Meng Juan came with Tang Ling. Lu Ning was originally a little respectful of him, but Meng Juan was actually not as dissatisfied with her as Tang Ling, so she didn't mean much to question him if she asked him a question at this time.
"I know you can become invisible, and Tang Ling will not hide anything from me." Meng Juan smiled, "It seems that the relationship between the two of you is not very good. My philosophy is that everyone has his own opinions. Let's discuss it carefully. How is this case?"
"...I don't know anything about you yet."
Meng Juan nodded slowly: "I don't know anything... To be honest, I don't believe it. You are still a fourth-level person. I have already shown my ability a little bit. You can actually learn from it." I have inferred something. However, we are not here to discuss this today. You must also be here for this first case. This is probably the only crime committed by humans."
"Yes."
"I believe that the owner here violated some taboo because of his ability, so he had to organize this dance. But based on the situation in the past few days, we can also understand that the number of people is not a requirement, nor is the type of superpower. Here After all, the master just needs a group of superpowers to complete the dance according to the conditions. The problem is how we can survive after the dance." Meng Juan walked into the room and came to the bedside, "From this aspect, this master is right. We have malicious intentions, so I have to guard against them."
"Do you think there's anything wrong with the scene?"
"It's hard to tell." Meng Juan shrugged, "My ability is not of the investigative type, I have to see everything with my eyes. However, I have superpowers, and ordinary methods such as guessing the murderer's figure, strength, and habits have an error rate. Greatly improved, it would be very difficult to find the murderer from such clues."
"There are some other ideas." Lu Ning said after pondering for a moment.
Meng Juan's eyes lit up slightly: "Please tell me? If there is anything you need my help with, just ask."
"When I came to the room before, I roughly observed the state of the corpse and roughly judged that his death time was between one and three o'clock in the evening. There may be some errors. At this time, everyone should theoretically be in their own room. In the room - after all, we have verified later that if you don't abide by the words in the letter, various abnormalities will occur... Han Xuezhi hasn't figured out what happened, but he probably violated a taboo. .”
"In other words, you think that when Pan Kai died, no one violated the taboo... everyone stayed in their own rooms."
"This actually rules out some killing methods. Some superpowers can only be released at close range, and this must be a long-distance killing. Only those who can clone, summon and other abilities can do such a thing, because Pan Kai is not He was shot by his ability, and he was killed in a head-on fight with something."
"Yes." Meng Juan nodded, "Among those who have shown their abilities, no one seems to have such super powers, right?"
"I don't think everyone is telling the truth. Even you and I hide most of our abilities, don't we?" Lu Ning glanced at Meng Juan.
"But how to verify this? Design a trap to test everyone's superpowers? It's very difficult." Meng Juan said again.
"We don't need to verify, we just need to find the most suspicious target and be wary of that person." Lu Ning narrowed his eyes, "It doesn't even have to be just one person who is suspected."
Meng Juan nodded, looked around, suddenly squatted down, lifted up the hanging sheets on the bed and took a look, then looked at the closet, turned around on the bedside table, opened the drawers, and took out the contents from inside. Got a contact lens case.
"Is he nearsighted? Are the contact lenses still in his eyes?" Meng Juan asked.
"Even if there is one, it might fall off during the fight...what's wrong?"
"Perhaps I'm overly concerned, or maybe this person has some obsessive-compulsive disorder. Look under the bed. Slippers and ordinary shoes are neatly arranged. All the clothes in the wardrobe are folded and stuffed like cubes in the drawer. The same goes for this drawer. Same."
Lu Ning followed and looked around. Just as Meng Juan said, all Pan Kai's personal belongings were neatly arranged like Tetris. Not only clothes and shoes, but also some daily necessities. After putting them away, Lu Ning opened the suitcase that Meng Juan brought. The suitcase was empty.
"...but some of the things provided here are not arranged like this." Lu Ning frowned. Some daily necessities were still provided in the room, but they were kept in place. Although they were very clean and tidy, they had not been touched. .
"He probably doesn't intend to use it. To be honest, I think the strangest thing is this drawer." Meng Juan opened the bottom drawer of the closet. "He brought a lot of boxed cameras and other things. And put these things neatly in the drawer."
"He has installed several before, so some of the boxes inside are empty." Lu Ning said.
With some difficulty, Meng Juan dug out one of the boxes that were arranged without any gaps, and then quickly found several empty boxes along the empty space.
"Even if it's obsessive-compulsive disorder... these things make life a little too inconvenient."
This is indeed the case, and even if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you don't seem to want to stuff your things into such an inconvenient situation. Lu Ning knew that this must have a lot to do with this person's living habits, but there was still insufficient evidence to determine the murderer.
"It seems we still found nothing." Meng Juan put the things back to their original places and spread his hands, "Has Miss Lu Ning discovered anything new?"
"No."
"Well, it seems we can only wait until the dance starts to see what the host is planning. What we are going to do next..."
"Have you seen the news spreading outside?" Lu Ning asked suddenly.
"What news?"
"Monsters have begun to appear in this world, and it has become impossible to block the news. By this time, I think the army will be dispatched, right? But the end of the world is almost unstoppable. Are you ready?"
Meng Juan laughed.
"Miss Lu Ning, I don't care about the end of the world at all... We are tourists. As long as we complete the mission and leave the scene, all other things are not within my consideration."
Lu Ning was slightly alert. Although Meng Juan was easier to get along with than Tang Ling, judging from his performance, he was just acting for the occasion. He himself was still a person who didn't care about the situation in the scene. Such people are also dangerous.
The dinner was still going on normally, but the atmosphere was depressing. Except for Michael and Professor Xu, who were talkative, the rest of the people were silent. No one waited for everyone to finish eating. Everyone left the restaurant immediately after finishing their food. Lu Ning left relatively late and visited Wei Haonan in the kitchen. It could be seen that the chef was forcing a smile now. I guess Jiang Ai's death also had an impact on the servants... He was probably really dead. .
Amid such uneasiness, the day of the dance finally arrived. Lu Ning didn't even sleep well. She got up very early and walked downstairs.
This was the time when Qu Langyue went out to get the newspaper every day. But when she came back today, she looked a little depressed and didn't have anything in her hand. Lu Ning came down from upstairs and saw her and asked.
"No one delivered anything today." Qu Langyue bowed to Lu Ning, "Unfortunately, you may not be able to read today's latest news. And if the people on duty at the foot of the mountain are no longer able to work, maybe the external situation has changed It’s reached a certain point of no return.”
"Is the dance going to start again?"
"Of course we have to start. This is what the host told us must be done. But after the dance is over, we will try our best to help the guests leave. For the guests who died here, probably no one has time to come and take care of them now. "
Lu Ning nodded, but when his eyes glanced at Qu Langyue, he suddenly froze.
"Didn't you feel anything wrong after you went out?"
"Huh? Miss, what you mean is..." Qu Langyue checked her body and soon found some red blood spots on the white cotton socks on her legs. She didn't panic, but said "I'm sorry" and quickly walked towards the servant's room.
Lu Ning followed her. No matter who had a problem in this mansion, it would be difficult to deal with it, especially the servants... She didn't think she could maintain her loyalty to the "master" when her life was at stake.
In the maid's room, only Jin Xiuqing was packing clothes and sheets, and the rest should have gone out to make some morning preparations. After Qu Langyue entered, he immediately told Jin Xiuqing to help prepare some medical supplies. He sat on the chair and stretched out his hands to slowly roll up his trouser legs and take off his socks. Lu Ning stood outside the door. Jin Xiuqing glanced at him, but without stopping him, he quickly found a medical kit from a drawer.
"Don't you feel any pain?"
"No, I feel a little numb and itchy now, maybe it's poisonous." Qu Langyue calmly took off her socks. There were some hard objects about the size of fingernails from her ankles to her calves. They looked like shells. Something like that, but if you look closely, it looks like the texture of insect cuticle. They embedded themselves in her skin, causing it to bleed.
"Disinfect first." Jin Xiuqing handed the alcohol to Qu Langyue. She quickly treated the area on her leg, then took out a lancet from the medical box, lit the alcohol lamp and roasted it. Jin Xiuqing took the bandage. At the beginning of the segment, the two barely communicated and had a very tacit understanding. Lu Ning stared outside the door. If there was anything unusual about Qu Langyue, she could help stop him.
After preparations were completed, Qu Langyue began to use the knife to cut off the hard objects from her legs. This step could not be without pain. There were even beads of sweat on her forehead, but she still quickly dug out all the hard objects. Jin Xiuqing He helped her stop the bleeding and apply bandages. After finishing everything, he asked: "What's going on?"
"I don't know, but Miss Lu Ning discovered my situation."
Jin Xiuqing picked up the hard object from the bandage on the ground: "There are sixteen pills in total. We need to find a way to find out what these are. How is your physical condition?"
"It's okay, but this foot probably can't bear weight." Qu Langyue stood up, limping slightly, "There should be no toxins. This is probably lucky. Thank you very much for your timely reminder, Miss Lu Ning."
"Are you really okay? I still suggest you check yourself, because you didn't feel anything at all at first, right?" Lu Ning said.
"I will ask Ms. Jin to help." Qu Langyue nodded, "Thank you again for your kindness. Miss Lu Ning, the dance will start at eleven o'clock. There are some procedures that you must complete. After everyone gets up, Manager Feng will explain it to everyone."
"I want to ask you, if your life is in danger because of this, will you still be loyal to your master?" Lu Ning asked her.
"No. But... we can no longer identify which guest is our master." Qu Langyue smiled bitterly, "The restriction is not only on you, the guests, but also we will die if we don't perform our duties well. We There is no choice.”
Jin Xiuqing came over at this time: "Qu Langyue, go to bed and I will check you. Miss Lu Ning, please pay attention to your safety. We all sincerely hope that you can live well."
Lu Ning shook her head, noncommittal.
After breakfast, Feng Yuanxi summoned all the guests together, and no more accidents or deaths occurred that day. Feng Yuanxi also announced to everyone the procedures that must be done for the dance.
At eleven o'clock, when the dance begins, everyone has a glass of red wine.
During the entire dance process, everyone must dance with at least one other partner of the opposite sex.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, go to the garden, select a pot of flowers by voting, and move it back to the center of the ball hall.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone recommended someone to recite poetry, which took fifteen minutes.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone must have dinner in the restaurant.
At nine o'clock in the evening, everyone needs to dance together, including the servants, and the total time until the end of the dance must be more than thirty minutes.
During the entire dance process, you can only return to the room between one o'clock and three o'clock.
After Feng Yuanxi finished speaking, no one spoke. Everyone was thinking about where there might be traps in these links and how dangerous they were. Based on previous experience, I am afraid that these things are impossible to do without doing it. The good news is that time seems to be very abundant, but the bad news is that there is no danger of life on the surface.
"If you all understand, please be sure to come here at eleven o'clock. We will prepare all kinds of red wine for you. Just choose the one you like." Feng Yuanxi bowed and stepped back.
"Everyone, there is chaos outside. Even if we can leave the dance alive, we still need to think about what to do next." Mr. Zhou said, "I don't know what you think. I think we should deal with the process of the dance now. Everything was arranged, and then we left the Hongmei Pavilion together at 11 o'clock in the evening. We are all superpowers, and this is our advantage."
"Can it be that smooth?" Qi Leyin said pessimistically.
