Infinite spooky game

Chapter 15 Rose Manor (XIV) Past Reasoning and Peeping
The composition of Chang Xu's clues is similar to the parts already known to Qisi. They are four lines of unexplained poetry, plus five paragraphs of diary content.

Judging from the tone, the diaries in the two clues are written by different people, and they happen to be metaphors for the background story from different sections.

Ziss read the clues from beginning to end twice, memorized them in his mind, took another piece of papyrus, stood in front of the table and silently wrote down the clues in his room.

The two clues merged together, and a story took shape.

"A declining aristocratic family has two daughters. The eldest daughter Anna has a beautiful face and is perfect in all aspects. The younger daughter Anne is much mediocre in comparison. A man accidentally entered the manor, fell in love with Anna, and made various I tried hard to marry her, but unfortunately I came a step too late. Anna thought she had been abandoned by him and had already died in depression."

Qisi lowered his eyes and looked at the words on the paper, half joking, half sighing.

"Anne didn't know what her psychology was, maybe it was abnormal love, maybe it was jealousy that she was not even aware of. She took on the identity of her sister Anna, met the man who returned to the manor, and killed him. Bury him in the garden.”

Having said this, Qisi looked at Chang Xu: "Brother Chang, you have been digging in the garden all morning. Did you find any other strange things?"

"There are three corpses in total, two men and one woman. It is preliminarily inferred that they are all players."

"……All right."

That’s okay, I thought I could find the body of the warrior who pursued Miss Anna.

Qi Si was a little disappointed, but not much, and he continued: "I tried it out. The Miss Anna we saw at the dinner table is a living person, and it should be the surviving sister Annie. The real Miss Anna is dead. It may appear as a ghost."

Hearing this, Chang Xu frowned and said: "It is known that Anne and Anna look different, but she replaced Anna without being noticed, and even killed Anna's suitor. It can be seen that since then she has been able to mobilize a lot of strange powers. It’s impossible for her to grow so much in a short period of time. There is probably something wrong with the Rose Manor itself. She is just a part of the weirdness, and there is someone else who is leading all of this."

"This is also my conjecture." Qisi nodded in agreement, "The clues to complete this part of the reasoning are either on the third floor or with Zou Yan and Ye Zi."

His eyes fell back to the four lines at the top of the page. The meaning of the verse that belonged to him was ambiguous, like a prophecy and a curse. Just one glance at it gave him a suffocating and painful feeling of his heart being clenched.

In comparison, the four lines of Chang Xu's poem are much easier to understand.

【I am finally trapped in time】

【This is the junction between morning and dusk】

[Reincarnation year after year]

【Yesterday is with me again】

It's obviously a time loop.

Qi Si narrowed his eyes, and asked casually, "Brother Chang, do you always keep that [Fate Pocket Watch] with you?"

"On average, I check it once every half hour." Chang Xu said, taking out his pocket watch from his pocket and checking the time again, "In my memory, from the time I entered the dungeon to now, there has been no obvious problem with the time."

"Is that so?"

Qisi believed that Chang Xu was a smart person and was the first to get clues about the time. He would definitely pay more attention to this aspect and there would be no possibility of making mistakes.

He asked this question out of luck, but now his hope has been shattered, the clues have been cut off, and he can only find another way out.

"I don't have any more information for the time being, let's go to the third floor first, maybe I can have new ideas." Qi Si pretended to smile relaxedly, and pushed open the door.

At this moment, the mechanical clock happened to strike its first stroke.

……

In the No. 1 room near the stairs, Zou Yan and Ye Zi sat at the desk, staring intently at an eyeball-shaped prop on the table.

[Name: Eye of Hermes (right eye)]

【Type: Prop】

[Effect: After placing the left eye in a closed space, you can see what the left eye sees from the right eye (it can only be used once in each copy, and each time lasts for 10 minutes)]

[Note: God knows everything, so said Hermes]

At this moment, what appeared in the eyeballs was the scene in Chang Xu's room, including Qisi's speculation on the background story and the two people's decision to explore the third floor.

"You see, sometimes we don't need to argue too much. We just need to hide behind the scenes to observe and pry, and we can get all the information we want to know." Zou Yan looked at Ye Zi and smiled lightly, "In comparison, It's really the worst option to conflict with them in public, we don't have the advantage in terms of force, do we?"

The relationship between girls can be said to be complicated, but it can also be said to be simple. Not long ago, they were quarreling in public, but now they have reconciled inexplicably.

Ye Zi swallowed her saliva, and asked hesitantly: "Sister Zou, isn't it the second time you enter the dungeon, right? Such props are not something newcomers can get. You are a veteran who spent points to designate dungeons, right?"

Zou Yan did not deny it, she raised her hand and drew two triangles on her chest, and asked, "Aren't you too?"

Ye Zi shook his head repeatedly: "I'm not, my uncle..."

She almost let it slip, but she quickly changed her words: "I'm just a newbie. I only learned about the existence of Weird Game last week. Sister Zou, is there anything special about this copy? Why do you all have to come in?"

Zou Yan didn't intend to answer Ye Zi's question, she looked straight into Ye Zi's eyes, with a compassionate and gentle expression on her face: "Can you help me complete an experiment?"

"What experiment?"

The mechanical clock struck its first stroke, and its solemn chime echoed throughout the entire floor.

Zou Yan said: "Yi Zi, close your eyes."

……

The first time the mechanical clock struck, it was one o'clock in the afternoon.

Chang Xu picked up the pocket watch in his hand and glanced at it, his expressionless face frowned slightly.

"The pocket watch was an hour faster. In just one second, the hour hand moved by one frame, as if an hour had been pulled out of thin air."

The tone of Chang Xu's statement was uneventful, and even such a strange phenomenon was described calmly by him.

Qiss understood the meaning the moment he heard these words.

"It seems that the mechanism of a dungeon has been triggered, and it should be related to the four lines of your poem over there. Can you go back in time for an hour?"

The young man squinted his eyes, looked around, and made a joke to himself: "Could it be a weird game, we don't have a clue, and it's deliberately played like this to give us a hint?"

A joke is just a joke.

Keith knew that Weird Game would not be so kind.

The mechanism can only be triggered by the player.

When they first started studying the clues of the four-line poem, a player successfully triggered the time-return mechanism. It was too coincidental to be an accident.

A bad premonition arose spontaneously, but Qiss became uncontrollably excited.

In reality, he had always been the only one to make small moves secretly, but he didn't expect that someone would take the lead now.

The man was watching in the dark like a hyena, elusive.

But so what?
The unexpected is interesting, isn't it?

Qisi walked out of the room, his eyes lingering on the door of the guest room next door.

The door was tightly closed, and looking in from the outside, there was nothing unusual about it, but it looked even more suspicious.

Behind him, Chang Xu squatted on the ground, lowered his head and looked over inch by inch, as if he was searching for something.

Half a minute later, he stretched out two fingers and pinched an eyeball-shaped thing from the gap by the door.

The thing was broken into pieces, covered with bloodshot eyes and scratches, but the pupils were still enlarging and shrinking, like the remnants of some kind of tenacious monster.

"Someone is spying on us." Chang Xu said, throwing his eyeballs to Qisi to show him.

Zeiss wasn't surprised.

He raised his hand to catch his eyeballs. The moment his skin touched the cold fluid, a system prompt appeared in front of his eyes.

[Name: Eye of Hermes (left eye) (depleted)]

【Type: Prop】

【Effect:……】

Chang Xu looked sternly as he recalled: "I have always had the key to Room 2, and only Shen Ming has come in."

Qi Si understood what Chang Xu meant, and just smiled noncommittally.

The moment he saw the eyeball prop, he went through the scene at the door of Room 2 that he remembered in his mind. From what he could think of, there were no less than three ways to silently throw the eyeball in. .

Shen Ming was not necessarily the one who committed the crime, and the motive was insufficient.

Most people are not prepared to die unexpectedly and leave such a "nail" behind.

Thinking of this, Qisi sighed secretly.

It's a pity that he entered the weird game late. If he is really an old player and has accumulated a few items in his hands, there is a high probability that he can easily arrange these "companions"...

I’ve just entered the game now, so I’m missing out on a lot of fun.

　Will resume two updates tomorrow.Alas, they say the first dungeon shouldn’t be too complicated, but I can’t control my skills... (But since it’s in the suspense category, how can the plot design be too simple? Right?)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)