The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Seeing Wells' body lying on the sofa, Xiao Lou immediately put on his gloves and bent over for an autopsy, while other teammates consciously searched for clues in the room.

Wells' eyes were wide open, and his tongue was half stuck out, which is a typical sign of hanging.There are obvious strangle marks on his neck. The marks show the characteristics of "the deepest in the center and gradually become shallower towards both sides". The width of the strangle marks is about three fingers.

In addition, no other obvious injuries were found on the body.

Xiao Lou quickly came up with the results of the autopsy: "The cause of death was mechanical suffocation. His shirt showed signs of being pulled violently, and two buttons fell off. The murder tool used by the murderer was probably his tie."

Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at the crumpled shirt on the man's body, and analyzed: "He must have drank a lot of wine at the party on Christmas Eve. After seeing off the guests, he fell asleep on the sofa. I didn't expect the murderer to return. Come back, tear off his tie, and simply strangle him."

This is a reasonable guess.

The carpet next to the sofa was very neat, and some red wine was spilled on the nearby floor tiles. They were all flakes, and there were no traces of being dragged in strips. The corpse had not been moved, and the murderer did not need to strangle Wells before moving him. Go back to the sofa.

Wells didn't go back to the bedroom to sleep, but fell asleep on the sofa, most likely because he was drunk.

Therefore, he did not know that his wife had been killed in the piano room on the second floor.

Xiao Lou looked back at his teammates and said, "Did you find anything?"

Ye Qi went to look through the trash can in the restaurant, and said, "The trash can is full of snack bags and various fruit peels, nothing special."

Shao Qingge walked around the kitchen and said: "There are a lot of drinks in the refrigerator, as well as unused fresh vegetables and meat. It seems that on Christmas Eve, this couple is a guest who personally cooks and entertains at home. .”

Lao Mo walked to the side of the restaurant and found a large garden outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. He tried to push the door, but the glass door couldn't be pushed open, as if it was fixed to death.Lao Mo turned his head and said: "The glass door of the restaurant should be unlocked with a mechanism. The garden outside is probably the last way for us to escape from the secret room."

Qu Wanyue and Long Sen went to search all the cabinets in the living room and found two photo albums in the TV cabinet.

Long Sen handed the photo album to Yu Hanjiang, and said, "Captain Yu, there may be some information about the main characters in the secret room here."

Yu Hanjiang immediately took it over, and he and Xiao Lou took a copy and looked through it carefully.

Xiao Louna's photo album is a personal photo collection of the hero and heroine, which are all single photos of the two before they went to college, including their annual birthday photos in childhood, and important events in elementary and middle school.

It can be seen from the photos that the heroine Shirley has been learning piano since she was very young, and there are many photos of her holding trophies after winning various piano competitions in the photo album.

The actor Wells' hobby is also a musical instrument. He learned the violin and often participated in various competitions when he was a child.

Although the two didn't have much intersection when they were young, the boy was wearing a suit and the girl was wearing a small skirt. The photos look good together.

There are a lot of blanks in the second half of the album. I don't know if there are no photos in the first place, or some of the photos have been removed?

The second photo album that Yu Hanjiang looked at recorded their college days.

The two are not in the same university.Wells studied at the School of Architecture at the Comprehensive University, while Shirley was a student at the School of Music, as evidenced by the pictures of the two at the school gate.

Their first group photo, with the big stage in the background.Both of them looked about 20 years old at the time. Shirley was wearing a beautiful performance dress, Wells was in a handsome black tuxedo, and the handsome man and the beautiful woman stood in front of the piano for a group photo. It's not close, it should be that we just met each other not long ago.

After that, there were more and more group photos, and they gradually started holding hands and hugging.

Yu Hanjiang quickly flipped through the photo of the two of them, looking for other people in the album.Soon, he confirmed the identities of several other people - the five people who took the most photos with the male and female protagonists were the five people who were invited to the Christmas Eve party, and the names of the five people were written on the back of the photos.

Dr. Simon is a university alumnus of the hero Wells, who graduated from medical school.In the photo, Simon is standing in front of the laboratory building, wearing a white coat and taking a photo with the male lead.This person was half a head taller than Wells, with a handsome appearance, wearing a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, and looked refined.

Jack is also a buddy of the hero Wells. The two obviously met in the college basketball club. There is a photo of them wearing jerseys and holding a basketball in the album. Jack is almost the same height as Wells.

Susan is a classmate of the actor. In the group photo, the two hold up the golden "design competition trophy" together. It seems that they have participated in some competition together and won the award. They can be regarded as work partners.

Both Martha and Karen are girlfriends of the heroine Shirley.The three girls made funny moves, wearing clothes of the same color and carrying bags of the same style. There are several photos of their girlfriends. It seems that the three of them are as close as sisters and have a very good relationship.

Yu Hanjiang sorted out these key photos, and said: "From the perspective of the relationship between the characters, among the five people who participated in the party, two men are friends of the host Wells. Of the three girls, two are best friends of the hostess. , one is a college classmate of the male host, and maybe also a business partner."

Combined with the graduation photo of five people found in the study, Xiao Lou said: "They are students of the same class and graduated in the same year. The seven of them took a photo together in bachelor uniforms, which shows that everyone knows each other and has a good relationship."

The photos can only confirm the identity of each person. It is impossible to tell who secretly has emotional entanglements with the male lead or the female lead.Unlike the photo of Heart 2, where the groomsmen are staring straight at the bride, the directionality is so obvious.

Yu Hanjiang said: "All five of them may be the murderer, and then look at the little girl's graffiti."

Lucia drew a picture in her graffiti. On the day of moving, a man and a woman came to help besides her parents.

The children's graffiti is just to draw the outline of the characters with colored pens, and the facial features are directly represented by lines. It is impossible to tell who is who, but the body shape is very obvious.

For example, the height difference between the parents in her paintings is consistent with reality, and the father is half a head taller than the mother.

Xiao Lou took out the graffiti and looked at it carefully, and said, "The man in Lucia's graffiti is half a head taller than her father. From this point, Jack can be ruled out first."

Jack is good at playing basketball, and he is the exact same height as Wells in the group photo wearing sneakers.

Since the little girl drew the height difference between her parents, she probably wouldn't deliberately draw this uncle half a head taller than her father.According to the reasoning, the murderer probably came to the villa on the day of the move to find out the layout of the villa, so that he could plan the murder in advance.If Jack had never been to the villa, the suspicion would be much smaller.

Then, the remaining man, Dr. Simon, naturally became more suspicious.

He was exactly half a head taller than Wells, and, as a doctor, it was more convenient for him to change the little girl's cold medicine.If the murderer was him, he would stab Shirley to death, strangle Wells to death, go to the little girl's room to change the cold medicine, and it would be very easy to kill three people in a row.

Xiao Lou looked at the woman in the graffiti, with a slender figure and big curly hair.

When graffiti, the little girl specially used a golden paintbrush to draw a wavy line on the back of the woman's head to represent her hair.

Wells' female classmate Susan, in the photo, has short hair that reaches the ears.

Shirley's two best friends, one has long straight hair and the other has big curly hair-the one with curly hair is called Karen.

As long as the little girl is not scribbled, it is certain that the people who came to help on the day of the move were Dr. Simon and Ms. Karen.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and said at the same time: "Does the murderer choose one of the two?"

Yu Hanjiang paused, frowned slightly, and said: "According to the existing clues, the most reasonable murderer is Dr. Simon. The jewelry collected by the heroine means that there is an unforgettable person in her heart. The famous book "Lover" found in the study room, the piano room The "Dream Wedding" played is very directional."

Xiao Lou agreed: "The male lead, there is no clue that he has Bai Yueguang in his heart, or that there are other women who admire him. The key should be Shirley. Her necklace is too suspicious. And it says 'Love you all my life' or something like that."

So, is the murderer Dr. Simon?

The teammates looked at each other in blank dismay, always feeling that the answer would not be so simple according to the bad character of the gatekeeper.

Before the door of the restaurant was opened, Xiao Lou glanced at the 20-minute countdown and said, "There is still time, don't rush to draw conclusions, everyone will look for mechanisms or other clues in the room."

Teammates split up to find again.

After 3 minutes, Liu Qiao suddenly said: "There is a secret door here."

She was in charge of inspecting the living room just now, but she didn't find any useful clues. She heard Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang begin to analyze the case. While listening, she knocked on the wall with her hand, and suddenly heard a "dong dong" in her ear. Empty sound - there is a door here.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang immediately stepped forward.

The TV background wall in the living room is very large, and Liu Qiao knocked on the side of the TV wall. The echo of the wooden door is obviously different from that of the marble wall.If you look closely, you can find a small keyhole.

The keyhole the size of a fingernail is also integrated with the painting on the background wall. If you have bad eyesight, you won't be able to see it clearly.

Xiao Lou glanced across the spacious room - living room, dining room, kitchen, all the drawers were checked, and no keys were found.In the drawers in other rooms, everyone also carried the clues that should be collected.

where is the key

Xiao Lou turned around and looked towards the center of the living room.

The teammates followed Xiao Lou's gaze and locked on to the two-meter-high Christmas tree in the middle of the room.

Xiao Loudao: "The key should be in the Christmas stocking, everyone find it as soon as possible."

There are many small red socks hanging on the Christmas tree. At first, everyone thought that these were just decorations. Now it seems that the socks may contain the key to another secret door.

When the teammates heard this, they immediately took action.

A lot of chocolate candies were dug out from the socks at the bottom, and Ye Qi couldn't reach the socks hanging on the top, so he looked at the tall Mr. Shao beside him for help.

Shao Qingge stretched out his long arms, easily took off the top sock, and opened it - it really was a key.

Xiao Lou took the key and opened the hidden door.

This is a storage room. There are five beautifully wrapped gift boxes of different colors on the floor. There are many Christmas elements on the wrapping paper, such as snowflakes, Santa Claus, red socks and so on.

Apparently, this was a Christmas present for the host from the five people who were invited to the party on Christmas Eve.

Yu Hanjiang said: "The final clue about the murderer should be here."

There are still 10 minutes left in the countdown. If the murderer is not found, this time-limited maze cannot be completed at all.

They walked all the way, turned on the machine, and cracked the password. The speed was fast enough, and it took almost no time to waste a minute.Gatekeepers should not set difficulty levels that cannot be completed.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and said at the same time, "Let's split up."

Five gift boxes were distributed to five people, and everyone quickly tore off the exquisite wrapping paper.

However, the moment the wrapping paper was torn off, a scene that shocked everyone appeared——

There are actually five combination locks hanging on the five boxes!

Everyone: "..."

Can you drag out the square gatekeeper and beat him up?