Escape Room: Read The Precautions
First Room- Solve the Secret of Death #3
The house was closer than I thought.
Emma
How can I get into the house...?
Then, I remembered the window I saw outside the house.
Emma
(Since it's a semi-basement house, if I break the window)
Emma
(I might be able to get inside the house...)
Emma
(I should try the password...)
Emma
(Don't people usually use a password that's easy to remember or... has a significant meaning?)
Leaning on the door, I racked my brain.
What could be meaningful to Sooah Lee...
Emma
(Something meaningful...)
Emma
(Her sister's birthday??)
I hurriedly took out the photo from my wallet.
Looking at the photo, I saw the date written at the bottom of the photo.
<Sister's last birthday. I miss you.
2010.07.16>
As I entered 100716 on the door lock keypad,
As soon as I entered the room,
I connected Sooah's phone to the charger.
Emma
(...Sigh, it's the most important means of communication and information.)
Emma
(I have to be careful not to wear out the battery.)
Emma
Hmm... What else is there?
A family photo was framed on the desk,
A scrapbook and some newspaper articles were spread out in slight disarray.
And on the wall behind the desk,
There was a cloth fastened with pins.
I removed the cloth first.
After clearing the sky, what came into view was
It feels like something I've seen in a movie or a drama.
The incident was intense.
Five victims killed in a series of murders and one unsolved case,
and the suspect who is presumed to be the culprit.
The suspect's personal information about their family and surrounding figures was also recorded.
As I was looking at the tangled map of the case,
I saw a photo that looked strangely familiar.
Emma
(No, not the photo, but...)
Emma
(The face in the photo looked familiar...)
I removed the photo from the map and looked at it more closely.
Emma
Isn't she Sooah's older sister?
It was as if the puzzle started to fit together.
When the serial killer was actively operating,
Sooah was only in elementary school.
Why was she chasing after the serial killer like this...
Emma
(...So, her sister was murdered.)
Emma
(I need to check the scrapbook as well...!)
As soon as the heavily stacked scrapbook on the desk is opened
news articles about the serial killings that had started 16 years ago
Every single thing was scrapped.
The content about the suspect was also full.
Emma
Name... Lee Jangjun... Age is thirty-nine...
The scrapbook was also filled with details about the 12-year blank period in which there were no crimes in Korea.
It was packed with information.
Emma
(He lived abroad for a total of 9 years, and 4 of those years were spent in prison due to drugs...)
Emma
(Severe alcohol addiction... He doesn't smoke, though...)
Emma
It's been more than 2 years since he returned to Korea, right?
Right then, I began to wonder why he hadn't committed any crimes in that time.
When I flipped to the next page of the scrapbook, I discovered the answer.
Emma
(As soon as he returned to Korea, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital...)
Emma
(And thus, he spent nearly 3 years in the hospital...)
And on the last page of the scrapbook
with seemingly scribbled handwriting
it was written that he was discharged on October 2nd.
Emma
(He couldn't do anything in the 3 years he was in the hospital.)
Emma
(But now, he's in a state where he can commit crimes again...)
And his first target just had to be Sooah Lee..
I closed the scrapbook as I bit my lips.
And then, right next to it
There was a diary inside that diary.
Emma
(Looking at it written until October 2nd,
Emma
(I guess today is probably the 3rd.)
I skimmed through September's diary, but I couldn't find anything special.
And just as I was about to flip to the October diary,
A dull knocking sound came from the door.
Who could be visiting at this hour?
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