Shortly after Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang cleared the secret room, they were teleported back to Personal Space.
The objective of completing Red Heart 3 Escape Room is to find the person who poisoned Ying Xiaoya and the murderer who pushed her down the stairs. It does not require players to fully analyze the escape room plot. Similar to Red Heart 2 Secret Room, the hidden plot will be presented in the plot cards.
Their Personal Spaces were still merged. As soon as they entered, they saw a beautiful woman in a red dress sitting on the sofa, smiling at them: "Long time no see, you two."
—— hearts Guardian always has a kind and gentle "big sister" smile on her face.
Xiao Lou nodded to her: "Hello, Red Heart A, it's nice to see you again."
Red Heart A remarked, " Heart 3 is a level more difficult than Red Heart 2, and the fact that you two were able to complete it perfectly and even break the world record is truly a pleasant surprise."
Xiao Lou asked curiously, " There's no clue gathering progress indicator for the C-level secret chamber, so how exactly is our score determined?"
Red Heart A explained with a smile: "There are two ways to pass this escape room. The first way is to follow the police's clues. The police will help players find clues. As long as you make good use of the time limit of the escape room card [ Invisibility Cloak ] and keep an eye on the progress of the police interrogating the suspect, you can usually solve the case on the seventh day."
Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly: "The reason the police delayed solving the case until the seventh day was because the key piece of evidence, the shoes, was disposed of?"
Red Heart A nodded: "The next day, after the heavy rain, the school's trash cans were full, and the sanitation workers were preparing to take the trash out. This was actually a clue, but many players didn't notice it. They didn't search the trash cans and just watched the garbage truck drive away from the school, missing a crucial opportunity. Later, when the police were looking for these shoes, they had to go to the landfill, which of course took a long time."
Red Heart A paused, then continued, "The remains in the maple forest usually appear on the fifth day. Your clue gathering progress was fast, so the plot was triggered ahead of time, and they appeared on the third day."
It seems the escape room storyline will dynamically adjust based on the player's progress in finding evidence. Yu Hanjiang nodded in understanding: "If we find the shoes early, will it increase our completion score?"
Red Heart A said, "Not only the shoes, but also the chocolate, scarf, love letter, the count of Monte Cristo in Xie Xinghe's bag, and the 'What should I do?' scribbles in Ying Xiaoya's notebook—these are the first batch of clues. The lab door lock, medicine, and autograph book are the second batch of clues; the report on Si Han's fall in the archives and the information on the three missing persons are the third batch of clues; the fourth batch of clues is hidden in the office; and the last clue is the human bone necklace around Zhang Qing's neck."
She looked at the two of them approvingly and said, "You found all the clues to the escape room and discovered them before the police found them, so each clue will add to your score."
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang exchanged a glance and suddenly realized.
In other words, if you just want to survive in this locked room, you can simply follow the police like a couch potato, relying on their help. As long as you can hold out for seven days without starving, you can catch the murderer. But to achieve a perfect score, you have to beat the police to the punch, deduce the truth, gather evidence, and find all the clues yourself—the difficulty is exceptionally high.
If Yu Hanjiang hadn't been skilled at lock picking, even if the two of them had worked together, they might not have been able to gather all the evidence in the office.
Yu Hanjiang asked, " What is the elimination rate in the Red Heart 3 escape room?"
Guardian said, "60%."
She shrugged regretfully and said, "Most of them were discovered by security guards and kicked out of the school; some were due to poor teamwork, unable to utilize the Invisibility Cloak, resulting in missing a lot of crucial information and making wrong deductions; and some were particularly unreliable, oversleeping the next day and not even knowing that the key character in the escape room was Ying Xiaoya, wandering around the school like headless flies looking for the protagonist, and their scores were all deducted."
Xiao Lou: "..."
Other things are understandable, but oversleeping in the morning... that's just unbearable to look at.
Xiao Lou looked at Guardian and asked, "What are the rewards for a perfect clear this time? Can we settle the score now?"
Guardian: "Of course, please check the card holder."
Xiao Lou flipped open the card holder and, sure enough, found three new cards.
[Equipment Card: Invisibility Cloak ]
Rarity: A
Description: Red Heart 3 Escape Room Limited Edition Card. The restriction is lifted only after a perfect completion of the game, allowing it to be used in other escape rooms.
Effect: Grants invisibility for 30 minutes, making you invisible to everyone. Based on the time flow within the secret chamber, this effect can only be used once every 24 hours.
[ tool card: universal key]
Rarity: B
Description: A fixed reward for completing the escape room in Red Heart 3.
Effect: Can pick one lock in Secret Room World, including door locks, drawer locks, safe locks, etc., but the master key cannot be used in Diamonds ' secret rooms. This key can only be used 5 times; it will break after 5 uses.
The Master Key is a reward card given upon completion of the game. Yu Hanjiang can unlock locks himself, so this card isn't very useful and can be sold later. The Invisibility Cloak, on the other hand, can only be removed after a perfect completion of the game. The two chose option "A" and thus successfully took this card out of the secret room.
Although he lost 1 million by not choosing B, seeing these two cards made Xiao Lou feel much better.
The third card was indeed a story card.
[Story Card: Bloody Maple Leaf ]
Rarity: S
Description: Complete
US border crossing Red Heart 3 Escape Room Obtained after bloody maple leaf
Note: You can flip this story card anytime, anywhere to view the complete story of Red Heart 3 Escape Room.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang exchanged a glance.
When Xiao Lou first watched the plot card for Red Heart 2: Secret Room, Zhao Sen killed two people and took his cousin's body. He then stood in the entryway and gave a sinister smile to the security camera. At that moment, Xiao Lou felt a chill run down his spine. However, although the killer in that case was deranged, Xiao Lou had no direct contact with the victims. Watching the plot felt like watching a TV series… it didn't resonate with him deeply.
But Heart 3 is different. He has seen Ying Xiaoya with his own eyes and even stood outside the classroom listening to Zhang Qing's class. Those people are vivid and real, just like the real people around him. Xiao Lou couldn't bear to see Ying Xiaoya fall to her death again.
But he quickly took a deep breath and adjusted his mindset.
He wanted to find out the real cause of Ying Xiaoya's death.
Xiao Lou promptly flipped over the story cards in the card holder.
Playing cards adorned with maple leaves spun in the air and rapidly unfolded, transforming into a large screen that began playing the complete storyline of Secret Room World.
Five years ago, Fenglin High School.
The school had just been built and merged with several nearby middle schools, making it unprecedented in size. City leaders personally attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Si Han walked into the school side by side with a classmate, her schoolbag on her back. The girl's eyes were full of excitement and curiosity. She walked around the school and came to the edge of the maple forest. Looking at the maple leaves falling all over the sky, a faint smile appeared on her face.
My companion said, " Si Han, this new school is so beautiful! It has your favorite maple trees!"
Si Han stood among the maple trees, picking up maple leaves as she walked: "Yes, the school environment is great. I heard it cost hundreds of millions to build this school. The desks and chairs in the classrooms, the instruments in the labs, and the computers in the network center are all new."
"This is so much better than our old, run-down school!" his companion exclaimed excitedly.
Si Han stopped and looked at the fiery red maple forest, saying, "This place is so beautiful. I can come here to recite my lessons after school."
My classmate said, "With your grades, you should have no problem getting into the top ten in the whole grade, right? I heard there will be a unified exam after the start of the semester, and classes will be reassigned. You'll definitely get into the honors class."
Si Han humbly said, "Now that the three schools have merged, there are too many outstanding students. My grades may not be enough to get me into the top class. I'll just have to do my best on the exam. I hope we can be assigned to the same class."
Over the next two days, Fenglin High School held a school-wide test. Si Han ranked fifth in the entire grade and was admitted to the humanities elite class. Her classmate ranked one hundredth in the grade and was not assigned to the same class as her. She comforted her classmate, saying that it was okay and they could still study together in the future. They even made an appointment to come to the maple forest in the morning to recite their lessons.
Si Han loves this maple forest very much. Every morning, she arrives at school very early to recite Chinese texts or English words. The earnest girl, holding her textbook, moves nimbly through the maple forest, like a beautiful elf.
Before long, she caught the attention of her Chinese teacher.
Mr. Zhou, the Chinese language teacher and homeroom teacher, is over forty years old this year. He is in good shape and does not have the beer belly of a middle-aged man. In addition, he is knowledgeable and has beautiful handwriting, which makes him very popular with his students.
He smiled and looked at the girl in the maple forest, saying, " Si Han? You're here reciting your lessons again?"
Si Han bowed politely: "Hello, teacher..."
Teacher Zhou encouraged her: "Keep up the good work, you will definitely get into a top university."
Si Han smiled gently and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
He was Si Han's most respected homeroom teacher. She listened to him very well, and her grades were always very stable.
Si Han is becoming more and more beautiful. She doesn't realize that the teacher's care for her is a bit excessive. She simply thinks that the homeroom teacher often calls her to talk because she is the class representative for Chinese.
One Friday after school, Si Han was on duty and didn't get home until very late. Just as she reached the school gate, a sudden downpour caught her completely off guard and soaked to the bone.
The homeroom teacher, who was driving by, saw that she was soaking wet, so she opened the car door for her and said with a smile, " Si Han, did you forget your umbrella? Let me give you a ride home, it's on my way."
Si Han felt embarrassed; how could she let the teacher deliver it?
However, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the teacher opened the car door to let her in. The teacher's place was indeed on the same route as hers... She had no choice but to thank her, bite the bullet, get into the car, put her hands on her knees, and obediently sit in the back seat.
Unexpectedly...
This decision, however, became the beginning of her tragedy.
The car drove further and further away, deviating from its original route. Si Han panicked: "Teacher, I've arrived... Teacher..."
However, the driver in the front seat ignored her calls.
A 40-year-old man drove to a desolate suburb, locked the innocent girl inside, and cruelly violated her.
Si Han cried so hard she could barely breathe. She couldn't believe that the person she had always respected was actually a beast in human skin!
The girl's desperate cries made Xiao Lou's eyes widen in fury; he wished he could punch that beast in the head and smash it open!
It rained heavily all night, and Si Han returned home in the early hours of the morning, distraught, and frantically washed herself. She was young and had a gentle nature; suddenly faced with such a situation, she was completely panicked and didn't know to call the police immediately…
When they wanted to call the police, they had no evidence.
The man personally came to apologize the next day, saying that he had been drinking and had lost his temper, and that he had always liked her, which was why he had acted that way.
He did this hoping for her forgiveness. He even knelt before her, swore, and begged her not to call the police or tell anyone else.
Si Han didn't know what to do and didn't dare tell anyone.
She returned to school in a daze, frequently lost focus, and her grades plummeted.
Just when she was at her most helpless, Zhang Qing, who was abroad, called her and asked softly, "Xiaohan, how are you doing lately? Are you adjusting well to the new school?"
Si Han's lips trembled, her eyes filled with tears: "Sister... are you... are you busy?"
Zhang Qing: "I have an important exam coming up, so I haven't been able to contact you for several days. How are you?"
Si Han bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "I...I'm fine..."
Firstly, she felt too ashamed to talk about it. Secondly, she didn't want to affect her sister who was working hard alone abroad. She thought it was just a nightmare, and once she woke up, it would all be over.
However, she didn't expect that the nightmare was not over... the nightmare had just begun.
Her most trusted counselor was a young and elegant man. When her grades dropped and she couldn't concentrate, she went to him for advice on how to adjust her mindset. With his guidance, she gradually emerged from the gloom.
However, she didn't know that some people without any moral compass, even if they kneel down to apologize and swear oaths, are just spouting the most useless nonsense.
Once you do it the first time, you'll do it again.
On Friday night in the gymnasium locker room, she was bullied by her homeroom teacher again. She cried out for help, which alerted the school security guards.
When the security guard pushed the door open, she thought she could be saved, but she didn't expect that the security guard was so inhuman that he took advantage of her and joined in to humiliate her.
The psychology teacher accidentally fell asleep in his office. When he woke up, it was already 9 p.m. He heard noises coming from the gymnasium, went to check, and saw her lying on the ground in a disheveled state.
She cried and begged him to call the police.
But he walked away in a panic.
He had only recently graduated and been assigned to this school. The security guard was the vice principal's cousin, and Zhou was a well-liked senior at the school with powerful connections. Did he really want to offend these two for a student he had no connection with?
The usually dignified and reasonable psychology teacher, when it really mattered... became a coward; he didn't want to cause trouble.
Watching the trusted counselor hurriedly leave, Si Han's desperate tears caused Xiao Lou excruciating pain.
If she were Si Han's sister, she would also want to kill those three beasts!
Si Han kept muttering that she was going to call the police. The security guard and Zhou were scared. After discussing it, they decided to wash her clean in the gymnasium's shower room so as not to leave any evidence. Then, Zhou forged a suicide note, the security guard deleted the surveillance footage, and pushed her off the roof.
They knew that it was Si Han's 18th birthday that day.
The girl's body plummeted from the rooftop. The fall was brief; all she could see was the maple forest directly opposite the office building. Countless maple leaves rustled down, like a carpet of blood-stained crimson spread across the ground.
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