From the outside, the inn looked like it was three stories high, but the interior structure was actually only two stories. The hall on the first floor, with a height over 3.5 meters, was very spacious and expansive.
After going up by following the wooden stairs, they saw a wide corridor. On the left side of the corridor, the top of the room door was marked with a wooden sign in capital letters ‘One, Three, Five, Seven’, while on the right side, there was an even number of ‘Two, Four, Six, Eight’ wooden signs, a total of eight rooms, of which the smallest number of room number one and two were at the end of the corridor, and number seven and eight were near the stairs.
Yue Xingwen quickly tore off a piece of paper and drew a map.
With straight corridors, and eight rooms, the interior structure of the inn was much simpler than he thought.
Yue Xingwen walked to the end of the corridor and pushed open the number 1 room on the left. Soft moonlight spilled into the room through the wooden window pane. One could see that a wooden square table and four chairs were set up in the center of the room, and in the corner was a large bed of solid carved wood about one and a half meters wide, with red curtains hanging around it. The bed was made of two bright red brocade futons, and a pair of embroidered pillows.
Liu Zhaoqing stared at the carved wooden bed in front of him, and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “How is it like coming to ancient time, possibly in the Republic of China era? You don’t see many of these wooden beds with four bed pillars and futons in modern times anymore, right?”
Ke Shaobin looked around and walked over to Yue Xingwen, saying in a low voice, “This place is indeed very much like an inn in an ancient costume drama. No modern things are found in the entire building, there aren’t even switches or light bulbs in the house, let alone internet cables or computers.” He looked at Yue Xingwen with some trepidation, “The library isn’t going to make us travel to ancient times, right?”
Qin Miao suddenly said, “Judging from the carving work and furniture style, it should belong to the Ming Dynasty. The wooden beds of the Qing Dynasty like to use gold, colored painted-on design, and other techniques to make the effect of brilliance and richness. Relatively speaking, the furniture of the Ming Dynasty pursues simplicity.”
Yue Xingwen looked back at her with some surprise, “Do you still have research on furniture?”
Qin Miao nodded. “I’ve checked the information on the furniture and clothing of various Dynasties. The Ming-style furniture is simple in shape and strict in structure, without lacquer decoration, and without large and pompous carving decoration, giving full play to and use the hue texture of the wood itself, and only carving some simple and elegant patterns, you see, this bed has almost no superfluous decoration, and the difference between the beds of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China is obvious.”
Everyone looked at her with admiration.
Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his temples. “How can the course of the Faculty of Mathematics still be mixed with historical knowledge?”
Yue Xingwen smiled. “This is a reasoning class, of course, does not only let people do math problems. Which dynasty this bed belonged to should have little influence on the conclusion of reasoning. The fact that Qin Miao can see it is the icing on the cake, and it doesn’t matter if she can’t.”
Qin Miao pointed to the tabletop, “Can the candle be lit? The light is too dim to see clearly.”
Yue Xingwen followed her gaze and noticed two very distinctive candle holders on the windowsill. The red candles inside the candle holders bearing nearly halfway, and the things next to the candlesticks looked like flint stones.
He walked over and clashed the two flints hard enough to rub out a bright spark and lit up the candle. The light in the room instantly became brighter, and everyone could see that the whole room was in red, with the word ‘happiness’ pasted on the window, and a wooden wardrobe and matching dressing table were placed against the wall next to the bed, with the same word ‘happiness’ pasted on the wardrobe.
In horror movies, something scary often popped up when they opened a wardrobe, and the couples group looked at that wardrobe and hid behind. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce exchanged a look, and Yue Xingwen tacitly handed Jiang Pingce the candle and summoned his dictionary, so if something came out the moment he opened the door, he would just smash it with his dictionary.
Jiang Pingce held the candle with his right hand and opened the door with his left hand.
Everyone tensed up.
However, instead of messy ghosts in the wardrobe, there were red clothes neatly folded in it.
Jiang Pingce frowned as he took out the clothes and handed them to Yue Xingwen, who unfolded them, observing that one of the sets had a long hemline with a golden phoenix embroidered on it, it was obviously a woman’s wedding dress; the other had a dragon embroidered on it, and it was a man’s wedding dress. Matching jewelry and a phoenix crown were also found in the drawer of a nearby dresser, the pearls on which illuminated in the light of the candles.
Jiang Pingce squatted down and continued to rummage, and then pulled out two rag dolls from the wardrobe.
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The pair of rag dolls were dressed in bright red wedding dresses, with eyes, noses and mouths sewn out of black thread on their faces; the eyes were only sewn in the shape of a cross, but the corners of the mouth were sewn realistically and slightly upward, as if they were smiling.
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Luo Jiajia, the girl standing at the end, was shivering all over and her lips were trembling, “This-this is not a ghost wedding, right?”
Hearing the word ‘ghost wedding’, everyone only felt the hairs on their backs stand up.
Luo Jiajia continued. “Crimson bed curtain, crimson quilt, a pair of red candles. There are also wedding clothes in the wardrobe. This- this is obviously an ancient wedding room ah! Someone was killed here and had a marriage here. The girl who was killed turned into a malicious spirit, and then the people who lived here continued to die mysteriously? Will we— will we also encounter the evil spirits claiming our lives?”
The more she spoke, the more frightened she became. Her face turned as white as paper, and her whole body began to shiver. Her boyfriend’s expression was also ugly, and he hurriedly wrapped his arms around her shoulders in a comforting gesture. Another couple also held hands tightly to encourage each other.
Yue Xingwen glanced at them and discussed it with Jiang Pingce in a low voice, “The course is called <Death Code>, but so far, we haven’t seen any clues related to numbers except for the room numbers which are capitalized Chinese characters from one to eight. The course needs us to solve the Death Code… where is the code?”
Jiang Pingce said, “Look for the walls and roof, see if there are any marks left?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and hitched the two sets of clothes on top of the wooden chair, lit another candle and held a candle with Jiang Pingce to carefully observe the room. Song dried up blood was found on the walls, and there were no clues related to the code. Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s go check the other room to see.”
The two men led the group through all the rooms in turn.
The furnishings in each room were similar, with a square structure.
Red wedding clothes appeared in room no. 1 of the corridor on the left side, and there were the clothes for maidservants, servants, matchmaker and other personnel, much like a wedding party passing through the area and stopping at the inn for temporary accommodation.
Everyone felt a little confused.
Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the clothes found in the eight rooms. He always felt that something was wrong.
At this moment, a mechanical voice suddenly rang in their ears. “Day two of the exam, 00:00 am. Please allocate accommodation rooms and go to bed as soon as possible.”
The mechanical voice was the examiner, and they must be obedient.
10 people, 8 rooms, to collect all clues, it was best to have people in each room. Thinking of this, Yue Xingwen turned his head and asked, “How about you couples sharing a room?”
The two girls in the couple group looked at each other, and they really did not dare to stay alone, so they nodded. “Okay.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Alright, the four of you will pick two rooms first. The remaining six people have one room each.”
Luo Jiajia hurriedly pulled her boyfriend and chose room no. 8, which was closest to the stair, probably thinking that it was easier to escape if she stayed near the stair. Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin stayed in room no. 6 next to them.
Yue Xingwen pointed to the deepest room in the corridor and said, “I’ll stay in room no. 1.”
Room no. 1 was that big red wedding room with the bride and groom’s clothes and rag dolls, which was creepy any way they looked at it. Yue Xingwen took the initiative to pick this room, and Jiang Pingce then said, “I’ll stay next door to you.”
The two sisters, Qin Miao and Qin Lu, stayed in the room opposite them.
Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin, chose room no. 5 and no. 7 in the left corridor.
Yue Xingwen instructed, “Since it’s a puzzle and survival course, something might happen at night again like in <Cardiovascular Ward>.” He showed the drawn map in front of everyone. “This is the internal distribution map of the inn. There is only one passage downstairs with a narrow exit. After encountering danger if this passage of the stairs is blocked and you can’t get down, just run in the opposite direction towards the end of the corridor.”
He marked an asterisk at the end of the corridor and continued, “Four of you, gather at Qin Lu’s door at room no. 4, and let Qin Lu plate movement to take you out of the inn, understood?”
The four of them looked at each other, and Gao Yongqiang, the tallest, nodded. “Okay.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Go back to your room to rest, and pay attention to the clues in your respective rooms and summarize them tomorrow.”
The two couples quickly turned and entered the room, and the other students also went to their respective rooms. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked side by side to the depths of the corridor, stopping at the door, Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “Let’s change rooms.”
Yue Xingwen made a joke, “Why? Afraid that I will be pulled by the ghost to do the ghost wedding ah?”
Jiang Pingce said lightly, “Then I’ll go and rob the bride.”
Yue Xingwen was stunned for a moment, thinking that he was also joking, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, “It’s okay, it’s most suitable for me to take this room, I have more methods of escape than you. In case the way is blocked, you won’t be able to get out with your coordinate system, but I can get out with ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ skill, and my dictionary has a lot of control skills. Saving my own life is not a problem when I encounter trouble.”
He insisted so much that Jiang Pingce had no choice but to give up and whispered, “Be careful, call me immediately when you encounter trouble.”
The two men parted at the door and entered the room with the candle.
The carved wooden bed was covered with the red futon, and remembering that the mechanical voice had said ‘go to bed and sleep’ earlier, Yue Xingwen simply had the courage to sleep in bed with his clothes.
The red candle light illuminated the room, and Yue Xingwen slept on the big red futon, always feeling hairy in his heart. He stared at the carved pattern on the top of the bed for a moment, and gradually, a wave of sleepiness struck, and Yue Xignwen fell into a deep sleep.
He had a very strange dream.
In the dream, he put on bright red wedding clothes, covered with a bright red veil and was being helped to walk forward. The stone path under his feet was winding, and many flowers and trees were planted around it. The courtyard was so wide that he could not see the end of it, very much like a rich and large family, and he crossed the long corridor with the help of the matron of honor, crossed the threshold, and came to a hall.
The high-pitched voice of ‘the auspicious hour has arrived, worshiping heaven and earth’ sounded in his ears.
He turned and bowed towards the house. After three consecutive bows, he was helped into a room.
Sitting on the bed, he lifted the obstructive veil, looked around, and found that the carved wooden bed, wardrobe, dresser, and wooden table in the room were exactly the same as what he had seen at the inn, with a pair of red candles on the table.
He glanced around and found a pair of large red rag dolls under the pillows.
The rag doll had a very long silver needle pinned to its body, and the silver needle fixed a white strip of cloth to the doll, which seemed to have a lot of numbers written on it, but it was just hard to read.
At this moment, a deafening scream suddenly rang out from the corridor outside, and Yue Xingwen was woken up by the noise, rolling out of bed and just about to rush out the door when the door to the room was suddenly pushed open and a cold wind blew through, blowing out the candles in the room.
The light in the room suddenly became dim, and under the pale moonlight, a woman in a bright wedding dress suddenly appeared at Yue Xingwen’s bedside like a ghost. Her red veil was blown away by the wind, revealing a very white face that looked like it had been glued with a layer of flour, but her lips were painted bright red like blood, and she had a round red cinnabar mole on her forehead, and her smile was strange.
Yue Xingwen’s scalp was numb. He immediately took out his dictionary and slammed it at her head!
However, the dictionary went straight through her body and hit the wall with a thud—— Her body was like an untouchable shadow that only swayed gently before she reached out her sharp claws and fiercely strangled Yue Xingwen’s neck——
Was this the ghost bride?!
Yue Xingwen turned and ran, he ran to the door, but saw that the door suddenly closed before his eyes. Countless red silk satin flew out of the hands of the ghost bride, like a spirit snake with eyes instantly surrounding Yue Xingwen. Yue Xingwen nimbly bent down to dodge those silk attacks, rushed to the window in a few steps and shouted, “Jiang Pingce!”
In the next room, Jiang Pingce suddenly pushed open the window and quickly drew the coordinate system with his right hand. Yue Xingwen did not hesitate to jump down the moment he saw him. With Jiang Pingce around, he would not be crippled even if he jumped down from a height of three meters.
Yue Xingwen landed on both feet and his body swayed slightly. Jiang Pingce hurriedly reached out to support him, and immediately after that, the windows on their side were all open. Liu Zhaoqing and Ke Shaobin also gritted their teeth and jumped down at Jiang Pingce’s eyes signal.
Everyone jumped down more than three meters high without injury.
Liu Zhaoqing grimaced. “My scalpel doesn’t work at all on the bride in red.”
Ke Shaobin shuddered, “It’s really-really a supernatural instance!”
Yue Xingwen quickly calmed down and said, “Ghost is a kind of phantom, it’s impossible to try to kill it. We can only run! Quickly go and join the others.”
Four of them walked quickly to the entrance of the inn. Qin Miao and Qin Lu had already moved down with the plate movement, and the couple, Gao Yongqiang and Gao Xiaoxin was also there, but the other couple was missing.
Yue Xingwen asked with a calm expression, “What about the other two?”
Qin Lu replied in a low voice, “I heard that Luo Jiajia was screaming, and told her to run towards me, they both probably did not hear me and ran straight over to the stairs, then they disappeared…”
Yue Xingwen shouted loudly, “Luo Jiajia!”
There was no response from inside the inn.
Gao Xiaoxin’s face was a bit ugly. “Something shouldn’t have happened, right?”
Yue Xingwen did not have time to think about it, and the door of the inn suddenly opened.
Seven women in red wedding dresses came out of the inn in a row. All of them looked different but had similar makeup, and they all had a red cinnabar mole dotted on their foreheads.
The hordes of brides in red made their scalps tingle!
Their figures were like ghosts, and Yue Xingwen only felt his eyes flickered before those seven brides instantly surrounded them.
With so many ghost brides, what was the secret of this ‘Inn no. 7’?!
O, I thought couples will be alive longer
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍
Is this a multiple choice??😁
So the team rn consists of 8 members.
Yue Xingwen – mc, Jiang Pingce – ml, Ke Shaobin – robot, Liu Zhaoqing – medical supplies, Zhuo Feng – electricity, Lin Manluo – plants, Xu Yishen – shadow clone, Zhang Xiaonan – bulldozer.
Then they will add Xin Yan – chemestry when they get their team to lv3. I’m guessing that the twins, Qin Lu – teleport and Qin Miao – weapon laws? will also be added, making 11 members, there will be one spot left on the team. So only one more charecter needs to be introduced.