Chapter 5: The Ghost Haunts of the Secret Room
On the second day after joining the school magazine, Mo Ming went to school early, because he wanted to return the key, he didn't want to make the minister wait for a long time because of him, so that the minister felt that he was a person with no sense of time.
It was about 6:58 a.m., Mo Ming arrived at the activity room of the school magazine, at that time, Qiu Yanzi was at the door of the activity room, with a puzzled face, Mo Ming thought that something might have happened, so he stepped forward and wanted to ask the minister what was wrong, but before Mo Ming could speak first, she took the lead in asking Mo Ming questions.
"Mo Ming, didn't you close the door when you left yesterday?"
She suddenly said this kind of thing, Mo Ming subconsciously glanced at the door of the activity room, found the crack in the doorknob, and took a closer look, sure enough, the door was opened, and the situation inside the door could be seen through the gap of about three centimeters.
"This? I remember closing the door."
Mo Ming felt that he had always been a rigorous person, how could he do such a sloppy thing? But if you think about it, it's a little uncertain, is it closed?
"Is that theft?"
"Let's not jump to conclusions, let's see if there's anything missing in the activity room."
Mo Ming hurriedly comforted her, it wasn't that she wanted to evade responsibility, it was better not to jump to conclusions until she saw it with her own eyes.
Mo Ming slowly pushed open the door, and the activity room gradually entered his field of vision, including the crimson horizontal stripe mark inside the door.
"Blood!"
Qiu Yanzi was startled, and his face was a little stunned, it was the expression of the kind of person who fainted blood. He also has a principle, even if you see it with your own eyes, don't jump to conclusions.
"Wait, it doesn't seem to be."
Mo Ming touched the red mark on the back of the door with his hand, and found that it had completely solidified, this touch was not the kind of viscosity of blood, and it didn't smell bloody, not like blood, more like red ink that imitated blood.
"Mo Ming, look! What is this?"
Wave after wave of surprise, following the flow of "blood", reached a one-meter-diameter red circle on the ground, there are some very exaggerated magic arrays in the circle, and the edge of the circle is a Western script, like Greek and Latin, Mo Ming doesn't know much about it, but as a pretending god, it is already very presentable.
"Is this some kind of bad taste?"
Mo Ming muttered to himself, his first judgment was a man-made prank, and he would not associate it with supernatural events, even if he was a staunch atheist.
"This ...... What is this?"
Qiu Yanzi was a little uncalm, and he stammered when he spoke, as a minister, I am afraid it is not appropriate not to be calm like this, but in a different way, it is difficult not to be surprised when he sees this kind of thing.
"Let's sort out the information first."
Mo Ming decided that it was a man-made prank, but how did he or she do it?
"What does intelligence mean?"
"The conditions of the crime."
"Committing a crime? That's a little too formal, isn't it?"
Obviously, she didn't think it was serious, and even if it was a prank, she wouldn't think the other party was malicious.
"Let's think about it, it would be weird if the activity room could be free for people to come and go at will."
Mo Ming focused the focus of the case on the door lock, how did he realize this secret room crime? No, no, wait, the conditions for the secret room have not yet been established, and you have to know this first.
"Is there a spare key to the door?"
"There's only one spare key, and it's with Head of Year Xiao."
"Hasn't anyone else been given a key?"
Mo Ming put Teacher Xiao aside first, not that he ruled out the suspicion of Teacher Xiao's crime, but that he wanted to narrow down the scope first.
"This is not possible, because if you want to find Teacher Xiao with the key to the activity room, you must be the minister, and I have not been there."
"Is it possible that someone has found a minister?"
"Probably not, I haven't given the key to anyone since I got it."
It should have been given to others, such as Mo Ming, I don't know if she gave the key to someone who is not "someone else", but if Mo Ming asks now, it is obviously a bit rude.
"And before? Before the Minister became the Minister?"
"Not really, because the lock in the activity room was changed recently, and the first key was handed to me."
"Is that so?"
According to the meaning of her words, it is impossible for the key to the activity room to have a third one, and now Mo Ming has one in his hand and Teacher Xiao has one.
"Was Mr. Xiao at school yesterday?"
"Well, let me think about it...... I don't think I'm there, I think I'm going to study at another school."
"Is it possible to take the key and leave it to another teacher?"
"No, the spare keys of the club that Mr. Xiao is in charge of are all locked in a drawer, and there is only one key to this drawer, and Mr. Xiao carries it with him."
"Does that mean that Mr. Xiao has been ruled out of suspicion?"
"Of course, how could Teacher Xiao do such a thing?"
Oh, it's true that it won't be the teacher's doing, and this possibility is objectively ruled out. Next, there was still a window left to form the secret room, Mo Ming stepped forward and opened the curtains, the window was locked, just like yesterday, he confirmed it after school yesterday.
"The windows are locked."
"What did you say?"
Mo Ming was suddenly stunned.
"The window is locked, and besides, this is the second floor, so no one should climb up, right?"
"So, the Chamber of Secrets has been established?"
"Secret room?"
"Yes, that's right. Suppose I did close the doors and windows yesterday, and now the only key I can use is in my hand, and the only one who can open this door is my key. And then there'...... And then there's this lock."
"What's wrong with the lock?"
"There are no traces of warping on the lock, and our door lock should be an anti-theft lock, so it can't have been pried open without any damage, right?"
"That said...... In other words, this activity room cannot be opened!"
"Theoretically, but ......"
Mo Ming wanted to speak and stopped, he always felt that there was something strange, but he just couldn't catch the shadow of this strange idea, how could he get to this point?
"So, shall we study the red circle? It's like a totem."
Mo Ming didn't think that any conclusions could be drawn from this, this swaggering and exaggerated pattern, no matter how you look at it, I feel that it is misleading my judgment.
"You see, there seem to be words in it, and from the very center of the circle, a puddle of blood, leads all the way to the doorknob."
"What does that mean?"
"Don't you think something has crawled out of this magic circle?"
Her tone was chattering, as if she was telling a horror story, and the speed of her speech was just right, if she closed the lights and curtains now, and turned on a flashlight, maybe Mo Ming would be scared by her.
"If this is the case, I'm afraid our activity room will become the birthplace of one of the top ten supernatural events on campus."
"Alas, really, we could write a title called xxx definitely didn't think of it! XXX that shocked a billion people! What about some press releases like that! Hee-hee."
"That's what you're looking for......
"Are you laughing at me?"
"Nope. Let's think about this supernatural event in front of us first."
In fact, Mo Ming laughed at her, her expression just now was really funny, it was obviously something that sounded terrible, and when she said this, it was very metaphysical.
"Do you want to look up the Latin word in the middle?"
"Is this Latin?"
"I think so, I think."
"Can you look it up?"
"I'm going to look through the Old Latin dictionaries on the shelves."
"And this kind of thing!"
There are such books in the activity room, and in Mo Ming's opinion, this kind of book looks like some foreign tomb robbers will dabble in.
"Of course, it's common sense."
She lightly explained why there is a Latin dictionary here.
From the top layer of the bookshelf, to the left, she pulled out a thick book called "The Sea of Latin Words", and the Chinese translation of the name is quite in line with the characteristics of our country. She crouched in the center of the circle, copied all the Latin words on the paper, and then flipped through a huge dictionary, looking it up intently. It's really admirable, Mo Ming might kill himself if he read a book of more than 3,000 words.
After about ten minutes, she was finally over.
"O ghost that wanders in Hell, in my name, summons you to this world."