Played by the devil in the palm of his hand

Xu Chi suddenly felt creepy, and a chill ran down his back. He took a deep breath to suppress the fear.If you want to win, you must overcome your fear, and if your prey wants to survive, you must turn yourself into a hunter!

Xu Chi's eyes turned fierce, and he cursed in a low voice, "Son of a bitch, it doesn't matter if you're Jack the Ripper or something else, if you meet your father, I'll let you know how to spell "anti-kill!"

He clenched the dagger tightly in his backhand, and slowly pushed open the door.

Almost instantly, a strong smell of blood rushed towards his face. Xu Chi glanced through the crack of the door. The lights in the corridor were brightly lit, but no one was seen.

Xu Chi pushed the door out bit by bit, suddenly the bottom of the door seemed to hit something soft, paused, Xu Chi was stunned for a moment, instinctively lowered his head, and saw shocking bloodstains all over the corridor floor.

Xu Chi held his breath for an instant, and got out from the crack of the door. Looking down, the person blocking the door was actually...

"Edward..."

Edward vaguely heard someone calling his name in his sleep, and the voice sounded trembling, as if he was asking for help.

Edward immediately opened his eyes, and sat up quickly, "Achi, what's wrong?!"

Xu Chi stood at the door, and said to Edward with a pale face, "Come here and see this..."

Edward stood up and frowned immediately, because he had already seen the bright red blood at Xu Chi's feet.Charles woke up as he passed the sofa, and stood up to walk with him to the door.

"What did you find?"

Charles' words stopped abruptly, because he also saw a thin body lying on his back just outside the anti-theft door.

It turned out to be a boy about ten years old, with short soft black hair on a pure white mask, wearing blue Jingle cat pajamas, and a pair of white and tender feet.

This is the little boy from the neighbor's house.

A deep incision was cut from the chest cavity to the lower abdomen, and another horizontal cut was made from the navel, like a red reverse cross, completely opening the child's thin and soft abdominal cavity, and all the internal organs were soaked in blood.

Charles obviously didn't expect the victim to appear from the 'passers-by', as a child, speechless for a while.

Afterwards, he glanced at Xu Chi, seeing his pale face, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Why, I haven't seen the dead body of a child, are you scared?"

Edward whispered, "He's not afraid, he just doesn't like it."

"You respect the old and love the young, don't you?" Charles teased, then knelt down to check on the child's condition. He also tried to take off the child's mask as Xu Chi had done before, but as expected, not come down.

Xu Chi's eyes fell on the floor, and he saw that there was an obvious dragging mark on the blood, and this trail extended all the way to the door of the neighbor's house next door.

In other words, Jack the Ripper killed someone in front of the next door, and then deliberately dragged the body to the door of Xu Chi's apartment?

This is a naked provocation and demonstration, a letter of challenge written with a child's life and blood.Xu Chi only felt that his heart was filled with an inexplicable anger, almost to the point of exploding.

That bastard! !

He gritted his teeth, turned around and strode towards the neighbor's house, kicking open the concealed door.

He knew that because of Edward's absence tonight, the family had already returned. They were like mechanical puppets, they didn't care at all that there were strangers sleeping in the house, and they just came back naturally.

Xu Chi pushed open the bedroom door, the room was very quiet, only the sleep light by the bed was on, the couple fell asleep peacefully, completely unaware of what was going on outside.

Xu Chi took a deep breath, leaned his back against the door frame, and calmed down to think seriously.

The situation is basically like this, Jack the Ripper broke into the leader's house in the dark, silently killed their child, and then threw it at his own door?

His movements were so fast and neat that his parents in the same room didn't notice?

He bit his nails subconsciously, deducing the identity of the murderer: he must be a very flexible person, so he won't be too fat, a thin man?He has superb knife skills, knows a little about anatomy, and may have been abused when he was young, so he has the intention to kill children from a happy family.

Edward then came in. Standing beside Xu Chi, he whispered, "Do you want to wake them up?"

"Huh? Anna and them? Temporarily..."

"No." Edward shook his head, pointing to the couple on the bed, "It's them, although they are just fictional 'passers-by', but they are their children after all, so you want to tell them?"

Xu Chi was silent for a while, "...wake up."

……

The loud sound of Xu Chi kicking the door woke up many neighbors. About seven or eight people came out of this floor. next to the corpse.

This scene is extremely absurd, a group of masked people looked down at the young corpses on the ground, and the bright incandescent lamps silently pulled out their slender shadows, like a strange sacrifice.

The child's father knelt beside the dead body, pounding the floor with his hands in pain, and pulling his hair vigorously. Although he couldn't see his expression, Xu Chi felt his grief inexplicably.

He couldn't help but think back to his real neighbor in reality, that middle-aged man, who was very kind and even gave mooncakes to him, a man he hadn't met a few times, during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This kid, if it is real, should have been in high school or college, would he know that another self was a victim of Jack the Ripper in a strange space?

Xu Chi leaned against the wall, watching the farce from a distance, the pure white mask dangling in front of his eyes, they whispered silently, Xu Chi suddenly felt a sense of discord, for some reason, he felt something was wrong.

Before he could think about it, Jun Ye had quietly appeared beside him.

As if he was used to such bloody scenes, he didn't even look at them. He just looked at Xu Chi and said with a low smile, "It seems that the first victim has already appeared. Does Mr. Holmes have any clues?"

"……why?"

Xu Chi's voice was too low, Jun Ye hummed, "What?"

"Why did you choose a child as the victim?!"

Jun Ye smiled helplessly, leaned over and kissed his ear, "I didn't choose this, it was Jack the Ripper."

"Besides, is there any difference between adults and children, men and women? They are all puppets made by me. Could it be..." Jun Ye deliberately jokingly said, "Have you developed feelings for my 'passer-by'?"

"..." Xu Chi became furious and pushed Jun Ye away, "Go away!"

Jun Ye looked at his back as he strode away, and shook his head helplessly: he gets angry when he is exposed, and flees when he is scolded. He is really spoiled.

When Xu Chi walked to the door of the apartment, he saw that Anna and the others were already awake. Lin Xixi was wearing fluffy pajamas, her eyes were dazed, and she was about to walk out the door. Xu Chi immediately blocked the door and said in a deep voice, "Lin Xixi, go back to the bedroom. Go, this is not something girls should look at."

Anna rolled her eyes, "What's the matter? Besides, I'm also a girl, why do you only...?!"

The conversation stopped abruptly, because Anna saw that Xu Chi's feet were covered in blood, and there was a delicate hand lying in a pool of blood - it was obviously a child.

Anna swallowed nervously, reached out her hand to stop Lin Xixi, and said in a low voice, "Let's go back first."

She and Xu Chi looked at each other, and the latter nodded.

Edward took many photos of the dead body with his mobile phone, and then Li Wu brought a white sheet, wrapped the child up, and put it on the sofa in the living room next door.

The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, and Xu Chi squatted silently in the corridor, staring at the glaring pool of blood, smoking a cigarette without saying a word.The expression on that side face was very dignified, and the eyes became darker and darker.

A hand reached out to snuff out Xu Chi's cigarette, and threw it into the trash can.

"The internal injury is not healed yet, please smoke less."

Xu Chi glanced at Edward, took out half a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and took out a new one to light. Edward took his lighter away without a word, "No more smoking."

"..." Xu Chi simply sat on the floor, not caring that the remaining blood stains stained his pants, he leaned his back against the wall, and said in a low voice, "Edward, you just said something wrong."

"Huh? What?"

"It's not that I don't like it, it's that I'm really scared." Xu Chi stared at a floating point in the air with vain eyes, unfocused, as if his consciousness had sunk into the bottom of the sea.

"The boy's body made me feel scared, but I didn't know why I was afraid, obviously the dead are the most harmless things in this world."

Edward was speechless for a while, a bold guess suddenly appeared in his mind, the reason why Xu Chi fled Chang'an Town when he was 16 was because something happened in the orphanage that frightened him?That place... isn't there just a lot of children?

But this is just a guess. Edward suppressed his thoughts and patted Xu Chi on the shoulder, "Go into the house."

Regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, several people's guesses were similar to Xu Chi's. Edward went to check the lock on the door next door, and there was no sign of being picked.

Several people sat on the sofa with solemn expressions, and Coco Li asked tentatively, "That is to say, someone opened the door and let Jack in?"

Edward shook his head, "If that's the case, why didn't the adults wake up?"

Xu Chi thought for a while, he subconsciously rubbed his mobile phone, and suddenly a flash of inspiration: They fell into a misunderstanding, that is, because they couldn't use the communication network, they mistakenly thought that passers-by couldn't either, but in fact their lives were not affected. limited.

"Could it be like this..." Xu Chi said slowly, "Jack may be someone the boy knows, and he may have sent a text message like this to the child, which is similar to 'Get up quietly and open the door for uncle, don't wake up mom and dad 'This kind?'

"That makes sense." Jun Ye stood behind the sofa, reached out and stroked Xu Chi's hair, and said with a smile, "I should give you a point, baby."

Everyone: "?!"

The door was obviously locked, when was he standing there? !

Compared to other people's reactions, Xu Chi was already used to Jun Ye's elusiveness, so he glanced at him indifferently, "Do you know who the real culprit is?"

Jun Ye smiled, "I know."

"who is it?"

"Kiss me once and I'll tell you."

"Get out!" Xu Chi knew that the dog couldn't spit out ivory, so he stared at Jun Ye coldly, and asked bluntly, "Why do you stay here all this time?"

"It won't affect you to solve the case if I'm by your side, right? Besides, since the game has started, what if the administrator isn't here?"

Xu Chi clicked his tongue angrily, Jun Ye rubbed Xu Chi's neck ambiguously, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear clearly: "I've prepared the dice for you, and I'm looking forward to seeing you this time." Throw something interesting."

Xu Chi's body froze, and a chill came over him, then he gritted his teeth and said, "I won't lose."