The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

In the morning, there were too many people in the teacher's office, and it was inconvenient to check. The two patiently waited for the opportunity.

It was noon soon.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang came to the commissary again.

After eating instant noodles for two consecutive meals yesterday, Xiao Lou loses his appetite when he sees instant noodles.Yu Hanjiang took the bowl of instant noodles with a calm expression.

The owner of the canteen knew them all, and asked curiously, "Why do the two teachers keep eating instant noodles?"

Xiao Lou smiled wryly: "We are all single, too far away from home, and don't want to go out to eat, so let's make do with instant noodles."

The boss kindly said: "You can also try the self-heating hot pot, can you eat instant noodles every day?"

Xiao Lou was startled: "Is there such a thing?"

The boss brought over a bowl and introduced with a smile: "Lazy hot pot, the bottom is a chemical material that can generate heat. After pouring water, it will automatically boil. The upper layer is cooked with hot pot powder, vegetables, and beef. It will be cooked in ten minutes. gone."

Xiao Lou seldom eats this kind of fast food, and didn't know the existence of "lazy self-cooking hot pot", but after hearing what the owner said, he suddenly became interested and asked, "How much is it?"

Shopkeeper: "Two copies of 1000 gold coins."

Yu Hanjiang turned his head to look at Xiao Lou with anticipation in his eyes.

Xiao Lou touched the 14 gold coins in his pocket, gritted his teeth and said, "Then buy two."

He really didn't want to eat instant noodles for the third time.

If they are not in charge, they don't know how expensive they are. They hold 17 gold coins, and at the rate of spending 2 to 3 gold coins a day, they can only stay in this secret room for 5 days.

Now it is the second day, the secret of the maple forest has not been solved, and the owner of the shoes has not been found, they must hurry up, otherwise, if the case drags on, they will have to solve the case hungry.

Not to mention, they have no place to take a shower, and they can only sleep in the hard corridor...

The more I think about it, the sadder it becomes, but I still don’t want to.At least it was much better than the challenger who was thrown into the nightmare chamber.

Xiao Lou bought hot pot, walked out of the canteen, and said to Yu Hanjiang with a smile: "I haven't eaten this kind of self-cooking hot pot yet, let's go back to the office building to eat, get some hot water, just an excuse to go to the office for a walk."

There are instructions on the hot pot. The lower layer is filled with chemical materials. When encountering water boiling, it is best to add cold water. Unpurified tap water is also fine.But the upper layer is used for cooking food. If you want to eat it directly later, you must add boiled hot water or purified water.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang came to the third floor with hot pots in their hands, and they split up.

At noon, the number of people in the office is the least, and some offices are simply empty and the doors are not locked.

Yu Hanjiang went to the language office first, and found the female teacher who entered the room that day at her desk to check her class schedule. She happens to have no class.

When I went to the biology office, there was a female teacher packing homework. Yu Hanjiang walked into the office, glanced quickly across the desktop, locked on the desk of the teacher with Class 3, and glanced at the schedule on the table.

The teacher who stayed in the office looked at him suspiciously: "Who are you?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "I'm a teacher in the first year of high school, can I borrow some hot water? I'll make a hot pot."

The other party smiled and said, "Okay, the water dispenser is over there, you can pick it up yourself!"

Yu Hanjiang thanked him, cooked the hot pot, turned and left calmly.

Xiao Lou was in charge of the physics and English offices. He also used the excuse of "borrowing hot water" to sneak in. After cooking the hot pot, he chatted with the teacher who stayed in the office before turning around and going out.

Holding the cooked hot pot, the two sat down in an open space and exchanged information while the hot pot was cooking.

Xiao Loudao: "Physics teacher and English teacher didn't have class in the fourth quarter yesterday."

Yu Hanjiang said: "The two I checked didn't have classes all morning yesterday."

Xiao Loudao: "That is to say, in the fourth class yesterday, when the crime happened, these female teachers were all idle, and they all had plenty of time to commit crimes."

The English teacher scolded Ying Xiaoya in the first class and made Ying Xiaoya stand in the back row as punishment.The physics teacher also scolded Ying Xiaoya, saying that she did poorly in the comprehensive test of science, and she almost made mistakes in physics.

The biology teacher had no class yesterday morning, did not show up directly, and did not have any conflicts with Ying Xiaoya.The Chinese teacher in the class next door, who happened to enter the Chinese office when the head teacher was chatting with Ying Xiaoya, interrupted their conversation, which is also suspected.

All four of them had time to commit crimes, and all of them could wear size 37 shoes. They were all young teachers under the age of 30.Moreover, their teaching ability must be very good, otherwise the school would not let them take the third grade class easily.

Xiao Lou frowned and said, "These four people, do they have anything to do with the falling from a building five years ago?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "If someone can directly connect with the falling case five years ago, then she is likely to be the murderer."

Xiao Loudao: "When I checked the class schedule just now, I found that the physics teacher in Class 3 happened to have the surname Si—her name is Si Qi. Could she be related by blood to Si Han, the girl who fell from the building five years ago?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "The surname Si is indeed uncommon, but it cannot be judged by the name alone."

Xiao Lou agreed: "Well, we still need to look for other evidence."

At this moment, steam was rising from the hot pot, and it was estimated that the cooking time was almost over, so Yu Hanjiang said, "Let's eat first."

The two lifted the lid, took out disposable chopsticks and ate the simple hot pot.

The spicy hot pot stimulated the taste buds, and Xiao Lou felt that his stomach finally came alive. He lowered his head and ate the vermicelli seriously, and the taste was particularly delicious.Yu Hanjiang glanced at him, the expression in his eyes could not help but soften, and asked in a low voice: "Do you hate instant noodles?"

Xiao Lou nodded without hesitation: "When I was in college, I often took the train home. The smell of the braised beef instant noodles in the carriage was really impressive. Once I smelled it, I didn't want to eat it."

Yu Hanjiang remembered the two meals of braised beef noodles yesterday... I really felt wronged by Professor Xiao.

He sighed softly and said: "In the future, earn more money and treat you to something good. I still owe you a meal."

Xiao Lou smiled and said, "Okay, it's time to have a seafood feast."

In this strange world, none of them know when they will be eliminated.Team Yu's invitation to dinner is also a kind of agreement. If he can get out alive and earn more money, maybe he can have a big meal in the next secret room?

It’s better not to have too high expectations. It’s good to be able to eat in the Red Peach Chamber and buy self-cooking hot pot.

If the room of spades is thrown into the wild without food, it might be even worse!

***

After eating their stomachs full, the two got up and went back to the teaching building.

There were no new clues in the afternoon. After taking Teacher Qin away, the police did not intend to return to school. Obviously, they were interrogating Teacher Qin in more detail at the police station... From this point of view, new clues may not appear until tomorrow.

After all, this is a C-level secret room. If the clues are too dense, the challenger's brain will explode.

On the first day, Ying Xiaoya fell from the building, and the police came to investigate the case. The challenger had to make preliminary reasoning based on the police interrogation.

The next day, the police came to take away the chemistry teacher, and told the challenger that Ying Xiaoya had been poisoned, and that the source of the poison was Yu Hui's chocolate. The amount of information was large enough, and they should allow more time for the challenger to analyze and investigate.

Most of the challengers didn't go to the chemical laboratory to check until they found out that Ying Xiaoya had been poisoned the next day, and found that the door lock had been picked.

Due to his occupation, Xiao Lou knew that Ying Xiaoya had been poisoned on the first day. On the first night, the two sneaked into the Shuxiang Building to investigate, learned the secrets of the laboratory in advance, and directly ruled out the suspicion of the chemistry teacher.Moreover, the two also deduced that the legend of the "curse" was related to the falling from a building five years ago. They went to check the school archives and found out that the deceased five years ago was called Si Han.

The two took full advantage of their careers, and the investigation has always been ahead of the police.

The next day, when the police came to the door, Yu Hanjiang had already found the key evidence - the shoes.

Through the analysis and reasoning of the shoes, they locked four female suspects.

The English, biology, and chemistry teachers of class 3 ([-]), and the Chinese teacher of the next class who happened to enter the office to interrupt the conversation.

All four of them have time to commit crimes, and they can all wear this pair of size 37 shoes. As the teachers of this class/the class next door, they can all find a foolproof excuse to take Ying Xiaoya to the rooftop and push Ying Xiaoya down. building.

They all had a chance to get Ying Xiaoya's homework, copied and forged suicide notes.

The locking of the criminal suspect is of great help to the progress of the case.What is left now is to find out the connection between these four women and the case of falling from the building five years ago, as well as their connection with Xie Xinghe's book "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Yu Hanjiang suggested: "Tonight, let's go to the office to check their drawers, and we will definitely find something."

Hearts 2 secret room, the important clue is in the safe in the study, hearts 3 secret room, the suspect's drawer should not be empty.

Xiao Lou looked nervously at Captain Yu: "Do you want to pick the lock and get in?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "I can pick the lock without leaving any traces, just take a wire."

Remembering that Yu Hanjiang directly opened the lock of Shuxiang Building this morning, Xiao Lou immediately felt relieved: "Okay."

However, the teachers' offices are in the Xingzhi Building, which happens to be the duty room of the security guards and the monitoring center of the school. It is not so difficult to sneak into the office under the noses of the security guards.

But the security guards go on patrol after dark.

And there was something wrong with Shuxiang Building last night, and the security guards will definitely check again tonight.

Yu Hanjiang thought of a brilliant way - after dark, he quickly entered the Shuxiang Building, threw a flashlight at the corner of the fifth floor of the Shuxiang Building, and turned on the light.

The security guards soon discovered that there was light on the side of the Shuxiang Building, and the two security guards on duty immediately ran over to check.

Tune the tiger away from the mountain.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang had enough time to sneak into Xingzhi Tower.

The two ran to the third floor at an extremely fast speed, and first used the wire to unlock the door lock of the language office.

The teacher who happened to barge in and interrupt Ying Xiaoya's conversation with the teacher in charge was surnamed Lin. There was a photo in her desk drawer, which was taken when she was leading the first grade. 7) All the teachers and students in the class took a group photo to mark the memory."

Yu Hanjiang sharply saw Ying Xiaoya and Xie Xinghe in the photo.

Xiao Lou obviously noticed it too, pointing to the two people in the photo, and said in a soft voice: "It seems that Ying Xiaoya and Squad Leader Xie were also in the same class before the liberal arts and science classes in the first year of senior high school, and this teacher happened to be their Chinese teacher. Teacher, after the second grade of high school was divided into classes, it was replaced by the current head teacher to teach Chinese?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Ms. Lin is very suspicious. She taught Ying Xiaoya Chinese and must have Ying Xiaoya's composition in her hand. It is very easy to copy and forge a suicide note. And when she walked into the office and interrupted When Ying Xiaoya was talking to the class teacher, Ying Xiaoya's expression was very ugly, as if she had seen a ghost."

Thinking about it carefully, it really is true——Ying Xiaoya was going to talk about the reason for the drop in grades, but as soon as she came in, Ying Xiaoya's face turned pale, and she immediately stopped talking.

And at that time, the teacher in charge said, "This girl is in a relationship and her grades are declining", and the female teacher wentssip with the teacher in charge, "It's not easy to take care of the current students"—she obviously didn't know Ying Xiaoya's family situation, and the forged suicide note, There is a loophole of "I'm sorry, Mom and Dad", which can also make sense.

Is it really just a coincidence that she pushed the door into the office and interrupted the class teacher's questioning?

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang quickly searched Teacher Lin's desk - unexpectedly found the composition texts of Ying Xiaoya and Xie Xinghe in the bottom drawer.

This discovery shocked Xiao Lou: "It stands to reason that Ying Xiaoya and Xie Xinghe are the students she took care of two years ago. Why does she still keep the composition of these two people? Don't say it is for commemoration."

Yu Hanjiang frowned: "The evidence is more obvious, let's look for it again."

Apart from photographs and writing, nothing else was found.

By the way, the two searched the desk of the head teacher next door.

The head teacher's drawer is full of the student's transcripts for each exam, home visit materials, lesson preparation materials, and Chinese workbooks. There is no doubt about it. It seems that the head teacher is really a very responsible teacher.

The two left the language office and continued to search for creatures.

There is no obvious abnormality in the biology teacher's desk, a drawer of plant specimens.

The physics teacher's surname is Si, and his name is Si Qi, which happens to be the same surname as Si Han who fell from the building five years ago.Xiao Lou originally wanted to focus on searching her desk, but to Xiao Lou's disappointment, her drawers were full of various problem sets, physics test papers, and a lot of preparation books, and nothing was left behind. .

The two finally found the English office.

There are some lovely succulents, a thick English dictionary, and some file folders on the desk of the English teacher.In the desk, one drawer is for English test papers, and the other drawer is for review materials.

The bottom drawer was locked, and Yu Hanjiang also used a wire to pry it open.

The two found that there was only one thick book in the locked drawer.

The book looks old, the pages are yellowed, it should have been turned over many times, and on the cover it says——

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.

By Alexandre Dumas.

Yu Hanjiang didn't understand this line of characters, so he turned his head to look at Xiao Lou, only to find that Xiao Lou's face was very pale.

Before Yu Hanjiang could ask, Xiao Lou tremblingly said, "The Count of Monte Cristo, the original French edition!"

Yu Hanjiang's face suddenly changed: "French books? By the way, she is an English teacher. Students in the School of Foreign Languages ​​are required to learn a second language. Maybe her minor language is French? So she can read the original French books directly?"

——The Count of Monte Cristo, which describes a story that happened in France in the 19th century. The author is Alexandre Dumas, a well-known French writer.

As team Yu speculated, English learners are generally required to learn a second language, and French is one of the most popular choices for second languages, and many English majors will take French as an elective.

As a world famous book, The Count of Monte Cristo has already been translated into various languages. The Chinese version of the book is easy to buy, and there are several different versions of the publishing house for readers to choose from.

However, the original French version is not so easy to buy.

People who like to read classics usually read translated versions. Who would spend a lot of money to buy the original version of a novel?

Only if I really like this book, I will buy the original book and come back to collect it.

Xiao Lou looked at the old masterpiece in his hand, and felt that his scalp was going to explode.

In her drawer, there is actually a copy of "The Count of Monte Cristo", which is still a precious original French edition, which shows that she loves this story very much.

The theme of this book is revenge... Could it be that she is the Avenger? !

At the first class, the English teacher scolded Ying Xiaoya in front of the whole class, and made Ying Xiaoya stand in the back row as a punishment. Ying Xiaoya was trembling the whole time, holding back her tears, and started crying after class , Yi Ru brought her a tissue.

One explanation is that Ying Xiaoya failed the exam and cried because she was wronged.

There is another explanation... She was very afraid of the English teacher, and was scolded by the English teacher a few times, and she cried in fright.

It may not be a coincidence that the English teacher asked her to translate "My family is cursed" successively with Xie Xinghe.

She was the first to utter the word "curse".

What the tablemate said when he went to the back row with a tissue to comfort Ying Xiaoya flashed through the minds of Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang at the same time: "It's okay, Xiaoya, I didn't do well in the exam this time, and I'll try again next month. Vicious woman, you are not the only one who is vicious, many people have been scolded by her, don't mind."

Xiao Lou said in a daze, "Zhang Qing? We seem to have overlooked something..."

Yu Hanjiang nodded solemnly: "That's right - the name of the English teacher is actually the first one to appear among all the teachers."

The Chamber of Secrets had already told them that the English teacher was not a passerby.

Her name is Zhang Qing.