I clenched the saber in my hand, then increased my strength and plunged it down the gap between the mahogany floors.

In the next second, a different feeling spread throughout his body along the right hand holding the knife.

The feeling under the mahogany floor is not right, through the blade of the saber, it is obvious that there is a metal device hidden under the floor, and the force just now, you can vaguely hear the clanging sound of the two metal devices colliding with each other.

He increased the force in his hand, and with Lu Yuan's help, he pried open a small gap in the floor in front of him. Along the crack, you can vaguely see the metal parts hidden in it.

As I had assumed before, it seemed that all the problems were at the top of the stairs.

There is no elevator inside the building, and only this staircase connects the different four floors. The staircase adopts a swinging way, spiraling upward, and both sides of the stairway are closed mezzanines, which can easily make people lose their way.

Lu Yuan glanced at the situation in the gap and couldn't help but sigh. "This staircase ... Why, there are metal parts in it? ”

"There's nothing strange about it, if the other party wants to achieve that purpose, he must make this spiral staircase move on its own!"

With that, I walked into the corridor first, went down to the first floor, and then closed my eyes, thinking of a panorama of the Western-style pavilion in my mind.

Although I only glanced at it at the time, for some reason, the whole view of the Western-style pavilion seemed to be engraved in my mind, and I could compare it to the correct position of myself based on the picture in my mind.

The spiral staircase, the mirrored decoration, and even the blood-colored carpet and the decorations that line the stairways。。。。。 All of this is done to confuse our vision.

The eye transmits the wrong information to the brain, so it will fall into the trap set by the other party again and again, and if you want to break through this trap, you have to abandon your vision and find the flaws in the corridor with memory.

I touched the wall of the spiral staircase with my hand, slowing down, keeping it up, and constantly recalling the first time I went upstairs.

My senses and memories were almost completely opened, as if I was completely at one with the whole world. Even though I closed my eyes, I could see better than anyone else!

Walk almost 270 degrees clockwise, ascend about 23 steps, and turn right, this is it!

When I opened my eyes, I found that there was a wall facing me, and the exit of the second-story corridor was about twelve steps up from this wall.

Behind me, Lu Yuan, Lei Tianlong, and the way Long Zaitian looked at me were all extremely weird. Perhaps in their eyes, I may have been a little nervous about what was going on in the Western-style pavilion.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for the area we first walked into!"

"What do you mean?" Not only Lu Yuan, but even the remaining two people were stunned by me, although they also began to realize that there was a problem in the corridor, but until now, the three of them should not have understood what the problem was.

"It's very simple, you only need to recall a small detail to find out what the problem is." I touched the wall behind me and whispered to them, "Do you remember how many times you came back to your room?" ”

"Remember, what do you want us to recall?"

"Think about it, will the time we take to walk from the first floor into our room a little different?" After saying that, I focused on Lei Tianlong's body, because he lived on the second floor, so that feeling should be stronger than the three of us who lived on the fourth floor.

After a while, an incredible expression appeared on Lei Tianlong's face, and then he opened his mouth wide and stammered: "Really, once in the middle, I felt that I had been upstairs for a long time!" Anyway, it feels like the entire corridor has been stretched! ”

Hearing Lei Tianlong say this, Lu Yuan and Long Zaitian on the side all reacted, and they all said that before, they also had the same feeling, that is, the time of going up and down the stairs these times was almost different!

That's right, here's the problem!

Although some people have longer steps and some people have shorter steps, if they are not stimulated by the outside world, the size of the steps will hardly fluctuate too much when people walk normally. It's as if the time we spend walking from home to work every day is hardly too different without the distraction of unexpected factors.

But now, the four of us actually felt that the time of going up and down the stairs was not the same before, so the problem must be in this corridor.

As Long Zaitian said, in the process of going up and down the stairs several times in the middle, this corridor was artificially "stretched!" ”。

So, how did the other party accomplish this seemingly fantastical idea? I'm afraid all of this has something to do with the metal parts that were hidden under the mahogany floor.

If I'm not mistaken, Yu Tianlong should have taken the very center of the Western-style Pavilion as the boundary, and divided the Western-style Pavilion into two different areas in advance, which will be called Area A and Area B for the time being.

The layout of Block A and Zone B is almost identical, all of which are spread out on both sides of a corridor with five identical rooms, and even the room numbers correspond to the number plates in our hands. The only difference is that the floors in Zone A are 1.5 times higher than those in Zone B.

In other words, the space of the hall on the first floor is unchanged, while the second floor of Zone A is built between the second and third floors of Zone B, and the third floor of Zone A is built between the third and fourth floors of Zone B, and so on。。。。。。

To use an analogy, the layout of the Western-style Pavilion is similar to a Tai Chi pattern, and the center of the entire Tai Chi pattern is the spiral corridor we are in now, but no one else should know about all this except the mastermind behind the scenes and the designer of the Western Pavilion.

When we first entered the Western-style Pavilion, the room that everyone walked into together should be the A side of the Western-style Pavilion.

Because the entire Western-style pavilion is in a closed state, and being suddenly involved in this game of death, most people are not mentally prepared, so they will not realize that the other party has done this kind of trick in the space of the Western-style pavilion. As a result, we had the illusion that Area A, where we had been staying, was the entire Western-style building.

And as I had expected, the spiral corridor was full of mechanical parts, which confirmed my suspicions.

This staircase should be controllable by man, and it is estimated that as long as a button is pressed, or through some kind of device, the entire staircase can be rotated 180 degrees, and the exit of the floor can be turned from side A to side B.

Because the stairs spiral, even if there is a rotation, it is estimated that it is difficult to notice the changes if you do not pay attention to the number of stairs. This can lead us into a completely different area without even noticing it.

The other party took advantage of this, so they hid in a place we couldn't see, silently controlling the change of the exit of this spiral staircase.

I speculate that when all of us learned that we were trapped inside the Western-style Pavilion and went upstairs to rest together, the exit of the spiral staircase should have pointed to Side A.

But when we first went downstairs and found Yang Youxin's body downstairs, the exit of the spiral staircase should have changed.

Lu Yuan and I should have carried Yang Youxin's body to room 210 on the B side and placed it there. After that, the murderer reversed the position of the stairs again, so that the seven people who went upstairs were on the A side of the foreign pavilion, which was the first time that the other party changed the spiral staircase, making the real space deviate from the space in our memory. Then, when we gathered, we found that Li Xiaoqian was missing, and for fear that she would have an accident, all of us rushed to room 310 on the third floor.

At this moment, the other party changed the direction of the exit of the spiral staircase for the second time, when we rushed to the third floor for the first time, we actually arrived at Area B, and Room 310 in Area B did not have Li Xiaoqian, what appeared there was only a strange crime scene arranged by the other party in advance.

And Li Xiaoqian should have been killed in room 310 in Area A, and the other party dragged her body to room 210 in Area A and placed it, and arranged the death scene we saw just now.

In short, Yang Youxin's body should still be lying in room 210 in Area B, while Li Xiaoqian was killed in room 310 in Area A. Because they are two completely different spaces, it is naturally impossible to find Yang Youxin's body in Area A, and it is impossible to find traces of Li Xiaoqian's murder in Area B.

It is by controlling the steering of the corridor that we can enter and exit two completely different spaces many times.

Because the other party used such a small trick, coupled with the exquisite layout of the foreign pavilion and our preconceived ideas, we mistakenly thought that everything that happened in the foreign pavilion was a perfect crime completed by the other party through the "hand of God".

After listening to my analysis, the three of them were all lost in thought, and did not speak for a long time.

Lei Tianlong glanced at me, and suddenly said coldly: "What you said just now is just your own speculation, and it sounds enough to me." Since this is a detective game, then we should abide by the principles of the game. So, Goofy, do you have any evidence to prove what you just said? ”

"It's easy to prove it!" After a while, Long Zaitian glared at Lei Tianlong, and suddenly said coldly to me: "So, the wall you were standing on just now is the exit of Area B?" ”

If my memory is correct, I should be able to reach Area B through that wall, and as for whether my analysis is correct, I'll see if I'm inside!