Escape the Library

Yue Xingwen very much agrees with Jiang Pingce's practice of drawing drawings, but they don't have a ruler, so it is difficult to draw accurate drawings. Yue Xingwen leaned into Jiang Pingce's ear and asked, "Is your coordinate system? Can you calculate the distance?"

Jiang Pingce said: "Yes. But Gao Yongqiang is an architecture major, so there should be other ways."

Sure enough, Gao Yongqiang suddenly took out a pen and paper, and a tool that looked like a calculator. He made a mark on the position he was standing, then quickly stepped back to the other end of the inn, pressed the button on the tool, a red laser shot forward, and immediately appeared on his tool screen accurate to two decimal places. digits.

Seeing Gao Yongqiang writing and drawing on the drawings, Yue Xingwen walked over and said, "Is this a measuring tool issued by the Department of Architecture?"

Gao Yongqiang nodded: "Well, this is called a laser mapping instrument. After passing the entrance exam, all architecture students will be issued this tool, which can accurately measure the distance between two points."

Just like the computer department distributes laptops to all students, the architecture department distributes measuring tools and drawings to all students, which provides a lot of convenience for students.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and stepped forward to help.

Gao Yongqiang quickly finished measuring the data around the inn, and drew a three-dimensional figure on the drawing, marking the precise values ​​of the inn's length, width and height. Then, the three walked into the house and measured all the spaces, corridors, and interiors of the rooms on the first and second floors of the inn in turn, and Gao Yongqiang drew accurate architectural drawings.

The crowd gathered on the first floor.

Qin Miao handed the set of keys to Yue Xingwen and said, "Eight of the eleven keys correspond to the eight guest rooms on the second floor, all of which have been marked. One can open the secret door we just discovered, The remaining two are not yet known for use."

Yue Xingwen took the key and said, "Thank you, let's go and see what's in the secret door first."

He and Jiang Pingce walked to the door at the corner of the first floor together, and inserted the key marked by Qin Miao into the lock. An oversized solid wood round table surrounded by eight wooden chairs. The back of the chairs is engraved with eight numbers from "one" to "eight", which are consistent with the room number on the second floor.

The two looked at each other, and Yue Xing said, "Eight seats are numbered, do they correspond to the eight rooms upstairs?"

Jiang Pingce frowned: "Why is there a place like a 'round table meeting' in the inn?"

Hearing this, Liu Zhaoqing simply turned to look at Qin Miao: "Junior sister, you are a history student, can you give me an explanation?"

Qin Miao said: "The ancients were very particular about the status and inferiority, and it was rare for a group of people to sit around a round table for a meeting. When they held a meeting, they usually held a meeting in the lobby, with the noble sitting in the first place, and the others sitting on both sides. , there is usually a table with tea cups next to it. This room is definitely not a conference room, but a restaurant."

However, does the restaurant need to be locked with a lock alone?

Gao Yongqiang walked in and quickly measured the data in this room to supplement the drawings.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce checked the house carefully.

This room is very large, with only a round table and seats, which looks a little empty. There are two candlesticks in the middle of the round table. The red candles above are half lit, and there are obvious candle tears dripping onto the table and solidifying into red nails. plaques.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce tacitly separated from each other, tapped lightly along the inner wall of the house, and found another secret door in the corner. This door is not locked, push the door in, it is actually a kitchen.

The kitchen area is also large, with a row of earthen stoves, next to a chopping board and kitchen knives.

There was obvious blood on the kitchen knife. I don't know if it was the blood left by killing pigs and sheep, or the blood left by killing people?

Yue Xingwen glanced at Gao Yongqiang, who immediately stepped forward to measure the data. Jiang Pingce continued to search in the kitchen, but found no other secret doors. Everyone returned to the lobby on the first floor and began to analyze the architectural drawings of the inn drawn by Gao Yongqiang.

The external structure of this inn is a regular cuboid, 20 meters long, 12 meters wide and 7 meters high.

Since the height of each floor of modern residential buildings is between 2.5 meters and 3 meters, when everyone first saw this inn, they subconsciously thought that it was a three-story building—because it was different from the three-story building that everyone saw in reality. The building is about the same.

When I walked into the inn, I found that it was two floors. The height of the floor was more than 3 meters, just like the height of the living room of the villa, which was very spacious.

Now, after carefully comparing the drawings, Jiang Pingce quickly discovered something was wrong: "The total height of the building's external measurement is 7.5 meters, but the result of the internal measurement is that the lobby on the first floor is 3.5 meters high, and the guest rooms on the second floor are 3 meters high. 1 meter."

Everyone turned their attention to Gao Yongqiang, who scratched his head and said: "The data I measured with the laser mapping instrument will definitely not be wrong, the wooden structure is used between the two floors, and the thickness of the floor cannot reach 1 meter. ." He thought for a while, and said with certainty, "There is only one explanation for the error—this building has a mezzanine that we can't see visually."

Mezzanine? The height of the outside is 7.5 meters, and the height of the interior is 6.5 meters. About 1 meter of height disappeared out of thin air, indicating that there is a hidden space of 1 meter high inside the inn that they did not find.

Jiang Pingce's suggestion of speaking with data is indeed effective, and the difference can be seen intuitively.

Yue Xingwen said: "The height difference is 1 meter, there is a mezzanine or an attic. Continue to see if the length and width can match."

Gao Yongqiang quickly calculated and said: "The total length of the inn is 20 meters. The hall on the first floor, the hidden secret room, and the kitchen are all 20 meters long; the guest rooms on the second floor are 4 on the left and right, and each room faces 4 meters from east to west and 5 from north to south. Meters, plus stair space and corridors, the total length of the second floor is 18 meters and the total width is 12 meters - the width matches, and the length is missing 2 meters."

Jiang Pingce looked carefully at the drawings he drew.

Since the corridor on the second floor is located between the rooms, there are no windows and you can't see the outside. When people walk into such a semi-enclosed space, there is no reference for comparison. When they come to the end of the corridor, they will subconsciously think that they have reached the end. Of course not. You will notice that the difference between the length of the second floor and the length measured outside the inn is as high as 2 meters.

The missing length of the second floor is naturally due to the existence of a secret room that they did not find.

Jiang Pingce said, "Go to the innermost room on the second floor to find it."

Everyone went upstairs quickly. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked at the front. The two of them each led the team into rooms 1 and 2 at the end of the corridor. They banged on the wall for a while. Suddenly, the voices of two people rang in everyone's ears at the same time. :"found it."

Yue Xingwen asked, "Is it behind the bed?"

Jiang Pingce's voice came from the other side: "Yes, go in and have a look."

The door of the secret room was blocked by the wooden bed placed against the wall.

Since the wooden bed is surrounded by bed curtains, there is no abnormality at all if you look at it with your eyes. Yue Xingwen asked Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin to move the wooden bed together. He walked to the opposite room, and Jiang Pingce found a door in the same position.

The two of them moved the bed away together. The stone bricks on the wall were hollow, and when they were knocked, there would be a "dong dong" echo. Yue Xingwen took down the bricks one by one, and found a wooden door inlaid in the wall. Hang the iron lock.

The keys Qin Miao found just now only had two unknown uses. He tried to insert one of them into the keyhole. Sure enough, he heard a "bang" in his ear.

This wooden door is very narrow, and can only allow one person to pass through. Yue Xingwen walked in with a cat on his waist, and a lot of dust rushed into his face, making him cough. Jiang Pingce worriedly asked behind him, "Are you alright?"

Yue Xingwen coughed a few times, waved the dust in front of him with his hands, and said, "It's okay, give me a candle."

Jiang Pingce lit the candle and handed it to him. Yue Xingwen raised the candle and took a closer look. His expression changed slightly.

Jiang Pingce was the first to walk in, the others followed in turn, and Liu Zhaoqing, who was on the opposite side, also came over when they heard this.

Yue Xingwen stood in the middle of the secret room holding a candle. It was a long and narrow space of 2 meters x 6 meters. In the empty room, a wardrobe with three walls was made, and it was filled with a lot of clothes of different colors. There were men and women. All are ancient costumes, even golden emperor robes, imperial concubine costumes, matching jewelry, as well as men and women knight costumes and swords with strong Jianghu atmosphere.

Liu Zhaoqing was stunned: "Does this inn owner have a habit of collecting clothes? He actually built a cloakroom in the secret room?"

It really looks like a cloakroom, with rich colors and types.

Yue Xingwen looked back at Qin Miao: "The emperor's clothes in the Ming Dynasty are not like this, right?"

Qin Miao said: "The style of these clothes is not all from the Ming Dynasty. Look, these sets of Jinyiwei's costumes, as well as women's ru skirts and cardigans belong to the Ming Dynasty; the style of dragon robes and imperial concubines is more like the Tang Dynasty. Weapons such as swords and long knives, I can't see what dynasty they belong to."

Jiang Pingce suddenly took out a hat from the innermost wardrobe: "Why are there still Qing Dynasty clothes?"

Even a science student could not tell the clothes of other dynasties, but the women of the Qing Dynasty, especially Grid, wore a big hat on their heads.

Yue Xingwen walked over to Jiang Pingce, and pulled out a hat from the wardrobe in front of him, with a long black braid on the back, Yue Xingwen glanced at Jiang Pingce: "And a wig?"

The braided heads of men in the Qing Dynasty could not be more distinctive.

Everyone was a little stunned, and Ke Shaobin was full of question marks: "How can the inn owner collect clothes from the Qing Dynasty? Didn't Qin Miao say that this architectural style is from the Ming Dynasty..."

Yue Xingwen analyzed: "There are two possibilities. First, this building is left over from the Ming Dynasty. The era we live in is actually the Qing Dynasty. The owner of the inn is from the Qing Dynasty, and he likes to collect ancient costumes from various eras." He Looking back at everyone: "Did you see a man in your dream last night? Do you have a braided head?"

Liu Zhaoqing immediately replied: "The doctor I dreamed of didn't have a braid, and the long hair was tied in a small part at the back and tied with a headband. It's the kind of hairstyle that is common in ancient costume dramas." The guards don't have braids either."

Yue Xingwen said firmly: "That is not the Qing Dynasty, but the second possibility."

He looked back at his teammates: "Have you been to the kind of studio that specializes in taking pictures of ancient costumes?"

When everyone heard this, they were instantly stunned.

The place with the costumes of various dynasties is really like a photo studio. If they lived in the Ming Dynasty, the innkeepers of the Ming Dynasty could not have expected that the Qing army would enter the customs in a hundred years, and it was even more impossible to collect the clothing of the Qing Dynasty. If it is the Qing Dynasty, it is completely incompatible with the dress of the characters in the dream. Ming Dynasty-style buildings and furniture are even less likely to be the Tang and Song Dynasties before the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, they did not actually travel to ancient times, but were in modern times!

The innkeeper built it into a Ming-style building, but it was leaked because of the clothes in the secret room.

Ke Shaobin still didn't understand, and scratched his head in confusion: "If this is a modern photo studio, and there are no switches, light bulbs, sockets, and network cables, how would they work? Even if they set up an antique location for taking pictures, they wouldn't even bother. Not a single trace of modernity is left?"

Yue Xingwen said: "Go to the secret room opposite."

When everyone came to Room 1, Liu Zhaoqing had just removed the bricks behind the bed, Yue Xingwen opened the door with the remaining key, and walked in first with a candle, followed by Jiang Pingce.

After the two entered the room, they suddenly fell silent.

The suffocating silence made the teammates a little worried. Gao Xiaoxin couldn't help but tremble: "Why, why don't you speak? Did something terrifying be found in the secret room?"

Jiang Pingce said solemnly, "Come in and see for yourself."

He gave a spot to the side, and his teammates lined up to enter the house. Liu Zhaoqing let out a "fuck" as soon as he entered, and Ke Shaobin followed with a short "Ah...this?". Qin Miao and Qin Lu didn't say anything after entering. Gao Xiaoxin was even more puzzled. Like falling into an ice cellar, it instantly froze into a statue.

In the long and narrow secret room of 2 meters x 6 meters, there are seven wooden chairs side by side, the middle one is empty, and the remaining six chairs sit six people—

No, it's six corpses, which have rotted to the point where only the bones are left!

Bai Gu's body was all dressed in bright red wedding dresses, and his waist was fixed on the seat by red satin.

This strange scene made everyone's scalp numb. Jiang Pingce frowned and looked at the neat skeleton bride in front of him, and said in a low voice: "It seems that this is the storeroom of the innkeeper - specially used to hide corpses."