Escape the Library

【Death Code-13】

Ke Shaobin's question made the students feel very uncomfortable. After all, they were cooking and eating in the kitchen yesterday. If the kitchen was full of corpses, they would not be able to vomit.

Jiang Pingce said: "The muscles and bones of the human body can only be completely turned into ashes in a high-temperature furnace. Ordinary fire can only scorch the human body. I mean, there is a lot of ashes in the kitchen. It is not necessarily ashes, it may be Ashes from burning other things."

Yue Xingwen simply turned around and walked to the kitchen: "Go and see and you'll know."

The crowd came to the kitchen to recheck the clues. There was still obvious dried blood on the sharp kitchen knife. Liu Zhaoqing was worried yesterday that it was the blood left by the murderer. He did not dare to use the kitchen knife when cooking, but cut the vegetables with his scalpel.

Yue Xingwen picked up the kitchen knife and observed it carefully for a moment, and said, "It is most likely human blood. There is no place to raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep nearby, and there is no fish in the pond. This knife is the murder tool used by the murderer to kill the player's team in the end. "

Qin Lu stared at the **** kitchen knife and asked in a low voice, "However, how could he kill so many adults by himself? There are men among the eight players. All of them are healthy and can't resist?"

Gao Xiaoxin also said: "If he hunts down those eight people, shouldn't the blood flow all the way from the inn to the kitchen? But no blood was found in the inn..."

Jiang Pingce interrupted her in a low voice: "You forgot the sleeping pills."

Yesterday they found a lot of sleeping pills in the basement. Yue Xingwen had suspected that the murderer might have added sleeping pills to the players' meals and committed crimes while the players were asleep.

Yue Xingwen said: "He can sneak back to his residence from under the dining table when people are not paying attention, and add a lot of sleeping pills to drinking water or meals. Players will fall asleep after taking sleeping pills, and he will remove those people from the room. Drag them outside and kill them one by one... those people died in their sleep, and they didn't have time to resist."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "So, he didn't directly fight against eight people by himself, but dragged out and killed each person who slept deeply, and the person who was killed in his sleep didn't even scream. , he can easily kill eight people."

When a few girls heard this, their whole bodies were like falling into an ice cellar - they just came out to play a script to kill, and as a result, their meals were drugged, who would have thought that they would not wake up?

Yue Xingwen simply picked up the shovel and pulled out all the ashes under the stove. Suddenly, his sharp eyes noticed that there were some shredded paper in the ashes. Jiang Pingce also discovered this, and took a branch from the side and placed it in the ashes. After dialing a few times, he said, "The shredded paper that hasn't been burnt clean."

He picked out the remaining shreds and put them all aside.

Since most of the paper was burned, the handwriting on it was very vague. Yue Xingwen picked it up and carefully identified it for a moment, and said, "The material of this paper is very special, a bit like the hard shell paper used to make cards." He shredded a piece of paper. The paper was handed to Jiang Pingce: "What do you think it looks like?"

Jiang Pingce took it over and took a closer look, frowned and said, "Identity card for script killing?"

He saw the word "Chunlan" on this piece of paper, and remembered that Miss Su's dowry maid was called Chunlan.

Yue Xingwen took a closer look at the remaining pieces of paper and said, "It is indeed the props that the script killed. The one with the name written is the script ID card, and some of the others should be the script introduction and plot clue cards."

Qin Miao said: "I used to play script killing. After the player receives the ID card, they will read the ID information and the plot line, and then play their own role. Everyone only knows the identity of their character and whether they are the murderer, right? Other people's backgrounds and experiences are ignorant."

Yue Xingwen nodded: "So, in this game, the identity card that the murderer gets is very important."

Since most of the script material has been burned, it is difficult to judge what identity card the murderer got from the ashes left, and the fragmentary script description can only vaguely see "the wedding night... bizarre death... ..." and so on.

It's not very helpful for plot reasoning, but at least it can prove that their thinking is correct.

Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and said, "Xingwen guessed the script killing in advance. If a team with weak reasoning ability takes this course, as long as you pick out the ashes in the kitchen to find the ID card, you should be able to think of "Script Killing". ?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Well, this is the key clue to confirm the script kill."

The ashes in the kitchen were left behind after the murderer burned the script killing materials. So, where are the corpses of the players killed by him? Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice, "Go to the pond and look for it."

Ke Shaobin: "..."

If the pond is full of corpses, he will have a psychological shadow on the sugar lotus root.

Liu Zhaoqing took a bamboo pole and rummaged around in the pond, Ke Shaobin stood beside him with his back taut. However, the senior brother searched for a long time and found no other corpses. Ke Shaobin was stunned and said, "Not in the pond either?"

Yue Xingwen said: "It wasn't burned or thrown into a pond. It was probably buried. Let's look around the woods carefully."

The eight people acted immediately and searched the entire forest in a carpet-like manner.

I searched for every inch of it all day, and finally found a big hole in the corner of the woods at dusk.

The pit was more than two meters deep, and the surface was covered with weeds and leaves. It was no different from the surroundings. Yue Xingwen stepped on the air and almost fell into it. Jiang Pingce hurriedly reached out and grabbed him. Looking over, I saw a few corpses piled up randomly in the pit, all turned into white bones.

Yue Xingwen looked at Qin Lu: "Move them up."

Qin Lu took out the globe, and the plate movement instantly moved the bones in the pit to the ground. Jiang Pingce walked over and counted them, frowning and said, "There are only 7 corpses."

Yue Xingwen asked, "Does Senior Brother Liu distinguish between men and women?"

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "Although I'm not a forensic doctor, men and women can still be distinguished very well. Just look at the pelvis." He pointed to a corpse beside his feet: "The lower part of a male pelvis is narrow, like a funnel, and the angle between the pubis is an acute angle. Usually less than 90 degrees; women have a wide pelvis because they can have offspring, and the angle below is about 120 degrees."

He quickly counted the corpses at the scene and said, "These seven corpses, two men and five women."

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, the latter said: "The ten players are three boys and seven girls, and the girl who played the bride is also dead, that is to say, two boys and six girls died?"

Yue Xingwen said: "There is still a boy and a girl. We analyzed before that the one who left the clues should be a girl, and the ancient romance novel belongs to her. Then, the remaining boy is the murderer."

Ke Shaobin sorted it out carefully and said: "There are 10 players, one is the murderer, and there are nine people left. The body of the bride who fell into the lake was found in the morning, seven bodies were found in the pit, and one girl was missing...Leave a clue. Did that girl escape?"

The murderer concentrates on killing people and burying the corpses in the pit, and will not deliberately miss anyone.

The most reasonable explanation is that the player escaped one. The girl had already noticed something was wrong, and used the rag doll to leave clues. Now that she has discovered the problem, she will not eat the food here carelessly.

It is very likely that when the murderer put sleeping pills in the meal, the girl alertly did not take it, but slipped through. When the murderer started to kill at night, she took the opportunity to slip away? When escaping, of course, it is impossible to run with a suitcase, so her suitcase is left here, but the body is not there.

Thinking of this possibility, Yue Xingwen was quite relieved: "One escaped, maybe this is the reason why the murderer gave up the crime and burned the script to leave here. If the player is destroyed, he can continue to commit the crime and kill another bride. , to complete the formation of the seven sacrifices. But he didn't finish it. He burned the script and left. Should he be afraid that the girl who escaped would go out to the police?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Summarize the current clues and see if there are any omissions."

Yue Xingwen nodded and said, "The murderer and Su Wanxin used to be a couple, and Su Wanxin was forced to marry into the Zhao family under pressure from her parents. The murderer couldn't love Su Wanxin, so he killed Su Wanxin and chose a feng shui treasure to bury her. The tombstone is engraved with the handwriting of 'beloved wife Su Wanxin', and designed a murder inn. Based on Su Wanxin's experience, he wrote the ancient version of "Script Killing", mixed into the group of script killing fans, and tricked batch after batch of players to come. Implement your own plan here."

Jiang Pingce went on to say: "He used the script to kill the bride and she would die tragically on the night of the bridal chamber, killing the bride and hiding her body without arousing suspicion from others. A few days later, he used the bride's mobile phone to give the player and family members Send a message, pretend the bride is still alive, and arrange for the bride to disappear in another city."

Yue Xing Wendao: "His flawless plan succeeded six times in a row, but on the seventh time he met an alert girl. The girl noticed something was wrong and used the doll and the romance novel she carried to leave a three-segment password. I hope to be seen. The murderer found the traces of the rag doll being dismantled, suspected that his actions were exposed, and decided to kill and kill. He added sleeping pills to the meal, but the girl was alert and did not take it, and took the opportunity to escape when he was killing at night. With seven people left, he knew that someone had run away. So he terminated the plan, burned the script, buried the body and left."

Seeing that the other students were listening carefully, Yue Xingwen paused and said, "This is the complete logic of the inn murder case."

Ke Shaobin said, "After the girl ran out, she should have called the police, right?"

Yue Xingwen said: "She will definitely call the police. But the library removed this part of the plot and restored the scene of the crime to us, so that we can solve the case. The content of the script that was burned is presented in the form of a dream."

That night, everyone slept in the rooms assigned yesterday.

Yue Xingwen had another dream.

In the dream, the grown-up Xiaoyou sewed a pair of dolls, pierced the dolls with needles, and wrote a cloth strip - he finally saw the words on the white cloth strip, which were Miss Su's birthday. .

She put the rag doll into the wedding room, the face printed in the bronze mirror was pale and distorted, dressed in pink clothes, which became more and more strange under the care of red candles. There was a sound of "sent into the bridal chamber" outside, she pushed open the window and glanced, trying to escape through the window, but hesitated for a while, instead of jumping out of the window, she secretly hid under the bed.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and the bride was supported by two maids and walked in.

After Madam Xi and the others left, one of the maids said aggrievedly: "Miss, I heard that Mr. Zhao is a sick young man, and he is about to die. The master sent you here to celebrate. Isn't this pushing you into the fire pit?"

Chun Yu whispered, "That's right, why did you agree to..."

A gentle voice sounded: "Don't talk about it, the boat is done. You go down first and let me be quiet for a while."

The two maids opened the door and left.

The bride sat on the bed and was silent for a long time.

About half an hour later, someone suddenly pushed the door and came in, and heavy footsteps sounded in his ears. At this time, Yue Xingwen was the perspective of Xiaoyou hiding under the bed, and he couldn't see who was coming. He only heard the bride ask, "Why are you here?"

A deep male voice sounded: "I'll come to see you."

The bride was stunned for a while, her voice a little lost: "I have already married someone, and we will go our separate ways in the future, don't meet again." The next moment, a harsh scream suddenly sounded in the house: "Ah!"

The dazzling blade flashed, and the bride pushed the door and ran out in horror: "Help---"

Xiaoyou shrank tremblingly under the bed, her vision swaying all the time. She saw a pair of feet resting on the edge of the bed, and the man was wearing black boots embellished with delicate silver moiré.

Yue Xingwen was awakened by a dream.

He sat up abruptly from the bed, and a red-clothed ghost was standing beside the bed, staring at him blankly.

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Getting used to being frightened, he rushed out in three or two steps and shouted: "Assemble!"

A group of people fled the woods in fear, Qin Lu exhaled, and smiled bitterly: "Every day I wake up in the middle of the night, there is a female ghost standing beside the bed, I won't dare to sleep alone in the future..."

Yue Xingwen quickly adjusted his heartbeat and said, "Summary clues."

He carefully recalled the fragments of the dream, and said: "I dreamed that Xiaoyou also entered the bride's room on the wedding night. She went to put the curse doll. My dream is a bit strange. She should have turned out the window to go out, but After she pushed open the window, she hesitated for a moment, then got under the bed."

Hearing this, Jiang Pingce said, "This should be a reenactment of the script killing. The actor of Xiaoyou is the girl who left the clues. She was under the bride's bed and witnessed a person come to kill the bride, The bride panics and runs out of the house."

Yue Xingwen nodded: "I think so too. According to the setting of the script killing, the script that Xiaoyou's actor got should be to go out through the window, and there is a ladder outside the window to fall to the ground. However, in this script killing, the actor Xiaoyou's people may be afraid of heights, so they didn't go out through the window, but deviated from the script and hid under the bed."

The next day, the bride was gone. The actor of Xiaoyou was not sure who the murderer was and dared not tell others, so he used a rag doll to leave clues. The plot of the script killing was disrupted, witnesses appeared, and the murderer began to slaughter all the players. The cautious Xiaoyou did not take sleeping pills and fled here.

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and said, "Black boots, silver moiré, and the man who finally came to the bride's room-is it the husband or the guard?"

Jiang Pingce whispered: "It's a guard."

Yue Xingwen turned his head to look at him, Jiang Pingce said, "In my dream on the first night, in the painting that the guards drew, there was a silver cloud pattern on the belt that Miss Su was wearing, and this detail can match. The moiré embroidery thread should be the couple's outfit when they were together."

Yue Xingwen gave a thumbs up: "Observe carefully enough." Fortunately, Jiang Pingce noticed this detail.

The murderer who was killed by the script finally surfaced, and the puzzle of this "Drama in a Play" can finally be completely solved.