Blood Candle Keep Disciple

Chapter 8 Confessions of the Dead
The lengthened sedan behind him sped away, and under the cloudy sky, only the petite figure of the long dress in Hanfu was swept up and down by the gloomy wind.The surrounding courtyard is full of dead olive trees, and the dim shadows sway and interlace, creating a great oppression invisibly.

Zhen Cheng didn't put any energy on the departing Ambis, but concentrated on remembering the panorama of the game field in front of him, and his fingers picked out a card drawn at a dinner party not long ago from the mezzanine of his jacket.

The card feels as cold as metal, yet as pliable as plastic, a strange material that has never been touched.There are golden threads protruding on it, which outlines the image of a corpse lying face down on the ground.

"There is no suspense. Sure enough, I will always be the most unfortunate one."

Looking at the card in his hand, Zhen Cheng pouted slightly, but that was all.In an instant, she smiled and shook Hei Changzhi, who was waist-length, put her self-pity behind her head, and then stepped confidently into the gloomy manor in front of her.

The so-called manor is a huge two-storey mansion.Yes, the kind that is often used as a backdrop for horror movies.In fact, according to the organizers of the Scary family, the venue chosen for this game is really a famous haunted house in history.

Zhen Cheng is noncommittal about whether the haunting is true or not, but at least the horror movies that have been produced here can be easily found on the Internet.

Pushing open the door, the dead mansion exudes a musty smell that is not disgusting, but makes people feel depressed.This smell will make the spirit of the weak-willed more fragile, and it is easy to start thinking wildly, alerting whether a certain existence with a terrible and tragic fate will suddenly appear under a white cloth-covered furniture.

The mansion is divided into upper and lower floors, with a total of dozens of rooms.The organizers, the Scary family, claim that it has been almost perfectly restored to the original appearance of a bloody case that existed in history but was never recorded by the police.

Looking around, Zhen Cheng let the card move flexibly between his fingers, and turned over when he stopped.The two short gilded words on the dark background behind the card lingered with an ominous depression like the decree of death:

One - the victim

This identity looks scary, but the client Zhen Cheng has nothing to fear except that he feels bad luck.At the end of the day, it's just a literal game.To put it bluntly, the victim does not have to die.

However, if it is just a script killing of a holiday where a dozen friends go to a club board game bar to experience, then this game is too underestimated.

First of all, all the players involved in the game have just met at the organizer's dinner party.From Zhen Cheng, who was only 16 years old, to Epilens, who was so old that his legs and feet were inconvenient, all six players participating in the game were detectives, and five of them were even famous detectives in the world.

Whether it is a real full-time detective or Zhen Cheng, who is still in school, or a professional explorer, a rich second generation, etc., it can be said that whether it is a recognized talent or a track record, professional detectives around the world no longer dare to claim to be able to compete with each other. These guys go hand in hand.

From this point of view, these six players who have been qualified to participate in the game, more or less, happen to be the six people who are recognized by the mysterious organizer as the best at tonight's game in the world.

Obviously, this is a game of search, cover-up and reasoning.

Secondly, although the game itself does not involve life and death gambling, the prizes prepared by the organizers for the winners are peerless treasures that are worthy of countless heroic forces fighting for their lives and even waging war.

It has been circulated all over the world for a long time, but it has never been generally confirmed in the open, and there are still people who believe and doubt that it is the complete knowledge of one of the several transcendental paths that can make mortals transcend step by step into gods.

As far as Zhen Cheng's prior investigations are concerned, the completeness of the prizes that will appear tonight even exceeds the limits of the pathways mastered by the three major families who actually rule the world behind the scenes, and even surpasses the three-dimensional material world itself.

Finally, there is one more important point for Zhen Cheng himself.After not knowing whether it was an unfortunate accident or someone was deliberately involved in the [hidden space], after seeing the unknown horror of the mysterious world; she realized that if she didn't win the game, she would indeed face herself Unbearable danger to life.

In other words, she came to participate in the competition precisely because she saw the extraordinary power that the prize could bring to protect herself.

As for how Miss Zhen, who was in bad luck a few days ago, managed to survive and return from the [Hidden Space], but still failed to open her own path of transcendence, that is another legendary tragic story, here for the time being No table, and back to the topic.

The detectives participating in the game need to reproduce the past murders through the game props limited by their respective roles according to their roles, so as to discover or cover up the only truth.

In Zhen Cheng's eyes, the main entrance hall has gorgeous crystal chandeliers and exquisite marble stairs.There is also a small grand piano in the corner, the kind of venue that can be used directly for dance parties.

This is the only place in the whole building where there is no second floor, and the two floors are connected together to form a towering space.After entering the door and looking up, you can see a photo of a life-size elderly male noble at the end of the semi-arc steps on both sides, behind the middle aisle on the second floor.

The tables and chairs around the hall are covered in white cloth, littered with suitcases, gardening shears, vinyl gloves and even golf equipment.Even if you are not a professional detective, you can easily deduce from their inappropriate positions that these things are deliberately placed by the organizer for the progress of the game.

In the middle of the mansion's main entrance hall and the east and west ends of the building, there are three stairs going up and down.

In order to "restore as much as possible the real environment at the time of the incident", the organizer restricted each player's actions with additional conditions that were not informed and that the unequal time had been determined.

It is conceivable that they deliberately arranged the corresponding props in conspicuous places, because the time was so short that even the top detectives might not be able to complete the necessary exploration in time.

Obviously, such a rule setting makes the game far from basic fairness.But I don't know if it was due to the excessive thirst for prizes or the conceit of a top detective; all six players who participated in the game, including Zhen Cheng, recognized this level of unfairness.

As for why it is better to change the site layout but also to accurately limit the time, and claiming to be "true restoration", Zhen Cheng has his own guesses about it.

It is impossible for the Scary family to dedicate an extraordinary way to become a god that they have never shown themselves to do volunteer work.The organizer's intentions must be hidden in the game itself, and rituals involving the transcendent realm often have some weird restrictions on time, materials, and participants.

It's just that she doesn't care about those now, and there are ample reasons to believe that the organizer will not disadvantage her at this time.

Walking slowly down the corridor on the second floor, Zhen Cheng tried his best to write down the structure and content of each room.The messy guest room, the blood-stained quilt room, the nursery room, the locked master bedroom... The walls here are full of old photos that look simple and ordinary, but when you look carefully, you always feel that the expressions of the characters are somewhat unnatural.

Faced with these weird scenes that many people would be horrified by seeing, Zhen Cheng, who is only 16 years old, looks very...professional.

Neither suppresses the performance of inner panic, nor does it mean that he is indifferent to the atmosphere of the environment.She always scrutinizes every detail that comes into view with an age-inappropriate but absolutely necessary prudence.Stroll unhurriedly, as quiet as a Persian cat.

Zhen Cheng is looking for an opportunity to reverse the disadvantage and establish an advantage under such an unfavorable start.

When he reached the small concert hall by the stairs at the end, Zhen Cheng suddenly stopped, then turned around abruptly, and trotted back to the nursery he just passed by.

Dust was deposited on the floor, a deliberate arrangement left by the organizers after the renovation of the mansion.They took great care to avoid leaving any footprints, ignoring the effect of natural airflow on dust patterns.

The trail of dust on the door of the nursery had a faint trail of radioactive spread out the door.This either means that the decorator did not close the windows of the room, or that there are air vents in the room that are imperceptible to the naked eye.

This may be the only advantage of Zhen Cheng, who was unfortunately the first to step into the game field.The players behind will completely lose the conditions for reasoning based on the status quo of the environment because of more and more chaotic footprints.

Unlike many detectives who have a talent that can be remembered in an instant, Zhen Cheng is the type who likes to spend more time deliberating.Through the hints of the tiny details on the floor, she just thought of the problem with the photo just now.

The picture on the wall is of several small children surrounding an old man.They had adult-like insincere smiles on their faces and looked very awkward.However, among the group of children with strange faces, it was the old man's face that attracted Zhen Cheng's attention.

The old man and the portrait in the center of the second floor of the main entrance hall are obviously the same, and I have to praise the powerful skills of the painter a hundred years ago.However, what attracted Zhen Cheng was not seeing the photo of the owner here, but...he had a very three-dimensional nose.

The nose in the photo is so three-dimensional that Zhen Cheng instinctively feels a little different from the oil painting in the hall... In fact, the nose really bulges out of the photo!

Moving away from the multiple seats and children's toys of the same style in front of the portrait, Zhen Cheng pressed down on the raised spot on the photo while rubbing the sticky feel unique to the aged photos in the cold and humid environment.It took a lot of effort for her to feel the vibration of the mechanical device in the wall.

The seemingly tight-fitting walls slid away slightly, revealing gaps that could be flipped over.Only then did Zhen Cheng realize that all the movable parts were seamlessly concealed by the seams of the wallpaper.

"Unfortunately, this is just perfect for ordinary people. Although I can't find the mystery directly with my observation, I am afraid the same situation cannot be concealed from the eyes of Mr. Epirens, No. [-]. He has the most With rich experience, he has cracked the secret rooms of countless ancient tombs.

If it was the Impass Detective No. [-], I am afraid that a lot of secrets of the manor would have been discovered as early as the foyer on the first floor.He is the world-famous observant second to none. "

As Zhen Cheng thought about it, he ruled out the option of hiding in the secret passage and praying to "survive" until the end of the game, and then pushed the flipped wall away completely to let the indoor light shine into the secret room.

The dim light flickered in the secret room that had been closed for an unknown length of time, and Zhen Cheng was shocked.

She felt that she saw herself.

self after death.

(End of this chapter)