This year, Taipei's landmark 101 Building will still have a 300-second fireworks show. At the outer corner of the building, hundreds of workers are squatting and waiting for the signal to ignite the spark. In Kaohsiung City, the second largest municipality in the far south, Dream Times Avenue and E-DA World are also carrying out the same work at the same time. There are no fireworks in the D-T Avenue, only laser lights, projections, snowflakes, or other types of things.
Today she did not come here with Yu Xiaoyu to wait for the countdown for ten seconds as usual. Because the church arranged for her to play the piano, after class, Yu Ruoling went straight to Erling Church, which is located opposite the school.
She first went to the 7-11 next door to buy dinner, drinks, and snacks to prepare for the New Year's Eve party, and then took the elevator upstairs. To her surprise, around 5 p.m., dozens of people in the church were already preparing to set up the church.
Instead of finishing dinner first, she worked with them on their to-do list. After living for 15 years, the only things that can arouse her interest in this era are Jesus, the international situation, New Year's Eve and the Jewish New Year, as well as the Marvel Universe and some costume dramas.
There was a huge disconnect between her and the current high school students - her peers, she should say. She didn't understand what they were doing, and they didn't understand what she was doing.
The inner circle of these young people is becoming increasingly strange, and she still lives in a world that is relatively "retro" to them.
For example, puppet show, Star Trek. For example, she also knows that there is a super powerful female star who is 70 years old but looks like she is in her 20s. For example, she also knows who played the role 20 years ago, known as the most tragic female ghost. For example, she understands everything in ancient times better than everything in modern times. For example, when she sees vacuum cleaners or sweeping robots, or even things like automated production, Siri, and AI, she can't help but sigh that the world is changing so fast and is so high-tech.
She is like a stranger who arrived in this world through time and space from the Middle Ages. When Yu Ruoling realized this, one time the teacher asked if anyone had watched a famous Taiwanese costume drama decades ago - The Ming Dynasty Military Advisor.
She was the only one in the class who raised her hand. She learned how to speak Hokkien from this TV series. At that time, she discovered that she was completely disconnected from her peers. She originally thought that this would not happen even if she was bullied, but it seemed that it still had an impact.
Because she was alienated from her peers, she naturally did not want to touch their circle - not to mention that she simply hated this field at that time - so her social circle has always focused on adults.
Jiang Xiuyu called her at the reception table, and Yu Ruoling quickly put down the music score and hurried over.
It turned out that she was going to help prepare dinner - or midnight snack - and took a deep breath. The sweetness of lotus seeds and cinnamon, the fragrance of bitter melon and pork ribs soup, and the familiar braised food from the night market all filled her senses. The homely relaxation made her feel leisure, and she smiled comfortably.
It seems that she hasn't felt such a light and happy feeling for a long time. She almost bent her lips to pick up the kitchen knife, and with a bright expression on her face that seemed to be blooming, she happily helped Aunt Xiuyu handle the ingredients. Under that gentle smile, she cut the chicken breast bone in half with a kitchen knife, which frightened Fu Xiangqin who had just finished school.
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"Ruoling, let's go！Let's go to the next part！"Lin Xinyong held his briefcase and invited, "Come to my store for a late-night snack！"
"Is there anyone else？"She lifted up her waterfall-like hair and asked.
An hour after officially entering 2019, everyone gradually dispersed, and now most of them were young people and pastors who were left to clean up the dishes, garbage, and restore the venue cloths that needed to be cleaned up.
"Everyone who is here now！"
She did the math and found that there were Fu Xiangqin, Fu Xianghui, Lin Tianmo, Lin Tianzhao who had just been released from prison... no, Lin Tianzhao who had just been discharged from the army, as well as Long Junxi and Long Junyuan.
And Lin Yinxiang... Oh, thank God, he went back first, otherwise she would have been embarrassed to death.
Yu Ruoling thought, since her mother allowed her to spend the whole day, partying like crazy would be considered out of the rules but not dissolute. So, after she called to report, she went wandering with them.
Speaking of Shinyoung’s shop, it was her first time to go there.
The very small store that Lin Xinyong and his friend operated together has now officially become a three-story building. The first floor is used as a store - mainly selling frozen fish products, and of course other frozen direct-delivery food and festival delivery - and the second floor is the "VIP room" exclusive for these "VIPs".
This VIP room is still a "VIP room" with a hard and serious "VIP room" sticker bought from a bookstore on the door. The last third floor is a utility room, which can be called a warehouse.
On the second floor, a man who called himself "the little prince of board games from Erling Church Youth Club" immediately pulled out a whole Costco-style basket of products from under a desk against the wall.
Really, really many car-board games.
A group of people immediately burst into noise like a pressure cooker.
"Brother Tianmo, you are really exagger."
"What's exagger？"
"Oh my god, Lin Tianmo, when will you go bankrupt？"
"Hahaha！Nah, impossible."
"These look like almost twenty boxes！How much does it cost in total, alas！"
"It's probably really 4 or 5 digits."
"Die rich people."
“I didn't just buy all these at once！”
The black-haired girl laughed so hard that her facial nerves were threatening to collapse. Upon closer inspection, the face of this prospective piano teacher（8 lessons）really has nothing to do with his personality...('ω').
This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
Can imagine Bucky in Winter Soldier state, speaking Ant-Man's lines in that rampage mode... And then he behaves like a falcon, occasionally making mean and serious jokes. What a -
- It’s so funny, hahahahawww.
"Tsk, I'm so bad, Lallaalal. "Lin Tianmo gave up on himself and began to pretend to be cute. Unexpectedly, he saw other people with broken expressions, "Which one you going to try？Everykind in this basket is pretty simple."
This basket？So there are other baskets？？The Long brothers sitting next to him looked at him with "What did you say it's too windy and we didn't understand."
"What is …of scene is that？"Fu Xiangqin asked, pointing to a box of dark purple-red board games.
"Oh, crime scene."He took out the box and opened it, and the same props were neatly placed on the table. In addition to several clue cards, there are also several stacks of "committing tools."
"Have you ever played this？"He asked.
Several heads shook at the same time.
And Lin Tianmo was very interested, and it only took about ten minutes to explain all the rules clearly.
He is an arrogant man who calls himself the "little prince of board games", and all they think about is this sentence.
"I have a question."Long Junyuan asked.
"What is the problem？"
"What if the method of committing the crime is too abnormal？"Long said seriously, "The kind that is 18+."
Several people present were stunned, as if they had never thought about whether there would be such a method of committing a crime that "needs to really go to jail in reality to reflect on oneself."
"Uh...it doesn't matter. If there is one, we will just throw that guy out of here."
"But we are in the second floor？"
"But that guy is too so perverted. He's not well-behaved."
The Long brothers and Fu Xianghui laughed "hahaha" and lay on the table.
"Then, I want to be the one placing the wood."
"Alas, the genius is about to take action. "Lin Tianzhao laughed a few times and gave his seat to Yu Ruoling, "It's over. If it is Ruoling, we all have no idea whether she is helping the good guy or the murderer."
The black-haired girl sat down in her character's seat with a look of "heyheyhey" and excitement on her face. After the good people closed their eyes, she and the murderer confirmed what kind of crime tool he designated.
Later, she immediately made up a Sherlock Holmes mystery drama in mind.
"I'm ready！"
When everyone took a look, the combination of clues was "Place of crime：School", "Commitment space：Secret room", "Facial face of the deceased：Frightened", "Date of crime：Wednesday", "State of body：Dismembered".
"..."
"..."
"..."
The murderer Long Junxi and his accomplice Fu Xiangqin immediately twitched their lips, probably because they did not expect that the tools they chose to commit the crime would be forcibly used to produce such a thing.
What was originally a simple murder case was now arranged in this way by Yu Ruoling... Instead, it has become a sick, disgusting, murderous and antisocial murder case that can shock society.
"School！"Lin Tianzhao shouted, "Hey, Lin Xinyong, I think you are very suspicious."
The young consultant blinked innocently, his incredible expression revealed, "Hey！I only have pencils, erasers and utility knives that are suitable for school！Why don't you look at Long Junxi's scalpels, clocks, sculptures, and test papers？He It’s more similar！”
Long Junxi's heart tightened, and he secretly prayed that the person who twisted the case would appear soon.
"But the corpse is in a state of dismemberment. "Fu Xianghui lowered her head and thought for a moment, "It's also possible with a utility knife."
"Brother Tianzhao was also very suspicious that way. He also had a carving knife and a chainsaw. "Long Junxi quickly changed the focus, "Brother Tianzhao cannot be ruled out as the murderer."
"You are covering up Lin Xinyong！It's over, Lin Xinyong, are you the murderer？Hahaha！"
"I'm not！！"
Yu Ruoling sat on the chess table with a smile that made everybody uncomfortable on her face. When the detectives, the murderer, and his accomplices began to work out her story, she was no longer allowed to speak.
"But would sister Ruoling think of such a simple plot？"
This sentence broke all the clues at once. Long Junyuan stared at the two clue cards "School and Secret rom", his eyes drifting to the prop cards that would not appear in ordinary classrooms intentionally or unintentionally.
He himself felt that the astronomical telescope, sculptures, mannequins, puzzles, scalpels, knives, and the...wire plugs from Brother Tianmo had a good chance.
He doesn't know why, but since the last time he and his brother accidentally saw sister Fong Xuan and the whole "transformation" process, sister Ruoling's style of “that” has gradually gone away. From standing there looking like an iceberg or a glacier, keeping strangers away, now she started to occasionally act coquettishly towards them, and now she is excitedly playing board games.
She has become a truly normal high school girl. She was originally a sultry girl, but now she is a tsundere.
"I have a bad feeling when you talk about it. "Lin Tianzhao continued, "What will Ruoling think？Let me guess..."
"Hmm... I think Long Junxi is very likely."Fu Xianghui held her chin and looked at the prop sign opposite with a sharp look.
Probably thinking of something, her aura had a vaguely weird and sinister tone.
"What's that mean？”
"The place where the crime occurred is the school. It seems that the most likely ones are Brother Shinyoung and Long Junxi. "She continued to stare at the cards and reasoned, "The crime space was a secret room, but the cards in Brother Shinyoung’s place looked more like they would be in open classrooms.”
"But these things may also be taken by prisoners to the secret room."
"Or does the secret room not mean a confined space？"Lin Tianmo said suddenly.
"What's the meaning？"
Seeing that everyone turned to look at him, Lin Tianmo explained, "We all know that Ruoling will never take the normal route. I just thought that the 'secret room' might be a special place. For example, compared to other classrooms, most people don’t notice that much.”
"Genius！"Lin Xinyong shouted.
"Then you can see that the state of the body is dismembered, and the crime occurred on a Wednesday. Normally, school should be in session, right？"
"Yeah..."
Yu Ruoling listened to their debate and their respective reasoning with interest, and was secretly surprised.
Unexpectedly, Lin Tianmo could guess the script she compiled. At the beginning, the murderer laid out the crime tools and asked the victim to come to the secret room before killing him with the murder weapon. The so-called secret room is a vocational classroom. It is set up on Wednesdays that people come and go during school hours on weekdays.
If a crime is committed, it is easy to be discovered.
Therefore, must choose a specialist classroom that will only be opened in specialist classes. In her setting, the identity of the murderer is that of a student, and the victim is the director of one of departments of a college. Because only in this way can the victim solve the mystery so quickly and go to the palace of death.
"The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. "Fu Xiangqin suddenly spoke, "That astronomical telescope seems to have a good chance."
She pointed to one of the cards on Lin Tianmo's table, "And my sister also has a, uh... piano wire."
"Are you protecting Junxi？"Fu Xianghui said with raised eyebrows.
"No！"
"Then I have to guess, "Fu Xianghui threw out the "Case Handling Identification Stamp" with a mean look on her face and said, "I guess Long Junxi. Puzzle and scalpel."
Without any suspense, Yu Ruoling spread her hands and said, "Case closed."
"Nooo！！"x6
A group of people shouted so loudly that they almost shattered the silent night. They couldn't believe that the puzzle and the scalpel would be the final answer.
"Hey, why is there a puzzle？！"Lin Tianzhao collapsed and shouted, "Fu Xianghui, you are so exaggerated！"
"Wait a minute, is no one curious about how Xianghui was introducing？"
"Say it quickly！！"x6
Fu Xianghui looked dumbfounded at the curious babies who instantly surrounded her. Six pairs of bright, watery big dog eyes almost blinded her beautiful eyesight.
"Think about it！If you want to commit a crime during school hours, you can only do it in a secret place, right？Of course there will be no one in a secret place, so you have to use a lie！"
"And what about the scalpel！"
"Isn't there only one scalpel card on Long Junxi's table that can dismember corpse？"
So that's it... The remaining six people, who felt that their IQs had been severely crushed, were full of admiration.
Although Yu Ruoling's thinking is still not the normal route, she is also a master in coming up with this kind of plot in just one minute of hourglass countdown, but Fu Xianghui solved the puzzle in this more big puzzle -
- Is the true kingly way.
"So, can we give sister Xianghui a nickname, like… 'Holmes of Erling Church Youth League'？"The Long brothers said in unison.
"It's too long！"Fu Xianghui shouted as she went downstairs to get a drink so she could cope with the second round.
Yu Ruoling laughed so hard that she stood up, pressed her belly, sat close to Fu Xiangqin, and secretly took a sip of her friend's Coke.
Oh her God…
Coke is the kingly way.
Long live Cola Pie~('ω')
She sighed secretly, and then her attention was called back by the "identity card" in Lin Tianmo's hand. Yu Ruoling randomly take one of them...
Oh ya. She is “The Murderer”.(=￣ω￣=)