0036 Chapter 1: Confessions of the Dead (Section 30)
Ms. Navis was stunned. Zhen Cheng walked toward the door with an ugly face and said to her smoothly: "When I just said that Scarry must recreate history, I said that the final steps are still to be completed.
.At that time, I really didn’t expect that the final steps would be implemented in this way.”
As worthy of being the world's top detective, Navis immediately understood Zhen Cheng's out-of-the-box thinking: "You mean the traces of burning hidden behind the wall in the living room? The murder incident a hundred years ago was ended by a fire, and
Now they're going to set this place on fire?"
Navis shuddered as she spoke, suddenly thinking about a lot of things. She didn't know much about the case from a hundred years ago, but if it was really like the horror stories, it would be difficult to let it go undisclosed.
This proves that Zhen Cheng’s speculation is completely correct. For whatever reason, the same victim was killed five times. Later, a fire blocked all the evidence, trapping the deceased’s body and the murderers.
He died at the scene of the crime and all the jade and stone were burned to ashes, leaving behind the legend that is like a ghost story with no beginning or end...
And if Scarry's purpose is really to perfectly recreate that ceremony, it is very likely that a fire will be used as the end of today's game. They may not really want to disadvantage themselves as participants, but in order to make the ceremony perfect,
Those who are unfortunate enough to be involved will probably be burned...
Looking back at every abnormality since the beginning of the game, Navis noticed that the organizer had never shown any malice toward the players or interfered with the game process, but all of these may have been caused by evil spirits, killings, and injuries caused by themselves.
In other serious incidents, the organizers have never intended to intervene to prevent rescue.
"That's pretty much what it means," Zhen Cheng turned around with a dark face: "The door is locked from the outside, where is the key?"
"The key was returned to Epilen by Qu Yun..." Navis replied, and then his face became even uglier than Zhen Cheng's.
Because, how come such a lively silver-haired girl disappears as soon as she turns around?
"You bastard! I worked for you, helped you act, cooperated with you in games, and helped you compete for prizes. Now that you can't get the things, you're going to burn the bridge and run away, right?!"
During the game, he had always felt that his employer was particularly cold and distant, which was completely opposite to the enthusiasm that had invited him to work for her in the game. Now that Qu Yun had left him and ran away, Navis immediately exploded.
Seeing Zhen Cheng's confusion, Navis hurriedly explained: "Qu Yun herself is an extraordinary person. A month ago, she said she needed to get a golden mask, so she made a deal with me, buying me a mask for one million gold dollars.
Follow her instructions in the game and give her the prize after you win.
I saw the list of participants invited by Scarry, and knew that it was almost impossible for me to win on my own, so I agreed to her conditions. Her ability is teleportation, and she could obviously take us to escape together, but now she leaves us alone to escape.
…”
Zhen Cheng had received Scarry's game invitation a long time ago, but she had never wanted to participate before the hidden space incident she just experienced.
Born in one of the three major families that has mastered the complete path to transcendence, Zhen Cheng is more aware than these great detectives in the game of the huge price that must be borne while becoming a transcendent to gain astonishing benefits.
It is actually very rare for the Zhen family to choose to become extraordinary people for thousands of years, because few people are willing to bear the price that comes with power. As for the prospect of becoming a god and becoming an immortal, which can satisfy almost all dreams... I will give you this advanced mathematics textbook and you can become one.
Mathematics professor?
If she wasn't eager to gain strength to save herself but unwilling to bow to her father, why would she bother to participate in Scarry's game?
She had only temporarily accepted Scarry's invitation two days ago and flew to Greece immediately. Therefore, Zhen Cheng did not suspect Navis of lying just because she had not received any contact from Qu Yun.
And if what Navis said is true, it seems that Qu Yun is also happy to see the completion of the ceremony. For a player who has missed out on the reward, her actions and the power to decide the termination time in the game have to make people wonder whether she
What deeper relationship does it have with the Scarries?
But now is no longer the time to dwell on this. At this moment, the temperature in the hall is getting higher and higher, and black smoke is already coming out of the corridors on both sides. Regardless of whether Scarry crossed the river and demolished the bridge as Navis guessed, at least
The fact that I'm trapped in the fire scene now means I can't escape.
"Let's go, rush out of the window!" Zhen Cheng called to Navis and ran towards the corridor.
"I'm afraid it won't work," Navis said: "When I was in a fantasy world, I noticed that the windows of this house were controlled by unknown forces and could not be broken at all..."
Zhen Cheng had already rushed to the door of the living room next to the hall where she stayed for the last time, which had not yet been affected by the fire. Ignoring Navis's advice, she picked up the chair and swung it hard towards the window.
As expected, the chair was bounced back with a force several times greater than Zhen Cheng's arm strength, breaking one of its legs directly on the wall beside the door, and dragging Zhen Cheng's entire body to the ground.
She spat out the blood that had flowed from her lip when she fell. She got up and said bitterly, "Let's go find Epilens! No matter whether he is dead or alive, he has the key to the only exit."
Navis didn't say anything and just ran silently with Zhen Cheng. In a critical situation, she couldn't think of a better way to deal with it. The reason why she was so angry with Qu Yun and revealed everything was because she had already
Anticipating his own desperate situation.
Zhen Cheng first rushed into the bathroom on the first floor on the left side of Epilens. The place was already covered in fire and thick smoke was billowing. He covered his mouth and nose with a long gown of Hanfu and kicked open the door, but did not find the old gentleman in the sea of flames.
Corpse.
"Damn it, we are dead." Navis gritted his teeth fiercely. The yellow eyes in the courtyard were full of fear, and there was no longer any falsehood at this time.
"No, cough, let me think about it..." Zhen Cheng exited the fire scene. The expensive Hanfu he wore did not burn due to the tongue of fire, but it could not avoid being scorched and damaged.
She walked back to the hall anxiously, tapping her temples with her fingers: "Let's go to the second floor!"
According to everything experienced in the game, Scarry should not take the initiative to set fire to affect the "ritual". And in history a hundred years ago, who set fire to the entire mansion?
[The victim] has reason to do this, and it may not be impossible considering her weirdness, but if her final end is to have her limbs cut off and her facial features sewn up and locked in a secret room, it may be difficult to do this.
Apart from the victim...it should be the baron himself who fell into madness.