0027 Chapter 1: Confessions of the Dead (Section 21)
"God says that people in the world have sins, and only the fire of the last day can burn them all. Those who add fuel to the firewood will be in good health, and those who accept the inheritance calmly will have eternal peace..."
In the earphones, Zhen Cheng heard an old and magnetic voice that seemed familiar. The familiar part came from the voice of Epilens when he was mentally normal, but more parts were obviously different.
Obviously, considering its age, Epilens cannot be related to the origin of this tape. The volume of the tape is low, and it is accompanied by obvious sizzling noise, which is the mark left by the restoration and reproduction of the original item.
After waiting and watching at the door for a while, and seeing that Zhen Cheng started listening to the tape without showing anything unusual, Navis also came over and asked for half of the earphones.
"There are six major sins in the world. One sin is purity. The pure ones are endowed with special talents and are not subject to divine grace. They should be forced to sacrifice their own bodies and habitually inherit their minds in order to be saved;
The second sin is madness. Those who believe in fanaticism will destroy everything they cherish, abandon themselves, carry out the oracle, and finally be saved;
The three sins are cowardice. A cowardly person will misinterpret God's will, try to make his own will go against his will, and fail, but will be saved..."
As Zhen Cheng listened to the awkward preaching, he gradually connected the rules and structure of the game with his own experience in the fantasy world, and he had a vague understanding in his heart.
As her thoughts were gradually coming through, she suddenly felt her elbow being pulled by Navis. As she continued to listen, she turned her head to look at him and saw Navis pointing at the wall next to the door frame and whispering:
"There seems to be something weird here. I'll try to get it out of the way." After that, she ran out of the house. This lady, whose behavior was a little abnormal from beginning to end, seemed to stop looking at Zhen Cheng after confirming that she had completed the kill.
Be on guard as a powerful enemy.
She didn't know whether she was aware of the danger in the mansion and wanted to recruit a helper or was just pretending to be friendly so she could stay by Zhen Cheng's side. She revealed the problems she had discovered without any hesitation.
Looking at the location pointed out by Navis just now, Zhen Cheng tapped his temple lightly and roughly understood what the other party meant.
The mansion received elaborate decorations from the Scarry family before it became a game venue, and it had been renovated a few years earlier when it was supposed to be open to general visitors as a "haunted house sanctuary".
Calculated in this way, if the wall is destroyed at this time, what should be seen is the two layers of paint on top of the original wall paint. If it is assumed that similar games have been secretly played many times over the past hundred years, then under the wall paint
There should be traces of more layers of whitewash.
In the detailed setting before the game, the organizer imitated the real marks that existed in history and left deep fingerprints on the wall next to the door frame. As expected, it was probably the despair of the [Detective] when he was dragged out.
Left behind by scratching.
The fingerprints were so deep that they crushed the thin plasterboard of the walls. Some of them, which may have looked like cracks at the time, had completely fallen off by the time the game progressed, revealing gaps where the real stone walls inside could be seen.
The fact that caught Zhen Cheng's eyes for the second time was that there was no trace of the layer of paint or wallpaper that should have covered the innermost layer a hundred years ago. Instead, there was a dark charcoal-like residue on the stone wall.
"The four sins of curiosity. Those who dig deeper will get into trouble due to recklessness, betray their own hearts, and sacrifice themselves to become sanity;
The five sins are ruthlessness. Those who are ruthless will definitely carry out God's will, and will not end well because they have no intention of serving;
The Six Sins of Envy. Those who hate are obsessed with power and do not know God's grace. They will endure soul torture, distort their minds and fulfill their God-given mission.
When the six sins are released, the world will usher in the baptism of karma fire. Regardless of the unbelievers or the devout believers, everything will eventually turn into dust.
When the dust settles, your kingdom on earth will turn into ashes. The gold found in the ruins is your guide to the end."
Zhen Cheng wanted to continue listening, but the content at the end of the tape was only noisy white noise mixed with a few scattered words. Obviously there was more content at the end, but the organizer deliberately deleted it when transcribing this prop
I don't know if this is a hint or a cover-up.
The "lecture" in the tape is self-contained and logical, and is related to what she is experiencing. But the interesting thing is that Zhen Cheng has never heard of any religion in the world that contains similar teachings.
The elite education gave her a broad and superficial understanding of global religions, but even those primitive religions she had never heard of, or even secret cults, would not compare the "good" quality of "purity" with "jealousy".
"This kind of "evil" quality is also listed as a kind of "sin".
Her life background allows Zhen Cheng to understand the reality behind many appearances in the world, so she does not believe that reality can be divided into good and evil. But religion always talks about good and evil, no matter which side it promotes.
Otherwise, this is not like a spiritual religious classic, but more like... ritual steps that must be strictly performed in order to achieve a certain purpose.
She stopped the machine, picked out a random tape from the tapes scattered on the table, put it into the machine and continued listening.
By now Navis had returned. She went to the gardener's room to find tools, and was currently knocking open the plasterboard on the wall to uncover the truth behind the decoration.
After the ping ping pong pong, what was revealed was a charred stone wall. When a large area was excavated, the traces of the fire could be clearly identified at a glance.
At this time, a new voice came from Zhen Cheng's earphones: "Do you admit that you killed the lady?"
If Navis, who was concentrating on the wall, heard this voice, she should quickly remember that it was the voice of the same detective on the previous tape.
"Yes, I admit it," the old female voice was still charming and full of magnetism. Zhen Cheng recognized that it was the voice of the pianist she had heard in the previous fantasy, Miss Mansion's piano teacher:
"But who can stay out of it? Mr. Detective, after entering this mansion, do you really think that your job is to find the murderer of the lady?"
"How did you kill her?" The man's voice was unmoved.
After a few seconds of blankness, the old woman's voice brought out a hint of smile: "Mr. Detective, don't you think music has always been the most mysterious thing on the planet?
Mystery often contains power. With such power, even if you don't use any effort or leave any traces, you can deprive a life of just moving your fingers..."
Hearing this, Zhen Cheng's heart suddenly skipped a beat. She heard a simple and exquisite two-part baroque ditty that she had only heard once.
She didn't have any extraordinary talent in music, but anyone else would probably have the last thing they heard before they died engraved into their souls.
I took off my headphones in panic, but the sound of the piano did not stop. The source of the urgent piano sound was not from the tape, but from reality!
"Don't play this piece!"
The reception room is at the first door on the right side of the hall. Pushing the door open, Zhen Cheng immediately saw an unrealistically beautiful silver-haired girl sitting on the piano stool playing.
Beside her, Detective Epilens with a dull expression was standing blankly, leaning on his cane.