Yu Xing's life value continued to decrease under the tongue of fire, but he became more carefree.

Since the wizard asked sincerely, in order to deduct points for deduction, he didn't mind reluctantly answering.

Martha was tense from beginning to end, sweating coldly, but didn't want to get close to the fire, so she hid far away and pressed her ear against the door.

She no longer needed to wind up the clock, and after heaving a sigh of relief, she also wanted to know how much Roy had discovered in advance and how much he had secretly arranged.

York played with a fruit knife boredly, pretending to listen attentively.

Yu Xing took a few steps back, supported himself with a silver-studded cane, and stood casually, "Based on your description of the loopholes in the study, if I can't guess your identity, I might as well find a piece of frozen tofu to smash you to death."

Martha: ?

Smash who?

The wizard didn't understand the Chinese idiom and naturally didn't know what the sentence itself meant. He just felt that the logic was not quite right.

York laughed.

He inexplicably felt that Roy was a bit like some of his friends, both of them had a habit of talking back.

Yu Xing didn't care what others thought. Anyway, even if he took out the frozen tofu and smashed himself, he couldn't solve the problem at its root.

"First of all, the magic York discovered was placed in the study of the villa, but when you described it as the magic that the wizard taught Angel to absorb souls, this in itself is contradictory. Did the wizard carry the book with him and leave it behind before leaving?"

"Secondly, after the Brown family moved into the villa, bad things happened frequently. At this time, logically speaking, you hadn't arrived yet. So, how do you explain the abnormalities in the villa before you arrived?"

"Thirdly, the Brown family all have varying degrees of madness, but 'Alex' is the only one who is normal. I ask you, how big-hearted do you have to be to repeatedly reject Susan without any special abilities, be indifferent to Mrs. Brown, and call Mr. Brown a troublesome ghost?"

Yu Xing caught a glimpse of Martha's stunned expression and secretly lit a candle for the Luo Family in his heart.

This child is a bit silly.

He sighed in his heart with a bit of mischief, and then said to the wizard, "I originally thought that it was Angel's presence that made others dare not touch 'Alex' until she went to the attic. You said that Angel ignored you. Ha, if she ignored you, would she still have the energy to protect you? Don't talk about losing an arm or a leg, at least she should be miserable."

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The wizard smiled sinisterly, and at this time, his scalp had already cracked.

"It's no wonder you're a detective, indeed different from the idiots I kidnapped before. So, how do you think all of these should be explained?"

"It's such a simple matter. You have been looking at everything from the special abilities derived from Angel's genes. This is the origin of everything." York suddenly interrupted, his elegant hairstyle still in place. He had been listening for a while and felt a bit bored. This wizard was far less intelligent than he had imagined.

He reached out and put his arm around Yu Xing's shoulder, leaned over in a carefree manner, and looked at the wizard, "It's not that you passing by the villa caused everything that happened afterwards, but that you deliberately made all of this happen by guiding the Brown family to move into this ancient villa. Isn't that right, little detective?"

Obviously, although York had always been low-key and claimed to be "too lazy to think," his thinking was actually very strong.

His last sentence was directed at Yu Xing, with a teasing tone. After saying it, he voluntarily let go of Yu Xing and walked towards Martha.

Yu Xing brushed off the nonexistent dust on his shoulder and sneered. He thought the term "little detective" was interesting. He could have been a detective ancestor.

But at this moment, he didn't make any comments. Instead, he continued with York's words and said to the wizard, whose face was getting darker and whose skin was melting, "There must be a curse formation in this villa, right? Maybe it's in the garden, maybe it's in any room, and you deliberately arranged it."

"I think you accidentally sensed Angel's special physique and wanted to use her compatibility with the doll to help you collect souls for other evil purposes."

"For this, you prepared this villa for more than a year or even longer, guiding the Brown family to move in from out of town, so that they would be affected by your curse and unable to control their inner madness. After Mrs. Brown became a ghost, you activated a stronger curse and imprisoned them all."

"At this time, because Mrs. Brown's ghost and the imprisonment coincided too coincidentally, they naturally connected the two things together, and thus concluded that Mrs. Brown was the one who trapped them. From then on, Angel and Alex began to oppose Mrs. Brown, laying the foundation for your next plan."

"After suppressing people for a while, you, the wizard, appeared like this. All the disputes you provoked were to trigger Angel's pathological genes and make her willingly accept the magic you taught her.""Controlling the puppet is her own ability, just like Susan's hallucinations, and Mr. Brown's voice changes. What you taught her was only how to absorb souls. She combined this witchcraft with the puppet."

"Later, Angel couldn't bear the torment in her heart. You instigated her to go to the attic to atone for her sins. Thus, you controlled her with the white satin, killed Alex, and established a very balanced cycle—Mrs. Brown attracted guests to leave the villa, Susan helped Mrs. Brown kill to leave the villa, and Angel just needed to control the puppet in the attic and snatch souls from Mrs. Brown's guests."

At this point, the wizard couldn't help but sneer and clap his hands: "Well, well, well, I really want to know which busybody called you and your companions to investigate the Brown family. If it wasn't you guys, but anyone else, my plan should have succeeded by now!"

Martha, hiding behind York, was curious: "What exactly is your plan? What can you do with forty-four souls?"

The wizard was burned by the flame, but he didn't seem to feel any pain. Instead, he raised his hand in extreme fanaticism: "I will offer these souls to my master, and let my master return from hell!"

Yu Xing was not interested.

Well, turns out he's a fanatic.

Considering the wizard just asked him about his sect, it's clear that the background of this deduction is related to some evil god sects.

However, this is not something he needs to worry about in this deduction.

Side mission: Complete information on three monsters, completed.

Monster 1: Mrs. Brown

Type: Person in the painting

Solution: Puppet

Monster 2: Angel

Type: Puppet

Solution: Music, white satin, flame, kill Angel

Monster 3: Wizard

Type: Fanatic

Solution: None

Yu Xing had already received the prompt that the side mission was completed. Since there was no solution for the wizard, it further indicated that the wizard wouldn't really fight them hard.

The main mission could also be completed when they handed over the investigation results to Lucia after they left.

Well, things like fanatics, which involve a larger scope, should be part of a more advanced deduction game. Let others play it.

"To tell the truth, I can't do anything to you." The wizard spoke again, he reached out and tore his own scalp... or rather, the scalp of Alex's skin, and a black thing crawled out from inside.

It was a short figure shrouded in a black robe, not like a human shape, like a skeletal monster, but without a physical body.

Alex's skin was slowly peeled off, and finally piled on the ground. Martha couldn't bear to look anymore.

After leaving the skin, the black wizard floated in the air for a while, and wherever it passed, the flames rose sharply. It laughed hoarsely: "Here, I am just an incomplete soul, I can't crush you ants, but when we meet again, I will make you pay for ruining my plan today!"

Then, it flew through the ceiling and left the villa.

It left, but the fire in the attic was extremely fierce. Yu Xing saw his health value plummeting, frowned, and decided to leave immediately.

Moreover, the attic itself was not very stable, and there were signs of collapse at this time.

The fire and collapse triggered a memory deep in his mind. His indifferent eyes flashed, he quickly picked up Angel's puppet from the ground, and said to York and Martha: "Let's get out of here first!"

Martha was closest to the door. Without a word, she turned around and pushed the door. Sure enough, without the wizard's control, the door opened easily.

The three of them went down to the second floor through the attic stairs. Yu Xing quickly went to the room to get his briefcase, then ran all the way to the first floor. After Martha put on her backpack that looked like a bomb, the three of them rushed out of the villa.

They stood in the middle of the garden and looked back. The upper half of the villa was already wrapped in fire.

Town residents came to watch one after another. Before being watched, the three of them opened the gate and left the town to go to the police station.