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

In the mansion outside the clock tower, the housekeeper Ipami was cordially receiving Ireland and Gunda Ikumi. Ireland looked at the clock hanging on the wall. The hour hand pointed between the numbers 9 and 10, and the minute hand pointed at the number 7.

Fireworks bloomed in the dark night sky outside the mansion, but there was only the sound of ticking in the clock tower.

Gunda Ikumi looked at the housekeeper and asked, "When did you become a housekeeper here? Housekeepers are not common."

Butler Yibo looked down at the road under his feet, seeming to be thinking about something.

"You don't need to tell me if it's not appropriate. Just think that I have a bad habit of being a detective and want to get to the bottom of something." Gunda Ikumi had a gentle smile on her face.

Housekeeper Yibo slowly said: "Actually, there is nothing inappropriate to say. The previous owner of the hotel forgave me and allowed me to work as a housekeeper in such a large mansion. After all, my daughter and my husband have passed away. As a widow, I have nowhere to go, I just stay in this museum.”

"Are your husband and daughter also members of this hotel?" Ireland looked at Housekeeper Yibo. He couldn't imagine how the short and thin woman in front of him could manage such a large foreign hotel.

Housekeeper Yibo nodded, "My husband was a servant in this hotel during his lifetime. Mr. Rendian was considerate of our husband and wife, so my daughter lived with us in this mansion. If my daughter was still alive, she should be in college by now. Maybe you have a boyfriend."

bang~

A firework bloomed in the dark night. Everyone looked up at the fireworks in the distance, and the colorful lights illuminated the surroundings.

Ireland sees the hour hand of the clock pointing to the number 10 and the minute hand pointing to 12. That firework should be the last one tonight.

Under the leadership of Butler Yibo, everyone came to the "present" bell tower. When they opened the bell tower, the owner had already made tea and was waiting for everyone in the hall. The lights in the bell tower are dim, perhaps due to disrepair.

The current owner of the museum, Gu Ezhi, is holding a photo album in his hand. The album contains photos of the Gu'e family. Ikumi Gunada took the album and looked through it carefully. The black-haired man in the photo always looked at him with a doting look. There was a blonde beauty and a brown-haired girl beside me. The girl was about three or four years old. The family of three was very harmonious and they lived a very happy life.

But the museum owner in front of him was not in the photo. Ikumi Gunada handed the album to Ireland and looked at the museum owner, "Can I take the liberty of asking? What is your relationship with the previous museum owner?"

"He is my adoptive father, but I call him my father-in-law." Gu Ezhi seemed to have expected that the other party would ask this question, with a calm expression on his face, "I am actually the son of the former housekeeper. My father died in an accident. On his deathbed, he entrusted me to the former owner of the museum, Mr. Lundian, who immediately adopted me as his adopted son in front of my father."

Ireland and Gunda Ikumi looked at Gu Ezhi with slight doubts on their faces.

Gu Ezhi smiled slightly and looked at the brown-haired girl in the photo, with complex emotions in his eyes, "I have an engagement with Miss Forever. If she lives to be sixteen, I should be engaged to her. If she lives to this day, , then she will have her twenty-sixth birthday soon."

"Well, yes." Butler Yibo's eyes were full of tenderness.

Gunda Ikumi said slightly awkwardly: "I'm sorry to remind you..."

Gu Ezhi waved his hand and interrupted Gunda Yumi's words, "People have to experience two deaths, one is to stop breathing, and the other is to be forgotten. Butler Ibo and I have been living here. Although there are arrangements by my father-in-law, But more than anything, we don’t want to forget our loved ones. It does make people sad to think about them, but those memories are our precious treasures.”

Ikumi Gunada still comforted him by saying: "People cannot be resurrected after death, so it is better to look forward to the future. Always remembering the past will only make yourself more miserable."

"Well, Ms. Gunda Ikumi is indeed right, but for people like us, we live in this world with the good things of the past." Gu Ezhi still had a gentle smile on his face.

Ireland said: "Actually, I agree with Miss Gunda's suggestion. Owner, you are still very young and will have a long life ahead of you. Don't be constrained by this foreign hotel. After walking around this time, I have fallen in love with you deeply. After visiting this hotel, I wonder if the owner will consider selling it, as the price is easy to negotiate."

"I'm sorry about that," Gu Ezhi was not angry, "I will not take action on this mansion. This was also my father-in-law's request before his death."

Butler Ibo added: "Actually, there are conditions for Mr. Chi to inherit this mansion." He also told everyone the last words of the former owner Gu'elundian before his death.

The last words of Gu Erundian are as follows:

Gu Elundian's property was inherited by his adopted son Gu Ezhi, but there are conditions for inheriting the property. You cannot give up this mansion unless you have to. If possible, it is best to live here for the rest of your life.

In principle, the "future" clock tower and the "past" clock tower are not allowed to be used for living. They should be closed and kept in their current condition. Especially the rooms where Mrs. Time and Miss Forever lived. The furnishings should be kept as they were during their lifetimes and cannot be entered except for regular cleaning.

All the clocks in the mansion are maintained by Gu Ezhi, who must set and wind them every three days.

The fortune teller Taichi Nonomiya allowed him to live in the pavilion unless he left alone.

"Does that mean Mr. Tondori wants you to stay here all the time?" Gunda Ikumi frowned slightly.

Gu Ezhi looked around, surrounded by ticking clocks. Their hands were all rotating slowly at the same frequency. Even the rhythm of the second hand was the same. "Actually, I don't think it's painful to stay here." It would be very painful for me to leave here."

There was silence in the hall for a while.

tick tock...

There is only the sound of clocks around, the sound of time slowly passing.

Housekeeper Ibo thoughtfully made the beds for Gunda Ikumi and Ireland, and asked about their needs. After learning that they wanted to rest, she got up and left. At this time, Ireland looked at the ticking clock on the wall. The hour hand pointed to the number 11 and the minute hand pointed to the number 12.

In the clock tower of the "past".

Mingyue lay on the bed and looked at the unfamiliar ceiling. "Tonight, after I wait for them to fall asleep, I want to go to the fifth floor to investigate. Rai, you should sleep for a while first."

Miyano Shiho recorded what they saw and heard, and looked at Mingyue with dissatisfaction, "You want to go alone again? Why do you always choose to act alone? Did I drag you down? I shouldn't have followed in the first place. Come here, if only Mr. Morohoshi is following you, then you don’t need to think so much. From the beginning to the end, I am the one who needs protection, right."

Mingyue quickly got up from the bed, took three steps and two steps at a time, and came to the desk, "Sister Shiho is very powerful, how can she be a drag? Don't think so much~ If I go to investigate the fifth floor, someone suddenly Knock on the door, if we are not there, no one will notice, so that’s why we planned it.”

Akai Shuichi lay on the ground, folding his hands behind his head, "What you said makes sense, but Shiho and I have the same idea, and we don't agree with you going alone."

Mingyue looked back at Akai Shuichi, her posture was very seductive, and she raised her eyebrows, "Xiao Shimizu Noriko seems to know a lot. Is there any way to trick her? How about we use a beauty trick?"

Akai Shuichi was startled, sat up and looked at Ming Yue, "Pretty boy trap? Are you talking about me?"

Mingyue smiled like a fox and nodded like garlic.

Akai Shuichi took a deep breath, "Do you have to do that? It's not good."

"You say that as if you have done it~" Ming Yue frowned, "Mikoto Mikoto of Guangmingji in Room 10 wants you to come over."

Miyano Shiho crossed his arms with an unhappy look on his face, "Let me think of a way. After all, I don't want to see Mr. Morohoshi flirting with other women, even if it's a mission."

Mingyue pulled Miyano Shiho onto the bed, covered Shiho with a quilt, and then squatted in front of Akai Shuichi like a little fox, "Oh, I have to say that you are very charming, Your Majesty."

Miyano Shiho poked his head out from under the quilt and looked at Mingyue and Akai Shuichi, his blue eyes filled with helplessness.

Akai Shuichi's dark green eyes met those lake blue eyes, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he whispered to Miyano Shiho: "Get some rest quickly." Then he pretended to be angry and said, "Mingyue, aren't you going to sleep?"

Mingyue sighed, knowing that this topic could not be continued, so she walked to the desk and sat down, picked up a book and read it, "You guys go to bed first. Although you didn't eat much, you still took a lot of drugs." .If special circumstances arise, I will wake you up."

Akai Shuichi lay down and said, "Well, you can wake me up in three hours."

"Okay." Mingyue glanced at Miyano Shiho on the bed.

Miyano Shiho slept on the inside of the bed, leaving a large space on the outside. "You can wake me up in six hours. I'm used to getting up early, so it doesn't matter."

"Go to bed quickly. I don't think tonight will be peaceful." Mingyue turned off all the other lights in the room, leaving only the desk lamp on the desk. The light of the desk lamp was very dim and could only illuminate the area around the desk.

Miyano Shiho said softly: "Don't read if the light is too dark."

"Well, just watch for a while." Mingyue replied softly.

After a while, Mingyue heard even breathing, and the hands of the glass clock were slowly rotating. Mingyue closed the book and turned off the lamp.

Click click click…

Mingyue vaguely heard the sound of gears rotating. She stood up and came to Akai Shuichi. She saw the hour hand of the glass clock slowly approaching the number 10 and the minute hand was on the number 11. She gently touched Akai Shuichi's upper arm with the back of her hand. As expected, Akai Shuichi quickly opened his dark green eyes.

"Shh, there is a sound of the machine opening." Mingyue put her finger to her lips and made a mute gesture.

Akai Hide listened with one ear, but he only heard the steady breathing of Miyano Shiho on the bed, and frowned, "Is it the sound of the clock?"

Mingyue shook her head, "Be alert, although I'm not sure what happened."

Akai Shuichi put his ear to the ground. After listening for a long time, he heard nothing and asked softly: "Is it the agency door downstairs?"

"I can't confirm the specific location, but I'm sure something happened that we don't know about." Mingyue looked at the ceiling. The sound of gears seemed to be coming from the head. The two rooms on the fifth floor must be visited once.

Akai Shuichi looked at the glass clock behind him. Although the room was very dark, after adapting to the darkness, he could vaguely see that the hour hand was pointing to 10 and the minute hand was pointing to 12.

Just when he was wondering if Ming Yue had heard something wrong, Akai Shuichi saw Ming Yue lightly jumping onto the desk, standing on tiptoes, as if trying to listen to the sounds upstairs.

"Ah!" Mingyue heard a scream, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling. Mingyue frowned, that scream must have been Mikoto Mikoto's.

Akai Shuichi frowned and looked at Ming Yue, stood up and came to the desk, pricked his ears, but heard nothing.

"On the fifth floor." Ming Yue bent down and told Akai Shuichi what she heard. Shuichi Akai had doubts about his hearing and looked up at the ceiling.

Miyano Shiho on the bed woke up at some point and yawned lightly, "What happened?"

"Shh!" Mingyue made a gesture to Miyano Shiho to forbid him from making any sound, jumped off the desk lightly, ran to the bed, lay on the bed, and whispered: "Lie down first, someone is coming."

Miyano Shiho immediately lay down and closed his eyes with Mingyue to fall asleep.

Akai Shuichi returned to the floor with a cold face. Just when he was about to lie down, he heard a "dong dong dong" knock on the door. He looked at Ming Yue on the bed in shock, and got up to open the door.

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Preview of the next chapter: Who knocked on the door of Room 8? What happened to Mikoto Kokoji? What is hidden on the fifth floor?