0025 Chapter 1: Confessions of the Dead (Section 19)
The gray world faded away like a tide. Zhen Cheng felt that the pain in her abdomen was no longer so painful, so she immediately got up and rushed to the nursery.
Hu Fabao's body was still lying on the corridor in the foyer. Zhen Cheng ignored it and stepped over. After rushing into the nursery, his first glance was towards the secret door on the wall.
She wanted to take advantage of the fact that the memory of the fantasy was still there to compare the image of the Baron in the real photo to see if it was really as different as she felt.
However, after thinking about how to restore the secret door on the wall along the way, what Zhen Cheng saw was the nursery wall that was as good as ever. The secret door that she opened with her own hands using the nose in the photo as a mechanism was now closed.
state.
This was a little beyond Zhen Cheng's expectations, but it didn't surprise her too much.
Previously, when Mr. Epilens was able to appear behind Hu Fabao and cut his throat, he probably found the secret passage in the room and walked through the secret room to the nursery. After all, the very ornate door seemed to be of exaggerated quality.
What Zhen Cheng didn't expect was that the old detective actually sealed the secret door back after he came out. Mr. Epilens looked like he had completely lost his mind at that time, and it did not make sense to spend time researching how to seal the secret door.
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However, Zhen Cheng's focus at this time was not on reasoning about what happened in the nursery. Her eyes were already fixed on the face of the Baron's photo.
Strange... this photo in reality is exactly the same as the one she saw in her dream retrospective, and is 50 or 60% similar to Mr. Epilens.
Did she really remember it wrong? She always felt that the picture of the Baron she saw when she first stepped into the nursery was somewhat different from the current one...
This feeling is very abstract, and it is impossible to get more clues if we continue to study it. After one last glance at the Baron's photo, Zhen Cheng walked to the corner and opened the drawer, and took out a doll from a pile of slightly weird-looking dolls.
Tape.
At this moment, a wet rag quietly covered her mouth and nose.
There are no colors fading rapidly, nor lying on the ground. There is no doubt that this is what is happening in reality.
Zhen Cheng was shocked. The self-defense skills that he had learned but was unfamiliar with since he had never used them in actual combat flashed through his mind. He held the wrist holding the rag with his right hand and thrust his left elbow hard into the back.
However, a moment later, her right hand was empty, and her left elbow failed to hit anything. She spun around in half a circle like a clown who had been tricked. Zhen Cheng looked up and saw a familiar picture.
face.
They were a pair of round, owl-like eyes with yellow pupils. They did not belong to the maid in the historical flashback, but to Ms. Navis in reality.
She obviously has much more fighting experience than Zhen Cheng. After quietly approaching Zhen Cheng, she only lightly covered Zhen Cheng with a rag and then jumped away.
At this moment, she threw the rag at Zhen Cheng's feet, and a smile flashed across her big yellow eyes: "You lied to me, and now we are even."
"What?" Zhen Cheng, who was overly nervous, did not realize the other party's series of actions that were beyond her understanding.
"You have been killed by me with special props, do you still need to pretend now?" Navis frowned slightly.
"That's it...well, congratulations on completing the role," Zhen Cheng breathed out, without any intention of continuing the topic: "Do you know where there is a device that can play this thing?"
She waved the tape in her hand. Since it had been seen, there was no need to hide it anymore.
"I'll take you to the reception room on the first floor," Navis quickly discovered that Zhen Cheng's attention was not focused on whether he was killed at all, and a few doubts arose in his heart. Then she half-truthed and half-falsely
He concealed:
"I saw some... very unusual things, the kind that even you can't understand. It's not as simple as it seems here. Hu Fabao was killed, and the murderer must still be in this mansion. I believe you also saw it.
His body. Regardless of the outcome of the game, it will be safer if we work together."
Zhen Cheng stretched out her hand to signal Navis to lead the way, and sneered in her heart. It would be safer for you to run with a cannon fodder whose physical fitness is inferior to hers in all aspects. But behind the same persistence for the victory prize, she did not have Navis in her heart.
So many concerns.
Although he deliberately hid his participation in this game from most of his family members, the deputy housekeeper Zhi Shi he brought is still waiting at the dinner hall, which means that her father must know what happened tonight. In the same way, the organizer
It's impossible that the Scarry family doesn't know this.
In other words, unless Scarry is ready to flip the table and not play the game of destroying the world, Mr. Epironis's loss of control cannot be deliberately designed by the organizer. All the contestants, or at least what she herself faced
Life danger should also be an unexpected event, not a part of the game itself that must be experienced.
Of course, the current troubles will not be eliminated. The great detective Impas, whose temperament has obviously been affected and has become extremely violent, and the evil spirit-possessed Epilens, who kills anyone on sight, must be carefully avoided. Otherwise, even if
Even if he really died here, Scarry and the others would be able to provide solid evidence to fend off Zhen's investigation.
Knowing more about extraordinary phenomena and the forces behind the scenes gave Zhen Cheng more confidence than Navis. The latter, who saw all this, began to shake his confidence that he had won, and he became more determined to follow Zhen Cheng to find out.
The ultimate idea.
All of this... was naturally visible to the people in the private bar. The unruly man named Anbis took a long breath and bowed his head to the old man next to him with sincerity:
"I didn't expect that things would develop to this extent, and no one would take the initiative to quit. This has greatly exceeded my original plan. Fortunately, the main steps have been basically completed, which is really frustrating. Uncle's clever plan, and I really
Still too young."
When Epilens was obviously acting strangely, when Navis was "going crazy" in the servant's room, when Zhen Cheng was attacked by Impas, when Huvabao was killed, Anbis took action more than once and tried to
He interfered with things in the big house, but was stopped by the old man next to him.
At this moment, the old man was smiling and holding up the wine glass leisurely and said: "Don't underestimate the temptation brought by power and immortality. The players we have found are not just detectives. They may be the most famous ones, but there are hidden secrets all over the world.
There are actually quite a few geniuses who are as powerful as these people, and their number can even be said to be far beyond your imagination.
Only these people all have their own purposes and persistence, and they happen to have the characteristics necessary for the ceremony. If not, why have we been trying for hundreds of years and failed to complete the ceremony? If not, why do we need to take risks, even Miss Zhen’s family?
Is the mysterious girl who has no clue about her family included in the plan?
Knowing this, you will naturally be convinced that no one of these guys will quit the game unless they are about to die."