Chapter 2:

After Bai Yan finished reading the explanation, thirty seconds had passed.
There is an hourglass icon at the top right of the phone, and a countdown is displayed below the icon.
Thirty minutes seems a lot of time, but no one knows how many pieces of the puzzle need to be completed.
Time is running out, Bai Yan didn't talk to this group of randomly matched players. He got up and walked to the desk behind him, opened a drawer to check.
Seeing someone leaving, the others lost their thoughts and left their seats one after another, looking for a place.
There were two drawers in the desk that Bai Yan searched. Originally, he thought the puzzle would be difficult to find, but unexpectedly, when he opened the second drawer, he found a set of disturbed puzzles, quietly and quietly. Lying in the drawer.
"The difficulty of the game shows ‘easy’, is it really that easy?"
Bai Yan scanned the base of the puzzle, and he found this 79 puzzle with 63 pieces in total.
Generally speaking, it takes about 15 minutes for ordinary people to complete 63 puzzles. As long as they are not mentally retarded, even stupid people can complete it in 20 minutes. The game gives a full 30 minutes. In any case, the time is too much. .
What's more, he found that the pattern in this puzzle was just a panoramic view of the room, which was compared with objects in kind, so even kindergarten children could complete it smoothly.
This game deliberately brought a group of people, and even intimidated a lot. If the purpose is only to let them play jigsaw puzzles, it is really unreasonable.
Bai Yan remembered that the name of this game was Spiritual Jigsaw, and felt that the difficulty of the game was probably not due to the puzzle itself, but the spiritual phenomenon attached to the puzzle.
That being the case, he didn't rush to put together the puzzle.
With physical reference, his speed can be further improved, and the puzzle can be completed in about ten minutes.
But just in case, Bai Yan decided to spend fifteen minutes to complete the puzzle, and the other fifteen minutes to collect clues.
First put the puzzle on the table, Bai Yan began to look at the table carefully, trying to find something useful.
On the table top of the desk, in addition to the puzzle he just put on, there are also some stationery piled messy.
The table top of the desk was piled with discarded construction paper, broken oil pastels, and food residues.
Bai Yan picked up a piece of drawing paper with content and looked at it carefully, and saw that a large piece of drawing paper was blacked out with pencils, and in the center of the drawing paper, four little red people with weird smiles were painted with crayons.
"There are two villains who are obviously taller than the other two, probably parents and two children, a family of four?"
The stickman on the drawing paper is very clumsy and looks like a child's graffiti.
According to the lines, Bai Yan guessed that the painting should be a primary school student. He turned the drawing paper over, and found two lines on the back of the paper
[Class 2 of Grade One, Xin Meng. ]
"Really a kid who just started elementary school, Xin Meng, according to her name, she should be a girl." He said to himself.
In order to make sure that there was no missing information, Bai Yan opened the other drawing papers, and found that the content on each drawing paper was similar, so he put the drawing papers away and started to flip through a schoolbag on the chair in front of the desk.
The school bag on the chair is bright pink with cute cartoon patterns printed on it.
There are several textbooks on Chinese and mathematics, and some homework books in the schoolbag.
Bai Yan flipped through it, and the textbook was clean except for Xin Meng's name, and showed no trace of being used.
Finally, he found a diary in the mezzanine of his schoolbag, and it also had Xin Meng's name crookedly written on the cover.
Judging from the blood stains on the schoolbag, the little girl named Xin Meng has already been ill-fated.
Since the person concerned is dead, there is no right to privacy.
So, Bai Yan opened the diary and found a lot of things intermittently written on it
"April 16, sunny, Xiaohua and Huanhuan didn't come to ke today. There is no liao in school. I don't want to go to school."
"On May 2nd, Yin, my brother lost his zong. Mom and Dad were very nan, and I was very nan."
"On May 19, Yin, I still didn't find my brother. Mom and Dad were afraid that I would not see me either. They told me to stay at home and stop going to school. But I want to go to school and find Xiaohua and Huanhuan to play."
"On May 28th, Yin. Mom and Dad did not go to work. They frowned every day. I asked why they were more nanneng. Mom held me and cried, thinking about my brother. I miss my brother too. ."
"On July 1, Yin, my father is gone, my mother is crying all day long, I also cried, and I can't find my father."
"On July 6, sunny, my mother went out to buy things, but she didn't come back, and my mother was gone. I was so scared that I didn't dare to go out. I closed the door and I have to wait for my mother."
"On July 7, Yin, my mother didn't come back."
"On July 8, Yin, Mom still didn't come back."
"On July 9th, it was overcast. I couldn't find my mother. I took qiaokeli every day. I counted it and still got twelve yuan. I have to wait for my mother."
"On July 10, Yin, my mother came back and brought my father and younger brother back. I was very happy, but I was also very scared. My mother's face was so pale, I worriedly pulled her hand, mother's body was liangliang So scary, she said she was so cold."
"On July 11th, Yin, my father is so hungry, I am very angry when I qiang my food, and my brother is not obedient, but my father and mother are doing their own things, regardless of him. My mother nailed the door, and she said our family I won’t go out in the future, so it’s safe."
"July 12th,?, it hurts, it hurts, I can’t move, I’m so hurt, I can’t move, my mother holds me and helps me write a diary, but it hurts so much. Mom, can you take me there Seeing the doctor, I feel so uncomfortable."
"On July 13th?, I was so uncomfortable. I watched my father eating and watching my younger brother play, but I couldn't move. I was so uncomfortable. But my mother said that our family will always be together and we are very happy..."
The diary ended on July 13, Bai Yan turned a few pages back, until the end, there was no other handwriting, it seems that Xin Meng's diary ends here.
After quickly flipping through the diary, Bai Yan closed the diary and sorted out his thoughts.
Judging from the contents of the diary, this little girl named Xinmeng was still in school, but one day her brother disappeared, and then her father also disappeared, and finally her mother.
After her mother disappeared, the little girl had been waiting at home and was afraid to go out. As a result, three days later, her mother returned with her missing brother and father.
If you see this, it is still a relatively normal story. However, from Xin Meng’s description, her parents behaved very abnormally after they came back. One was cold and scary, and the other seemed to be suffering from bulimia. Eating food, even grabbing food for the daughter, obviously something terrible happened to these two people.
In relation to the theme of ‘spiritual puzzle’, Bai Yan thought he probably knew what would happen next. Combining the contents of the diary, shouldn't this four ghosts come out to make troubles when they put together the puzzles?
Of course, the diary only describes the weirdness of the parents and the little girl, not too much about the younger brother.
In Xin Meng's diary, only ‘Brother is disobedient’ is mentioned, but Bai Yan does not think that this child will live well. His whole family is no longer normal, and the door has been nailed up. The family of four is trapped in the room with no extra food sources. He is a child under six years old who can live safely and in a human form. '?
Maybe, Xin Meng's younger brother, like her parents, died long before he returned. Xin Meng completely led the wolf into the room and let three ghosts who were no longer her relatives into the originally safe home!
While thinking, Bai Yan heard a noise coming from the right.
He was thinking while listening to the pushing and quarreling over there.
Next to the closet, the newcomer man quarreled with the junior high school student, because after communicating, they found that the puzzles of the two were both printed with the terrible ghosts, but the area of ​​the ghosts on the puzzles of the junior high school students was smaller than that of the men. That’s a lot, so the man threatened the junior high school student, wanting him to hand over the jigsaw, and threw his blockbuster
ghost
jigsaw to the junior high school student.
But junior high school students are not stupid, so no matter how threatened the man is, he will defend the puzzle and not let go. The innocent junior high school student may think that this will protect his puzzle, but judging from his many years of incitement experience, if he doesn't let go, the middle-aged man can't help but do it.
However, they say there is a ghost on the puzzle, why is there no one on it?
Bai Yan reflexively looked at the woman who was standing in front of the pantry and looking sideways at the puzzle. The woman also found the jigsaw puzzle. What is hateful is that Bai Yan's eyesight is too poor. The woman's face is blurred in his eyes, and she can't see her expression at all, so it is impossible to speculate whether there is a ghost on her puzzle.
...Forget it, just assume that there are ghosts on her puzzle.
Bai Yan also wanted to intervene in the conflict between junior high school students and men, and for fear of arousing their vigilance, she did not rashly ask the women questions.
Anyway, there are two possibilities. There are ghosts on the woman's puzzle, and there are no ghosts on the woman's puzzle.
If it is the former, it is obviously a problem with his puzzle, which means that there must be a key clue hidden in the puzzle. And if it is the second type, it means that the game has two modes. Two people without ghosts on the puzzle is another way to play. It is more difficult or easier.
But no matter what kind of assumption it is, it is necessary to check the puzzle again.
So Bai Yan decided to look at the puzzle again.
With poor eyesight, he bent down and leaned closer to look at the puzzle on the desk. He separated the overlapping pieces so that each piece could be seen in full view.
After watching it for a full minute, he saw the strangeness of this puzzle.
On a piece of puzzle, there is a distorted face on the fragment corresponding to the chair
Upon closer inspection, the face was glued to the back of the chair, and his limbs were twisted into a ball of twists, wrapped around the four chair legs.
Bai Yan calmly took a closer look. This was actually a person on all fours. Her neck was painfully twisted so that the entire deformed face was stuck on the chair.
The moment when he saw this fragment, Bai Yan had Mingwu in his heart. He finally knew why the little girl in the diary suffered so much in the end.