Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-10】

Da Vinci's "Last Supper" painting tells the story of the "Bible" - Jesus and his twelve disciples had dinner, and said during the dinner, "Some of you will betray me." ", after hearing this sentence, the twelve disciples had different expressions, and they gathered together to discuss who was the traitor, and the real traitor, Judas, knocked over the bottle on the table because of his panic, which shows that he was guilty at the time.

At this time, there were exactly 13 people sitting on the long dinner table after the wedding banquet.

The seats similar to those in the painting made Yue Xingwen naturally think of the "traitor". He looked at Xu Feixue and asked, "Do you remember the order of everyone's position in the painting "The Last Supper"?"

Xu Feixue nodded: "Remember, Jesus sat in the middle, with 6 disciples sitting on the left and right sides respectively. The fourth person from the left, that is, the person who is two seats to the right of Jesus, is the traitor Judas."

Yue Xingwen listened to her words, turned his head to look at the long table, quickly took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the seating order of the entire table.

Xu Yishen looked at the long table and said, "The etiquette of Western food is that the right is respected, and the lady is first. The lady sitting on the far right should be Mrs. Brown, which is the groom's mother. Next to her is Mr. Brown, and next to her is Mrs. Brown." The bride's parents. Followed by the bride Alice and the groom Jack; then Daisy's husband Rhodes, sons Dean, Daisy, Leah, and three men sitting next to Leah, who should be cousins kind of relatives."

Yue Xingwen wrote his name on the paper based on Senior Brother Xu's visual inspection.After writing the seating map, he looked it over from left to right, and said, "The fourth from the left is Leah, which is the same as the position of the traitor Judas in the seating order of "The Last Supper."

Xu Feixue said suspiciously: "The one who is two seats away from her is Daisy's husband Rhodes? Among the oil paintings, the one in the middle should be Jesus!"

The students looked at each other when they heard this.

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce: "Our reasoning doesn't match the order of the seats, right? In the painting "The Last Supper", Judas betrayed Jesus. Judging from today's position order, it should be Leah who betrayed Rhodes?"

Jiang Pingce glanced at the long table and said, "The order of the seats in the painting may not be exactly the same as today's order. We already know that the traitor in the painting "The Last Supper" is seated fourth from the left. Today's traitor is also the fourth from the left, so it's too simple to directly target the suspect?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "That's right. The library should not let us analyze the murderer directly through the order of the seats, but Leah's suspicion cannot be ruled out. She came to the wedding without a smile on her face, but the two families The attitude towards her is still very friendly, why on earth?"

Liu Zhaoqing scratched the back of her head with a headache: "I heard people gossip at the wedding banquet before. Leia used to be a rich lady. Later, her family went bankrupt and was adopted by the Roland couple. She is an orphan whose parents died. The two families did not bully her. , and invited her to the wedding banquet, and sat at the same table for dinner...isn't it too polite to her?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone spread out and listen to the guests' discussions, maybe we can find new clues."

The teammates quickly dispersed in the dinner hall.

In the world in the painting, they don't have to worry about their whereabouts being discovered, and they can listen to the conversations of the guests openly.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce stood by the main table and continued to observe the family's movements.

A group of people first wished Jack and Alice a happy wedding. Immediately afterwards, Rhodes took out two beautifully wrapped boxes and said with a smile, "This is a wedding gift from your elder brother. I wish you love forever."

Jack looked surprised: "Gift? Brother is too polite. I didn't give you a gift when you got married."

Rhodes said in a gentle manner: "You were still in school when I got married, and it is right for the elder brother to give the younger brother a gift." He handed the box to the bride, and Alice immediately took it with both hands, and said with a smile: "Thank you, brother."

A man in a dark blue suit sitting on the far left said with a smile: "When two sisters marry two brothers, the relationship between the Brown family and the Roland family will become closer."

When the old lady heard this, she laughed from ear to ear: "We only have these two precious daughters in our family. From now on, I need you brothers to take good care of them."

Rhodes said: "Mom, I will take good care of Daisy mother and child."

Jack also said, "Mom, don't worry about giving Alice to me."

The two couples looked at each other affectionately, and they seemed to be in a good relationship.

Mrs. Brown took the initiative to raise her glass and said with a smile: "It's a blessing for my two brats to marry such beautiful two sisters. Let's wish Jack and Alice a happy wedding together!"

On the long table, everyone raised the red wine together, and the two families seemed to be in harmony.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice, "Sisters marry brothers respectively. The relationship between the two families is definitely not as simple as it seems. The conversation just now seemed like a show."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and quickly drew a relationship network on the paper.

Daisy, the eldest daughter of the Roland family, and Alice, the youngest daughter, married the eldest son Brown Lord and the second son Brown Jack of the Brown family respectively. Daisy had a son named Dean, and Alice and her husband had just married finish the wedding.

The old castle building where they lived was the villa where Daisy lived. Daisy once took her son to plant sunflowers in the garden.The three bodies found in the garden were an elderly couple and a young woman with slightly deformed spines, corresponding to Mrs. Roland's slightly hunched back.It can be concluded that the two elderly deceased are the parents of Daisy and Alice.

The bones of another young woman...is it Daisy, or is it Alice?

At this moment, Leah, who was sitting fourth from the left, stood up suddenly, and everyone around her turned their eyes to her, Leah smiled slightly and said, "Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom. "

She hugged the cat, got up and left, Yue Xingwen immediately signaled Xu Feixue to follow.

Xu Feixue followed all the way to the restroom. After a while, she came out of the women's restroom, walked to Yue Xingwen and said, "Lia really went to the restroom. She didn't talk to anyone during the process, and she vomited in the restroom for a long time. I have an upset stomach. It’s strange that she has to hug that cat when she goes to the toilet.” She paused and said puzzledly, “I like cats too, but I’ve never seen her inseparable with a cat like this, You have to take the cat with you to the restroom."

Jiang Pingce frowned slightly: "There must be something wrong with that cat."

Yue Xingwen said: "The white kitten looks cute, it doesn't look like a fantasy setting such as demon possession or cat demon eating people." He squatted down beside Leah, and tentatively reached out to touch the white kitten. kitten.Since they are in the world in the painting, they cannot affect the plot in the painting. Yue Xingwen touches the cat's head, but his fingers pass through the cat's body like air.

At this moment, the kitten suddenly let out a "meow" and rubbed its head against Leah's arm.As the kitten turned its head, Yue Xingwen saw a wooden sign on the kitten's neck. He lowered his head and took a closer look. It was a very common pet sign. The name of the cat and the owner's phone number were written on the sign. .

On the back of the brand, there is a faint black button-shaped thing.

Yue Xingwen felt vigilant, and immediately typed: "Master Ke, come here!"

Ke Shaobin was listening to guests chatting in the distance, and when he saw the news on the research group channel, he trotted all the way to Yue Xingwen's side, and asked nervously, "Xingwen, what's wrong?"

Yue Xingwen pointed to the cat in Leah's arms: "This cat wears something strange around its neck. Let Xiaotu scan it in 360 degrees to see what is on the back of the brand."

Ke Shaobin then summoned the robot Xiaotu, making Xiaotu the size of a palm, came under the cat's body, and took a picture of the wooden sign on its neck from another angle.

Soon, Ke Shaobin's laptop showed the pictures he had captured. He looked at the button-shaped thing and said firmly, "It should be a bug, the kind that can record!"

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and Jiang Pingce said: "No wonder Leah hugs this kitten wherever she goes. It turns out that the kitten has a bug on its neck—she is using this cat to spy .”

Yue Xingwen said: "With this cat here, she should know many secrets of the two families."

The dinner party was coming to an end, and the students who were scattered all over quickly gathered around Yue Xingwen to collect and sort out the news they had heard.

Liu Zhaoqing said in a low voice: "I heard a gossip that Rhodes and Daisy are not in free love, but two families marrying the eldest son and eldest daughter for business cooperation. The relationship between them is not good, and their usual love is just pretending. Daisy had a boyfriend she liked very much before marriage, and she had a falling out with her family because of it."

Lin Manluo said: "Coincidentally, I heard that the couple who got married today is also a family marriage. The business relationship between the two of them is very close. In order to strengthen the family relationship, it is not enough to force the eldest daughter to marry the eldest son. The younger daughter also needs to get married." Marrying the youngest son, the two couples share different companies, and even wrote a prenuptial agreement."

Lan Yarong followed up and said: "About Liya, I heard two old people chatting in the corner of the dinner party. Liya's family used to be very rich and had business contacts with these two families, but a few years ago, there was a sudden In an accident, her parents died in a car accident while they were out with Daisy's parents, and after that, Daisy's parents adopted her and treated her like their own daughter."

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, "Could it be that she suspected the cause of her parents' death and hung a bug around the cat's neck in order to find out the truth?"

Ke Shaobin followed this speculation and said: "I had a car accident while going out together. Isn't that too suspicious? If her parents were killed by Daisy's parents, then she has sufficient motives to kill Daisy." And Daisy's parents, bury the bodies of three people in the garden, and then replace Daisy as the mistress of this family?"

Yue Xingwen looked at the seat chart and relationship diagram he had drawn on the paper, and said, "Murderers usually kill the grass and root out the roots, right? Since she wanted to kill Daisy's family, how could she let Daisy's sister and son go? "

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "At present, the clues are not comprehensive, so we can't draw conclusions hastily. We only opened the mechanism of the illusion in the three paintings. Maybe there are mechanisms behind the other paintings. Let's look carefully."