Chapter 6 Taboo
After checking the corpse, the three of them exited the bathroom. Facing such a strange corpse, no one felt comfortable.
"The time of death is probably within three hours," the strong man looked up at the pocket watch in his hand and affirmed, "that is to say, between 2 and 5 in the morning."
"How can you determine the time?"
The strong man glanced at the innocent woman who asked the question, told her the time and order of their vigil arrangements, and handed her his pocket watch, which showed that the timer had counted exactly 7 hours.
The next shift in Jiangcheng was a middle-aged man, and the fat man who left work woke up from urinating. When he went to drain the water, he found the dead middle-aged man.
At this time, the fat man stood up shivering and asked the middle-aged man why he died. The strong man sighed, closed the bathroom door, and the group returned to the sofa in front of the fireplace.
As a newcomer, Jiang Cheng hardly spoke. He was always listening and analyzing, and most of the opinions he put forward came from the most senior strong man and the woman with the mole on her lip.
Through the information revealed in the discussion between several people, Jiang Cheng understood that in this world, people were generally not killed for no reason. Those who were killed must have touched some taboos.
And the so-called taboo is likely to be the key clue to cracking the mission.
"What on earth did he do that we haven't done?" The male clerk huddled between Jiang Cheng and the innocent woman. He was obviously frightened. He didn't want to die inexplicably like a middle-aged man.
The innocent woman frowned her beautiful eyebrows and said, "Could it be because he went to the bathroom on the first floor? That's where the taboo hidden in this mission is, and anyone who goes there will die?"
"No way," the fat man squatted on the spot, holding his knees with both hands, and whispered: "I have also been to the bathroom, just yesterday when I was searching the living room."
Jiang Cheng turned to look at the fat man and said after a while: "Then you have to be careful. Although your neck is thick, you can still break it with force."
The fat man almost cried when he heard this.
The strong man seemed a little dissatisfied with Jiang Cheng's attitude, but he still didn't say anything. He just shook his head and said that it shouldn't be the case. Almost all of them had been to the bathroom on the first floor. If something happened, it shouldn't just be a middle-aged man.
"Maybe it's just a matter of order?" The woman with the mole on her lip said with a strange smile: "You should understand that ghosts rarely kill people one after another in a short period of time."
The strong man glared at the woman fiercely, but rarely retorted.
"Sure enough, there are those things..."
Jiang Cheng's long-held suspicion has been confirmed. The door that appeared in the dream undoubtedly belongs to the category of supernatural events, and it is reasonable for ghosts to appear in supernatural events.
"So what we need to fight against in this world is not humans, but ghosts?!" The male clerk's face turned pale with fear.
Given his previous performance, no one wanted to pay attention to him.
"Since someone died, it means that this villa is our destination. The so-called journey does not exist. The car only appeared to take us here." The innocent woman looked around, "There is a problem
This is the villa.”
“What could be wrong with the villa?”
The innocent woman stared at the fat man who asked the question and said after a while: "For example, some vicious incidents have happened here before."
This villa looked quite luxurious, and there were no signs of damage inside. It was abandoned for no apparent reason. It was indeed suspicious. Jiang Cheng felt that what the innocent woman said was quite credible.
The strong man walked to the door of the villa, grabbed the door handle, and pulled hard, but the door did not move at all.
"It's locked," the strong man turned around and said without even trying a second time: "It seems that this is the mission location. We can't leave until we figure out what happened in this villa."
"Now that the mission location has been determined, let's spread out and look for clues. It's already dawn, so there shouldn't be any danger."
Having said that, the death of the middle-aged man still sounded the alarm for everyone, especially the three newcomers Jiang Cheng, Fatty, and the male clerk.
In order to speed up efficiency, several people spontaneously grouped into groups, with an old person leading a new person.
The fat man was with a strong man, the male clerk was with a woman with a mole on her lip, and Jiang Cheng was with an innocent woman.
For safety reasons, the search scope is temporarily fixed on the first floor of the villa.
The group of strong men was in charge of the living room and near the door, the group of women was in charge of the remote warehouse, and Jiang Cheng and the innocent girl went to the kitchen and dining room.
Several groups are within a straight line of sight of each other, and they will respond to each other once something happens.
This time, with my previous experience, I searched more thoroughly and carefully.
Half an hour later, the three groups reunited in front of the fireplace, and it was already completely bright.
"We found this in the warehouse," the woman with the mole on her lip took out a very thick rope, a hemp rope, one of which had a dazzling red color on it.
The strong man took it and rubbed it hard twice, then put it under his nose and smelled it. "It's blood," he looked up at the woman.
The woman nodded, "I picked this up just behind a pile of firewood nearby."
She opened her right hand, and in her palm was a light green brooch in the shape of a maple leaf, giving the impression that the owner of the brooch was a gentle girl.
There was once a girl who was tied up in a warehouse.
"What did you find?" The woman looked at the strong man.
"Come and take a look with me," the strong man said and walked towards the door, with a group of people following behind him.
Standing by the door, the strong man fumbled and pressed a spot on the wall. Jiang Cheng's eyesight was very good, and he saw that it was a light blue button.
The button is embedded in the oil painting next to the door and blends into the sky blue background. It is difficult to spot without looking carefully.
When the button was pressed, a gap opened in the wall on the right side of the door, and then slowly opened, revealing a well-hidden built-in shoe cabinet.
The shoe cabinet has three floors. Except for the third floor, which is still intact, the partition between the first and second floors has been disconnected, and all kinds of shoes are mixed together.
After sorting, there were two pairs of men's leather shoes, a pair of women's red high heels, and three pairs of women's casual shoes in front of them.
The woman with the mole on her lip picked out one pair of casual shoes from three pairs and placed it next to the red high-heeled shoes. "These two pairs of shoes should belong to the same person."
The remaining two pairs of casual shoes obviously belong to a younger girl, and the two pairs of shoes are exactly the same in size.
There is a pair of men's sports shoes on the third floor. After comparison, they are quite different in size from men's leather shoes.
"Currently, it seems that this villa once lived in a family of four, the male owner, the female owner, a girl and a boy," the innocent woman raised her head and said, "This can also be compared with the distribution of bedrooms on the second floor.
Chapter completed!