In the dazzling white light, Lin Sanjiu was sitting on the ground, staring at the half lock in front of him. The whole warehouse shook again and again, and from time to time a handful of ash would fall from the ceiling; to say
It was an earthquake, but the tremor frequency seemed too rhythmic.
"...That corpse must be desperately trying to get back to the dungeon." After an unknown amount of time, Teacher Yi couldn't help but break the silence.
Lin Sanjiu stared at the lock for a long time before blinking her eyelashes slightly.
"It wants to go back to the warehouse, not a copy."
"What's the difference?"
In the plain gray simple warehouse, everything was reflected in the light. When Lin Sanjiu raised his head, the light fell into the amber pupils, making the color look lighter than usual; if someone looked carefully
Staring at those dark pupils, you will find that they are trembling slightly at a very fine level, as if her eyes are following some delicate structure.
"...one full minute."
Lin Sanjiu suddenly whispered something and stood up from the ground again. At the broken wall hole at the other end of the warehouse, there were originally a mountain of broken shelves. Under the constant impact of the corpse outside, they would collapse from time to time.
A huge wooden board or iron bar rolled to the ground with a clang. Every time there was a loud noise, she would always be frightened and tremble all over - even if she had been mentally prepared for it.
I’m really timid about giving gift bags.
"Tell me, what's the difference?" Teacher Yi hasn't forgotten to get to the bottom of it.
"When using [Tornado Whip], I carefully calculated the amount of wind, so I just knocked the body out of the warehouse, but not the copy. Thanks to the time my wind was sent back to the copy, I had a
Reference data for calculating air volume." Lin Sanjiu breathed out, stretched her limbs, and then walked towards the door. "You haven't forgotten, right? After I first walked down the concrete floor, I had to walk on the grass.
After a while, I will be forced to send you back because I crossed the dungeon."
"That is to say, there is still a distance between the wall and the dungeon boundary line. You just smashed it into that zone..." Teacher Yi seemed to be a little surprised and admired, and suddenly said: "Hey,
Wait, isn’t that right? When you climbed up the wall before, weren’t you sent back because your body crossed the line?”
"There is only one reason that can be explained." Lin Sanjiu held the [Power of Description] nonchalantly - through the barbed wire gate, Long Er's shadow was still sitting faintly in the grass. "That's because I made it
Wall, that is to say, I artificially transformed the boundaries of the copy."
"So if you break the wall, then..." Teacher Yi understood, and had another doubt: "Why does it hit the wall? Just go out like you and be teleported back."
"You forgot, it is a dungeon creature, and it cannot leave the dungeon." Lin Sanjiu stopped and murmured for a while; when the lock on the door began to grow gradually, filling the gap, she continued.
: "The first step leading to the outside of the copy boundary, that is, the step that will lead to being teleported back, it cannot cross."
"You...how do you know..."
"I've been forcibly teleported back several times, can't I still do this analysis?"
"When did you analyze it?" Teacher Yi was surprised, "You analyzed so much while dealing with the corpse and rebuilding the door lock?"
Strangely enough, Lin Sanjiu himself didn't realize when he was doing the analysis. Everything seemed to happen naturally; the amount of information Ji Shanqing thought about in one minute seemed to be far more than others could think about in several hours.
She smiled softly and did not answer. The lock on the door also completed the recovery process at this time, and it was as new and bright as if it had never experienced wind and frost. Lin Sanjiu called out the keys, picked one at random, and smiled.
Said: "Now it's time to verify the internal structure of the lock. I don't know if any of these keys can open the door."
Although she said "I don't know",
But there was no worry at all in his tone. The key hit the lock cylinder again and again, making a crisp metal knocking sound in the lonely warehouse under the dark night; when the second to last key was tried, the door lock
With a "click", the key that had been in her hand for many years turned smoothly in a circle.
The door is finally open!
Even under [Conscious Mimicry], Lin Sanjiu's heart couldn't help but beat several times rapidly. She took a deep breath, stretched out her hand and opened the door - the night wind carried the smell of grass and earth,
My arms were filled with excitement immediately.
"Can you come out?" Long Ershu climbed up from the ground in a hurry, approached the door and asked: "Have you solved the mystery of the secret room murder?"
"It's solved," Lin Sanjiu smiled, but still didn't step out of the door: "It can't be called a mystery."
"What, how do you say it?"
"It's too simple, just look at it." She pushed the door open completely, and then called out the jacket and pants she had found earlier. Before Long Er could come over, she suddenly raised her hand and threw the pants into the warehouse.
It was obviously just jeans, but when it fell to the ground, it made a metallic clanging sound. It turned out that she had just put the keychain in it.
"This so-called secret room murder case is very ironic. The victim died in a warehouse full of clothes, but his clothes were removed afterwards." Lin Sanjiu said while shaking off the dust from the windproof suit.
: "Because the clothes you take off are the key to forming a 'secret room'. As you said, many secret rooms are not actually secret rooms at all."
"Why?" Long Er reacted belatedly, "Um, is there something different about you...have you changed your clothes?"
"I don't have any clothes to change, but I'm going to add another piece of clothes soon."
When she thought about the cleanliness of the gift bag and looked at the dirty and rotten clothes in her hands, Lin Sanjiu's face almost wrinkled up. She checked her pockets and confirmed that the window key and employee card were in her pockets.
I endured my nausea and put on my coat.
The step she raised smoothly landed outside the door frame and on the dirt in front of the grass.
"It's out!" Teacher Yi couldn't help but cheered, "This wall has not been destroyed, you have really crossed the dungeon boundary!"
Long Er stared at her blankly, looking more like he was in a daze. After a few seconds, he raised a finger.
"Well...why can you come out of the copy just by putting on your coat and leaving your pants on?"
Lin Sanjiu immediately took off his coat, threw it on the ground, then called out a towel to wet it, and began to wipe his face and body carefully.
"This is me telling the copy that I have cracked the secret room." She wiped every inch of exposed skin like a gift bag, and whispered: "The murderer took the coat out of the warehouse and later put it on.
Back."
Long Er and Teacher Yi said "Huh?" at the same time.
"Let me tell you from the beginning." Lin Sanjiu tapped the concrete floor with her toes, "Remember this? The same floors inside and outside the door frame, as well as the steel bars in the walls, all show that this warehouse is not a single bungalow, it is
A part of a building. A certain room in a building is used as a warehouse, generally for the needs of the company. In this way, unlike ordinary warehouse managers, the deceased actually had colleagues who worked together."
"Could it be that a colleague did it?" Long Er asked blankly, "The colleague has the key, so it's not a secret room at all?"
"No," Lin Sanjiu sighed, "I'm afraid it was indeed a colleague who killed the person. But if the murderer also had the key, he wouldn't have to go to such trouble to create a secret room, because that would be meaningless at all - the person who has the key,
There is only the warehouse manager, the deceased."
"Then how did he-"
Before Long Er finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook. It wasn't like the body was banging against each other, but it was like some giant beast was roaring and waking up deep in the ground. The ground cracked open with a rumble.
, the clods of soil rolled down from mid-air, and the violent tremors shook the two of them unsteadily, and they almost rolled back into the dungeon together. Fortunately, Lin Sanjiu reacted very quickly and held Long Er's hand down.
At the same time, he also inserted a stick into the ground, and then barely stabilized the momentum.
"Here it comes," she said, her face turning a little pale. "The cover of the secret room has finally come to an end, and it can't bear it anymore."
"who?"
"The copy," Lin Sanjiu whispered, "the copy is coming out."