Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

"Boom, boom, boom"

……

The crisp high heels resounded in the corridor.

Because the villa is too big, the corridor is very long, and the night is very quiet, the sound even echoed.

In this way, every sound of footsteps and every echo seems to convey the murderous intent clearly and powerfully in the night.

In the room, on the small wooden bed, the child-like Zhou Qian lay quietly on his side, facing the child Bai Zhou who was also lying on his side.

It was too quiet around, Zhou Qian listened quietly for a while, and said to Bai Zhou: "Her footsteps are exactly half a second behind your heartbeat, it seems that the pace is very even."

It seemed that even Bai Zhou didn't expect that Zhou Qian would be able to listen to his heartbeat at this moment.

In the night, Bai Zhou's eyes sank slightly.

But soon turned over and sat up - the footsteps outside the corridor stopped.

Three seconds later, there was a knock on the door of this room.

The knock on the door was heavy and dense, as if the people outside were quite impatient and full of anger.

Turning his head back, Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou who was lying on the bed.

The moonlight outside the window made Zhou Qian's eyebrows very clear.In contrast, the smile on the corner of his mouth revealed a bit of malice that seemed to be playing tricks on others.

As if wanting to inform Bai Zhou of this malice in advance, he said, "Then shall I open the door?"

Bai Zhou just nodded: "Go."

Zhou Qian got out of bed and went to open the door as expected.

What he didn't know was that at this moment, a certain box in the virtual game hall A711 was full of his gamblers.

He has been promoted to S rank, and he is no longer just a low-level gambler, he has won the bets of many high-level gamblers.

On the screen, Zhou Qian didn't know that he was being surrounded by many people.

He was naturally immersed in the game, and apparently unconsciously reached a certain tacit understanding with Bai Zhou.

But the gamblers onlookers obviously didn't understand the meaning of their conversation at all, and immediately started discussing enthusiastically——

"Wait, don't talk yet, is the box door closed? Check it! Don't let other players see it!"

"It's off. Don't worry."

"That's right. Players and gamblers can enter the lobby outside. Maybe one of the players outside knows that greasy Marolo. It would be bad if the news leaked."

"I've checked it many times, and it's all right. Please rest assured to discuss it. The sound insulation here is very good."

"No, I'm still worried. Forget it, I'll guard the door and you discuss it."

"Why do you think Zhou Qian wants to open the door? Who is the person outside the door?"

"Let's think about it... that little assistant Zhu Zhu is gone, so he shouldn't come back in the middle of the night, right? This is a big villa with a big yard outside, and there are security guards at the gate!"

"Well, Ruan Mei always wears flat shoes. Although the elder sister Ke Yun came here wearing high heels, she changed her shoes later. Oh, by the way, that Wang Mei, she didn't change her shoes after entering the house!"

"No. Regardless of whether Ke Yun and Wang Mei changed their shoes after entering the house, when Ruan Mei took the ten children to wash up, I noticed that Ke Yun and Wang Mei had indeed changed their slippers before entering their respective bedrooms. !"

"Hiss... Speaking of which, I suddenly felt a little strange. Why did the murderer wear high heels to kill?"

"Since all the ladies don't wear high heels when they go back to their rooms to sleep. In other words, the person walking in the corridor now wears high heels later. Why is that?

"Why did the murderer come out wearing high heels on purpose? The murderer must act quietly, right? She will make a noise!"

"If you wake people up and people come out and see her, how can she kill someone if they bump into her?"

"That's right. It's not just about the high heels. She knocked on the door just now, and she knocked very loudly!"

"Wait—couldn't this guy in the high heels be the murderer?"

"It's possible! We all believe in Brother Qian's IQ! He dared to open the door because there is no murderer outside the door, right?"

"If the person outside the door is not a murderer, who is she? Why is she knocking on the door?"

"Let's play one by one. As long as it's not a murderer...Ke Yun is a standard lady, educated, well-educated, and capable of being independent. She likes these children very much, and she did buy a lot of toys for them. Helping Ruan Mei with all her tongue...

"Have you noticed that she kept her mouth shut when she was eating at the dinner table just now?

"A well-educated person like her wouldn't wear high heels in the middle of the night and disturb the children in the corridor to sleep."

"Ruan Mei always wears flat shoes, even when she is working outside. It can be assumed that she has no habit of wearing high heels at all. As for that Wang Mei...

"Hey, don't consider the possibility of perverted men wearing high heels for the time being. Among the women, Wang Mei is the most likely left!"

"But why did Wang Mei do this?"

……

Suddenly, a deep and magnetic voice interrupted everyone's discussion——

"Wang Mei did it on purpose."

The person who said this was the pastor.

He raised his hand to signal his left wrist, there was no watch there.

His action is to show that he is not a player now, but a gambler.

Without a watch, he couldn't send messages to other players through the system, such as Marolo, who wanted to kill Zhou Qian. Based on this, the gamblers dared to let him stay here.

The pastor said, "You all have a good analysis. Which murderer would wake up others by wearing high-heeled shoes before killing people? So she didn't come to kill people."

Immediately, a gambler asked: "You also think that person is Wang Mei? Why do you say that Wang Mei did it on purpose?"

"Start with the analysis of the three siblings of the Ke family. Ke Yun, Ke Zheng, and Ke Di are the third siblings. The Ke family should be in business. After all, Ke Zheng's young assistant called him 'Mr. Ke'.

"But Ruan Mei mentioned that Ke Yun is going to be the head of the government. So Ke Yun is in politics. Her career line is probably very separate from the Ke family's business. Because she wants to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, politics and business will be mixed together. , she could easily be suspected of bending the law for personal gain or even accepting bribes.

"In the absence of other evidence and clues, Ke Yun's personality is biased towards an independent and strong woman. She should not participate in the family business and disdain to fight for family property.

"Therefore, matters such as family property disputes are mainly concentrated between the two brothers Ke Zheng and Ke Di. The two brothers have been fighting for a long time, and the relationship between the two has not been good."

Looking up at the expressions of the other gamblers, the pastor said, "This villa is Ke Zheng's home, not Ke Di and Wang Mei's. Although I don't know why they are staying here tonight, it is obvious It can be seen that Ke Di and Wang Mei came very reluctantly.

"Wang Mei is unwilling and dissatisfied, and she doesn't dare to get angry with Ke Yun and Ke Zheng. Once she seizes any opportunity, she can only vent her anger on Ruan Mei."

"Wang Mei is arrogant and domineering, and she has her own capital. Ke Yun also said that she is a 'big lady'. Then Wang Mei and Ke Di are in the same family, so she looks down on Ruan Mei, a sparrow that flies up the branches and turns into a phoenix.

"But having said that, Wang Mei didn't dare to offend Ke Yun at all. When Ke Yun scolded her, she didn't even dare to speak back.

"Now she will appear in high heels and knock on Ke Yi's door, which further confirms my guess—she has something to ask of Ke Yun, or is subject to Ke Yun in some way. In any case, she will appear now, it must be It's because of Ke Yun."

Looking up at the screen in front of him, the pastor made a conclusion: "Wang Mei caught Ke Yi and scolded him at the dinner table. Now that she came to him, she must have come to apologize. It's just that she didn't come voluntarily, it was Ke Yun. Let her come, she has to come.

"Her daughter lost her temper. When she apologized, she was reluctant to wear high heels on purpose. On the one hand, she was angry and wanted to wake everyone up; on the other hand, she was losing her temper with Ke Yun secretly—

"It was you who asked me to apologize. Now that you saw it, I did go! What? Accidentally disturbed everyone to sleep? I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I'm just pressing Miss Ke you It's just a request."

Gambler A: "Hey, why didn't I think of such a simple reason?"

Gambler B: "Thinking pattern. It's all because the movies are too exaggerated. There are always femme fatales who step on high heels and kill people!"

Gambler C: "Speaking of which... who would kill many babies in a row? What is his motive?"

The pastor smiled mysteriously, but did not answer.

Someone asked again: "What the hell is that Maluoluo? Does anyone know his details?"

The pastor narrowed his eyes, looked at the screen now, and said indifferently: "Is it necessary to go to the bottom of a dead man?"

Gambler Ding: "Hey, you mean..."

The pastor's tone was quite disdainful: "The current S-level is too watery. After the game has matured, all kinds of people will be brought to the S-level. This kind of idiot... dare to accept the reward order from the Pink Legion."

·

in-game.

Zhou Qian opened the door and saw Wang Mei who was wearing pajamas but awkwardly wearing high heels outside the door.

Looking at the other closed doors in the corridor, Zhou Qian deliberately shouted loudly in a child's voice: "Auntie, why are you here?!"

After the sound fell, sure enough, the door of one room was obviously ajar.

——That was Marolo's room, he was probably looking at Zhou Qian's situation.

Zhou Qian looked away calmly, stood on tiptoe and grabbed Wang Mei's wrist, smiling innocently.

Wang Mei coughed lightly, and reluctantly said, "Ke Qi, isn't your brother Ke Yi asleep?"

"No. I called him."

Zhou Qian turned his head with a smile, looked at Bai Zhou who had just sat up on the bed, and called him sweetly, "Brother, auntie is calling you!"

Hearing this, Bai Zhou took a deep look at Zhou Qian before walking up to Wang Mei.

Bai Zhou's gaze was cold and clear, and he didn't say anything unnecessary.

Seeing him coming, Wang Mei said again: "Ke Yi, I should congratulate you for your good grades in the exam. Today at the dinner table, it was my aunt who was wrong. I'm here to apologize to you."

Bai Zhou nodded slightly, but still did not speak.

Zhou Qian looked at Wang Mei with a smile again, held her wrist even tighter, and then winked at Bai Zhou, and then the two of them cooperated tacitly, pulled Wang Mei in, and closed the door by the way. door.

The two of them did this very cleverly, and the other people in the corridor couldn't tell anything, they only thought that Wang Mei walked in by herself.

After entering the room, Wang Mei was obviously also a little surprised. "What are you doing?"

Zhou Qian asked her: "Auntie asked you to come, right?"

Wang Mei felt a little uncomfortable, and said with a cold face: "I don't know if she's awake or not... Really. Anyway, if she asks about you tomorrow morning, remember to tell her that I came to apologize."

Zhou Qian said immediately: "No. We won't talk about it."

"You—?!" Wang Mei frowned, "What's the matter with you kid?"

Zhou Qian said: "We are just a little scared and want my aunt to stay here and tell us stories to lull us to sleep."

"I have never told a story with my son, what can I tell you?"

Wang Mei complained like losing her temper, then turned around and was about to leave.

Zhou Qian immediately said: "Then I'm going to report to my aunt now, saying that you came to bully us!"

"You—!" Wang Mei glared at Zhou Qian immediately.

Zhou Qian: "You obviously don't like my dad, but you still come here to eat and live here...Why? Did your aunt tell you to do this?"

Wang Mei said coldly: "I think Ke Yun is used to being a leader in her unit and likes to control everyone. There is something wrong with her!

"My family has been arguing with your father for so many years, and it finally came to fruition. Now your father is in charge of the factory here, and we will take over the factory in the city next door to Ke's family. From now on, everyone will go their own way and just stay away! But what about Ke Yun? She insisted on letting us come and live for three days every six months, trying to get their brothers back together. Do you think she is sick? Fuck——

"If it wasn't for my mother's company to be under her jurisdiction... I wouldn't... forget it."

"Damn, why am I telling you this to a child. You don't understand." Wang Mei looked at Zhou Qian angrily, "Don't tell your aunt what I said just now, or I will tear your mouth apart!"

Zhou Qian only said: "If you stay here and tell me stories, I won't tell aunt!"

·

after an hour.

Wang Mei, who was angry with the two children, had already fallen asleep.

Constrained by others, she has no choice but to stay here.

She perfunctorily followed Zhou Qian's request, and told him and Bai Zhou a story for a while, and then she got sleepy, so she found a small blanket to cover her knees, leaned against the toy mat beside the wooden bed, and fell asleep.

At this time, there was a sudden movement outside the door.

—the doorknob was turning.

coming.

Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou looked at each other, walked to the wooden bed, picked up the two pillows on the bed, and hid them in the children's closet next to them.

Bai Zhou also did the same thing, but he hid two quilts.

After finishing all this, they sat side by side on the bed, waiting to see——

Come, is it the one they judged just now?

What Wang Mei doesn't know is that when she is perfunctory telling the story, the two people listening to the story are also perfunctory, because they are communicating through private chat props.

Zhou Qian said: "From the perspective of killing motives, only Wang Mei and Ke Di have a little bit of murderous intent. But if I were them, I would not choose to kill the children of relatives who have conflicts with me when I visit relatives. This is not to provoke myself suspect?

"In addition, this should be a serial murder case, the kind with a long time interval."

"En." Bai Zhou nodded, "If many children died at once, their death conditions should be basically the same, but the actual situation is not like this."

There are seven corpses in Exhibition Hall A.

First analyze the situation where there is only one murderer.There are two possibilities. First, the murderer killed them all at once; second, this is a serial murder case with time intervals, and there is a long time interval between each case.

By visiting the exhibition hall, it can be found that the death methods of the seven corpses are different.

The first baby died of suffocation, the second girl had foam at the corner of her mouth, and died of a seizure. As for the next five babies, some had injuries to the back of the head, and some had a big hole in the forehead...

If there is only one murderer, it is not an easy task to kill seven children at once.He would probably poison them.In short, the death methods of those children should be more consistent, rather than the current variety.

Therefore, the murderer is more likely to kill a child after a period of time.

His target was only the children of the Ke family, and he had no other sense of ritual. He didn't mark the corpses, and he didn't worry that the children must die with some kind of murder weapon.

All of this looked more like when the murderer wanted to kill someone, he found something handy and could use it, so he used it directly.

Bai Zhou said to Zhou Qian again: "Now we are in the VR game. The Ke family has ten children because ten players came. But the number of players is random. So compared with real stories, small games must be done. Many modifications have been made.

"We have to survive here for three days before we can pass the level. Then during these three days, the murderer will kill people. But in reality, the interval between the deaths of each child should be relatively long.

"Also, have you noticed that the corpses in the exhibition hall are actually much younger than us?"

"Well. Most of the seven children in Hall A are babies, and only a few are toddlers. This is because it is difficult for babies to pass the level after designing a mini-game, so compared to the real case, in the mini-game, Our average age is inflated when we're younger."

Zhou Qian said, "Well... more real murder information, we still have to deduce it from the situation in Exhibition Hall A——

"First, the children who were killed were very young, many of them were babies who could not walk;

"Second, there should be a large gap between their deaths, which means that the real murderer has never been caught, because... no one thought that she would be the real murderer."

Squinting his eyes, Zhou Qian said, "Why wasn't she considered the real culprit? Because most of these children's deaths can be attributed to accidents. The child who fell to his death from the back of the head fell from upstairs accidentally; the child with a hole in his forehead, he himself I fell down and knocked on a stone while playing in the back garden... As for us now-"

Glancing back at the empty wooden bed after the pillows and quilts were removed, Zhou Qian said: "It is very possible for a fragile baby to turn over and be unable to turn over, and accidentally suffocate himself to death.

"So if there is a homicide tonight, corresponding to the death in the exhibition hall, most of them are like the first baby—death of suffocation."

Bai Zhou nodded: "We'll be fine if we hide the pillow and quilt. What's more——"

The corners of his lips curled, and Bai Zhou said again: "You left an adult here. Seeing that someone is there, she probably won't do anything."

"Well. Wang Mei can't be the real culprit in this serial murder case. She can suffocate the child with a pillow while she is asleep. But other accidents are difficult for her to make. What's more Her relationship with the children is very bad, and her approach will cause the children to guard against her. Her husband agrees.

"Actually, from this perspective, Ke Yun and Ke Zheng can be completely excluded. They are not the ones who take care of the children themselves. It is difficult to understand what accidents will happen in the care of the children, so that they finally take advantage of these 'accidents'.

"Then the real culprit...there is indeed only one person left."

Zhou Qian said again: "At the beginning, when I did the elimination method based on the motive of the murder, I excluded her.

"I thought at the time that because of her lack of education, it was reasonable for her to think that married women should take care of their husbands. This kind of feudal and decadent thinking really had a deep-rooted influence on her. I don't think there is a problem with this, and I don't think the relationship between her and Ke Zheng is equal. If Ke Zheng approached Xiaosan openly, maybe she would treat Xiaosan like a concubine, saying that everyone is a family.

"So in fact, I still have that opinion. She would not kill her child for such a reason, let alone her own child."

Bai Zhou nodded: "Yes. For the time being, it seems that she is enjoying the feeling of taking care of others. She will not kill someone because she is too tired."

"Yes." Zhou Qian said, "Ke Yun asked her to hire a nanny, and her family fully has the conditions. It is she who insists on taking care of the children herself, and it is she who insists on cooking for herself.

"She didn't choose to kill the child because she couldn't afford it, or felt too tired to take care of it. Interesting..."

"Her motive for killing is beyond my imagination."

Hearing this, Bai Zhou couldn't help but look at Zhou Qian, and Zhou Qian said with certainty: "It can be seen that she is sicker than me."

·

In this way, Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou agreed that the murderer was the biological mother of these children, Ruan Mei.

At this moment, it was time to confirm their speculation.

Now they are several years older than the deceased in the real case.

Judging from the real death scene of the deceased, it is too far-fetched to give the child a reason such as "falling to death" in a place like the bedroom.Then it is most likely that babies and children died of accidental suffocation—for example, they accidentally suffocated themselves with a pillow because they did not turn over properly.

That's why Zhou Qian quickly hid the pillow and quilt just now.

As the doorknob turned, Zhou Qian winked at Bai Zhou again, and the two of them went to bed together and lay down side by side, pretending to be asleep.

After a while, there was a "creak", the door was pushed open, and a figure walked in.

The wind blew in through the crack of the window, brushing her long hair.

The moonlight illuminated her eyes, but not enough to illuminate her facial features clearly.

There was another "creak", and the door closed.

The man walked into the room and then walked to the bed.

"Ke Yi, Ke Qi, are you asleep?" She asked in a low voice.

Sure enough, it was Ruan Mei's voice.

After hearing no one answer, she approached them confidently.

Walking to the side of the bed, she stretched out both hands, and first put them on Ke Yi who was sleeping outside the bed, then grabbed his shoulders, turned him over, and then he did the same to Ke Qi.

Finally, she put her hands down and groped around their heads. After a while, she didn't seem to find what she was looking for, so she gave a strange "huh".

At this moment, she saw Ke Qi jumping up suddenly, and called her sweetly——

"Mom, why are you here? What are you looking for?"

Ruan Mei was taken aback, she took several steps back, and fell to the ground.

Then she became even more terrified - she saw that there was a person leaning on the other side of the wooden bed!

That person is naturally Wang Mei.She was awakened by Ruan Mei's action.

After yawning and standing up, she first blinked her eyes several times in confusion, and then took a few steps forward. When she saw Ruan Mei coming, she sneered and said, "What are you doing here? Worried that I will kill your son? Heh .The heart of a villain!"

Ruan Mei shook for a while, and struggled to get up from the ground, then she turned and ran out of the room without saying anything.

Wang Mei rolled her eyes, and then yelled at Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou: "I see, I scolded you a few times at the dinner table, are you trying to mess with me? I also told this story, and I apologized." , what should be said and what should not be said at Ke Yun's place, you should remember clearly! Otherwise, I want you to look good!"

After saying that, Wang Mei also left.

The door opened and closed.

Only Zhou Qian and Bai Zhou were left in the room.

Zhou Qian glanced at Bai Zhou, walked to the door, put his ear to the door and listened for a while.

After a while, he said: "Wang Mei went back to the room directly. But Ruan Mei went downstairs, and now she came up again.

"If everything that happened in this room just now happened in reality, after Ruan Mei's murderous behavior is broken, there will definitely be no other actions in a short time. But this is a game.

"Seeing through her killing methods and evading them is just our survival strategy this time. She didn't succeed in this room, and she might go to the next one."

When Zhou Qian was observing the situation outside the door, Bai Zhou just went to open the closet, took out the pillow and quilt, and made the beds for himself and Zhou Qian respectively.

Then he looked at Zhou Qian: "Well, we should be safe tonight. Come and sleep."

Zhou Qian silently glanced at the pillows and quilt on the upper bunk, then looked at Bai Zhou.

But in the end he didn't say anything, walked over and silently climbed the stairs to the upper bunk, and lay down.

10 minute later.

Zhou Qian turned over, leaned his upper body out of the upper bunk, and looked down.

In the middle of the lower bunk bed, Bai Zhou closed his eyes, and seemed to be sleeping peacefully.

Suddenly feeling a little annoyed, Zhou Qian squinted his eyes, pulled his right hand over his pillow and reached for the lower bunk, and then patted Bai Zhou's head directly.

Bai Zhou was slapped awake by the pillow. After opening his eyes, he poked his head out and looked up at Zhou Qian, and then he asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Qian: "..."

Bai Zhou: "Huh?"

"It's nothing." Zhou Qian said, "Suddenly thought of another suspicious point."

Bai Zhou asked again: "What doubt?"

Zhou Qian opened his mouth, but he really answered: "The children who died in the exhibition hall included those whose surname was not Ke. Maloro and his attendants chose to be adopted sons, probably naively thinking that the murderer would only kill The surname 'Ke', they thought the murderer must have grudges against the Ke family.

"Ma Luoluo's idea is obviously wrong. But does the news that the adopted son has a different surname have other intentions?"

·

the other side.

As the sound of high heels went away, Maluoluo closed the door, winked at Meng Pingping, and said with a sneer, "The murderer is indeed Wang Mei. She stayed in Zhou Qian's room for an entire hour before leaving now. She What can I do? I can only dispose of the corpses and destroy the evidence!"

Meng Pingping was also very pleased: "Although it is said that Ke Yi is the one she wants to kill the most, if Ke Qi is also there, he will definitely be killed together! In this kind of dungeon, who will die and who will live will usually not be known until the next day. It is a pity that now We can't know the result right away—

"But anyway... Zhou Qian is probably gone! We can get the reward now!"

"Having said that, don't get too excited!" Ma Luoluo said, "They all say this dungeon is evil. So it must not be simple. Since the murderer is so easy to find, there are big problems elsewhere! You have to pay attention!"

"But anyway, we've dealt with it tonight. Has Wang Mei returned to her room?" Meng Pingping asked.

"Yes." Ma Luoluo said, "Anyway, the murderer who wants to kill is Wang Mei. Then other people can be used as clues!"

The two had just talked for a while when the door was opened.

A person came in, it was Ruan Mei.

They didn't even turn off the lights in this room, so when Ruan Mei looked in, she saw that there were pillows on the bed.

So she smiled and looked at the two children. "Have you been disturbed by Wang Mei? I am worried that she will bully you, so I came to see you specially. Come on, go to bed obediently, and I will coax you to sleep."

Ma Luoluo smiled and said: "Haha, let's stop acting. I know, you NPC is here to give us clues! You are not a murderer!"

Ruan Mei just looked at him quietly, then took his arm and walked to the bed. "Come on, mommy will put you to sleep."

"Oh, you still have to enter the role, right? All right, I'll call your mother, okay?"

At this point, Maluoluo looked at Meng Pingping again, and the two looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

Then Meng Pingping also called out "Mom". He tried to formulate the words and asked, "So, Mom, why does that Wang Mei live in our house? I think she is quite reluctant. Is there a story behind her? "

But at this time, Ruan Mei had already walked to the wooden bed.Suddenly, she actually picked up a pillow and walked towards Marolo, which was closest to her.

"You, what are you doing?"

Finally realizing that something was wrong, Maloro's face turned pale all of a sudden.

The watch on his wrist shook suddenly, and he and Meng Pingping received a message from the system.

[The key item for determining NPC behavior this time: pillow]

[The pillow constitutes a killing prop, stored in the house, and is seen by NPC Ruan Mei, the judgment result is that it can trigger the killing action]

[Ruan Mei is about to kill "Liu Wu" and "Jiang Liu"]

[Warning, in a specific situation in the game, players Maluoluo and Meng Pingping cannot use any skills or props to escape]

[The judgment result takes effect immediately]