Infinite spooky game

Chapter 17 Rose Manor ([-]) Closure of Clues and Statues

In the guest room on the second floor, Ye Zi's body stared with dead eyes and slowly slid to the ground.She never understood until her death how Zou Yan killed her in the copy of "Only ghosts can kill humans".

Zou Yan withdrew her right hand, her originally white arm was covered with ugly vine-like patterns, sometimes the tentacles of plants came out of the blood vessels, and tiny flower buds bloomed bloody.

The process of turning into a ghost only stopped at the arms and shoulders, and an iron ring hooped the muscles, preventing the further spread of the vines.

Zou Yan has her own plan for spending points to enter this dungeon.She wanted to make sure of some things, and now that her goal had been achieved, it was time to end this dungeon as soon as possible.

Two people are already dead, only one more person needs to be killed...

Zou Yan pushed open the door and walked towards the innermost room.

She remembered that Lin Chen, who stayed inside, was a newcomer.

……

In the room on the third floor, strands of blood began to spread from the fingertips, entangled Qi Si in a few breaths.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound.

The vines outside the door grew wildly, rushing in one after another through the cracks in the door, occupying every inch of the room.

The objective time seemed to be at a standstill at this moment, Chang Xu maintained the posture of bending over and standing by the bed, and Qi Si found himself unable to move.

A thin layer of pale pink was cast before his eyes, the light dimmed, and the surrounding scene turned yellow and curled like an old photo in a fire.

Scenes of phantoms appeared in the dim light and shadow, and Qiss could understand its meaning almost the moment he saw it.

The unfamiliar cognition was poured into the mind, and it became familiar in an instant, as if it had already existed in the depths of memory, but it was awakened at this moment...

……

It was raining heavily outside the castle.

In the attic full of debris, the girl with a red birthmark on her face fell to the ground.The door closed in front of her eyes, and the last piece of light and shadow converged into a line, and finally disappeared into the darkness.

The girl didn't cry or fuss, as if she was used to being treated like this. She just sat in the corner, quietly listening to the footsteps outside the door.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint light flickered in the darkness.Like a startled shadow creature, she timidly looked towards the light.

I saw a small statue of a god placed in the pile of ashes, shining brightly, as if bathed in a layer of misty morning light.

The face of the statue carved out of stone is exquisite and breathtakingly beautiful.

The girl picked up the statue by accident, put it in front of her eyes, and stared almost obsessively.

In a trance, she heard the voice of God.

God asked, "I can feel your pain, would you like to pray to me?"

The girl has long despaired of the future, but at this moment she does not feel the slightest fear of the unknown.

She smiled wryly and asked, "What's the use of praying? I was born ugly. They say I'm the reincarnation of a demon. Maybe my existence was a mistake."

God said: "Beauty and ugliness, good and evil, are all sentient beings. If you long for beauty, plant roses all over the attic, and everything will be as you wish in the future."

The girl agreed to the deal with God, and for countless days and nights, she secretly ran out of the castle, cut off rose branches in the manor, took them to the attic, filled the gaps with soil, and inserted the branches into them.

Her hands were scratched by the thorns of the roses and were scarred, but as long as she thought about the beauty she would soon have, she would forget all the fatigue and pain.

She thought of the candy her sister gave her when she was young, and the stories she told her, that was her initial cognition of family affection, and gradually more incomprehensible feelings grew.

But now my sister is busy attending various banquets every day, and never gives her a look; when she finally finds her sister and dares to kiss her lips, her parents rush in in panic, pointing at her and yelling Call, lock her into the attic.

She thought, it must be because she looks ugly, the world likes beauty and hates ugliness.

As long as she can become beautiful, her parents will not abandon her, and she can continue to follow her sister as they did when she was a child, right?

As the rose branches covered the attic, the birthmark on the girl's face faded, and she looked more and more like her elder sister, but she gradually discovered that the eyes of her parents looked more and more frightened.

It was a rainy night, and the girl heard her parents talking.

The father said: "Anne's behavior is getting more and more weird. I'm afraid she will hurt Anna... Do you want to ask the priest to come and see?"

The mother was hesitating: "We can't let the priest come, Anne will be executed. Let's watch her carefully and nothing will happen."

The father sighed: "Let Anna go to the country tomorrow. Let's arrange a marriage for Anna as soon as possible so that they can separate..."

The girl listened calmly, with no joy or anger on her face, she knew exactly what to do, just like planting roses night and night.

She went up to the attic again, knelt down in front of the statue, and worshiped devoutly.

"I want two people to die without suspicion, and I'm willing to pay any price to do that," she said.

God taught her to kill living creatures and use fresh blood to carve incantations.

The girl killed the family cat, and the moment the warm blood soaked her fingertips, she could no longer look back.

……

When Qis regained consciousness, he found himself leaning against the wall. The two skeletons on the big bed in front of him were gone, only a pile of bone fragments remained.

On the side, Chang Xu was trying to crush the bone into pieces.

Seeing Qisi wake up, Chang Xu explained: "You were possessed just now. I guessed that the key was the skeletons, so I smashed them."

Qi Si: ... Is this the legendary "one power down ten meetings"?

He looked down at his hand, the piece of paper he took out from under the pillow had disappeared, leaving no trace, as if it had never existed.

As for the words above, he couldn't remember a single word.

This is unusual, his memory has always been outstanding, and he can often achieve a photographic memory...

Could it be that there is no so-called piece of paper at all, and everything just now was just an illusion?

There was a moment of hesitation in Qisi's heart. He frowned slightly and asked, "Brother Chang, where is the piece of paper under the pillow?"

Chang Xu's mobility was extremely strong. When he said that sentence, he reached under the pillow and took out a piece of paper full of words. It was the one he took out before.

Qisi came forward and glanced at the words on the paper:

[Anna and Anne were born at the same time...]

Although he no longer remembered the contents of the previous piece of paper, he subconsciously determined that the two pieces of paper were exactly the same.

what is the problem?

Going back in time again?

If the previous time travel back was just a conclusion drawn from the side based on the movement of the hands on the pocket watch; then this time, it is a real personal experience.

Qi Si felt as if he had had a very, very long dream. In the dream, a thousand years passed in a blink of an eye, and countless thoughts flowed through his consciousness, leaving only faint marks and half-real impressions.

This feeling is very weird, it seems to come from the mechanism of the dungeon, and it seems to be an endowment buried deep in his memory.

All in all, it's not a good feeling, and it looks very troublesome.

Chang Xu had finished reading the contents of the paper, he handed the paper to Qi Si, and asked, "How do you know there is paper under the pillow?"

"I saw it." Chiss replied.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were clear: "It seems that time went back again just now. Of course, it is also possible that I am hallucinating."

He briefly recounted his experiences and feelings.

After Chang Xu heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly: "The time in Rose Manor has begun to become chaotic. The time reversal at one o'clock in the afternoon should be similar to a switch. Once activated, the subsequent effects are uncontrollable."

Qi Si remained silent, he raised his hand and tapped his temple, and scanned the rules on the system interface from beginning to end.

The anomaly at [-]:[-] p.m. is undoubtedly the key to breaking the game. The most urgent task is to understand the trigger mechanism of turning back time.

But there are too few clues.

The only thing that is certain is that the trigger of time reversal has something to do with Zou Yan or Ye Zi.

Some of them used props to get clues to the four-line poem from Chang Xu's room, and immediately conducted experiments.

The experiment worked.

　What a bloody story (it was very touching when I was thinking about it, but what happened after I wrote it down)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)