Card Room - 2. Chap Chapter 002

【Chapter 002, Rose Funeral】

Xiao Lou stood in front of the card wall, dazzled by the large number of cards. He was surprised to find that, except for the marks of hearts 2 and 3 of spades in the upper left corner of each card, the card face was an animation.

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

The card directly in front of him has the clearest animation.

Xiao Lou took a closer look and saw that in the card world, a short girl was being chased by several ugly zombies. The girl accidentally slipped and fell to the ground. The zombies quickly surrounded the girl. , Took off her head and gnawed with relish, the girl’s horrified eyes seemed to look straight at Xiao Lou through the card window——

Xiao Lou’s scalp was numb, and his stomach felt nauseated. He clenched his fists hard, his nails pierced deeply into his palms, and the intense pain told him that this was not a dream, it was another card made of cards that he couldn’t understand. Different space.

That girl will definitely not survive, but the death method of “being eaten by zombies” is too cruel…

Is she also a human being drawn to the card world inexplicably, just like herself?

Xiao Lou closed his eyes and couldn’t bear to look again.

The system asked coldly: “Did you see the world in the card?”

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said, “I saw it.”

System: “You only have one chance to modify the options, A and B, what to choose?”

Xiao Lou did not hesitate: “I choose B.”

System: “Option confirmation.”

System: “Congratulations on becoming the 86,587,847 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.”

There was a mirror in front of him. The young man in the mirror looked handsome, with gentle eyebrows, but at this moment, his face was a little unnaturally pale-it would be difficult for anyone to suddenly encounter this kind of thing to calm down. Xiao Lou is already a relatively calm person, at least he didn’t scream when he saw the girl’s head being eaten by a zombie.

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

Maybe a lot of people who died accidentally were transported to the card world. He was the 80 million challenger. He thought that if he didn’t adjust, he might be able to meet people he knew before. Although he couldn’t understand this card world, all he could do at the moment was to abide by the rules of the new world and let himself live as much as possible.

“Challenger Xiaolou, the initial data storage was successful.” The mirror in front of him disappeared, and the cold mechanical sound of the system still came from his ear: “Next, read the basic rules of the new world.”

“In the card world, every card is a different small world, you can understand it as a secret room.”

“The type of the secret room is determined by the suit of the card. The heart represents the secret room for solving puzzles, the square represents the secret room for organs, the spade represents the secret room for survival, and the club is the challenge secret room.”

“The difficulty of the secret room is from low to high, followed by D, C, B, A, S and the highest difficulty level SS. Only by clearing the SS level can you return to the human world and get a real new life. ”

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

“The rules are only said once, please choose the cards next.”

In front of Xiao Lou, four cards appeared out of thin air-Heart 2, Square 2, Spades 2, and Club 2.

These four cards are not like the cards on the card wall with dynamic plot play, but the most common playing cards in life, with suits printed on the front, and he has no idea what he will face after the cards are turned over.

A card is a world, which one should I choose?

Xiao Lou thought about it carefully, stretched out his hand, and drew “2 of Hearts”.

He has loved to read detective mysteries since he was a child. Ever since he was dragged by his roommate to play a secret room game during college, he has liked this thrilling and logically rigorous real-life secret room escape game. Whenever he goes to a city, Xiao Lou will go to the secret room halls of major cities to check in. He has played hundreds of secret room games and has rich experience. But in the world he is in, most of the secret room games are puzzle-solving and organ-based, and I have never heard of “survival” or “challenge” secret rooms.

Reminiscent of the picture of the girl being eaten by zombies, the survival chamber of spades is likely to face the crisis of not being able to survive; the challenge chamber of clubs is difficult to just listen to the name, and if you rush in, you may die even more miserably. . Relatively speaking, the mechanism of the square film and the puzzle solving of hearts sound a little friendly, and it is also what Xiao Lou is good at.

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

——The end of the card selection.

——The 2 Secret Room of Hearts [Rose Funeral] is opening.

——Challenger Xiaolou, the data has been read.

——The time limit is 30 minutes. If the time is exceeded, it will be judged as a failure.

After the system prompt, I saw a layer of soft blood red light suddenly appeared on the card of Hearts 2. The red light quickly formed a whirlpool, sucking Xiao Lou directly into the card world.

Xiao Lou’s eyes suddenly went dark.

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

The light in the corridor was very dim, and there was a door at the end. The surrounding walls are bare, the most common white wall, and under the feet are the slender off-white tiles. No useful clues were found.

A transparent floating frame of “countdown to 30:00” appeared in front of him. Xiao Lou found that the countdown count had been turned on, so he quickly walked to the door.

He pushed the door in, and his eyes quickly swept across the room—

This is a three-bedroom and two-living house with an area of about 120 square meters.

The furniture is in warm colors and looks very warm. A soft fabric sofa is placed in the living room, a thick carpet is spread under the coffee table, and a huge LCD TV is placed directly opposite; the dining room is neatly cleaned, and there is a bunch of bright roses on the table. .

The doors of the three rooms next to it were all open. One is the master bedroom, one is a children’s room covered with cartoon wallpapers, and the other is decorated as a study room.

The whole house is transparent from north to south, and the apartment 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, which seemed to be mixed with the aroma of roses.

He followed the smell to the master bedroom.

There is a double bed in the middle of the bedroom. At this time, the bed is covered with bright red roses. On the rose petals sleeps a woman in white silk pajamas. Her hands are gently folded on her abdomen, looking Sleep very peacefully.

However, a large mass of dazzling blood burst into her chest.

The pajamas on the woman’s chest were stained red with blood, and there were obvious corpses on her delicate face with makeup. Her lips were blue, her skin was pale as paper, and the strong smell in the air was exactly the smell of this woman’s corpse.

——The Secret Room of Hearts 2 is actually a murder scene!

Xiao Lou was almost spit out by the strong smell, he pinched his nose hard, his eyes began to look around carefully.

As a player of escape room games for many years, he has played many puzzle-solving rooms and seen many horrible scenes. In addition, his expertise in forensic medicine has made him immune to corpses. Therefore, he suddenly saw a female corpse on the bed. He didn’t panic, but calmed himself down quickly.

——The card suit of hearts, which represents the “mystery-solving room”.

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

Xiao Lou endured the stench of the corpse and took a step forward and began to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the deceased.

The deceased, a young woman of about 30 years old, died at home wearing pajamas.

There was a large blood stain on the chest, and the fatal wound came from a stab wound in the heart. The murder weapon should be a sharp knife, which directly pierced the aorta of the heart. The technique was very simple and neat. Apart from that, there were no other injuries or traces of abuse on her body.

This is the master bedroom with a separate bathroom.

Xiao Lou began to look for clues in the room.

He went to the bathroom first.

A lot of long hair fell on the floor of the bathroom. It was brown curly hair like the deceased. It should have been left by her when she took a bath before she was alive. She hadn’t had time to clean it. In addition, there were clothes she changed in the bathroom with some dark spots on the clothes. Red traces.

Xiao Lou picked it up and examined it carefully. It looked a bit like blood stains, but in fact it was not. It was obviously different from the blood stains on her pajamas.

【Countdown 28:10】

[Special reminder for class D secret room: clue collection rate 5%]

The moment I picked up the clothes, this line of characters suddenly appeared in the floating box in front of me-the clue collection degree, this reminder is very important, especially for newcomers who have just arrived in the card world, at least they can be sure that what they have found is not Related to the case.

It seems that this dress is indeed related to the case. Xiao Lou carefully searched the pockets of his clothes, and found no other gains, except that the dark red traces on the clothes seemed to remind him of something.

He put down his clothes and continued to look for other clues.

The bathtub and toilet are very clean, and the toiletries on the sink are normal. There were some toilet papers in the trash can next to it, which looked very dirty. Xiao Lou did not hesitate to turn the trash can over and dumped all the garbage on the ground.

He found some scraps of paper.

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

[Countdown 27:45, clue collection 15%]

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

The clearance time of the secret room games he played before is generally limited to more than one hour, and the difficult ones are usually three to five hours. Some large team secret rooms even take seven or eight hours to get out.

Half an hour to solve the puzzle, the time is too short.

Fortunately, this secret room is not too difficult, after all, it is a D-class secret room, and there is a hint of “clue collection”.

While looking through the closet, Xiao Lou quickly analyzed it in his mind.

The photo of the marriage certificate was torn up and thrown into the trash can in the toilet, indicating that the marriage of the hostess had broken down. There are still male clothes and shoes in her residence, indicating that the two have not yet reached the stage 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 rummaged through all the clothes pockets of the male host in the closet at an extremely fast speed-only found a wallet, which contained no cash or bank card, but held a photo with the couple on the marriage certificate.

In the photo, the woman is wearing a white wedding dress and is happily nestled in the arms of the man. The handsome man and the beautiful woman look very good-matched.

[Countdown 24:06, clue collection rate 25%]

It took a lot of time to search the wardrobe, Xiao Lou calmed down and thought about it, then turned to look through the dressing table and bedside table.

He saw a delicate perfume bottle on the dressing table and opened it to smell the fragrance of roses.

I found a greeting card in the drawer of the dressing table, which read: “My dear, this rose perfume is for you. I wish you a happy birthday and always young and beautiful-your best girlfriend Liu Yun July 17th.” The word “girlfriend” was drawn with a big red cross.

Birthdays, rose perfume, crossed out greeting cards, and the new character Liu Yun are all key clues. In the floating box in front of Xiao Lou, the clue collection rate jumped from 25% to 50%!

[Countdown to 22:00, clue collection 50%]

[After collecting more than half of the clues, a suspicious person appeared. Is the murderer confirmed? whether】

[Hint: The shorter the time to pass the level, the more clues you collect, the higher the reward will be]

Xiao Lou thought for a while, and chose “No” in the floating box.

He has 22 minutes left, and he hasn’t found all the clues. It is very likely that he will make a mistake in identifying the murderer.

The few clues I found so far all pointed the finger at the husband or the best friend-the husband cheated on the best friend. The mistress found out that the heroine tore off the marriage certificate in anger and drew a big red cross on the greeting card sent by the best friend. . Perhaps it was a dispute on the birthday day, and the heroine was killed by her husband or girlfriend.

If it is such a story, 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 to go out.

This is not the first crime scene at all.