Reasoning Notes

Chapter 55 Reasoning Notes 2: The Murder of the Fox Demon (14)
Large and small streams of water flowed down from the mountain, entraining yellow soil.The mountain road into the village became very muddy, and the mud splashed by bicycles stained their trousers.But everyone couldn't take care of it anymore, and they were all thinking about rushing to Daicao Village as soon as possible.

Even though the Doctor's horse was behind him, An Xiaobao rode very fast and led the way, but it was Uncle Meng Jin who fell behind.The drizzle drenched everyone's hair and clothes. The Doctor immediately wiped the rainwater from his head, blinked his eyes, and looked up the mountain.Suddenly, her eyes widened—the entire hillside was moving, and rain, cement, soil, sand, and rocks rushed down one after another.

Mudslide!
Doctor Ma hurriedly tore open his throat and shouted: "Landslide! Run!"

The whole world suddenly collapsed, and a whole hillside roared and rushed down, like a hungry beast, opened its bloody mouth towards the people on the mountain road...

It rained for a long time and didn't stop until evening.

The air after the rain was particularly fresh, but it also washed away all the clues left by the waterwheel site.Water dripped from the eaves, and the waterwheel could be seen in the distance from the inn, and it was now spinning again, and the corpses beside the waterwheel had been removed.

I turned around and confirmed the time again: six o'clock.An Xiaobao should have come back a long time ago, was it delayed by the rain, or was there some accident on the way?Anxiety has always lingered in my heart.

I walked out of the room and looked at the first room on the left on the first floor in the corridor, which was the guest room where the hooded monster lived.He stayed in the room and never came out.The windows were tightly covered by curtains, and no one knew what he was doing in the house.He has always maintained that sense of mystery full of oppression.In addition to this guy being suspicious, the boy named Qi Mu is also suspicious.Unfortunately, he actually lives next door to me.The rooms of Huang Wanwan and Mu Xiao are adjacent, as are the rooms of Xia Zaoan and Cheng Meini.Those of us living on the second floor, together with the hooded monsters living on the first floor, constitute all the guests of the hotel.

I was meditating when I suddenly heard someone behind me saying hello: "Hi."

Looking back, Qi Mu was standing behind.He approached me, with a radiant smile on his face, and he asked bluntly: "Are you here for the fox demon's business?"

I pursed my lips and smiled: "Yes. What about you, also for the fox demon?"

"Well, I'm looking for material for a suspense magazine. I rushed here when I heard the news of the resurrection of the fox demon here."

"Have you found any valuable information?"

"I don't dare to say whether this... is worthwhile. However, I think the hooded man you noticed is indeed suspicious."

"Oh?"

"I saw him sneaking out of the fox demon's mansion several times."

This shows that there is indeed a connection between the hooded monster and the fox demon.I continued to ask: "You have been here for so long, have you ever seen the magic of the fox demon?"

"Of course!" His answer without hesitation surprised me.Then he spoke of the spell he had seen, much like what I had heard before.I couldn't help interrupting him: "Don't you think it's a trick to deceive people?"

"Haha." Qi Mu laughed heartily, "Of course I doubted it. However, I couldn't find the flaws in it. If the fox demon is really deceiving people, then her tricks are indeed clever enough to make everyone They were all lied to. Besides, didn’t you guys see the magic of the fox demon this afternoon? I heard people say that she used something like ‘thousands of miles to kill’.”

"That's not a spell, but a trick to kill people." I said quickly.

Qi Mu immediately asked curiously: "The trick to murder? How to say?"

"This..." This is not a secret that can be revealed to outsiders.I was in distress when I suddenly saw a little girl waving at me outside the hotel door, it was Doudou.

"I'm sorry, we'll talk about this later." I said goodbye to Qi Mu as if I was saved, and ran downstairs.If I can look back at this moment, I can find that the handsome boy behind him suddenly exudes a cold breath, the smile on his face disappears bit by bit, and all the muscle lines become cold.

I ran to the door of the hotel: "Doudou, what's the matter?"

"Big brother!" Doudou blinked her big grape-like eyes, "My grandpa has something to tell you."

"Huh?" I wondered what the village chief wanted to say to me.

"It's about today's murder case. Big brother, come with me." Doudou took me with her little hand, and we quickly came to her yard.

"Where are your father and mother?" I asked.

"They went out to work, and they don't come home until the Spring Festival every year. I have been living with my grandfather." Doudou said and pulled me into the house.The furnishings in the room are similar to those of most rural houses. Doudou called grandpa a few times, but the answering voice came from outside the house.

Doudou ran to the window: "Grandpa, big brother is here."

I hurried over and asked, "Village Chief, what do you want to tell me?"

In the small vegetable field outside the house, the village chief is bending over and picking vegetables slowly.Since he was carrying my back, I still didn't see his face.He said in a slow tone: "Son, I have heard about the murder case this afternoon." Then, he coughed twice, patted his back, and continued, "I think, I know how the murderer avoided it." Someone else transported the body to the water tanker."

"Oh?" My interest suddenly rose, "How is it?" Although I already knew the answer, I was still full of curiosity about it.

"It's a waterway!" The village chief said in a low voice and forcefully. "The murderer used the small river to transport the body to the waterwheel. In this way, it's not surprising that others didn't see the murderer appear."

Exactly the same as Edison's reasoning. "Village chief, you are so sharp, the reasoning is the same as my friend's reasoning." I blurted out.

The village head seemed to be taken aback, straightened his back, but never looked back, he said in a deep voice, "It seems that your friend is a powerful character."

In fact, the village chief, you are also a formidable character.I boldly asked: "Village chief, why don't you believe that the fox is real? Many villagers here believe that the fox is real. Have you never seen the magic of the fox?"

"No, I have." The village head replied.

"Then you must have seen through her tricks. Tell me, what are her tricks like?" I asked impatiently.The village chief gave me an unexpected answer: "My child, you are wrong, the fox demon is real."

"But... you obviously don't believe it..." Things turned around, and I was at a loss for a moment.

"It's not that I don't believe it." The village chief seemed to be sighing, and mustered up the courage to say the following words, "I just can't believe it. People who obviously died came back to life..."

"However, this may be a trap. Maybe the girl who claims to be a fox demon is a fake."

"No, it's true! That girl is who she was four years ago!" The village head said with absolute certainty.

"How can you be so sure, village chief?"

"Because those six students came to live in my hotel back then, of course I remember, and I will not mistake them! Although I am old, my brain has not degenerated."

"Your hotel?" I looked around the house suspiciously.

This is just an ordinary farmhouse, how can it be called a hotel?

The village chief seemed to see my doubts, and explained: "I originally opened the hotel where you are staying."

"Ah!" It turned out to be like this.

"After that incident, Lao Zhang bought my hotel."

Well, this is another interesting thing.However, what the village chief said afterwards made the matter even more interesting.He said: "That old Zhang is very strange. He used to be just an idle guy, and he had to rely on other people's support for his daily life, but one day four years ago, he seemed to have suddenly become rich, and he was able to sell my money to me. Bought the hotel, and spent a lot of money to renovate it to what it is now..."

Hearing him say that is indeed suspicious.

The village chief bent down again to pick vegetables.His last sentence seemed to be intended for me: "Son, you have to be careful with that old Zhang."

My nerves tensed up. Could it be that Lao Zhang was related to the murder four years ago?
Just then, someone called me.I turned my head and saw Doctor's horse standing not far away.

I walked over in surprise: "Doctor Ma, why are you here? Didn't you come here just to explain?"

"Well, I came early. I came here with Uncle Meng Jin, but when I arrived at the nearby police station, people from Daicao Village came to call the police."

That was An Xiaobao.I was also relieved to know that he came back safe and sound.

"What about Uncle Meng Jin?" I looked behind her.

So Doctor Ma told the story of their adventures on the road from beginning to end.It turned out that they encountered a landslide on the way here, but fortunately, she and An Xiaobao were the first to react, so they escaped.Police Officer Li who came with them was splashed with mud, but fortunately he was not injured except for a little bit of embarrassment.Uncle Meng Jin was too far behind and was stopped outside the village, so he has now returned to the city to find support.

I wiped my sweat for them: "It's a good thing no one got hurt!" That's the truth.

Immediately, I suddenly realized that the mountain road was closed, which meant that the Cao Cao Village had been completely isolated from the outside world and became a huge secret room.Even telephones and mobile phones don't work here, if there is another murder case, they can only sit and wait for death!

"I just checked the corpse." Doctor Ma told me, "It is preliminarily inferred that the death time of the corpse was five or six hours ago, that is, between twelve o'clock and two o'clock at noon today."

(End of this chapter)