After hearing Xiao Lou's words, everyone looked at the wall and carefully observed the pattern of the arrangement and distribution of the bloody handprints.
The messy bloody handprints covered the entire wall, and everyone couldn't figure it out for a long time. They didn't look like numbers or graphics. What did these handprints mean? In order to better observe the layout of the bloody handprints, Xiao Lou stepped back.
Take a few steps, lean against the wall behind you, and observe the handprints on the wall in front of you from the farthest distance.
Gradually, he discovered that the blood fingerprints on the wall were of different shades. There were many lighter fingerprints. After removing the interference of these light fingerprints and only looking at the dark fingerprints, he could find that these fingerprints were arranged in a pattern.
Five straight lines, and some handprints shuttle between the straight lines, forming the shape of musical notes. If you count the straight lines carefully from top to bottom, there are exactly five.
At the same time, Ye Qi suddenly said excitedly: "I understand, this is a staff score! The light-colored handprints all over the wall are interference items. You can ignore them and only look at the darkest bloody handprints." He took a step forward and pointed.
Pointing to one of the walls, he said: "These bloody handprints form the five lines of the staff, and the handprints running in the middle are connected to the shape of a musical note, which represents the sound of 'Mi' in the key of C."
Teammates: "…………"
Use bloody handprints to draw the staffs on the four walls, thanks to the diamond gatekeeper who figured it out.
Xiao Lou looked at Ye Qi with relief: "Fortunately, I have Xiao Ye here, otherwise, we would have been eliminated collectively from this music secret room."
Yu Hanjiang nodded solemnly: "I can't understand the staff, so I'll leave it to Xiaoye."
Long Sen, Lao Mo and Shao Qingge looked at each other and said they couldn't understand.
Qu Wanyue has been dancing since elementary school and has also dabbled in music. Although she is not as professional as Ye Qi, she can understand simple music notation. After hearing what Ye Qi said, she turned to look at the other wall and said in agreement: "Excluding Qian
As for the colored handprints, the dark bloody handprints are indeed staffs, and the notes on the wall on the left are so, mi, and re."
Ye Qi's eyes quickly swept across the remaining three walls and said: "The musical notes on the other three walls are la, fa, mi, re, xi, so, so, fa, re, mi, and so, mi, re
,do,so..."
He connected the notes on the four walls, adjusted the order, and hummed softly.
Then, Ye Qi's eyes lit up and he said: "This is the score of "Christmas Song"!"
so,mi,re,do,so
so,mi,re,
la,fa,mi,re,xi
so,so,fa,re,mi
——It’s the classic Christmas song melody.
Although Xiao Lou couldn't read the staff, he had heard of "The Christmas Song" and he could recognize it when Ye Qi hummed it. However, what Xiao Lou was confused about was: "Convert the notes of the staff into the numbers of the simplified notation, do
,re,mi,fa,,xi correspond to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 respectively. The password of this wooden box is seven digits, but the melody of this Christmas song has 20 notes."
The five-line musical notation of the Christmas song, if replaced with simplified notation numbers, is——
53215,53216,64327,55423.
Ye Qi also scratched his head in confusion: "Out of 20 numbers, how do you pick out 7 numbers to form a password?"
Xiao Lou thought about it carefully and said: "If you want to pick out 7 out of 20 numbers, you may use the 'superposition elimination' rule to stack four groups of numbers together. The numbers that have appeared before will not appear again when they appear again."
Just eliminate it, leaving only one number per number without repetition. Then, the order after the superposition of these four sets of numbers is 5321647."
Yu Hanjiang firmly believed in Xiao Lou's judgment and simply said: "Let's give it a try."
He turned the combination lock on the old wooden box into the digital code "5321647". There was a soft "pop" sound in his ears, and the wooden box was successfully opened!
Teammates all cast admiring glances at Xiao Lou.
However, before everyone had time to speak, they heard the familiar melody of Christmas carols ringing in their ears——
jinglebells,jinglebells,jiheway,
ohwhatfunitistorideinaonehorseopensleigh…
In the dark and closed space, music suddenly started playing, and everyone was startled.
Ye Qi raised his head and searched carefully for where the speaker was. After searching around, he found that he couldn't find it. He said helplessly: "Music suddenly plays. It's very scary, okay? The square gatekeeper was also taken away by several other gatekeepers.
broken."
Xiao Lou said: "It seems that this secret room has a Christmas theme. Let's take a look at the clues in the box first."
There was a yellowed hard-cover diary lying in the wooden box. The diary was tied up with red thread and tied with a beautiful bow on the front. Yu Hanjiang untied the red thread and opened the diary. On the first page, it read
: "Lucia's diary."
The handwriting is crooked, probably written by a child.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other. Yu Hanjiang unfolded the diary, and Xiao Lou picked up the night pearl to illuminate him. Yu Hanjiang read the diary while reading it in a low voice, so that his teammates could hear the information——
"November 11th, sunny.
Today, my parents took me to move to a new home. Our new home is beautiful. It is a huge five-story villa. I like it very much. My mother also gave me a diary. I decided to start writing in this diary from today on.
It records our family’s life.”
"November 15th, sunny.
Today I went to study at a nearby new school. Some classmates said that there were ghosts in the villa where we lived, and they would wander around the villa in the middle of the night. Last month, all the guests staying in the villa were killed by ghosts.
Because someone died in the villa, the owner was in a hurry to resell it. I was a little scared, was there really a ghost killing people? But my mother said, those rumors cannot be believed, how could there be a ghost?"
"November 20, sunny.
After living in my new home for a week, I didn’t hear any strange noises, and I didn’t see anything floating outside the window in the middle of the night. Ghosts? They must be jealous that I live in a big villa.”
"November 21st, cloudy.
My mother hired a nanny to take care of me today. Her name is Ada. She has blond curly hair and fair skin. She is a very beautiful sister. My father also hired a driver to take me to school. Uncle Farrell has long hair.
Big beard, looks like Santa Claus."
"November 23, rain.
It was raining heavily, and my mother brought back a cat from the roadside. It was covered in bruises and looked very pitiful. We decided to adopt it. We named it Tom. Oh, it is not like the cartoon "
The cat in Tom and Jerry, our Tom was all white and very beautiful after taking a bath.”
"December 1st, sunny.
Tom and I get along very well, she is my best friend. I personally drew a picture for her, it’s super cute.”
"December 17th, heavy rain.
Today, my mother and I took Tom to the pet hospital for a grooming session. Because Tom’s hair was too long, I wanted to cut it and buy him a set of beautiful clothes. However, it suddenly rained heavily on the road and I caught a cold from the heavy rain.
I have a runny nose all the time, so uncomfortable."
"December 18th, cloudy day.
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sp;My cold is not over yet, my head is dizzy, I have slept all day, and I have no time to play with Tom.
My mother called the school to ask for three days off for me and let me rest at home. It’s great, I finally don’t have to see those annoying male classmates who always play pranks and put bugs in my schoolbag.”
"December 20th, cloudy day.
I started to have a fever again this afternoon, so my mother hired a private doctor to give me an injection. I don’t like injections, it’s too painful.”
"December 24th, heavy rain.
On Christmas Eve, several people came to the house today, friends of my parents, and they had a party on the first floor.
The adults are so annoying. They are so noisy and still drinking. Dad will definitely get drunk.
My cold hasn't gone away yet, and I feel sleepy after taking the medicine. I decided to sleep over this Christmas Eve, hoping that my illness will be better when I wake up tomorrow. They are too busy during this period, and they don't want to accompany me, and the party on Christmas Eve is also not going to be there.
They did not allow me to participate, saying that I had a cold and could not go out, and my condition would get worse. These were all excuses. They were dissatisfied that I, a child, would be in the way.
Tomorrow is Christmas. My parents must sing Christmas carols in person, wish me a Merry Christmas, and buy me many gifts before I can forgive them.
Tom is still the best to me and always stays with me.
Fell asleep."
Yu Hanjiang continued to flip through the pages, only to find that the pages at the back were all blank.
He looked at Xiao Lou: "The diary has been written to this point, but it has not continued. Something must have happened to this family."
Xiao Lou nodded in agreement: "It can be inferred from the diary of the little girl Lucia that the music maze we are going to walk this time is probably the five-story villa where her family lives."
If you make a villa into a maze, if there are no obstacles, it will be easy to find the exit.
But the gatekeepers of the diamonds will definitely not be so kind and only set up a villa for everyone to find their way. Judging from the clues learned so far, every room in the villa may be equipped with puzzles and mechanisms. Plus five floors
The taller building is not a flat maze, but a 3D maze. Maybe after they solve the puzzle from the room on the fourth floor, they will be transported directly to the room on the second floor, creating a sense of spatial confusion.
The exit must be in the lobby on the first floor, but you have to walk through several rooms to get to the exit. In what order, everyone needs to explore together. This maze is actually very similar to a real-life themed escape room.
Lao Mo is an expert in the sense of space. Xiao Lou looked at him and said: "Old Mo, this is a five-story three-dimensional maze. When we go to the next room, you can draw a picture to determine which floor we are on.
, should you go down or up, otherwise you will get dizzy."
Mo Xuemin immediately took out a pen and paper, nodded and said: "Understood. In general villas, bedrooms will appear starting from the second floor. The current room is dimly lit and has nothing. It is probably an independent storage room. I can't confirm it yet.
floor."
He paused and then asked: "Why is there a little girl's diary in the storage room?"
Xiao Lou couldn't explain this clearly, and said: "We have to walk through a few more rooms to figure out the layout of the villa."
Ye Qi wondered: "But the box containing the diary has been opened. Where is the door to this secret room?"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.
The walls of this secret room are covered with strange bloody handprints, the melody of Christmas songs is playing in the ears, and a little girl's diary is left in a delicate wooden box.
Where is the door?
In an escape room, you have to give them a door to get out, right?
Everyone looked around and still couldn't find any hidden door anywhere.
Xiao Lou read the diary again and said: "The clue may be in the diary. The little girl's record stopped at Christmas Eve, December 24th. Tomorrow is Christmas. She asked her parents to sing Christmas songs to her in person, so that she could forgive her parents for treating her wrongly.
Her neglect..."
When Xiao Lou said this, he looked at Ye Qi: "Xiao Ye, let's try singing a "Christmas Song"."
Ye Qi looked complicated and said: "Professor Xiao, are you sure you want to sing to open the door?"
Xiao Lou smiled and said: "Try it, there is no other way anyway, this sentence in the diary should not be useless."
Ye Qi coughed, cleared his throat, and then started singing Christmas songs along with the melody that was being played.
Since the girl in the diary has an English name, this secret room should have a Western background. Ye Qi also sang an English version of a Christmas song to suit the occasion. He sang really well, with a clear and clean voice.
Strangely, as he sang, small colored lights suddenly lit up at the top of the room.
Every time Ye Qi sings a word, there will be one more lantern and it will continue to extend along the wall.
After the song was finished, the colored lights had surrounded the entire room along the walls. A huge Christmas tree appeared in the center of the room. The whole room was surrounded by colored lights. The Christmas tree was filled with socks filled with gifts. The whole scene was like this.
Dreams are the same as dreams.
Then, a scene that surprised everyone happened——
The four walls in front of us suddenly disappeared, and everyone was in a pink bedroom.
The bloody handprints, the melody of Christmas songs that had been playing, the last lights, and the Christmas tree were all gone. It was as if everyone suddenly woke up after a dream and returned to reality.
This is a large bedroom. The curtains, bed, and wardrobe are all in pink that girls like.
Ye Qi stared blankly at the room in front of him and said, "Is it really a voice-activated mechanism? It unlocks it by singing, it's so weird..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Yu Hanjiang say in a deep voice: "Look at the bed."
Everyone followed Yu Hanjiang's gaze and saw a little girl wearing a tutu, lying quietly on a pink princess bed. She was covered with a quilt, with only one head exposed. The little girl had a delicate appearance and long golden hair.
With curly hair and a peaceful sleeping appearance, she looks like a beautiful doll.
Unfortunately, her face was as pale as paper at this time, and there were even some obvious corpse spots on her skin.
Xiao Lou's expression changed slightly: "She is Lucia, she is dead."
Yu Hanjiang frowned: "So, we were trapped in her... dream before she died?"
It only makes sense in a dream, otherwise, why would there be so many weird things in the room, and finally a Christmas tree appeared.
Are those bloody fingerprints her struggle in the dream?
The staff painted on the wall by bloody handprints was a "Christmas Song". Before she died, her biggest wish was to have her parents sing Christmas songs to her and spend Christmas with her.
Unfortunately, her wish was not fulfilled.
Ye Qi thought of the scene of him singing Christmas songs just now, and couldn't help but sigh: "The little girl died innocently. In this secret room, it seems that we need to solve the mystery of the family's death in order to find the correct exit. I don't believe in ghosts killing people."
, there must be a murderer."
Shao Qingge couldn't laugh or cry and said, "So Professor Xiao, should we find the agency first or conduct an autopsy first?"
Everyone: "..."
It was the first time a corpse appeared in the square chamber, and everyone was not used to it.