Infinite spooky game

Chapter 18 Rose Manor (Seventeen) Death, Fate and Murder
"Lin Chen, are you in there? Ye Zi is dead. I'm so scared... Can you let me in?"

Lin Chen curled up on the bed, listening to the female voice outside the door, and couldn't help but tighten the door key in his hand.

The sound was separated from the human ear by a door panel, and coupled with the tremor that was suspected to be caused by fear, it sounded vague and distorted, but it was still possible to identify that it was Zou Yan's voice.

Lin Chen didn't have a deep impression of Zou Yan. He only remembered that she was a psychiatrist who didn't talk much and had a calm and gentle face, which made people feel very comfortable.

It's the first time I've lost my composure like this...

Lin Chen had always been kind to people, so he got out of bed by mistake and reached for the doorknob.

The moment he was about to turn the doorknob, he hesitated, ruminating on the scene in his memory.

An hour ago, when Ziss left, he put the door key in his hand and looked more serious than ever before: "We are all adults, but I still want to remind you, don't open the door to anyone except me. .”

At that time, he didn't understand what it meant and subconsciously asked "why".

Qisi looked at him and smiled coldly, with a sarcastic smile: "I said, you can't trust anyone except me. You just need to know that once you open the door, it will not only harm you, but also me." .”

This scene was so vivid that Lin Chen took a step back the moment he recalled it, and stared at the door vigilantly.

Outside the door, Zou Yan's voice became more and more urgent: "Lin Chen, please, save me!... It's coming! I'm going to die!"

The fear and despair in that voice were genuine and did not seem to be fake. Lin Chen was secretly frightened when he heard it.

Although other players cannot be trusted, in the end they are only suspected, not heinous with conclusive evidence.What if Keith was wrong in his suspicions?
If you don't open the door, Zou Yan might really die...

But whether to open the door or not, not only his own safety is involved, but Qisi's...

Beads of sweat broke out on Lin Chen's forehead. He began to hesitate. The key in his hand tightened and became embedded in his flesh.

……

On the third floor, Qi Si exited from the room where the skeletons were placed, and suddenly heard the sound of rain.

There are no windows in the corridors of the old castle, and the thick and simple stone walls isolate the world. There is no visual evidence, and the hearing fades in the silence. What was heard just now seems like an illusion.

However, Qisi felt that it was indeed time to rain.

After all, in third-rate TV dramas, when the tragic plot develops to a climax, there is always a heavy rain to set off the atmosphere, isn't it?
Well, he has a unique perspective on art, so that sometimes his brain circuit is different from ordinary people.

The first room is almost explored, and no more clues can be found no matter how much time is spent.Qi Si walked to the room numbered "2", took out a thin wire, and unlocked the door in the same way.

What you see is a huge floor-to-ceiling window, which almost occupies the entire wall. The gray-purple sky reflects into the room, dyeing the ground and walls with a layer of misty gray.

Across the glass covered with spider webs, one can see the silky rain curtain weaving from top to bottom, the criss-crossed rain silk is layered upon layer, entangled and indistinguishable from spider silk for a while.

The moment he entered the room, he only heard a soft "pop" sound, and a worn-out rag doll fell to the ground, resting on Qiss's toes.

It was a little girl with red braids, her eyes were replaced by two "forks", and her mouth was stretched into a line, singing a weird nursery rhyme:
"She's coming, she's coming, she's in the rain..."

"Don't look at me, don't look at me, I'm in the closet..."

The door slammed shut behind him, and the surrounding light quickly dimmed, becoming stained with the dark yellow color of the memory lens.

The death point is triggered!

Qiss knew the tricks of horror games well. His eyes fell on the wardrobe in the corner. The gray shadow cast by the tall furniture just enveloped the doll.

Does this mean he should hide in the closet?

"This children's song obviously belongs to a hide-and-seek situation. The corresponding plot may be the hide-and-seek game played by sisters Anne and Anna when they were young. The hint is probably very simple..."

Thinking analyzed the known information in a second, Qi Si strode towards the closet, raising his hand to hold the handle.

On the ground behind him, the doll was still reciting children's songs in a calm tone.

"She's coming, she's coming, she's in the rain..."

"Don't look at me, don't look at me, I'm... squeak!"

Without warning, the chanting stopped abruptly and was replaced by the sound of a cricket being crushed.

Qisi turned around in response and saw Chang Xu's expressionless face, and... the doll that was stepped on by him.

Chang Xu was silent for two seconds, then lowered his eyes and said, "I didn't expect it to be so weak."

...Are you cheating or cheating?

Keith mentally reassessed the value of a temporary teammate.

He was extremely lucky at this moment that he didn't have the trouble to try to stab this martial artist before.

From all aspects, this police comrade is very useful. After the dungeon is over, maybe he can try to establish a stable connection and develop into a regular teammate.

Thinking of this, Qisi's expression softened a bit. He pointed at the crushed doll and motioned to Chang Xu to pick it up.

Chang Xu followed the instructions silently, holding the doll in his hand and turning it over to observe, and finally turned up the corner of the doll's clothes to give Qisi a look.

There is an English word - "Anna" embroidered with red needlework.

"It's Anna's sister's doll. Let's give it a clue. From the content of the children's song, it can be seen that Anna is very afraid of her sister Anne. Anne's bloody love and affection are most likely just her own sentimentality."

The situation was very different from Qis's previous speculation, which made him a little disappointed.

He scanned the layout of the room, and after making sure that there was nothing else to explore, he opened the door of the closet in front of him, bent down and picked up an old yellowed photo from the dusty inside.

The composition of the photo is very sloppy. There are nine people sitting upright beside a long table full of delicacies, all facing the camera, with stiff postures.

The faces of four of them were clearly visible, while the faces of the other five were blurry.

Qisi lowered his eyes and saw that among the four distinct faces, there was a familiar face, Shen Ming!

There were three faces left, one of which he had seen before. It was the first dead person Chang Xu dug up from the pit in the garden.

A guess grew in my heart, and was confirmed the next second.

Chang Xu came forward silently like a ghost, and pointed at the three unfamiliar faces with his slender index finger: "The bodies of these three people are all in the garden. I dug them out myself."

His tone was calm, and the second half of his sentence was as normal as eating and drinking.

"Is that so?" Qisi's eyes narrowed into a narrow line.

The direction is very clear, after the player dies, the face will appear in the photo.

There are still five vacancies, which correspond to exactly five players. Does this mean that this dungeon never intended for players to leave alive?

Sense of déjà vu…sense of familiarity…intuition of the point of death…

All the previous inconsistencies were now connected together, and Qisi's heart couldn't help but tremble.

This feeling of life and death was so interesting that he suppressed the corners of his mouth to stop laughing: "Do you think it is possible that the time loop has already happened at the beginning of the instance? Each round lasts three days, and three people die. Personally, we’re in the second round.”

"Impossible." Chang Xu objected almost immediately. "There is no way I can save places like the garden and the third floor where there are obviously important clues until the second round to explore."

Qiss smiled jokingly: "Perhaps, we have already explored it in the first round, but unfortunately we failed to break through in the end. So, everything is reset."

The meaning behind the words was deeply cold.

Exploring over and over again, failing over and over again, losing all memory, and falling back into the cycle.

Reincarnation is repeating itself, one by one of the same kind is dying, there are fewer and fewer people around, and the hope of breaking the situation is gradually fading...

He was in despair without knowing it, and thought he was struggling hard with the hope of survival, until he was silently swallowed by this strange manor and became the nourishment of roses...

Thoughts spread through his mind like vines, and Zis' breathing became rapid due to the poignancy of the imagery.

He lowered his head and saw that the photo in his hand began to ooze ink as if it had fallen into water, and the originally vivid picture was blurred in a few breaths.

On the reverse side of the photo, the red words written in blood have already condensed:
【All of us will die】

……

After her parents died, the girl got her wish and lived with her sister until the man appeared.

The girl couldn't understand why a stranger who suddenly broke into her life would distract her sister's attention.

Obviously he is not good-looking, far worse than his sister. Why would my sister love him so humblely and cautiously?

The man finally left, and the girl couldn't understand why her sister was so sad.

She watched her sister grow haggard, her beautiful face grow dim, and when the roses in the garden withered, they bloomed and fell with the seasons.

There was nothing she could do but climb up to the attic again and pray to the idol.

God said, "She is sick and dying. Only the heart of her beloved can bring her back to life."

The girl didn't want to admit it, but she knew clearly that her sister loved that man.

Fortunately, at this time, her appearance is almost the same as that of her sister. Even if her parents are still alive, they may not be able to tell the difference.

When the man returned to the manor, she received him on her sister's behalf and killed him.

The sister's corpse in the coffin opened its eyes. It was a ghost parasitized by roses. It would no longer call her name or look at her with sad eyes. It would age, rot, and decay with time every moment. withered.

She was afraid and went to pray to the gods.

The merciful God cut off three days for her, allowing her and her sister to survive in the endless cycle.

She watched her sister repeat the process of decay in an endless three-day cycle. Although the condition was no longer getting worse, her face was already decayed.

She discovered with horror that she could not accept her sister's ugliness.

Whenever she looked at that wrinkled face, which was so flocculated and bone-shattering, she would feel sick and want to vomit.

She even began to regret the sacrifices she had made in the past to get her sister.

She asked God if he could restore her sister's beauty.
God replied: "Stay behind the guests who come to the manor and nourish the rose with their flesh and blood, and everything will be as you wish."

(End of this chapter)