Jones's question was very smart.
He did not directly ask the man in the sweater if he had been to the Cursed Lake. If he had asked, wouldn't the purpose be too obvious, and he would not look like someone passing by to drink water.
Once these aborigines become wary, it will only accelerate the death of the chosen ones.
Asking about anything you see at home is how you behave as a ‘passerby’.
Even if it is very presumptuous, the owner of this house will not think too much about it.
Hearing this, the man in the sweater sighed and replied: "Yes, the disaster struck some time ago, when I came back from outside."
There was some sadness in the man's words, as if he was feeling sorry for himself. Regret for getting home in time.
According to him, if he had returned home in time, such a tragedy would not have happened.
Analysis from the other side, Jones can conclude that this guy is very strong, and may be stronger than he appears on the surface.
In order to play his role well, Jones began to apologize and then comforted the sweater man's emotions.
It was getting late now, so the man in the sweater asked them if they were hungry. There were still some leftovers in the kitchen.
Moreover, their house looks very spacious with five bedrooms, two living rooms, one kitchen and two bathrooms. They also invited Jones and the psychotic fighter to spend the night here, and told them to leave at dawn tomorrow if they were in a hurry. It was very quiet outside in the dead of night. Danger.
In order to investigate the situation clearly, Jones must agree.
But I still had to pretend, first I acted a little embarrassed, they had already eaten dinner, but they were indeed a little tired, so I could only bother the man in the sweater here all night.
The man in the sweater didn't mind, and prepared a guest room for them.
According to the sweater man, both the master bedroom and the second bedroom here are occupied, and one of the three guest rooms is also occupied, leaving Jones and the psychotic fighter to choose one each.
To be on the safe side, Jones said, "It's such a troublesome thing, we can just share the same room."
The man in the sweater seemed to be easy to talk to, so he agreed to his request.
As he said that, the man in the sweater went to the empty guest room to clean up the room.
After he left, Jones was not as confused as he was in the middle-aged man's room at first, and directly started to get up and look at the portraits on the wall.
There are five portraits in total, three old people and two middle-aged people.
The portraits of the elderly are two men and one woman.
The portrait of the middle-aged man is about the same age as the man in the sweater. They are a man and a woman.
Judging from the portrait, the outlines of this middle-aged woman and man seem to be similar to those of the elderly.
It seems there is a certain blood relationship.
The sweater man quickly packed up the house and returned to the living room.
Jones took this opportunity and began asking the sweater man about his relationship to the photos.
The man in the sweater's answer made him a little surprised.
According to the sweater man, the middle-aged woman in the photo is his wife, and the middle-aged man is the husband of the curly-haired woman.
Due to the disaster, both his wife and the husband of the curly-haired woman died. He saw that the short-haired woman was pitiful, so he took her in and formed a family.
Hearing this, Jones thought to himself: No wonder these two people looked ugly. If they were still alive, would they be happy to see their beloved with someone else?
It is not gossip that Jones thinks this way, because he thinks this may be a clue.
Next, Jones continued to ask who the people above were.
The man in the sweater said those above were his parents and the curly-haired woman’s father.
At this point, Jones felt strange. Logically speaking, the old man should not be angry that his children can reorganize their lives.
This may be a clue. With no other information, Jones is temporarily unable to make deductions.
So he could only continue to ask: "My friend and I came here to find a lake. Have you ever been there?"
Before the man in the sweater could speak, there was a banging sound nearby.
Jones was startled. Jones immediately looked in the direction of the sound. The curly-haired woman who was cleaning broke a plate for some reason.
The man in the sweater showed a very gentlemanly demeanor, squatting on the ground and cleaning up the glass with the curly-haired woman, and then sent the curly-haired woman back to the master bedroom to rest.
After that, he came back and continued to answer Jones's question: "There are mountains all around. There is no lake. You must have gone to the wrong place. Early tomorrow morning, you should go back the same way."< br>
This sentence does not sound contradictory. It can also be said that the man in the sweater is expressing that he will not harm them.
But Jones was basically certain that there was something wrong with the man in the sweater.
As a resident here, you may not know that there is a lake next to it.
After all, there is no need for residents to walk around, and the Cursed Lake is far away from here. Who has nothing to do to walk so far to find a lake.
But the problem is, if the man in the sweater is the owner of this place, then he must know that there is.
Because Jones is working backwards from rules and intelligence.
The rules ask you to look for ‘lost objects’. It happens that one of the lost objects is a portrait. The portrait should be the lost object of someone in this place. This is obvious.
But here comes the problem. The portrait was lost in the Cursed Lake, which means that the person who lost the portrait must have been to the Cursed Lake. Otherwise, how could Jones find it there.
If the man in the sweater is the owner of this place, even if he has not been there, someone in his family must have been there.
It is impossible for the man in the sweater not to know where the cursed lake is.
Jones has two inferences here.
First, the sweater man was an alien aborigine. With his strong power, he beat the curly-haired woman's husband to death and occupied this place.
Second, the man in the sweater and the curly-haired woman were both weird, but there were things in the room that they were afraid of, or there were rules and regulations, so they didn't do anything.
Jones was more inclined to the first idea because the woman seemed to be mentally disturbed.
Although Jones is not a real psychiatrist, he knows that people will behave abnormally when they are stimulated.
The curly-haired woman had been mopping the clean area just now, and Jones felt something was wrong.
Besides, when he mentioned the cursed lake, there was movement from the curly-haired woman. This might be a hint to Jones that this woman knew something, but she couldn't say it.
As for the second statement, it is also easy to understand.
Then it needs to be analyzed again here.
All the statements made by the sweater man are lies.
In the five photos, the middle-aged man and woman are the husband and wife. The man in the sweater and the woman with curly hair have strangely killed most of the people here, but there is a child inside.
Then Rule 3 will be triggered.
[Rule 3: Please do not refuse any child's request in this area, otherwise he will be very angry. 】
The rules in this building are outrageous. No one can refuse a child's request. The child's words are the rules.
Maybe the child has made some strange request.
So they can only play husband and wife here, because they can't beat a child at all, or in other words, they can't beat an 'angry' child.
By the way, in order to avoid being regarded as a pervert again, Jones had already changed his clothes when he walked out of the middle-aged man's room, and so did the psychotic fighter.
(End of this chapter)