Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting - end】

Yue Xingwen took everyone to quickly search the fourth floor. Except for the photo albums, documents and other materials in the drawers, no other clues were found. The room was very tidy and there was no trace of fighting. on site.

There is also a staircase next to the fourth floor, which leads to the attic at the top of the villa.

Everyone walked up the stairs, and the attic was turned into a hanging garden, where many flowers were raised. At this time, most of the flowers have withered, obviously because no one has taken care of them for a long time.

Just as Yue Xingwen was about to speak, a dazzling light suddenly lit up in front of his eyes. Everyone closed their eyes reflexively. When they opened their eyes again, they were still standing in the attic of the villa, but the surrounding environment changed from night to day !

The students held the alcohol lamps in their hands and looked at each other.

The instant transition from night to day is like a sudden travel, which makes people unable to adapt for a while.

Ke Shaobin rubbed his eyes, walked to the edge of the attic, and looked into the distance—the garden downstairs was full of black roses, but there was no pit dug by them, and naturally there were no three bones piled in the pit.

Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and asked doubtfully, "This is what the villa looks like during the day. Have we arrived in another space?"

Yue Xingwen said: "The villa at night should be an illusion in the painting. Everything we saw at night can be understood as a comic strip drawn by Leah's consciousness, leaving many clues about the murder. We unlocked the mechanism, and then teleported to the daytime. And the villa during the daytime is what the villa should look like?"

Liu Zhaoqing said bluntly: "Go and verify it and you will know."

Jiang Pingce raised his right hand, and directly used the coordinate system to send everyone flying to the garden downstairs.Zhang Xiaonian consciously summoned the excavator, and dug the garden again according to the location in memory—however, there was only one corpse in the garden!

Everyone was stunned.

Ke Shaobin scratched his head: "Why is there only one deceased person?"

Liu Zhaoqing went over to check it, and concluded: "Judging from the bone age of the corpse, this is Leah."

Ke Shaobin was puzzled: "What about her parents? The three corpses in the villa at night were obviously buried together!"

Others couldn't figure it out either.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, then turned and walked towards the villa.

Unlike the night villa, in the day villa - there are no paintings at all.

The lobby on the first floor has a marble background wall, and there are no four abstract paintings.The wardrobe and bedside table in the nanny's room are empty, and the kitchen seems to have been idle for a long time.

There is a pair of auspicious copper deer at the entrance on the second floor, but there is no "Mona Lisa".

There are no oil paintings such as "The Last Supper" and "Starry Night" in the studios and study rooms on both sides. The studio on the left only has some flowers scribbled by children and drafts thrown in the trash can. The study room on the right is empty, not even a book. Not left.

Going further up, the room belonging to the sisters on the third floor has been evacuated; the residence of the couple on the fourth floor has some clothes and books left behind, and there is a lot of dust. It is obvious that it has not been cleaned for a long time.

Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and said, "This is the most authentic appearance of the villa after the incident."

Thinking about it, after Leah was adopted by the couple, it was impossible for her to copy so many strange paintings and hang them at home. What they saw and heard in the night villa before were all illusions.In the real villa, there are no such paintings.

Yue Xingwen looked around thoughtfully: "Have we gathered all the clues?"

Ke Shaobin said: "All the organs of the oil painting at night have been turned on, and the sisters, parents, and Liya's room have also been searched in a carpet-like manner. It should be all found, right?"

Jiang Pingce said suddenly, "It's not all there."

Yue Xingwen looked at him and said tacitly, "Is that the cat?"

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Yes. Leah has been holding the white cat, and we didn't find the cat's bones near the villa. If the cat is still alive, the whole truth can be revealed."

Where will the cat be?

Everyone kept their eyes open and looked around, Yue Xingwen simply said: "Ke Shaobin, turn on the radar to find it."

Ke Shaobin quickly summoned the robot map and started the radar scan.

Xiaotu's radar monitoring range is very wide. He asked Xiaotu to scan the entire villa and garden. Suddenly, a group of green dots appeared on Xiaotu's screen. Judging from the size, it was a cat!

Yue Xingwen quickly walked towards the location marked by the small picture, and opened a large bush of flowers, and found a dirty cat curled up pitifully in the corner of the black rose garden. are very faint.

Yue Xingwen leaned over and gently picked it up. Jiang Pingce lifted the kitten's head, and sure enough, he found its name tag on the cat's neck, as well as its owner's recording equipment hidden behind the name tag.

Jiang Pingce took off the name tag carefully and handed it to Ke Shaobin.

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "Leah later replaced the tape recorder with a camera. Maybe this camera just recorded the incident! Let me take a look." He took out the memory card in the camera and connected it to his own on your laptop, start playing fast.

The picture kept shaking, making people dizzy. It should be the kitten running on the ground.Then, a young woman's face appeared on the screen: "Try it, can it be recorded from this angle? Be good, baby, don't move."

The picture gradually became stable, but the camera on the cat's neck was recorded vertically, and the recorded image had to be rotated 90 degrees to view it.

Everyone tilted their heads, and their necks were about to break.Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help complaining: "Xiao Ke, can you turn your computer 90 degrees? The 13 people all tilted their heads to watch the video, as if they were possessed by a group."

Ke Shaobin's ears turned red, and he said, "I'm so excited that I forgot!"

He rotated the computer screen, and now the picture was straightened, and everyone's heads were also straightened.

The video at the beginning was all about Leah’s daily life with her parents in the villa, until one day, Leah happened to go out and left the kitten at home with her parents.

The old lady was watching TV in the living room, but unexpectedly, the drenched little daughter Alice rushed into the house suddenly.

Mrs. Roland stepped forward subconsciously: "Alice, why are you in such a mess?"

Alice's eyes were red, she looked like a female ghost fished out of the water, her hair drooped on both sides, and her eyes stared fiercely at her mother: "It's all your fault, you insist on marrying me to that playboy Jack!" He actually hit me and told me to get out, you see, all these wounds on my body and face were all caused by him, I really can't go on..."

Mrs. Roland stared blankly at her daughter, and Alice turned around and walked into the house madly, talking to herself while walking: "I have been the best person since I was a child, I am the prettiest in the whole school, and my family is also rich, whoever chased me Men line up for two streets... I will never be a loser, absolutely not!"

She never expected that the tie her daughter was holding would be a weapon to strangle her!

At the moment her neck was strangled, Mrs. Roland's eyeballs almost fell out.The old Mr. Roland, who was weak due to chemotherapy, came down from the stairs and saw his wife was strangled by the young daughter struggling. There was a bloodstain: "What are you doing! Let go of your mother!"

Alice pulled the tie tightly until her mother was out of breath, and then she walked towards the man step by step: "Dad, why am I not your own? I also want to be your own daughter, and I want to donate bone marrow to you. It's a pity... ..."

The old man pointed at her angrily: "You, you dare to kill your mother, you are not human!"

Alice broke down and said, "It was you who denied me first! I have no part in property distribution, don't blame me for being cruel! I'm about to lose my husband, I can't live without money, I won't be able to live..." Said After that, she quickly walked behind the old man and strangled him around his neck with a tie.

Alice's crazy laughter echoed in the villa. She dragged the couple into the garden and dug a pit to bury them. The woman's body and face were covered with mud, she was in such a state of distress, like a devil.After disposing of the corpse, she returned to her room, took a shower, changed into beautiful clothes, and put on delicate makeup.

The kitten nestled in the corner, too scared to make a sound.

After Alice finished all this, she took a rag and wiped all the places in the villa, but she didn't see the blood on the carpet under the dim light.

After cleaning the scene, she went upstairs in a panic, ran down with a copy of "The Will", and disappeared into the rainy night.

The screen began to shake again, apparently the kitten was running around.

After going on for a long time, there was another movement outside the villa. The kitten seemed to smell a familiar smell, and immediately ran out to greet the owner.When Liya came back, she found that her parents were not there. She turned on the video in doubt, and her face paled to the extreme.

She immediately chose to call the police.

The police quickly rushed to the scene of the villa, dug up the bodies of the couple, and arrested the murderer Alice.This is also the reason why there are no corpses of the couple in the real villa garden.

The video is the ironclad evidence, Alice can't quibble at all, she was arrested and imprisoned, her mental state was like a lunatic.The will of the Roland couple was found by the police, and the inheritance was divided equally between the two daughters, Daisy and Leah.

Leah left the villa with a large sum of money, and the villa was also sealed and no one lived there anymore.

She still hugged the cat and lived a relatively ordinary life with the cat.

A year later, on the day of the death of her parents, she returned to the villa to worship, but she did not expect to meet Rhodes here.

Rhodes smiled gracefully: "The child is sick, and Daisy is accompanying the child in the hospital. Let me pay homage to Mom and Dad."

Leah frowned, and couldn't say much in front of her parents' grave.

She simply presented flowers to her parents and turned to leave.Rhodes walked side by side with her for a while, and when they reached the garden in front of the villa, he suddenly said: "Leah, I actually liked you very much before, and you have always been my favorite. I remember that you like sunflowers, so , I asked my child to plant this sunflower, and I bought the seeds for him."

Leah sneered: "Don't disgust me, and don't insult the word 'love'. As far as I know, after you married Sister Daisy, you kept cheating. Changing lovers is more frequent than changing clothes?"

Rhode's face suddenly became distorted: "You don't know, those people have your shadow on them! They are just your substitutes! The only thing I want in my heart is you! Every time I see Sunflower , I will always think of you drawing sunflowers in front of the blackboard when you were young..."

Leah noticed something was wrong, and quickly turned and ran away, but Rhodes grabbed her arm forcefully.

The picture recorded by the kitten began to shake crazily, but the voice in the picture was very clear—it was the sound of Leah falling down, screaming and calling for help. strangled the neck.

After a while, Leah's cries for help died away.With a weird smile on his face, Rhodes dragged her body into the garden and buried her in the ground.He also shoveled the sunflowers in the garden and sprinkled a large field of rose seeds.

He stood beside the garden with a gentle voice: "I have long thought that one day when you die, I will bury you in the most beautiful garden, so that you will never be able to leave me. You like sunflowers, but unfortunately I I like this kind of black roses more, and I will let them replace me in the future and accompany you all the time."

In the distance, a woman wearing a hat stands under a tree, covering her mouth in horror.

——It was Daisy who hurried to pay homage to her parents.

The pictures in the video stopped abruptly at this moment, just like the movie played to the end, marking the "end of the play".

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other with complicated emotions.

Ke Shaobin complained: "These people are all perverts! Daisy should be the most pitiful, right?"

Xin Yan said calmly: "Daisy doesn't love Rhodes, they are just a couple who seem to be at odds. She witnessed this scene, as long as she chooses to call the police, Rhodes will be sentenced. Leah is her only relative, Rhodes is She can inherit the property under the names of her legal husband and the two of them."

Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his chin: "So, Daisy and her son are the final winners?"

Leah teamed up with her biological parents, killed her adoptive parents, and inherited a large amount of property; Alice killed her adoptive parents, but eventually had a mental breakdown and became a lunatic; Rhodes killed Leah, intending to imprison her in this twisted way, Witnessed by his wife...

Who lost and who won?

Those who are greedy for profit will one day be bitten by the desire for profit.