Chapter 62: Isolated from the World

  The computer room has four computers, all of which are old antiques with big buttock monitors. Upon turning them on, the machines surprisingly still work. After waiting for about two minutes, they enter Windows 98. Yu Ming looks at the desktop icons: Red Alert, Delta Force. Looking again, he finds that there is no network cable, but it's connected to a local area network. The desktop background is seven little dwarfs; Yu Ming searches up and down, and from under the keyboard, he pulls out a red 7 of hearts.

  Continue to move forward, and finally reached the end. Pushing open the door, it was an outdoor swimming pool. There were slippers, sun loungers, etc. around. Two contestants were also observing the swimming pool. Yu Ming closed the door and walked back. Then he found himself lost. After pushing open several rooms, the computer room was nowhere to be seen. Some of the rooms were empty, while others had some miscellaneous items inside. It was clear that he had already left the entertainment area.

  After walking for another half hour, Yu Ming finally came out. Carefully thinking about it, he seemed to have walked into the old castle area. The old castle has a characteristic, within one layer, it is not flat, there are steps going up and also steps going down. Walking several more steps, you will lose count of your height. For example, Yu Ming entered from the third floor but came out from a door on the second floor.

  After wandering around for a while, Yu Ming went to the restaurant on the first floor. The waiters were all busy, but they weren't busy preparing dinner, they were busy leaving. Dinner was already ready, and it was a buffet. In addition to the waiters and chefs, the security personnel also started to leave. Yu Ming was puzzled just like the contestants. At this time, Butler Lin made an announcement: "It has been confirmed that one of the security guards participated in the treasure hunt activity cheating. To ensure fairness, except for Master and me and the contestants, all staff will exit the manor area."

  Leaving the manor area is not going to the dormitory building, but retreating to the bridge side. Yu Ming went to Lin's housekeeper position and exchanged three gold coins. The housekeeper raised his thumb and said: "Young people, great."

  "Thank you." Yu Ming received three gold coins, took some self-service food, and casually sat down somewhere.

  A few minutes later, Ye Zhan appeared in the dining hall, looked around after eating, and sat down beside Yu Ming. Then he took out two playing cards to play with for a while before putting them back in his pocket.

  Yu Ming suppressed a smile, he didn't quite understand why Ye Zhan and himself had become enemies. Was it just because he was number one and himself was number two? He thought Ye Zhan looked very pleasing to the eye, so why didn't Ye Zhan think the same of him?

  Night fell slowly, a flash of lightning, thunder after, heavy rain poured down. The number of people who came to the dining hall for dinner was not many, and there were 42 participants in this treasure hunt activity. Yu Ming ate for half an hour, only twelve people came to dine, and they all came and went hastily.

  Yu Ming picked up his mobile phone and was about to dial Li Fu's number, but exclaimed in surprise: "There is no signal."

  "Huh?" Ye Zhan took out his phone and indeed there was no signal. Ye Zhan sneered: "The show is about to begin."

  "What's the good play?"

  "I don't know." Ye Zhan was telling the truth. He had felt something was off since the staff member left. The atmosphere was getting weirder and weirder.

  Suddenly, a scream came from upstairs, followed by a faint voice of a woman: "Someone's coming, murder!"

  The people eating put down their bowls and chopsticks and went upstairs. There were also three or four people at the staircase on the second floor. Everyone asked, "Whose voice is that?"

  A loud "Boom!" shook the castle, and two people almost fell over. Someone pointed at the window, and everyone ran to the window to look, only to see a ball of flames rising up.

  "Bridge."

  "One of them said: 'The bridge has been blown up.'"

  "Go and take a look."

  A dozen or so people went downstairs and ran out in the rain. Ye Zhan looked at Yu Ming who didn't move: "Why don't you go get rained on?"

  "Since we've made preparations, how can the bridge still be there."

  As soon as the words fell, all the lights in the castle went out. Ye Zhan pulled out a flashlight from his bag and walked towards the first floor. Suddenly, he felt a tug on his back and stopped: "Don't grab my clothes."

  "Oh!"

  "Don't grab your pants." Ye Zhan gritted his teeth and walked forward. Yu Ming followed up.

  The first floor location was still bright, Lin Guan's family and a contestant were lighting candles in a Western-style. Ye Zhan walked directly to Lin Guan's family and asked: "Guan Jia, what's with the explosion?"

  Lin Guan's family replied calmly: "How would I know?"

  "Your phone has no signal, there's a power outage, and the bridge was bombed. Do you think I'm stupid?"

  The people who went to see the bridge ran back and surrounded the housekeeper, asking questions one after another.

  "What, can't we search for treasure without these?" Lin Guanjia said: "The gold and checks are all here with me. Everyone, the treasure hunt time is until tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock."

  Everyone suddenly realized that it was part of the treasure hunt activity. The bridge exploding is normal, they have money. As for why they had such a large amount of explosives, no one asked.

  Yu Ming's back tensed up, and he and Ye Zhan were pulled out by Zhang Nuo. Once they were at a distance, Zhang Nuo looked around at everyone and said in a low voice, "The reason I came here is that I suspect Shen Wan has purchased a large quantity of illegal explosives."

  "It's none of my business." Ye Zhan was about to leave.

  Zhang Nuonan blocked: "Did you guys just hear someone shouting for help?"

  Ye Zhan and Yu Ming exchanged a glance, wondering how they had forgotten about this. Zhang Nuo pulled out his pistol and said, "Let's go together, don't get separated."

  Yu Ming followed up with a question: "Officer Zhang, someone is crying out for help, how can you still have the time to wait for us?"

  Ye Zhandao said: "She needs someone to block the black knife behind her." Originally, there were two police officers, one on the bridge side understanding the situation and squatting. The castle only had Zhang Nuonan left.

  Zhang Nuonan didn't respond, just about to go up the stairs, a woman came down from upstairs and bumped into Zhang Nuonan. The woman looked up, grabbed Zhang Nuonan's clothes with both hands, and hysterically shouted: "Murder! Murder!"

  The sound drew everyone's attention and they all gathered around. Zhang Nuon saw that it was impossible to protect the possible crime scene, so he said, "Take us there."

  "Alright!" The woman nodded and grabbed Zhang Nuo's clothes, walking forward.

  At the same time, two people found the body. Another person asked the woman to hurry up and find someone for help. The woman ran and got lost. At this moment, a power outage occurred. Fortunately, she managed to grope her way to the central staircase.

  According to the woman's description of the location, two people said they had been there. They led the way and went to the northeast position on the second floor. About five minutes later, everyone pushed open the door of the storage room and saw the light.

  Inside the room, there was a pile of burning debris. A young man wearing glasses knelt on one knee in front of a corpse, feeling around it. Seeing the corpse and blood, everyone subconsciously took a step back. Zhang Nuon raised his gun: "Don't move."

  "Li Fu." Yu Ming and Zhang Nuonan explained.

  Li Fu stood up and said: "Gunshot wound, hit in the back, struck the lungs. Not penetrating. Time of death will not exceed half an hour."

  "Li Fu, I know. The one who cracked the suicide case." Zhang Nuon put away the gun and took out a card from the deceased's clothes: "041". She looked at Ye Zhan. Ye Zhan had told her to pay attention to 041, but now 041 was dead. Ye Zhan secretly cursed his bad luck, it couldn't be this coincidental, could it?