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Chapter 512: The truth comes to light

Yu Hanjiang just asked Liu Qiao to find a place as soon as possible, put down Li Qingzhao's mark and take his teammates out. Liu Qiao jumped all the way through the treetops. Although she was wearing an invisibility cloak, the Qinggong card had to find a place to land every few seconds. Her toes would still leave traces of shaking when she stepped on the treetops.

Sure enough, as soon as she walked out of the yard, she alerted the hunters who were ambushing in the yard. The group of people stared in the direction of the swaying treetops and quickly chased after her.

Liu Qiao could feel several people following her behind her.

The flash of the sword on the right, the wind behind him, and the dark shadow stretched by the moonlight on the ground

There were at least three people.

Liu Qiao's heartbeat was as fast as a drum, and her breathing was slightly rapid, but her mind was extremely calm. 1 took a deep breath, increased her speed, and just jumped a few meters away when a huge net suddenly fell from the sky in front of her.

Not knowing which hunter placed the card, Liu Qiao hurriedly blocked her way. She could only retreat to the right. However, there was someone waiting for her on the right, wearing a cloak and disappearing in the darkness, like a shadow. The person who was also following her suddenly took out a silver-white crystal ball. In an instant, dazzling silver light illuminated the night sky, and Liu Qiao was shocked to find that the invisibility cloak on her body had failed and she could see her body.

A deep male voice came from the ear: "You think you are invisible, so we can't do anything to you."

This white crystal ball can illuminate all invisible targets within the range.

Another woman sneered and said, "Little girl, Professor Xiao is really trusting you. He actually asked you to find a way out alone. He and Yu Hanjiang are safe in the invincible circle. This is sending you to die."

The middle-aged uncle said in a rough voice, "Stop talking nonsense and deal with this little girl first. Our people at Xiao Lou will continue to keep an eye on her. The invincible circle only lasts for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, it will be their death."

Liu Qiao was surrounded by three people and felt very nervous.

Seeing a sharp sword stabbing her, Liu Qiao gritted his teeth and immediately threw out a card

The ugly duckling and the white swan.

She turns women into ugly ducklings and herself into a white swan

The woman stabbed with the sword, but only halfway through, she found that her body suddenly shrank and turned into a clumsy duck. The woman was so angry that she yelled "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

The Ugly Duckling card is especially useful at critical moments. It directly turns the enemy into a duck, and the transformation state cannot be automatically released. After transformation, it cannot attack or be attacked.

The duck on the ground was still quacking. I couldn't understand what was being said, but it was certainly not good.

Liu Qiao ignored her and turned into a white swan, spreading his wings and flying away gracefully in front of the ugly duckling.

But the ugly duckling card has a limited range of effect after all. She only turned the woman who attacked her into a duckling. The other two people were a cloaked man hidden in the darkness, and another who could only hear her voice but not see her. She can't change the middle-aged rough guy. The danger was not over yet, so Liu Qiao had no choice but to continue flying forward.

However, she only flew for a few seconds when suddenly a tornado rushed towards her. The black tornado was so fierce and powerful that Liu Qiao was frightened. Wherever the wind struck, even the surrounding houses were instantly destroyed.

The hurricane was like the end of the world. In the blink of an eye, the whole street was in a mess. This uncle's card is indeed very strong.

Fortunately, Liu Qiao flew very flexibly after transforming into a swan. She waved her wings to move back and forth, jumped left and right, and narrowly missed the path of the tornado.

But just when she breathed a sigh of relief, another giant silver net fell from the sky.

Liu Qiao was caught off guard by the net.

She had no choice but to go to the right to avoid the hurricane, but there was a giant net waiting for her on the right. The tacit cooperation of the two hunters forced Liu Qiao to the point of no return.

The white swan was unable to break free from the net, so Liu Qiao had no choice but to end his transformation.

The giant net tightened tighter and tighter, and in the blink of an eye, it tied her into a rice dumpling as if it were tailor-made, causing pain all over her body. The young man in a cloak said coldly, "What other tricks do you have: Elsa's freezing, the Queen's poison apple or the substitute Little Red Riding Hood?"

They actually know most of the cards in Liu Qiao's hand

Liu Qiao's face turned pale. Except for cards such as "Telepathy" that could be activated mentally, most of the cards needed to be activated by taking them out of the card pack.

At this time, her whole body was tightly strangled by the giant net, and her hands could not move at all, which meant that she could no longer use the card.

Seeing that the little girl was pale and unable to move even after being tied up, the young man in a black cloak finally came out of the shadows and said with a low smile, "You are a very smart little girl. It's a pity that you have found the wrong teammate. I will send him away now." You go to the nightmare chamber."

He raised his right hand slightly, and a black crystal ball appeared in the air in his palm.

The crystal ball was surrounded by thick black mist. As the crystal ball continued to rotate, the black mist suddenly swallowed Liu Qiao like a beast out of its cage.

Almost instantly, Liu Qiao's entire body was swallowed by the black mist.

The man's lips raised a contemptuous smile, "Thanks to the boss for saying that these people are difficult to deal with, that's all."

He took a step forward and wanted to collect Liu Qiao's body.

However, when he walked to the giant net and waited for the black fog to dissipate, he was shocked to find that Liu Qiao, who was trapped in the net, was gone.

The man was stunned for a moment, "He disappeared because he was directly

Sent to the Nightmare Chamber?"

The middle-aged uncle frowned and said in a deep voice, "Challengers who die in ordinary secret rooms will also leave their bodies behind. There is no reason for them to disappear inexplicably."

The young man finally came to his senses and said, "Fuck, I've fallen into a trap."

At this time, on the west side of the town in the opposite direction from Liu Qiao, Qu Wanyue activated Li Qingzhao's teleportation array and pulled all his teammates over. Xiao Lou's concerned eyes immediately turned to Liu Qiao: "Xiao Liu, are you okay?"

Liu Qiao breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's okay, I calculated the time. Sister Qu's teleportation array was launched in time. The man in black has many strange crystal balls in his hand. The black crystal ball should be able to kill people instantly. However, I still have a witch's antidote under my tongue. If it doesn't work, I can take the antidote to save myself."

This is also the reason why Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang dare to send Liu Qiao out. Liu Qiao has the most self-rescue methods among his teammates.

Qu Wanyue said, "It was Captain Yu's skill in controlling the tiger away from the mountain. Those people really went after Xiao Liu, and I was able to escape smoothly and release the teleportation array for everyone."

There are two Li Qingzhao cards in total.

One is in Xiao Lou's hand, and the other has always been in Qu Wanyue's hand.

Not long ago, when Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang went to the mass graves to look for clues left by Shao Qingge, they asked Qu Wanyue to send them Li Qingzhao's mark. Of course, the teammates remembered very clearly that Liu Qiao did not have Li Qingzhao's picture in his hand. Card.

So just now, Yu Hanjiang said loudly, "Xiao Liu is the fastest in qinggong. He can dig out the treetops and find a place to put Li Qingzhao's mark to teleport us." Yu Hanjiang couldn't have remembered it wrong. He naturally said it to the hunters. .

Liu Qiao was very smart and immediately understood what Captain Yu meant.

This is to let her divert the tiger away from the mountain and create opportunities for Qu Wanyue. Otherwise, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang have been surrounded by red cloth, and the invincible circle can only last for 10 minutes. None of them can get out. In the end, they will be hunted by the hunter, and they will be wiped out in the Long family's backyard.

So, everyone acted together.

Liu Qiao pretended to run away and lured several hunters away. Qu Wanyue used the Chameleon Card to fuse with the floor, and took advantage of the Dance King's buff to crawl out of the yard flexibly. She ran in the opposite direction with Liu Qiao, put down the teleportation array as quickly as possible, and pulled her teammates over.

The Hunter thought he was sure of victory, but at the critical moment, Liu Qiao was pulled away by Qu Wanyue's teleportation array.

Yu Hanjiang said, "Don't be careless, those people will catch up soon."

Lao Mo asked nervously, "What should I do next? The maze keeps turning, and the exit has not yet been turned. Do we want to continue to deal with them in the maze?"

Xiao Lou said, "Don't worry. In addition to a large amount of silver, there is also a card in the treasure box that Mr. Shao left us."

He took the card out of the card pack.

It's Tao Yuanming.

At the beginning, for the sake of safety, Xiao Lou gave Shao Qingge two copies of Tao Yuanming and asked him to use him as a transfer station to teleport two groups of teammates. Who would have thought that Mr. Shao himself would be teleported to the world twenty years ago by the gatekeeper.

In the tomb where Shao Qingge and Ye Qi were buried together, the "legacy" left to everyone was a Tao Yuanming card. Thanks to Shao Qingge's wit, he returned a card to Xiao Lou in this way.

Xiao Lou found a hidden corner to open the Peach Blossom Spring, and said, "As long as the Peach Blossom Spring exists, go and avoid it. If my guess is correct, as long as the murderer of the Shenhu case is found, this secret room will be solved successfully. And the murderer, we Already guessed it."

After 10 seconds, the entrance to the Peach Blossom Spring opens.

The teleportation entrance to this different space can only be seen by the user of the card. Others will not notice it even if they pass by the entrance. Xiao Lou led his teammates into the Peach Blossom Spring, and the six people completely disappeared from the streets. The hunters would definitely not be able to find them for a while.

After entering the Peach Blossom Spring, the teammates immediately asked curiously, "Professor Xiao, who is the murderer?"

Xiao Lou looked at Yu Hanjiang, who whispered, "Zhou Xiaoyun."

A trace of surprise flashed across the faces of his teammates at the same time.

Xiao Lou patiently explained to everyone, "Just now we went to the new house for an autopsy. The braid Lin Wanqing used to hang herself was made of hair. Under normal circumstances, a girl's braid is to divide her hair into three bundles, lay them flat side by side, and then cross the left and middle , then cross the right side and the middle, and repeat this to create a beautiful braid."

Liu Qiao nodded, and this was exactly how she braided her hair.

Yu Hanjiang said, "Twist braids are the simplest and most common. Women in ancient times often combed their hair into braids. However, the braid that Lin Wanqing was hanged just now was not a braid, but was made up of five strands of hair. , the braiding method is more complex and certainly stronger. The hair strands are interwoven into a mesh, more like the method used to make bamboo baskets by hand."

If it weren't for Yu Hanjiang's sharp eyes, Xiao Lou would have almost overlooked this point. After all, it was just a braid of hair. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. In the darkness, they saw the hanged female corpse. Time was limited and they must conduct an autopsy first. Perhaps only Yu Hanjiang could notice such details.

Xiao Lou said, "The vines I saw under the cliff are exactly the same as the braid. It is very likely that it was made by the same person. And the vines must be related to the murderer in the mass grave. By elimination method, we are the only ones left. It’s Zhou Xiaoyun I’ve been looking for.”

There were too many misleading clues in this case, causing them to fall into misunderstandings from the beginning.

Many young girls were dragged into the bottom of the lake. Their first thought was that the murderer was a very strong adult man. When they discovered that the bride, Lin Wanqing, had died on the wedding night, they speculated that the murderer's motive was probably hatred out of love, or a grudge against the bride. The murderer mingled among the guests, sneaked into the bridal chamber and killed the bride while the groom was toasting everyone.

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It now appears that these speculations are all wrong.

Yu Hanjiang said, "The murderer didn't have to use a lot of force to drag those girls into the lake. She could knock them unconscious first, then tie them up with vines and drag them into the lake to drown."

Xiao Lou said, "On the day Lin Wanqing was killed, the murderer must have been hiding in the pond in the backyard."

Yu Hanjiang nodded, "No one left the guest seat, and the murderer must be hiding somewhere else. The location of the pond is between the guest seat and the bridal chamber, and it is covered by lotus leaves, so it is relatively hidden. She can see when the bride is sent to the bridal chamber, waiting for the maids. , the matchmaker and others all leave, then she can come out of the water, enter the room and quickly kill the bride, and then sneak into the pond to find an opportunity to leave."

If this is the case, then Zhou Xiaoyun is just like a silent water ghost.

Liu Qiao frowned and wondered, "Why did she kill so many girls without knowing it?"

Xiao Lou carefully thought about the clues left by Shao Qingge and said, "Mr. Shao's clues said that twenty years ago, Zhou Xiaoyun accidentally saw the true face of the five bandits. In order to silence them, the five people killed their mother-in-law and three children. After arresting him, only Zhou Xiaoyun escaped."

Yu Hanjiang said, "It seems that she was very clever when she was a child and was able to take advantage of the chaos to escape. For the children adopted by her mother-in-law, Uncle Ren can make rattles, Han Ningshuang can make kites, and Zhou Xiaoyun can weave vines. Maybe these skills were taught to them by her mother-in-law. After her mother-in-law passed away, , Zhou Xiaoyun and Qi Ran lived together with Uncle Ren, and I don’t know what happened that made her have such a deep obsession with red clothes and long hair."

Although we don't know what happened, the murderer's psychology has been completely distorted by such a large-scale murder.

No wonder the murderers of the Li Gui case and the Shenhu case used each other but did not interfere with each other. If the murderer of the Shenhu case was Zhou Xiaoyun, all this would make sense because Zhou Xiaoyun had long known that Han Ningshuang was pretending to be a ghost with a kite, and Qi Ran would People were lured to mass graves and killed. She imitated the two men's practices and killed people before and after Ghost Festival, dragging the bodies into the lake to create the illusion of "evil ghosts seeking their lives".

Qi Ran also knew that Zhou Xiaoyun had killed the other missing people in the town, so he did not stop them.

In this way, the two of them made a tacit understanding and took advantage of the public opinion that "the devil is asking for his life" to kill people respectively.

The more Xiao Lou thought about it, the more he felt that this speculation was closer to the truth. He looked at Yu Hanjiang and said, "After the famine, Zhou Xiaoyun and Qi Ran left Qingfeng Town with Uncle Ren. Because Mr. Shao and the others could not always follow the three of them. For more than ten years, there is completely no information about what happened to these three people. I guess Zhou Xiaoyun may have suffered some kind of torture, and it has something to do with the red clothes and long hair."

Yu Hanjiang said, "For example, her hair was cut off, or she once met her beloved, but encountered changes when she got married, which led to psychological distortion. After returning to Qingfeng Town, Qi Ran only targeted her mother-in-law who killed her twenty years ago. Among the relatives of those people, Zhou Xiaoyun could not stand the beauties with long hair and vented his anger by killing them."

Birds of a feather flock together, and these three people really have something in common.

Only Qin Feng did not participate in the killing, probably because he had been separated from them for many years and was not affected by their violence.

Xiao Lou sighed softly in his heart.

The mother-in-law who adopted the children twenty years ago was undoubtedly a kind-hearted person. She fed and clothed the children, taught them survival skills, and even had her hands and feet cut off in order to save a few children. died in pain.

She probably would never have imagined that the children she adopted would later grow completely crooked and turn into murderous demons.

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