This inn looks like a three-story building from the outside, but the lobby on the first floor is more than 3.5 meters high, very spacious, and the internal structure is actually only two floors.
Following the wooden steps upstairs, there is a wide corridor. The top of the room door in the corridor on the left is marked with a capital "one, three, five, seven" wooden signs, and the right side is an even number of "two, four, lu, eight" wooden signs, a total of eight rooms, of which the smallest number The first and second rooms are at the end of the corridor, and the seventh and eighth are near the stairs.
Yue Xingwen quickly tore off a piece of paper and drew a map.
With straight corridors and eight rooms, the internal structure of the inn is much simpler than he thought.
Yue Xingwen walked to the end of the corridor and pushed open Room 1 on the left. The soft moonlight spills into the room through the wooden window lattice, and you can see clearly that there is a wooden square table and four chairs in the center of the room, and in the corner is a large carved solid wood bed about 1.5 meters wide, surrounded by red hangings. There are two large red brocade quilts on the bed and a pair of embroidered pillows.
Liu Zhaoqing stared at the carved wooden bed in front of him, and stroked his chin thoughtfully: "Why does it seem like you have come to ancient times or the Republic of China? In modern times, you rarely see this kind of wooden bed with four bedposts and the top of the bed, right?"
Ke Shaobin looked around, walked to Yue Xingwen and whispered, "This place is really like an inn in a costume drama. There is nothing modern in the whole building, there are no switches or light bulbs, let alone network cables, Computer." He looked at Yue Xingwen with some trepidation: "Should we not let us travel to ancient times?"
Qin Miao suddenly said: "From the point of view of carving craftsmanship and furniture style, it should belong to the Ming Dynasty. The wooden beds of the Qing Dynasty liked to use gold painting, color painting and other techniques to create the effect of brilliance and prosperity. Relatively speaking, the furniture of the Ming Dynasty pursued simplicity and simplicity. "
Yue Xingwen looked back at her unexpectedly: "Do you still have research on furniture?"
Qin Miao nodded: "I have checked the information on the furniture and costumes of various dynasties. Ming-style furniture is concise in shape and rigorous in structure, without lacquer decoration or large-scale exaggerated carving decoration, making full use of the tone and texture of wood itself. , only carved some simple and elegant patterns, you see, this bed has almost no extra decoration, and it is obviously different from the beds of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China."
Everyone looked at her with admiration.
Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his temples: "Why are the courses of the Mathematics Academy mixed with historical knowledge?"
Yue Xingwen smiled and said: "The reasoning class, of course, will not only ask people to do math problems. Which dynasty is this bed from, it should have little impact on the conclusion of the reasoning. Qin Miao can see that it is the icing on the cake, and it doesn't matter if you can't see it. ."
Qin Miao pointed to the table: "Can the candle be lit? The light is too dim to see clearly."
Yue Xingwen followed her gaze and found two very distinctive candlesticks on the windowsill. The red candles in the candlesticks were nearly half burned, and the things next to the candlesticks looked like flint.
He walked over and slammed the two flints together, creating bright sparks and lighting the candle. The light in the house brightened instantly, and everyone could see clearly that the whole room was dominated by red, with the word "囍" in red on the windows, and a wooden wardrobe and matching dresser were placed beside the bed against the wall. , the word "囍" is also posted on the wardrobe.
In horror movies, when you open the wardrobe, something terrible often pops up. The couple looked at the wardrobe and ducked back one after another. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce exchanged glances, Yue Xingwen handed the candle to Jiang Pingce tacitly, and summoned his dictionary. If something came out the moment he opened the door, he would use the dictionary to smash it.
Jiang Pingce held the candle in his right hand and opened the door with his left.
Everyone's nerves were tense.
However, there were no messy monsters and ghosts in the closet, instead red clothes were neatly stacked.
Jiang Pingce frowned and took out the clothes and handed them to Yue Xingwen. Yue Xingwen began to observe, one of the skirts was very long, embroidered with golden phoenixes, obviously it was a woman's wedding dress; the other had a dragon embroidered, it was a man wedding dress. The matching jewelry and phoenix crown were also found in the drawer of the dressing table next to it, and the pearls on the phoenix crown shone brightly under the illumination of the candle.
Jiang Pingce squatted down and continued to rummage, and pulled out two more dolls from the closet.
This pair of ragdolls are wearing bright red wedding dresses. The eyes, nose and mouth are sewn with black thread on their faces. The eyes are only sewn in a cross shape, but the corners of the mouth are sewn very realistically, slightly raised, as if smiling. .
Jiang Pingce took out the doll and handed it to Yue Xingwen.
The rag doll is quite cute, but in this gloomy room, the rag doll's laughter makes people horrified. Yue Xingwen turned the doll over and looked closely. He didn't see anything special, so he put the doll on the table temporarily and asked everyone, "What do you think?"
The girl standing at the end, Luo Jiajia, was trembling all over, her lips trembling: "Sh-could it be a ghost marriage?"
Hearing the word "marriage", everyone felt that the hairs on their backs stood upright.
Luo Jiajia continued: "The big red bed curtain, the big red quilt, a pair of candles are also red, and there is a wedding dress in the wardrobe. This, this is obviously an ancient marriage room! Some people were killed, they married yin here, and they were killed. The girl has become a ghost, and the people who live here continue to die tragically? Will we, will we also encounter a ghost who kills himself?"
The more she talked, the more scared she became, her face was as pale as paper, and her whole body began to tremble. Her boyfriend's face was also ugly, and he hurriedly wrapped his arms around her shoulders in comfort. Another couple also held hands tightly to encourage each other.
Yue Xingwen glanced at them and discussed with Jiang Pingce in a low voice: "The name of the course is "Death Code", but so far, apart from the uppercase Chinese characters for room numbers from one to eight, I haven't seen anything related to numbers. Clue. Let's crack the code of death... Where's the code?"
Jiang Pingce said, "Look at the walls and roofs to see if there are any marks left?"
Yue Xingwen nodded, put the two sets of clothes on the wooden chair, lit another candle, and held a candle with Jiang Pingce to observe carefully in the room. Some bloodstains that had long since dried up were found on the walls, and there were no clues related to the password. Yue Xingwen said: "Go to another room and see."
The two took everyone to check all the rooms in turn.
The furnishings in each room are similar, and the structure is square.
In the first room on the left corridor, there are big red wedding dresses, and other rooms have the clothes of maids, handymen, happy mothers and other personnel. It is like a wedding party passing here and temporarily staying in the inn.
Everyone's mind was a little confused.
Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the clothes found in the eight rooms, always feeling that something was wrong.
At this moment, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in my ears: "The second day of the exam, at 0:00 in the morning. Please allocate a dormitory room and go to bed as soon as possible."
The prompt tone is the examiner, and you must be obedient.
10 people, 8 rooms, to collect all the clues, it is best to have people in each room. Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen turned his head and asked, "How about you two living in one room?"
The two girls in the couple group looked at each other, and they really didn't dare to live alone, so they nodded: "Okay."
Yue Xingwen said: "Okay, the four of you will choose two rooms first. The remaining six people will each live in one room."
Luo Jiajia hurriedly pulled her boyfriend and chose room 8, which was closest to the corridor, probably thinking it would be easier to escape near the corridor. Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin lived in the sixth room next to them.
Yue Xingwen pointed to the deepest room in the corridor and said, "I live in Room 1."
Room 1 is the red-hot wedding room, with the bride and groom's clothes and dolls. It looks weird no matter how you look at it. Yue Xingwen took the initiative to choose this one, and Jiang Pingce continued, "I live next door to you."
Sister Qin Miao and Qin Lu lived opposite each other.
Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin chose rooms 5 and 7 in the left corridor.
Yue Xingwen warned: "Since it is a puzzle-solving and survival course, there may be accidents at night like "Cardiovascular Ward"." He showed the drawn map in front of everyone: "This is the internal distribution map of the inn. There is only one passage in the building, and the exit is narrow. If the passage of the stairs is blocked and you cannot go down, you will run in the opposite direction to the end of the corridor."
He marked an asterisk at the end of the corridor and continued: "The four of you, gather at the door of Qin Lu's room number 4, and let Qin Lu's plate movement take you out of the inn, understand?"
The four looked at each other, and the tallest Gao Yongqiang nodded: "Okay."
Yue Xingwen said: "Go back to your room to rest, pay attention to the clues in your respective rooms, and summarize them tomorrow."
The two couples quickly turned around and entered the room, and the other students also returned to their rooms. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked side by side to the depths of the corridor, stopped at the door, Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and said, "Let's change rooms."
Yue Xingwen joked: "What? Are you afraid that I will be dragged by Li Gui to marry a yin?"
Jiang Pingce said lightly: "Then I'll go grab a relative."
Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, thinking he was joking, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, this room is the most suitable for me, I have more means of escape than you. In case the road is blocked, your coordinates are I can't get out of it, but I can escape the golden cicada. The magic dictionary has many control skills. If you encounter trouble, it will not be a problem to save your life."
He insisted so, Jiang Pingce had no choice but to give up, whispered: "Be careful, call me immediately when you encounter trouble."
The two separated at the door and entered the house with candles.
The carved wooden bed was covered with red quilts. Yue Xingwen remembered that the mechanical sound reminded him to "go to bed and go to sleep", so he boldly slept on the bed with his clothes on.
Red candles illuminated the room, Yue Xingwen was sleeping on the red bedding, always feeling a little nervous. He stared at the carved pattern on the top of the bed for a moment, and gradually, a drowsiness struck, and Yue Xingwen fell into a deep sleep.
He had a very strange dream.
In the dream, he put on a red wedding dress, covered with a red hijab, and was supported by someone to walk forward. The stone road under his feet is winding, and there are many flowers, plants and trees around. The yard is so wide that there is no end in sight. It looks like a wealthy family. Go over the threshold and enter a hall.
The high-pitched voice of "the auspicious time has come, worship the heaven and earth" sounded in his ears.
He turned around, bowed to the outside of the house, and after three consecutive bows, he was helped into a room.
Sitting on the bed, he lifted the hood that was in the way, looked around carefully, and found that the carved wooden bed, wardrobe, dresser and wooden table in the room were exactly the same as those seen at the passenger station, with a pair of red candles on the table. .
He glanced around and found a pair of red dolls under the pillow.
A long silver needle was stuck on the doll's body, and the silver needle fixed a white cloth strip on the doll's body. There seemed to be a lot of numbers written on the cloth strip, but it was not clear.
At this moment, a deafening scream suddenly sounded in the corridor outside. Yue Xingwen was awakened. He rolled over and got out of bed just as he was about to rush out the door.
The light in the house suddenly became dim, and under the pale moonlight, a woman in a red wedding dress suddenly appeared beside Yue Xingwen's bed like a ghost. Her red hijab was blown away by the wind, revealing a face that was as white as a layer of flour, but her lips were painted as bright red as blood, and there was a round red cinnabar mole on her forehead, with a strange smile.
Yue Xingwen's scalp was numb, and she immediately took out the dictionary in her hand and smashed it at her head!
However, the dictionary passed directly through her body and hit the wall with a "bang"—her body was like an invisible shadow, she just shook it lightly, and then she stretched out her sharp claws and slammed it towards the wall. Yue Xingwen's neck—
Is this the ghost bride? !
Yue Xingwen turned around and ran, ran to the door, but saw the door suddenly closed in front of him, and countless red silk satin flew out of the ghost bride's hands, like a spirit snake with eyes, instantly surrounded by Yue Xingwen. Beside him, Yue Xingwen flexibly bent over to avoid the attacks of those satin, and rushed to the window in three or two steps, shouting, "Jiang Pingce!"
In the next room, Jiang Pingce suddenly opened the window and quickly drew the coordinate system with his right hand. The moment Yue Xingwen saw him, he jumped down without hesitation. With Jiang Pingce there, he would not be disabled when he jumped from a three-meter-high position.
Yue Xingwen landed on his feet, his body shook slightly, Jiang Pingce hurriedly reached out to support him, and followed, the window on this side was fully opened, Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin also jumped down with their teeth gritted by Jiang Pingce's gestures.
More than three meters high, everyone jumped down without injury.
Liu Zhaoqing's face was ashen: "Bride in red, my scalpel doesn't work at all."
Ke Shaobin said in a trembling voice, "Really, it's a supernatural copy!"
Yue Xingwen quickly calmed down and said, "A ghost is a kind of phantom. It is impossible to kill a ghost. We can only run! Go and join the others."
The four walked quickly to the door of the inn. Qin Miao and Qin Lu had already moved down the board. The couple Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin were also there, but the other couple disappeared.
Yue Xingwen asked with a sullen face, "How about two more?"
Qin Lu whispered, "I heard that Luo Jiajia screaming. I told her to run towards me. They probably didn't hear it. They ran straight to the stairs and disappeared..."
Yue Xingwen shouted loudly, "Luo Jiajia!"
There was no response from the inn.
Gao Xiaoxin's face was a little ugly: "Is there something wrong?"
Before Yue Xingwen could think about it, the door of the inn suddenly opened.
Seven women in red wedding dresses came out of the inn in a row. They looked different, but their makeup was very similar. They all had a red cinnabar mole on their foreheads.
The red-clothed brides appearing in groups make the scalp tingling!
Their figures were like ghosts, and Yue Xingwen only felt that the seven brides immediately surrounded them.
With so many ghost brides, what is the secret of this "Inn No. 7"? !