The shopkeeper put a walkie-talkie and some eye masks and put them in Helian Weiwei's hands. "I will open the door of the Sobbing House later and bring all of you in. During this time, all of you must wear these eye masks, and everyone must place a hand on the shoulder of the person in front of you. You can only open your eyes after I say so. After you get into the room, you can ask for help via the walkie-talkie if you can't get the answer or you need any hints."
"Okay." Helian Weiwei counted the masks and there were six in total. She used her chin to point at Baili Jiajue. "I just need five, he's not going in."
Baili Jiajue had been standing to one side all this while and his eyes trembled a little before he curled his thin lips. "Is this my Master's orders?"
His smile was very cold.
It was as if he was unhappy.
Unhappy?
Helian Weiwei was stunned and told herself that they must not create any further misunderstandings.
They had to speak properly to one another.
"It's not an order." Helian Weiwei said with hesitation. "It's just that your identity makes it inappropriate for you to come in with us."
When the four graduate students heard this, they looked at Helian Weiwei with some disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e in their eyes, as if they were felt that she was old fashioned for classifying others by their identities.
But Baili Jiajue knew what she really meant. After being taken aback for a few moments, he broke into a real smile. "I can go in by myself, then the rest of you can come in after that."
"By yourself?!" the shopkeeper shouted. "No! That's too dangerous!"
The other four were also worried about letting this beautiful youth go in first.
"If you're not afraid and you want to go in with us, then let's go in together. Why do we have to go in separate groups? You don't always have to listen to everything your boss says."
It was very obvious that Xiao Jingtian's words were meant for Helian Weiwei. She had never seen a boss treat her employees like that before.
Although she admired this exorcist very much, she didn't like her because she felt that Helian Weiwei was too utilitarian in the way she did things, and she also seemed to see only the dark side of human nature.
She felt that she would naturally always disagree with such a person.
Helian Weiwei never liked to explain things, especially to outsiders. She just smiled and didn't pay attention to Xiao Jingtian's words, but turned her head and said to Baili Jiajue, "Jue, we'll go with what you said, so you go in first."Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-anarchic-consort_11046205305246905/the-cool-baili-jiajue_50828555935860392 for visiting.
"Okay." Baili Jiajue laughed softly, then took a step forward and grasped the iron lock with his black gloved hand. With a move of his finger, the wooden door to the room immediately opened.
No one knew how he managed to open that lock. Even the shopkeeper was stunned as he held the keys in his hand. He had installed two locks on this door!
"Wait a minute," Xiao Jingtian called out to Baili Jiajue. "Do you really want to go in first? It's very dangerous inside! Also, you have to cover your eyes. What if you encounter something?"
Baili Jiajue didn't answer her words, neither did he ask for an eye mask. Instead, he took out a black handkerchief from the pocket of his jacket and casually tied it behind his head. After his eyes were covered, the other exquisite features left uncovered made anyone who saw them feel their hearts start racing.
A smile remained on his face, since he was the only one who understood that Helian Weiwei didn't want him to go in with them in order to protect him.
Once that Pure Yang Formation was formed and he came in behind them, he would either destroy the effect of the formation, or he would be affected by the Yang energy and feel discomfort.
Was she treating him the same way she treated little devils?
Tsk.
Her cautiousness around him was so adorable.
Helian Weiwei had a strange feeling that Balil Jiajue was in a very good mood. She shot him a glance. "After going in, find a place to hide first."
"Yes, my respected Master." He was right - she was afraid that the formation might hurt him. It seemed like it was useful to remain in this state after all, since it made her always think of him. Baili Jiajue curled his lips and slowly walked into the unknown darkness.
Xiao Jingtian simply didn't expect him to be such a loyal subordinate. She glanced at Helian Weiwei and shook her head.
The shopkeeper was still very worried. "Is he really going to be okay?"
"Don't worry, my assistant is very powerful." Helian Weiwei smiled lightly and put on the eye mask. But she suddenly remembered something and took it off again. "By the way, the four of them said that when they came the last time, the heard the sound of a woman crying. Is that a sound effect you installed or is it something that only these four heard?"
The shopkeeper replied, "Oh that. It's a sound effect, there's nothing special about it."
"Ok." Helian Weiwei put on the eye mask again and didn't beat around the bush. "We'll go in now."
The other four were not like Helian Weiwei, and they were al very highly strung and nervous. They weren't keen on revisiting that scene again.
But there was no other way. This matter had to be resolved.
Because if it wasn't resolved...
They..
...would be killed!
Kacha!
The voice was clearly coming from the speakers.
"Hmm? The last time all of you came, there were six of you. Why are there only five of you now? You're missing that girl. Where did she go?"
Girl? Helian Weiwei immediately took off her eye mask. What greeted her eyes was a piece of clothing hanging above her head. It floated back and forth, like a female ghost.
However, she wasn't concerned with this. She was concerned with the backstory of this room.
The other four had done this before, so they knew how to solve the clues in the room. They ran to the lock at the side and said, "Hurry up and unlock this!"
"Wait, let me finish listening to the backstory first." Helian Weiwei pricked up her ears.
The woman's voice continued, "One of you is missing. Didn't you notice? Aha, I see her now, she's waiting in the underworld for all of you. If you want to escape this curse, then you'd better think carefully about what sin you have committed before. Was it indifference? Selfishness? Or pride? All the answers are within this room and you must find the answer before midnight in order to atone for your sins. Otherwise, there will only be one ending, and that is...death."
The recording made everyone's hair stand on end.
One of the girls had already turned pale. "Don't listen to it anymore! Hurry up and open the first lock according to the password you calculated before!"
"What was the password for the first lock? Do you still remember?" Xiao Jingtian turned around and looked at her classmates.
No one could tell her the answer.
Because they suddenly remembered that the person who had opened the first lock was the deceased Zhang Heng!
Chapter 1071 - Clever Weiwei
In an instant, everyone shuddered with fear!
"Hurry up! Turn on the walkie-talkie and ask the shopkeeper what the password is!"
One of them was already panicking, and it was the girl who was the most timid of them all.
The other three were also starting to lose their wits, especially the boy who was holding the walkie-talkie. He was so scared that his hands were trembling, and no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't turn on the button on the walkie-talkie.
Helian Weiwei watched them and reached a hand out to block their movements. Her voice was steady, "It's just a very ordinary recording. Why are all of you so nervous? You're even holding the walkie-talkie upside down."
The four of them lo
oked at one another and didn't say anything, but it was obvious that they were perspiring profusely because of some matter she didn't know about.
Helian Weiwei continued, "Moreover, you don't need to ask the shopkeeper. It's not that difficult to enter the next level."
As she spoke, Helian Weiwei turned on her flashlight and focused the light on the part of the ceiling beside the clothes hanging from there. A couplet was pasted there, as if it was meant to suppress evil, and the material of the ceiling next to the couplet was obviously different. "This is a secret door. Double up three score plus ten and one more? Try 141."
The timid female graduate student immediately followed Helian Weiwei's instructions and entered the password. With a click, the safe's lock was opened!
The female graduate student's eyes widened as she looked at Helian Weiwei in shock. "You're so smart!"
Xiao Jingtian also glanced at Helian Weiwei. "How did you guess it? Back then, Zhang Heng didn't solve it so quickly."
"Three score plus ten equals 70. Double up means to multiply the number by two. 70 x 2 = 140. 'One more' means plus one. So the final answer is 141," Helian Weiwei said as she used her flashlight to illuminate the safe.
Xiao Jingtian was not as scared anymore, but she suddenly remembered something. "Where's your assistant? Why aren't you worried about him at all?"
Helian Weiwei turned to glance at her and called out towards the darkness. "Jue."
After a while, a tall and slender figure walked out from the darkness. There was a faint smile on his lips. "I'm here."
"Good." Helian Weiwei nodded and went back to studying that safe.
Xiao Jingtian didn't say anything else.
Helian Weiwei's attention was very focused. After all, if Baili Jiajue came in alone without any of her qi to cover his demonic qi, then his demonic qi was going to affect the qi inside this room.
In other words, even if there were dead spirits originally here, they should have been scared away by Baili Jiajue by now.
That's why Helian Weiwei wasn't worried that any of these four students would be possessed by a ghost.
In that case, she could just focus on the clues.
That's right.
She suspected that this case did not involve any vengeful ghost at all.
The logic was very simple. If there was really a ghost going around killing people in here, then this place must be a place that gathered resentful energy easily, which would cause a vengeful ghost to kill.
However, after Helian Weiwei arrived, she discovered that this escape room did not attract resentful energy like other places did.
Although the place had been furnished very realistically, the shopkeeper knew a lot about fengshui, so he had been very careful about the way each room was set up.
He even knew how to use pure Yang energy to shine into the room sufficiently to rid the room of any resentful energy.
But of course, no matter how powerful the fengshui formation was, there would always been vengeful ghosts trying to exact revenge on the living.
So she could eliminate the first possibility and move on to the second, which was that this vengeful ghost was targeting this group of people.
But the person whom the ghost killed would have become a vengeful ghost and remained within this particular room.
As long as there was a remnant of a vengeful spirit, some supernatural events were bound to occur.
Helian Weiwei had observed the shopkeeper's facial features the moment she entered and didn't find anything unusual.
Moreover, if there was really anything to be afraid of here, this shopkeeper would have sold this building away immediately.
The fact that he did not immediately move away meant that other than that murder case, nothing else unusual had happened here.
In other words, the person who got killed wasn't killed by a ghost.
However, it was also clear that this death wasn't an accident either.
There was only one possibility left. A human had murdered another human.
In other words, the case in front of her was a murder in a locked room.
Helian Weiwei glanced at the female graduate student and the other three people who were still trembling.
Logically speaking, if it was a murder case in an escape room, the biggest suspect would have been the shopkeeper.
However, before coming here, Helian Weiwei had already asked Monkey to investigate. There was nothing suspicious about this shopkeeper, and he didn't know these students at all.
In other words, the shopkeeper had no motive to kill anyone.
Helian Weiwei only squatted down for a few seconds, but her thoughts never stopped.
She didn't have enough evidence yet.
In any murder case within a locked room, any important evidence would remain in the room itself.
Besides the police, nobody else had been allowed into this room again, which meant that the crime scene had been preserved almost perfectly.
This was also one of the reasons why Helian Weiwei excluded the shopkeeper as the murderer. If the shopkeeper was the murderer, he could have completely demolished or renovated this place after the investigation was over, but he didn't do any of these things.
She had no choice but to continue looking for clues.
They had to keep playing until they reached the part where their dead classmate was murdered.
Helian Weiwei quickly made this decision and shone the flashlight into the safe. "What is this? A photo?"Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-anarchic-consort_11046205305246905/clever-weiwei_50828557009602233 for visiting.
"That's the backstory of this room," said the boy holding the walkie-talkie. "The story is about how six friends agreed to go on an adventure together in Sobbing House, but because of the cowardice of the other five, one of them ended up dying in this house. Many years later, when the surviving five enter Sobbing House again, they must find the sins they committed back then and truly repent, then only will they be allowed to pass through."
Helian Weiwei's eyes flashed. "How do you know so much?"
"When the five of us came to play, we all read the introduction online," he replied.
Helian Weiwei raised her eyebrows. "All five of you read it?"
"Yes, we did." The boy was very puzzled. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Helian Weiwei's fingers brushed past her face and she lowered her eyes slightly. In other words, they were not completely unfamiliar with this escape room.
If the murderer could find out how to get through the stages in advance through what he read online, and could prepare himself better than the others, he could definitely use any of the hidden catches in the room to kill someone.
Of course, that was only her assumption.
But if her assumption was correct...
Chapter 1072 - Approaching the Truth
Helian Weiwei raised her head and looked at each of the students.
What could make one kill someone they considered a relatively good friend?
And why would this person decide to do it within an escape room like this?
She had to continue to search for evidence. At the very least, she had to find out if there was any conflict between this group of students.
Most murders at this age were crimes of passion.
After all, there was nothing else they would gain or profit from killing another person at this stage in life.
But here lay another problem.
Although these people often hung out together, none of them were dating each other. So how could a crime of passion happen?
Helian Weiwei also couldn't figure this out. She looked at the photo in her hand again. There were six people in the photo. One of the faces looked like it had been scratched off with a knife, and there was a sentence written below the photo: Have you already forgotten my name?
"What's going on
?" Helian Weiwei asked the boy with the walkie-talkie, "When you first came here, was the photo also like this?"
The boy nodded, "Yes."
"I see." Helian Weiwei's eyes narrowed, "Does one of the locks require a four letter word in English?"
The other boy was surprised, "How did you know?" She clearly hadn't checked the locks here just now.
"It's very obvious that there's a hint in this photo." Helian Weiwei used the flashlight to take a photo of the name of the person whose face had been crossed out. "This person's name is Chen Hong, so the password is Hong. H-O-N-G."
Xiao Jingtian looked at Helian Weiwei in shock.
In just a few minutes, they had already opened the second lock.
The four of them remembered spending a full ten minutes just trying to solve the puzzle for the first lock, and they couldn't get the second lock to open at all.
If they hadn't asked the shopkeeper for a hint and the shopkeeper told them to look for the sentence on the photo, they wouldn't have thought of the password for the lock at all.
"You're really very smart!" The timid girl couldn't help but compliment Helian Weiwei.
Helian Weiwei laughed quietly and purposely answered casually, "Actually, girls don't have to be so smart. They just need to be pretty like you, then the boys will like you."
"That's not true." The girl's face was red from the compliment, but she raised her head at the same time, so she clearly enjoyed being complimented by Helian Weiwei.
The rest of them also relaxed because of Helian Weiwei's casual banter. After chatting a bit more among themselves, they didn't feel as scared as when they first walked in.
"The five of you often hang out together, so have any of you thought about going further and getting a girlfriend?" Helian Weiwei asked the boy holding the walkie-talkie.
He pushed the glasses on his nose up. "I haven't thought about it."
"Oh? He hasn't thought about it, then what about you?" Helian Weiwei looked at the boy who was flipping through the clues. "You're so tall, and you've got a rugged face. Don't tell me you haven't thought about finding a girlfriend?"
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