LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 63 - Before dawn (2)
Tang Cuo traded a chocolate bean for a younger brother. This transaction is not a loss. And the little brother was hit so hard that he accepted reality without much doubt.
As for why I took the medicine, there was no poisoning on the character panel. The big brother said that this was a delayed attack, what else?
“Where did you get the key to open the door?”
“Downstairs, the housekeeper’s room.”
The younger brother, Qi Hui, was in the housekeeping room when he entered the copy, and he successfully got the key on the hook behind the door. The key was strung with a round wire that was bent into a circle and held a large string in his hands. Qi Hui used three of them to open the attic door, and two of them remained without knowing where they corresponded.
Yu Gongguan is a bungalow with a loft on the second floor. According to the general setting, the host lives on the second floor and the servants are on the first floor. Tang Cuo went down the stairs, the footsteps echoed in the empty house, and there was a faint echo.
This is undoubtedly a magnificent mansion with both Chinese atmosphere and Western luxury. The wooden floor of the hallway is carpeted, with crystal lights hanging down above it and paintings every few meters.
It’s just that the rooms on both sides of the corridor are closed, and Tang Cuo tried with the remaining two keys, to no avail.
From the second floor to the first floor, almost all the doors are closed, only the kitchen, utility room, housekeeper and maid’s room. In addition, it is a common area like the living room on the first floor.
There is also an open-air balcony on the second floor, but the door leading to the balcony was also blocked. And this is not just a system forbidden to pass. The host has installed an iron railing here, which is sealed tightly. In addition, all the windows have iron railings on the outside. They are beautifully made and have complicated and beautiful patterns, but this cannot change the fact that they are railings.
The whole mansion is like a prison cage.
The front door on the first floor and the back door in the kitchen were also locked. Tang Cuo turned around and roughly figured out his current situation. He stood in the kitchen and fell into a short contemplation.
“Before Dawn” is a copy of the Escape Room, but it is different from the ordinary Escape Room. Generally speaking, the room escape game is to constantly unlock new areas, from one room to another room, and finally unlock the entire map to escape. But now this is in the mansion, its area lies in the overlap of space or the transition of time.
It was at this moment that the harsh phone rang.
Qi Hui was startled, and just wanted to say haunted, Tangcuo had rushed out of the kitchen with a flower in front of him. He quickly followed, and saw the other party accurately found the source of the sound-the phone next to the flower stand in the living room.
Tang Cuo calmly picked up the microphone, “Hello?”
Jin Cheng’s smiling voice came from the microphone. “Listen to this voice, is this Mr. Tang Cuotang?”
Tang Cuo “speak the right thing.”
Jin Cheng “Isn’t it business to find you?”
Tangcuo “hanged up.”
Jin Cheng “Don’t, I can easily get through this call. If you hang up for me, we really can only meet like a cowboy and a weaver girl once a year at Queqiao.”
Tangcuo was speechless.
Jin Cheng finally got his true colors, “This is Yu Gongguan in 1926, at 7 pm Beijing time. Initial observations show that the magnetic field is very unstable here, electric lights are flashing, ghosts are crying, and winds are blowing. What’s more important is that–only here I am a player.”
While saying this, Jin Cheng was looking up at a middle-aged female ghost who protruded from the ceiling. One person and one ghost faced each other, Jin Cheng was at ease on the flower stand, and the female ghost climbed on the chandelier and stared at him.
The lights were flashing, and the rickety metal bracket made a crunchy, sour sound. Nine lamp heads have been broken into four, and the remaining five have taken the originally magnificent hall into a terrible picture. Looking around, there are dust and spider webs on the sofas and stairs.
On the phone, Tang Cuo asked, “How did you call?”
Jin Cheng “I have a directory next to the flower stand, I found it. Since we are scattered, it proves the possibility of overlapping in time and space. But this is not a copy of the single customs clearance. We are teammates. There must be places that can communicate with each other in different time and space. I look for it. Come and go, it seems that this phone is the only one.”
So Jin Cheng did something that seemed to be contrary to logic-the mansion made a phone call to the mansion.
He tried for ten minutes, and there was a constant current of sound on the phone, which could not be connected. Until the end, the signal finally stabilized, and Tang Cuo’s voice came inside.
“You remember, the number is 1446.” After he finished, he asked, “Where are you?”
“My time should be before you, that is, between 1923 and 1926. It is well kept in the mansion. There is no difference for the time being. The two players, including me, have no ghosts.”
“In other words, there is another time and space.”
“At least one more.”
“Do you need any help?”
Since you can talk between different time and space, it means that the clues they need may be in the other’s hands and need to help each other. But Tang Cuo hasn’t found anything that needs to be helped, but he only needs to remind him.
“The time is wrong. I am here at ten o’clock in the evening.”
“Ten o’clock?” Jin Cheng raised an eyebrow.
“Yes, my sunrise will be three hours earlier than you.” Tang Cuo said, Jin Cheng understood immediately.
The task required them to flee from the mansion before dawn. If the time of dawn in each space-time is different, then Jin Cheng has not waited until dawn, and Tangcuo burped. The clue of Tang Cuo’s time and space has since been cut off, and Jin Cheng has a high probability of dying.
Thinking about this, Jin Cheng said, “But it is inconsistent with the information we have obtained. The longest clearance time of the three people is about 24 hours. There are two possibilities, the time can be adjusted, or the player can shuttle between different time and space. “
Tang Cuo basically agreed with this inference, and at this moment, a sizzling current came from the phone. He frowned, and was about to speak, Jin Cheng interrupted him. “I have to hang up. There is a female ghost here who wants to dance with me.”
Tang Cuo “…”
Jin Cheng “Maid dressed, around 40 years old, with a Chinese face and a broken chest-beep -“
The phone hung up.
At the last moment, Tang Cuo could hear the sound of the impact, it should be a fight. He immediately put down the phone to find the phone book, but he couldn’t find it.
Qi Hui finally found an opportunity to come forward, “Brother Tang, is the one who just called you Jin brother? Did you find a way to talk so quickly?”
Qi Hui is very conscious of being a younger brother. Before he saw Jin Cheng, he shouted at Jin. There was no pressure to call Tang Ge, who was younger than himself.
Tang Cuo asked, “You didn’t find a way, just come and make a copy?”
Qi Hui’s words were jammed, and I was embarrassed to say that their way was to hold their thighs.
Tang Cuo didn’t ask any more, Jin Cheng’s words pointed him in a direction, that is, the middle-aged maid of the ghost. When they briefly searched before, they only saw the housekeeper and maid’s room. The maid’s closet was filled with young girls’ clothes. That is to say, if there was a middle-aged maid, she lived in another room.
Mostly next to the maid’s room.
Tang Cuo found that room, judging from the style of the door and the size of the room, it should be this room. In the past, the room was obviously larger, and it was impossible for the maid to live.
The key is the key, where is the key?
The map is too big, it is difficult to find a small key. Tang Cuo instructed Qi Hui to look for it, rug-like search, and he paced the corridor without hurrying.
After a while, he went to the housekeeper’s room again.
In addition to the necessary beds, desks and cabinets, the butler room has basically no extra decoration. A small blackboard hangs on the wall, and neat chalk words on the blackboard record the timetable of the day.
Preparation at six
7 o’clock breakfast
Reception of guests at 9:30
Lunch at twelve
Prepare afternoon tea for the lady at three
Six o’clock dinner, decoction for the lady
12 o’clock room
Judging from this timetable, there are young ladies and ladies in the mansion, and there should be an old man. Except for his wife being ill, nothing else could be seen for the time being.
But what does the term “twelve o’clock room” mean? This time is too weird.
At this time, there was an hour and a half before twelve.
The piano room should be on the second floor. The piano room of this big family will not be very small. There is no similar room on the first floor. But the rooms on the second floor are also locked.
He returned to the living room, dialed “1446”, and the phone did not respond.
It seems that this is a one-line connection.
Qi Hui was still rummaging through the corridor and searching for carpets. Tang Cuo looked at him for a while, then turned around and walked into the kitchen, turning over the cabinet and looking for medicine.
Madam wants to take medicine when she is ill. That medicine pack should be in the kitchen. The housekeeper is a man, and it is impossible to get in and out of his wife’s room every day, so it is mostly a middle-aged maid or maid who serves the medicine.
After a while, Tang Cuo dragged a boxy metal box from the kitchen cabinet, which gave off a faint smell of Chinese medicine. This is a lockbox, a four-digit password.
This is strange. What medicine needs to be kept in a password box? Fear of being stolen? Still afraid of being seen?
What is the password?
Tang Cuo looked at the lock and narrowed his eyes. The person who sets the password must be the person responsible for decoction every day. It is not necessarily the housekeeper who is responsible for the prescription, but it must be him.
Otherwise, he would not specifically record this matter on the blackboard.
Tang Cuo held the lockbox and went back to the housekeeper’s room again to find clues. But this old-fashioned and rigorous butler, the things in the room were really scarce.
The clothing is only the same style of suits, and the book only has a “moral classic”, which is not as if it is often read. He also does not keep a diary, does not know the year of birth and death, and has no clue about the number.
and many more.
Tang Cuo turned the Tao Te Ching to the title page, and someone wrote a few lines with a pen.
Apei
This is the first day you come to the mansion. I will give this book to you. I hope you can get something. Jia Yinnian, the sixth of June, Yu Wangnian
In the mansion, in the year.
This is not the old man in the mansion, or the young man in the mansion, and Jia Yinnian was in 1914. On the sixth day of June 1914, Tang Cuo carefully recalled the historical events that occurred that year, comparing the lunar calendar with the solar calendar, and then deduced to the sixth day of June-it should be July 28th.
The first day the butler entered the mansion to work, he was given a book by the host. He also placed this only book on the bedside, which shows that this day is very important to him.
Tang Cuo immediately used 0728 to try the combination lock. With a click, he didn’t expect to open it the first time.
“Lying Groove.” This scene deeply shocked Qi Hui’s heart. Even if he escaped in the real world, he rarely saw anyone crack it.
Tang Cuo ignored him and walked through the contents of the box. There are five medicine kits in it and a key.
Seeing Qi Hui get together, Tang Cuo threw the key to him and asked him to open the door, but he opened the medicine bag and checked it. The five packs of medicines are all the same, with common ginseng, astragalus, etc., and other Tangcuo don’t recognize it.
At this time, Qi Hui shouted outside the door, “Brother Tang is coming, the door is open!”
The maid’s room is similar in size and layout to the butler’s room, but there are a lot more things, full of debris. After Qi Hui entered the copy, he was looking for something without doing anything. He was always looking for something. Thinking that there might be room after room, he suddenly felt that this copy was not the same as he imagined.
But he was about to search, and Tang Cuo suddenly stopped him, “You decoction.”
Qi Hui was stunned, “decant medicine? What to do?”
Tangcuo “Just fry it if you make it.”
Qi Hui was so confused, they came here to make copies, why did they suddenly start to cook nc medicine? However, his life was in Tangcuo’s hands, and he did not dare to resist, so he had to take the medicine bag to the kitchen.
Ten minutes later, Tang Cuo turned the maid’s room upside down. To save time, he uses the most violent and trouble-free method, throwing everything out until it is emptied.
After such a search, he really found a crushed blue floral bag deep in the closet. This is actually a handkerchief with several things in it—a silver hairpin, three oceans, a pearl, an old gemstone necklace, and a golden pocket watch.
These things don’t seem to be a maid’s possession, nor are they rewarded by the host.
Tang Cuo carefully checked the hairpins and gemstone necklaces, and found no clues, then picked up the pocket watch. Pocket watches are still considered to be 80% new. They are heavy in their hands. The material should be pure gold, and the dial is inlaid with precious stones.
But the watch was broken, the dial shattered, and there was faint blood stains on the chain. This bloodstain should have been wiped away, leaving only a little left, but it is also noticeable enough.
This is the first blood stain that Tangcuo saw in this mansion. More precisely, it was Yu Mansion before 1926.
Jin Cheng’s time and space, Yu Mansion in 1926, has become the residence of ghosts. But now Yu Gongguan is still intact. What happened in the past two or three years?
Tang Cuo looked back at the pocket watch, and found two small engraved characters-y on the back of the pocket watch near the bottom.
y, whose abbreviation?
With no clue, Tang Cuo temporarily put away his pocket watch and turned to collect others. However, although there are many things in this room, there are few useful ones. After a long time, Tangcuo found nothing but her name Wenjuan.
Qi Hui took advantage of this time to decoct the medicine. He was puzzled, still wondering if there was nc in his wife’s room, this medicine was decoctioned to nc, in order to prevent her from becoming a boss and going into a runaway state.
But he never imagined that the behavior of the gangster was more confounding than he speculated.
“You, why did you drink it yourself?” Qi Hui was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out.
Tang Cuo put down the medicine bowl calmly, wiped the remaining medicine juice from his mouth, and then opened the character panel to check the results.
character
No. k27216 Tangcuo
Character points 0
Force 72
Intelligence 34
Charm 8
Rating a
HP 99
Yu Wangnian’s hatred added a weak value, all attributes 10
Survival is not easy, please make persistent efforts.
The case has been solved. This is not a cure at all. It is a weak but not deadly poison.
What kind of secrets are hidden in the magnificent mansion, the attic guest, the window closed by the iron railing, the sick lady, the maid who steals things?
Suddenly, the phone rang again.