When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

"It's not impossible, but..." Lin Lezhi thought, with uncertainty in his eyes.

"But what?"

"You can imagine that no one had entered Wu Sanshan's yard and basement for more than two months before we went there. We didn't knock over any bottles or jars in the basement. Even if there were sticky things on the ground, they would have dried up by the wind or been covered with fallen leaves and dust. But the sticky things on the bottom of the coffin are very tightly stuck."

"So, you mean that this thing has not been on the bottom of the coffin for long." Xiao Yihuo pondered for a moment and said, "After the coffin left Wu Sanshan's house, it was in the military camp and on the ship. Since Cheng Su took over, the coffin has been moved and guarded by his men. No one else can get close to it."

"Well, but we are on Lake Island now and we can't go back to investigate. Besides... these sticky substances may have been picked up by accident and have nothing to do with the case."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi put the leaves away, raised his head and looked at Xiao Yihuo and said, "Compared to this, there is another place that I am very concerned about. Let's go to the fire room."

Before, Cheng Su’s people were guarding the kitchen, so I didn’t have the chance to go into it. Now I can finally come in and take a look.

As soon as I approached the kitchen, the skull placed on the stove immediately came into view, with its empty eyes staring straight towards the door.

If I hadn't known it in advance, I would have been scared when I came in.

Approaching the fire room, Lin Lezhi took out the fire starter from his arms, walked straight to the stove, squatted down, and reached towards the fire opening with the fire starter.

At this moment, the wax flowing out from the fire-adding port has completely dried up and turned into a hard milky white color.

There were also streaks of wax hanging on the stove wall coming down from the stove protrusion.

Then Lin Lezhi stood up again and looked at the stove. After a day, some leaves fell from the gap in the roof.

Then Lin Lezhi shifted his gaze to the gap in the roof facing the stove.

"Do you remember when we came here today, I said this fire room was a little strange and I felt like something was missing?"

Lin Lezhi looked at the hole in the eaves and talked to Xiao Yihuo who was standing beside him.

"Falling leaves?"

"The gap in the roof was indeed opened not long ago. It is indeed strange that there are no fallen leaves, but it is only one of the reasons."

"One...?" Xiao Yihuo looked around the fire room, then looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "What else is missing?"

"First, let me ask you, if you wanted to open a hole in the roof of this room so that the smoke signal in the room could be sent out to lure people in, what would you do?"

"Of course, I'll make a hole in this roof...!"

At this point, Xiao Yihuo suddenly thought of something and looked in the direction of the stove. He lowered his eyes and said, "If you want to make a hole in the roof as quickly as possible, you have to stand inside or outside the house and use a hard object like a stone to hit it. But not only are there no bricks and tiles on the stove, there are none in the house either."

"Yes, ever since I came here, I have always felt that the murderer was doing something very elaborate. If it was just to attract people, there would be no need to bother to clean up the bricks and tiles, or even to make a hole in the roof. Wouldn't it be more efficient to just put the cigarette in the yard? Unless..."

Lin Lezhi turned to look at the hole in the roof and continued in a deep voice: "The murderer did it deliberately. His purpose was not only to lure us here, but also to let us discover something else."

After saying that, Lin Lezhi and Xiao Yihuo looked at each other, and with the help of Xiao Yihuo, the two jumped to the roof.

Next to the gap were broken bricks and tiles that had been broken into many pieces. The broken parts of the bricks and tiles were very recent, and one could tell at a glance that they had been broken not long ago. The shapes of these broken bricks and tiles also confirmed their guess.

The broken bricks and tiles pointed in one direction like an arrow.

The house was built against the mountain, and the kitchen was built at an angle close to the mountain. The mountain was steep and almost vertical, so there were no trees, but there were many vines climbing on it.

The two men carefully approached the direction pointed by the arrow, at the right corner of the eaves of the house.

Following the direction of the arrow, the two searched from low to high among the vines.

"Look here."

When seeing a certain location, Lin Lezhi spoke out.

Starting from the roof and going up to a height of about five feet, after pulling aside the dense vines, a circular mark appeared on the mountain.

Even without touching it, one can tell from its texture that there is a round log with a diameter of about three inches embedded in the mountain.

"There are some over there too."

After discovering that the vines away from the house also concealed the inlaid wood, Xiao Yihuo leaned forward a little and pulled apart the vines in front of him so that Lin Lezhi could see clearly.

Not far apart, the two inlays are of the same size and height.

Xiao Yihuo looked towards the right side of the mountain.

"It seems there are more than just these two places. There are more ahead. I'll go take a look."

The location where the incense smoke was lit was the highest point in the entire village, almost one-third of the way up the mountain. Leaving the roof, there was nothing to stand on except the vines in front.

Relying entirely on vines to move forward is like walking on the edge of a cliff.

Even if it wasn't a cliff, but an overly inclined slope, it would be dangerous if you didn't hold on tightly and fell down.

"Be careful." Lin Lezhi couldn't help but worry and warned.

However, Xiao Yihuo did not respond. After a while, he moved to the other side of the mountain and disappeared.

There was silence for a while, but Xiao Yihuo showed no sign of coming back.

"Xiao Xu, how are you doing? Did you find anything?"

Lin Lezhi shouted, but the only response was silence. It was so late at night and there was no sound, which made Lin Lezhi feel a little nervous.

"Hey! Don't pretend you can't hear me. This isn't the place for jokes. If you have nothing to do, just say something."

However, all Lin Lezhi got in response was silence, and his heart began to beat fast.

Could it be that what I said came true? Did Xiao Yihuo just fall down due to bad luck, or was he bitten by a snake?

No way.

Xiao Yihuo is the male protagonist in this story. He is the one who is supposed to survive to the end. How could he die in such a place? If anyone is to die, it should be a passerby like him who doesn't even know who he is.

"Xiao Xu——!"

Lin Lezhi shouted again.

After still not getting a response from Xiao Yihuo, Lin Lezhi took a deep breath, climbed up the vines on the mountain, and walked towards Xiao Yihuo.

Lin Lezhi walked carefully in the direction Xiao Yihuo left, searching for the logs embedded in the mountain.

Not only are the heights of these logs consistent, but the distances between them are also equal.

Were they embedded there by people from Huaifeng Village?

While thinking, Lin Lezhi grabbed the vine and turned to the other side of the mountain. After turning to the other side, his eyes moved downward and he couldn't help swallowing.

On the other side of the mountain, thick fog was floating below. The fog and the night sky condensed together into a dark mass, making it difficult to tell the depth.

No, it's really a cliff...

Not only when looking down, but also when looking forward, there was floating fog, and Xiao Yihuo could not be found at all.

Lin Lezhi looked back and realized that he had already walked quite a distance, and it would be quite troublesome to turn back now.

"Xiao Yihuo, are you here? If you are, please reply."

Lin Lezhi shouted as he continued walking along the vine.

When he was pulling a certain vine, it suddenly loosened rapidly downwards without any warning. Lin Lezhi was startled and hurriedly grabbed it with his hands, but in a hurry he used his left arm.

"Well-!"

Lin Lezhi felt severe pain in his left shoulder and found it difficult to hold the cane tightly. He slipped down and the hard bumps on the cane made his palm hurt.

But in this situation, Lin Lezhi was not afraid, but felt like laughing.

really……

Things like the male protagonist's halo will never appear on me.