Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

In the basement of the old villa, there are as many as 27 skeletons.

After Zhou Qian, Bai Zhou, and He Xiaowei finished exploring, they went to the first floor, joined Qi Liuxing, and Yindao, and asked them about the situation there.

Yin Dao kept guarding near the window to observe the surrounding situation. Qi Liuxing finished exploring the second floor by himself, took a bunch of photo albums, diaries and other things and went downstairs, and put them one by one on the dusty coffee table.

The first thing people look at is the photo album.

Looking through it, the photos inside are really shocking——

In the photos, all kinds of women's joints have been broken, and their bodies have been bent into shapes that cannot be achieved under normal circumstances. They are tied up with various colorful ropes, and some are wearing princess dresses with their legs spread wide. Some were dressed as servants in a coffee shop, with their waists bent down and their heads protruding from their crotches, their postures were extremely distorted...

The victims in each photo looked different, were dressed differently, and were tied up in different positions, but one thing they all had in common was that they all looked like underage girls.

At the same time, when this photo was taken, they were all soaked in the water.

They were beaten, their torsos were broken, and they were put into glass containers in the basement, surrounded by some unknown liquid...

They seem to have been made into living specimens.

Qi Liuxing patted the diary next to the photo album with his palm, and said: "This house should be the murderer's home. There is his diary here. In addition, I also found a strange thing...you read the diary first and talk about it."

Opening the diary, the title page of the diary recorded several lines of text that made people shudder——

"That day when I got home, my parents were not there. I called my sister's name a few times, but no one answered. I was hungry and wanted to find something to eat, but I couldn't find it in the kitchen... Then I wanted to find my sister to cook for me , I searched and searched, I didn't find food, I just smelled blood...

"I followed the smell of blood and searched and searched. I went to the second floor and saw blood in the corridor. It was flowing from under the bathroom door. There was a lot of blood, and more and more blood...it was very sweet. Blood……

"What kind of thing can have such sweet blood? It's really full of curiosity!

"In order to find the source of the blood, I opened the bathroom door and found that it was flowing from the bathtub. I walked forward and opened the shower curtain, and saw my sister lying in a pool of blood..."

"I don't remember exactly what day it was...but I think I'll always remember my sister's appearance...the way she looked in the pool of blood was so beautiful.

"Her skin is as white as snow, especially after being soaked in water. The red blood is like flowers blooming from her body. The flowers nourished by white snow are so bright and moving that I can hardly take my eyes off them.

"My sister has always been beautiful, but she was the most beautiful at that moment. I knew she was probably dead. But she made me feel a kind of vigorous vitality! I have never felt this way before!

"I've seen the death of Granny Wang next door. The skin on her whole body was loose. It was so ugly. I remember that when she was at the funeral, I accidentally glanced at her, and then I had nightmares for several nights. I want to throw up every time I think about it! But my sister is different!

"Girls die at such an age... they can be so beautiful..."

"That day I was 15 years old... My sister seems to be 16 or 17? I don't remember, she is not an adult anyway.

"She committed suicide, probably because she was hurt by a boy. She is so stupid. Why did she die for someone else? But if it wasn't because of her stupidity, how could I have seen such a beautiful picture?

"Thank you sister, because of you, I know what beauty is. I am willing to spend my whole life chasing after this kind of beauty. A beautiful girl should die when she is a minor with the most vigorous vitality."

The passage on the title page of the diary is really creepy, and the content on it directly and clearly reflects the murderer's motive for killing.

It is basically certain that this is the diary written by the murderer himself.

After the title page, a lot of the content of the diary was torn off, and estimated from the thickness, the entire diary lost half of its content.

The remaining part records the murderer's mental journey related to the crime.

"In 19X9... I don't know what date, but I made another specimen today, happy."

"In 19X9, I still don't know what day of the week it is... I squatted in front of the high school for a long time. Hehe, I squatted until they finished school... There are too many young and beautiful girls... This kind of vitality is the most vivid Yes. They should stay in this moment!

"After I came back, I went to the basement to take a look. They were so beautiful, really beautiful, as beautiful as my sister. The way life goes by like this... It's so touching."

……

In this way, the title page of the diary named the murderer why he killed.The following content is all about what specimens he made on that day, how beautiful the specimens were, and so on.

However, many pages are missing in the middle of this diary, and many victims' information and how they were made into specimens are also missing.

Of course, if the missing part of the diary is indeed all the victim's information, then this will lead to some new problems.

Based on one page of the diary recording one victim, the murderer probably killed more than a hundred people based on the thickness of the diary.

But why is there only 27 people in this basement?

In addition, why has the murderer not been arrested after killing a hundred people in a row?

Thinking of this, Zhou Qian asked Qi Liuxing: "You said it was strange just now? Why is it strange?"

"The reports in these papers are weird.

"Also, look at these papers. There are portraits of wanted criminals on them. This should be a pictorial posted on the street to provide clues for everyone to report the murderer."

Qi Liuxing unfolded the newspapers, Zhou Qian quickly scanned them, and sure enough, he quickly discovered the key point.

The headline of the relevant report is very eye-catching: "The identity of the real murderer who imprisoned and killed 17 young girls in a row has been confirmed with cruel methods. His profile picture is as follows. The general public is requested to actively provide clues."

"...The serial murder case has been arrested, thanks to the insider for reporting"

"Today, 300 people signed a joint proposal calling for the execution of the serial killer who killed the young girl!" "

……

Diaries, newspapers, portraits, photos, and the corpses in the basement of this villa are enough to restore a large part of the truth to the players——

There is obviously a huge problem with the murderer's psychology.

Witnessing his sister die in a bathtub at the age of 15 led to a kind of morbid aesthetic obsession in him.

As an adult, every time he thinks of that scene, he feels yearning, so he wants to reproduce that scene.

Once he had the conditions to turn his dream into reality, he began to implement the plan.

The murderer tied the girls home one after another, soaked them in glass containers to death, and took pictures of them when they were dying, in order to keep what he thought was "the most beautiful moment of life" and achieve his so-called The pursuit of "beauty".

Later, more and more girls disappeared, reaching 17.This undoubtedly attracted the attention of the police, and they will track down the murderer throughout the city.

After some time, the police should have found the murderer's residence.

It's just that before the police arrived, the murderer had already fled his address.

The police searched his home and found 17 dead bodies. Through interviews with neighbors, they confirmed his appearance, reported him to the newspaper, and listed him as a wanted criminal for nationwide arrest.

The murderer's brutal behavior must have aroused everyone's anger. People will post his portrait everywhere, praying that he will be arrested and brought to justice as soon as possible.

As for the fugitive murderer, after seeing these wanted portraits, he would tear them off as much as possible, some were thrown away by him, and some were brought home for disposal.In addition, he will definitely collect reports related to the crime he committed in time so that he can respond immediately.

This should be the general course of the matter, and why there are wanted pictorials and newspapers in the murderer's room.

At first glance, everything seems to be going smoothly.

But there are many unexplained things behind it.

There were only 17 victims in the newspaper, but why were there 27 corpses in the basement?

Besides, the newspaper said that the murderer was wanted, so the police must have searched his house under the circumstances.The corpse was just soaked in a container and was not completely destroyed. There should also be a process for the police to hand over the corpse to the family.

In any case, all corpses should not continue to exist in the basement.

What went wrong?

On the side, He Xiaowei went through all the clues and said, "A lot of things don't make sense, it's so strange. The murderer was caught, why is the victim's body here?

"The number of victims in the diary, in the news, in the basement...why are they all different? It's so weird!"

Qi Liuxing thought for a while and said, "I suddenly have an idea..."

At this point, he looked at Zhou Qian with some uncertainty.

Zhou Qian patted him on the shoulder and said, "Just say it. I'll see if we think the same."

Qi Liuxing said: "I always feel that... there seems to be only one explanation that can explain all this. If the murderer has been arrested, all this is unreasonable. But if he is released after being arrested , this makes it possible to continue to trade down...

"These newspapers were the news before the murderer was arrested for the first time. At that time, he only killed 17 people. The bodies of those 17 people were taken away by the police and did not remain in the basement.

"But later, the murderer was released again, and continued to kill. Judging by the thickness of this diary, if every page torn out in the middle corresponds to a victim, he killed more than 100 people. Then um... he in constant shifting places of residence.”

Picking up the murder diary, Qi Liuxing said again: "The diaries of the first batch of 17 victims were destroyed by someone for some unknown reason. This person may or may not be the murderer. At that time, the following diary has not been written yet...

"Then, the content on the title page alone can only prove that he has a psychological problem or is suspected, and does not constitute evidence of his crime. At least the police are not enough to sentence him to death based on the title page alone.

"After that... I don't know the exact number. Let me just give you an example. Let's say the murderer killed another 20 people somewhere, and he was discovered and even arrested again. The diary of the criminal record was also torn up...

"Similar incidents happened a few more times, all the way back, until now!"

He Xiaowei scratched his head, and said after a while: "I understand the process, and most of the questions can indeed be explained. But the most important point can't be explained... The police found the body in his house and confirmed that he was the murderer. , why did you let him go in the end? Again and again?"

At this time, Zhou Qian said: "The technology in that era was not yet developed, and perhaps the chain of evidence that can truly convict the murderer is not complete.

"It's even... In the incomplete chain of evidence, there are new key clues that can clear the murderer's charge, so he was acquitted again and again."

Even if the police found the bodies of countless victims in the basement of the murderer's residence, it would still be difficult to convict him thoroughly without direct evidence of his murder.

"I'm very busy at work and not often at home. My key is placed under the flower pot at the door. It is likely that someone took it and made an extra key."

"Someone turned my house into a place to kill people and dump their bodies! This is terrible!"

"I don't usually go to the basement... I actually often hear strange noises coming from the basement in the middle of the night. I never thought that someone would hide so many corpses there!"

"Police, I really don't know about this!!"

……

To convict the murderer, a complete chain of evidence is needed. If the most critical link is missing, the murderer would have too many reasons to excuse himself in the era of lack of monitoring and backward detection methods.

He Xiaowei can immediately make up countless excuses that the murderer can use.

But soon he said again: "Wait, but the murderer did this...at least twice. Can the police really, can they let him go so easily? Even if there is no evidence, they should be able to—"

Zhou Qian interrupted him and said, "What if a new suspect appears at this time? What if the clues about that suspect are more direct, clear and powerful, and more certain?"

"What do you mean..." He Xiaowei was taken aback for a moment, but he soon understood, he said, "Could it be... the power of the Murder Exhibition Hall?! Wait a minute...

"what do you mean……"

"I'll take Ruan Mei, who killed her own child, as an example. She should kill people every one or two years, but the exhibition hall obviously has the ability to connect time and space. We walked from Hall 1 to Hall 7 in Hall A. Faced with 7 corpses, I actually went to 7 murder scenes. It's just that this scene is quite special, with only corpses and no surrounding environment.

"From a certain point of view, it can be understood that the 7 layers of time and space converge together. The intersection point is only the corpse itself, and there is nothing else, so we only see the corpse."

Zhou Qian said, "Nevertheless, all this is enough to show that this exhibition hall has the ability to connect time and space. When we were in the exhibition hall, we only saw it push the murders in the past to the present for us to see. But from another angle... we seem to Forget, the matter of connecting time and space is actually a two-way street.”

Qi Liuxing quickly took over and said, "I understand. You mean, we saw the scene of the crime in the past. But maybe the people in the past time and space also saw us, or they could see the scene we left behind. Mark of."

"Yes. I've been thinking about what the meaning of this murder exhibition is..." Zhou Qian narrowed his eyes and looked sideways at Bai Zhou, "If you think about it carefully, we were the ones who touched the baby's body. If the people in the past They can also see us. Then they will find fingerprints on the body. Those fingerprints are ours. This is enough to constitute a new clue for the police to find."

"Fuck, I know, all the corpses are the connection points of time and space. The fingerprints you left were discovered by the police who arrested Ruan Mei in the past, so you replaced Ruan Mei as the suspect!"

He Xiaowei's eyes widened, "Ruan Mei caused everything to be an accident, and the doctor didn't find any abnormalities, otherwise she wouldn't have killed so many babies before being discovered...

"The evidence chain about Ruan Mei's murder may not be sufficient. And when new fingerprints are found on the body... Of course the police will think that she is not the murderer, and then let her go..."

"Yes. After Ruan Mei goes out, I don't know if she will continue to kill people. But the fact before our eyes is that the former owner of this house continued to kill other girls after he was released, and finally reached More than a hundred."

Zhou Qian said quite seriously, "The homicide exhibition hall is helping the serial murderers get off the hook and making them kill more and more people... So, the exhibition hall is changing history, which involves a classic Paradox."

He Xiaowei: "What paradox?"

This time it was his master Yin Dao who answered his words.

Yindao held the curved long knife in his hand, still staring at the direction out of the window, he said: "The grandfather paradox. It is the most classic example related to time and space travel - you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, then how do you Can it continue to exist?"

He Xiaowei said: "Oh. I know it when you say that. That's why I have the concept of parallel time and space. What I traveled to was not the time and space I was in, but parallel time and space. Only in this way can I kill my grandfather. Now... ..."

On the side, Bai Zhou rarely said: "The current situation means that there is no parallel time and space in Linekong City. If you go back to the past and kill your grandfather, the two of you will disappear together."

At this point, Bai Zhou and Zhou Qian looked at each other.

Obviously, the two reached an agreement in an instant—this is probably the reason for the collapse of Linekong City.

Ruan Mei's serial baby killing case is exhibited in Hall A, the serial murderer who killed street girls is exhibited in Hall B, and Hall C has more than one killer, including a swastika killer, and five murders committed jointly by a man and a woman. Mang Xing case.

As for the rest of the venues, there are many that Zhou Qian and the others have not visited.For example, the murderer of the girl, the case about him may be in Hall D or an exhibition hall behind it.

Each exhibition hall connects different time and space.

Ruan Mei, the swastika killer, the pentagram killer, and the killer who made the specimen of the girl were all arrested in the original history, and the next step waiting for them is likely to be the death penalty.

This is the process that history has had - after the killers are arrested, no new killings will continue, and people's lives can go on as usual.

However, when the player visited the exhibition hall, in order to find clues, they touched these corpses, and then left new clues on the corpses.

For example, someone touched the baby's neck, which is more direct evidence of suspected strangulation of the baby.In this way, the police in the past time and space have other suspicions through these new clues.

As a result, the real culprits of these serial murders were actually released by the police in the past time and space.

As early as after visiting Hall A, Zhou Qian suspected that the murderers might come to the current Blue Harbor City through the exhibition hall.

Now he found that he was still thinking shallowly.

The real situation is that the murderer will come to the current Blue Harbor City, and with the help of the exhibition hall, he will travel back and forth between the present and the past time and space, and even go back to the past to continue killing.

Take the 27 victims in this villa as an example.

In the normal course of history, these 27 girls were not killed.

The exhibition hall provided clues to the new suspect to the police, and the murderer was acquitted, which led to their murder.

In this way, the exhibition hall changed history.

In the original history, most of these 27 girls would live happily ever after. They might get married, have children, and give birth to generations...

But they were killed, which means that their children, grandchildren, grandchildren, and grandchildren... all no longer exist.

27 girls who could have lived died prematurely. Based on the butterfly effect, they will have a great impact on the entire history.

But this is only the consequence of a killer being released.

But don't forget, the exhibition hall has helped a lot of killers.

In this way, the impact of these killers who continued to kill after they were released on the entire history of Blue Harbor City became immeasurable.

Parallel time and space do not exist in Linekong City, and the grandfather paradox will be fixed—if you kill your grandfather, you will disappear with him.

As a result, in the year 2031 in Linekong City, countless people's grandparents were killed by murderers in the past, and they also disappeared into the vast expanse of time.

Correspondingly, countless buildings disappeared out of thin air, because the designers who designed them and the workers who added bricks and tiles to them disappeared.

Most of those cases happened more than 300 years ago in the current Blue Harbor City.

For a long time, the effect of the chain reaction became stronger and stronger. In the end, the entire Blue Harbor City suffered a terrible collapse, and it became the current doomsday situation.

So the only question left now is, where are the murderers of these serial killings now, and what will be the main missions that the players will face later.

While Zhou Qian was still thinking, he suddenly heard Qi Liuxing's voice: "Brother Qian, I just saw... What's wrong with your wrist? Why is there a white wristband? The color announced by the system is not white."

"No. So maybe some hidden color that hasn't been announced yet."

Zhou Qian said, "Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet are the seven colors of the rainbow. But the system only announced the last six colors. Why is there no red? This is also quite strange."

"Although you must wear the wristband when you see it, the white color is still a bit strange..." Qi Liuxing frowned, with a worried expression on his face.

Immediately afterwards he heard Zhou Qian laughing and saying: "Because our brother Zhou's surname is Bai. Bai is my lucky color."

Qi Liuxing, Yindao, He Xiaowei: "..."

"Okay. Back to business."

Zhou Qian is not embarrassed, the one who is embarrassed will always be someone else.

He said without changing his expression: "The furniture in this villa is so old, and the bones in the basement are all broken, so these 27 people may be the last group of people killed by this murderer more than 300 years ago. He didn't If they were further arrested, the 27 corpses were never found by the police, so they were left to rot in the basement, and they have not seen the light of day until now.

"The person killed by the murderer has gone through a long 300-year decay process, but what about the murderer? He probably traveled to the present through the exhibition hall.

"Following the reasoning, Ruan Mei and others may also appear. In addition to guarding against players, we also need to guard against murderers. In addition, why the red and white colors did not appear is also worth thinking about.

"In any case, after we explored a villa, we thought of so much, which is already very good. In order to find out the murderer's information, we have to continue to explore other buildings; in addition, we have to continue to find wristbands and weapons. At that time, Weapons and murderer information will be our bargaining chips."

Zhou Qian had just arranged tasks for everyone, and received a new system message——

【腕带的颜色与数量已更新：橙-20个；黄-25个；绿-25个；蓝-25个；靛-25个；紫-25个】

[Supplementary rules: If the player dies, the wristband worn by the player will be directly destroyed by the system]

Seeing this, Zhou Qian raised his eyes and looked at Bai Zhou -

According to the news of the system update, 5 orange wristbands are missing. Is this because 5 people have replaced their wristbands, or...are they all dead?

Zhou Qian frowned and said: "One person found the green wristband, and immediately found the purple wristband, and was immediately persuaded by other people wearing purple wristbands, quickly switched sides, from the green team to the purple team... the game It's just the beginning, and in such a short period of time, this kind of situation will not happen. Anyway, he should leave the extra wristband as a weight, and we will look at the situation later. So it is very likely... these 5 people are dead, not Wristband replaced."

Bai Zhou nodded, expressing his approval of his words, and said: "This is probably related to old enemies."

In the case of limited weapons, no one will use weapons easily if they don't know the mission and how to play with teammates.

But this is a rational analysis.

If there is the influence of old hatred, many people will become irrational and decide to solve the hatred first.This may be the reason for the death of those five people.

"In any case, it is very likely that someone has found a large number of weapons that can kill people. We have to hurry up."

At this point, Zhou Qian summoned the little dragon and patted its head, "Help me find a weapon and a wristband, can you?"

The little blue dragon obediently jumped to the ground. "Oh!"

Because Xiaolong absorbed a lot of vitality in the copy of the devil and his son, he can move very frequently now.

It's especially good at searching, and it's also very fast.

Zhou Qian sent it out to find wristbands and weapons, it was definitely overkill.

When the little dragon was about to leave, Bai Zhou rarely stopped it, stepped forward, and put his palm on its forehead.

After a while, Bai Zhou withdrew his hand and said to Xiaolong: "In this way, Zhou Qian and I can see the situation on your side. I also set up a position sensor for you. If there is a problem on your side, we will I'll feel it right away and rush over to help you."

After listening to the words, Xiaolong said indifferently: "Oh."

Seeing this, Bai Zhou frowned, and stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to pat its head.

Unexpectedly, Xiaolong immediately turned sideways to avoid it.

Zhou Qian next to him blinked twice, then walked over, squatted down, and extended his hand to Xiaolong.

This time Xiaolong immediately jumped over and lowered his head, and took the initiative to rub his head against Zhou Qian's palm several times.

Zhou Qian said to it with a smile: "You have to be careful."

"Hey!" Xiaolong nodded obediently, and quickly flew away from the window.

Bai Zhou who witnessed everything next to him: "..."

Waving to Xiaolong, Zhou Qian looked back at Bai Zhou and smiled. "It seems that it likes me more than your father?"

Bai Zhou failed to pat Xiaolong's head, so he stroked it with his palm, but gently rubbed Zhou Qian's hair, then smiled and said, "Well, all of us like you."

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