Escape From the Library

Yue Xingwen agreed with Jiang Pingce's approach to drawing drawings, but they didn't have a ruler, and it was difficult to draw accurate drawings. Yue Xingwen leaned into Jiang Pingce's ear and asked, "Is your coordinate system Can you calculate the distance?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Yes. But Gao Yongqiang is an architectural major, so there should be other ways."

Sure enough, Gao Yongqiang suddenly took out a pen and paper, and a tool that looked like a calculator.He made a mark on where he was standing, then quickly stepped back to the other side of the inn, pressed the button on the tool, a red laser shot forward, and immediately appeared on the screen of his tool, which was accurate to two decimal places. digits.

Seeing Gao Yongqiang writing and drawing on the drawings, Yue Xingwen walked over and said, "Is this a measuring tool issued by the Department of Architecture?"

Gao Yongqiang nodded: "Well, this is called a laser mapper. All architecture students will be given this tool after passing the entrance exam. It can accurately measure the distance between two points."

Just like the computer department distributes laptops to all students, the architecture department distributes measurement tools and drawings to all students, which provides students with a lot of convenience.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and stepped forward to help.

Gao Yongqiang quickly finished measuring the data around the inn, and drew a three-dimensional figure on the blueprint, marking the precise values ​​of the inn's length, width, and height.Then, the three of them walked into the house and measured all the spaces, corridors, and room interiors on the first and second floors of the inn, and Gao Yongqiang drew accurate architectural drawings.

Everyone gathered on the first floor.

Qin Miao handed the bunch of keys to Yue Xingwen and said, "There are 11 keys, 8 of which correspond to the 8 guest rooms on the second floor, and all of them have been marked. One key can open the secret door we just discovered. The use of the remaining 1 is not yet known."

Yue Xingwen took the key and said, "Thank you, let's go see what's inside the secret door first."

He and Jiang Pingce went to the door at the corner of the first floor together, and inserted the key marked by Qin Miao into the lock hole. With a bang, the iron lock was indeed unlocked. Yue Xingwen opened the door and saw—— There is an oversized solid wood round table surrounded by eight wooden chairs. Eight numbers from "one" to "eight" are engraved on the back of the chairs, which are consistent with the room numbers on the second floor.

The two looked at each other, and Yue Xingwen said, "Eight seats are numbered, do they correspond to the eight rooms upstairs?"

Jiang Pingce frowned: "In the inn, why is there a place like a 'round table meeting'?"

Hearing this, Liu Zhaoqing simply turned to look at Qin Miao: "Junior Sister, you study history, can you give me an explanation?"

Qin Miao said: "The ancients were very particular about status and status. They rarely sat down around a round table for a meeting. When they held a meeting, they usually held a meeting in the lobby. The noble person sat at the head, and the others sat on the sides. , there is usually a table with teacups next to it. This room is definitely not a meeting room, but a restaurant."

However, does the restaurant need to be locked separately with a lock?

Gao Yongqiang walked in, quickly measured the data of this room, and supplemented the drawings.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce checked carefully in the house.

The room is very large, with only round tables and seats, and it looks a little empty. There are two candlesticks placed in the middle of the round table. The red candles on them are half burned, and there are obvious candle tears dripping onto the table, which solidify into the size of a red fingernail. plaques.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce separated the two sides tacitly, knocked lightly along the inner wall of the room, and then found another secret door in the corner.The door was not locked. Pushing the door open, it turned out to be a kitchen.

The kitchen area is also very large. There is a row of stoves made of clay, next to which are chopping boards and kitchen knives.

There were obvious blood stains on the kitchen knife. I don't know if it was the blood left by the slaughter of pigs or sheep, or the blood left by the murder?

Yue Xingwen glanced at Gao Yongqiang, who immediately stepped forward to measure the data.Jiang Pingce continued to search in the kitchen, but found no other secret doors.Everyone returned to the lobby on the first floor and began to analyze the architectural drawings of the inn drawn by Gao Yongqiang.

The external structure of this inn is a regular cuboid, 20 meters long, 12 meters wide, and 7 meters high.

Since the height of each floor of modern residential buildings is between 2.5 meters and 3 meters, when people first saw this inn, they subconsciously thought it was a three-story building—because it was the same as the three-story building that everyone saw in reality. The building is about the same.

When I walked into the inn, I realized that there are two floors, and the height of the floor exceeds 3 meters, just like the living room of the villa, which is very spacious and luxurious.

Now, after carefully comparing the drawings, Jiang Pingce quickly discovered something was wrong: "The total height of the building's external measurement is 7 meters 5, but the internal measurement results show that the height of the lobby on the first floor is 3 meters 5, and the height of the guest rooms on the second floor is 3 meters. 1 meter."

Everyone turned their attention to Gao Yongqiang, who scratched his head and said, "The data I measured with the laser mapping instrument will definitely not be wrong. The two floors are made of wooden structures, and the thickness of the floor cannot reach 1 meter. ” He thought for a while, and said with certainty: “There is only one explanation for such a large error—this building also has a mezzanine that we can’t see visually.”

夹层？外面高7米5，内部高6米5，有1米左右的高度凭空消失了，说明客栈内部还有他们没发现的1米高的隐藏空间。

Jiang Pingce's suggestion of using data to speak is indeed effective, and the difference can be seen intuitively.

Yue Xingwen said: "The height difference is 1 meter, there is a mezzanine or an attic. Continue to see if the length and width can match."

Gao Yongqiang quickly calculated, and said: "The total length of the inn is 20 meters. The lobby, hidden secret room, and kitchen on the first floor add up to 20 meters in length; there are 4 guest rooms on the left and right on the second floor, and each room faces 4 meters from east to west and 5 meters from north to south. meters, plus the stair space and corridors, the total length of the second floor is 18 meters, and the total width is 12 meters—the width is right, and the length is 2 meters short.”

Jiang Pingce carefully looked at the drawings he drew.

Since the corridor on the second floor is located between the rooms, there are no windows and you cannot see the outside. When people enter such a semi-enclosed space, there is no reference for comparison. When they reach the end of the corridor, they will subconsciously think that they have reached the end, of course not. You will notice the difference between the length of the second floor and the length measured outside the inn is as high as 2 meters.

The missing length of the second floor is naturally due to the existence of a secret room that they did not discover.

Jiang Pingce said: "Go to the innermost room on the second floor to find it."

Everyone went upstairs quickly, Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked in the front, and they led their teams into the No. [-] and No. [-] rooms at the end of the corridor, and knocked on the wall for a while. Suddenly, two people's voices rang out in everyone's ears at the same time. :"found it."

Yue Xingwen asked: "Is it behind the bed?"

Jiang Pingce's voice came from the other side: "That's right, go in and have a look."

The door of the secret room was just blocked by a wooden bed placed against the wall.

Since the wooden bed is surrounded by bed curtains, there is no abnormality at all if you look at it with your eyes.Yue Xingwen asked Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin to move the wooden bed together, and he walked to the opposite room, and Jiang Pingce found a door in the same position.

The two moved the bed away together. The stone bricks on the wall were hollow and would echo "dong dong" when knocked. Yue Xingwen removed the bricks one by one and found a wooden door embedded in the wall. Hang up the iron lock.

The keys Qin Miao found just now were only two for unknown purposes. He tried to insert one of them into the keyhole, and sure enough, he heard a "clang" in his ear, the iron lock opened, and Yue Xingwen opened the wooden door cautiously——

The wooden door was very narrow, and only one person could pass through it. Yue Xingwen walked in with his waist bent, and a lot of dust hit his face, making him cough uncontrollably. Jiang Pingce said worriedly behind him, "Are you okay?"

Yue Xingwen coughed a few times, waved the dust in front of him with his hand, and said, "It's okay, give me a candle."

Jiang Pingce lit the candle and handed it to him. Yue Xingwen held up the candle and took a closer look, his expression changed slightly. He said, "You all come in and have a look, there is quite a lot of space inside."

Jiang Pingce was the first to go in, and the others followed one by one. Liu Zhaoqing and the others on the opposite side also came over after hearing this.

Yue Xingwen stood in the middle of the secret room holding a candle. This is a long and narrow space of 2 meters x 6 meters. In the empty room, a wardrobe with three walls was made, and a lot of clothes of different colors were hung in it. There are men and women. They are all ancient costumes, even the golden dragon robes of the emperor, imperial concubine costumes, matching jewelry, and knight-errant costumes and swords for men and women with a strong atmosphere of the Jianghu.

Liu Zhaoqing was stunned: "Does the owner of this inn have a habit of collecting clothes? He even set up a cloakroom in the secret room?"

It really looks like a cloakroom, with rich colors and types.

Yue Xingwen looked back at Qin Miao: "Isn't the emperor's clothes in the Ming Dynasty like this?"

Qin Miao said: "The style of these clothes is not all from the Ming Dynasty. You see, these sets of Jinyiwei's costumes, as well as women's skirts and cardigans belong to the Ming Dynasty; the style of dragon robes and imperial concubines is more like the Tang Dynasty. These Weapons such as sabers and long knives, I don’t know what dynasty it is.”

Jiang Pingce suddenly took out a hat from the innermost part of the closet: "Why are there still clothes from the Qing Dynasty?"

Even a science student could not tell the clothes of other dynasties, but the women of the Qing Dynasty, especially Gege, had a really unique big hat on their heads, and the hats and long braids of men in the Qing Dynasty were completely different from those of other dynasties.

Yue Xingwen walked up to Jiang Pingce, and took out a hat from the closet in front of him. Behind it was a long black braid. Yue Xingwen glanced at Jiang Pingce: "Is there a wig?"

The braided heads of men in the Qing Dynasty could not be more distinctive.

Everyone was a little confused, and Ke Shaobin was full of question marks: "The owner of the inn collects clothes, how can he still collect clothes from the Qing Dynasty? Didn't Qin Miao say that this architectural style is from the Ming Dynasty..."

Yue Xingwen analyzed: "There are two possibilities. First, this building is left over from the Ming Dynasty. The era we live in is actually the Qing Dynasty. The owner of the inn is from the Qing Dynasty. He likes to collect ancient costumes from various eras." He Looking back at everyone: "Did you see a man in your dream last night? Did you have a braided head?"

Liu Zhaoqing immediately replied: "The doctor I dreamed of didn't have braids, and a small part of his long hair was tied in the back with a headband. It's the kind of hairstyle commonly seen in costume dramas." Jiang Pingce said: "The doctor I dreamed of And the guards don't have braids either."

Yue Xingwen said firmly: "That is not the Qing Dynasty, but the second possibility."

He looked back at his teammates: "Have you ever been to a photo studio that specializes in taking photos of ancient costumes?"

When everyone heard this, they were immediately enlightened.

The places with costumes of various dynasties are indeed like photo studios.If they lived in the Ming Dynasty, the innkeepers of the Ming Dynasty could not have predicted that the Qing army would enter the pass a hundred years later, let alone collect Qing Dynasty clothing.If it was the Qing Dynasty, it would not match the costumes of the characters in the dream at all.The architecture and furniture of the Ming Dynasty are even less likely to be those of the Tang and Song Dynasties before the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, they did not actually travel to ancient times, but in modern times!

The innkeeper built this place into a Ming-style building, but his feet were leaked because of the clothes in the secret room.

Ke Shaobin still didn't understand, and scratched his head in confusion: "If this is a modern photo studio, there are no switches, light bulbs, sockets, and network cables. How can they work? Even if they specialize in an antique location for photo shoots, it won't be too late. Not a single trace of modernity left?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Go and have a look at the secret room opposite."

When they came to Room [-], Liu Zhaoqing had already removed the bricks behind the bed, Yue Xingwen opened the door with the remaining key, walked in first with a candle, followed by Jiang Pingce.

After the two entered the room, there was a sudden silence.

The suffocating silence made the teammates a little worried, and Gao Xiaoxin couldn't help but tremble: "Why, why don't you talk? Did you find something scary in the secret room?"

Jiang Pingce said in a deep voice, "Go in and see for yourself."

He moved sideways, and his teammates lined up to enter the room.Liu Zhaoqing let out a "fuck" as soon as he entered, and Ke Shaobin followed him with a short "Ah... this?" Qin Miao and Qin Lu didn't make a sound after entering, and Gao Xiaoxin was even more puzzled. People are like falling into an ice cellar, and instantly froze into a statue.

In the narrow and long secret room of 2 meters x 6 meters, seven wooden chairs are placed side by side, the middle one is empty, and the remaining six chairs are occupied by six people——

No, it was six corpses, corpses that had decayed to the point where only bones remained!

The white bones were all wearing bright red wedding gowns, and the waist was fixed on the seat by red satin.

This weird scene made everyone's scalps tingle. Jiang Pingce frowned and looked at the neat skeleton bride in front of him, and said in a low voice: "It seems that this is the storeroom of the innkeeper—specially used to hide corpses."