Chapter 95 Red Rose Manor 5
[Ring of Time and Space], regardless of space, regardless of life or death, we will meet as promised.
But Ling Changye did not appear beside him.
Xia Bai felt a sense of loneliness.
This feeling of loneliness came from the fact that as he walked through every floor of this huge dark castle, there was no one and no response from any living creature. He felt as if he had been abandoned by the whole world.
This loneliness also comes from his physical decline and brain dullness. He is lonely because he cannot think well. It is a kind of loneliness that is abandoned by his body and mind.
But he didn't feel sad.
This made Xia Bai feel even more lonely. Wouldn't it be a little sad for a person to be abandoned by the world and his body? This was another kind of loneliness that came from being abandoned by emotions.
He knocked on the [Ring of Time and Space] because he was lonely.
He also has Ling Changye, who will break through life and death, and break through space to accompany him.
But there wasn't.
Miraculously, Ling Changye did not show up, which made him feel less lonely.
Because he knew that Ling Changye was right next to him, as close as he could be, so close that he might be in the same body.
Xia Bai, feeling much more relieved, breathed heavily, and started to organize the game again.
He started from the entrance, looking at the "Red Rose Castle Life Rules" in the living room, reading it line by line. Of course, he was not reading the one that had been revised countless times, but the one he read on the first night.
He began to reflect that the rule he violated might not be closing the door, but the fourth and fifth rules of the code of life.
【4. Study hard. Study from 9 to 11 a.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. every day. Please go to the study room to study.】
【5. Go to bed on time. 8:30 every night is the bedtime. 】
There is a contradiction in the night time in these two rules. He subconsciously thinks that this contradiction can be resolved, because the rules do not stipulate that you cannot leave the bedroom after going to bed, nor do they stipulate that you cannot leave the study when studying in the study. In other words, you can leave the bedroom, you can leave the study, as long as you complete your learning tasks.
But he made a similar mistake he had made when he was in school, which was not examining the question carefully.
【8:30 is bedtime】
【8 to 9 p.m. is study time】
One is a point in time, the other is a period of time.
So, there is indeed no rule that he cannot leave the study room between 8 and 9 o'clock, but this time period is study time, and he has to study even if he leaves the study room. There may be times when he is dazed while studying, but it is definitely not wandering around like he does, or looking at his phone in the bedroom.
The correct approach is that when he wakes up at eight o'clock, he should go to the study immediately, study in the study for nearly half an hour, and when it is almost half past eight, he should go to the bedroom while studying with his textbook, and lie down on the bed to sleep at half past eight. When half past eight arrives, he should immediately get up, take his textbook, continue studying, and go back to the study.
Xia Bai: “…”
This code is too tricky. Of course, if he had analyzed it carefully at the time, he would have been able to figure it out. The main reason was that he was careless.
Carelessness is indeed his problem. More than one teacher has said that it is his carelessness that prevents him from getting full marks in science subjects every time.
Xia Bai reflected on himself, read and thought about the "Rules of Life in Red Rose Castle" more carefully, and immediately returned to the bedroom.
Going to the bedroom at night is probably safer in principle, regardless of what's in there.
It is not scary to make mistakes, but it is scary not to correct them. As a repentance after reflection, he re-read the "Bedroom Rules" carefully.
[1. You cannot sleep in bed for more than eight hours.] Later it was changed to a full eight hours of sleep.
It doesn’t matter to him whether he sleeps for eight hours or less, because he will be controlled by the game and fall asleep, lying in bed the whole day.
No, he was careless about this. He might not have been asleep during the day.
"He" might be up during the day.
This may be based on the fact that each player has different periods of waking control, with the daytime being spent by another player.
However, in the "Rules of Life in Red Rose Castle", there is no rule about sleeping in the bedroom during the day, so it is only during this period that he needs to sleep, and the time needs to be exactly eight hours, which is the only accurate time at present.
Xia Bai: “…”
Should he lie on the bed and count the seconds?
Is the correct rule that you should not sleep more than eight hours, or that you must sleep for a full eight hours?
Thinking of this, Xia Bai immediately lay down on the bed and felt his head hurt even more.
【2. Please keep quiet at night and don’t talk to others. 】
He didn't talk to anyone, but Gu Quankun read the rules. Is that a violation?
【3. Don’t play with your phone while you’re sleeping in bed. 】
He was sure that he had not violated this rule. At the same time, through this rule, he confirmed that as long as he lay in bed, he was considered sleeping. Otherwise, there was no such thing as "playing with mobile phone while sleeping."
[4. Please close the door immediately after using the restroom, as spilled items in the restroom will affect your sleep].
He was not sure whether the bathroom door should be closed. He was currently inclined to close it because, as the rules stated, there were indeed things inside that would affect sleep.
[5. There is no one under the bed. If you hear any noise or see anything, you are probably dreaming. Just continue sleeping.]
Xia Bai has not encountered this one yet.
[Sixth, no graffiti is allowed anywhere in the bedroom.]
Xia Bai was sure that he had not violated.
Then Xia Bai carefully reviewed the study room rules again.
As for whether or not to close the door, he is now inclined to leave it open.
No matter how many pages he read, he would still read 19 pages each time, and twice he read more than 38 pages.
There are two things he might have done wrong.
The first is that [8 to 9 p.m. is study time]. During this period, not only did he not study when he left the study room, but he also did not study all the time in the study room, such as rummaging through the trash can.
The second is that [a diary must record facts and not make up stories]. He only wrote a diary tonight, and everything else he recorded was true, except for the last sentence. He had read a sentence in a book that said, "When humans think, God laughs."
It is true that he saw it in a book, but the basic principle of the game is that it cannot be ooc. He may not have seen his character in the game. He has always been reading textbooks. He doesn't know if this sentence appears in the extracurricular books he has read.
Xia Bai pressed his solar plexus, wondering what he would look like when he woke up again.
He wrote this in his diary to remind other players that they might be thinking the game is too complicated.
According to the initial settings, this game only has three stars, which is simpler than any game most of them have played. Maybe they can pass the game just by following the rules full of traps and finding out the stories or secrets of the castle or the people who live here.
This is Samsung, or just an ordinary game. An ordinary game is about finding the truth, not about competition.
Maybe it was because they thought too much, especially about multiple personalities, that the other three groups of players all died.
Before they figure out what exactly is going on, it would be better for them to live an orderly life and dig out the truth instead of killing each other.
Killing each other is their only way to death.
In his diary, he mentioned earlier that "Twenty-Four Billy" was wrong.
In the middle is a hint for Ling Changye. His palms were sweaty when he was writing in his diary. At the same time, he rubbed Ling Changye's palms before entering the game, and there was sweat there too.
The final tip is don’t think too much, just follow the rules and find the truth.
While reviewing and thinking about the game, he didn't know how much time had passed before he heard a faint sound again with his whole body tense.
He could now even hear the sound of people crawling on the ground, the friction between their skin and the ground.
The sound came from under the bed.
“Cha-cha-cha—”
The sound that shouldn't have been heard was getting closer and closer to the outside of the bed.
It's coming out soon.
Someone wrote in red on the rules: There is a ghost under the bed.
Xia Bai subconsciously wanted to summon the corpse to fight the thing under the bed, but then quickly stopped.
He thought over the fifth bedroom rule that he had seen for the first time, word for word.
[5. There is no one under the bed. If you hear any noise or see anything, you are probably dreaming. Just continue sleeping.]
[You are dreaming], [Just continue sleeping], so he should continue lying down and sleeping and do nothing.
This is another tricky rule. If you do anything against it, you will be violating it.
I don’t know if the player with the red letter did something or was intentionally leading the other players to panic so that they would immediately be on guard when they heard the noise and violate the rules.
Xia Bai lay motionless on the bed with his eyes closed, and heard the sound move from under the bed to the side of the bed, and then to the bed, getting closer and closer to him.
There was no sound in the castle, except for the cold wind that blew against the windows. In the damp, cold, and decayed bedroom, there was the sound of the bed sag and the smell of blood.
The bloody and cold smell approached the only person in the castle.
Xia Bai lay there panting, his drowsy head made even more uncomfortable by the breath. He tightened the corners of his lips and did not move, his slender white fingers sinking deeply into the bed.
He knew that thing was hanging over his head, looking down at him, and something was dripping onto his face. As long as he opened his eyes, he would be able to look into its face.
If only I could fall asleep now.
Unfortunately, it was not yet time for him to fall asleep, as the thing was still pressing down and getting closer to him.
Xia Bai's breathing became more difficult because of the bloody and cold smell, and his neck was covered with goose bumps.
The thing was smelling him, and something cold and sticky was pressed against his arm.
Xia Bai's arms almost started to tremble.
He tried hard to empty himself, but his body was tense and more sensitive than ever. His labored breathing made him want to vomit and his stomach churned.
After being stared at for an unknown amount of time, Xia Bai finally fell asleep as he wished, and his body finally relaxed.
When he woke up for the fourth time, facing the dim bedroom and wheezing breathing, Xia Bai had calmed down.
As usual, he immediately got up from the bed, took the mobile phone on the desk and checked the time. It was still eight o'clock.
This time he immediately put his phone in his pocket and went to the study to study.
At the same time, he was feeling his physical condition: breathing was still difficult, he was still listless, and at the same time he felt something a little embarrassing.
This embarrassing incident made him walk to the door, and he immediately opened the wardrobe and hurriedly changed his clothes before going to the study.
He didn't change his clothes because he wet his pants. When he woke up last night, he really wanted to go to the bathroom, but he held it back. Maybe he had been there during the day.
The reason for changing clothes was almost as embarrassing as wetting his pants: he had a nocturnal emission.
Xia Bai walked into the study, opened the textbook, stared at it and pressed his forehead.
This kind of thing has happened before. It happened when he was seventeen. It is normal for people of his age, but it is definitely not normal in the game. Just like the previous two times, there is something wrong with his body.
Problems with breathing and spirit are all within Xia Bai's understanding, but he does not understand reproductive problems.
This strange point is also worth thinking about.
Why is this a problem?
What could be related to this problem?
Xia Bai was thinking while flipping through the textbook, looking for clues in the textbook.
[I don’t like breakfast.]
[Where is my brother?]
[Brother, can you please come out?]
[I want to be with you forever.]
After flipping through two textbooks, Xia Bai looked at the time on the clock. There were only three minutes left until half past eight. He walked towards the bedroom while flipping through the textbooks and lay down on the bed before half past eight. After half past eight, he returned to the study while reading the textbooks.
He was afraid that reading the diary did not count as studying, so Xia Bai did not put down his textbook and open his diary until nine o'clock.
This time, there are a total of five additional diaries in the two diaries.
[It's better to sort the garbage. After sorting the garbage, I went to the study to read my high school textbooks.
I looked out the window for the fourth time, but still didn't see anyone. It was dark.
I thought I was abandoned by the world, but I know that there must be companions. I must live well and obediently. Everything is possible. To live well, you must first take good care of your body. It is very uncomfortable to be sick. Every part of the body is important. Treating them well is treating yourself well.
It's going to be fine, everything is going to be fine, all is well.
—Day 4]
Xia Bai breathed a sigh of relief. This was Lin Xiang.
The first word of each of the four paragraphs combined together is the homonym of "graveyard misunderstanding", which is what Lin Xiang said to him and Hua Haoming.
When he was sent to report to the school, Lin Xiang also told Hua Haoming about how he carried him out of the cemetery.
At the same time, the last sentence "good luck and good fortune" also refers to his name.
The name Lin Xiang easily brings to mind auspiciousness and good fortune, and one might think that his parents gave him this name with such a blessing, and in fact it was.
He also appeared during the night time, and it was dark outside the window.
He understood what he wrote in his last diary: "Time is important". If the players can all keep the time, they can at least determine the time, and more things.
Lin Xiang was telling them that he was living an obedient and careful life and was not doing anything else.
He might not be feeling well, which is why he said "being sick is uncomfortable". At the same time, he also expressed his desire to live in peace and take good care of his body.
More importantly, he conveyed his idea of the game - that every part of the body is important.
The diary he wrote after knowing that it can convey messages, in addition to making the words flow smoothly, every word is important. If he just wanted to express that he should protect his body and that the body is important, he would not write [five internal organs] or [every part].
Xia Bai analyzed Lin Xiang's diary as if he was doing a Chinese reading comprehension test, and it seemed as if he was back in high school.
When doing reading comprehension questions, you should not only consider the author's choice of words, but also understand the author's inner thoughts and even his life experiences.
Xia Bai knew Lin Xiang very well, and also knew how he performed in the game. He always had a lot of ideas, and he was asked to play this game because he thought that his rich imagination and countless experiences in watching movies might help them find the points that were easy to miss.
But the diary was not enough for him to express himself.
He must have had too many thoughts these days, but he couldn't tell them. No one could help him figure out which ones were possible and which ones had loopholes, so he could only think about them alone.
Among so many ideas, he finally only conveyed this one point. This must be a very important point that he had thought about repeatedly, or he felt it could supplement their ideas.
Every part of the body is important.
Internal organs.
Does Lin Xiang want to say that these players are all parts of the body? Or to be more specific, they are the internal organs of the body, and together they make up a body?
This idea sounds outrageous, but Xia Bai cannot think it is outrageous, because this is the message that Lin Xiang conveyed to them after careful thinking and careful screening.
——He must have selected it carefully, otherwise he, who is a bit talkative, would not have written his first diary on the fourth day.
Xia Bai had studied embalming and was a forensic medicine major, so of course he knew what the internal organs were.
The five internal organs are the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.
The six internal organs are gallbladder, small intestine, stomach, large intestine, bladder, and triple burner.
They have different functions and are responsible for regulating breathing, digestion, excretion, etc.
His current physical symptoms all match up with problems with his internal organs, but that’s not right, the number of people is wrong.
The five internal organs plus the six external organs make a total of eleven.
There were originally ten players coming to Red Rose Manor, but in the end the game only locked in nine players, not adding one but subtracting one.
Nine players are no match for eleven organs.
There must be a reason why the game allows nine players to enter, especially this game.
This was the consensus among several players. When the game was locked, they also discussed the special meaning of "nine" and why it was nine.
Lin Xiang must have known this simple question, but he still screened it and sent it out.
He may not have figured it out himself, but he feels that a certain point is particularly relevant, which opens up a new perspective for them to think about.
Yes, Lin Xiang gave him a new direction for thinking.
His physical problems may not necessarily be due to punishment for violating the rules. It may be due to the influence of other players or because something happened to other players.
Just like his nocturnal emission today, it didn’t feel like a punishment, but it could cause problems for his internal organs.
But the mistake is too obvious, nine to eleven, two short.
If one is missing, we can still find the reason. For example, the triple burner is not a specific organ, but a cavity, which does not count as a player. But if two are missing, does it mean that the small intestine and large intestine are merged into one intestine?
That feeling came back again.
Just a little bit.
Xia Bai felt that he was almost there, just about to encounter the truth.
But he was having difficulty breathing, his brain was lacking oxygen, and he felt dizzy. His head hurt from thinking so much, but he just couldn't feel that point.
Xia Bai patted his head and seemed to hear the sound of water.
“…”
He did not force himself to think about it anymore. There were still four diaries left, which might give him some inspiration, so he opened the next diary.
[The wind was very strong at night and it was so dark outside that I couldn't see where the road led to.
I seemed to be the only one in the castle. I didn't know what to do, so I had to live and study in an orderly manner. Today I read more than 30 pages of a story book. There was a mermaid who loved to sing and was very cute.
—Day 4]
This is also a player who left time, and she should be the younger sister He Ge of the twins.
The last diary he wrote mentioned that "time is very important". This time there are more diaries, and they all mentioned his own time.
At the same time, He Ge also expressed her desire to live in peace in her diary.
Xia Bai turned to another article.
[The moon is still full tonight. I feel dizzy and a little dazed. I often feel a little uncomfortable, but there is also a moment when I feel that my body is not uncomfortable. Is it an illusion? Last night, I felt a sound under the bed. I turned over and faced the bathroom door. When I listened again, the sound disappeared. Is this also an illusion?
—Day 4.]
Xia Bai: “…”
Want to continue?
Does this player believe that all other players are other personalities, or people in fantasy, and is determined to eliminate them?
I heard a noise under the bed, but when I turned over to face the bathroom, it was gone?
That’s a direct violation of bedroom rules.
However, he left his time, also at night.
He certainly wouldn't dare to lie in his diary. The study rules clearly require that the diary should be recorded truthfully. It may be difficult to judge the truth of some inner thoughts and subtle feelings, but the fact that it is night or day cannot be faked.
Xia Bai only glanced at the bad guy's diary and didn't bother to think about it. He continued to read the next article.
[Looking up seems to make breathing easier.
It's no better than yesterday. I still feel unwell.
Is it because you didn’t sleep well?
I didn't think today would be any better, I wasn't feeling too depressed, I watched TV in the living room for a while, and saw a scene where a bad guy hurt someone and suffered the consequences, and the bad guy thought he was going to win.
Just talking about this plot, I think it is very right. Oh, there is another revelation. Cooperation is very important, just like the protagonists in the TV series, none of them can be missing. And couples, if one dies, the other cannot live.
—Day 4]
With this segmentation method, the first word combination of each segment is the message prompt.
"Yang Mei is not a fool" - Is Yang Mei a fool?
Xia Bai: “……?”
It could indeed be, and it should indeed be a hint, and it should come from Yang Mei’s former trial partner, Hua Haoming.
As the player ranked first on the points list, Yang Mei is considered a powerful boss by many players, but everyone in the assault team, including Lin Xiang, knows that he is a fool, especially in daily life.
Hua Haoming was playing during the day, and he was telling other players in a mocking way that this game was not about killing each other, but about cooperation. If they killed other players, they would not be able to survive.
After carefully reading Hua Haoming's diary again, Xia Bai opened to the last page.
When Xia Bai first saw this diary, he knew it was written by Ling Changye.
It was amazing, probably because he had compared the handwriting of the liar and Ling Changye, and Ling Changye's handwriting was deeply imprinted in his heart. Games can assimilate a lot, but people's characteristics cannot be assimilated completely.
[I opened both windows, but I still couldn't breathe smoothly.
Can digging up a tree purify the air and make breathing easier?
I started praying to God, praying for my health to get better. If this wish is too big, I hoped that God would give me a tree that can breathe.
I heard about the existence of God when I was a child. Does God live in heaven?
White clothes, just like the pure and innocent angel in the portrait.
The world of pleasure and vanity has nothing to do with them; they stand high in the sky, looking down on the world without any sadness or joy.
Is this kind of God down to earth? Suddenly, an idea came to my mind: Is it possible that God is right beside us, in our bodies, and in our hearts?
——I don’t know which day it is]
Xia Bai's heart skipped a beat, and the layer of fog seemed to dissipate.
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