Escape From the Library

【Death Code-13】

Ke Shaobin's question made the students very uncomfortable. After all, they were still cooking and eating in the kitchen yesterday. If the kitchen was full of bones, they would feel like vomiting.

Jiang Pingce said: "The human body's muscles and bones can only be completely turned into ashes in a high-temperature furnace. Ordinary fire can only burn the human body. I mean, there are a lot of ashes in the kitchen, not necessarily bone ashes, it may be The ashes left by burning other things."

Yue Xingwen simply turned around and walked towards the kitchen: "Go and have a look."

Everyone came to the kitchen to recheck the clues.There were still obvious dried blood on the sharp kitchen knife. Yesterday Liu Zhaoqing worried that it was the blood left by the murderer, so he did not dare to use a kitchen knife when cooking, but cut the vegetables with his scalpel.

Yue Xingwen picked up the kitchen knife and observed it carefully for a moment, then said: "It is most likely human blood. There is no place where chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep are raised nearby, and there are no fish in the pond. This knife is the tool used by the murderer to kill the player team in the end. "

Qin Lu stared at the bloody kitchen knife, and asked in a low voice, "But, how could he kill so many adults by himself? Among the eight players, there are also males. Everyone has healthy limbs, so they won't resist?"

Gao Xiaoxin also said: "If he chased and killed those eight people, shouldn't the blood flow all the way from the inn to the kitchen? But no blood was found in the inn..."

Jiang Pingce interrupted her in a low voice: "You forgot the sleeping pills."

They found a large amount of sleeping pills in the basement yesterday. Yue Xingwen had suspected that the murderer might have added sleeping pills to the players' meals and committed crimes while the players were asleep.

Yue Xingwen said: "He can sneak back to his residence from under the dining table while people are not paying attention, and add a lot of sleeping pills to drinking water or meals. Players will fall into a deep sleep after taking sleeping pills, and he will take those people out of the room Drag them outside and kill them one by one... Those people died in their sleep, and there was no time to resist."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "So, he didn't directly confront the eight people by himself, but dragged out each person who was sleeping deeply and killed them separately. The people who were killed in their sleep didn't even scream. , he can easily kill eight people."

When the girls heard this, their whole bodies felt as if they were falling into a cellar of ice—it was just that they came out to play a script game, and the food was drugged. Who would have thought that they would not wake up?

Yue Xingwen simply picked up the shovel and pulled out all the ashes under the stove. Suddenly, he noticed some shredded paper shapes in the ashes. After dialing it a few times, he said, "The shredded paper that hasn't been burnt clean."

He picked out the remaining shredded papers and put them aside.

Since most of the paper was burned, the writing on it was very blurry. Yue Xingwen picked it up and carefully identified it for a while, and said: "The material of this paper is very special, a bit like the hard shell paper for making cards." He took a piece of broken paper The paper was passed to Jiang Pingce: "What do you think it looks like?"

Jiang Pingce took it over and took a closer look, frowned and said, "The identity card of the script killer?"

He saw the word "Chunlan" on this piece of paper, and remembered that Miss Su's dowry maid was called Chunlan.

Yue Xingwen took a closer look at the remaining scraps of paper, and said, "It is indeed a prop for script killing. The one with the name on it is the script identity card, and the others should be script introduction and plot clue cards."

Qin Miao said: "I used to play script killing. After the player receives the identity card, he will read the identity information and the plot line, and then play his role well. Everyone only knows the identity of their character and whether they are the murderer. Yes. The backgrounds and experiences of others are unknown."

Yue Xingwen nodded: "So, in this game, the identity card that the murderer gets is very important."

Since more than half of the script materials were burned, it is difficult to judge what identity card the murderer got from the ashes left behind, and the fragmentary script description can only vaguely see "the wedding night...a mysterious death... ..." and other words.

It is not very helpful for plot reasoning, but at least it can prove that their thinking is correct.

Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses, and said: "Xingwen guessed the script killing in advance. If a team with weak reasoning ability takes this course, as long as they dig out the ashes in the kitchen to find the ID card, they should be able to think of "Script Killing" too." ?”

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Well, this is the key clue to confirm the killing of the script."

The ashes in the kitchen were left after the murderer burned the script killing materials, so where are the corpses of the players killed by him hidden?Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice, "Go to the pond and look for it."

Ke Shaobin: "..."

If the pond is full of corpses, he will have a psychological shadow on Tang lotus root.

Liu Zhaoqing took a bamboo pole and rummaged around in the pond, while Ke Shaobin stood beside him with his back tensed.However, the senior brother searched for a long time, but did not find any other corpses. Ke Shaobin was stunned and said, "Not in the pond?"

Yue Xingwen said: "It wasn't burned or thrown in a pond, so it was most likely buried. Let's look around the woods carefully."

The eight people acted immediately, and searched the entire forest in a blanket manner.

After searching every inch for a whole day, I finally found a big hole in the corner of the woods at dusk.

The pit was more than two meters deep, covered with weeds and leaves, no different from the surrounding ones. Yue Xingwen stepped on the air and almost fell into it. Jiang Pingce hurriedly reached out to grab him. Turning his head, he saw a few corpses piled up randomly in the pit, all turned into white bones.

Yue Xingwen looked at Qin Lu: "Move them up."

Qin Lu took out the globe, and the plate movement instantly moved the bones in the pit to the ground. Jiang Pingce walked over to count them, and said with a frown, "There are only 7 corpses."

Yue Xingwen asked: "Senior Brother Liu, can you tell the difference between men and women?"

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "Although I'm not a forensic doctor, it's easy to distinguish between men and women, just look at the pelvis." He pointed to a corpse at his feet: "The lower part of the pelvis of a man is narrow, like a funnel, and the angle between the pubic bone is acute. Usually less than 90 degrees; because women can have children, the pelvis is wide, and the angle below is about 120 degrees."

He quickly counted the corpses at the scene, and said, "These seven corpses are two males and five females."

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other, and the latter said: "The ten players are three men and seven women, and the girl playing the bride is also dead. In other words, two boys and six girls died?"

Yue Xingwen said: "There is still a boy and a girl missing. We analyzed before that the one who left the clue should be the girl, and the ancient romance novel belongs to her. Then, the remaining boy is the murderer."

Ke Shaobin tidied it up carefully, and said: "There are 10 players, one man is the murderer, and there are nine remaining. In the morning, the body of the bride who fell into the lake was found, and seven bodies were found in the pit, and there is still one girl missing...Leave a clue Did that girl escape?"

The murderer concentrated on killing people and buried the corpses in the pit, and would not deliberately miss anyone.

The most plausible explanation is that the player escaped one.The girl had already noticed something was wrong, and she used the doll to leave clues. Since she had already discovered the problem, she would not carelessly eat the food here.

It is very likely that when the murderer put sleeping pills in the meal, the girl didn't take them vigilantly, but got away with it.When the murderer started killing at night, she took the opportunity to slip away?When escaping, of course it was impossible to run away with a suitcase, so her suitcase was left here, but the body was not.

Thinking of this possibility, Yue Xingwen felt relieved: "One escaped, maybe this is why the murderer gave up and burned the script and left here. If the player group is destroyed, he can continue to commit crimes and kill another bride , to complete the formation of the seven sacrifices. But he didn’t complete it, so he burned the script and left, probably because he was afraid that the girl who escaped would call the police?”

Jiang Pingce said: "Summary the current clues and see if there are any omissions."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and said: "The murderer and Su Wanxin used to be a couple. Su Wanxin was pressured by her parents to marry into the Zhao family. The murderer couldn't love Su Wanxin, so she killed Su Wanxin and chose a place with good geomantic omen to bury her. The tombstone was engraved with the handwriting of "Beloved Wife Su Wanxin", and a murder inn was designed. According to Su Wanxin's experience, the ancient version of "Script Killing" was written, and mixed into the group of script killing lovers, deceiving batch after batch of players to come here. Carry out your plan here."

Jiang Pingce went on to say: "He used the setting in the script that if he killed the bride, she would die tragically on the night of the bridal chamber. He killed the bride and hid the body without arousing the suspicion of others. After a few days, he used the bride's mobile phone to give the player and family members Send a message, pretend that the bride is still alive, and then arrange for the bride to disappear in another city."

Yue Xingwen said: "His seamless plan succeeded six times in a row, but on the seventh time, he met a vigilant girl. The girl sensed something was wrong, and left a three-segment character code with the doll and the romance novel she carried. Hope to be seen. The murderer found the traces of the doll being dismantled, suspected that his actions were exposed, and decided to kill him. He added sleeping pills to the meal, but the girl did not take it vigilantly, and took the opportunity to escape when he killed at night. The murderer killed There were only seven people left, and he knew that someone had escaped, so he terminated the plan, burned the script, buried the body and left."

Seeing other students listening carefully, Yue Xingwen paused and said, "This is the complete logic of the inn murder case."

Ke Shaobin said: "After the girl ran out, she should call the police, right?"

Yue Xingwen said: "She will definitely call the police. But the library removed this part of the plot and restored the crime scene to us, so that we can solve the case. The content of the burned script is presented in the form of a dream."

That night, everyone slept in the rooms allocated yesterday.

Yue Xingwen had another dream.

In the dream, the grown-up Xiaoyou sewed a pair of dolls, pricked needles on the dolls, and wrote a cloth strip—he finally saw the words on the white cloth strip, which was Miss Su’s birth date. .

She put the doll into the wedding room, and the face printed in the bronze mirror was pale and distorted, and she was dressed in pink, which was even more weird under the light of the red candle.The sound of "sending into the bridal chamber" sounded outside, she pushed open the window and took a look, and wanted to escape through the window, but hesitated for a while, instead of jumping out the window, she secretly hid under the bed.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and the bride walked in supported by two maids.

After Xi Po and the others left, one of the maids said aggrievedly: "Miss, I heard that Mr. Zhao is a sick child, and he is about to die of illness. The master sent you here to congratulate him. Isn't this pushing you into the fire pit?"

Chun Yu echoed in a low voice: "That's right, Miss, why did you agree..."

A gentle voice sounded: "Stop talking, it's a done deal. Go down first, and let me be quiet for a while."

The two maids opened the door and left.

The bride sat on the bed, silent for a long time.

About half an hour later, someone suddenly opened the door and came in, and the sound of heavy footsteps rang in his ears. Yue Xingwen was from the perspective of Xiaoyou who was hiding under the bed at this time, so he couldn't see who it was at all.He only heard the bride ask, "Why did you come?"

A deep male voice sounded: "I'll come to see you."

The bride was stunned for a moment, and her voice was a little lost: "I'm already married, and we'll go our separate ways from now on, don't see each other again." The next moment, a piercing scream suddenly sounded in the room: "Ah!"

The shining blade flashed, and the bride pushed the door and ran out in horror: "Help——"

Xiaoyou shrinks under the bed tremblingly, her vision keeps shaking.She saw a pair of feet resting on the edge of the bed. The man was wearing a pair of black boots with delicate silver moiré patterns on them.

Yue Xingwen was awakened by the dream.

He suddenly sat up from the bed, and there was another female ghost in red standing beside the bed, staring at him expressionlessly.

Yue Xingwen: "..."

Getting used to being scared, he rushed out in two or three steps, shouting: "Assemble!"

A group of people fled out of the woods in fear. Qin Lu exhaled and said with a wry smile, "Every night when I wake up in the middle of the night, there is a female ghost standing by my bed. I won't dare to sleep alone anymore..."

Yue Xingwen quickly adjusted his heartbeat and said, "Gather up the clues."

He carefully recalled the fragments of the dream, and said: "I dreamed that on the wedding night, Xiaoyou also entered the bride's room. She went to put the curse doll. My dream was a bit strange. Originally, she was supposed to go out through the window, but After she pushed open the window, she hesitated for a moment, then got under the bed."

Hearing this, Jiang Pingce said, "This should be a reenactment of the script killing. Xiaoyou's actor is the girl who left clues. She was at the bottom of the bride's bed and witnessed a man coming to kill the bride. The plot of the bride running out of the house in panic."

Yue Xingwen nodded: "I think so too. According to the setting of the script killing, Xiaoyou's actor should get the script through the window, and there is a ladder outside the window to fall to the ground. However, this time the script killing, the actor Xiaoyou's person may be afraid of heights, so he didn't go out through the window, but deviated from the script and hid under the bed."

The next day, the bride disappeared.The actor who plays Xiaoyou is not sure who the murderer is, and dare not tell others, so he uses dolls to leave clues.The plot of the script killing was disrupted, witnesses appeared, and the murderer began to slaughter all the players. The cautious Xiaoyou fled here without taking sleeping pills.

Yue Xingwen took a deep breath and said, "Black boots, silver moiré, the man who came to the bride's room last - is it the doctor or the guard?"

Jiang Pingce said in a low voice, "It's a guard."

Yue Xingwen looked at him sideways, and Jiang Pingce said: "In my first night's dream, in the painting drawn by the guards, there was a silver cloud pattern on Miss Su's belt, this detail can match. The cloud pattern embroidery thread should be the couple's outfit when they are together."

Yue Xingwen gave a thumbs up: "Observe carefully enough." Fortunately, Jiang Pingce noticed this detail.

The murderer of the script has finally surfaced, and the mystery of "A Drama Within a Drama" can finally be completely solved.