Chapter 254 Bad Game
The moment he heard the sound, Ning Zhe stopped and even his breathing couldn't help but stop.
He lowered his head and glanced at the kerosene lamp in his hand, which was still out.
Ning Zhe quickly unbuttoned his belt, tied the kerosene lamp on his belt to free his hands, turned around and returned to the top floor, grabbed the edge of the stone with both hands, tentatively stretched his feet down, and stepped on At the lookout window, the whole person was clinging to the outer wall of the tower like a gecko, slowly climbing down.
The whistling wind passed by my ears, and the rustling sound came closer.
Ning Zhe climbed down one floor, left the observation window with his feet, and sat on a protruding log on the side of the outer wall. His whole body curled up, shivering from the cold wind at high altitude.
This log is located directly below a lookout window. It is part of the floor load-bearing column of this tower. Ning Zhe held his hands on the wall and looked down. There was another window not far away diagonally below. , the orange firelight flashed from the window, and the sound of rapid footsteps approached.
“Fuck!fuck!fuck!”
The angry Europa curse sounded together with the footsteps, moving quickly down the spiral corridor, the survivor holding the lamp quickly Then he ran from Ning Zhe's feet to the lower floor, and continued running to the ground.
The flickering light gradually faded away, and the lookout window became dim again.
At this time, the rustling sound of friction sounded again.
Ning Zhe held his breath, pressed his body against the wall, and stared unblinkingly at the observation window diagonally below. A tall, thin, shriveled, strange figure with a severely deformed lower body slowly appeared in the window. Dragging a pair of swollen legs that exuded the stench of decay, he clasped his hands on the stone steps and slowly climbed down the spiral corridor.
Sand—sand—
It was the sound of skin wrapped in clothes rubbing against the stone tile floor. The deformed monster was wearing a baggy down jacket and a piece of old-fashioned wool. The shirt slowly disappeared from Ning Zhe's sight.
"I seem to have seen that down jacket and woolen sweater." Ning Zhe stepped on the protruding log and stood up slowly, breathing into his frozen hands.
To be precise, I haven't seen it, but I've walked through it.
The thing that crawled under the window just now was wearing... The clothes on the short-haired man when Ning Zhe first came here were almost exactly the same except that they were more shabby. .
After that thing killed the short-haired man, he took off his clothes and put them on himself?
Or will the survivors in the castle turn into it after being killed by 'it'?
Ning Zhe stood up straight and climbed back into the tower through the observation window above his head. When he looked up, he saw that the niche on the wall had lit up at some point. Under the flickering firelight, a large area The walls were damp and filled with a musty smell.
"That thing seems to only become visible when illuminated by light." Ning Zhe stretched out his hand to extinguish the oil lamp in the niche, looked at the dry wall in front of him, and found some patterns:
1. Wandering 'It' in the castle has two states: invisible and visible
It is usually invisible, and will only appear and kill when it is illuminated by light.
2. The castle itself also exists in two states: dry and clean, and wet and stale
Under normal circumstances, the castle walls are dry and relatively clean, and have obviously been properly maintained and cleaned. But the parts of the wall that are illuminated by the light will become damp, old, and exude a moldy and decaying smell.
The key to switching between these two states is ‘light’.
“The red writing in the closet also mentioned that you can only reach the basement with a kerosene lamp, otherwise you will be trapped and die here.” Ning Zhe looked at the oil lamp placed in the niche. If there is Thoughts: "And it seems like it has to be the light coming from the castle itself. Let the environment switch between the two states. My previous use of lighters and anti-wolf flashlights will not affect the environment here."
After thinking about it, Ning Zhe picked up the niche. He put on the oil lamp, brought it close to his nose and smelled it, and the smell of burnt cotton rope wick hit his face.
But under the cover of the burnt smell, there is a putrid smell of grease, like a corpse that has been buried in the ground for months.
Because of the cold weather and the concealment of the burning oil lamp itself, Ning Zhe was not able to accurately distinguish the smell before, but now that he was closer, he could smell it clearly.
“This is human oil?” Ning Zhe looked at the oil lamp in his hand, and there was very little oil left in it.
Taking off the kerosene lamp tied to his belt, Ning Zhe took off the glass cover, put his nose close to the brass lamp holder and smelled it. The burnt smell of the burning wick mixed with the smell of rotting corpses, and mixed with the niche. The oil lamps inside are the same.
It turns out that the kerosene lamp was not filled with kerosene at all, but corpse oil. This was a corpse oil lamp.
“Interesting.” Ning Zhe poured the remaining lamp oil into the brass base of the corpse oil lamp, put the glass lampshade back in place, and walked downstairs with the lamp in hand.
No other accidents were encountered along the way, and no other survivors were seen, which confirmed Ning Zhe's thoughts.
Although 'it' is in the same castle as him, it is not in the same space. It is like two people existing in two parallel universes, neither aware of the other's existence.
Only when the corpse oil lamp is lit, the two parallel worlds will briefly intersect, and people can see ghosts, and ghosts can find people.
“So theoretically, as long as the lamp is not lit, the castle is safe. But if you want to escape, you must light a lamp, because only with the light of the corpse oil lamp can you find the way to the basement. Road." Ning Zhe carried the corpse oil lamp and walked down the spiral corridor, and soon reached the first floor.
Out of the tower, a gray-white open space surrounded by four high walls comes into view. The ground is paved with neat stone bricks. In the center of the open space, two thick wooden pillars stand upright on a square stone platform. , with a slanted knife hanging in the middle on an iron chain.
This is an execution platform used for beheadings.
Going around the execution platform, on the opposite side of the open space is a large rusty iron gate, which is firmly locked by a thick iron chain, without any gaps to pass through. There were two other gates like this, but they were both locked, and the white girl could not open them with her physical strength.
Ning Zhe touched the wall with one hand and walked around the open space. Apart from these three closed large iron doors, he did not find any other exits. The execution platform was completely empty. There is no place to hide.
"Where did the survivor go?" Ning Zhe was a little confused.
Was he killed?
Or is there actually a hidden exit here that he can see but I can't?
Ning Zhe thought about it, turned his eyes to the corpse oil lamp in his hand, and suddenly smiled:
“What happened here seems more like a vicious incident than a weird incident. Game.”
(End of this chapter)