Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

In the rest area of ​​the exhibition hall.

The staff has not yet appeared to guide the players into Hall C, and the areas where the two groups of players gather in the rest area are clearly separated.

Zhou Qian and his entourage leaned on the side close to the merchandise cabinet, and discussed in detail the transcripts of their respective experiences.

During the process, Bai Zhou talked less as usual, while Yin Dao was pretending to be cold, so it was mainly Zhou Qian and He Xiaowei who spoke.

By narrating, Zhou Qian also recalled the whole experience, especially the few words Ke Zheng said.

It was at lunchtime on the day they killed Ruan Mei.

Ruan Mei killed the child with a car. At noon the next day, Ke Zheng and Ke Yun accompanied her back to the villa and had a meal with her.

At that time, Ruan Mei acted as if she blamed herself so much that she might commit suicide at any time.

In order to persuade her, Ke Zheng said something like this: "Amei, don't think too much. This may...maybe the fate of the Ke family. My parents offended someone, and that person cursed us... The Ke family will have no children or grandchildren.

"In fact, people of the older generation know about this. So you see, my parents didn't blame you. We won't blame you. After a while, I will accompany my parents to burn incense in the temple, please A tall man will take care of it all."

After thinking about this, Zhou Qian said, "Actually, because I heard this sentence, I confirmed that I have obtained enough information to kill Ruan Mei."

He Xiaowei was taken aback for a moment, and immediately asked: "What information? I'm confused. Curse? Damn, is there any fantasy element in this dungeon?"

"No, in my opinion, this message does not point to fantasy. After all, everything we have encountered so far has nothing to do with fantasy."

Zhou Qian said, "Actually, I have always had two questions about this story. First, how did Ruan Mei escape the crime in reality. Second, among the seven corpses in the exhibition hall, one of them was not named 'Ke', but The surname is 'Xu', does the information of this different surname have anything to do with the story?

"Now I find that if I combine these two questions, I can have a brain hole—"

After a pause, Zhou Qian said: "In our dungeon, Maluoluo and Meng Pingping chose not to be surnamed 'Ke' and became the adopted sons of the Ke family. They died first, purely because of their stupidity.

"But in the real story line, this adopted son may not be the first to die, but the last."

He Xiaowei asked: "Ah? Why?"

Zhou Qian said: "One of the reasons why Ruan Mei was able to escape the crime was indeed related to the backwardness of the investigative methods at that time, but she kept committing evil deeds, and her feet would always be exposed, why could she kill seven people in a row?

"I think this may have something to do with the influence of her in-laws' family. Does the Ke family help her hire the best lawyer every time she is suspected by the police, or even use other means to help her?"

“From this point of view, there is actually a problem.

"Ke Yun and Ke Zheng believed in Ruan Mei, obviously because they had a lot of contact with Ruan Mei, and they were indeed deceived by her. It makes no sense that their parents also believed in Ruan Mei. Besides, the relationship between parents-in-law and daughter-in-law , usually not so harmonious.

"Then what Ke Zheng said at lunch is very important. He named the reason why his parents believed in Ruan Mei and were willing to use the power of the Ke family to help her—they believed that the Ke family was cursed."

Ruan Mei is a near-perfect existence in everyone's mind, and she doesn't even complain about her life.

Not only Ke Yun and Ke Zheng believed in Ruan Mei.The neighbors around also believed her.

Ruan Mei often makes some pastries for neighbors, and often helps them take care of the garden.

In this way, apart from Ke Zheng and Ke Yun, the neighbors who had a lot of contact with Ruan Mei also spoke well of Ruan Mei when they were questioned by the police.

But there is no reason for everyone to believe in Ruan Mei.

A wealthy family like the Ke family attaches great importance to future generations. Under normal circumstances, the two elders of the Ke family would not completely believe everything Ruan Mei said, and were even willing to use a lot of financial resources and power to help their son save her.

But if they are very superstitious and think that their grandchildren died one after another just because the curse of cutting off children and grandchildren has been fulfilled, then the story is relatively more reasonable.

Zhou Qian said: "Why did Ke Zheng's parents believe in curses? I didn't go into it in the dungeon. But they believed in curses so much, and they probably did something very unscrupulous when they were young. In those days, it was very important to get rich. possible."

Hearing Zhou Qian's words, He Xiaowei nodded approvingly: "Well, it's reasonable. I understand. Faced with the death of each child, Ke Zheng's parents will blame themselves. Not only did they not suspect Ruan Mei, but they might be afraid of Ruan Mei instead. May blames them."

"Well. Following this line of thought—" Zhou Qian said, "What do you think will break the opinion of Ke Zheng's parents?"

After He Xiaowei pondered for a moment, he patted his thigh with a "slap". "I know! The issue of 'different surnames' is reflected at this time!

"In the beginning, those who died were the biological children of Ke Zheng and Ruan Mei. The two old people would firmly believe that the so-called curse was in effect. But when... a child whose surname was not 'Ke' died , they both began to feel that something was wrong!"

"Yeah." Zhou Qian said, "That's it. If Exhibition Hall A shows all the dead people who died at the hands of Ruan Mei, then there is no doubt that she did kill seven people.

"I guess, the first six people who died were all surnamed 'Ke', and the last one was the adopted son surnamed 'Xu'."

"In this way, the logic of the story will be relatively reasonable. When the six people died, the detection methods were backward, and with the protection of the Ke family, Ruan Mei has been safe.

"But after even the adopted son of the Ke family died, the two elders of the Ke family had to start to suspect that this matter might have nothing to do with the curse. They no longer protected Ruan Mei, and even began to investigate her secretly. In the end, Ruan Mei should be the one who caught her. caught."

"Of course, this is just a guess. This is the only thing I can think of. The information of 'adopted son with a different surname' might play a role. It is a very hidden reminder—reminding us that Ruan Mei has been arrested."

At this point, thinking about the real and fresh corpses in the exhibition hall, Zhou Qian's eyes sank, and he added: "At least in the normal timeline and historical process, she should be arrested and even sentenced to death."

"Normal timeline... what does this mean?"

Facing He Xiaowei's question, Zhou Qian did not answer. He glanced at the four members of the Invincible Legion not far away, and then turned his head to look at Bai Zhou.

The information he immediately thought of was very important, so he naturally didn't want the other four to hear it, so he chose to hide it for the time being.

Bai Zhou looked at Zhou Qian, and quickly understood what he meant, and immediately said to him through a private chat: "I agree with you. If we speculate like this, this exhibition hall is not simple."

"It's not easy."

Zhou Qian replied in the private chat channel, "When I first entered that mini-game and learned that it was a 'virtual game' in the exhibition hall, I felt something was wrong. By the way, brother Zhou, the copy we came to is "Line Harbor City 2301 ", does this mean the year 2301?"

Bai Zhou nodded: "Yes."

Zhou Qian: "Then I have a bold guess."

Players travel to the so-called virtual game of the exhibition hall, not the real murder scene.

That being the case, what happened to the seven corpses in the exhibition hall?

The seven corpses must not have been killed by Ruan Mei in a short period of time.

This can not only be deduced from the different death conditions of the corpses, but also the same inference can be made from Ruan Mei's motive for killing.

After the death of her eldest daughter Ke Xue, Ruan Mei encountered unprecedented concern from everyone.

She has an acting personality and enjoys this kind of care very much.

The family life that has not received attention for a long time has made her psychologically deformed, and she has a terrible idea that killing her child can win attention.

If all the children were killed at once, Ruan Mei would only get attention once.

Well, of course she wouldn't do that.

Therefore, every few months, half a year, or even a year, Ruan Mei would kill a child.

She kills the next one when the attention she gets from losing the last one wears off.

Now comes the problem-

The corpses in Exhibition Hall A all look real. Why do seven fresh corpses that died at different times and in different ways appear in the same place?

This is not only the case in Hall A. The same is true for Hall B.

According to He Xiaowei's statement, he was already frightened and crazy when he first entered Hall 2 of Hall B.

At that time, he followed Yin Dao into Hall 2, the lights turned on all of a sudden, and then he heard a crisp sound, lowered his head, and found that he had stepped on an extremely vivid eyeball.

At the same time, Yindao accidentally touched a piece of flesh with his foot, and the piece of flesh immediately overflowed with blood, staining his shoelace red.

Whether it was the eyeballs or the dismembered corpses, they were all fresh, and they were a complete murder scene.

Regarding the situation in the exhibition hall, when Zhou Qian just walked in, a thought crossed his mind, whether the murderer had just killed someone, then ran away and left the body in the exhibition hall.

Undoubtedly, this idea is everywhere irrational.

So far, there is only one brain hole that can explain everything.

Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou, and said, "This exhibition hall may have some kind...the ability to allow objects to travel through time and space; or in other words, it itself is in a special space, and different times exist in this space. The past time and space overlap with the present time and space within a certain range.

"Take Exhibition Hall A as an example. The corpses exhibited in different exhibition halls are actually the dead in different timelines."

Assuming that in January 1993, Ruan Mei smothered a baby named Ke Hua to death in the bedroom, the small piece of time and space in the bedroom where the baby’s body is located, and the A-1 exhibition hall in the 2331 exhibition hall of Langang City, partly realized Spatial overlap.

Therefore, when Zhou Qian and the others walked into Exhibition Hall 1 of Exhibition Hall A, the corpse they saw was not in 2331. They saw the time and space in 1993, and saw Ke Hua who had just died in that time and space.

The rest of the exhibition halls are similar.

Assuming that the drowned baby died in June 94, then when they walked to the corresponding exhibition hall, what Zhou Qian and the others saw was the corpse that had just been fished out of the water at this point in June 6.

Exhibition halls with different numbers mean different classifications, pointing to different serial murderers.

As for the interior of each exhibition hall, different exhibition halls are actually paths that guide players to different time and space.

On the surface, Zhou Qian and the others visited Halls 1 to 7 of Exhibition Hall A, but in fact they faced 7 dead people who died in 7 different time and space.

"Well. It should be good like this."

Bai Zhou said, "The exhibition hall can be connected to different spaces. Then this will raise a new question, will the history be changed in this dungeon setting? This matter is very important.

"I agree with you. The 'different surname' and the superstitious information of Ke Zheng's parents imply that Ruan Mei was arrested in the original time and space. Logically, she would be sentenced to death. But maybe, this exhibition hall will change her fate."

When Bai Zhou said this, Zhou Qian got up and glanced at the corridor.

Zhou Qian was looking in the direction of Hall A.He squinted his eyes and said, "If we make a bold assumption... if we still see Ruan Mei. That Ruan Mei is not the NPC in the so-called virtual game, but the real her."

·

10 minute later.

In the depths of the pitch-black corridor, a section of the road was actually lit up again.

At this moment, everyone saw that there was actually a Hall D in front of them.

The light board with the "D" on it flashed white, and then went out again.

Immediately afterwards, three people came out from there. All three of them looked like walking dead, and they obviously suffered terrible things.

The staff member in the white dress appeared out of thin air again and guided the three people to the rest area.

She said: "There are now 11 tourists, and the opening conditions of Hall C have been met. Considering that some people have just come out of Hall D, they need to rest. Therefore, in a quarter of an hour, I will invite everyone to go to Hall C together. .Please wait for a while."

Seeing this, Zhou Qian immediately winked at He Xiaowei.

He Xiaowei received the hint, and quickly walked towards the direction of those three people, hoping to find out some news from them.

But as soon as the three of them sat on the ground, they hugged and cried into a ball.

For a full 15 minutes, He Xiaowei didn't find a chance to interrupt, so he had to give up.

In this way, Zhou Qian and the others did not know what happened to them in Hall D for the time being.

After 15 minutes, a group of 11 "visitors" finally entered Hall C.

The door of Hall C opened and closed, trapping all the players inside.

The first exhibition hall is No. C-1, the style is exactly the same as No. A that Zhou Qian visited - the ceiling, floor, and walls are all uniform white.

But there are no dead bodies here, only a lamp.

The lamp is placed alone in the center of the ground. The outer lampshade is extremely beautiful, with very beautiful patterns on it, and the main colors are various, including blue, purple, green...The various colors are not strictly separated, intertwined Thousands of colors have evolved in different places, like exquisite works of art.

On closer inspection, it appears to be the tail feathers of a spreading peacock.

Despite the colorful pattern, the lampshade itself is a dull yellow, like old paper that has yellowed.

As a result, the white light coming out of the lampshade turned into a warm yellow color, which was rather dull.

There is also a sign on the ground next to the lamp, with two words written on it: "Meng Lin."

"Fuck, what does that mean? Is this dead man a lamp?

"But it's much better than Hall B, that hall is too disgusting. Don't talk about NPCs, I won't be able to eat meat for three months!"

As He Xiaowei said, he reached out to get the lamp, but Zhou Qian slapped him back with a "snap".

After blowing on the back of his sore hand, He Xiaowei looked at Zhou Qian with great aggrievedness: "Why did you hit me?"

Zhou Qian threatened him: "Don't touch these things. I can't guarantee that this copy is a fantasy book."

He Xiaowei: "Really?"

Zhou Qian blinked: "Yes. Touch the lamp three times, the kind that can summon Aladdin."

Three seconds later, He Xiaowei said angrily: "Qian'er, you're a donkey!"

Zhou Qian turned serious, and when the others went to look at the lampshade, he pulled He Xiaowei aside and whispered, "In order to check the clues and get as much information as possible, we have to go to all the exhibition halls.

"But a friendly reminder, don't touch anything. If you must, wear gloves. By the way—"

"Do you have props like invisible gloves?"

"Oh, yes. I'll find it for you."

Sure enough, He Xiaowei took out a pair of invisible gloves from his luggage and gave it to Zhou Qian, "But why?"

"I'll tell you when I'm sure. Just remember this. Don't let other players see it." Zhou Qian quickly put on his gloves, then reached out to He Xiaowei, "One more pair."

He Xiaowei:?

Zhou Qian: "I want another pair for 137."

He Xiaowei: "He is a god-level player, what props do you not have? Why do you ask me for it?"

Zhou Qian asked openly: "Will you give me the wool?"

He Xiaowei raised his forehead: "...Squeeze, you go."

"Little Viagra is just a nice person. You are worthy of being the favorite of our team. You see, everyone of us likes you very much. Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced Xiao Qi to you yet. You have such a good personality. He will be just like me. like--"

Before Zhou Qian finished speaking, the back collar of his colorful robe was suddenly caught with his fingers.

Turning around, Zhou Qian saw Bai Zhou.

Bai Zhou pulled Zhou Qian by the collar all the way, and led him back to the lamp.

"Why?" Zhou Qian asked him.

Bai Zhou just said indifferently: "There is still something on the lamp."

Looking sideways, Zhou Qian saw the other seven people impatiently walking towards Hall 2, so he handed the gloves he got from He Xiaowei to Bai Zhou, and then reached out to lift up the lamp.

The lampshade itself, Zhou Qian has looked around several times just now, only the bottom has not been seen.

Sure enough, there was something at the bottom.

Zhou Qian found a symbol engraved there - "Swastika".

"Did other people see this too?" Zhou Qian asked Bai Zhou.

Bai Zhou nodded, then seemed to hesitate to speak.

Putting down the lamp, Zhou Qian asked him curiously: "What's the matter? What do you think about this symbol?"

Bai Zhou shook his head, turned around and walked towards the No. 2 exhibition hall.

Zhou Qian followed in surprise. "What were you trying to say?"

"It's nothing." Bai Zhou slowed down and finally said, "I have a lot of gloves like this."

Zhou Qian: "Huh?"

Bai Zhou: "Just ask me for it."

Zhou Qian: "OK. 69%."

Bai Zhou: "?"

Zhou Qian hooked his neck and walked towards the No. 2 exhibition hall. "Nothing. Go to the next exhibition hall!"

There are dead bodies in Hall 2.

A nylon bag was placed over the head of the corpse, and all limbs were bound.

His whole body showed a distorted posture, and his limbs were completely deformed, as if he had been beaten, forcibly broken off his limbs, and then forcibly made a certain shape.

After taking off the nylon bag, his head was smashed to a bloody mess, and he could hardly see men and women clearly.

And when he took off his clothes and pants to check his body, it could be seen that he belonged to a man.

The abnormality of a certain part of him made the scalps of almost all the men present feel a little numb - he was brutally cut off.

This man seemed to have been beaten to death, and the shape of the corpse, including the treatment he received, was full of a sense of mysterious ritual.

When his body was turned over, everyone's conjecture was verified - there was a pentagram behind him.

Zhou Qian heard Bai Zhou speak in his ear: "This pentagram is upside down."

He Xiaowei followed behind the two, heard it sharply, and immediately asked, "Why?"

It was Zhou Qian who explained to him: "A normal pentagram has only one pentagram horn on top. An inverted pentagram has two horns on it. This is an inverse pentagram."

"Do you have any explanation?" He Xiaowei couldn't help asking.

Bai Zhou said: "There is a saying that the reverse pentagram leads people to hell. This is the symbol of Satanism."

Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou, this time he communicated with him in the private chat tool. "According to our previous imagination, there is an overlap of time and space in the exhibition hall. We may have seen the corpse at a certain point in the past, but we cannot see his specific environment.

"But if it's really about Satan... Maybe he's tied to an inverted cross, we just can't see it."

"It's possible." Bai Zhou said.

There are 13 exhibition halls in Hall C.

Six of the exhibition halls do not contain any corpses. They are full of artistic atmosphere, similar to the lamp in the first exhibition hall.

In the other 7 exhibition halls, there are corpses. There are male and female corpses, each with a nylon bag on his head. The method of death is similar, but the treatment of the body is different.

If we compare everything the men received in Hall 2 to a punishment, the punishment received by women is completely different from that of men.

It can be seen that this is indeed related to some kind of evil ritual.

After visiting the 12 exhibition halls, the players returned to Exhibition Hall 1.

【Welcome everyone to Hall C of the Homicide Exhibition Hall】

[Please face the terrible human nature once again! 】

[The owner of the exhibition hall believes that after you finish your visit, your self-prevention ability will be greatly improved! 】

[This time your experience time is four days, your goal: still survive after four days]

After these few lines fell, the scenes overlapped again, and the players came to a completely strange city.

In front of the player is a 12-story hotel.

In the dark night, the sign on the side of the hotel is very eye-catching, it says - "Saiya Hotel."

The author has something to say:

later~

To add, Ruan Mei's story is based on a real serial murderer in history.

That mother killed every child she gave birth to, and kept killing 8 or 9 children.What I found out about her motivation is that she thinks that the weak should die (when she was a child, she felt that her father was weak and she felt weak, so she self-harmed many times. If everyone is interested, I will check it out and tell you about it).

At that time, the hospital was relatively watery, and the opinion given to the police was "sudden infant death syndrome", so she was able to keep attacking.