travel frog

It turned out to be a puzzle-solving task.

Thinking of the puzzle game he played before, Gin adjusted the tightness of the scarf, and instead of acting in a hurry, he searched on himself first.

He first rummaged through several pockets, most of which were empty, except for a note stuffed in the secret pocket on the chest of his jacket, with a string of numbers written on it: 03059.

Putting the note away, he opened the briefcase again, and took out a ticket, a wallet, and a letter of inquiry from it.

His name is written on the ticket: Kurosawa Jin.In addition to some change, there was also a yellowed photo in the wallet, which was his figure standing under the red plum tree in the snow.

As for the investigative letter...

This should be the most important clue he has at hand, but he is not too busy looking.The departure time on the ticket was 45:[-] p.m., and the system showed that it was [-]:[-]. He had to arrive at the station within [-] minutes, otherwise the follow-up investigation would definitely be very troublesome.

Ensuring that the clues are intertwined while allowing players to explore freely as much as possible is a feature that an excellent puzzle game needs to possess.

Putting the things into the briefcase, Gin clicked on the map on the panel, and hurried to the station according to the guidance.

There is still a long distance from the station, and time is tight, so he must move quickly.

After running across the wilderness for half an hour, a simple and lively town appeared in front of Qin Jiu's eyes.

Outside the town stands a large stone engraved with "Double Star Array". The dim afterglow mixed with the strong night casts a long and deep shadow behind the stone, which is obliquely shining on the road leading to the front. There are hundreds of houses in the distance. The lights, and the light dance music floating in the dance hall, are graceful and lingering.

The station is at the end of the road.

Gin held the ticket in his hand, quickened his pace, ran into the station in one go, boarded the train with the last minute of the ticket check before departure, and rushed into the quiet and noisy carriage.

The whistle sounded, the sharp sound of the whistle pierced the night sky, and the wheels rolled over the rails and made an uneasy clicking sound, but they were blocked in the oncoming wind by the closed doors and windows.

Finally caught up.

Gin heaved a sigh of relief, and took the tickets to compare them row by row. When he got to the end of this carriage, he realized that he had bought a sleeper ticket, so he could only turn around and go to No. [-], which was three carriages away from here. car.

There were surprisingly many people on the train, and every section was packed to the brim. Not only were the seats full, but the small space at the junction of the carriages was also crowded with people buying station tickets.

Gin struggled to squeeze into the No. [-] car, and was sweating in the cold weather.Fortunately, not many people bought sleeper tickets, and the No. [-] car was so quiet that a needle could be heard. Except for him, there were only people's voices in the five rooms.

He wrote down the house numbers of the five rooms, and walked into his own room with his briefcase.

509.

The room is cramped with only a single bed and a desk.The table was almost as long as the wall, so that the door could only be pushed halfway open, and the gin was squeezed in sideways.

Close the door, lock it, sit on the bed with Gin, untie the scarf, fold it and put it on the bedside, then take out the investigative letter from the briefcase that I didn't have time to read, and take out the pen in the coat pocket for easy access at any time .

The power of attorney is written on pale yellow kraft paper, with thin and elegant handwriting, like Cangshan Green Bamboo, not the fonts commonly used by ordinary people.In addition, the few lines on the paper revealed many details.

Dear Mr. Kurosawa Jin:

I'm Su Fei, Su Jiaxing Jiu, you can call me Mr. Su Jiu.In this letter, I would like to entrust my husband to investigate a matter for me. Please come to the Su family mansion in Tianxing Town before November [-]th to discuss the details in person.

Signed: Sophie.

Date: November [-].

Today is the 28th, and this train is going from Shuangxing Town to Tianxing Town.

The arrival time written on the ticket was seven o'clock in the morning on the 29th, which meant that Gin would spend twelve hours on the train.

It was not a short period of time, and he had an intuition that something bad would happen, so he moved the desk to cover the door, put the briefcase on the inside of the bed, and lay down facing outward.

From seven to ten o'clock, the carriage was very quiet.

People often walk around in the corridor, or go to the toilet, or fetch water, and some people come out to order food and cook instant noodles. The movement has not stopped, but it is not too noisy.

Someone might have brought a child. Just after nine o'clock, Qin Jiu heard a man outside yelling "Take care of your daughter", but there was only this sentence, and then fell silent.

At 11:30, all the movement disappeared, the passengers all returned to the room, and most of the lights outside were also turned off, leaving only a few warm yellow wall lamps on. Very glaring after lights out.

At [-]:[-], the rustling snow mixed with the strong wind slapped on the car window, and Gin suddenly woke up, but it was not because of the sound of the wind and snow, but because the door of the next room opened.

In the silent night, especially in the dark, all subtle sounds will be amplified to the limit.

Originally, under the cover of the sound of wind and snow, Gin should not be able to hear the sound of the door opening, but his five senses are far superior to ordinary people, and he is already alert to everything around him, so although the people next door try to relax as much as possible, But he still caught that extremely light movement.

He held the pen in his hand and slowly unscrewed the cap.

The door was not closed immediately after opening, probably because it was afraid that the repeated noise would attract the attention of others.

Someone came out of the room, walking lightly like a cat from far to near, step by step, to the door of Gin Wine, and stopped outside.

An unknown crisis lurks outside the thin door, and the hairs on the back of Qin Jiu's neck stand upright. He hides the nib of the pen under his sleeve, tenses his muscles, and stares at the door with cold eyes.

The person parked outside was silent for a long time, not knowing whether he was observing or testing whether the people in the room had noticed him. He waited for a full 10 minutes before he started the next move.

He seemed to have pulled out something and inserted it into the lock hole, slowly and precisely pried off the fastened bolt, and turned the door lock.

The moment the lock was unlocked, the man pushed the door suddenly, as if he wanted to take advantage of Gin's unpreparedness to rush in and make a quick decision, but he didn't expect the door to be blocked by the table.

As soon as he pushed it, the door slammed against the table with a loud noise, which woke up the people in the No. [-] carriage. The sound of doors opening, footsteps, and inquiries resounded, and the carriage really became lively at this moment.

That person was also stunned for a moment because of this incident, which happened to give Gin Jiu time to react.He pulled open the table and squeezed out the door, grabbed the man's elbows and the back of his neck, and pressed him against the wall.

"My God! What is this doing?"

"Catch a thief?"

"Why is it so noisy at night? Why don't people sleep?"

Passengers poked their heads out and whispered disturbingly loud voices to the two of them.Qin Jiu paid no attention to them, and turned his head according to the person he was restraining, and a face that was so blurred that no facial features could be seen came into view.

"Young man, you shouldn't be prying into this story."

The man stared at his blind eyes, opened his mouth, and layers upon layers of echoes came overturning from all directions like waves.

"Bang bang—"

Qin Jiu woke up instantly, and sat up from the bed with a "Teng".

"Guest, guest, wake up..."

The anxious voice of the conductor came to Qin Jiu's ears along with the continuous knocking on the door. He had just fallen asleep, and had another strange dream. Now his temples hurt suddenly, and he didn't want to get up at all. He just asked indifferently through the door: "What's the matter?"

"The cat of a passenger in the first class ran into this carriage—it was an expensive female forest cat. Could you let us go in and look for it?" asked the conductor.

"My door hasn't been opened since I got in the car. It's impossible for a cat to come in. You should look elsewhere." Gin Jiu dismissed impatiently.

"This..." the conductor hesitated and refused to leave, "I'm really sorry, because this cat is expensive, and the owner of the cat is also a big shot, so...please let me go in and have a look, sir. It would take too much time."

"..."

The irritable Gin Jiu calmed down because of these few words, and suddenly remembered that he was in a puzzle-solving task, all the accidents and emergencies might be clues, and every reaction of his would cause the situation to develop in a different direction.

So at this time, should he refuse or accept?

Without thinking too much, he got up and pulled the table away, and when he was about to open the door, he found that the originally locked door had been unlocked at some point.

Qin Jiu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he quickly squatted down to look at the keyhole, and sure enough, he saw very slight traces of being pried inside, like scratches left by wire.

Someone really came to pick his door lock just now, and he fell asleep at that time!

Cold sweat broke out from his forehead, Gin took a deep breath, the air poured into his lungs made him feel cold all over, and he calmed down almost immediately.

He pulled the scarf on, hid the briefcase in his coat, and opened the door.

At the door, a train attendant smiled at him with an apologetic face: "Thank you sir for your cooperation, please give me a minute, I will leave immediately after checking."

"You check, I'm going to the bathroom."

Gin didn't want to say anything, so he walked quickly to the toilet. When he went in, he subconsciously locked the door, turned on the faucet and washed his face with cold water.

The water was really cold, as if it had just melted from the ice. Gin's mind was sober as never before, staring at himself in the mirror and starting to replay the dream.

A dream is indeed a dream, but where to start is not necessarily the case.

When he woke up from the dream, his first reaction was that from discovering the movement of the door prying to the subsequent person catching the prying door were all the content of the dream, but now that he thinks about it, it's not necessarily true.

His lock was really opened, but he didn't remember when he fell asleep, so it is more likely that he heard the sound of the door being opened, and fell asleep at the moment the door was opened—sleeping passively with.

No, Gin remembers that before the sound of prying the door started, he heard the sound of wind and snow, but now...

He looked out the window, and it wasn't snowing outside.

Did he fall asleep earlier?

No, if he fell asleep before, why didn't he hear the sound of prying the door with his vigilance?

"System, is my falling asleep artificially affected?" Qin Jiu was puzzled and decided to ask for help outside the venue.

System prompt: There is human influence, the host should find out the specific reason by himself.

really.

After finding his way, Qin Jiu heaved a sigh of relief, but he didn't worry about how he fell asleep.He recalled the person caught by him in his dream. He had no face, but had a clear figure and voice. What he said was still a systematic note, indicating that he did not know him, but he might have seen him or even heard his voice. .

Because I have seen it before, I have a vague impression.Because I didn't recognize and didn't pay attention, I couldn't remember the face clearly.

The system's remarks are never nonsense. This sentence will appear in that person, indicating that he is related to the object pointed to by this sentence.

—Young man, you should not hear this story.

"Want to stop me?"

Gin raised the corners of his mouth, and his smiling face was reflected in the mirror, with a deceptive elegance in his indifference.

Suddenly, he felt his calf being rubbed by something furry.

Qin Jiu frowned and looked down, a snow-white long-haired cat was leaning on his lap, shivering as if it was extremely cold.

Female, forest cat.

Seeing this frightened cat, Gin's first reaction was: here comes the clue.