Returning from the abyss

Chapter 265 Detective Room
The hotel owner readily agreed to Lu Ning's request.

Not only is he not aware of privacy, but also because there is really no privacy in the register, and even the name may be fabricated, and he will not check the documents.This is true now, as it was decades ago.

Even only three or four registers have been changed.

The boss took the registers that were said to have been used by his grandfather and father out of the cabinet and handed them to Lu Ning, but there was no dust on them.

At first Lu Ning thought that the boss kept it properly, but after turning over a few pages, she immediately discovered the problem.

There were many pages torn out of the register.

Judging from the section of the paper, the inner side is still a little whitish, which proves that it is not a trace left long ago, but was artificially torn off in the past few days.And when Lu Ning found this out and confirmed it to the boss, the boss was also taken aback.

"How could that lady do this? I thought she was just curious about the traffic here..."

"That lady?" Lu Ning repeated these four words.

"Yes, that lady with a cold expression. She said she wanted to know the frequency of customers here over the past few decades, so I showed her it, but I didn't expect it to be like this for me..." The boss was crying , holding the register.

Fujii Yukine!

She knew she was one step too late!
Lu Ning exchanged the registers, and quickly ran through the time corresponding to the pages that were torn out, but this was of no help. Fujii Xueyin even tore off a year to a year and a half in order to prevent anyone from noticing this. Left and right registration records, and there are a total of six or seven such places, and fake information is not ruled out!
"Lu Ning, what's the matter, you look a little uncomfortable?"

Just at this time, Zhu You came down from upstairs and greeted Lu Ning when he saw Lu Ning.

"Zhu You? I'm fine, it's just that something happened... Do you know which room Fujii Xueyin lives in?"

"Upstairs, Room No. [-], right? I remember it's across from that annoying couple." Zhu You thought for a while before replying, "Only her temper can bear to live opposite those two people. By the way , although it was a double room, she has always lived alone."

"Understood, did she leave today?"

"Miss Detective always leaves early and returns late, and she may not come back at noon." Zhu You shrugged, "I really believe that she has a lot of clues, but people don't believe us."

Did she notice?

After Lu Ning thanked Zhu You, she went upstairs, thinking about what progress Fujii had made along the way.

If the detectives collect all the clues of the demons, the identities of the six demons will be in danger. In that case, this confrontation will inevitably be led to a frontal war between the two sides. Not good for planning.

And that, or maybe there are more demons who want to kill all human tourists, will directly collapse across the board.After understanding the growth potential of the devil, Lu Ning naturally understood that the subtext of the distribution center was that the devil could not fight humans head-on in the early days.

It's like a wolf in a werewolf game can never play his cards right from the start.

She walked to the door of Room [-]. Opposite was Room [-] with the closed door, and Lima's room was diagonally opposite... Did Fujii Xueyin see her previous actions?

The door is not locked.

Lu Ning gently pushed open the door, and there was a slight cracking sound under her feet. It was a thin wire, very fragile. The only purpose of this small mechanism was to determine whether someone was trying to enter the room from the outside.

But it's not that simple.

On the outer and inner door handles, there is fluorescent paint that is extremely difficult for human eyes to recognize. If Lu Ning does not directly reach out to push the door, but holds the door handle and turns it, once she enters a dark environment, the fluorescence will expose her intruders. identity of.

Similar transparent substances were also smeared on the ground at the door, but their function was slightly changed, and they were used to leave footprints.And with Lu Ning's detective knowledge, he could also know that with footprints and strides, height and weight are no secrets.

From the door to the room, there are a total of twelve such traps. None of them is lethal, but all of them are means of information verification by means of destruction. part, but still in a cold sweat.

Then she saw the wall of evidence of Fujii Yukine.

The stick figures of the 24 tourists express each person without losing their characteristics, and the basic personal information is also indicated below.These portraits are taped to the wall, and the colored pen marks form an intertwined network. Besides the 24 people, there are portraits of [-] important people in the town. The only difference is that these [-] people are labeled The serial number corresponds to the map of Baihu Town on the other wall.

The portraits of Sally and Xue Fengchun have been marked with a red cross, and the sign of "death" is marked next to them, and it continues to extend to those with the sign of "suspect". Sally corresponds to Lu Ning, Zhu You and Qiu Yiyun and Xue Fengchun corresponded to everyone in the restaurant at that time.

At the same time, the heads of Karl, Yu Guiting, Li Chuanliang, Shen Lishu, and Ye Chuqing were all circled in green, connected with Fujii Xueyin herself, and marked as "trustworthy".

Luo Nan and Zhong Feiying were marked with key suspicion marks. Besides, Feng Hui and Peng Morong were circled together in a yellow circle, marked as "choose one", and Qianshan, Shanshan, and Daoyuan were "under observation". .

All these are only aimed at tourists, but for the people of Baihu Town, the expression is more straightforward.Because there are seven portraits that have been marked with "excluded from suspicion", including the patriarch of the Turner family, the mayor Sivis, the police chief Daniel, the doctor, the blacksmith, the forest ranger, and the hunter leader Levin .

The map was densely packed with marks, and half of Baihu Town seemed to have been checked during this period, and even the cemetery had already been marked with red warning signs.

This is definitely not something that one person can do.

Today is only the fifth day. After Fujii admitted that he did not do anything on the first day, he went to the lakeside hut after noon on the second day. It is impossible for the rest of the time to be completed by one person. "The conclusion of the search effort.

That is to say, when Lu Ning didn't know, some people, probably those in the green circle, formed a "team within the team" and conducted a secret investigation.

No... Considering that Fujii would put such things directly in front of the face, these may even be false appearances for intruders.What's worse is that from Lu Ning's demon perspective, her judgment is basically correct, so it's hard to say how true or false it is.

Now that she has torn out so many pages of the boss's register, it is doubtful whether she will return here in the future.As far as Lu Ning knows, Fujii Xueyin survived almost as a single soldier on the front line of the Yaojing war in the first-level promotion scene for seven days. What she said before giving up most of the rest opportunities and staying vigilant until the end of the scene is probably not meant. That's all.In this way, the stronghold is simply an unnecessary option.

Lu Ning jumped out of the room from the window, she was not going to stay longer, so as not to leave more evidence.

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"With a little guidance, the devil will show his feet."

In the corridor on the other side, Carl and Robert in Room [-] are preparing the necessities for going to the mine tomorrow. Most of the time, Robert is working, and Carl is chatting with him.

"Do you think it's Lu Ning?"

"Even if not, there must be at least one of the four people." Robert put the bottle of potion in a place that was easily accessible, "The purpose of Lu Ning's proposal is to find someone with the same secret orientation. The mine must not be lured by these bottles of medicine."

"She gave a timely step to justify this action ... but we don't know which side she did it with the purpose of helping."

"No need to worry." Robert tied a leather bag to his belt, and there was a crisp knocking sound inside, "The four people who passed this time will definitely be safe."

"Well...we want to prevent the devils here from doing it suddenly, right?"

"The ratio of humans and demons given by the distribution center is three to one, which means that this ratio is a fair confrontation in the distribution center's cognition. Although two people died, it has little impact on the whole at present. But if If one group is eliminated according to the ratio of three to one, the proportion of the remaining demons will increase significantly, which means that tomorrow night is the best time for the demons to start their actions, and they will usher in a strong period."

"It's true according to the statistics, but it depends on human effort." Carl looked indifferent.

"I'm worried that you're too lazy." Robert zipped up his backpack. "Compared to unreliable personal performance, I still believe that the data can give the most reasonable prediction, at least the probability is correct."

"Let me tell you something." Carl avoided the topic, "When choosing the potion that day, Zhu You seemed to want to go there too."

"She and Lu Ning know each other." Robert nodded, "It is likely that they have known each other before. Although the two people are less familiar than us, they look like Asayama Fujii who once spent a certain scene together. If you exclude If the relationship is so good that she doesn't care about the possibility of helping Lu Ning regardless of her own interests, then she probably feels more secure following someone in that team."

"This is not a mentality of a strong person, it is a bit different from her superficial state." Carl took out the flagon and grinned, "It seems that I will disturb this little girl more during the two days you are away. gone."

"Speaking of which, where's Fujii?"

"Oh...that heartbreaking girl," Carl said half-jokingly, "she brutally rejected my offer of follow-up protection, then walked away throwing a handful of evidence in my face."

"In human terms, although Fujii has a cold attitude, he is not someone who would be so rude."

"Okay, okay, the girl gave me some clues and told me that she probably won't be returning to the hotel in the next few days. I said to follow her for protection, and then we had a little competition."

Robert showed an "I understand" look.

"Hey, hey, even though I'm not necessarily her opponent at close quarters, she definitely can't beat me with a gun. Don't show that kind of look, okay?"

"It's embarrassing for you, a combat member, to be inferior to an intelligence member in terms of personal defense ability."

"I want to curse, and you're right."

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As the evening approached, another shocking incident spread out.

An elderly couple in a southern farm did not go to a nearby neighbor's house to drink tea and chat together at noon as usual, and the door was kept closed.A slightly worried neighbor asked a few young people to check on the condition of the old couple, but only found the bodies of the two.

They were tied with ropes to the wooden pillars of the barn behind the house, and then pierced into the heart with a thick wooden nail. Except for this wound, the jaws of the two were all torn off and disappeared. The bloody scene scared everyone immediately. Several people's legs were weak.

But this time, no one doubted the Herman family anymore, and most people understood what this meant.

The big bell of the townspeople in the center of the town was rang, and the owner of the hotel, his wife and children also put down everything and rushed to the small square in the center.When Lu Ning arrived, nearly the entire town had gathered there. The mayor, Sivis, stood on the high platform of the central clock, with four people standing beside him.

A tall, thin, middle-aged man with curly hair and tight lips, Adams, the head of the Turner family.

A fat, pale man who kept wiping the cold sweat from his head with a handkerchief, Fisher, the patriarch of the Herman family.

Wearing a police uniform, the fierce-looking, burly police chief Daniel.

He was dressed in a leather hunting suit, carrying a shotgun, and the hunter leader Levin with gray hair and beard.

These are undoubtedly the five people with the most say in the town, and whenever these five people gather and ring the big bell, there is only one possibility.

Something happened.

The sky was getting dark, and the surroundings were lit with torches. When this small square was already crowded with people, Sivis spoke.

"Everyone in White Lake Town, in the afternoon, the poor York couple was found dead in their own home. After getting the news, I immediately contacted the people present and went to check the situation. Now, I must announce this sad news ...the two died at the hands of the witch."

The townspeople immediately began to discuss in low voices, but the mayor immediately quieted them down by continuing to speak.

"Mr. Fisher confirmed that the only two wounds on the corpse came from two torture instruments, the nail stake and the jaw crusher. Everyone knows that, except for the backup left by the Herman family, all these torture instruments have been destroyed by us. The backup instruments of torture were closely monitored and were not used."

Having said that, Sivis looked at Fisher.The chubby man took a step forward, coughed, and proved: "We are responsible for ensuring that those things... will not be used by anyone again. And there were at least four families there during the time when the York couple were killed Members watch over."

"We have broken free from the quagmire of history, but the witch is trying to pull us back to the ignorant and cruel past. We cannot let her come back. This time the alarm bell is sounded to call on everyone to unite and send the witch back to the past. In the dusty history." Sivis announced loudly, "We will pass on the experience of our ancestors to everyone! No one knows how to deal with witches better than the people of White Lake Town! We will never allow the current peaceful life to be disturbed again! "

(End of this chapter)