Escape From the Library

Under the light of the candles, the white human bones and the bright red wedding clothes formed a stark contrast. This weird scene made the students' spines tremble.

Yue Xingwen slept in Room [-] last night, and there was a corpse room next to it?Goosebumps developed on his body, he suppressed his nausea, looked back at Jiang Pingce and said, "The murderer is obviously a psychopath, killed so many people, and even dressed the dead in bride's clothes, neatly placed here, put Is it arranged as a 'bridal exhibition hall'?"

The six corpses placed side by side not only wear the same clothes, but also sit in the same chair posture, just like models used for display in clothing stores.It's just that these "models" have turned into bones.

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The murderer has such a strong hostility towards the bride in red. Maybe he was hurt by the bride in red and held a grudge, which gradually led to psychological distortion, so he killed the bride to calm the psychological resentment?"

Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement: "That's probably the case. I'm surprised that only six of my mother's bones were found, but there were seven ghost brides who chased us down last night. The number doesn't match. One more? "

Jiang Pingce looked around and said: "The area of ​​the two storage rooms is 2 meters x 6 meters, which can just fill the gaps in the architectural drawings. It is impossible to have a secret room on the second floor. But the height is still 1 meter short, indicating that there is a floor where we Undiscovered attic.”

Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone go out and look for it."

Everyone retreated from the storage room.

The floor height measured from the outside of the inn is 7 meters, and the internal height adds up to 5 meters. The missing 6 meter is either a mezzanine in the middle or an attic above the head.Yue Xingwen climbed onto the wooden table, stood on tiptoe, tapped the ceiling with his knuckles, and arranged: "Two people share a room, carefully check the ceiling and floor to see if there is any hollow structure."

The 8 people quickly divided into groups to search for each room. Jiang Pingce stayed with Yue Xingwen.

However, no additional entrances were found.

The two exited Room 1, and Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin next door also searched: "No secret door was found."

The other teammates concluded the same.

None of the eight rooms on the second floor were found, and Yue Xingwen stood in the corridor thoughtfully: "There are no doors on the roof and the ground, so he couldn't just seal the one-meter-high mezzanine when he built this building." Right? Can't go in and out?"

Gao Yongqiang interjected, "Why don't you demolish this building?"

Everyone: "..."

In your architecture department, do you just demolish and relocate when things are unresolved?

Yue Xingwen looked back at him helplessly: "It can't be demolished. We have to sleep on the bed at night to get plot clues in the dream. At present, the clues have not been collected completely. If you demolish the house, our plot line will be interrupted."

Gao Yongqiang blushed: "I, I'm just talking casually."

Jiang Pingce squinted his eyes to observe the structure of the building carefully. The height was obviously missing by 1 meter. How could he not find the entrance to the attic?Suddenly, he had an idea and said, "If you can't find it inside, look for it from the outside."

He looked at Yue Xingwen, turned around and went downstairs quickly, and when he reached the door of the inn, Jiang Pingce raised his right hand slightly, used the coordinate system to assemble a parabolic motion, and flew directly to the roof with all his teammates.

Gao Yongqiang slapped his forehead angrily: "Why didn't I think of that! There is no entrance to the attic in the inn, and the internal rooms cannot be destroyed, but we can dismantle it from the outside—just remove the roof!"

Jiang Pingce said: "Everyone check carefully to see if the roof tiles are loose."

Everyone started to search from the four corners in groups. After less than half a minute, Gao Xiaoxin suddenly picked up a tile and said, "I found it, here it is!"

Yue Xingwen walked over quickly, and saw a movable wooden board under the tile cover. After removing the wooden board, it turned out to be a narrow and long secret room about 1 meter deep.

Qin Miao took the initiative and said: "My sister and I will go to explore the road first. You guys are too tall and it's not easy to walk inside."

Yue Xingwen handed her the candle and said, "Be careful."

Qin Miao and Qin Lu jumped into the secret room together. Both of them were less than 1 meters tall, and they were very thin. They bent over to enter this kind of secret room. They were indeed taller than Jiang Pingce, who was 7 meters, and Yue Xingwen, who was 1 meters. Much more convenient.

After a while, Qin Lu's short cry came from beside her ear: "Ah..."

Yue Xingwen asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"

Qin Miao said lightly: "I found a lot of suitcases, let Qin Lu move them out for you to see."

After a few seconds, the two sisters crawled out of the secret room in disgrace, and Qin Lu said, "It's been too long since it's been cleaned, and there's dust everywhere. My sister and I searched around, but found nothing but the suitcase. "

As she spoke, she took out the globe, and the plate movement moved a large number of suitcases to the ground.

Everyone was shocked by the number of boxes—there were as many as 10!

The boxes are of different sizes, black and white, colorful, and some are cartoon patterns. All the boxes belong to modern times, which proves that their previous speculation is correct—they have not traveled to ancient times at all, and this is still the real world, but the inn The layout is more ancient.

The missing 1-meter-high "attic" is where the innkeeper stores his suitcases?

Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his forehead with a headache: "Is this innkeeper a perverted collector? One storage room on the second floor collects clothes, one collects bride's corpses, and there is another storage room on the roof dedicated to collecting boxes?"

Yue Xingwen looked at the 10 suitcases in messy colors, and thought deeply: "Do I need to bring a suitcase when I go out to shoot ancient style portraits? I only bring suitcases when I travel."

Gao Xiaoxin pointed to the middle of the ground and said, "The suitcase with the pink Mickey Mouse pattern in the middle is the same style as mine, and it can hold clothes and cosmetics for three days out. It's over. Even if the wedding photos are taken outside, no one has seen anyone bring luggage to take pictures?"

Qin Miao frowned and said, "It feels more like a homestay? Are these suitcases brought by the residents?"

Ke Shaobin pushed his glasses and was very puzzled: "If it is a homestay, how come there are no sockets and network cables? In the modern world, there are no sockets, no network cables, and no bathrooms. Will there be people living in a homestay? You can’t charge your phone if it’s dead. ..."

Yue Xingwen always felt that something was wrong.

If you are going out to shoot a scene, deliberately arrange it into an ancient style building, which can explain the problem of the environment being more ancient, but it cannot explain the reason why there are so many suitcases.If it is a homestay, as Ke Shaobin said, no matter how antique it is, there is not even a single socket left. Who wants to live in such a place and be isolated from the world?

The number of suitcases is 10 in total, which is also a strange number.

Yue Xingwen said: "Open the box and have a look."

Everyone fell from the roof and opened all the boxes quickly——

There was a girl's suitcase, which was filled with beautiful dresses, T-shirts and cosmetics. Yue Xingwen didn't know any of those bottles, so I handed them all to Qin Miao and the others to see.There's also men's luggage, where razors, socks, men's sneakers, and more appear.Books were also found in several suitcases, including a famous novel "Jane Eyre" and two romance novels.

Everyone looked at each other.

The three girls had a lively discussion beside them: "A bottle of this cream costs several thousand, right? It's really rich." "The cosmetics this girl wears are all first-tier Japanese and Korean brands..."

Yue Xingwen didn't know anything about the things the girls used, so he walked over and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Gao Xiaoxin said: "Judging from the price of cosmetics in the suitcase, these girls are quite rich, and they attach great importance to dressing up. One girl brought five lipsticks alone."

Qin Lu added: "The hostess of this white suitcase didn't bring any cosmetics. Her toiletry bag only contained facial cleanser and a bottle of moisturizing lotion. She should be a girl who doesn't like makeup and prefers plain makeup."

As for the style of clothing, there are all kinds of clothes, some with sexy black lace skirts, some with pure goddess style long skirts, and some with cool and handsome sportswear... The boys' suitcases are also in a mess.

Yue Xingwen looked at the boxes all over the floor, and his temples throbbed: "There are too many clues and too messy, let's sort it out first."

Jiang Pingce said, "Let's sort it out, and I'll make a list."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and sat down with Jiang Pingce in a shaded place under the eaves of the inn. Yue Xingwen took out a pen and paper and handed it to Jiang Pingce, who quickly drew a detailed statistical table.

Jiang Pingce filled in "10" in "Number of Luggage", and then asked, "How many boys and girls are there?"

Yue Xingwen quickly finished counting: "3 men, 7 women."

7 girls, this number matches the number of ghost brides, but it is not that the 7 suitcases belong to the 7 dead, Jiang Pingce is still not sure, he put a question mark here, and continued to check the list.

It took them more than an hour to check the suitcases.

The final list included 20 sets of girls' clothes, 6 sets of boys' clothes, 4 pairs of shoes, a lot of cosmetics, and three books, which Yue Xingwen focused on and marked on the suitcase .

Jiang Pingce frowned and looked at the suitcase in front of him, and said, "I don't think clothes are an important clue. They are too messy. There are all kinds of styles. They look like suitcases that a group of people carry with them when they travel. The inn should be able to provide temporary Accommodation, the suitcases are left by the guests, this explanation is the most reasonable."

Yue Xingwen also agreed with his speculation: "In reality, there are also some unique homestays. Internet celebrities will go to this kind of homestays for taking pictures. There are no sockets or network cables. It is likely that the innkeeper deliberately made everyone feel like traveling through ancient times. The 'immersive experience'? But I think the convincing power of homestay is still not enough."

The more the students listened, the more they felt headaches.

At present, there are many clues, but there is no thread that can connect the clues.

Liu Zhaoqing wondered: "But what does this have to do with our dream? The scene in my dream is indeed very similar to ancient times. The doctor carried a medicine basket to the mountain to collect herbs and rescued a young lady who was bitten by a poisonous snake. The environment is also similar to here. Not at all."

Gao Xiaoxin followed up and said: "The funeral I dreamed of was also an ancient funeral style. The bride was put in a coffin, and several people carried her to the east, buried her in the ground, and erected a monument..."

Yue Xingwen asked: "Have you seen what is written on the tombstone?"

Gao Xiaoxin shook her head: "I didn't see clearly."

Yue Xingwen frowned slightly, puzzled.

Fragmented dreams, strange inn, all kinds of ancient clothes in the storage room, 6 red-clothed and white bones in the mortuary on the second floor, and a large number of suitcases in the attic storage room...

What are the clues that tie this all together?

Yue Xingwen reasoned carefully, and suddenly caught the key point of Gao Xiaoxin's words: "Wait a minute, Gao Xiaoxin, you said that in your dream, you dreamed of those people carrying coffins and walking eastward. Are you sure it's the east side?"

Gao Xiaoxin was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Sure, the funeral will be held in the evening, it's getting dark, and the sun will set from the west, but they keep walking forward with their backs to the direction of the sun, isn't it just east? "

Yue Xingwen immediately stood up and looked at his teammates: "Senior brother, please sort out the suitcase with Sister Qin Lu. The contents of the suitcase are still intact, and temporarily put them in the lobby on the first floor. The rest of you, follow me to the east the woods."

8 people are divided into two groups.

Yue Xingwen came out of the woods along the winding road. This is a wasteland, but weeds and wild flowers are very lush. When they were chased by the female ghost last night, they ran all the way forward, and they ran to this junction to rest .

The strange thing is that the female ghost stopped after chasing at the junction, as if she was deterred by something.

In connection with Gao Xiaoxin's "funeral" scene in the dream... If the dream is related to reality, then is there a bride who was put into a coffin and buried underground in reality?

The four continued to walk east.

After walking for about half a kilometer, a cold system voice suddenly sounded in my ears: "Warning, you have reached the boundary of the examination room, and you will be judged as failing the exam after you leave the examination room."

The four of them stopped at the same time, and Yue Xingwen saw a tombstone standing directly in front of them.

The tombstone is inscribed: "Tomb of Beloved Wife Su Wanxin".

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A woman surnamed Su!

The key clue was finally found, and there was still a bride missing, who was buried on a hill not far from the inn.The surname is Su, and it happens to match the bride Miss Su's family in everyone's dreams.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and at the same time saw a trace of excitement in each other's eyes.

Gao Xiaoxin looked at the tombstone in front of him, her face was a little pale: "In my dream, that Miss Su was buried in a wasteland, unlike now, there are still flowers blooming around the tombstone..."

The surroundings of the tombstone are indeed full of a kind of blue wildflowers, clustered together, very vigorous.

Yue Xingwen asked: "Does anyone know this kind of wild flower?"

Gao Xiaoxin said: "This is a forget-me-not. The language of flowers means that my love for you will never change."

Yue Xingwen looked at the tombstone thoughtfully, and said, "Dig it out and have a look."

In addition to Jiang Pingce's calm expression, Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin's eyes widened instantly when they heard this sentence, Gao Yongqiang's scalp was numb, and his voice couldn't help trembling: "Dig, dig a grave?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Didn't your architecture department send out an excavator? You didn't get it?"

Gao Yongqiang: "..."

Yue Xingwen patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be afraid, there will be no ghosts in broad daylight. If we want to solve the mystery of the inn, of course we must first find all the bride's bones - dig it out."

Gao Yongqiang looked ugly, raised his right hand and summoned the excavator.

He was probably the first architecture student to use an excavator to dig a grave...

Gao Yongqiang, dumbfounded, manipulated the excavator to dig the soil from the side, and Yue Xingwen sighed beside him: "Fortunately, this time I was matched with a classmate from the Department of Architecture, otherwise, we would dig slowly with the shovel in the kitchen, and we would have to dig until the year of the monkey. "

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Yes."

Gao Yongqiang: "..."

He finally played a role, that is, digging graves.

The excavator dug a large hole in the surrounding ground in twos and threes, revealing a lacquered wooden coffin.

Yue Xingwen was also courageous enough to jump down and push the lid of the coffin away.

——In the coffin lies a bride in red. The corpse has rotted and turned into bones, but the ring finger of the bone's right hand wears a huge diamond ring, shining brightly under the light.

Yue Xingwen said: "This should be the heroine who frequently appears in our dreams, Su Wanxin."

The clues can probably be matched, but sometimes the sense of time and space disorder in ancient times and sometimes modern times still makes Yue Xing Wenli unclear. Jiang Pingce stretched out his hand and pulled him up from the pit, and asked in a low voice: "The 7 brides are all here, go back and sort out the clues Bar."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and the four of them walked back to the inn together.

When they arrived at the inn, Liu Zhaoqing and the others had already arranged the suitcases side by side, and deliberately found three novels and put them on the table.Yue Xingwen asked everyone to wait in the restaurant on the first floor, while he went upstairs to get the two dolls.

The dining room has a round table and eight seats, which can be used as a temporary meeting room for everyone.

Yue Xingwen sat on the chair marked "One" and carefully observed the two dolls.

Last night with candles lit, the light was dim, so I couldn’t see clearly. Looking carefully under bright light today, Yue Xingwen found that some black stitches on the back of the doll looked particularly messy. Compared with the neat stitches next to it, It is simply the difference between "buyer show" and "seller show".

—Someone has resewed dolls, and a bad needleman at that.

Yue Xingwen said: "Brother, borrow the scalpel."

Liu Zhaoqing raised his right hand, conjured up a knife and handed it to him, Yue Xingwen deftly used the knife to cut off the stitches on the back, and took the doll apart.

When you meet a grave, you dig it if you say so; if you find such an important prop, you don’t hesitate to tear it down without hesitation... Yue Xingwen seems to be doing the demolition, right?Gao Yongqiang complained in his heart, when he suddenly saw Yue Xingwen take out a lot of cloth strips from the doll's body.

The cloth strips are all gray, and some of them have some numbers written on them——

71-16-30

99-16-9

281-22-1

……

The students who sat around the round table were all excited: "Did the digital password appear?!"

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce subconsciously and asked Jiang Pingce for his opinion. The latter shook his head and said in a low voice: "Several strings of numbers are irregular and not related to each other. They should have nothing to do with mathematical operations. You need to find them from other places." Corresponding clues."

Numbers, what would correspond to these strings of numbers?

Yue Xingwen continued to disassemble another doll, but no numbers were found inside the body of the male doll.

The room fell silent.

Liu Zhaoqing endured for a long time, and finally couldn't help complaining: "Is this course so difficult? There are so many clues that I'm about to faint."

Ke Shaobin's stomach suddenly grunted twice, his ears turned red quickly, and he whispered: "We haven't eaten all day, aren't you hungry?"

I've been busy all day, and before I know it, it's getting dark again.I had been nervous before and forgot to eat, but when Ke Shaobin reminded everyone, everyone felt empty in their stomachs.

Yue Xingwen rubbed his empty stomach and realized a very important question: "The exam requires us to survive for 6 days, but we are not provided with food? It won't starve us to death. It seems that we have to use local materials?"

Gao Xiaoxin said: "I saw a lot of wild fruits on the way out of the woods just now, they should be edible."

Qin Lu followed closely and said, "I saw a large piece of bamboo shoots planted in the woods. The inn has a kitchen where we can fry bamboo shoots. There are also many mushrooms in the woods, which look the same as the round mushrooms usually sold in supermarkets. I can eat it too."

Yue Xingwen: "..."

The girls are very sensitive to food, probably because they were starved out of the psychological shadow of the public elective class before.

Seeing that everyone was very tired, Yue Xingwen made a decisive decision: "Well, today is only the first day, and we can't solve the case directly in a day. Eat first, and then discuss after dinner."

Everyone split up to collect wild fruits, bamboo shoots and mushrooms, while Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce went to the woods to collect firewood.

Yue Xingwen was thinking as he walked, Jiang Pingce saw him thinking seriously and did not interrupt his train of thought.

After a while, Jiang Pingce had collected a large bundle of wood, and Yue Xingwen came back to his senses and said, "I suddenly had an idea that can explain some of the current doubts."

Jiang Pingce said, "Let's listen."

Yue Xingwen straightened out his thoughts, and carefully analyzed: "There is a strange sense of separation between our dreams and the real world. The dreams are all ancient scenes, but the reality is modern, so we can't directly equate them. However, dreams are also different from reality. They are inextricably linked. For example, the heroine in the dream is surnamed Su, but in reality, the woman on the tombstone is also surnamed Su."

Jiang Pingce recalled the tombstone he found just now, and then analyzed: "The tombstone is written on his beloved wife Su Wanxin. In the dream, the only one who can call Miss Su a "beloved wife" is Mr. Zhao who has worshiped her. This tombstone may be a Mister Zhao established it?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "I think so too. The dream is like an ancient story written by someone based on his own experience. It is not completely equivalent to reality, but it alludes to some things in reality. Miss Su is the heroine , the key figure connecting dream and reality. In the dream, Mr. Zhao was dying of illness, his family married Ms. Su, and Ms. Su died. In reality, Ms. Zhao may also have some kind of illness, Ms. Su took good care of him by his side, Died unexpectedly in the end?"

Jiang Pingce thought about Yue Xingwen's words carefully, and said, "There is a possibility. Using a story to describe my own experience in a vague way, using reality as the background is too similar to an autobiographical novel, so it is replaced by ancient times?"

Yue Xingwen went on to say: "The owner of this inn is very likely to be the murderer of the bride. First, the structure of the inn is very strange. There are two storage rooms on the second floor, and a large storage room with a height of 1 meter is built on the roof. It is impossible for ordinary people to build a house like this. He obviously planned it long ago, and specially designed this strange inn to facilitate killing and hiding corpses."

Jiang Pingce agreed: "It makes sense. The structure of this inn is indeed deliberately designed. He definitely didn't come here to kill people by chance, but led people here, and after killing them, he hid them in the storage room."

One kind of murderer in the serial murder case is to take the initiative to attack, looking for the target everywhere, and the location of the murder is not fixed; there is another kind of murderer encountered in this case. After finding the target, he leads the target to his own territory, and then kills the other party.

In his territory, it is natural for him to kill people easily.

Yue Xingwen said: "We found so many luggage in the attic, obviously many people have come here to stay. Barren mountains and mountains, no electricity, no internet, why do modern people come to such remote places to stay? He is alone. Maybe a dozen people were kidnapped, so he must have some means to attract these people to come to his inn."

Jiang Pingce said, "For example, take pictures in ancient costumes?"

Yue Xingwen shook his head: "I think just taking photos is not attractive enough. There are countless photo studios that can take photos in ancient costumes, and the scenery of his inn is not one of the best. B&Bs are even less attractive. Living here for several days without electricity or internet and not being able to take a shower, modern people probably will go crazy." He paused, and said: "There is another way to attract guests, I didn't tell you just now, I'm afraid that if I guess wrong, it will make people feel crazy." Everyone is biased."

Jiang Pingce lightly pressed Yue Xingwen's shoulder: "It's okay, let's discuss it first."

Yue Xingwen smiled and said: "This guess is a bit bold, don't think I'm just thinking about it."

Jiang Pingce's eyes were gentle: "No."

Yue Xingwen put away his smile, looked at Jiang Pingce seriously and said, "Have you ever heard of "Script Killing"?"

Jiang Pingce: "..."

Script Killing is a very popular game among young people in recent years. He has never participated in it himself, but he has heard of it.The so-called "script killing" is to make up a script of a murder case, and let the players in the game play their own roles. Some play the victim, some play the murderer, there are also suspects, passers-by, and so on.

Script killing is more exciting and dangerous than werewolf killing, because every script is different, and the plot often has ups and downs. What's more frightening is that the murderer is by your side.

Assuming that the innkeeper used "immersive ancient style script killing" as a gimmick to recruit some young people who love challenges and adventures online, come here to play script killing, and then kill some girls in wedding dresses while they are not paying attention...

Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen in surprise: "How did you think of killing the script?"

"In the restaurant on the first floor, when you said 'round table meeting', a picture of a group of people wearing ancient clothes for a meeting flashed in my mind. 8 seats, 8 rooms, all kinds of ancient clothes, this inn If it’s a simple homestay or studio, it doesn’t make any sense.” Yue Xingwen changed the subject and said, “But if this is a special place for ‘ancient script killing’, guests will wear clothes after entering the inn. Different ancient clothes, as if you have traveled to ancient times. Modern things such as mobile phones and computers have been confiscated by the owner of the inn. In the next day or two, they will immerse themselves in experiencing ancient scripts, does it make sense?"

Because it is an immersive experience, there will be no modern tools in every room.

There are no electric lights, but candles and flints are equipped for lighting; the round table and eight seats on the first floor can be used as a meeting room for script killing and reasoning analysis, or as a restaurant; the self-contained kitchen can also let everyone experience The ancient daily fun of picking vegetables and cooking...

There will definitely be some people who love novelty and excitement, and they will come here in an endless stream.

The boss then selects some of these targets as his prey.

Those players come here just to play a role in a script and play a fun game.They never expected that this was a real "murder" and their fate had been clearly arranged by the script.