Chapter 1991: Chapter 1344: Missing? (No More Watermelon, Better Drink Water)

So he grabbed the doorknob and pulled hard!

"Crack!"

Watching the door being disassembled directly from the frame, Shajuye and Blondie both remained calm, unsurprised.

After all, since even that heavy steel door was smashed by Duanmu Huai, how could a mere wooden door stop him?

Although everyone had previously thought that Meijia might have been frightened by the sound of Duanmu Huai smashing the door and hid in her own room, when they entered the room, this hypothesis was quickly overturned.

Because... the entire guest room was empty!

Just as Meijia had said, although there was only one guest room in the east corridor, it was identical to the king-size room where Duanmu Huai and the others stayed, not only in layout but also in size. It had only a bed and a bathroom. The three of them walked around it without seeing anyone. Not under the bed, not in the wardrobe, not in the bathroom, nowhere else either.

The only thing on the bed was the messy quilt proving someone had slept here, but other than that, Meijia had just vanished!

No, she really vanished!

In a detective novel, this would definitely be a classic locked-room disappearance!

But what does this have to do with Duanmu Huai?

This isn’t some detective world.

Locked-room murder is nothing. For the Evil God and his Followers, locked-room murder is just basics, and classic ones don’t even leave a corpse. Duanmu Huai really wonders how many cases Conan’s SAN value could withstand in such a place.

However, Duanmu Huai can be sure that Meijia is definitely not dead, because he can sense that his Pendant is still working. If Meijia had been attacked by something, the only thing lying here would be that thing’s corpse.

But she’s really not here now... Well, at least it’s fine.

Shajuye and Blondie obviously can’t be as calm as Duanmu Huai. After discovering Meijia’s disappearance, they were both extremely anxious, pacing around incessantly. It wasn’t until Duanmu Huai couldn’t stand it anymore that he stopped the two of them.

"Alright, she’s not here now, let’s go back first, and analyze the situation specifically later."

"Alright... "

Although the two of them were anxious, they also realized it was useless to worry here and had to suppress their uneasy feelings, following Duanmu Huai out of the room and back to the corridor.

However, when the three of them emerged through the gap in the iron door, they found only the Spicy Girl and the Guy with glasses, and the Social Man was missing.

"Ah, that idiot?"

When Blondie curiously asked his Spicy Girl girlfriend, the latter gave a disdainful snort.

"After you went in, his dog got scared and broke free from the collar and ran away. He went after the dog. That dog can’t be his wife, why is he so precious about it?"

"Forget him, that guy’s always like that."

Blondie obviously expected the Social Man to be unreliable and scratched his head in frustration.

"Never mind, that’s not important now, what’s important is that Meijia is missing!"

"Eh? No way? Is the little girl really missing? I saw her go in with my own eyes yesterday."

The Spicy Girl was also a bit shocked.

"Could there be some secret passage? Or a hidden room? I remember some movies have plots like this... "

"Maybe, maybe not, who knows, but anyway, Meijia is missing... Damn it!"

Saying this, Blondie suddenly got angry and grabbed the collar of the Guy with glasses, pulling him up.

"If it weren’t for the woman you brought, this wouldn’t have happened! You bastard! What did Meijia ever do to you that you had to cause trouble on her birthday?"

"I, I didn’t do it on purpose!"

The Guy with glasses struggled desperately, trying to defend himself.

"I did it for Meijia’s good, I wanted to investigate the truth about this ritual..."

"Screw you!"

Before the Guy with glasses could finish, Blondie punched him in the face, knocking him out.

"You want to investigate the ritual, why not do it on your own birthday? What’s wrong? Meijia treats you well, so you think she’s easy to bully! I just can’t stand you, you cowardly idiot! If you have the guts, go die yourself!"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai also rolled his eyes. As Blondie said, this guy with glasses is really useless. If you want to investigate the truth, do it on your own birthday, but you want to investigate and are afraid of dying by violating the ritual, so you let someone else suffer for you... truly pathetic.

Hmm, maybe find a chance to get rid of him.

"Bro, what should we do now?"

Blondie didn’t want to waste any more time on that loser, and turned around to ask Duanmu Huai.

Upon hearing Blondie’s inquiry, Duanmu Huai was also stunned.

"You’re asking me?"

Dude, this is your Bai Fan Clan’s ritual, you’re asking me? Who should I ask?

"Sigh... "

Seeing Duanmu Huai’s speechless expression as he looked at him, Blondie knew what he was thinking and could only give a helpless smile.

"Don’t mind that it’s a Bai Fan Clan ritual, all we know are those three strange rules, we don’t know about anything else. If you ask us why we have these rules, when they started, we don’t know either. Maybe only Sankawa Granny knows, but... we can’t find her now."

".... Shajuye, what do you say?"

Faced with Blondie’s answer, Duanmu Huai was at a loss for words as well. He wasn’t used to racking his brains, so he decisively turned to Shajuye, the external human circuit representing his brains in this world.

"Hmm... "

Faced with Duanmu Huai’s inquiry, Shajuye was silent for a moment.

"Let’s go check Miss Saeki’s room first. As a supernatural enthusiast like her, she must have collected a lot of information. If she came here to investigate the Bai Fan family’s ritual, then she likely prepared something. I think she must have brought some relevant materials."

It sounds quite reasonable?

"Then let’s go have a look first."

Duanmu Huai had no objections to Shajuye’s proposal, so the group went back to the guest rooms on the west side. There were a total of six guest rooms, with Duanmu Huai and Shajuye each having one, Blondie and the Spicy Girl sharing one, the Guy with glasses, the deceased each had one, and the Social Man and his dog were in one.

The girl who died lived next to Shajuye, and of course, the door was locked too, but...

"Click."

Watching Duanmu Huai disassemble the door again, everyone remained very calm.

After all, they didn’t have time to look for the key.

The girl’s guest room was very tidy, with no signs of a mess. On the table there was a backpack. Duanmu Huai remembered that when they met yesterday, the girl had a backpack, and now it seemed everything was inside.

Duanmu Huai and Blondie decided not to touch it, so Shajuye stepped forward, opened the backpack, and carefully searched through its contents. Mostly female items, including change of clothes and makeup boxes, and then...

"Found it."

Soon, Shajuye pulled out a notebook from the bag’s compartment, opened it to find it filled with all sorts of clipped news articles, mostly about mysterious disappearances and strange deaths. Clearly, she was indeed very good at this, and it seemed Shajuye was right, finding clues might require delving into information possessed by these outsiders.

Although the notebook was thick, Shajuye didn’t take long to search through it—because the victim had kindly placed bookmarks in her own notebook, so when Shajuye opened it, a piece of information immediately came into view.

However, this information was quite unexpected for everyone.

"..... Secret treasure?"