The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Xiao Lou stood in front of the card wall, dazzled by the large number of cards.He was surprised to find that, apart from the 2 of hearts and 3 of spades marks on the upper left corner of each card, the card surface was an animation.

These cards seem to be countless condensed spaces.And each card face is like a miniature TV screen, playing different plots.

The card in front of him has the clearest animation.

Xiao Lou took a closer look and saw that in the card world, a short girl was being chased by several ugly zombies. The girl accidentally slipped and fell to the ground. The zombies quickly surrounded the girl , took off her head, and gnawed it with relish, the girl's frightened eyes seemed to be looking straight at Xiao Lou through the window of the card——

Xiao Lou's scalp was numb, and his stomach felt nauseated. He clenched his fists hard, and his nails pierced deeply into his palm. The severe pain told him that this was not a dream. Different space.

That girl will definitely not be able to survive, but the death method of "being eaten by zombies" is too cruel...

Is she also a human who was inexplicably drawn into the card world just like herself?

Xiao Lou closed his eyes, unable to bear to look any further.

The system asked coldly: "Have you seen the world in the card?"

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said, "I see."

System: "You only have one chance to modify the options, A and B, what should you choose?"

Xiao Lou did not hesitate: "I choose B."

System: "Option confirmation."

System: "Congratulations on becoming the 86587847th challenger in the card world. Before entering the new world, you can change your image and gender. Next, you have 3 minutes to make initial data adjustments."

A mirror appeared in front of him, and the young man in the mirror had a handsome face and gentle eyes, but at this moment, his face was a little unnaturally pale—it would be difficult for anyone to calm down when encountering such a sudden situation.Xiao Lou was considered a relatively calm person, at least he didn't scream when he saw the picture of the girl being eaten by a zombie.

Xiao Lou looked at himself in the mirror and said calmly, "No adjustments will be made for appearance or gender."

Maybe many people who died accidentally were sent to the card world. He was the 8000 millionth challenger. He thought that if he didn't adjust, he might be able to meet someone he knew before.Although he can't understand this card world, all he can do now is to abide by the rules of the new world and let himself survive as much as possible.

"Challenger Xiao Lou, the initial data storage is successful." The mirror in front of him disappeared, and the cold mechanical voice of the system still came from the ear: "Next, read out the basic rules of the new world."

"In the card world, each card is a different small world, and you can understand it as a secret room."

"The type of secret room is determined by the suit of the card. Hearts represent a puzzle-solving secret room, squares represent an organ secret room, spades represent a survival secret room, and clubs represent a challenge secret room."

"The difficulty of the secret room is from low to high, followed by D-level, C-level, B-level, A-level, S-level and the most difficult SS-level. Only by clearing the SS-level secret room can you return to the human world and gain a real new life. "

"If you successfully break through the level, you can get rewards. If you fail to break through the level, you will be sent to the nightmare chamber for punishment. Players who cannot survive the nightmare chamber will be completely wiped out by the card world."

"The rules are only said once, and then please choose a card."

Four cards appeared out of thin air in front of Xiao Lou—2 hearts, 2 diamonds, 2 spades, and 2 clubs.

These four cards are not like the cards on the card wall that have dynamic plots, but the most common poker cards in life, with suits printed on the front, and he has no idea what he will face after turning over the cards.

A card is a world, which one should I choose?

Xiao Lou thought about it carefully, stretched out his hand, and drew "Heart 2".

He loved to read detective novels since he was a child. Ever since he was taken to play a secret room game by his roommate in college, he fell in love with this thrilling and logical real-life secret room escape game.Every time he goes to a city, Xiao Lou will go to the secret room halls in major cities to check in. He has played hundreds of secret room games and has rich experience.But in the world he lives in, most of the secret room games are puzzle-solving and mechanism-based, and he has never heard of any "survival" or "challenge" secret rooms.

Reminiscent of the scene of the girl being eaten by zombies just now, the survival secret room of the spade card may face the crisis of not being able to survive; the challenge secret room of the club card is difficult just to hear the name, and rashly entering may lead to a worse death .Relatively speaking, the tricks of squares and the puzzles of hearts sound more friendly, and they are also what Xiao Lou is good at.

To be on the safe side, he chose hearts first.

——The card selection is over.

——Heart 2 Secret Room [Rose Funeral] is opening.

——Challenger Xiao Lou, the data has been read.

——The time limit for breaking through the level is 30 minutes. If the time is exceeded, it will be judged as a failure to break through the level.

After the system prompted, a layer of soft blood-red light suddenly appeared on the card 2 of Hearts, and the red light quickly formed a vortex, sucking Xiao Lou directly into the card world.

Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly went dark.

When he regained his vision again, he found himself in a narrow and empty corridor.

The corridor was very dimly lit, and there was a door at the end.The surrounding walls are bare, the most common white wall, and the feet are spotless off-white tiles, and no useful clues have been found.

A transparent floating frame of "countdown to 30:00" appeared in front of his eyes. Xiao Lou found that the countdown of the countdown had already started, so he walked quickly to the door.

He pushed the door open, and quickly scanned the room——

This is a house with three bedrooms and two halls, with an area of ​​about 120 square meters.

The furniture is all in warm colors and looks very cozy.In the living room there is a soft fabric sofa, a thick carpet is laid under the tea table, and a large LCD TV is placed directly opposite; the dining room is neatly cleaned, and a bouquet of bright roses is placed on the table .

The doors to the next three rooms were all open.One is the master bedroom, the other is a children's room covered with cartoon wallpaper, and the other is decorated as a study.

The whole house is transparent from north to south, and the house type is square, which is the most common layout for a family of three.

As soon as he entered the room, Xiao Lou smelled a very strange smell, which seemed to be mixed with the aroma of roses.

He followed the smell to the master bedroom.

There is a double bed in the middle of the bedroom. At this time, the bed is covered with bright red roses. On the rose petals, a woman in white silk pajamas is sleeping. Her hands are gently folded on her abdomen, looking Slept very peacefully.

However, a large ball of dazzling blood bloomed on her chest.

The pajamas on the woman's chest were stained red with blood, and obvious corpse spots appeared on the delicate face that was originally put on makeup.Her lips were blue, her skin was as pale as paper, and the strong stench in the air was exactly the smell of this woman's corpse.

——The secret room of Heart 2 is actually a murder scene!

Xiao Lou almost vomited from the strong stench. He squeezed his nose hard and began to look around carefully.

As a player of secret room escape games for many years, he has played many puzzle-solving secret rooms and seen many terrifying scenes, and his forensic expertise has made him immune to corpses, so when he suddenly saw a female corpse on the bed, he He didn't panic, but let himself calm down quickly.

——The suit of the card of hearts represents the "mystery-solving secret room".

Since this secret room is the scene of a murder case, the mystery to be solved is naturally the cause of death of the deceased.

Enduring the stench of the corpse, Xiao Lou took a step forward and began to conduct a comprehensive examination of the deceased.

The deceased, a young woman in her 30s, died at home in her pajamas.

There was a large amount of blood on the chest, and the fatal injury came from a stab wound to the heart. The murder weapon should be a sharp knife, which directly pierced the aorta of the heart, and the technique was very crisp and neat.Other than that, there were no other scars on her body, nor any signs of being abused.

Here is the master bedroom with a separate bathroom.

Xiao Lou began to look for clues in the room.

He went to the bathroom first.

A lot of long hair fell on the floor of the bathroom. It was the same brown curly hair as the deceased. It should have been left when she took a bath before she was alive. red traces.

Xiao Lou picked it up and examined it carefully. It looked a bit like bloodstains, but in fact it was not. It was clearly different from the bloodstains on her pajamas.

【Countdown 28:10】

[Special reminder for D-level secret room: 5% clue collection rate]

The moment I picked up the clothes, this line of characters suddenly appeared in the floating box in front of me—the speed of clue collection. This reminder is very important, especially for newcomers who have just arrived in the card world, at least they can be sure whether the things they found are real or not. related to the case.

It seems that this dress is indeed related to the case.Xiao Lou rummaged through the pockets of his clothes carefully, but found nothing else, only the dark red marks on the clothes that resembled fresh blood seemed to remind him of something.

He put down his clothes and continued to search for other clues.

The bathtub and toilet are very clean, and the toiletries in the sink are also normal.There was some toilet paper in the trash can next to it, which looked dirty, Xiao Lou turned the trash can upside down without hesitation, and dumped all the garbage inside on the ground.

He found some scraps of paper.

Xiao Lou quickly pushed aside the dirty toilet paper and found out all the torn papers.He roughly pieced together the shredded paper, and actually put together a photo—the passport photo of the marriage certificate.

[Countdown 27:45, clue collection rate 15%]

Xiao Lou kept the two clues in mind, turned around and walked out of the bathroom, and began to search in the bedroom.

The clearance time of the secret room games he played before is generally limited to more than one hour, and the difficult ones are usually three to five hours, and some large team secret rooms even take seven or eight hours to get out.

Half an hour to solve the puzzle, the time is too short.

Fortunately, this secret room is not too difficult, after all, it is a D-level secret room, and there is a hint of "clue collection speed".

While flipping through the closet, Xiao Lou quickly analyzed in his mind.

The photo of the marriage certificate was torn up and thrown into the trash can of the toilet, indicating that the marriage of the hostess had broken down.However, there are still men's clothes and shoes in her residence, indicating that the two have not yet reached the stage of divorce. Her death is likely to be related to her husband. The next search focus can be on her husband's things.

Xiao Lou rummaged through all the pockets of the male owner's clothes in the closet at a very fast speed - he only found a wallet, which contained no cash or bank cards, but a photo of the husband and wife on the marriage certificate.

In the photo, the woman is wearing a white wedding dress, snuggling in the arms of a man with a happy expression on her face. The handsome man and the beautiful woman look very well-matched.

[Countdown 24:06, clue collection rate 25%]

It took a lot of time to search the closet, Xiao Lou calmed down and thought about it, then turned around to look through the dresser and bedside table.

He saw an exquisite perfume bottle on the dressing table, opened it and smelled it, it was the scent of roses.

A greeting card was found in the drawer of the dressing table, which read: "Honey, this bottle of rose water is for you, I wish you a happy birthday, always young and beautiful-your best girlfriend Liu Yun/July 7th." On the greeting card The word "best friend" was drawn with a big red cross.

Birthday, rose perfume, the crossed-out greeting card, and the new character Liu Yun, these clues are very important. In the floating box in front of Xiao Lou, the clue collection rate jumped from 25% to 50%!

[Countdown 22:00, clue collection rate 50%]

[Half of the clues are collected, suspicious characters appear, are you sure about the murderer?whether】

[Hint: The shorter the clearance time and the more clues you collect, the higher the reward will be]

Xiao Lou thought for a while, and chose "No" in the floating box.

He still has 22 minutes, the clues have not been found, and the identification of the murderer is likely to be wrong.

The few clues found so far point the murderer to the husband or the best friend—the husband cheated on the best friend, and was discovered by the hostess. The heroine tore up the marriage certificate in anger, and drew a big red cross on the greeting card sent by the best friend .Perhaps there was a dispute on her birthday, and the heroine was killed by her husband or best friend.

If this is the story, most of the clues can be reasonably explained.

but……

Is it really that simple?

Xiao Lou glanced at the gorgeous rose bed, then quickly turned and went out.

This is not the scene of the first crime at all.