The scream interrupted the fire control player's movements. He paused and looked at the upper right corner of the ceiling subconsciously, where the sound came from.
It can be heard that it should be from the second floor.
Lu Qingjia laughed: "It's a coincidence."
Then he shrugged: "Come on, let's go up and have a look first."
Then everyone opened the door, left the workshop again, followed the sound, and came to the second floor.
At this time, the whole family in the house was already present, and everyone looked at the corpse in the study with panic, disbelief, or horror.
The boss, who went upstairs after explaining everything to Lu Qingjia and the others, was sitting on the executive chair in his study, with a sharp knife stuck in his chest, holding the handle of the knife with both hands, closing his eyes and dying in pain.
Blood dripped from his chest and stained a large area of the carpet under his feet.
The proprietress covered her mouth and cried, "How could this happen?"
Her two children also hugged in panic, and the boss's mother, the mean-looking old woman said angrily, "Who killed my son?"
To be honest, although this incident is sympathetic, the players are not really touched.
As soon as they came, the family itself was suspicious, and the game NPC who dealt with the moving wax man didn't know what it was.
Second, it's almost noon, and the wax oil for making wax figures is tricky, and it's too late to do the task. How can I care about the sudden appearance of you, like a murder case that is inexplicably interspersed to steal the show
So everyone planned to say a few polite words to appease them and then returned to the workshop to continue studying the wax man.
At this time, I heard a task release from the system—
[Trigger the side quest - crack the murder case in the secret room of the wax museum, the main quest is temporarily locked, and the side quest will be reopened after the completion of the side quest.]
"Fuck, this is too shameless, isn't it?" A hot-tempered male player immediately scolded.
"Why doesn't it just write down its thoughts? It's just to make trouble for you, to prevent you from completing the task, and to pull the players down if you want to harm the players? Fuck your mother so many scumbags."
"How long until delivery time?"
"It's less than four hours."
"No matter what, we have to set aside two or three hours to make the wax figure, so we can't take more than one hour to solve the murder case."
"Which of you is good at reasoning? Or has a function similar to scene playback? Or mental ability directly controls a few people to tell the truth?"
"It's impossible for us to do it anyway, so the only thing left is the boss's family."
The others shook their heads when they heard the words: "No."
Lu Qingjia said: "Since it is procrastination, it must integrate our existing advantages, and there is no shortcut."
Just like the interview site in the previous level, that was the limit of what a speed person in a group could do.
In fact, with Lu Qingjia's mental control, according to his current spiritual power, it is very simple to control a person who is obedient to himself, but this family is obviously not an ordinary person. Under the circumstances, Lu Qingjia was unwilling to take risks.
When everyone heard it, they immediately became irritable: "What should I do? Let me first say that I am not good at reasoning."
"This kind of secret room murder is that the police can't solve the case for a while and a half. Is it a waste of time today because of this case?"
"How come?" Lu Qingjia said, "Give me five minutes."
Everyone was shocked and looked at Lu Qingjia in disbelief.
Didn't it just say that there is no relevant ability? Even though his cleverness is obvious, five minutes is too—
I heard Lu Qingjia stand up and say to the boss's family: "I'm sorry, although we are outsiders, after the boss brought us into the workshop, we only came out in the corridor to pass through the air for a few minutes. This point is in the corridor on the first floor. The camera should have recorded it, and we have not been anywhere, let alone the second floor."
"So although it's a bit regrettable to say that, the suspect who killed the boss should be among you and his close relatives."
Lu Qingjia raised his hand and suppressed the people who were going to say something because of his emotions, and said, "So, can you please go to the surrounding rooms now?"
"I will ask you one by one to come here and ask questions."
Should it be said that it is an obstacle event specially set up for the player? An intern was going to work as a police officer, and the family didn't think anything was wrong, and they cooperated very well.
It's as if it's justified in the program.
Lu Qingjia laughed, and after several people entered different rooms, let several players guard the door.
I didn't find anyone to come over immediately, but first glanced at the clues in the room.
The so-called 'murder in a secret room' naturally means that when the first scene was discovered, the room was in a closed state.
There is only one window in the boss's study. It is not big and the lighting is not good. It should be said that this is the case in most parts of the house.
The window was locked from the inside, and there was a layer of tape on it. There was no sign of opening. The player went to the outside of the castle to take a look. Because the castle was in disrepair, the outside walls were weathered and peeled off, and there were no scratches on it.
According to general logic, it is impossible to come in from outside the window.
The door of the study is also pasted with a layer of tape from the inner door frame. This tape is an industrial tape with good toughness, strong stickiness, and a width of more than five centimeters.
Looking at the current appearance of the tape, there is no trace of repeated tearing, it should be forced to open the door when it found something wrong.
The boss's wound is at the heart, and the handle of the knife is slightly inclined upward. From an angle, the knife is inserted at a level slightly higher than the boss.
There was a cup of coffee that was half drunk on the desk, other than that, there was nothing abnormal in the room.
Lu Qingjia picked up the cup of coffee and smelled it, and pulled out a machine the size of a voice recorder.
Turn on the machine switch and scan the cup of coffee. After a second or two, a virtual screen pops up next to the scanner, which lists all the ingredients in the cup of coffee, including the cup and the liquid.
This is a high-tech product bought from Infinite Games. It can recognize most elements, but it is not a panacea, but it can handle this situation.
Sure enough, the results showed that coffee has a high concentration of sleeping ingredients.
A player walked in, saw the result, and said, "The one who brought the coffee is the murderer?"
"No wonder he died after being stabbed in the heart. There was no pain on the boss's face. It turned out that he was killed in his sleep."
He complained again: "Who can't be a fool? Suicide in such an awkward posture?"
It is true that stabbing the heart can quickly relieve him, but for the boss's body, the posture of holding the knife into the heart with both hands is really awkward.
The inconvenience of exerting force may bring unnecessary pain, and coupled with so many doubts, it is like a clumsy homicide masquerading as suicide and full of flaws.
Lu Qingjia shook his head and smiled, "Who knows?"
"Help me call the person who discovered the scene first?"
The first person to discover the scene was the boss's mother. Although she was angry at this time, she did not feel much grief.
During Lu Qingjia's questioning, she learned that the coffee was brought by her first.
Seeing the boss coming out of the workshop, she didn't seem to be in a good mood, so she brought a cup of coffee into the study and discussed some things with him.
"Can you tell me what's going on?"
Seeing the unhappy expression on the old lady's face, Lu Qingjia smiled and said, "You know, the dead are the greatest, and you don't want your son to die with unwillingness and grievances, right?"
The old lady said: "As for the distribution of pensions, he inherited this house and this factory from me and his father, but now he wants to send me to his younger brother."
Lu Qingjia nodded and said, "Okay, that's all I want to ask, you can go back first."
The words that the old lady prepared were held in her stomach like this, and she felt like she was choked.
But looking at Lu Qingjia, the other party really showed no interest in superfluous matters, so he went out of the room angrily.
The daughter of the deceased was called in next. The appearance of the other party was different from that of the gloomy and conservative wax museum, with scantily clad and heavy makeup.
It can be seen that she has a lot of interest in Lu Qingjia. As soon as she came in, she started to cry, but the cry sounded like a hypocritical voice.
"Mr. Lu, you really want to help me catch the murderer and let my father rest in peace."
Lu Qingjia said: "Can you tell me what you came to say to your father? It is said that when you ran out of the study, you looked a little panicked, and you didn't apologize when you bumped into your grandma."
The boss's daughter's eyes were a little blank: "I had a fight with my father, and he was so angry that he had angina, so I was very upset. It really wasn't my father that I killed."
"After I came out, my brother and my mother went into the study. They can testify."
"Okay, I believe you." Lu Qingjia smiled and invited her out of the room.
The boss' daughter also felt a little bit empty-footed.
After the boss's son came in, Lu Qingjia spoke out the testimony of the boss's daughter and confirmed to him, "Was your father still alive when you came in?"
"I, I don't know." The boss's son panicked: "When I came in, my dad's chair was facing the door, and he looked like he was asleep. The back of his executive chair was so thick that I couldn't see the specific details. , I thought he was asleep, so I secretly took my game console that he confiscated."
"Meaning you didn't see your father's face the whole time?"
"Yes." The boss's son said, "It must have been my grandmother or my sister. I'm not sure my dad was dead when I came in."
Lu Qingjia patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "What's the result? I'll judge. Children shouldn't talk too much, you know?"
The boss's son's face froze, and his eyes were a little gloomy and he went out the door.
The last person who came in was the proprietress. The other party repeatedly emphasized that her child could never be the murderer. The two are still young, so don’t put too much pressure on them. Originally, the death of the father was very sad, and now he has to be regarded as a suspect, I don’t know. How sad.
After listening to her, Lu Qingjia said, "Speaking of which is not too cold knowledge, in fact, this kind of tape room is very easy to arrange."
Just stick one half of the tape to the door before going out, leave the other half out, and vacuum it from the door frame to create a seemingly flawless secret room.
Lu Qingjia approached the other party and said, "Just now you took the vacuum cleaner down, the brush head and the suction duct are separated, it is said that the carpet is dirty, but there is no hair or dust on the bristles of the brush head, just like you only You need to use a suction pipe."
"Don't you think this is too inefficient?"
The proprietress raised her head, her thin face was rather sad, her expression was sad and hopeless, and the corners of her lips trembled: "You, do you want to determine that the murderer is me?"
Lu Qingjia looked at the other party, and the air in the study was like taut silk, as if his next sentence would determine a person's fate.
Cold sweat broke out on the proprietress' face, and there was a kind of expectation that the knife would fall quickly.
But he heard Lu Qingjia chuckle: "How come? I believe that the lady boss is not the one who stabbed the knife into the boss's body."
"Don't worry, I won't just wrong anyone. Now that I'm done asking, it's not a rule of thumb to keep the boss's body here. Find a place and I'll let the boss's body be moved there first."
For a moment, the proprietress saw that Lu Qingjia's expression was a little weird.
But before showing any flaws, he gave a relieved look of happiness: "Thank you, thank you Mr. Lu."
Lu Qingjia chose a tall and powerful player to carry the boss's body and go out with the boss's wife.
He also asked the boss, children and mother to act together as much as possible and not to separate, so they called the players back to the workshop together.
"Why don't you just expose the proprietress?" Someone asked: "It's obviously her, right? Even if it's not her, it's probably her two children."
"For the sake of her own child's murder, she made this secret room as a cover after she found out."
Some people have an objection: "I think it's the boss's mother. Isn't she the one who brought that cup of coffee to the boss? She was the first to discover the body afterwards."
"She, an old lady, when she found that the door couldn't be opened, she didn't want to call someone for help, nor did she figure out what was going on inside, so she just broke through the door."
"Maybe the boss was just asleep before she broke the door. After she broke in, she stabbed the boss to death. In fact, this secret room is just a cover, and the timing of killing is simply not right."
"Then how did she arrange the tape?" Someone retorted: "It's impossible for the boss to put it on himself, right? How does she know that the boss can put tape? It's negotiated?"
"If I say, maybe this is not a conspiracy at all, but several conspiracies come together, so there is a complicated situation now."
After speaking, he turned his eyes to Lu Qingjia: "By the way, didn't you say that you can solve the case in five minutes and continue the mission? It's been almost half an hour."
"It's already broken." Lu Qingjia said, "After entering the study for five minutes, isn't everything I do after that laying the groundwork for making wax figures?"
"What did you say?" Several people were a little confused.
Seeing Lu Qingjia's serious face, he said, "If you don't believe me, ask the system."
"This—" Someone immediately made a consultation in their minds. "System, has the main quest been unlocked?"
Although the voice of the system is indifferent, it is inexplicably reluctant at the moment: "Player Lu Qingjia has solved the mystery of the murder in the secret room, the side quest has been completed, and the main quest has been unlocked."
"When did it happen?" Everyone was stupid: "No, then why didn't you say it?"
"Not only don't you say it, but why are you pulling them one by one and asking them? It's a waste of time, isn't it?"
"How can it be a waste of time? This is an important step in the main mission."
After speaking, they saw a pool of silt appearing underground, and the players were startled, and only then did they realize that it should be Lu Qingjia's ability.
The silt wrapped a mass of something and came out. After the silt dissipated, everyone found that what was inside was the corpse of the boss.
"What are you doing with this?" Someone collapsed.
Lu Qingjia smiled: "Since they want to delay time by acting, wouldn't I be wasting my heart if I don't take advantage of the opportunities they provide?"
As he spoke, he threw the boss's body into the pot of wax oil.
When the legs came into contact with the wax oil, it might be a severe pain, and the boss's eyes snapped open.
Looking at the surrounding environment, I instantly understood the situation. Seeing that my lower body was melted in the wax oil, I hurriedly struggled.
However, Lu Qingjia grabbed his head and slowly shoved him into the pot. He grinned at the boss and said, "Eh? Isn't he already dead? Fraudulent corpse is against the Basic Law."
"Wow, woohoo~~" The boss struggled endlessly, but his strength was far from the flood of points. He had already pushed his physical strength to the limit unlocked by this level, and compared with Lu Qingjia, who has the blood of the gods.
All the wax oil splashed from the pot because of his struggle was blocked by the bubble barrier that appeared around Lu Qingjia.
The boss's physique is definitely not small, but after being stuffed into the wax oil pan, it melts and sinks, so it's not too burdensome.
After a while, the boss's eyes were frozen in horror and death, and finally his eyes were melted by wax oil, and the top of his head sank into the pot.
And Lu Qingjia was like a witch making magic soup, stirring it with a big spoon.
The expressions of a group of players are all confused.
"This nigga, what the hell happened? The boss's grandson didn't die at all? They teamed up to create the so-called case to delay time?"
Lu Qingjia nodded: "That's right."
"No, then when did you know?"
"Almost at the beginning."
"… "
"First of all, this abrupt murder case was clearly set up to prevent us from completing the mission. Everyone understands this. If so, why must it be a plot set by the system? There is no possibility for a family to direct and act it themselves?"
"After all, the timing is too coincidental, it is almost a commotion created by pinching."
"However, the probability of which of these two possibilities is half and half, so I have to go to the scene to make a final confirmation."
"Then you all saw that it is the ghosts of this family who are purposeful. It seems that they are not controlled by the plot, but subjectively know that they are going to hinder us."
"No, what did we see?" Several players collapsed: "Brother, speak clearly?"
"The tape on the door frame has a conspicuous fingerprint at the bottom. It belongs to the boss. It should have been a conversation with us before he left. The palms secreted too much sweat and oil under emotional agitation, which caused obvious fingerprints."
"When the scream came, the door of the workshop was closed, but we could hear it clearly, indicating that the sound insulation effect of the whole house was average, at least the loud sound could not be completely isolated."
"The proprietress came down with the vacuum cleaner and claimed that she had just used the vacuum cleaner, but before, none of us heard the sound of the vacuum cleaner running. Her vacuum cleaner was a high-power vacuum cleaner with a bulky appearance and an old style. With our players' ears, she But if you drive for a while, you won't hear any movement. It means that she has never used it, whether it is cleaning, or using vacuum cleaner to absorb tape to create a secret room."
"The reason why we saw her coming downstairs with a vacuum cleaner was nothing more than a misleading clue given on a special trip."
"There are also people who came in after I asked the boss's mother and asked them to tell me how much coffee was left on the table when they came in."
Lu Qingjia smiled, as if recalling the scene was interesting: "A few people who were so flustered that they couldn't even remember whether the tape was on the window when they entered the study, but they remembered the weight of a cup of coffee on the table. Clearly."
"The location of the windows is obviously more eye-catching, and the silver-gray tape is also incompatible with the wallpaper."
"That is to say, they are misleading the whole process?" the female player said: "They don't even care that we will find out who the murderer is in the end. As long as we give the wrong answer and can't unlock the main quest, they will win?"
"Yes." Lu Qingjia nodded: "And after confirming these points, I gave the system the answer in my mind. The truth of the murder in the secret room is that the boss committed suicide."
"This is a botched suicide disguised as homicide. The owner of the tape put it on by himself, he stabbed himself with sleeping pills before the effect of the drug kicked in, deliberately used awkward postures, and the whole family discussed what extra waste to make. Do it as a blindfold."
"But you only need to understand one thing, that is what they need is our wrong answer. Then the problem comes, if you are led by clues, even if you are not good at reasoning, the remaining four masters are blind. Guess, the probability is also one in four."
"Who is the murderer, will this probability be minimized?"
"Dead!" A player answered subconsciously, and then knocked on his head: "I'm a fucking pig brain."
Having said that, the stirring movement in Lu Qingjia's hand also stopped.
Then he was covered with a layer of silt, and then peeled off in half, forming a mold that belonged to him.
Lu Qingjia picked up a large spoon next to the tool rack, scooped out the wax oil in the pot, and poured it onto the mold.
Originally not very obedient and aggressive wax oil, after absorbing the boss's body, it was actually enough to make a stable one-person wax figure.
Fill the mold, cool it down with energy, and peel it off, forming a vivid wax figure like Lu Qingjia.
Lu Qingjia watched for a while, then shook his head: "You still have to paint, who of you has art skills?"
"There should be, right? Since this task is released, people with corresponding abilities will definitely be assigned."
A fashionable-looking male player said: "I, I am a makeup artist. According to everyone, it should be fine."
Others see that a wax figure has been made. Although it is a bit intrusive, it is somewhat gratifying that a part of the progress has been completed.
He asked, "Is this amount only enough for one person? What shall we do next?"
Lu Qingjia smiled and suddenly looked at a wax figure next to him. This wax figure was the one that was almost burned before.
He asked pointedly: "What I told you just now, you overlooked an important detail."
"Wh, what?" The crowd faced Lu Qingjia with a kind of guilty conscience and admiration for the teacher.
Lu Qingjia said: "I said that our every move in the workshop is under the surveillance of the other party, so the timing is so clever to interrupt our damage to the wax man."
"Then here comes the problem. There are no cameras in the workshop. With everyone's vigilance since customs clearance, even if there are hidden cameras, I believe that even if I don't use props to block the signal, I should believe that I will do it."
"Since there is no way to observe everything happening in the workshop with technology, how do they know our actions so well?"
Lu Qingjia stretched out his hand and touched the wax man in front of him. It seemed that there was more wax on the other side, as if a person was sweating all over when he was extremely nervous.
"Wax man?" Everyone exclaimed.
Lu Qingjia smiled and said, "It's not just surveillance, I just said that these wax figures are moving at an extremely slow speed, right?"
Then he looked at the wax people, showing a puzzled expression: "Huh? You have seen me make the boss into a wax figure, yet you still haven't chosen to run away?"
He showed a malicious smile: "Your sense of crisis is really not good. Obviously we will deliver at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the boss's body is only enough to make a wax man."
"Then where to look for the rest, isn't it obvious?"
As soon as the voice fell, something seemed to be pulling away from the wax figure, but it was too late.
At the same time, there were several desperate roars from outside.
The players went out and found that the whole house was covered with a huge bubble at some point. The bubble looked thin and soft, and it burst when it was poked.
But it's incredibly pliable and unbreakable, at least for the people in this house.
I saw the remaining four members of the boss's family, outside the gate, trying to rush out, but were stopped by a huge bubble.
No matter how hard they hit, they couldn't break through that barrier.
Until he heard footsteps behind him, he turned his head and looked at Lu Qingjia, who was in the lead, like a ghost.
"You, what do you want to do?"
Lu Qingjia smiled: "It's nothing, it's just the defective materials for making the wax figure that will be delivered in the afternoon. I want to borrow it from a few people temporarily."
"For the reputation of the century-old family business, you won't even be able to make this sacrifice, right?"
The boss family shivered, and the players behind looked at each other in dismay—
Why, how does it feel, they suddenly became the big boss of this horror wax museum