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The piano sound from the music box has stopped, and a dead silence permeated the huge mansion, where even the sound of your breath could be heard clearly.

Chi Yiyin walked leisurely with one hand in his pocket. It was as if he was not in the huge mansion where he could die at any time, but at a tourist attraction.

Strictly speaking, he didn’t lie.

He just didn’t say anything about the music box.

The audience before the live broadcast was dumbfounded.

[Huh… Huh??? Li Li just let him go? Seriously, damn it!]

[Gosh, just what is the background of this brother? Could it really be The Pope? It is rumored that the reason The Pope got this title back then was because he was the best at manipulating people’s hearts and bewitching others to become his believers. Even if he ordered his believers to jump off the building, they would jump off.]

[If you put it this way, it’s really a bit… Fuck! Doesn’t this mean I saw the true face of The Pope? How lucky!]

[Impossible! How could The Pope have less than 10,000 fans? Even if he could cover up other things, he couldn’t cover up this one. Are all of you brainless? How did you survive until now?]

[Tch, those that will watch the free live broadcast at the risk of being randomly thrown into the instance, aren’t they those poor wastes who are huddled in the temporary living area? The ones who don’t even have points to watch the paid live broadcast room, and come to the free live broadcast to watch the death of newcomers for fun.]

[Gosh! I didn’t notice until after you guys mentioned it! This live broadcast room is actually free!!! Fuck, it turns out that there are such good things in the free live broadcast room! Shame, I had the stereotype, thinking that free live broadcasts are the places where death and blood are the fun.]

Before the live broadcast, another person who was wolfing down a sandwich in his hands was shocked when he saw the direction of Chi Yiyin’s live broadcast room.

“Damn… it’s not just the newcomer who dares to pretend to be The Pope, but there are also those who believes that he is The Pope.”

The man just shuddered.

When he looked at Jing Cha’s live broadcast room of again, his serious face became relaxed again.

Maybe… there will be a big problem this time. If the name of “The Pope” was really taken away by this fake gentleman, it would be fun.

However, the parties involved in the live broadcast did not care about the excitement of the audience outside, and still acted at their own pace.

When Chi Yiyin saw the gate of the main courtyard, the smile on his lips slowly faded.

There were mud footprints in front of the gate.

With the housekeeper’s loyalty to the Ma family, he would never let the servants clean the mansion at will like this. Besides, Chi Yiyin recognized those footprints.

The typical student shoe pattern is small.

It was the female student who first heard the music box and came all the way here.

Chi Yiyin frowned.

He was very clear that he would come to find the music box because of the existence of nightmares and the woman in wedding dress. But why did the female student come?

Not all players have found the importance of the music box. Otherwise, Li Li and his partner would not have been fooled away from the truth and took the initiative to go to Madam Ma’s room to die.

Chi Yiyin realized that the female student might be more dangerous than he thought before and should not be underestimated.

He took a light breath and blocked his shadow by the thick beams and columns beside him, so that his shadow wouldn’t show on the paper window and be found by the person inside. Then he stepped gently close to the main house, opened the door slowly without making a sound, and looked inside.

The main structure of the Ma Family Mansion is in Hui-style architecture, but in the courtyard, a new western building had been built.

From the perspective of the female ghost and the furnishings in the yard, it should be Master Ma who thought that using western things was not only to save face, but also showed his financial resources and vision. He wanted to show his position to the new businessmen and seek opportunities for cooperation.

However, this also led to some complex terrain in the Ma Family Mansion.

The original main courtyard had to make way for western buildings. After it was built into a western building, besides the three younger siblings, Madam Ma, who was more traditional, did not want to live here. Instead, she moved to the Hui-style building in the back and felt more comfortable in that courtyard.

Therefore, in addition to Master Ma and his three children, the main house is full of guest rooms and dance halls, which were often used by the Ma family to entertain guests.

Now, through the crack of the door, Chi Yiyin could see that in the living room on the first floor, a flower-shaped table lamp was on, and barely illuminating the spacious living room.

But the beautiful living room was in a mess. Books and ornaments were scattered everywhere on the ground, as if someone had broken it down in anger.

The music box was also broken on the ground. In addition to parts of it, Chi Yiyin also saw some red fragments.

Chi Yiyin felt something was strange.

If the female student could be so cautious and cheat everyone except him, she should not be an irritable person. She should not make such a move as smashing the music box.

Could it be that she wanted to destroy the important clues so that the people later couldn’t get the music box?

No. If it was like that, she didn’t have to smash the living room like this. She didn’t know that the housekeeper is dead. If the housekeeper was still alive, it was likely to provoke the housekeeper. The loss outweighed the gain.

So… did she never find what she wanted?

Chi Yiyin squinted. After confirming that the female student’s figure was not in the living room on the first floor, he pushed the door gently and entered. Flexibly, like a mermaid, he slid through the crack of the door without making any noise.

The living room floor was padded with expensive wool carpets, gilded leather sofas and glazed floor lamps, which were the most fashionable imported products in the era of mixed Chinese and Western culture. The Ma family used this to show of its financial strength and position.

The female student apparently had searched the surrounding cabinets, and threw many things to the ground.

Chi Yiyin even saw children’s toys.

He remembered that when the youngest brother came to play with him, he had similar toys in his hand, and this brother was the only one who could play with them.

Was it thrown by the female student?

He squatted down beside the sofa and reached out to pick up one of the wooden toy cars.

Unlike the assembled products of later factories, this era still relied heavily on handwork, and western cars were also a novelty. It obviously took a lot of effort and money to make wooden cars. Even the Ma family would not be so extravagant to change toys for children every day.

This was much harder than buying car toys in later generations. That youngest brother should have cherished these toys very much.

But now, the car toy was covered with cracks. The most serious crack split the car from the middle, it is precariously about to become two halves.

Chi Yiyin shook his head slightly, thinking that the child would be very sad if he found his toy broken.

After all, the child didn’t forget to bring his toy even when he was scared away.

But just as Chi Yiyin was about to get up, he suddenly froze.

He found that the cracked interior of the car was actually filled with blackish red after oxidation.

It was soaked with blood!

Moreover, this was not fresh blood, but formed after the blood had slipped through the wood texture for a long time and then drying.

Thinking of the corpses and wine jars seen in Madam Ma’s room before, Chi Yiyin immediately realized that maybe the fake and real mansion had overlapped again. The mess in the living room may have been done by the female student, but there were also many things that had actually happened in the mansion before.

Once this speculation emerged, Chi Yiyin immediately groped around for similar objects under the carpet and sofa cabinets, trying to find those items stained with blood to piece together the truth of that time.

According to Tong Yao’s intelligence, this instance had had the same ending in the hands of many players before.

——Ma Yuze killed her three siblings children, then committed suicide. Her mother then hanged herself to death.

However, Chi Yiyin already knew that Ma Yuze didn’t die in the living room at all, but on the night of her marriage.

This also means that what those players had seen before wasn’t even the truth.

No wonder none of those players managed to escape the instance successfully.

They couldn’t even find the truth. Much less to talk about realizing Master Ma’s wish? Maybe even this was the result of the players’ wrong guess.

Chi Yiyin thought so, but his actions didn’t stop for a moment. Soon he found a lot of bloody objects.

In addition to a large number of toys stained with blood, the most obvious blood stain was a crystal ornament, carved with a Western Goddess.

The Goddess held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. But the crystal part of the sword was covered with oxidized and blackened blood.

It’s like… it was once used as a sharp weapon and stabbed into someone’s flesh and blood.

If Ma Yuze didn’t die here, would she use this ornament as a murder weapon to kill her brothers and sister?

According to Chi Yiyin’s understanding of Ma Yuze, he didn’t think she was such a person.

Unlike other members of the Ma family, Ma Yuze received the most advanced education at that time. She hated chaos and yearned for an orderly future. She was not a person who would solve problems by violent death.

Moreover, when she was in her boudoir, Ma Yuze also told him personally that this was her family and her home.


She had deep attachment and love for her family. How could she kill her siblings?

What’s more, on the night of marriage, the older one of the brothers appeared.

Based on this, Chi Yiyin completely overturned all the previous players’ guesses about this instance.

He believed that the reason why some players saw a family dying in the living room was because those players had found the wrong direction.

If you asked the wrong question, you could only get the wrong answer.

What happened during that time?

Chi Yiyin squatted beside the sofa. He was frowning and looking around. Then his eyes suddenly froze.

There were blood stains not only on the objects in his hands, but also on the ground, forming a series of footprints, which led him to look up slowly towards the direction of the stairs.

Even though the table lamp was dim, the waxed stair handrail was still shining.

Chi Yiyin suddenly realized something and opened his eyes wide.

Maybe someone died here, but it was an accidental loss.

The stairs were too smooth, there were only blood stains near the sofa in the living room, and obvious footprints running down the stairs… Perhaps someone stood on the stairs and accidentally pushed another person down, but didn’t expect that person to fall on the ornaments, and was instantly pierced by sharp ornaments, and the blood stained the toys around.

There were toys, meaning that the youngest brother was here at that time.

He’s young and light, so it was easy to be ignored or pushed down. And in the nightmare, Chi Yiyin never saw him again.

Either because the younger brother was too young that the Ma family did not let him appear at the time of marriage, or because he was seriously injured in bed, or even dead.

Just when this speculation was confirmed by Chi Yiyin, the scene in front of him changed again, and the air fluctuated like water waves.

The light in the living room suddenly brightened, and the mess on the floor disappeared. Everything seemed magnificent.

Except for the quarrel.

Chi Yiyin looked around and saw Ma Yuze standing on the stairs, arguing with her sister.

She knew the original source of her rumor and was trembling with anger. She asked her sister why she did this to her. Aren’t they a family?

However, her younger sister laughed and rightfully retorted. If you are so powerful, what can a small rumor do to you? Isn’t it because you are not upright, and don’t behave yourself that the rumor spread. If you really don’t have any problems, how can it be like this.

Ma Yuze was so angry with her sister that her blood rushed up and she pushed her.

But neither of the two quarrelling found that the youngest brother who had been playing with his toys in the living room staggered up the stairs with his toys to comfort the two sisters and let them stop fighting.

The younger sister stumbled backwards on the stairs, grabbed the handrail to stabilize her figure, but her back bumped into another lump of soft meat.

The youngest brother was only a few years old, and his height only reached the waist of his oldest sister. Nobody saw him.

When they saw him, it was too late.

The youngest brother was knocked out and fell to the ground. He fell right into his pile of toys, and the crystal ornaments immediately pierced his heart.

Blood poured out and he cried.

Ma Yuze and her younger sister were shocked.

They could no longer afford to quarrel, and rushed down the stairs to check on their brother.

Ma Yuze hugged her youngest brother crazily and cried bitterly. She went through all the cabinets in the living room, but could not find a first-aid kit, and the doctor was still on the way.

The youngest brother’s breath gradually became faint in her arms. He also reached out to wipe the tears on her face and said seriously: “Big sister told me that we are a family, so don’t fight anymore.”

Ma Yuze was crying out of breath, and all she knew was to nod her head crazily, crying and begging her brother not to have an accident.

The younger sister was scared silly.

After she regained her consciousness, she screamed and ran out, shouting that her sister had killed her youngest brother and tried to kill her!

Among the three siblings, the only sibling who didn’t mean any harm to Ma Yuze was in her arms, slowly losing his breath.

Ma Yuze cried until she collapsed.

Chi Yiyin was watching the memory of the past. For a long time, he sighed slowly and put his hand on Ma Yuze’s trembling shoulder. He wanted to comfort her, but didn’t know what to say.

At this time, he finally understood Ma Yuze’s obsession was guilt.

——I feel guilty for killing my mother and my youngest brother.

In the eyes of kind-hearted Ma Yuze, she had committed an unforgivable crime.

It was her favorite home, but she tore it up by herself.

The last advice from her youngest brother before his death became the last straw that crushed Ma Yuze.

Even if she did it unintentionally, she still killed an innocent and kind life. The pressure from it was enough to defeat Ma Yuze’s strength.

Chi Yiyin finally knew that the way that the woman in wedding dress pointed out for him was not to let him go to the music box because the truth was not in the music box.

She was answering his question and stripping away all her painful memories of the past to him.

The place guided by music box was another place that held Ma Yuze’s heart knot. Here, the piece of truth of the past could be seen and the memory of the past reappeared.

In front of Chi Yiyin, everything gradually faded. The verlapping images disappeared, and the living room returned faintly.

In the dark, Ma Yuze’s desperate and crying figure also disappeared.

The rest was still the messy living room.

After a while, he hooked his lips and laughed.

It seemed that even if the female student came first, she still couldn’t find the truth.

At this moment, a cold and hard weapon was being pointed to Chi Yiyin’s back.

“I knew from the beginning that you would be a problem.”