He glanced at the dark passage in front of him, then looked back at Bai Zhi, with a look of suspicion on Yanhuo Fengyun's face.
"Guess."
Shrugging his shoulders, Bai Zhi took the lead and walked in, followed closely by Anna, who was slightly nervous.
"Tch, if you don't want to say it, just don't say it..."
Pouting his lips, Yanhuo Fengyue also followed behind. .
"..."
- Zero, the dead man walking at the end, looked at her back silently.
Volume 1: The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 279 Chapter 275: Players from a Different World in the Secret
Unlike other places, after walking through the dark corridor, the first thing that rushed into everyone's nostrils was the extremely strong smell of blood.
The unusually strong smell of rust that permeated the air made even the deceased Ling frown slightly.
This is a cold and cold Xingfang that does not look very big. The torches on both sides provide bright lighting for the place. Against the backdrop of the firelight, a mess is vaguely visible.
“A place like this…”
He stretched out his hand to cover his nose. Before Yanhuo Fengyue could finish a sentence, something seemed to be kicked under his feet.
When she lowered her head to look with some confusion, she saw a long group of black hair with a slight scarlet color that she had kicked aside. When she saw the group of things, Yan Huo Fengyue's face suddenly couldn't help but smile slightly. for a change.
This kind of place looks like a torture chamber for punishing prisoners. Naturally, it can't be a barber's room, so the ball of hair that I kicked just now...
Covering her mouth tightly, Yanhuo Fengyue suddenly felt a little nauseous. She raised her head and looked at the white paper not far in front of her. She suddenly couldn't understand why the other party wanted to bring Anna into a place like this.
Even she, a well-informed player, can't stand the environment here, let alone a child like Anna
"…where is Catherine?"
Holding the hem of Bai Zhi's clothes tightly with one hand, Anna, who had never seen such a cruel scene in front of her, looked horribly pale.
"She's right here."
Turning his eyes to the mutilated corpse on the execution rack, which was no longer humanoid at all, Bai Zhi spoke calmly.
"Everyone in the castle has been cursed by alienation, including your parents. However, there are only two exceptions in the castle."
"One is Anna, and the other is Catherine, the personal maid who is with Anna and takes care of her?"
Covering her nose tightly with one hand, Yanhuo Fengyue spoke with some confusion.
"In that case, Catherine was not cursed because of Anna's influence. And if the doll curse can restrain the alienation curse... Anna is the subject of the doll curse?"
"You think too much. Whether it is the [Alienation Curse] or the [Doll Curse], they are just some manifestations of ghost stories. The source of the [Alienation Curse] is easy to find. It comes from the shadow of the rose. There are thousands of blood-red tentacles hanging from the leaden clouds above the manor, but the source of the [Doll Curse] is not Anna. She is just an ordinary and innocent child who was persecuted... At most, she is slightly special in some aspects. It’s just a place.”
Slowly walking to the torture rack, Bai Zhi reached out and picked up the out-of-place ragdoll cat placed aside.
"Some things are not as simple as they appear on the surface. All kinds of mysteries are intertwined with each other, and eventually become a big ball of yarn that cannot be sorted out and can't be cut..."
After looking at the ragdoll cat for a few times, Bai Zhi put it into the tail ring without changing his expression, then turned his head and spoke to Anna who was stunned there.
"You have also seen that Catherine is dead and cannot come back to life. Do you have any other wishes?"
"Dead...death, what is it?"
Ana raised her head and looked at him blankly.
"Death means no longer existing, unable to speak, unable to move. From now on, you can only miss the other person in your memory."
Looking at the other person's eyes that were darkening little by little, after thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi spoke.
"Let the deceased rest in peace, which is for her..."
"Anna!!!"
But before Bai Zhi finished his sentence, a slightly urgent voice sounded, and a figure stumbled over from the entrance. When he saw Anna standing in the middle, the voice suddenly He ran forward and hugged the other person regardless.
"Catherine...?"
The whole person was stunned for a moment, but when she saw the face of the person hugging her in front of her, Anna's eyes suddenly lit up again.
"You're not dead?"
"I was saved by a kind-hearted man. He told me that Anna, you will be deceived by several bad people... Anna, don't believe them, that person said they are all bad people."
As if she had thought of something, she quickly protected Anna behind her. Catherine had a look of caution on her face.
"Are you one step ahead of me again..."
Looking at Catherine and Anna in front of him, after a moment of silence, Bai Zhi nodded thoughtfully and without any intention of making any excuses, Bai Zhi turned and walked towards the outside of the execution chamber.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Anna is still... waiting for me!!"
After taking a look at Catherine who looked on guard over there and Anna who was timidly hiding behind Catherine, Yanhuo Fengyue made a decision in a moment and quickly followed Bai Zhi, feeling a little confused. Asked him.
"Although I don't know the reason why you brought Anna here, if you just leave like this, then wouldn't the things we did before... "
"We were set up."
Bai Zhi turned around and glanced at Yanhuo Fengyue, and then spoke calmly.
"Under the premise that Caitlin, who was supposed to be dead, reappears, it is impossible for Anna to trust us. There is no point in continuing to stay there."
"But this kind of thing..."
"Let's put it this way, that otherworld player came in here earlier than us. What it did was not only leak out the location we would definitely go to before and lead to an ambush, but it also included... Previously, a skill that could be silenced caused the deceased Zero's skill to be sealed, which increased our danger level again. However, what the other party did even more amazingly was to save Catherine in advance... "
When he said this, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Whether it's inside or outside, Anna is the absolute core figure. We have lost the opportunity... The other party is a bit interesting."
"...So we are being plotted again?"
After thinking for a moment, Yanhuo Fengyue frowned.
"It can only be said that the other party has more information than us, and since the other party enters the scene first, it has more opportunities and time to plan."
Shrugging, Bai Zhi looked unconcerned.
"But it doesn't matter. I have one more card than it. It's hard to say who will win or lose in the end... I still have some experience in reasoning layout, so I might as well give it a try."
"So what do we do now?"
Walking out of the passage, looking at the castle in front of him that had begun to regain some movement, Yanhuo Fengyue asked.
"Continue to hide?"
"It's more or less the same. We'll discuss the details later. It's better for us to find a place to stay now."
Tilting his head and reaching out to lightly press his neck, Bai Zhi turned around helplessly and looked at the deceased Ling.
"One more thing... please, can you stop staring at me murderously all the way?"
Volume One: The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 280 Chapter 276 Anna’s Spiritual World
There are still quite a lot of vacant rooms in Nuoda's castle.
Taking advantage of the time when those in the castle had not yet recovered, and had no intention of paying attention to Anna and Catherine, Bai Zhi and his party found a room on the third floor and hid.
I originally wanted to use Princess Anna as a breakthrough, but I didn't expect that someone would get there first. Frankly speaking, their current situation is not that good.
"...So this is the current situation."
After giving a brief explanation of all his findings so far, Bai Zhi raised his head and glanced at the silent girl in front of him.
When I explain these things, only the other party will remain silent and listen from beginning to end. If it were someone else, they would have to ask a few questions in the middle.
"The core of Rose Manor is Anna. Whether it is Anna the puppet master or Anna the princess, the importance of the two is equal. Because Anna herself seems to have some special qualities, Anna's parents want to pass Anna through To achieve some unknown purpose, it is currently speculated that it is related to the [Alienation Curse]. After all, under the premise that basically all the people in the entire manor have been alienated, Anna and Catherine who are following her have not been affected by any Influence."
"So if Anna's parents' purpose is achieved, Princess Anna will become Puppet Master Anna?"
Before the deceased Zero could speak, Yanhuo Fengyue nodded thoughtfully.
"You also said before that in the castle outside, when Anna took you to visit her parents, she took you directly into the secret torture chamber. They did not become dolls, but became two A mummy... So did Anna’s parents’ plan succeed or fail?”
"Is there any trace of the [Alienation Curse] in the castle outside?"
Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows and asked the other party.
"Uh... So Anna won?"
"Then how did the [Doll Curse] appear later?"
"Hmm... Anna's parents won?"
"Then where did the [Alienation Curse] go?"
"That's Anna... where are you putting this doll!?"
Pyrotechnics and Fengyue, who noticed something was wrong, rolled their eyes angrily.
"Please, can you please stop making some guessing sessions and just tell me step by step? Or do you smart people just like to tell the truth? Do you really think that we ordinary people are like you and can put together a dozen unrelated things?" Are the clues connected? I can't even solve a math problem..."
"Okay, then I'll make it a little simpler."
After taking a sip of mineral water, Bai Zhi shrugged slightly.
"Do you know what the structure of this strange story in [Rose Manor] is? The mission prompt says that as long as we can kill Anna, we can completely end this strange story. What do you think is the Anna we are asked to kill in the mission prompt? Which one is it?"
"The Anna outside can be resurrected infinitely, but the Anna inside cannot be killed. I think neither of these two..."
"The third Anna."
Before Yanhuo Fengyue finished speaking, the deceased Zero suddenly spoke.
"The Anna who really needs us to kill exists in the core area."
"Yes, actually where we are now, according to my inference, should theoretically be in Anna's spiritual world."
Bai Zhi glanced at the deceased Ling with some surprise, and snapped his fingers.
"Let's put it this way, whether we are in the Rose Manor outside or the Rose Manor inside, we are in Anna's spiritual world from beginning to end. If we want to truly end this strange story by killing Anna, we must enter To the real core.”
"The spiritual world...what's the reason?"
It seemed that he didn't expect Bai Zhi to come up with such a hypothesis, and Yanhuo Fengyue couldn't help but frown slightly.
"You said that we are all in Anna's spiritual world, and these are just yours..."
"The electric lights that appeared in the castle outside due to the principle of equivalent exchange, the puppet master Anna's ability to create whatever she wants, and her own ability to be infinitely resurrected."
Once again interrupting the words of Yanhuo Fengyue, the deceased Zero spoke calmly.
Fireworks and Fengyue: "..."
The corners of her eyes twitched slightly, and she glanced at the girl with a calm look on her side. She suddenly felt as if she was being targeted.
However, when his eyes turned to the long knife that had appeared on the opponent's waist at some point, for the sake of his own life, Yanhuo Fengyue decisively decided not to argue too much with the opponent. .
"Yes, in fact, after seeing the records in the notebook, I already had a guess in this regard. One of the basis for the guess is that the items in the castle that appeared based on the principle of equivalent exchange did not have any buttons and Electric lights with wires. I checked carefully. Not to mention wires or button switches, it is just a shelf product, but it is an automatic induction type, no electricity, no wires, no buttons... This kind of item is difficult to buy. Understandable, but if this is a creation created by Anna in her own spiritual world based on other people's descriptions that she has never seen before, then it is understandable. After all, as long as the appearance and function are the same, who would How about investigating the rationale behind it?”
Bai Zhi glanced at the girl in front of him quite unexpectedly, and nodded.
"At the same time, it's not just these. Anna herself has also shown a very unique ability to create things with her thoughts, such as creating a cup of black tea or an umbrella out of thin air... In her own spiritual world, it is naturally impossible for her It will be killed, and every time it is killed, it will be resurrected again.”
"Hmm... What about the castle inside?"
After raising this question, Yanhuo Fengyun immediately looked at the girl aside with vigilance.
"Why is there no nuclear power here..."
"Please, everything that happened in the castle inside was just a reappearance of the past illusion. Do you really think that we traveled through time and space and returned to the past?"
This time, the deceased Ling did not interrupt her, because her words were interrupted by Bai Zhi.
"We can walk into the fantasy of the past and participate in things that happened in past history. This is an incredible thing in itself, but this is a reappearance of the fantasy of the past, just like a VR game. Because we ourselves are in Anna's In the spiritual world, so all this becomes quite reasonable. In this river? This is very reasonable."
Fireworks and Fengyue: "..."
... She suddenly wanted to find someone to help her feel the psychological shadow in her heart at this time.
Volume One: The Gap between Virtuality and Reality: Chapter 281 Chapter 277: It’s hard to accumulate majesty, okay! !
Just like he analyzed the actual situation of the amusement park before, Bai Zhi has now also revealed most of the truth about Rose Manor.
Start from scratch and make progress slowly.