Infinite spooky game

Chapter 22 Rose Manor (21) Romance to Death and Roses
At 45:[-] in the afternoon, Qisi stood alone in the middle of the garden full of roses, holding the [Destiny Pocket Watch] borrowed from Chang Xu.

The air was filled with gray mist, and on both sides of the path covered by twisted branches and vines, huge roses hung their heads wetly, and the deep red was as gorgeous as blood, exuding a cold atmosphere .

Qi Si stroked the petals of roses with his fingers, and finally stopped on one of the most beautiful roses. He held the thorny stem of the rose, and with his wrist, he folded it off together with the flowers and leaves.

He has never taken care of flowers and plants on weekdays, so the fold is not pretty at the moment. There are tender green filaments attached to the fracture, just like the capillaries of a poisoned person.

Qi Si looked down at the rose in his hand, with a look of disgust in his eyes.He touched the special bracelet on his right hand, but couldn't find the blade, so he could only take out the thin wire, straighten it and act as a saw, sharpening the fracture.

"You picked the roses," said a voice, as cold as a snake's message.

"You picked the rose." Countless voices merged into one, chanting the same words.

A drop of rain fell from the sky, hitting Qi Si's forehead.

He raised his eyelids and looked around. In the thick mist, clusters of dusty shadows stood among the rose bushes, like a scarecrow on duty, but he clearly appeared not long ago.

There were corpses, including men, women and children, some of which had been rotted to the point where only bones remained, and some could vaguely see their appearance when they were alive.

Among the figures surrounding him, Qisi saw Shen Ming's face and Ye Zi's face. The newly dead ghost's face was lifelike, and the cracked skin showed a sickly paleness.

The dead who were buried here in repeated reincarnations gather at this moment, and countless three-day time and space overlap at this moment.

"Why can't I pick roses?" Ziss didn't show any fear or embarrassment. He tilted his head and asked with a smile.

Lightning suddenly struck across the gray-purple sky, illuminating the monster-like gray castle in an instant.

The light and shadow flickered, one black and one white, followed by the rumble of thunder.

Heavy rain fell from the sky.

The blood-stained white shirt was soaked by the rain, and the blood stains that had already condensed were surprisingly smudged. The rich reddish brown was diluted into a dreamy light pink, making Qisi's whole body sway like a charm.

He asked again: "Why can't I pick roses?"

Just like he asked "Miss Anna" in the garden at nine o'clock in the morning.

"The rose belongs to me, and it can only belong to me." At that time, the woman in black with a face like a ghost, but still had a bit of a living person said so.

Qi Si asked again: "Is it the same with beauty?"

Miss Anna replied: "Yes, beauty belongs to me..."

"So, is it beauty itself, or the person or thing or thing that possesses beauty, that you love?"

Upon hearing this, Miss Anna smiled, her lips blooming like blood flowers. She turned around and walked away on the path covered by flower branches, dragging the hem of her black skirt on the ground and swaying.

At this moment, Qisi knew what he was asking. He raised his eyes past the figures and looked into the distance where the smoke was steaming, and his eyes met the graceful black ink marks.

The hour hand of the pocket watch points to the hour.

It's two o'clock in the afternoon.

……

Room 3.

Lin Chen sat by the bed without saying a word, watching Chang Xu at the desk flipping through the notes written with clues, and then recording the key points on a blank piece of papyrus with a pen.

Sudden variables and complex information flowed one after another in a very short period of time. Lin Chen's brain was already blank. He could only remember a few details that Qisi told him before leaving, and deduced them over and over again in his consciousness. Make sure nothing goes wrong.

It was Qi Si who stretched out an olive branch when he was most helpless, and led him all the way to the present, and even took risks to go to the third floor to make up for his negligence.

Now, he must not let go of the chain under any circumstances, otherwise not only himself will die, but also Qiss...

The responsibility was too heavy, and Lin Chen's palms began to sweat again, making the blade in his hand slippery and difficult to hold.

He subconsciously put down the blade and rubbed his hand on the sheets.

Chang Xu, who had his back turned to him, heard the sound, his ears moved slightly, and asked without turning his head, "What's wrong?"

Lin Chen's heart skipped a beat, but he immediately adjusted his mentality and said haha: "I...I'm a little nervous. I wonder what method Brother Qi has come up with to clear the level?" As he spoke, he carefully moved the blade again. Hold it in your hand.

Chang Xu did not doubt that he was there, and answered truthfully: "I don't know."

"When, when."

A solemn and solemn bell sounded outside the door, and it rang twice in succession.

Lin Chen jumped up suddenly, raised the blade and pierced Chang Xu's neck, almost touching the skin!
The latter, however, seemed to have had an early warning, dodged his head sideways, and pushed him back on the bed.

The blade in his hand was taken away, Lin Chen gritted his teeth and kicked randomly.

About an hour ago, Qi Si stepped into the room first, put the blade into his hand, and told him word by word: "Brother Shen was killed by Chang Xu, and there is something wrong with Chang Xu. If I don't come back before two o'clock , you must kill Chang Xu immediately, or we will all die."

At that time, he looked at the serious look on the young man's face and forgot to ask the reason. He just muttered: "I...I can't do it..."

"You have to do it." Qisi's eyes were as dark as a pool of stagnant water, and his smile was miserable. "This is the last resort. The only one I can trust is you. The blade I gave you is the only weapon I carry with me. Just treat it as I'll be a gambler for once and make a desperate bet."

He was about to say something else, but Qisi turned around and opened the door, letting in the gloomy Chang Xu...

Memories lingered in his mind, Lin Chen got the strength from nowhere, he raised his head and knocked Chang Xu's chin, making a gesture to grab the blade.

Chang Xu was in pain, his eyes were slightly cold, and the moment he was about to touch the blade, he elbowed him on the neck.

Did it fail after all?

Lin Chen smiled bitterly in his heart. The strongest emotion was not the fear of death, but Qiss's guilt.

He still betrayed people's trust, and now everything is over...

The sound of broken bones sounded, Lin Chen's pupils slowly expanded, and his whole body went limp as if all his strength had been drained.

Chang Xu watched this scene quietly, confusion slowly appearing in his eyes.

what's the situation?Why did Lin Chen suddenly want to kill him?What happened?
And... why was there a strong sense of déjà vu when someone attacked me from behind and scratched my neck, but I couldn't remember it?
Chang Xu touched the back of his neck, fell into self-doubting meditation, and gradually became messy in the wind.

……

At two o'clock in the afternoon, in the sea of ​​roses, Qisi's eyes were determined, and he inserted the sharpened rose into his heart with his backhand.

The blood flowers bloomed with a rich color on the white background, and the pain that was enough to shatter sanity swept through his brain. The world in front of him suddenly collapsed and became dark. He gasped and murmured:
【My chest is rotten...】

The heart seemed like countless insects writhing and crawling, taking root in the skin and blood vessel walls, extending all the way along the flow of blood, going deep into the organs, until they occupied every inch of the body.

The limbs began to melt, and the flesh and blood began to disintegrate from the edges, dripping...

[Flesh and blood spread on the ground...]

Zou Yan's performance was a good demonstration, and Qi Si determined that the rose is the key to the ghostization of human beings, and the quatrains are spells or formulas.

The rose inserted into the heart grew vigorously and crazily along with the chanting, gushing out from the mouth and nose, and black and green branches stretched out from the fingertips of the limbs.

【The rose lives here】

The dominance of consciousness is vacillating, and self-cognition is being tampered with and recast inch by inch.

【Please believe that you are human】

The prompt text on the system interface almost drips with blood.

The scene of Shen Ming's death flashed across Qisi's mind. It was undoubtedly the result of complete transformation into a ghost and the loss of human cognition.

He widened his eyes and tried his best to penetrate the eight words on the system interface into his eyeballs.

The perception of time was distorted, and a few seconds were stretched out. I don’t know how long it took. The heavy rain suddenly hovered in the air, and the raindrops were like colored glass refracting the halo, and slowly rose in the next second. Fly high into the sky.

【Tomorrow we will live together forever...】

Timelapse triggered.

The colors in front of him were knocked over and blurred into a ball like confused oil paints.

Qi Si maintained the posture of inserting the rose into the heart with both hands, and the turbulent consciousness slowly sank.

He looked in the direction of the castle and laughed out loud.

Whether Lin Chen kills Chang Xu or Chang Xu kills Lin Chen, it will lead to the same result.

All he wants is to turn back time at two o'clock.

Although the psychology of Chang Xu and Lin Chen has been calculated, there may still be errors and variables.

There is an element of gambling, and there is naturally a risk of failure, but so what?

With the interesting mechanism and crazy choices, Qiss felt that it would not be a bad loss even if he died here.

After all, dying with roses and being buried in a garden is very romantic to think about.

　I've overturned and rewritten this chapter several times, but I'm still not satisfied...sigh.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)