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【Chapter 283, Music Maze 4】

The moment everyone walked into the piano room, the door behind them closed suddenly, and there was a clear "squeak" echo in the silent space. Long Sen, who was walking at the end, immediately turned to push the door, and found that the door was not pushed at all. Without moving, he said helplessly: "We are locked up. It seems that we need to find the password to get out of this room."

Qu Wanyue walked over to observe the door carefully: "Why didn't I see the place to enter the password?"

Lao Mo also went to the door and groped carefully, but found no trace of any switch or door lock. He said to Xiao Lou: "It seems that the combination lock is not on the door, let's look elsewhere."

Xiao Lou looked around, the room was empty, the walls and floor were very smooth, and there was no trace of any hidden compartments. Besides the piano, there are no other cabinets in the house to store clues.

In the escape room game, the door is not opened only by entering the password, but there are also various mechanisms such as pressing, stepping, puzzles, and voice-activated mechanisms. For example, the first room is a voice-activated mechanism, which can be unlocked with Christmas songs. In this room right now, since there is no combination lock on the door, the key to escape from the secret room should be the piano in the center of the room.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said, "The piano in the middle of the room is probably connected to a hidden pressing mechanism. Only by pressing the corresponding key can the secret room be opened."

Ye Qi agreed: "This kind of pressing mechanism is very common in escape room games. If the keys of the piano are connected to the pressing mechanism, the order of the keys is very important. Will it be some kind of musical melody?"

Xiao Lou said: "Let's look for it."

He stepped forward and carefully observed the beautiful woman who was killed.

The woman was stabbed to death. She didn't struggle before she died, but the expression on her face was full of horror. It should have been done by her unsuspecting acquaintance. Stabbed her directly to death.

Xiao Loudao: "There is no doubt about the cause of death, it is the knife in the chest. Her identity... Could it be the mistress of the family? Lucia's mother?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "It's possible. Ordinary guests would not come to a place like the piano room. She was sitting in front of the piano and was about to play the piano. Maybe when the party was held on Christmas Eve, someone asked her to play a piece of music."

Yu Hanjiang looked around, and there was no furniture around except the piano. It seemed that the piano was the only clue.

He squatted down to check under the piano, and unexpectedly discovered that there was a portable recorder more than half a meter wide hidden under the piano, and there was a horn-type speaker on the recorder.

Yu Hanjiang took out the tape recorder and looked at it carefully—an old-fashioned tape recorder, which can be started by batteries, and there is a roll of tape inside. He also used this tape recorder to listen to songs when he was a child.

Yu Hanjiang handed the tape recorder to Ye Qi and asked, "Will it work?"

Ye Qi nodded: "Yes."

At this point, the tape has come to the end, and the tape recorder automatically stops playing.

Ye Qi pressed rewind, quickly rewound the tape to the beginning, and pressed the play button again.

After a few seconds of blankness, a piece of crisp and pleasant piano music, a familiar melody with a hint of sadness, came to my ears very quickly. Many people have heard this melody, but they can't remember its name for a while.

Ye Qi was forced by his parents to learn musical instruments since he was a child. He could memorize the scores of such famous songs. He recognized what it was at the beginning of listening to it, and said: "This piano piece is called "Dream Wedding", composed by the French. Two well-known composers tailor-made the piece for pianist Richard Clayderman. There is a touching story behind this piece.”

Xiao Lou said with interest, "Story? Let's hear it."

Ye Qi told the story seriously——

"One winter, on a snowy day, a boy came to the Magic Academy of Dreamland. He fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the school at first sight. This girl is the princess of Dreamland."

"A young man with an ordinary status, knowing that he could not be with the noble princess, he could only bury his love deep in his heart. Later, he finally couldn't suppress the feelings in his heart and confessed to the princess. After being rejected, he left the dream However, after six years, he still couldn't forget that relationship, so he went back to the dream country to find the princess, but happened to meet the princess' wedding."

"The princess married the prince of the neighboring country. The people of the dream country were celebrating the princess. The man stood in the crowd and saw the princess wearing a dress and walking towards the church with the prince of the neighboring country. Suddenly, he rushed out, and the people beside the princess The guards thought he was here to murder the princess, and immediately drew their swords at him, but to everyone's surprise, instead of hurting the princess, he threw himself in front of the princess with open arms and said, "I will protect you." Then, people Saw a sharp arrow shoot through his chest from a distance..."

When Ye Qi said this, he couldn't help sighing, and said: "The man actually saw someone in the crowd drawing a longbow to assassinate the princess, so he rushed to protect the princess. Before he died, he dreamed that the princess was wearing The wedding dress walked into the church with him and smiled and said she would marry him. This piece tells a tragic story that a man's dream wedding will never come true."

Hearing Ye Qi's narration, the teammates looked different.

The sad piano music of "Dream Wedding" was still echoing in the room, and Qu Wanyue couldn't help but softly said: "This man is quite infatuated, for the sake of the princess, he would give up his life. It's a pity that their identities are different, and they still can't be together in the end. "

Shao Qingge joked: "Xiaoye, you are quite good at telling stories."

Ye Qi looked at Xiao Lou, and said seriously: "I think the story behind this piano piece may have something to do with the murder case, so I told everyone."

Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou looked at each other.

Could the impossible dream wedding have something to do with the murder?

The piano music on the tape had finished playing, and the room became quiet again.

Yu Hanjiang whispered: "From Lucia's diary, it can be inferred that there were many people attending the party on Christmas Eve. The hostess went to the piano room to play the piano and was killed. The murderer used the prepared piano music to cover up the fact that the hostess was killed. , which means that the murderer must know what tune the hostess will play, otherwise, he would have passed away."

The reason is very simple, if the hostess says "I'm going to play "Fur Elise" for everyone", but "Dream Wedding" is played on the tape recorder, it will naturally arouse other people's suspicions. Since the piano music in the tape recorder is consistent with the music the hostess wants to play, it proves that the murderer has long been prepared.

Xiao Lou speculated, "Perhaps the murderer suggested playing the song "Dream Wedding"."

There are a lot of piano pieces, Christmas is such a joyful festival, why do you want to play a piece with a sad tune like "Returning Gifts in Dreams"? Unless someone deliberately suggested, find a reason such as "I like listening to this piano piece the most", and let the hostess play it.

Xiao Lou looked at Ye Qi: "Xiao Ye, can you play this piano piece?"

Ye Qi nodded: "Yes."

No mechanism or combination lock was found in the house, and the door could not be pushed open, so one could only try to unlock it with a piano.

After understanding Xiao Lou's meaning, Yu Hanjiang took a step forward, calmly moved the corpse away to make room for Ye Qi.

Ye Qi bit the bullet and sat on the spot where the corpse had sat just now, stretched out his slender hands, and started playing the piano piece "Dream Wedding" from memory. As a result, he had just finished playing the first verse, and the previously locked The door opened suddenly!

Ye Qi said excitedly: "Sure enough, it is unlocked with a piano!"

The keys of the piano are connected to the hidden combination lock in the room. After pressing the correct keys, the door will open. Xiao Lou's guess is indeed correct.

There were no other clues in this room. Everyone looked at each other and walked out the door immediately.

The cat outside the door was nowhere to be seen, and there was no light in the dark corridor. Yu Hanjiang picked up the Ye Mingzhu and led everyone for a few steps before seeing another door.

People walked in the door.

Just like before, the door closed behind him, and he needed to find out the password of this secret room to unlock the clues.

Everyone consciously looked around.

This is a study room, decorated in a cool black and gray tone.

In the middle of the room is a desk with a framed photo on it. In the photo is a group photo of a family of three. Xiao Lou picked it up and looked at it. In the lower right corner of the photo was written "Group photo of Wells, Shirley and daughter Lucia on her 10th birthday." ".

The man is handsome in a dark blue suit; the woman is beautiful and sexy in a white dress; the little girl is lively and lovely in a pink cake dress. The picture of a family of three standing together is particularly warm.

Xiao Lou looked at the woman in the photo and said, "The one who died just now is indeed the hostess of this family, named Xue Li."

There was also a globe next to the photo frame, Xiao Lou picked it up and looked at it, but found nothing unusual, so he temporarily put it back.

Ye Qi squatted down and searched the drawer under the bookcase, and found a stack of printed invitations. He handed the invitations to Yu Hanjiang, and said, "It should be the invitation for the party on Christmas Eve. It is very delicate."

Yu Hanjiang scanned the names on the invitation letter.

A total of five people were invited to the Christmas Eve Party, including Dr. Simon, Mr. Jack, Ms. Karen, Ms. Martha, and Ms. Susan.

Xiao Lou leaned over to look at the stack of invitation letters, and while writing down the names of the five people, he analyzed: "Two men and three women, except for Simon who is a doctor, the other four people are not yet sure about their identities. If you can attend a private party, The relationship between these four people and the master and hostess must be very close."

Qu Wanyue found a lot of books from the bookcase, took them out and said, "Could the hostess Shirley be a pianist by profession? Or a teacher at the conservatory? There are many professional books on piano in the bookcase."

Ye Qi was rummaging through the desk drawer, and found a printed form and an exquisite wooden box. He picked up the form and glanced at it, and said excitedly: "Xue Li is indeed a pianist and is very famous. I Find a sheet of her tour schedule!"

He spread out the form and put it on the table, and saw that it read——

November 25: Japan - Tokyo, concert.

December 7: Norway - Oslo, piano performance.

December 12: Germany - Frankfurt, piano performance.

Xiao Lou said clearly: "No wonder Lucia's diary mentioned that her parents are too busy these days to accompany her. It turns out that her mother has been busy performing abroad." He walked over and asked, "What is in the wooden box?" ?”

Ye Qi opened the wooden box and found a digital puzzle inside, with numbers filled in all around, only a few in the middle were left blank, and there was a note next to it: "Christmas gift for Shirley, complete the puzzle and Got it - love you Wells."

Ye Qi handed the wooden box to Xiao Lou: "Professor Xiao, this number puzzle is a bit strange, what is the password?"

Xiao Lou took the wooden box and looked at it. This number puzzle is not a nine-square grid. The whole puzzle is 6×6 with a total of 36 grids, 24 of which have been filled with numbers, and the remaining 12 are empty.

lack. No rules can be found for the filled-in numbers, addition and subtraction in horizontal and vertical rows will not work, and there will be no answer according to the Sudoku method of 1-9.

Xiao Lou looked at the jigsaw puzzle and thought carefully. Since it was a gift from the husband to his wife, the 12 vacant numbers were probably related to his wife. He looked at Shirley's schedule of overseas performances this month, and then at the globe on the table. .

Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly lit up: "Liu Qiao, find the places where Shirley performed on the globe!"

Liu Qiao happened to be standing next to the globe. When he heard this, he immediately turned the globe and found Tokyo, Japan, Oslo, Norway, and Frankfurt, Germany.

Xiao Loudao: "Check the latitude and longitude of these cities."

Liu Qiao looked at the globe and quickly found out the results, saying: "Tokyo, Japan is at 35 degrees north latitude, 139 degrees east longitude, Oslo, Norway is at 59 degrees north latitude, 10 degrees east longitude, and Frankfurt, Germany is at 50 degrees north latitude, 8 degrees east longitude... "

Xiao Lou filled the latitudes 35, 59, and 50 of the three places into the six spaces in the first row, and then filled the longitude number 139108 of the three places into the remaining puzzle spaces.

Sure enough, there was a soft "snap" in the ear, and the interlayer of the mechanism box was opened.

Ye Qi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The globe is used to check latitude and longitude!" When he saw the globe just now, he wondered if he had to rotate it a few times to unlock it?

Xiao Lou realized that the longitude and latitude of a city might correspond to a digital puzzle when he saw the hostess’ performance schedule with detailed place names and a globe on the table. This kind of “connected thinking” is very important in escape room games. One of the tricks.

Below the interlayer of the box, there is a sapphire necklace and a greeting card.

The greeting card reads——

"Dear Shirley, we have been married for ten years. You have been very busy these years, often traveling around the world to perform, and my company is also very busy. We can't spend much time with each other. But, please Believe that wherever you go, my heart is with you.

After Christmas this year, let's all take some time off, shall we?

Travel the world with your baby girl. I think this is the best gift for Lucia. "

After Xiao Lou read this part of the greeting card, he looked at Yu Hanjiang: "This family is very rich, the male owner is a company owner, the female owner is a pianist, and they live in a luxurious villa, but because they are too busy, they don't have time to accompany their daughter. During her illness, her daughter has been taken care of by a nanny and a family doctor."

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "The master's original plan was to travel around the world with the whole family after Christmas, so on Christmas Eve, many people were invited to the house to have a party, but I didn't expect that this Christmas Eve would turn into a death party." night."

The body of the hostess was found in the piano room, so where is the hostess?

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