Lu Ning carefully studied the room Dorian chose. It really looked like an apartment. The closet was filled with food and nutrients. It looked like they had stocked up on the knowledge that someone would get lost here. .
"Are all other rooms like this?" Lu Ning asked.
"It's not all... this should be the guest room." Dorian got up and went to the small kitchen to open a way. She didn't see any pipeline connections, but a blue flame immediately appeared on the stove.
"Guest room?"
"Maybe it's the quirks of the researchers. The tone Vera has set for these rooms is such that one can live for more than a month without relying on any outside world. Those of us who are lost here rely on the supplies in these rooms. Only then can I survive until now.”
"Can you survive until now in a month?"
"I'm also surprised that those servants will replenish things that are used." Dorian tore open two packages of instant noodles, poured water into a pot and put it on the stove to boil, "Whether it's water or Food, or some potions, chemicals... Anyway, the things consumed from the room will be replenished after we leave, which should be called 'cleaning'."
"Even though Vera is gone, are these servants still continuing to maintain the house... They should know that the only users here are outsiders like us, right?"
"It seems that all the rules set by Vera are still strictly followed. Look behind the door." Dorian pointed. Lu Ning walked to the door and saw a room usage instruction sealed with a plastic board.
[Everything in this room is free to use. If you need something special, please press the call button and a servant will prepare it for you.
Please put your luggage and other personal items in your personal safe. When you leave the room, the maid will restore everything here to its original state.
Do not attempt to break into an occupied room without permission. Servants will also follow this rule.
Just throw the garbage directly into the trash can. If special treatment is required, please refer to Article 1. 】
"How about it? A very simple explanation, right?" Dorian sneered, "But if there is someone in the room, the servants will not come in. This will also save us a lot of trouble. If there is a servant attacking If you find a guest room like this, you will be safe. However... due to the third reason, it is best not to have several people enter a room at the same time."
"What will happen if we enter the same room?"
"The servants will treat everyone except the first person who enters the room as a violent intruder and kill them." Dorian seemed to recall some bad memories, shook her head hurriedly, and took out a fork from the sideboard. Stirred the water and threw the dough in.
"Understood. Then where did you get your treasure and the thing that the Dark Sage wants?"
"In the master bedroom."
"……where?"
"The master bedroom on the third floor, yes, it's either Vera's study or research room, or her master bedroom. I'm also quite surprised. There's no one there, but since it's a place used by Vera, I guess you can't enter it casually. The alarm was triggered as soon as I walked in. Fortunately, the illusion of treasure helped me delay for a long time. After I broke through the illusion and got the treasure, the Dark Sage's stone also prevented the servants from approaching me directly. I used this It took two periods of delay to escape from the master bedroom, and now I don’t dare to go there again.”
"But the key to leaving this mansion may lie there."
"...Maybe, but the key to death is also there." Dorian shrugged.
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"Hey...I feel like something is following us."
Roberto, who was walking in the team, suddenly spoke. He rarely spoke, but when he spoke, he conveyed important information. Everyone stopped, Yan Rong turned around and looked behind him, shook his head and said, "I don't feel anything."
"The hymn didn't tell me anything." Jean pointed in the direction behind everyone with his finger, but the sound of the hymn echoing in his ears did not change at all. Of course, everyone knows that it is sheer stupidity not to care because most people don't feel it. After looking at each other, Zhu Qinyuan and Yuan Jie stepped back lightly and rushed out at the entrance of the stairs.
"There really isn't anything."
Robert looked a little annoyed: "I feel a little... not sure."
"Can you tell me what it feels like?" Yan Rong asked.
"It's a sense of emptiness and emptiness. There's nothing malicious or good about it, but it's very dangerous. That kind of fatal attraction... I can only describe it this way."
"But no matter what, if we can't see the target, we can't judge what the threat is." Jean shook his head, "Let's go upstairs."
When he said, "Let's go upstairs," he winked at everyone, and most of them understood and followed him upstairs in silence. After the last person stepped onto the stairs, the armed servants once again appeared behind the corner of the corridor, but this time there were three of them.
The entire third floor is Vera's living space. There are some extra furnishings here. To Yan Rong and others, it looks somewhat similar to the one at the institute. It can be seen that Vera is trying to restore the life of that time. effort. The entire corridor on the third floor is divided into four paths from the stairwell, which is very similar to the research institute.
"It's a bit of a bad memory." Lian Bisheng chuckled, "Habits are really hard to change..."
"Rest area, work area, guest area and snow collection area." Li Qianqian looked up at the sign on the corridor. Although it was very strange to have such a sign posted in his own home, he just regarded it as Vera's. Personally I'm used to it.
"Where are you going?"
"Of course it's the snow collection area!" Yuan Jie became interested, "If she stores any good things here, then I can add a lot of high-quality weapons to my arsenal!"
"I don't think it's that easy." Zhu Qinyuan poured cold water on it, "It sounds like a place to put treasures."
"But there are still many of us who don't have any high-quality weapons, right? A high-quality weapon can greatly improve our strength." Yan Rong was also a little eager to give it a try, "Anyway, the worst it can do is to enter another illusion of treasure."
Liu Yunqing and others obviously have this intention. Whether it is treasure or not, Vera's collection is definitely not bad, and what tourists lack most is a handy weapon.
"Then... we might as well go take a look first."
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"Ha...why did Vera get a sign in her home?" Lu Ning raised his head and glanced, a little puzzled by this genius' brain circuit.
"It's convenient for us anyway." Dorian said. At this time, the weapon she had fused with the treasure appeared in her hand, a hollow long sword with a brass color and a complex dial decoration on the handle. Lu Ning also let the fragments of the long knife float around him to prevent servants from suddenly rushing out at any time.
"The work area...the snow collection area, if I have to say it, these two places are more likely to have related things, right?"
"I have been to the third floor at different times in the past thirty years. In addition to not being able to enter the door, I have also walked in the corridor." Dorian said, "The work area is almost the research room and file storage, and there are signs written on the door. , and there are also very complicated numbers. As for the snow collection area, it is roughly divided into six treasure troves, which are also numbered. I don’t know what those numbers mean.”
"Will the alarm be triggered the moment we walk in?"
"Yes."
"There's no reaction time at all..." Lu Ning thought for a while, "What if we just open the door but don't go in?"
"What's the use?"
"That'll be useful."
Lu Ning chose the nearby snow collection area and walked there with Dorian. There were no servants in the corridor, so she took the opportunity to look around at the numbers of each collection room and randomly picked a door handle that she liked. With a twist and a push, the door opened, but nothing unusual appeared. Lu Ning grinned, stood at the door and looked around. With a flick of her finger, several photos appeared between her fingers. Then she stuffed the photo into her robe, reached out and took Dorian's wrist: "You are the first one to try the latest function I developed."
"Varied……"
Before she finished speaking, a shutter clicked, and the surrounding world completely turned into black and white. Dorian looked around in surprise, but Lu Ning stepped directly into the door.
"Sure enough, it's safe this way." Lu Ning walked around the room.
"Framing" - another usage of Sudden Yesterday that she found after meeting Leslie.
Only she can enter the world of yesterday. In that world, she can move forward, backward, and pause everything she has seen, and investigate the ignored details. This is of course very convenient, but it is not without flaws. At least Lu Ning has experienced it. The fact that something can invade yesterday's world shows that it is not absolutely safe.
But "framing" is absolutely safe. To put it bluntly, this technique is to directly expand several photos into three places, which only freezes the scene at that moment. There is no flow of time or movement of matter. She can even bring others into this place. Inside the photo. Compared with yesterday's world, the disadvantage is that you cannot rely on moving in the photo to achieve short-term displacement, and everything inside will not change or be touched, and the photo space must be expanded to fit the original space.
"Your treasure is really convenient." Dorian praised her.
"But it's useless to fight." Lu Ning shrugged. Most of the treasures are of special interest, unless they are all mixed together like morning and evening.
Without saying much, the two started walking around in the treasure house that would not trigger the alarm.
Most of the collectibles are sealed in boxes. Some of the glass boxes can still be seen inside, but some are packed in metal boxes or jade boxes so that you can't see what's inside at all. The areas that can't be captured in photos are completely black, and there's no way to go through them and see what's inside.
Vera still maintained her own habit here and put a label on each collection. The three informations of number, name, and source were clearly written on it, but there was no detailed introduction. She probably remembered these things herself. What is it.
Lu Ning first glanced at a short sword placed on a pedestal.
【No. TK-R-0203
Name: Stainless sword
Source: Salvage]
The sword didn't have the names or words that treasures would have, and this one didn't look like a treasure either. At least a sword that won't rust... can be achieved by using metal that is not easy to rust and using better maintenance methods. Of course, Vera would store it here probably because the sword would never rust no matter how hard it was tossed, but he couldn't see any other value.
"This doesn't look like treasure..." Dorian stood in front of a big clock. People who knew a little bit about Vera's past would easily look for things related to time first. That's what Dorian did. Ning walked over and took a look, but also felt that it was not the case.
[No. WR-O-1776
Name: Shuangwu Desk Clock
Source: Recycling]
"Dorian, help me count the numbers and sources of these numbers. I think there must be secrets related to the Pavilion of Time."
"good."
The two moved quickly and quickly sorted out the categories from the more than thirty collections here.
First of all, the numbers are all three-section numbers. The first section has two digits, a total of four types, TK, WR, ED and IO. The middle number is one digit, which is also four types. It has no subordinate relationship with the first section number, respectively. It's R, O, D, Q. The third digit is a four-digit number with no commonality.
It seems that Vera was fond of sorting things into four categories, a habit that carried over to sources—salvage, recycling, gifting, and manufacturing.
Among them, recycling actually accounts for more than half, and the numbers of the remaining three types are not much different. Although he could probably guess what it meant from the literal meaning, it was still very confusing. Lu Ning didn't know exactly what Vera classified things into these.
"How about we go look at other treasure troves?" After sorting and analyzing it by herself, Dorian also became interested in these things. She had not dared to come in for the past thirty years. Now that there is a safe way, of course she must He will not give up until all the doubts in his heart are solved. Lu Ning nodded, and with a move of her hand, the black and white space shrank back into the photo. They were still where they were, not moving an inch.
Lu Ning followed the same pattern and opened the next treasure room. The two of them used the paper they took out from the previous guest room to make a detailed statistics of all the treasures. They planned to collect them all and then return to a safe place to sort them out.
But just as the two of them counted the three treasure houses and walked towards the fourth room, they suddenly felt a coldness around them. Dorian reacted the fastest and immediately pointed the sword in his hand to the ground, an almost transparent crystal The sphere enveloped the two people inside. At the same time, Lu Ning also noticed that the carpet under her feet had changed from green to black.
"Have we passed through the one-way time barrier again?" She turned around and saw a lens that was rapidly moving away. The speed was completely different from the slow one before.
"Yes, this has no impact on us, but we have to be careful around the perimeter of the barrier. It would be terrible if there are servants." Dorian breathed a sigh of relief.
But at this moment, the door of the fourth treasure house that the two were going to opened. Their nerves were instantly tense, and they were ready to turn around and run to the second floor if the person who came out was not right.
"Haah...huh? Who are you?"
Lu Ning looked in astonishment as Vera came out with a sleepy look and yawning, wearing a thick green sweater.
