Escape From the Library

When Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce returned to the inn, the students had already picked a lot of mushrooms and wild fruits, Qin Miao also dug a lot of bamboo shoots, and Jiang Pingce put the firewood in the kitchen.Yue Xingwen glanced at the students and asked, "Which one of you knows how to cook?"

Qin Miao raised her hand: "I'll do it."

There is a well behind the inn. Liu Zhaoqing went to fetch a bucket of clean water and put it in the kitchen. Seeing Qin Miao skillfully scooped up a spoonful of water and poured it into the pot to wash the pot, Liu Zhaoqing was surprised: "Junior sister can cook?"

While washing the pot, Qin Miao replied casually, "I cook when my parents are not at home."

Qin Lu said next to her, "My sister's cooking skills are quite good, but it's a pity that the conditions here are limited and there are not so many ingredients."

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "It's much better than the public elective course, at least there's salt!" He rolled up his sleeves and washed the vegetables beside him, took out a few sharp scalpels with his right hand, and said, "There's blood on this kitchen knife, maybe it's for murder. The leftovers. I will help you chop vegetables with a clean scalpel."

Several people were busy in the kitchen, Yue Xingwen didn't know how to cook, so he asked Shang Jiang Pingce to sit in the dining room and analyze the case.

Half an hour later, several dishes were served, and Qin Lu distributed clean chopsticks to everyone.

Everyone was hungry all day, and immediately ate it bluntly.The dishes made by Qin Miao are quite delicious. Yue Xingwen did not expect that this girl with a cold appearance would have such good cooking skills.

Everyone chatted and ate, the table was full of mushrooms and bamboo shoots, and the vegetable dishes with clear soup and little water made everyone's mentality very "Buddhist" - the requirements in the library should not be too high, as long as you can eat enough.

At dusk, everyone who had dinner gathered in the restaurant again.

Yue Xingwen also sorted out his thoughts, and told his classmates his guess: "I have a bold guess—this place may be used as an inn for 'immersive script killing'."

Ke Shaobin was dumbfounded when he heard this, and asked in a low voice, "What is script killing?"

Qin Miao, who was sitting next to him, explained lightly: "Script Killing, also called Murder Mystery, is a role-playing game. Based on a script of a murder case, everyone plays various roles in it, without knowing each other's identities. Find the murderer. If it is an ancient immersive script killing, everyone’s mobile phones will usually be confiscated, and everyone will be asked to change into ancient costumes and act as ancient people, so that players can experience the excitement of ancient murders personally.”

Ke Shaobin understood, pushed his glasses seriously, and said: "That is to say, in order to play this script killing game, players need to live here for a day or two, wear ancient clothes, and play different roles. The reason why there are a lot of ancient clothes in the room and the upstairs room. Since the players came from other places, they may have travel plans after the script killing, so they brought suitcases, can this explain the luggage we found in the attic?"

Liu Zhaoqing rubbed the back of his head: "So, the ancient content we dreamed is actually a script?"

Everyone turned their attention to Yue Xingwen.

Yue Xingwen nodded: "That's right, the most difficult part of this class is the setting of the 'drama within a play'. We divided all the clues into two parts to understand. The modern part, the murderer opened an inn to kill people; the ancient part, It is a script written by the murderer. Since the heroines in both worlds are named Su, we can boldly guess that the ancient scripts may allude to some events in reality, that is, scripts adapted from reality."

He wrote two pieces of paper on the clues that he and Jiang Pingce had sorted out just now, spread them out on the table, and patiently analyzed: "The world we live in is the real world, and serial murders have occurred. The structure of the inn is strange, obviously Well-designed, the murderer used "script killing" as a gimmick to attract some young people who like this kind of game to stay in the inn, secretly killed some girls, dressed them in bridal clothes, and hid the corpses in the storage room."

Jiang Pingce added: "Inn No. [-], there are seven chairs and seven ghost brides in the storage room. The murderer is obviously obsessed with the number 'seven'. But there is a doubt in the real world, and we haven't figured it out yet—— The woman buried in the tomb outside the woods is treated completely differently from the six dead people hidden in the storage room."

Yue Xingwen nodded and said: "Besides, the words 'Tomb of Beloved Wife Su Wanxin' are engraved on the tombstone. The woman who was buried in the burial was probably not killed by the murderer, but died of other incidents and was buried by her beloved husband. Here it is."

He paused, and concluded: "That is to say, the woman found in the tomb cannot be directly classified into the '7 dead' and '7 ghost brides'. She is obviously a special existence. I am more inclined, seven We haven't found all the bodies yet."

Qin Miao thought about it carefully, and said in agreement: "It makes sense. Judging from the layout of the inn and various storage rooms, the murderer has a collection habit and severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since there are 7 chairs in the storage room, then It should correspond to 7 corpses, and he just tied the corpses of 6 women to it for no reason, leaving a seat empty."

Gao Xiaoxin looked bewildered: "If there is one more corpse, where would it be?"

Everyone fell into deep thought, always feeling hairy on their backs, as if they were being stared at by a pair of eyes.

Yue Xingwen suddenly said: "There is an attic, so is there a basement?"

Gao Yongqiang's eyes lit up: "Yes! The basement is invisible from the outside, and it doesn't affect the height of the building. We didn't take this part into account when we measured the building."

Everyone looked at each other and quickly got up.

Jiang Pingce said, "Look separately."

Everyone squatted down, starting from the corner, and knocked on the floor bricks one by one.

After a while, Qin Miao's voice came from inside the restaurant: "There is something loose here."

Yue Xingwen walked into the restaurant in three or two steps, and saw Qin Miao squatting under the dining table, and took a brick to the side. After the square brick was taken away, there was indeed a hole of about one square meter and a ladder down.

Liu Zhaoqing complained in a low voice: "How many secret rooms does this inn have?"

Qin Miao squatted under the table, looked up at Yue Xingwen after hearing the voice, and said, "I'll go explore the road first."

She climbed down the ladder nimbly, and Qin Lu took a candle and followed closely behind her sister.Soon, Qin Miao's voice came from the ground: "This space is so big, come down and have a look."

Everyone lined up to climb into the basement.

The basement is actually over a hundred square meters, divided into two rooms and two halls. The master bedroom has a big bed, and the living room has matching sofas and tables. The innermost room is used as a study, and the bookcases on three walls are filled with various books. , Yue Xingwen glanced roughly, except for some famous books, the remaining 60% are classics related to Fengshui, gossip, and ancient folk anecdotes.

In addition, there is a small kitchen. There is no stove and refrigerator in the kitchen, only simple countertops and a few cabinets.

What Yue Xingwen was concerned about was that the three walls of the master bedroom were all pasted with photos, densely packed and seamlessly connected, it was like using the photos as wallpaper.

It's the same girl in all the photos.

The girl looks sweet, and there is a dimple at the corner of her mouth when she smiles. She has long black hair, red lips and white teeth. This appearance is not inferior to the popular actresses in the entertainment industry.Moreover, she is very good at taking pictures, and makes all kinds of funny movements in front of the camera. The first impression she gives is very lively and cute, like a pistachio.

Yue Xingwen stopped in front of a photo. This photo was different from the daily photo next to it. It was the largest photo in the whole house—the girl was wearing a white wedding dress and a crown on her head, smiling A look of happiness.

He took out the diamond ring he found in the coffin today from his pocket, and compared it with the diamond ring on the girl's finger.

Jiang Pingce asked, "Is it Su Wanxin?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "It's her, the same diamond ring."

Everyone looked at each other.

Qin Miao walked over to look at the diamond ring, and said, "The diamond ring is on your hand. It seems that the two of you are married."

Yue Xingwen looked back at everyone and said, "This is where the murderer lives."

Everyone: "..."

Xingwen's words made everyone's skin crawl.

There are photos all over the room, the girl's smile is bright and sweet, but with such a gloomy and dark basement, everyone just feels like the girl is smiling at them.

The murderer actually lives in the basement!

Liu Zhaoqing remembered that everyone was having a lively meal in the restaurant just now, and couldn't help but said: "The players laughed while eating in the restaurant, and the sound of the players gathering at the round table and discussing at the meeting, the murderer couldn't hear it clearly?! "

Jiang Pingce said coldly: "He lives in the basement, and the door is right under the round table. It is impossible for players to think that there is a murderer hiding under their feet. In the middle of the night, he can crawl out to commit crimes. Sleep."

Gao Xiaoxin rubbed her cold arms, her lips were pale: "It's too scary! He really took great pains to kill people!"

The basement for living and eavesdropping, the storage room for clothes and corpses on the second floor, and the storage room on the roof—such a complex design is indeed painstaking.

Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone carefully search for clues in the basement."

Everyone searched separately in the empty basement.

After a while, Ke Shaobin came excitedly to look for Yue Xingwen: "I found several boxes of instant noodles and pickled mustard in the kitchen cabinet, which should be hoarded by the murderer and planned to eat when he lives here!"

Yue Xingwen patted Ke Shaobin on the shoulder: "Put the instant noodles up, and you won't have to worry about food for the next few days."

Liu Zhaoqing also came over and said, "I found a lot of sleeping pills in the drawer. I don't know if he took it himself or added it to the meals to stun the players."

Qin Lu said: "A lot of cigarette butts were found in the trash can, the murderer loves to smoke."

The clues in the basement were all related to the murderer's personal habits, and some moldy clothes and shoes were found. It can be judged that the murderer is a man with a height of 180 and a strong build.The clues related to the deceased were not harvested, and the body was not found.

Yue Xingwen stood in the middle of the living room and analyzed: "The heroine Su Wanxin passed away for some reason. The man who loved her deeply put her in a coffin and buried her outside the woods. He erected a monument for her and built this an inn."

"When he was building the inn, he had a plan to kill people, so he designed secret spaces such as the basement and attic. He used the name of "Script Killing" to attract some people to the inn, choose the target, and take advantage of the players When they were not paying attention, they crawled out of the basement to commit crimes."

"There are a lot of ancient books related to Fengshui, gossip, and folk tales on his bookshelf. Obviously, he has a lot of research on Fengshui." Yuexing Wen paused and said, "I need to draw a map of the whole scene again to verify my speculation."

Everyone climbed back to the restaurant from the basement, and Yue Xingwen led Jiang Pingce and Gao Yongqiang to redraw the scene map.

When looking for the tombstone today, Yue Xingwen remembered the mechanical voice prompting in his ears: "You have come to the edge of the examination room." It means that this examination room is a closed space, just like a dungeon in a game, there will always be boundaries.

This time he was going to draw a map of the entire examination room.The east boundary is the tombstone; the west boundary is the woods behind the pond; to the north there is an endless stretch of mountains, of course they can't climb up the mountains, but they can see the outline of the mountains clearly.

Yue Xingwen simply draws ponds, inns, mountains, woods, tombstones on the map...

He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the three tall trees in front of the inn, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and said: "Although I don't know much about Feng Shui, I think this place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with lush trees, and the environment is really good .Look, those three trees over there."

Everyone followed his gaze, and Yue Xingwen asked, "What do you think it looks like?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, then suddenly said in a low voice, "Like offering incense to the owner of the tomb?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Well. The three straight and neat trees are like three sticks of incense sticking on the grave. The location of the inn and the location of the pond are also like a kind of memorial - those brides who were killed are Sacrifice."

Everyone: "..."

Yue Xingwen said: "I understand the murderer's motives. His beloved Su Wanxin passed away, and he is looking for sacrifices for his deceased wife. Those books on the bookshelf may have superstitious sayings like 'sacrificing the soul of the dead'."

Yue Xingwen paused, and summarized all the current clues: "In reality, the logic of the murder line in the inn is basically straightened out, and the murderer's residence in the basement has also been found. The current doubts, first, the seven seat One of the chairs is empty, and where is the next corpse; two, what is the meaning of the digital code found in the doll?"

"In the line of the dream, we have deduced that the dream is the script of the script killing, which may allude to some experiences of the murderer. It is a pure ancient world. The main line is that Miss Su was sent to the Zhao Mansion for a happy event, and in the end Miss Su died. There are clues such as guards, doctors, women in pink, and dolls. The current plot is not complete enough and needs to be supplemented by clues from dreams. Everyone pay attention tonight, if you have dreams after falling asleep, you must observe carefully."

Sometimes ancient, sometimes modern, it is easy to make people confused, but after Yue Xingwen sorted it out, everyone's minds finally became clear-a play within a play.

The ancient line is a script of script killing.The modern line, is the real murder.

The script written by the murderer alludes to his own experience.Through the complete ancient line, it is possible to deduce the relationship between the murderer and Miss Su, as well as the real cause of Miss Su's death.

The modern line can deduce the murderer's motive and method of killing, and find all the victims.

After the two lines are pushed through, the murderer's entire mental journey can be coherent.

This is the "death riddle" required by the exam!