"Okay, go ahead and tell me." Li looked out the window, feeling very worried about Ziye's safety.

　　He wanted Ziye to survive no matter what.

　　"Well… a black dress? The bookshelf?" As Li listened to her experience, he jotted down these clues, his brow furrowed.

　　Too few clues.

　　But if they had more clues, it was likely that someone would be killed.

　　Where could it be?

　　Paintings, bookshelves, books, closets, clothes, carpets, plaster sculptures, chairs, beds, ceilings, chandeliers…

　　Anything could be the ghost's transformation!

　　Without any clues, how could they find it!

　　No… wait…

　　It couldn't be completely without clues!

　　"The apartment wouldn't intentionally give us an unsolvable problem," Li took a sip of water and continued to speak to the other side of the phone, "Otherwise, they could just ask us to stay in the villa for five days, doing this would be redundant. This is a conclusion I drew from my previous experiences. In other words, if they ask us to find it, they will definitely give us some clues."

　　"Clues…" Ziye glanced at Yuan and said into the phone, "Actually, there is one clue…"

　　Seeing that she seemed to be hesitating, Li immediately asked, "You don't want someone nearby to hear it? Okay, tell me, who do you not want to know? 1, Yuan, 2, Wen, 3, Oda Saki, 4, all. Answer me."

　　"1."

　　"Got it. This clue is related to 1?"

　　"Yes, it's related to the black dress."

　　"Understood. Go on."

　　"This…"

　　"You can't say it? Let me guess… he acted strangely when he saw the black dress?"

　　"How… how did you know?"

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　　"You can treat it as a clue, which means the two are closely related. But Yuan wasn't wearing a black dress when he went out, and he's also very averse to black. You wouldn't think of him in connection with the black dress, so… it can only be interpreted as his reaction to the black dress.

　　Generally, the blood word instructions assigned by the apartment shouldn't be interconnected, they should be independent. That is to say, Yuan's reaction must have been triggered by this blood word instruction.

　　So… he probably saw something when he went to the villa ahead of time yesterday. For example, he saw a ghost wearing black clothes at the entrance of the villa, or the window, or a floating black dress… but the latter is less likely, because if that were the case, Yuan should have immediately concluded that the black dress itself was the ghost's transformation."

　　"I see, I understand now."

　　Li remained silent for a moment, then said, "But it shouldn't be as simple as the black dress. Did you seal that closet?"

　　"Yes. I did that to confirm…"

　　"I see." Li opened the window, his brain working rapidly, he finally said to Ziye, "I have a guess. But it's difficult to confirm."

　　"Difficult?"

　　"I'll ask you a question…"

　　When Li asked the question, Ziye shook her head and said, "No, I didn't pay much attention."

　　"Give the phone to Oda Saki."

　　After Ziye handed the phone to Saki, Li asked her a new question. Oda Saki thought for a moment and then replied, "No… I didn't feel anything special."

　　"Really? I see. Give the phone back to Ziye."

　　When the phone returned to Ziye, she picked it up and asked, "You… what are you thinking? What did you figure out?"

　　"For now, don't think too much about the meaning of my questions. But I think the necessary clues should have appeared, or at least, they should appear before the first person dies."

　　"What?"

　　"You mean… you feel a pair of blood-red eyes staring at you, right?"

　　"Yes… that's right, filled with malice…"

　　"How do you know they're blood-red eyes?"

　　"Ah…"

　　Why did she know they were… blood-red eyes…

　　Yes, why?

　　"You seem to just say that your vision turned blood red, and then you felt someone staring at you, but you didn't actually see the person staring at you, right?" Li continued to analyze, "So why did you have that feeling?"

　　Why…

　　Why did she have that feeling…

　　"I… I don't know… It's like I was completely locked in by those eyes, and then my body was in a sea of blood. It's like that…"

　　It's a very abstract way of describing it.

　　But Li wasn't satisfied with that answer.

　　"Don't be so abstract. There must be a more specific reason, right?" Li continued, "I don't think you're the kind of person who would be influenced by so-called intuition. There must be a more important reason why you think they're blood-red eyes."

　　"You… you're saying…"

　　"You've had this feeling twice, both in the living room, right?"

　　"Yes… that's right…"

　　Just then, Ziye suddenly noticed something.

　　It was… the red carpet on the floor. A corner of the carpet had been cut, revealing the very clean marble underneath.

　　"Do you understand now?" Li continued, "You're not being influenced by some abstract intuition. You saw something more concrete." Li finally hit the nail on the head, "Did you see something?"

　　"Yes… that's right."

　　Ziye squatted down and looked at the clean marble.

　　At that moment, her vision turned blood red again, and on that clean marble, a pair of extremely menacing eyes, filled with malice, appeared!