Chapter 18 Rose Manor (Seventeen) Three Questions
"Lin Chen, are you in there? Ye Zi is dead, I'm so scared... Can you let me in?"
Lin Chen curled up on the bed, listening to the female voice outside the door, and couldn't help but tighten the door key in his hand.
The sound is separated from the human ear by a door panel, and coupled with the tremor suspected to be caused by fear, it sounds vague and distorted, but it can still be distinguished that it is Zou Yan's voice.
Lin Chen didn't have a deep impression of Zou Yan. He only remembered that she was a psychiatrist who said a few words advocating unity and had a calm and gentle face, which made people feel like spring breeze.
This was the first time he had lost his temper like this...
Lin Chen subconsciously climbed out of bed and reached for the door handle.
The moment he was about to turn the doorknob, he hesitated, regurgitating the scene in his memory.
An hour ago, when Zis left, he put the door key in his hand, his expression more serious than ever: "We are all adults, but I still want to remind you, don't get rid of me. No one can open the door.”
At that time, he didn’t understand what he meant and asked “why”.
Qisi looked at him and smiled coldly, with a sarcastic smile: "In this zero-sum game, except for you and me as a community of interests, you can't trust anyone. You just need to know that once you open the door , It’s not just you, but also me.”
This scene was too vivid. The moment Lin Chen recalled it, he took a step back and stared at the door warily.
Outside the door, Zou Yan's voice became increasingly urgent: "Lin Chen, please, save me!... It's coming! I will die!"
That voice The fear and despair in the words were sincere and did not seem to be fake. Lin Chen was secretly frightened when he heard them.
Although other players cannot be trusted, in the end they are just suspected, not that the evidence is conclusive. What if Zeiss's suspicions were wrong?
If he doesn't open the door, Zou Yan might really die...
But whether he opens the door or not involves not only his own safety, but also Qisi's...
Lin Chen's Sweat beaded on his forehead, and he began to hesitate. The key in his hand tightened and became embedded in his flesh.
......
On the third floor, Qisi exited the room with the skeletons and heard the sound of rain in an instant.
There are no windows in the corridors of the castle, and the thick and simple stone walls isolate the world. There is no visual evidence, and the hearing fades in the silence. What was heard just now seems like an illusion.
Qisi felt that it was indeed time to rain.
After all, in third-rate TV dramas, when the tragic plot reaches its climax, there always has to be a heavy rain to heighten the atmosphere, right?
The first room is almost explored, and no more clues can be found no matter how much time is wasted. Ziss walked to the room numbered "2", took out the thin wire, and unlocked the door in the same way.
As usual, Chang Xu took the lead. After the former walked around without encountering any problems, Qisi walked into the room slowly.
What you see is a huge floor-to-ceiling window that almost occupies the entire wall. The gray-purple sky reflects into the room, coating the ground and walls with a layer of misty gray.
Through the glass covered with spider webs, you can see the silky rain curtain weaving from top to bottom. The criss-crossing rain strands are layered on top of each other, making it temporarily tangled and difficult to distinguish. .
There was a soft "pop" behind the ear, and something fell to the ground.
Qisi lowered his head in response and saw a shabby rag doll lying next to his heels.
It was a little girl in red with braids, her eyes were replaced by two "crosses", and her straight mouth opened and closed singing a weird children's song:
"She's coming, she's coming, she's in the rainstorm..."
"Don't look at me, don't look at me, I'm in the closet..."
The door is behind you "Bang" "The door closed with a bang, and the surrounding light quickly dimmed, stained with the dark yellow color of the memory lens.
[Side mission has been triggered]
[Side mission (must do): Play hide and seek with Anna and Annie]
Two lines of text were refreshed on the system interface, and Qisi narrowed his eyes slightly.
There are actually side tasks, and they are specifically marked as "must do". Is it possible that there will be "optional" tasks in the future?
He watched thoughtfully as three identical wardrobes appeared out of thin air against the wall. They were all half a person tall and two people wide, casting a circle of gray shadows on the ground.
The little girl in a black skirt slowly emerged from the shadows and said in a sweet voice: "My sister is hiding in a cabinet. Can you help me find my sister? Each person opens the cabinet once. , whoever opens the empty cabinet will die.”
Is it a blind box problem?
Qisi remembered the example he gave Lin Chen not long ago, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Can we help judge by tapping on the counter?"
"No, before making a choice, You can only see it, but you can’t touch it.”
The dust fibers were suspended and flying in the air. The little girl was covered with a faint halo, but her face was blank, making her look like she was in an illusion. phantom.
She folded her hands on her chest and urged innocently and cruelly: "Choose quickly, one of you must choose first."
Qisi looked down at the girl who had no facial features. face, and asked abruptly: "Are you a human?"
The little girl raised her face and said, "Yes, I am a human being from beginning to end."
Chis smiled: "Okay, I will let my teammates choose a cabinet first, but no Open it. How about you choose one of the other two cabinets to open? You said it yourself, 'Everyone opens the cabinet once.'"
In the dim light like an old movie, Qisi waited leisurely. The little girl tilted her head in silence, hesitantly considering his proposal.
On the ground behind him, the doll was still reciting children's songs in a calm tone.
"She's coming, she's coming, she's in the rain..."
"Don't look at me, don't look at me, I'm... squeak!"
Without any warning, the chanting stopped abruptly and was replaced by the sound of a cricket being crushed.
The shadow of the girl in front of him suddenly flickered twice, disappearing together with the two wardrobes next to it, leaving only the middle wardrobe standing alone.
[Side mission completed]
A cold electronic sound suddenly sounded.
Qisi turned around in response and saw Chang Xu's expressionless face, and... the doll that was stepped on by him.
Chang Xu was silent for a breath, lowered his eyes and said: "I didn't expect it to be so weak."
...Are you cheating or cheating? What is this called? The problem cannot be solved, so solve the person who raised the problem?
Chisi suddenly remembered the answer "blow up the tram" that he heard during the previous discussion of the tram problem.
In his heart, he was glad that he had not attacked Chang Xu before. He smiled and teased: "You seem to be quite good at dealing with weird people. I'm afraid your identity is not as simple as you said, right?"
Chang Xu is kidding. Pulling the brim of his hat, he spit out three words: "Born."
"Awesome."
Qisi complimented, pointed to the crushed doll on the ground, and motioned to Chang Xu to pick it up. stand up.
Chang Xu followed the instructions silently, holding the doll in his hand and turning it over to observe, and finally turned up the corner of the doll's clothes to give Qisi a look.
There is an English word - "Anna" embroidered with red needlework.
"It is Anna's doll as her sister. From the content of the children's song, we can see that Anna is very afraid of her sister Anne, and Anne's love and affection are most likely just self-indulgent." Qisi will be very different from before. The speculation was stated again.
He glanced around the layout of the room, made sure there was no other place to explore, and then raised his hand to point to the closet in front of him.
Chang Xu understood, opened the closet door, and then bent down to pick up a yellowed old photo from the dusty interior.
The composition of the photo is very sloppy. Beside a long table filled with delicacies, nine people are sitting upright, all facing the camera, with stiff postures.
The faces of four of them were clearly visible, while the faces of the other five were blurry.
Qisi leaned over and looked carefully. Among the four distinct faces, there was a familiar face, Shen Ming!
There were three faces left, one of which he had seen before. It was the first dead person Chang Xu dug up from the pit in the garden.
A guess grew in my heart, and was verified the next second.
Chang Xu pointed at the three unfamiliar faces with his slender index finger: "The bodies of these three people are all in the garden. I dug them out myself."
Qisi stared at the portrait closest to the main seat and whispered: "After the player dies, the face will appear in the photo. There are still five vacancies, which correspond to five players. Does this mean that this dungeon has never wanted players to Leave alive?"
All the previous contradictions are now connected, and the feeling of life and death is too interesting. He suppressed the corner of his mouth to prevent himself from laughing: "Do you think there is a possibility? Time The cycle has already happened at the beginning of the dungeon? Three people died in each round."
"Impossible." Chang Xu shook his head, "There are obvious things like the garden and the third floor. I can't wait until the second round to explore the important clues."
Chis sneered: "Maybe we have already explored it in the first round, but unfortunately we couldn't break it in the end. Reset.”
The meaning behind the words is deeply cold.
Exploring over and over again, failing over and over again, losing all memory, and falling back into the cycle.
Reincarnation is repeating itself, one by one of the same kind is dying, there are fewer and fewer people around, and the hope of breaking the situation is gradually fading...
I am in despair without knowing it, and I still think I am pregnant with something. The hope of survival struggled hard until it was silently swallowed by this strange manor and became the nourishment of roses...
Thoughts spread in his mind like vines, and Qisi's breathing became rapid because of the poignancy of the image. .
Ignoring the dirt, he took the photo from Chang Xu's hand.
The front of the photo began to bleed with ink as if it had fallen into water, and the previously visible image became blurry for a few breaths.
The red letters written in blood penetrated from the back and were already congealed:
【All of us will die】
......
After the death of parents , the girl got her wish and lived with her sister until the man appeared.
The girl couldn't understand why a stranger who suddenly broke into her life would distract her sister's attention.
Obviously he is not good-looking, far worse than his sister. Why would my sister love him so humblely and cautiously?
The girl was causing trouble, and the man finally left, unable to take his sister with him.
The girl watched her sister cry all day long and couldn't understand why she was so sad.
My sister is getting haggard day by day, her beautiful face becomes dim, and when the roses in the garden wither, they bloom and fall with the seasons.
The girl could do nothing but go up to the attic again and pray to the idol.
God said: "She is sick and will die. Only the heart of her beloved can bring her back to life."
The girl does not want to admit it, but she knows clearly that her sister loves Looking at that man.
Fortunately, at this time, her appearance is almost the same as that of her sister. Even if her parents are still alive, they may not be able to tell the difference.
When the man returned to the manor, she received him on behalf of her sister and killed him.
The sister's corpse in the coffin opened its eyes. It was a ghost parasitized by roses. It would no longer call her name or look at her with sad eyes. It would age, rot, and decay with time every moment. withered.
She was afraid and went to pray to the gods.
The kind God cut off three days for her, allowing her and her sister to survive in the endless cycle.
She watched her sister repeat the process of decay in an endless three-day cycle. Although the condition was no longer getting worse, her face was already decayed.
She discovered with horror that she could not accept her sister's ugliness.
Every time she saw that wrinkled face, which was so crumbly and wrinkled, she would feel sick and want to vomit.
She even began to regret the sacrifices she had made in the past to get her sister.
She asked God if he could restore her sister’s beauty?
God opened his scarlet eyes and smiled bloodthirstyly: "Stay the guests who come to the manor and nourish the rose with their flesh and blood, and everything will be as you wish."
(This chapter End)