When I left the 9 of Hearts secret room and returned to the main city, it was exactly four o'clock in the afternoon. The afternoon sunlight of Moon City shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows on one wall into the living room, casting a layer of warm warmth.
The scene in front of him suddenly changed. Everyone appeared in the living room at the same time. Looking at the familiar faces of his teammates, Ye Qi couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief and said, "The Chamber of Hearts is finally over, and we no longer have to deal with the perverted murderer. Next,
Should we continue to play the secret room of diamonds, or should we take a break?”
Everyone turned their attention to Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang, waiting for their instructions.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang had a serious discussion, "Continue the Diamond Secret Room. Usually the Diamond Secret Room doesn't take long. It's now four o'clock in the afternoon. After everyone finishes playing the Diamond Secret Room, come back and rest. Maybe you can catch up with dinner tonight."
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Anyway, there are Xiao Lou, a master of problem solving, Lao Mo, a designer with a strong sense of space, Ye Qi, and Liu Qiao who are also very good at solving problems. The other teammates only need to cooperate with them, and passing the level should not be a problem.
Thinking of this, Yu Hanjiang simply said, "Let's move on to the next level. We need to hurry up and finish the A-level secret room."
Naturally, the teammates had no objections to this decision.
Yu Hanjiang walked to the card wall and directly pulled out the 9 of Diamonds card. A familiar red light appeared in the center of the playing card, and then everyone came to a strange secret room.
It's strange because in the previous square-piece secret rooms, everyone entered the secret room separately. For example, in the last Lantern Festival secret room, eight people were divided into four groups, each appearing on a certain road in the lantern city maze.
Find a way to meet up with your teammates.
But today was different. Eight people were all gathered in the same closed room.
This room is square, approximately square meters in size.
The light in the room was extremely dim, with only four kerosene lamps hanging on the four corners. The temperature in the room was low, giving people a gloomy feeling, as if they had entered a mysterious basement.
Everyone saw their teammates around them and confirmed that everyone was here.
Xiao Lou immediately said, "Everyone, don't move around. Be careful that there are mechanisms underground or on the walls."
Upon hearing this, the teammates who originally wanted to move hurriedly stopped and stayed quietly waiting for the next prompt.
Soon, a little girl's clear and lovely voice sounded in the secret room, "Welcome to the 9 Diamond Secret Room Music Maze. This is a music-themed clue maze. There is only one correct passage in the entire maze.
Leave. The maze has a time limit of 1 hour. As long as you can get out of the maze within the limited time, you will be considered a victory. If the time is up and you are still trapped in the maze, you will have to enter the nightmare chamber to accept the punishment."
This was obviously the sound of the gatekeeper's diamond a. Ye Qi's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard the "musical theme" and he said excitedly, "I've heard of this theme before when I played the escape room in the musical maze."
As a veteran escape room player, Xiao Lou certainly knows about this type of themed escape room.
Diamond A then said, "This time in the secret room, there will be some more punishment links. For example, if you enter the wrong password, or enter the punishment room by mistake, the punishment link will be triggered. For the sake of mystery, I will not tell you the specific punishment methods.
Announcement."
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
What is not announced is the scariest thing. Who knows how this gatekeeper will torture everyone?
The voice of Diamond A sounded in the dark and cold space, which sounded a little strange. She smiled and said, "The reward method of the secret room this time is also related to the mechanism you solved. If there is a punishment secret room, there will naturally be a reward secret room. If
If you unlock the mechanism of the reward room, you can get rare cards."
She paused and said, "The countdown is about to begin. I wish you good luck."
The sound of Diamond Ace disappeared, and a red countdown clock appeared in the floating box in front of everyone.
The clock shows 1:00:00.
The time limit was one hour and the countdown began. Everyone immediately cheered up and carefully observed the surrounding walls, ceiling and floor.
Soon, Yu Hanjiang, who had keen observation skills at the scene, discovered a hidden compartment under the kerosene lamp in the corner of the wall.
He said with a serious face, "Since this is a clue-type maze, there should be clues in the secret room over there, maybe it's a mechanism code lock." He looked at Xiao Lou with questioning eyes and said, "I'll get it and take a look.
look"
Xiao Lou said, "One hour, don't worry, I'll tell you some things to note first."
Xiao Lou glanced at his teammates and warned, "Maybe some of you have never played this kind of clue maze. The code locks and mechanisms in this type of maze are not directly placed in the square like the square secret room we played before.
In an eye-catching place, the questions are placed next to them, and you can get the answers as long as you solve the questions correctly. In the clue-type maze, many combination locks require reasoning and puzzle solving to find them."
Ye Qi looked at Xiao Lou seriously and asked, "Is this the linkage between hearts and diamonds?" While solving the puzzle, he looked for the password lock, and then based on the clues in the secret room, he deduced the correct password to open the secret room, and then continued to the next secret room.
Find new clues."
Xiao Lou nodded, "That's right. So next, everyone needs to keep their eyes open and carefully search for clues in the secret room. Any suspicious places must be carefully observed. After you find them, don't touch them with your hands rashly. There may be some clues behind them.
It’s also connected to mechanisms, such as water sprays, poisons, traps, etc. Everyone must be careful.”
After hearing this, everyone nodded to express their understanding.
No one would do anything like cheating teammates by messing with mechanisms randomly.
Yu Hanjiang said, "Everyone take out the luminous pearls and let me see what is in the dark compartment."
The kerosene lamp in the secret room was too dim, almost lifeless, as if the kerosene was about to burn out. The floor and walls were all black, making it difficult to see clearly what was on the surrounding walls.
After hearing Yu Hanjiang's order, everyone immediately took out the night pearl.
Each person has a night pearl that illuminates the entire secret room.
Then, everyone was surprised to find a large number of bloody handprints on the wall
Those dense bloody fingerprints covered almost the entire wall, which looked shocking.
Qu Wanyue was startled by these bloody handprints and wanted to retreat, but remembering Xiao Lou's instructions, she immediately stopped to avoid accidentally stepping on any traps.
Seeing her ugly face, Long Sen gently shook her hand and said, "Although it's a suspense maze, there shouldn't be a murderer, so don't worry too much."
Qu Wanyue said, "Will they throw us into some crime scene? There are so many bloody fingerprints. Is the person who left the fingerprints dead or alive?"
The next moment, Yu Hanjiang was heard calmly saying, "This is indeed a suspense maze. I found a box."
He opened the secret compartment under the kerosene lamp and took out a box. It was an old sandalwood box with a very period flavor. There were exquisite European carvings on the box, and a golden lock hung on it. Unfortunately, due to its age,
This lock has faded.
It's a seven-digit password.
Yu Hanjiang brought the box to Xiao Lou and asked, "What will the password be?"
Xiao Lou thought for a while and divided the work between his teammates and said, "Teacher Qu and Long Sen, you carefully check your feet to make sure the floor grid is movable; Xiaoye and Liu Qiao, you two check the walls on all sides to see if there are any
There are no other hidden compartments. Mr. Shao, you come with me to check the ceiling, while Captain Yu goes to look at the other kerosene lamps."
The hidden compartment that Yu Hanjiang discovered is relatively easy to find.
The brick under the kerosene lamp was slightly dented, which was obviously different from the surrounding wall. After Yu Hanjiang took out the brick, he found a hole dug in the wall, where the locked box was placed.
Apart from this, no obvious clues have been found in the secret room yet.
The teammates quickly started to act according to Xiao Lou's division of labor. One of Ye Qi and Liu Qiao checked the left front and the other the right rear. After checking around, the two came to the answer: "The walls are all flat, and we all have bricks."
After knocking it once, there are no other hidden spaces."
Long Sen and Qu Wanyue, who were responsible for inspecting the floor, quickly said, "The floor cannot move."
Xiao Lou frowned slightly, picked up the Night Pearl and looked at the ceiling carefully.
There are no clues on the ceiling either.
Xiao Lou touched his chin thoughtfully, "This is strange. We are only given a locked box. There is nothing else on the ceiling, walls, or floor. How can we crack this code?"
Yu Hanjiang said, "There may be something missing. Let's check it carefully."
Everyone checked the area they were responsible for again. After 3 minutes, they came to the same conclusion: "There are no other clues."
Xiao Lou looked carefully at the bloody handprints on the wall.
These bloody handprints are very messy and cannot form any figures related to numbers. The arrangement of the blood handprints can be said to be irregular, and the number is relatively large. There are hundreds of them at a rough count.
Xiao Lou thought about it carefully and said, "There is a seven-digit password. There are no clues in the room. The clue must be in what Diamond A just told us. This is a music-themed maze."
Ye Qi's eyes lit up and he said, "The password is a musical note. The only musical notes that can be used as musical notes are duo, 唻, mi, fa, swish, la, xi, which are the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7."
, exactly seven numbers.”
Xiao Lou nodded, "But how should these seven numbers be arranged?"
If the seven numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are arranged randomly, there will be countless answers.
If a piece of music is played in the secret room, Ye Qi can still hear the specific sequence of notes based on the melody of the music. However, at this time, the secret room is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop, and you can even hear the nervous breathing of his teammates.
What clues are hidden in the passage about the Ace of Diamonds?
In other words, are there any clues in this secret room that everyone has overlooked?
Xiao Lou was silent for a moment and suggested, "Look carefully at these bloody fingerprints and see if you can get any clues related to music through them."