Ming Ke: When the villain accidentally mixes into the protagonist group

Akai Shuichi put away his mobile phone and looked at Mingyue, "I have a question. The mission arranged for three of us to enter the museum, but specified that only Shirley was asked to protect me. And only the three of us received the mission email. Your mission What exactly is it?"

The three Codename members looked at Mingyue at the same time.

Mingyue looked calm, "Of course my mission is to investigate the truth about the time in the mansion, which is similar to Sister Shirley's." Mingyue raised the corner of her mouth and looked at Akai Shuichi, "As for naming Rai, the only person you protect is Shirley. , because Shirley is a researcher, and I am in the action team after all, so I don’t need your protection. Don’t make the mistake of protecting me when there is an emergency.”

Akai Hide was half convinced, but he didn't continue to ask.

Fireworks bloom in the night sky, beauty is always fleeting, time is always in a hurry, cannot stop, cannot be retained.

Ireland led everyone to a nearby small hotel. The ancient decoration indicated that this small hotel had been open for many years. The lights in the hotel were dim and there were a few people sitting in the lobby on the first floor.

As soon as they entered the small hotel, Akai Shuichi noticed someone looking towards them, and everyone became alert.

"Don't be nervous. This is the organization's property. It's just to observe the mansion over there." Ireland glanced at Rai and was quite satisfied with his reaction just now. It was not in vain that he went out of his way to fight with the peripheral members stationed there. call.

After hearing Ireland's explanation, Shuichi Akai did not let down his guard, "The organization really worked hard for that mansion."

Ireland took everyone directly to the third floor of the hotel. "The third floor is not open to the public. You can have a good rest here at night. The room in the middle is for girls. I will live in the one on the left, and Ley, you will live in the one on the right." "

The door of the room on the third floor faced a corridor. The lamps in the corridor emitted a dim light due to age and disrepair. Through the windows on one side of the corridor, three clock towers of different heights could be seen in the distance.

Akai Shuichi stood in front of the window and looked into the distance, "This is a good location." It was a good location to observe the mansion, although the mansion was still mostly obscured by dense woods.

"It's just that the woods are a bit in the way. It's said that there used to be wild boars in this forest, but in recent years there have been more people here, and wild boars have never been seen again." Ireland leaned against the wall and told Ley that he had checked the forest. There are no ferocious beasts in the woods.

Miyano Shiho yawned greatly, feeling a little tired, and pulled Mingyue to sleep on a big bed.

After Akai Shuichi saw the two girls sleeping hugging each other, he carefully closed the door and found that Ireland was still standing at the door, staring at the clock tower outside the window.

He took out the cigarette case from his inner pocket, struck a match, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, exhaled the gray smoke, and handed the cigarette case to Ireland, "Would you like one?"

Ireland glanced at the handed cigarette case and said, "No, thank you."

"Did you suddenly get a mission and come here?" Akai Shuichi stood by the window, looking at the clock tower in the distance with Ireland.

Ireland glanced at the room behind him and turned off the lights in the corridor. The moonlight poured in through the window and the clock tower in the distance became clearer. "Although it is a temporary assignment, I have been here for three days."

Akai Shuichi was still smoking with a cold face, but his mind was full of thoughts. He thought that after he and Shirley refused to meet Ming Yue, Ming Yue called Ireland to come over, but he did not expect that Ireland had been here for three days. On second thought, Ireland is a code member and he may not necessarily follow Ming Yue's command. There should be someone else who made the plan for this mission, but who is this person?

So the candidate to enter that mansion has already been decided from the beginning? Akai Shuichi felt a little weird. Did Mingyue want to enter alone? Is bringing Shirley here just for the summer festival?

"As usual, when Shirley goes out for investigation, she is usually accompanied by gin and vodka. Why is it you this time?" Ireland asked the doubts in her heart.

Akai Shuichi exhaled a puff of smoke, "I seem to have passed a certain test without knowing it."

"Then you are really lucky. I don't even know when my test will come." Ireland looked forward to it.

Shuichi Akai glanced at Ireland and wondered, "What is that test of yours?"

"That's..." Ireland's face suddenly changed, and an inexplicable sense of crisis came over him. He turned back stiffly and looked behind him, and there was a pair of purple eyes in his shadow.

Akai Shuichi noticed something was wrong with Ireland's expression and turned around to look over. Ming Yue appeared behind them at some point. At this time, Ming Yue was raising a hand to rub her eyes.

In a place where Shuichi Akai couldn't see, a purple eye stared at Ireland. The murderous intent in his eyes was as real as it could strangle the person in front of him in an instant. At this moment, Ireland felt like a glow on his back, and a drop of cold sweat ran across his cheeks.

Mingyue put her hand to her mouth and yawned softly, "Aren't you guys sleeping yet? It's very late." She turned to look at Akai Shuichi, "Especially you Rai."

"I'm tired, good night." Ireland walked into the room first, closed the door, and leaned against the door, breathing heavily. It turns out that my test has already started. Should I report this matter to my beloved adoptive father?

Akai Shuichi put out his cigarette, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"It's a bit hot, come out and get some air." Mingyue stretched, walked to the window, lay on the window edge, and looked at the bell tower in the distance, "We will stay in that mansion for at least seventy-two hours, you Why don’t you go to rest early?”

Akai Shuichi looked at the gray-haired girl standing in the moonlight. Her purple eyes were surprisingly bright. Although he didn't know how she appeared quietly behind him, now was not a good time to explore this, "You Go to bed early too, you won’t grow taller if you sleep too late.”

"I will grow taller!" Mingyue gave Akai Hideichi a fierce look, and then entered the room.

Akai Shuichi shook his head. He couldn't understand or understand the girl's thoughts. He glanced at the three clock towers in the night, returned to the room, and lay on the bed. Although he was thinking a lot, he still let himself fall asleep.

The next day, as the morning light faded, Akai Shuichi woke up slowly. He had no dreams all night, so he was naturally in a good state of mind. When I went downstairs to the lobby on the first floor, I saw several peripheral members yawning. It seemed that they had stayed nearby all night last night.

This task does not seem simple.

Ireland was driving on the small road leading to the mansion at a slow speed. He was surrounded by towering trees, their branches reaching into the clouds, and birds flying by from time to time.

Mingyue looked through the car window at the slowly receding scenery, "This mansion is quite far away."

"The straight-line distance from the hotel is not very far. The main reason is that the road is not easy to walk and the driving is not fast." Ireland explained.

After a while, a few people finally arrived at the mansion. What came into view were three bell towers. It was called a bell tower because there was a huge dial on the top of the tower, but there were no hands. If a bell tower looked like this, it would be fine. Three bell towers. This is true.

Is it possible that the hands are broken because it took too long? That's too much of a coincidence. Maybe the hands were removed to cover up something.

The summer sun is very dazzling, and the mark of time has been left on the bell tower. The walls that should have been pure white have now turned gray and are full of small cracks, and it seems that they will collapse at any time.

The housekeeper warmly received Mingyue and her party at the entrance of the mansion.

Entering the mansion, you can see large and small clocks. Their hands are all rotating slowly at the same frequency. Even the rhythm of the second hand is the same, and there is a uniform ticking sound in your ears.

"These are clocks made by the previous owner." The housekeeper explained to everyone, "Now these clocks are maintained by the current owner. After decades, the time is still accurate."

The housekeeper looked to be in her fifties, and the years had left traces on her face. Her face was very kind, but there was some sadness in her eyes when she looked at Mingyue and Miyano Shiho.

Miyano Shiho raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It seemed that it was half a minute late, and then he turned the crown to adjust the watch time.

Mingyue and others followed the housekeeper to the hall. There were already many people sitting in the hall. Two of them had met before. One was a gray-haired fortune teller and the other was a young and beautiful psychic. However, The psychic now wears a black robe with purple lip gloss on her lips. It is completely different from the pure dress of the witch before. She now looks weird all over her body.

"You are here." The spiritual medium spoke slowly, his voice was very soft, with a hint of mystery.

Mingyue nodded and pulled Miyano Shiho to sit down in the empty seat near the psychic. Shuichi Akai sat next to Shiho and glanced around.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

The hands of the clock turned slowly.

"I, I don't want it, I don't want it here, the black god of death has come, you will all die here!" I don't know what happened, the gray-haired fortune teller suddenly yelled, pointing his trembling fingers at the people present people.

The maid in an apron ran over and quickly comforted the fortune teller, "Mr. Nonomiya, Mr. Nonomiya, don't be afraid, this is your home, it's okay, it's okay..."

The housekeeper bowed quickly, "I'm sorry, this is Mr. Nonomiya, the fortune teller. He was a little stimulated by the sudden death of Mr. Rendian, and his mood is sometimes unstable."

A man with small eyes sitting in the corner said: "Then let this crazy old man get out of here."

"I'm sorry. We followed Mr. Tonidian's instructions and took good care of Mr. Nonomiya. This mansion is also Mr. Nonomiya's home, unless Mr. Nonomiya doesn't want to live here." The housekeeper looked at him with a worried look. The gray-haired fortune teller said, "In his current condition, we don't trust him to leave the mansion and live alone."

Two men entered the hall behind the housekeeper. One was wearing a peaked cap and the other was carrying a large bag. The bag looked very heavy. They randomly found an empty seat and sat down.

The gray-haired fortune teller ran up to the man wearing the peaked cap, staring at him with cloudy eyes, his expression dull, "You will die soon."

The man in the peaked hat was a little angry after hearing this, but he still said restrainedly: "Old sir, how can you say that?"

However, the fortune teller ignored the man in the peaked hat and stood in front of the man carrying the big bag and said, "You are going to die too. It's terrible."

The man just glared at the fortune teller, opened his backpack, took out the camera and lens from inside, assembled them together, raised them in front of him, and pointed the lens at the fortune teller.

Click!

The flashlight came on, and the fortune teller took two steps back and almost fell, but fortunately the maid held him up.

"Mr. Nonomiya, can we go back to our seats?" The maid wanted to take the fortune teller back to his seat, but the fortune teller pushed the maid away. Regardless of the maid's obstruction, a man wearing thick-soled glasses stood in front of him. In front of the man, he tilted his head and looked at the other person carefully.

"Mr. Nonomiya, it's impolite for you to look at others like this." The maid held the fortune teller's arm, but the fortune teller stretched his neck, put his face in front of the man with thick-soled glasses, and looked at him carefully.

The maid was about to speak to persuade, but the man wearing thick-soled glasses raised his hand to stop her, "It's okay, let the old man see, I also want to know my fate."

"Your fate has been determined, you are going to die." The fortune teller said sadly, his cloudy eyes staring at the man with thick-soled glasses.

The man with thick-soled glasses asked: "Does the old man have a way to crack this?"

The fortune teller seemed to be frightened, and walked tremblingly to the man with small eyes.

The man with small eyes looked disgusted, "Go away! Go away!" Seeing that Todoroki wouldn't leave, he turned away from looking at the fortune teller.

"Your hands are covered with blood. It's so scary, so scary..." The fortune teller looked frightened and ran to a short-haired woman as if he was running away.

The man with small eyes squinted at the fortune teller and cursed.

The short-haired woman held a large book in front of her with both hands. She was trembling with fear. She didn't dare to look at the fortune teller.

"You won't live long, you are going to die, you are going to die, everyone is going to die..."

A strange atmosphere spread in the hall, except for the fortune teller's murmur, the whole space only echoed the neat ticking of the clock.

Miyano Shiho held Ming Yue's hand tightly, lowered his head, and his bangs covered his face.

Mingyue lowered her head and asked, "Sister Shiho?"

"I'm fine." Miyano Shiho looked at his toes, couldn't he escape? The more you don’t want something to happen, the more likely it will happen? Why is this so?

Akai Shuichi frowned as he watched the fortune teller walking towards them.

The diviner walked up to the psychic, and the psychic met his eyes, and an eye-to-eye confrontation was going on between the two.

In the end, the fortune teller looked away, but he still said nervously: "Leave, leave quickly, everyone here will die."

The psychic seemed to be sensing something. He closed his eyes and said mysteriously: "If Miss Forever's soul cannot rest in peace, we will all die."

The diviner turned around, looked at the psychic with his cloudy eyes, and then walked to Mingyue.

Miyano Shiho held Ming Yue's hand tighter, and Ming Yue gently patted the back of Miyano Shiho's hand, "Don't worry, don't worry."

"Such beautiful eyes," the fortune teller stared at Mingyue. Mingyue tilted her head, and others also looked over.

Mingyue was extremely glad that she had brought her eye lenses. She thought that after the mission was over, she would give Ruide a few cups of milk tea and see if she had any useful gadgets in her hand.

The fortune teller stared at the bright moon with his cloudy eyes and continued: "You..."

However, as soon as he uttered a word, the fortune teller was like a stuck machine, motionless, and then fell straight back. If the maid hadn't been behind him, the old man would have fallen badly.

Miyano Shiho and Mingyue hurriedly stepped forward to check, but the fortune teller, who was supported by the maid, seemed to be a different person and asked: "Mitsue, what happened?"

The maid breathed a sigh of relief, with a relaxed smile on her face. She was about to cry before, "Mr. Nonomiya, you finally recognized me. I'm really going to be scared to death by you."

"Eh? Who is this girl doll?" the fortune teller asked the maid Guangjiang, pointing to the bright moon.

Mingyue introduced herself: "Hello, Mr. Nonomiya, my name is Monáe Mingyue. I am fourteen years old. Can you tell me what my destiny is?"

However, the fortune teller seemed to have lost his soul and kept muttering: "Fourteen years old...Fourteen years old..." His whole body was trembling, and he was finally helped by the maid to sit down on the seat.

The rest of the people's eyes were focused on Mingyue. The psychic stood up and walked to Mingyue, blocking everyone's view. "Only I can see my assistant's fate. No one else can see it." Purple. His lips curved into a nice curve.

"Tch, you're pretending to be a ghost, maybe it's just a show to scare people." The man with small eyes rolled his eyes.

The short-haired woman shivered and sat next to Akai Shuichi, "I'm sorry, I think you are safe here."

Akai Shuichi did not refuse. Mingyue glanced at the short-haired woman and said, wow, this woman is very discerning and chose the one with the highest force value in the audience.

Following the ticking of the clock, a handsome man in black, about thirty years old, came over and said, "I'm sorry, I just went to pay homage, so I'm late. I'm from this mansion. Master, Gu Ezhi. I invite you all to come here in the hope of dispelling the misunderstanding of Miss Forever and Mrs. Time by the surrounding residents." Gu Ezhi bowed deeply and said, "Please."

The man wearing thick-soled glasses pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "So the legend of the ghost is true? Is there really a ghost nearby?"

"I'm sorry," Gu Ezhi bowed deeply, "Although I don't want to admit it, it seems to be the case. I hope I can send them to become Buddhas." Gu Ezhi's eyes were full of sadness, and he must have been You must be exhausted from all those rumors.

The psychic closed his eyes and muttered something in his mouth. He suddenly stood up and said, "I seemed to hear a voice from the soul. Mrs. Time couldn't let go of Miss Forever, so she stayed here. If Miss Forever becomes a Buddha, , then Mrs. Time will naturally follow the Buddha and leave."

Gu Ezhi burst into tears, but all of this was captured by a man with a camera.

The psychic told everyone that her full name is Mikoto Kokoji, and hoped that everyone could cooperate with her in holding a seance.

"The soul is pure. Unclean items will cause the soul to be repelled. All foreign items may cause the ghost to be dissatisfied with it..." The psychic medium Mikoto Guangmingji said a lot mysteriously, and finally everyone followed the spirit. At the request of the matchmaker, he handed over his communication tools and watches, and put on a uniform "spiritual garment". It was said to be a "spiritual garment", but in fact it was just a long black smock with a hood.

The small beads on Ming Yue's head were asked by the psychic to be removed, and Miyano Shiho's watch was not allowed to be carried.

The man holding the camera was arguing with the psychic, but he finally gave in and entrusted the camera to the owner. Mingyue saw the man secretly hiding a miniature camera.

Akai Shuichi put on a black long blouse, folded his arms and observed the surroundings coldly.

When the hour hands of all the clocks pointed to the number 11 and the minute hands pointed to 12, the owner of the museum, Gu Ezhi, treated everyone to a sumptuous lunch, and then everyone prepared to spend seventy-two hours in isolation in the clock tower.

Gu Ezhi told everyone that all the clocks in the clock tower would sound at four times: midnight, six in the morning, twelve noon, and six in the evening.

The rooms in the bell tower are well soundproofed, and the sound of the bells will not affect normal rest. He also warned everyone not to touch any clock in the clock tower, because he didn't know whether there was a mechanism in the clock.

There is a corridor connecting the three bell towers, but the corridor between the two bell towers is separated by an organic door. In the past, Mr. Lundian had a special key that could open all the doors, but when Mr. Lundian died, he did not Explain the location of the only key, so you can only pass when the door of the machine is opened within a specific time period. The maid will tell you the specific time. The maid will follow you into the bell tower and take care of everyone's daily life.

The three bell towers have only one door leading to the outside world, and that door is at the bottom of the "present" bell tower. There are no doors at the bottom of the "past" and "future" bell towers, and there are no windows on the first and second floors.

The "past" bell tower and the "future" bell tower are in disrepair and the water pipes are rusty. Although there is water supply, the water is not drinkable directly. The current owner Gu Ezhi has prepared sufficient food and water for everyone.

When the hour hands of all the clocks pointed between the numbers 11 and 12, and the minute hands pointed to 6, the current owner Gu Ezhi led everyone to the "now" bell tower.

The door at the bottom of the bell tower had no machine lock, and the maid and housekeeper easily pushed the door open. The bell tower was dark, and even the sunlight at noon in summer could not penetrate the stained glass with thick paint.

There are one hundred and eight clocks in this clock tower. They are large and small, with different shapes, but they are all embedded in the wall. The hands of each clock rotate at the same time, uniformly.

The "current" clock tower is where the owner lives. There is only one living room. There is a huge painting in the living room. There are three people in the painting, a black-haired man, a blond-haired woman, and a little brown-haired girl.

Mingyue looked at the painting for a long time and found nothing strange.

Gu Ezhi led everyone to the third floor of the "present" clock tower, and two machine doors appeared in front of everyone.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

Now the hour hand on all clock dials is slowly approaching the number 12, the minute hand is pointing to 11, and the hands are spinning constantly.

"When the hour and minute hands point to twelve, the door to the past and future will open." Gu Ezhi glanced at the clock, and time was passing.

"Where should we go first?" someone asked in a low voice.

The psychic stood at the front of the crowd, "First go to the clock tower, where Mrs. Time lives."

Duang ~

The clock struck twelve.

Click, click, click! Click, click, click! The mechanism was activated and the mechanism door slowly opened.

Mingyue was so noisy by the bell that she had a headache and covered her ears.

Miyano Shiho didn't react when he heard the bell. His expression was as usual, but he noticed that Mingyue seemed to be uncomfortable, "What's wrong?"

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Preview of the next chapter: This is a long-planned game with no survivors. Who can survive to the end? Who manipulates time?