The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Shao Qingge thought of using silver to leave clues, because silver was the currency in circulation in ancient times.Secondly, although silver will oxidize over time, as long as no one deliberately destroys it, it is not a problem to engrave silver on it for 20 years.The third is that Mr. Shao bought a safe in the bank in the Q secret room before, and used the star coin number as the Morse code to leave clues. This approach just gave Shao Qingge some inspiration.

Ye Qi wondered: "In troubled times, where can I find so much money?"

Shao Qingge thought for a while, took out the ATM cash machine from the card bag, and said with a smile: "I used to think that the [ATM cash machine] card was too useless as an S card, but now I realize that it is actually very useful. Not only can money be withdrawn anytime and anywhere, but it can also be converted into corresponding currencies according to different secret room worlds."

Ye Qi's eyes lit up: "I remember the interstellar secret room before, your cash machine can directly withdraw star coins, can you also directly withdraw silver this time? The silver is so big, how do you spit it out from the cash machine?"

Shao Qingge said: "This S card can change its appearance according to different worlds. For example, now, if I want to withdraw the silver taels needed in this world, the coin throughput port of the ATM will become larger. After inputting the data, what comes out is all Silver taels."

Ye Qi: "..."

As expected of an S card, with this card in hand, there will be no shortage of money in any world.

Shao Qingge's card has a lot of deposits, and if it is converted into silver, it will be even more innumerable.He glanced at the data displayed on the ATM, took out hundreds of taels of silver, and said to Ye Qi in his mind: "I plan to engrave all the clues we found on the silver, and then put these silver taels into wooden boxes. Buried in Xiaolou where they might find it."

Ye Qi couldn't help complaining: "In 20 years, what if the silver you buried is found by someone else and taken away as a treasure?"

Shao Qingge was also worried about this, he thought for a moment, and said: "Let's recall carefully, in Qingfeng Town 20 years later, what places will Xiao Lou and the others pass by, but few others are willing to go?"

Ye Qi blurted out: "The Zhao family and the Chen family? Professor Xiao and the others will go to these two places to investigate, and the residents of other small towns have believed the rumors that the ghosts are killing them because of the inexplicable disappearance of these two families, thinking that these two places are Haunted houses are generally not close."

Shao Qingge raised a question: "However, the Zhao family and the Chen family became haunted houses 17 years later, that is, three years ago in the world Xiao Lou and the others lived in. These two families did not live together in the next 17 years. The disappearance, especially the Zhao family, has always been occupied by people, if they want to renovate the yard, build a house, and dig out the clues we have hidden, wouldn't our efforts be wasted?"

Ye Qi froze for a moment, and then realized the problem of time.

Assuming that the world Xiao Lou lives in is World 0, the murder occurred 3 years ago, and he and Shao Qingge lived 20 years ago, then, during the 3 years from 20 years ago to 17 years ago, the Zhao family and the Chen family Nothing happened to the person, and the clues were naturally not suitable to stay in their home.

What's more, in the current world, most of the courtyards in Qingfeng Town are dilapidated, and there is no Zuiyue Lake in the middle of the town, and there is no Fulai Inn, which is completely incomparable with the orderly Qingfeng Town 20 years later.In other words, many courtyards were built a few years later, and Zhao's and Chen's might be among them.

Ye Qi scratched his head: "Then what should we do? Is there any place where outsiders rarely go, Professor Xiao and the others will definitely go?" He went through the experience of everyone since entering the secret room in his mind, and suddenly his eyes lit up. , said: "I think of a place, you can see if it works!"

After hearing Ye Qi's words in his mind, Shao Qingge smiled slightly: "I know what to do now."

***

The world three years ago.

Tang Ci and Lu Jiuchuan found the eldest daughter-in-law Qin Yuruan and her son in the Zhao family, and confirmed that the mourning hall of the Zhao family was arranged by this woman.

In fact, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang have already analyzed this point, because the mourning hall of the Zhao family has grandparents, parents, and the four younger siblings, Zhao Zeping, Zhao Ze'an, Zhao Zeshun, and Zhao Zesui, but Zhao Zeping's wife and children are missing.

If the Zhao family is completely wiped out, there will be no descendants to enshrine spiritual tablets to them.Since someone arranged a mourning hall for the Zhao family, it must be a survivor of the Miemen case.

Qin Yurou took the child and left Zhao's house. Tang Ci and Lu Jiuchuan looked at each other and continued to search Zhao's house.

What puzzled the two of them was that Zhao Zeping, the eldest son of Zhao, did not have the rattle in his room.

"When the case happened three years ago, the Zhao family did not have a rattle, but when Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang searched the Zhao family, they found a rattle with a tiger pattern on the surface..." Tang Ci was silent for a moment, then analyzed softly: "If , that rattle was left by the murderer when he committed the crime, so we should be able to find it too. As a result, Xiao Lou found it three years later, but we did not find it at the time of the crime. This proves that the rattle is from the Zhao family Only after the disappearance did someone deliberately stay in the Zhao family."

Lu Jiuchuan frowned, and said, "The murderer went back and forth, leaving behind the rattle after a while? Or is it not left by the murderer, but someone else?"

Tang Ci thought for a while, and said: "It is very likely that there is someone else, we have to continue to use drones to monitor the movements of the Zhao family."

Lu Jiuchuan said: "If someone else put the rattle in Zhao's house, then the one in Chen's house is probably put by the same person? How about we go to Chen's house to check."

Tang Ci nodded, and left Zhao's house with Lu Jiuchuan.

In the middle of the night, Qingfeng Town was shrouded in soft moonlight, and no pedestrians could be seen on the street.

The two flew all the way, and soon came to the Chen family.At this time, the Chen family was empty and pitch black. Tang Ci was about to enter when suddenly, Lu Jiuchuan gently took Tang Ci's hand and whispered in his ear: "There are people in the yard!"

Tang Ci didn't notice the situation in the yard at all, but Lu Jiuchuan reacted sharply. He saw the shadow hiding in the darkness at a glance. He pulled Tang Ci to hide behind a big tree. Dare to come out, staring at the door of Chen's house intently.The man in black came out of the courtyard of the Chen family quickly, turned around and walked towards the end of the alley.

The light was dim at night, and the other party was dressed in black. The two couldn't see his face clearly, so they had to follow him quietly.

The man in black walked very quickly, apparently very familiar with the roads in the town. After walking through several corners, he disappeared at the end of Xiushui Lane, Qin Feng's residence.

Lu Jiuchuan looked at Tang Ci and frowned slightly: "That man in black just now was Qin Feng?"

Tang Ci was puzzled: "What did he go to Chen's house for? Could it be...he played the rattle?"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Go back and have a look."

The two turned around and returned to Chen's house, and walked into the residence of Chen Yu and his wife.Mrs. Chen had just given birth to a child. There was a cradle in the bedroom, and there were many children's clothes beside it. Lu Jiuchuan picked up the Ye Mingzhu and took a closer look. With the faint light of the Ye Ming Pearl, the two of them suddenly found a familiar bird in the cradle. rattle.

——It was the rattle with the tiger painted on the drum.

Three years later, Liu Qiao and Lao Mo entered Chen's house for the first time, and Liu Qiao found the rattle.

It turned out that it was not left by the murderer, but by Qin Feng.

The two left Chen's house temporarily and returned to the inn.

Neither Chu Huaying nor Gui Yuanzhang slept, and the four of them summarized and analyzed the clues they found today.

Lu Jiuchuan stroked his chin and said, "Qin Feng's actions are very strange. He first questioned Han Ningshuang, then returned home, changed into black clothes and went secretly to Chen's house. In the cradle of Chen's newborn child, he left a Only the rattle of a tiger is painted on the surface of the drum.”

Tang Ci said: "The child of the Chen family is not a tiger. Qin Feng left behind a rattle with a picture of a tiger, but it seems to be a reminder of something?"

Gui Yuanzhang said: "It is now certain that Han Ningshuang knows who the murderer is. She flew a white kite on the night of the crime to create rumors of 'ghosts kill'. This is definitely not a coincidence, but she and the murderer. At that time, outside the small town, people from the Zhao family and the Chen family were lured to the mass grave with the sound of special rattles, while Han Ningshuang stayed in the town and flew a kite to play tricks."

Chu Huaying calmly said: "My mother-in-law raised several children back then. It is very likely that they are joining forces for revenge. Qin Feng did not participate in this revenge plan, but he has obviously guessed who the murderer is and who the murderer is going to do. The object of revenge, so, these years, he only recorded the people who have been killed and those who may be killed in the register, but he did not stop it."

Huaying's words made Tang Ci suddenly open up a new way of thinking.

Qin Feng's roster did record the names of many people, some were killed and some were still alive.

He knew the murderer, and he knew who the murderer wanted to take revenge on, so he compiled the roster. This is a reasonable guess.

Tang Ci carefully sorted out the context of the whole incident, and said: "In the famine 20 years ago, the mother-in-law who raised them was abused to death. Serious psychological shadow. After growing up, Han Ningshuang and others came back to take revenge, Qin Feng was separated from Han Ningshuang many years ago, so he didn't know about it."

He paused and continued to analyze: "However, both the Zhao family and the Chen family were missing, and with the loopholes in Li Gui's testimony, Qin Feng immediately thought of Han Ningshuang, so he went to Han Ningshuang to ask for evidence, and Han Ningshuang confessed in front of Qin Feng. committed all the crimes, but Qin Feng does not believe that she did it alone. Now it seems that Qin Feng already knows who the murderer is."

Lu Jiuchuan agreed: "Three years later, there are still people missing in the world, which proves that this criminal team has been cleaning up the descendants of those who killed my mother-in-law. Qin Feng is an insider, but he didn't stop it. His mood should be very contradictory. Judging from his conversation with Han Ningshuang, he personally does not agree with the extreme practice of exterminating people. On the other hand, he can't let go of his mother-in-law's death, and he has no position to stop his friends from avenging her mother-in-law. That's why he To do such a contradictory thing?"

Tang Ci looked at him and said, "That's right. After all, Qin Feng is a child raised by his mother-in-law, so he can't stop his partners from avenging her mother-in-law, but he doesn't want everyone in Qingfeng Town to be wiped out. The Chen family left the clue of 'rattle drum', probably hoping that one day in the future, someone else will be able to find out the murderer of the Miemen case and stop these people's crazy revenge?"

I couldn't come forward to stop it, but I couldn't bear the slaughter of innocent descendants in the small town, so I left clues at the scene of the crime, so that Qin Feng's abnormal behavior could be explained.

Lu Jiuchuan said: "How many children did the mother-in-law raise? We have to follow Han Ningshuang. She must know the murderer. Qin Feng has already alarmed her. Maybe she will discuss the next plan with the murderer?"

Chu Huaying stood up calmly and said, "Leave the tracking to me. I won't sleep tonight, so I just keep an eye on her."

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Alright, Huaying, be careful."