【013】Cooking smoke
The woman was trapped in the secret room, everyone else was missing, but she was not.
Herein lies the question, why is she not missing?
There are two possibilities that Zhang Sen can think of, one is that she can't leave at all, and the other is that she is mentally abnormal so she is not affected by some kind of force.
Compared with the latter, Zhang Sen felt that the former was more likely, after all, she may not be the only mentally abnormal person on this island, but if you want to confirm the former, you still need to go to a place, maybe not everyone is missing.
"You watch here, I'll come when I go." Zhang Sen said to Einstein.
Einstein immediately quit and said hurriedly: "I'll go too, you can't let me be with her, I feel a little crazy." ”
This woman has a weird smile on her face, her eyes are staring straight at people, and the strange situation that has happened on this island is indeed easy to send chills down the back.
Zhang Sen nodded and said, "Then let's go together, lock her here for the time being, and lock the door." ”
"Good!" Einstein immediately nodded in agreement.
The two locked the door and left the tavern, and Zhang Sen asked directly, "Is there a dungeon on Lighthouse Island?" ”
"Prison Facility?" Einstein immediately asked.
Zhang Sen nodded and said, "Yes, it's a place to hold criminals." ”
"I remember that there seems to be, but Beacon Island has a large floating population, and it is estimated that the prison center is not of much use, and it should be built in a relatively remote place." Einstein replied.
Zhang Sen said lightly: "I want to go and see." ”
"Then I'll think about it." Albert Einstein said immediately.
In the end, Einstein's tofu brain did not remember the location of the captivity......
The two had no choice but to return to the lighthouse to find a map of Lighthouse Island from Einstein's bag, then determine the location of the prison center, and leave the lighthouse again to go to the prison center.
As Albert Einstein said, the prison was located in the middle of nowhere, on top of a cliff, with a small house in the middle of nowhere.
When the two arrived at the prison center, Zhang Sen pushed open the door of the prison center, only to see two decomposed corpses locked in chains, estimated to have been dead for several days.
"You didn't come here when you went to the island?" Zhang Sen looked at Einstein and asked directly.
Albert Einstein shook his head and said, "No, this place is too remote for most people to remember." ”
"What do you think of now?" Zhang Sen pointed to the corpse, and then asked.
Einstein frowned and said, "It's a little stinky, the two of them have been dead for several days, and it looks like they are starving to death, it's really pitiful." ”
"Gone? That's it? Zhang Sen resisted the desire to complain and asked.
Einstein looked at Zhang Sen blankly and asked, "Are there any other big discoveries?" ”
"Think about it, the woman found in the secret room, and these two criminals, why didn't they disappear?" Zhang Sen looked at Einstein and pointed out directly.
Einstein was stunned for a moment, and then said loudly: "yes, why didn't they disappear?" ”
"Because they can't go!" Zhang Sen pointed to the chains on the hands of these two corpses.
Einstein is actually not stupid, strictly speaking, he just has no common sense, after all, he was originally the son of a rich family, and the software in his head is not professional at all.
Now he also realized the real problem, everyone else has disappeared, but three people who have been restricted from movement have stayed, which shows that those who left are likely to leave spontaneously, so the question is, why did those people leave on their own?
"Let's go back and see if we can find a clue from the woman." Zhang Sen said at this time.
Einstein nodded and hurriedly followed, the two corpses were terrible to look at, and he didn't want to stay for a moment.
"Mr. Hemerway, what do you think of this...... What is the truth? Einstein asked as he walked.
Zhang Sen walked in front and said lightly: "I can't be sure yet, but it should be some kind of mind control weird or the work of a dieter, he controls everyone, and then lets these people follow it out of here, there is only so much I can think of." ”
He had a feeling that he was one step away from the truth.
The two returned to the tavern, and then went to the room where the woman was, and the woman was still smirking at the sight of the two of them spreading their legs.
"Mr. Hemerway, do you think she can communicate like this?" Einstein frowned and looked back at Zhang Sendao.
Zhang Sen nodded and said, "No problem, have you ever heard of hypnosis?" ”
"Hypnosis, you mean the kind of psychological adjustment surgery that psychiatrists use?" Albert Einstein said immediately.
Zhang Sen nodded and said, "Almost, I'll try to use hypnotism on her next, maybe I can know something." ”
"Then I'll see." Albert Einstein said.
Zhang Sen took out the pocket watch he had gotten from the sea before, walked up to the woman and sat down, and said, "Look here." ”
He held the pocket watch and shook it slowly, the problem was that the woman's eyes were always looking at his face, and his attention did not shift to the pocket watch, he thought about it and adjusted the position of the pocket watch, the movement became more gentle, and the mouth made a regular slight sound.
"Gently...... You close your eyes. ”
Zhang Sen's voice said softly at this time, and at the same time, his hand gently brushed away the woman's hair, so that her ears were exposed, and her fingers rubbed gently against her ears, making a sound that matched her heartbeat.
Da Da Da ......
The woman closed her eyes completely, and Zhang Sen said with a smile: "You have not been imprisoned, you can speak, tell me, what is your name?" ”
"My name is Ian Durrens Doyle." The woman replied in a slightly hoarse voice.
Zhang Sen nodded and said, "Where are you from?" ”
"I'm from Riessershire, the Duchy of Baojin." Ian replied.
Zhang Sen continued to ask, "Why did you come to Lighthouse Island?" ”
"I came to look for my uncle Hule, but I didn't find him, and I was drugged by the tavern manager......" Ian said, and his whole body began to tremble.
Zhang Sen hurriedly reassured: "It's okay, the bad guys have been duly punished, can you tell me, did anything special happen a few days ago?" ”
"Something special?" Ian's eyes were closed, his brow furrowed slightly.
Zhang Sen continued: "It's something completely different from the past. ”
"I had a dream, I dreamed of my mom and dad, they beckoned to me, I wanted to follow, but there were two big chains, it imprisoned me, I couldn't go...... Whining. Ian gradually became emotional as he spoke, and suddenly broke free from Zhang Sen's hypnosis, and suddenly burst into tears.
Zhang Sen tried to appease her, but nothing he said had any effect.
Later, Ian died.
After a loud cry, she seemed tired and lay in bed, completely out of breath.
Zhang Sen and Einstein were a little silent, and finally buried the poor woman together.
"If the beast manager of the tavern is still alive, I must find him and kill him with one shot." Einstein said angrily as he returned to the lighthouse.
Zhang Sen frowned and said, "There is only one step left before the truth, where have all the people on the island gone?" ”
"These people left spontaneously?" Albert Einstein asked.
Zhang Sen nodded and said: "It should be that he fell into some kind of special dream, and then was lured to leave, the question is that the port ships are all there, how did they leave?" ”
"How hard is that? For example, the beach on the back does not allow the boat to get close, but you don't have to come from the port if you want to come over. Einstein said immediately.
Zhang Sen nodded and said, "That's true, the question is what about footprints?" ”
"There may have been a storm before we came, and what traces are not to be washed by a storm." Albert Einstein said directly.
Zhang Sen agreed with this statement and nodded: "Then there is only one question left, what will take away these people?" ”
"Of course it's weird." Albert Einstein said.
Zhang Sen stopped, frowned, and said: "Things seem to have returned to square one, although we already know how the people on the island left, or maybe how they left, the problem is that we still have no way to get the murderer." ”
"What's so strange about this, there are many homicides, even if you know how the deceased died, you can't find the murderer." Einstein experienced Ian's death, and his IQ seemed to rise.
Zhang Sen shook his head and said, "No, we missed a little, what about the crockpot?" ”
"......, well, looks like we'll have to keep looking." Einstein thought for a moment and agreed.
The next day, when the rain was heavy, the two looked at the muddy road outside the lighthouse, so they had no intention of going out, and they would sit on the edge of the lighthouse, press their hands on the railing, and look at the sea and chat.
"My full name is Einstein, my father is the right-hand man of the Grand Duke of Tulip, in charge of managing the Tulip Chamber of Commerce, so I have not been short of money since I was a child, I used to think that there is nothing that money can't buy, until one day, my mother died because of something, I wanted to know the truth, but I found that no matter how much money I spent, I couldn't buy some hidden truth, so I became obsessed with reasoning, and then after a senior, I knew the strange ......" Einstein looked at the clouds in the distance and said to himself.
Zhang Sen didn't talk, but stared at the sea in the distance, and his mind was completely concentrated.
Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed from the depths of the sea, and the whole sea seemed to be dyed with ink, but in an instant, it disappeared again.
Einstein was obviously caught in his own world, chattering about his own things, Zhang Sen was completely left and right, and he knew that what had just flashed must be some kind of strangeness, and it belonged to a very powerful type.
"This mission ......"
Zhang Sen thought of the task he had undertaken, and felt that he might be a little reckless, if it was really that fleeting black shadow, then he really had no way at all.
But at this moment, a small villa in the distance suddenly rose clouds, and the clouds and smoke rose slowly, looking a little like the smoke of ordinary people's cooking.
The question is, where do ordinary people come from on the island?