The hellish blood-red scene in the cabin faded like a picture scroll, and Lu Li was pulled into the memory of the host's death.
Unable to dispel darkness surged around him, and Lu Li fell into darkness. There were only thick and indistinct gurgling sounds in his ears, and chaotic footsteps in the distance.
Time moved forward, and after more than ten seconds, a dim light appeared in the darkness ahead.
Lu Li saw himself in the light of the approaching oil lamp, and Anna floating beside him.
Surprisingly, the death of the tentacle host was brought about by Lu Li.
In other words, before this, the host has always been "alive".
This dispelled Lu Li's idea of obtaining clues from the host's initial death.
The last scene of the death retrospective is when "Lu Li" on the opposite side pulls the trigger, and then Lu Li returns to reality.
"Nothing." Lu Li said to Anna, who was waiting for the results, and told her what happened in the retrospective.
The host died, and the flesh and blood veins attached to the walls and ceiling fell, disgustingly falling to the ground and outside the protective shield.
"Let's get out of here." Anna said with disgust as she looked at the rain of rotten meat.
Lu Li nodded, took one last look at the mass of flesh and blood that had lost its support and collapsed, and prepared to turn around and leave.
call--
Suddenly, a faint sound of wind sounded in my ears.
The sound of wind...?
Lu Li stopped and raised the oil lamp to shine on the pool of flesh and blood.
There seemed to be something on the floor buried in flesh and blood.
"There is something under the floor." Lu Li said.
Anna waved her hand, and the flesh and blood was pushed away like a large pile of garbage, revealing a pull ring on the floor.
The sound of wind seeped out from under the secret door.
At the same time, Lu Li suddenly felt that his surroundings became empty and quiet.
This is something that has never happened before. After the sanity value is reduced, the lingering malice and the projection whispers that appear from time to time have never disappeared. At this moment, they seem to have never existed, and no trace can be found. After the sound of the wind.
No... Lu Li has indeed experienced this before.
That time, Lu Li had a strange and inexplicable experience, as well as bloody tentacles in his mind.
"Open it."
This secret door gave Lu Li a strong sense of déjà vu.
Anna was already doing it, rolling the ring with her breath and pulling open the secret door.
A dark gray-brown staircase extending downward appears in front of you.
"Stairs...?"
Anna couldn't understand.
It is extremely unreasonable to have a secret passage here... The place where they were standing was already at the bottom of the cabin, and there should be endless dark sea water below, instead of the stone wall and stone steps that extended downward for more than ten meters and doubled around the corner to continue downward.
Lu Li, who had connected it with his memory, looked at the wall, but this time, there were neither numbers representing time nor messy writing with unclear meanings on the wall.
"I want to go down there," Lu Li said.
There are three things in Richard's pollutant jar: tentacles, pieces of flesh, and eyeballs.
If the tentacles that once drilled into Lu Li's eyebrows corresponded to the meaning of "tentacles", then the eliminated host of the fleshy mass represented the "meaty mass".
Obviously, Lu Li was facing the second "test."
Yes, a test. Looking back on the last experience, if you ignore the dangers and weirdness along the way, it was more like a test for Lu Li. For example, what was said at the end——
There must be danger down there, but it is also an opportunity for Lu Li to get closer to the core of Richard's conspiracy.
"I'll go with you."
Anna knew that Lu Li's decisions had usually been carefully considered and difficult to persuade. So she stretched out her palm and handed it to Lu Li.
"Um."
Lu Li held Anna's illusory hand, held the oil lamp, and stepped into the secret passage that emerged under the floor.
After taking one step, Anna's palm fell behind her - she was left outside the steps.
Anna seems to be unable to enter this secret passage and is blocked out.
This seemed to be a test only for Lu Li.
"Wait for me here."
Lu Li said to Anna who looked worried. He withdrew his gaze and continued down the cold steps. At the corner, he disappeared from Anna's gaze.
…
The rough walls gave Lu Li a strange feeling.
It is as if they are frosted brown glass. On the back of the glass, the daylight blocked by thick clouds passes through the "glass" and spills into the passage.
What made Lu Li feel this way was that the wall itself was emitting light. Even without the help of an oil lamp, the stairs extending downward were by no means dark.
But when Lu Li touched the walls, he realized that they were really just rough stones.
Standing in front of the first corner, Lu Li looked towards the end.
There are still no numbers or words on the wall, only a beautifully hollowed wooden door standing alone on the rough stone wall.
Obviously, this was the first test Lu Li encountered.
Walking down the steps, Lu Li came to the wooden door. This hollow, exquisite wooden door had religious symbols and patterns on it. Through the gap, Lu Li could vaguely see another space behind the door.
Holding the door handle, Lu Li opened the wooden door.
The narrow space behind the door is fully visible to the eye, as well as the soothing and echoing sound of the flowing organ.
A carved wooden chair was placed in the middle of the narrow space, which looked like a confessional in a church. The reverberating sound of the organ and the dim light outside the hollow walls supported Lu Li's speculation.
Lu Li walked into the confession room and placed the oil lamp on the wooden board protruding from the edge. There was also a stack of rough paper and a quill dipped in an ink bottle on top.
In the confession room filled with the faint scent of wood, Lu Li sat on a carved wooden chair.
Not long after he sat on the wooden chair, behind the hollow wall, a hazy silhouette of a woman walked to the confessional and sat down.
Through the wide hole in the wooden wall in front of the paper, Lu Li could see a pair of palms that were entangled and had nowhere to rest.
Real as if everything is real.
At the same time, the woman outside the confessional began to whisper: "Almighty Lord, please tell me what I should do..."
"Who are you?"
After a moment of silence, Lu Li asked.
It's just that the woman outside the confessional room seemed unable to hear Lu Li's voice, and her figure sitting in the wooden chair remained motionless.
Lu Li looked at the pile of rough paper with understanding, picked up the quill pen in the ink bottle, wrote on it: [Tell me your name], and passed it along the wide hole to the outside world.
The vague human figure outside the confessional took the piece of paper and replied piously: "Lord, I am your most loyal servant, Olivia Kicken."
【What time is it now?】
Lu Li, who was exploring this test, continued to write and passed it on to the outside world.
Only this time, the woman did not pick up the handed paper and remained still.
Lu Li also wrote questions such as "Where is this place?" "Who do you believe in?" and other questions, but also received no response.
Putting aside the useless paper with the content of the test, Lu Li wrote on a brand new piece of paper: [What difficulties did you encounter?]
The woman outside the confessional finally responded and reached out to take the letter.