Card Room

Chapter 002: Rose Funeral

Xiao Lou stood in front of the card wall, dazzled by a large number of cards. He was surprised to find that in addition to the top left corner of each card with a mark of hearts such as hearts 2, spades 3, the card surface is an animation.

These cards seem to be countless condensed spaces. And each card face is like a miniature TV screen, which is playing different plots.

The card in front of him has the clearest animation.

Xiao Lou looked intently, and saw that in the card world, a short girl was chased by several ugly zombies. The girl accidentally slipped under her feet and fell to the ground. The zombies quickly surrounded the girl. , Took off her head, stunned with interest, the girl's frightened eyes seemed to look straight at Xiao Lou through the card window

Xiao Lou's scalp was numb and he felt nauseated in his stomach. He clenched his fist vigorously, and his nails penetrated deeply into his palm. The intense pain told him that this was not a dream. This was another card made up of something he could not understand. Different space.

That girl must not be able to survive, but the "death of the brain by a zombie" is too cruel.

Is she, like herself, a human being drawn to the card world somehow?

Xiao Lou closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look any longer.

The system asked coldly, "Did you see the world in the card?"

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said, "See."

System: "You only have one chance to change the options, a and b, what to choose"

Xiao Lou did not hesitate: "I choose b."

System: "Option Confirmation."

System: "Congratulations on becoming the 86587847 challenger in the card world. Before entering the new world, you can change your image and gender. You have 3 minutes to make initial data adjustments for you."

A mirror appeared in front of him. The young man in the mirror had a clear face and a mild eyebrow. But at this moment, his face was a little unnaturally pale. Anyone who encountered this kind of thing suddenly had a hard time calming down. Xiao Lou was already a relatively calm person. At least when he saw the girl being eaten by the zombie, he did not scream.

Xiao Lou looked at himself in the mirror and said calmly, "No adjustments are made to appearance or gender."

Maybe a lot of people who died unexpectedly were teleported to the card world. He is more than 80 million challengers. He thought that if he didn't adjust, he might meet someone he knew before. Although he can't understand this card world, all he can do now is to abide by the rules of the new world and let himself live as much as possible.

"The challenger Xiao Lou, the initial data storage was successful." The mirror in front of him disappeared, and a cold mechanical sound came from his ear: "Next read the basic rules of the new world."

"In the card world, each card is a different small world, and you can think of it as a secret room."

"The type of the secret room is determined by the suit of the card. The red peach represents the mystery secret room, the square represents the organ secret room, the **** represents the living secret room, and the plum challenge the secret room."

"The difficulty of the secret room is from low to high, in order of d, c, b, a, s and ss. The only difficulty is to pass the ss class to return to the human world and get a real new life. "

"You can get rewards if you pass the level successfully. If you fail the level, you will be sent to the nightmare room for punishment. Players who cannot survive the nightmare room will be completely wiped out by the card world."

"The rules are only said once, please choose a card next."

In front of Xiao Lou, four cards of red hearts 2, squares 2, spades 2, and plums 2 emerged out of thin air.

These four cards, unlike those on the card wall with dynamic plot play, are the most common poker cards in life, with the suits printed on the front. He has no idea what will be faced after the cards are opened.

A card is a world, which one to choose

Xiao Lou thought about it carefully, stretched out his hand, and extracted "Red Peach 2".

He has loved to watch detective reasoning novels since he was a child. Since he was drawn to a room game by a roommate during college, he has loved this thrilling and logical real-life room escape game. Every time he went to the city, Xiao Lou would go to the secret rooms of major cities to check in. He played hundreds of secret room games and was very experienced. But in his world, most of the closed-room games are puzzle-solving and organ-oriented. He has never heard of any "survival" or "challenging" secret room.

Think of the picture of that girl being eaten by the zombie just now. The **** room of the Spades brand is likely to face a crisis of inability to survive. The challenge of the plum blossom room is difficult to hear the name. It may die even worse if you rush in. . Relatively speaking, the organization of the square film and the mystery of the red peach sounds more friendly, and Xiao Lou is good at it.

To be on the safe side, he chose red hearts first.

The selection is over.

The funeral of Roses in Secret Room 2 is underway.

Challenger Xiao Lou, data reading is complete.

The time limit for passing the barrier is 30 minutes. Exceeding the time will be considered a failure to pass the barrier.

After the system prompts, I saw a soft blood red light on the card of Hearts 2 and the red light quickly formed a vortex, which sucked Xiao Lou directly into the card world.

Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly darkened.

When he regained his vision, he found himself in a narrow, empty hallway.

The corridor was dimly lit, with a door at the end. The surrounding walls are bare, the most common white wall, and underneath are spotless off-white tiles, without any useful clues.

A transparent floating frame of "Countdown 30:00" appeared in front of him. Xiao Lou found that the countdown had been turned on and immediately walked to the door.

He pushed in the door and glanced quickly across the room.

This is a three-bedroom, two-living house with an area of ​​about 120 square meters. The furniture is decorated in warm colors and looks very warm. In the living room, there is a soft cloth sofa, a thick carpet is laid under the coffee table, and an LCD TV with a huge screen is placed directly opposite; the restaurant is cleaned neatly, and a bunch of bright roses are inserted on the table. .

The doors of the next three rooms were all open. One is the master bedroom, one is a children's room with cartoon wallpapers, and the other is a study. The whole house is transparent from north to south, and the unit is square, which is the most common layout for a family of three.

As soon as he entered the house, Xiao Lou smelled a strange smell, and it seemed to be mixed with the aroma of roses.

He followed the taste to the master bedroom.

There was a double bed in the middle of the bedroom. At this moment, the bed was covered with bright red roses, and a woman in white silk pajamas slept above the rose petals. Her hands were gently folded on her belly, looking Sleeped peacefully.

However, her chest was bursting with dazzling blood.

The pajamas on the woman's chest were red with blood, and the delicate face, which had been wearing makeup, also showed obvious corpses. Her lips were blue, her skin was as pale as paper, and the strong stench in the air was exactly the smell of this rotting corpse.

The Heart of Secrets 2 is actually a murder scene

Xiao Lou was almost spit out by the strong stench. He squeezed his nose firmly and began to look around carefully.

As a player of the escape room game for many years, he has played a lot of mystery secret rooms, seen a lot of horror scenes, and the forensic profession has made him immune to the corpse. Instead of panic, let him calm down quickly.

The card suit of the red peach represents the "secret room".

Since this secret room is the scene of the homicide, the mystery to be solved is naturally the cause of death of the deceased.

Xiao Lou endured the stench of the corpse and proceeded to conduct a comprehensive examination of the deceased.

There were no masks and gloves, and he touched the body directly with his hands. The cold touch of his skin made him very uncomfortable, but he quickly adjusted, and opened the deceased's clothes neatly with a professional angle, and examined the wound carefully.

The deceased, a young woman in her 30s, died at home in her pajamas.

There is a large blood stain on the chest. The fatal injury comes from a stab wound to the heart. The weapon should be a sharp knife that directly pierces the heart's aorta and is very crisp. Apart from that, there were no other scars on her.

This is the master bedroom with a separate bathroom.

Xiao Lou began searching for clues in the room.

He went to the bathroom first.

Many long hairs fell on the floor of the bathroom, and the brown curly hair was the same as the deceased. It should have been left when she took a bath before she died. In addition, there were clothes she had changed in the bathroom. Red trace.

Xiao Lou picked it up and looked closely, it was a bit like bloodstains, but it wasn't. It was clearly different from the bloodstains on her pajamas.

Countdown 28:10

Special reminder for d-class secret room: clue collection degree 5

The moment I picked up my clothes, the line of character clues suddenly appeared in the floating box in front of me. This reminder is very important, especially for newcomers who have just arrived in the card world. At least they can determine whether they found something and the case. related.

It seems that this dress is indeed related to the case. Xiao Lou carefully rummaged through the pockets of his clothes, and found nothing else, except that the dark red traces on his clothes that looked like blood seemed to remind him of something.

He lowered his clothes and continued searching for other clues.

The bathtub and toilet are very clean, and the toiletries on the sink are not abnormal.

There was some toilet paper in the trash can next to it, and it looked dirty. Xiao Lou did not hesitate to turn the trash can upside down and dump all the trash on the floor.

He found some shreds of paper.

Xiao Lou quickly removed the dirty toilet paper and found out all the torn paper. He probably pieced together the shredded paper and actually made a photo of the marriage certificate.

27:45 countdown, 15 clues collected

Xiao Lou kept the two clues in his heart, turned and walked out of the bathroom, and began to search in the bedroom.

The secret room games he has played before are usually limited to more than an hour. The difficulty is usually three to five hours. Some large teams even need seven or eight hours to get out.

Solve the puzzle in half an hour, it's too short.

But this closet is not too difficult, after all, it is a d-level closet, and there is a hint of "clue collection".

Xiao Lou quickly analyzed in his head as he turned the closet.

The photo of the marriage certificate was torn and thrown into the toilet bin, indicating that the marriage of the hostess had broken. And she still has men's clothes and shoes in her residence, indicating that the two have not yet reached the step of divorce. Her death is probably related to her husband. The focus of the next search can be on her husband's things.

Xiao Lou flipped through all the clothes pockets of the male owner in the closet at a fast speed and found only one wallet. There was no cash or bank card in it, but a photo was taken. It was the couple on the marriage certificate.

In the photo, the woman was wearing a white wedding dress, hugged happily in the arms of a man, and the handsome man and the beautiful woman looked very good.

24:06 countdown, 25 clues collected

It took a lot of time to search the wardrobe, Xiao Lou calmed down and thought, turned and turned over the dressing table and bedside table.

He saw a delicate perfume bottle on the dresser, opened it, and smelled of roses.

A dress card was found in the drawer of the dresser, which said, "Dear, this bottle of rose perfume is for you. Happy birthday to you, always young and beautiful. Your best girlfriend, Liu Yun, will be on July 17." "The words are drawn with a big red cross.

Birthdays, rose perfumes, crossed-out greeting cards, new character Liu Yun, these clues are too critical. In the floating box in front of Xiao Lou, the clue collection jumped directly from 25 to 50

Countdown 22:00, clue collection 50

More than half of the clues were collected, suspicious characters appeared, whether the killer was confirmed

Tip: The shorter the clearance time, the more clues collected, and the higher the reward

Xiao Lou thought about it and chose "No" in the floating box.

He has 22 minutes to go, and the clues have not been found. The identification of the killer is likely to be wrong.

Several of the clues found so far have been deceiving her girlfriend with her fierce fingers towards her husband or girlfriend's husband. The hostess found out that the heroine had ripped off her marriage certificate and drew a big red cross on the greeting card sent by her girlfriend. Perhaps there was a dispute on her birthday and the heroine was killed by her husband or girlfriend.

If this is the case, most of the clues can be reasonably explained.

but

Is it really that simple

Xiao Lou glanced at the gorgeous rose bed and quickly turned out.

This is not the scene of the first case.