The moment everyone walked into the piano room, the door behind them suddenly closed, sending a clear "squeak" echo in the silent space. Long Sen, who was walking at the end, immediately turned around and pushed the door open, only to find that the door could not be pushed open at all.
Without moving, he said helplessly: "We are locked up. It seems that we need to find the password to get out of this room."
Qu Wanyue walked over and observed the door carefully: "Why didn't I see the place to enter the password?"
Lao Mo also walked to the door and groped carefully, but couldn't find any switch or door lock. He said to Xiao Lou: "It seems that the code lock is not on the door. Let's look elsewhere."
Xiao Lou looked around. The room was empty. The walls and floor were all flat, and there were no traces of hidden compartments. Besides the piano, there were no other cabinets in the room to store clues.
In the escape room game, you can not only open the door by entering a password, but also have various pressing, stepping, puzzles, and voice-activated mechanisms. For example, the first room is a voice-activated mechanism that can be unlocked with Christmas songs. In the current room, since there is no door above
The combination lock, the key to escaping the secret room, should be the piano in the center of the room.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said: "The piano in the middle of the room is probably connected to a hidden pressing mechanism. Only by pressing the corresponding key can the secret room be opened."
Ye Qi agreed: "This kind of pressing mechanism is quite common in escape room games. If the keys of the piano are connected to the pressing mechanism, the order of the keys is very important. Will it be a musical melody?"
Xiao Lou said: "Let's look for it."
He took a step forward and looked carefully at the beautiful woman who was killed.
The woman was stabbed to death with a knife. She did not struggle before she died, but the expression on her face was full of horror. It should have been done by an unsuspecting acquaintance of hers - the murderer walked into the piano room and came to her, suddenly took out the knife and
Stabbed her to death directly from the front.
Xiao Loudao: "There is no doubt about the cause of death, it was just the stabbing in the chest. Her identity... could she be the mistress of the family? Lucia's mother?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "It's possible. Ordinary guests will not come to a place like the piano room. She was sitting in front of the piano and was about to play. Maybe she was asked to play a piece of music during the party on Christmas Eve."
Yu Hanjiang looked around and saw that there was no furniture except the piano. It seemed that the piano was the only clue.
He squatted down to check under the piano, and unexpectedly discovered that there was a portable recorder more than half a meter wide hidden under the piano, and there was a speaker on the recorder.
Yu Hanjiang took out the tape recorder and looked at it carefully - it was an old-fashioned tape recorder that could be powered by batteries and contained a tape. He used this type of tape recorder to listen to songs when he was a child.
Yu Hanjiang handed the recorder to Ye Qi and asked, "Do you know how to use it?"
Ye Qi nodded: "Yes."
At this point, the tape has reached the end and the tape recorder will automatically stop playing.
Ye Qi pressed rewind, quickly rewound the tape to the beginning, and pressed the play button again.
After a few seconds of blankness, a crisp and sweet piano music soon sounded in my ears, a familiar melody with a hint of sadness. Many people have heard this melody, but they can't remember its name at the moment.
Ye Qi was forced by his parents to learn musical instruments since he was a child. He knew the scores of such famous music by heart. As soon as he heard the beginning, he knew what the music was and said: "This piano music is called "Dream Wedding". It was composed by French
Two well-known composers customized a piece for piano master Richard Clayderman. There is a touching story behind this piece."
Xiao Lou said with interest: "Story? Tell it and listen."
Ye Qi told the story seriously——
"One winter, on a snowy day, a young man came to the Magic Academy in the Land of Dreams. He fell in love at first sight with the most beautiful girl in the school. This girl was the princess of the Land of Dreams."
"The young man had an ordinary identity and knew that he could not be with the noble princess, so he could only bury his love deep in his heart. Later, he finally couldn't suppress the feelings in his heart and confessed to the princess. After being rejected, he sadly left the dream
However, after six years, he still couldn't forget that relationship, so he returned to the Kingdom of Dreams to find the princess, but happened to meet the princess's wedding."
"The princess married the prince of a neighboring country. The people of the entire Dream Kingdom were celebrating for the princess. The man stood in the crowd and saw the princess wearing a dress and walking to the church with the prince of the neighboring country. Suddenly, he rushed out, and the man beside the princess
The guard thought he was here to murder the princess, and immediately drew his sword and pointed it at him. But what everyone didn't expect was that instead of harming the princess, he opened his arms and threw himself in front of the princess and said: 'I will protect you.' Then, people
I saw a sharp arrow pierce his chest from a distance..."
When Ye Qi said this, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "The man actually saw someone in the crowd drawing a long bow and wanted to assassinate the princess, so he rushed forward to protect the princess. Before he died, he dreamed that the princess was wearing
The wedding dress walked into the church with him, smiled and said she was willing to marry him. This song tells a tragic story, and the wedding in a man's dream can never come true."
Hearing Ye Qi's story, the teammates had different expressions.
The sad piano music of "Dream Wedding" was still echoing in the room, and Qu Wanyue could not help but whisper: "This man is quite infatuated, and he would risk his life for the princess. Unfortunately, due to their different status, they could not be together in the end.
"
Shao Qingge joked: "Xiaoye, you are quite good at telling stories."
Ye Qi looked at Xiao Lou and said seriously: "I thought that the story behind this piano piece might be related to the murder, so I told it to everyone."
Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other.
Could the impossible dream wedding be related to the murder?
The piano music on the tape has finished playing, and the room has become quiet again.
Yu Hanjiang whispered: "It can be inferred from Lucia's diary that there were many people attending the party on Christmas Eve. The hostess went to the piano room to play the piano and was murdered. The murderer used the prepared piano music to cover up the truth of the hostess's murder.
, This shows that the murderer must know what music the hostess can play, otherwise he will be betrayed."
It's very simple. If the hostess says, "I'm going to play "Für Elise" for everyone, but the recorder plays "Dream Wedding", it will naturally arouse other people's suspicion. Since the recorder plays
The piano music is the same as the one the hostess wants to play, which proves that the murderer has been prepared.
Xiao Lou speculated: "Maybe playing the song "Wedding in a Dream" was suggested by the murderer."
There are a lot of piano music. On a holiday as happy as Christmas, why would you play a song with a sad tune like "Repaying Gifts in a Dream"? Unless someone deliberately suggested to find a piano song like "I like to listen to this piano music the most".
Reason, let the hostess play it.
Xiao Lou looked at Ye Qi: "Xiao Ye, can you play this piano music?"
Ye Qi nodded: "Okay."
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p; No mechanism or combination lock was found in the house, and the door could not be pushed open. We could only try to unlock it with a piano.
Understanding what Xiao Lou meant, Yu Hanjiang took a step forward and calmly moved the body away to make room for Ye Qi.
Ye Qi gritted his teeth and sat down where the corpse had been. He stretched out his slender hands and started playing the piano song "Wedding in a Dream" from memory. As a result, as soon as he finished playing the first paragraph, the previously locked
The door suddenly opened!
Ye Qi said excitedly: "Sure enough, it is unlocked with the piano!"
The keys of the piano are connected to the hidden code lock in the room. After pressing the correct key, the door will open. Xiao Lou's guess is indeed correct.
There were no other clues in this room. Everyone looked at each other and walked out immediately.
The cat outside the door was nowhere to be seen, and there was no light in the dark corridor. Yu Hanjiang picked up the Night Pearl and took everyone a few steps before he saw another door.
Everyone walked in the door.
Just like before, the door is closed behind you, and you need to find out the password of this secret room to unlock the clues.
Everyone consciously started looking around.
This is a study room decorated in cool black and gray tones.
In the middle of the room was a desk with a photo frame on it. The photo was a photo of a family of three. Xiao Lou picked it up and looked at it. In the lower right corner of the photo was written "Wells, Shirley and their daughter Lucia's 10th birthday photo."
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The man is wearing a navy blue suit, handsome and unrestrained; the woman is wearing a white dress, beautiful and sexy, and the little girl is wearing a pink cake skirt, lively and cute. The picture of a family of three standing together is particularly warm.
Xiao Lou looked at the woman in the photo and said, "The one who died just now was indeed the mistress of this family, her name was Shirley."
There was a globe placed next to the photo frame. Xiao Lou picked it up and looked at it. He found nothing unusual, so he temporarily put it back.
Ye Qi squatted down and searched the drawer under the bookcase and found a stack of printed invitations. He gave the invitations to Yu Hanjiang and said, "It should be an invitation to the party on Christmas Eve. It is very exquisite."
Yu Hanjiang scanned the name on the invitation letter.
A total of five people were invited to the Christmas Eve party, including Dr. Simon, Mr. Jack, Ms. Karen, Ms. Martha, and Ms. Susan.
Xiao Lou came over and looked at the stack of invitations. While writing down the names of the five people, he analyzed: "Two men and three women. Except for Simon, who is a doctor, the other four cannot be identified. They can attend the private party.
The relationship between these four people and the host and hostess must be very close."
Qu Wanyue found a lot of books from the bookcase, took them out and said, "Is the occupation of the hostess Shirley a pianist? Or a teacher at a music school? There are many professional books on piano in the bookcase."
Ye Qi was rummaging through the desk drawer and found a printed form and an exquisite wooden box. He picked up the form and took a look at it, and said excitedly: "Shirley is indeed a pianist and is very famous. I
Find a tour schedule for her!”
He spread out the form and put it on the table, and saw that it read——
November 25: Japan-Tokyo, concert.
December 7: Norway-Oslo, piano performance.
December 12: Germany-Frankfurt, piano performance.
Xiao Lou said clearly: "No wonder Lucia's diary mentioned that her parents were too busy during this time and did not accompany her. It turned out that her mother had been busy performing abroad." He walked over and asked: "What is in the wooden box?
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Ye Qi opened the wooden box and found a number puzzle inside. The numbers were filled in all around. Only the middle ones were empty. There was a note next to it: "A Christmas gift for Shirley. Complete the puzzle."
You can have it - love you Wells."
Ye Qi handed the wooden box to Xiao Lou: "Professor Xiao, this digital puzzle is a bit strange. What is the password?"
Xiao Lou took the wooden box and took a look. This number puzzle was not a nine-square grid. The entire puzzle was 6x6 with a total of 36 grids. 24 of them had already been filled in with numbers, leaving 12 blanks. There was no pattern in the filled in numbers.
, horizontal and vertical addition and subtraction will not work, and you will not get the answer by following the Sudoku method of 1-9.
Xiao Lou looked at the puzzle and thought carefully. Since it was a gift from the husband to his wife, the 12 vacant numbers were probably related to his wife. He looked at Shirley's overseas performance schedule this month, and then looked at the globe on the table.
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Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly lit up: "Liu Qiao, find the places where Shirley performed on the globe!"
Liu Qiao happened to be standing next to the globe. When he heard this, he immediately rotated the globe and found Tokyo, Japan, Oslo, Norway, and Frankfurt, Germany.
Xiao Loudao: "Check the longitude and latitude of these cities."
Liu Qiao looked at the globe and quickly found the result, saying: "Tokyo, Japan, is 35 degrees north latitude, 139 degrees east longitude, Oslo, Norway, is 59 degrees north latitude, 10 degrees east longitude, Frankfurt, Germany is 50 degrees north latitude, 8 degrees east longitude...
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Xiao Lou filled in the latitudes of the three places, 35, 59, and 50, into the six spaces in the first row, and then filled in the longitude numbers of the three places, 139108, into the remaining puzzle spaces.
Sure enough, there was a soft "pop" sound in my ears, and the mezzanine of the mechanism box was opened.
Ye Qi couldn't help but sigh: "The globe is used to check longitude and latitude!" When he saw the globe just now, he was still thinking, should he have to turn it a few times to unlock it?
Xiao Lou saw the detailed place names on the hostess's performance schedule, and there happened to be a globe on the table, so he thought that the longitude and latitude of the city probably corresponded to the number puzzle. This kind of "connection thinking" is very important in escape room games.
One of the techniques.
Under the interlayer of the box, there is a sapphire necklace and a greeting card.
The greeting card says——
"Dear Shirley, we have been married for ten years. You have been very busy these years, often traveling around the world to perform. My company is also very busy, and we can't always spare much time to spend with each other. But please, please
Believe that no matter where you go, my heart will be with you.
After this year’s Christmas, let’s all take some time off, shall we?
Taking my baby daughter to travel around the world. I think this is the best gift for Lucia."
After Xiao Lou read this section of the greeting card, he looked at Yu Hanjiang: "This family is very rich. The male owner is a company boss and the female owner is a pianist. They live in a luxurious villa, but they are too busy and have no time to spend with their daughter.
During my daughter's illness, she was always cared for by a nanny and a family doctor."
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "The master's original plan was for the whole family to travel around the world together after Christmas, so he invited many people to his home for a party on Christmas Eve. But he didn't expect that this Christmas Eve would actually turn into a place of death.
night."
The body of the hostess was found in the piano room, but where was the male host?