Doomsday Wonderland

On the originally flat land, a tall hill now bulged out, looking down at the two little evolvers on the ground.

Everyone could see that something huge was about to emerge from the ground, but it stopped just before it emerged from the ground. The thick layer of soil, stones and plants vaguely obscured the huge thing underneath in the night; the warehouse, still lit with lights, tilted crookedly on the slope, and the walls creaked, threatening to fall apart at any time. The pieces rolled down.

The corpses that had been hitting the room just now were submerged by the open earth and disappeared.

"Wha...what?" Long Er staggered back a few steps: "Do you know what is under the ground?"

Lin Sanjiu didn't turn around, just said "hmm" and said quietly: "It's better to say that I guessed a little bit than I know."

"What did you guess? Is that what you just said about the copy coming?"

As if she heard his words, the sound like the friction of stones suddenly tore through the night sky.

"Please announce the unlocking of the secret room...I really, ah, really need a scalp," the copy's voice was like a messy recording mixed with other content. Sometimes it was a smooth and clear explanation, and sometimes it was out of tune. He sang an unpleasant song: "Piece by piece, scalp and hair, neatly... Please announce the process of unlocking the secret room immediately."

"...What a chaotic guy."

Lin Sanjiu sighed, looked at the rising hillside in front of her and the precarious warehouse, and pondered for a while. Teacher Yi's voice was almost high-pitched and fast, forming a line: "What is going on? What is that thing under the ground? What happened to the copy? Hurry up and start from the beginning, don't be too pretentious!"

Before he could finish the words in his mind, the earth suddenly started to shake again, throwing Long Er off his feet; countless pieces of earth, mud and rocks hit the warehouse walls and rolled down to the ground - the hills. The shadow-like shadow rose higher and larger, and its dark outline gradually filled the night sky.

"Players please..."

"Wait, I'll start now!" As the earth trembled, Lin Sanjiu hurriedly steadied his feet, raised his head and shouted in response. Long Er sat on the ground and stared at her blankly.

"Look carefully," she shouted without looking back, her eyes fixed on the black shadow of the hill in front of her: "Don't you really want to know how this secret room was formed? The fact is actually very simple. In the case of the prisoner After the murder, he placed the deceased's trousers somewhere in the warehouse and put the bunch of keys into his trouser pocket. He took the deceased's coat and walked out of the warehouse, just like I just did... and then , he locked the door from the outside."

"Eh? How did he lock it?"

"Use the key. He actually just took out the key to the warehouse."

With a whimper, the hill-like black shadow suddenly shook, and the warehouse was suppressed to the point of making a groan-like sound. Several broken walls finally fell down, and a high "bang" hit the building. High dust. Lin Sanjiu moved a few steps back, holding a hand behind her back, and quietly called out a card.

"Since the prompt is a secret room, it means that the deceased has the only key. Inferring from this point, it may be the reason why the murderer wanted to make the death scene a secret room... If the warehouse manager does not show up for several days, it will It must be very inconvenient for the company. Maybe it was strange, maybe it was because they had to go in to get the goods. In short, other people entered the warehouse using strong methods, and one of them was the murderer."

When Lin Sanjiu said this, he gently placed the card in his hand, and a figure suddenly appeared in the night - the painter arranged the paint bucket, set up the easel and maza in an instant, but he still held up the pen and did not move.

Because she hasn't chosen a "partner" yet.

"This is why I suspect that the murderer is a colleague. After the murderer broke in openly and openly, all the murderer had to do was find an opportunity to put the warehouse key back." Lin Sanjiu glanced at Long Er, and the young man happened to open the door at this time. He said with a suspicious look on his face: "It's that simple? Isn't it?"

"What's wrong?"

"After he put the key away and then came out and shouted that the person was dead, didn't he become the first discoverer who directed and acted on his own? Once he realized that this was a secret room, the first person the police suspected was him."

"The simpler the strategy, the harder it is sometimes to see clearly."

Lin Sanjiu waved to Long Er, gesturing for him to come closer: "...What if I told you that the murderer did not enter the warehouse alone, nor was he the first discoverer?"

"no?"

"Generally, if you need to enter a warehouse, it is to move goods, right? Besides, in order to avoid suspicion, the murderer will probably enter the warehouse with several other people." Lin Sanjiu squinted at the concrete house on the slope and whispered Said: "He didn't have to discover the body at all. Judging from the clothes, it was autumn and winter when the crime occurred, and the body odor might not be strong. In addition, the body was hidden deep in the warehouse. He only had to take advantage of it before others discovered the body. Just find the pair of jeans and hang the key back on the keychain. As long as the distance is not very close, it is not easy for anyone to notice something strange when playing with a piece of clothing in a warehouse full of clothes. This is the first time he wants to The reason for taking off the clothes of the deceased.”

After a moment of silence, Long Er was still not convinced.

"I still think it's too simple... Taking off the clothes of the deceased is a very unnatural thing. If others see the keys in the jeans that were taken off, they might think that someone put them in later."

"There is a way to ensure that no one thinks so."

"any solution?"

"This involves the second reason for taking off the deceased's clothes. The murderer deliberately placed the jeans in a certain corner. After a few days, a thin layer of dirt would accumulate on the jeans and the surrounding surfaces. Gray. As long as he makes preparations in advance, such as raising the iron ring of the keychain a little and exposing it to the outside, then he can hang up and push the key back without barely touching his pants, so the iron ring around the pants will The gray will show that the pants haven’t been touched in several days.”

Long Er opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"But, after all, the iron ring is raised..." After a while, Long Er frowned and said, "This is also a doubtful point, right?"

"No, this is a very common little thing in daily life. And the murderer used a trick to make people subconsciously think that the lifting of the iron ring happened before the death of the deceased."

"Eh? What is it?"

"That small window key." Lin Sanjiu pointed to the coat on the ground. "It was taken out separately and put in the pocket together with the deceased's employee card. Anyone who sees it will subconsciously think it is a key ring. It was loose, so the deceased put the small key that fell down into his pocket, right?"

"Ah, it does make people think that way." Long Er suddenly realized, "But you took the coat when you released the copy, which means the murderer also took the coat away. What's going on?"

"When I opened the door, I didn't step out immediately. Do you remember? Because at that time I could strongly feel that I lacked a condition to go out, so I stopped and thought about it." When Lin Sanjiu said this , Long Er looked blank, apparently not realizing when she stopped to think - "Then I discovered that the window key in his pocket, in addition to suggesting that the key ring was broken long before the victim's death, There is another function.”

"W-what does it do?"

"It provides a sense of continuity between the top and the pants."

"I...I don't understand."

"The general theory is this: the deceased discovered that the window key had fallen and stuffed it into his pocket. After he was killed, when he took off his clothes, a large bunch of keys were left in his pants and the window key was still in his pocket. Did you notice? ?The key is like a thread that connects the time when the coat and pants were placed in the warehouse. With it, you will not doubt that the coat was placed in the warehouse on the day the body was found. "

"Ah?" Long Er was startled, and he didn't even care about the black shadow on the hill not far away: "Why did the murderer do this? How did he do it?"

"Wear it under your own coat and bring it in, and then take it off." Lin Sanjiu shrugged, "As for why... I think the murderer must have a motive to take it away. , it’s likely that some evidence needs to be disposed of.”

But this is all speculation and has no evidence.

"But there's no dust on the coat..."

"Don't forget, this is a clothing warehouse." The explanation had come to an end, and she stared at the hill again: "Just put it between other packaging bags. Under the cover of the shelves, if you move quickly, it will take a minute or two. He can finish everything, say hello to his colleagues and leave first... When someone actually discovers the body, and then rushes over with the onlookers, who else will doubt him?"

"Sure enough, sometimes the simpler it is, the harder it is to think of." Long Er sighed, his expression was vaguely satisfied, as if he had finished reading a novel; but the satisfaction disappeared in a flash, and he was replaced by a depressed look. : "But... you haven't said anything about what is under this mound?"

"Hey," Teacher Yi suddenly called out, "You have activated [Conscious Mimicry] for long enough. If you continue to activate it, your consciousness will be exhausted."

Well, anyway, all the questions that need to be thought about have been thought through.

Lin Sanjiu breathed out and closed [Conscious Mimicry]; she looked at the black shadow of the mound in front of her, and shouted loudly: "As a copy, you just moved to this area recently, right? I'm afraid you and It was different before. Did it change or evolve? Come out and let us see what you have become!"

When she finished speaking, the earth mounds shattered with a rumble; in the slight vibration of the earth, a black figure slowly straightened up from between the earth mounds and stood under the night sky.