☆、Chapter 74

Taking people as a mirror, you can understand the gains and losses, but Lin Qiushi still doesn't know the meaning of the word gain and loss in the clue.

The girl who was burned to death suddenly appeared in the restaurant last night intact, and Lin Qiushi noticed some uncomfortable expressions on the faces of some people in the restaurant. These people should be relatively close to the room where the accident happened last night, so they also saw everything that happened in the corridor. Knowing that the girl in front of me is not a human...

As the culprit who killed the girl, Sister Xia obviously didn't know what happened.

She also chatted with the girl as if nothing had happened, and said, "Wen Jing, nothing happened last night, right? How did you and Xiao Mian sleep at night? There was no accident." The name of the girl who was burned was Wen Jing, while Xiao Mian is the girl who lives with her.

"It's alright, Sister Xia." Wen Jing smiled peacefully, she spoke very slowly, "Nothing happened last night..."

Sister Xia smiled when she heard the words: "It's fine if you don't."

The restaurant that used to be lively became quiet and strange because of Wen Jing's sudden arrival. People who knew what happened last night began to get up and leave one after another, and put strange eyes on Wen Jing when they left.

Sister Xia also seemed to have noticed these strange eyes. She thought for a moment, and her expression with a smile turned a little serious and indifferent. Then she got up from the chair, and also made an excuse to leave the restaurant—— It seems that she is still very sensitive in observing the atmosphere.

Wen Jing watched Sister Xia walk away, but she didn't reach out to stop her. She just smiled and looked at Sister Xia's back. No matter how her eyes looked, it made her back feel cold.

Cheng Yixie said, "Are we going too?"

Ruan Nanzhu nodded: "Let's go."

At this moment, there were not many people left in the restaurant. Apart from Wen Jing who was still eating slowly, only a few relatively slow people were still sitting in their seats, looking at a loss as to what was going on.

However, when Lin Qiushi and the others walked to the door of the restaurant, they heard a fierce quarrel from outside.

Lin Qiushi went out and saw that it was Sister Xia who was arguing with Wen Jing's roommate Xiao Mian.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault - if it wasn't for what you said, Wen Jing would never have died!" Xiao Mian was Wen Jing's roommate. She witnessed Wen Jing's tragic death last night, and her emotions were close to collapse. There was resentment and anger hidden in the crying voice, "You just want to kill us, Wen Jing is back now, to seek revenge for you! Bitch, just wait!!"

Sister Xia sneered and retorted very rudely: "Why did I kill her? Did I know that breaking the mirror will kill people? Little girl, you can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu in a low voice, "Isn't this Wen Jing who was killed by Sister Xia?"

Ruan Nanzhu shook his head.

"Then how does it count?" Lin Qiushi didn't understand the method of judging murder in the door.

"Usually you have to do it yourself to kill someone." Ruan Nanzhu explained, "Taking their case as an example, Sister Xia really didn't know that breaking a mirror would kill someone."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "She just gave Wen Jing a suggestion. Whether Wen Jing should follow this suggestion is another matter."

This is probably a loophole in the rules of the door.

If this is the case, it means that people who enter the door can kill each other, but the method of killing should not be so rude, at least not to do it yourself, and in addition to doing it yourself, there are obviously many other things that want people to die. method.

Lin Qiushi snorted and understood.

Xiao Mian was still crying. She seemed to know the girl named Wen Jing right outside the door. She said, "You damned liar, it's all your fault. You clearly promised to protect us—"

After hearing this, Sister Xia said coldly, "Are you a three-year-old child? You believe what others say?" After she said this, she waved her hand at Xiao Mian annoyed, turned around and planned to leave.

However, at this moment, Xiao Mian actually took out a bread-cutting knife from his pocket, and stabbed it towards Sister Xia. Although this knife is not sharp enough, it is also very sharp. If it really stabs into the human body, it will definitely kill people.

Sister Xia reacted very quickly, dodging and dodging Xiaomian's blow with all her strength. She saw the knife in Xiaomian's hand and said angrily, "You fucking want to kill me?" She grabbed Xiaomian's arm and pushed Xiaomian directly against the wall.

"Ah!" It seemed that Xiao Mian was no match for Sister Xia at all, her body hit the wall with a loud bang, and then she fell to the ground softly.

Sister Xia didn't think it was enough. She grabbed Xiaomian's hair and continued to throw it in the other direction.

Lin Qiushi frowned slightly when he saw this scene, and was about to step forward to stop it, but heard Xiao Mian let out a shrill scream, and then bright red blood dripped from his cheeks.

Sister Xia was slightly stunned when she saw this scene. She didn't plan to kill Xiaomian directly, she just wanted to teach her a lesson. She slowly lifted Xiaomian's body up, and saw that there was an inexplicable sharp nail on the picture frame that Xiaomian was leaning against, and the back of Xiaomian's head just happened to be pierced by the nail. .

"No, no—I didn't want to kill you, I didn't want to kill you—" Sister Xia suddenly panicked, she let go of Xiao Mian's softened body, and involuntarily took a few steps back, "I didn't I want to kill you, not me, not me—"

Lin Qiushi was also stunned, he didn't expect things to develop like this.

Blood kept pouring out of Xiaomian's body. She opened her eyes and stared at Sister Xia in front of her with resentful eyes, and she lost her breath.

Sister Xia's mood seemed to collapse, she kept shaking her head and said no, and staggered away from the restaurant, looking extremely flustered.

Lin Qiushi looked at this scene with a very complicated mood. He said, "Does this happen often?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Not often." He glanced at Xiaomian, "It's just that this woman has bad luck." I didn't expect Xiaomian to die in such an accident. He walked to Xiaomian's side, squatted down, and carefully observed the nail that led to Xiaomian's death, "This nail is really interesting."

Lin Qiushi: "Interesting?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "It wasn't there yesterday."

Lin Qiushi was taken aback for a moment: "Are you sure it wasn't yesterday?" This corner is not an easy place to be noticed. In fact, if it hadn't happened here today, Lin Qiushi might have left this world without even looking at it.

"Of course." Ruan Nanzhu was very confident. He said, "This nail was either nailed last night or this morning... Was there anyone in the restaurant when you came?"

Lin Qiushi immediately thought of Luo Qianshui who came to the restaurant before him, and he said, "Luo Qianshui came first."

"Oh." Ruan Nanzhu stood up, "That's it."

Lin Qiushi said, "She nailed this nail? But..." He originally wanted to say how she knew that Xiaomian and Sister Xia were going to quarrel and even fight here, and finally Xiaomian was pushed to the window frame. But thinking about it carefully, this is the world inside the door, and it seems that nothing is impossible. Those who can walk to the ninth door are obviously not good. It is not impossible for someone to predict what will happen today by any means.

Thinking of this, Lin Qiushi really saw Luo Qianshui and her brother in a corner.

The two of them stood in the crowd of onlookers, and it was not easy to find if they didn't look carefully, but after meeting Lin Qiushi's eyes, Luo Qianshan smiled at Lin Qiushi, while Luo Qianshui still maintained a look of disdain. Then the two turned and walked away, as if they had lost interest in what happened next.

Ruan Nanzhu stood up: "Let's go too, I have a place I want to see."

"That Xiaomian will seek revenge on Sister Xia?" This is something Lin Qiushi is more concerned about. He has been in the door for a while, but he doesn't often see the scene of outsiders turning into ghosts and taking revenge... It seems that he has only seen it once in his memory, and it should not be a pleasant scene to come here, "Will it be implicated? to us?"

"No." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It's just her business."

Lin Qiushi was relieved, he said, "Where do you want to go?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Didn't we go to that burning room during the day?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned.

They went back to the thirty-fourth floor and found the room that had been burning all night.

In the daytime, there is nothing special about this room and their house, it is a very ordinary big bed room.

But Cheng Yixie didn't feel very comfortable after entering the room and kept coughing.

"You smell burnt again?" Ruan Nanzhu asked him.

"Well." Cheng Yixie said with difficulty, "Very strong."

Ruan Nanzhu looked around, took out a knife from his pocket, walked to the corner and started peeling the wallpaper.

Lin Qiushi looked at the knife in his hand and said, "When did you take it?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "When eating boiled eggs."

Lin Qiushi was sitting next to Ruan Nanzhu. It stands to reason that he could see everything Ruan Nanzhu did, but he didn't notice the movement of Ruan Nanzhu hiding the knife at all. He looked helpless: "Why didn't I see it."

Ruan Nanzhu gave Lin Qiushi a meaningful look: "There are many things you haven't seen."

Lin Qiushi was speechless.

After the wallpaper peeled off, revealing the charred wall behind it, it was confirmed that a fire accident had indeed occurred in this room.

Lin Qiushi looked around the room, and suddenly, he noticed an interesting little object.

It was a bronze mirror, placed beside the dresser.

Mirrors are not rare objects here, but the mirror in front of him is the first bronze mirror that Lin Qiushi saw here.

This bronze mirror is no more than the size of a palm, surrounded by patterns of flowing clouds, and a small handle, delicate and simple.

Lin Qiushi picked up the mirror and looked down.

Probably because of the difference in the production process, the portraits in the bronze mirrors are not as clear as those in the aluminum-coated mirrors, and they look a little blurry and distorted.

Lin Qiushi lightly rubbed the mirror surface with his hand, and felt that the surface of the mirror seemed to be covered with a layer of light ash. He put the ash in his nose and sniffed, and he smelled a burnt smell - this is not ordinary dust, but Ashes left behind after something burns.

"Bronze mirror?" Ruan Nanzhu walked to Lin Qiushi's side and saw the mirror in his hand.

"Bronze as a mirror..." Lin Qiushi whispered the clues, "Can you correct your clothes?"

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak, and took the mirror from Lin Qiushi's hand.

"But what does this dress mean?" Lin Qiushi was a little confused, "Does it mean that you can see those things mixed in in the crowd?"

Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head: "You will know if you try it."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

It is possible to try, after all, they have now identified a problem person. They checked the rest of the house again, and Cheng Yixie found a photo that had been burned by a third in a drawer in a corner of the toilet.

The remaining two people in the photo were a woman and a child. The woman showed a sweet smile and held the child in her right hand, which was somewhat the same as the pose Lin Qiushi saw in the corridor that day. The part on the right side of the child was burned by the fire, and you don't need to think about it, you should know that this part belongs to the child's father.

"A family of three lives in an apartment." Ruan Nanzhu said, "In the end, only two corpses were found, what about the remaining one?" He said this and gently rubbed the edge of the photo with his hand. One more, where did it go?"

No one knew the answer, and after the apartment fire, everyone around seemed to be replaced. They didn't know much about the fire, and some didn't even know the apartment was on fire.

In the next time, Lin Qiushi and the others wandered around the apartment, and when they saw someone they knew, they looked at them with the bronze mirror on their hands.

But what made Lin Qiushi very puzzled was that at first they used the bronze mirror to take a picture of Wen Jing, who should not have been human, but the quiet face in the bronze mirror did not change, and still maintained the appearance of a human.

Even the quietness of the dead has not changed, and the others are even more so.

Lin Qiushi couldn't understand this. He looked at the mirror and said, "Isn't this mirror used for this?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "How else can it be used."

Lin Qiushi smiled bitterly: "How do I know." He carefully pondered the sentence in the clue: With bronze as a mirror, you can correct your clothes... Is it because they misunderstood this sentence? wait...the dress...?

"Clothing." Ruan Nanzhu and Lin Qiushi thought of the same thing, and even said this sentence one step faster than Lin Qiushi, "Did we just show Wen Jing's face just now?"

Lin Qiushi: "Let's try again?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Yes."

So they went to the restaurant on the second floor again, but saw that Wen Jing, who was sitting here in a daze, had disappeared.

"A step late." Lin Qiushi felt a little regretful.

Ruan Nanzhu: "It's okay, she will definitely appear again." He was very sure.

"What is Wen Jing trying to do in the crowd?" Lin Qiushi didn't understand why she came back, "Murder? But didn't you say she couldn't take revenge?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Wen Jing can't take revenge, but it's not certain whether this person is Wen Jing." Maybe what appeared in front of them was not Wen Jing at all, but the ghosts in the door imitated Wen Jing. look.

Lin Qiushi felt that this was very reasonable.

While they were discussing, they planned to go back to the thirty-fourth floor. The elevator ding-dong opened, and Lin Qiushi saw that the waiter who had issued them the room card was also in the elevator, and smiled politely at them: "Good noon."

"Good noon." Ruan Nanzhu replied casually.

Cheng Yixie suddenly frowned slightly. His eyes were on the waiter, and he seemed to feel a little uncomfortable.

Lin Qiushi noticed that Cheng Yixie was different, and with a slight movement in his heart, he took out the bronze mirror in his pocket. Then, using his body as a cover, he carefully photographed the waiter.

There was nothing unusual, the waiter in the bronze mirror still maintained that formulaic smile, Lin Qiushi thought of what they discussed before, and slowly moved the bronze mirror, from the top of the head, to the shoulders, to the waist...until, the bronze mirror Moved to the foot of the waiter.

The picture of the mirror finally changed.

I saw that in the bronze mirror, the waiter's feet were turned upside down.

The heels are in front and the toes are behind, which is weird and creepy.

Lin Qiushi's body tightened slightly, and Ruan Nanzhu noticed his strangeness and glanced at the mirror in his hand. He also saw the unusualness of the waiter, but there was no change in his face, and he still talked to the waiter about these things.

"How long have you been working here?" Ruan Nanzhu asked.

"Two years." The waiter replied, "It's been a long time."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Two years? You were there when the fire broke out?"

The waiter said: "It wasn't there at that time. It wasn't until after the fire that I applied to be a waiter here."

With a soft ding dong sound, the elevator door opened.

The waiter gestured for them to go first.

Lin Qiushi followed Ruan Nanzhu out of the elevator door. Although he didn't look back, Lin Qiushi knew that the waiter had been watching them quietly in the elevator-because the elevator door had not been closed until they reached the door of their room, Lin Qiushi only heard the ding-dong sound again, and his tense heart was relieved.

"It's actually him." Ruan Nanzhu said, "I didn't expect it."

Under normal circumstances, the key NPCs would not be the ghosts in the door, but this time the key NPCs in their door were obviously different from before.

"I didn't expect it either." Lin Qiushi said, "Yixie, did you smell something?" If it wasn't for the change in Cheng Yixie's expression, he hadn't thought of using the bronze mirror to look at the waiter. In fact, until just now, they The target range is all people who come in from outside the door.

Cheng Yixie nodded: "Yes, he also has a burnt smell on him."

Obviously, there are more than one ways to find out this person's identity is different in the door. The bronze mirror is one of them. If you can have a keen sense of smell like Cheng Yixie, maybe you can find it without a bronze mirror. Of course, this ability also has certain flaws, that is, if people are all together, it will be difficult to distinguish the taste carefully.

"Do you think that waiter is the father of a family of three?" Ruan Nanzhu sat beside the bed.

Lin Qiushi shook his head: "I don't know, but this possibility cannot be ruled out."

Ruan Nanzhu stopped talking. He took out a piece of candy from his pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth. He said vaguely, "Do you want to?"

Lin Qiushi was a little strange: "Why did you start eating candy?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Isn't this about quitting smoking?"

Lin Qiushi: "Why did you suddenly quit smoking?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "You have liver cancer." His tone of voice when he said this was natural, "You can't always smoke in front of patients."

In fact, Lin Qiushi almost forgot about his liver cancer. Most people suffer from liver cancer, but he was lucky enough to enter the door and felt that his body was stronger than before.

Lin Qiushi said: "Okay, give me one too."

Cheng Yixie glanced at the candy and extended his hand.

So the three big men began to sit by the bed and eat fruit candies, and the room was filled with a faint aroma of fruit.

The clues about the key are still very vague. Lin Qiushi feels that the key has a lot to do with the father of the family of three who disappeared.

Ruan Nanzhu agreed with Lin Qiushi's statement, believing that their top priority was to find the missing father.

Just as the three of them were discussing, there was a knock on the door. Lin Qiushi walked to the door and saw an acquaintance, Luo Qianshan, through his cat's eyes.

At this moment, Luo Qianshan stood alone outside the door, smiling at the cat's eyes.

Lin Qiushi turned his head and asked Ruan Nanzhu, "It's Luo Qianshan, do you want to open the door?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Open." He wanted to see what Luo Qianshan wanted them to do.

Lin Qiushi opened the door, Luo Qianshan saw him, the smile on his face became more and more, he said, "I have something to talk to you about - mind, do I go in and talk?"

Lin Qiushi: "Please."

Luo Qianshan nodded at him and entered the room. As soon as he came in, his eyes fell on Ruan Nanzhu, and then he moved away casually and said, "Do you have any clues about the key?"

Ruan Nanzhu was very rude: "If you are here to ask this, you can leave."

Luo Qianshan smiled bitterly: "Why is your attitude so aggressive?"

Ruan Nanzhu raised his chin, looking like an arrogant queen: "I never talk nonsense with my defeated generals."

Luo Qianshan was speechless.

Having never played Ruan Nanzhu, he has probably already recorded the stains in his life - Lin Qiushi thought, if he knew that he was a big lady in front of him, would he feel better.

"I came to talk to you very sincerely." Luo Qianshan said, "My sister and I have found the clue to the key."

He originally thought that when he said this, the three people in front of him would be very excited, but who knew that the expressions of these three people were more indifferent than the other.

Cheng Yixie's face is paralyzed, and Ruan Nanzhu has seen countless big scenes for a long time, and Lin Qiushi is already mentally prepared, so he doesn't think there is anything to be surprised about.

In the end, he was shocked and turned into Luo Qianshan himself. He said, "You don't want to say anything?"

Lin Qiushi: "Congratulations?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh."

Cheng Yixie didn't speak.

Luo Qianshan: "..." He is already thinking about whether the three people in front of him have already found the key...

Fortunately, Ruan Nanzhu's next words dispelled his worries, Ruan Nanzhu said: "Well, what do you want us to exchange for your clues?"

Luo Qianshan: "I..."

Before he could speak, Ruan Nanzhu leaned on Lin Qiushi's shoulder and said softly, "First of all, let me explain that they have a boyfriend, so don't make any unreasonable demands."

Luo Qianshan: "..." I'm not, I don't.His expression distorted: "Don't think too much." Although the person in front of him is indeed beautiful, who would dare to attack her with that skill? If there is any dispute in the future, it is not certain who will beat whom.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, you really have no vision."

Luo Qianshan: "..." I'm sorry, I apologize.