Chapter 6 Taboo
After checking the body, the three of them left the bathroom. Facing such a strange body, no one would feel comfortable.
"The time of death is probably within three hours," the strong man looked up and said affirmatively, looking at the pocket watch in his hand, "that is, it is probably between 2 and 5 in the morning."
"How can you be sure of the time?"
The strong man glanced at the innocent woman who asked the question, told her the time and order of their vigil, and handed her the pocket watch, which showed that the timer had counted exactly 7 hours.
Jiang Cheng's next shift was the middle-aged man, and the fat man who was off duty was awakened by the urge to urinate. When he went to flush, he found the dead middle-aged man.
At this time, the fat man trembled and climbed up, asking the middle-aged man why he died. The strong man sighed, closed the door of the bathroom, 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. Most of the opinions he put forward came from the most senior strong man and the woman with a mole on his lip.
Through the information revealed in the discussion among several people, Jiang Cheng knew that in this world, there is generally no situation where people are killed for no reason. The people who are killed must have touched some taboos.
And the so-called taboos are very likely to be the key clues to cracking the task.
"What did he do that we haven't done?" The male clerk huddled between Jiang Cheng and the innocent girl, obviously frightened. He didn't want to die inexplicably like the middle-aged man.
The innocent girl frowned her beautiful eyebrows and said, "Could it be because he went to the bathroom on the first floor, where is the hidden taboo in this task, and everyone who has been there will die?"
"No way," the fat man squatted in place, holding his knees with both hands, and whispered, "I have also been to the bathroom, just when I searched the living room yesterday."
Jiang Cheng turned his head to look at the fat man, and after a while he said, "Then you have to be careful. Although your neck is thick, you should be able to break it if you bend it hard."
The fat man almost cried when he heard this.
The sturdy 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 be just the middle-aged man.
"Maybe it's just a matter of order?" The woman with a mole on her lip smiled strangely: "You should understand that ghosts rarely kill people in a short period of time."
The sturdy man glared at the woman fiercely, but rarely refuted.
"Are there really those things?"
Jiang Cheng's long-standing speculation was confirmed. The door that appeared in the dream undoubtedly belonged to the category of supernatural events, and the appearance of ghosts in supernatural events seemed reasonable.
"So what we need to fight in this world is not people, but ghosts?!" The male clerk was scared pale.
Given his previous performance, no one was willing to pay attention to him.
"Since someone died, it means that this villa is our destination. The so-called journey does not exist. The appearance of the car is just to send us here," the innocent girl looked around, "The problem is this villa."
"What's wrong with the villa?"
The innocent girl stared at the fat man who asked the question, and said after a while: "For example, some vicious incidents happened here before."
This villa looks quite luxurious, and there is no sign of damage inside. It was abandoned inexplicably, which is indeed suspicious. Jiang Cheng thinks what the innocent girl said is more credible.
The strong man walked to the door of the villa, grabbed the door handle, and pulled hard, but the door did not move.
"It's locked," the strong man didn't even try a second time, and turned his head and said: "It seems that this is the mission location. We can't leave before we crack what happened in this villa."
"Since the mission location has been determined, let's disperse and look for clues. Now it's daybreak, there shouldn't be any danger."
Having said that, the death of the middle-aged man still sounded the alarm for everyone, especially Jiang Cheng, the fat man, and the three new male clerks.
In order to speed up the efficiency, several people spontaneously divided into groups, with an old man leading a newcomer.
The fat man followed the strong man, the male clerk followed the woman with a mole on her lip, and Jiang Cheng and the pure woman were in a group.
For safety reasons, the search range was temporarily fixed on the first floor of the villa.
The strong man's group was responsible for the living room and the door, the woman's group was responsible for the remote warehouse, and Jiang Cheng and the pure woman went to the kitchen and the dining room.
The groups were within a straight line of sight of each other, and they could take care of each other if something happened.
With the previous experience, the search was more thorough and more careful this time.
Half an hour later, the three groups reunited in front of the fireplace, and the sky was completely bright.
"This is what we found in the warehouse," the woman with a mole on her lip took out a very thick rope, a hemp rope, one section of which was glaring red.
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, "Just behind a pile of firewood, I also picked this up 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 should be a gentle girl.
There was once a girl tied up in a warehouse.
"What did you find?" The woman looked at the strong man.
"Come with me and take a look," the strong man said, and walked to the door, followed by a group of people.
Standing by the door, the strong man groped and pressed a position on the wall. Jiang Cheng had good eyesight, and he saw that it was a light blue button.
The button is embedded in the oil painting beside the door, blending into the sky-blue background. It is difficult to find without careful observation.
When the button was pressed, a crack appeared on the right wall of the door, and then slowly opened, revealing a well-hidden built-in shoe cabinet.
The shoe cabinet has three layers. Except for the third layer which is still intact, the partition between the first and second layers has been broken, and all kinds of shoes are mixed together.
After classification, there are two pairs of men's leather shoes, a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes, and three pairs of women's casual shoes in front of them.
The woman with a mole on her lip picked out a pair of casual shoes from the 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.
A pair of men's sports shoes is placed on the third layer. After comparison, the size is quite different from that of men's leather shoes.
"It seems that a family of four once lived in this villa, the man, the woman, a girl and a boy," the innocent girl said, looking up. "This also matches the distribution of the bedrooms on the second floor. There is a master bedroom for the man and woman, a girl's bedroom, and a boy's bedroom."