stonecrandall Chapter 22 Night of the Full Moon in the Circus
Chapter 22 Night of the Full Moon in the Circus
"Why doesn't your lord believe that Emily is sick?"
"I don't know," the little brother shook his head, "but Emily usually doesn't see any illness at all."
"Is this the reason? I see that the relationship between the earl and Elizabeth seems to be very good. Doesn't it mean that the earl has deep affection for the deceased lady?"
"You think so too?" The little brother asked without answering, "No one would doubt the Earl's affection, just like..."
The little brother shivered, and said in a very small voice: "It's like being cursed by a demon, no one doubts, no one doubts!"
"I don't think, I think the Earl may not be as affectionate as he appears."
Just as the little brother was about to say something, he heard a sound coming from outside.
He quickly winked at Qiao Yiqi, telling him to hide quickly, and Qiao Yiqi had already hidden when he heard the voice.
The little brother quickly cleaned up everything on the coffee table, and then pretended to read a book there.
The door was opened, and the Earl walked in, and glanced at the little brother sitting there.
"Are there any guests?"
"No, my lord is back, is it okay outside?" The little brother walked over and took the clothes that the count had taken off.
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
"Should be."
"Go on, I want to rest for a while."
"promise."
The little brother came out of the room and exhaled.
Then he said to the air: "Come out, find a time to leave, it would be bad if the Earl finds out."
Qiao Yiqi came out from the corner.Said to him: "Don't worry about me, I won't be found out."
"You have to leave." The little brother frowned.
"You also want to know what happened between Emily and the Earl."
The little brother pursed his lips, "Then you'd better not be discovered by adults, my name is Figo."
"Don't worry, the count can't see me."
This manor is not as big as imagined, only three floors.
The first floor appears to be the place to entertain guests, with a huge living room, kitchen.
The second floor is the bedroom, the guest room.
The third floor is the study.
Qiao Yiqi walked to the third floor, but found that the stairs on the third floor were blocked by a door.
Although this level of lock couldn't stop him, in order to prevent any accidents from happening, he still didn't open it.
Temporarily giving up the idea of going to the third floor, he went to the second floor.
Since the study cannot be entered, let's go sightseeing in the bedroom of the Earl.
There are about eight or nine rooms on the second floor, each of which is similar, and it is not obvious which one is the earl's room for a while.
Qiao Yiqi thought for a while, walked to the innermost room, and opened the door.
There is a very large bed inside, and the items on it are neatly arranged.
The overall style of the room is a standard European-style aristocratic room, but it is impossible to tell whose room it is.
There is only one lamp on the bedside table, and the rest of the place is empty, with nothing.
He walked to the bed and opened the nightstand.
There are all letter papers in the bedside table.
Qiao Yiqi opened the letter paper:
Dear
please give me an answer
your affectionate gaze shines
my pale youth
I will return your most lovable smile
And the tenderness that no storm can peel off
Who is this written to?
From the Earl to Emily?
Then why didn't you send it out?
Or to Elizabeth?
Qiao Yiqi put the letter back after reading it, and looked at the room again.
Still nothing.
There was nothing in this room, Qiao Yiqi came out of the room and opened the next room.
As soon as he opened the door, there was a choking dust blowing towards his face, Qiao Yiqi couldn't help fanning it with his hands to make himself feel better.
The room next to it has the same layout as the other side, but it doesn't look as gorgeous and bright as the opposite room, which is in stark contrast to the room just now.
The things inside have been covered with a thick layer of dust, which proves that this room has not been lived in for a long time.
It is no longer possible to move the things inside at will. Once it is moved, there will be very clear traces. He can only look at the surface to see if there are any valuable clues.
From the surface, this should be the place where the Earl or his loyal servants lived, but for some reason no one lived there, maybe they left the manor, or they died so that the Earl didn’t let others Some people lived in but didn't arrange for someone to clean it. He didn't believe the nonsense that there was no one in the manor.
His sight fell on the corner farthest from the door, where there was a large dark brown mark. Although the room was already very dilapidated, that mark seemed to be out of place with the whole room.
He went to the corner and wiped it lightly with his hand.
Then put the wiped hand under the nose and smell it.
If it wasn't for the heavy dusty smell, then there really wasn't much smell.
Qiao Yiqi put down his hand, thought for a while, took out a small knife, and scraped at the mark.
The sharp silver-white blade clearly reflected the mark.
It's blood.
Even though it's been so long and nothing can be seen, Qiao Yiqi still dares to conclude that this large area of traces is blood.
With such a large pool of blood, this person must die sooner or later.
Now the question is, who died here?
Crouching in this position, he realized that there was a square area not stained with blood on the other side of the blood stain, just like there was a cabinet here when this person died.
Maybe it was because I was standing too far away that this large area was covered in blood, so I didn't see this.
Qiao Yiqi gestured, if a cabinet is placed here, is it possible that it was hit by a sharp corner and died, but it is not right, if it was hit and then died unexpectedly, there is no reason to leave such a cabinet. There was a lot of blood, so it should have been killed.
The sun outside has already begun to set. If you don't go back now, you will violate the words of the shop's mother-in-law: "Don't leave your own room at night."
Qiao Yiqi narrowed his eyes and decided not to go back tonight, but he wanted to see what would happen if he didn't go back tonight.
Of course it would be the best if you can attract the boss of this dungeon.
He stood up and looked around the room again.
Intuition tells that there must be some clues in it.
Thinking about it, he took out a set of clothes from the space bag, and quickly put them on himself.
If there are other bigwigs on the scene, they will definitely be amazed. This is too bad. The invisibility cloak bought with [-] points is used casually in this kind of occasion. You must know that the invisibility cloak can not only be invisible, but also hide the smell, and Footsteps, etc., will not leave traces even if they walk on this thick layer of dust.
This thing is not only used to hide traces, more importantly, he can imitate, imitate anything.
Putting on the invisibility cloak, Qiao Yiqi began to search recklessly. The first thing he looked for was the bedside table, but there was nothing valuable in this bedside table.
Qiao Yiqi closed the cabinet, then looked at the bed, the quilt was in a mess, and the quilt was also covered with dust.
He twisted a corner of the quilt and slowly pulled the tangle of quilt away.
Even though the movements have been minimized, there is still a burst of dust flying all over the sky.
"Cough cough cough cough... what the hell is this... cough cough cough cough..."
How could there be such a thick layer of dust, fuck.
He cursed secretly in his heart.
Qiao Yiqi finally saw the situation under the quilt when there was not so much dust.
It is a human bone with dense bones.
It is not quite right to say that it is a skeleton, because this skeleton is missing something, or a rib.
rib cage……
Qiao Yiqi reached out and touched the bone's forehead, observed it for a while, and finally touched the bone again.
is a woman.
It looked like he was young when he died, just an adult.
There is a bone here, and the Earl has no reason not to know. If the Earl knows who this bone is and prohibits others from approaching this room, then the difference between this room and the room just now can be explained.
Who is the bone, he already has a candidate in his heart.
But there was one more thing he didn't want to understand, and he needed to confirm it.
There was a sound of footsteps outside.
Qiao Yiqi looked towards the door, and the footsteps stopped at the door of the room he was in now.
The door was pushed open.
The Earl stood at the door, looking at the messy and dusty room.
"*%￥#@%&*..." The earl said a lot of incomprehensible words.
The Count twirled the ring on his thumb, and with his other hand he held his cane.
There was nothing in the room, and it looked the same as usual.
The Count stood for a while, then turned and left.
Qiao Yiqi, who was standing behind the door, breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't have time to think about how the Earl came here. The Earl has already woken up. What he has to do now is to quickly find valuable clues in this room.
Just as he took a step, the door that had just been closed was opened again. This time, there was no sound from the door, but it was opened directly.
The earl of the dog even killed a carbine.
The count tilted his head, as if he wasn't quite sure if there was anyone in the room.
Seeing that it was still the same as he left just now, the count stopped for a while, and then left.
Although Qiao Yiqi wasn't worried about being discovered, he should be more cautious when the boss didn't know who it was. He didn't want to be killed by the boss before reaching the end of the dungeon.
In order to prevent the count from fighting back again, he hid behind the door for a long time.
He didn't start to walk towards the bed in the room until he was sure that the count was really gone.
The bones on the bed had been covered by him with a quilt, and it was still the same when he opened it again.
But there was nothing on the bed except a white bone.
Qiao Yiqi touched the quilt again. He really didn't want to touch the quilt, but for the sake of clues, he could only endure it.
The author has something to say:
The love letter in the article was written by a soldier to his lover during World War II.