As if he thought of something, Fan looked odd for a moment, then picked up his sneakers, turned and walked towards the door.

It was along the corridor, as if he was going downstairs.

Everyone followed, Fatty and Aoiz at the end of the line, and as they passed the boy's bedroom, Fatty was pulled into the bedroom by Aoiz.

"What are you doing?" Fatty asked in horror as he covered himself.

"Checking some things."

"What are you checking pulling me for?"

Aoiz pulled open the drawers in the bedroom one by one, and in a short while squatted down by the bed again and pulled out a pair of slippers from under the bed, then picked them up and looked up at Fatty and replied calmly, "Because I'm scared."

Fatty: "......"

Half a day later, Aoiz and Fatty came downstairs to the living room and saw Sister Nan and the others gathered around the shoe cupboard, all the shoes had been turned out and arranged neatly in pairs on the floor.

Hearing the sound of Aoiz coming downstairs, Fan put down the pair of ladies' loafers in his hand, and Fatty saw that all three of them did not look too good.

Just at the moment Una opened her mouth to speak, Aoiz spoke, "Did you find out that there are not only two boys but also two girls in this villa?"

Fan's eyes trembled, as if he was going to say something immediately, but he held back, and only after a long time did he say quietly, "Newcomer, what exactly is your origin?"

"Don't talk about useless things, tell us what you have found first," Aoiz put down the things in his hands and looked at him very calmly.

Fan picked up two pairs of shoes and showed them to Aoiz, they were two pairs of women's casual shoes in exactly the same size, and according to their previous judgement they belonged to the same girl.

Fan grimly turned the two pairs of shoes over to reveal the soles, "The left pair has severe wear on the outside of the soles, while the wear points on the right pair are concentrated on the inside."

He raised his head and stared into Aoiz's eyes, "The wear on the soles is related to walking posture and it's almost impossible to correct this habit once it's developed, so these are two people's shoes and there are two girls in this villa."

"But why is there only one girl's bedroom on the first floor?" Una asked, "And there's only a single bed in the bedroom?"

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Aoiz shook his head, "The two small bedrooms upstairs are both occupied by girls, so naturally there is a single bed for each of them."

"What do you mean?"

"This is what I found in the bedroom with the military posters all over it," Aoiz took out the slippers he found under the bed in the bedroom, "the size is on the small side, so you can compare it to the loafers."

It didn't even really need to be compared, but Fan took it anyway and put it with the loafers, so now everyone could see clearly that the owner of the slippers should be a woman.

"Isn't it too far-fetched to say that a girl lived in that room based on just a pair of slippers? Maybe the slippers were forgotten by the girl in the boy's bedroom."

"And the way it's set up in that bedroom, it looks like a boy is living there."

"But you don't use things like that in a man's bedroom," Aoiz said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a packet of something and handed it to Una, who had raised a query.

The latter raised an eyebrow when she took it; it was an unwrapped packet of sanitary napkins.

"I found it in the bedroom drawer, more than one packet." Aoiz continued.

Sister Nan looked at Aoiz, "So both of the upstairs bedrooms are occupied by girls, and one of them has a more masculine personality habit."

Aoiz nodded, "That's right."

Una seemed to have just come back to her senses and there was some confusion in her eyes, "Then where do the other two boys live? We only found three bedrooms in this villa."

A master bedroom where the male and female owners lived.

By inference, the two remaining smaller bedrooms belonged to each of the two girls in the cottage.

"Could it be on the third floor?" Fatty warned in a small voice, "We haven't been there yet."

Before the words left her mouth, Nan shook her head, "I don't think so, I observed when I came here, this villa only has windows on the first and first floors, and the third floor is a dark room."

Common sense dictated that no one would place a bedroom in a dark room without windows, especially not a wealthy family like the owner of this villa.

As if realising something, Una looked nervous and said, "So ...... these two boys are not members of this family, they are outsiders!"

Fan glanced at her and said coldly, "I should say intruders."

"And it's not two boys either, it's two grown men," Aoiz added.

At those words Una's body shivered fiercely.

Indeed, after the assumption that the two men were the children of a man and a woman had been disproved, the two pairs of shoes left behind alone showed that one pair was close to Aoiz's size, while the other was even larger than Fan's size.

Aoiz looked at the two pairs of sneakers lined up on the floor, "When I first saw this pair of shoes, I felt strange, it was too cheap and very worn, obviously not matching the other shoes in the shoe closet, and the person living in this villa doesn't look like a person who would settle for anything."

There was a momentary silence in the living room as the previous train of thought was overturned and the story changed from a more straightforward domestic tragedy to a villainous invasion.

After a long while, the fat man looked around and spoke in a whisper, "So it was two men who broke into this villa, first tackling the man and woman, then imprisoning their two daughters and finally killing them."

"Remember the water stains left by the female ghost after she walked by? And the woman's hair left in the bathtub in the ground floor bathroom," Nan said grimly, "the ghost was probably held down and drowned in the bathtub."

"As for Xi being scared to death and then dragged away and abused, it was also the female ghost's revenge, which would explain why the female ghost dressed him in the shoes left by the intruder."

"Because she imagined Xi to be the person who abused her in the first place."

It was dawn during the time that several people were analysing the truth of the case, and this time no one urged Fatty to cook, but simply ate some snacks such as crumpets to satisfy their hunger.

It wasn't that they felt sorry for the nimble fatty, but there wasn't much time left for them.

Aoiz had already noticed that the days in this world were getting shorter and shorter, while the nights were becoming longer and longer.

According to his estimation, after at most two more nights, the daylight in this world would disappear completely.

"What will happen when the daylight disappears?" Fatty opened his two eyes as big as light bulbs and rolled his throat viciously.

Aoiz turned around and patted the fatty's shoulder comfortingly, "Don't worry ......"

Fatty's pale cheeks reddened slightly.

Aoiz then spoke, "The big deal is that the ghosts will show up to kill with impunity."

Fatty: "???"

Several people walked inside the first floor corridor, they had to take advantage of this relatively safe period of daylight to complete a second search inside the villa.

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