The Trial Game of Life

Tang Cuo exchanged a chocolate bean for a younger brother, and the deal was not a loss no matter what.And this little brother was hit too hard, so he accepted the reality without much doubt.

As for why the poisoning was not displayed on the character panel after taking the medicine, the boss said it was a delayed onset, so what else?

"Where did you get the key to open the door?"

"Downstairs, the butler's room."

The younger brother is Qi Hui, he was in the butler's room when he entered the dungeon, and he got the key on the hook behind the door very smoothly.The keys are strung together with a steel wire bent into a circle, and they jingle in the hand as a bunch.Qi Hui used three to open the attic door, and the remaining two did not know where they corresponded.

Yu Mansion is a two-story bungalow with an attic. According to the general setting, the owner's family lives on the second floor, and the servants live on the first floor.Tang Cuo walked down the stairs, the footsteps echoed in the empty house, there was still a faint echo.

This is undoubtedly a magnificent mansion, with both Chinese style atmosphere and Western style luxury.The wooden floor of the corridor is covered with carpets, crystal lamps hang overhead, and paintings are hung every few meters.

It's just that the doors on both sides of the corridor are closed. Tang Cuo tried with the remaining two keys, but it didn't work.

From the second floor to the first floor, almost all the doors are closed, only the kitchen, the utility room, the housekeeper's room and the maid's room are open.In addition, there are public areas such as the living room on the first floor.

There is also an open-air balcony on the second floor, but the door leading to the balcony is also sealed.And it's not just that the system prohibits traffic, the owner's house has installed an iron railing here to seal it tightly.In addition, there are iron railings outside all the windows, which are exquisitely made and have intricate and beautiful patterns, but this does not change the fact that it is a railing.

The whole mansion is like a cage.

The front door on the first floor and the back door in the kitchen were also locked. Tang Cuo turned around and roughly figured out the current situation. He stood in the kitchen and fell into a short thought.

"Before Dawn" is a copy of the secret room escape, but it is different from the ordinary secret room escape.Generally speaking, the room escape game is to constantly unlock new areas, from one room to another, and finally unlock the entire map to escape.But now this Yu Mansion, its area lies in the overlapping of space or the transition of time.

Just at this moment, the harsh phone rang.

Qi Hui was taken aback, and just about to say that it was haunted, Tang Cuo rushed out of the kitchen in a blink of an eye.He quickly followed, and saw that the other party had accurately found the source of the voice—the telephone next to the flower stand in the living room.

Tang Cuo picked up the microphone calmly, "Hello?"

Jin Cheng's smiling voice came from the microphone, "Listen to this voice, is it Mr. Tang Cuo Tang?"

Tang Cuo: "Let's get down to business."

Jin Cheng: "Isn't looking for you a business?"

Tang Cuo: "Hang up."

Jin Cheng: "No, I managed to get through this call. If you hang up on me, we really can only meet each other like the Cowherd and Weaver Girl once a year."

Tang Cuo was speechless.

Jin Cheng finally got serious, "This is Yu's mansion in 1926, at seven o'clock in the evening Beijing time. Preliminary observation shows that the magnetic field here is very unstable, the lights are flickering, ghosts are crying, and the wind is blowing. What's more important is - there are only I'm a player."

When he said this, Jin Cheng was looking up at a middle-aged female ghost protruding from the ceiling.One person and one ghost met each other's eyes, Jin Cheng leaned on the flower stand leisurely and contentedly, while the female ghost clung to the chandelier and stared at it.

The lights flickered, and the rattling metal brackets made a tooth-piercing sound.Four of the nine lamp holders were broken, and the remaining five illuminated the originally magnificent hall. Looking around, dust and cobwebs were everywhere on the sofa and on the stairs.

On the phone, Tang Cuo was asking, "How did you call?"

Jin Cheng: "There is a number book next to the flower stand. I found it. Since we are separated, it proves the possibility of time and space overlapping. But this is not a single-player dungeon. We are teammates. There must be places that can be connected in different time and space. I After looking around, it seems that there is only this phone."

Thus, Jin Cheng did something that seemed very illogical - Yu mansion made a phone call to Yu mansion.

He tried for a full 10 minutes, but the phone kept ringing and could not be connected.Until finally, the signal finally stabilized, and Tang Cuo's voice came from inside.

"Remember, the number is 1446." After speaking, he asked again: "Where are you?"

"My time should be before yours, that is, between 1923 and 1926. It is well preserved in the mansion, and there is no abnormality for the time being. There are no ghosts for the two players including me."

"That means there are other time and space."

"At least one more."

"Do you need any help?"

Since different time and space can communicate, it means that the clues they need may be in the hands of each other, and they need to help each other.But Tang Cuo hasn't found anything to insist on helping so far. There is only one thing he needs to remind.

"The time is wrong, it's ten o'clock in the evening here."

"Ten o'clock?" Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows.

"That's right, my sunrise will be three hours earlier than yours." Tang Cuo said this, and Jin Cheng immediately understood.

The task required them to escape from the mansion before dawn. If the time of dawn was different in each time and space, Tang Cuo would burp before Jin Cheng waited for dawn.Since then, the clues to Tang Cuo's time and space have been cut off, and there is a high probability that Jin Cheng will die as well.

Thinking about this, Jin Cheng said, "But this doesn't match the information we got. The longest clearance time for the three people was about 24 hours. There are two possibilities, the time can be adjusted, or the players can travel in different time and space."

Tang Cuo basically agreed with this inference, but at this moment, there was a buzzing sound from the phone.He frowned and was about to speak when Jin Cheng interrupted him: "I have to hang up, there is a female ghost here who wants to dance with me."

Tang Cuo: "..."

Jin Cheng: "Attire as a servant, about forty years old, with a Chinese character face, with a wound on the chest—too—"

The phone hangs up.

At the last moment, Tang Cuo could hear the sound of a crash, probably a fight.He immediately put down the phone and looked for the phone book, but couldn't find it.

Qi Hui finally found a chance to come forward, "Brother Tang, was that brother Jin who called you just now? Did you guys find a way to talk so quickly?"

Qi Hui was very determined to be a younger brother, and he called Brother Jin before he saw Jin Cheng, and he didn't feel any pressure to call Brother Jin to Tang Cuo who was younger than him.

Tang Cuo asked back: "You didn't find a way, so you came to make a copy?"

Qi Hui was at a loss for words, and I was embarrassed to say that their way of life was to hug their thighs.

Tang Cuo didn't ask any more questions, Jin Cheng's words pointed him in the direction of the middle-aged maid who transformed ghosts.When they searched briefly before, they only saw the room of the housekeeper and the maid, and the wardrobe in the maid's room was full of young girls' clothes. In other words, if there was a middle-aged maid, she lived in another room.

Most of them are next door to the maid's room.

Tang Cuo found that room, judging from the style of the door and the size of the room, it should be this room.The room in the past is obviously bigger, so it cannot be used by servants.

The key is the key, where is the key?

The map is so big that it is difficult to find a small key.Tang Cuo ordered Qi Hui to search for it, and searched it like a carpet, while he himself paced the corridor unhurriedly.

After a while, he went to the butler's room again.

Except for the necessary bed, desk and cabinet, the housekeeper's room basically has no extra decorations.There is a small blackboard hanging on the wall, and the schedule of the day is recorded on the blackboard with neat chalk writing.

Six o'clock: Preparations

Seven o'clock: breakfast

09:30: Reception of guests

twelve o'clock: lunch

Three o'clock: Prepare afternoon tea for the lady

Six o'clock: dinner, decoction for the wife

Twelve o'clock: piano room

Judging from this timetable, if there is a lady and a wife in the mansion, there should be a master.Except for his wife's illness, nothing else can be seen for the time being.

But what does "twelve o'clock: the piano room" mean?This timing is too weird.

At this time, there is still an hour and a half before twelve o'clock.

The piano room should be on the second floor. The piano room of this kind of big family will not be small, and there is no similar room on the first floor.But the rooms on the second floor are also locked.

He went back to the living room and dialed "1446", but there was no response from the phone.

It appears that this is a one-way connection.

Qi Hui was still digging through the corridor and picking up the carpet, searching like a carpet.Tang Cuo crossed his arms and glanced at it, then turned and walked into the kitchen, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find medicine.

Madam needs to drink medicine when she is sick, so the medicine bag should be placed in the kitchen.The butler is a man, so it is impossible for him to come and go in and out of the wife's room every day, so middle-aged maids or servant girls are usually the ones who serve medicine.

After a while, Tang Cuo dragged out a boxy tin box from the kitchen cabinet, which exuded a faint smell of traditional Chinese medicine.This is a lockbox, a four-digit combination.

This is very strange, what medicine needs to be kept in a lockbox?Afraid of being stolen?Or are you afraid of being seen?

What is the password?

Tang Cuo looked at the lock, narrowing his eyes slightly.The person who sets the password must be the person who is in charge of decocting the medicine every day, and the person in charge of serving the medicine is not necessarily the housekeeper, but he must be the one who decocts the medicine.

Otherwise he wouldn't have specifically recorded it on the blackboard.

Tang Cuo hugged the lockbox and went back to the housekeeper's room to look for clues, but this old-fashioned and strict housekeeper had very few things in the room.

The clothes are only suits of the same style, and the book is only one "Tao Te Ching", which does not look like it is often read.He also doesn't keep a diary, doesn't know birth and death years, doesn't have any clue about numbers.

and many more.

Tang Cuo turned the "Tao Te Ching" to the title page, on which someone wrote a few lines with a pen.

[Apei:

This is your first day in the mansion, I will give you this book, I hope you can get something.On the sixth day of the sixth month of the Jiayin Year, Yu Wangnian]

Yu Mansion, Yu Wangnian.

This is either the master of the mansion, or the young master of the mansion, and the year of Jiayin is 1914. On the sixth day of June in 1914, Tang Cuo carefully recalled the historical events that happened that year, compared the lunar calendar with the solar calendar, and then deduced it to the sixth day of June—it should be July 7.

On the first day the housekeeper entered the mansion, he was given a book by the master, and he put the only book beside his bed, which shows that this day is very important to him.

Tang Cuo then used 0728 to try the combination lock, and there was a "click", unexpectedly opening it for the first time.

"Damn it." This scene deeply shocked Qi Hui's heart, even if he was playing escape room in the real world, he rarely saw someone who could crack it all at once.

Tang Cuo ignored him and went to check the contents of the box.There are five medicine bags and a key inside.

Seeing Qi Hui approaching, Tang Cuo casually threw the key to him and asked him to open the door, but he opened the medicine bag to check it himself.The five packs of medicine are all the same, and there are common ginseng, astragalus, etc. in it, as for the other Tangcuo, I don't recognize it.

At this time, Qi Hui shouted outside the door: "Brother Tang, come quickly, the door is open!"

The maid's room is similar in size and layout to the butler's room, but it has a lot more things, full of sundries.After entering the dungeon, Qi Hui didn't do anything and was just looking for things. He kept looking for things, thinking that he might have to search from room to room in the future, and suddenly felt that this dungeon was different from what he had imagined.

But just as he was about to search, Tang Cuo suddenly stopped him, "Go and decoct the medicine."

Qi Hui was stunned, "Decoction? What to do?"

Tang Cuo: "Fry it if you tell me."

Qi Hui was completely at a loss, they came to play a dungeon, why did they suddenly start decocting NPC medicine?However, his life was in Tang Cuo's hands, and he didn't dare to resist, so he took the medicine bag and went to the kitchen resentfully.

Ten minutes later, Tang Cuo turned the maid's room upside down.In order to save time, he used the most violent and trouble-free method, throwing everything out until it was emptied.

After looking for it like this, he really found a pressed blue floral cloth bag deep in the closet.It was actually a handkerchief, and several things were wrapped in it—a silver hairpin, three oceans, a pearl, an old necklace of precious stones, and a gold pocket watch.

These things are not like a maid can have, nor like a reward from the master.

Tang Cuo carefully checked the hairpin and gemstone necklace, but found nothing, then picked up the pocket watch.The pocket watch was probably new, and it was heavy in the hand. The material should be pure gold, and the dial was inlaid with precious stones, which was very valuable.

But the watch was broken, the dial was broken, and the chain was faintly stained with dark red blood.The blood should have been wiped away, only a little bit remained, but it was enough to catch the eye.

This is the first bloodstain that Tang Cuo saw in this mansion, more precisely, it was the Yu mansion before 1926.

The time and space where Jin Cheng lives, the Yu Mansion in 1926, has become the residence of ghosts.But today's Yu mansion is still intact, so what happened in the past two or three years?

Tang Cuo looked at the pocket watch again, and found two small characters engraved on the back of the pocket watch near the bottom - wy.

Wy, who's initials?

Having no idea, Tang Cuo temporarily put away his pocket watch and turned to other things.But although there are many things in this room, there are very few useful ones. After a long time, Tang Cuo learned nothing except that her name is Wenjuan.

Qi Hui took advantage of this time to decoct the medicine.He was very confused, and he was still guessing if there was an NPC in the wife's room. This medicine was decocted for the NPC to prevent her from turning into a boss and going into a state of rampage.

But he never expected that the big brother's behavior was even more astonishing than he had imagined.

"You, why did you drink it by yourself?!" Qi Hui was so shocked that his eyeballs almost fell out.

Tang Cuo calmly put down the medicine bowl, wiped away the remaining medicine juice from his mouth, and then opened the character panel to check the results.

【character】

No. K27216: Tang Cuo

Character Points: 0

Force: 72

Intelligence: 34

Charisma: 8

Rating: A

Health: 99%

Yu Wangnian's hatred: additional weakness value, all attributes -10%

* Survival is not easy, please continue to work hard.

Case solved, it's not a cure at all, it's a debilitating but not fatal poison.

Residents in the attic, windows sealed by iron bars, a sick wife, a maid who stole, what kind of secrets are hidden in this magnificent mansion?

Suddenly, the phone rang again.

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