Chapter Eighty-Three: The Mutilated Diary
Xie Yunmeng reached out and took out a black notebook whose cover had fallen off, it was a very small kind, only the size of a palm. At least 1/3 of the inner pages of the notebook have been torn off, and the remaining inner pages are intermittently written with the diary left by the previous owner, An Ze.
November 25, 1989, fine
On an ordinary day, I stayed in school to correct the exam papers, and I didn't have too many conflicts with others.
Before leaving, I said goodnight to the doorman Lao Zhou, which was relatively smooth.
My daughter came home and felt resentful, because she had been studying a year earlier, and she had not been able to keep up with her classmates in many places, and I was also powerless.
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December 1, 1989, light rain
It was unusually cold and I was supposed to go to work, but the class was occupied by other teachers, so I didn't go with nothing to do.
Sitting alone in front of the window, waiting for her daughter to return home, she received a call from her homeroom teacher, and her homework in the third grade of primary school was still a little difficult for her daughter.
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His wife has been gone for more than two months, and no news has been sent back home.
January 18, 1992, cloudy with light rain in the afternoon
Everything that should have gone has been gone, my daughter has graduated from primary school, and her homework has improved.
Recently, I found that my mind is often dizzy, and I really have no time to take care of it.
My work is getting more and more idle, I don't know if it's a good thing!
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June 14, 1993, fine
Don't know why? The strange dreams fascinated me more and more, and I tried to call the newspaper office, but to no avail.
Cruelly, no one trusted my judgment. The same goes for daughters. How could she not even believe herself?
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On August 5, 1994, it was pouring rain outside the window
Even though I came back soaking wet, I was still too excited to control myself, and the dream finally showed its value.
My daughter was also very happy to hear this, and although she was not as happy as I was, she was more worried than I was before that.
Correctness is value, and deviation is a joke for us at the moment.
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February 12, 1998, fine
Fame and money have reached another peak for me, and I never dreamed that I would have such a beautiful day.
Dai Zongshan has asked a friend to arrange it, and he can move in this week.
It's a pity that my wife is no longer there, and I feel a little regretful and sad.
My daughter doesn't seem happy, and I can't wait.
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February 23, 1999, heavy snowfall
The snowstorm has been going on for more than three days, and no one is looking at the scenery from the mountainside.
My daughter now likes to stand in front of the window more and more, meditating quietly by herself, just like me used to be.
It's just that she's more talented than I am, more like a dream goddess.
There are still people who come to visit me at any cost, but I don't dare to collect any more money.
As the dream withered, I began to wonder if the outcome was my fault! But I still don't want to admit it.
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In the black notebook, there are only a few diaries preserved, and it can be seen that Mr. An Ze is not able to record his life every day, but only occasionally.
But why are those torn off? Xie Yunmeng put his hand back into the box, picked up the scattered notes one by one, and put them in the notebook to compare, but none of them could match.
There were some poems scattered on these notes, Xie Yunmeng didn't have the patience to look at the contents of them, he just sorted them out and put them in the inner pocket of his clothes with the black notebook, he was going to find Xiaoxiao, and then take these things to Yun Yeyao to take a look.
Xiao Yao is much more patient than himself, maybe he can analyze something from it.
There was nothing else in the top box except notebooks and notes, Xie Yunmeng moved it to the side and continued to check the rest of the boxes, but there were some old clothes and old toys rummaging around, and there was nothing special.
Giving up looking for those boxes, Xie Yunmeng moved them all to the center of the room, and carefully inspected the surrounding walls again, for this house, he always felt that there were some places where he could suddenly find some secret passages or dark rooms or something, so he couldn't take it lightly.
Moving to the edge of the wall at a 90-degree right angle to the door, that is, the wall on the left hand side of the door, Xie Yunmeng knocked with his knuckles, and there was no hollow sound inside.
Opposite this should be the first room on the top floor of the Blue Tower. Xie Yunmeng thought.
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Here I intersperse a paragraph of analysis:
At present, the two towers have 22 rooms in the light and 22 rooms in the dark, for a total of 44 rooms. All but one of the 22 rooms in the Ming Office have guests.
Regardless of the usefulness of the 22 rooms in the shadows, what we need to figure out at the moment is the connection and orientation between the two towers.
Since it is not possible to produce drawings immediately, it is necessary to rely on words to describe them, so if there are any unclear points, please forgive me.
We've mentioned the orientation of the towers several times before, but there is a sky bridge between the two towers through the internal staircase. And judging from the entire structure of the house, they stand on either side of the main house. So no matter how you look at it, there's no way to put them all together.
In this case, why is the hidden staircase in the tower so tightly connected at the top entrance?
You should remember my description of the roofs of the previous houses, except for the bell tower, the brown towers, the blue towers and the main house, the roofs of these places are all connected, and I said that these tiled roofs are stacked on top of each other, almost making it impossible to distinguish the height of the original roof when standing in the snow, and it feels that except for the main house, each building is the same height.
The above explanation is other than the fact that the actual location of the bell is directly facing the semi-center of the brown tower, rather than the top floor. It also shows that there is actually a lot of space between the overlapping roofs.
Further deduction, the secret corridor that Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng saw, although the shape and direction were exactly the same as the internal corridor, in fact, the rotation height and length were slightly different.
Let's talk about the rotation height first, which can be compared to an ordinary spring, an ordinary spring that has not been suppressed, isn't it like a miniature version of a staircase that rotates up or down?
The staircase on the inside of the two towers is like two springs that have not been pressed, one on the left and one on the right, and the empty part in the middle is counted as the part of the main house and the overpass.
It extends upwards from the bottom of the spring on the right, then from the top through the imaginary overpass to the top of the spring on the left, and then all the way down, and the bottom exit of the spring on the left is facing the direction of the bell tower.
Next, we're using these two springs to represent the secret corridors around the tower, pressing them down a little bit with a heavy object, but remember, don't press too much, because it's easy to feel the difference. It is also easy to cause a large dislocation of the height of the room on both sides.
First of all, I want to be sure that when Yun Yeyao entered through the entrance of the secret room, and when he entered the toilet of the recreation room from the last secret room of the blue tower, the height and size of the rooms on both sides were the same, so the room should be on the same level, and there was no difference in height.
Returning to the question of the stairway, the roof of the main house is triangular, the distance between the apex and the top of the bridge is not much different, and the area is currently covered with thick snow.
In fact, at this point, the explanation of why the butler's body was pushed down through the gap in the overpass and why it slid all the way to the snow near the ruins of the side house has also come out.
To get back to the point, when we pressed the spring down a little bit, the position of the entrance and exit at the bottom did not change, and the exit position at the top could pass through the inside of the roof without any problems, but this is not the whole explanation of the problem, our problem should be based on the premise that Xie Yunmeng and Yun Yeyao did not find any difference at all.
So, even if the two entrances and exits at the two ends extend into the roof of the main house, isn't there still a straight line distance? This straight-line distance must be eliminated, otherwise the shape of the entire spring base will be changed.
The method is not difficult, but he has a difficult premise, which is that the two towers must be completely embedded in the main house, and we know from the beginning that the blue tower is combined with the main house recreation room, so all the remaining problems are concentrated on the brown tower.
We must first prove the secret of the double doors, and then we can further prove how the last straight distance between the towers is eliminated. Therefore, we need to be patient and wait a little longer.
This is a good explanation for the fact that there is no difference in height between the rooms, as the thickness of the remaining between the upper and lower walls of the chamber can be pulled to a level position, which of course had to be carefully calculated and measured at the beginning of the tower's construction. This does not affect the construction of the main house.
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Looking back at the room where Xie Yunmeng was, he didn't find the door leading to the inner room from the first secret room on the top floor, which was very strange, judging from Yun Yeyao's actions, there should be.
Now Xie Yunmeng has no way to communicate with Yun Yeyao, so he naturally thinks that there is no internal door here. Our detective came out of the room and continued down.
According to his usual practice, the next person to suffer should be the secret room door between the housekeeper and Xiao Heng's room, but he didn't have a chance to break this door, because he saw An Ze's diary, and the secret hidden in this diary made the murderer have to act on him in advance.
Yes, someone has been watching Mr. Criminal Police, a person covered in blood who was once considered dead by 'Shu Xue', has approached the location of the criminal police at this moment, whether her arrival is good or bad, for Mr. Criminal Police, for the time being, he will fall into the same situation as Liu Qiaopu.
The murderer needs a scapegoat, and he did the opposite, and the scapegoat he chose was not those ordinary people, but the criminal police who were trying to investigate. Xie Yunmeng couldn't get close to the trap anymore, and he and the diary had to be kept intact, so someone had to act in advance at this moment.
And Xiao Mei, Liu Qiao Pu and Yun Yeyao were all forced into a dangerous situation at the same time, and under the dark sky, the murderer seemed to have begun to control the overall situation, and the criminal police were finally dismissed. Approaching midnight, when the offenders are at their most active......