how his mother-in-law died? Has he forgotten how his mother-in-law treated him back then?"

Han Ningshuang gritted her teeth and said, "Qin Feng shouldn't expose me. But I'm worried that other people in the town will recognize me."

The man stretched out his hand, patted her shoulder gently, and said: "Ningshuang, you were only nine years old when you left Qingfeng Town, and now you are already in your twenties. You are a girl who has changed your age. Back then you were just a dirty person." Xixi little girl, now you are the second sister-in-law Xue who sells tofu. No one else except Qin Feng will recognize you, so you don’t have to worry about this."

Han Ningshuang was silent for a moment and said: "I don't want to stay in Qingfeng Town as Second Sister Xue anymore."

The man sighed softly and said, "Okay, just tell the neighbors that you are going to remarry and go to a foreign country. Pack your things and leave after a while to avoid arousing suspicion. And there is also that old man Liu, find a way to deal with it. Although He is blind and thinks the kite you flew is a female ghost, but he is very close to you after all. If he remembers some details, he may get you into trouble. Only the dead can keep secrets."

Han Ningshuang nodded: "Well, let's clean up all the remaining evildoers in Qingfeng Town together."

The more Chu Huaying listened, the more frightened she became -

Everyone's speculation was indeed correct. Han Ningshuang knew the murderer and had already discussed a revenge plan.

She flew kites in the small town to spread rumors that evil ghosts were killing people, and this man was the mastermind. He used evil magic to attract people from the Zhao and Chen families to the mass graves, and then tortured these people to death.

At this moment, the man's sharp eyes suddenly glanced behind the tombstone: "Who is there?!"

Chu Huaying was confident that she controlled her voice very well. She didn't expect this person's hearing to be so sensitive. He only heard her breathing after 2 seconds. She must not reveal her identity. Thinking of this, Chu Huaying had an idea, picked up a stone with his right hand, and flicked it.

The crow that landed on the tree was startled and flew away in the distance with a squawk. Chu Huaying took the opportunity to turn around and leave. Her movements were as fast as a gust of wind. In a blink of an eye, she came to the edge of the cliff and climbed down quickly along the vines. .

Han Ningshuang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's just a few crows."

The man frowned and said, "Go back first and wait for my arrangements."

When Han Ningshuang climbed down the vine, she didn't realize that there was a pair of eyes staring at her in the darkness. Chu Huaying hid in the dark and waited for her to turn around and enter the woods before following her.

Han Ningshuang returned home and actually fell asleep this time.

Chu Huaying returned to the inn and told her teammates what she had discovered: "As expected, Han Ningshuang conspired with the murderer. The other person was a man. Like Han Ningshuang, he was also a child raised by his mother-in-law. The more important point is - this man, wearing a Black mask.”

Tang Ci was startled, and suddenly thought of a person: "Could he be the man who dated Zhao Zesui, the daughter of the Zhao family, outside the city on the night of Zhao Ze'an's wedding?"

Lu Jiuchuan slapped his forehead: "That's right, we almost forgot about this key person!"

Gui Yuanzhang also said: "At first we ruled out the suspicion of the masked man because he did not have enough time to commit the crime. When Zhao Zesui went on a date with him, Zhao Ze'an's wedding team had disappeared in the woods, and only later did the woman in white appear in the town. Ghost, we think it is impossible for him to date Zhao Zesui and go to the small town to pretend to be a female ghost at the same time... Now it is confirmed that the female ghost is Han Ningshuang, and it has nothing to do with him, so he will have enough time to commit crimes."

Tang Ci said: "In other words, this masked man first led Zhao Ze'an's wedding team to the mass grave, and then came to the town gate to meet Zhao Zesui. At the same time, Han Ningshuang was pretending to be a female ghost in the town to confuse the audience. Mask After the man and Zhao Zesui separated, Zhao Zesui turned around and walked to the mass grave as if he had been possessed by someone. Was the sound of the rattle made by the masked man? "

Lu Jiuchuan asked in a low voice: "Huaying, do you know his name?"

Chu Huaying said: "Han Ningshuang calls him Aran. His full name is unclear, but we can find someone in the small town.

the tramp inquired. I remember that in the world three years later, there were a few homeless people who had experienced the famine and survived tenaciously. They should also be in Qingfeng Town now. "

Lu Jiuchuan simply nodded: "Okay, let's wait until dawn." He paused, then looked back at Tang Ci and said: "By the way, Xiao Tang and I just happened to meet the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhao family decorating the mourning hall. In a hurry, we only took back the Man-machine card, the letter is still at Zhao’s house. Let’s leave a clue for Xiao Lou, why don’t we continue to add content in the drone?”

Tang Ci said: "Well, if the letter is soaked in water, the handwriting will easily disappear. If you capture all the clues into the drone card, the card will not be damaged. Leave the drone to Xiao Lou and let him see it according to his own needs. Inference based on the content is the most reliable.”

Lu Jiuchuan agreed: "Our subjective ideas will affect Xiao Lou. If our reasoning is wrong and lead them astray, it will be bad. It is better to use a drone to take pictures of all the clues we see and give them to him so that they can analyze them themselves. Bar."

***

Original world.

From the letters left three years ago, Xiao Lou deduced that Han Ningshuang was Xue Ersao and was the only one who lied.

There was no witness to her so-called "remarriage", it was just what she told her neighbors. Xiao Lou analyzed: "Han Ningshuang's whereabouts were probably exposed, and she used the excuse of remarrying in a foreign country to leave Qingfeng Town and lurked to continue committing crimes."

Yu Hanjiang said: "This letter only briefly explains a few things to us. Did Brother Ninth and the others find too few clues about the world three years ago?"

Xiao Lou thought for a while and took out the drone card.

He thought that if Tang Ci and the others really left complete clues, drone cards would be a better way than letters. The preservation of letters would be affected by the outside world, but drone cards would not be damaged.

Sure enough, he took out the drone and played it back for a while, and found that the content captured inside was extremely rich.

The rattles played by the Zhao family and the Chen family were actually played by Qin Feng.

Han Ningshuang also has a helper, the man wearing the mask!

Everyone was extremely excited after seeing the contents of the drone. Liu Qiao said: "It seems that the murderer is this masked man?"

Xiao Lou shook his head: "I always feel that something is missing."

Lao Mo asked doubtfully: "Are the clues not complete enough?"

Yu Hanjiang quickly understood what Xiao Lou meant, and he said: "Shao Qingge and Ye Qi are still missing. These two may have gone to the world twenty years ago. Ninth Brother and the others have not been able to find all the clues. It should have been found by Mr. Shao and Ye Qi."

Xiao Lou frowned slightly: "Where will Mr. Shao and the others hide the clues?"

After all, it was a span of twenty years, and Mr. Shao had no drone cards in his hand. If you leave a letter behind, it will be easily damaged or discovered in twenty years. Moreover, twenty years ago, neither the Zhao family nor the Chen family were haunted houses, and neither family was missing. Maybe there were no courtyards for the Zhao family and the Chen family in Qingfeng Town at that time...

Where would he leave the clue?

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