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Chapter 1346 Missing? (Can’t eat watermelon, drink water instead)

"Meijia! Meijia!"

When Duanmu Huai returned to the second floor, he saw Sha Jiuye knocking on the door anxiously, but it was useless. The door looked as heavy as a fire door and could not be opened at all. Moreover, Meijia's room was located at the innermost part of the east side, so she probably could not hear Sha Jiuye's shouting at all.

At this moment, the yellow-haired guy also came over with the hot girl, panting.

"No, Granny Mikawa isn't in the servants' room, and neither is Ayabe. Really, where did they go at this critical moment?"

"Maybe they are the murderers and they escaped after killing someone."

At this time, the social man also came over and spoke calmly, while the yellow-haired man frowned.

"Murderer? You think this is a murder case? Besides, where can they hide? I have searched almost every room here!"

"Maybe they are hiding in here."

The gangster snorted coldly and stared at the heavy door in front of him, while the yellow-haired man was stunned for a moment and then looked speechless.

"What good will this do for them? Forget it, it's not important. Now how do we get in and find Mika? This is the most important thing! There is only one key, and it's in the hands of Granny Mikawa. I've already looked for it, but I can't find Granny Mikawa. Ayabe is not here either. What should we do now?"

"How about calling the police?"

"There is no cell phone signal at all now!"

"What about driving?"

"It's raining so hard, the roads are flooded, you might as well ask me to drive the boat!"

"Then let's sail."

"Where did this boat come from? Are you kidding me? Believe it or not, I will kill you!"

Seeing the indifferent look on the face of the social guy, Huang Mao was also very angry and wanted to hit the social guy. However, at this moment, Duanmu Huai stood up.

"Don't bother, I have a simpler way."

"Hey?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, everyone present was stunned, and then they saw Duanmu Huai took off his coat and handed it to Sha Jiuye, and then he walked to the front door. Seeing this scene, the social man sneered.

"You're not planning to just break down this door, are you? It's no use. This door is made of steel. It's hard to blow it open even with explosives!"

Duanmu Huai didn't care about what the gangster said. He just turned around and said something to Sha Jiuye and Huangmao.

"Cover your ears."

Sha Jiuye naturally did as he was told, and although the yellow-haired boy and his hot girlfriend were a little confused, they also covered their ears. Only the boy with glasses looked at Duanmu Huai with a confused look on his face, and the gangster did not hide his contempt at all.

"How stupid! No matter how confident you are in your own strength, you can't..."

  However, before the gangster could finish his words, Duanmu Huai raised his right hand, the muscles on his arm suddenly bulged, then he clenched his fist and hammered at the iron door in front of him!

"Boom--!"

A dull sound like a bell ringing erupted, and Sakyuye and the yellow-haired man who covered their ears trembled all over. The glasses and the social man who did not cover their ears felt as if their chests were hit by a heavy hammer. They opened their mouths and felt that they could not breathe, and almost fainted. They also stumbled back and raised their hands to cover their ears. The big dog next to the social man was so scared that he curled up on the ground and trembled, not daring to move.

At the same time, Duanmu Huai threw out another punch.

“Boom——————!!”

After two punches, everyone was horrified to see that the heavy iron door, which was several dozen centimeters thick, had actually been blasted with a huge dent by Duanmu Huai!

Then, Duanmu Huai threw the third punch!

"boom-------!!!"

This time, Duanmu Huai finally punched a huge hole in the sunken steel door. Then Duanmu Huai reached his hands into the hole and grabbed the gaps on both sides.

“Squeak————!”

  With a sound that made one's teeth ache, the door that was several dozen centimeters thick was torn open by Duanmu Huai just like a piece of kraft paper! Then, Duanmu Huai walked straight in without even looking back!

Seeing this scene, almost everyone was dumbfounded. They stared at Duanmu Huai's back in amazement. Sha Jiuye was the first to react and hurriedly followed in holding his coat.

“Hey, you…”

The yellow-haired man was also surprised to see Sakuya go in, but he scratched his head and then said something to his hot girlfriend beside him.

"Wait for me here."

After saying this, Huangmao also walked into the gap. He stretched out his hand and pinched the torn steel in the gap... He took a breath and hurriedly followed.

The entire east corridor was dark, and no one knew where the switch was. Duanmu Huai was too lazy to look for it, so he just held up his phone as a flashlight and walked quickly to the end. At this moment, Sha Jiuye and Huang Mao also came behind him, and both of them showed uneasy expressions. You know, the sound of Duanmu Huai hammering the door just now was so loud that even Meijia should have been able to hear it in her room.

But now it is still quiet here... Could something have happened to Mika?

"Mika! Mika! It's me! Sakuya, did you hear me?"

Sha Jiuye couldn't help but call out Meijia's name, but there was still no response. At this moment, the three of them came to the door of the guest room at the end of the east corridor. From the outside, it seemed no different from other guest rooms. Duanmu Huai reached out and tried to open the door - well, it was locked, of course.

  So he grabbed the door handle and pulled it out hard!

"Crack!"

Looking at the door that was removed directly from the door frame, both Sakiya and Huangmao expressed that they were emotionally stable and were not surprised at all.

After all, the heavy steel door was smashed to pieces by Duanmu Huai, so how could a mere wooden door stop him?

Although everyone had previously thought that Meijia might have been frightened by the noise of Duanmu Huai hammering the door and was hiding in her room, this speculation was quickly overturned when they walked into the room.

  Because...the entire guest room is empty!

Just as Meijia said, although there was only one guest room in the east corridor, it was exactly the same as the big bed room where Duanmu Huai and others lived. Not only was the layout the same, but the size was also similar. There was only one bed and a bathroom. The three of them went in and looked around, but they didn't see anyone at all. There was no one under the bed, in the closet, in the bathroom, and anywhere else—of course, no one.

  Only the messy quilt on the bed proved that someone had slept here, but other than that, Mika seemed to have disappeared!

No, she just disappeared!

If it were a detective novel, this would be a clear case of a secret room disappearance!

But what does this have to do with Duanmu Huai?

This isn't detective world.

Killing someone in a closed room is nothing. For evil gods and their followers, killing someone in a closed room is a basic skill. Killing someone in a closed room without even leaving the body is a classic. Duanmu Huai really wants to see how many cases Conan can handle if he comes to such a place.

But Duanmu Huai was sure that Meijia was not dead, because he could sense that his pendant was still working. If Meijia was attacked by something, then the body lying here could only be the corpse of that thing.

But she is gone now... Well, at least she is fine. However, Sha Jiuye and Huang Mao were not as calm as Duanmu Huai. After they found out that Meijia was missing, they were extremely anxious and kept turning around. Duanmu Huai couldn't stand it anymore, so he stopped them.

"Okay, now that no one is here, let's go back first and analyze the specific situation in detail later."

"All right………"

Although the two were also very anxious, they also knew that it was useless to be anxious here, so they had to suppress their uneasy feelings, followed Duanmu Huai out of the room and returned to the corridor.

However, when the three of them crawled out of the gap in the iron gate, they found that there were only the hot girl and the boy with glasses, but the gangster was gone.

"Ah, that fool?"

When the yellow-haired man asked his hot girlfriend curiously, the latter curled her lips in disdain.

"After you went in, the dog he raised got scared and broke free from its collar and ran away, so he turned around to look for the dog. Could that dog be his wife? She's so precious to him, right?"

"Never mind him, that guy is like that."

The yellow-haired man had obviously expected that the gangster was unreliable, and he scratched his hair in dissatisfaction.

"Forget it, it's not important now. What's important is that Mika is missing!"

"Eh? No way? Is the little sister really missing? I saw her go in with my own eyes yesterday."

The hot girl was also a little surprised.

"Is there a secret passage? Or a secret room? I remember some movies had plots like this..."

"Maybe, maybe not, who knows, but no matter what, Mika is missing... Damn it!"

Having said that, the yellow-haired man suddenly became furious, grabbed the boy with glasses by the collar and pulled him up.

"If it weren't for that woman you brought with you, you bastard, this wouldn't have happened! You bastard! How has Mika wronged you that you had to cause trouble on her birthday?"

"I, I didn't mean it!"

At this moment, the boy with glasses was struggling desperately to defend himself.

"I want to investigate the truth of this ritual for Meijia's sake..."

"Fuck you!"

Before the boy with glasses could finish his words, he was punched in the face by the yellow-haired man and was knocked flying.

"You want to investigate the ritual, why don't you do it on your birthday? What's the matter? Mika is nice to you, so you think she's easy to bully, right? I just can't stand you, a loser and an idiot! Go die if you have the guts!"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai also rolled his eyes. Just like what Huangmao said, these glasses are really useless. If you want to investigate the truth, you can do it on your own birthday. In the end, you want to investigate, but you are afraid of violating the ritual and dying, so you let others suffer for you... You are really a waste.

Well, why not just find an opportunity to kill him.

"What do we do now, man?"

Huangmao was too lazy to waste time on that loser, so he turned around and looked at Duanmu Huai and asked directly.

When Duanmu Huai heard Huangmao's question, he was also stunned.

"you ask me?"

  Brother, this is your Baifan family's ceremony. You ask me? Who should I ask?

"Why……………"

Seeing Duanmu Huai looking at him with a speechless expression, Huangmao knew what he was thinking and could only smile bitterly.

"Although it is a ceremony of the Baifan family, all we know are those three strange rules. We don't know anything else. If you want to ask why we have these rules and when they started, we don't know either. Maybe only Grandma Sanchuan knows, but... we can't find her now."

“………………Sakuya, what do you think?”

Duanmu Huai was also speechless in the face of Huangmao's answer. He was not used to using his brain, so Duanmu Huai decisively looked at the external humanoid circuit of his brain in this world—Sha Jiuye.

"Um……………"

In response to Duanmu Huai's question, Sha Jiuye was silent for a moment.

"Let's go to Miss Saeki's room first. A supernatural enthusiast like her must have collected a lot of information. If she came here to investigate the rituals of the Shiraho family, she would not be without any preparation. I think she should bring some information on this."

  It sounds reasonable?

"Then let's go take a look first."

Duanmu Huai had nothing to say about Sha Jiuye's proposal, so the group went to the guest rooms on the west side again. There were six guest rooms in total, Duanmu Huai and Sha Jiuye each had one, Huangmao and the hottie shared one, Glasses and the deceased each had one, and the social man and his dog shared one.

The dead girl lived in the guest room next to Sha Jiuye, and of course the door was locked, but...

"Click it."

Seeing Duanmu Huai taking down the door again, everyone remained calm.

After all, they don't have time to look for the keys now.

The girl's room was very tidy, and there was nothing messy about. There was only a schoolbag on the table. Duanmu Huai remembered that when he met them yesterday, the girl was carrying a schoolbag. Now it seemed that the things should be in it.

Duanmu Huai and Huangmao were not good at it, so Sha Jiuye went forward to open the schoolbag and carefully searched the contents. They were basically some women's products, including spare clothes and makeup boxes, and then...

"found it."

Soon, Sha Jiuye took out a notebook from the interlayer of her schoolbag and opened it. She saw that the notebook was filled with various newspaper clippings, most of which were reports of mysterious disappearances, strange deaths, etc. It was obvious that she was really good at this. It seemed that Sha Jiuye was right. If she wanted to find clues, she might have to start from the intelligence held by these outsiders.

Although the notebook was very thick, Sha Jiuye did not spend too much time searching it - because the victim had thoughtfully put a bookmark in his notebook. Therefore, when Sha Jiuye opened the notebook, a line of information immediately appeared in front of everyone.

However, this information surprised everyone.

“……………Secret treasure?”

(End of this chapter)