After confirming the "size" of the five bottles of wine, the next steps are relatively simple.
As mentioned above, the law of the Tower of Hanoi is easy to grasp, and there is no reason why Ruoyu can't figure it out.
Just like that, after another three minutes, all five bottles of wine had been moved to the bottom row of the wine rack, and the steps experienced during this period were also the shortest in theory.
When the last bottle of wine was put back in place, there was a sudden sound of machinery and gears rolling in the wall beside Ruoyu.
Seeing this, Feng Bujue immediately stepped forward: "Here... let me stand in front."
In this kind of place where danger may be encountered, Brother Jue usually rushes to the front. It's not that he has much sacrifice spirit, but he thinks such a choice is more efficient and safer.
squeak-
Just when Brother Jue and Ruoyu exchanged positions, the wall at the end of the wine cellar was slowly opened.
Behind the wall, a dark, narrow and long passage appeared along the way; the walls of this passage seemed to be uncarved natural stone walls, the height and width were similar to this wine cellar, but... the depth was unknown, and it was impossible to see at a glance. At the end, we can only know that it is winding forward all the way...
"This...is not quite right." Ruoyu looked inside for a while, then said, "The wine cellar under the principal's office should be a space between the first and second floors of the school, but this road..."
"It's very simple. From here... we are about to enter a subspace-like area." Feng Bujue took her lead and said, "These settings like the ones in front of me are obviously generated independently by the system. It has nothing to do with the principal anymore... As expected, if you continue to move forward, you will be close to the final plot... "
...
Divide the conversation into two parts, and then look at Xiao Tan and the others.
Without Brother Jue leading the way, An Yueqin, who had a flashlight in her hand, consciously began to lead the way.
After leaving the principal's office, the four of them carefully went down to the first floor.
Since that "hu chi—" sounded like a sliding door, their search targets were naturally those rooms with sliding doors.
Fortunately, this school doesn't have much space. Standing at the stairs and looking left and right, the players discovered the anomaly...
At this moment, as far as they could see, the classrooms that had been opened before were still open, that is to say... those doors had not changed.
However, the door of that "teacher's office"... opened at some point.
"That... that buddy on the playground opened it, right?" Xiao Tan looked at the door over there, lowered his voice and read to his teammates around him.
"From the fact that he opened the door of the 'teacher's office'..." Gui Xiao continued, "Maybe he is a teacher in this school?"
"Maybe." Xiao Ling continued, "But he is definitely not the teacher of Class A of the second year." She explained, "Because he is not among the four adults in the group photo."
"I think...he might be the squad leader Watanabe when he grows up." An Yueqin turned her head at this moment.
"Well, it's also possible." Xiaotan nodded and continued, "All the NCs we've seen so far... or monsters, seem to be all the people in the group photo of Class A of the second year."
"No... there is one... I can't be sure." Gui Xiao immediately answered, "It's the guy who was lying on the glass window of the classroom at first, and then turned into black mist at the stairs." He paused for half a second, recalling, "I've seen his face... He is not one of the four adults in the photo." He looked up at his teammates again, and said in a deep voice, "If that guy is the squad leader Watanabe..."
"...Then who is the man on the playground?" Xiao Tan finished his words and fell into deep thought.
"No matter who it is, let's go ahead and talk about it..." An Yueqin took a deep breath, and continued, "Huh... Not to mention that there are still two people trapped upstairs, let's say that the two flashlights we have on hand probably won't last long so..."
As she spoke, she stepped forward and walked towards the office. The other three didn't say anything, just followed closely behind.
After a few steps, everyone came to the door of the "teacher's office".
And what awaited them was...
"Sorry, I'm late." As soon as the players showed up, the man in the room said this to them.
This man was the mysterious man who stood on the playground and looked up at the school.
He spoke quickly, without the ghostly, eerie feeling, and he held a flashlight in his hand.
These signs all indicate... This guy seems to be a living person.
"Who are you?" An Yueqin asked, "What are you...doing?"
At this moment, the man was really busy with some things, but he saw that he had spread out some papers on a desk, and wrote some weird characters like ghostly symbols on them with a brush he got from no one knew where.
"What?" After hearing An Yueqin's question, the man suddenly stopped what he was doing, and looked up at the players suspiciously, "You...can't remember again?"
"What is..." Xiao Tan also heard something from the other party's words, and asked tentatively, "I can't remember 'again'?"
"Ah... that's true." The man seemed to have confirmed something at this time, and he continued, "After all, you have been 'lost' for too long, and it is normal to forget."
"Then can you explain to us?" An Yueqin, who was confused, asked again.
"My name is Shota Tsukamoto, and I'm an onmyoji." Tsukamoto lowered his head and started busy with the work at hand, and continued, "Although it may be rude to say this, I still have to tell you...you guys are here at 6 died years ago."
"What?" When the four of them heard this sentence, they all had the same reaction.
Previously, Feng Bujue's speculation that the players were "all ghosts" was unfortunately true.
"Don't worry, let me explain to you slowly." Tsukamoto's attitude felt that he had long been accustomed to similar situations, and he continued to draw symbols skillfully, while saying, "This matter... still has to be learned from the Showa era." Forty-seven years, that is, twenty-six years ago..."
As soon as the players heard it, they knew that the appearance of this NC might mean that the truth of the plot was about to be revealed, so they didn't intend to interrupt and listened quietly.
"In May of that year, a fire broke out in Chongjiu Primary School." Tsukamoto's narration began, "The fire did not burn too badly, but... still burned to death a student, and this student, who was It's your classmate... Suzuki Takayuki." He paused for a second, as if to give the players time to digest the information, and then said, "Suzuki-kun was burned in a warehouse just one door away from the principal's office. Dead, he knocked desperately for help before he died, but...unfortunately, the principal, Miyamoto, was an alcoholic, and it happened to be lunch break, and Miyamoto, who had no class in the afternoon, drank too much and fell asleep in the principal's office.
"Miyamoto didn't wake up until the fire truck drove into the school, and at that time... Suzuki-kun who was opposite the door had already entered a state of shock due to inhaling too much smoke.
"Then, the dazed Miyamoto instinctively ran away from the fire after seeing the smoke. He didn't know... even at that time, if he could open the opposite door, he would still have time to rescue Suzuki-kun.
"However, these assumptions are not valid... Suzuki-kun was burned to death after all, and he became a ghost because of it.
"The next day, he killed another student in your class—Eiji Noguchi. However, at that time, this case was treated as a general missing persons case, and I only found out about it through subsequent investigations...
"Then, on the third day... it happened to be the day of the Sansha Festival. Although this town is very remote and not well-known, it still has a long history; since ancient times, the 'Mao Shrine' here has always been He has his own Sansha Festival, and this custom has continued.
"However, the villagers don't know that the ceremony held by Mawang Shrine for thousands of years is not simply to worship 'Amitabha Tathagata', 'Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva' and 'Mashizhizhi Bodhisattva'... but to pray for the three The Bodhisattva helps the villagers to suppress the hostility of 'it'."
"It?" Upon hearing that key word, Gui Xiao also realized, "What is 'it'?"
Note: In Tsukamoto's words, the pronunciation of "it" can also be translated as "that child (A-NO-KO)".
"'It' is an evil god that was suppressed in the Mao Shrine. No one can remember its name, but it is undoubtedly extremely evil and powerful..." When he said this sentence, Tsukamoto seemed to think of something , the movements of his hands were also slightly stagnant, "Oh..." For some reason, he sighed, "Later... on the night of the Sansha Festival, Miyamoto sneaked into the shrine, I think... he at that time, It is very likely that he has been entangled by the fierce ghost transformed by Suzuki, and he has nowhere to go because of fear... so he ran to the shrine, trying to pray for the protection of the gods. But... it was not the gods who responded to Miyamoto, but... 'it' .”
"You mean..." An Yueqin heard this, and continued, "Miyamoto released 'it'?"
"That's right, Miyamoto destroyed the images of the three Bodhisattvas and tore up the seal that held 'it'." Tsukamoto replied in a deep voice, "and the 'it' that regained its freedom also fulfilled its promise and helped Miyamoto solved Suzuki's ghost. But... Miyamoto soon realized that what he released was far more terrifying than Suzuki's ghost.
"'It' soon fell on this school at the foot of the shrine mountain. The next day, your head teacher, Mr. Sato, met 'it' and became insane because of it.
"Miyamoto didn't last long. Two days later, he committed suicide at home due to excessive fear..."
So far, what Tsukamoto said corresponds one-to-one with the information that Brother Jue found in the old newspaper.
That's the end of the paper, though, but Tsukamoto's story...isn't over yet.
"Unfortunately, 'it' will not stop here, its killing has just begun..." Tsukamoto continued, "Two days after Miyamoto committed suicide, a murder that shocked the whole of Japan happened in this school. '520 massacre'; on that day... several teachers and a dozen students in this school were murdered in extremely cruel ways. When the police arrived at the scene, what they saw was a scene like purgatory on earth, and …seven survivors.”
Speaking of which, Tsukamoto seemed to have finished his work at hand. He raised his head and glanced at the players: "Those seven people are all students of Class A of the second year, that is...you."
"Wait..." Xiao Ling replied, "That's not right... we... only have six people."
"No, to be precise, there are six ghosts." Tsukamoto continued, "I know that...you will understand why there are six of you in the end after listening to me."
"Then what..." Xiao Tan seemed to suddenly think of something at this moment, and said again, "About that tragedy... you said that 'it' killed everyone, but...how did the police close the case?"
"That case... has no result." Tsukamoto replied, "The police finally closed the case with 'the murderer could not be found'. They would rather bear all the pressure of public opinion than make 'the results of their investigation' public."
"Why?" Xiao Tan asked again.
"I... seem to have guessed the reason..." At this moment, An Yueqin's expression became a little subtle.
"Oh? What's the reason?" Xiao Ling also asked curiously.
"I think..." An Yueqin looked at Tsukamoto, "It's better for him to say..."
"Well..." Tsukamoto breathed out from his nostrils, and continued, "The truth is hard to accept, because the investigation results of the year showed... the seven survivors who were only eight years old were the ones who carried out the massacre. big kid."
...
At the same moment, Feng Bujue and Li Ruoyu were on the side.
The two walked briskly in that corridor for five or six minutes, and then they saw a bright light in front of them.
They quickly approached the light source and found that it was the exit of the tunnel.
So, the two turned off the flashlights in their hands and walked out of this oppressive passage.
The moment Ruoyu, who was walking behind, stepped out of the corridor, the passage like a mirage behind the two disappeared. When they looked back, they could only see a few ordinary country roads.
And the scene that appeared in front of them... was actually the gate of Chongjiu Primary School.
"Heh... Is it some kind of illusion again?" Feng Bujue said with a smile, looking at the bright sunlight above his head and the campus bathed in sunlight in front of him.
"That's for sure." Ruoyu continued, "Not to mention that it is impossible for dawn to be so soon, even if the time factor is not considered... In terms of space, we are now outside Chongjiu Elementary School. If this is not an illusion , haven’t we already cleared the customs?”
"Then..." Brother Jue continued, "Shall we go in and have a look?"
"Go." Ruoyu replied.
After the two finished talking, they took a step and walked into this "day version" of Chongjiu Elementary School... (.)