Xu Huanting changed color when she heard this, and trembled and pointed to the bookshelf behind the writing desk in the huge study and said: "At that time, I came to the study and wanted to tidy up a little, and I saw that the books behind the writing desk were arranged unevenly, so I took out a few books, and I saw a nose behind the bookshelf. I pulled out the other books and finally saw that it was another Pinocchio doll! I was terrified and ran away. So, Pinocchio should still be there now! ”

Huo Xiake walked behind the desk, she glanced at it slightly, and didn't see Pinocchio on the shelf, only to see that there were a few books missing from the shelf, and the other books lost their support and overturned one after another.

After a moment's thought, she reached out and pushed the upside-down book away, and immediately saw a doll lying on its side behind the book.

The doll was about the size of a palm, wore a yellow hat, and had a long nose on its face, which was immediately recognizable to Pinocchio.

Xu Huanting was so frightened that she shrank behind Hua Jiao.

Huo Xiake was fearless, took Pinocchio out, and pinched it in his hand to look at it. This doll is generally made, a typical stall goods, and you can buy twenty pieces for 100 yuan in the online store and free shipping.

Pinocchio held a note in his right hand, Huo Xiake pulled it out and looked at it, it read: "I'm going home again." ”

The text is printed.

Xu Huanting trembled and pointed at Pinocchio and said, "Look, this Pinocchio is a ghost, no matter how I throw it away, it will come back by itself." Detective Huo, can you stop it? ”

Huo Xiake casually put aside Pinocchio and caught it, as if he was playing with an ordinary doll, not a terrifying thing, and said, "Little meaning." Miss Xu, it's not convenient to talk here, let's go up to the living room and sit down. ”

"Okay."

The three of them went up to the living room and looked at the sofa, because there had been no one for several days, and it was a bit dusty.

Xu Huanting said: "Otherwise, let's go outside, I know there is a good tea room nearby." ”

Huo Xiake shook his head and said, "No, no, we have to stay here." Actually, it's okay to stand and chat. ”

Xu Huanting was overjoyed and said, "Detective Huo, are you going to start exorcism?" ”

Huo Xiake smiled: "First of all, let's be clear, there are no supernatural things in the world, and there will be no dolls that are lost, destroyed, and will come back by themselves. ”

Xu Huanting was dumbfounded for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "How is that possible, I saw Pinocchio come back with my own eyes." ”

Huo Xiake asked, "Are you sure it's your own eyes?" ”

Xu Huanting was stunned for a moment, realized that the word "own eyes" had a strong ambiguity, and hurriedly added: "Even if I hadn't seen Pinocchio running into my house on two small short legs, after I threw away and burned Pinocchio, I found it again, twice in a row!" This is an indisputable fact! ”

Huo Xiake questioned again: "Can you guarantee that the three times you saw Pinocchio, it was all the same?" ”

Xu Huanting suddenly became dazed and muttered to herself, "I don't understand what you mean." ”

Huo Xiake shouted: "It's very simple, the Pinocchio you saw three times are three different dolls. ”

Xu Huanting was startled and shouted, "Impossible! If the Pinocchio I see three times is not the same, but three, what is going on? The first one, I threw it in the garbage dump and carried it away; The second, I set fire to it, leaving only ashes. But there is a third ...... I understood that someone was deliberately scaring me, sneaking in and hiding Pinocchio while I was not at home, and I slipped in and hid another one when I found one. Damn, which bad guy is scaring me! ”

Hua Jiao said: "I see that there is surveillance everywhere here, if you don't ask the property, maybe you can find a hateful guy." ”

Huo Xiake waved his hand and said, "No need, looking for a property can't ask for results, and no one sneaks in Spinoccio when Miss Xu is not at home." ”

Xu Huanting asked puzzledly, "How did that Pinocchio get in?" ”

Huo Xiake unveiled the answer: "It's very simple, because before you buy this small western-style building, all Pinocchio has already been placed in the corresponding position." ”

Xu Huanting was dumbfounded, and Hua Jiao was also stunned, unable to understand.

Huo Xiake explained: "Looking back, the first Pinocchio is placed in the living room, and you can see it when you open the door, and it is clear at a glance. The second Pinocchio is placed at the bottom of the bed, although it is relatively hidden, but because the bed is a piece of furniture that people often use, there is a high probability of finding it. The third Pinocchio is placed on a bookshelf behind the desk in the study, a place full of unsalable books, not a place where people frequent, and the probability of finding them is relatively low. With all that said, did you find any patterns? ”

The stupid Xu Huanting was still stunned, Hua Jiao immediately woke up and said: "The place where Pinocchio is hidden is ranked from easy to difficult according to the degree of difficulty of discovery. ”

Xu Huanting suddenly realized and said: "I see, as long as Pinocchio is hidden in advance, I will find it one by one from easy to difficult." ”

Huo Xiake said: "And every Pinocchio has been carefully set up with psychological tricks. The first Pinocchio was dirty, out of place in the delicate living room, and when people saw it, their first thought was to throw it away, and no one would want to put it away. ”

Xu Huanting nodded.

"The second Pinocchio was misled with a note saying 'I'm home'. Under normal circumstances, when people see this Pinocchio, they will not associate it with the previous one and think it is another one. But the note of 'I'm home' gives a strong psychological hint that forcibly connects with the first, making one think that this is not the second Pinocchio, but the first, which comes alive and goes home! ”

Xu Huanting's eyes widened wider and wider.

"The third Pinocchio, also with a note, uses the phrase 'I'm home again', again implying that it is the second time it is coming back, not the third Pinocchio."

Hua Jiao asked Huo Xiake curiously: "How did you see that the Pinocchio you saw three times was not the same?" ”

Huo Xiake replied: "According to common sense, since the first Pinocchio was thrown away and the second was burned, it is unlikely that they are the same. ”

Hua Jiao thoughtfully, this common sense is very simple, the logical chain is very clear, but the basis must be a strong materialist view, if you fall into the superstition of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, it is unlikely to be cracked.

He asked, "Why didn't Pinocchio be hidden again and again, but all of them beforehand?" ”

Huo Xiake said: "As for why I think these Pinocchio didn't come in again and again, but hid them all at once in advance? There are two reasons: the first is the security measures outside, I don't think that the property company that has taken hundreds of thousands of property fees will be so unprofessional, and put the infiltrators in again and again, only to achieve a one-time release. As for the second reason? ”