Returning from the abyss

Chapter 800
Meng Juan and Tang Ling came together, and Lu Ning originally treated him with a little respect, but Meng Juan was actually not someone who was at odds with her like Tang Ling, so asking a question at this time didn't mean much to question.

"I know you can hide, Tang Ling will not hide anything from me." Meng Juan smiled, "The relationship between the two of you seems to be not very good, I have different ideas, let's discuss it carefully How about this case?"

"...I don't know anything about you yet."

Meng Juan nodded slowly: "I don't know anything... To be honest, I don't believe it. You are a person who has reached the fourth level. I have shown my ability a little bit. You can actually learn from it." I have deduced something. However, I am not here to discuss this today, presumably you are also here for this first case, which is probably the only crime committed by humans."

"Yes."

"I believe that the owner here violated some taboo because of his ability, so he had to organize this dance. However, according to the situation in the past few days, we can also understand that the number of people is not a requirement, and the type of superpower is not a requirement. Here After all, the master just needs a group of superpowers to complete the dance according to the conditions, and the problem is how we can survive after the dance." Meng Juan walked into the room and came to the bedside, "From this point of view, this master is right again. We have malicious intentions, so I have to guard against it."

"Do you think there is any problem at the scene?"

"I can't tell." Meng Juan shrugged, "My ability is not of the investigative type, I have to see everything with my eyes. But with superpowers, ordinary methods of guessing the murderer's size, strength, habits, etc. have a high error rate. It will be very difficult to find the murderer from such clues.”

"There are other ideas." Lu Ning said after pondering for a moment.

Meng Juan's eyes lit up slightly: "Tell me, please? If you need my help, just tell me."

"When I came to the room before, I roughly observed the state of the corpse, and roughly judged that his death time was between one and three o'clock in the evening, and there may be some errors. At this time, in theory, everyone should be in their own In the room—after all, we have verified it later. If you don’t follow the words in the letter, all kinds of abnormalities will happen... I haven’t figured out what happened to Han Xuezhi, but I guess he committed a taboo .”

"That is to say, when Pan Kai died, no one violated the taboo...everyone stayed in their own room."

"This has actually ruled out some methods of killing. Some superpowers can only be released at close range, and this must be a long-distance killing. Only those abilities that can clone and summon can do such things, because Pan Kai is not Being shot by an ability, he was killed in a head-on fight with something."

"Yeah." Meng Juan nodded, "Among those who have already shown their abilities, no one seems to have such superpowers, right?"

"I don't think everyone is telling the truth. Even you and I are hiding most of our abilities, aren't we?" Lu Ning glanced at Meng Juan.

"But how to verify this? Design a trap to test everyone's superpower? It's very difficult." Meng Juan said again.

"We don't need verification, we just need to find the most suspicious target and be wary of that person." Lu Ning narrowed her eyes, "It doesn't even have to be suspicious of just one person."

Meng Juan nodded, looked around, then squatted down suddenly, lifted the bed sheet from the bed and looked at it, then looked at the wardrobe again, turned around in the bedside table, opened all the drawers, and took it out from inside A contact lens case.

"Is he nearsighted? Are the contact lenses still in place?" Meng Juan asked.

"Even if it was there, it might fall off during the fight... What's wrong?"

"Maybe I'm overthinking, or this person has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Look under the bed. Slippers and ordinary shoes are neatly arranged. All the clothes in the closet are folded and stuffed like squares in the drawer. This drawer is also Same."

Lu Ning looked around, and just as Meng Juan said, all Pan Kai's personal items are neatly arranged like Tetris, not only clothes, shoes, etc., but even some daily necessities After the stack was finished, Lu Ning opened the suitcase that Meng Juan brought, and the suitcase was empty.

"...But some of the things provided here have not been arranged like this." Lu Ning frowned. Some daily necessities were still provided in the room, but those were kept in place. Although they were clean and tidy, they were not touched. .

"He probably doesn't plan to use it. To be honest, I think the strangest thing is this drawer." Meng Juan also opened the bottom drawer in the closet, "He brought a lot of boxes of cameras and the like, And put these things neatly in the drawer."

"He has already installed a few before, so some boxes inside are empty." Lu Ning said.

With some difficulty, Meng Juan dug out one of the boxes arranged without any gaps, and then quickly found several empty boxes along the gap.

"Even if it's obsessive-compulsive disorder...these things are too inconvenient for life."

This is indeed the case, and even if it is obsessive-compulsive disorder, it seems that it is not convenient to stuff one's own things into such an inconvenient situation.Lu Ning knew that this must have a lot to do with this person's living habits, but there was still insufficient evidence to determine the murderer.

"It seems that we still got nothing." Meng Juan spread his hands after putting the things back in place, "Did Miss Lu Ning discover anything new?"

"No."

"Well, it seems that we can only wait until after the dance to see what the master is thinking. What we have to do next..."

"Have you seen the news that is spreading outside?" Lu Ning asked suddenly.

"What news?"

"Monsters have begun to appear in this world, and it has become impossible to block the news. By this time, I think the army should be dispatched? But the end of the world is almost unstoppable, are you ready?"

Meng Juan laughed.

"Miss Lu Ning, I don't care about the end of the world at all... We are tourists, as long as we complete the task and leave the scene, everything else is out of my consideration."

Lu Ning was slightly alert. Although Meng Juan was easier to get along with than Tang Ling, but judging from this performance, he was just acting on the occasion. He himself was still a person who didn't care about the situation in the scene.Such people are also dangerous.

The dinner was still going on normally, but the atmosphere was oppressive. Except for Michael and Professor Xu who were quite talkative, the rest of the people were silent.No one waited for everyone to finish eating, and left the restaurant immediately after finishing their food.Lu Ning left late, and went to visit Wei Haonan in the kitchen. I can see that the chef is a little forced to smile now. It is estimated that Jiang Ai's death will also affect the servants... He probably really died .

In the midst of such unease, the day of the dance finally arrived.Lu Ning didn't even sleep well, she got up very early and went downstairs.

It was the time when Qu Langyue went out to fetch the newspaper every day.But when she came back today, she was a little depressed, and she didn't hold anything in her hand.Lu Ning came down from upstairs and saw her, so she asked a question.

"No one delivered anything today." Qu Langyue bowed to Lu Ning, "Unfortunately, you may not be able to read today's latest news. And if the staff on duty at the foot of the mountain are no longer able to work, maybe the outside situation has changed. It's reached a point of no return."

"Is the dance going to start?"

"Of course we have to start. This is what the host told us to do. But after the ball is over, we will try our best to help the guests leave. The few guests who died here probably don't have time to take care of them. "

Lu Ning nodded, but when she glanced at Qu Langyue, she suddenly froze.

"Didn't you feel anything wrong after you went out?"

"Eh? Miss means..." Qu Langyue checked her body, and soon found some red blood spots on the white cotton socks on her legs.She didn't panic, but said "I'm sorry" and then quickly walked to the servant's room.

Lu Ning followed, now it is difficult for anyone in this mansion to have problems, especially these servants... She doesn't think she can maintain her loyalty to the "master" when her life is at stake.

In the servant's room, only Jin Xiuqing was packing the clothes and sheets, and the rest should have gone out to make some morning preparations.After Qu Langyue went in, she immediately told Jin Xiuqing to help prepare some medical supplies, while she sat on a chair and slowly rolled up her trousers and took off her socks.Lu Ning stood outside the door. Jin Xiuqing glanced at it, but didn't stop her, and quickly found the medical kit from a drawer.

"Don't you feel any pain?"

"No, I feel a little itchy now, maybe it's poisonous." Qu Langyue took off her socks calmly, and there were some hard objects about the size of a fingernail from her ankle to her calf, which looked like shells. Something like that, but if you look closely, it looks like the texture of insect cuticles.The stuff embedded itself in her skin, causing it to bleed.

"Disinfect first." Jin Xiuqing handed the alcohol to Qu Langyue. She quickly treated the area on her leg, then took out a lancet from the medical box, lit the alcohol lamp and baked it. Jin Xiuqing took the bandage At the beginning of the cut-off, the two hardly communicated, and they had a very tacit understanding.Lu Ning stared outside the door, and if Qu Langyue was really abnormal, she would do her best to stop it.

After the preparations were completed, Qu Langyue began to cut off the hard objects from her legs with the knife. This step could not be without pain, and even beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, but she still quickly dug out all the hard objects. Jin Xiuqing Assist her to stop the bleeding and bandage, and finally ask after everything has been dealt with: "What's going on?"

"I don't know, it was Miss Lu Ning who discovered my situation."

Jin Xiuqing picked up the hard objects in the bandages on the ground: "There are sixteen in total, we need to find a way to find out what these are. How is your physical condition?"

"It's okay, but this foot probably can't bear the weight anymore." Qu Langyue stood up, limping slightly, "There should be no toxins, this is probably luck. Thank you very much for your timely reminder, Miss Lu Ning."

"Are you really okay? I still suggest you check yourself, because you didn't feel anything at first, right?" Lu Ning said.

"I will ask Ms. Jin to help." Qu Langyue nodded, "Thank you again for your kindness. Miss Lu Ning, the dance will start at eleven o'clock. There are some procedures that you must complete. After everyone gets up, Manager Feng will explain it to everyone."

"I want to ask you, if your life is in danger because of this, will you still be loyal to your master?" Lu Ning asked her.

"No. But...we can't identify which guest is our host now." Qu Langyue smiled wryly, "Restraint is not only on you, the guests, even if we don't perform our duties well, we will die. We There is no choice either.”

Jin Xiuqing walked over at this moment: "Qu Langyue, go to bed, I'll examine you. Miss Lu Ning, please pay attention to safety, we all sincerely hope that everyone can live a good life."

Lu Ning shook her head, noncommittal.

After breakfast, sure enough, Feng Yuanxi gathered all the guests together, and finally there were no accidents or deaths on this day.Feng Yuanxi also announced to everyone the procedures that must be done at the dance party.

At eleven o'clock, when the dance begins, everyone will have a glass of red wine.

Throughout the prom, everyone dances at least once with another partner of the opposite sex.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, go to the garden, choose a potted flower by voting, and move it back to the center of the ball hall.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone recommended a person to recite poetry, and it took 15 minutes to recite.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone must have dinner in the restaurant.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, everyone needs to dance together, including the servants, until the end of the dance, there must be a total of more than [-] minutes.

During the entire dance process, you can only return to the room between one o'clock and three o'clock.

After Feng Yuanxi finished speaking, no one spoke, and everyone was thinking about where there might be traps in these links and how many dangers there might be.With previous experience, I am afraid that these things are impossible to do. The good news is that time seems to be abundant, but the bad news is that there is no danger of life on the surface.

"If you understand, please come here at eleven o'clock. We will prepare all kinds of red wine for you, just choose what you like." Feng Yuanxi bowed and retreated.

"Everyone, the outside is already in chaos. Even if we can leave the ball alive, we still need to think about how we should go." Mr. Zhou said, "I don't know what you think, but I think we should deal with the process of the ball now." All arranged, and then we left the Hongmei Pavilion together at eleven o'clock in the evening. We are all superpowers, and this is our advantage."

"Can it go so smoothly?" Qi Leyin said pessimistically.

(End of this chapter)