"Random events?"
Ruan Bailing recalled what the store manager had just explained about random events. She remembered that this was the core gameplay of the game.
She took a few steps forward, and the scene changed. A narrow gravel road suddenly appeared in front of her. This gravel road was extremely hidden. The entire road was blocked by black iron bars and crisscrossing dead branches. If Ruan Bailing hadn't been teleported directly, If you go to the middle of the path, you can't find it at all.
The game prompt popped up again.
[Random event has been triggered:
This mysterious and dilapidated ancient house seems to hide countless secrets.
The dusty path and the entrance where fallen leaves are piled up, there is an unknown room in front of you.
Do you choose to go in and check it out?
(Note: The results of random events will be determined by the player’s choice)]
[Event selection:
A: Keep going.
B: Go back the same way.
C: Stay and wait for five minutes. 】
Ruan Bailing didn't think much about it.
She felt that she had touched the key point of the game, and she chose option A without hesitation: move on.
The gravel road is paved with cobblestones of different sizes, which is a bit awkward to walk on. In particular, Ruan Bailing was wearing small leather boots with pointed toes and thin heels. Walking on such a road was full of dangers.
Ruan Bailing was worried about whether she would fall, when the next second, the heel of her shoe hit the smooth surface of the pebbles.
"ah!!"
She screamed, her feet lifted off the ground, and her bulging skirt exploded upwards.
Ruan Bailing fell to the ground, grinning in pain: "This is broken..."
Ruan Bailing was halfway through complaining, and the rest was stuck in her mouth.
In front of her, there was a small window half buried in the ground, with a row of short iron bars as a barrier. Behind the iron fence, a pair of black and white but dull eyes stared into Ruan Bailing's eyes unexpectedly.
Ruan Bailing was stunned for a few seconds, came to his senses, and immediately tried to get up and leave here with his hands and feet.
But after she stood up straight, she realized that those eyes were not human eyes, but an extremely realistic oil painting, which happened to be placed in this place that looked like a sewer mouth.
Ruan Bailing observed from the gap in the iron fence.
This is a narrow square room with several easels stained with paint and piles of oil painting frames in the corner.
"This is... a studio?" Ruan Bailing muttered in a low voice, squatting down to look for a way to enter the room.
After searching for a long time and not seeing the door, Ruan Bailing had no choice but to reach out and touch the iron railing with a little force.
"Click."
With a crisp sound, the iron railing was pushed open, and the door to the studio was the window.
Ruan Bailing glanced at it with disgust and muttered, "It's like a dog hole." Then she reluctantly grabbed the hem of her skirt and got in.
[Arrived in the secret room]
The moment the heel landed on the ground, the game prompt sounded.
Ruan Bailing walked around the small room. Apart from a little mess, he didn't find anything worthy of attention.
"You're kidding me!" Ruan Bailing was tortured all the way, and she couldn't hold back her anger at all. She kicked the neatly arranged wooden frames of oil paintings.
Jingle bells! The neat wooden frames of oil paintings all fell to the ground.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Ruan Bailing was still angry. She raised her foot and stomped on the wooden frame that fell to the ground. She kicked it twice and broke the wooden frame into two pieces.
With her violent movements, the rose brooch she had stuffed into her cuffs fell out.
"Ding!"
The moment the rose brooch landed, the studio suddenly became quiet.
This kind of silence is not the silence where no one is walking around, but the silence where everything seems to be cut off. The sounds of insects, birds, rustling leaves, or the wind blowing are all blocked out.
So weird.
Even Ruan Bailing calmed down and carefully observed the changes around him.
What's wrong?
Ruan Bailing was confused and turned around to escape from the window he came from.
As soon as she turned around, those dull eyes met hers again.
"..."
The position of the painting has changed.
Ruan Bailing was stunned for a moment and then reacted.
She just vented her anger towards the wooden frame in the corner and never passed the window again.
The oil painting with the portrait looked at her when she came in, and now it looked at her again when she wanted to go out.
There is a problem in this studio.
Ruan Bailing took out a yellow paper charm and held it in his hand, not forgetting to pick up the rose brooch that fell on the ground.
At the same time, changes in portrait paintings began to occur. The faces in the painting kept changing, like a slide show, and finally stopped on a blonde portrait.
With golden and smooth hair and eyes as blue as the sea, he was originally supposed to be a portrait of an extremely handsome man. However, there are uneven wrinkles on the screen, causing the face to be deformed. The distance between the eyes is extremely wide, the corners of the mouth are pulled to the ears, and the entire face seems to be magnified by a fish-eye lens.
The mouth on the human face opened and closed, and after pulling for a long time, it finally made its first sound.
"Rose...Rose..."
Rose?
Ruan Bailing looked at the rose brooch in his hand. Is this face looking for this?
"Rose...Rose...Rose..." The human face in the painting keeps repeating the word "rose", its eyes are closed tightly, as if praying to the invisible gods.
During this period, Ruan Bailing did not dare to act rashly and stood a few steps away from the easel with a rose brooch in his hand.
Ruan Bailing was embarrassed by this rose brooch. She should have thrown it away long ago, but she kept it. Even if it fell on the ground, she would not forget to pick it up.
This is because her identity introduction clearly states the role of roses on her.
[Miss: A true lady is best matched with a rose.
When you have a rose or rose-shaped item, you can fill in any information in a box. One rose corresponds to one grid, and ten roses correspond to ten grids, but please note that each rose can only be used once. (Triggered events cannot be changed)
What? No roses? Sorry then. 】
If it weren't for the fact that activating her identity skills required something related to roses, she wouldn't have kept this low-end brooch.
"...You are the one who just moved into this manor." The portrait finally stopped repeating the word rose. It seemed to wake up and opened its eyes to look at Ruan Bailing standing opposite.
"Yes." Ruan Bailing replied.
The portrait sighed deeply after hearing her answer: "You shouldn't have come."
"Why?"
"You should have heard rumors about this manor..." The portrait's voice sounded particularly sad.
"I am the person involved in this rumor."
