In the early morning of the second day, just a week after the summer camp started, a scream pierced through the twilight morning light of the day, forcibly tearing apart the hazy sky, revealing the dazzling sunlight inside.

Zhao Bai, who was about to wake up, was completely cleared by this sound, and slowly stood up from the bed, listening to identify the source of the sound.After confirming that it was indeed coming from the direction of the second floor on the left, Zhao Bai unhurriedly began to tidy himself up, then slowly descended to the second floor, and then walked towards the source of the scream through the cafeteria on the second floor.

The hotel has three floors, and the structure is reversed and symmetrical. Each floor is separated by the library, dining hall and living room. Except for these three places, the left and right sides of each floor seem to be connected in no other way.The library is open from [-] am to [-] pm, the cafeteria is open for meals, and the living room on the first floor is always open on both sides.

It was seven o'clock in the morning, the library was not open yet, but the cafeteria was open just because it was breakfast time, so Zhao Bai, who lived on the right, went through the cafeteria to the women's bathroom on the left side of the hotel where the screams came from.

When Zhao Bai entered the bathroom, it was already full of people, and the middle part was vacated, like a blockade around it.Excluding the dead Bai Jie and Song Yu, there were ten people in the room including himself, and all the hotel staff came together.

Stepping into the bathroom, Zhao Bai started searching for Ning Zhi's figure in the next second.Ning Zhi, who also lived on the third floor on the right, came much faster than Zhao Bai. Standing at the front of the crowd, he was staring blankly at the spot in front of him, his face pale, and his reaction was exactly the same as described in the original story line.

Well, amnesia again.

The corners of Zhao Bai's mouth twitched, and he simply followed Ning Zhi's gaze, and saw the protagonist Qin Mu, his partner Chu Chao, and Yan Qin, who was a professional policeman, squatting beside the corpse, and Liu Qi stood with a sad expression. In the closest position to the blockade, try to get as close to the corpse as possible.

Through the gaps in the crowd, Zhao Bai clearly saw Bai Jie's body, leaning against the wall of the bathroom cubicle in a kneeling position, completely naked.On top of Bai Jie's head, the shower head was still dripping water at a rate of one drop per second, obviously it had just been turned off not long ago.

The thick and thin stream of water flowed down the curve of Bai Jie's body, and when it passed by her left wrist, the water stagnated in front of a gully, which was a wound bruised with flesh and blood.At the edge of the wound, there were two or three dried red blood streaks, the rest were washed white by the water, and the wrinkled flesh looked like old white cloth that had not been ironed.

At Bai Jie's splayed feet, there was a white mobile phone and a steak knife with the blade pointing inward.After identification by several people next to the corpse, this steak knife should be the murder weapon without a doubt.

The air conditioner in the bathroom was turned on all night, coupled with hot water, no internet or signal, and the mountain road collapsed due to heavy rain, unable to communicate with the outside world and lacking professional equipment, Bai Jie's death time cannot be determined for the time being.

The story of the first deceased, Song Yu, was foreshadowed. Even though the scene created by Bai Jie's body and the surrounding conditions, especially the steak knife with the blade turned inward, made her look like she had cut her wrists, no one thought she committed suicide. .

Qian Tingting, a work-study college student cleaner who lived opposite the women's bathroom on the second floor on the left, stood at the front of the crowd, with panic on her face, deceiving herself: "Could it be that she committed suicide in fear of crime..."

Before she could finish speaking, Qian Tingting was interrupted by Liu Qi, who was squatting beside Bai Jie with a sad face.Liu Qi had a grim expression on his face, and retorted in an almost roaring tone: "Impossible! It's impossible for Bai Jie to be the murderer of Song Yu, she must have been killed!"

Liu Qi's expression was ferocious, even scarier than the New Year pictures she used to see when she was a child. Qian Tingting subconsciously shrank her shoulders and leaned towards the person beside her, not daring to say more.

Zhao Bai, who stood at the end of the crowd, smiled, Liu Qi's acting skills are pretty good.

Restraining his smile, Zhao Bai yawned exaggeratedly according to the performance of the original owner in the original story line, successfully attracting everyone's attention, most of them were dissatisfied to some extent.

Liu Qi, who had just scolded Qian Tingting, had eyes full of anger, and stared at Zhao Bai: "You are dead, but you have such an attitude! Cold-blooded and ruthless!"

Liu Qi gritted his teeth for the last four words, if some veins popped out on his forehead, it would be perfect acting.

The people in the bathroom were taken aback by his reaction. Among the older people, none of them dared to speak out to provoke the young boy who had just graduated from high school.The bathroom was so quiet that only the sound of Liu Qi's unsteady breathing after the angry reprimand, and the dripping sound of the shower head fell down, as if hitting everyone's heart.

However, Zhao Bai, who was accused by him, didn't flinch at all. Instead, he raised his chin and looked at Liu Qi from an overlooking angle with a disdainful smile.

Zhao Bai passed the empty path in front of Liu Qi when Liu Qi scolded him just now, pointed to Bai Jie's left wrist, and said in a haughty and indifferent tone: "Normal people cut their wrists and hold a knife in their right hand. It's true that the left hand was injured, but Bai Jie The lady is left-handed, and the one who was injured should be right-handed. So this is definitely a homicide, and the murderer, as a right-handed person, must have been in a hurry at that time, for example, he needed to rush to a place to obtain his alibi."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Bai looked at Liu Qi and smiled again.

Liu Qi's face turned red and then turned pale. Zhao Bai, who was reprimanded by him, gave out the key evidence to support his point of view. For a while, Liu Qi felt a little embarrassed.As if turning his head away in embarrassment, a guilty conscience flashed in Liu Qi's eyes.

Others in the bathroom looked at each other, only the boss, Uncle Li, was relieved. He was left-handed, and everyone knew about it on the first day of the summer camp.

The protagonist Qin Mu, who was squatting beside Liu Qi, looked at Zhao Bai in surprise. He didn't expect that Zhao Bai, who looked like a fool, could find such evidence. Immediately, seeing Liu Qi's expression was not good, he quickly stood up and moved away. Topic: "Sister Zhao Li, I asked you to check the water meter, how is the situation?"

Zhao Li is a cleaner in the hotel and lives in a nearby town.At this moment, Zhao Li was standing beside Zhao Bai, about 2 minutes after Zhao Bai came in, she came in from the bathroom.

Originally, in the original story line, it should be the original owner who led Zhao Li to narrate the situation of the water meter, but Zhao Bai changed his mind. To counterattack the protagonist Qin Mu and establish the image of a famous detective, there must be some signs at ordinary times.So, Zhao Bai discarded the original owner's lines and replaced it with a left-hander that he just discovered and was not mentioned in the original story line.

The follow-up development did not exceed Zhao Bai's expectations. When he brought up that point, the four people around the corpse stared in surprise, while Qin Mu still asked Zhao Li about the water meter at the same time.

Zhao Li rubbed her hands, twisting the tiger's mouth of her right hand back and forth with two fingers of her left hand. From Zhao Bai's angle, one could clearly see the panic on her face.

Zhao Li hesitated and said: "The water meter has gone...not...not much."

Hearing this answer, the protagonist Qin Mu narrowed his eyes, looked Zhao Li and Qian Tingting back and forth, and asked kindly, "Which of you discovered the corpse first?"

Zhao Li was still hesitant and terrified. Qian Tingting, who was standing in front of her, was taken aback, and quickly said, "It's Miss Zhao Li! At that time, I was cleaning the aisle outside. You can ask Mama Wang, she just opened the cafeteria door and saw me!"

After finishing speaking, Qian Tingting let out a long sigh of relief, and patted her chest with her hands.

Zhao Li beside Zhao Bai's eyes widened because of Qian Tingting's answer, and the two hands that were rubbing each other hurriedly separated, shaking in a panic: "It's not me! It's really not me!"

Regarding the different reactions of the two, Qin Mu didn't reply, but instead had a friendly smile on his face and walked towards Zhao Li step by step.

The eyes of everyone in the bathroom converged on the two of them as Qin Mu moved. Because of their different identities and standpoints, there were obvious differences in their faces. They looked at each other and were silent.

In order to protect privacy, the specially set low-brightness light bulbs and windowless design make the bathroom extremely depressing at the moment. The shower head has stopped dripping, and only Zhao Li repeatedly said "it's not me" can be heard in the room.

Qin Mu stopped a step in front of Zhao Li, nodded and smiled at her, and was about to open his mouth to hear the news.

Beside Zhao Li, Zhao Bai suddenly inserted an arm, grabbing attention.He looked directly at Qin Mu with an indifferent tone.

"It doesn't have to be a murderer pretending to be a discoverer. The water in the hotel bathroom stops at 09:30 in the evening, and the water comes in at [-] o'clock in the daytime. As long as you turn on the shower switch near the water cutoff time at night, until [-]:[-] in the morning, the water will only flow for about an hour. , the water meter also won’t move in the same way.”

Interrupted by Zhao Bai, Qin Mu not only felt ashamed and dissatisfied, but also smiled: "I asked Miss Zhao to check the water meter, but I didn't expect her to be guilty. When I was in the cafeteria at six o'clock, Mr. Ning Zhi gave Bai Miss Jie made a phone call, it rang for a while and was hung up, there must have been someone in the bathroom at that time, either Miss Bai Jie or the murderer, so it is impossible to commit the crime at night."

Speaking, Qin Mu looked at Ning Zhi who had just called Bai Jie, and asked with a smile, "Mr. Ning, isn't it?"

Ning Zhi, who was staring at Bai Jie's body with a strange expression, didn't pay attention to the conversation between Qin Mu and Zhao Bai. He was suddenly called by his name and didn't react for a while. Seeing Qin Mu's gaze on Bai Jie's phone, he stopped. After knowing the situation.

"Oh, yes, at [-]:[-], that kid Liu Qi was nagging annoyingly, so I called Miss Bai, it rang about three times, and I was hung up."

His eyes stayed on Ning Zhi for a moment, Zhao Bai frowned, and the smile on Qin Mu's face deepened.

Qin Mu was about to say a few polite words to show his dignity, when he saw Zhao Bai suddenly smiled lowly with deliberate surprise on his expression.

Zhao Bai said with a flamboyant posture: "Can this kind of blindness trick Mr. Qin? Six o'clock is when the water comes in. The mobile phone without a protective case next to Miss Bai is placed under the shower head. When the water is turned off, the phone will hang up naturally. , this operation only needs to put the mobile phone under the shower head and wait for the right time, which is not difficult."

When he said the last sentence, Zhao Bai glanced across the faces of Ning Zhi and Liu Qi: "In this way, the people involved in the phone call at that time are even more suspicious."

Qin Mu's face froze, his eyebrows frowned, he lowered his head in thought, and after a while he said unwillingly, "But we can't deny the possibility of killing people in the morning."

Putting his hands in his pockets, Zhao Bai ignored Zhao Li's grateful and apprehensive gaze, and his tone was clearly filled with impatience: "If Miss Zhao really did it, there is no need for her to tell you that the water meter didn't go away. , besides her, does anyone know the original value of the water meter?"

Embarrassment flashed across Qin Mu's face, and he still stubbornly said: "Maybe it's reverse thinking..."

Facing Qin Mu's struggle again, Zhao Bai directly rolled his eyes, turned around and left, showing the original owner's arrogance and arrogance to the fullest, no one could see that there was a change of heart inside.

After Zhao Bai left, Qin Mu heard the sound of his footsteps on the wooden floor of the hotel, the muscles on his face twitched, and he tried to force a smile but couldn't. He looked very strange, as if he had suffered a stroke.

Although Qin Mu has been obsessed with reasoning for so many years, and his acting personality likes to show off, it has not always been unfavorable, and there have been many mistakes and omissions.But at that time, generally everyone made more mistakes and omissions than him, or they were at a loss at all, and he always made mocking gestures to others.

This was the first time that someone had slapped her in the face in public this time, and the slapped person was so high-profile, which made Qin Mu, who actually had arrogance in his bones, somewhat unacceptable.

Liu Qi heard the footsteps fading away from behind, and said to Qin Mu a little flatteringly, "Brother Qin, please ignore him, this son must be talking nonsense to attract people's attention."

"No." Qin Mugang's complexion improved because of Liu Qi's words, and Yan Qin, who had been squatting beside the corpse to study the situation, suddenly interrupted.

Yan Qinye nodded habitually to other people in the room: "Reverse thinking is generally only activated when positive thinking is completely deadlocked, or when there is conclusive evidence. It is a mistake to insist on reverse thinking without any basis. way of thinking."

After hearing this, Liu Qi was dumbfounded. After all, Yan Qin is a policeman, he has already spoken in a professional way, what else can he say as a high school graduate.

In front of Zhao Li, Qin Mu's face became more and more ugly. Zhao Li, who had just been suspected, felt terrified. She opened her mouth subconsciously to comfort her, but Qin Mu didn't even glance at her, and left on her own.

Zhao Bai and Qin Mu started, and other people in the bathroom also dispersed in twos and threes, only Liu Qi and Yan Qin remained where they were.

Looking at Bai Jie's corpse, Liu Qi still had a sad expression on his face, slowly raised his head, and said to Yan Qin, who was looking at the position where Zhao Bai had just stood, wondering what he was thinking: "Officer Yan, who are you talking about being so insane? A woman as good as Bai Jie can get her hands on her! Police officer, tell me...could it be an acquaintance who committed the crime?"

Liu Qi stared at Yan Qin with dark eyes, and couldn't see his emotions clearly in the half-blind corner of the bathroom light, but he could clearly distinguish the strong hatred and anger even if he didn't look into his eyes.

Yan Qin shook his head, expressing that there was nothing he could do for the time being, and then his eyes froze, looking thoughtfully at the corpse.

On the third floor on the right side of the hotel, Zhao Bai returned to his room with a bowl of rice noodles and a plate of poached eggs from the cafeteria, his expression had returned to his original appearance.

Taking a bite of the poached egg, Zhao Bai recalled the gazes of everyone in the bathroom just now, the character of the original owner was so hateful and extremely arrogant, even if the original owner was right, those gazes were more intended to refute than reverence.

But in this background of reasoning, his sudden personality mutation can easily arouse suspicion, and if he is not careful, he will be forcibly blamed, suspecting that he has a temperament change caused by a guilty conscience or too much pressure.

Compared with laying a gun innocently, let's just pull hatred.

Coincidentally, because of this hatred-inducing temperament, others avoided him and would not bother him if they had nothing to do. Zhao Bai, who had something to worry about, was also happy to relax.

Bai Jie is dead, and Liu Qi's next target is Ning Zhi. Looking at Ning Zhi's appearance today, he probably came into this world again due to amnesia.

Thinking of Ning Zhi's performance in the bathroom today, Zhao Bai frowned again. There is no trace of his Ning Zhi on Ning Zhi in this world. in this way.

Could it be... What the hell did the space leader or Ning Zhi himself do?

After contemplating for a while, he couldn't reach a conclusion, so Zhao Bai simply put the matter aside for the time being.No matter what, stop Liu Qi from attacking Ning Zhi first, while saving Ning Zhi's life, disrupt Liu Qi's plan and expose loopholes.Whether it is to protect Ningzhi or to complete his own mission, this step cannot be skipped.

Zhao Bai went through the original story line quickly, his eyes rolled, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

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