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"We left out a very important detail, the version corresponding to the correct answer..." Before Cheng Mo finished speaking, Qin Chuhe seemed to suddenly remember something, and opened his eyes slightly.

"There is one more part!" He added in a deep voice.

"Yes, that version still has the last verse, 'Take the key and lockherup'. There are seven children who appeared on the bridge, corresponding to the first seven verses, but the last verse is missing." Cheng Mo nodded, "This game has been very meticulous so far, and it is impossible to have such an obvious loophole here, so I speculate that there should be the last child, somewhere we haven't noticed."

"The game is not over yet, and in the 'FallenBridge' game, the last remaining player is the final winner. This hidden child may hold the key to our comeback." He said, moving quickly Scanning around, looking for possible clues, "Take the key and lock her up... Is this child locked somewhere?"

Lock... Cheng Mo shuddered, remembering the locked iron door they saw when they first entered this checkpoint—it was the entrance to the upper bridge deck.

"Come here! This door is open!" Qin Chuhe thought earlier than him. He had checked the environment around the iron door and confirmed that there was no danger. He opened the door and waited for him. "There are stairs going up here!"

It seems that after the puzzle of the opening time of the Tower Bridge was solved, the door was automatically unlocked.Cheng Mo ran over, Qin Chuhe grabbed his hand, and the two of them rushed along the spiral staircase to the top of the tower.The heavy iron door was slammed open, and the kerosene lamp in the corner jumped violently due to the sudden gust of wind, illuminating the little girl in the corner.

She doesn't have the misplaced features like the previous children. On the contrary, this girl looks weak and affectionate, with bright blue eyes reminiscent of the sun-drenched sea.

"You are here." The little girl did not show the slightest surprise at their appearance, she looked at Cheng Mo and Qin Chuhe calmly, her eyes made her look not like a child at all, but like a vicissitudes hidden in a child's body Girl, "Since you guys can come here...have they all been eaten by the bridge?"

"You know about the bridge?"

"Of course." The little girl nodded, "I'm the last child my mother left here. My name is Evie."

"A long time ago, I lived in the same orphanage as the children you saw on the first floor. There was only one nun who took care of us. We all called her 'Mom'. It was a very remote orphanage. Usually No one came at all, and we never saw my mother go out to work. But the strange thing is that we have always lived well, and there has never been a shortage of clothes and food, even better than many ordinary residents. Those continuous supplies ...It seems that some invisible people are quietly sending money to my mother."

"Everything was going well until my mom told us there was going to be a new bridge here. I still remember the day my mom excitedly told us that there would be a brand new, super strong bridge, which I never Seeing her was as happy as that day. Then, she told us, she was appointed as a bridge supervisor and also responsible for preparing three meals a day for the workers who repaired the bridge."

"In addition to the main meals, she started making pies for the workers. All kinds of pies, apple pies, strawberry pies, banana pies... I had never seen her make a pie before that, and we had never eaten a pie. Evie gave a bleak smile, "So you know why Tom couldn't resist telling everyone else the news after he tasted the first pie? Stupid and poor Tom, saying that's what he ate The best pie ever, and it was just the first time he had it."

"Children have that kind of nature, the more they are forbidden, the more they want to try. In the end, everyone ate the pie that mother strictly forbids us to eat, except me." Evie looked at the constantly dancing pie in the corner Huo Miao, caught up in the memories of the past, "I never sneaked a meal, because once in the middle of the night, I sneaked to the kitchen to eat, just in time to see my mother throwing a large plate of untouched pies into the trash can —if those workers have never had pie, why does mom bake so much every day?"

"I thought there might be something wrong with this pie, so my mother forbade us to steal it. I tried to stop other children, but they didn't listen to me. Instead, they thought that I was not only timid, but also jealous of them and didn't want to see them. They eat delicious food. I found out later that this pie is like the so-called 'Yaobi'."

"Yao Yin?" Cheng Mo was a little puzzled.

"Have you heard of it? The Immurement Theory[Note 1], the infusion theory." Evie's eyes seemed to look at a time long, long ago, "In the Middle Ages, builders stirred living people into cement and sand, as bridges or The foundations of houses are poured into the ground. It is believed that buildings filled with living people will be stronger, and among them, the bones of children are particularly strong."

"Those pies are mixed with pulverized iron filings, sandstone, gold powder and silver powder...the materials that may be used to build bridges, for a certain superstitious statement-to make building materials better 'blend' with children. So those construction workers never eat pie."

"On the other hand, pie is also a 'screening mechanism'. Only children who eat pie can be eaten by the bridge. Pai helps mothers to select children who can be used as materials. Except for me, those companions who ate pie were rejected by the bridge. My mother was exiled to the first floor, and those who lost the game would be eaten by the bridge. And I, the only one who didn’t eat pie, was locked here by my mother. Although I won’t die, I will never go out one day.”

"I thought I would carry this secret with me until I die...Fortunately, you are here." Evie suddenly smiled with relief, walked out of the shadows, pulled Cheng Mo's little finger with her cold little hand, and whispered, "Hurry up , Mom is coming back."

As soon as the words were finished, the sound of protracted and heavy footsteps suddenly came from the spiral staircase at the bottom of the building.

Cheng Mo picked up the little girl, looked at Qin Chuhe, and said resolutely, "Let's go together!"

The other end of the hut leads to the bridge deck on the second floor, which is locked tightly by iron locks and cannot be opened. Without saying a word, Evie pointed to the spiral staircase where the footsteps were getting closer, and silently mouthed - "The key is with Mom."

Cheng Mo nodded, hugged Evie and Qin Chuhe by the waist, and leaned into the shadows on both sides of the door.The sound of footsteps coming from the spiral staircase became more and more clear, and not long after, a foot wearing a flat shoe appeared outside the door.

It was too late to say that, at the moment when that foot was about to step into the door, Qin Chuhe stretched out a foot from the dark place, tripping the person who came by without fail.The person was caught off guard and fell towards the ground. Cheng Mo quickly grabbed the key hanging from her waist at the moment the visitor fell to the ground, and threw it to Qin Chuhe who had already run to the other side of the door.

There were several keys in that bunch, and Evie didn't know which one it was, so Qin Chuhe could only try one by one.The woman who was knocked to the ground let out an earth-shattering roar. Her torso has a strange proportion, with extremely long arms and big poof-like feet. At this moment, she is clumsily hitting the ground with her elbows, as if she wants to climb up.

"Don't let her get up!" Evie screamed in horror, "absolutely don't let her get up!"

There was no other tool at hand in the room, so Cheng Mo could only lift his foot and kick the woman's back, but this woman's physique seemed to be different from ordinary people, Cheng Mo only felt as if he had kicked on a steel plate, and there was a precarious soft sound from his bones and joints .The woman who fell to the ground did not show the slightest fatigue from Cheng Mo's attack, but unexpectedly raised her backhand and pinched Cheng Mo's calf accurately.

In an instant, Cheng Mo's mind went blank, and an indescribable pain came from his leg bone.He heard a crisp "click", and his body fell forward uncontrollably, falling to the ground together with Evie in his arms.

The woman sneered again, pinched Cheng Mo's other leg, and broke his knee joint without hesitation.

A suppressed sob escaped from Cheng Mo's throat, his eyes turned black, and cold sweat soaked his forehead in an instant.

At the same time the door lock opened.A strong force lifted Cheng Mo from the ground. In the pain of blindness, Cheng Mo could only recognize the smell of Qin Chuhe by his sense of smell.Cheng Mo couldn't see the expression on Qin Chuhe's face clearly, he could only feel that he seemed to be on the verge of berserk, and those hands tightly squeezed his arm so hard that it hurt him.

"Go out first... and bring Evie." Cheng Mo coughed and held Qin Chuhe's hand instead.

"I can't take it away, that girl..." Qin Chuhe's voice was low, as if he looked back, and Cheng Mo followed his gaze and saw the girl holding the kerosene lamp high while her ankle was clamped by a woman. increasingly blurred shadows.

A small group of flames that weakened at the edge landed at the girl's feet, and the flames burst into flames the moment they hit the ground, spreading straight into the sky.Thick smoke billowed, the woman's screams of pain mixed with the girl's sighs of relief.

The rumbling sound rose from the bottom of the feet, and this time the tower bridge was finally in jeopardy.The steel bars were broken inch by inch from the base of the tower, and the fragments of masonry fell into the muddy Thames River, and the gold and silver fragments were swaying in the dark evening wind.The outer shell of the bridge peeled off like a wall in disrepair, until finally, the inner base buried in the dark secret was finally exposed.

——Thousands of children's bones were embedded in the concrete like a cage.The "drug guide" mixed with building debris binds them together, and not even death can separate them.

A strong light rose from the bones, and small transparent shadows broke away from the bones.It was a group of children with different hair colors and skin colors. They held hands and formed a long line like a river flowing towards the moonlight.

The bridge was collapsing, and all the bricks and stones that had lost the support of the children's souls fell, causing huge splashes in the Thames.Amidst the sound of the sky collapsing and the earth cracking, the exhausted Cheng Mo was tightly hugged by Qin Chuhe.The world fell apart, and Qin Chuhe was rushing towards the end of the bridge, Cheng Mo heard his heart beating like a drum.

This feeling is so strange and so familiar, as if a long time ago, it seemed that he had fled for his life in such a panic.

【London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down.】

【London Bridge is falling down, my fairlady.】

Childish singing floated from the end of the sky.The souls of the children sang and flew to the moon, and a pair of tiny wings grew on their shoulder blades.For the first time, this line of lyrics changed from a shackle to a hammer that broke the cage. At the end of the song, the bridge finally collapsed.

Not too much, not too little, Qin Chuhe carried Cheng Mo into the safe zone at the finish line at this moment.

[The system prompts that the group [Li Ming and Li Hua] unlocked the ultimate plot and won the system's highest reward of 1200 million]

[Congratulations to the player [Lu Yifan], the team [Red Carp and Green Carp and Donkey], and the team [Li Ming and Li Hua] for entering the top three asset rankings]

[Enter points clearing below]

……

But Cheng Mo couldn't hear anything. The only thing that stayed in his mind was a girl's voice when the bridge collapsed.

It was a whispered "thank you" drowned in the roar.

作者有话要说：【注1】也叫ChildSacrificeTheory，孩童牺牲理论。由《TheTraditionalGamesofEngland,ScotlandandIreland》作者AliceBerthaGomme提出。感谢在2020-03-2019:56:00~2020-03-2319:20:10期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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