Escape From the Library

This inn looks like a three-story building from the outside, but the lobby on the first floor is more than 3 meters high, very spacious and luxurious, and the internal structure is actually only two floors.

After going upstairs along the wooden steps, there is a wide corridor.On the top of the door of the room in the corridor on the left is a wooden sign with capital letters "One, Three, Five, Seven", and on the right is an even-numbered "Two, Four, Six, Eight" wooden sign. There are eight rooms in total, of which the number is the smallest. Rooms [-] and [-] are at the end of the corridor, and rooms [-] and [-] are near the stairs.

Yue Xingwen quickly tore off a piece of paper and drew a map.

Straight corridors, eight rooms, the internal structure of the inn is much simpler than he thought.

Yue Xingwen walked to the end of the corridor and pushed away the No. 1.5 room on the left.The soft moonlight spilled into the room through the wooden window lattice, and it can be seen clearly that there is a wooden square table and four chairs in the center of the room, and a solid wood carved bed about [-] meters wide in the corner, surrounded by red hangings. Window curtains, two red brocade quilts on the bed, and a pair of embroidered pillows.

Liu Zhaoqing stared at the carved wooden bed in front of him, and touched his chin thoughtfully: "Why does it seem like you have come to ancient times or the Republic of China? It is rare to see such a wooden bed with four bedposts and a top in modern times, right?"

Ke Shaobin looked around, walked up to Yue Xingwen and whispered: "It really looks like an inn in a costume drama. There is nothing modern in the whole building. There are no switches or light bulbs in the room, let alone network cables. Computer." He looked at Yue Xingwen with some trepidation: "Could it make us travel back to ancient times?"

Qin Miao suddenly said: "From the perspective of carving techniques and furniture style, it should belong to the Ming Dynasty. The wooden beds of the Qing Dynasty like to use techniques such as gold painting and color painting to create brilliant and rich effects. Relatively speaking, the furniture of the Ming Dynasty pursues simplicity and simplicity. "

Yue Xingwen looked back at her in surprise: "Do you still have research on furniture?"

Qin Miao nodded: "I have checked the information on the furniture and clothing of various dynasties. The Ming-style furniture is concise in shape and rigorous in structure. It does not add lacquer decoration or large-scale exaggerated carving decorations. It makes full use of the color and texture of the wood itself. , only carved some simple and elegant patterns, you see, this bed has almost no extra decorations, which is obviously different from the beds of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China."

Everyone looked at her with admiration.

Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his temples: "How come the courses of the School of Mathematics are mixed with historical knowledge?"

Yue Xingwen said with a smile: "Inference class, of course, won't just let people do math problems. Which dynasty this bed belongs to, shouldn't have much influence on the conclusion of reasoning. Qin Miao can see it, it's icing on the cake, it doesn't matter if he can't see it .”

Qin Miao pointed to the table: "Can the candle be lit? The light is too dark to see clearly."

Yue Xingwen followed her gaze and found two distinctive candlesticks on the window sill. The red candles in the candlesticks were nearly half burnt, and the thing next to the candlesticks looked like flint.

He walked over and collided two flints vigorously, rubbing out bright sparks, and lit the candle.The light in the room brightened instantly, and everyone could see clearly that the whole room was dominated by red, and the red "囍" characters were pasted on the windows, and there was a wooden wardrobe and matching dressing table next to the bed against the wall , The word "囍" was also pasted on the closet.

In horror movies, when you open the closet, something scary will come out. The lovers look at the closet and run away.Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce exchanged glances, Yue Xingwen tacitly handed the candle to Jiang Pingce, and summoned his own dictionary. If something came out the moment the door was opened, he would just smash it with the dictionary.

Jiang Pingce held the candle in his right hand and opened the door with his left.

Everyone tensed up.

However, there are no messy monsters and ghosts in the closet, but red clothes neatly stacked.

Jiang Pingce frowned and took out the clothes to Yue Xingwen. Yue Xingwen started to observe. One of the skirts was very long and embroidered with golden phoenixes, obviously it was a woman's wedding dress; the other was embroidered with dragons, it was a man's wedding dress.Matching jewelry and a phoenix crown were also found in the drawer of the dressing table next to it. The pearls on the phoenix crown glowed brightly under the light of the candles.

Jiang Pingce squatted down and continued to search, and found two more dolls from the closet.

This pair of rag dolls are wearing bright red wedding dresses. The eyes, nose and mouth are sewed with black thread on the face. The eyes are only sewed in a cross shape, but the corners of the mouth are sewn very realistically, slightly raised, as if they are smiling. .

Jiang Pingce took out the doll and handed it to Yue Xingwen.

The doll is quite cute, but, in this gloomy room, the smile of the doll makes people feel creepy.Yue Xingwen turned the doll over for a closer look, but didn't see anything special, so he temporarily put the doll on the table and asked everyone, "What do you think?"

The girl standing at the end, Luo Jiajia, was trembling all over, her lips trembling: "Could it be a ghost marriage?"

Hearing the word "dark marriage", everyone felt the hairs on their backs stand on end.

Luo Jiajia continued: "Big red bed curtains, red quilts, a pair of candles are also red, and there is a wedding dress in the closet. This, this is obviously an ancient wedding room! Someone was killed, and he was married here. The girl turned into a ghost, and the people who lived here continued to die miserably? Will we, will we also encounter ghosts demanding their lives?"

The more she spoke, the more frightened she became, her face was as pale as paper, and her whole body began to tremble.Her boyfriend's face was also very ugly, and he hurriedly put his arms around her shoulders to show comfort.Another couple also held hands tightly to encourage each other.

Yue Xingwen glanced at them, and discussed with Jiang Pingce in a low voice: "The name of the course is "Death Code", but so far, except for the uppercase Chinese characters with room numbers from one to eight, I haven't seen anything related to numbers. Clue. Let's crack the code of death... where is the code?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Look for the walls and roof to see if there are any marks left?"

Yue Xingwen nodded, put two sets of clothes on the wooden chair, lighted another candle, and watched carefully in the room with Jiang Pingce holding a candle.Some long-dried bloodstains were found on the wall, and there were no clues related to the password.Yue Xingwen said: "Go to another room to have a look."

The two took everyone to check all the rooms one by one.

The furnishings in each room are similar, and the structure is square.

In room [-] of the corridor on the left, there is a red wedding dress, and in other rooms, there are clothes of maids, handymen, bridesmaids, etc., very similar to a wedding procession passing by here and temporarily staying at the inn.

Everyone's brains are a little confused.

Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the clothes found in the eight rooms, feeling that something was wrong.

At this moment, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in my ear: "The second day of the exam, 0:[-] am. Please allocate a room and go to bed as soon as possible."

The prompt sound is the examiner, so you must be obedient.

10 people, 8 rooms, to collect all the clues, it is best to have people living in each room.Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen turned his head and asked, "How about sharing a room as a couple?"

The two girls in the couple group looked at each other. They really didn't dare to live alone, so they nodded: "Okay."

Yue Xingwen said: "Okay, the four of you choose two rooms first. The remaining six people will each live in one room."

Luo Jiajia hurriedly pulled her boyfriend and chose Room [-], which was the closest to the corridor, probably thinking that it would be easier to escape near the corridor.Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin lived in Room [-] next to them.

Yue Xingwen pointed to the room at the deepest part of the corridor, and said, "I live in Room [-]."

Room No. [-] is the big red wedding room, with the bride and groom's clothes and dolls, which is very weird no matter how you look at it.Yue Xingwen took the initiative to choose this one, and Jiang Pingce continued, "I live next door to you."

Sister Qin Miao and Qin Lu lived across the street.

Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin chose rooms [-] and [-] in the corridor on the left.

Yue Xingwen warned: "Since it is a puzzle-solving plus survival course, accidents may happen at night like "Cardiovascular Ward." He showed the map he drew in front of everyone: "This is the internal distribution map of the inn. There is only one passageway to the building, and the exit is narrow, if you encounter danger, if the passageway of the stairs is blocked and you cannot go down, you should run in the opposite direction to the end of the corridor.”

He marked an asterisk at the end of the corridor, and continued: "You four, gather at the door of Qin Lu's No. [-] room, let Qin Lu's plate movement take you out of the inn, understand?"

Those four people looked at each other, and Gao Yongqiang, the tallest, nodded: "Okay."

Yue Xingwen said: "Go back to the room to rest, pay attention to the clues in each room, and collect them tomorrow."

The two couples quickly turned around and entered the room, and the other students also went back to their rooms.Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked to the depths of the corridor side by side, and stopped at the door. Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and said, "Let's change rooms."

Yue Xingwen joked: "What? Are you afraid that I will be dragged by a ghost to marry a yin relative?"

Jiang Pingce said lightly, "Then I'll go grab the bride."

Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, thinking he was joking, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, this room is the most suitable for me, and I have more means of escape than you. In case the road is blocked, your coordinates I can’t get out, but I can escape from the golden cicada’s shell, and the magic dictionary has many control skills. If you encounter trouble, saving your life is not a problem.”

He insisted so much that Jiang Pingce had no choice but to give up, and whispered: "Be careful, call me immediately if you encounter trouble."

The two parted at the door and entered the house with a candle.

The carved wooden bed was covered with a red quilt, and Yue Xingwen remembered that the mechanical sound had said "go to bed" just now, so he boldly took off his clothes and slept on the bed.

Red candles lit up the room, and Yue Xingwen slept on the red bedding, always feeling shaky.He stared at the carved patterns on the top of the bed for a while, and gradually, a sense of drowsiness came over him, and Yue Xingwen fell into a deep sleep.

He had a very strange dream.

In the dream, he was wearing a red wedding dress and a red hijab, and was being supported to walk forward.The stone road under his feet was winding, surrounded by many flowers, plants and trees. The yard was so wide that there was no end in sight. It looked like a wealthy family. With the support of Xi Po, he walked through the long corridor and stepped Cross the threshold and come to a hall.

The high-pitched voice of "The auspicious time has come, let's worship the heavens and the earth" sounded in my ears.

He turned around and bowed towards the outside of the house. After three consecutive bows, he was helped into a room.

Sitting on the bed, he lifted the obstructing hijab, looked around carefully, and found the carved wooden bed, wardrobe, dressing table and wooden table in the room, the furnishings were exactly the same as those seen at the passenger station, and a pair of red candles were placed on the table .

He glanced around and found a pair of red dolls under the pillow.

A very long silver needle was stuck on the body of the doll, and the silver needle fixed a white cloth strip on the doll's body. There seemed to be many numbers written on the cloth strip, but it was not clear.

At this moment, a deafening scream suddenly sounded in the corridor outside. Yue Xingwen was woken up, got out of bed and was about to rush out the door when the door was suddenly pushed open, and a gust of cold wind blew out the candles in the room.

The light in the room suddenly became dim, and under the pale moonlight, a woman in a red wedding dress suddenly appeared beside Yue Xingwen's bed like a ghost.Her red hijab was blown away by the wind, revealing a face that was as white as a layer of flour, but her lips were painted as bright red as blood, and there was a round red cinnabar mole on her forehead, with a strange smile.

Yue Xingwen's scalp was numb, and he immediately took out the dictionary in his hand and smashed it at her head!

However, the dictionary passed directly through her body, and hit the wall with a "bang"—her body was like an invisible phantom, which shook slightly, then stretched out its sharp claws to pinch Xiang Yue Xingwen's neck——

Is this the ghost bride? !

Yue Xingwen turned around and ran, ran to the door, but saw the door suddenly closed in front of his eyes, countless red silk and satin flew out from the hands of the ghost bride, and surrounded Yue Xingwen instantly like a spirit snake with eyes. Beside him, Yue Xingwen flexibly bent down to avoid the attacks of those silks and satins, rushed to the window in two or three steps, and shouted: "Jiang Pingce!"

In the next room, Jiang Pingce suddenly opened the window, and quickly drew the coordinate system with his right hand.The moment Yue Xingwen saw him, he jumped down without hesitation. With Jiang Pingce around, he would not be disabled even if he jumped from a height of three meters.

Yue Xingwen's feet landed on the ground, and his body swayed slightly. Jiang Pingce hurriedly reached out to support him, and immediately after, the windows on this side were fully opened.

It was more than three meters high, and everyone jumped off without injury.

Liu Zhaoqing's face was livid: "Bride in red, my scalpel doesn't work at all."

Ke Shaobin tremblingly said: "It's really a supernatural copy!"

Yue Xingwen calmed down quickly, and said: "Ghosts are a kind of phantom, it is impossible to kill ghosts, we can only run! Go and join other people."

The four of them walked quickly to the door of the inn. Qin Miao and Qin Lu had already moved down the plate. The couple Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin were also there, but the other couple was nowhere to be seen.

Yue Xingwen asked with a sullen face, "How about two more?"

Qin Lu whispered: "I heard that Luo Jiajia screaming. I told her to run towards me. The two of them probably didn't hear it. They ran directly to the stairs and disappeared..."

Yue Xingwen shouted loudly: "Luo Jiajia!"

There was no response from the inn.

Gao Xiaoxin's face was a little ugly: "Is there anything wrong?"

Before Yue Xingwen had time to think about it, the door of the inn suddenly opened.

Seven consecutive women in red wedding dresses came out of the inn. They all had different looks, but their makeup was very similar, and they all had a red cinnabar mole on their foreheads.

The brides in red dresses appearing in groups make people's scalp tingle!

Their figures were like ghosts, Yue Xingwen only felt that the seven brides immediately surrounded them in a blink of an eye.

With so many ghost brides, what is the secret of this "No. [-] Inn"? !