Creaking, Gu Jun slowly pushed open the wooden door, the room was gray and hazy, everything was shrouded in shadows.
He frowned, touched the light switch on the wall next to the door with his hand, and pressed it, with a snap.
But the light didn't come on, and the room light seemed to be broken.
He took a closer look and felt that everything in the room was fading and floating. The classic wooden bed and the wardrobe against the wall even seemed to be faintly visible. They seem to be somewhere between existence and non-existence, they have obviously disappeared, but they are still there in the blink of an eye.
"Is this my mental or visual problem? Or is it the room itself?"
Regarding this question, Gu Jun came to a judgment almost immediately.
The Witch House...
He thought about Kezia Mason again. She was not a good person, but she couldn't be defined simply as a villain.
She doesn't actually believe in Nyarlathotep, she only believes in herself.
If she hadn't found the prayer calling Shabu Nicholas in time and space, maybe the decisive victory would have been another result.
"What are you doing standing here?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded from behind, almost startling Gu Jun. Because he has high Gnosis and has been trained, he can hear even subtle sounds in the distance, but just now, he didn't hear any footsteps.
Gu Jun looked back, only to see a figure of a woman standing behind at some point.
She has long red hair, light green eyes, and a face with exquisite and beautiful features. She looks about twenty-five years old, wearing a denim jacket and overalls.
It was Hannah Mazelwicz, but she looked like Kezia Mason, the witch.
Her expressionless face made Gu Jun unable to guess her thoughts for a while.
"Do you walk silently?" he asked.
"Yes, yes, no." Hannah Mazelvic smiled slightly, "How are you doing now? Are you okay?"
Gu Jun looked at her intently, and said something that seemed to be mentally disturbed, "Kezia Mason, I want to ask you, what's going on?"
"Kezia-Mason? Me?" said Hannah, shrugging. "You've been thinking that since April Fools' Day. Jem, you're a smart man, you're not religious, you don't believe in God or ghosts Ling, you are not the kind of person who goes crazy easily, why did you suddenly go crazy?"
"Maybe you know the answer." Gu Jun looked into the room again, becoming more and more hazy, "Don't tell me, it's normal for your room to look like this."
"What's wrong with my room?" Hannah still shrugged, "Call Dad and Mom up and let them see what's wrong."
Before Gu Jun could speak, Hannah yelled, and soon Bob and Janet stepped on the wooden stairs and came quickly, asking what happened. Hannah said: "Dad, Mom, how about you take a look at my room?"
The Mazelwitches looked suspiciously, without any change in color, as if to them, everything in the room was as usual.
"Is there a light?" Hannah asked.
"Of course, baby." Janet replied incomprehensibly, and looked at Jem with concern again, "Are you all right?"
At the same time, Gu Jun was also looking at the room, which was already close to nothingness.
He didn't speak, just watched Hannah drive the couple down again, then she strode into the room and opened her hands, "I'm here."
"So you want to tell me," Gu Jun said, "Is there really something wrong with my spirit?"
"Obviously." Hannah nodded, but her expression gradually cooled down. "If your spirit is not in trouble, how can you see the problem?"
Gu Jun fixed her eyes, and there was something in her words, "What do you mean?"
"Can we really see our own faces?" Hannah walked over to where a quaint dressing mirror stood. "From the mirror? From the water? My brother, our eyes are not designed to know exactly what Seeing our own faces. How do we know that what we see is real?"
Gu Jun listened, this woman's attitude is not like Sanders, Bob and others, she is saying that he is not crazy.
He saw the abnormal situation in the room, and she didn't deny it. It was because other people couldn't see it, couldn't see the abnormal situation, and couldn't see the real problem.
"Come on, come with me, I'll take you to a place to see." Hannah walked out of the room, then walked down the stairs, and soon her voice sounded again: "Mom, Dad, Jem and I have something to go out for a walk." After a stroll, I ate dinner outside, don’t worry, it’s nothing important.”
That's it, Gu Jun left his "home" less than an hour after leaving, and got into a white Chevrolet driven by Hannah.
The car cranked up the engine, and it was blazing fast down the road, too fast for anything like a Chevrolet.
"Don't worry, we won't have a traffic accident." Hannah said, "No matter how fast you drive, we won't."
Under the night, while the car was passing by on the road, Gu Jun, who was sitting in the passenger seat, noticed that there were no vehicles on the road. Even though this was just a small town in Citigroup, it was too deserted. And the houses with mansard roofs passing by, although they were all lit up, seemed to have no one living in them, it was too quiet.
Hannah manipulated the steering wheel and drove the car all the way to the south.
The navigation map shows that there are still 3 miles to go out of Arkham, and soon, there are 2 miles left, 1 mile...
Gu Jun's eyes gradually saw an inexplicable scene. He left the space outside Arkham in front of him, just like Hannah's room, floating, deformed, and faintly visible. Weird nothingness.
The car stopped next to a road sign that said the town name "arkham".
Hannah turned to look at him, then looked forward again.
"I think back over the years, can you believe it, I have never left Arkham. I was born here, grew up here, went to school here, and then worked here. I should go out to study, summer camp, travel Yes, even if you go to other nearby towns.
But no, in my memory, in the pictures at home, it shows, I've always been in Arkham.
That is, a week ago, I read the book "The King in Yellow Clothes" that makes you crazy, and then I suddenly realized that I could see something else. "
"Brother, this is a big lunatic asylum." She said, "I just don't know whether we are crazy or we are the only ones who are not crazy."
Gu Jun pondered, "You have no idea about Kezia Mason? You look exactly like her."
"No." Hannah shook her head, "But who knows, maybe I'm the one with amnesia."
"Have you tried driving the car out?" Gu Jun asked again.