Nita led the way, her high-heeled shoes made a crisp and rhythmic sound as they stepped on the exquisitely carved floor.
But the distance between each step of her is fixed, and the frequency of her steps does not fluctuate at all, just as flat and stiff as she is.
Nita led them through corridors, all the way twists and turns like a labyrinth, making it almost impossible to remember the way back then.
Xiao Zhi noticed that the doors of all the surrounding rooms were tightly closed, and there was no sound coming from inside. The three of them are undead and have no footsteps. At this moment, only Nita's footsteps echoed lonely, as if she was the only one in the whole mansion.
Nita's footsteps stopped suddenly, she turned to Xiao Zhi, and bowed to him: "This is the guest room prepared for you, please follow me in."
It seems that there is still a room for one person.
Xiao Zhi exchanged glances with his seniors, signaling them to rest assured, and then followed Nita into the room.
The room is still so exquisite and gorgeous, only candle lighting, it looks a bit dim. In the middle is a large bed that is big enough for several people to lie on. The bed frame is made of black metal, covered with bright red silk bedding, giving it a luxurious feel.
Xiao Zhiyuan thought he would see something weird in the room, but he didn't.
At least there were no strange statues, incomprehensible books, weird dolls and the like within his sight range. It looked like a room with nothing out of the ordinary other than being overly ornate.
Afterwards, Nita also arranged rooms for Einstein and Veddy. Although there were only three guests, their rooms were spread out and arranged in different locations along the corridor, as if the other closed doors were full of people.
After Nita left, the three brothers and sisters searched their room carefully at the same time.
A moment later, in Vide's room.
Xiao Zhi sat on the sofa: "I have turned all the corners and found nothing strange."
Einstein sat on the high-back chair: "Me too, I even got under the bed, but there was nothing."
The sofa and chairs are all occupied, and Vidy can only lie on the bed: "I checked all the decorations, and there are no ghost legends. The books on the table are also normal love stories."
Einstein: "Tell me, what do you want to do in this level?"
Xiao Zhi guessed: "Since it's Hessen's checkpoint, could it be related to a supernatural event? Enter the weird mansion and experience various death crises in it, and finally find the way out."
"According to the routine of the game, this kind of closed mansion must have elements of exploration and puzzle solving. Do you remember the corridor we came here? The corridor is so tortuous, maybe there may be a chase."
Einstein touched his little braid: "Yes, I have also played this kind of game. The ghosts that chase you in a closed scene will be caught as long as you make a mistake. You know it's just It's a game but it's still exciting. Oops, I'm suddenly looking forward to what's going to happen next."
Veddy: "…"
He wasn't looking forward to it at all. Why can these two people make it so simple to actually experience horror games
Xiao Zhi said: "Under normal circumstances, the horror plot begins after the protagonist group disperses."
Einstein: "Take turns to die, and defeat each one."
Viddy shrank back under the covers, he didn't feel well. It's obviously for playing games, ZERO is already very terrible, why do you want to add horror elements when you come to Hessen? Can't Hesse be more consistent with the painting style of other places on the mainland? What local characteristics should be added? ! ! !
Veddy looked around: "Could it be haunted here?"
Xiao Zhi looked indifferent: "We are ghosts now."
Wei Di looked at Einstein on the left, and Xiao Zhi on the right. Their faces were pale at the moment, and their bodies were translucent. After using the undead soul crystal, what are they ghosts now
His whole body languished a little more.
Einstein comforted his junior brother: "The big deal is death, don't be afraid."
Wei Di didn't seem to be comforted at all, and was even more sluggish. His eyes were straight, and he stared blankly at Einstein's back.
The other two also noticed that the situation was not good, Xiao Zhi quietly turned his gaze, and looked towards Wei Di's gaze.
The windows of the room are colorful stained glass, because of the pattern on it, the three people in the room couldn't see clearly what was outside. But a humanoid black shadow appeared on the window, and the black shadow remained motionless, not knowing what it was.
When did this thing lie there? There was no sound at all.
The three of them did not act rashly, and the room and the outside fell into a strange silence.
After a while, the black shadow squirmed and retreated slowly. It was obviously not small, but it didn't make any sound during the whole process, just like when it appeared.
After the black shadow completely disappeared, he got up and tried to open the window, but found that the window seemed to be welded dead, Xiao Zhi turned around: "It can't be opened at all."
Einstein: "Is it because we are afraid that we will escape through the window? We really want to explore and decrypt it."
Xiao Zhi asked: "Go out and have a look?"
Einstein raised the corner of his mouth: "Of course, such an interesting place, I want to take a closer look."
Veddy: "…"
Holding the quilt, he looked weak and helpless.
Xiao Zhi asked a soul-striking question: "Brother Sixteen, are you going out with us to die? Or stay and die by yourself?"
The word "death" is really good. In horror games, isn't chasing after strange things just like "death".
Of course, so is the order.
Wei Di thought for a while, he chose the lesser of two evils, he might be the one who stayed and died, but if he joined the team, the three of them might all be wiped out, and if he was lucky, it might not be possible for him to stay will die.
Then he got into the quilt with his whole body, his buttocks pouted and motionless, even his head was tightly covered, not showing at all, and he looked completely listless.
Einstein also understood when he saw this, and he waved his hand at the quilt: "Then let's go first, be careful yourself, and send us a message if something happens."
A hand stretched out from under the quilt and said "OK".
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Xiao Zhi and Einstein went out one after the other.
The outside was still as quiet as before. The rooms in the corridor were tightly closed, and there was no one around, nor Nita in sight. I don't know where she went after that.
They kept quiet and walked quietly to other areas.
The two were excitedly planning to discover ghosts, but they didn't expect to find nothing along the way. Not only were there no scary ghosts rushing out of nowhere, there were no doors that opened automatically, and there were no strange sounds that suddenly sounded.
It's too normal, but it makes people feel like a heart is hanging and almost breaking.
When I came back to the hall, the hall was still the same as before, and the candles were still on, but Nita, who was sitting on the sofa, was gone now.
Xiao Zhi went to try the door first, but it was as motionless as the window.
Xiao Zhi: "The doors and windows can't get out, so where is the way to get out?"
Einstein walked over: "Is it possible that the exit is not set in such a simple place, or it may require a special method to open it."
Xiao Zhi thought about it: "It's even possible that the way to leave is not to use the door. In this magical world, it's really hard to say."
Einstein nodded, and after exploring without any results, the two left here.
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The two continued to search for clues in the house.
After a while, an obviously bigger and more ornate door appeared in front of him. Xiao Zhi stretched out his hand and pushed gently, and the door opened.
Xiao Zhi turned his head and looked at Einstein, and found excitement in each other's eyes. This was the first door they could open besides their own room, and there must be something different inside.
The two entered the room lightly back and forth.
Xiao Zhi walked in front, and the room in front of him was still gorgeous with a cold texture, and the furnishings in the room were much more than Xiao Zhi's guest room.
This probably belonged to the owner's room, and it was not small, Xiao Zhi and the others were only in the outermost room.
In the middle is an oil painting, which depicts a beautiful woman in a white dress with pale skin and pretty features, with her hair tied high in a bun.
There was no smile on the woman's face, she stared forward with a pair of light blue eyes, unable to tell whether she was sad or happy. There was a necklace around her neck, and she had no other ornaments on her body.
After checking the surroundings and finding no clues, Xiao Zhi greeted Einstein and walked towards what should be the bedroom.
As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Zhi was taken aback. A figure in the same clothes as the oil painting at the door appeared in front of him, with his back turned to him, and it was unclear whether it was the woman in the oil painting for a while.
It was quite embarrassing to be arrested for breaking into an empty door, Xiao Zhi didn't know how to explain it for a while, and it seemed that he entered the hostess' room.
Said that we just went to the bathroom hand in hand, I don't know if we will be kicked out as stinky hooligans.
Xiao Zhi waited for a moment, but found that the figure in front of him did not respond. Not only did he not turn around because he was disturbed, he didn't even move slightly.
Xiao Zhi was suspicious, and tentatively said, "Excuse me, did I bother you?"
The other party still didn't respond.
Xiao Zhi took a few steps forward and walked closer, only then did he realize that the person in front of him was not human at all. Because its exposed neck is snow-white, not the kind of snow-white that describes people's fair skin, but literally, as pale as snow.
Not only that, Xiao Zhi also observed the reflection with the help of subtle candlelight, which only appears on the surface of hard materials, and the reflection with clear edges is not the texture that human skin should have.
This time he decisively walked to the front of the figure. It turned out that this woman dressed like the woman in the female oil painting was also a doll, but it was far less delicate than Nita in the hall. Her face was blank and she didn't even have facial features.
Xiao Zhi retreated to the door and shouted: "Brother, come and have a look."
Footsteps sounded from behind him, gradually approaching him.
Xiao Zhi said: "Look, I found a puppet, which is the same as in the oil painting outside—"
His voice suddenly stopped.
Because Xiao Zhi suddenly remembered that Einstein used undead soul crystals just like him, unless they deliberately stepped on harder, otherwise the undead would not make footsteps at all when they moved forward.
So, what is this thing that is gradually approaching his back
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, Xiao Zhi didn't have time to think about it, and took advantage of the lightness of the undead's body to suddenly fly upwards, instantly pulling away the distance from the bottom.
Xiao Zhi looked down from a high place, and saw a pale doll wearing Einstein's clothes standing below, raising his blank face to "look" at him.
Xiao Zhi looked around the room, but did not see Einstein's trace.
Where did Brother Ai go? Why did such a thing suddenly appear
At this moment, a rustling sound came from the room, which sounded like the rubbing sound of a gorgeous dress being dragged across the ground.
Xiao Zhi followed the sound and looked over, sure enough, the puppet in the room also moved.
With stiff steps, it stretched out its hand and walked towards Xiao Zhi.
Another puppet also reached out to him, trying to grab him.
Xiao Zhi sent a fireball to each of them with a backhand, and then rushed out of the room at flying speed.
As soon as he rushed out, Xiao Zhi saw Einstein also rushed out at the same time, both of them were taken aback when they saw each other.
Xiao Zhi: "I saw you turned into—"
Einstein: "I see you become—"
Neither of them continued talking, presumably the other party must have encountered the same situation as themselves. For some reason, they entered the same room, but they were separated into two spaces afterwards, and they encountered similar encounters but could not see each other.
Footsteps continued to be heard in the room.
The two looked back at the same time, and this time there were four dolls in the room, two of them were wearing the same style of oil painting, one was wearing Einstein's clothes, and the other was wearing the same style of Xiao Zhi.
At this time, their speed was obviously faster than before. Light blue energy fluctuations appeared in the hands of the two dolls in long skirts, and two ice blades attacked them respectively.
Xiao Zhi and the two hurriedly dodged, at this moment, a burst of music sounded, as brisk and melodious as a music box.
Accompanied by the music, there were rustling sounds from the rooms on both sides that could not be opened, as if many people were slowly approaching the door.
Einstein smiled: "It's exciting again."
Xiao Zhi rushed forward: "Hurry up, the chase is coming."
After finishing speaking, he slipped away without any brotherly affection.
"Little brother, you run so fast!" Seeing this, Einstein quickly followed, he didn't want to be left behind.
The pale figures of the two undead quickly passed by in the corridor. As they advanced, the sound of the door opening kept coming from behind them. Xiao Zhi took the time to look back, these rooms were all filled with pale dolls, no wonder there was no sound coming out before, they were all dead things.
The puppets all came out now, stood at the door with blank faces facing them, while reaching out to them slowly and stiffly, the picture was quite strange.
The situation is not right, they plan to go back to find Viddy first, and take him to run away together.
While running, the two discussed.
Xiao Zhi: "I think that room just now must be very important, otherwise the whole house would not have changed as soon as we entered."
Einstein: "Did you find a clue?"
Xiao Zhi: "No, but I suspect it has something to do with the portrait, how about you?"
Einstein spread his hands: "I doubt her too."
Xiao Zhi: "Let's take Brother Sixteen over and have a look."
Einstein agreed with this, and when he was undecided, he looked for a master, which was a tacit understanding among the scumbags. Although Viddy's game level is negligible, he is quite keen in finding clues and analysis.
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The two changed lanes several times in the corridor, and finally got rid of the puppet behind them.
Back in the corridor where their room was located, it was still as peaceful as before, unaffected by the disturbance in the distance.
When he came to Wei Di's room, he was still in the same quilt-covered shape, as if he wanted to live and die with the quilt.
Einstein took a step forward: "Get up, we found a clue."
As he spoke, he was about to reach out and lift Viddy's quilt.
A hand suddenly stretched out in front of him, blocking his movement. Einstein looked back suspiciously, but saw Xiao Zhi holding the address book in one hand while mouthing to him: Look at the address book.
Feeling that something was wrong, Einstein withdrew his hand, opened his address book, and saw that there was an extra message from Vidi in the contact group of the three.
Sixteen: Be careful, I'm dead, I don't know what happened, it's the resurrection point as soon as I open my eyes.
The two put away their address books, then drew their weapons.
Xiao Zhi looked at Einstein, and Einstein nodded.
Then, they suddenly lifted the quilt, and blasted the doll disguised as Vidy inside. The poor puppet was waiting for the opportunity to be assassinated, but it didn't expect the two people to be so unreasonable, so they came up and pounded it to pieces.
The shards of the doll were scattered on the big bed, and the human form was almost invisible. There were still incomplete parts that had been swallowed by the fire of the undead, and it looked particularly miserable.
Einstein was a little worried: "What if Wei... Shiliu died?"
This feels like a scumbag who only found out before the exam that the bully at the same table today has diarrhea and can't come on leave.
Xiao Zhi was also a little worried, his eyes searched the bed, and suddenly he saw a little reflection under the candlelight. He reached for it and found it to be a key.
Einstein leaned over: "The key? This thing doesn't seem to belong to Sixteen. I know everything about him."
Xiao Zhi looked at the key: "Does it look familiar, as if you've seen it somewhere?"
Einstein touched his chin and thought for a moment: "No."
Xiao Zhi frowned, he still felt very suspicious. Suddenly the oil painting he had seen before flashed through his mind, the woman in the portrait had a necklace on her neck, because it was her only accessory, Xiao Zhi took a extra look at it.
Xiao Zhi: "We may have to go back to that room to take a look. I think the pattern on the woman's necklace in the oil painting seems a bit like the pattern on the key."
Einstein: "You mean, the exit door might be hidden in the portrait"
Xiao Zhi nodded: "Go and see?"
Einstein: "Well, there are no other clues now anyway."
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Go again to the hallway where the ornate door is.
The corridor had originally returned to calm, but as the two stepped in, the quiet rooms on both sides became commotion again. The two kept walking, rushing forward with the speed of the undead.
Opening the door, two dolls dressed in identical clothes were waiting for them, and next to them were two dolls that imitated Xiao Zhi's clothes.
The four dolls "looked" straight at them and attacked them the moment they stepped into the room.
The two female dolls still used ice magic, and the dolls that imitated Xiao Zhi and the two also used the attacking methods of mage and assassin respectively, and the imitation was so precise that it was much better than Viddy's doll.
Xiao Zhi thought, the reason why the Veddy doll was so easy to deal with just now is probably because the target it imitated was Veddy...
Einstein turned around and stopped the attack coming towards Xiao Zhi: "Little brother, you go and try it first, I will block it here."
Although he is a scumbag, but in battle, Einstein is a very reliable good brother, even in 1V4, he will not be afraid.
Seeing this, Xiao Zhi immediately pulled away, and quickly floated towards the portrait.
A puppet wanted to chase, but was kicked back by Einstein. He dodged the puppet's attack, and sometimes he was almost missed. It looked very dangerous, but he still stopped them. over here.
But the situation is not good, because the surrounding room is opened again, and the puppets are slowly approaching here.
Xiao Zhi quickly came to the portrait, the woman in the painting still looked neither sad nor happy. He took out the key and compared it with the necklace on the woman's neck, and found that they were indeed the same.
Not seeing the keyhole, Xiao Zhi tried to paste the pattern on the key on the woman's necklace.
The next moment, a burst of light blue light lit up, and a familiar teleportation array appeared in the place where the portrait was originally.
"Go!" Xiao Zhi greeted Einstein, and threw a series of fireballs to support him.
After a while, the two worked together to get rid of the dolls and entered the portal.
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The transmitted light passed.
Xiao Zhi found himself floating on a gray ocean, the sea here had no waves and no sense of flow, just like a pool of stagnant water.
If you look carefully, there are vaguely dead souls floating in the water, but their expressions are dull, and their movements are also very slow, looking ignorant. Maybe what looks like water down there isn't actually water.
There was a layer of light gray mist on the surface of the sea, which blocked his vision and made him unable to see far away.
Einstein, who entered the portal at the same time as him, disappeared, and there was no sign of anyone around.
Xiao Zhi took out his address book and wanted to contact his seniors, but he found that the message could not be sent out, only a reminder that "we are in a special environment and cannot communicate temporarily".
It seems that the last level can only be advanced alone.
Xiao Zhi was floating on the sea, not knowing how to get out of this level. Hessen's three levels, the first level tests the combat power and judgment, the second level tests the analysis ability, so what about the third level
It's not that the entire selection of clerks doesn't test the participants' immortal writing skills, right? What if a clerk who is completely illiterate is elected
Just as he was thinking, a small slate floated on the water in front of him. The texture of this slab was unknown, but it could actually float on the water, which seemed a bit strange.
Xiao Zhipiao took a closer look, and there were words engraved on it:
He passed through the tunnels of life and death,
Break through the hustle and bustle of the world,
peel off the heavy body,
Invite me to dance with you, into the arms of death, far and peaceful.
This is what Xiao Zhi learned this month. The undead poet Severina dedicated her love poem to the God of Death—"Death is Eternal Nostalgia". The whole poem describes her feelings and longing for death at the moment of life and death Here's a snippet of it.
Xiao Zhi picked up the slate, it was just a long strip about the size of a palm, obviously there was still content in front and back, probably for the participants to find other parts and complete them.
Xiao Zhi smiled: "The final written test? It's quite romantic."