The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

After deciding to choose the secret room of hearts, Xiao Lou asked the gatekeeper: "For the secret rooms of hearts 3 and 4, can you unlock the secret room in the next stage by clearing one of them, or do you need to clear both of them, but the order can be changed. Freedom of choice?"

The boy with plum blossoms said: "Hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs, each clearing a C-level secret room can unlock the next stage of the B-level secret room." But immediately after, he reminded: "However, I suggest You all go to challenge, because these C-level secret rooms are relatively simple, and it is easy to achieve the condition of 'perfect clearance', and draw more good cards in the limited card pool."

Xiao Lou already knew this.

He cleared the level perfectly with 2 hearts, 2 diamonds, and 2 spades. He drew "Tao Yuanming", "compass", and "zombie leader" three cards respectively, each of which was very strong.Judging from the weapon cards and equipment cards that Yu Hanjiang drew, the cards in this world are much richer than he imagined.

The low-level secret room is relatively simple, and you can draw a limited card pool if you pass the level perfectly. The probability of getting a good card is extremely high. This is also some preferential treatment for novices in the card world.In the later stage of the team's secret room, it is a blessing to be able to pass the level. It must be difficult to pass the level perfectly.

Yu Hanjiang also had the same thought. Looking at Xiao Lou, he suggested, "If we can pass all the cards, we should not skip the level. Now that the difficulty of the secret room is not up, we can get more cards."

Xiao Lou nodded in agreement, and said, "To go to the 3 of hearts or the 4 of hearts, Team Yu decides for you."

Yu Hanjiang didn't refuse, and simply stretched out his hand, and directly pulled out the "3 of Hearts" card from the card wall.

Gatekeeper: "Heart 3 Secret Room [Blood Maple Leaf] is being generated, both of you, please get ready, the countdown is 10, 9, 8..."

The young man's voice gradually faded away in his ears, and when he counted to "5", Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly became dark, and it took a few seconds before it suddenly lit up.

Xiao Lou squinted his eyes, quickly adapted to the harsh light, and quickly looked around.

——Where is Yu Hanjiang?

He unexpectedly found that Captain Yu was not by his side.

According to the rules of the contract, the two of them had already signed the contract, and they would be forcibly dragged into the same world. Therefore, it was impossible for him to come in, but Yu Hanjiang did not.

The only possibility is that the two of them were teleported to different locations in the secret room world.

Xiao Lou figured it out quickly.

Different locations have different clues.Since it is a secret room where two people work together, each must find some clues first, and then gather the clues together when the two meet, and then analyze them together.

This is somewhat similar to the traditional "escape room game".He used to play a real-life escape room game, and everyone searched for clues separately, and whoever found it asked his friends to watch it together.It's just that the escape rooms in the past were all indoor games, and the space was limited. You can see each other when you turn around, and everyone can hear you when you shout.

But now, the secret room world of 3 of Hearts is too big.

Xiao Lou raised his head and found himself standing at the gate of a school.

The gate of this school is very imposing, and there are numerous golden medals pasted on the wall on the right, such as "Key Middle School of the City", "Psychological Education Demonstration School", "Advanced Youth League Committee Organization", "Advanced Collective"...

At the very top of the gate, there is a line of chic cursive script——

Maplewood High School.

When Xiao Lou looked around, the entire campus was extremely quiet, and no one could be seen.

Instead, you can see a large maple forest on the side of the school.

The time in the secret room world should be autumn, and there has just been a light rain, and the ground still exudes a damp smell soaked by rain.A gust of wind blows, and countless red maple leaves fall with the wind, laying a thick red carpet on the ground.Looking from a distance, those maple leaves were washed by the rain, and they were extremely red, floating in the air, as if they were stained with blood.

Fenglin High School, the origin of the school's name is obviously related to the maple forest in the school.

Xiao Lou didn't know whether he should go in, or stand at the door and wait and see.

Bloody Maple Leaf, judging from the name of the secret room, there should be a murder on this campus?But before he would receive a prompt after entering the secret room, this time there was no prompt at all, and he couldn't even see the countdown of the most common levels.

With no retreat behind him, Xiao Lou had no choice but to walk into the school gate.

The moment he stepped into the school gate, the familiar floating frame and text prompt finally appeared——

Welcome Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang to enter the Heart 3 Secret Room [Bloody Maple Leaf].

1. This secret room is a suspenseful secret room with no time limit.When to solve the puzzle, when can go out.If you can't solve the puzzle, you will stay in the world of secret rooms forever.

2. The C-level secret room no longer has the prompt of "clue collection degree".The clearance score is related to the time to solve the puzzle. The shorter the time to find the murderer, the higher the score will be.

3. The time flow rate of the 3-of-hearts chamber is different from that of the card world.Every day here, the card world only has 24 minutes.The normal operation of your body's various functions is based on the time flow rate of the 3 chambers of hearts.You will have physiological reactions such as hunger and fatigue. The school has a canteen, and the gold coins obtained in the Plum Blossom Chamber can be used here, so you don’t have to worry about the ending of "starving to death".

4. Today is the weekend, the school does not have classes, the two can enter the campus to explore by themselves.

5. Note that you are outsiders. Once discovered by the security guards, you will be expelled from the school. Please be careful to avoid the patrols of the security guards, and do not collide with the school security guards.If you are caught by security, you will fail to break through the level and be eliminated directly.

6. This is a cursed school.It is said that the reason why the maple leaves are so red is because the maple tree has absorbed too much blood.

After the text prompt ended, a "ding" sound came from my ear: "You have obtained a limited card for the secret room, please check the card package."

Xiao Lou immediately opened his card bag and found a new card lying inside.

Equipment Card: Cloak of Invisibility

Rarity: A

Description: A limited card for the 3-of-hearts chamber, the card is automatically destroyed after leaving the 3-of-hearts chamber.

Use effect: Put on the invisibility cloak, and immediately enter the invisible state, which lasts for 30 minutes.During the period of invisibility, you will become a transparent person. People in the secret room world cannot see you, and neither can your partners.

Restriction: It can only be used once a day, please pay attention to the timing of use.

Xiao Lou put the card away, looked at the text in the floating frame again, and extracted the key information.

In the previous Secret Room of Hearts 2, after he entered the room, he collected clues at the scene of the crime and reasoned about the murderer—this was a static secret room, and all the evidence was kept in place.

However, when it comes to the 3-of-hearts secret room, it becomes a dynamic plot secret room.

He must enter this school as a bystander.

The puzzle that needs to be solved by him has not yet appeared.

It can be inferred from the reminder that the school will not be in class this weekend, this is time for him and Yu Hanjiang to get familiar with the school environment.During this time, they must at least memorize the school map and find out the location of each class and office.

The case should begin Monday, when school begins.

They need to conduct a quick investigation in the school without being discovered by the security guards, and deduce the murderer.This difficulty is more than double that of a static secret room where only one person collects evidence.

However, the difficulty of the C-level secret room is not too much after all-only the obstacle of "security" is set.

The rules say that if you are caught by the security guards, you will fail to pass the customs. It does not say that if you are discovered by teachers and students, you will be expelled from the school.Moreover, the secret room also issued a limited card of "invisibility cloak", which is really not good, and it can save life by directly wearing the invisibility cloak in times of danger.

Xiao Lou, who wanted to understand this, immediately entered the school and quickly observed the surrounding environment.

He quickly found a brief introduction of the school and an overhead map of the entire campus on the huge stone tablet near the school gate.

***

Maplewood High School was established 5 years ago.

The architectural theme here is obviously related to maple trees, and all the building colors are painted in a red color similar to maple leaves.

The school has complete teaching equipment, strong teachers, and first-class hardware facilities. It not only has a green court, a rubber track, 8 outdoor basketball courts, but also an indoor gymnasium and a library, almost comparable to a small university.

As a local key high school, Fenglin High School has more than 3000 students and more than 300 teachers.Among them, there are 23 "secondary school teachers" - this is all the information revealed in the brief introduction on the stone tablet at the door.

Xiao Lou himself is an associate professor at the university and is very familiar with the education system.For first-level teachers in high school, the education bureau of each district will have a limit on the number of people, one radish and one hole, and only the old teachers will retire to make up the vacant places, and the subsequent teachers will be able to fill the seats.Moreover, there are requirements for working years to be able to be evaluated for higher-level professional titles. Generally, only those who have taught for more than 10 years are eligible for selection.

There are 23 first-level teachers in this school, which is worthy of being a key high school in the city.But the strange thing is that this school is not a well-established school-it was established 5 years ago, and it is a very new school, which means that most of the teachers are transferred from other places.

There are six buildings in the school.

The building facing the school gate at the front is seven stories high, with "Xingzhi Building" written on it, and it is an administrative office building.

There are three strip-shaped buildings behind the administrative building, all of which are four stories high. Each floor has an air corridor to communicate with each other and connect with the administrative building to form a rectangular structure.The three buildings are called "Zhiyuan Building", "Siqi Building" and "Chongwen Building". The names are very meaningful. They are teaching buildings for the first, second and third grades.

Further back, there is a three-story building called "Shuxiang Building", which is the school's library and school calendar library.

The last building, shaped like a maple leaf, is directly marked with the three characters "Gymnasium".

Behind these buildings is a wide playground.

The air after the rain is extraordinarily fresh. On the quiet campus, the red rubber runway, green grass, blue sky, and white clouds—the whole scene is like a beautiful landscape painting.

Being in it, people can't help but recall their young student days.

At the back of the playground, there is a sizable maple forest, surrounded by many wooden seats, where students can rest and enjoy the beautiful scenery of falling maple leaves in their free time.

Except for the maple trees, there are flower beds under each teaching building in the school, and the environment is quite good.

This school should be a day school with no dormitory building.

Xiao Lou walked around the school and quickly figured out the layout of the whole school.

He stood by the playground and looked around, but he still didn't find any trace of Yu Hanjiang.

Where did Team Yu go?

In order for the two to reunite as soon as possible, Xiao Lou simply walked to the wooden seat next to the maple forest and sat down - the campus is so big, two people will miss each other if they walk around.Team Yu will definitely come to check on Maple Forest, why not just wait for him here.

While waiting for someone, Xiao Lou sorted out the layout of the school in his mind, memorizing the school floor plan in his heart.

After a while, there was a sound of steady footsteps behind him.

Xiao Lou turned his head and met a pair of dark and deep eyes.He smiled at the other party, moved to the side, motioned for Yu Hanjiang to come and sit down, and asked, "Captain Yu, where have you been?"

Yu Hanjiang walked up to him and sat down, and said, "I went to check the surveillance inside the school."

Xiao Lou: "..."

Being a policeman is really professional!

"The three teaching buildings in this school have surveillance cameras on each floor, and surveillance cameras in every classroom. The surveillance center of the entire school is in the security room of Xingzhi Building. I took a look and there are many The camera is broken."

Yu Hanjiang took out a blank workbook and a ballpoint pen, drew pictures on it, and explained to Xiao Lou while drawing: "The cameras on the west side of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors of Chongwen Building, the cameras on the east side of Siqi Building, and the south side of Zhiyuan Building are also There are Classes 3, 6, Class 2, Class 1, Class 7, Class [-], and the images in the monitoring center are all black. I checked inside the teaching building, and the camera is indeed broken.”

Xiao Lou: "..."

The police are different. In such a short period of time, they actually found out the distribution of surveillance cameras in the three teaching buildings, and found out all the broken cameras and surveillance blind spots!

Xiao Lou's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the distribution map and said, "The security room can see all the surveillance cameras of the school, so after school starts on Monday, our actions must avoid these surveillance cameras, right?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "That's right, we can do our best to avoid being discovered by the security guards by picking surveillance blind spots."

Xiao Lou was in admiration in his heart - if it wasn't for Captain Yu, he wouldn't have thought of checking the monitoring of the teaching building immediately, maybe he would have been discovered by the security guards during the operation.Of course, the security guards can't teleport over to catch him. Even if he is discovered, he can find a way to escape when the security guards rush over.But that's a bad idea, after all, it's not a good thing to be chased by security guards, and the cloak also has restrictions on its use.

Yu Hanjiang's anti-reconnaissance ability is top-notch. With this criminal investigation boss by his side, Xiao Lou's confidence doubled immediately.

Yu Hanjiang said: "What did you find?"

Xiao Lou said: "I went around the school, and I probably know the layout of the school. I will draw a picture for you."

He took Yu Hanjiang's notebook and pen, and quickly drew all the buildings on the blank paper.

Xiao Lou's memory is outstanding, and he is very sensitive to graphics, so even if the floor plan he draws is not a professional architectural design drawing, he can roughly indicate the shape, size, and distance of each building.

Yu Hanjiang looked at him appreciatively: "When I entered this world, I was on the first floor of the Xingzhi Building. I found that there was a problem with the monitoring. I went to check the monitoring first. I haven't had time to go all over the school."

The two of them checked the interior of the teaching building and the overall layout of the school. They cooperated with each other and quickly got a general idea of ​​the situation in Fenglin High School.The monitoring distribution map and the campus floor plan drawn in the homework book, the two also each copied a copy and put it in their pockets for later use. If the two need to separate later in the process, they will not go to the wrong place.

Xiao Lou pointed to the tall building facing the school gate, and asked, "Have you gone up to Xingzhi Building?"

Yu Hanjiang shook his head: "I found the security office on the first floor. There is a security guard on duty, but he fell asleep. I want to come to you first. I haven't checked the upper floors yet."

Xiao Lou thought for a while, and said: "The floating box reminded us that today is the weekend, and the school is closed. Let us explore by ourselves. The setting of the security guard sleeping is definitely for us to find out the layout of the school as soon as possible. Why don't we go and see it together?" look?"

Yu Hanjiang stood up simply: "Let's go."