Escape From the Library

【Death code 12】

Liu Zhaoqing put the bones fished out of the pond under the shade of a tree, Yue Xingwen observed carefully for a while, the clothes were rotten, but judging from the embroidery patterns on them, it was the same wedding dress as the six brides found in the storage room on the second floor .

Yue Xingwen said: "This dress is the same as the wedding dress worn by Su Wanxin. It seems that the murderer ordered nine sets of wedding dresses, one for Su Wanxin, seven for sacrifices, and the rest for display?"

There was indeed no extra wedding dress found in the storage room, and the murderer was obviously confident in his success rate of killing people.

Liu Zhaoqing turned around and asked, "Would the password in the doll be left by this No. 7 bride?"

Yue Xingwen simulated the scene of the wedding night in his mind, and said: "Probably not. The groom is terminally ill. On the wedding night, the bride in the wedding dress will be alone in the wedding room. She may have noticed something is wrong, such as Hiding in the mortuary, and then fled in a hurry, was caught up by the murderer who had been eyeing her for a long time, fell into the water in a panic, and she didn't have time to disassemble the doll to leave digital clues."

Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin, and then asked: "But if she found the mortuary and yelled, others would notice, right? Why did she run away in a panic instead of calling other partners?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Of course other people will notice, but don't forget that this is "Script Killing", the bride's screaming is probably part of the original script. On the wedding night, the bride is alone, and the other The classmates must have been separated from her temporarily, and when they heard the screams, they thought she was acting in a script, so they didn't mind, and they wouldn't rush to support her."

This is the cleverest part of the murderer, using "script killing" to kill the deceased in the script. In the script, there was a design of "the bride stays alone in the wedding room, and there is a scream in the wedding room". Then, other players Even when you hear the screams, you subconsciously think "she's doing a good job" instead of thinking that she will really be murdered.

Liu Zhaoqing suddenly realized: "Indeed, this is just like acting. Everyone has become an actor. The first reaction is that she is acting in a script, and she will never think in the direction of the horror of 'the murderer is by my side'."

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The digital password is likely to be left behind by a keen player who noticed the problem after the bride's death. This player is very alert and dare not trust anyone easily. He guessed the murderer. I'm by my side, so I don't dare to tell others about my speculation, I can only leave some clues in this way."

Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement, and said: "After all, the murderer is too scary to be around, and he may kill him at any time. On the surface, he pretended to be calm, leaving clues in secret, and waited until the script killing was over and he escaped. Finding a way to call the police is the safest course of action.”

This is also the most sensible approach. If you expose it on the spot, it will be a question of whether other people believe it or not. If you guess wrong about the murderer, you will die immediately.Players who can keep calm in this situation and leave their passwords are top-notch.

Everyone was silent for a while, Liu Zhaoqing said: "The line of the inn is short of the last password. What do those digital passwords mean?" Aggrieved, Liu Zhaoqing walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Your candied lotus root seems to be too much to eat."

Ke Shaobin had a bitter face: "Brother, can you stop talking..." Now when he mentions the sweet lotus root, he thinks of the white human bones and the grinning skull, and he is really not in the mood at all.

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "Let's go, forget about it, and have instant noodles for lunch."

Ke Shaobin stood up and followed them, and everyone returned to the restaurant to continue the analysis.

The table was covered with strips of cloth taken out of the doll's body, and the numbers on them looked extremely messy.

71-16-30

99-16-9

281-22-1

299-1-5

6-17-11

……

Ke Shaobin asked suspiciously: "Three-stage passwords are not very common, are they?"

Jiang Pingce frowned and observed carefully for a moment, summing up the law of numbers: "Look, everyone, the first number appears randomly from 1 to 299, the second number appears randomly from 1 to 22, and the third number appears randomly from 1 to 30 The size and order of the numbers are always changing, without any rules related to the sequence and function. What does such a strange password correspond to?"

Everyone has no idea.

Jiang Pingce thought about it carefully, glanced at the books on the table, and suddenly said: "Could it be the page number, line number and word number of the book?"

Yue Xingwen's heart suddenly brightened, and he hurriedly spread out the three books he had dug out of the suitcase in front of everyone: "Ping Ce's words make sense! The thickness of a general book is less than 300 pages, and if the first number corresponds to The page number is reasonable if it does not exceed 300. The number of lines on each page of a book is generally about 25, and the number of words in each line is about 30.”

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "Looking at it this way, the arrangement of the characters in the book just echoes the characteristics of the three-segment password. The first number represents the number of pages, up to 299, and the second and third numbers are relatively small. represent lines and characters, respectively."

Yue Xingwen quickly turned the pages of the three books to the last page. The total number of pages of famous works is 275 pages, the total number of pages of modern romance novels is 245 pages, and the total number of pages of ancient romance novels is exactly 299 pages.

Everyone became excited when they saw this: "This 299-page book is the code book?"

Ancient romance novels correspond to ancient scripts. The first number of the password in the rag doll is up to 299, which is exactly the same as the number of pages in the novel—all the passwords correspond to the words in this novel!

Yue Xingwen glanced at Jiang Pingce, patted him on the shoulder lightly, and praised: "Pingce is still careful. Every time we encounter problems related to numbers, we can always find the rules in the fastest time."

We Ping Ce?There was a strange sense of intimacy in this title. Jiang Pingce raised the corners of his lips, and quickly arranged the cloth strips on the table in order of page number from small to large, and said, "Let's start deciphering. The first one - 6 pages, 11 lines , 17 words."

Yue Xingwen quickly turned to page 6, counted to the 11th word on line 17, and wrote down on a piece of paper: "Hand."

Jiang Pingce continued to read: "8 pages, 15 lines, 1 character."

Yue Xingwen flipped the book very skillfully: "Yes."

Jiang Pingce: "11 pages, 1 line, 15 characters."

Yue Xingwen: "Marriage."

……

The two cooperated tacitly. Jiang Pingce read out the numbers on the cloth strips in a low voice, and Yue Xingwen quickly flipped through the book to find the corresponding characters. After more than ten minutes, Jiang Pingce finally finished reading all the passwords, and Yue Xingwen also wrote on the white paper. There are hundreds of Chinese characters and punctuation.

Jiang Pingce said, "I'll leave it to you to make sentences out of loose characters."

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "No problem."

Using a bunch of Chinese characters to make sentences is the test point of elementary school Chinese.However, there are hundreds of words given this time, and they have to be spelled into a logical and complete sentence.

Hand, edge, mother, me, new, play, kill...

Since the cloth strips were not arranged in the order of each sentence, dozens of deciphered characters were completely disrupted.

Yue Xingwen quickly reassembled them, and then wrote a paragraph on another piece of paper: "It's too scary, this is not a script killing, but a real killing—the murderer is right beside us! The player playing the bride really Dead, I saw with my own eyes that she was chased by a black shadow and fell into the pond! I don't have a mobile phone, so I can't get in touch with the outside world. This is the first time I met these netizens. I don't know who killed the bride. Will you continue to kill people? I just want to get out alive..."

Yue Xingwen looked up at Jiang Pingce: "It seems that our reasoning is all correct."

The surrounding students all beamed with joy.

Ke Shaobin, who had an ugly face, finally showed a smile at this time, and praised: "Great. When the seventh bride died, another player who was playing script killing was alarmed. This player noticed something was wrong, but he did not choose to expose it in person. ...Who is such a sensible person?"

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The source of the password is an ancient romance novel. Boys should not bring this kind of romance novel to read when they go out. This book probably belongs to a girl. When checking the suitcase yesterday, a girl I didn’t bring any cosmetics, I only brought facial cleanser, do you remember?”

Thinking of this incident, Qin Lu hurriedly said, "Yes, the other girls brought foundation, lipstick, and eyebrow pencil, and she only had toiletries in her box. We also commented at the time that she is a girl who doesn't like makeup and loves plain makeup, Not like everyone else."

Jiang Pingce said: "She is obviously different from other girls. She doesn't wear cosmetics when she goes out, and the clothes in her suitcase are all black and white. She doesn't have any nice dresses. She should be a girl with a cold personality. She is more sensible and sensitive than ordinary people. This book is probably hers."

Yue Xingwen carefully recalled the scene when he checked the suitcase yesterday, and said: "All the suitcases of the players are left here, so the other eight players may..."

Jiang Pingce looked solemn: "He was also killed."

Liu Zhaoqing opened his eyes wide in surprise: "The girl who left the clue didn't escape?"

Ke Shaobin was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean, are the members killed by this group of scripts immediately wiped out?"

Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

Yue Xingwen said: "Bride No. 7 suddenly slipped and fell into the lake, which affected the murderer's plan and alarmed other players. The murderer noticed that someone had tampered with the doll, knew that he might have been exposed, and simply killed the other players." Players, completely silenced."

Ke Shaobin felt chills down his spine: "No wonder all these people's suitcases are left here!"

Yue Xingwen said: "Assuming that the murderer only kills the actor who plays the bride, then he has committed crimes 7 times so far, and the number of people killed in each script is 10. Excluding the murderer, there are 9 people left. There should have been 7x9=63 guests. The murderer killed the previous 6 times very smoothly, and the other players have no doubts. They will leave the inn after completing the script killing. As for the death of the bride, the murderer has the bride’s mobile phone and casually sent a message to the family saying " I’m going on a trip to a certain place,” during which I kept in touch with my family, and arranged for the bride to “disappear” in another city in a few days, and the police couldn’t find him.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Yue Xingwen went on to say: "As a result, when the crime was committed for the seventh time, there was an accident. Some players discovered the secret of this inn, so the murderer killed everyone to silence them. This is also the reason why there are 7 suitcases in the inn—10 It belongs to the player, and the remaining one belongs to him. He probably knew that he couldn’t hide it, so he simply left the inn and ran away.”

Yue Xingwen looked at the digital code left on the table, sighed softly, and said: "It's a pity, if the phone hadn't been handed over to a stranger before the script was killed, the player who discovered the secret could have survived of."

Qin Miao's face was serious: "They are really too careless. When they came to this wild place, they handed in their mobile phones collectively. The script killing process is so dangerous... If it were me, I would never participate in this kind of game. "

Such a game sounds creepy at first glance.

In pursuit of excitement, you should also go to a safe place to play with someone you can really trust.

Ke Shaobin's lips turned white: "Then, if the last group is destroyed, what about the corpses of the other eight players?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Do you remember that there is a lot of dust under the stove in the kitchen? It seems that the kitchen has not been used for a long time, and the amount of dust... is too much."

Ke Shaobin's face changed: "The body was burned to ashes?"

Everyone: "..."

Bones were found in the pond, and the kitchen was full of ashes. They no longer need to dig lotus roots or cook vegetables in the kitchen.Eat instant noodles every day for the next few days.

Fortunately, the line of the inn has been sorted out, and now there is one last puzzle left - the play within the play.

How did the story of script killing develop, and who would the murderer be?