The hotel owner readily agreed after Lu Ning made the request.
Not only does he have no sense of privacy, but also because there is really nothing private to say in the registration book. Even the names may be made up, and he doesn't know how to check the documents. It is as true now as it was decades ago.
Only three or four registers were even exchanged.
The boss took out the registration books that were said to have been used by his grandfather and father from the cabinet and handed them to Lu Ning, but there was no dust on them.
At first, Lu Ning thought the boss had taken good care of it, but after turning a few pages, she immediately discovered the problem.
Many pages had been torn out of the register.
Judging from the cross-section of the paper, the inside is still a little white, which proves that it is not a trace left a long time ago, but was torn off by everyone in the past few days. When Lu Ning discovered this and confirmed it to her boss, the boss was also surprised.
"How could that lady do this? I thought she was just curious about the flow of customers here..."
"That lady?" Lu Ning repeated these four words.
"Yes, that young lady with a somewhat cold expression. She said she wanted to know the frequency of guests here over the past few decades, so I showed her the results. I didn't expect that she would end up like this..." The boss looked sad. , holding the register.
Fujii Yukine!
She knew she was a step too late!
Lu Ning exchanged the registers and quickly ran through the time corresponding to the torn out pages in her mind, but this was not helpful. In order to prevent anyone from noticing this, Fujii Yukine even tore off a year to a year and a half. There are registration records left and right, and there are six or seven such places in total, so we can’t rule out disguised information!
"Lu Ning, what's wrong? You look a little bad?"
At this time, Zhu You came down from upstairs and said hello when he saw Lu Ning.
"Zhu You? I'm fine, I just had an accident... Do you know which room Fujii Yukine lives in?"
"Room 9 upstairs, right? I remember it was opposite that annoying couple." Zhu You thought for a while and replied, "Only her temperament can bear to live with those two people across the door. By the way. , although it was a double room, she had always lived alone."
"Understood. Did she leave today?"
"Miss Detective always leaves early and comes back late. She may not come back at noon." Zhu You shrugged, "I really believe she has a lot of clues, but others don't believe us."
Did she notice it?
After Lu Ning thanked Zhu You, she walked upstairs, thinking about the progress of Fujii along the way.
If the detectives collect the clues of all the demons, the identities of the six demons will be in danger. In this case, the confrontation will inevitably be led to a head-on battle between the two sides. All plans are unfavorable.
And that demon, or perhaps there are more demons who want to kill all human tourists, will directly collapse. After understanding the growth potential of the demons, Lu Ning naturally understood that the subtext of the distribution center was that the demons were unable to fight head-on with humans in the early stages.
Just like the wolf in the human-wolf game can never play his cards right from the beginning.
She walked to the door of Room 9. Opposite was Room 8 with the door closed, and diagonally opposite was Lima's room... I wonder if her previous actions were also seen by Fujii Yukine?
The door is unlocked.
Lu Ning gently opened the door, and there was a slight breaking sound under her feet. It was a thin wire, very fragile. The only purpose of this small mechanism was to determine whether anyone was trying to enter the room from outside.
But it's not just that simple.
The outer and inner door handles are covered with fluorescent paint that is extremely difficult to identify with the naked eye. If Lu Ning did not reach out to push the door directly, but held the door handle and turned it, once she entered a dark environment, the fluorescence would reveal her as an intruder. identity of.
Similar transparent substances were also smeared on the ground at the door, but their function was slightly changed, they were used to leave footprints. And Lu Ning's detective knowledge also knew that with the footprints and strides, the height and weight were no longer a secret.
From the door to the room, there are a total of twelve such traps. None of them are lethal, but they are all information verification methods using destructive methods. Although Lu Ning relied on the demon's extraordinary qualities to avoid them, Partially, but still in a cold sweat.
Then she saw Fujii Yukine's wall of evidence.
The simple portraits of the twenty-four tourists express each person's characteristics without losing their characteristics, and basic personal information is also noted below. These portraits were taped to the wall, and the colorful pen marks formed an intricate network. Besides the twenty-four people, there were also portraits of eighteen important figures in the town. The only difference was that these eighteen people It was marked with a serial number, and the serial number corresponded to the map of Baihu Town on the other wall.
The portraits of Sally and Xue Fengchun have been marked with red crosses, with the "death" mark next to them, and continue to extend to those with the "suspect" mark. Sally corresponds to Lu Ning, Zhu You and Qiu Yiyun. ; and Xue Fengchun corresponded to everyone in the restaurant at that time.
At the same time, the heads of Carl, Yu Guiting, Tachikawa Ryo, Shen Lishu and Ye Chuqing are all circled in green, connected with Fujii Yukine himself, and marked as "trustworthy".
Luo Nan and Zhong Feiying were marked as major suspects. In addition, Feng Hui and Peng Murong were circled together in yellow circles and marked as "choose one of the two". Qianshan, Shanshan and Daoyuan were marked as "under observation" .
All these are only for tourists, but for people in Baihu Town, the expressions are more straightforward. Because there are seven portraits that have been ticked and marked "excluding suspicion", including the patriarch of the Turner family, the mayor Sivis, the police chief Daniel, the doctor, the blacksmith, the ranger and the hunter leader Levin .
The map was even more densely marked. Half of Baihu Town seemed to have been checked out during this period, and even the cemetery had red warning symbols.
This is definitely not something one person can do.
Today is only the fifth day. After Fujii admitted that he had not done anything on the first day, he went to the lakeside hut after noon on the second day. It was impossible for one person to complete the rest of the time. This way, he could "eliminate" "Judgment search work.
In other words, at some point that Lu Ning didn't know, some people, probably those within the green circle, formed a "team within the team" and conducted a secret investigation.
No... considering that Fujii would put such things directly in front of him, these might even be illusions for intruders. What's bad is that from Lu Ning's demon perspective, her judgment is generally correct, so it's hard to say how true or false it is.
Now that she has torn out so many pages from her boss's register, it is doubtful whether she will come back here in the future. As far as Lu Ning knows, Fujii Yukine survived almost as a single soldier for seven days on the Yaojing War Frontline in the first-level upgrade scene. What she said before about giving up most of the rest opportunities and staying vigilant until the end of the scene is probably not what she meant. Just saying. In this way, the stronghold is simply a non-essential option.
Lu Ning jumped out of the room from the window. She was not going to stay any longer to avoid leaving more evidence.
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"With a little guidance, the devil will show his true abilities."
In the corridor on the other side, Carl and Robert in Room 1 were preparing the necessities for going to the mine tomorrow. Robert was working most of the time while Carl chatted with him.
"Do you think it's Lu Ning?"
"Even if not, there is at least one of the four people." Robert put the bottle of potion in a place where he could easily access it. "The purpose of Lu Ning's proposal is to find people with the same secret orientation. At this time, he can agree to go The mine is definitely not tempted by these bottles of potions."
"She gave a step at the right time to justify this action...but we don't know which party she did it for the purpose of helping."
"No need to worry." Robert tied a leather bag to his belt, and there was a crisp banging sound inside. "Nothing will happen to the four people who passed by this time."
"Well... we need to prevent the demons here from suddenly taking action, right?"
"The ratio of humans to demons given by the distribution center is three to one, which means that this ratio is considered a fair confrontation in the distribution center's perception. Although two people died, it has little impact on the overall situation. But if If one group is eliminated at a ratio of three to one, the ratio of the remaining demons will increase significantly, which means that tomorrow night is the best time for the demons to take action, and they have entered a strong period."
"The data is correct, but it all depends on manpower." Karl looked unconcerned.
"I'm worried that you are too lazy." Robert zipped up his backpack. "Compared to unreliable personal performance, I still believe that data can give the most reasonable prediction, at least in terms of probability."
"Tell me something." Karl avoided the topic, "When we were choosing potions that day, Zhu You seemed to want to go with us."
"She and Lu Ning know each other." Robert nodded, "It is very likely that we have known each other before. Although the two people are less familiar with each other than us, they look like someone like Asama Fujii who has spent a certain scene together. If we exclude If the relationship is so good that she would help Lu Ning regardless of her own interests, then she probably feels that she will feel safer following someone in that team."
"This is not a strong mentality, and it is somewhat different from the state she showed on the surface." Karl took out the wine bottle and grinned, "It seems that I will disturb this little girl more during the two days you are not here. ”
"Speaking of which, where is Fujii?"
"Oh... that heartbreaking girl," Carl said half-jokingly. "She cruelly refused my offer of follow-up protection, then threw a handful of evidence in my face and walked away."
"To put it bluntly, although Fujii has a cold attitude, he is not someone who would be so rude."
"Okay, okay, the girl gave me some clues and told me that she probably won't return to the hotel in the next few days. I said to follow her for protection, and then we had a little competition."
Robert gave an "I understand" look.
"Hey, hey, although I may not be her match up close, she definitely can't beat me with a gun. Don't show that look, okay?"
"It's already embarrassing for you, a combat member and a guard, to be inferior to an intelligence member."
"I'd love to curse, and you're right."
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As evening approached, another shocking incident spread.
An elderly couple in a southern farm did not go to a nearby neighbor's house to drink tea and chat as usual at noon, and the door was kept closed. The slightly worried neighbor asked a few young people to check on the old couple, but only found their bodies.
They were wrapped with ropes around the wooden pillars of the barn behind the house, and then pierced into the heart with thick wooden nails. Except for this wound, all of their jaws were torn off and disappeared. The bloody scene shocked everyone on the spot. Several people had weak legs.
But this time, no one doubted the Herman family anymore, and most people understood what this meant.
The citizen bell in the center of the town rang, and the hotel owner, his wife and children dropped everything and rushed to the small square in the center. When Lu Ning arrived, nearly the entire town had gathered there. Mayor Sivis stood on the high platform of the central clock, with four people standing beside him.
Adams is a tall, thin, middle-aged man with curly hair and pursed lips, the head of the Turner family.
A slightly fat man with a pale face, who kept wiping the cold sweat on his head with a handkerchief, Fisher, the head of the Hermann family.
Daniel, the burly police chief, wears a police uniform and looks fierce.
Wearing a leather hunting suit and carrying a shotgun, the hunter leader Levin has gray hair and beard.
These are undoubtedly the five people with the most say in the town, and whenever these five people gather to ring the bell, there is only one possibility.
Something big has happened.
The sky was getting dark, and the light of torches was shining all around. When this small square was already crowded with people, Sivis spoke.
"Everyone in White Lake Town, in the afternoon, the poor York couple were found dead in their home. After receiving the news, I immediately contacted several people present and went to check the situation at the scene. And now, I must announce this unfortunate news …The two died at the hands of the witch.”
The townspeople immediately started talking quietly, but the mayor immediately silenced them as he continued to speak.
"Mr. Fisher confirmed that the only two wounds on the body came from two torture instruments: nail stakes and jaw crushers. As you all know, except for the backup left by the Herman family, all of these torture instruments have been destroyed by us. The backup torture instruments were strictly monitored and were not used."
Having said this, Sivis looked at Fisher. The fat man took a step forward, coughed, and testified: "We are responsible for ensuring that those things... will not be used by anyone again. And there were at least four families there during the time when Mr. and Mrs. York were killed. Members guard.”
"We have broken free from the quagmire of history, but the witch is trying to pull us back to the ignorant and cruel past. We cannot let her come back. This time the alarm bell is sounded, it is also to call on everyone to unite and send the witch back. In the dusty history." Sivis announced loudly, "We will pass on the experience of our ancestors to everyone! No one knows how to deal with witches better than the people of White Lake Town! We will never allow the current peaceful life to be disturbed again! "
