Escape the Library

【Death Code 12】

Liu Zhaoqing put the bones fished out of the pond under the shade of a tree, and Yue Xingwen observed it carefully for a while. The clothes were rotten, but judging from the embroidered patterns on them, it was the same wedding dress as the six brides found in the storage room on the second floor. .

Yue Xingwen said: "This dress is the same as Su Wanxin's wedding dress. It seems that the murderer has customized nine sets of wedding dresses, one for Su Wanxin, seven for sacrifices, and the rest for display?"

There was indeed no extra wedding dress found in the storage room, and the murderer was obviously confident in the success rate of his murder.

Liu Zhaoqing turned around and asked, "Will the code in the doll be left by the bride number 7?"

Yue Xingwen simulated the image of the wedding night in his mind, and said, "It shouldn't be. The groom is terminally ill. On the wedding night, the bride in the wedding dress will be alone in the wedding room. She may have noticed something wrong, such as the one by the bed. The corpse, and then hurriedly fled, was caught up by the murderer who had been eyeing her for a long time, and fell into the water in a panic, she did not have time to open the doll and leave a digital clue."

Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin, and then asked, "But if she finds the corpse and screams, other people will notice it too? Why did she run away in a panic instead of calling for other partners?"

Yue Xing Wendao: "Other people will of course notice, but don't forget that it's "The Script Killing", and the bride screams, which is most likely an original link in the script. On the wedding night, the bride is alone, and the others The classmates must have been temporarily separated from her, and when they heard the screams, they thought she was playing the script, so they didn’t mind, and they wouldn’t rush to support.”

This is the smartest part of the murderer, using "script kill" to kill the deceased in the script. The script originally had the design of "the bride stays alone in the marriage room, and there is a scream in the marriage room", then, other players Even if you hear the scream, you will subconsciously think "she played well", but will not think - she will really be murdered.

Liu Zhaoqing suddenly realized: "Indeed, this is just like acting. Everyone has become an actor. The first reaction is that she is acting in a script, and she will not think in the terrifying direction of 'the murderer is by her side'."

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The digital password is probably a keen player who noticed the problem after the bride's death and kept it secretly. The player is very vigilant and does not dare to trust anyone easily. He guesses the murderer. I am around, so I don’t dare to tell others about my speculation, so I can only leave some clues in this way.”

Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement, and said, "After all, the murderer is too scary to be around, and he may be killed at any time. On the surface, he pretends not to make a sound, and leaves clues in the dark. After the script is killed, he can escape by himself. Finding a way to call the police is the safest thing to do.”

This is also the most sensible approach. If you expose it on the spot, it will be a problem for others to believe it or not. If you guess the murderer wrong, you will die immediately. Players who can keep calm in this situation and leave passwords are of first-rate psychological quality.

Everyone was silent for a while, and Liu Zhaoqing said, "The line at the inn is just short of the last password. What do those digital passwords mean?" Turning his head and looking, Ke Shaobin squatted beside him in embarrassment. Aggrieved, Liu Zhaoqing walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "It seems that you can't eat your sugar lotus root."

Ke Shaobin said with a bitter face: "Brother, can you stop talking..." Now when he mentions the sugar lotus root, he thinks of Bai Sensen's human bones and the skull grinning at him, and he really has no mood at all.

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "Let's go, don't think about it, eat instant noodles at noon."

Ke Shaobin stood up and followed them, and everyone went back to the restaurant to continue the analysis.

The table is full of cloth strips taken out from the doll's body, and the numbers on it are extremely messy.

71-16-30

99-16-9

281-22-1

299-1-5

6-17-11

...

Ke Shaobin wondered, "A three-segment password isn't very common, isn't it?"

Jiang Pingce frowned and observed carefully for a moment, summed up the law of numbers: "Look, the first number randomly appears from 1 to 299, the second number randomly appears from 1 to 22, and the third number from 1 to 30. . The size and order of numbers are always changing, and there are no rules related to sequences and functions. What exactly does such a strange password correspond to?"

Everyone has no idea.

Jiang Pingce thought about it carefully, glanced at the book on the table, and suddenly said, "Could it be the page number, line number, and word number of the book?"

Yue Xingwen's heart suddenly became clear, and he hurriedly spread out the three books he had pulled out of the suitcase before everyone: "Pingce is right! The thickness of ordinary books is less than 300 pages. If the first number corresponds to The page number is reasonable, no more than 300. The number of lines per page of a book is generally about 25 lines, and the number of words per line is about 30 words."

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "Looking at it this way, the arrangement of characters in the book just matches the characteristics of the three-segment password. The first number represents the number of pages, and the maximum can be 299, while the second and third numbers are relatively small. Represent lines and words, respectively."

Yue Xingwen quickly turned the three books to the last page. The total number of pages of famous novels is 275 pages, the total number of modern romance novels is 245 pages, and the ancient romance novels are exactly 299 pages.

Everyone was excited when they saw this: "This 299-page book is the cipher book?"

Ancient romance novels correspond to ancient script killings. The maximum first number in the password in the doll is 299, which is exactly the same as the number of pages in the novel—all the passwords correspond to the words in this novel!

Yue Xingwen glanced at Jiang Pingce, patted the other person's shoulder lightly, and praised: "We are still attentive to Pingce. Every time we encounter a number-related problem, we can always find the pattern as soon as possible."

Are we flat? This title has a strange sense of intimacy. Jiang Pingce's lips were lightly raised, and he quickly arranged the cloth strips on the table in ascending order of the number of pages, and said, "Let's start deciphering. The first one - 6 pages, 11 lines. , 17 characters."

Yue Xingwen quickly turned to page 6, counted to the 17th word on line 11, and wrote it down on a piece of paper: "Hand."

Jiang Pingce continued to read: "8 pages, 15 lines, 1 word."

Yue Xingwen's movements of turning the book are very skilled: "Yes."

Jiang Pingce: "11 pages, 1 line, 15 words."

Yue Xingwen: "Marriage."

...

The two cooperated tacitly. Jiang Pingce read the numbers on the cloth in a low voice, and Yue Xingwen quickly turned the book to find the corresponding characters. After more than ten minutes, Jiang Pingce finally read all the passwords, and Yue Xingwen also wrote on the white paper. There are hundreds of Chinese characters and punctuation.

Jiang Pingce said, "I'll leave it to you to make sentences in loose words."

Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "No problem."

Use a bunch of Chinese characters to make a sentence, this is the test center of primary school Chinese. It's just that there are hundreds of words given this time, and they have to be spelled out into a logical and complete sentence.

Hand, side, mother, me, new, drama, kill...

Since the cloth strips were not arranged in the order of each sentence, the dozens of words that were deciphered were completely disrupted.

Yue Xingwen quickly reassembled them, and then wrote a paragraph on another piece of paper: "It's terrible, this is not a scripted killing, but a real-life killing - the murderer is by our side! The player who plays the bride is really She died, I saw her being chased by a shadow and fell into the pond! I don't have a mobile phone and can't get in touch with the outside world. This is the first time I met these netizens. I don't know who killed the bride, he Will it continue to kill? I just want to get out alive..."

Yue Xingwen looked up at Jiang Pingce: "It seems that our reasoning is all correct."

The surrounding classmates were all smiles.

The ugly Ke Shaobin finally showed a smile at this time, and praised: "Great. When the seventh bride died, it alerted another player who was playing the script to kill. This player noticed something was wrong, but he did not choose to expose it in person. Who is such a sensible person?"

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The source of the password is an ancient romance novel. Boys shouldn't read such romance novels when they go out. This book is likely to belong to a girl. When I checked my suitcase yesterday, there was a girl. I didn't bring any cosmetics, I only brought facial cleanser, do you remember?"

Qin Lu remembered this, and said quickly, "Yes, other girls have brought foundation, lipstick, and eyebrow pencils. She only has toiletries in her suitcase. At that time, we also commented that she is a girl who doesn't like makeup and likes no makeup. Not like everyone else."

Jiang Pingce said: "She is obviously different from other girls. She doesn't wear makeup when she goes out. The clothes in her suitcase are all black and white, and she doesn't have a good-looking dress. She should be a girl with a cold personality. She is more rational and sharper than the average person. This book is probably hers."

Yue Xingwen carefully recalled the scene when he checked the suitcase yesterday, and said, "The players' suitcases are all left here, then, the other eight players may..."

Jiang Pingce looked solemn: "Also killed."

Liu Zhaoqing's eyes widened in surprise: "The girl who left the clues didn't escape?"

Ke Shaobin was stunned: "What do you mean, the members of this group who were killed by the script were killed directly?"

Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

Yue Xingwen said: "Bride No. 7 suddenly slipped and fell into the lake, which affected the murderer's plan and alerted other players. The murderer noticed that someone had touched the rag doll and knew that he might have been exposed, so he simply killed the others. players, completely silenced."

Ke Shaobin's back was chilled: "No wonder all these people's suitcases are left here!"

Yue Xing Wen said: "Assuming that the murderer only kills the actor who plays the bride, then he has committed the crime 7 times so far, and the number of people killed in each script is 10 people, excluding the murderer, there are 9 people left, then, the inn is from start to finish. There should have been 7x9=63 guests. The previous 6 murders by the murderer went well, and the other players had no doubts. After finishing the script, they would leave the inn. As for the bride's death, the murderer had the bride's mobile phone, and casually sent a message to the family saying " I'm going to travel somewhere." During this period, I kept in touch with my family. After a few days, I arranged for the bride to "disappear" in another city, and the police couldn't find him."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Yue Xingwen continued: "As a result, when the 7th crime was committed, there was an accident, and some players discovered the secret of this inn, so the murderer killed everyone to silence them, which is why there were 10 suitcases in the inn - 9 It belongs to the player, and the remaining one is his own. He probably knew that he couldn't hide it, so he simply dropped the inn and ran away."

Yue Xingwen looked at the digital password left on the table, sighed softly, and said, "It's a pity, if the phone hadn't been handed over to a stranger for safekeeping before the script was killed, the player who discovered the secret would have survived. of."

Qin Miao's face was serious: "They are really too careless. When they came to this deserted place, they handed in their mobile phones together. The process of killing the script was so dangerous... If it was me, I would never participate in this kind of game. "

A game like this is creepy.

In pursuit of excitement, you should also go to a safe place to play with people you really trust.

Ke Shaobin's lips turned white: "Then, if the last group is destroyed, what about the bodies of the other 8 players?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Do you remember, there is a lot of ash under the stove in the kitchen? The kitchen seems to have not been used for a long time. The amount of ash... is a bit too much."

Ke Shaobin's expression changed: "The corpse was burned into ashes?"

Everyone: "..."

Bones were found in the pond, and the kitchen was full of ashes. They would no longer have to dig lotus roots or cook vegetables in the kitchen. Eat instant noodles every day for the next few days.

Fortunately, the line of the inn has been completely sorted out, and now there is one last puzzle left - the drama within the play.

How did the story of the script killing develop, and who would be the murderer?