Chapter Ninety-Five: A New Room
[April 7, 2018, 19:05]
The four light bulbs of different colors on the top of the four windows lit up from left to right when the button on the clock was pressed, and the rays they emitted were like carrying the moonlight shining in from the windows, shining together on the same spot on the bookshelf. Four lights in one place.
Yin Fei'er and Chu Ming looked at the top of the bookshelf, it was a book, the only book written by Jin Xi on the entire shelf. The name of that book is "One Man's World", and I don't know why this book was placed here.
Yin Fei'er stretched out her hand and took the book down. She flipped through it briefly, and didn't look carefully at the contents of the book, but just took a cursory look at it, and didn't see any important information in it, just some records about Jin Xi himself before his death.
And Chu Ming, who was beside Yin Fei'er, when Yin Fei'er took down the book, Chu Ming looked at the position where the rays from the four lamps shone on the top of the bookshelf. A wooden board on a bookshelf, Chu Ming stepped forward and knocked on it with his hand, the book was not inserted vertically, but was placed on it tilly, so the space was relatively large, the size of an A4 paper. Then Chu Ming put his ear on it, and he felt even more that the back of this board was empty. and seems to be able to move.
Then, Chu Ming pressed this board. The board moved back slightly. Immediately afterwards, the entire bookshelf made a trembling sound, and the sound attracted everyone in this room, Ling Yu and the others in front of the clock and Qin Jian and the others in front of the window turned their bodies together, looking at this side of the bookshelf.
The closest ones were Yin Fei'er and Chu Ming, the bookshelves began to separate from the middle, thinking about moving on both sides, and the gap in the middle of the bookshelves became more and more obvious. At the same time, it was widened, and behind the gap was a black space, and it was not clear what was inside from the current position.
But there is one thing that Yin Fei'er and Chu Ming can see most clearly-steps!
The dark staircase peeks out little at the back of the bookshelf, leading downward, and it is impossible to see where the end is.
After half a minute or so, the two sides of the bookshelf began to stop moving, and finally the gap that opened in the middle of the bookshelf took the position of two people, like an empty door. Sure enough, there is a secret passage on the back of this bookshelf.
When this mysterious space was revealed to everyone, everyone left their current position and came to this empty door, and they stood together. Wen Ya, who was on Han Mo's side, couldn't help but grab Han Mo's arm, her expression was a little ugly, and she looked a little scared. Han Mo took advantage of the situation to hug Wenya tightly, giving her a certain sense of security.
It was already night, and it had darkened outside, and there was no other light except the not-so-bright red moonlight, except for the screams of crows outside the museum.
Everyone standing in front of the bookshelf turned on the flashlight on their mobile phones to illuminate it, and their previous inference was correct, so in this way, the exhibition hall that they had guessed before would also find some strange things inside, as well as the place where Ling Qi lived and the kitchen where he cooked.
Qin Jian stood in front, he irradiated the flashlight on the mobile phone forward, it should be said that he was thinking about the front illumination, the steps seemed to be very long, the light of the flashlight could not see the bottom end, after letting the air in it dissipate some of the turbidity, Qin Jian was the first to go down, and then Ling Yu followed closely behind him, the distance between the two of them was no more than twenty centimeters, and it seemed that invisibly they thought that the distance between the two of them should be so.
Immediately behind Ling Yu are Zhang Xiaoqian and Yin Fei'er, just like Qin Jian and Ling Yu, the two of them are also one in front of the other, and the distance is very close. Although the empty door behind this bookshelf has the body of two people, the passage behind the empty door can only allow a single person to pass through, and if it is two people together, it will look crowded.
After Yin Fei'er entered, Chu Ming took Shu Xiaoran's hand and walked into the empty door one after the other. In the end, it was Han Mo who pulled the gentleness. They were the last two people to enter the dark passage, and after Wen Ya stepped into it, all the four lights on the window were extinguished, and at this time, the clock on the wall had passed 19:05, I don't know if it was a coincidence. But the shelves didn't close.
There was no one in the room, Ling Qi didn't appear, the lights in the room were still on, illuminating the whole room, and all that was left in this room was the still steaming dinner.
The secret passage behind the bookshelf seemed to be long, and the steps went down the stairs as if they had been walking for a long time. Qin Jian, who was at the front, could see the situation ahead most clearly, and under the illumination of the flashlight on his mobile phone, he vaguely saw that the front was already at the end.
After walking a few more meters, Qin Jian finally stopped in front of a door. And the people behind him also stopped one after another. Ling Yu, who was behind Qin Jian, saw that in front of them was a door, which was not locked, and it seemed to only play a role in isolation.
Qin Jian carefully stretched out his hand and pushed the door in front of him open, in the quiet dark passage, the piercing sound of pushing the door came into everyone's ears, making people's scalp a little numb, as if hearing the sound of the devil grinding his teeth in the dark night, after the door in front of Qin Jian was completely pushed open. Qin Jian took a step forward and walked in, and the people behind him entered one after another.
Behind the door they saw was a hallway, and it looked familiar. It looked much like the hallway outside the room they had lived in. In particular, the lights here are still not as bright as the lights in their hallway before, but they are already good compared to the dark passage just now, and it is better than the darkness where there is nothing.
But this was definitely not the corridor outside the room where they lived, although the lighting was very similar, and the length was basically the same, but everyone looked at it, and there were only two rooms at each end of the corridor in this corridor, except for the door that connected to the secret passage just now, which were located on either side of the corridor.
The hallway where they live has six rooms. They separated from each other, Ling Yu, Qin Jian, Chu Ming, Shu Xiaoran, and the four of them came to the front of the room on their right, while the rest of them, Han Mo, Wen Ya, Yin Fei'er, and Zhang Xiaoqian, walked to the door on the left.
The room was still unlocked, Ling Yu pushed the handle of the door open, and walked into the room with Qin Jian, Chu Ming, and Shu Xiaoran. As soon as they entered, almost all the scenes in the room entered the eyes of the four people at the first time. The lights in this room are on, but there are no windows, and there are all kinds of utensils in front of them, as well as all kinds of food, and there is a refrigerator on their right-hand side. Not far away, there is a comprehensive stove, and on the board next to it, there are some food residues on the kitchen knife.
It seems that this is the kitchen that Ling Qi uses to cook for them. Ling Yu and the others stepped forward, and she observed that the entire kitchen was close to automation, and almost as long as the ingredients were prepared, she could make tempting food in a short time.
Not only that, but all the pipes in this kitchen go into the walls, which looks like they should be extending somewhere to remove the cooking oil from the outside.
Chu Ming and Shu Xiaoran walked around the kitchen to see if they could find anything else, of course, what Shu Xiaoran wanted to find most at this time was the watch he lost yesterday.
Qin Jian on the other side, as soon as he came in, he walked to the back of the kitchen on the other side, and at the same time saw another door in the kitchen, he walked to the front of the door, this door is made of metal, it seems to be electric, and there is an electronic combination lock next to this door, Qin Jian tried, the combination lock is a four-digit password, but Qin Jian did not guess correctly.
Before, they didn't know that the kitchen was located here, but now that they knew, a new question arose in Qin Jian's mind, if this was the kitchen, but before they saw Ling Qi deliver food to the dining room from the door of the exhibition hall, not from the secret passage behind the bookshelf. If you look at it this way, there should still be some secret passage connecting the kitchen to the exhibition hall.
But they had also speculated that yesterday's exhibition hall and today's exhibition hall were not the same, and that the two rooms had been swapped at midnight last night, and if this conjecture was correct, then it was not very likely that the kitchen would be connected to the exhibition hall. In this way, if there is another passage behind the door, then this passage may be connected to a location that can reach the exhibition hall.
The situation in the kitchen is very ordinary, except for the coded metal door in front of Qin Jian, no matter how you look at this place, it is just for cooking. And when the four of them were staying in the kitchen, outside the kitchen, in the corridor where the eight of them had just passed, there seemed to be some movement, and Ling Yu and the others immediately rushed out after hearing the sound.
They saw the room in the corridor, across the kitchen, the four people from before were standing at the door of that room, no, if you look closely, it should be five people, the door of that room is open, in addition to the four people who passed through the passage with them just now, there is another person standing there, it is Ling Qi.
Looking at the kitchen door, the layout in that room was relatively simple, a bed, a table, a chair, and nothing else, which Ling Yu had seen.
Ling Yu and the others stepped forward and stood with Han Mo and them, they were the ones who spoke just now, Han Mo and Ling Qi were talking.
"Is this your room?"
"Yes, this is the room where I sleep every night, and across the street from this room is the kitchen where you prepare food." Ling Qi didn't look like he was lying.
Han Mo continued, "Are there only these two rooms in this corridor? ”
Ling Qi's face was expressionless: "I'm sorry, this is not within the scope of my answer, I said that everything that happens in the museum needs to be explored by yourself." ”
After speaking, Ling Qi was about to close the door, these people seemed to affect his rest, and Han Mo had no choice but to watch Ling Qi close the door of the room. When the door of Ling Qi's room was about to be closed, Ling Qi stopped and said to everyone outside the door: "However, I didn't expect you to find this place so quickly, by the way, I would like to remind you, don't think that exploring here is very close to the answer, there are still five days left to make good use of it." ”
After Ling Qi's words fell, he closed the door of his room, and in the dim corridor, only the eight of them stood there, and the shadows on their bodies were reflected on the walls of the corridor under the illumination of the dim light, black, only outlines!