Huo Xiake didn't care, and asked rhetorically: "You mean, just one Pinocchio scared you like this?" ”

"yes, aren't you afraid?" Xu Huanting asked curiously with wide eyes.

Hua Jiao, who was busy with the work of the barista and the manservant, resumed his function as an assistant, sat next to Huo Xiake and listened, and at this time told Xu Huanting seriously: "It's not terrible at all, if you understand the history of the villa we live in now, you will know the reason." ”

Xu Huanting was really fooled and asked, "Why?" ”

Hua Jiao described vividly: "This villa is a well-known murderous mansion, and there have been deaths, all of them are murders, and there is more than one. On the terrace on the second floor, a woman's head was smashed, and her white brain slurred all over the ground; There was a man in the bathtub in the bathroom who had drowned alive, and his face had turned black. The bedroom where I lived was also dead, strangled to death, and I was lying on the bed, and my tongue was dragged so long! By the way, on the sofa you are sitting on, there is a person who was stabbed to death on the sofa, and he died so miserably that his intestines flowed out! ”

Xu Huanting screamed and jumped up.

Huo Xiake said with a smile: "Okay, Hua Jiao, I didn't expect you to be so black-bellied, you don't need to scare other girls." ”

Xu Huanting asked cautiously, "Is it really true?" ”

"Of course it's true!" Huo Xiake replied affirmatively, "If it weren't for the murderous mansion, do you think I would be able to afford this kind of villa like you eldest lady?" ”

Xu Huanting was calm, her eyes were full of stars, and she said: "I really didn't find the wrong person, the person who can live in this kind of murderous house must not be powerful, exorcism and evil spirits, not to mention Pinocchio." ”

Huo Xiake said: "Hearing is false, seeing is believing, Miss Xu, please take us to your small western-style building, is it okay?" ”

"Of course, welcome to the evil spirits!"

Xu Huanting went out and jumped into her small sports car, while Huo Xiake got into an off-road vehicle driven by part-time driver Hua Jiao as usual, with the front car leading the way and the rear car following, and the two cars drove from the suburbs to the city one after the other. At first, from the quiet suburbs to the bustling city center, but see the high-rise buildings one after another, gradually the prosperity faded, but back to quiet, the narrow road on both sides are tall and old plane trees, covering the sky and the sun, blocking the scorching heat of early summer, hiding in which there are a hundred years of old houses, indescribable vicissitudes.

Finally, the little sports car drove to a small courtyard with low walls, and inside there was a delicate and small western-style building.

Huo Xiake glanced at it, gasped, and asked Hua Jiao: "This is almost the most core area of Shanghai, right?" Small western-style buildings have to start with tens of millions. The little girl's family surnamed Xu is really rich! ”

Hua Jiao said lightly: "No, it should only be said that it is average, because I don't know or hear of her." ”

Huo Xiake glanced at Hua Jiao again, and said stupidly: "Staying with you super tyrants with tens of billions or hundreds of billions of assets all day long, my self-confidence is about to be blown away." ”

Hua Jiao parked the car, Huo Xiake came down, and carefully looked at the building in front of him.

The outside is surrounded by a fence, low enough to step over the wall, but there are a lot of surveillances around the wall, and the security measures are very in place.

Xu Huanting opened the gate of the wall, which had no protection at all, and walked in with the two of them. Before the small western-style building, there was a small garden of less than thirty square meters, small but delicate, full of many low plants, and a small pond was dug on the east side, where goldfish and lotus flowers were raised.

Xu Huanting gritted her teeth and took out the key to open the door of the small western-style building. With a squeak, the door was pushed open, and Xu Huanting took a step back as if she had seen a ghost, not daring to go in.

Huo Xiake and Hua Jiao glanced at each other and shook their heads together.

Huo Xiake walked in front of Xu Huanting, probed into the small western-style building, saw that it was an elegant living room, and asked, "Did you see the first Pinocchio on the floor of the living room?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Xu Huanting nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"Take us to see where the second Pinocchio was discovered." Huo Xiake said casually.

glanced back at Xu Huanting, who was cowering, patted her chest and said, "Don't be afraid, with me, ghosts and gods are unscrupulous." ”

The timid Xu Huanting hesitated and nodded, but she never refused to walk in front, Huo Xiake had no choice but to walk ahead of her, and under Xu Huanting's guidance, she came to the master bedroom on the second floor.

The master bedroom is not small, elegantly decorated, facing south, with a balcony and a huge floor-to-ceiling window, which has an eerie atmosphere despite the bright sunlight letting in.

Xu Huanting stood at the door and cautiously pointed to the bottom of the bed and said, "I found the second Pinocchio there." ”

Huo Xiake stared at the bed, this is a traditional bed, the bottom of the bed is not open, but semi-sunken, and the gap between the floor and the edge of the bed is only about ten centimeters.

Huo Xiake took out a pocket flashlight and went to the bottom of the bed to check. The bottom of the bed was not easy to clean, with a thick layer of dust, but there was a relatively clean mark in the corner, which should have been left by Pinocchio sitting here. In addition, there is also a trail of dragging, which should have been left by Xu Huanting when she dragged it out.

When Huo Xiake got up, Xu Huanting asked expectantly: "How is it, Detective Huo, have you found any traces of the ghost?" ”

Huo Xiake shook his head and said, "Take us to the place where the third Pinocchio was discovered." ”

Xu Huanting was slightly disappointed, but she also knew that "exorcism and evil spirits" could not be like in the movie, and they caught the evil things all at once, so they had to have the effort to investigate, so they took them to the study.

To Huo Xiake and Hua Jiao's surprise, the study was not near the bedroom on the second floor, but in the basement. And the study is not a small room with a desk and a few books, it occupies the entire basement, and the walls on all four sides are lined with bookshelves, densely packed with books of all kinds, seemingly no less than 100,000 books.

Huo Xiake gasped and asked Xu Huanting, "These books are yours?" ”

Xu Huanting nodded and said, "It's an addition to buying a small western-style building, and now it belongs to me." ”

Hua Jiao sighed: "Whether it is material or spiritual, it is a huge wealth. ”

Xu Huanting said with a rare smile: "Actually, the former owner of the small western-style building was a bookseller, and he piled up all the unsalable books in the basement, and in order to decorate the façade, he deliberately built the basement into a study. I've flipped through these books, and they're worthless. ”

Huo Xiake approached the bookshelf and found a few books at random, all of which were worthless books such as chicken soup for the soul.

She sighed and asked, "Where was the third Pinocchio found?" ”