An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu once lined up a temporary copy called the Deep Mountain Pavilion together, and I felt that this copy was a bit similar to the last time......

I just hope that I don't come again.

"You're looking for a clue?"

"Of course"

An Yi pointed and began to hang the three cars from the outside.

The cars were of different models and colors, and he couldn't tell what they were with his poor knowledge of cars, but that didn't mean he didn't get anything out of it.

A car can reflect a person's personality and behavior patterns, and even his profession.

First of all, the car closest to them, An Yi pointed through the window and saw that it was wiped clean, even under the handrails, which were the easiest to accumulate dust, it was spotless, indicating that the owner of this car had some cleanliness habits, or was a person who loved cleanliness. At the same time, he also saw a men's cologne bottle in the car, and later he observed the seat angle and headrest position.

Combined with these, he concluded that the owner of the car was a middle-class man with a petty bourgeoisie, male, and about 30~40 years old.

If you don't explain it, just talking about the result is like magic.

However, this car is different from the others, it stopped here earlier, and you can see some dry ground under the car.

At present, there are only these clues found by An Yizhi, and there are no obvious features in the other three cars.

"Okay, okay? I always felt like it was raining heavily. ”

Tu Hongyu tightened his coat and asked.

"Pretty much."

"So, what do you know?"

An Yi pointed to look at the rain curtain that was gradually getting bigger, and pretended to be deep:

"Someone is going to die tonight."

“…… Nonsense! ”

This scene setting looks like the rhythm of something happening!

"If you want to get more clues, you can only open the car door and look closely......"

"Don't even think about it, I've looked for it, we don't have tools in our car."

Ann shrugged with one finger:

"Then there's no way, let's take one step at a time."

Finding no more hints, the two had to walk towards the mansion.

They stopped in front of a solid wooden door and were about to knock on the door when suddenly there was a sound of a lock twisting from behind it.

This shows the difference between the old fritter and the novice Xiaobai, the two took two steps back, reached out and held the gun hidden in the coat.

When the door opened, a young man of about 30 years of age, who did not look dangerous, said:

"Allow me to take a look at your invitations."

He seemed to be the servant of the mansion, and after the two showed the invitation, he stroked his chest and said:

"I've been waiting for a long time, please come in."

The decoration behind the door is extraordinarily luxurious, with white marble and expensive wood, as well as paintings decorated in gold lacquer borders, which give you a sense of grandeur.

The waiter led the two through the hallway into a path on the side, eventually stopping at a door.

"This is a room for two, if you are not satisfied, you can change it at any time."

"Can you change it?"

There is a saying that guests are always invited to the host, and the host arranges the room when they are usually invited.

"The master has instructed that everything in this house can be used as he pleases."

What a quirky host.

"Who else was there before we came?"

"There were a few guests before you, but I don't know what they're called."

"I don't know?"

How can there be a reason to receive guests but not know what the guests are called.

"I was ordered that all those with invitations were guests, and the host did not tell us the names of the guests."

"Where's your master?"

Tu Hongyu's question surprised the waiter:

"You don't know?"

This time it's the turn of the two players to be confused, should I know?

"Edward, the host. Pickles had passed away two weeks earlier, and we continued to take care of the house in accordance with his will, including the arrival of several guests, which were ordered by the owner before his death. ”

Combined with what the opening narrator says, it seems that the rich man named Edward is also a strange man, and he actually made a decision to give all his wealth to the guests who found his treasure after his death.

"How much do you know about the treasure mentioned on the invitation?"

"I don't know at all, I was only recently hired."

That's right, if he had a clue, wouldn't it be nice to take the treasure himself.

Seeing that the two of them had nothing to ask, the waiter finally said, "Please come to the restaurant before 12 noon, and the details of the treasure hunt will be officially announced at that time", and then left with a confession.

The two entered the room, which was furnished with two single beds, a few sofas, and a coffee table, and where they saw a small bar. It's really a rich man's room.

"What do you think?"

Tu Hongyu always felt that this copy was full of weirdness, and he couldn't tell where it was, it was just a feeling.

"I want to lie on my stomach and watch."

“……”

After speaking, An Yizhi really lay on the carpet.

Of course, he's not just trying to be funny.

He first smelled the smell of thinner on the carpet, and at the same time saw the freshly colored planks that had not been painted under the foot of the bed.

This means that all the furniture in this room is new, and it is from the last week or two.

He reached out and touched the wallpaper, sniffed it again, and could smell the more obvious smell of latex.

Then he opened the window and looked at the façade of the mansion.

Although the mansion looks magnificent from a distance, a closer look reveals that the exterior of the mansion has been painted for a long time, and now it is showing some fading.

The furniture and décor are new, what does it mean? Has the mansion owner recently refurbished? But since it's been renovated, why not repaint the exterior again?

After telling Tu Hongyu this question, he didn't think of any reliable guesses.

"The main quest is about finding the truth, not the treasure, and I always feel like it's a pit."

Tu Hongyu thought for a while and said.

He has a point.

Now there are an unknown number of servants and guests in this mansion, and according to the description on the invitation, as long as the treasure is found, Edward's entire property can be obtained.

Listening to the opening CG, this man named Edward is a rich man. As the saying goes, people die for money, birds die for food, and there may be a death case soon.

In other words, just finding the treasure is not a clearance, if an incident occurs, it is necessary to unravel the incident and find out the truth behind the will of the rich man.

It sounds like a lot of trouble, but it's more simple and crude than this kind of dungeon or multiverse, saving time and effort.

After the two rummaged through the entire guest room and didn't find any more hints, Tu Hongyu proposed:

"It's better to go your separate ways, it's not easy to explore such a big house."

The danger of splitting up is still there, but it's not high, and it's still the same sentence, as long as you don't see any strange holes, go down and die.

In the end, it's just a normal difficulty dungeon, and the puzzles and dangers shouldn't be too much.

An Yi pointed to the system time and looked at it, it was about ten o'clock in the morning, and there was still a little time before noon, and it was estimated that the time that the system flowed out of this time was to collect clues for players.

Then the two separated, Tu Hongyu walked towards the depths of the house, and An Yizhi walked in the other direction, saying that they would meet at the main entrance in the big corridor before 12 o'clock.

The room closest to their guest room is of course also a guest room, and An Yizhi tried to turn the door lock, but the system very simply prompted [can't be opened].

As he walked, Ann took out a notepad and drew a rough map.

Their location is on the first floor of the entire mansion, first draw a concave outline, and then fill in the location little by little, which is a very simple and convenient way to draw.

Hints that the room that can't be opened may just be a useless backdrop, or it may require some specific key to open, which is not certain.

Ann found that the door locks in all the rooms were very complex and sturdy, not at all like the technical level expected in the 1930s, but he understood it when he remembered that the narrator had suggested that Edward was a master mechanic.

Before the advent of the computer-led electronic revolution, it was an age of steam and machinery, and the most famous thing in this era was the intricate and complex machinery.

It's not about the assembly lines that sit in factories, it's about some miracle works of art.

The so-called mechanical master is the maker of these things.

With gears, rollers, clockwork, and uncanny designs, they have long been miraculous creations that are difficult to replicate even during the electronic revolution.

These things are called automata.

One of the more famous is the automatic clock, which An Yizhi once saw in a museum, and it looked like a small-scale scene garden made of metal, dotted with animals.

But when the hour is announced, the whole garden will 'come to life', all the animals have their own movements, and under the action of the bellows make a very realistic sound, I really have to admire the brains of the people of that era.

- How did you come up with this?

What's more interesting is that the development of automata laid the foundation for the future information age, the real sense of the automatic computer is the difference machine with steam power, and people then realized that the so-called mechanical design is the same as the design principle of the current circuit, with the advancement of technology, automatic machinery is completely replaced by more compact and cheap electronic components.

Going a little further, the 1930s were the pinnacle of automata, the most famous example being the Enigma cipher machine, a mechanical encryption and decryption machine.

According to the dungeon setting, Edward. Pickles is a master of automata, and it's normal for the locks in his house to be quite complicated.

Going down the hallway, he couldn't find a single door that could be opened, and because the locks were too complex and sturdy, he couldn't see through the keyhole, and maybe he could ask him for the key to open the door when he ran into the waiter again.

Speaking of waiters, there must be a lot of people taking care of such a large mansion, but An Yizhi walked all the way without touching anyone at all, which is really a bit abnormal.

He came to the hallway where he had entered, where there was a Y-shaped grand staircase leading to the second and third floors. But now was not the time to run to the higher floors, and his attention was drawn to a large portrait in the middle of the staircase.

In the painting, a middle-aged man, who looks to be about 40~50 years old, sits on a red sofa with his legs crossed, with many delicate gears and mechanical parts placed on both sides of him, and a very conspicuous large clock dial behind him.

There is nothing suspicious about this painting, and the person in the painting is Edward. Pickles, which corresponds to his status as a master mechanic.

But there is one thing that cannot be overlooked.

The painting was non-existent when Ann pointed out that they had entered the door......