[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Jack stroked his chin, and silently sorted out the clues in his heart.

First of all, the five of them are all related to the case of a young girl falling from a building. The lady is the mother of the deceased; The down-and-out doctor is a forensic doctor who performs autopsies on the dead.

The final conclusion of the case is that the victim died when he fell from the building while turning over the window. He was only 14 years old when he died, but the traces left at the scene are somewhat strange.The deceased had invested a huge amount of life insurance before his death. After the death, the mother received insurance compensation, and the stepfather was accused of sexual/assaulting the deceased, and the stepfather did not have an alibi at the time of the crime. The public then suspected that the stepfather murdered the deceased and disguised it as suicide or misstep ,? The stepfather was detained for this reason, and later committed suicide in the detention center.However, the forensic doctor did not find traces of the deceased being sexually/assaulted during his lifetime on the relatively complete torso of the deceased, and regarding the matter of sexual/assaulting,? The stepfather had a complete alibi, so the deceased's accusation was not established.

After the death of her daughter, the lady received a strange blackmail letter. The letter stated that she was the murderer and asked for hush money. The lady did not pay attention to the letter, because she was worried that the address had been leaked and would cause trouble in the future. She moved to countryside.But not long after, the extortion letter was delivered to the house in the country, saying, "You will regret it if you don't give me the money." Then came the news that her husband died in prison.

"However,? You seem to be the only one here,? Could it be that you are the 'informant' that the strange doll said?" The detective said a little bit maliciously.

"Reasonable doubts. But if I were an informant,? I wouldn't save him. It would be much more beneficial to me to let him be killed." Jack chewed the shredded tobacco, "But I am indeed different from you, you are followers The deceased in the building case is directly related, and I am related to the father of the deceased in the falling building case. You said that he committed suicide with a toothbrush, and I remembered that I was detained for academic misconduct. In the detention center, I was with him cellmate."

The lady asked suspiciously: "Could it be that you sent me a blackmail letter, and if the blackmail fails, you will kill my husband?"

"Ma'am, let's not talk about how I sent you letters in prison, or what drove me to commit murder when every prison has cameras. For me, academic misconduct is others. I just need to rely on my lawyer to get rid of the suspicion, why do I want to kill people in prison? And I don’t really need money, if you want, I can give you the salary of a university professor.” Jack curled his lips .

The noble lady was pushed back with a few words from him, she turned her head and refused to speak any more.

The forensic doctor made a gesture to signal everyone not to quarrel: "Find the way out first."

Jack pointed to the vent in the corner of the room: "Here, if the vent's cover can be removed, we can get someone to go in and take a look."

The tall detective frowned tightly: "So small?"

"I'm afraid we'll have to let the lady try to get in." Jack shrugged and took off the metal belt buckle from his waist to use as a simple screwdriver.

There were no chairs or the like in the room, and Jack couldn't reach the vent with his height. He raised his chin to signal the detective to help.The tall detective is a smart person who knows how to examine the situation. Seeing this, he quickly hugged his waist and lifted him up. A man who is nearly two meters heavy is not light. Even the detective is staggering and barely stands still.

"Isn't this a violation of the rules?" the forensic doctor was worried.

"Jigsaw said that in this game, there are only two things that are not allowed, one is murder that does not comply with the rules, and the other is spying on other people's mobile phones. From another understanding, it means that apart from these two things , Passing the game by other means is not considered a violation." Jack said as he unscrewed the screw of the vent and removed the iron fence.

With no wind, there is a greater chance that the ventilation duct is closed.

"Honestly, I don't like to see someone dance (In?fact, I?didn`t?like? saw?someone?jigged.)." He jumped off the detective and said to the dancer: "but now I have to trouble you .”

The dancer looked around, the opening of the air vent was too small, indeed only she could get in, but she was somewhat displeased to lead the charge: "What if there is a mechanism inside?"

"It's unlikely. The rust on the screw is intact, which means that no one has unscrewed it recently, and the dust in the vent has no trace of damage—offended, little lady." Jack picked up the dancer, with a girlish figure Tall, curled up but only a small white ball, soft like a dough, the dancer muttered a few words, "It's really dark inside", and crawled in cautiously.

After a short period of silence, everyone only heard a few muffled metal impacts, and then the girl slid out of the vent, like a vomited fruit core.With dust and cobwebs on her head, she stuck her tongue out: "It's a dead end. I hit the iron sheet not far after I climbed in."

Everyone looked at each other, although they knew in their hearts that this road might not work, but when the dancer really told them that this was a dead end, they still couldn't restrain their disappointment.

Jack's focus is not here: "Did you put your ear on the iron sheet of the vent? Or did you hear any sound?"

"What's the sound?" The dancer was stunned.

"For example, sounds from machines, fans, consoles, keyboards..." Jack licked the corner of his mouth.

"Hey, you mean... this door is not the door to go out, behind the door is the jigsaw watching us?" The dancer's expression was complex, and fear and anger flashed on the girl's face one by one.

"Not necessarily, it's just a guess. Jigsaw Killer likes to enjoy his perverted games up close. Maybe he's not far away, eavesdropping on our conversation..." Jack showed a treacherous smile as he spoke.

Everyone showed horrified expressions at the same time, but because of Jack's extremely weird smile, it was unknown whether there might be a jigsaw hidden behind this door.

Jack stretched and yawned lazily.With his waist in his hands, he swayed to the front of the three doors where everyone was avoiding snakes and scorpions, like a waiter introducing tonight's menu to a distinguished guest: "So, which room should we start with?"

The lady said unwillingly: "We should wait for rescue here."

Jack let out a haha, he didn't wait for anyone, he just dodged into the leftmost room, no one expected him to slip so fast, he disappeared from everyone's sight almost instantly, like a fish slipping into a pond .Everyone was left standing there in embarrassment, looking at each other with puzzled eyes.The almost frozen atmosphere lasted for a while, the tall detective followed first, followed by the forensic doctor, and finally the lady and the dancer walked into the room with each other's support. An old dim electric light was hanging on the roof, shaking slightly, casting a long and dark shadow.

Jack was facing a row of iron cabinets leaning against the wall. There was a thin layer of frost hanging on the surface of the iron cabinets, and cold white steam came out from the cracks in the corners. The lady was like a cat caught on fire, almost jumped Get up: "This is the morgue?!"

"Unfortunately, ma'am, yes, this is a morgue." Jack shrugged with feigned regret.

On the iron cabinet, there are several rows of large characters written with colored paint. Below the painted characters is a small arrow pointing to one of the cabinets in the mortuary cabinet.What the arrow points to is a small mechanical combination lock, and next to the arrow is an icon of "high voltage danger", and next to the combination lock is a line of small words that are also painted.

W?H?O?I?S

L?O?L?I?T

A?O?R?W?H

O?I?S?H?U

M?B?E?R?T

↙aoht

"Who?is?Lolita?or?Who?is?Hunmbert?" murmured the forensic doctor. Saw Killer purposely wraps lines in the middle of the letters, making the entire sentence appear as a 5x5 matrix, "What does this mean?"

"5129185." Jack said suddenly, he squatted down while talking, and used his fingers to move the small, pitiful turntable, regardless of whether the high-voltage danger icon might mean that if he entered the wrong password, he would be electrocuted to death by high-voltage electricity.

"Hey, don't type indiscriminately..." Before the forensic doctor finished speaking, he saw the combination lock beep twice, emitting a green color symbolizing security, and it popped away randomly, forcing all his words back into his throat inside.He held back for a long time, and finally burst out: "How do you know the password is this?"

"I knew it as soon as I came in and saw this matrix. A mathematician's homework for the first grade of elementary school. Quartet ciphers are usually encrypted with four 4x5 letter matrices, and converted from aoht, it is Elis, because encryption will remove the same letters, 5 and 2 are divided into one group, so, Elis is Elise——Alice, the name of the victim of the falling building case.” Jack smacked his lips uninterestedly, “Then calculate the order of the letters in the name in the matrix That's fine. The four-way encryption method generally excludes Q by default, or treats J and L as one letter, so E, L, I, S, and E correspond to 2, 5, 12, 9, and 18, respectively, and this is the password."

The forensic doctor thought about it. He solved the puzzle in less than 3 minutes without the aid of paper and pen. Suddenly, he felt a little disbelief, thinking that Jack had memorized it, so he asked, " The product of 93562 and 563?"

"52675406." Jack was not interested.

The forensic doctor calculated for a long time: "8369 multiplied by 59454?"

"497570526."

The forensic doctor calculated for a long time again: "7 in base 11424 is equal to base 4?"

"232032." Jack was completely annoyed, and muttered: "Ask some technical questions, don't give me homework for elementary school students."

As he spoke, he opened the freezer, and a large cloud of cold white smoke came out from the depths of the freezer, with a strange rotten smell, which made everyone present shudder.Jack rubbed his nose, and reached out to take out something wrapped in a body bag. The thing was not the height of a normal person, but a mass of unidentified pieces, and it was not too heavy.Seeing the dirty white body bag, the noble lady suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart, as if she remembered something terrible, she almost fainted on the spot when she rolled her eyes. He wobbled and was hurriedly supported by the dancing girl.

Jack suddenly snorted. There was a small plastic airtight pocket next to the body bag. In the pocket was a stack of copy paper like documents, and a rather old notebook. There was an envelope in the notebook. He took the envelope out. When it came out, there was a line of beautiful and immature English written on it, which ignited Jack's dull golden eyes like sparks:

to my father

Alice Walker