Chapter 6 Taboo
After checking the body, the three of them exited the bathroom. Facing such a strange corpse, no one felt comfortable.
"The time of death is probably within three hours," looking at the pocket watch in his hand, the strong man raised his head and affirmed, "that is to say, between 2 and 5 in the morning."
"How can you determine the time?"
The strong man glanced at the girl who asked the question, told her the time and order they arranged for the vigil, and handed her the pocket watch, which showed that the timer had been counted. It took exactly 7 hours.
The next shift in Jiangcheng was a middle-aged man, and the fat man who left work woke up from peeing. When he went to drain the water, he found the dead middle-aged man.
At this time, the fat man stood up shivering and asked the middle-aged man why he died. The strong man sighed, closed the bathroom door, and the group returned to the sofa in front of the fireplace.
As a newcomer, Jiang Cheng hardly spoke. He was always listening and analyzing, and most of the opinions he put forward came from the most senior strong man and the woman with the mole on her lip.
Through the information revealed in the discussion between several people, Jiang Cheng understood that in this world, people were generally not killed for no reason. Those who were killed must have touched some taboos.
The so-called taboo is likely to be the key clue to crack the mission.
"What did he do that we haven't done?" The male clerk huddled between Jiang Cheng and the girl, obviously frightened. He didn't want to die inexplicably like a middle-aged man.
The girl frowned her beautiful eyebrows and said, "Could it be because he went to the bathroom on the first floor? That's where the taboo hidden in this mission is, and anyone who goes there will die?"
"No way," the fat man squatted on the spot, holding his knees with both hands, and whispered: "I have also been to the bathroom, just yesterday when I was searching the living room."
Jiang Cheng turned to look at the fat man, and said after a while: "Then you have to be careful. Although your neck is thick, you can use force to break it. It should still be able to be broken.”
The fat man almost cried when he heard this.
The strong man seemed a little dissatisfied with Jiang Cheng's attitude, but he didn't say anything. He just shook his head and said that it shouldn't be the case. Almost all of them had been to the bathroom on the first floor. If something happened, it shouldn't just be a middle-aged man.
"Maybe it's just about order?" said the woman with the mole on her lip: "You should understand that ghosts rarely kill people one after another in a short period of time."
The strong man looked at the woman One glance, but there was a rare lack of rebuttal.
“Are those things really there?”
Jiang Cheng’s long-held guess has been confirmed. The door that appeared in the dream undoubtedly belongs to the category of supernatural events, and ghosts appear in supernatural events. It seems reasonable.
"So what we need to fight against in this world is not humans, but ghosts?!" The male clerk's face turned pale with fear.
Given his previous performance, no one wanted to pay attention to him at all.
"Since someone died, it means that this villa is our destination. The so-called journey does not exist. The car only appeared to bring us here," the girl looked at it All around, "The problem is with this villa."
"What problems could there be with the villa?"
The girl stared at the fat man who asked the question, and after a while she said: "For example, what happened here before?" There have been some vicious incidents.”
This villa looked quite luxurious, and there were no signs of damage inside. It was abandoned for no apparent reason. It was indeed suspicious. Jiang Cheng felt that what the girl said was quite credible.
The strong man walked to the door of the villa, grabbed the door handle, and pulled hard, but the door did not move at all.
"It's locked," the strong man turned his head and said: "It seems that this is the mission location. We can't leave until we figure out what happened in this villa."
“Since any decision has been made Let’s spread out and look for clues. It’s already dawn and it will be relatively safe.”
Having said that, the death of the middle-aged man still sounded the alarm for everyone, especially Jiangcheng. , the fat man, and the three newcomers, the male clerk.
In order to speed up efficiency, several people spontaneously formed groups, with an old person leading a new person.
The fat man was with the strong man, the male clerk was with the woman with the mole on her lip, and Jiang Cheng was with the girl.
For safety reasons, the search scope is temporarily fixed on the first floor of the villa.
A group of strong men were responsible for the living room and near the door, a group of women were responsible for the remote warehouse, and Jiang Cheng and the girl went to the kitchen and dining room.
Everyone is within a straight line of sight of each other, and they will take care of each other if something happens.
This time, with my previous experience, I searched more thoroughly and carefully.
Half an hour later, everyone reunited in front of the fireplace, and the sky was completely bright.
“We found this in the warehouse,” the woman with the mole on her lip took out a very thick rope, a hemp rope, with black and red marks on one section.
The strong man took it and rubbed it hard twice, then put it under his nose and smelled, "It's blood," he looked up at the woman.
The woman nodded, "Just behind a pile of firewood, I picked this up nearby."
She opened her right hand, and in her palm was a light green brooch in the shape of a maple leaf.
Was there once a girl who was tied up and left there?
"What did you find?" The woman tilted her head and looked at the strong man.
"Come and take a look with me," the strong man said and walked towards the door, with a group of people following him.
Standing by the door, the strong man fumbled and pressed a spot on the wall. Jiang Cheng had good eyesight, and he saw that it was a light blue button.
The button is embedded in the oil painting next to the door and blends into the sky blue background. It is difficult to spot without looking carefully.
At the same time as the button was pressed, a gap opened in the wall on the right side of the door, and then slowly opened, revealing a well-hidden built-in shoe cabinet.
The shoe cabinet has three floors. Except for the third floor, which is still intact, the partition between the first and second floors has been disconnected, and all kinds of shoes are mixed together.
After sorting, there were two pairs of men's leather shoes, a pair of women's red high heels, and 3 pairs of women's casual shoes in front of them.
The woman with the mole on her lip picked out one pair of casual shoes from three pairs and placed it next to the red high-heeled shoes. "These two pairs of shoes should belong to the same person."
The remaining two pairs of casual shoes obviously belong to a younger girl, and the two pairs of shoes are exactly the same in size.
On the third floor is a pair of men's sports shoes. After comparison, it is found that the sizes are quite different from men's leather shoes.
"Currently, it seems that this villa once lived in a family of four, the male owner, the female owner, a girl and a boy," the girl raised her head and said, "This can also be matched with the distribution of bedrooms on the second floor. Opposite, there is a master bedroom belonging to the male and female owners, a girl's bedroom, and a boy's bedroom" (End of Chapter)