"Don't run!"
"careful!"
The voices of Zhen and Wen Renjing sounded almost at the same time. When Wen Renjing saw Zhen chasing out of the room, he was nervous and at the same time there was a hint of excitement in his eyes. Soon enough, he picked up the vase next to him and threw it out with all his strength.
Yan Yueming only saw the vase flying over his head, and subconsciously dwarfed himself. Li Zheng immediately pulled him and quickly hid in the room where Wen Renjing came out, followed closely by Wen Renjing.
"Bang!" The door closed.
Both Yan Yueming and Wen Renjing breathed a sigh of relief. In the corridor outside the door, Zhen avoided the vase, but was still shattered by the broken porcelain pieces of the vase.
He stood among a pile of broken porcelain pieces and stopped chasing. Instead of getting angry, he smiled.
"Cough, cough..." He smiled and seemed to be choked by his own laughter. He supported the wall with one hand, bent slightly, and took off the mask with the other hand. The black mask was held in his hand, and his palms were stained with a trace of bright red blood.
Of course this blood comes from himself.
"The human body is really fragile..." He took off his mask, his face was pale, and his lips were bleeding. But compared to before, his aura was less sinister and arrogant, and more coquettish and careless, as if his whole aura suddenly became restrained.
"Very good, just come here." He wiped the blood from his lips, bent down to pick up the hat that fell on the ground, and murmured to himself, "I can also be a companion, can't I..."
After finishing speaking, he glanced at the closed door, showed a subtle smile on his lips, turned around and went downstairs. There are many irregular-shaped black clocks hanging on the wall at the corner of the stairs. The clocks show that it is 19:27 in the evening.
At the same time, inside the room.
Yan Yueming heard no more noise outside and breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little frightened and asked in a low voice: "He's gone?"
Wen Renjing listened carefully to the door panel and said, "The rule that he cannot enter the house on his own initiative is still in effect. Don't worry, it's safe for now."
Only then did Yan Yueming have the mood to look at the furnishings in the house, and found that this room was similar to the one he had just stayed in. They were both bedrooms, but the decoration was different.
He couldn't help but ask: "How did you get here?"
When Wen Renjing mentioned this, his face was full of righteous indignation, "The poison is too insidious. I burned all those dolls. Who knew that when the moment of fluctuation came, the dolls would appear on the bedside again, and those spells would reappear. My I haven't slept yet, so I hurried to look for you and saw that the senior was already in your room."
Yan Yueming looked at Li Zheng again, and Li Zheng asked Wen Renjing: "Do you really think you destroyed those things?"
Hearing the sight of people instantly makes him look positive.
Li Zheng raised his eyes slightly to look at him, his eyes turned cold, and the sense of oppression came immediately, "Did the teacher tell you this? This is a battle at the level of consciousness. Your eyes will deceive you, and your brain will deceive you." You, how can you be sure that what you see is the truth?”
Hearing these words, Yan Yueming was a little dizzy. Seeing Wen Renjing's annoyed and frustrated look, he quickly said: "Then how did I fall in here? Is it because of those dolls and the spells?"
"Why can't the things in the gap be taken out at will?" Li Zheng asked a question in turn, and then looked at Wen Renjing, his voice was so cold that it could drop scum, "Say."
"Ahem." Wen Renjing immediately looked at Yan Yueming and pretended to be honest, "Because these things may allow you to have some connection with the world in the gap, causing you to fall in, especially during times of fluctuation. When the time comes, the rules change.”
Yan Yueming actively cooperated, "In other words, there were no gaps in the house originally, but because of those dolls and spells, we have a certain connection with this place, so it is possible to fall in?"
"Yes, that's it. I was careless. I should have let the search and rescue team handle these things directly." Wen Renjing was annoyed, but he also frankly admitted his mistake.
"Then where exactly is this place? A strange cabin?" Yan Yueming expressed his speculation.
Wen Renjing: "This is it. After we found out that you were missing, we immediately returned to our respective rooms. Not long after we lay down, we fell in like you. I am in this room, and the senior is upstairs, that is, on the third floor."
Yan Yueming instantly recalled the situation when Li Zheng broke in through the window, "So, senior, you came down from the window upstairs?"
Li Zheng nodded, then looked at Wen Renjing, "Let him remember the rules here as quickly as possible."
Wenren Jingma Liu agreed and began to popularize science for Yan Yueming.
"Strange Cabin Access Instructions"
1: Do not have physical contact with the doll, and do not look directly into the doll's eyes for more than 3 seconds. If unfortunately you get tricked, find a way to destroy the doll and leave.
2: You must knock on the door to enter any room, including the toilet. Not opening the door means rejection, don't go in.
3: Don’t eat anything here.
4: The alarm rings at 7 pm and 4 am. This period is the doll’s sleeping time, which is relatively safe.
5: Don’t leave your name anywhere in the house.
6: If you stay and anyone calls your name, do not answer.
7: You are not a doll, and no part of you can be disassembled at will.
8: There is no doll named Ondine here.
Yan Yueming memorized all the rules carefully, and kept raising his own questions during the process, "I felt the joints were rusty just now, because I violated the first rule? Then the senior stabbed the puppet's eyes with a knife, and it was cured." ?”
Wen Renjing thought about it and said, "It should be."
Yan Yueming was thoughtful, and then thought of the second item. He used to think that this rule should not open the door, but now he realized that there was something wrong with his perspective.
It's not that you can't open the door, it's that you can't enter. It is this rule that stops Xin.
This creates a new problem
, a question that Yan Yueming ignored——
"When we violate the rules, we will be invaded by the consciousness of the world. What about the foul foul? Isn't he the embodiment of the consciousness of the world, hitting himself?" Yan Yueming asked.
"Of course not. The price for him breaking the rules is very simple, that is, his strength will be weakened. Are you playing games? Assuming that he has 100 points of full health, then if he violates the rules once, the corresponding points will be deducted. But if you break the rules first, then he It can take advantage of the loopholes the moment the rules are broken, capture you, and come to your side. You can regard this behavior as a bug."
When Wen Renjing said this, Yan Yueming understood instantly, and understood thoroughly, "Then he is an insidious bug monster!"
As an elegant mature man who has never played games, Li Zheng did not comment on the expressions of these young people. What concerned him was the reaction of the poisonous person described by Yan Yueming.
"You said that he snapped his fingers and controlled the puppet to attack you, but he didn't open the door on his own initiative?"
Yan Yueming didn't know why, "Yes."
Li Zheng narrowed his eyes, "These things in the gaps are all the products of the world consciousness that were recreated after death. In theory, as the incarnation of the world consciousness, Xi can control them to a certain extent. However, in reality, he The world has been wounded twice, and this act of manipulation also drains his energy."
Yan Yueming thought about it, "Senior, what you mean is... that he chose the former between consuming energy to control the doll and actively violating the rules? Because the cost of violating the rules is greater?"
Wen Renjing also came to his senses. The eyes of little Zhuge from the south of the city flashed with wisdom. He touched his chin and said: "Zhen has lost one after another. His anger level should have been full long ago. If he wants to kill you, then he will violate it once for your sake." The rule of opening the door, given his strength, shouldn't be a big problem, but he didn't do that. So... the rules have tightened the restrictions on him?"
"No." Li Zheng raised his eyebrows, "Maybe on the other hand, he has become weaker."
Wen Renjing thought for a moment, and a guess suddenly popped into his mind, "Because the active period is advanced?!"
Yan Yueming continued to think divergently and boldly speculated: "What about going one step further? Is the world consciousness actually weakening? So the active period is advanced, causing the poison to fail to accumulate enough power, and the strength is damaged?"
Wen Renjing's eyes sparkled, "If that's the case, that would be great."
Ultimately, this is just speculation and they don't have solid evidence yet.
The three of them said these words, and only about ten minutes had actually passed. Yan Yueming listened intently to the movement outside again, then glanced at the slight bulge on the bed and said, "Then what should we do now? Jump out of the window and leave?"
Since the senior can break the window to save him, then the action of breaking the window must be relatively safe.
Li Zheng said: "It's okay to break the window, but it can't fall to the ground."
Wen Renjing then explained: "I forgot to tell you this just now. According to the rules, if you jump out of the window and land on the ground, you will definitely break your arms and legs, and then the broken part will become--"
He didn't say the second part, but he glanced at the bulge on the bed. Combined with Rule 7, the meaning is self-explanatory.
Yan Yueming asked dryly: "Have you seen the one on the bed?"
Wen Renjing smiled, "It's a zombie doll. I suggest you don't look at it."
Yan Yueming is very obedient. He won't read it if he doesn't want to, and he will never kill himself because of curiosity. Then he thought of another thing, "Are there entry and exit instructions posted at the door of the strange hut? With such strange rules, there is a high probability that ordinary people will not dare to come in after seeing them, let alone entering the gap for the first time. Why did the family of three last time Will you enter?"
After coming in, they committed a foul. Although children can't remember things, it's normal for them to touch dolls carelessly, but now that I think about it, everything is weird.
Li Zheng didn't have an answer to this question. After the family of three was handed over to the search and rescue department last time, it was a follow-up issue handled by the search and rescue department, and he did not ask any more questions.
"Normally, there are entry and exit rules at the door of the hut, at least when I came here last time." Li Zheng walked to the window, opened the curtains and took a look outside.
Of course, you can't see the scene at the main entrance from here. It's dark at the moment, it's pitch black outside, and the visibility is less than ten meters. The entire strange cabin has three floors and an attic. It is shaped like a Gothic castle and stands alone.
"If there's something wrong with the entry and exit rules at the door, then there will be a big problem in the strange hut." Wen Renjing murmured.
Yan Yueming immediately thought of the homeless people at No. 11 Silent Street, those charcoal marks, and the definition of "tramp" that Li Zheng had said.
[People who accidentally fall into the gap are collectively called wanderers. People are good and evil, so the marks they leave cannot be fully trusted. 】
At this moment, melodious music suddenly came from downstairs. That was the sound coming from the old gramophone, accompanied by a slight noise, intertwined with the flavor of time.
Yan Yueming asked in a low voice: "Is it poison?"
The two seniors did not answer because no one was sure. Wen Renjing frowned slightly, "I suspect that all the exits of the strange hut may have been blocked by him now. He can't get in, but we can't get out either."
Yan Yueming: "Then we will be trapped and die here?"
The most important thing is that he didn’t bring anything to eat!
Li Zheng remained silent, his calm eyes swept over the furnishings in the room, and suddenly, he walked towards the dressing table. In Yan Yueming's room, there are makeup boxes and tea sets on the dressing table, and there are books, paper and pens on the dressing table here.
Opening the books, there were handwritten words on the title page of one of them.
[A person died here
She said she likes zombies and horror movies
besides
Ondine is coming back
Run]
Yan Yueming was a little excited because he recognized the words on it. It was exactly the same as the note found under the bed of House No. 9 in Silent Street.
"It's the homeless man from No. 11!"
