After hearing the prompt, everyone entered the back garden of the villa through the glass door.
Originally, after the Diamond Secret Room game, everyone should go directly back to the card wall and find the gatekeeper to receive rewards, but this time, everyone walked into a garden?
This garden is very large, with many tall trees and cobblestone paths that are winding and criss-crossing, like another maze.
In the floating box above everyone's head, a countdown to 5:00 appeared.
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
Lao Mo couldn't help but said: "The path in this garden looks very complicated. It should be a small maze. Didn't we successfully solve the puzzle and escape from the secret room? Why is there still a countdown of 5 minutes? Do we have to escape from this garden again?"
Xiao Lou carefully recalled the reminder he gave when he left the villa just now - the truth was about to be revealed.
Think again of what the gatekeeper said when you entered the secret room of Diamond 9 - the reward method of this secret room is also related to the mechanism you unlock. If you unlock the mechanism of the reward secret room, you can get rare
Cards.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "This is the reward maze."
Ye Qi also became excited after hearing this: "I know, this is just like the treasure chest maze in a stand-alone RPG game. At the end of every fork in the road, there is either an equipment treasure chest or a monster that is difficult to deal with."
Xiao Lou agreed: "The reward maze is limited to 5 minutes. Everyone needs to find the treasure box and get the cards as soon as possible. We will act in groups and mark the intersections with four-way arrows along the way we have walked."
Everyone had no objections to Xiao Lou's arrangement. They were still grouped according to the previous grouping. Xiao Lou, Long Qu and his wife were in a group with Lao Mo. Yu Hanjiang took Mr. Shao, Ye Qi and Liu Qiao. Everyone dispersed at the first fork in the road.
One team goes to the left, and one team goes to the right.
Not long after walking, Xiao Lou and the others saw a grid path.
These squares are painted in different colors. Each of the first three rows has a red square, the fourth row has two squares side by side, which are blue; the fifth row has red, and the sixth row has two more squares.
The blue grids are juxtaposed; the seventh row is drawn as a semicircle, which is green.
This stretch of road is all connected by such a grid, and it looks like one house after another.
Xiao Lou looked at the colorful grids on the ground with confusion: "Three red grids, then two blue grids side by side, then a red grid, two blue grids side by side, and finally a green grid... What does this mean?"
Qu Wanyue chuckled and said: "Professor Xiao, when you were a child, did you ever play the game of 'hopscotch'?"
Xiao Lou touched his nose embarrassedly: "I've never played before."
He has liked to be quiet since he was a child. He is not as naughty as other boys. The most common game he plays is stacking blocks at home. He has never played hopscotch.
Long Sen pointed to the grid arrangement on the ground and said: "This is a kid's hopscotch game. The first three grids need to be jumped on one foot. For the fourth row of parallel grids, you can stand on both feet; the fifth row of single grids still hop on one foot.
, the sixth row of feet; the last row of semicircular ones, called 'houses', where you can stay for a few seconds to rest. You cannot stay in the squares in front."
Xiao Lou suddenly realized: "One foot in a single grid, two feet side by side, and finally a house to rest... In this section of the road, we all need to follow this rule, otherwise we are likely to be punished?"
Qu Wanyue said: "Yes, this section of the road is just a kid's hopscotch game. We have to follow the rules."
Long Sen took the lead, Qu Wanyue, Lao Mo followed closely, and Xiao Lou followed everyone, jumping forward according to the rule of one foot, one foot, one foot, both feet, one foot, both feet, rest,
After dancing for about half a minute, everyone saw a fork in the road.
Xiao Lou left a mark at the fork in the road, and everyone went left first. After walking a few steps, they found a treasure chest.
There is no password for the treasure chest this time. When opened, there is a card inside——
[Special Effects Card: Hopscotch Game]
Rarity:s
Description: Maze reward card, which may be obtained by clearing the A-level maze and searching for treasure chests.
Usage effect: A large square of hopscotch game is immediately arranged in an area of 500x500 meters. Everyone in the area must walk according to the rules of the "hopscotch game". If you step on the wrong foot, you will be punished.
Cooling time is 24 hours.
The punishment method is: if you step on the wrong square, you will be stationed in the corresponding square for 3 minutes.
This card is very powerful, with a large area of squares that can slow down the movement of enemies within range.
When being chased, setting up such a "hopscotch game" and letting them slowly jump over with one foot and then two feet is much easier to use than Jiugongge's 9-second small-scale immobilization.
If you use it with a card with range blindness, such as Mrs. Qin's [Human Bone Medicine Jar], you will definitely accidentally go to the wrong grid when everything is dark, and the control time will naturally increase.
Xiao Lou put away the S card and asked Yu Hanjiang through the telepathic channel: "Did you gain anything there?"
Yu Hanjiang said: "I just walked through a grid."
What their team encountered was also a color grid, but it was a long horizontal grid, black and white.
The order of arrangement of the grid is, white, black, white, white, black, white, black and white.
As soon as Yu Hanjiang saw the black and white grid--
, he knew that this must be a stampede mechanism. If he stepped on it wrongly, he would definitely be punished, such as falling into a pit, so he did not move for the time being.
Just when he wanted to ask his teammates for their opinions, Ye Qi immediately said: "These are the keys of the piano! The white grids are the seven notes of do, re, mi, fa, and xi on the piano. The black grids are all flat.
Tone, rising tone. We should step on the white squares to produce the correct note and not touch the black squares."
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Okay, let's go." He trusted Ye Qi's judgment.
Ye Qi consciously took the lead. When he stepped on the first white square, he heard the piano sound of "do" in his ears. He continued to step on it, and the white squares were indeed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of the piano.
,7 keys.
The teammates followed Ye Qi quickly through the keyboard area and saw a shining golden treasure box at the corner.
Yu Hanjiang opened the treasure box and took a look. There was a card inside——
[Tool brand: Piano Music Box]
Rarity:s
Description: Maze reward card, you may get it by clearing the A-level maze and searching for the treasure chest.
Additional skill 1: Music box
Open the piano music box in your hand and play the music "Dream Wedding". During the 1 minute the music box plays the music, all targets within 50 meters will fall into coma. The cooling time is 4 hours.
Additional skill 2: piano playing
Scale up the piano music box in your hand and turn it into a real piano the same size as in reality. Find someone to sit in front of the piano and play any piece of music. During the performance, hostile targets within 100 meters will immediately stop in place and concentrate.
Listen to the piano music being played. You cannot move or release any card skills. Friendly targets can move but cannot release skills. Each secret room can only be used once.
Note: The repertoire played can only be piano music and cannot be changed midway.
Ye Qi took the card excitedly and said: "This card is better than the Erhu I drew before! Especially the 2 skills, you can choose the enemy target. Then I will sit in front of the piano and play a super long song.
For the song, the enemy can only watch from the side, and cannot move or use card skills, hahaha!"
Seeing his happy look, Shao Qingge couldn't help but chuckled and patted Xiaoye on the shoulder, saying: "This is equivalent to holding a special concert. The card allows you to play only one piano piece. The longest piano piece can
How long do you want to play?”
Ye Qi chuckled and said: "The longest piano piece in the world is "Trouble" by American composer Eric Satyr. The whole piece lasts 18 hours and 40 minutes. Many pianists take turns and can play continuously for a whole day.
One night."
Everyone: “…………”
Ye Qi said regretfully: "It's a pity that I don't know how."
Shao Qingge helplessly raised his forehead: "Among the piano pieces you know, how long can you play the longest one?"
Ye Qi smiled and said: "I can play a few Beethoven sonatas for about 20 minutes. This control time is already long enough."
Among the group control cards drawn so far, the skill of this [Piano Music Box] is the most flexible. The time to control the field is consistent with the time of the piano music played. It is almost tailor-made for Ye Qi. Ye Qi can play
Beethoven Sonata controls the enemy continuously for 20 minutes. However, it can only be used once in each secret room. The restriction is relatively large and can only be used in the most critical moments.
And there is one card skill: the enemy cannot move or attack, and we cannot attack, but can move.
In other words, Ye Qi controls the opponent for 20 minutes, and we directly kill all the enemy targets. This one-sided situation is not allowed to occur. At most, Ye Qi can control a large number of enemies, and our teammates can move and escape.
.Wait for your teammates to escape to a safe location, and then use various teleportation skills to pull Ye Qi over. This is equivalent to giving the team 20 minutes to escape.
Yu Hanjiang told Xiao Lou about the card skills, and Xiao Lou was also very happy: "The difficulty of this reward maze is not high, but the quality of the cards obtained is very high. There are 2 minutes left in the countdown, let's look for it again
.”
In the next 3 minutes, everyone walked around in the back garden for a long time and found some treasure boxes, but they were not filled with cards, but some strange letter fragments.
Finally, when everyone met at the exit of the maze, all the fragments were put together to form a complete letter——
Everyone finally got the truth about the case of Diamond 9 [Music Maze].
That necklace was an 18th birthday gift from Susan to Shirley. They were high school classmates.
The intimate photo of the two of them was taken away from the album by Shirley.
She originally promised not to get married for the rest of her life. However, due to her status, face and family pressure, Shirley betrayed her and married Wells. After the marriage, the two of them kept in touch privately. She often used the excuse of discussing business with Wells.
Meet Shirley.
Wells has been explaining to his wife that Susan and I are just classmates and partners, and he hopes that she won’t think too much about it.
In fact, he didn't expect that Susan kept looking for him, not for him at all, but for his wife.
Some time ago, due to her daughter's illness, Shirley decided to return to her family and completely cut off contact with Susan. This irritated Susan. She believed that Shirley had betrayed her relationship for many years, just like what was described in the book "Lover"
, the two had to separate in the end and get married separately, but they could only miss each other for a lifetime.
So, she made a crazy decision.
She killed Shirley's family of three and died in the garden herself.
At the exit of the maze, everyone found Susan's body. Xiao Lou took a look at it and said, "It was suicide."