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Chapter 1659 A ray of hope (the more a cat eats, the rounder its belly)

[September 12, Saturday, 24:pm]

The north wind is howling and the snow is falling.

Everyone sat together in silence.

After noticing the snow, everyone found that the temperature in the room had dropped a lot. The problem was that it was summer, so everyone was wearing very thin clothes, and they obviously couldn't stand such a low temperature environment. Fortunately, the study on the first floor was basically maintained in its original state, and there was a fireplace inside, so everyone came to the study and lit the fireplace, which made them feel a little better.

Others also brought quilts and other things and wrapped themselves in them to keep warm.

"Damn it, what should I do?"

The composer Maekura finally broke the silence impatiently.

"Are we just going to be trapped here and die?"

Then he turned and looked at Inspector Oyama.

"Dashan, you are a police officer, right? Shouldn't you take action at this time? Are you considered a police officer if you do this?"

"Even if you say so..."

Faced with the composer Maekura's criticism, Inspector Oyama spread his hands speechlessly.

"Miss Duanmu hasn't moved yet. There's nothing I can do. Maybe she has a good idea."

"she?"

Looking at Duanmu Huai who seemed to be asleep sitting at the coffee table, composer Maecang frowned, but when he saw the sword that Duanmu Huai placed next to him, he... decisively shut up and sat down obediently.

"Mr. Dashan, do you know Xiaoai?"

Yanai asked curiously at this time. After all, generally speaking, everyone should obey the police's orders at this time. But Dashan, as a police captain, actually obeyed Duanmu Huai's orders and acted as if he believed everything the other party said, which really made everyone curious.

"this………"

Inspector Dashan smiled bitterly, looked at Duanmu Huai, and seeing that the latter still had his eyes closed, he spoke.

"It's nothing to say, except that Miss Duanmu has helped our police solve several cases."

"Hey?"

I have to say, Inspector Oyama's words really surprised everyone.

Duanmu Huai is very professional in playing perverted murderers in movies, but what is unexpected is that she can actually solve cases?

"Hahaha, that's weird, isn't it? Actually, we in the Metropolitan Police Department also privately said that Miss Duanmu played the murderer's temperament so well, more like a murderer than a real murderer. Maybe she has killed several people... Of course, it's just talk. In fact, Miss Duanmu is also quite accomplished in solving cases. Do you remember the serial murders of that girl a few years ago?"

"Ah, I know that."

Yanami nodded, and Chitanda also showed an expression of lingering fear.

"I remember that at that time, my family asked me to go home right after school and even sent a car to take me there..."

The serial murder case of a young girl mentioned by Inspector Oyama happened in a small town. The case itself was very simple. The girl disappeared when she was going home from school. A few days later, her body was found abandoned in an empty construction site or park. The murderer usually committed a crime once every two weeks or a month. The frequency was so heinous that it caused panic in society. The police tried many methods but failed to solve the case and were also under pressure from public opinion.

Then one day, they suddenly announced that they had caught the murderer. The method he used was actually very simple. He was an auxiliary police officer. He easily approached the students with this identity, and invited them to get in the car with various excuses, and then said he would send them home. In fact, he gave them drinks mixed with sleeping pills, and then took the victims to his secret base to kill them and then dumped the bodies.

Since he is a police officer and is very familiar with the progress of the police's search, the police cannot catch him no matter what they do.

"In fact, the murderer was caught by Miss Duanmu."

"Hey?"

"She disguised herself as an ordinary female student, and then hooked the murderer. After being taken back to a secret residence by the murderer, she subdued him and called the police. When we rushed over, the murderer had been tied up and hung from the ceiling by Miss Duanmu. Because we quickly found the victim's blood and belongings there, we arrested him..."

"It's just that you police officers are too slow in handling cases."

Duanmu Huai opened his eyes at this time and complained.

"I was filming a movie there at the time, and because of this little thing, the progress of the movie was delayed. It's useless to see you police, so I might as well do it myself."

"Xiao, Xiao Ai, this is too dangerous."

When Teacher Gan Xia heard Duanmu Huai's complaints, his face turned pale.

"What if something happens? Aren't you afraid?"

"Of course I'm not afraid. What can that guy do to me? Besides, with my appearance, he wouldn't think I'm someone who can resist."

"That's right..."

After all, Duanmu Huai looks like the pitiful Lin Daiyu type who would fall down at the slightest breeze. Anyone who sees her would think that she is the kind of person with a soft voice and a gentle body who is easy to be pushed down.

The result was that the one he took out was bigger than anyone else's.

"Forget it, let's not talk about these useless things. You police officers should stop looking for me for no reason in the future. I'm an actor, not a detective. You're looking for me to solve cases but you don't pay me. You're wasting my time and brain cells. Isn't this freeloading?"

Duanmu Huai said, glaring at Inspector Dashan unhappily, who chuckled, scratched his head, and said nothing more. However, Duanmu Huai was too lazy to discuss this with him and waved his hand.

"Actually, I already have an idea on how to solve our current situation."

"Really?"

Sure enough, everyone became excited after hearing this.

"Well, the conclusion is actually very simple. We just need to eliminate all these weird stories and then we can go back."

Duanmu Huai said this for a reason. He just closed his eyes and rested, not really sleeping, but amplifying his senses to try to figure out where this place was. But soon Duanmu Huai found that the atmosphere here was not right, and there was even a familiar smell.

Hmm, it tastes like subspace.

As a judge, Duanmu Huai was experienced and had seen all kinds of situations. After confirming this, Duanmu Huai understood what was going on. They were now in the gap between reality and the subspace.

To use an analogy, the real world is floating on the sea, and the subspace is the deep sea. The space where Duanmu Huai and his friends were originally in the real world. But after they told those strange stories, for some reason, they attracted the energy of the subspace, causing the space centered on this house to "become heavier" and gradually sink into the sea.

So to put it simply, they are now in a half-sunken ship, with probably only the mast still exposed above the water.

So the question is, how to make the ship float? Naturally, we have to discard the ballast - and putting it here means eliminating all those weird stories.

In this way, without the "ballast" of ghost stories, this space can return to the real world.

But... I never expected that I would unexpectedly learn about the news about the subspace here.

Duanmu Huai was also a little puzzled by this. He had tried the rumor at Ruyue Station before, but it was useless after staying up late to catch the last train several times. Duanmu Huai thought it was a miscalculation on his part.

But now it seems... As expected, there is subspace in this world!

In this way, puberty syndrome can be explained!

If there was no one else here, Duanmu Huai really wanted to just go out and kill everyone, but unfortunately... there were so many burdens around him.

It sucks to have to take them with me.

But no matter what, what needs to be done must be done.

"Eliminate the ghost story? How should we do it?"

"It's very simple."

Looking at everyone, Duanmu Huai smiled gently.

"Use yourself as bait."

"???"

"Based on previous encounters, we can infer a pattern: the ghost story will first find the person telling the ghost story, and if there are other people nearby, they will also be involved."

Having said that, Duanmu Huai pointed at the hot girl Ueta.

"For example, Miss Ueda told the story of the black-haired ghost who hanged someone, so the black-haired ghost went to find her first. If Inspector Oyama hadn't stepped forward to stop it at that time, then the black-haired ghost might have attacked other people after hanging Miss Ueda. It was the same with Yanami at that time. If we hadn't eaten together, the curse might have only found Yanami, and in the end all of us would have been there..."

"this……………"

After hearing Duanmu Huai's explanation, the group of people looked at each other. In fact, the reason they gathered together was because they had all seen horror movies and knew that whoever was left alone would die. Even the bad-tempered composer Qiancang only lost his temper and complained a few words, and did not dare to slam the door and leave.

Everyone knows that this kind of character usually doesn't survive more than twenty minutes in a horror movie.

But what they didn't expect was that it was because they gathered together that everyone was unlucky?

Is this also possible?

In other words, people like Chitanda, Yanami, Inspector Oyama and producer Kuwata who tell harmless ghost stories can just go back to their rooms and sleep. Even if a ghost story comes to them, there is no danger anyway.

But it’s different for others…

"From now on, I will accompany you one by one to walk around the White Snow House, and by the way, look for the missing Mr. Ueno."

"Hey?!"

It must be said that everyone was shocked when they heard Duanmu Huai's decision. Although it was indeed important to find the missing Mr. Ueno, no one had the intention to look for him. The reason was simple. In this environment, any normal person could imagine a bunch of haunted house horror movies that they had seen. In such movies, to be honest, it was not safe for two people to be together, because you could not guarantee that the other person might be an evil spirit in disguise.

But being together as a group of people can at least give you courage!

And what Duanmu Huai was doing now was as if he was actively trying to cause a haunting incident—well, it seemed like he was really going to do that.

But the problem is…

"What should we do?"

Professor Sato also started to ask uneasily. After all, the fighting ability shown by Duanmu Huai just now had made everyone regard him as the backbone. They were not afraid just because Duanmu Huai was here. After all, even if there was another ghost, Duanmu Huai could kill it with that knife.

But if he left...wouldn't we be lambs to be slaughtered?

"You don't have to worry."

Duanmu Huai naturally knew what they were worried about. He said something to comfort them, then he pulled out the bright red sharp blade and stabbed it hard into the ground!

"Click."

The bright red sharp blade pierced straight into the floor. At the same time, everyone felt a warm bloody breath rushing towards them, making them shudder.

"As long as you don't leave this room, you will be safe. Remember, you cannot leave no matter what."

Duanmu Huai looked at them and gave them instructions just like Sun Wukong drawing circles for his master, then he glanced at everyone.

Then start from...

"Mr. Maekura, let's start with you."

"Hey? Me? Do you really want me to......?"

"What? You want to stay here forever?"

"Of course not... Well, okay."

Maekura thought about it for a while, sighed dejectedly, stood up as if resigned to his fate, and walked out of the study with Duanmu Huai. The others stared at them as they left and closed the door of the study. It was only then that Chitanda was suddenly startled.

"Wait, Ai-san doesn't have a knife, so how is she going to deal with those ghost stories?!"

"………………!?"

At this moment, everyone came back to their senses.

How could I forget this?