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In the face of more and more clues being discovered, all speculation can only stop at speculation.

Diep Tich immediately took down all the ideas on the mobile phone and made a simple note, then everyone went to the next step - checking the items in the room.

Since yesterday when they entered the dungeon, Ye Xi and Xiao Leng had actually been in contact with most of the places in this house, only their parents' main bedroom they had not entered yet. However, being in contact with it and carefully checking it were two different things. In the past, they had been busy with all kinds of housework 24 hours a day, it was very difficult to clean up and check at the same time, so now they were not very clear about what was in the cabinets and drawers.

On the contrary, Zhao Mo and Ye Shuyan spent more than half of the time yesterday in the room debating whether or not to sacrifice themselves to bring their daughter out safely. They also conveniently checked every corner of the master bedroom. Now, hearing Xiao Leng and Ye Xi say they wanted to find clues, Zhao Mo went straight into the house and took out a receipt: "We couldn't find anything else in the room, but this receipt is very strange."

Tieu Lang walked over and next, Diep Tich leaned closer and saw, it was a water fee bill.

The upper margin tool shows the time as "2024 year 3 month".

The time on the electronic wall calendar in front of the living room is "April 24, 2024", which means this receipt is from last month.

Go down a bit further, the toll collection is called "2024 first quarter water fee".

Commonly speaking, the water fee is from 2024 January 1st to 2024 March 31st.

The back side follows the turnover because: original.

"So high?" Diep Tich frowned.

The 17th apartment building's water fee is also a precious gift. She lives alone and can't even spend a hundred dollars in three months.

She took another close look and saw the unit price on the receipt: yuan/ton.

In other words, this water world is not much different from the real world, the original equivalent of 311 tons of water, using 100 tons per month.

Obviously using an unusual amount of water made Ye Xi think of Xiao Leng's suspicions from last night for a second, and that evil chill rose from the bottom of her heart. She stared at Xiao Leng: "So much water... Do you think it's..."

"Hard to say." Tieu Lanh said softly.

Trieu Mat looked at them: "Is it something or not? Don't guess!"

Diep Tich hesitated a bit, without hiding anything from his mother, he said directly: "Tieu Leng suspected that this copy's background was a corpse case, now it looks like it used a large amount of water..."

"..." Zhao Mo's eyes widened and he took a deep breath, "You mean, jump down from the water?!"

They have seen the same kind of malignant cases on the news.

Diep Tich nodded: "Yes."

"So scary..." Zhao Mo trembled as he hugged his arms, unable to help but raise his head to look around, there was a kind of illusion of ghosts flying in the air.

"Just using a single water bill is not enough to prove anything, there must be other things." Ye Xi pondered and started searching, searching the storage counter, cigarette holder, cupboard, TV counter all at once. Xiao Leng then went to the first floor bathroom next to the storage room, the storage room was very small, only about three square meters, but the items were really full, old clothes, old furniture were piled up like a small mountain.

Seeing this, Diep Thu Nham went in to help him clean up. Every single box that was moved out would be opened and inspected. When he opened another random luggage box, Tieu Leng's eyes suddenly stopped: "Wait a minute!"

This suitcase was filled with bedding items. Diep Thu Nham glanced and felt that there was nothing unusual, so he had to go and clean up the next type of items.

Tieu Lanh's words made him stop, his eyes fell on those bed products: "What's wrong?"

"Uncle, look at these bed products..." Xiao Leng turned over the things in the chest with one hand, "Is the style ancient?"

Diep Thu Nham was stunned, squatted down to look closely and found that it was really like that.

The bedding in the chest was made of extremely saturated colors, embroidered with peonies, roses, and other various flowers. The remaining bed sheets were mostly broken flowers, and two beds were painted with gorgeous pale pink brushstrokes of flowers and birds.

This kind of style must be the most popular when his parents were young, at least forty or fifty years ago.

So these things, definitely were not brought by those people who moved into the "Guest House" in 2024.

Xiao Leng tried to piece together the clues, frowning: "If this is really a case of a strangled corpse, judging from the style of the bed sheets and quilt covers, the deceased and the murderer are at least between 60 and 80 years old."

"Are you sure?" Diep Tich poked his head out from the bathroom wall and reminded, "Yesterday you said that bruising a corpse is a manual job, can a sixty or seventy year old still do it?"

"I also thought about this." Xiao Leng said thoughtfully, "If there are modern tools to help, perhaps it can be done."

... But still very difficult.

For example, electric saws and other things, although using them requires much less force than normal saws, but if you use them to saw bones, they are still vital.

Xiao Leng put the bedside chest aside and continued to turn over the storage counter. Box after box of old things were moved out, dust filled the air. This kind of inspection process was boring and dull, because most of the things that were pulled out were useless and would make people feel uncomfortable.

Seeing that there was only a third of the items left, Diep Thu Nham felt an envelope between the two chests.

The envelope is made of thick paper, with a red print on the top, printed by a government university.

Diep Thu Nham cheered up and immediately opened the envelope. Inside was a graduate student admission letter.

"Look at this!" He turned around and quickly walked out of the storage room, handing the admission notice to Xiao Leng. Xiao Leng opened it and saw that most of the text on the admission notice was blurry. The name, school, and department were all unclear, only the date and year in the lower right corner were clear.

2000 years.

"2000 years of reading?" Diep Thu Nham frowned, calculating with his fingers, "That should be after 70, it could also be after 80."

He was stunned by the time, looking at the admission letter in front of him, then looking at the bed box just now, "Could this reading inscription be the child or the senior of the owner of the bed box? Is it a witness to the murder case?"

Tieu Lanh silently shook his head, not answering.

He felt that what Ye Shuyan said could still be considered a possibility, but just relying on the existing things to make this kind of speculation was not serious enough.

He continued to search the remaining items in the storage counter, but did not find any valuable clues. Ye Xi also did not gain anything by searching other places, only finding a small book behind the TV counter.

The content of this little book is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", printed in 1978, now it is so old that it cannot be seen, with the slightest force it will turn into pieces of paper.

The reason it's on the back counter is because someone used it to cover the corner of the TV counter table.

This entire search process took three to four hours. In the afternoon, Ye Xi and Xiao Leng still had to continue to follow the rules of housework and cooking. Zhao Mo and Ye Shuyan were still relatively free, so they reluctantly turned over the storage chests in the room that they couldn't find any clues for, trying to find more valuable things.

Hurry to dusk, they also indeed have snipers present, although not enough to prove anything, but is closely related to the year.

For example, 1990 year of issue has a valid stamp, along with a five-year code amulet.

These two types of objects are not placed together, but 1990 happens to be the year of the code, so this most likely means that one of the murderers and the deceased belongs to the code.

There are also some rice coupons.

This kind of thing for people of this age, Diep Tich Tieu Lanh, is already very distant history, Trieu Mat and Diep Thu Nham have both seen it.

The rice coupon date is 1974.

There was also an object closely related to the same era, which Ye Xi found in the drawer of the second floor bedside table.

It was a very famous fashion magazine, the cover showed the date as "2018 June Monthly".

These time items span several decades, as if they were expressing something, but the clues are really too scattered.

The whole day of searching made everyone really tired. At night, Diep Tich didn't even have the energy to take a bath. She just wanted to simply wash her face and go to sleep quickly. Her biggest hope in her heart was that tonight no ghost would come to touch her again.

Halfway through washing my face, the bathroom light suddenly went out.

Diep Tich's heart suddenly rose to his throat, he forced himself to calm down, not letting himself be scared, he tried to speak out: "Tieu Leng?"

No one responded.

Her face was covered in foam and water, and she couldn't bear to open her eyes. She could only boldly put her hand towards the right wall and feel for the bathroom light switch.

The latch to open the cup should not be far away, but Ye Xi stroked it... instead of touching the expected latch, she touched a wet and sticky neck.

The sticky neck stained the ceramic tile wall, carrying a slight fishy smell.

Diep Tich suddenly tilted her head, trying her best to open her eyes. At the same time as the foam hurt her eyes, she saw a strange green light and saw that layer of sticky object.

It's blood!

Thick blood splattered on the wall, flowing down in streams.

"Ah!" Diep Tich screamed and continuously retreated, his feet slipped and he fell, then he scraped the ground again, panicking and continuing to hide.

She escaped about half a meter... Something blocked her way.

She touched the soft skin, the skin was slightly cold, making her suddenly stiff.

She felt as if she was frozen, and it took all her strength to move her head an inch.

... Then she looked to her right side and stretched out one leg.

That leg was bare, fresh blood flowing down, the slippers on the feet were stained red.

Nothing unexpected happened said...

Diep Tich realized that the person behind her was sitting in the same position as her, so she was right in front of him.

A cold air approached at this moment, a hoarse voice that was difficult to distinguish between male and female whispered in her ear: "Run quickly ——"

Diep Tich felt all the hairs on his back go numb, he cried out in frustration and ran out of the bathroom.

Waiting to wash his face, Tieu Lanh suddenly heard a shrill scream that broke the door. He quickly stood up to greet her, but was bumped into by Diep Tich.

"What happened?" He supported her shoulders, Diep Tich's eyes widened: "Inside..."

He was startled, looked up at the bathroom behind her, she was rinsing behind him while also looking over... Then saw everything in the bathroom as usual.

Warm warm yellow light not closed, no strange green light, no corpse.

Diep Tich took a deep breath, instantly regained more than half of his senses, and his reason returned.

She quickly analyzed what had just happened and asked Xiao Leng, "Didn't you hear any movement just now?"

Tieu Lang: "Movement?"

"For example… I screamed miserably?" She recalled.

Tieu Lanh smiled: "I came here because I heard a miserable cry."

"No, over there in front..." Diep Tich swallowed, "There is also the sound of me falling."

Tieu Lang stiffened: "No."

Before she pushed the door open and screamed, he didn't hear anything.

"That is to say, just now I felt like I entered an illusion." Diep Tich took a deep breath and looked at the bathroom in front of him again.

She opened the door completely, overcame her fear, and walked in again, pointing at the wall above her head and said: "There was a corpse just now, sitting here."

"There was a lot of blood, all over his body, on the walls, and all over the ground... He even said to me...'run quickly'."

Tieu Lanh said in a low voice: "Is the body male or female?"

"I don't know..." Ye Xi murmured, the next second, a few details flashed before her eyes, "No! The bright red nail polish on her feet… is female."

"What's the difference?" Tieu Lanh led the way as she continued to recall, "Did you see the murder weapon, or anything else related to the murderer?"

"No." Diep Tich slowly shook his head, thoughtfully walked out of the bathroom, stopped at the door again, turned around to look inside, "I see a different decoration style."

She looked at the ceramic tiles in the bathroom: "Ceramic tiles are not this kind of large bricks, they are this kind of… square ceramic tiles about ten centimeters long, without any edges, the curves in the middle are all black."

"The water pipe... The water pipe is all exposed outside."

"There is also a toilet, a sink... They all look really old!"

Speaking of this, Diep Tich herself had some admiration for herself. She had just been scared out of her wits by the person in front running away while the person behind was chasing after her. She herself had never thought that she would still pay attention to these details.

People are really limitless potential, unreasonable!

"The sink is actually this kind of egg-shaped, and not big." Ye Xi gestured in front of him.

Tieu Lanh followed her description and came to a conclusion: "This must be a very ancient decoration style."

Diep Tich slowly nodded: "Yes... When I was young, I saw photos of my father's house. My family's bathroom used this kind of decoration style before, but at that time I wasn't there yet..."

Tieu Lanh's understanding of this is not much different from hers: "It's the eighty-something to ninety-something style."

"That's right." Ye Xi breathed a sigh of relief, "That is to say, that murder case happened in that era? That's not right..."

300 tons of water, obviously this is the matter of the past few months.

Moreover, she vaguely felt that there was another suspicious point, but just now she was so scared that she didn't understand, the suspicious point just passed through her mind.

She returned to her bed and sat down thoughtfully, forcing herself to recall the terrifying image just now. Xiao Leng saw what she was thinking and sat down on the bed opposite her, letting her communicate with him when she had an idea, but he was not in a hurry to disturb her.

Diep Tich pondered for a long time, finally thinking about what was suspicious: "You said in the eighties, nineties, was this kind of loft style common?"

Tieu Lanh was surprised by the question.

This house's residential area is typical loft style, the second floor area is about two-thirds of the first floor area, the first floor living room is quite high.

But if placed in the upper century 80-90s...

He shook his head: "Can't say it's completely absent, but it must be extremely rare."

At that time, even in the capital city B, many people did not have their own bathroom, let alone have the conditions to build a loft?

"That is to say, this person died in the 80s and 90s, so this loft should not be like this. The current loft may have been remodeled later, or it could be that the entire loft was pushed down and rebuilt?" Ye Xi said.

Tieu Lanh frowned: "Logic does not rule out this possibility, but what does this mean?"

"Meaning is..." Ye Xi took out the rule book from his pocket and unfolded it in his hand, "Could this be a story of a vengeful spirit taking a life, then causing the resentment in the house to become even stronger?"

Tieu Lang: "Ah?"

"You think, the image just now clearly told me, in the 80s and 90s this place was deadlier than others. But the water chart shows that in the next three months there might have been a lot of corpse cases here."

"Is there a possibility that in the 80s and 90s, there was a person here, and at that time it was not like this. But the dead's soul does not dissipate, even after the reconstruction, they still remained here, and then three months ago, they finally succeeded in taking revenge, leading to another murder case?"

Tieu Lanh pondered and did not speak.

Diep Tich paused for a moment, still shaking his head: "...That's not right."

Tieu Lang: "Huh?"

Diep Tich said: "If it is a vengeful spirit that takes lives, is there any need for a bruised body?"

The corpse was thrown into the sewer, obviously to conceal the traces of the crime and erase the truth of the murder. There could only be one reason for the murderer to do this, and that was to escape legal sanctions.

But if the murderer is a ghost, what legal sanctions would there be?

Maybe afraid of the law of hell, but in the human world, what use is a corpse?

Diep Tich's eyes scanned the rules page again, hesitantly saying: "Maybe... open your mind a little more."

"Four ghosts?" Tieu Lanh said.

"Four vengeful souls!" Diep Tich said in unison.

"You are her, you are her, you are her, you are her".

——This seemingly strange rule is not necessarily just a ruse.

"Four ghosts, four murderers, but the murderers are all human." Diep Tich pursed his lips, "That can explain the bruised corpses."

Xiao Leng slowly nodded: "It can also explain those year symbols."

They now came into contact with the item, which happened to point to four different ages.

The ancient style bed is probably sixty or seventy years old;

1974 year of rice coupons, 1978 year of petty people's books, now forty years;

2000 years of graduate student admission notice, 24 years ago;

Last month brought water fee single element, is immediate.

Based on these four time periods, the 80s-90s woman who died in the bathroom is probably the one who read the book in 1978. However, it is also possible that the house has not been decorated for many years, causing this style to persist until 2000 years later.

If the "Four Wraiths" deduction was correct, they should have already found the direction of this dungeon.

... If it's wrong, then say it again.

After going through two consecutive dungeons with not too normal difficulty, Ye Xi somewhat missed the simple and natural rules of the monsters from before, even feeling that those monsters were all beautiful.

Seeing that there weren't many things unearthed, Xiao Leng also went to wash his face. Before he could come out of the bathroom, Ye Xi, who had exhausted his last bit of energy from the shock, had already fallen asleep.

She was so tired that she fell asleep.

She dreamed that she was in an old room, decorated in the 80s-90s style, she was naturally the "old bastard" that the rich man called "young bastard".

The room layout was not a loft, just a very ordinary one room one hall. She was in the bedroom and heard a woman crying from the living room.

She walked out in a daze, just pushed the door open, and saw a man in his thirties swinging his arm around the woman's face. The woman was thrown onto the sofa, but was grabbed by the collar by the man, struggling angrily and powerlessly: "Let me go! I didn't do anything to apologize to you! Let me go!"

The man said nothing, just continued to swing his fists.

"Hey..." Diep Tich instinctively wanted to stop him, pushed the door open and stepped forward.

Seeing the sofa still a few meters away, the person in front suddenly disappeared.

Two people, together disappeared.

She suddenly stopped, looked around in confusion, and smelled a rusty smell.

She slowly turned her head, the image that entered her eyes was so scary that she had to hold the sofa backrest in time to avoid falling.

... Just now that woman, covered in blood, stood in front of her.

Reason told Diep Tich that she must be dead. Because there was really too much blood on her body, so much that the white broken flower nightgown only had a small white corner left.

Her head was smashed by a sharp weapon, her bones exposed, white blood flowed out from the cracks, mixed with dark red blood, completely covering her face.

"Uyết..." Diệp Tịch couldn't help but gag,

The woman staggered toward her and took a step.

Diep Tich ran quickly and escaped.

"Run quickly..." The woman stared at her, her voice hoarse and unable to distinguish gender, but clearly filled with fear, "They will kill you..."

"Scamper..."

1 castle owner lying down, Diep Thu Nham made a strange dream.

The dream scene started from a DNA testing report, he sat on the chair outside the examination room, startled to distinguish that the person being tested was himself, and his daughter Diep Tich.

The personal news below is a table, a table of various professional values ​​he does not understand.

But in the table below the test results, there was a row with a rough word added: The person being tested, Ye Shuyan, and Ye Xi, are not related by blood.

For a few minutes, Diep Thu Nham's mind was blank.

He seemed to have not realized what this meant for a long time. There was no dramatic anger or humiliation in his heart, only a deeper and deeper confusion.

Straight to...

Until a low voice echoed in his ear: "She betrayed you..."

"She deceived you..."

"She betrayed your feelings..."

"She makes you not dare to raise your head..."

This voice kept saying "her" without mentioning her name, but it seemed to have a magical power, making him think of Trieu Mat.

"No..." Diep Thu Nham instinctively denied.

The remaining reason made him not think that his wife would do this kind of thing.

The voice continued: "She is the stain on your life..."

"She makes you a laughing stock..."

"She shouldn't exist..."

"She is a mistake..."

It was still just "her", but at this moment, he thought of Diep Tich.

"No, no..." He shook his head blankly.

How could Xiao Xi not be her daughter? Everyone says they look very similar.

"They should have died here..." That deep voice carried a hint of laughter, "You should have made this mistake."

"No... No!" Ye Shuyan finally realized something was wrong, looking at the empty corridor in front of him, "Who are you? Come out!"

The other voice seemed to not hear him say: "Kill them, kill them!"

"Everyone will understand you!"

"This is just that they should have been punished!"

"Kill them!":, m..,.

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