Under the illumination of candles, the human bones of Bai Sensen formed a sharp contrast with the red clothes.
Yue Xingwen slept in Room 1 last night, and there was actually a corpse next to it? He had goosebumps all over his body, resisted his nausea, looked back at Jiang Pingce and said, "The murderer is obviously psychopathic, he killed so many people, and he even dressed the deceased in the bride's clothes, and put them here neatly. Is this set up as a 'bridal exhibition hall'?"
The six corpses placed side by side not only wore the same clothes, but even sat in the same posture on the chair, just like the models used for display in the clothing store. It's just that these "models" have become bones.
Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The murderer has such a strong hostility towards the red-clothed bride. It is possible that he has been hurt by the red-clothed bride. He holds grudges in his heart, which gradually leads to psychological distortion, so he slaughtered the bride to calm his psychological resentment?"
Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement: "It's very likely to be the case. I'm surprised that only six of my mother's corpses were found, but there were seven ghost brides who chased us last night, and the number doesn't match. Is there one more? "
Jiang Pingce looked around and said, "The area of the two storage rooms is 2 meters x 6 meters, which is just enough to fill the vacancy in the architectural drawings. It is impossible for a secret room to appear on the second floor. But there is still a 1 meter gap in height, which means that there is a floor for us. Undiscovered attic."
Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone, go out and look for it."
Everyone withdrew from the storage room.
The floor height measured from the outside of the inn is 7 meters 5, the internal height adds up to 6 meters 5, and the missing 1 meter is either a mezzanine in the middle or an attic overhead. Yue Xingwen climbed onto the wooden table, stood on tiptoe, tapped the ceiling with his knuckles, and arranged, "A room for two, carefully check the ceiling and floor to see if there is any hollow structure."
The 8 people quickly went to each room to search, Jiang Pingce stayed with Yue Xingwen, Yue Xingwen checked the roof, Jiang Pingce checked the floor, almost an inch of "carpet search".
However, no additional entrances were found.
The two exited Room 1, and Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin next door also finished their searches: "No secret door was found."
Other teammates concluded the same.
None of the eight rooms on the second floor were found, Yue Xingwen stood in the corridor thoughtfully: "There are no doors on the roof and the ground, so he wouldn't just seal the one-meter-high mezzanine when he built this building. Right? Can't get in or out?"
Gao Yongqiang interjected: "How about demolish this building and see?"
Everyone: "… "
In your architecture department, do you do demolition and relocation in case of a problem
Yue Xingwen looked back at him helplessly: "It can't be demolished. We have to sleep in bed at night to get plot clues in our dreams. At present, the clues are not collected. If you demolish the house, our plot line will be interrupted."
Gao Yongqiang's face turned red: "I, I just said it casually."
Jiang Pingce narrowed his eyes and carefully observed the structure of the building. The height was obviously missing by 1 meter. How could he not find the entrance to the attic? Suddenly, he had an idea and said, "If you can't find it inside, look for it from the outside."
He glanced at Yue Xingwen, turned quickly and went downstairs. After reaching the door of the inn, Jiang Pingce raised his right hand slightly, used the coordinate system to gather parabolic motion, and flew directly to the roof with all his teammates.
Gao Yongqiang patted his forehead angrily: "Why didn't I think of it! There is no attic entrance inside the inn, and the interior rooms cannot be destroyed, but we can tear it down from the outside—just tear down the roof!"
Jiang Pingce said: "Everyone, check carefully to see if the roof tiles are loose."
The crowd started to check from the four corners. After less than half a minute, Gao Xiaoxin suddenly picked up a tile and said, "I found it, here it is!"
Yue Xingwen walked over quickly, and saw a movable wooden board under the tile cover. After removing the wooden board, it turned out to be a long and narrow secret room with a depth of about 1 meter.
Qin Miao took the initiative to say, "My sister and I will explore the road first. You guys are too tall to walk inside."
Yue Xingwen handed her the candle and warned, "Be careful."
Qin Miao and Qin Lu jumped into the secret room together. Both of them were less than 1.7 meters tall and very thin. They bent down to enter this secret room, which was indeed better than the 1.89-meter Jiang Pingce and the 1.84-meter Yue Xingwen. Much more convenient.
After a while, Qin Lu's short cry came from his ear: "Ah..."
Yue Xingwen asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"
Qin Miao said lightly: "I found a lot of suitcases, let Qin Lu move out and show them to you."
After a few seconds, the sisters crawled out of the secret room in dismay, Qin Lu said, "It's been a long time since no one has cleaned it, and there's ashes everywhere. My sister and I searched around and found nothing except the suitcase. "
As she spoke, she took out the globe, and the plate movement moved a large number of suitcases to the ground.
Everyone was shocked by the number of boxes - there were as many as 10!
The boxes are of different sizes, the colors are black and white, colored, and some are cartoon patterns. All boxes belong to modern times, which proves that their previous conjectures are correct-they did not travel to ancient times at all, and this is still the real world, but the inn is arranged. It has to be more old-fashioned.
The missing 1-meter-high "loft" is where the innkeeper stores his suitcases
Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his forehead with a headache: "Is this innkeeper a perverted collector? A storeroom on the second floor collects clothes, another collects the corpse of a bride, and there is also a storeroom on the roof for collecting boxes?"
Yue Xingwen looked at the 10 suitcases with messy colors and thought: "Do I need to bring a suitcase when I go out to take an antique photo? I only bring a suitcase when I go out for a trip."
Gao Xiaoxin pointed to the middle of the ground and said, "The suitcase with the pink Mickey Mouse pattern in the middle is the same style as mine, and it can hold clothes and cosmetics for three days of going out. I have also taken antique photos before, which can be taken in one day. Finished. Even if the wedding photos were taken outside, no one brought luggage to take photos, did you?"
Qin Miao frowned and said, "It feels more like a homestay? Are these suitcases brought by the guests?"
Ke Shaobin pushed his glasses and was very puzzled: "If it's a homestay, why would there be no sockets and network cables? In the modern world, will there be people living in homestays without sockets, no network cables, and no bathrooms? You can't charge your mobile phone if it's out of power. …”
Yue Xingwen always felt that something was wrong.
If it is an outing location, it is deliberately arranged as an ancient building, which can explain the problem of the ancient environment, but it cannot explain the reason for the appearance of so many suitcases. If it is a homestay, as Ke Shaobin said, no matter how antique it is, without even leaving a socket, who would like to live in such a place and be isolated from the world
The number of suitcases totals 10, which is also an odd number.
Yue Xingwen said, "Open the box and take a look."
Everyone landed from the roof and opened all the boxes with quick movements—
There was a girl's suitcase full of beautiful skirts, t-shirts and cosmetics. Those bottles and jars of Yue Xingwen didn't know any of them, so they handed them all to Qin Miao and the others to see. There are also men's suitcases, with razors, socks, men's sneakers, and more. Books were also found in several suitcases, including a famous book "Jane Eyre" and two romance novels.
Everyone looked at each other.
The three girls had a lively discussion next to them: "A bottle of this cream costs thousands of dollars, right? It's really rich." "The cosmetics this girl wears are all Japanese and Korean first-line brands..."
Yue Xingwen didn't know anything about the things the girls used, so he walked over and asked, "Did you find anything?"
Gao Xiaoxin said: "Judging from the price of cosmetics in the suitcase, these girls are quite rich, and they attach great importance to dressing up. One girl brought five lipsticks alone."
Qin Lu added: "The hostess of this white suitcase didn't bring any cosmetics. She only had facial cleanser and a bottle of moisturizing lotion in her wash bag. She should be a girl who doesn't like makeup and prefers no makeup."
As for the style of clothes, there are really various styles, some with sexy black lace skirts, some with pure goddess style dresses, and those with cool and handsome lines with a box of sportswear... Boys' suitcases are also messy.
Yue Xingwen looked at the boxes all over the floor, and his temples jumped: "There are too many clues and it's too messy, so let's take a good look at it first."
Jiang Pingce said, "Let's sort it out, let me make a list."
Yue Xingwen nodded and found a shady place under the eaves of the inn with Jiang Pingce. Yue Xingwen took out a pen and paper and handed it to Jiang Pingce, who quickly drew a detailed statistical table.
Jiang Pingce filled in "10" in "Number of Baggage", and then asked, "How many boys and girls are there?"
Yue Xingwen quickly completed the count: "3 males, 7 females."
There are 7 girls, this data is exactly the same as the number of ghost brides, but it is not that the 7 suitcases belong to the 7 dead people. Jiang Pingce is not sure yet. He put a question mark here and continued to count the list.
It took more than an hour to count the suitcases.
The final list included 20 sets of girls' clothes, 6 sets of boys' clothes, 4 pairs of shoes, a lot of cosmetics, and three books, which Yuexingwen focused on and marked on the suitcase. .
Jiang Pingce frowned and looked at the suitcase in front of him and said, "I don't think the clothes are important clues. It's too messy. There are all styles. It's like a suitcase that a group of people carry with them when they travel. The inn should be able to provide temporary Accommodation, luggage is left by the guests, this explanation is the most reasonable."
Yue Xingwen also agrees with his speculation: "In reality, there are also some unique style homestays, and Internet celebrities will go to such homestays specifically to take pictures. There are no sockets and network cables. It is very likely that the innkeeper deliberately gave everyone a kind of travel through ancient times. 'Immersive experience'? But I don't think homestays are convincing enough."
The more the students listened, the more headaches became.
At present, there are many clues, but there is no line that can connect the clues.
Liu Zhaoqing wondered: "But what does this have to do with our dreams? The scene in my dream is indeed very similar to ancient times. Lang Zhong carried a medicine basket up the mountain to collect medicine and rescued a young lady who was bitten by a poisonous snake. The environment is also the same here. Not at all."
Gao Xiaoxin followed closely and said, "The funeral I dreamed of was also an ancient funeral style. The bride was put in a coffin, and several people carried her to the east, buried her underground, and erected a monument..."
Yue Xingwen asked, "Can you see what is written on the tombstone?"
Gao Xiaoxin shook her head: "I didn't see it clearly."
Yue Xingwen frowned slightly, puzzled.
Fragmented dreams, strange inns, various ancient clothes in the storage room, 6 red clothes and white bones in the corpse on the second floor, and a lot of suitcases in the attic storage room...
What are the clues that tie these together
Yue Xingwen thought it over carefully, and suddenly caught the key point in Gao Xiaoxin's words: "Wait a minute, Gao Xiaoxin, you said in your dream that those people kept carrying coffins and went east, are you sure it's the east?"
Gao Xiaoxin was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, the funeral was held in the evening, it was getting dark, and the sun would set from the west, but they kept walking forward with their backs facing the direction of the sun, right to the east? "
Yue Xingwen immediately stood up and looked at his teammates: "Senior brother, please organize your suitcases with sister Qin Lu. The contents of the suitcases will remain intact and temporarily put them in the lobby on the first floor. For the rest, follow me to the east. look at the woods."
8 people are divided into two groups.
Yue Xingwen followed the winding road to the outside of the woods. This is a wasteland, but the weeds and wildflowers are very lush. When they were chased by the female ghost last night, they ran all the way, and ran to this junction to rest. .
Strangely, the female ghost stopped at the junction, feeling as if she was intimidated by something.
Linked to what Gao Xiaoxin said about the "burial" in the dream... If the dream is related to reality, then, in reality, is there a bride who was put into a coffin and buried underground
The four continued to walk east.
After walking for about half a kilometer, a cold system sound suddenly sounded in my ears: "Warning, you have arrived at the border of the test room, and you will be judged to fail the test after you leave the test room."
The four stopped at the same time, and Yue Xingwen saw a tombstone standing in front of him.
On the tombstone is engraved: "The Tomb of His Beloved Wife Su Wanxin".
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A woman named Su!
The key clue was finally found, and there was one more bride to be buried on a hill not far from the inn. The surname is Su, and she is the perfect match for the bride of the Su family in everyone's dream.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and saw a trace of excitement in each other's eyes.
Gao Xiaoxin looked at the tombstone in front of her, her face pale: "In my dream, that Miss Su was buried in a wasteland. Unlike now, there are still flowers around the tombstone..."
The surrounding of the tombstone is indeed full of a kind of blue wildflowers, clustered together, and the vitality is very strong.
Yue Xingwen asked, "Does anyone know this wild flower?"
Gao Xiaoxin said: "This is forget-me-not. The meaning of the flower language is that my love for you will never change."
Yue Xingwen looked at the tombstone thoughtfully, and then said, "Dig it up and take a look."
In addition to Jiang Pingce's calm expression, Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin's eyes widened the moment they heard this sentence, Gao Yongqiang's scalp was numb, and his voice couldn't help trembling: "Dig, dig a grave?"
Yue Xingwen said: "Didn't your architecture department send an excavator? You didn't get it?"
Gao Yongqiang: "..."
Yue Xingwen patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be afraid, it won't be haunted in the daytime. If we want to solve the mystery of the inn, of course we have to find all the bride's bones first - let's dig it."
With an ugly face, Gao Yongqiang raised his right hand to summon the excavator.
He was probably the first architecture student to use an excavator to dig a grave...
Gao Yongqiang controlled the excavator to dig soil from the side, dumbfounded, and Yue Xingwen sighed next to him: "Fortunately, this time we matched a classmate from the Department of Architecture, otherwise, we would dig slowly with the kitchen shovel, and we would have to dig until the Year of the Monkey. "
Jiang Pingce nodded: "Yes."
Gao Yongqiang: "..."
He finally played a role in digging graves.
The excavator dug a large hole in the surrounding ground three or two times, and a lacquered wood coffin was revealed.
Yue Xingwen was brave enough to jump down and push open the lid of the coffin.
—In the coffin lay a bride in red. The corpse had rotted and turned into white bones, but on the ring finger of the right hand of the bones was a huge diamond ring, which glowed in the light.
Yue Xing Wen said: "This should be the heroine who frequently appears in our dreams, Su Wanxin."
The clues can probably be matched, but sometimes the confusion of time and space in ancient times and modern times still makes Yue Xing Wen Li unclear. Jiang Pingce stretched out his hand and pulled him up from the pit, and asked in a low voice: "The seven brides are all together, go back and sort out the clues. Bar."
Yue Xingwen nodded, and the four walked back to the inn together.
When they arrived at the inn, Liu Zhaoqing and the four had already arranged their suitcases side by side, and the three novels were deliberately found and placed on the table. Yue Xingwen asked everyone to wait in the restaurant on the first floor, while he went upstairs to take down the two dolls.
The dining room has a round table and eight seats, just enough for everyone to serve as a makeshift meeting room.
Yue Xingwen sat on the chair marked "One" and carefully observed the two dolls.
The candle was lit last night, and the light was dim, so I couldn't see clearly. Today, I took a closer look in the bright light. Yue Xingwen found that some black needles and threads on the back of the doll looked particularly messy. Compared with the neat needles next to them, It is simply the difference between a "buyer show" and a "seller show".
—Someone has restitched ragdolls and is a terrible needleworker.
Yue Xingwen said: "Senior brother, borrow a scalpel."
Liu Zhaoqing raised his right hand, conjured a knife and handed it to him, Yue Xingwen swiftly used the knife to cut off the suture on the back, and took apart the doll.
When you meet a grave, you dig it when you say digging; if you find such an important prop, you don’t hesitate to say it will be demolished. Gao Yongqiang complained in his heart, and suddenly saw Yue Xingwen pulling out a lot of cloth strips from the doll's body.
The strips were all grey, and a few of them had numbers written on them—
71-16-30
99-16-9
281-22-1
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The students who sat around the round table were all excited: "Is there a digital password?!"
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce subconsciously and asked the other party's opinion, the latter shook his head and whispered: "Several strings of numbers are irregular and have nothing to do with each other, they should have nothing to do with mathematical operations, they have to be found elsewhere Corresponding clues."
Numbers, what will correspond to these strings of numbers
Yue Xingwen continued to dismantle another doll, but no figures were found in the male doll's body.
The house fell silent.
Liu Zhaoqing endured for a long time, and finally couldn't help complaining: "Is this course so difficult? There are so many clues that I almost faint."
Ke Shaobin's stomach suddenly made a "gurgling" twice, his ears quickly turned red, and he whispered, "We haven't eaten all day, aren't you hungry?"
After a busy day, it was getting dark again before I knew it. I had been tense before and forgot to eat. When Ke Shaobin reminded me, everyone felt that their stomachs were empty.
Yue Xingwen rubbed his empty stomach and realized a very important question: "The exam requires us to survive for 6 days, but we are not provided with food? It won't starve us to death. It seems that we have to use local materials?"
Gao Xiaoxin said, "I saw a lot of wild fruits on the way out of the woods just now, I should be able to eat them."
Qin Lu followed closely: "I saw a lot of bamboo shoots planted in the woods, the inn has a kitchen, we can fry the bamboo shoots to eat; there are many mushrooms in the woods, which look the same as the round mushrooms usually sold in the supermarket. You can eat it too."
Yue Xingwen: "… "
The girls are very sensitive to food, probably because they were starved for public elective courses before.
Seeing that everyone was tired, Yue Xingwen simply made a decision: "Well, today is only the first day, we can't solve the case directly in one day. Eat first, and then discuss after eating."
Everyone went to collect wild fruits, bamboo shoots and mushrooms, while Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce went to the woods to collect firewood.
Yue Xingwen thought while walking, Jiang Pingce didn't interrupt his train of thought when he saw how he was thinking seriously.
After a while, Jiang Pingce had already collected a large bundle of wood, and Yue Xingwen then regained his senses and said, "I suddenly have an idea that can explain some of the current doubts."
Jiang Pingce said, "Come and listen."
Yue Xingwen rationalized his thoughts and carefully analyzed: "Our dreams and the real world have a strange sense of separation. The dreams are all ancient scenes, but the reality is modern, so it cannot be directly equated. However, the dream is also the reality. There are innumerable connections. For example, the heroine's surname in the dream is Su, and in reality, the woman on the tombstone is also surnamed Su."
Jiang Pingce remembered the tombstone he found just now, and then analyzed: "The tombstone is written about his beloved wife Su Wanxin. In a dream, the only person who can call Miss Su a "beloved wife" is Zhao Gongzi, who has worshipped her in heaven and earth. This tombstone may be a The gentleman surnamed Zhao established it?"
Yue Xingwen nodded: "I think so too. The dream is very much like an ancient story written by someone based on his own experience. It cannot be completely equal to reality, but it alludes to some things in reality. Miss Su is the heroine. , the key person who connects the dream and reality. In the dream, Mr. Zhao was terminally ill, his family married Miss Su, and finally Miss Su died. In reality, Mr. Zhao may also have some kind of illness, and Miss Su took good care of him by his side. Did you die unexpectedly in the end?"
Jiang Pingce pondered the words of Yue Xingwen carefully, and said, "Is it possible. Use a story to vaguely tell your own experience, using reality as the background is too similar to an autobiographical novel, so I changed it to ancient times?"
Yue Xingwen went on to say: "The owner of this inn is very likely to be the murderer of the bride. First, the structure of the inn is very strange. There are two storage rooms on the second floor, and a large storage room with a height of 1 meter is made on the roof. It's impossible for ordinary people to build a house like this. He obviously had a premeditated plan and specially designed this strange inn to facilitate murder and hide corpses."
Jiang Pingce agreed: "It makes sense. The structure of this inn is indeed a deliberate design. He didn't come here by chance to kill, but led people here, killed them, and then hid in the storage room."
There is one type of serial murderer who takes the initiative to attack, looking for targets everywhere, and the location of the murder is not fixed; there is another type of murderer encountered in this case, after finding the target, he leads the target to his own territory, and then kills the other party.
In his territory, he kills people naturally.
Yue Xing Wendao: "We found so much luggage in the attic, obviously many people have come to stay here. In the wild mountains and mountains, there is no electricity, no Internet, why do modern people come to such a remote place to stay? He does not live alone. He may have kidnapped more than a dozen people, so he must have some means to attract these people to come to his inn on his own initiative."
Jiang Pingce said, "For example, taking pictures of ancient costumes?"
Yue Xingwen shook his head: "I don't think it's attractive enough to take pictures. There are countless photo studios that can take pictures of ancient costumes, and the scenery of his inn is not one of the best. For a homestay, it's even less attractive. Living here for several days without electricity or internet, and still unable to take a shower, modern people are probably going crazy." He paused and said, "There is another way to attract guests. Everyone is biased."
Jiang Pingce gently pressed Yue Xingwen's shoulder: "It doesn't matter, let's discuss it first."
Yue Xingwen smiled and said: "This guess is a bit bold, don't think I'm just thinking blindly."
Jiang Pingce's eyes were gentle: "No."
Yue Xingwen put away his smile, looked at Jiang Pingce seriously and said, "Have you heard of "Script Killing"?"
Jiang Pingce: "..."
Script killing is a very popular game among young people in recent years. He has not participated in it himself, but has heard of it. The so-called "script killing" is to make up a murder script, and let the players play their own roles, some play the victim, some play the murderer, some suspects, passers-by and so on.
Script killing is more exciting and dangerous than werewolf killing, because each script is different, the plot is often ups and downs, and what is even more frightening is that the murderer is by your side.
Suppose, the innkeeper uses "immersive ancient script killing" as a gimmick, recruits some young people who love challenges and adventures on the Internet, come here to play script killing, and then kill some girls in wedding dresses while they are not paying attention...
Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen unexpectedly: "How did you think of the script to kill?"
"In the restaurant on the first floor, when you said 'round table meeting', a picture of a group of people wearing period clothes for a meeting flashed in my mind. With 8 seats, 8 rooms, all kinds of ancient clothes, this inn If it's a simple homestay or a photo studio, it can't be explained." Yue Xingwen changed the topic and said, "But if this is a place specially used for 'ancient script killing', guests will wear clothes after entering the inn. Different ancient clothes are like traveling to ancient times. Mobile phones, computers and other modern things have been confiscated by the inn owner. In the next day or two, they will experience the ancient script killing in an immersive experience, does it make sense?"
Because it's an immersive experience, there are no modern tools in every room.
There is no electric light, but it is equipped with candles and flint for lighting; the round table and eight seats on the first floor can be used as a conference room for script killing reasoning analysis, or can be used as a restaurant; the built-in kitchen can also allow everyone to experience The ancient daily fun of picking vegetables and cooking by yourself...
There will definitely be some novelty-loving and exciting people who come here in an endless stream.
The boss then selects some of these targets as his prey.
Those players come here just to play a role in a script and play a fun game. They would never have expected that this was a real "murder", and their fate had already been clearly arranged by the script.