Chapter 38 The Mystery of the Diary

"Apart from the butterfly bookmark, are there any other clues?" Zhou Ziheng's voice came from over there, "There are only three known numbers in a number sequence, which may not be correct."

That's right, Xia Xiqing looked around and found a delicate and beautiful conch next to the books. There were several pictures on the wall above the desk. One was a close-up of sunflower flowers, and the other Zhang is the famous Da Vinci painting "Vitruvian Man" that Xia Xiqing was so familiar with.

These seemingly unrelated things caught Xia Xiqing's attention. He stared at the wall and suddenly heard Zhou Ziheng's voice.

"Why didn't you speak? What are you doing?"

"Look at a nude painting of a man," Xia Xiqing still stared at the portrait on the wall, answering his question seriously, but Zhou Ziheng seemed to be choked, coughed continuously, and stammered again after a while. "Oh, I-I have one on the wall here too?"

Xia Xiqing was surprised, and he tried to describe to Zhou Ziheng, "A man with long curly hair stands with his legs together, his hands and feet are on a circumscribed square, and his legs and arms are spread out and exactly on a circumscribed circle. Is this the painting?"

"right."

This is definitely no accident, the similarity of their rooms is simply too high.

"Does this painting have any meaning?" Although Zhou Ziheng had seen this painting many times, he really didn't have much attainment in art, so he could only consult experts in this field.

Xia Xiqing touched the tip of his chin, "It's very meaningful, this painting is a sketch illustration drawn by Leonardo da Vinci for the "Ten Books of Architecture" by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, which Vitruvius once wrote in his book. Li praised the golden ratio, which also inspired Leonardo da Vinci to draw this sketch of human proportions, and the man in it is also considered by the world to be synonymous with perfect proportions..."

As he was talking, he felt that some important thought flashed past, and Xia Xiqing suddenly stopped, "Wait a minute."

He picked up the conch on the table, turned his head to look at the close-up photo of the sunflower, and looked at the distribution and arrangement of the plump seed particles inside.

And this famous "Vitruvian Man".

see.

"I see, it's the golden ratio sequence." Xia Xiqing sat back on the chair calmly, "The spiral of the conch, the arrangement of the sunflower seeds, and this painting are all golden ratios."

This time, the fourth number calculated by Zhou Ziheng has also been verified, "Is the golden ratio sequence the Fibonacci sequence, right? It seems that I got it right. I just found out that 987 is exactly equal to 377 plus 610, so I guess the last one will be It won't be 610 plus 987, which equals 1597, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"So the other clues are just hints." Xia Xiqing put the conch down, "Please enter the password and try."

Zhou Ziheng hummed, and Xia Xiqing's room heard the ticking sound of entering the four-digit password. After less than two seconds, he heard a mechanical voice prompting "The password is successful."

After tossing for a long time, I finally untied one, although it was not in my room. Xia Xiqing was waiting for the good news of success, but Zhou Ziheng replied, "The password is correct, but I can't open the drawer."

"How could it be possible..." Although Xia Xiqing knew that the two of them were not in the same room and that there was no combination lock on his side, he subconsciously pulled the drawer on his side when he heard Zhou Ziheng say it couldn't be opened.

I didn't expect it to really open...

This is too weird, Xia Xiqing's tone is full of disbelief, "It's too weird, after you enter the correct password on your side, the drawer on my side can be opened."

Who would have thought that the reversal would not stop there.

Zhou Ziheng immediately replied, "Now my drawer can also be opened. Strange."

Hearing Zhou Ziheng muttering to himself, Xia Xiqing thought of his frowning expression and couldn't help but laugh, "Perhaps you were too weak just now."

"Impossible, I really couldn't open it just now."

Maybe it's the problem of the show team, and they are all artificial props, so it's understandable that there are some flaws.

"Don't worry about it, let's see what's inside first."

Looking down at the drawer, Xia Xiqing first saw a group photo. In the photo, it was a back view of a couple holding hands in front of the beach. The photo was carefully placed in a beautiful photo frame.

Based on this photo, it is speculated that the owner of the bedroom has a girlfriend.

But why is this kind of photo stuffed in a drawer? Xia Xiqing felt that this was unreasonable, but he also knew that he couldn't think too much at this time, so he put the photo frame on the table casually, and continued to look at other things in the drawer.

"What did you find?" Zhou Ziheng asked over there.

Xia Xiqing casually returned a photo frame, and then saw a clue that seemed to be more effective, "I found a book, it seems like..." He flipped through it and found the date and some brief records on it. ,"Journal?"

"I also saw a diary, but there is no photo album." Zhou Ziheng continued to exchange information he had, "There is also a birthday card with a sentence on it."

Just as Zhou Ziheng was listing the clues he had obtained, Xia Xiqing had already opened the birthday card first, and read the words out of his mouth.

"The moment I met you was the beginning of the big bang. Every particle left me and flew towards you. After that smallest moment, the universe was really born."

After reading it in one breath, Xia Xiqing suddenly realized that it was a love story between a couple. The atmosphere became a little embarrassing, Xia Xiqing didn't know what to say, it was like this, and he could only blame himself for being too quick to blame others.

"Cough, what, all of you science students are so good at flirting?" In order to ease the embarrassment, Xia Xiqing asked such a superfluous question.

The more panic people are, the easier it is to say the wrong thing. This sentence is really a well-known saying. Xia Xiqing, who had just finished the question, immediately thought of the [Tyndall effect] that Zhou Ziheng took on the plane before.

Oops, Zhou Ziheng must have misunderstood that he was teasing him. In fact, he didn't want to bring the topic up to this point at all.

Originally thought that Zhou Ziheng couldn't speak, but who knew that he would even answer.

"It depends on who is right."

Zhou Ziheng's voice did not sound embarrassing at all, but rather calm, which made Xia Xiqing lose face, and only himself felt embarrassed from beginning to end. Patronizing the embarrassed Xia Xiqing completely ignored Zhou Ziheng's overtones, and did not realize that he was the "who" Zhou Ziheng said.

"Ah, the birthday on this card is October 23rd. I think this clue may be useful later." In order to preserve his "victory" dignity in front of this innocent little wolf dog, Xia Xiqing moved very bluntly. Zhou Ziheng also found his unnaturalness when it came to the topic, but his frequency could not be adjusted to Xia Xiqing's. He just felt that his words with private goods made Xia Xiqing feel the pressure, and changing the topic was a disguised refusal.

The two of them went around in circles on their own, and didn't even know it.

While putting down the birthday card, Xia Xiqing once again focused on the previous notebook. It was a slightly outdated diary. The edges of the diary were frayed, and the edges and corners were upturned. It seemed that It took a long time. Thinking like this, Xia Xiqing turned to the first page.

"I'll take a look at this diary." Xia Xiqing explained to Zhou Ziheng over the radio, and then focused his attention on the diary.

[The weather was fine on November 11, 2014]

[I originally thought this was my hardest day. Orphans with broken legs spend their Singles Day alone in hospital wards. Unexpectedly, there is a new tenant in this double ward, and she is a super cute girl. She has a pair of rabbit teeth when she smiles, like a little rabbit, so cute. ]

It's this boy's diary... Xia Xiqing flipped the pages quickly, and stopped when he reached a certain page.

"Tsk, it took more than six months to catch up..." He looked at the page on which the date [May 20, 2015] was written, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Have you caught up?"

Xia Xiqing heard Zhou Ziheng's question, and heard the sound of page turning from the other end, thinking that he must not have seen the back, "You are too slow." , I came across one of the pages of the diary that said [She is hospitalized again, I hope the operation goes well and there will be no more problems. ]

This girl has been hospitalized again and again, so she must be seriously ill.

He suddenly thought of the book on the desk just now.

"His girlfriend's disease should be in the third book... Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. This disease seems to be a congenital heart disease." Xia Xiqing flipped through the previous book, trying to find some effective solutions from it. information.

"This radio is a gift from the girl." Zhou Ziheng said suddenly, "Did you see it?"

"I'll take a look." Xia Xiqing flipped back, and sure enough, he turned to the page Zhou Ziheng said.

[The weather was fine on May 20, 2016]

[She gave me an antique, a radio today! She said that this radio was bought by her grandfather when she was young and saved a lot of money for her grandmother to propose marriage. When she was a child, she listened to the story on the side of the radio every day. I can now imagine that little milk rabbit. It looks like, alas, it would be great if she could really travel through, I want to go back and see what she looked like when she was a child. ]

"It turns out that this radio is still a prop with a story." Xia Xiqing smiled, "This old antique will not have to witness their marriage, three generations of veterans."

"No." Zhou Ziheng calmly rejected Xia Xiqing's joke, "There is something wrong with their relationship."

"……what?"

"You turn back and count down a few pages."

Xia Xiqing followed Zhou Ziheng's instructions and turned to the last countdown.

[The weather was cloudy on May 13, 2019]

[I had a quarrel with her today, and I feel like we haven't had a good communication with each other for a long time. I really don't understand why we have come this far. Does time really change everything? ]

Seeing this sentence, Xia Xiqing suddenly fell silent. This kind of stories of crazy men and women emerge endlessly every day, and the beginning is always good. As time goes by, friction, contradiction, jealousy, and resentment, these negative emotions begin to breed, and they begin to grow wildly. The feelings between the two were all swallowed up, and the faces that used to see each other had become disgusting.

So why start.

The most stable and harmless relationship in the world is no relationship.

This kind of realistic love story made Xia Xiqing's mood go into a low ebb. He casually turned the next few pages, using this method to cover up the turbulence in his heart, until his fingers stayed on the last page.

[Weather heavy rain in May 20, 2019]

[Why should I switch off? Even if I get angry again after being misunderstood, I shouldn't switch it off. If I don't switch it off, she won't get emotional and faint. Emergency contact... This card is so ironic, the only time I use it, I cut off contact. The one who died should be me. ]

"The girl died..." Xia Xiqing did not expect such an ending, "died of a heart attack."

"Died..." Zhou Ziheng seemed to have something to say, but he paused and asked after a while, "So he died before it was too late to rescue him?"

"Well." Xia Xiqing put the diary back on the table. He was long past the age when he would be moved by this kind of love story. What he was thinking about now was what the function of this diary was. According to the arrangement of the last episode of the secret room script, every item in the room does not exist for no reason. Their functions can be roughly divided into two categories. One is to release the clue of the password, but there are too many dates in the diary. , without the cooperation of other clues, it should be unlikely to deduce the password.

Another role is related to the plot of the secret room, or the killer, but this is even more unreasonable. This story is a love story no matter how you look at it so far, and it has nothing to do with the suspenseful murder case in the previous issue.

So what kind of identity should the killer in this issue be?

Xia Xiqing, who was in deep thought, frowned. There was nothing else in the drawer. He slowly closed it, and his eyes fell on the picture frame that he had taken out on the table upside down.

Only then did he realize that there was a sentence written on the back of the frame.

[Return to the correct location. ]

correct location?

This coincides with Xia Xiqing's first thought when he saw this photo frame. Things like photo frames should be placed on the desktop, not in the drawer. If you link the information about the quarrel between the male lead and the female lead, it can be explained.

Xia Xiqing picked up the photo frame.

Where should it be placed?

"Is there really no photo frame over there? On the table? Or somewhere else." Xia Xiqing, who didn't have any prompt information, had to confirm with Zhou Ziheng again. After all, there are so many similarities between their rooms, maybe in his room , the frame is already fixed somewhere.

"No, I didn't find any photo frames." Zhou Ziheng's voice was very certain.

At this moment, Xia Xiqing suddenly discovered that in the upper right corner of the desktop, there was a palm-sized rectangular groove on the right desktop of the laptop. He looked down at the edge of the photo frame in his hand, and a somewhat bizarre idea suddenly popped into his mind.

Could it be that……

He tried to put the picture frame in the groove in the upper right corner, and as he thought, the picture frame and the bracket were inserted exactly!

"I found the right position." Xia Xiqing breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that these grooves were all useful, but fortunately he felt something was wrong as soon as he came in.

At this moment, the desk lamp turned on automatically without warning.

But this isn't the weirdest thing.What he really felt terrified when he thought about it was Zhou Ziheng's next sentence.

"The photo frame appeared." Zhou Ziheng's voice was full of surprise, and he couldn't even believe it, "Do you know how it came out? Just like a mechanism, a part of the desktop was opened, and the photo frame was pushed from the inside.Come up and stand in the upper right corner of the desk."

"What did you say?"