Rebirth
Cheng Xiaoxiang took the lunch box from Bai Shuo, walked into the interrogation room, and threw it in front of Peng Yue.
The man, who was originally in a state of low spirits, suddenly looked up and questioned: "No, you really treat me as a criminal!"
Cheng Xiaoxiang rolled his eyes at him and closed the door behind him.
Bai Shuo said while eating, "Boss, the money transferred to Peng Yue's parents' account was from an overseas number."
"Overseas remittance?" Cheng Xiaoxiang asked during a break from eating. "Why would someone send him money overseas? Could he know another big shot?"
Chen An then continued, "Maybe he has someone backing him?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang suddenly stopped eating and put down his chopsticks, "Hiss... That's not impossible."
"No wonder he treated me so badly." After muttering, he looked up and saw only Chen An's back. "Hey, where are you going, Boss?"
"Secret Chamber Base!"
Chen An firmly believes that everything that is done will leave traces. Peng Yue's clamor for evidence is because he is certain that nothing will be left after a long time, and he should return to where the accident happened.
On the other side, Jiang Li moved all the things back and had dinner with Nan Jiaxu and the others. It was already past one in the afternoon when he walked out of the hospital. After thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing to do.
"Please make way!"
Jiang Li, who was standing at the door, moved aside to make way for them. The woman had one hand hanging down, and her upper body was covered in blood. The nurse knelt on top of her to give her first aid and escorted her all the way to the emergency room.
At this time, the number that was about to be broadcast called him first, and Jiang Li withdrew his gaze.
"Hello."
"Have you finished moving the things?"
"Yeah, it's all done."
"OK."
Chen An turned the steering wheel with one hand, and both sides spoke almost at the same time.
"Then you should have a good rest."
"Where are you now?"
After a moment, he asked, "Are you coming to see me?"
"Yeah." Jiang Li said, "I have nothing to do. I'm bored."
Chen An's watch began to tick, and then he asked, "Where are you?"
"City Hospital."
There was only one traffic light left to reach the destination, but the car navigation suddenly prompted that the course was off.
He stepped on the accelerator and heard him say, "Wait."
After picking up the person, Jiang Li got on the passenger seat and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Secret Chamber Base."
The seat belt snapped into place. Two hours later, Jiang Li got out of the car and sighed, "This is too far. How can you have the leisure to travel so far for fun?"
The base has resumed work, but Anna was taken back to the Municipal Bureau for questioning today, so she simply took a day off and went to see Zou Liang in the afternoon.
Zhu Liangcong was also very worried when he saw that it was them again. It felt like a bad sign to be greeted by the police just after resuming work, but he had no choice but to cooperate.
"Officer Chen, what's going on?"
"Is anyone still playing the book "Rebirth"?"
Zhu Liangcong shook his head and said regretfully, "Not now, and I don't think there will be any in the future. After all, something happened, and those in the city who knew about it don't dare to play this game anymore."
"Don't even mention this book. You rarely come to the base."
Zhu Liangcong just noticed that there was a young man here today, but the young man's words were not very pleasant.
Zhu Liangcong said awkwardly, "It's OK, it's OK."
Chen An said, "We want to understand the entire process of this book. Please take us through it."
“Ah…ah?”
Zhu Liangcong was confused. To be honest, he invested in this kind of escape room because he heard that young people liked to play it in the past two years. He only put up the money, and the operation and planning were all done by hiring a group of young people who liked to play escape rooms. He had no idea how many books were collected every month or what types of books they collected.
"Uh... I'll let the DM at the time take you. Mainly because I'm not very familiar with this book." He waved over there, "Xiao Guo, come here!"
Zhu Liangcong pulled the people over and told him some things, and then the man named Xiao Guo took them in.
The secret room is usually dark, but this time they made an exception and turned on the lights for them. Walking in the secret room with the lights on didn't feel like anything. Xiao Guo went over the process with them in general. The game closest to the installation was called the Four Corner Game.
"The Four Corner Game is a very traditional escape room game, and it's also included in this book. The player who plays the actress's daughter will be locked up here, and the remaining players will need to complete the Four Corner Game to get clues and find the password to open the door." Xiao Guo pointed to the four directions in the room.
Jiang Li asked: "Did Peng Yue participate at that time?"
"Peng Yue?" Xiao Guo shook his head blankly, "I don't know him."
Chen An added: "That was the one who played the top scholar and county magistrate at that time."
"Now that you mention it, I have some impression of it." Xiao Guo said, "He injured his foot. At first, he cried out in pain and didn't want to participate. We asked him to rest aside, but he refused and insisted that we find him some medicine for the injury. I had no choice but to go find it. In the meantime, Xiaoyou, who lived closest to me, was transferred to take over my shift."
"But when I came back with the medicine, they were already playing. The guy's leg was fine, so I made a wasted trip." Xiao Guo's tone was not very good, and Peng Yue didn't leave a good impression on him at first glance. "Saturdays are busy to begin with, and our boss is very stingy. As a result, we have to look after two positions every weekend and he won't hire any employees. It's even more troublesome when we encounter customers who are looking for trouble."
After complaining a lot, they remained silent. Xiao Guo reacted and timidly tried to make amends, even raising his voice, "Of course our boss is still very good. We all admire him...very much."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "Don't worry, we won't complain."
Xiao Guo breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good."
"Can you tell us how this works?"
Xiao Guo separated the two men, placed them in adjacent corners, and called another employee.
"Four people stand at four corners. One of them starts walking, either clockwise or counterclockwise. When you reach the next corner and touch someone, the next person takes over. If you don't touch anyone, you have to stay where you are for five seconds and then continue to the next corner until you touch someone."
"It sounds easy." Jiang Li began to walk to his left by feeling the wall. He had to admit that the secret room had excellent light-blocking properties. He couldn't see anything when the lights were off. It would take some time to walk a distance that could be covered in a few steps with the lights on in the dark.
He stretched out his hand and touched the air, then a strong arm came over to grab him. He patted Chen An's shoulder, and Chen An continued walking.
This level of darkness wasn't a big deal to him. Due to a lack of training after graduation, his sensitivity to the environment had decreased, but he still had some basic perceptions. For example, he noticed that Xiaoyou, the last runner, was taking an unusually long time to walk, so he asked, "Are there any fewer people?"
"Yeah!" Xiaoyou said, "The boy is gone."
Xiao Guo turned on the light, but Jiang Li was gone.
Chen An knocked on the wall starting from his side, and finally heard an echo at the place where the two people first met.
A portion of the wall panel is empty.
"Knock knock knock"
Three sounds here, three sounds there.
Xiao Guo explained: "The essence of the Four Corners game lies in the disappearing person. The disappearance of the person is actually caused by the manipulation of the mechanism."
After that, he asked Xiaoyou to go to the operating table to restore the room. The wall disappeared and Jiang Li appeared in front of him again. Jiang Li gently pulled him and said, "Look."
This narrow space is blocked by a partition, and there is another space outside.
"What do you think is outside?" Jiang Li asked deliberately.
Sure enough, when I pushed open the door, there was an operating room covered by a black curtain, and this operating room happened to be the one that controlled the water tank device.
"Xiao Guo said none of them noticed that the partition led directly to the operating room. Indeed, everyone came here to play, so even if there was a direct access to the operating room, ordinary tourists wouldn't go there to operate it. Besides, the construction here is so disorganized, it's unlikely that they would come across the operating room in their own space. Even if they did, the staff would ask them to leave." Jiang Li extended his index finger and stroked the dusty operating table, and his fingertips were instantly covered with a lot of dust. "But Peng Yue chose a time on Saturday, when college students have the most free time. He also caused a scene in front of the four-corner game, delaying their time and disrupting their operating arrangements. It's hard not to suspect that he has ulterior motives."
"If he had discovered this passage earlier, he would have waited for an opportunity, and the opportunity was right before his eyes. He sent Anna away, pulled the lever to its maximum, accelerating Zheng Tong's drowning, and then wiped the fingerprints off the lever. He certainly didn't expect that they would stop the machine by cutting off the power, so when the police arrived, there would be no fingerprints left on the lever."
Chen An sat on the wooden boxes piled in the room, listening quietly and thinking quietly.
According to this speculation, Peng Yue frequently came to the secret room base to select books and find opportunities. Let’s not ask why he wanted to kill Zheng Tong, how did he think of using a secret room to kill people?
"But..." Jiang Li turned around, "How did he come up with the idea of using a secret room to kill people?"
If I wasn't paying attention, I might have thought it was his heartbeat that was escaping.
Chen An stared at him in silence, while Jiang Li, still lost in his assumptions, stared at him and continued, "Why did he kill Zheng Tong? What reason did he have to kill Zheng Tong? How could someone so timid, cowardly, and ignorant think of killing someone?"
After a while, Jiang Li came to the conclusion, "I don't believe that there was no one instructing me."
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