Infinite Murder Mystery Game: The Beauty with a Delicate Palm

the other side.

Morning Dew Ranch is located southeast of the castle. The mist has not yet completely dissipated, and dewdrops cling to the tips of the grass.

Luna remained unusually silent the entire way, her fingers constantly twisting the edge of her apron.

Pip tried to strike up a conversation several times, but her pale face blocked his way.

The farmhouse was a brand new wooden house, with empty milk barrels piled up under the porch.

A girl of about twelve or thirteen years old was twirling on tiptoe, her faded plaid skirt still patched with several stitches.

She heard the footsteps stop, and her eyes lit up: "Mom!"

Luna forced a smile, secretly glad that the first card she drew was about herself; otherwise, she wouldn't even know her daughter's name.

"Ella, go back to your room and play."

The wooden shelves against the wall were densely packed with dance shoes.

Silk, deerskin, adorned with cheap sequins.

"Your daughter loves to dance?" Willow asked softly.

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the ball."

At the mention of the ball, the daughter's eyes lit up immediately, and she ran up to the group, "Mom! Did you bring back those ballet shoes for me? The red ballet shoes that Ella wanted."

Luna patted her head. "Sorry, Mommy hasn't been able to get it down yet."

The little girl was disappointed for a moment, but didn't say anything. She kissed Luna and pulled her along, wanting to show her the dance she had just learned.

Luna was so charmed that her maternal instincts kicked in, and she was pulled away with loving eyes, leaving the others looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Looking at it this way, I don't think she's the murderer anymore."

Why do you say that?

Pip looked at Felix, who coughed twice. "According to Su Mian's reasoning, this person obtained the red dancing shoes after killing the king. Judging from her daughter's behavior, it doesn't seem like she has already obtained them."

The group wandered around the farm for a while longer, but found nothing, so they decided to head back home.

Felix, however, still felt something was amiss. Had they simply exhausted all the clues they had found this morning?

Instead of following the main group, he turned and headed towards the distant Wind Whisper Creek.

*

As Su Mian put on her rough denim shirt, Forty was tilting his head and looking at her.

The slender snake tail swayed leisurely behind him, its tip tapping lightly on the floor, like a rhythm only he understood, a mute's self-entertainment.

Su Mian ignored him and stuck on a fake beard in front of the mirror.

The glue is of poor quality and it stings my skin, causing itching.

She had just frowned when a cool, slippery tail silently curled up around her.

The tip of its tail brushed past her chin, gently hooking it off, and the tuft of brown whiskers that had just been glued on was peeled off and stuck to her scales.

Forty held his tail up in front of her eyes, wagged it, and grinned with a mischievous smile.

"..." Su Mian stared at him expressionlessly and reached out her hand.

Forty blinked, and her tail obediently returned the whiskers, but the tip brushed against her palm, leaving a damp, cool mark.

Su Mian reattached his beard, pulled his hat brim down, and checked the dagger tucked into his waistband.

Forty had somehow moved to the first floor, where he tightly embraced the approaching Su Mian, bringing her safely to the ground. He then transformed back into human form, and the two of them quietly slipped away from the castle.

The few scattered soldiers, assuming they were guests from the castle, gave them a cursory glance and continued their patrol.

This was the first time Su Mian had seen the entire castle, and she was slightly shocked. Unlike the previous dungeons, which were more terrifying and bizarre, Su Mian found it to be dreamy and magnificent.

The creamy white castle towers high into the clouds, with numerous spires. The blue window decorations are the main color of the entire castle, echoing the endless lawn.

She glanced at the somewhat outlandish and ornate bunker to the side, which was inlaid with many huge, exaggerated diamonds, but there were only three colors of gemstones: black, orange, and translucent white, which looked rather strange.

"What are you looking at, you idiot!"

The guard shouted fiercely, and Su Mian immediately looked away.

"That's the princess's beloved pet! Don't try to get close. If you get eaten alive, we won't be responsible."

Su Mian pretended to be scared and quickly nodded, "I understand, thank you, buddy."

With that, he pulled Forti along and headed for the gate.

*

Fengyu Creek is a stream hidden among reeds. The place where someone was suspected to have died is now just a dark brown puddle with scraps of cloth hanging on a few trampled reeds.

Su Mian squatted down, her fingertips brushing against the damp soil, "even the bloodstains have been washed away."

She murmured to herself, not noticing anything amiss, and then stood up.

Why is the body only appearing now?

Logically speaking, the red dancing shoes were picked up by the hunter Felix several days ago.

If the milkmaid's daughter died because of the red dancing shoes, how come her body was only discovered now?

She looked upstream along the river.

Perhaps they were swept down, so they took Forti's hand and started walking uphill, but they didn't expect that the end of the stream was on the other side of the mountain, which seemed far away, so they had to give up.

Panting, she returned to the starting point and discovered a huge rock in the middle of the stream.

The rock had only just emerged; when she touched it, the foundation was unstable.

The stone swayed gently in her hand, suggesting it had been washed down by rain and was not a fixed rock.

Many of the bodies likely came from some point upstream, hit the rocks, and were washed ashore.

She suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

So, where would she have swum to if it weren't for this rock?

Thinking this, Su Mian continued downstream and soon arrived.

At the downstream end is a forgotten, abandoned spring. Dense, dark green aquatic plants sprout from the crevices of the rocks along the edge of the pool, wriggling eerily with the current.

Su Mian squinted her eyes. The water plants were spread out and covered half of the spring water.

unreasonable.

Aquatic plants only thrive in sunny, slow-moving waters. Here, the streams are swift and the springs are in shady places, making it difficult for aquatic plants to multiply in large quantities.

She picked up a stick, and as the tip of the branch probed into her hair, she clearly felt some kind of resistance.

Su Mian felt a chill run down her spine, and she lost all strength in an instant. Forti reached out and grabbed the wooden stick, using her hand to forcefully lift the heavy object out of the water.

A gap was lifted from the black bangs.

A head emerged from the water.

Its skin was swollen and white from being soaked, its eyes were two black holes, and its mouth was slightly open, revealing teeth that had turned yellow from being soaked in water.

Her hair, like seaweed, wrapped around her cheeks and also around another face that floated up beside her.

Then, the third, the fourth... like a chain reaction, the entire black "aquatic plant layer" of the spring began to churn and bulge, and one head after another emerged from underwater.

Men and women, young faces, wrinkled foreheads, some still showing signs of fear, others as calm as if asleep.

Their hair was intertwined, forming a huge floating velvet blanket that covered most of the spring pool.