In the evening, Lu Ning continued to read the works of Sora Tsuburaya.
Compared with the previous two books, the relationship between the two books "Ten Days at Rosemont" and "The Vanishing Sky" has become more subtle. According to Tsuburaya Temple Sora's records, Rosemont Town is just a small town with some weird local customs, but as long as you get along well with the old people there, find ways to communicate more with young people, and have a higher emotional intelligence, you can also Have a great time.
But in "The Disappearing Clear Sky", the protagonist and his team became a classic death-defying team - a group of college students traveling after graduation chose to travel by car, and ended up getting lost and driving into an unknown town. The team entering the town at night suddenly discovered that there was no daytime in this town, and the eternal night was accompanied by eternal clouds, and no natural light source could shine here.
And if someone carefully sorts out the timeline, the place where the events took place, etc., they can find that almost all the plots in the two books can be nested in each other.
"Most of the social interactions in Rosemont took place during the day, and there were only two visits to other people's homes that involved night time. However, the group of college students in "The Disappearing Clear Sky" stayed at night and encountered all kinds of weird and bizarre things. Hmm. ...The locations don't exactly correspond, which actually makes sense." Lu Ning thought secretly.
"The Disappearing Clear Sky" may not be Tsuburayaji Sora's own experience, but the experience he witnessed others, just like what he is doing now. At that time, Sora Tsuburaya was just a bystander. In other words, now Lu Ning is very suspicious that these books are actually nothing at all. They may all be regarded as documentary literature.
"Lu Ning, please do the night shift." Cynthia came over at this time and said, "Wake me up in two hours to change the shift."
"Don't worry." Lu Ning patted the full pot of coffee next to her hand, "I often stay up late too."
Also on night duty with Lu Ning was Xingong Qianxia, but this lady just stared at the ceiling in a daze, sometimes making people think she fell asleep with her eyes open. She sat on a chair next to the door, holding her violin in her arms without moving the bow.
Lu Ning put her tablet aside, first took a cup and poured herself a cup of coffee.
She actually doesn't like drinking this stuff, but it does work for her.
Will anyone kill anyone tonight?
It is undeniable that Dimitri's plan can cause great difficulties to ordinary murderers, but it is only for "ordinary" murderers. Whether they are tourists or those who do it on the first night of this round, they seem to be very different. How ordinary.
Creating an alibi is just the most basic method. The abilities given by the distribution center can be used in various ways. For example, Lu Ning's curse killing can even be carried out in front of everyone if he is well prepared. After all, the only trigger point is " It’s just the action of “lighting a candle”.
If you want to crack the visitor's ability, you need to make the absolute specificity of the ability disappear.
For example, in her duel with Mayuri Daida, her shot that hit the glass created a huge flaw in the relatively closed environment of "Renix's Room", which caused the person who used a rope to hang the people in the room up. The means have various possibilities of completion. Of course, this alone is not enough, and the first discoverer’s inner judgment is also needed.
When a scene is considered to be "an attack that humans can make, but we failed to find the murderer", the specificity of the ability will be fatally damaged. If the murderer does not make amends afterwards - or refute ——Then this ability will be completely ineffective. On the other hand, the more the scene makes people feel that "it is difficult for human beings to complete such a murderous act", the safer that ability will be. Of course, for those who want to destroy the ability, they must carry out precisely targeted destruction. For example, if the method of hiding the murder weapon is destroyed using the guidance of deciphering the murder method, it will not have any impact on the ability.
Regarding this, maybe Watanabe Fuchiko's pretense is more professional.
Now is actually a good opportunity for tourists. If you succeed in killing again under such strict precautions, your ability will undoubtedly become an unsolved mystery. And the more panicked people are, the fewer people will be able to think of it as an ordinary murder. .
It seems that there are some contradictions in the goals of tourists.
On the one hand, destroying the abilities of other tourists will make everything more "realistic", while on the other hand, using your own abilities will make things more "mysterious".
Lu Ning took a sip of coffee and then continued reading.
Just by looking at the name of "Drifting on the Unknown Sea", you can tell that it is a maritime travel diary. It is a record of a sea journey, and this journey is not a simple cruise ship or caravan. I don't know how Tsuburaya Temple Sora did it. He took a A treasure hunting adventure team's ship. If some people still doubted the first two books, then the adventure team in this travel book are all real witnesses. Because of this, no one questioned the authenticity of the trip after that.
But halfway through the book, the fleet met two adventurers on an unnamed island, and Lu Ning saw a familiar name here - Jack Swan.
While Lu Ning was thinking about the connection between Jack and Tsuburaya Temple, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed outside the window, followed by a thunderous explosion, instantly waking everyone in the room.
"What's going on? Was it fired?" Cynthia reflexively grabbed the shotgun in her hand, and was relieved to see that the other side of the door was still fine. Lu Ning shrugged. Seeing that everyone was awake, he said in a normal voice: "It's thundering. It was a thunder just now."
There was lightning and thunder outside the window again, but this time it was farther away, and the rolling thunder echoed in the air. Although no one was really afraid of thunder, at this moment, they felt that a kind of fear like an impending disaster was covering the island.
"What the hell... forget it, I'm awake anyway." Cynthia curled her lips, "You guys go to sleep, Delores and I will watch the next shift."
"Okay. By the way, Ms. Cynthia..."
"Just call me by my name. Don't waste too much time on titles."
Lu Ning followed suit: "Cynthia, do you know that Jack Swan and Sora Tsuburaya knew each other in the past?"
"I don't know about Jack Swan, but I know a little about Sora Tsuburaya. The company that publishes him has capital injections from the Howard family, and it's not just a simple financial investment. The family has sent people to participate in the management. In theory, he I should have known the Howard family for a long time."
"When did this happen?"
"It was very early. Maybe the Howard family had already invested when he published his first book, but I don't remember this clearly." Cynthia said, "If you can still connect to the external network, you can check it out. Industrial and commercial records of the publishing house.”
"Well, there's no need to find out so clearly." Lu Ning waved her hand, "It's enough to know that there is such a thing. As for the specific time, it's not important now."
After the shift change, Lu Ning fell asleep quickly. Of course she was not planning to kill anyone today, and she even had some expectations for what would happen tomorrow.
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Early the next morning, Lu Ning got up and tidied her hair.
The last guard was Fuchiko Watanabe and Mayuri Daida. Seeing Lu Ning wake up, the two men just nodded slightly, and they could see that they were a little tired.
"Thanks."
Lu Ning grabbed her medical kit, stood up, walked to the door, and whispered to Watanabe Fuchiko: "I'm going to Rennix's place for a checkup, and by the way, I want to ask him what he thinks about what's going to happen next."
"Would you like someone to go with you?"
"No, I'm bringing my gun with me too." Lu Ning patted her waist, "If I don't come back in a while, you just have to act according to the situation. Cynthia is quite reliable."
"Understood."
Lu Ning opened the door and walked out of the house. The air in the corridor was slightly turbid. The wind and rain were heavier yesterday, so they closed the doors and windows. It would indeed be a lot boring without servants to clean and ventilate the place in the morning.
The weather in the last round seems to be different from this round. At least there were times when the rain was relatively light before, but now it has been raining for more than a day in a row.
Lu Ning carried the medical kit upstairs, and Orlando happened to be up upstairs. He was standing at the door holding a cigarette and seemed ready to smoke. When he saw Lu Ning coming up and nodding slightly to her, Lu Ning also said good morning. , and continued upstairs.
Fourth floor, corridor leading to Rennix's room.
As soon as he stepped into this corridor, Lu Ning felt something strange. Whether it was as Rennix last time or as doctor Lu Ning this time, she had walked through this corridor many times and was already familiar with it. Although the corridor looked no different from usual, Lu Ning intuitively felt that something was wrong.
She slowed her pace and tentatively walked forward step by step, the carpet absorbing the sound. Until she came to Rennix's door, everything was quiet.
"The food at noon yesterday was brought by Gustav, and in the evening by Lanewood. Neither of them cares about wearing shoes on the floor. The carpet in the corridor of Howard's house is relatively soft, and there are usually servants It has been cleaned repeatedly so it is less messy. When I came to check yesterday afternoon, I could still see Gustav’s footprints.”
Lu Ning turned her head slightly and looked behind her. If she looked carefully, she could still see a row of shallow marks on the carpet where she had walked. This kind of mark can be smoothed out with just a vacuum cleaner, and it doesn't take much effort, but if no one takes care of it, it will stay like this.
The corridor from the first floor to the third floor had many traces left on the ground because everyone had to decorate the house yesterday. Although not so many people walked on the fourth floor, the traces would not be easily eliminated. Her strange feeling came from the fact that she had just left the slightly stained corridor on the floor below and came here to see the floor that had obviously been cleaned.
It's impossible for Rennix to clean it himself, right?
When Lu Ning stretched out her hand and held the door handle, she felt that it could be turned easily.
"Mr. Rennix, I'm Lu Ning, here to give you a health checkup today."
After she said this, she turned the door handle and walked in.
Rennix sat at his desk, leaning back in his chair with his head hanging slightly. Generally speaking, this position may indicate falling asleep. However, Lu Ning could clearly tell that Rennix was dead.
The head of the Edward family clasped his hands with five fingers and placed them on his abdomen. His body leaned back slightly. A clear fatal wound appeared on his heart. It was an exquisite rune dagger, and the handle was still in place. Wrapped with white scripture cloth. This dagger had no blood groove, and a dark red blood stain solidified around the wound, but there was no sign of it spraying out.
It was a... very normal looking murder scene.
However, Lu Ning knew that this was the most abnormal murder scene. She couldn't even estimate how strong Rennix was. If a tourist hadn't controlled Rennix so that he couldn't use his abilities, then no one would be able to kill him silently through supernatural power. The normal way would be More difficult.
Therefore, the scene where he was killed without any resistance is the most abnormal.
Lu Ning did not touch the body, but retreated, walked to the stairs, and shouted down: "Orlando, are you still there?"
"Doctor? What happened?"
"Mr. Rennix is dead. I need a few people to come over and help me check the scene. In addition, I will inform the gentlemen and ladies of the Howard family that it is time for them to discuss the issue of inheritance rights."
After a slight confusion, Lu Ning began to examine Rennix. It was obvious that the time of death was last night. The fatal weapon was also the rune dagger. Everyone quickly found out the source of the dagger. It was one of the collections in Rennix's room. It was packed in a rather heavy metal box. In total, Of the eight handles, one was used as a murder weapon, while the other seven were still placed in the box.
The fact that the outside was cleaned can also be interpreted as the murderer did not want to leave his own footprint information and cleaned it specially. In fact, the shallow marks left here cannot be used to infer footprints at all.
According to the previously decided setting of playing a coroner with little ability, Lu Ning only gave information such as the time of death this time, and did not give anything else.
After she inspected the scene and walked out, she found that the situation outside had become even more tense than before.
Lanewood and Milia were standing by the window, and several other children were not far from the door. No one had any sadness on their face, and some were just defensive about their brothers and sisters.
"Who killed father?" Huo Yinglong said solemnly, "Who can kill father?"
"Let's use father's collection... This is not an easy method." Dimitri said with a sneer, "I'm afraid those things in father's collection are not ordinary objects."
"Linewood, you should be the temporary patriarch now." Felicia's eyes were complicated, "You need to take responsibility."
"Of course I will take responsibility." Lionwood said coldly, "Where's Jason? We won't allow anyone to act independently. Let's get everyone together first."
