After this conversation, Feng Bujue and the succubus have reached an "agreement". At this time, the succubus has transformed from a monster into an NPC camp and no longer has any intention to attack.
However, the system did not give any prompts about this. After receiving the key, you still have to make your own decision whether to let the succubus go or not.
"Hmm..." Feng Bujue looked at the key for a few seconds and then read the item description.
[Name: Key of the Curse]
[Type: plot related]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Function: The holder will be plagued by bad luck (this item cannot be discarded, destroyed or traded)]
[Can the script be brought out: No]
[Note: The key is consumed after opening the corresponding door. 】
As soon as he saw the effect of this thing, Feng Bujue thought of the second message: [When you think you have got what you want, you have actually lost more]
"Hey... I seem to understand why you are trapped in my bed." Feng Bujue muttered.
"I'm just unlucky." The succubus responded: "Your room only has such a small space. After I walked in through the wall, I flew forward one meter and reached the top of the bed. Who would have thought... that someone would use
King Solomon’s circle serves as a bed sheet pattern.”
Judging from her response, it seems that she does not know the nature of this "cursed key".
Feng Bujue wasn't surprised, because he completely understood why...the character in the script looked at things from a different perspective than himself, a "traveler from another world."
In the eyes of the succubus, this is just a key. If no one told her that this thing would bring bad luck to the holder, she would naturally not know.
From the player's perspective, you can intuitively see the relevant instructions for this thing through the game menu.
Of course, the player perspective will also bring corresponding problems. For example, the succubus can hand over the key, but Feng Bujue cannot discard or transfer it...
"Can I ask you where this key came from?" Feng Bujue asked again.
"The boss asked me to bring this to you," the succubus replied.
"Huh?" Feng Bujue asked in confusion: "He asked you to bring something to me, so why didn't you directly explain your purpose? After falling into the trap, you kept trying to trap me."
"Who said I was going to kill you?" The succubus patted the edge of the bed. She smiled charmingly: "When I asked you to come over just now, did it mean I wanted to kill you? Can't I do something else? I'll deal with it later.
I can give you the key."
Feng Bujue heard the words and thought about it again. It seems that this sentence is in line with the sentence "When you think you have got what you want, you have actually lost more."
However, he also knew very well that there would be no erotic elements in the Horror Paradise. It was probably because the key had been obtained at this moment that the succubus said this line, as if the player had a chance to take advantage of it. In fact... he just wanted to really
Once it has passed, you will definitely be attacked. It is possible to trigger the instant death flag.
Feng Bujue has seen this technique a lot when playing stand-alone games. Some games that are prone to depression like to play this technique the most. Before the ending, I give you an option. You choose a. The ending is a scam.
Then you load the file and choose b. You think you can see the true ending this time, but you find that the true ending is even more deceiving.
It's like someone puts a piece of cake in front of you and lets you choose to eat it or not. If you eat it, the poison will kill you; if you don't eat it, he will eat the cake, smash it and say: "
It’s so delicious, it’s a pity that you can’t eat it anymore.”
Woo——
It happened that the water in the kitchen was boiling and the kettle buzzed.
Feng Bujue turned around and left.
"Hey! You haven't..." The succubus wanted to stop him.
"Turn off the fire and come." Feng Bujue knew what the other party was going to say, so he interrupted directly and walked to the kitchen.
Two minutes later, he turned off the gas stove and returned to the bedroom with a pair of scissors.
In order to be absolutely sure, Feng Bujue took out the [Diamond Bell] and activated the special effect before approaching the bed. As a result, the command that was triggered was command one (observe the detailed information of an NPC).
[Name: Succubus]
[NPC force: Reasoning Club]
【grade:???】
[Height: 165 cm]
[Weight: 42 kg]
[Whether combat can be triggered: Yes]
[Included plot: Key of the Curse]
"Since the information displayed is not monster information, it means that the battle can be avoided. Judging from the current communication situation between me and her, as long as I don't take the initiative to attack her, there should be no problem..." Feng Bujue thought to himself.
"What are you doing waiting around?" the succubus urged.
Feng Bujue was worried about unnecessary complications, so he stopped unnecessary delaying: "Um...it's nothing." He said, took two steps forward, grabbed a corner of the sheet, and quickly cut it towards the middle area.
Creatures trapped by Solomon's magic circle cannot destroy the magic circle by their own strength. No matter how fragile the magic circle is, even if it is made of fallen leaves or building blocks, it will disperse when the wind blows, and so will the trapped people.
There is nothing you can do. But if a creature that is not affected by this magic circle, such as a human, walks into the magic circle, the trapped person can use the blood of this creature to contaminate the magic circle and escape.
After Feng Bujue opened the bedroom door, he was not moved by the spring scenery at all. Instead, he quickly saw through the opponent's trapped state, gained the initiative, and came to a plot line that could be advanced without fighting.
Ten seconds later, when a gap was cut on the outer edge of the heptagram, Feng Bujue suddenly felt his shoulders sink, and an invisible pressure suddenly appeared. This was undoubtedly a sign that the succubus had regained its strength.
At the same time, the pair of small bat wings behind the succubus trembled slightly, and then she floated up, "Huh... I'm unlucky today." She said unhappily, turned around, walked through the wall and left the room.
"Hey~" Feng Bujue lowered his head and looked at the key in his hand: "From now on, it will be me who is unlucky." He put the key into his coat pocket and left the bedroom.
After coming to the kitchen again, Feng Bujue put the scissors into the drawer and closed the drawer completely. Then he scanned the surrounding scenery with alert eyes, "How serious is that 'bad luck'?"
Well..." His eyes quickly fell on the knife holder, "It's like 'The God of Death is coming' and you could die at any time..." As he spoke, his eyes moved to the ground again: "It's still like walking normally.
.As a result, I fell to the ground and broke two front teeth..."
In fact, he thought too much. If the cursed key really had such immediate and fatal lethality, the succubus would have noticed the abnormality on the way here, and would not have waited until Feng Bujue's bedroom.
A trap.
…………
Five minutes later, Feng Bujue came to the living room with instant coffee brewed in boiling water. He put the coffee on the coffee table first, then returned the sofa that had been overturned on the ground and sat on it comfortably.
He picked up the coffee and took a sip, and then let out a cheerful "Ah--" as if he was an addict who had just taken a sip.
"If I remember correctly, pages 599 to 602 should be..." Feng Bujue put down his coffee cup, crossed his legs, opened the book he had placed here before, and said, "Aha! It is indeed "
"Return".
That's right. s.h's reminder refers to "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" on Feng Bujue's bookshelf.
Reading addiction is not developed in a day.
As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For Feng Bujue, this book is the starting point of a long journey.
When he was a child, he was indeed different from other children. Although he also liked to play games and read comics, his talent and enthusiasm for reading were obviously much better than those of his peers, even more than adults.
This "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" contains all the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle. It was bought by Feng Bujue with his own pocket money when he was in elementary school. His family was not wealthy, and his pocket money was very little.
So I bought a reduced version. There are more than 1,400 pages in a book, and the characters are printed very small, which looks quite troublesome.
But Feng Bujue still read the book countless times and kept it very well. He would never flip through the book while eating, nor would he touch the paper with oily or stained hands.
I was reluctant to fold the corners and remember which page I saw every time.
More than ten years have passed, and this book is still on his bookshelf. Although the paper looks slightly yellow, the writing inside is still very clear, and not a single crease can be found.
"I never thought I would open this again." Feng Bujue muttered, and his attention quickly focused on the text in front of him.
Pages 599 to 602 are part of the story "The Empty House", which is a story in "The Return".
From the perspective of an experienced reader like Feng Bujue, the series of stories "Return" should be regarded as the beginning of the decline of the entire series. Later "Uncanny Valley", "Last Salute" and "New Detective", in terms of logical reasoning,
Part of it has lost the rigor of his early works. During this period, Sherlock Holmes seemed to be able to accurately judge a person's ideological activities from "the changes in his face, the changes in his eyes, the closing of his lips, the clenching or loosening of his fists..."
, determine the cause and effect of a case.
This phenomenon can also reflect to a certain extent that Mr. Conan Doyle has gradually lost his enthusiasm for writing such stories, and is only writing them to satisfy the wishes of publishers and readers. This is why the Sherlock Holmes stories after 1902
None of them were as successful as previous works.
Today's Feng Bujue can actually understand Conan Doyle's original state very well. Many writers are like this. When they write stories with a high degree of creative enthusiasm, no one cares about them. But after they become famous, even if they fall into a creative slump, there are still some
People are willing to pay a lot of money to have them deliver their manuscripts.
"A Study in Scarlet" was written in April 1986. At that time, Conan Doyle submitted articles everywhere, but could not get published. It was not until Christmas of 1987 that it was published in a Christmas annual magazine.
And just five years later, despite his intention to refuse, the "Seaside Magazine" actually asked him for a manuscript in exchange for a thousand pounds for twelve short stories.
As a writer who had long wanted to write, but was still "forced to do it" for many years and could not get off, it was indeed not easy for Conan Doyle.
"Oh...is it the part where Holmes retells his escape at the Reichenbach Falls to Watson..." Feng Bujue finished reading the content on page 599 and basically recalled what was written on the next three pages.
But he continued to read.
"'I didn't fall at all', 'When I found Professor Moriarty with a sinister face standing on the narrow path leading to the safety zone, I had no doubt that my end was coming'."
In his gray pupils, I saw the ruthless intention." Feng Bujue repeated Holmes's description: "The description of the fight... Haha, it's basically no description, and then Lao Mo fell. The scene was...
...'I looked out and saw him fall a long distance, then hit a rock, and then was ejected again, and finally fell into the water'."
Feng Bujue picked up the coffee and took another sip. "Judging from this, Moriarty is definitely dead. Unless his physical fitness is close to Captain America, and he can still swim down the waterfall after suffering such a heavy injury."
Come out." He paused for a moment: "In that case...then is the owner of the reasoning club essentially a ghost?" Something suddenly flashed in his eyes, "If it is a living person...could it be that the one who fell was a stand-in?
But what kind of substitute can deceive Holmes's eyes..."
He put down the coffee cup: "Hmm... Or maybe, Old Mo in the Mystery Club is just a projection of Moriarty from a certain period in the original work. Just like other fairy tales and novel characters in the test building."
I'm afraid I have to ask the professor himself to know the answer to this question. So Feng Bujue put it aside for now and continued reading.
Although he can read ten lines at a glance, now he read every word very carefully and recalled what the original English sentence of this paragraph was like (he also has the English version of Sherlock Holmes. But those books are based on the series
If divided into volumes, the number of pages in each volume shall not exceed 500).
"'The moment the professor fell into the abyss, I suddenly realized that fate had arranged for me a unique opportunity." On the cliff that you assert is a cliff, there are actually several narrow footholds, and there are
A place similar to a ledge. It is obviously impossible to climb all the way up such a high cliff, but it is even more impossible to walk along the wet narrow path without leaving footprints.'" Feng Bu can't.
Seeing this, Jue couldn't help complaining: "You are worthy of being a role model for our generation. If you think about cheating death, you will carry it out to the end. You would rather risk real death by climbing the cliff."
Looking further back, the descriptions from 600 to 601 are mainly about Holmes' rock climbing experience. During this process, one of Moriarty's accomplices who had been ambushed nearby attacked Holmes twice with large rocks. If this
This is a fantasy novel. Our great detective is likely to fall into trouble, and then he will fall off a cliff and survive, and obtain magical powers, magic weapons, beautiful women, or carry around an old man...
Unfortunately, in this early 20th century novel, the role of the protagonist's halo is only: "When I grabbed the edge of the ledge with both hands and hung my body in the air, another stone fell from my side with a thud.
.My foot was empty. Fortunately, God blessed me, and I fell on the path under the cliff. My head was badly bruised from the fall, but I got up and ran away quickly, walking ten miles in the dark in the mountains. A week later, I
When I arrived in Florence, no one in the world knew my whereabouts."
After reading this paragraph, Feng Bujue said: "Well... this week's content can be used to write a fanfic about wilderness survival..."
Finally, there is the content from 601 to 602, which is also the end of this description.
This section is mainly composed of two parts. The first part describes where Holmes went to level up in the past few years when he disappeared.
"I have been traveling in Tibet for two years, and I often go to Lhasa to chat with the great lama. You may have seen an excellent inspection report written by a Norwegian named Sigerson. I believe you will never expect that this is exactly
News from your dear friend. Then, I passed through Persia, visited the Holy Land of Mecca, and then went to Khartoum (the capital of Sudan) to pay a brief and interesting visit to the Caliph (the title of the theocratic leader of an Islamic country), and I
The results of the visit were shared with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After returning to Europe, I spent several months in a laboratory in Montpellier, southern France, studying derivatives of coal tar. I completed this study to my satisfaction,
At that time, I heard that only one of 'my enemies' was left in London, so I prepared to come back."
The second part is about the situation of Moriarty's remaining parties.
This paragraph is not described very clearly, because on page 600, Holmes said, "Not only Moriarty has sworn to kill me, but there are at least three such people. And their desire for revenge against me
It will only become more violent with the death of the leader."
But in Watson's narration in "The Last Case", this number became two people. These two people were said to be important figures in Moriarty's criminal group and successfully escaped trial for their crimes.
On page 602, he became a person again.
Feng Bujue had already thought about these issues when he read them. Of course, the simplest explanation is that the author just wrote them casually. Indeed, this change in the number of people is not important in the original work and has nothing to do with the main story.
Moriarty's criminal empire collapsed when its king fell.
However, now in the Thriller Paradise, in the script that faces the virtual character Moriarty, the system has set up a very clear prompt 599-602. Brother Jue has to consider this as a reality...
…
"The 'Swiss boy' who appeared in the last case escaped. Watson's analysis is very reliable. He should also be a member of Moriarty's party, but he is obviously insignificant." Feng Bujue closed the book and raised his head.
He read: "Suppose the man who attacked Holmes on the ledge was one of the 'three', and the other two were characters who had never appeared on the scene and only existed in descriptions." His brain was thinking intensively: "The number of people
Is the decrease due to death, arrest, or seclusion..." He turned his attention to the key in his hand again: "Also, the contents of these four pages of the book, and this key, will help me escape from this room, and
Is there any direct relationship?” (To be continued)
