2019: Walkthrough by: Louis Koot
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10 months later
Tower Island
Di floats in a row boat towards a deserted island and there's nothing he, or you, can do. Then Di reach the island and he walks to the deer that's blocking the entrance of the tower
A large Drum stand at the right. Go talk to the deer. The deer blocks the stairs to the tower and he says that Di must play his song on the drum
A Drumstick appears on the rocks on the left side of the stairs.
Take the drumstick and examine the drumstick in your inventory and note the strange lines on the handle.
Click, with the hand icon, on the Drum to see the thing in close-up
The deer has said that Di must play his song on the drum. So you must hit the symbols on the drum with the drumstick, but you must do this in the right order. You may only hit on 5 sections of the drum. The drum has 9 sections that you can hit with the drumstick. If you see the drum as a clock then there the sections that you can hit are on 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 5 0'clock, 6 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 11 o'clock and there is the YingYang symbol in the middle
The solution for this puzzle can be found on the drumstick. The vertical lines on the drumstick indicate the number of times you have to hit each section of the drum. The horizontal lines indicate which section of the drum you should hit. See the Take your drumstick from your inventory and hit the right part of the drum in the right order: Click 1x at 9 o'clock, Click 3x at 12 o'clock, Click 1x at 3 o'clock, Click 2x at 7 o'clock, Click the Yin Yang symbol 1x and......done
Talk to the deer about everything......the deer disappears....... Go in the tower and see what happens
Now Chapter 1 begins
Private Quarters
It was a dream Di had and he's now a wake and in his room. It's 10 months later and Di has been appointed as chief investigator of Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese empire.
The old Emperor is dead and Wu Zetian, the first and only female empress of China, is now in power
On the desk is Di's Journal. Click with the hand icon on the Journal. Scroll to the last page and click with your hand on the empty page to write a "New Journal Entry" about your dream.
Read what you have wrote because it contains background information about the story.
Di is summoned by the Empress, so he has to go to the Imperial Palace immediately. Exit your room to the courtyard.
Courtyard
The big doors will bring you on the map. In the upper right corner stand a scaffolding because there are repairs going on on the roof.
There's a hammer lying on the scaffolding. Take the Hammer
Exit through the big doors to be on the map.
There are two location available on the map now, the Justice Department and the Imperial Palace.
The Justice Department is were we are right now, so go on the city map to the Imperial Palace.
Imperial Palace
Captain Yao Mei, the personal guard of the Empress, has a talk about the political situation and about Di with Empress Wu Zetian.
Then Yao Mei goes away to fetch Di and there follows a conversation between Di and the Empress in witch the Empress tells Di about a new murder
Talk to Empress about everything. The murdered victim is a young woman and her name is / was Xu Linfei.
When you're finished with talking with the Empress you walk back left to Yao Mei. You can talk with Yao Mei but she hasn't much time and patient with Di, so forget this.
Leave the palace to the Map and travel back to the:
Justice Department
Di always end up in the courtyard. Walk down and the go right and into the lobby of the Justice Department.
Lobby
Talk to your first Lieutenant Ma Dawei about everything.
Amongst other things Ma Dawei tells about the case and that he has put all the evidence that was found at the crime scene in the Evidence Box, including a sketch that he has made of a footprint that was found at the crime scene. That Evidence Box stand on the counter behind Ma Dawei.
So when your done talking walk to the right until see Di is behind Ma Dawei. Then open the Evidence Box, that stand on the counter
From the evidence box Di takes out a rose, a broken walking stick and a footprint sketch. Examine those 3 items in inventory
Walk back to the left. Opposite Ma Dawei to the jail room, the Lockup.....go in there
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Talk to the locked up Xu Dan, the old and blind father of the murdered Xu Lingfei, who's the prime suspect of the murder
Learn about what happened on the night of the murder, according Xu Dan. Go back to the lobby and then go right to the Morgue. Talk to the coroner Yao about everything. When you're finished talking with Yao go back to the lobby and leave the building to the courtyard. Go through the double doors on the city map and go to the victim's house.
Victim's House
Di is in the courtyard of the victim's house. The heavy rain of last night has left a puddle in the courtyard. Beneath the window are a set of footprints in the mud. Examine, with your eye icon, the puddle, the footprints and the window and listen carefully what Di says about it.
Take the footprint sketch from inventory and use the sketch on the footprints beneath the window and.....
........The sketch of Lieutenant Ma Dawei is a match with the footprints and Di conclude that the murderer has been standing here to observe Xu Linfei and her father through the window. You have found your first bit of evidence and this gets noted in the evidence screen
Click this screen away and now go into the house. Click with your hand icon on the 'area of interest', that's in the middle of the floor
Then examine everything, the blood stain, the fallen chair and stool beside the bed and listen to Di's comments on it
Di will find a Fragment of Wood, witch he put in inventory. Against the left wall stand a cabinet, under the window.
Just in front of that cabinet are scratches on the wall. Look at those Wall Marks en listen to what Di says about it
Di things that the cabinet was moved, so click with your hand icon on the cabinet to push the cabinet from the wall a bit
Behind the cabinet is a Note. Take that Note
Read the note......
Di has found his second bit of evidence
Close the evidence screen. Now combine in inventory the Fragment of wood with the broken walking stick, to repair the walking stick.
Then examine the walking stick and......
......the walking stick is the 3rd piece of evidence
Close the screen and go outside and......Behind the fence of the courtyard stand a boy.......Go talk with that boy, his name Xia Bao
Talk to Xiao Bao tells about his medallion and about Liu Zelin, your predecessor. Liu Zelin was a corrupt bastard and he has taken the medallion from Xiao Bao. Xiao Bao only want to tell what he has seen here if Di find his medallion and give it back to him. Travel via the Map back to the:
Justice Department
Go to the lobby and talk to Lieutenant Ma and ask him about Xiao Bao's medallion
Your lieutenant doesn't know anything about a medallion. Go to the mortuary and ask coroner Yao also about the medallion. Yao also knows nothing about a medallion but he tells about a secret stash of your predecessor Liu Zelin.. Go to the courtyard. On the left side of the big doors stand a plant......a bird flies away from the plant. Move the plant aside by clicking it with the hand icon
Di see an Exposed Brick in the wall......
If you try to pull the brick out of the wall then Di says that he need something to do that. Go back to the mortuary.
Take the medical chisel that's on the wall shelf....Di has to explain to Yao why he needs his chisel but then he may take it. Go back to the courtyard.
Combine in inventory the chisel with the hammer. Then use the hammer / chisel on the exposed brick and.......
Di has found the secret stash of his predecessor and the medallion of Xiao Bao
You have found the 4th evidence
Victim's House
Go back, via the map, to the victim's house and give Xiao Bao his medallion back
Now Xiao Bao wants to talk. Talk to him about everything and get more information about his relationship with the victim, Liu and about his memory of the night of the murder
...and......Di has solved this case.....
Imperial Palace
Go, via the map, to the Imperial Palace and walk on to Empress Wu.
Di will now reconstruct the murder of Xu Linfei.
During Di's reconstruction of the murder you again must click 3 times the right answer....First Select: "Spying on them"
Then select "Breaking Xu Dan's walking stick"
Then select "A warning"......
We then are back at the Empress.....The case of the murdered Xu Linfei is solved although we don't know yet who's the murderer.
Than Yao Mei turns up to tell the Empress that there's been another murder.
So Di must continue his investigation in:
2019: Walkthrough by: Louis Koot