Chapter 92 Red Rose Manor 2
Ling Changye suppressed a smile and held his hand, "You found out."
Xia Bai resisted the urge to look down at their clasped hands. In his mind, he could imagine Ling Changye's hands holding his.
When they first met, when Ling Changye was still scattered among a pile of body parts, he knew clearly what this hand looked like, and he even remembered the protrusions of each finger bone.
Last night, Xia Bai thought seriously about why he remembered it so clearly, not just the finger bones, but also the abdominal muscles, and many other places...
At first he thought that he was attracted to the corpse and that the corpse was so much to his liking that he kept touching it during the sewing process.
But he was not like this to other corpses. When he saw the body of Lin Xiang that he liked, he just wanted to carry it home but did not do anything.
It's not like he's really a necrophiliac.
It was only last night that he realized that he might have had ill intentions towards Ling Changye at that time, but he had never realized it.
Ling Changye was unconscious at that time. This was the first time that she was conscious. Holding his hand felt wonderful, warm and connected to her heartbeat. This wonderful feeling was worth Xia Bai's decision.
The advice Ling Changye gave him last night was very good. He had never been in love, and emotions were the only thing that matched his facial expression. He looked like he had a missing brain stem and was a little dull, but he actually had some brains. Using logic, it could be deduced that he was not innocent about his captain.
I really like his corpse (×) body, probably love at first sight, or maybe I was attracted by his beauty.
I really want to be his partner. There are so many outstanding members in the assault team, but I just want to rely on him for life and death.
I have wanted to give him the [Ring of Time and Space] for a long time, and I just want him to be by my side at any time.
Dozens of times my heart beat too fast and sank too fast because of him.
I just heard about his family's mental illness and the girl he almost got engaged to, and it turns out that the girl was the one he cared about the most.
When I was soaking in the hot springs, I listened to them talking about abdominal muscles, and my mind was full of the captain with my eyes closed, so lustful that when I came out of the hot spring room and saw him, I immediately felt a little guilty.
It is said that one should have a romantic relationship in college. Since he has this feeling, he should give it a try, even though the world has been torn to pieces by games.
If you want to fall in love, you have to be open and aboveboard and declare your sovereignty.
Xia Bai was content, with bubbles gurgling in his heart. He happily rubbed Ling Changye's palm with his fingertips, and Ling Changye held his hand even tighter.
Jiang Yu, who was walking forward, stopped.
Lin Xiang, Hua Haoming, and Jing Yan opened their eyes wide, and the five players on the opposite side also looked over.
There was a moment of silence at the scene.
Hua Haoming rubbed his eyes. "Xia Bai actually... He couldn't have made a mistake, mistaking his love for the corpse for the body, for a person?"
Lin Xiang looked dazed, but also had a feeling that it was as expected. He said that there was a strange and unclear feeling between Xia Bai and Ling Changye.
Take Ling Changye’s visit to pick me up at the airport this time. He said he was trying to avoid work. How could he hide during the airport pick-up and then go back to work right away after the airport pick-up?
They have long lost their innocence!
It started when I was in Datai City!
Jing Yan slapped his thigh hard, he really ate the melon!
He just knows it!
He noticed it yesterday. The first time he saw Ling Changye's inner thoughts, he began to reveal a sense of ulterior motives!
The three of them were all confused and had different thoughts, but they all had one consensus.
Xia Bai is awesome.
I thought he was so dull and had no emotions, so even if he was with the captain, it was done secretly. I didn't expect him to declare his sovereignty so suddenly and openly.
Jiang Yu stared at the two people's clasped hands for a few seconds, then looked at Ling Changye, "Excuse me, who is this?"
Ling Changye raised the hand he and Xia Bai were holding together, the angle was just right for people to see their fingers interlocked, "Miss Jiang, let me introduce you, this is my boyfriend, Xia Bai."
Xia Bai tried his best to keep a straight face, "Hello."
Jiang Yu stared at Ling Changye in disbelief, "Are you gay?"
Ling Changye nodded, "It has always been like this. Even if you didn't object back then, I would have opposed it. After you objected, I was relieved. It's better for you to object to this kind of thing. Just treat me as someone you dislike. But now I have a boyfriend, so it's better to make it clear."
Jiang Yu: "You... Damn it! I felt guilty for so long!"
“…”
Jiang Yu: "My agent and my dad designed a play for me last night and asked me to act well today. I was worried all night!"
“…”
Xia Bai could see that this Miss Jiang did not have a persona in the entertainment industry. She was just a beautiful woman with a straightforward manner and a cool personality.
She tugged at the mink slipping down her silk skirt, suppressed her anger, and said, "Congratulations, and thank you all for coming here."
Ling Changye asked: "You also know about the game? Have you ever entered the game?"
Jiang Yu said: "I have never been in there."
She didn't say more. She might have been told not to tell anyone about the game, especially not to the people in the Gaming Authority. The Gaming Authority stipulates that players cannot tell ordinary people about the game without reason, and there are detectors to detect this.
Since she didn't want to say more, Ling Changye didn't ask any more questions. They were about to enter the game.
He only said: "The game is dangerous and can be fatal to ordinary people. It is not something you can do in your circle. Don't let others take advantage of you."
Jiang Yu nodded, "I understand."
She looked at Xia Bai for a few seconds, then turned and asked, "Your boyfriend is not an ordinary person either. Can he also walk independently in the game?"
Xia Bai nodded, "I can."
Ling Changye saw that he had answered and then said, "He is not only my boyfriend, but also my partner. He often performs better than me in games."
Xia Bai seemed not to realize that her boyfriend was praising her and had a dazed look on her face.
Jiang Yu looked at Xia Bai again, as if she had something else to say, but Ling Changye didn't give her a chance. He said, "It's the agreed time. Let's go in."
Xia Bai followed him, and the three people behind him quickly caught up. Four of the other five players also walked towards the manor, only one seemed to have not come to his senses, and it took a long time before he walked towards the manor.
After they walked in, the staff of the Tourism Administration Bureau sealed the manor again and asked Jiang Yu to leave.
The manor looked as desolate as the outside. The lawn was yellow and dry in the winter, and only dead branches were left of the roses.
There are three Gothic buildings inside. The floors themselves are not high, and the pointed roofs are very long. Xia Bai doesn't understand art. He has only heard that the themes of Gothic architecture include despair and fear. This spire that seems to be piercing the sky is indeed difficult to give people a peaceful feeling.
I don’t know where to trigger the game, so the first target is the main building in the middle.
Xia Bai and Ling Changye had separated their hands and began to explore the main building carefully.
Lin Xiang and Hua Haoming rushed to Xia Bai one after another.
Lin Xiang: "Is this true? Xia Bai, are you with Captain Ling?"
Hua Haoming: "Have you figured it out? Don't you like his corpse?"
Xia Bai: “…”
Don't talk nonsense, he didn't.
He glanced at Ling Changye with a guilty look, and saw that Ling Changye in front of him was looking at him leisurely.
Xia Bai immediately said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense, I like the captain, I like him very much."
Ling Changye: "It's okay to like corpses. I just happen to have this skill."
Hua Haoming: “…”
His ears are going deaf.
Why didn't he record the video just now? He should have sent it to the assault team's group and let them listen to what was said.
Lin Xiang silently gave a thumbs up.
Jing Yan restrained himself a little. When he saw Ling Changye walking away, he came over and said to Xia Bai, "Now that I think back to what I saw in your heart before, I find that there were already clues."
Xia Bai was curious, "What clues? What did you see in the captain's heart?"
Jing Yan had long forgotten that when Ling Changye asked him what he had seen in his heart, he did not ask Xia Bai. He just thought that since they were a couple now, telling Xia Bai was just a sweet thing. "You know, I see a lot of heartfelt words in every game or even every day. It's impossible for me to remember everyone's, but I always remember a few words from the captain, all about you."
Xia Bai pricked up his ears.
Jing Yan: "The first time I saw the captain's inner thoughts was when we took the bus to Wugu Village. The captain's inner thoughts were probably about your expression at that time, which was the same as when you drove the corpse to threaten him. The captain has been paying attention to you and thinking about your expression at that time. When you threatened him, he still remembered your appearance."
He hated that he only saw that Xia Bai dared to control the corpse to threaten Ling Changye, which was not a simple thing.
"What?" Hua Haoming suddenly became interested. "Xia Bai also used corpses to threaten the captain? How many corpse-controlling talismans does that require?"
“…”
Is this all you thought of?
Jing Yan felt that Hua Haoming was not as good as him.
Hua Haoming: "Then what? What happened at that time?"
Xia Bai: "...It's better not to say it."
Jing Yan nodded, not thinking this was the point, and continued, "Another time, when we were dividing the rooms in Wugu Village, Lin Xiang said that of course you had to share a room with him. You and the captain both wanted to share a room."
Lin Xiang: “…”
It turns out that the big light bulb is him.
Jing Yan had more to say, "Someone in that post last night said that the captain's clearing of this game was a trick on the princes. You said our lives are also lives. The captain's true feelings are that your life is of course life."
“…”
Hua Haoming and Lin Xiang were caught off guard and stumbled over the dog food.
Is Xia Bai’s life the only life?
Jing Yan was about to say something, but suddenly he caught sight of Xia Bai's blank face with red ears, and he suddenly stopped talking.
At this moment, Ling Changye in front stopped and said, "I can't go up the stairs. The game is blocked."
Jing Yan stopped talking abruptly. Xia Bai turned around to look at him, but was stunned for a moment, "Jing Yan is gone."
Lin Xiang, who was standing next to him, also noticed it, "He couldn't enter the game?"
This was obviously not the first time Hua Haoming had seen this situation. "Yes, sometimes the number of people in a game detected by the Game Management Bureau is not accurate. One or two errors are normal. Some games do not have such precise requirements for the number of people. One more or one less person is fine. It seems that this game requires the standard nine people."
This was the first clue they got before entering the game. I don’t know if it will be useful.
Lin Xiang frowned, "Why is it Jing Yan? You might as well block me. He can help everyone better than me."
As discussed before, this game was not difficult at first. There were only three stars, but three groups of players died. There must be a point that was easily overlooked or made a mistake. Jing Yan could see what the NPCs were thinking, so this game really needed him.
Hua Haoming also became more serious and instantly shook off his previous mood of just watching the show.
Ling Changye glanced at the five people opposite him and said, "Can you introduce each other?"
This is the common process when the game is in locked state. The people on their side briefly introduce themselves first, and then the people on the other side start.
The five people are composed of two teams. One team is a pair of twin sisters, the elder sister is named He Shi and the younger sister is named He Ge.
The other team consisted of three people, all men. The one in the middle was called Song Qiu, and he looked to be in his early twenties. On both sides were two people about the same age as him named Lan Ruoming and a middle-aged man named Lei Yongming.
As for their skills and whether they have any clubs, these are private matters, so they didn't tell us and no one asked about them rudely.
The game lock state has not ended yet, Hua Haoming took this opportunity to ask: "This game requires exactly nine players. What do you think about this number?"
Lin Xiang always cooperates, "Nine nines return to one?"
Lan Ruoming said: "Nine represents Dui in the Book of Changes, which means harmony and interaction."
He Shi said: "9 turned upside down is 6."
He Ge said: "9, 9 is the largest single-digit integer, an odd number and a composite number."
“…”
It can be seen that there is really nothing more to say.
They only said these few words briefly before they were interrupted by the sound of the game system.
[The game is restarting...]
[The game has been restarted, and the normal map Red Rose Manor has been refreshed. Welcome everyone to Red Rose Manor. ]
[Red Rose Manor was once a beautiful manor, but now it is no longer as beautiful as it used to be. The owner of the manor no longer has many requirements for the people who live in this manor. All they need to do is live well.]
【Welcome, corpse collector Xia Bai. 】
Players all know that the essential gameplay of ordinary map games is to find the truth. Usually the opening prompts of ordinary map game systems will not explain it very clearly, but this game is a little special and points out the main line of their game: live well.
This main plot has been mentioned but it seems like nothing has been said. Of course you have to stay alive. What's the point of playing games if you die?
No.
The "human fireworks" in the last Dihao Apartment made Xia Bai realize that sometimes the opening prompts of the game are not all nonsense, and the focus here may be the two words "well".
This time, the time spent in the game seemed to be longer than before. Xia Bai had thought so much, but he was not in the game yet, but he was not in the same place either. He seemed to be in a dark and chaotic state.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Xia Bai regained his senses and opened his eyes.
The room was dark.
He was lying on a bed.
The mattress is moderately soft and hard, very comfortable.
Xia Bai did not move or make a sound. He just lay there motionless, only moving his eyes.
After his eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, he could vaguely see the basic layout of the room in the moonlight that leaked through the gap in the thick curtains.
This is a bedroom suite. The sleeping room is about 20 square meters and has two doors, one connecting to the outside and the other connecting to the bathroom in the bedroom. The bathroom door is half open and you can see a large mirror, but you can't see the person in the mirror clearly.
The bedroom was covered with wallpaper, but it was hard to tell the pattern or whether it was new or old. The ceilings were very high, and there was a lamp panel above the head, with a lamp consisting of ten candles hanging below it.
There was no living sound in the room or outside, only the whistling wind hitting the glass.
This was different from all the games he had played before. Before, when he entered the game, he was with other players, and there was always an NPC like a guide as soon as he entered the game. This time, he was the only one lying on the bed.
Not knowing how to play this game, Xia Bai could only continue lying on the bed.
Can I stay in bed all the time?
Xia Bai tried hard to see a piece of paper pasted on the wall.
Before entering the game, one knew it was weird. After entering, it was so strange. Xia Bai acted cautiously and did not move himself. He called Gu Quankun to help him take a look.
Gu Quankun's head was about to stick to the wall. He whispered the contents of the paper to him: "Red Rose Castle bedroom rules. One, you cannot sleep in bed for more than eight hours. Two, please keep quiet at night and don't talk to others."
“…”
Gu Quankun was immediately recalled.
I don't know if what he said just now about the rules counts as talking to people.
Xia Bai didn't dare to move, for he was afraid that according to the bedroom rules, another person would lie on the bed and not be able to get up.
He thought about it and thought that this wouldn't be so inhumane. One has to get up to go to the toilet. Isn't it a contradiction to not allow people to lie down for more than eight hours and not allow them to get up?
Between continuing to lie down and getting up, Xia Bai finally chose to get up and put on the cotton slippers placed beside the bed.
It was then that Xia Bai realized that the clothes he was wearing were not the ones he wore when he entered the game, but a set of black clothes. His cotton home shoes were also black, with a small hole in them, revealing a little white cotton.
He put on his shoes and went to look at the bedroom rules.
The rules were taped to the wall, and one had to get very close to see them vaguely. Xia Bai wanted to take out his cell phone to illuminate the room, but then he thought about the many rules here, and that in order to have a good sleep, cell phones should not be allowed to be turned on in the bedroom. Xia Bai withdrew his hand as he was about to take out his cell phone.
He struggled to see the contents of the paper with the help of a little moonlight.
Red Rose Castle Bedroom Rules
1. You cannot sleep in bed for more than eight hours.
2. Please keep quiet at night and don't talk to others.
3. Don’t play with your mobile phone when you are lying in bed.
4. Please close the door immediately after using the restroom, as spilled items in the restroom will affect your sleep.
5. There is no one under the bed. If you hear any noise or see anything, you are probably dreaming. Just continue sleeping.
This line was crossed out with a big red X, and a note was written next to it: "Fake, a lie! There's a ghost in the bedroom!"
Xia Bai stared at this line for a few seconds and then flipped open the paper.
The rules only use a piece of tape to cover the top, rather than sealing all four sides. If it can be opened, there may be something on the other side.
Sure enough, he saw the sixth rule on the back: No scribbling or writing anywhere in the bedroom.
“…”
I don’t know if the red words were written by a player. If it was written by a player, Xia Bai could only mourn in silence.
After confirming that there were no hidden rules, Xia Bai immediately walked to the bathroom door, ignored the pool of blood flowing out, and closed the bathroom door.
Since he was not told not to leave the bedroom at night, Xia Bai opened the bedroom door and began to explore the map, trying to find other players.
He didn't see other players. It was possible that they were in other places called Red Rose Castle, facing the first round of life and death screening of the "Code" like him.
After opening the bedroom door, Xia Bai first took a look to see if there were any other rules.
When the bedroom door is opened, there is a corridor. Including his bedroom, there are four rooms on this side of the corridor. The doors of the other three rooms are closed, and there may be other players inside.
The other side of the corridor leads directly to the living room. The curtains in the living room are not drawn, and the light of the red full moon pours into the living room, which is much clearer than the bedroom.
The living room still had a plaster lamp panel, a more gorgeous crystal chandelier, and a fireplace, but there was no fire in it, not even burnt ash, which showed that a fire had not been lit for a long time.
At a glance, this seems to be a nice castle, but the sofa, which is printed with roses, is obviously not the case. It is very old and shows signs of having been mended.
There might also be rules in the living room, so Xia Bai walked very carefully and stopped in time when he could see the rules clearly.
There are no living room rules here, only a set of living rules for Red Rose Castle.
Red Rose Castle Life Rules
1. Eat on time, sleep on time, and maintain a healthy schedule.
2. Do not litter, clean up the garbage in time and keep the castle clean and tidy.
3. Don’t make loud noises. The time for watching TV is from 11:00 to 12:00 noon and from 7:00 to 8:00 in the evening.
4. Study hard. The study time is from 9 to 11 in the morning and from 8 to 9 in the evening. Please go to the study room to study.
5. Go to bed on time. 8:30 every night is the bedtime. Please go to the bedroom to sleep.
6. Don’t look in the mirror casually. If you see someone in the mirror who is not you, please don’t be nervous, it is your hallucination, you must be you. If the person in the mirror talks to you, please don’t believe it, just believe yourself.
7. Don’t go to the attic! Don’t go to the attic! Don’t go to the attic!
After reading it, Xia Bai found that except for the fourth and fifth, which seemed to have some contradictions in time, there were no problems with other things.
He found a clock in the living room and it was eight forty in the evening.
At half past eight, he was indeed in the bedroom. He did not say that he could not come out after going to sleep, nor did he say that he could not leave the study while studying.
But he still has to go to the study now, maybe he has some study tasks in the study that he hasn't completed yet.
The study is on the other side of the corridor. It is the only open door with two desks visible.
Before Xia Bai entered the room, he looked around for the study room rules and found that they were also here.
Red Rose Castle Study Rules
1. Study hard in the study room.
2. Keep the study room clean and tidy and avoid scribbling on it.
3. You can read any book in the study and read at least twenty pages every day.
4. The diary should record things truthfully and not make up stories. If you find any false records or nonsense, it may be a sign of mental problems. Please make adjustments in time.
5. Leave immediately after writing your diary, and don’t forget to close the door.
The first rule was only half there, the other half was torn off.
Xia Bai stared at the rules for more than ten seconds and confirmed that the handwriting on this rule was different from that in the bedroom and living room. Even though the imitation was very similar, it was still obvious that they were not written by the same person.
Probably not true.
Or maybe this code is completely true.
Xia Bai stood outside the study for a few seconds, walked into the brightly lit study, and sat down at a desk.
There are books of different categories on the bookshelf, including economics, politics, philosophy, story books, some elementary and middle school textbooks, and novels that are obviously erotic.
Xia Bai then looked down at himself. He didn't look in the mirror, but he noticed that his hands were a little small, probably because they hadn't fully grown yet when he was in his teens.
He picked up the junior high school Chinese textbook and read twenty pages. After finishing, he took out his diary.
There is only one entry in the diary.
[The weather is very good today. After I finished breakfast and cleaned up, I came here to study. Today's red clothes look very nice.
— Day 1, 10:58. ]
Xia Bai lowered his head and confirmed that he was wearing black clothes.
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