The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Chapter 23 [Bloody Maple Leaf-04]

Xiao Lou pretended to be a new teacher and followed the students of Class 3 ([-]) to the playground.

He walked around the playground openly and aboveboard. On the surface, it seemed that the new teacher was observing the school environment. In fact, he had been vigilantly paying attention to the students in Class 3—especially Ying Xiaoya, Xie Xinghe, Yu Hui, Yi Ru, the four students whose names appeared before.

The murder has not happened yet, and it is not yet known what role these students played in the case.They are all likely to become the dead, and they are all likely to become murderers, witnesses, and important clue witnesses.

Therefore, any clues cannot be let go.

The students in class 3 run around the playground collectively under the supervision of the head teacher.

The squad leader Xie Xinghe's face was very stiff.From his performance in English class, it can be inferred that Xie Xinghe is a top student who is very popular with the teacher.As a squad leader, I also have a sense of responsibility.He has a gentle appearance and a thin figure. He wears a white shirt under the school uniform and a pair of bookish glasses, which fits the image of a "student bully" very well.

Yu Hui is the complete opposite. He has a handsome appearance and a strong physique, obviously the result of long-term exercise.He is wearing a pair of very professional brand-name basketball shoes, and he should like playing basketball very much. He is the type of sports boy favored by high school girls.

Ying Xiaoya is a pretty little beauty with poor grades.

Her deskmate, Yi Ru, is a fat girl with a very ordinary appearance.

Xiao Lou carefully observed the interaction between the four people, and soon realized that the relationship between Ying Xiaoya and Yu Hui was unusual. Yu Hui always protected Ying Xiaoya intentionally or unintentionally, and secretly stuffed Ying Xiaoya Chocolate, this scene did not escape Xiao Lou's eyes.

Yi Ru seemed to be a little interested in the aloof squad leader, and looked at Xie Xinghe in front of him many times during the run.

As for Xie Xinghe, he put on a bad face from the beginning to the end, obviously his grades were good, and he was very upset to be punished with everyone.

After running ten laps in a row, the class teacher asked everyone to stop and rest, and then said: "Yu Hui, take a rest for 10 minutes and continue running laps! Ying Xiaoya, come with me to the office."

He called Ying Xiaoya to the office alone for a lecture, and Xiao Lou immediately followed vigilantly.

Lou Xiao is very familiar with the layout of the school. There are air corridors connecting the administrative building and the three teaching buildings. The head teacher walks from the third-grade teaching building to the third floor, and then walks through the air corridor to the language office around the corner.

The office happened to be empty, and it was surprisingly quiet.Therefore, the voice inside was clearly transmitted to Xiao Lou's ears.

The teacher in charge sighed, and said, "Xiaoya, in this monthly exam, your score is the last in the whole grade. You scored 15 points in English, 20 points in Chinese, 10 points in comprehensive science, and math...you actually passed the test for me. 0 marks!"

Xiao Lou: "..."

This girl's grades are too miserable.

Ying Xiaoya lowered her head, bit her lip, and tightly twisted her hands together.

The teacher in charge continued: "Xie Xinghe scored 150 points in mathematics alone, and all your subjects add up to 50 points, which is only a fraction of his one class. Tell me, what happened to you during this time?"

Ying Xiaoya didn't speak.

The head teacher knocked on the table, his voice was serious: "Are you busy dating Yu Hui?!"

Ying Xiaoya's face suddenly became extremely pale. She clenched her fingers and said in a trembling voice: "No! Teacher, Yu Hui and I are just good, good friends. Really, you believe me..."

The class teacher stared at her coldly: "The teacher is also someone who came here. Do you think I can't see it? That kid Yu Hui gives you chocolates every day, and goes home with you after school at night. Many people in the class saw it and said you I don’t know what to talk to him at the school gate in the middle of the night.”

Ying Xiaoya wanted to refute, but the teacher in charge interrupted her directly: "There is no need to explain. You are young and ignorant now, and it is normal to like someone. However, you are already in the third year of high school, so you must understand that the most important thing right now is your studies."

"Yu Hui's grades in cultural subjects are not good, and he has already told me that he wants to go to a sports school. You can study hard first, and you can go to the same city as him, and then it's not too late to fall in love, right? Don't just because This matter affects your future!"

The head teacher is quite sensible, and he is kind to the students who fall in love with each other earnestly and kindly, instead of scolding them all over the face.

He took out a report card and said, "You got a total score of 350 in the last monthly exam, and you were in the middle of the class. You have always been serious about your studies. I thought you would make progress in this monthly exam, but I didn't expect your score to go straight to Waterloo." ——From 350 points to 50 points!" He pushed the report card in front of Ying Xiaoya, looking at her helplessly, "Tell me, does falling in love affect you too much?"

Ying Xiaoya's hands were almost twisted into twists, she seemed to be very conflicted, and after a long time, she whispered: "Teacher, it's not what you think, my grades have declined during this period, in fact, it's because..."

Xiao Lou pricked up his ears, and was about to listen to key information, but at this moment, a young Chinese teacher just opened the door and entered the office. When he saw her, he was taken aback, and said with a smile: "Old Zhao, you are training your class again. Where are the students?"

Ying Xiaoya's face turned pale, she lowered her head and refused to speak.

This teacher came at the wrong time. The head teacher smiled and said, "Okay, you can go. Remember what I said, focus on your studies, and wait until the college entrance examination is over to discuss all other problems. You are a very serious and hardworking person." Students, the teacher believes that as long as you put your mind on your studies, your grades will definitely catch up."

Ying Xiaoya was silent for a moment, bowed deeply to the teacher, turned and left.

The female teacher who just walked in poured a cup of coffee and gossiped, "Old Zhao, is this Ying Xiaoya? The last one in the whole grade?"

The homeroom teacher squeezed the center of her brows with a headache: "This girl is probably in a relationship, her grades have plummeted, and she actually gave me 0 points in math. I thought I was dazzled when I saw it."

The female teacher laughed out loud: "How did you score 0 on the test? Randomly guess the multiple-choice questions, and you didn't get any of them right?"

Teacher Zhao shook her head and sighed: "I don't know how she passed the exam. All the questions are wrong, alas, the child now..."

The two began to sigh with emotion, "Students are really hard to manage now", "We were so innocent back then"... The following non-nutritive conversation was not informative, and Xiao Lou found that Ying Xiaoya left the office dejectedly, so he followed her calmly. past.

Ying Xiaoya walked directly from the air corridor back to the third (3) class of Chongwen Building, Xiao Lou found that Yu Hanjiang was waiting for him in the corridor.

A man with a strong sense of presence like Yu Hanjiang stood in the middle of the corridor, and when Ying Xiaoya passed by him, she didn't even look at him—this girl was out of her mind, her feet seemed to be sleepwalking.

Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at her back.

Just when the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the teachers and students of each class came out of the classroom. Some teachers who returned to the office would look at the two strange faces of Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang suspiciously.

Xiao Lou smiled at them, walked towards Yu Hanjiang calmly, and said, "Teacher Yu, I'm looking for you."

Yu Hanjiang acted cooperatively: "Mr. Xiao, I have something to discuss with you, let's talk while walking."

The two walked side by side in the air corridor without squinting. Passers-by thought they were teachers from other grades and did not suspect them.

The school is big, that's the advantage.There are too many teachers, and teachers of different grades may not see each other several times a year. The two calmly mixed in as "teachers", avoiding the surveillance in the teaching building, and quickly walked to the corner.

Yu Hanjiang stopped and asked in a low voice, "What did you find?"

Xiao Lou lowered his voice and quickly told Team Yu what he knew: "The class teacher just asked Ying Xiaoya to give a lecture alone. She used to have good grades and was at the middle level. This time, she actually got the bottom No. 1 in the whole grade. Her grades suddenly plummeted. , must have encountered a major change in life. The head teacher concluded that she and Yu Hui are in love, but I always feel that there are other reasons."

Yu Hanjiang was thoughtful: "I found a love letter in Ying Xiaoya's drawer. It was typed and not signed, so I couldn't determine the source. In addition, there was a piece of paper in Ying Xiaoya's book with messy drawings on it. , and repeated a sentence repeatedly: What should I do."

The head teacher drove the whole class to the playground for a run, and emptied the classroom of Class 3 ([-]) of Senior High School without locking the door. Obviously, this was the opportunity given to them by the world of secret rooms—deliberately leaving time for the challenger to collect clues.

Yu Hanjiang's ability to collect evidence on the spot is more professional than Xiao Lou's, and he searched the entire classroom in just 10 minutes.

He speeded up his speech and told Xiao Lou what he found: "Yu Hui's schoolbag has a box of chocolates and a scarf for girls; Xie Xinghe's schoolbag is full of reference materials, but he accidentally found a novel "The Count of Monte Cristo"; Yiru found an exquisite gift box in her drawer, which contained some folded origami cranes. The other students should not have much to do with the case, and only textbooks are in their schoolbags."

Xiao Lou rubbed his chin and concluded: "So, both Yu Hui and Xie Xinghe may like Ying Xiaoya; Yi Ru may like one of the boys and fold a thousand paper cranes to give away?"

Yu Hanjiang frowned: "Look again, I don't think it's that simple."

Xiao Lou was also lost in thought.

Curses, love letters, chocolates, paper cranes, the famous book "The Count of Monte Cristo", and Ying Xiaoya's grades suddenly plummeted. What is the relationship between these clues?

***

The second class is math class.

The math teacher asked the class monitor to hand out the papers, and said with a cold face: "In this exam, there are two extremes in our class—Xie Xinghe, who has a perfect score of 150, is the only perfect score in the whole grade. There is also a classmate who failed the math test. 0 points, and the only 0 points in the whole grade."

The whole class looked at me and I looked at you, as if they were all looking for the unlucky guy who scored 0 in the exam.

Ying Xiaoya lowered her head and held the test paper tightly in her hand.

The math teacher said: "This class is about the papers. If you fail the exam, you will reflect on yourself. I will copy the wrong questions ten times."

Nothing happened during the whole class, the math teacher spoke the papers calmly, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang also listened to trigonometric functions, equations, space vectors for a class... Yu Hanjiang got a headache, but Xiao Lou listened with gusto.

After the second class ended, it happened to be time for inter-class exercises. Xie Xinghe frowned and looked at Ying Xiaoya and said, "If you don't wear a school uniform for inter-class exercises, you will be deducted from the class grade. Don't go, change with someone else, stay in the classroom and do it." On duty."

Ying Xiaoya nodded slightly.

Yu Hui walked over and put his arms around a boy's shoulders: "Dude, change, I'm on duty today."

The boy glanced at him, then at Ying Xiaoya, with a look of "I understand", and ran away with a smile.

Soon, the students filed out, only Yu Hui and Ying Xiaoya were left in the classroom.

Yu Hui asked in a low voice: "Old Ban called you over just now, what did you say?"

Ying Xiaoya said with a pale face: "No, it's nothing, just let me study hard..."

Yu Hui scratched his hair impatiently: "What's the situation with you this time? I remember that you used to be good at English, and your grades were always around 70 points. Why did you only get 15 points this time?"

Ying Xiaoya was so frustrated that she almost cried, "I, I made a mistake on the answer sheet."

"...Fuck." Yu Hui walked over, gently rubbed her hair, and said, "Don't mind, Mrs. Zhang has recently passed menopause and scolded people every day. It's already considered polite for her to just stand for you. Last time, she took a ruler Pick me. It’s just a monthly exam, just pass it next time.”

Ying Xiaoya finally smiled: "Yes."

The two were chatting and sweeping the floor. The sunlight outside the window shone on them through the screen, and the picture was warm and beautiful.

Yu Hui suddenly thought of something, took out a scarf and chocolates from his schoolbag, handed them to her, and said, "This is a gift my brother bought for you. Today is your birthday——Happy birthday, Xiaoya."

Ying Xiaoya was stunned, tears welled up in her eyes, she took the scarf tremblingly, and said, "Thank you..."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other.

The conversation between Yu Hui and Ying Xiaoya reveals a key message, today is Ying Xiaoya's birthday, this girl is really unlucky, on the day of her birthday, she was punished to stand in English class, she was taken to lecture by the class teacher, and she still had to take the math test. 0 points...

Perhaps for her, this scarf is the only warmth on her 18th birthday.

***

After the recess exercises, the teacher continued to explain the papers in the third physics class. Ying Xiaoya was at the bottom of the test, and was scolded by the physics teacher again, and the girl's face became paler and paler.

In the fourth class, a burly young male teacher suddenly walked in and said: "Your chemistry teacher is sick today, and the first physical education class tomorrow afternoon will be swapped with today's fourth chemistry class—sports committee member, take everyone to basketball." Warm up!"

Yu Hui stood up and led the students to the court.

The physical education teacher simply organized a class basketball match. He divided the boys into two groups to fight against each other. Yu Hui and Xie Xinghe happened to be in two teams.

Yu Hui is a sports committee member. He is tall and has a very high shooting percentage.Surprisingly, Xie Xinghe looked thin and refined, but he played basketball well.After several rounds, the scores of the two sides have been deadlocked.

At 25:23, Yu Hui's handsome slam dunk caused the girls around to scream excitedly.

At 25:26, Xie Xinghe actually hit a three-pointer accurately.

Yu Hui grabbed the rebound, dribbled the basketball quickly, and was blocked by Xie Xinghe near the penalty area.He raised his eyebrows, made a fake move to the left, and then dribbled the basketball in the opposite direction to break through.However, Xie Xinghe seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and deliberately went to the right to stop him. Yu Hui moved too fast, and the two collided with each other with a "bang".

Xie Xinghe was knocked to the ground by the huge force, his knees were blue; Yu Hui also had a hard time, his head was smashed and blood flowed.

This solid bump completely ignited Yu Hui's anger, he stood up and tore Xie Xinghe's collar forcefully, cursing while wiping the blood from his face: "Did you fucking do it on purpose?"

Xie Xinghe patted the dust off his body: "I am defending myself, but you are blind and insist on bumping into me."

The physical education teacher went to answer the phone, but he was not there.As soon as the two started fighting, the class immediately became a mess. The boys from the two teams fought together, swearing, and the girls nervously tried to persuade them to fight.Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang stood watching from a distance, but at this moment, they suddenly heard a cold system voice prompting in their ears: "The security guard is approaching, the distance is 20 meters, 15 meters..."

The four security guards patrolling the school saw the students fighting and ran over immediately.

Without hesitation, Yu Hanjiang grabbed Xiao Lou's arm, turned around and left!

If discovered by the security guards, they will be directly eliminated from the game——the security guards are the only obstacle in the secret room of Heart 3, and they must not be hit head-on.

Four security guards surrounded them from four directions, and the two had nowhere to hide. If Team Yu hadn't reacted quickly, they would have been caught straight away.

Yu Hanjiang pulled Xiao Lou to hide behind a big tree.

Team Yu ran too fast, Xiao Lou was dragged to run, almost tripped, he took a deep breath and looked towards the basketball court with lingering fear.

The chaotic fighting scene was quickly subsided, Yu Hui and Xie Xinghe had blood on their faces, the physical education teacher rushed over, and made all the students in the class stand as punishment with a sullen face.

Xiao Lou glanced around, his back froze suddenly: "Where is Ying Xiaoya?"

Yu Hanjiang also found that there was no Ying Xiaoya in the queue, and his face suddenly turned ugly: "She took advantage of the chaos and left!"

The next moment, a girl's scream suddenly sounded not far behind her.

The sharp cry, the decibels were raised to the extreme, almost piercing the eardrums of people: "Ahhh—"

The security guards were taken aback and immediately ran over following the screams.Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou couldn't run into the security guard head-on, so they had to quickly follow behind them, trying to find buildings and trees to cover themselves.

however……

As soon as they passed the corner, the two knew the reason for the screams.

Directly below the Xingzhi Building, on the concrete floor next to the flower bed, a girl was lying there quietly, motionless.

Her side face has been stained by the glaring blood so that she can't see clearly, her short black hair is scattered in a mess, and the blood flowing from the bottom of her head is still slowly spreading around, staining the white around her neck red scarf.

——That scarf was Yu Hui's 18th birthday gift to Ying Xiaoya just now.

Xiao Lou gasped.

Ying Xiaoya actually jumped off the building under his and Yu Hanjiang's noses!

The author has something to say:

There will be a difference between the setting of the secret room and the real world, so please don't substitute reality.For example, if the English teacher asks to translate words related to "curse", the security guards will add obstacles to the challenger, and the teachers and students do not know them to facilitate their collection of evidence.

All plots are for challengers to solve puzzles.

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