Chapter 74: Before dawn (13)

Twelve o'clock in 1926, and the last two hours, Tang Cuo still couldn't find the gift the housekeeper brought back from the bank.
The three returned to the phone.
Qi Hui thought positively, "After all, why should the housekeeper take out the gift in advance? Is Yu Wangnian instructing him to do this?"
Jin Cheng leaned his arms on the flower stand and saw him getting more and more upright, "Go on."
Qi Hui, "Has Yu Wangnian expected the tragedy to come? Everyone has lived together in the mansion for so long, and his spirit is about to collapse to the limit. He may be aware of any signs, so he took out the gift in advance. Give your daughter, it’s like, just like taking care of the aftermath?"
This is not without reason.
Judging from the performance of various ghosts, the wife was killed by her own daughter and was taking medicine before death. But the most terrible Yu Wangnian was on the same level as the imp, which shows that he was generally resentful when he died. He may have really expected the ending of the mansion.
For Yu Wangnian, is this not a relief? The younger brother was killed indirectly by him, and the wife died. All love and guilt and regret will disappear because of death.
It can be said that the present is still unknown.
Tang Cuo went to the house of the housekeeper and the young lady again, and then to the study room of Yu Wang Nian, almost peeling off the walls of all the rooms, and found no clue.
Where is it missing?
Tang Cuo finally stood in Yu Wangyue's room and pondered. The door was open. From here, he could see his wife's room from afar, but where would the gift be?
Madam's room couldn't be opened. Most of the keys were in the last space and time. Do you want to go to that space and time to get the key and come back to open the door?
Miss took the diary in 1936, mostly for the information of the gift recorded in the diary. She did not know that the gift had been taken out in advance.
It can be seen that the gift has not been delivered to her.
If the housekeeper goes to the bank to pick up the things, it is very likely that the things will still be kept by the housekeeper. Where will he put them? Such an important thing...
Tang Cuo looked at his wife's room again.
Qi Hui was standing on the necessary path from the living room to the kitchen, and saw Tang Cuo almost sliding down on the handrail of the stairs, and quickly let go. Then he followed up again, "Brother Tang, what's wrong??"
Tang Cuo said concisely, "The password box."
The lockbox for medicine.
In 1924, Tang Cuo found a metal box with a combination lock in the kitchen, which contained his wife's medicine. He opened it and set it aside because there was nothing to notice about a medicine box.
He ignored it subconsciously.
But what if the contents of this box had changed in 1926?
Soon, Tangcuo found the box in its original location and tried it with the password that was opened for the first time.
Qi Hui was excited, "The password was changed, and the contents must be changed!"
Tang Cuo did not answer, and intently cracked the password. He first tried it on the birthday of the young lady and couldn't open it, and then tried the date to get the gift back, but he still couldn't open it.
Jin Cheng didn't know where to shake it, leaning against the door and saying, "Since it's an 18-year-old gift, I may still want my daughter to be opened at the age of 18 in Wannian. You try that day."
This is really a wonderful idea.
The birthday of the young lady was February 6, 1918. At the age of eighteen, it was February 6, 1936. Tang Cuo entered "360206" with a temporary mentality, but did not expect to succeed.
Qi Hui was dumbfounded.
Tang Cuo also remained silent for two seconds, opening the box calmly at any time, and took out a music box from the inside. The music box is very heavy, made of sterling silver, inlaid with dozens of red and blue gemstones and crystals, which is expensive.
There is a card underneath, and a pen is written on it-Love your father, Yu Wangnian.
Tang Cuo opened the music box and wound it up, but no music came out, so Tang Cuo decided to take it down.
Qi Hui felt that this was too fierce, and could not help asking, "Does it matter? Can it be put back after being disassembled?"
Tang Cuo didn't speak, but just looked up at Jin Cheng and blinked.
Jin Cheng felt that he was cute, and he was suddenly stunned. "Take it apart, I will pretend to you."
Tang Cuosi glanced at Qi Hui, then lowered his head and continued to dismantle the music box. Qi Hui felt strange. There was something wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
In short weird, and I feel that I have more than one.
Five minutes later, the music box has become a scattered pile of parts. Tang Cuopan sat on the ground and tinkered, and Jin Cheng squatted in front of him with his chin.
When Tang Cuo finally determined that there was nothing hidden in the music box, he pushed the parts in front of Jin Cheng, and Jin Cheng had no choice but to install it for him.
The two did not say a word during the whole journey, but the naturally flowing tacit agreement persuaded Qi Hui to be ten meters away, keeping the phone alone and lonely.
More lonely and lonelier than him was Rong Yi in 1936. He was not only lonely but also exhausted. These nc of 1936 really ran away if they didn't move, and set fire when they didn't move. Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo were golden partners. With two brains and two skills, he had only one person and was tired of coping.
He finally got the key, and racked his brain to open the safe in the lady's room. After contacting the clues he got before, he knew that he had to go back to 1926, but he was hesitant to think of Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo in 1926.
At this time, the disadvantage is too great.
After thinking about it, Rong Yi had a decision. The last time to adjust the time, the piano sounded at twelve o'clock, Rong Yi's figure disappeared in 1936 instantly.
On the other side, Tang Cuo collected the music box and began to organize the final clues with Jin Cheng. Only the last time and space are left, and the general appearance of the story has come out, and it can save the next time by sorting it out more clearly.
Presumably Rong Yi has mastered most of the clues, so now the most important thing is to grab time.
More than an hour later, at twelve o'clock, the three of them successfully crossed to 1916.
The 1916's Yu Mansion is a slightly different place from other space-time Yu Mansion. It is spacious and bright, all lights are on, and there are no reinforced railings outside the windows. Many sweets were placed on the coffee table in the living room, and the word "Xi" was posted on the door.
Suddenly switching from the haunted house to the mansion with clear windows, Qi Hui was in a trance for a moment. Fortunately, Tangcuo quickly pulled him back to reality-"find the body."
Qi Hui's eyes widened, "corpse?"
"There are homicides in every time and space, and of course there is no exception here." Tang Cuo explained briefly, turned and walked to the basement. He walked fast, opened the closet, went down the stairs, and got it all in one go.
But he was blocked by the basement door because the keys did not match.
Jin Cheng bent over and looked carefully at the keyhole. "The lock was changed. This is not the lock that came later."
Tang Cuo also keenly smelled the smell coming from the basement and asked Jin Cheng to come to the glazed lamp and looked in through the half-finger wide door slit. Qi Hui also leaned over to look at it, but fell to the ground in shock at the first sight.
"Eye! Someone, there is one eye looking at me!!!" Qi Hui was shocked and gasped. It was really terrible. The eye in the door slit was staring and covered with bloodshot eyes, as if the eyeballs were about to pop out of it. It was like, as if someone was trying to figure it out in the door slit.
Tang Cuo was not scared, but his face was condensed, "It's the player."
Qi Hui stunned.
Tang Cuo turned back, "Look at it again."
What does this mean?
Qi Hui didn't understand it for a while, or refused to understand it, but Tang Cuo had moved away from him, and he could only stand up and watch, his heart beating like a beat.
"Meng, Meng Ping?" Qi Hui finally recognized each other when he saw the mole in the corner of the man's eyes. He shouted the name in disbelief, and immediately fell into madness, "Meng Ping? What's wrong with you, Meng Ping? You answer me!"
Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng did not speak, quietly waiting for Qi Hui to vent, accepting the fact that Meng Ping was dead.
"Why? Why is this? Why did he quietly die here?" Qi Hui clutched his hair, although his emotions had gradually stabilized, he still collapsed.
"There are six players in the copy, you, me, Tangcuo, Zhou Haihai, Rongyi, there are only five people, of course there is the sixth one. He is not in the time and space before us, he can only be here, but he is from beginning to end No phone calls have been answered," Jin Cheng said.
Tang Cuo continued, "There is no response. Unless he is as strong as Rong Yi, he is trapped. And it has been more than ten hours since we entered the copy. It is dawn, and he will definitely die."
After hearing this, Qi Hui couldn't understand it, he just couldn't accept it for a while. If Meng Ping was unfortunately killed in the process of hitting the boss, it is better to accept some, but he is now clearly alive and trapped inside!
How desperate and collapsed he should have been when he died. When the phone rang so many times, he couldn't pass out his call for help once. Qi Hui couldn't even imagine the scene.
"There should be corpses inside." Tang Cuo dropped another bombshell.
"How to say?" Jin Cheng asked.
"Every time and space starts with death. The death is nc, not the player. Meng Ping just died here. But the time point of 1916 is before and after the wedding. There are dead people on such a lively and festive day. If you are the master, what will you do? do?"
"Temporarily hide the past?"
Tang Cuo nodded.
If you want to hide the past, you have to hide the body. In the mansion is suitable for hiding corpses, except the attic is the basement. Ordinary guests will definitely not go to these two places.
In view of Zhou Dahai said, there are traces of something painted on the walls of the basement, so there must be some stories hidden in the basement. This is why Tangcuo tends to have his body in the basement.
The two immediately went to the attic to confirm that the attic in 1916 was not locked at all, and the door was full of debris. There is no housekeeper's keychain in this space-time, but different contents are recorded on his blackboard.
Preparation at six
7 o'clock breakfast
At nine o'clock to send the second young master to leave
Lunch at twelve
Three o'clock afternoon tea
Six o'clock dinner
Clean up debris at nine
It's a normal schedule, but Tang Cuo is very concerned about the last line. What kind of sundries need to be cleaned up by 9pm? In such large households, the housekeeper started to clean up after nine o'clock, which is too unreasonable.
"What time is it?" he asked Jin Cheng.
"Nine-twenty-eight. Most of this debris removal is to deal with the corpse. If a person dies, the corpse cannot always be left." Jin Cheng said.
The implication is that the body Tang Tang was looking for may no longer be there.
What about ghosts? With such doubts, Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng have successively explored other rooms, mainly Yu Wangnian's study. At this time, Yu Wangnian was newly married, and it was impossible for him to separate from his wife when it was like glue. So he should live with his wife, the study is just a study.
They found Yu Wangnian’s diary in the study. Although this diary does not have any content after 1916, it is also not defaced, and it completes the missing parts.
October 8, 1915
I have never seen such a lilac girl, she must have swept away my mind, otherwise how can I sleep like this?
February 13, 1916
Wanwan’s heart is not with me, but I still can’t give up.
I just don't know what kind of man, can she pity her?
July 2, 1916
I finally moved Wan Wan, and the sky won't disappoint me.
October 7, 1916
Immediately after the marriage, a seriously ill woman claimed that her father's original match appeared in the mansion, and brought a thin boy, hoping to let him stay.
This is really beyond my expectation, I will have to send someone back home to check it out.
October 8, 1916
His name is Yu Wangri.
October 10, 1916
Today's joy, tie the knots together, please do not win.
October 11, 1916
I had no intention of killing her. I was afraid that her illness would affect my Wan Wan, and I could not explain the ins and outs of the matter to a group of guests. I asked them to go to the basement to avoid it.
Only one night, she went.
The teenager Xu was unable to accept the death of his mother, suffered a heart attack and failed to recover. Although Dr. Lin was at fault, it was my fault. If it were not for me to place them in the basement, Dr. Lin would not treat them so lightly.
The night of regret.
Yu Wangnian’s diary doesn’t remember much, but these are useful, which can outline a complete story. Jin Cheng closed the book and sat on the chair leisurely, knocking on the desk with his fingers, "When I saw this story at the end, I didn't expect to be a revenge plan for the original son."
If the attic guest is Yu Wangri, then he will return to the Yu Mansion incognito, and it will be for revenge. There is a perfect explanation for a series of things that happened later.
In 1916, Yu Wangri said that although he had a heart attack, he must have died. Yu Wangnian misunderstood that he was dead, and sent the body away from the mansion, which also buried the disaster for the future.
Years later, Yu Wangri became incognito and returned to the piano teacher as a young lady. He must have known that Lin Wan really loves Yu Wangyue, so he deliberately seduce Lin Wan by virtue of his similar appearance to Yu Wangyue.
Lin Wanmi was deeply involved, and the outbursts of the two's private feelings were mostly leaked by Yu Wangri.
This incident is like □□, completely detonating the subsequent series of tragedies in the mansion. What role did Yu Wangri play in it?
He tempted Lin Wan, but Lin Wan planted stolen Yu Wangyue, but she said it personally, this is because of love and hatred.
The maid died, greedy, and the maid was close.
As for Dr. Lin, his arrogance and indifference led indirectly to the death of Yu Wangri's mother, so his death must also be written by Yu Wangri. At that time, the maid communicated with Yu Wangri in the attic under the name of his wife, and attempted to plant stolen money for her. Yu Wangri might have done something in it, leading to the murder of the doctor.
The toilet where the doctor was killed is very close to his attic. There is no bathroom in the attic. If Yu Wangri wants to take a bath, he must go there. He has the opportunity to do something.
It was not him who directly killed the doctor.
He played with the hearts of the people, not killing anyone, but the mansion was destroyed by the door, and he sat quietly in the attic, watching the people below killing each other.
Finally, he retreated.
Needless to say, the danger is one step, and things may be revealed. His face similar to Yu Mochizuki is his best tool and his biggest flaw.
Jin Cheng "In this way, Yu Wangyue didn't know the truth until he died. The nc in this copy can't see a ghost, and Yu Wangri won't guard against a ghost."
Tang Cuo nodded.
After Yu Wangyue knew the truth, he began to play the music made by Wang Ri, hoping to remind people who are still alive. Unfortunately, it is useless.
"The question now is-how to open the door."
The story is generally clear, but the door of the mansion is still closed and the basement door cannot be opened. Tang Cuo repeated all the details of the story again and again, and laid out the unused props one by one.
These are the music box and a key that Tang Cuo got on the housekeeper's keychain in 1924.
There are three unopened doors, one at the main entrance, one at the basement, and one at the lady's door.
There is no way but to continue looking.
Tang Cuo is most curious about this key on his opponent now, but this is the key he got when he first entered the copy, but it has not been used until now, which is too strange.
He searched and searched, walked back and forth in the mansion, and suddenly, something suddenly fell out of him. He took a closer look, only to find a hole in the trench coat pocket.
It was Chi Yan who sent him the amulet that was said to bring good luck. It was carried by the wind blowing in the door slit and fell under the cabinet with the telephone.
Tang Cuo stooped to pick it up, but when he looked up, he stared at the phone above him.
"What's wrong?" Jin Cheng asked.
"It's dark under the light." Tang Cuo immediately straightened up, picked up the phone and turned it over, and there was a keyhole at the bottom of the phone. He showed the keyhole to Jin Cheng, his eyes bright.
Jin Cheng smiled. It's no wonder that they all turned Yu Gongguan upside down, and they only ignored this phone that had been making calls. Was it just dark under the lights?
Tang Cuo inserted the key from 1924, which fit perfectly.
In the dark compartment at the bottom of the phone, there is still a key, the key to the door of the mansion. It's logical to think about it carefully. Many people are used to putting the door key near the entrance, on the shoe cabinet, or in other convenient places.
The low cabinet with the phone fits in exactly as it is only five or six meters from the gate.
This is probably called Smart Anti-Mistaken Mistake. Tang Cuo didn't expect it at all. The way to clear this copy was so simple.
But the twelve movements hadn't been obtained, and they couldn't leave now, so Jin Cheng collected the keys, and the two went on to find a way to open the basement and his wife's room.
Tang Cuo looked at the clock in the living room, it was ten thirty in the evening.
"Where is Rongyi now?"
"Probably still jumping sideways."
"you sure?"
"Relax, he is not as smart as you, and not so easy to live."
Jin Cheng is always unscrupulous to speak bad things behind his back, especially lacking in morality. With that said, he took out a chocolate from his pocket and handed it to Tang Cuo, "The body was disposed of, what about the ghost?"
Tang Cuo took it, "Where are you from?"
"The coffee table in the living room goes well, Yu Wangnian and Lin Wan's wedding candy, get a little happy." Jin Chengli was straight.
You are not cursing me.
Tang Cuofang slandered, but the chocolate looked good, and it was still imported, so he took it out and ate it. While eating him, he answered, "The corpse is not there, so the ghost is not there. In Yu Wangnian and the housekeeper, the corpse is left in the mansion. The doctor was crushed, and there must be some sporadic remains. Only Yu Wang's mother, her corpse was Cleaned up."
Jin Cheng nodded, so it made sense.
It was at this moment that Qi Hui stumbled up from the basement door and shouted, "I saw the key! Meng Ping's body fell with a key!"
Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng hurried to the basement.
But at this moment, Jin Cheng frowned slightly.
In the flashlight, he summoned a mechanical bow, and turning around was a clear arrow. "Eh--" The long arrow crossed the living room, through the gap of the chandelier, and pointed directly at the stairs.
Rong Yi's figure appeared there, evading away. The pocket watch in his hand shook irregularly, but his casting was not interrupted.
Tang Cuo obviously felt that his body suddenly became heavy, and if the air was substantial, he was blocking his progress. At the last moment, Tang Cuo turned to look at the clock on the wall.
"Dad." The second hand stopped.
Tang Cuo, Jin Cheng and Qi Hui were set on the stairs leading to the basement because time stopped.
Rong Yi also spit out a blood violently, he supported the stairs handrail, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked pale when he raised his head. But his eyes were firm, and he passed the three without any pause, without even looking at them more.
He came to the basement door, confirmed the position of the key through the door slit, and then took out a sword and hooked the key from under the door.
After getting the key, he quickly tried the basement door. Unable to open, he went straight to the second floor.
Tang Cuo couldn't move, watching him leave. And just as Rong Yi's figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs, Jin Cheng suddenly blinked playfully at Tang Cuo.
Qi Hui was also immersed in the sorrow of his companion's death and the consternation that was fixed. When he saw this scene suddenly, he just wanted to be blind.
Every second of being settled is like a year.
I don't know how long it took, maybe a few minutes, maybe half an hour, Rong Yi finally returned. He walked hurriedly, his face seemed a little whiter than before, and quickly went through the three to open the door.
Tang Cuo couldn't look back, but could hear the key unlock.
Jin Cheng smiled.
He moved his neck slowly, then turned slowly, bent his bow, made an arrow, and threatened with a smile, "Let me put the key down, and if I don't let me go, I will hit someone."
The second the voice fell, the time of stagnation resumed its flow.
This time Rongyi was fixed and his body was stiff, but it was only a moment. He turned around calmly and said, "In my current state, I really can't trap you."
Jin Cheng "So you are overcast again."
What innocent girlish tone are you.
Rong Yi frowned, his expression like eating a ton of Coptis.
"You guarded me early."
"That's because I'm smarter." Jin Cheng took out the one-time props that Wen Xiaoming gave him before the copy to disturb the time, and threw them on the ground. Now that everyone knows that the time controller may enter the copy, how could he not have any preparations? He didn't take it out before, but it wasn't the time.
Rong Yi gave up talking with Jin Cheng and talked to this person, which was more uncomfortable than the failure of the copy.
Jin Cheng spread his hand and faced Tang Cuo for comfort.
Tang Cuo ignored him and opened the door that Rong Yi had opened halfway. Just before he walked in, he turned back and asked Rong Yi, "What's in the wife's room?"
Rong Yi "You can watch it yourself."
Tangcuo "I'm lazy."
Believe it or not, I now perform a vomiting blood on the spot.
Rong Yi was really good-tempered, took a deep breath, and still explained, "In addition to the key to the basement, there was a confession letter in her book in the lady's room. The day before the marriage, Yu Wangri met her and confessed to Yu Wangyue , Yu Wangyue rejected her. The next day, Lin Wan was seriously ill and the doctor in the basement deliberately called away the doctor. The doctor pushed the boat down the river and killed him."
Tang was clear, no wonder that in the whole tragedy, the worst ending was his wife Lin Wan.
After being tortured on the hospital bed day after day, he was also killed by his own daughter.
Thinking of this, Tang Cuo turned and walked into the basement. As far as the eye can see, it is the red sheet music painted with blood on the wall that has not yet been wiped.
Yu Wangri, the teenager who was trapped in the basement with a seriously ill mother and had no help, wrote this piece of music in grief and indignation.
This may be his alternative curse for the mansion.
The music score is already here. How do you turn it into twelve movements? Tang Cuo thought, and took out the only music box that had not been used.
At this time Jin Cheng came forward, "put on the spring and try on the ground."
Tang Cuo did so.
The next moment, the music box began to turn, and the missing music finally sounded, it was "Songs of Gods, Lambs and Crows". In the sound of music, the red sheet music all over the wall seemed to come alive, and blood trickled down the wall and slowly flowed into the bottom of the music box.
Horror and gorgeous.
On the rotating disc, a holy light gradually emerged, and a thin sheet of paper emerged in the light.
"Ding!"
"Congratulations to the player who won the sixth movement of the twelve movements!"