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The old house and the new house were only a dozen meters apart, connected by a corridor that resembled a sky bridge, and they witnessed the zombies and opened fire not far below, and the noise of the pistol easily alerted several guests in the new house through the rain.

Charles ran with a revolver in his hand and Lady Green, and in a hurry they didn't even have a poncho.

Ann pointed to look in their direction thoughtfully, and the four of them quickly became drenched in soup, and when they got closer, they stood still, and Hamill asked:

"What's going on? Who is it? Why shoot? ”

"Yes, that's right, we've met a ghost"

The first to wake up from the panic was the old butler, who said with some trepidation.

"Ghosts?"

The faces of the four of them are full of incredulity, but now in the 20th century, how can such an unscientific thing as ghosts really exist?

"It's true! He was just there," the old butler pointed to the shattered window, "he is not afraid of bullets, Mr. An and Mr. Tu fired several shots to no avail, poor Mary has been killed by the ghost, in the pantry under the kitchen, he also cut off his master's head and soaked it in the water tank, oh God"

The old house in the mountains, the place where there is no shop in front of the village and behind it, when you hear the word ghost, you will inevitably unfold some not-so-beautiful fantasies.

The remaining three swallowed their saliva, even if their three views could not accept the fact that there were ghosts in this world, they had to feel frightened, because the old butler's words were too realistic.

"Is the legend true?"

"You know the legend too?"

Ann asked Charles curiously.

"Hmm... Ah, I do know something, before I came here, my friend jokingly told me not to get caught by ghosts, or you will become ghosts, I always thought it was just a joke......"

"We—can we get out of this ...... first?"

Hamill looked terrified, standing at the outskirts of the crowd, as if on the lookout for something.

The old house in the middle of the night is indeed not very comfortable, and when I think of something incomprehensible hidden in the darkness, several NPCs present will inevitably tremble.

"By the way," Ann pointed at the few people around him, "what about Mr. Monston?" ”

"Monston went to the toilet before hearing the gun......"

Mrs. Green replied, and the more she spoke, the more she felt that something was wrong, and when she saw Ann's serious face, she immediately understood, and ran towards the new house like crazy, and the rest of the people were also vaguely aware of something, and quickly followed behind Mrs. Green.

Hearing such a dense gunfire, most people would come out to check what was going on, and after so long, Munston was still nowhere to be seen, I'm afraid it was already ......

"Monston! Are you there, Monston? I'm Fanny."

Mrs. Green banged vigorously on the toilet door, but there was no response from behind the door.

"Mrs. Green, please get out of the way"

An Yizhi stepped forward and twisted the door lock, and found that it was locked inside.

"It's locked inside, butler, do you have the key?"

The housekeeper shook his head: "The toilet is never locked, and the key given to me by the master for safekeeping does not have a toilet"

"Let's knock the door open"

Charles suggests that, indeed, there is no better way to do it at the moment.

Tu Hongyu and Charles slammed the door with their shoulders, and after several consecutive hits, the door was finally opened.

Then they saw Monston, sitting on the toilet, his hands and feet trapped with duct tape, and a large amount of blood coming out of his neck.

"Monston!"

Mrs. Green, who may be calling her real name Fanny from now on, screamed and wanted to pounce, but was pulled by An Yizhi on the side:

"Don't go over, you'll spoil the scene, Mr. Hamill"

"Oh, okay"

Hamir paused for a moment, reacting that he wanted to ask himself to help test it.

Ann followed as he grabbed Munston's wrist, feeling as if there was still a slight pulsation, but soon the slight pulsation disappeared.

"The fatal wound was a wound in the neck, which cut the trachea, and Mr. Munston died of suffocation"

"Can you calculate the time of death?"

"Uh......"

As if he was a little unsure, Hammel said hesitantly:

"Mr. Monston was dead no more than 1 minute ago, and he seemed to have a little heartbeat when I checked it up"

That is, he died under the noses of the people.

"Murder in the Secret Room, have you found anything?"

Tu Hongyu whispered over and asked.

"I'm not sure, but why do you want to set it up as a secret room to kill?"

"yes, it doesn't seem necessary."

Munston's hands and feet were already trapped, which showed that he had already been subdued by the murderer, and the murderer didn't need to do anything more, just kill him.

Generally speaking, there are three main purposes for arranging a locked room to kill.

First, it is to disguise it as a suicide or an accident.

Second, it is to change the time of the victim's death in order to create an alibi to escape responsibility.

Third, the suspicious array was deployed to interfere with the search.

But it seems that none of the above three points are met.

Hands and feet are tied with duct tape This is obviously not a suicide, as for making an alibi, it is even more unnecessary to make an alibi, just now during this time, except for the old housekeeper who has been following An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu, everyone else has the time to commit crimes, considering the mental problems of the manservant, his possibility is the lowest.

It is even more impossible to talk about interfering with the search, because a discerning person can see at a glance what methods the murderer used.

The murder weapon has been found, and it is an extremely thin piano line.

The killer made a simple pulley mechanism that, once the door opened, tightened the piano wire, cutting Munston's neck. That's right, until just now Munston was alive.

The toilet window was open, and although it was a bit high and small, it was big enough for an adult to climb in and out, and it wasn't difficult to climb out as long as you stepped on Monston.

Ann pointed to finding some dirt and footprints on Monston's belly and head, further indicating that the other party had escaped through the toilet window.

Since the beginning of the plot, three people have died here, even if you don't count the maid Mary who was torn apart by the 'monster', there are already two people who have died under the arrangement of a murderer.

The murderer hiding in the crowd, the monster hiding in the shadows, what secrets are hidden in this mountain annex?

It's really getting more and more curious......

Ann thought to himself.

–‐‐——–‐‐——

Everyone gathers in the recreation room on the first floor of the new house, and this time the most unstable factor of Monston is dead, and everyone dares to make any more brain-dead proposals for each room, and everyone realizes that it is safest to stay together and monitor each other.

"Mrs. Green, I know you're grieving right now, but may I ask a few questions?"

Fanny was crying so sad that the others who watched thought she would faint from crying.

"Please say, Mr. Ann"

It took a long time to stop the tears, Fanny squeezed her throat and said.

"Did Mr. Monston say anything before he went to the bathroom?"

"Nothing special, at first I wanted to go to the toilet, because there was a murder, I didn't dare to go alone, so I asked Monston to accompany me, and when I came out, he said that his stomach was a little uncomfortable, let me go back first"

"Did you meet anyone on your way back to your room?"

"Yes, I've met Mr. Hamill and Mr. Charles."

Ran into both?

He looked at the two, and Hamil hastened to say:

"I went to the bar in the recreation room to get some drinks, and so did Mr. Charles, and I saw Mrs. Green when I returned to the room with the bottle."

Charles nodded in agreement, as if to say that Hamill was right.

An glanced at the wine rack not far away, and there were indeed two bottles of wine missing from it.

"Are you going straight back to your room after taking the wine?"

"Yes, until I heard the gunshots I ran out of the room, and I saw Charles standing downstairs in the hall with a gun and was about to go out, and he beckoned me to go with Mrs. Green to see what was going on."

If none of them were lying, all three would have had time to commit the crime, especially Fanny, who was the only one who had the last contact with the victim, and who probably used drugs or something like that to take control of Mungston and set up the traps, but the motive was ......

"Mrs. Green, may I ask a faux pas?"

"Excuse me, Mr. Ann Yizhi"

"Are you officially married to Mr. Munston?"

“……”

Fanny was silent for a moment, and then cried even more sadly:

"No, we didn't go to register"

Well, Fanny's suspicion was ruled out.

At first, Ann Yizhi thought that the motive was inheritance, and Monston was a rich man no matter how he said it, and the inheritance would definitely be given to his widow after his death, so Fanny was the most likely. After all, it is a very common drama for a young daughter-in-law to murder her older husband for the sake of inheritance.

But they are not married at all, which means that everything under Monston will be auctioned off by the government without an heir, and Fanny has no name, and she will not get anything.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why she cried so sadly......

In this way, the suspect was locked on Hamill, Charles and the cook Olive Three, in fact, in Ann Yizhi's opinion, Charles is the most suspicious, but he always feels as if there is something he has ignored, plus there is no evidence, Ann Yizhi does not dare to startle the snake.

Charles also has a gun in his hand, not to mention that he is still a veteran of the war, so he is really not sure to take him down because Tu Hongyu and An Yizhi are not well prepared.

There is another thing that goes around and around and goes back to that unavoidable question.

Motive for killing.

Even if it was all Charles's doing, why did he do it?

Ann Yizhi feels that his motive for killing seems to have something to do with the so-called truth in the main quest.

"I have something I want to investigate, you should be safer here," he said, and Ann pointed to the clock, which was almost 1 a.m.

The old butler said cooperatively:

"People will come here around 5~6 o'clock in the morning, and they will find out about the suspension bridge"

In other words, the rescue will arrive in 4~5 hours.

Nodding, An pointed and said:

"You hear it, you can get out of here just by holding on for a few more hours, so it's best not to wander around during this time"

The system prompt also rang again.

[Main quest update: additional time limit, remaining 4 hours and 37 minutes]

An Yizhi couldn't wait to give himself a mouthful, but his mother was cheap again......