[Chapter 20-Blood Maple Leaf-01]

After confirming the choice of the Secret Room of Hearts, Xiao Lou asked the gatekeeper: "Among the two secret rooms of Hearts 3 and 4, can you unlock the next stage of the secret room by clearing one of them, or do you have to clear both of them, but the order can be

Free choice?”

The young man with plum blossoms said: "Hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs, if you clear a C-level secret room each, you can unlock the B-level secret room in the next stage." But then, he reminded: "However, I suggest

You all go and challenge it, because these C-level secret rooms are relatively simple, and it is easy to achieve the conditions of 'perfect clearance' and draw more good cards from the limited card pool."

Xiao Lou knew this already.

He passed the level perfectly with 2 hearts, 2 diamonds, and 2 spades, and drew three cards: "Tao Yuanming," "Compass," and "Zombie Leader" respectively, each of which was very strong. He drew weapon cards and equipment cards from Yu Hanjiang.

It turns out that the cards in this world are much richer than he imagined.

The low-level secret rooms are relatively simple. If you pass the level perfectly, you can draw from a limited card pool, and the probability of drawing good cards is very high. This is also some preferential treatment given to novices in the card world. In the later stage, when you get to the team secret room, you are lucky enough to pass the level. It will be very difficult to pass the level perfectly.

Disaster.

Yu Hanjiang had the same idea. He looked at Xiao Lou and suggested: "If we can clear all the levels, let's not skip the level. We can get more cards while the difficulty of the secret room is not getting higher."

Xiao Lou nodded in agreement and said: "3 of Hearts or 4 of Hearts, Captain Yu, it's up to you to decide."

Yu Hanjiang didn't refuse, simply stretched out his hand and pulled out the "3 of Hearts" card from the card wall.

Gatekeeper: "The Secret Room of Hearts 3 [Blood Maple Leaf] is being generated, please be prepared, the countdown is 10, 9, 8..."

The boy's voice gradually faded away in his ears. When he counted to "5", Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly turned dark, and after a few seconds, they suddenly lit up.

Xiao Lou squinted his eyes, quickly adapted to the dazzling light, and quickly looked around.

——Where is Yu Hanjiang?

He unexpectedly discovered that Captain Yu was not with him.

According to the rules of the contract, the two of them have signed the contract and will definitely be forced into the same world. Therefore, there is no bug where he comes in but Yu Hanjiang does not.

The only possibility is that the two of them were transported to different locations in the secret room world.

Xiao Lou quickly figured it out.

Different clues are found in different locations. Since it is a secret room where two people work together, they must each find some clues first, then gather the clues together when the two people meet, and then analyze them together.

This is somewhat similar to a traditional "escape room game". He used to play real-person escape room games, where everyone would search for clues separately, and whoever found them would ask their friends to watch them together. However, previous escape rooms were all indoor games with limited space.

You can see each other when you turn around, and everyone can hear you when you shout.

But now, the secret room world of Hearts 3 is too big.

Xiao Lou raised his head and found that he was standing at the gate of a school.

The school gate is very impressive. The wall on the right is covered with numerous golden medals, such as "Key Middle School in the City", "Psychological Education Demonstration School", "Advanced Youth League Committee Organization", "Advanced Collective"...

At the top of the gate, there is a line of cool cursive writing -

Maple Grove High School.

Xiao Lou looked around and saw that the entire campus was extremely quiet and no one could be seen.

You can actually see a large maple forest on the side of the school.

The time in the secret room world should be autumn, and there had just been a light rain, and the ground still exuded a moist atmosphere soaked by rain. A gust of wind blew by, and countless red maple leaves fell with the wind, spreading a thick layer on the ground.

Red carpet. Looking from a distance, the maple leaves are extremely red after being washed by the rain. They float in the air, as if they were stained with blood.

Maple Grove High School, the name of this school is obviously related to the maple forest in the school.

Xiao Lou didn't know whether he should walk in or stand at the door and watch.

Bloody Maple Leaf, judging from the name of the secret room, there should be a murder on this campus? But before, he would receive prompts after entering the secret room, but this time there was no prompt at all, not even the most common level countdown.

With no escape route behind him, Xiao Lou had no choice but to walk into the school gate.

The moment he stepped into the school gate, the familiar floating box and text prompts finally appeared——

Welcome Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang to the secret room of 3 Hearts [Blood Maple Leaf].

1. This secret room is a suspenseful secret room with no time limit. You can exit when you solve the puzzle. If you cannot solve the puzzle, you will stay in the secret room world forever.

2. There is no longer a "clue collection degree" prompt in the C-level secret room. The clearance score is related to the time spent solving puzzles. The shorter the time to find the murderer, the higher the score will be.

3. The time flow rate in the 3 Hearts Secret Room is different from that in the card world. Every day here only passes twenty-four minutes in the card world. Your body's various functions are functioning normally, and the time flow rate in the 3 Hearts Secret Room shall prevail.

You will have physiological reactions such as hunger and fatigue. There is a canteen in the school. The gold coins obtained in the Plum Blossom Secret Room can be used here. You don't have to worry about the ending of "starving to death".

4. Today is the weekend and the school is not in session. You two can enter the campus and explore on your own.

5. Note that you are outsiders. Once discovered by the security, you will be expelled from the school. Please be careful to avoid the security patrols and do not collide with the school security. If you are caught by the security, you will fail to break through and be eliminated directly.

6. This is a cursed school. It is said that the reason why the maple leaves are so red is because the maple trees have absorbed too much blood.

After the text prompt ended, a "ding" sound came from my ear: "You have obtained a secret room limited card, please check the card package."

Xiao Lou immediately opened his card bag and found a new card lying inside.

Equipment card: Invisibility cloak

Rarity:a

Description: 3 Hearts Secret Room limited card, the card will be automatically damaged after leaving the 3 Hearts Secret Room.

Effect of use: Put on the invisibility cloak and immediately enter the invisibility state, which lasts for 30 minutes. During the invisibility period, you will become a transparent person. People in the secret room world cannot see you, and your partners cannot see you either.

Restrictions: Can only be used once a day, please pay attention to the timing of use.

Xiao Lou put the cards away and looked at the text in the floating box again to extract the key information.

In the previous 2 of Hearts secret room, after entering the house, he collected clues at the crime scene to deduce the murderer - this is a static secret room, and all the evidence is kept where it is. As long as you are careful enough, you can always collect all the clues.

However, when we arrived at the 3 of Hearts secret room, it turned into a dynamic plot secret room.

He must enter this school as a spectator.

The puzzle that needs him to solve has not yet appeared.

It can be inferred from the prompt that there are no classes in school today weekend. This is time for him and Yu Hanjiang to get familiar with the school environment. During this time, they must at least memorize the school map and find out the locations of each class and office.

The case should happen on Monday, when school starts.

They need to conduct a quick investigation in the school and deduce the murderer without being discovered by the security guards. This difficulty is more than twice as high as a static secret room where only one person collects evidence.

However, the level C secret room is not too difficult after all - only the "security" obstacle is set up.

The rules say that if you are caught by the security and fail to clear the level, it does not say that you will be expelled from the school if you are discovered by teachers and students. Moreover, the secret room also issued a limited card of "Invisibility Cloak". If it is not possible, you can just wear the invisibility when you are in danger.

A cloak can also save your life.

Wanting to understand this, Xiao Lou immediately entered the school and quickly observed the surrounding environment.

He quickly found an introduction to the school on the huge stone tablet near the school entrance, as well as an aerial map of the entire campus.

***

Maple Grove High School was established 5 years ago.

The architectural theme here is obviously related to maple trees, and all the buildings are painted red similar to maple leaves.

The school has complete teaching equipment, strong teachers, and first-class hardware facilities. It not only has green courts, rubber tracks, 8 outdoor basketball courts, but also indoor gymnasiums and libraries, which are almost comparable to a small university.

As a local key high school, Maplewood High School has more than 3,000 students and more than 300 teachers. Among them, 23 are "middle school first-level teachers" - this is the information revealed in the introduction on the stone tablet at the door.

Xiao Lou himself is an associate professor at a university and is very familiar with the education system. For first-level high school teachers, the education bureau of each district will have a limit on the number of teachers. Every one of them is a carrot. Only the old teachers who retire can vacate the seats, and the teachers behind can fill them.

.Furthermore, there are requirements for working years to be evaluated for a higher-level professional title. Generally, only those who have taught for more than 10 years are eligible for selection.

There are 23 first-level teachers in this school, which is worthy of being a key high school in the city. But the strange thing is that this school is not an old and famous school - it was established 5 years ago and is a very new school, which means that most of the teachers are

He was transferred from elsewhere to serve.

There are six buildings in the school.

The building at the front facing the school gate is seven stories high and has "Xingzhi Building" written on it. It is the administrative office building.

There are three long strip-shaped buildings behind the administrative building, all of which are four stories high. There are air corridors on each floor that connect each other and are connected with the administrative building to form a rectangular structure. The three buildings are called "Zhiyuan Building" and "Zhiyuan Building" respectively.

"Siqi Building" and "Chongwen Building", whose names are very meaningful, are the teaching buildings for the first, second and third grade students.

Further back, there is a three-story building called "Shuxiang Building", which is the school's library and academic calendar information library.

The last building, which is shaped like a maple leaf, is directly marked with the three characters "Gymnasium".

Behind these buildings is a wide playground.

The air after the rain is particularly fresh. In the quiet campus, the red rubber runway, green grass, blue sky, and white clouds - the whole scene is like a beautiful landscape painting.

When you are there, you can't help but recall your time as a young student.

Behind the playground, there is a sizable maple forest with many wooden seats scattered around. In their spare time, students can rest here and enjoy the beautiful scenery of falling maple leaves.

In addition to the maple trees, there are flower beds under each teaching building in the school, which makes the environment quite good.

This school is supposed to be a day school and does not have dormitories.

Xiao Lou walked around the school and quickly figured out the layout of the entire school.
To be continued...