Chapter 94 Red Rose Manor 4
Just like last night, Xia Bai didn't fall asleep.
Maybe it was because he slept all day, so he couldn't feel sleepy even if he counted sheep.
The wind whistling against the window made the castle even quieter. Lying in bed he seemed to be able to feel the entire castle. It was extremely quiet from bottom to top, without any sound from inside.
No, there is.
Xia Bai heard a sound of something rubbing on the ground. It was not harsh, but very subtle, like something soft crawling on the ground.
"Hiss—hiss—hiss—"
Very rhythmic.
Xia Bai realized that his body became tense and sensitive at the same time.
The sound came from the bathroom with its door tightly closed. Something was crawling out from inside. The sound was so subtle, with a little bit of imperceptible sound of flowing water. There might be liquid on the floor of the bathroom, not water, but blood.
He had already seen the blood gushing over the door, onto the arched stained glass on the upper half of the door, like a splash of blood.
If you didn’t know, you would think some horrific murder had happened there.
If it is indeed a homicide, he can do an autopsy later.
Blood began to overflow. Because the door was closed, the blood could only seep out from the gap at the bottom of the door, and then flow directly to the floor. It soon spread into a large pool and flowed towards the bed.
The blood that overflowed from the crack in the door above spread along the wall, leaving patches of red on the surrounding walls and roof.
Xia Bai lay on the bed, not knowing if he was crazy or if these were just hallucinations.
His body was tense and his senses were sharp, so he would notice these things faster than usual. However, it was also possible that he was too sensitive and had hallucinations that others could not see, just like the protagonists in many horror movies he had seen.
A drop of blood dripped from the roof onto Xia Bai's face.
It couldn't have come at a better time.
Xia Bai dipped his finger in the drop of blood and put it to his nose and smelled it.
It was real. Not only did he feel the cool sensation of blood dripping onto his face and hear the sound of it dripping, he could also smell the blood. However, there was a foul odor in the blood. It was hard to describe whether it was the smell of an old sewer or toilet, or the smell of blood spoiling in the hot summer.
Drop after drop, more and more blood dripped onto Xia Bai's face and hands.
Xia Bai blinked, and blood drops dyed his eyelashes red. He saw a bloody man on the roof staring at him with his mouth open.
That was made of coagulated blood, so the blood man was also dripping down. At the same time, the blood around was approaching Xia Bai. Xia Bai even felt that there was blood bubbling up from under the bed, soaking the mattress.
When red approaches, it is blocked by black.
The black color grew out from the mobile phone placed on the desk, and the strands merged into streams, like dead black branches, spreading on the wall, growing wildly, swallowing up the blood, and finally gathering on the bloody man, devouring him bit by bit.
It’s Sister Xue Mu, Sister Xue Mu who feeds on blood.
Normally she only needs a little blood to survive. Did she eat too much this time?
Xia Bai was just thinking about this question when he saw Black Hair slipping into the bathroom through the gap in the bathroom door.
"vomit!"
Xia Bai: “…”
Sister Xuemu, like Erwa, has a small trachea and makes very soft sounds. Even so, Xia Bai could clearly hear her vomiting.
Recently, she drank more blood from Erwa. As a plant-based physical skill player, Erwa's blood carries a clean force with vigorous vitality, which has made Xue Mu's sister healthier. After getting used to Erwa's blood, it would be really uncomfortable to drink so much stinky blood.
Xia Bai was a little worried, and when he was about to get up, he saw the black-haired man coming back.
When he approached the bed, the black hair disappeared, but a soft little person appeared on Xia Bai's chest, lying there listlessly.
Xia Bai was a little flattered.
After Sister Xuemu handed her sister to him, he knew that Sister Xuemu hated being stared at, so he never bothered her much, but just fed her blood regularly.
Later, because of Erwa, he and his sister Xuemu became closer. They would play together, eat together, and be like family members with a little distance, not that intimate.
Unexpectedly, Sister Xuemu, who was feeling uncomfortable at the moment, did not return to the phone, but stuck to him.
Moreover, she had just taken the initiative to protect him.
Since they were not allowed to talk in the bedroom, Xia Bai reached out and patted her gently.
Sister Xue Mu rubbed her little head against his palm, then lay on him again, curled up into a small ball just like she had done in her sister's throat.
Xia Bai suddenly felt like a father. His heart softened and he gave his hand to his sister Xue Mu as if it were a blanket.
That night, there was no more noise in the dormitory, it was quiet and warm. Just like last night, Xia Bai fell asleep very late.
When I woke up the second time, it was still night.
Sister Xue Mu at the heart was gone, and the smell of blood was gone from the room.
This time when he woke up and saw the dim night bedroom, Xia Bai didn't even feel nervous, because he no longer had the nervous spirit.
At this moment, not only was his breathing becoming more difficult, with each breath he made a wheezing sound like a broken bellows, he also looked just like Sister Xuemu last night, listless and without any energy.
Sleeping is supposed to conserve one's energy. Xia Bai didn't understand why he felt so groggy when he woke up.
I did feel groggy and sleepy, and my body felt heavy, without the usual lightness.
His health got worse, was this the punishment for breaking the rules?
Originally, he guessed that difficulty breathing was a punishment for violating some rule, but when a bloody man appeared last night, he thought that was the punishment. He didn't expect that his body would have new problems today.
Xia Bai got off the bed, walked to the desk and picked up his cell phone.
The time was the same as when I woke up yesterday, just after eight o'clock.
He finally wanted to go to the bathroom.
Xia Bai walked to the bathroom door, opened it, and looked inside carefully, looking for any bathroom rules, if any.
There was a piece of cardboard stuck to the wall, but it was stained with blood and the words on it were unclear.
Xia Bai: “…”
He thought about it, endured it, went back to bed and waited until half past eight, then immediately got up and left his bedroom, walking to the next room which had its door closed.
His original plan for tonight was to knock on the doors of other rooms to see if there were other players in those rooms so as to make further inferences.
It’s a good time to go there, maybe you can use the restroom.
The first time I saw the rules of life in the castle, it said that you cannot go to the attic. The second time I saw the rules of life, it said that you can go to the attic, but you cannot go to non-public areas. However, it did not say that you cannot knock on the door.
Xia Bai knocked on the door gently and waited for five minutes, but there was no response.
He knocked on the three bedrooms on this side of the corridor, and then on the three bedrooms on the other side, but still no response.
He walked into the study according to his solar plexus, sat on the chair and breathed heavily.
He was going to explore other places in the castle later, so in order to avoid any unexpected incidents, he had to complete the task in the study first.
The rules of the study have changed again. If you compare the three rules, you will find that no one rule is the same from beginning to end. This time there is an additional rule: "Please tidy up the bookshelf before leaving the study."
Xia Bai looked up at the bookshelf and saw that two books had fallen over.
It may have been put down artificially.
But this method is not very good. The person who puts the books down may be someone who wants to come in and sort the books, so he may see books that are not suitable for him. However, the "see" in "read a certain number of pages of a book" is not the same.
Xia Bai picked up the two textbooks again, reading 19 pages of one at a time, and 38 pages in total from both books twice.
With my groggy brain, I am still trying to find words in the textbook that I can write down in my diary.
[My brother bled a lot.]
[My brother must live well.]
[There was a lot of blood in the dream, and my brother was hanging on the roof.]
Xia Bai pressed the solar plexus hard.
Is he himself the one who wrote the notes?
Was the blood and the bloody man in the bedroom he saw last night a dream? Was the bloody man with an open mouth his "brother"?
He closed his eyes and took deep breaths for a while.
I don’t know if it’s because of the difficulty in breathing and lack of oxygen to the brain, but he is feeling more and more dizzy and his thinking is not as clear as before.
He opened two diaries.
A day passed and three more diary entries were added.
Three articles?
Xia Bai's mind suddenly became much clearer.
Diary, diary, write one day at a time. There should be one entry in each of the two diaries.
Did two people appear at the same time, or did more than just one day pass?
This castle has clocks in the living room and study, but no calendar. After entering the game, the time on the phone is synchronized with the game time, but the date is always stuck on the day you enter the game, so people who write in the diary always write on the day.
Xia Bai found a breakthrough point that he had not noticed before, the date.
There were three diaries in the two diaries. Xia Bai carefully observed the handwriting and ruled out the possibility that one person wrote three entries. It turned out that they were indeed written by three people.
The first possibility is that he thought he had only slept for a day, but in fact it was more than a day. More than a day had passed, so the diary was no longer a book or an article.
The second possibility is that a day is divided into two or more periods, with one player appearing in each period. If two players in two periods write diaries in one day, there will be one more diary. This possibility does not conflict with the first possibility, after all, they have nine players.
The third possibility is that they are in different time and space, in parallel worlds. No matter which world they write their diaries in, they will appear in this diary.
He speculated that the time period during which he was awake was between 8pm and dawn, so the second possibility should be correct, and the first possibility was also correct.
What about the third possibility? Are there any clues to deny it?
After reading yesterday's diary of "Twenty-Four Billy", Xia Bai believed that the guidance on the rules and the changes to the rules were all made by the players. They were misleading other players to violate the rules and trigger death.
If the third possibility is true, then not only will the diaries they wrote in parallel time and space appear in that diary, but the rules will also connect different time and space, even the trash can, because he found a hidden rule in the trash can in the study.
Even garbage can be thrown into another time and space?
He is now more inclined to believe that they are all in this castle, in the same time and space, but appear in different time periods.
Therefore, the initial speculations about different stages of life and parallel worlds are very unlikely.
Well, indeed, there is a great possibility of split personality and psychotic fantasy.
Xia Bai slumped in the chair and massaged his scalp for a while to stimulate the blood circulation in his head before he began to read the three diaries carefully.
[The flowers haven't bloomed yet. We have to wait until spring.]
[I really miss the days with flowers. I feel more comfortable when I have flowers to look at.]
[I hope to get up earlier tomorrow morning and read a few more pages of the book.
—Day 3.]
Hua Haoming, he was also able to wake up during the day, and he was not feeling well either.
This is the message he conveyed that can be seen at a glance.
Xia Bai continued to analyze in depth.
The first time he was drawn into the game was with Hua Haoming, who left a good impression on him. Even when Hua Haoming was doubting him, he was still helping him get soul skills.
After leaving the game, he guessed that Hua Haoming might have deliberately not shown himself in order to highlight him and help him get skills. This could be seen from the fact that he did not use his skills when he encountered danger in the game.
His game identity is [Two-Faced Man]. Xia Bai still doesn’t know what his specific skills are, but it can be seen that he has never used this core skill and has only used a prop.
This time, according to the analysis of the assault team, this game is dangerous and tends to be a reasoning game. They immediately rejected Erwa and Yang Mei, but let Hua Haoming come, which also proved that Hua Haoming is actually very smart.
This can also be seen from the fact that Hua Haoming was made Yang Mei's partner.
He couldn't be so careless as not to notice that some players in this game had already begun to exploit the rules to harm each other. He couldn't be unaware that he couldn't expose himself, especially when he was weak.
However, he still said that he was not feeling well.
This shows that he thinks conveying the news of discomfort is more important than exposing his own weakness.
Being uncomfortable is important.
Xia Bai also felt very uncomfortable. He was having difficulty breathing and had no energy. Even his mind was not so clear. This was only the second time he woke up. Every time he woke up, there would be some problems with his body. If he woke up for the third time, he didn't know what he would become.
Where exactly did Hua Haoming feel uncomfortable? Why did he feel uncomfortable?
Judging from the current clues, it is very likely that violating the rules will cause physical problems, and he may have violated a rule.
But if that were all, would he show his discomfort?
What he meant to say is, violating the rules makes me uncomfortable, so you guys should stop changing the rules?
No, if others see it, it will only mislead him even more and make him die quickly.
Xia Bai didn't think about it any further. Hua Haoming didn't express it so clearly. It was probably because he himself didn't understand what was going on. He raised this point to warn people who were feeling unwell like him.
He continued reading the second diary entry.
[Live a routine life, follow the rules and don't make any mistakes. It's like this every day in this huge castle.
Today I suddenly felt dazed, and for a moment I couldn't tell what was real and what was fantasy. This can't be like this, I have to live well, live soberly.
— Day 3]
Xia Bai glanced back and forth, but couldn't tell who wrote it. But he understood the meaning of the diary.
This castle is quiet and empty, and there are strict rules. If violated, there will be severe punishment. This goes on every day, and people may develop mental problems if this goes on for a long time.
The person who wrote the diary speculated that "this person" living in the castle might have mental problems.
This mental problem may be schizophrenia or multiple personality, which is the same as the view of the person who wrote "Twenty-four Billy" yesterday.
It could also be a fantasy-type mental illness, which is consistent with the possibility he thought of yesterday. The people living in the castle imagined different people. They might be living in a mentally ill imagination space, and they are people he imagined.
At the same time, this person once again reminded us to "live well" and "live soberly", giving a new interpretation to the word "well" in the main task of "live well".
There is a lot of guidance here. If hallucinations occur, how can you live soberly?
——Clear away fantasies.
——Clear other players.
This diary must not have been written by Lin Xiang. So far, Xia Bai has not seen any trace of Lin Xiang. He was a little worried and immediately looked at the last entry.
[Time flies, and it's time to write in my diary again.
My empty head can’t think of anything to write, and I feel dizzy.
It wasn't like this before, I don't know what happened today.
I looked around and nothing changed. It must be because I didn't close the bathroom door yesterday and the smell made me dizzy. This time I must remember to close all the doors, and I must close the study door later.
— Day 3]
The ring of time and space is Ling Changye. Ling Changye also felt uncomfortable, and his discomfort was dizziness.
At the same time, he reminded him to close the doors, all the doors, including the study.
So, the rule he violated before was that he didn't close the study door? He didn't close it twice, and he had health problems both times he woke up?
Then he's going to close it this time.
wrong.
wrong.
Based on his understanding of Ling Changye, Ling Changye would not be so clumsy to use the same thing to explain his identity. He used the [Ring of Time and Space] in yesterday's diary. If he was reminded again today, he would not be so lazy and perfunctory as to use the [Ring of Time and Space].
Xia Bai turned to yesterday's diary and carefully compared the handwriting of the two diaries. Although the game assimilated their handwriting, the person who wrote this diary deliberately imitated Ling Changye's diary. After careful comparison, it can still be seen that they were not written by the same person.
Someone else noticed the four words "Ring of Time and Space" in Ling Changye's previous diary. He probably didn't know what these four words meant. His ignorance meant that the person who wrote this diary was not someone he knew, but someone from another team. So this method was used to pretend that Ling Changye deliberately misled people from other teams and violated the rules.
Xia Bai was stunned.
Has it developed to this extent?
He also thought that the diary was the most real place.
What about the article by Hua Haoming? Wasn’t he also writing it?
He is a very famous member of the assault team. All players who enter this game must know him. If they want to remind him, would it be as simple as using a name that everyone knows?
Xia Bai: “…”
Of course, he may just want to use his real name to convey the important news that he is not feeling well.
Xia Bai pressed his forehead tiredly and picked up a pen to write his diary.
He had to write today, even if it was just to reassure his boyfriend and teammates.
He was thinking about what message he wanted to convey and how to express it.
He didn't know which rule he had violated, but he felt that he had been very careful. He had been narrowing the scope of his activities and not going to other places where there might be rules. He had not gone to the bathroom yet and was holding it in.
Even though he was so careful, he ended up like this.
Of course, there may be others who are more careful and smarter than him, and there may be people who see all the correct rules, but many players should be the same as him.
Their bodies can't take it anymore and they can't hold on for a few more times.
He has to "surrender" and they have to reconcile, but the person who sees all the right rules may not want to.
This is the "cannibalism" setting of this game.
The root cause of the cannibalism comes from their speculation that the nine players are multiple personalities of one body, or mental illusions.
But is it really multiple personalities?
Less than two days after arriving here, some of them have already thought of multiple personalities. Perhaps this group of players is smart, but for players who have played weird games, multiple personalities should not be a piece of knowledge that few people know. Could it be that the first three groups of players didn't think of it?
You should know that among the first three groups of players, there are also many powerful players, as well as members of four assault teams.
Besides, can the person who doesn’t want to reconcile really win the game?
If one can really clear the "fantasy" and "personality" and survive, one can complete the game, then there will always be one player left who can complete the game. Why didn't any of the three groups of players complete the game?
Xia Bai reorganized his thoughts and wrote down his thoughts in his diary for the first time.
[I finished reading the book of more than 20 pages very quickly. Since I had read 19 pages of the Chinese textbook, I decided to read 19 pages of the math textbook as well, so I read a little more.
I read more than ten pages in ten minutes and completed my reading task today. I just realized that time is really important. I can read a lot of books in ten minutes. I wonder if I can read more if I read in the morning.
It was very quiet around me, but I was not quiet, my breathing was very loud.
I feel uncomfortable. Should I go to the doctor? I am afraid that something will go wrong if I continue like this.
Oh, and I feel a little dizzy too.
My palms are full of sweat.
I can’t think anymore. I once read a sentence in a book that says when humans think, God laughs.
— Day 3]
After finishing writing the diary, Xia Bai closed the door of the study and left.
He walked slowly into the living room, breathing heavily.
He was going to knock on the doors of rooms on other floors of the castle. He saw a staircase, and before going, he wanted to find a window to see which floor he was on.
——What if the upstairs is an attic? It would be dangerous for him to go up there.
Among the places he had been to on this floor, the one with the largest window was the living room.
Xia Bai opened a curtain and saw the endless wilderness outside, silent under the moonlight. There was only a dirt road in front of the door, leading deep into the forest. The ancient castle stood alone in the dark wilderness.
This castle is also a Gothic building. He is currently on the third floor. From the third floor upwards, the building begins to become pointed. The attic mentioned in the rules of life should be above.
Xia Bai went down the stairs. The second floor was very similar to the third floor. It also had a living room and a few rooms with closed doors. It was also as dark as the third floor.
The tightly closed doors looked like coffin lids in the darkness, resisting everyone's approach and disturbance.
After confirming that there were no new rules here, Xia Bai walked into the darkness and knocked on the doors gently one by one.
There was no response.
He went to the first floor again. There was only a living room, dining room and bathroom on the first floor. Xia Bai took a look and did not wander around. He immediately returned to the third floor.
The entire castle did not respond to him at all, and was quietly shrouded in darkness.
He is the only one there.
Xia Bai stood in the empty and dim living room for a while, panting.
Finally, he knocked on his wrist, and a silver bracelet appeared there, but his breathing was still the only sound in the living room, and he was still the only one there.
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