Chapter Twenty-Nine: Infinite Mirrors
"Mr. Xing, you made a mistake, your purpose now is two, one is to find out the truth of the matter, and the other is to rescue your friend from me, on this basis, you should try to follow me, and you shouldn't ask some sensitive questions, because this will cause me to lose control of my emotions, I know very well that I am a psychopath, and when I can't control myself, I don't know what will happen, although I have been insisting on taking medication." Pan Feng said flatly over there, his tone didn't sound like a psychopath at all,
"However, I don't have much medicine, only a little bit, which means that in a few hours, after my medicine is finished, I will not be me, and I don't know who I will become."
Fu Mingwei, who returned to the car, told the previous story, and then said: "Ding Wei is very strange, so strange, the horse's feet have been exposed!" ”
"Yes, why isn't he surprised that you asked Qi Baye, and if you inquire about his business, normal people will ask back, why do you ask this? He replied too freely and naturally. Torture rubbed the bridge of his nose and said, took the wet towel handed by He Chenxue and wiped his eyes, "But what I don't understand is, why did you lie and say that all four people died, even Pan Feng died, he would be so shocked, and Wang Yulan would be so sad?" It's true that Wang Yulan is sad, because she reported the case, but why? What was she clearly hiding, what had happened in that studio? ”
Fu Mingwei took a deep breath: "The matter of the studio, it is obviously lying, and Wang Yulan is a person who can't lie, I asked her why she wanted to decorate, she answered me again, I pretended to have bad ears, and asked again, the second time her answer was exactly the same as the first time, which can only show that this is an excuse that she made up and recited countless times!" ”
Xingshu thought for a while and said, "By the way, what's going on with the oil painting?" ”
Fu Mingwei said: "I asked Ding Wei about the business, in fact, I wanted to see if he would tell me about it, because my people investigated this school overnight, and the files retrieved from the system found that Ding Wei's import and export trade business was not doing very well, and in the past two years, he has relied on oil painting trading to make money, using student exchange activities to export oil paintings to Russia." ”
"Wait!" Torture shook his head and said, "Impossible, right? Russian oil painting is quite standard, there is no way to compare it in China, how can he export oil paintings to Russia!? And according to you, the amount is so huge! ”
Fu Mingwei said: "So I'm investigating, but, you also know that the oil painting trading center, in the final analysis, is similar to the auction house, the paintings you hang out, there is a reserve price, but there is no cap, the buyer on the Russian side pays a very high price, but they take a kind of charitable route, that is, to help these special children, there is no problem in the procedure, so we are not easy to start, I have contacted Interpol and asked them to assist us in the investigation, but they also need preliminary investigation and evidence collection, which is very troublesome, It takes time, and also, they have gone through a batch of paintings before, and they are about to leave the country, and there is no way for us to open the box and check on the premise that there is no problem with the procedures. ”
The torture technique closed his eyes and thought there, and suddenly said: "There is another way, you go and check it immediately, to investigate what kind of paintings those students painted, if I am not mistaken, these paintings should all be imitations!" ”
Fu Mingwei trembled: "Yes, imitation, I understand what you mean, you can call later!" ”
Xingshu hung up the phone, explained the matter roughly, and then said: "Although we can't leave for the time being, we must also find the location of the next exit, and we will start to look for it separately now." ”
After speaking, the three of them immediately split up, searching the entire mirror house, and when they looked for a long time without any clues, Xingshu kept Fu Mingwei in his heart, and at this moment, the phone rang again, Xingshu picked up the phone, and as soon as he picked it up, he heard Pan Feng say on the other end: "Mr. Xing, do you hate your father?" Your own father, do you hate him? ”
The torture technique calmed his mood down, and it took a long time before he replied: "It's useless for me to hate him, I know, you hate your own parents very much, right?" ”
"Mr. Xing, you made a mistake, your purpose now is two, one is to find out the truth of the matter, and the other is to rescue your friend from me, on this basis, you should try to follow me, and you shouldn't ask some sensitive questions, because this will cause me to lose control of my emotions, I know very well that I am a psychopath, and when I can't control myself, I don't know what will happen, although I have been insisting on taking medication." Pan Feng said flatly, his tone didn't sound like a psychopath at all, "However, I don't have much medicine, only a little bit, which means that in a few hours, after my medicine is finished, I won't be me anymore, and I don't know who I will become." ”
Hearing this, the torturer suddenly put down the microphone and hung up.
His action made a loud noise, which made He Chenxue and Hu Sanqian startled, and they both raised their eyes to look at him.
Torture took a deep breath and said, "Bet on it." ”
"What?" He Chenxue asked, not understanding what the torture technique wanted to do, at this time the phone rang, although the ringtone was still the previous ringtone, but the ringtone at this time gave people a feeling of anxiety.
Torture looked at the phone, didn't move to answer it, just watched.
He Chenxue asked, "What are you doing?" Why not pick it up? ”
Xingshu just shook his head, the phone stopped ringing at this time, Hu Sanqian continued to look for another passage in the room, He Chenxue slowly walked to the table, just walked to the phone and suddenly rang again, He Chenxue was startled, and looked up at Xingshu.
Xingshu raised his hand to signal He Chenxue not to worry, and then said softly: "You go and answer the phone, I stand behind you, you say according to my words." ”
He Chenxue was about to pick up the phone, put her hand on the microphone, and was about to pick it up, when she said, "Wait a minute." ”
He Chenxue's hand was just on the microphone, and after the phone rang for another two seconds, the torture technique whispered in his ear: "Answer." ”
While He Chenxue picked it up, she put the phone to her left ear, and Xingshu stood behind He Chenxue, holding her shoulder, listening to the voice in the microphone.
"Mr. Xing, why did you hang up on me?" Although Pan Feng on the other end of the microphone seemed very calm, the moment the phone was answered, it was still obvious that he was heard taking a deep breath, which meant that he tried not to get angry.
The torture technique immediately approached He Chenxue's right ear and said a word, and He Chenxue immediately said: "The torture technique is busy finding the exit, so he doesn't have time." ”
"Miss He!" When Pan Feng said these three words, he obviously gritted his teeth and said them, and He Chenxue seemed to be able to see the hideous expression on his face on the other end of the phone.
"Hang up!" The torture technique commanded in a low voice, and He Chenxue immediately hung up the phone.
Hanging up the phone, He Chenxue immediately asked the torture technique: "What are you going to do?" ”
Just as he was about to answer, Hu Sanqian on one side looked at them sideways, looked at the way Xingshu stood behind He Chenxue and put his arm on her shoulder, and said with a smile: "Your current appearance is completely interpreting what it means to be embarrassed." ”
"Fuck off." The torture technique threw down a sentence, and was just about to explain to He Chenxue when the phone rang again.
Xingshu patted He Chenxue's shoulder, He Chenxue picked up the phone, and Pan Feng's rapid panting voice came from the other end: "Call Xingshu to answer the phone!" ”
Xingshu closed his eyes and said a word, He Chenxue immediately said: "You call Xiaobai to answer the phone, I want to know that Xiaobai is still alive." ”
"Call Torture to answer the phone!" Pan Feng yelled angrily.
Xingshu took the microphone and hung up the phone directly, He Chenxue was frightened by Pan Feng's roar, and looked frightened, while Hu Sanqian on one side was not affected in any way and continued to look there.
The torture technique just shook his head and said in a low voice: "Thank you, go and help three thousand, I'll deal with it here, it's enough, I won this round." ”
The phone rang again, Xingshu picked it up, didn't speak, didn't speak, and finally heard Bai Zhongzheng's voice after a long time: "Xingshu, I'm fine, it's fine, don't worry." ”
Xingshu smiled: "Pan Feng, you should use a professional voice recorder, not a mobile phone to record, a professional voice recorder will eliminate the reverberation caused by the recording, so that it will not sound so empty when it is transmitted through the microphone, do you know what it means to be empty?" ”
He Chenxue, who didn't walk away, looked at the torture technique and sweated.
After a few seconds, Pan Feng spoke: "Torture, you are even smarter than I imagined. ”
"You're dumber than I thought you would, but only a little bit." Xingshu said calmly: "I really can't think of why you use this way of recording, you are tantamount to telling me that the place where you are now is still some distance from the place where Xiaobai is being held, a long distance, otherwise, you don't need to consider in advance that I want to listen to Xiaobai's voice to record this." ”
"Listen, I have Xiaobai in my hands now, I have your friends, and I am the one who holds the initiative, not you." Pan Feng's voice returned to calm.
"Really?" Torture Shu laughed dryly, "You can kill him, anyway, you have already killed a lot of people, I don't care about killing one more, you kill him, it is just in line with some people's intentions, in this way, the next time the police see you, they can shoot you decisively, one hundred, of course, when I meet you, I can also take drastic measures, believe me, I really want to do it, you are not my opponent, however, you can also choose to put down the phone and run away, I suggest you do this, anyway, you do these things, to this extent, It's also completely out of the way, just to have a good time, not to solve things. ”
Pan Feng said lightly: "Even if I kill again, I can only kill myself, I said, killing people will pay for your life, you also remember this sentence, kill people, pay for your life!" ”
Xingshu said: "Okay, I believe Xiaobai is not dead, so now let's talk about what happened in that studio when you were in your third year of high school?" Now you can always say it, right? ”
"Torture, I think, what you want to know most now is not the truth, but the reason why I didn't tell the truth." Pan Feng's voice was lowered, as if he was whispering into the microphone, "I listened to the conversation between you and Officer Fu, you are already close to the truth, soon, soon, I think, after you find the exit of the mirror house and leave, Officer Fu and they will also find out the general situation of the case, and then, the truth will be revealed soon." ”
Pan Feng paused after speaking: "So, now, your task is to find the exit and continue the game, as a reward for the smooth investigation of your investigation, I can tell you that what I am asking you to do now, find the exit, and everything related to it, is entrusted by someone, or rather, I am repaying the kindness of others, goodbye." ”
Before Pan Feng hung up the phone, he added: "I hope you don't hang up with me at random next time." ”
After hanging up the phone, Xingshu took a deep breath and put down the microphone.
He Chenxue immediately asked, "Why did you do that just now?" You provoked him. ”
"If I don't do that, there is no way to know Xiaobai's whereabouts, only by provoking him will he have flaws, Pan Feng is not a crazy person, if it really is, he will not take this way, I guessed right, there is indeed someone behind him to help him, this person is probably Ma Fei." Torture pondered, "It's just that I still haven't figured it out, why did Ma Fei get involved in the matter of the Jade Casting Society?" Could it be that what is related to Qimen in the Jade Casting Society? ”
Hu Sanqian, who had searched carefully, said at this time: "There are no organs, there are mirrors all around, and I have checked all the furniture, but I still found an entry point." ”
"What?" Torture asked.
Hu Sanqian pointed up and down and said: "It's all mirrors, and when we entered the puzzle door, we found a mystery, which is the flexible use of flashlight light, plus you also said before, the so-called cast iron fairy likes to use two points the most, one is light and shadow, and the second is human psychology." ”
"Yes." He Chenxue accosted, "The passage we walked before was like that, in fact, it was to oppress people's psychology, if you don't calm down, you have been climbing desperately towards the front, and if you climb to the last passage that moves up and down, you will definitely lose your balance and fall into the pool full of thorny silver ants below, then you will die, and the institutions we have encountered in the Heaven and Earth Mansion before are the same." ”
Xingshu nodded, and then looked directly at the lamp in the middle, Hu Sanqian also looked at it, and nodded towards Xingshu: "Four mirrors, the only light, I think the key is here, the most neat thing now, that is, to directly burst the light bulb." ”
Torture nodded: "It's worth a try, but what if the light bulb activates something?" ”
Hu Sanqian pointed to the pipe under the lamp: "This mechanism must have been re-set by someone later, it was definitely not a light bulb used here before, was there electricity in ancient times?" ”
Torture shook his head with a wry smile, he had suddenly forgotten about it.
Hu Sanqian stepped forward and smashed the light bulb directly with a coffin nail, but something strange happened, although the light bulb was broken, but the room was not dark, it was still bright, Hu Sanqian was a little surprised, subconsciously turned around and looked around, and then said: "The light source is not from the light bulb!" ”
Xingshu also looked around and touched the mirror: "The light source is from these mirrors, this light bulb stands here, because there are mirrors up and down, front and back, left and right, let us mistakenly think that it is caused by the light bulb, plus multiple overlapping shadows, it is not clear at all." ”
Hu Sanqian looked around, standing in the middle of the room, he suddenly thought of something, suddenly looked up at the top of the room, and then moved the table on one side, stepped on the table, and touched it. ”
Hu Sanqian suddenly smiled: "The mechanism is on this, the location of the smallest mirror image point." ”
Although He Chenxue raised his head, he couldn't see clearly, so he had to look at the torture technique in front of him.
The torture technique also looked up, Hu Sanqian then jumped upward, grabbing towards the position where there was a bright spot in the center of the roof mirror, and after touching the bright spot in the center, the mirror on the roof suddenly slowly separated from the middle, and then a wooden ladder fell out of there.
Hu Sanqian touched the wooden ladder, pointed to the four-square-meter hole where the wooden ladder fell, and said, "This is the exit." ”
Torture frowned: "I don't understand, how did you find out?" ”
Hu Sanqian jumped down, pointed to the mirror walls on both sides and said, "The mirror surface above has been opened, so it can only be explained by the left and right sides." Hu Sanqian said, stretched out his arms and pointed to the sides, "The two mirrors are facing each other, can you count how many of my mirrors are in the two mirrors?" ”
Torture shook his head: "There should be countless of them, right?" I can't count. ”
"Depending on the angle of the mirror, the number of images in the control mirror varies, right?" Hu Sanqian looked left and right, "If the angle can be divisible by three hundred and sixty degrees, the number of images should be three hundred and six divided by the angle and then subtract one, and so on, but in this case, there is no angle, and the number of images is infinite, in other words, as long as you find the innermost point of the overlapping image, although it is only very small, but if there is occlusion, and under the premise that the object does not move, you can't see it, you can only see a black dot or a bright spot, right?" ”
Torture pondered for a moment, turned to look at the light bulb and said: "I understand, this is the reason why there is a light bulb in this room, the light bulb is in the center, and after the left and right images overlap infinitely, the point in the center hides the button of the mechanism, but because it corresponds to the light bulb, we will directly ignore the smallest point, and the mechanism button is hidden in the smallest point that can be seen by the naked eye." ”
Hu Sanqian nodded: "However, as long as the bulb bursts, this effect will disappear immediately, because the light is mistaken for the main light source, on the premise of keeping it bright, that mechanism is also used to decorate things of the same color after the incandescent lamp is lit, as long as the bulb is not lit, we will never be able to find it, but if the bulb bursts, there is no central light source on the premise, only the center of the ceiling has a similar light source, then it will be exposed." ”
"It's no wonder that the upper and lower shelves are so high, and it's no wonder that all the other furniture is placed around the center except for this lamp." The torturer looked left and right, gesturing there.
He Chenxue said on the side: "This mechanism has been improved, and it is more difficult to crack before it has not been improved, right?" ”
"No, no, no." Hu Sanqian shook his head, "It should be much simpler before it was improved, there should be a light-absorbing wall around it, maybe it is the same as the alchemy stone you saw in the Heaven and Earth Mansion last time, shining through the crystal mirror, but the light is not as strong as it is now, and the tube in the center of the past, to be precise, there should be something like the Night Pearl on the pillar, and there must be an identical Night Pearl on the top of that mechanism, so that after the light and shadow overlap, the real mechanism opening can be hidden, but the trouble is here. It's hard to find the exact same Night Pearl, so it's very difficult to crack before it is improved. ”
Hearing this, the torture technique suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look at He Chenxue and said: "Chenxue, it is very dark in the hole above, you climb up with the Rulai Eye to see if the Rulai Eye will glow." ”
He Chenxue immediately climbed the ladder with the help of Hu Sanqian and the torture technique, and crawled towards the upper end of the hole, after climbing to the dark place, she took out the Rulai Eye, and at the moment when she took it out of the bag, the Rulai Eye bloomed with bright light, illuminating the surrounding area of the cave entrance transparently, just like He Chenxue held a small sun in her hand.
Hu Sanqian looked at it in surprise, and then looked down at the torture technique: "So, the Rulai Eye originally came from this mirror house, and it was not created by the top craftsmen of the previous generations of the Jade Casting Society at all?" ”
The torture shook his head, he didn't know, and He Chenxue, who was holding the eyes of Rulai at the top, the surprise in his heart was quickly covered by the overwhelming suspicion.
Could it be that the Jade Casting Society was originally a lie?