[Chapter 49, Death Code 07]

Under the light of the candle, the human bones of Bai Sensen and the red dress formed a sharp contrast. This strange scene made the students' backs "hair".

Yue Xingwen slept in Room 1 last night, and there was actually a corpse next to it? He had goosebumps all over his body, resisted the nausea, looked back at Jiang Pingce and said, "The murderer is obviously mentally ill, he killed so many people, and he put on the bride's clothes for the deceased, and put them here neatly. Is this set up as a 'bridal exhibition hall'?"

The six corpses placed side by side not only wore the same clothes, but even sat in the same posture on the chair, just like the models used for display in the clothing store. It's just that these "models" have become bones.

Jiang Pingce analyzed: "The murderer has such a strong hostility to the bride in red. It is possible that he has been hurt by the bride in red. He holds grudges in his heart, which gradually leads to psychological distortion, so he slaughtered the bride to calm his psychological resentment?"

Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement: "It's very likely to be the case. I'm surprised that only six of my mother's corpses were found, but there were seven ghost brides who chased us last night, and the number doesn't match. Is there one more? "

Jiang Pingce looked around and said: "The area of ​​the two storage rooms is 2 meters x 6 meters, which is just enough to fill the vacancy in the architectural drawings. It is impossible for a secret room to appear on the second floor. But the height is still missing 1 meter, indicating that there is a floor for us. Undiscovered attic."

Yue Xingwen said: "Everyone, go out and look for it."

Everyone withdrew from the storage room.

The floor height measured from the outside of the inn is 7 meters 5, the internal height adds up to 6 meters 5, and the missing 1 meter is either a mezzanine in the middle or an attic overhead. Yue Xingwen climbed onto the wooden table, stood on tiptoe, tapped the ceiling with his knuckles, and arranged, "A room for two, carefully check the ceiling and floor to see if there is any hollow structure."

The 8 people quickly went to each room to search, Jiang Pingce stayed with Yue Xingwen, Yue Xingwen checked the roof, Jiang Pingce checked the floor, almost an inch of "carpet search".

However, no additional entrances were found.

The two exited Room 1, and Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin next door also finished their searches: "No secret door was found."

Other teammates concluded the same.

None of the eight rooms on the second floor were found, Yue Xingwen stood in the corridor thoughtfully: "There are no doors on the roof or the ground, so he wouldn't directly seal the one-meter-high mezzanine when he built this building. Right? Can't get in or out?"

Gao Yongqiang "cut in" and said, "How about demolish this building and take a look?"

Everyone: "..."

In your architecture department, do you do demolition and relocation in case of a problem?

Yue Xingwen looked back at him helplessly: "It can't be demolished. We have to sleep in bed at night to get plot clues in our dreams. At present, the clues are not fully collected. If you demolish the house, our plot line will be interrupted."

Gao Yongqiang's face turned red: "I, I just said it casually."

Jiang Pingce narrowed his eyes and carefully observed the structure of the building. The height was obviously missing by 1 meter. How could he not find the entrance to the attic? Suddenly, he had an idea and said, "If you can't find it inside, look for it from the outside."

He looked at Yue Xingwen, turned quickly and went downstairs. After reaching the door of the inn, Jiang Pingce raised his right hand slightly, used the coordinate system to gather parabolic motion, and flew directly to the roof with all his teammates.

Gao Yongqiang patted his forehead angrily: "How come I didn't expect it! There is no attic entrance inside the inn, and the interior rooms cannot be destroyed, but we can tear it down from the outside - just tear down the roof!"

Jiang Pingce said: "Everyone, check carefully to see if the roof tiles are loose."

The crowd started to check from the four corners. After less than half a minute, Gao Xiaoxin suddenly picked up a tile and said, "I found it, here it is!"

Yue Xingwen walked over quickly, and saw a movable wooden board under the cover of the tiles. After removing the wooden board, it turned out to be a long and narrow secret room about 1 meter deep.

Qin Miao took the initiative and said, "My sister and I will go explore the road first. You guys are too tall to walk inside."

Yue Xingwen handed her the candle and warned, "Be careful."

Qin Miao and Qin "Lu" jumped into the secret room together. Both of them were less than 1.7 meters tall, and they were very thin. They bent over to enter this secret room. The text is much more convenient.

After a while, Qin Lu's short cry came from his ear: "Ah..."

Yue Xingwen asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"

Qin Miao said lightly: "I found a lot of suitcases, and let Qin's "Lu" plate move out to show you."

After a few seconds, the two sisters crawled out of the secret room in dismay, Qin Lu said, "It's been a long time since no one has cleaned it, there's dust everywhere, my sister and I searched around, except for the suitcase, there's nothing else. Find."

As she spoke, she took out the globe, and the plate movement moved a large number of suitcases to the ground.

Everyone was shocked by the number of boxes - there were as many as 10!

The boxes are of different sizes, and the colors include black and white, colorful, and some are cartoon designs. All boxes belong to modern times, which proves that their previous conjectures were correct-they did not travel to ancient times at all, and this place is still there. In the real world, it's just that the inn is arranged in an ancient style.

The missing 1-meter-high "loft" is where the innkeeper stores his suitcases?

Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his forehead with a headache: "Is this innkeeper a perverted collector? A storeroom on the second floor collects clothes, another collects the corpse of a bride, and there is also a storeroom on the roof for collecting boxes?"

Yue Xingwen looked at the 10 suitcases with messy colors and thoughtful: "Do I need to bring suitcases when I go out to take pictures of ancient styles? I only bring suitcases when I travel."

Gao Xiaoxin pointed to the very center of the ground and said, "The suitcase with the pink 'color' Mickey Mouse pattern in the middle is the same as mine, and it can hold clothes and makeup for three days. I've also taken antique photos before. , it can be done in one day. Even if the wedding photos are out on location, there is no one with luggage to take pictures?"

Qin Miao frowned and said, "It feels more like a homestay? Are these suitcases brought by the guests?"

Ke Shaobin pushed his glasses and was very puzzled: "If it is a homestay, how come there is no "socket" socket and network cable? In the modern world, there is no "socket" socket, no network cable, and no bathroom. Will anyone live in a homestay? The phone can't be charged if it's out of power..."

Yue Xingwen always felt that something was wrong.

If it is an out-of-the-way shooting location, it is deliberately arranged as an ancient building, which can explain the problem of the ancient environment, but it cannot explain the reason for the appearance of so many suitcases. If it is a homestay, as Ke Shaobin said, no matter how antique it is, even if there is no "socket", who would like to live in such a place and be isolated from the world?

The number of suitcases totals 10, which is also an odd number.

Yue Xingwen said: "Open the box and have a look."

Everyone fell from the roof and opened all the boxes with quick movements——

There was a girl's suitcase full of beautiful skirts, t-shirts, and cosmetics. Those bottles and jars of Yue Xingwen didn't know any of them, so they handed them all to Qin Miao and the others to see. There are also male "sex" suitcases, with razors, socks, men's sneakers, and more. Books were also found in several suitcases, including a famous book "Jane Eyre" and two romance novels.

Everyone looked at each other.

The three girls had a lively discussion next to them: "A bottle of this cream costs thousands of dollars, right? It's really rich." "The makeup products this girl brings are all Japanese and Korean first-line brands..."

Yue Xingwen didn't know anything about the things the girls used, so he walked over and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Gao Xiaoxin said: "Judging from the price of cosmetics in the suitcase, these girls are quite rich, and they attach great importance to dressing up. One girl brought five lipsticks alone."

Qin Lu added: "The hostess in this white suitcase didn't bring any cosmetics, and her wash bag only contained facial cleanser and a bottle of moisturizing lotion, so she probably didn't like it. Girls who love plain makeup from makeup."

As for the style of clothes, it is really varied, there are "sexy" black "color" lace skirts, there are pure goddess style dresses, and there is a box of sportswear that takes the cool and handsome route... The same is true for boys' suitcases. "Chaos" is messy.

Yue Xingwen looked at the boxes all over the ground, and his temples jumped: "There are too many clues and it's too messy, so let's take a good look at it first."

Jiang Pingce said, "Let's sort it out, let me make a list."

Yue Xingwen nodded and found a shady place under the eaves of the inn with Jiang Pingce to sit down. Yue Xingwen took out a pen and paper and handed it to Jiang Pingce, who quickly drew a detailed statistical table.

Jiang Pingce filled in "10" in "Number of Baggage", and then asked, "How many boys and girls are there?"

Yue Xingwen quickly completed the count: "3 males, 7 females."

There are 7 girls, this data is exactly the same as the number of ghost brides, but it is not that the 7 suitcases belong to the 7 dead people. Jiang Pingce is not sure yet. He put a question mark here and continued to count the list.

It took more than an hour to count the suitcases.

In the final list, there are 20 sets of girls' clothes, 6 sets of boys' clothes, 4 pairs of shoes, a lot of cosmetics, and three books. These three books Yue Xingwen focuses on and are on the suitcase. Mark well.

Jiang Pingce frowned and looked at the suitcase in front of him and said, "Clothes, I don't think it's an important clue, it's too 'chaotic', there are all styles, it's like a suitcase that a group of people carry with them when they travel. The inn should be able to Temporary accommodation is provided, and the suitcase is left by the guest, which is the most reasonable explanation.”

Yue Xingwen also agrees with his speculation: "In reality, there are also some unique homestays, and Internet celebrities will go to such homestays to take pictures. There is no "socket" seat or network cable. It is very likely that the innkeeper deliberately let everyone have An 'immersive experience' that travels through ancient times? But I don't think it's convincing enough for a homestay."

The more the students listened, the more headaches became.

At present, there are many clues, but there is no line that can connect the clues.

Liu Zhaoqing wondered and said: "But what does this have to do with our dreams? The scene in my dream is indeed very similar to ancient times. Lang Zhong carried a "medicine" basket on his back and went up the mountain to collect "medicine" to save a man bitten by a poisonous snake. Miss, the environment is completely different from here."

Gao Xiaoxin followed closely and said, "The funeral I dreamed of was also an ancient funeral style. The bride was put in a coffin, and a few people carried her to the east, buried her underground, and erected a monument..."

Yue Xingwen asked, "Can you see what is written on the tombstone?"

Gao Xiaoxin shook her head: "I didn't see it clearly."

Yue Xingwen frowned slightly, puzzled.

Fragmented dreams, strange inns, various ancient clothes in the storage room, 6 red clothes and white bones in the corpse on the second floor, and a lot of suitcases in the attic storage room...

What are the clues that tie these together?

Yue Xingwen thought it over carefully, and suddenly caught the key point in Gao Xiaoxin's words: "Wait a minute, Gao Xiaoxin, you said in your dream that those people kept carrying coffins and went east, are you sure it's the east?"

Gao Xiaoxin was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, the funeral was held in the evening, it was getting dark, and the sun would set from the west, but they kept walking forward with their backs facing the direction of the sun, right to the east? "

Yue Xingwen immediately stood up and looked at his teammates: "Senior brother, please organize your suitcases with sister Qin "Lu". The contents of the suitcases remain intact and temporarily put them in the lobby on the first floor. For the rest, follow me Go to the woods to the east."

8 people are divided into two groups.

Yue Xingwen followed the winding road to the outside of the woods. This is a wasteland, but the weeds and wildflowers are very lush. When they were chased by the female ghost last night, they ran all the way, and ran to this junction to rest. .

Strangely, the female ghost stopped at the junction, feeling as if she was intimidated by something.

Linked to what Gao Xiaoxin said about the "burial" in the dream... If the dream is related to reality, then, in reality, is there a bride who was put into a coffin and buried underground?

The four continued to walk east.

After walking for about half a kilometer, a cold system sound suddenly sounded in my ears: "Warning, you have come to the border of the test room, and you will be judged to fail the test after you leave the test room."

The four stopped at the same time, and Yue Xingwen saw a tombstone standing in front of him.

On the tombstone is engraved: "The Tomb of His Beloved Wife Su Wanxin".

[Chapter 50, Death Code 08]

A woman named Su!

The key clue was finally found, and there was one more bride to be buried on a hill not far from the inn. The surname is Su, and she is the perfect match for the bride of the Su family in everyone's dream.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and saw a trace of excitement in each other's eyes.

Gao Xiaoxin looked at the tombstone in front of her, her face pale: "In my dream, that Miss Su was buried in a wasteland. Unlike now, there are still flowers around the tombstone..."

The surrounding of the tombstone was indeed full of blue-colored wildflowers, clustered together, and the vitality was very strong.

Yue Xingwen asked, "Does anyone know this wild flower?"

Gao Xiaoxin said: "This is forget-me-not. The meaning of the flower language is that my love for you will never change."

Yue Xingwen looked at the tombstone thoughtfully, and then said, "Dig it up and take a look."

In addition to Jiang Pingce's calmness, Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin's eyes widened when they heard this sentence, Gao Yongqiang's scalp was numb, and his voice couldn't help shivering: "Dig, dig a grave?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Didn't your architecture department send an excavator? You didn't get it?"

Gao Yongqiang: "..."

Yue Xingwen patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be afraid, it won't be haunted in the daytime. If we want to solve the mystery of the inn, of course we have to find all the bride's bones first - let's dig it."

Gao Yongqiang's face was ugly, and he raised his right hand to summon the excavator.

He was probably the first architecture student to use an excavator to dig a grave...

Gao Yongqiang controlled the excavator to dig soil from the side, crying and laughing, Yue Xingwen sighed beside him: "Fortunately, this time we matched a classmate from the Department of Architecture, otherwise, we will dig slowly with the kitchen shovel, and we have to dig it. Go in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse."

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Yes."

Gao Yongqiang: "..."

He finally played a role in digging graves.

The excavator dug a large hole in the surrounding ground in three or two strokes, and as expected, a lacquered wood coffin was "exposed".

Yue Xingwen was brave enough to jump down and push open the lid of the coffin.

——In the coffin lay a bride in red. The corpse had been decomposed and turned into bones, but the ring finger of the right hand of the bones was wearing a huge diamond ring, which glowed in the light.

Yue Xing Wen said: "This should be the heroine who frequently appears in our dreams, Su Wanxin."

The clues could probably be matched, but the sometimes ancient and sometimes modern sense of "chaos" in time and space still made Yue Xing Wen Li unclear. Jiang Pingce stretched out his hand and pulled him up from the pit, and asked in a low voice, "The seven brides are all together, go back. Let's sort out the clues."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and the four walked back to the inn together.

When they arrived at the inn, Liu Zhaoqing and the four had already arranged their suitcases side by side, and the three novels were deliberately found and placed on the table. Yue Xingwen asked everyone to wait in the restaurant on the first floor, while he went upstairs to take down the two dolls.

The dining room has a round table and eight seats, just enough for everyone to serve as a makeshift meeting room.

Yue Xingwen sat on the chair marked "1" and carefully observed the two dolls.

The candle was lit last night, and the light was dim, so I couldn't see it clearly. Today, I took a closer look in the bright light. Yue Xingwen found that there were some black needles and threads on the back of the doll, which looked particularly messy, and neatly next to the doll. A comparison of the sewing needles is simply the difference between "buyer show" and "seller show".

- Someone re-stitched the rag doll and was a terrible needleworker.

Yue Xingwen said: "Senior brother, borrow a scalpel."

Liu Zhaoqing raised his right hand, conjured a knife and handed it to him, Yue Xingwen swiftly used the knife to cut off the stitches on the back, and took apart the doll.

When you meet a grave, you dig it when you say digging; if you find such an important prop, you don’t hesitate to say it will be demolished. Gao Yongqiang complained in his heart, and suddenly saw Yue Xingwen pulling out a lot of cloth strips from the doll's body.

Those strips were all gray, and some of them had numbers written on them—

71-16-30

99-16-9

281-22-1

...

The students who sat around the round table were all excited: "Is there a digital password?!"

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce subconsciously and asked for the other party's opinion, the latter shook his head and whispered: "Several strings of numbers are irregular and have nothing to do with each other. Find the corresponding clues somewhere.”

Numbers, what will correspond to these strings of numbers?

Yue Xingwen continued to dismantle another doll, but no figures were found in the male "sex" doll's body.

The house fell silent.

Liu Zhaoqing endured for a long time, and finally couldn't help complaining: "Is this course so difficult? There are so many clues that I almost faint."

Ke Shaobin's stomach suddenly made two grunts, his ears quickly turned red, and he whispered, "We haven't eaten all day, aren't you hungry?"

After a busy day, it was getting dark again before knew it. had been tense before and forgot to eat. When Ke Shaobin reminded me, everyone felt that their stomachs were empty.

Yue Xingwen rubbed his empty stomach and realized a very important question: "The exam requires us to survive for 6 days, but we are not provided with food? It will not starve us to death. , it seems that we need to source materials on the spot again?"

Gao Xiaoxin said, "I saw a lot of wild fruits on the way out of the woods just now, I should be able to eat them."

Qin "Lu" followed closely: "I saw a lot of bamboo shoots planted in the woods, the inn has a kitchen, we can fry the bamboo shoots to eat; there are also many mushrooms in the woods, which look like the round mushrooms usually sold in supermarkets. The same can be eaten."

Yue Xingwen: "..."

The girls are very sensitive to food, probably because they were starved for public elective courses before.

Seeing that everyone was tired, Yue Xingwen simply made a decision: "Well, today is only the first day, we can't solve the case directly in one day. Eat first, and then discuss after dinner."

Everyone went to collect wild fruits, bamboo shoots and mushrooms, while Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce went to the woods to collect firewood.

Yue Xingwen thought while walking, Jiang Pingce didn't interrupt his train of thought when he saw how he was thinking seriously.

After a while, Jiang Pingce had already collected a large bundle of wood, and then Yue Xingwen came back to his senses and said, "I suddenly have an idea that can explain some of the current doubts."

Jiang Pingce said, "Come and listen."

Yue Xingwen rationalized his thoughts and carefully analyzed: "Our dreams and the real world have a strange sense of separation. The dreams are all ancient scenes, but the reality is modern, so it cannot be directly equated. However, the dream is also the reality. There are innumerable connections. For example, the heroine's surname in the dream is Su, and in reality, the woman on the tombstone is also surnamed Su."

Jiang Pingce remembered the tombstone he found just now, and then analyzed: "The tombstone is written about his beloved wife Su Wanxin. In a dream, the only person who can call Miss Su a "beloved wife" is Zhao Gongzi, who has worshipped her in heaven and earth. This tombstone may be a The gentleman surnamed Zhao established it?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "I think so too. The dream is very much like an ancient story written by someone based on his own experience. It cannot be completely equal to reality, but it insinuates some things in reality. Miss Su She is the heroine, the key person who connects the dream and reality. In the dream, Mr. Zhao was terminally ill, and his family married Miss Su for happiness. In the end, Miss Su died. In reality, Mr. Zhao may also have some kind of illness, and Miss Su is by his side. Take good care of it, and finally died unexpectedly?"

Jiang Pingce pondered the words of Yue Xingwen carefully, and said, "Is it possible. Use a story to vaguely tell your own experience, using reality as the background is too similar to an autobiographical novel, so I changed it to ancient times?"

Yue Xingwen went on to say: "The owner of this inn is very likely to be the murderer of the bride. First, the structure of the inn is very strange. There are two storage rooms on the second floor, and a large storage room with a height of 1 meter is made on the roof. It's impossible for ordinary people to build a house like this. He obviously had a premeditated plan and specially designed this strange inn to facilitate murder and hide corpses."

Jiang Pingce agreed: "It makes sense. The structure of this inn is indeed a deliberate design. He didn't come here by chance to kill, but led people here, killed them, and then hid in the storage room."

There is one type of serial murderer who takes the initiative to attack, looking for targets everywhere, and the location of the murder is not fixed; there is another type of murderer encountered in this case, after finding the target, he leads the target to his own territory, and then kills the other party.

In his territory, he kills people naturally.

Yue Xing Wendao: "We found so much luggage in the attic, obviously many people have come to stay here. In the wild mountains and mountains, there is no electricity, no Internet, why do modern people come to such a remote place to stay? He does not live alone. He may have kidnapped more than a dozen people, so he must have some means to attract these people to come to his inn on his own initiative."

Jiang Pingce said, "For example, taking pictures of ancient costumes?"

Yue Xingwen shook his head: "I don't think it's attractive enough to take pictures. There are countless photo studios that can take pictures of ancient costumes, and the scenery of his inn is not one of the best. For a homestay, it's even less attractive. Living here for several days without electricity or internet, and still unable to take a shower, modern people are probably going crazy." He paused and said, "There is another way to attract guests, I didn't tell you just now, I'm afraid that if I guess wrong, I will Everyone is biased."

Jiang Pingce gently pressed Yue Xingwen's shoulder: "It doesn't matter, let's discuss it first."

Yue Xingwen smiled and said: "This guess is a bit bold, don't think I'm just thinking blindly."

Jiang Pingce's eyes were gentle: "No."

Yue Xingwen put away his smile, looked at Jiang Pingce seriously and said, "Have you heard of "Script Killing"?"

Jiang Pingce: "..."

Script killing is a very popular game among young people in recent years. He has not participated in it himself, but has heard of it. The so-called "script killing" is to make up a murder script, and let the players play their own "roles".

Script killing is more exciting and dangerous than werewolf killing, because each script is different, the plot is often ups and downs, and what is even more frightening is that the murderer is by your side.

Suppose, the innkeeper used "immersive ancient script killing" as a gimmick, recruited some young people who like challenges and adventures online, come here to play script killing, and then kill some girls in wedding dresses when they are not paying attention...

Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen unexpectedly: "How did you think of the script to kill?"

"In the restaurant on the first floor, when you said 'round table meeting', a picture of a group of people wearing period clothes for a meeting flashed in my mind. With 8 seats, 8 rooms, all kinds of ancient clothes, this inn If it's a simple homestay or a photo studio, it can't be explained." Yue Xingwen changed the topic and said, "But if this is a place specially used for 'ancient script killing', guests will wear clothes after entering the inn. Different ancient clothes are like traveling to ancient times. Mobile phones, computers and other modern slaves have been confiscated by the owner of the inn. In the next day or two, they will experience the ancient script killing in an immersive experience. Does it make sense? "

Because it is an immersive experience, there will be no modern slave tools in every room.

There is no electric light, but it is equipped with candles and flints for lighting; the round table and eight seats on the first floor can be used as a conference room for script killing and reasoning analysis, or can be used as a restaurant; the built-in kitchen can also allow everyone to experience The ancient daily fun of picking vegetables and cooking by yourself...

There will definitely be some novelty-loving and exciting people who come here in an endless stream.

The boss then selects some of these targets as his prey.

Those players come here just to play a "character" in a script and play a fun game. They would never have expected that this was a real "murder", and their fate had already been clearly arranged by the script.