Master Swindler

This scream interrupted the action of the fire control player, he took a hand and looked at the upper right corner of the ceiling subconsciously, where the sound came from.

It can be heard from the second floor.

Lu Qingjia laughed: "It's a coincidence."

He said and shrugged: "Okay, go up and take a look."

Everyone opened the door, and left the workshop again, following the voice, to the second floor.

At this time, the whole family in this house had all arrived, and everyone's faces were panicked, or unbelievable, or looked at the corpse in the study in panic.

The boss who went upstairs after explaining everything to Lu Qingjia and others before, was sitting on the executive chair in his study with a sharp knife in his chest, holding the handle of the knife in both hands, and closing his eyes without seeing painful death.

The blood ran down his chest and infested a large carpet under his feet.

The proprietress covered her mouth and cried, "How could this happen?"

Her two sons and daughters also hugged each other in panic, while the boss's mother, the old lady with a mean look, said in grief, "Who harmed my son?"

To be honest, although this incident arouses sympathy, the players are actually not touched.

The family itself is suspicious, and the game NPC dealing with the moving wax man does not know what it is.

Secondly, it seems that it is almost noon. The wax oil for making wax figures is tricky, and it is too late to do the task. How can there be time for you to suddenly appear like a murder case that is inexplicably interspersed to grab the scene?

So everyone planned to say a few polite remarks and went back to the workshop to continue studying the wax man.

At this time, I heard the task release from the system-

[Triggering a side mission-to crack the murder case in the Wax Museum, the main task is temporarily locked, and the side task will be reopened after completion.

"Damn, this is too shameless?" A hot-tempered male player directly yelled.

"Why doesn't it just write out the thoughts directly? To put it bluntly, it is to make trouble for you, prevent you from completing the task, and pull the player down if you want to cheat the player? It's your mother so much."

"How long is the delivery time?"

"It's less than four hours."

"No matter how much we have to set aside two or three hours to make wax figures, we can't have more than one hour to solve the murder case."

"Which one of you is good at reasoning? Or has a function similar to scene playback? Or a mental ability directly controls how many people to tell the truth?"

"It's impossible for us to do it anyway, so the only thing left is the boss."

The others shook their heads when they heard this: "No."

Lu Qingjia said: "Since it is a delay, we must integrate our existing advantages. There can be no shortcuts."

Just like the interview location in the previous level, that is the limit that the speed capable people in a group can do.

In fact, with Lu Qingjia’s mental control, according to his current spiritual power, it is very simple to control a person who is fatal to himself, but this family is obviously not an ordinary person. The mental ability is powerful but the risk is not small. It is unnecessary in the situation. Under the circumstances, Lu Qingjia was reluctant to take risks.

When everyone heard it, they suddenly became irritable: "What should I do? Let me say that I am not good at reasoning."

"This kind of secret room homicide is the fact that the police can't solve the case for a while. Is it a waste of a day because of this crime?"

"How come?" Lu Qingjia said, "Give me five minutes."

Everyone shook their bodies and looked at Lu Qingjia in disbelief.

Didn’t you just say that there is no relevant ability?Even though his cleverness is obvious, five minutes is too-

Just listen to Lu Qingjia stand up and say to the owner's family: "I'll be honest, although we are outsiders, but after the owner took us into the workshop, we only came out halfway through the corridor through the air for a few minutes. This is the first floor corridor. There should be a record on the camera. Besides, we have not been anywhere, let alone on the second floor."

"So although it is regrettable to say that, the suspect who killed the boss should be among your closest relatives."

Lu Qingjia raised his hand, pressed down the few people who were going to say something because of emotion, and said: "So, can you please go to the surrounding rooms now?"

"I will come here to ask you questions one by one."

Should it really be an obstacle event specially set for the player?An intern employee wanted to do police work, and the family didn't think anything was wrong. They were very cooperative.

As if it is reasonable written into the program.

Lu Qingjia laughed, and after several people entered different rooms, let several players guard the door.

He didn't find anyone over immediately, but first glanced at the clues in the room.

The so-called "secret room murder case" naturally shows that the room was in a closed state when the first scene was discovered.

There is only one window in the boss's study, which is not big and has poor lighting. It should be said that most parts of the house are like this.

The window was locked from the inside, and there was a layer of tape stuck on it. There was no trace of opening. The player went to the outside of the castle and took a look. Because the castle was in disrepair, the outside wall was weathered and peeled, and there was no trace of scratching on it.

According to the general logic, it is impossible to enter from outside the window.

The door of the study also has a layer of tape attached from the door frame inside. This tape is an industrial tape with good toughness, strong adhesion, and a width of more than five centimeters.

Seeing how the tape is now, there are no traces of repeated tearing. It should have been forcibly opened when the door was found to be wrong.

The boss’s wound was at the heart, and the handle of the knife was slightly inclined upward. From the angle, the knife was inserted slightly higher than the boss’s level.

There was a cup of coffee that I had drunk more than half on the desk, but there was nothing unusual in the room.

Lu Qingjia picked up the cup of coffee, sniffed it, and found out a recorder-sized machine.

I turned on the machine and scanned the cup of coffee. After a second or two, a virtual screen popped up next to the scanner, which listed the cup of coffee including all the ingredients in the cup and liquid.

This is a high-tech product bought from Infinite Games, which can identify most elements, but it is not a panacea, but this situation can be handled.

Sure enough, the results showed that coffee has a high concentration of sleeping ingredients.

A player walked in, saw the result, and said, "Is that the murderer who served the coffee?"

"It's no wonder that I was pierced with a knife and died. The boss didn't have any pain on his face. He was killed in his sleep.

Then he complained: "Who is a fool? Can't commit suicide in such an awkward posture?"

It is true that piercing the heart can be quickly relieved, but for the boss's body shape, the posture of holding the knife in the heart with both hands is really awkward.

The inconvenience of exerting force may bring extra pain, and with so many doubts, it is like a botched homicide disguised suicide and full of flaws.

Lu Qingjia shook his head and smiled: "Who knows?"

"Help me call the person who discovered the scene first?"

The first thing I found was the boss's mother. Although her expression was angry, she didn't feel much sadness.

During Lu Qingjia’s questioning, she learned that she had brought the coffee first.

Seeing the boss coming out of the workshop, she seemed to be in a bad mood, so she brought a cup of coffee into the study and discussed some things with him.

"Is it convenient to talk about what it is?"

Seeing the old lady's expression of displeasure, Lu Qingjia smiled and said, "You know, the deceased is the big one, and you don't want your son to die with unwillingness and grievances?"

The old lady said: "As for the distribution of the old age, he inherited this house and this factory from me and his dad, but now he wants to send me to his brother."

Lu Qingjia nodded without further questioning, and said: "Well, that's all I want to ask, you can go back first."

The words prepared by the old lady were held in her stomach like this, quite a bit choked.

But looking at Lu Qingjia, the other party was really disinterested in the unnecessary things, so he left the room angrily.

Then it was the daughter of the deceased who was called in. The other person's appearance was different from looking at the gloomy and conservative wax museum, wearing revealing clothes and heavy makeup.

It can be seen that she has a lot of interest in Lu Qingjia, and she started to cry as soon as she came in, but how did the cry sound pretending to be affectionate.

"Mr. Lu, you really want to help me catch the murderer so that my father can rest in peace."

Lu Qingjia said, "Can you tell me what you came to say to your father? It is said that when you ran out of the study, you looked a little panicked and didn't apologize when you hit your grandma."

The boss’s daughter’s eyes were a little guilty: "I had a fight with my dad, and he was so angry that he was suffering from angina, so I was very upset. It really wasn't my dad who killed me."

"After I came out, my brother and mother have both been in the study. They can testify."

"Well, I believe you." Lu Qingjia smiled and asked her out of the room.

The boss's daughter also feels a little on her feet.

After the boss son came in, Lu Qingjia told the testimony of the boss daughter and confirmed to him: "Is your father still alive when you came in?"

"I, I don't know." The boss son panicked, "When I came in, my dad's chair was facing the door, and he looked like he was asleep. The back of his executive chair was so thick that I couldn't see the details. , I thought he was asleep, so I secretly took my game console that he had confiscated."

"Meaning you didn't see your father in front of you all the time?"

"Yes." The boss's son said: "It must be my grandma or my sister. I can't guarantee that my dad was dead when I came in."

Lu Qingjia patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "What's the result? I'll judge. The kids don't talk too much, you know?"

The boss's son's face became stiff, and he walked out with a gloomy expression in his eyes.

The last person who came in was the proprietress. The other party repeatedly emphasized that his child could never be a murderer. The two are still young, so don't put too much pressure on them. Originally, the death of his father was sad, but now he is still treated as a suspect, I don’t know. How sad.

After listening to her, Lu Qingjia said: "Speaking of a knowledge that is not too cold, in fact, this kind of tape secret room is easy to set up."

Just stick half of the tape on the door before going out, leave the other half, and use a vacuum cleaner on the door frame to create a secret room with no apparent flaws.

Lu Qingjia approached the other person and said: "Just now you took the vacuum cleaner down. The brush head and the suction tube were separated. It was said that the carpet was dirty, but there was no hair or dust on the bristle of the brush head. It needs the same suction tube."

"Don't you think this is too inefficient?"

The lady boss raised her head, her thin face was a bit sad, her expression was sad and hopeless, and her lips trembled: "You, do you want to judge, is it me the murderer?"

Lu Qingjia looked at each other. At this time, the air in the study was like tensioned silk, as if his next sentence was about a person's fate.

A cold sweat appeared on the face of the proprietress, quite expecting the knife to fall quickly.

But Lu Qingjia chuckled softly: "Why? I believe the lady boss was not the one who stabbed the knife into the boss."

"Don't worry, I'm not going to wrong people casually. Now that I have finished the question, it is not a rule to keep the boss's body here. You can find a place and I will let someone move the boss's body over."

For a moment, the lady boss saw Lu Qingjia look hideous and weird.

But before the flaws were revealed, he gave a relieved expression of relief: "Thank you, thank you Mr. Lu."

Lu Qingjia selected a player who was tall and walked along the path of strength and moved the body of the boss and went out with the boss.

He asked the boss' children and mother to act together as much as possible not to be separated, so they called the players back to the workshop together.

"Why don't you just expose the lady boss?" Someone asked, "It's obviously her, right? Even if it's not her, it's probably her two children."

"In order not to reveal the murder of her child, she made this secret room as a cover after she discovered it."

Some people objected: "I think it was the boss's mother. Didn't she give the boss the cup of coffee? She was the first to find the body afterwards."

"An old lady of her, when she found that the door couldn't be opened, she didn't want to ask someone for help, nor did she figure out what was going on inside, she just broke into the door."

"Perhaps the boss just fell asleep before she broke the door. After she broke the door, she stabbed the boss to death. In fact, this secret room was just a cover, and the timing of the killing was simply wrong."

"Then how did she arrange the tape?" Someone retorted, "It's impossible for the boss to put it on her own, right? Then how does she know that the boss will put the tape? A good discussion?

"Let me say that maybe this is not a conspiracy at all, but several conspiracies together, so there is a complicated situation now."

After that, he turned his attention to Lu Qingjia: "By the way, don't you say that you can solve the case in five minutes and continue the task? It's almost half an hour."

"It's broken." Lu Qingjia said: "Five minutes after entering the study, isn't everything I did afterwards to pave the way for making wax figures?"

"What are you talking about?" Several people were a little confused.

See Lu Qingjia with a serious face: "If you don't believe me, ask the system."

"This -" someone immediately asked in his mind "The system, has the main mission been unlocked?"

Although the sound of the system is non-essential, at this moment it is inexplicably reluctant: "The player Lu Qingjia has solved the mystery of the murder in the secret room. The side mission is completed and the main mission is unlocked."

"When did it happen?" Everyone was stupid: "No, then why don't you say it?"

"Not only don't you tell me, why do you ask them one by one? Isn't it a waste of time?"

"How can it be a waste of time? This is an important step in the main task."

As he spoke, he saw a puddle of silt underground, and the players were shocked, only to realize that it was Lu Qingjia's ability.

A mass of silt wrapped in something came out, and when the silt had dispersed, everyone found that the contents were the boss's corpse.

"What are you doing with this?" someone collapsed.

Lu Qingjia smiled: "Since they want to play a show to delay time, then if I don't seize the opportunity they provide, won't I waste my heart?"

As he said, he threw the boss's body into the pot of wax oil.

When the leg came into contact with wax oil, perhaps it was severe pain, and the boss' eyes opened suddenly.

I glanced at the surrounding environment and instantly understood the situation, seeing my lower body melt in wax oil, I was struggling quickly.

However, Lu Qingjia held his head and slowly stuffed him into the pot, and smiled at the boss: "Huh? Isn't it already dead? Fraudulent corpses are against the Basic Law."

"Woo, woooo~~" The boss struggled, but his strength was far from the point flooding, he had reached the limit of unlocking his physical stamina at this level, and Lu Qingjia, who had the blood of the gods.

The wax oil spilled from the pot because of his struggle was completely blocked by the bubble barrier that appeared around Lu Qingjia.

The boss's physique is certainly not small, but after being stuffed into a pot of wax, he sinks while melting, and he doesn't have much burden.

After a while, the boss's eyes froze in horror and desperation, and finally his eyes were melted away by wax and the top of his head sank into the pot.

And Lu Qingjia was like a witch making magic soup, stirring it with a big spoon.

A line of player expressions are dumbfounded.

"This nun, this damn, what happened? The boss's grandson was not dead? They worked together to create the so-called case to delay time?"

Lu Qingjia nodded: "I think so."

"No, when did you know?"

"Almost the beginning."

"..."

"First of all, this abrupt murder case clearly hindered us from completing the mission. Everyone understands this. In that case, why must it be the plot of the system? There is no possibility for a family to direct and act?"

"After all, the timing was too coincidental, it was almost a commotion created by pinching."

"But the probability of either of these two possibilities is equal, so I have to go to the scene to finally confirm."

"Then you all saw it. It was this family's purposeful ghost. It seems that they are not controlled by the plot, but they are subjectively knowing to hinder us."

"No, what did we see?" Several players collapsed and said, "Brother speak clearly?"

"The tape on the door frame has a conspicuous fingerprint on the bottom. It belongs to the boss. He should have talked to us before he left. When he was emotional, his palm secreted too much sweat and oil, which caused obvious finger marks."

"When the scream came, the door of the workshop was closed, but we heard clearly, indicating that the soundproofing effect of the whole house is average, at least the loud sound cannot be completely isolated."

"The lady boss came down with the vacuum cleaner, claiming that she had just used the vacuum cleaner, but before, none of us heard the sound of the vacuum cleaner running. Her vacuum cleaner was a high-power vacuum cleaner with a heavy appearance and an old style. With our players’ ears, she But after driving for a while, she won’t be able to hear any movement. It means that she has never used it, whether it’s cleaning or using a vacuum cleaner to absorb tape to make a secret room."

"The reason why we saw her coming downstairs with a vacuum cleaner was nothing more than a wrong wire rope specially made."

"Before I asked the boss's mother who came in afterwards and asked them to tell me how much coffee was left on the table when I came in."

Lu Qingjia laughed, as if recalling the scene, he felt funny: "A few people who were so flustered and couldn't even remember whether the tape on the window was already attached when they entered the study. They actually remembered the weight of a cup of coffee on the table. Clearly."

"Obviously the position of the window is more eye-catching, and the silver-gray tape is also incompatible with the wallpaper."

"That is to say, they are misleading the whole process?" The female player said: "They don't even care who we will find out the murderer. As long as we give the wrong answer and can't unlock the main mission, they won?"

"Yes." Lu Qingjia nodded: "And after confirming these points, I gave the system answer in my mind. The truth about the murder in the secret room is that the boss committed suicide."

"This is a suicide pretending to be homicide pretending to be botched. The tape boss posted it himself, drank the sleeping pill and stabbed himself before the effect of the drug, deliberately used an awkward posture, and the whole family had discussed what redundant first Do it as a blindfold."

"But it is enough for you to understand one thing, that is, what they need is our wrong answer. Then the question comes, if you are led by clues, even if you are not good at reasoning, there are a total of four masters left. Guess, the probability is also a quarter."

"Who is the murderer set, this probability will be minimized?"

"Dead!" A player subconsciously answered, and then knocked his head: "My fucking pig brain."

At this point, Lu Qingjia's stirring action also stopped.

Then he was covered with a layer of silt, and then half peeled off, forming a mold that belongs to him.

Lu Qingjia picked up a large spoon next to the tool rack, scooped out the wax oil from the pot, and poured it onto the mold.

Wax oil, which was originally not very submissive and aggressive, was enough to make a stable one-person wax figure after absorbing the boss's body.

Fill the mold, cool it with power, and peel it off, forming a vivid wax man who is equal to Lu Qingjia.

Lu Qingjia looked at it for a while, and shook his head: "You still have to paint. Who of you has art skills?"

"There should be? Since this task is released, people with the corresponding ability will definitely be assigned."

A fashionable looking male player said: "I, I am a makeup artist. According to everyone, it should be no problem."

Others saw that a wax figure was completed. Although it was a bit irritating, there was some kind of relief that the progress was completed.

He asked: "This amount is only enough for one person, right? What shall we do next?"

Lu Qingjia smiled, and suddenly looked at a wax figure next to him. This wax figure was the one that was almost burned before.

If he asked something pointedly: "What I told you just now, but you have overlooked an important detail."

"Wh, what?" At this moment, everyone faced Lu Qingjia's guilty conscience and admiration facing the teacher.

Lu Qingjia said: "I said that our every move in the workshop is under the surveillance of the other party, so the timing is so ingenious to interrupt our harm to the wax man."

"Then the problem is that there is no camera in the workshop. With your vigilance up to now, even if there is a hidden camera, I believe that even if you don't use props to block the signal, you should believe that I will do that."

"Since there is no way to observe everything happening in the workshop with technology, how did they know our actions well?"

Lu Qingjia stretched out his hand and touched the wax man in front of him. The wax liquid on his body seemed to be more, as if a person was sweating when he was extremely nervous.

"Wax man?" everyone exclaimed.

Lu Qingjia smiled and said, "It's not just surveillance, I just said that these wax people are moving at a very slow speed?"

Speaking and looking at the wax people, he showed a puzzled expression: "Huh? I have seen my boss made a wax figure, haven't you actually chosen to escape?"

He smiled maliciously: "Your sense of crisis really doesn't work. Obviously we will deliver the goods at four in the afternoon, and the boss's body is only enough to be a wax man."

"Then where to find the rest, isn't it obvious?"

As soon as the voice fell, something seemed to be pulling away from the wax figure, but it was too late.

At the same time, there were several desperate roars outside.

The players went out and found that there was a huge bubble covering the whole house. The bubble looked thin and soft, and it burst with one poke.

But it was extremely flexible and unbreakable, at least for the people in this house.

I saw the remaining four people of the boss's family outside the gate, trying to grab the door, but they were stopped by a huge bubble.

No matter how they attacked, they couldn't break through that barrier.

Until he heard the footsteps behind, he turned his head and looked at Lu Qingjia who was heading him like a ghost.

"You, what do you want to do?"

Lu Qingjia smiled: "It's nothing, it's just to make the defective material for the wax figure delivered in the afternoon. I want to borrow it from some of you temporarily."

"For the reputation of a century-old family business, you wouldn't even be unable to make this sacrifice, right?"

The owner's family shivered, and the players behind looked at each other--

What, how do you feel, they suddenly became the bosses of this horrible wax museum?