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

"Mingyue, I found a diary, the date is twenty-one years ago." Miyano Shiho held a thick book in his hand and flipped through the pages. "Mrs. Time may be suffering from a disease." It is a very rare mental illness with a high frequency of attacks.”

Mingyue walked over to Miyano Shiho and read the diary together. The diary entries were full of pain and sorrow, "Can you tell what the specific disease is? Could it be related to her death?"

"It should be a type of narcolepsy. Mrs. Time clearly recorded her life trajectory in her diary. She often mentioned that she woke up and found that more than ten hours had passed. She was panicked, especially after learning about the prophecy. ." Miyano Shiho slowly exhaled a breath, very sympathetic to this lady's situation.

Akai Shuichi walked up to the two girls and whispered: "Be careful, there is blood on the floor over there."

Mingyue looked at where Akai Shuichi was pointing, and nodded, "Yes, I understand, please protect Sister Shiho."

"Oh~" Miyano Shiho looked at Mingyue, "Don't get hurt, it will be very painful."

Mingyue showed a smile, "Don't worry, I will protect myself." She looked down at the diary in her hand, "But after Mrs. Shi moved to this bell tower, the situation seems to have changed. I don't seem to remember that kind of disease. What a good treatment."

Miyano Shiho nodded, "Indeed, this disease is closely related to psychological factors. It cannot be ruled out that the disease will be alleviated due to physical and mental happiness."

"My diary was from eighteen years ago. In the diary, Mrs. Time recorded her sleep time in detail. It seemed that it was only one or two hours longer than normal people, and it was almost like this every day, as if she had been cured. Same." Mingyue flipped through the diary in her hand.

Miyano Shiho said firmly: "That kind of disease cannot be cured, and even if it is relieved, it cannot be alleviated much."

Ming Yue handed the diary to Miyano Shiho and raised the corner of her mouth slightly, "Sister Shiho, do you think there is a possibility that this clock tower has the magic power to cure that disease, or it can manipulate time to make the disease disappear. Or it can reverse time. , back when Mrs. Time wasn’t sick.”

"No, looking at the date on the diary shows that time has not reversed." Miyano Shiho counted the diary on the desk, "If I remember correctly, Mrs. Time passed away seventeen years ago, but the six months before her death It seems that he didn’t write a diary, obviously there are records in the diary every day, but not during that period.”

Akai Shuichi said: "There may be key clues in the disappeared diary, so it was put away. Or Mrs. Time's physical condition cannot support her to continue writing the diary."

"It should be the former, because Mrs. Time mentioned in her diary that as long as you are awake, you must record this day, even if it is just a date." Miyano Shiho held his chin and thought seriously.

Mingyue looked through the diary with the latest date. There were no missing pages or signs of rebinding. After turning to the last diary entry, there are clear traces on the blank page, but after comparison, it was left by Mrs. Time writing the previous diary entry. Mingyue handed the diary to Akai Shuichi.

Akai Shuichi took over and noticed this situation, frowning, "Mrs. Time may have changed a diary, but why should she change it at this time?"

The three of them looked at the diary in front of them and fell into deep thought.

Miyano Shiho sighed, with inexplicable sadness in his eyes, "How can a bird that voluntarily enters a cage resist its fate?" He turned to look at Mingyue, "Are we not caged birds?"

Akai Hide glanced at the girls and said softly: "Don't show that expression, I will protect you."

"Shiho-san, can we go out to play often in the future?" Mingyue showed a bright smile, "I really want to see Shiho-san wearing a kimono~"

Miyano Shiho reached out and pushed Ming Yue's messy hair behind her ears, "Okay, don't lie to me."

Mitsue Terai walked over and said softly: "Miss Guangmingji is not seen here, let's go down first. If Mrs. Time's things are messed up, the owner will tell me."

Mingyue said with a smile: "Sister Terai, let's just take a look and won't mess up anything. Just make breakfast first. Everyone is hungry~"

"Wow, this is the first time I have seen a room like this." Kobayakawa Shigeru sighed as he stood at the door.

Kawahara Sakijun walked into the room and looked around, "Let's take a look. The decoration is really luxurious, but the light is too dark."

"It's only a little after six o'clock, how can it be so bright? But the colorful skylight painting is really beautiful. This room is much better than the one on the fourth floor. If I don't turn on the light in my room, I can't see clearly at all." Shigero Kobayakawa looked up. He looked up at the skylight on the ceiling.

Mingyue walked under a skylight and stared at the stained glass above her head, frowning and squinting her eyes.

Akai Shuichi also looked up and found nothing wrong.

The hour hand of the clock in the clock tower "back in the day" pointed to the number 8 and the minute hand pointed to 12.

Everyone sat in the restaurant and tasted the breakfast prepared by Mitsue Terai. However, Nonomiya Taichi was unwilling to leave the room, so Mitsue Terai had no choice but to send breakfast over.

Mingyue looked around and found that Utsumi Atsushi did not appear in the restaurant.

"Director Heyuan, where is Mr. Utsumi who left with you last night?" Kobayakawa Shigeru swallowed the bread in his mouth.

Kawahara Sakijun took a sip of coffee and said, "Maybe he didn't wake up. He should have slept very late last night."

"Eh? How do you know this?" Kobayakawa Shigeru looked at Kawahara Sakijun with a puzzled look on his face.

Kawahara Sakijun noticed that everyone was looking at him, cleared his throat and said, "I asked him to do something, so I know he may sleep a little later. I have asked Miss Terai to wake him up, and he may come over soon."

At this time, Mitsue Terai ran over panting, glanced around, and frowned, "Have you seen Mr. Utsumi? I knocked on the door, but no one answered. I found that the door was unlocked, so I pushed it in. Mr. Utsumi is not in the room."

Akai Shuichi looked at Ming Yue, Ming Yue shook her head slightly, and Akai Shuichi frowned.

Everyone conducted a large search of the entire clock tower, and except for Room 6 where Nonomiya Taichi was, the two people were not found anywhere else.

Mingyue and the others stood in Room 3. The furnishings of the room were basically the same as those of Room 8, except that a clock was missing from the room. Mingyue stood in front of the glazed clock, staring at the dial, holding her chin in thought. There are clocks everywhere in the clock tower. Why would someone take away the clock in Room 3? Who took away the clock?

"Mingyue, I went to find out. Atsushi Utsumi is a cameraman. What he is best at photographing is accident scenes." Miyano Shiho held several pieces of paper in his hand. On the paper, he recorded what the three people saw and heard, and what he saw and heard. There is information about the people around you.

Mingyue watched Miyano Shiho writing and drawing on the paper, "Sister Shiho, you recorded in great detail. You are my John H. Watson."

Miyano Shiho rolled his eyes at Mingyue, "Do you want to be Sherlock Holmes?"

"is it not OK?"

Miyano Shiho said in a joking tone: "Do you want to be Sherlyn Ford or Charlotte? Don't you call yourself James Moriarty?"

Mingyue tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Can't Moriarty have Watson?"

"Well, it's not impossible. But you didn't play detective games before. Is it because of what happened recently?" Miyano Shiho looked at Mingyue.

The corner of Mingyue's lips curled up, "I met a young man who claimed to be a disciple of Sherlock Holmes. His father wrote mystery novels and helped the police solve cases."

Miyano Shiho looked serious, "Then you have to be careful, in case you are targeted by the police..."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'm measured." A confident smile appeared on Mingyue's face.

Miyano Shiho looked at Mingyue with half-moon eyes, "You don't know how to have a boyfriend."

"How is that possible! He already has someone he likes, and I will not step in as a third party." Ming Yue met Miyano Shiho's probing eyes, twitched the corner of her mouth, and quickly changed the subject, "Sister Shiho, If there is a secret passage in this bell tower, where do you think it would be?"

"That's true, after all, you like older people." Miyano Shiho withdrew his gaze and took out a piece of paper, "I tried to calculate the area of ​​each floor of the bell tower. The entire bell tower is roughly cylindrical, and the upper and lower floors have the same area. Almost the same. The walls of the room on the fourth floor are very thick, about thirty centimeters. It is unlikely to build a secret passage at this distance, but there is still a possibility of building a machine door. The room can be opened through the machine door and people can disappear from the room. It’s very simple.”

Mingyue nodded, "Sister Shiho is so awesome. Although the scene has been cleaned up without leaving any traces, this is enough to show that the two people did not leave voluntarily, because if they voluntarily left, there would be no need to clean up so neatly."

Akai Shu nodded, "Indeed, the room looks like no one has checked in. It may be to take away some things, but it may also be to mislead us."

"Atsushi Utsumi's camera is missing. Mikoto Mikoto of Kokoji Temple should also have brought something." Mingyue pondered for a moment and then continued, "Atsushi Utsumi lives in room three. There is no one in room four. It is completely possible to leave the unlocked room four. Enter Room 3. Mikoto Mikoto, who is also in Room 10, can enter from Room 9 or Room 11, which is vacant, and I prefer Room 11."

"Well, if you choose room nine, there is a chance of meeting me."

Miyano Shiho stretched out his hand and knocked on the wall, and a solid muffled sound came from the wall, "But at that time we had inspected rooms 9 and 11, and now we have basically inspected the entire clock tower."

"Well, I checked. Every room on the fourth floor is the same size, and there are no secret doors on the wall." Shuichi Akai folded his arms and leaned against the wall, frowning, "The lockers are fixed on the wall. Yes, if there is really an organic door, then it is most likely a locker, but I haven’t found out how to open it.”

Miyano Shiho pushed the locker, opened the door, and groped inside for a long time. He didn't find any mechanism. He turned and walked to the bathroom. Although the bathroom was small, it had everything it should have. "I think we can go to the nearby place through the pipe." In the room, the bathrooms of the two adjacent rooms are only separated by a wall."

"It is indeed possible, but if you want to take people away, it is too inconvenient to go through the pipeline. It can be done in rooms 10 and 11, but it may not be possible in rooms 3 and 4." Mingyue tilted her head and looked at Miyano Shiho, "If you open the door and walk through the circular corridor, there should be some traces left, but we didn't find any."

"Actually, there is one thing we have overlooked," Shuichi Akai stood at the door of the bathroom with his arms folded. "You can choose your room freely. Before you check in, you are not sure who will live in the room. For example, the three of us can live in the room. Room No. 8, you can also stay in Room No. 4 or Room 9.”

Mingyue held her chin in thought, "Is there no difference?"

"It would be nice if we knew the other party's purpose. The biggest fear is that there is no purpose." Shuichi Akai's eyes were sharp.

Miyano Shiho washed his hands, dried them, and walked out of the bathroom. "Mingyue, you have been looking at this clock since just now. Did you find something?"

"I have a guess that the secret passage may be behind the glazed clock. The wall we are facing now is not the outer wall of the bell tower. There may be a circular corridor behind this wall." Mingyue Zai carefully checked the glazed clock. The clock The pendulum is swinging regularly.

Miyano Shiho was slightly stunned, "It is indeed possible. After all, it is the outer circle. It is normal that I can't calculate it, but you can also think of this."

Mingyue shrugged, "No way, the sound insulation effect is so good that I have doubts. Don't forget that it is the Summer Festival outside the bell tower and there will be fireworks at night."

"Didn't you hear it?" Miyano Shiho looked at Mingyue. Can't he hear it even after taking medicine?

Mingyue shook her head, "I can't hear anything at all. It's like an isolated island here. Information from the outside can't come in, and the sounds inside can't get out."

Akai Shuichi walked to the glass clock and checked it carefully, but found no mechanism.

Miyano Shiho stared at the dial, "Maybe the mechanism is on the surface, but it's not noticeable."

"Yes, the hands of the clock may be the device that turns on the mechanism." Mingyue folded her arms and sighed, "But I can't be sure what is behind the mechanism. If I try it many times, will it alert those people."

Internal structure of the room on the fourth floor (PS: Have you discovered the secret passage?)

At this time, there was already a lot of noise downstairs.

"I want to leave here! I want to leave here! These are all done by the eternal ghost! Nonomiya has already said that we will all die!" Xiao Shimizu Noriko shouted hysterically, "Miss Terai, do you have any Find a way to get out of here, let me out of here, I'm so scared!"

Mitsue Terai looked apologetic, "I'm sorry, the door to the Future Clock Tower will not open until six o'clock in the afternoon, and we can't leave here."

"No! I want to leave this clock tower! I..."

"What are you yelling about?" Fukunishi Ryota stared at little Shimizu Noriko with his little eyes.

Jun Kawahara and Shigero Kobayakawa walked over together. Jun Kawahara sighed, "Noriko, if it is Miss Forever's ghost, then the person she should find is us, not Utsumi and Guangming Temple."

Kobayakawa Shigeru nodded, "I agree with this, so don't be too nervous. They might have found some secret passage and then explored it alone."

Fukunishi Ryota snorted softly, "That woman from Guangming Temple likes to do some ridiculous things. She is very good at scaring others."

Noriko Shimizu lowered her head, her bangs covering her expression, but her mood seemed much more stable.

"Excuse me, did anyone walk out of the room at three o'clock in the morning?" Mingyue looked at everyone.

"Eh?" Kawahara Sakijun looked at Mingyue with some confusion. Although he didn't know why, he still answered seriously, "I got hungry around three o'clock, so I went downstairs to find something to eat. What's wrong?"

Mingyue shook her head, "It's nothing, it's just that I was hungry at that time and wanted to go out, but I was scared. If I had known it was Director Heyuan, I would have followed him downstairs to get something to eat."

Kawahara Sakijun looked at Akai Shuichi, "If we are the next one to disappear, it should be you."

"Why did Director Heyuan say this?" Shuichi Akai looked serious.

"Because several of us have met Miss Forever, but you haven't, and neither have the two people who disappeared."

Akai Shuichi frowned. He had actually thought of this, but what was the other party's purpose? He glanced around the crowd and said, "It would be too bad if that's really the case."

"This is just my guess. I suggest that everyone gather in the restaurant from now on. If those two people want to scare us, there are so many of us that we may not be scared by them." Director Heyuan said in a relaxed tone, as if he knew something. .

Mingyue tilted her head and looked at Kawahara Sakijun, "Director Kawahara, you seem to know where they are. By gathering us together, it seems easier for them to take action~"

"Little sister, you are overthinking. I don't know where they are now, but if we are separated alone, we will definitely fall into their trap." Kawahara Sakijun squatted down and spoke to Mingyue in a soft voice.

After Mingyue heard this, she said nothing more. But in this case, it is indeed a good idea to gather everyone together. If something unexpected happens like this, then this bell tower must have a secret passage to the outside world.

Everyone sat in the restaurant together, except for Nonomiya Taichi in Room 6.

"In the past" the 12 o'clock bell was echoing in the clock tower, and lunch was cooked with the help of everyone.

Terai Mitsue was a little absent-minded while eating, and was discovered by Kobayakawa Shigeruo.

Shigero Kobayakawa asked: "Miss Terai, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah! Nothing."

After Mingyue winked at Miyano Shiho, she looked at Mitsue Terai and said with a smile: "Sister Terai, you have something on your mind written all over your face."

Mitsue Terai pursed his lips, "When I was cooking, I found that there seemed to be a little less food."

"Oh, those two people must have taken it secretly." Kawahara Sakijun seemed relieved, "They are really hiding in a corner of the bell tower."

Kobayakawa Shigeru nodded, "It's all expected. Do we still need to stay here until six o'clock in the afternoon? Actually, I want to go back and take a rest."

"I didn't expect that the woman from Guangmingji Temple was attracted to that man, huh!" Fukunishi Ryota stood up and left the restaurant.

"Fukunishi Ryota!" Kawahara Saki Jun stopped the other party, "Everyone is in the restaurant, you can stay here too. We will leave here in five hours."

Fukunishi Ryota yawned, "No matter when, you want to lead everyone and make everyone do things according to your ideas, just like digging traps back then."

"Don't talk about that matter again!" Xiao Shimizu Noriko shouted, covering her ears.

Mingyue observed everyone's expressions, and it seemed that something terrible happened ten years ago.

Woods, wild boar, trap, blood-stained wedding dress, these words seem to be connected together. But why were it not these four people who disappeared, but Mikoto Kokoji and Atsushi Utsumi, a psychic and a cameraman?

Wait a minute, cameraman!

The corner of Ming Yue's mouth raised a confident arc, Miyano Shiho looked over and said softly: "Any new discoveries?"

"Well, part of the puzzle has been solved, but a new one has appeared." Mingyue whispered into Miyano Shiho's ear.

In the mansion, the twelve o'clock bell echoed in the woods.

Butler Yibo bowed deeply, "I'm sorry, lunch may be a little late."

"It doesn't matter. We ate a lot at the Summer Festival. I really didn't expect that there would be so many activities here." Gunda Ikumi replied with a smile.

Gu Ezhi sat down on the main seat and looked at Butler Yibo, "I'm sorry to trouble you about lunch. Please prepare it as soon as possible."

"Yes." Butler Yibo quickly walked to the kitchen.

After lunch, Ireland looked at the clock on the wall. The hour hand was now between the numbers 1 and 2, and the minute hand pointed to 6.

Gu Echi led everyone to the courtyard, took out a pair of shogi, and chatted and played chess with Ireland and Gunda Ikumi. Butler Ibo was also accompanying them. There were three clock towers in the distance.

They played chess until the clock struck six in the evening.

"They should be heading to the corridor to the future." Gu Ezhi looked at the lighthouse in the distance. At this time, the sun was setting in the west and the sky was filled with beautiful clouds.

Ireland walked a few steps quickly, came to the bottom of the corridor, and shouted loudly: "Hey! How is it inside? Have you seen a ghost?" After a long time, he didn't hear any reply, and he felt a little uneasy.

Gu Ezhi walked over slowly, "They inside can't hear our voices. Whether they are Miss Forever or Mrs. Time, they all need to rest, so Mr. Lundian has made the bell tower soundproof to the extreme."

Ireland still looked up at the corridor above his head and said dubiously: "Is that so?"

"Of course." Gu Ezhi had a warm smile on his face, and the sunset dyed his face scarlet.

The afterglow of the setting sun slowly dyed the white bell tower with blood, together with the three tombstones.

In the "past" clock tower, when the hour hand was slowly pointing to the number 6 and the minute hand was pointing to the number 11, Nonomiya Taichi tremblingly appeared in the hall on the third floor.

Fukoshi Ryota glanced twice and hummed a single note in his nose, "The crazy old man finally dared to come out."

However, Nonomiya Taichi ignored Fukunishi Ryota and stared at the door leading to the "future" clock tower with a pair of cloudy eyes.

Akai Shuichi put his left hand on Ming Yue's shoulder, and his right hand held Miyano Shiho's hand, always alert to the surroundings.

The six o'clock bell rang as promised, followed by the sound of rattling gears. The machine door slowly opened, and there was still a dark corridor behind the door.

Noriko Shimizu grabbed Mitsue Terai's sleeve and walked cautiously into the corridor.

Kawahara Sakijun looked back at the circular corridor and spiral staircase behind him, but did not see Mikoto Kokoji and Atsushi Utsumi. He inevitably felt some worries in his heart, hoping that they would not go too far and end up badly. At the same time, I was also thinking about what Atsushi Utsumi and Mikoto Kokoji were planning. These were not written in the script. Even if the script was to be changed, I had to tell him.

Everyone walked through the corridor, watched the machine door slowly close, and glanced around, but the sound of the clock was still ticking in their ears.

Kobayakawa Shigeru frowned and looked at Kawahara Saki Jun, "It seems they haven't come over yet."

"Maybe they have come here a long time ago." Kawahara Sakijun pretended to be relaxed, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

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Preview of the next chapter: The seemingly calm surface hides murderous intent. Death has come, and there are no survivors!