The Secret Chamber of the Card Game
Chapter 482 [Secrets on the Roster]
Just as Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci went out the window, the sound of the man's footsteps came to the door of the study. The wooden door was pushed open with a "squeak". movement.
Qin Feng walked to the bookcase and took out a book from the shelf. The bookcase suddenly parted in front of him, revealing a secret door. He picked up a candle lamp in his right hand and walked down the steps, leaving only two people behind. A thin, tall figure.
The door of the bookcase closed slowly after he entered the secret room, as if nothing had happened just now.
Lu Jiuchuan gently held Tang Ci's wrist, and said in a low voice, "Retreat first."
The two quickly left the yard.
The weather outside was sunny, but Lu Jiuchuan always felt that this alley exuded a strange gloomyness, probably because the old trees beside the road were too luxuriant, and the sunlight of the whole alley was blocked by the leaves, covering a large shadow.
After a while, the two walked out of Xiushui Lane.There are people coming and going on the street, and the sun is shining brightly above your head. The bustling noise on the street is in stark contrast to the quiet Xiushui Lane.
Lu Jiuchuan took Tang Ci to the direction of the inn.
When he came to a corner where no one was around, Lu Jiuchuan held down the headset and said to Xiao Lou in a low voice: "The mayor suddenly came home during our investigation, so he didn't have time to search carefully, so he only took photos of key information in his house with a drone. Bring The inn for you?"
Xiao Lou asked, "Do you still have time for your invisibility cloak?"
Tang Ci glanced at the countdown and said, "There are 5 minutes left."
Xiao Loudao: "Five minutes should be enough time. You go to the alley behind the inn. Han Jiang and I live in the second room from the left on the second floor. When the time comes, I will open the window and you will fly in with ease, leaving no one there. Give me the machine."
Lu Jiuchuan said "OK" and speeded up with Tang Ci.
The two invisible people came and went freely in the small town, and the residents of the town only felt a gust of wind blowing around them. In a blink of an eye, the two of Jiu Tang came to the alley designated by Xiao Lou. Lu Jiuchuan looked up and saw The window of a guest room on the second floor was wide open, and he took Tang Ci with him and jumped straight into the room.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang were waiting for them.
Sensing a gust of wind blowing in, Xiao Lou hurriedly asked with concern: "Brother Ninth? Are you all alright?"
Lu Jiuchuan said: "It's going well, Qin Feng shouldn't have noticed us?"
Tang Ci said: "Not necessarily. The lock on the cabinet was opened with a master key, and all the documents have been restored. But although we didn't go into the secret room in the study, maybe he can tell whether the mechanism has been opened ? We can’t be sure if the organ on his bookcase has been tampered with.”
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "If he finds out that someone has broken into the study and opened the secret room, will the evidence be destroyed? Mr. Tang used a drone to shoot the scene inside the secret room?"
Tang Ci was helpless: "The situation was urgent at that time, we could only do this."
He took out the drone, handed it to Xiao Lou, and opened the surveillance image.
The card-sized monitoring screen began to play back the clip just recorded.
In the picture, the field of vision goes down a dark staircase and comes to a wide secret room. The surrounding walls are covered with blue stone bricks, and kerosene lamps are lit on the walls. Although the light is dim, you can still see clearly inside the room furnishings.
What shocked Xiao Lou was that the walls around the secret room were covered with rattles!
The red rattle, originally a child's toy, can be hung densely in the cold underground secret room, but it makes people involuntarily think of "the instrument of torture in the cell"...
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice, "This Qin Feng is very suspicious."
Looking at the image, Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help complaining: "There are rattle drums all over the room, does he have any obsession with rattle drums? He fought with people because of rattle drums when he was a child... Or, rattle drums are very memorable to him Meaningful toys?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "Many killers have the habit of using specific props as their identity."
Xiao Lou zoomed in on the images from the drone surveillance, compared them carefully, and said, "The drums on these rattles are not just tigers, they have patterns of the twelve zodiac signs..." He paused, then turned to look at the crowd : "Do you think there is a high possibility that the mayor is the murderer?"
Tang Ci said: "The clue is too obvious, it shouldn't be that simple, right?"
Yu Hanjiang also said: "With the personality of the gatekeeper, it is unlikely that we will find the murderer directly at the beginning, and it may be another interference item. However, this mayor must have something to do with the murderer."
With a light swipe of Tang Ci's finger, he called up another document captured by the drone.
A stack of notebooks appeared on the screen, and Lu Jiuchuan was flipping the pages quickly. The drone clearly captured the content on each page, and in one of them, the names of more than [-]% of the people were marked with red crosses.
Xiao Lou was stunned: "Is this the murder record book? Or did he cross off the dead person from the register?"
Sequence is important.If a person's name is crossed out first, and the person dies later, then the murderer is "planning to kill", and this list is the list of enemies he wants to take revenge on; on the contrary, if a person is dead, then cross it out His name, then this register is probably just to record the dead residents in the town.
Yu Hanjiang said: "This information is very important. We can follow this clue to investigate further. In addition to the Zhao family and Chen family who were exterminated, there are many people whose names have been crossed out on this list. Whether these people are dead or alive No matter what the cause of death is, we must find out." He looked at Lu Jiuchuan and said, "Time is running out, and the murderer is very brutal, so we must pay attention to safety during the investigation."
Lu Jiuchuan nodded: "Don't worry, leave it to us."
Xiao Loudao: "There are too many people who need to be investigated, you two are too busy, so I will transfer two more people to help you." He pressed the earphones, and said: "Long Sen, Qu Wanyue, the two of you will use the chameleon card to follow Brother Jiu Going out to investigate, I will use the earphone channel to tell you where you are going, and you need to find out the life and death of some people."
Qu Wanyue replied quickly: "Understood."
In this roster, in addition to the name and date of birth, it also records the specific location of everyone's residence in the town, which is convenient for everyone to investigate.Long Qu and the other two used chameleon cards to crawl on the ground, while Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci pretended to be traveling in the small town. According to Xiao Lou's assignment, the four of them went around the town and checked one by one.
The afternoon passed quickly, and the detective four-person team went to the residences of all the people recorded in the register, and was surprised to find that some people were dead, while some were still alive.
Lu Jiuchuan said: "The person named Lin Zhaokuan on the roster is still alive. He is an old man living alone in his 50s."
Qu Wanyue Hui reported: "Qi Mingwei, an old man in his 60s, lives with his son and daughter-in-law, and has a newborn grandson. Just passing by their house, the family is quite rich, and the yard is very well-decorated. By the way, his son looks very familiar to me, he should be the young man who passed by the alley behind the inn today and bought a rattle for the child."
Xiao Lou was startled, and asked, "Are you sure it's him?"
Qu Wanyue said: "I'm not mistaken, he's dressed exactly the same, he's holding the rattle with the lamb in his hand, and the maid who told him to go home is using the rattle to amuse the child."
Long Sen added: "People from the Yu family are also there. The two brothers Yu Liang and Yu Rui on the roster live near Xiushui Lane. I saw them go out together just now."
Tang Ci said: "The people I checked were all missing for unknown reasons."
It seems that this roster has hidden secrets.Some of the people whose names were crossed have disappeared—that is, they were killed by the murderer, while some are still alive and will definitely become the next target of the murderer.
Xiao Lou asked: "People have been missing all these years, don't the residents of the small town have any doubts?"
Lu Jiuchuan said helplessly: "They all believed that it was 'a ghost seeking their lives', and those who hadn't done harm were not worried about it, thinking that as long as they slept peacefully after dark, no ghosts would find their heads. And once someone disappears in the town, everyone will discuss in private, saying that they must have done harm to others and were retaliated by the ghost."
Li Gui's words have completely brainwashed the people in the town.
Lu Jiuchuan said: "It is said that someone in the town has actually seen a ghost. We passed by a house just now, and when we heard a child crying, the elders frightened them with a ghost. The story was told vividly..."
Tang Ci immediately recounted the story told by the old man: "Three years ago, on a rainy night, the procession to see off relatives was seduced by a ghost. The ghost's face was as white as paper, his lips were as red as blood, he was dressed in white, and he had long hair. It was loosened to cover the face, and the face could not be seen clearly, and the hair could fly around, and suddenly stretched several feet, wrapping around the neck of the person."
Xiao Lou: "..."
The rumors are getting more and more bizarre.
Ye Qi couldn't help complaining: "This female ghost sounds a lot like Nie Xiaoqian from A Chinese Ghost Story?"
Shao Qingge interjected: "The legend of the ghost should not have appeared for no reason. The murderer is using this method to confuse the public and cover up his crime of murder. Maybe he is the one who pretended to be the ghost."
Xiao Lou also agreed with Mr. Shao's guess, saying: "The murderer started committing crimes three years ago. Judging from the roster records, in the past three years, a total of 53 people have disappeared. They are sporadic old people living alone who are not noticed by many people when they die. There are currently 34 people who are still alive on the list.”
Yu Hanjiang said: "The murderer killed so many people, and his psychology has long been abnormal. We have to find a way to stop him."
Lu Jiuchuan said: "The current problem is that the murderer is active at night, and at night, we can't enter the normal town, we will only be forced into the ghost town. Night ghost town and night town are two different spaces. , we can't meet the murderer in the ghost town, so the murderer can continue to kill without any restraint, without worrying about being interfered by us."
Tang Ci added: "If we had informed the 34 people who were still alive in advance and told them to be careful, they would certainly not have believed us."
Ye Qi scratched his head and said, "It's really troublesome. We are all strangers from other places. If we suddenly come up and say 'someone is going to kill you, run away', they will think that we are mentally ill? How can we give an early warning?"
Liu Qiao suggested: "Why don't we put a rattle in each house, put a note on it, and write it in big bloody characters: At midnight tonight, ghosts will kill them—can you scare them away?"
Everyone: "..."
Xiao Liu's brain hole, no matter how it sounds like a prank.
Of course, people who have done bad things might be scared away by her method.But it is more likely that it will be self-defeating, because this will force the murderer, maybe the murderer will be even more brutal, and let the whole town be buried with him?
Xiao Lou lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly came up with a solution: "The way he kills people is to manipulate people's will and lead them to the mass grave on the top of the mountain. Although we can't enter the town at night to meet the murderer, we can Intercept halfway."
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "Good idea! Intercepting in the forest outside the town can save people, and secondly, maybe catch the murderer on the spot. Even if you can't catch him, at least you can find some clues."
As dusk draws near, the setting sun on the horizon dyes the sunset glow into a flame-like color.Xiao Lou stood by the window and looked at the sky in the distance, with a worried expression on his face: "It's getting dark, everyone should eat enough to recharge their spirits, and prepare for action tonight."
He looked at Yu Hanjiang, who understood, and immediately said: "Me, Xiao Lou, Long, Qu, Mo, and Qiao, the team of six sneaked into the town to find out the secrets of the ghost town at night. Brother Nine, Mr. Tang, Huaying and Gui Senior, go to the woods to intercept the murderer. Mr. Shao and Xiaoye hid as liaison officers, opened a peach blossom garden outside the town, and were ready to teleport teammates in case of danger."
The night is coming, what will be the survival problems they face?
Xiao Lou always felt that things were not that simple.
Qin Feng walked to the bookcase and took out a book from the shelf. The bookcase suddenly parted in front of him, revealing a secret door. He picked up a candle lamp in his right hand and walked down the steps, leaving only two people behind. A thin, tall figure.
The door of the bookcase closed slowly after he entered the secret room, as if nothing had happened just now.
Lu Jiuchuan gently held Tang Ci's wrist, and said in a low voice, "Retreat first."
The two quickly left the yard.
The weather outside was sunny, but Lu Jiuchuan always felt that this alley exuded a strange gloomyness, probably because the old trees beside the road were too luxuriant, and the sunlight of the whole alley was blocked by the leaves, covering a large shadow.
After a while, the two walked out of Xiushui Lane.There are people coming and going on the street, and the sun is shining brightly above your head. The bustling noise on the street is in stark contrast to the quiet Xiushui Lane.
Lu Jiuchuan took Tang Ci to the direction of the inn.
When he came to a corner where no one was around, Lu Jiuchuan held down the headset and said to Xiao Lou in a low voice: "The mayor suddenly came home during our investigation, so he didn't have time to search carefully, so he only took photos of key information in his house with a drone. Bring The inn for you?"
Xiao Lou asked, "Do you still have time for your invisibility cloak?"
Tang Ci glanced at the countdown and said, "There are 5 minutes left."
Xiao Loudao: "Five minutes should be enough time. You go to the alley behind the inn. Han Jiang and I live in the second room from the left on the second floor. When the time comes, I will open the window and you will fly in with ease, leaving no one there. Give me the machine."
Lu Jiuchuan said "OK" and speeded up with Tang Ci.
The two invisible people came and went freely in the small town, and the residents of the town only felt a gust of wind blowing around them. In a blink of an eye, the two of Jiu Tang came to the alley designated by Xiao Lou. Lu Jiuchuan looked up and saw The window of a guest room on the second floor was wide open, and he took Tang Ci with him and jumped straight into the room.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang were waiting for them.
Sensing a gust of wind blowing in, Xiao Lou hurriedly asked with concern: "Brother Ninth? Are you all alright?"
Lu Jiuchuan said: "It's going well, Qin Feng shouldn't have noticed us?"
Tang Ci said: "Not necessarily. The lock on the cabinet was opened with a master key, and all the documents have been restored. But although we didn't go into the secret room in the study, maybe he can tell whether the mechanism has been opened ? We can’t be sure if the organ on his bookcase has been tampered with.”
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "If he finds out that someone has broken into the study and opened the secret room, will the evidence be destroyed? Mr. Tang used a drone to shoot the scene inside the secret room?"
Tang Ci was helpless: "The situation was urgent at that time, we could only do this."
He took out the drone, handed it to Xiao Lou, and opened the surveillance image.
The card-sized monitoring screen began to play back the clip just recorded.
In the picture, the field of vision goes down a dark staircase and comes to a wide secret room. The surrounding walls are covered with blue stone bricks, and kerosene lamps are lit on the walls. Although the light is dim, you can still see clearly inside the room furnishings.
What shocked Xiao Lou was that the walls around the secret room were covered with rattles!
The red rattle, originally a child's toy, can be hung densely in the cold underground secret room, but it makes people involuntarily think of "the instrument of torture in the cell"...
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice, "This Qin Feng is very suspicious."
Looking at the image, Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help complaining: "There are rattle drums all over the room, does he have any obsession with rattle drums? He fought with people because of rattle drums when he was a child... Or, rattle drums are very memorable to him Meaningful toys?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "Many killers have the habit of using specific props as their identity."
Xiao Lou zoomed in on the images from the drone surveillance, compared them carefully, and said, "The drums on these rattles are not just tigers, they have patterns of the twelve zodiac signs..." He paused, then turned to look at the crowd : "Do you think there is a high possibility that the mayor is the murderer?"
Tang Ci said: "The clue is too obvious, it shouldn't be that simple, right?"
Yu Hanjiang also said: "With the personality of the gatekeeper, it is unlikely that we will find the murderer directly at the beginning, and it may be another interference item. However, this mayor must have something to do with the murderer."
With a light swipe of Tang Ci's finger, he called up another document captured by the drone.
A stack of notebooks appeared on the screen, and Lu Jiuchuan was flipping the pages quickly. The drone clearly captured the content on each page, and in one of them, the names of more than [-]% of the people were marked with red crosses.
Xiao Lou was stunned: "Is this the murder record book? Or did he cross off the dead person from the register?"
Sequence is important.If a person's name is crossed out first, and the person dies later, then the murderer is "planning to kill", and this list is the list of enemies he wants to take revenge on; on the contrary, if a person is dead, then cross it out His name, then this register is probably just to record the dead residents in the town.
Yu Hanjiang said: "This information is very important. We can follow this clue to investigate further. In addition to the Zhao family and Chen family who were exterminated, there are many people whose names have been crossed out on this list. Whether these people are dead or alive No matter what the cause of death is, we must find out." He looked at Lu Jiuchuan and said, "Time is running out, and the murderer is very brutal, so we must pay attention to safety during the investigation."
Lu Jiuchuan nodded: "Don't worry, leave it to us."
Xiao Loudao: "There are too many people who need to be investigated, you two are too busy, so I will transfer two more people to help you." He pressed the earphones, and said: "Long Sen, Qu Wanyue, the two of you will use the chameleon card to follow Brother Jiu Going out to investigate, I will use the earphone channel to tell you where you are going, and you need to find out the life and death of some people."
Qu Wanyue replied quickly: "Understood."
In this roster, in addition to the name and date of birth, it also records the specific location of everyone's residence in the town, which is convenient for everyone to investigate.Long Qu and the other two used chameleon cards to crawl on the ground, while Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci pretended to be traveling in the small town. According to Xiao Lou's assignment, the four of them went around the town and checked one by one.
The afternoon passed quickly, and the detective four-person team went to the residences of all the people recorded in the register, and was surprised to find that some people were dead, while some were still alive.
Lu Jiuchuan said: "The person named Lin Zhaokuan on the roster is still alive. He is an old man living alone in his 50s."
Qu Wanyue Hui reported: "Qi Mingwei, an old man in his 60s, lives with his son and daughter-in-law, and has a newborn grandson. Just passing by their house, the family is quite rich, and the yard is very well-decorated. By the way, his son looks very familiar to me, he should be the young man who passed by the alley behind the inn today and bought a rattle for the child."
Xiao Lou was startled, and asked, "Are you sure it's him?"
Qu Wanyue said: "I'm not mistaken, he's dressed exactly the same, he's holding the rattle with the lamb in his hand, and the maid who told him to go home is using the rattle to amuse the child."
Long Sen added: "People from the Yu family are also there. The two brothers Yu Liang and Yu Rui on the roster live near Xiushui Lane. I saw them go out together just now."
Tang Ci said: "The people I checked were all missing for unknown reasons."
It seems that this roster has hidden secrets.Some of the people whose names were crossed have disappeared—that is, they were killed by the murderer, while some are still alive and will definitely become the next target of the murderer.
Xiao Lou asked: "People have been missing all these years, don't the residents of the small town have any doubts?"
Lu Jiuchuan said helplessly: "They all believed that it was 'a ghost seeking their lives', and those who hadn't done harm were not worried about it, thinking that as long as they slept peacefully after dark, no ghosts would find their heads. And once someone disappears in the town, everyone will discuss in private, saying that they must have done harm to others and were retaliated by the ghost."
Li Gui's words have completely brainwashed the people in the town.
Lu Jiuchuan said: "It is said that someone in the town has actually seen a ghost. We passed by a house just now, and when we heard a child crying, the elders frightened them with a ghost. The story was told vividly..."
Tang Ci immediately recounted the story told by the old man: "Three years ago, on a rainy night, the procession to see off relatives was seduced by a ghost. The ghost's face was as white as paper, his lips were as red as blood, he was dressed in white, and he had long hair. It was loosened to cover the face, and the face could not be seen clearly, and the hair could fly around, and suddenly stretched several feet, wrapping around the neck of the person."
Xiao Lou: "..."
The rumors are getting more and more bizarre.
Ye Qi couldn't help complaining: "This female ghost sounds a lot like Nie Xiaoqian from A Chinese Ghost Story?"
Shao Qingge interjected: "The legend of the ghost should not have appeared for no reason. The murderer is using this method to confuse the public and cover up his crime of murder. Maybe he is the one who pretended to be the ghost."
Xiao Lou also agreed with Mr. Shao's guess, saying: "The murderer started committing crimes three years ago. Judging from the roster records, in the past three years, a total of 53 people have disappeared. They are sporadic old people living alone who are not noticed by many people when they die. There are currently 34 people who are still alive on the list.”
Yu Hanjiang said: "The murderer killed so many people, and his psychology has long been abnormal. We have to find a way to stop him."
Lu Jiuchuan said: "The current problem is that the murderer is active at night, and at night, we can't enter the normal town, we will only be forced into the ghost town. Night ghost town and night town are two different spaces. , we can't meet the murderer in the ghost town, so the murderer can continue to kill without any restraint, without worrying about being interfered by us."
Tang Ci added: "If we had informed the 34 people who were still alive in advance and told them to be careful, they would certainly not have believed us."
Ye Qi scratched his head and said, "It's really troublesome. We are all strangers from other places. If we suddenly come up and say 'someone is going to kill you, run away', they will think that we are mentally ill? How can we give an early warning?"
Liu Qiao suggested: "Why don't we put a rattle in each house, put a note on it, and write it in big bloody characters: At midnight tonight, ghosts will kill them—can you scare them away?"
Everyone: "..."
Xiao Liu's brain hole, no matter how it sounds like a prank.
Of course, people who have done bad things might be scared away by her method.But it is more likely that it will be self-defeating, because this will force the murderer, maybe the murderer will be even more brutal, and let the whole town be buried with him?
Xiao Lou lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly came up with a solution: "The way he kills people is to manipulate people's will and lead them to the mass grave on the top of the mountain. Although we can't enter the town at night to meet the murderer, we can Intercept halfway."
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "Good idea! Intercepting in the forest outside the town can save people, and secondly, maybe catch the murderer on the spot. Even if you can't catch him, at least you can find some clues."
As dusk draws near, the setting sun on the horizon dyes the sunset glow into a flame-like color.Xiao Lou stood by the window and looked at the sky in the distance, with a worried expression on his face: "It's getting dark, everyone should eat enough to recharge their spirits, and prepare for action tonight."
He looked at Yu Hanjiang, who understood, and immediately said: "Me, Xiao Lou, Long, Qu, Mo, and Qiao, the team of six sneaked into the town to find out the secrets of the ghost town at night. Brother Nine, Mr. Tang, Huaying and Gui Senior, go to the woods to intercept the murderer. Mr. Shao and Xiaoye hid as liaison officers, opened a peach blossom garden outside the town, and were ready to teleport teammates in case of danger."
The night is coming, what will be the survival problems they face?
Xiao Lou always felt that things were not that simple.
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