Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 265 It’s Better Not to Enter
After returning to the dormitory, Xia Shou opened the rote notes again and took a look. The handwriting on the notes became clear again.

He paused for a moment, then turned without hesitation to the page he had not finished reading last time.

The note has finished what it left unsaid last time.

[If you want to see the evidence, go to Merlin's House. In the study room where you first woke up, open the second drawer from the left to the right of the bookshelf cabinet. Press the bottom of the drawer hard and the bookshelf will move away. There is a door behind it. Alice can help you open that door. Inside the door are all the truth you want to know.

But that doesn't make any sense. 】

"Alice!"

"Master Xia Shou, I'm here."

"I need to go back to Merlin's House."

Xia Shou did not hesitate. No matter whether the truth was credible or suspicious, he had to see it now.

Alice grasped the door handle of the toilet and opened the door, and the entrance of Merlin's House appeared in front of Xia Shou.

Xia Shou walked past those strange-shaped and odd-looking doors and went straight back to the study room he had first traveled through. He opened the second drawer from the left to the right at the bottom of the bookcase mentioned in the Death Notes and pressed down the bottom of the drawer with force.

click!
The bookcase in front of him moved smoothly away, revealing a pitch-black door hidden behind it.

It was a black door as transparent as jade, with a square outline and smooth as a mirror. There was no door handle to hold on the surface, and no gaps at all. If it was not known in advance that it could be opened, it would be difficult to even call it a door.

At first glance, it looks more like a complete jade slab.

"Alice..."

Alice understood what he meant, and pressed her transparent hands on the stone slab, and then a very thin crack appeared in the center.

Accompanied by the rustling sound of rocks rubbing against each other, a dark entrance opened in front of Xia Shou.

Xia Shou raised his foot and crossed the boundary of the door. The light behind him seemed to be cut off by an invisible force, but the internal environment could be seen more clearly.

There were no obvious boundaries and no walls here, but Xia Shou saw an old-style wooden dining table with an empty plate, knife, fork and chopsticks on it. A burning candle was placed on a golden candlestick in the center of the table, and the flame was quite weak.

"This place gives me a... very familiar feeling." Alice took the initiative to speak.

Xia Shou frowned slightly, walked to the dining table, and gently wiped the edge of the table with his fingers.

For some reason, he also felt that this place was inexplicably familiar.

They walked around, and although every step felt solid, the further they went, the slower they were getting away from the dining table. It seemed that the farther they were from the dining table, the more an invisible force would pull them back with every step they took, preventing them from ever going deeper into the darkness.

As a last resort, Xia Shou had to go back to the dining table and sit down on the chair.

"Is this the evidence the notes mentioned?" Xia Shou asked himself doubtfully.

Or is this table actually some kind of anomaly with extraordinary powers?
Xia Shou accidentally saw black mosquitoes and flies fluttering above the candlelight, and something in a hazy particle state was moving around the edge of the pale golden candlelight.

Looking closely, he saw a single word - "I".

Only then did he realize that what were floating above the flames were Chinese characters!

He put his face close to the candle flame and held his breath to look at the words surrounding the light source. The separated Chinese characters seemed to have no connection with each other, but they were closely connected. Xia Shou could see at a glance that this character was connected to that character, and together they formed a sentence.

As Xia Shou's attention was fully focused, the words that were as tiny as mosquitoes and much smaller than the word "mountain" at the bottom of the eye chart slowly enlarged in his field of vision and turned into a sentence: [I think this is not the first time I have traveled through time.]

"Alice, can you see that?"

Xia Shou spoke very softly, for fear that the air current caused by his speech would disturb the flame and blow away the tiny words.

"Yes, Lord Xia Shou, I saw it too." Alice replied softly.

Xia Shou frowned in confusion and began to focus on other sentences. Then, he saw more sentences that he couldn't understand.

……

……

In the blink of an eye, Xia Shou found himself standing in the study of Merlin's House again.

The only difference is that before he was facing the black jade door, but now he had his back to the black jade door, as if he was walking out of the door.

Xia Shou felt a sharp pain on the inside of his arm. He raised his hand and saw a line of words spelled out on his arm by the wound.

[You have been in there, and it was you who took the initiative to forget everything. In addition, you can absolutely trust Shangguan Yan and protect her well.

Live well in this world. Everything before you traveled through time did not exist. Live in the present. 】

General Xia read this line of words over and over again, frowning.

Is this what the notes say, inconclusive evidence?
The message was indeed consistent with what the death notes said: "credible yet suspicious". After all, he couldn't confirm whether the wound was caused by himself after entering the door.

But what about what was said above that Shangguan Yan could be absolutely trusted?

"Lord Xia Shou, after I go back this time, I will sleep for a while. Please devour some more anomalies so that I can wake up faster." Alice said.

"Well, have a good rest. You've worked hard."

Xia Shou returned to the dormitory through the bathroom door and said to the notebook: "The evidence you mentioned is the line of words that suddenly appeared on your hand after you went in?"

【What's the extra line of words? 】

"It says that I have been there, and it also says that I can absolutely trust Shangguan Yan. It also says that everything before I traveled through time and space did not exist. It is completely different from what you said." Xia Shou said.

After a few seconds, the note began to reply, as if it didn't know how to answer just now.

[That's why I said I'm not sure whether it can be trusted, but I think... there is indeed something wrong with that door.

Perhaps something happened inside the door during a period of time that I am not aware of, otherwise you would never have written the words "Shangguan Yan is absolutely trustworthy" inside it.

This sentence itself is ambiguous. She can indeed believe it, but she is definitely not a good woman.

She is very bad, extremely bad in some aspects. You must always pay attention to her. Don't treat her as a companion. It is better to treat her as a trading partner.

Always remember that you are just using each other, so that you won't be sold out by her. 】

This statement is a bit suspicious, and the notes don't seem to know what is inside that door.

"Then what does it mean to protect Shangguan Yan?" Xia Shou continued to question.

In his opinion, Shangguan Yan didn't look like someone who needed his protection at all.

I don't have the ability to protect the other party.

[There must be something wrong with that door. I also feel that this message is not right. 】

Xia Shou’s thoughts became even more confused.

The problems have not decreased, but have increased.

He sighed, snapped the notebook shut and threw it back into the drawer.

(End of this chapter)