12dz Chapter 1352: Boss, you broke the rules! (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone~)
Chapter 1352: Boss, you broke the rules! (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone~)
Xue Xuexue and Zhang Shanyi did not force Chen Mu's answer.
After they packed up and made preparations, they went to Xiao Zhang's room.
Chen Mu looked at the backs of the two men, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.
"Boss, what should we do now?" Xiao Shi asked.
"Go back to the room to rest and wait patiently for the rain to stop." Chen Mu said.
Although Xiao Shi was confused by what the boss said, he didn't know what the boss wanted to do.
But since Chen Mu didn't say it himself, Xiao Shi wouldn't ask. He would do whatever Chen Mu said.
Seeing Chen Mu return to his room, Xiao Shi also opened the door and prepared to return to his own room.
As soon as he entered the room, Xiao Shi's body suddenly jolted.
Ten seconds later, Chen Mu just lay down on the bed when he saw Xiao Shi walking in with a serious face.
"Boss, something happened in my room."
"what's the situation?"
"Blood stains. There are blood stains on my wall too."
Upon hearing this, Chen Mu immediately turned over and got up.
There were bloodstains in Jiao Yixue's room yesterday, and then Jiao Yixue died at night.
It also appeared on Xiaoshi’s wall today. Doesn’t that mean that the person who died tonight was... Xiaoshi!
"Come on, take me to see it!"
Chen Mu followed Xiao Shi to Xiao Shi's room.
As soon as he entered the room, Chen Mu saw blood stains faintly seeping on the wall of Xiaoshi.
Because the nursing home is located in the mountains, it is humid and rainy all year round. Therefore, the walls of the rooms are obviously wet.
On the wall of Xiao Shi's room, amidst the wet marks, mottled bloodstains were faintly emerging.
These bloodstains were not without pattern. First, there was a dark red palm print. Then, below the palm print, a rectangular outline gradually emerged.
The bloodstains continued to seep out, and details were slowly filling in the rectangular outline.
However, the bloodstain fills very slowly, and it will probably take dozens of minutes to complete.
Xiao Shi said, "Boss, what should we do? I'll go call nurse Liu up here right now."
"Don't go!" Chen Mu stopped Xiao Shi, "Wait and see, I want to see what shape it will be."
If blood stains appear in the room, the nurse must be called immediately to deal with it. This is stipulated in the rules.
If you don’t call the nurse, you are breaking the rules!
What are the consequences of breaking the rules? No one knows.
But Xiao Shi was not afraid. He was just confused. When did the boss become so powerful that he dared to directly violate the rules?
I saw the bloodstains on the wall slowly taking shape.
Chen Mu noticed that the outline of this rectangle seemed a little familiar.
Within the rectangular outline, there are bloodstains of varying sizes.
Looking at the bloodstains, Chen Mu suddenly thought of something. He pushed open the balcony door and looked out at the nursing home, which was drenched in rain.
The rectangular outline seems to be the appearance of Shanqing Nursing Home.
The bloodstains of various sizes filled in it corresponded to the buildings in the nursing home in terms of position and size.
The main building, cafeteria, cemetery and other buildings in the nursing home were marked with bloodstains of varying sizes.
Finally, after waiting for more than half an hour, an obvious bloody handprint mark appeared in a small building.
Chen Mu looked at the bloodstain picture in front of him, then looked at the heavy rain outside the balcony and asked Xiao Shi:
"Do you see this small building? It corresponds to the third two-story building outside. What is this building used for?"
Xiao Shi thought for a moment and replied, "If I remember correctly, when I was investigating yesterday, I saw the dean coming out of that small building.
If I'm not mistaken, that should be the dean's office building."
"The dean's office building...the bloodstains are reminding us..." Chen Mu muttered to himself.
His brain was working rapidly, arranging and connecting all the events of the past few days into a line in his mind.
"Boss, is this a female ghost marking a target for murder? Could it be that her next target will be the director of the nursing home?"
Chen Mu shook his head, he suddenly turned around and said to Xiao Shi:
"Xiao Shi, do you dare to go out with me after 11 o'clock tonight?"
"Where do you want to go, Boss?"
"The dean's office! The dean works there during the day and only leaves after nine or ten in the evening. So after eleven tonight, we can go to the dean's office building during the middle of the night."
"Boss, I don't quite understand why we have to go at midnight. There are still two hours between the dean's get off work and eleven o'clock. Can't we just go then?" Xiao Shi asked in confusion:
"According to the rules, nursing homes become particularly dangerous at night.
Last night, Jiao Yixue died in the room after opening the door.
If we go out at midnight, won't we be targeted by the female ghost? Even if we don't die, it would be a waste to use props."
Faced with Xiao Shi's confusion, Chen Mu looked at him with a mysterious smile on his lips.
"Xiao Shi, have you ever thought that the murderer may not necessarily be a female ghost?"
"What do you mean?" Xiao Shi was slightly stunned and didn't react for a while.
Chen Mu came to the door and closed it to make sure no one outside was eavesdropping.
At this time, Chen Mu whispered a secret to Xiao Shi.
"Did you ever doubt Jiao Yixue's death last night? Why was Jiao Yixue so stupid as to open the door and die?"
Xiao Shi scratched his head, "He was bewitched?"
"If bewitched, the female ghost's strength would have already exceeded the limits of the rules. The rules shouldn't include such unclear rules as 'rely on willpower not to open the door, resist bewitching.'
The so-called rules are that those who follow them live and those who disobey them die.
If a rule contains an ambiguous provision such as 'rely on willpower to resist temptation and don't open the door'.
How strong a will is enough? How strong a will is enough to resist temptation?
I obeyed, but how do I know if my will is strong enough? This kind of ambiguity, where the final interpretation is left to others, should not be a strict rule.
So when I heard Jiao Yixue open the door, my first reaction was not that Jiao Yixue was bewitched.
Either Jiao Yixue encountered a situation where he had to open the door;
Or... the door was forced open by the female ghost.
Of course, there is a third possibility, that is, someone other than Jiao Yixue opened his door.
In that situation, I was completely unable to judge between the three possibilities.
So, I thought of my props.
Birthday candles!
After lighting the birthday candles, all monsters within a certain range will suffer burning damage.
The range of birthday candles is enough to cover several rooms.
Indeed, birthday candles are very precious. If used outside the Ghost Gate, they can kill hundreds of thousands of ghost beasts.
But in that situation, I made a decision right then and there. It has to be used!
Props are used for survival. If you can't survive, no matter how many props you have, they will be useless.
I lit the birthday candles!"