Master Swindler

This scream interrupted the action of the fire control player. He paused and subconsciously looked at the upper right corner of the ceiling, which was where the sound came from.

It can be heard that it should come from the second floor.

Lu Qingjia laughed: "It's a coincidence."

Then he shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, let's go up and have a look first."

Only then did everyone open the door, and went out of the workshop, following the sound, they came to the second floor.

At this time, the entire family of the house had arrived, 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 in detail, was sitting on the executive chair in his study room, with a sharp knife stuck in his chest, holding the handle of the knife with both hands, and died with his eyes closed, ignoring the pain.

Blood dripped from his chest, staining a large swath of carpet beneath his feet.

The proprietress covered her mouth and cried, "How could this happen?"

Her pair of sons and daughters also hugged each other in panic, and the boss's mother, the old woman with a mean look, said in grief and indignation: "Who killed my son?"

To be honest, although this incident aroused sympathy, the hearts of the players were not really touched.

At first, the family itself was suspicious, and the game NPC who dealt with the moving wax figures didn't know what it was.

Secondly, it's almost noon, and the wax oil for making wax figures is tricky, and it's too late to complete the task. How can you have time to deal with your sudden appearance, which seems to be a murder case inserted inexplicably 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 figures.

At this time, I heard a task announcement from the system——

[Trigger the side mission - solve the murder case in the secret room of the wax museum, the main mission is temporarily locked, and the side mission will be reopened after the completion of the side mission. 】

"Damn, isn't this too shameless?" A hot-tempered male player immediately cursed.

"Why doesn't it just write out its thoughts? To put it bluntly is to make trouble for you, prevent you from completing the task, and pull it down if you want to entrap the player? Pull your mother so much."

"How long until the 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 solve the murder case for more than one hour."

"Which one of you is good at reasoning? Or has a function similar to scene playback? Or psychic powers directly control how many people tell the truth?"

"Anyway, it's impossible for us to do it, so the only ones left are the boss and his family."

The others shook their heads when they heard the words: "No."

Lu Qingjia said: "Since it is delaying time, it must integrate our existing advantages, and there is no shortcut."

Just like the interview location of the last level, that is the limit that the speed-capable people in a group can do.

In fact, with Lu Qingjia's mental control, according to his current spiritual power, it is very simple to control a person to obey his own orders, but this family is obviously not ordinary people, the spiritual ability is powerful but the risk is not small, it is unnecessary in the situation Under such circumstances, Lu Qingjia was unwilling to take any risks.

When everyone heard this, they immediately became irritable: "Then what should I do? First let me say that I am not good at reasoning."

"This kind of secret room murder case is that the police can't solve the case after a while. Is it a waste of a day to solve the case today?"

"How come?" Lu Qingjia said, "Give me 5 minutes."

Everyone was shocked and looked at Lu Qingjia in disbelief.

Didn't you just say that you have no relevant abilities?Even though his cleverness is obvious, five minutes is too—

I heard Lu Qingjia stand up and say to the boss's family: "With all due respect, although we are outsiders, after the boss took us into the workshop, we only came out to breathe in the corridor for a few minutes. This is the first floor corridor. The camera should have recorded it, other than that, we have never been anywhere, let alone the second floor."

"So although it's a pity to say this, the suspect who killed the boss should be among your close relatives."

Lu Qingjia raised his hand, suppressed the people who wanted to say something because of their emotions, and said, "Well, can you please go to the surrounding rooms now?"

"I will ask you one by one to come here for questioning."

Should it be said that it is an obstacle event specially set for the player?When an intern employee wanted to work as a policeman, the family didn't feel anything wrong, and they cooperated very well.

It seems to be reasonable written into the program.

Lu Qingjia laughed, and asked several players to guard the door after they entered different rooms.

He didn't call anyone over immediately, but looked at the clues in the room first.

The so-called 'secret room murder case' naturally shows that when the first scene was discovered, the room was in a sealed state.

There is only one window in the boss's study room, which is not big and the lighting is not good. It should be said that most places in the house are like this.

The window is locked from the inside, and there is a layer of tape on it. There is no trace of opening. The player went to the outside of the castle to take a look. Due to the disrepair of the castle for a long time, the outer wall of the castle is weathered and peeled off, and there is no trace of scratches on it.

According to the general logic, it is impossible to come in from the outside of the window.

And the door of the study room was also glued with a layer of tape from the inner door frame. This kind of 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 are no traces of repeated tearing and pulling. It should be that the door was forced to open when it was found to be wrong.

The boss's wound was at the heart, and the handle of the knife was slightly inclined upwards. From the perspective, the knife was inserted slightly higher than the boss's horizontal position.

There was a half-drunk cup of coffee on the desk, other than that, there was no other abnormality in the room.

Lu Qingjia picked up the cup of coffee and smelled it, and found a machine the size of a voice recorder.

I turned on the machine and scanned the cup of coffee. After a second or two, a virtual screen popped up next to the scanner, listing all the ingredients in the cup of coffee, including the cup and the liquid.

This is a high-tech product bought from Infinity 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 was stabbed in the heart and died. The boss didn't have any pain on his face. It turned out that he was killed in his sleep."

He complained again: "Who is a fool? Do you use such an awkward posture to commit suicide?"

It is true that piercing the heart can quickly relieve him, but for the boss's size, the posture of holding the knife in both hands and inserting it into the heart is really awkward.

The inconvenience of exerting force may bring unnecessary pain, coupled with so many doubts, it is like a clumsy homicide disguised as suicide and full of loopholes.

Lu Qingjia shook her head and said with a smile, "Who knows?"

"Help me call the person who first discovered the scene?"

The boss' mother was the first to discover the scene. Although she looked angry at this time, she was not very sad.

During Lu Qingjia's questioning, he learned that she brought the coffee first.

Seeing the boss coming out of the workshop, she seemed to be in a bad mood, so she brought a cup of coffee into the study and discussed some things with him.

"Can you tell me what's the matter?"

Seeing the displeasure on the old lady's face, Lu Qingjia said with a smile: "You know, the dead are the most important. You don't want your son to die with unwillingness and grievances, do you?"

The old lady then said: "As for the distribution of pensions, he inherited this house and this factory from my father and me, but now he wants to send me to his brother."

Lu Qingjia nodded without asking any further questions, and said, "Okay, that's all I want to ask, you can go back first."

The words that the old lady had prepared were held back in her stomach like this, and she felt a little choked.

But looking at Lu Qingjia, the other party really looked like he had no interest in extra things, so he walked out of the room resentfully.

Then the daughter of the deceased was called in. The appearance of the other party was different from the gloomy and conservative wax museum, with revealing clothes and heavy makeup.

It can be seen that she has a lot of interest in Lu Qingjia, and she started to cry as soon as she came in, but the crying sounded like a pretentious taste.

"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 said to your father? It is said that when you ran out of the study, you looked a little panicked, and you didn't apologize for bumping into your grandma."

The boss's daughter's eyes were a little empty: "I had a fight with my father, and he was so angry that he had angina, so he was very disturbed. I really didn't kill my father."

"Since I came out, my brother and mother have both entered the study. They can testify."

"Okay, I believe you." Lu Qingjia smiled and invited her out of the room.

The boss's daughter also felt a bit out of touch.

After the boss's son came in, Lu Qingjia shared the testimony of the boss' daughter and confirmed to him: "Is 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 seemed to be asleep. The back of his executive chair is so thick, and I can't see clearly. , I thought he was asleep, so I secretly took my game console that he confiscated."

"It means you didn't see your father's face the whole time?"

"Yes." The boss's son said, "It must have been done by my grandma or my sister. I can't guarantee that my father will be dead when I come in."

Lu Qingjia patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "I'll judge the result, so don't talk too much, you know?"

The boss's son's face froze, and he went out the door with gloomy eyes.

The last one came in was the proprietress. The other party repeatedly emphasized that her child could never be the murderer. The two of them are still young, so don't put too much pressure on them. The death of their father was already sad, but now they have to be treated as suspects. I don't know. how sad.

After hearing her finish, Lu Qingjia said: "Speaking of it, it's not too cold knowledge, but this kind of tape secret room is actually very easy to arrange."

Just put half of the tape on the door before you go out, leave the other half free, and vacuum it from the door frame to create a seemingly harmless room.

Lu Qingjia approached the other party and said: "Just now when you came down with the vacuum cleaner, the brush head and the suction pipe were separated, and you said that the carpet was dirty, but there was no hair or dust on the bristles of the brush head. It’s like using a suction tube.”

"Don't you think this is too inefficient?"

The proprietress raised her head, her thin face looked sad, her expression was sad and desperate, her lips trembled: "You, do you want to judge that the murderer is me?"

Lu Qingjia looked at the other party. At this moment, the air in the study was like taut silk, as if his next sentence could influence a person's fate.

The proprietress's face was covered with cold sweat, and there was a kind of expectation that the knife would come down quickly.

But Lu Qingjia chuckled: "How could it be? 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 wrong anyone casually. Now that I've finished my questioning, it's not the law to keep the boss's body here all the time. You can find a place, and I'll have someone move the boss's body there first."

For a moment, the proprietress saw Lu Qingjia's expression was a little hideous and weird.

But before revealing his flaws, he let out a sigh of relief: "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Lu."

Lu Qingjia chose a tall player who took the power route to carry the boss's body, and went out with the boss's wife.

He also asked the boss's children and mother to act together as much as possible and not to be separated, so he called the players back to the workshop together.

"Why don't you expose the proprietress directly?" Someone asked: "It's obviously her, right? Even if it's not her, it's probably her two children."

"In order not to expose her child's murder, she made this secret room as a cover after she found out."

Some people objected: "I think it's the boss's mother. Wasn't she the one who brought the cup of coffee to the boss? She was the first to find the body afterwards."

"She is an old lady. When she found that the door couldn't be opened, she didn't want to call for help, nor did she find out what was going on inside, so she just broke in."

"Maybe the boss was just asleep before she broke the door, and after she broke in, she stabbed the boss to death. In fact, this secret room is just a cover, and the timing of the killing is not right at all."

"Then how did she arrange the tape?" Someone retorted: "It's impossible for the boss to put the tape on himself, right? Then how does she know that the boss will put the tape? It was negotiated?"

"If you want me to say, maybe this is not a conspiracy at all, but several conspiracies put together, so there is a complicated situation now."

After finishing speaking, he turned his attention to Lu Qingjia: "By the way, didn't you say that you can solve the case in 5 minutes and continue the mission? It's been almost half an hour."

"It's already broken." Lu Qingjia said: "After entering the study for 5 minutes, isn't everything I did afterwards paving the way for making the wax figure?"

"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 his mind, "system, has the main mission been unlocked?"

Although the system's voice is inorganic, it is inexplicably reluctant at the moment: "Player Lu Qingjia has solved the mystery of the murder in the secret room, the side mission is completed, and the main mission is unlocked."

"When did it happen?" Everyone was dumbfounded: "No, why didn't you tell me?"

"Not only did you not say anything, but you still pretended to ask them one by one why? Wasting time, isn't it?"

"How could it be a waste of time? This is an important step in the main quest."

As he spoke, he saw a puddle of mud appearing on the ground. The players were startled, and then realized that it should be Lu Qingjia's ability.

Something wrapped in the mud came out, and after the mud cleared, everyone found that the thing inside was the boss's body.

"What are you doing with this?" Someone broke down.

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Since they want to play a show to delay time, wouldn't it be a waste of my heart if I don't seize the opportunity they provide?"

As he spoke, he threw the boss's body into the pot of wax oil.

When the leg came into contact with the wax oil, perhaps it was a severe pain, and the boss' eyes opened suddenly.

Glancing at the surrounding environment, he instantly understood the situation. Seeing his lower body melted in the wax, he was about to struggle.

But Lu Qingjia held his head down, slowly stuffed him into the pot, and grinned at the boss, "Eh? Isn't he already dead? Fraud of a dead body is against the Basic Law."

"Woo, woo~~" The boss struggled endlessly, but his strength was far from being able to compare with Lu Qingjia, who had the blood of the gods, who had already reached the limit of his physical fitness unlocked at this level with the flood of points.

The wax oil splashed out of the pot due to his struggle was all 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 melted and sank while sinking, so it wasn't a big burden.

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 around with a big spoon.

A group of players looked dumbfounded.

"Damn, what the hell happened? The boss' grandson didn't die at all? They teamed up to create the so-called case just to delay time?"

Lu Qingjia nodded: "That's right."

"No, when did you know?"

"Almost at the beginning."

"..."

"First of all, this sudden murder case is obviously hindering us from completing the mission setting. 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 on their own?"

"After all, the timing is too coincidental. It's almost a commotion created by pinching."

"However, the probability of either 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 this family did it purposefully. It seems that they are not controlled by the plot, but subjectively know that they want to hinder us."

"No, what did we see?" Several players broke down and said, "Brother, speak clearly?"

"The adhesive tape on the door frame has a conspicuous fingerprint at the bottom. It belongs to the boss. It should be that he talked to us before he left, and the palms secreted too much sweat and oil under the emotion, which caused the obvious finger marks."

"When the scream came, the door of the workshop was closed, but we could hear it clearly, which shows that the sound insulation effect of the whole house is average, at least the loud sound cannot be completely isolated."

"The proprietress came down with a vacuum cleaner, claiming that she had just used the vacuum cleaner, but before that, none of us heard the sound of the vacuum cleaner running. Hers was a high-power vacuum cleaner with a bulky appearance and an old style. With the hearing power of our players, she But if you drive it for a while, you won’t be able to hear a little movement. It means that she has never used it at all, whether it is cleaning or using a vacuum cleaner to absorb tape to create a secret room.”

"The reason why we saw her coming down the stairs with a vacuum cleaner was nothing more than a misleading clue specially given."

"I also asked the people who came in after the boss's mother 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: "Those people who were so flustered that they couldn't even remember whether the tape on the window had been pasted when they entered the study room actually remembered the weight of a cup of coffee on the table. Clearly."

"Obviously the position of the window is more eye-catching, and the silver-gray tape is also incompatible with the wallpaper."

"That is to say, they were misleading the whole process?" The female player said: "They don't even care who we will find out the murderer in the end, as long as we give the wrong answer and can't unlock the main mission, they will win?"

"Yes." Lu Qingjia nodded: "After confirming these points, I gave the system an answer in my mind. The truth of the murder in the secret room is that the boss committed suicide."

"This is a pretentious suicide disguised as a homicide. The owner of the tape pasted it himself, drank the sleeping pills and stabbed himself before the effect of the medicine took effect, deliberately used awkward postures, and the whole family discussed which redundant ones to create. Act as a blindfold."

"But it's enough for you to understand that what they need is our wrong answer. Then the problem comes, if you are led away 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, and the probability will be minimized?"

"Dead!" A player answered subconsciously, and then knocked his head: "I'm a fucking pig's brain."

Having said that, Lu Qingjia's stirring action also stopped.

Then he was covered with a layer of mud, 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 on the mold.

Originally not very obedient and aggressive wax oil, after absorbing the boss's body, it was enough to make a stable wax figure for one person.

Fill the mold, then use the ability to cool it, and then peel it off to form a lifelike wax figure of Lu Qingjia's body.

Lu Qingjia looked at it for a while, then shook his head: "I still have to paint, who of you has art skills?"

"There should be, right? Now that this task is released, people with corresponding abilities will definitely be assigned."

A fashionable male player said: "I, I'm a makeup artist. According to everyone's words, it should be fine."

Others saw that a wax figure was completed, although it was a bit irritating, but it was somewhat gratifying that a part of the progress had been completed.

Then he asked: "This amount is only enough for one person, right? Then what shall we do next?"

Lu Qingjia smiled, and suddenly looked at a wax figure next to her. This wax figure was the one that was almost burned before.

He asked pointedly: "What I told you just now, but you overlooked an important detail."

"What, what?" Everyone felt guilty and worshiped Lu Qingjia like a poor student facing his 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 figure."

"Then here comes the problem. There is no camera in the workshop. With everyone's vigilance up to now, even if there is a hidden camera, I believe that even if I don't use props to block the signal, I should believe that I will do so."

"Since there is no way to observe everything that happens in the workshop with technological means, how do they know our actions like the back of their hands?"

Lu Qingjia stretched out his hand and touched the wax figure in front of him. There seemed to be more wax on the other person's body, as if a person was sweating 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?"

As he spoke, he looked at the wax people, showing a puzzled expression: "Huh? I have seen that I made the boss into a wax figure, and you still haven't chosen to escape?"

He showed a malicious smile: "Your sense of crisis is really bad. Obviously we will deliver at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the boss's body is only enough to make a wax figure."

"Then where to find the rest, isn't it obvious?"

As soon as the words fell, something seemed to be pulling away from the wax figure, but it was too late.

At the same time, several desperate roars came from outside.

The players went out and found that the whole house was surrounded by a huge bubble. The bubble looked flimsy and soft, and it burst when poked.

But in reality, it is extremely flexible and unbreakable, at least for the people in this house.

The remaining four members of the boss's family were 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 the barrier.

Until he heard footsteps behind him, he turned his head and looked at the leader Lu Qingjia as if he had seen a ghost.

"You, what do you want to do?"

Lu Qingjia smiled: "It's nothing, it's just the defective materials for making wax figures that will be delivered in the afternoon, and I want to borrow them temporarily from a few of you."

"For the reputation of a century-old family business, you can't even make this little sacrifice, can you?"

The boss's family trembled, while the players behind looked at each other——

Why, how does it feel, they suddenly became the big boss of this horrible wax museum?