Lu Ning tore off the torn clothes on her body, took out a set of identical clothes and put them on, then started Shadow Leap again and returned to the lake house, and returned to the bathroom through the trap door.
five minutes.
This isn't a very long time, but it's enough to make some people suspicious. Lu Ning washed her hands again. The demon transformation had been lifted. It was time to deal with some follow-up issues.
She walked out of the bathroom without any special expression on her face and asked Qiu Yiyun at the door: "Where is Zhu You?"
"She said she wanted to go outside and keep an eye on it. It should be right at the door."
"I called you here just so that the three of you could stare at each other." Lu Ning frowned, opened the small door leading to the side yard, and looked outside.
"Where are the people?"
"Eh? She...she should be squatting at the small window over there..."
"I didn't see anyone." Lu Ning told the truth. She didn't see Zhu You outside the house, only the cold wind blew stronger and stronger.
"Impossible! Wait a minute, could it be that..."
Before Qiu Yiyun finished speaking, a gunshot and the sound of breaking glass came from the other side of the house, which was the sound from the restaurant. Lu Ning hurriedly turned back and knocked on the toilet door: "Sally! Have you solved it? We have to return to the restaurant quickly!"
"What should we do? Who fired the shot? Lu Ning——"
Lu Ning kicked the door open, and of course there was no one inside.
"what happens!"
There was finally a shout in the side yard. Tachikawa Ryo, Sugiyama Rio and Inahara Ayano each ran out of the tool room holding a few pieces of wood, while Lu Ning and Qiu Yiyun immediately opened the door and let the three people in.
"We came here to use the bathroom, but Zhu You went outside to watch, and no one disappeared, and Sally was also missing inside." Lu Ningyan briefly described the current situation, "There were gunshots in the direction of the restaurant, but there was no chaos yet. It should be A little order has been preserved, we have to rush back now."
"Okay." Tachikawa nodded and stuffed the wood chips in his hand into Lu Ning's arms, "I will go first, please follow closely and don't get separated."
The five people ran back along the corridor quickly. On the way, they bumped into Fujii Yukine who turned back from the hot spring corridor.
"The light in the restaurant went out." Fujii Yukine said immediately after seeing the five people. "What I saw from the guest room was that first the glass broke after the gunshot, strong winds passed through the restaurant, and then thick smoke rose inside. Fog, all light went out.”
"How is that possible? Even if all the candles are extinguished, we still have oil lamps and flashlights!" Suiyama said in surprise.
"It's a demon, otherwise why would there be thick fog?" Lu Ning had already seen the fog rising from the restaurant, which was quickly spreading here. Tachikawa Ryo shouted "warning", and everyone was swallowed up by the fog.
This mist was obviously unusual. Lu Ning stretched out her hand flatly, but she couldn't see her palm. Then, the flashlight she held flashed twice and went out completely, and everything fell into darkness.
"Don't mess up your position!" Qianshan shouted from the other side of the thick fog, "Everyone is on alert! The demon has launched an attack! The people in the restaurant moved from the door to the yard! The people in the corridor followed the entrance and exited the door!"
Lu Ning groped for the wall in the direction in her memory, and then slowly moved towards the entrance. She soon left the dense fog area. The door had been opened. Fujii Yukine and Inahara Ayano were already standing outside the door, saying hello. As people ran out, Lu Ning, Tachikawa Ryo, Qiu Yiyun and Sugiyama Risu escaped from the hut through the door one after another.
"Oops!"
Just after stepping out of the gate, Lu Ning suddenly turned around and looked at the front yard blocked by the fence. Several people had already run out there. A flame was lit on the grill at some point. Carl stood next to the grill with a somewhat unhappy look on his face, while Robert sprinkled some powder around the grill so that neither wind nor fog could invade the only trace of fire in the dark night.
Soon, people gathered around the grill in the front yard, but they quickly discovered that one person did not run out.
"Where did the second child go?" Qu Siyuan turned around and wanted to run back to the restaurant, but Pan Haishu held him back.
"Did you see who did it?" Karl glanced at everyone, but no one responded. He looked at a few people outside the fence and couldn't help but shake his head.
"The plan was revealed."
"What?"
"Eight hours, which means we can get away immediately as long as everyone stays here until three in the morning. We were not planning to spend the whole night here, but now a few people have left the confines of the hut." Karl sighed, "Professor Shen, what time is it now?"
"Twenty past nine."
"That means the latest departure time has been delayed to at least 5:20 in the morning."
"No, this is also a good thing." Fujii Yukine said outside the fence.
"You always seem to like to go against me, but I don't hate your optimism, Miss Detective, tell me?" Carl put on his iconic smile again.
"If it is true, as you said, that the demon saw through our plan to leave within eight hours and counterattacked, then we can infer that the demon knew the eight-hour limit." Fujii Yukine glanced at everyone coldly, "We only used words like 'one night' and 'one night' in our communication, and did not mention in detail how long we would stay. If the devil is the original character of the scene, Residents, unless they have the ability to read minds, it is impossible to carry out such a targeted arrangement."
"Oh?" Karl nodded slightly.
"So... the devil is a tourist. The devil knows the content of our mission. This is a confrontation scene. This is the result I deduced from your thoughts. And now, the one with the greatest suspicion-" She raised her hand and pointed. He asked someone in the yard, "Asama Seitaro, the person who commanded in the chaos, you are the first suspect."
"Miss Fujii..." Asayama smiled bitterly, "I just said what I thought was the right method, and I didn't think of any plans at three o'clock in the morning. At that time, I felt that someone needed to stand up and speak out in that situation. , is this correct?"
"I just said that you are suspected. There is no evidence yet, so there is no need to panic." Fujii ignored Asayama's excuse. "At the same time, I would like to ask, what happened to the few people who are not at the scene now?"
"Let's go to the bathroom... Zhu You went to watch outside and disappeared... Then Sally disappeared inside... Then there was a gunshot, and she met Tachikawa and the others." Qiu Yiyun told the story tremblingly.
"Lu Ning, was she in there when you and Sally were swapping?"
"yes."
"How long did it take?"
"About five minutes, I was washing my hands, and Sally was in a hurry to use the bathroom, so I let her in. You can ask Qiu Yiyun about this, it must be about the same time."
Qiu Yiyun nodded.
"Then how long did it take before Zhu You left and disappeared?"
"About... less than ten minutes?" Qiu Yiyun thought for a moment, "I don't have a watch, so the time estimate may not be too accurate."
"Who broke the restaurant glass?" Fujii Yukine quickly switched to the next question, "Zhu You?"
This time it was Karl who retorted: "It's not her, at least not her shotgun. I can definitely hear the sound of the gun with my ears. It's the sound of a pistol shooting. When the fog clears, we can still go in and look for bullets."
"The bullet passed through the two windows facing each other in the front yard and the back yard of the restaurant." Lu Ning pointed to the front yard glass of the restaurant that was also broken from the front yard. "Fujii saw that the back yard glass was broken."
"One shot destroyed two windows?" Qu Siyuan also turned around and glanced, "Can you see the glass clearly? The fog has dissipated, right? Then can we go in..."
As he said, the fog slowly dissipated, and the dark restaurant finally became visible again, but this was not a good thing.
The firelight in the yard shines into the room through the cracked window, casting a lonely shadow on a slowly shaking body hanging from the ceiling. The wind blew into the window, causing the body to swing a little wider. As the rope slowly rotated, it turned its face towards the front yard.
That was Xue Fengchun's expression that refused to rest in peace.
"Second brother! Second brother!" Pan Haishu rushed directly to the window, did not even go around the door, jumped directly into the room holding the window frame full of broken glass, and put Xue Fengchun down as quickly as possible, and Qu Siyuan also shouted directly at Lu Ning: "Doctor! Look what's wrong with him! Save him!"
Lu Ning and others climbed over the fence, lit the oil lamp again, and returned to the restaurant. At this time, Pan Haishu was struggling to give Xue Fengchun first aid and artificial respiration, but it was all in vain.
"Dead." Lu Ning just checked it and came to a conclusion.
"What did you say--"
"Dead." Fujii Yukine repeated, "We are all experienced tourists, so don't get emotional."
As she spoke, she took out her gloves and mask, put them on herself, and began to examine Xue Fengchun's body.
"She must have been attacked when the fog filled the air, and she was killed instantly." Lu Ning put her pockets in her pockets and walked around the table. She looked up at the roof. There was a beam there, and the rope was tied to it. This action It's not fast, but it's not too difficult for a demon.
"Yes, it was strangled. The murderer was very powerful. The entire neck bone was strangled with great force. The murder weapon was this rope." Fujii Yukiyin picked up one end of the rope around Xue Fengchun's neck and took a look, "The new one is here This kind of thing should not exist in the villa, which means that this thing was brought in premeditatedly."
"But... no one saw it." Qiu Yiyun whispered, "Almost everyone has company..."
"This season, the clothes everyone wears are enough to cover a rope, but since the crime was committed during that time, the most suspicious people are still those who were in the house at the time."
"Have you had enough?" Qu Siyuan suddenly shouted excitedly, "Are you trying to say that Lao Si and I might also be murderers?"
"I understand your feelings, but in the absence of insufficient evidence, everyone is indeed suspected..."
"I think you are just looking for trouble!" Qu Siyuan slammed the table hard, "What kind of detective are you? Your investigation method is to make everyone suspicious? Have you done anything useful so far? In your heart Do you have a count? Who is the murderer? Can you tell me?"
"cannot."
"Then you are a loser." Qu Siyuan glared at Fujii Yukiyin, his eyes a little bloodshot, "Tell me, Miss Detective, the truth."
"I can only make a preliminary list of the most suspected persons, and are you sure you want me to say it in the current situation?" Fujii Yukine did not show any disgust with Qu Siyuan's attitude, but just raised his chin, "That way It could lead to our complete inability to act as a team.”
"For me, it's just worse." Qu Siyuan gritted his teeth.
"Well, first of all, the most suspected ones are all the people who are currently missing, that is, Luo Nan, Zhong Feiying, Zhu You and Sally. If their bodies are not found, we might as well regard them as enemies. In addition, we There must be demons inside. I agree with Karl's idea. This scene is most likely a confrontation between demons and humans. The only possibility is that the demons have mind-reading skills and have arranged tactics for us. If we consider the confrontation scene , the person most suspected of being a demon still exists among us..." She glanced inside and outside the room, "There are at least three demons among the six people, Seitaro Asayama, Qiu Yiyun, Lu Ning, Feng Hui, Peng Morong, and Yiluo. "
Even Qu Siyuan didn't expect that she actually made a list.
"I don't want you to ask for the reason. Saying this has already pushed me into the ranks of the demons who must kill you. I am not prepared to take additional risks. As you said, considering the emotional factors, I did not put you Listed as the main target of suspicion, but as a detective, I must first suspect everything before I can then eliminate the suspicion. Do you still have any doubts about my work? "
Qu Siyuan's hand supporting the table slowly dropped to his side.
"I'm sorry, I was too impulsive."
"I will not be biased by this. But I will include your performance in my judgment... Now, do you who are suspected by me have anything to say?" Fujii Yukine asked.
"Why am I here..." Qiu Yiyun was about to cry, "Why am I still being suspected..."
"Our judgments are basically the same, but I was replaced by you in my list." Lu Ning didn't care too much, "You who have been acting alone are also very suspicious. As far as I am concerned, the reason should be that I am with you. Same."
Fujii Yukine gave Lu Ning a meaningful look, and Lu Ning responded with a light smile.
"Even if you are suspicious, I still want to get the young master back." Feng Hui has been silent for a long time, and finally spoke this time, "I know who I am, and I don't care about your investigation, but don't go too far. .”
"If you really cared about them, you wouldn't have let Sally go to the bathroom with those people. Having said that, it's time for us to decide what to do next."
That's regrouping.
This time, no one was allowed to leave alone. Even if there were demons inside, everyone agreed that the demons would not dare to attack when there were many people, unless the mist appeared again.
However, just as everyone was allocating rooms, there was a sudden knock on the door of the villa.
