Clever escape
With Qiao'er's cooperation, he not only learned about the entrance and exit of the cell, but also knew what the shining metallic things on the wall were.
In short, there are no surprises. The thing on the wall was naturally a torture instrument, as he expected, and the entrance and exit were only the one just now, and there was no other house. This was to be expected. Even if a place where people are imprisoned will be equipped with more torture instruments and other things, and more ancillary functions will be added, it will definitely not add another entrance or exit or secret passage outside the iron door, so that the people inside will have a chance to escape.
And the person who designed the prison cell was also quite careful, Xiang Nanxing at the beginning of the wall saw the torture tools seemed to be just hanging on them, but Qiao'er carefully observed and told him that those torture tools were actually tightly fastened to the hooks on the wall with iron locks, even if the earthquake just now shook everything else crookedly, they still didn't move. Of course, this is also for the sake of safety, so that the people who are being held will not take those things down and use them as weapons to resist.
In this way, Xiang Nanxing's original plan could only be frustrated - he also wanted to use local materials and let Qiao'er try to pry the door with those things on the wall. According to the principle of leverage, as long as she is a fulcrum, even if she is delicate and frail, she may use it to pry the heavy iron door. But since you can't take anything down, you don't have to think about these things.
"What should I do?" Qiao'er tried to appear calmer, but the little crying she carried when she spoke already revealed her wavering mood. After all, this is just a sixteen-year-old girl, and the hope that has just been ignited seems to be gradually fading now, and everyone must feel depressed when this falls.
Xiang Nanxing could only comfort her: "It's okay, think about it again, there must be a way." ”
He was also very anxious in his heart, especially when he thought that the killer demon was probably on his way over at this time, and he was actually in a very dangerous situation. According to his estimates, the distance between the two places should not be too long, and nearly thirty minutes have passed since the game began, and if the killer had set off from the beginning, it is estimated that it is almost there now. Even if the other party doesn't know his specific location in the villa, it doesn't take too much time to search for this monitoring room on the third floor.
And he had to find a way to crack the desperate situation over there in such a limited amount of time, and then leave quickly.
"I was wondering, can you come and see for yourself?" Qiao'er said suddenly.
Xiang Nanxing was stunned: "Huh? ”
"Look, it stands to reason that this kind of iron door shouldn't be particularly heavy, even if it's heavy, there's no reason why I can't move even if I push it." Qiao'er's thoughts seemed to suddenly become very clear, "According to me, maybe something is blocked outside, such as a falling lamp or a stone, so I can't push the door at all." ”
Although he couldn't see her expression clearly, Xiang Nanxing could still hear the excitement in her voice.
"If you can come here, move the things at the door, and we will definitely be able to open the door if we cooperate inside and out!" "Otherwise, you might as well try to push open the observation hole and the partition underneath, so you might be able to pass something from outside," she said...... No, maybe there's a spare key hanging on the wall near the doorway! Absolutely! ”
She waved her fist and shouted, "Yes, as long as you can come over here, we will definitely be able to get out!" ”
Her suddenly excited performance was like a chicken blood, but Xiang Nanxing had to smile bitterly in her heart. Qiao'er's psychological endurance is obviously close to the limit, and her performance at this time has somewhat lost her coolness. "You calm down first." Xiang Nanxing tried to reassure her, "If I can, of course I'll go over." But I don't know where you are yet. ”
He said: "The only contact we have now is this surveillance camera, but I also entered the monitoring room by accident, and the monitor does not mark the location of each camera, I only know the situation in your room, and it is difficult to find the room according to these." ”
Qiao'er asked strangely: "But, it stands to reason that the monitoring system should monitor the situation inside the house, right?" So, my room should be in the same building as you, can you find it? ”
Her point of view was diametrically opposed to what Xiang Nanxing had just speculated. Xiang Nanxing smiled bitterly: "I searched all the way just now, and I didn't see a similar room in the surveillance screen." And the tone and style of the room here are completely different from those in the surveillance screen......"
Qiao'er suddenly interrupted him: "Have you found the basement too?" ”
"Huh?" Xiang Nanxing was stunned.
"O basement," she said, "if, as you say, you are in a villa, then surely such a thing as a prison cell cannot be arranged in an ordinary room in the open, so that one day a thief comes in and steals something, and at a glance it is all exposed." If it were me, I would have remodeled the original basement into an entire floor or even opened it down, and then arranged the cells and everything underneath. This is not only private and safe, but also has a natural soundproof effect, and it is not easy for people who are locked up to escape from it. ”
She nodded vigorously and stubbornly concluded, "Well, it must be so!" ”
Xiang Nanxing fell into thought. To be honest, Qiao'er's speculation is not completely without merit, at least according to her explanation, most of the contradictions do not exist.
The reason why the room in the surveillance screen is so dim is that it is located in the basement, which lacks sunlight and can only be illuminated by dim lights. The door could not be pushed at all, because the rubble or hard objects that had just fallen from the earthquake were holding up - although this coincidence is relatively large, it also sounds plausible than the explanation that the door was a heavy fire door or simply welded. As for the comparison of the monitoring system, one is to monitor the basement, the other is to monitor other locations, no matter how you look at it, the former is more likely.
The most important thing is that Xiang Nanxing really didn't pay enough attention when he explored the first floor just now, because he was nervous and impatient, he just explored quickly, and after finding the stairs, he went up to the second floor. So if there really was any entrance to the basement, even if it wasn't deliberately made into a mechanism or something, Xiang Nanxing would most likely miss it.
The only question is, if both sides are in the same building, why hasn't the killer come to the door until now? But this is not impossible to explain, there will be many possibilities, but there is a lack of sufficient evidence, and it is useless to speculate out of thin air. Just as the balance in Xiang Nanxing's heart gradually leaned towards her speculation, Qiao'er suddenly spoke again.
"I remember!" She suddenly danced and said loudly, "I'm in the basement!" Because on the way here, I woke up once. I was being stopped by a tall man who walked straight to the last door at the end of the corridor on the right, and when it opened, there was a long staircase going down. At this point I fainted again, but it must have been in the basement! ”
"Great!"
Xiang Nanxing's eyes lit up. Qiao'er's memory is very important, firstly, this directly confirms that the basement really exists, and the situation that she is in the basement, and more importantly, it is also detailed to how to enter the basement, and later he only needs to go to the first floor to confirm whether the two sides are in the same place. Second, in this memory of hers, the mysterious murderer appeared for the first time. You must know that before this, Qiao'er's description of this was "being knocked unconscious from behind, and when he woke up, he was in the cell", and even if he asked, he couldn't remember the person's appearance. However, at this time, she remembered the existence of the murderer in this paragraph, even if she still didn't see the face, but she could know that the other party was a "tall and strong" person, which at least provided a little reference for possible encounters in the future.
But then it came back to the rather serious question of whether to go down or not. If the two sides are in the same building, and the killer hasn't appeared until now, it means that he has probably really chosen the strategy of waiting for the rabbit. For example, blocking near the entrance to the basement, or even ambushing in the passage, ready to catch turtles in an urn. Xiang Nanxing went down to the rescue, maybe before he could be rescued, he was blocked in the basement.
He calmed down and carefully examined every surveillance footage again, especially the two in the hallway, to see if he could be lucky enough to spot the killer from inside. After all, it is difficult for a tall guy to hide in such a cramped passage, and if he can find someone, at least he will not be so passive.
However, when he looked at it, he made an unexpected discovery.
"Qiao'er, you...... Have you ever touched the bed in your room? Xiang Nanxing frowned. Qiao'er asked strangely, "What's wrong?" ”
"Because it's only the bed in your room, it's not in the same location as everyone else."
Xiang Nanxing said, his eyes once again confirming the situation in each room. In those unoccupied rooms, despite the messiness of things, the pattern of several main objects is fixed. The doors are directly below the surveillance camera, and the far end of the frame is a urinal, and on the other side is a rudimentary iron bed.
However, in Qiao'er's room, the iron-framed bed was moved to the same side of the urinal. Maybe the iron frame bed is not specially fixed like the torture instruments on the wall, but even if it could be moved, most people would not move it near the smelly urinal, and even the force of the earthquake would not be able to move something as heavy as the iron frame bed for such a long distance.
Xiang Nanxing originally just asked casually. Because it is unlikely that a delicate and frail woman like Qiao'er would have made such a great effort to do an inexplicable thing, it can only be understood that the murderer did it before she came in. And the reason why he moved the iron frame bed for no reason may be to cover up something, which may be the breakthrough of this dilemma.
He originally planned to ask Qiao'er to look under the bed, but he didn't expect the latter to turn his head to look in the direction of the iron frame bed after hearing his words, and suddenly ran over with an exclamation.
"I see! Vents, and this hand! ”
She stood beside the bed, looking up at her top, overjoyed, and her tone seemed to have a hint of ecstasy in her tone. Xiang Nanxing was about to ask again, but saw that she simply jumped onto the iron frame bed, jumped lightly, grabbed her hands upward, and a square thing fell in response, bounced on the ground a few times, and landed at the edge of the picture.
But her face suddenly sank, and she put her fingers in her mouth and sucked, as if she had just been cut by that blow. Just as Xiang Nanxing wanted to ask worriedly, she ignored the pain, jumped to the top again, and the whole person hung there with her hands.
"The pipes in the entire basement are common, and you can escape through the ventilation ducts by removing this partition! I was so nervous that I forgot that I had such a thought just now. Qiao'er smiled, "Thank you for the reminder, so you can get out of here." You wait, I'll go over to you now. ”
She swooped upward, and suddenly the whole person disappeared from the picture. Sharp-cut.
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