Chapter 99 Red Rose Manor 9
Hua Haoming stared at the diary for a long time, and his fingers clasped together on the desk trembled slightly, not just because of his physical weakness.
He thought of his classmates who dropped out of school, his teacher who was in a car accident, his disabled friends, his grandmother who committed suicide...
His fingers became more and more powerful, causing the corners of his lips to tremble.
He thought of Ling Changye, Xia Bai, Lin Xiang, and other players in this copy.
The fingers loosened little by little, trembling.
He said that we should not kill each other, and he wrote it word by word in his diary, mocking those who harmed other players.
He couldn't become a person who harmed his companions just to kill the devil. Moreover, if the devil was not dead yet, it would be difficult for him to kill him by misleading him. It might be useful to tamper with the rules at the beginning of the game.
Hua Haoming slowly calmed down and blinked, only to find that he was sweating a lot, with sweat flowing from his forehead to his eyelids, and two drops fell in the blink of an eye.
The inner struggle and this decision were like a battle for him.
He reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, bit his lower lip, and after finishing reading the diary, he left the study with difficulty and went to see the hole mentioned in Ling Changye's diary.
The last time he woke up, he saw the small hole in the roof of the living room, and he knew what the person who dug the hole meant.
The rules warned them not to go to the attic three times in a row, so if they wanted to complete the game, they couldn't miss this key location.
The rules say "don't go in the attic", not that they are forbidden from exploring, as long as they don't go, they can use other methods to see what's in the attic.
He tried it the second time he woke up. The windows were sealed, the walls were slippery, and more importantly, there was no visible window in the attic. If there was one, it was on the spire and a very small one.
The man's idea of digging a hole was indeed a solution, so he helped the man dig a lot with his soft sword, leaving only a layer of wall skin.
Now he knew that the person who dug the hole was Ling Changye. He was glad that he helped dig the hole when he woke up last time. Otherwise, given their current physical condition, they might not be able to dig the hole through in one go.
He knew that Ling Changye had a surveillance device that could allow him to see what was happening in the attic, but because the hole was too small and it was too dark inside, he only saw the corpse.
If Ling Changye can only see these with the surveillance props, then he can forget about seeing more under such circumstances.
So he didn't waste his energy and took out the soft sword to continue expanding the hole. He didn't return to the study until he felt his strength was about to run out.
He wrote down all the clues from the books he had read in the past few days in his diary, and at the same time repeated his previous conjecture about the three souls and seven spirits.
He wrote two identical entries in this diary, one of which he tore off and placed under the trash can in the study.
After doing all this, it was time for him to have dinner and watch TV.
While watching TV for the last time, Hua Haoming was still looking for clues in other books with a pen, and writing them down on a piece of paper he brought out from the study. At almost eight o'clock, he threw the balled paper into the trash can in the study.
He made a backup in the trash can because he knew how evil the devil was. If he saw the key clues in the diary, he would tear up the diary.
He had been imprisoned for so long, how could he not do something once he was free?
His favorite thing to do is to hurt people.
I just hope that their hard work will not be ruined by him. This was Hua Haoming's only prayer before he fell asleep.
Hua Haoming opened his eyes.
His dark eyes rolled around in his sockets, and he got up from the bed, stretching his hands and feet again to look at his body.
Although he is physically impaired, it does not affect his curiosity and pleasure.
Hua Haoming picked up the mobile phone on the desk and saw that the time was the same as the time he woke up last time, just after eight o'clock in the evening.
He did nothing and went straight to the study. The study rules were gone, but it didn't matter. The rules had been revised countless times, and the rules he saw for the first time were still firmly in his mind.
Sitting down at the desk, he picked up an Introduction to Political Science and read it.
After reading for a while, he walked to the bedroom while reciting the book he had just read, lay on the bed and continued reciting. He recited for half an hour until nine o'clock.
He didn't get up until after nine o'clock. In the dim light from the window, he stroked his hands, with longing in his eyes.
He touched his face with his hands.
After searching for a while, he picked up the phone, but this time he still couldn't see his face on the screen.
I wonder if any players are aware that, normally when the phone screen is black, you can vaguely see your face, at least the outline and general facial features.
He really wanted to see his face, but in this game, he couldn't just look in the mirror. Even the mobile phone screen lost its function as a mirror. When the screen was black, it was just a pure black screen.
I really want to see it.
I don’t know how many times he can wake up. If I miss this opportunity, it may be gone.
Hua Haoming walked into the bathroom and went straight to the mirror on the dirty sink. He lowered his head, then slowly raised his head and saw his face clearly in the mirror for the first time.
His eyebrows twitched slightly.
This face.
This face.
He was pale and dull, with light almond-shaped eyes and dark lips, which looked out of place in the dirty bathroom and incompatible with his body. He looked clean and childish, about ten years old.
This face is very familiar, and looks very much like when he was nineteen, almost growing in proportion.
He had never actually seen the real person before he was locked in this game, but he had seen a photo of him on his mobile phone. His name seemed to be Xia Bai, and he was his brother's friend.
Xia Bai.
Why does Xia Bai's face, who is ten years old or even younger, grow on his body? His body looks like an adult's.
Hua Haoming reached out and touched his face.
The person in the mirror spoke to him, "Brother, you're here."
Hua Haoming's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and for a moment he thought it was his younger brother who spoke to him. He stared at the mirror solemnly, and realized with regret that it was not his younger brother.
He had stopped calling him brother a long time ago, and now he should call him devil.
[Sixth, 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. ]
Hua Haoming closed his eyes, turned around and left the bathroom.
He returned to the study and opened the two diaries one by one and started reading.
After reading it, he understood what was going on and felt a little happy. In this game, he actually had a role to play and was no longer just a tool.
They are all the three souls and seven spirits of one person.
According to his speculation, the abnormal head on his neck was "this person", and other players also had the same long face on their necks.
But how could this face be Xia Bai?
Hua Haoming tapped silently on the table with his left middle finger, and looked out the window with his right hand on his chin.
In fact, he hasn't had contact with the outside world for a long time.
He exists because of his younger brother's strong desire. When he was a child, his younger brother taught him a lot of things and he understood a lot of worldly ways, but his essence and obsession did not change, which is to protect his younger brother.
Human feelings and human nature are things outside of his essence.
In order to protect his younger brother, he will eliminate all hidden dangers around his younger brother, including those who have hit him, ill-intentioned classmates, disgusting teachers, and the fake grandmother who deceived him.
The first time he understood human nature was when he felt that his younger brother was suffering too much, when he had to deal with people and things that threatened him and treated him badly, and when they appeared again and again.
Before entering the game, he would appear whenever his younger brother was in pain, when his younger brother was in danger, or when there were people with bad intentions towards him.
So he showed up quite often then.
Because I appear so often, I learnt a lot.
Because he appears often, he understands his brother's suffering.
Because he appears so often, I understand why he exists.
My younger brother had grown up without parents, and the blind woman wanted someone to take care of him in his old age, so she said she was my brother's grandmother and asked my brother to find food for her everywhere. She didn't let my brother go to school and restrained my brother for a long time, but my brother regarded her as his only relative.
Those classmates laughed at my brother behind his back, that teacher had disgusting desires for him, and those people wanted to trick him...
It seems that my younger brother has never met many people who are nice to him in his life, so he was born.
Later, when my younger brother entered the game, things were different.
After entering the game, he rarely appears.
First, because he became his younger brother's skill, his appearance was controlled by his younger brother, and his younger brother began to hate him. He would not come out unless his life and the lives of his teammates were in danger.
Second, there are not so many malicious people around his brother anymore, except in the game. He has become rich and powerful, no longer miserable, and there are people who treat him well, so he is not suffering so much.
He seldom appears, but when he does, he always uses his killer moves. He doesn't understand the current society or games.
So, he couldn't figure out why there was Xia Bai's face above his head.
Is there something special about Xia Bai?
There is something wrong with Xia Bai. Does he want to kill Xia Bai?
The demon who was out of touch with society and games was in trouble.
Do you want to break your neck?
Hua Haoming put his hands on his neck. It seemed that he could not kill Xia Bai. Xia Bai had three souls and seven spirits just like him, so they had to cooperate.
If it was another game, he could go on a killing spree, but this game made him feel his weakness for the first time.
As a demon who knew nothing about the game, he actually didn't know how many rules he had broken.
The meaning of his existence is to protect his younger brother. In order to protect his younger brother now, he cannot kill the players, and cannot let himself die. If they die, his brother's body will not be able to hold on.
Hua Haoming held his chin up and looked out the window for a while. For the first time, he imitated someone else's diary and buried his head in writing down every clue he saw in the book, stroke by stroke.
He thought about looking in the mirror after he finished writing, but fearing that he would die from breaking the rules, he rejected the idea.
He flipped through his diary, trying to find clues, to find something he could do.
But he understood a lot of the diaries, but in fact he couldn't understand anything. He knew they were written by players, and he knew what messages their many segmentation methods were conveying, but he couldn't understand them.
Hua Haoming thought about it and went back to his bedroom to sleep with a bad temper.
Two severed hands crawled out of the bathroom, leaving bloody handprints on the bedroom floor and walls. When they were close to the bed, Hua Haoming grabbed them and ate them with a cold face.
The bedroom was filled with bursts of "crunching" chewing sounds, occasionally with sharper "crunching" sounds, and the sound lasted for a long time.
Suddenly quiet.
Xia Bai opened his eyes.
Now he knew that they were three rings and seven souls, and that their physical problems were caused by the disappearance of other souls, so he didn't feel his physical condition carefully. He got up from the bed, checked the time on his phone, and went straight to the study.
The rules of the study are gone. They are no longer important.
After he entered the study, he opened the textbook directly and read it with all his heart.
This time he planned to finish reading the two new textbooks and find all the clues inside.
Although he didn't feel his body carefully, he knew that his physical condition had become worse. He might not be able to wait until he wakes up again, so he must try his best to find all the clues this time.
Of course, he did not forget to change books after reading page 19. He changed books every two minutes, switching back and forth between the two textbooks.
He went back to the bedroom and came back again in less than five minutes when he finished reading the two textbooks. Then he changed to two more textbooks and continued to read using the same method.
The person who left notes in the junior high school textbooks was a boy. He often wrote about his younger brother and older brother in the textbooks because he lived in the same room with them. At first, he lived in the same room with his older brother, and later, when a younger brother came, he lived with his younger brother.
Yes, a younger brother has come, and he can sleep in the same room with him.
Besides that, he has a new sister.
He also wrote in the textbook that later a bigger brother came, but his parents didn't want him because he was too old.
Xia Bai guessed that these brothers and sisters, including his brother, were not related to him by blood. This was not an orphanage that was often chosen as a map in games, because they had parents, and they were all children adopted by their parents.
Judging from the notes, their parents had no bad intentions in adopting them. Love is evident between the lines of his words, and he lives a happy and contented life.
He wrote [This is what happiness looks like].
He wrote [I want to be with them forever].
He also wrote [Without them, I'd be dead].
This is a kind couple who adopted a few poor children and gave them lots of love. The whole family lived a happy and satisfying life in this ancient castle far away from the city.
After finishing the textbook and the study time was over, Xia Bai immediately opened two diaries.
He started with the latest chapter in one of the books and saw a player recording clues he had seen in other books.
Continuing to flip forward, I saw another clue written by another player, as well as a discussion about the three souls and seven spirits.
They must have seen his diary and knew they had to cooperate with each other, so they summarized the clues they saw in the book in their diary.
Xia Bai felt a lot more at ease and continued to search. He then saw Ling Changye's diary, the diary of the person impersonating him, and discovered that his own diary was missing.
“…”
He knew that there must have been a difficult struggle before the three souls and seven spirits returned to the diary, but he didn't have time to think about it now. After leaving the game, they would have plenty of time to talk about it in detail.
There are clues in the books that each player sees, and these clues put together should be able to restore a complete family story.
The problem is that these are not enough now, and some players have not been written or have died.
He wants to complete those players' complements.
He didn't know the identities of those players, so he started to look through the diary again.
In He Ge's diary, she mentioned storybooks. From her diary, it seems that she was willing to cooperate. But after she had three souls and seven spirits, she did not leave any clues. She might have died on the night she finished writing the diary.
Xia Bai didn't give himself the chance to feel any emotions and immediately found the storybook to read.
In another diary, a player said that he was reading "Introduction to Macroeconomics", so Xia Bai immediately found the book and read it.
It brought tears to my eyes.
Normally, his eyes would become dry and uncomfortable when he had a cold, rhinitis, or stayed up late to sleep. His current health condition is more than just a minor illness like a cold or rhinitis. It is in a terrible state. He is thankful that he can only shed tears. He is afraid that he will go blind.
According to the theory of three souls and seven spirits, if the two spirits of non-poison and swallowing thieves, which remove toxins and harmful substances from the body, are gone, a lot of toxins will accumulate in his body, and blindness and cancer are very likely to occur.
That's why he is so anxious.
He didn't finish reading all the books, but just looked for clues about the identities of the characters, and he had a rough idea of them in an hour.
There is a couple, an old couple and several children in this castle.
Among the children we know so far, there is a little girl who is lame, a boy who can't speak, a boy who is about ten years old and is studying junior high school knowledge at home, a boy whose exact age is unknown and may be in his ten years old and is also studying junior high school knowledge, a boy who is studying high school knowledge, and a girl who has left the castle to attend a special university and only comes back on weekends.
That's enough for ten people.
There may be one more, or there may be only these ten.
Xia Bai already had a rough guess about this game.
If there is still one person, that makes eleven people. Ten people died and became the three souls and seven spirits of a living person.
If there are only these ten people, these ten people will become three souls and seven spirits in the body of one of them.
Now all he had to do was verify his guess and find out why they became three souls and seven spirits.
As for where to look, Ling Changye had already pointed it out to him and prepared the hole leading to the attic for him.
The most crucial evidence must be hidden in the attic that the code warned them not to enter.
Ling Changye had a surveillance prop, and he saw corpses in it. Xia Bai guessed that those were the bodies of this family. Their bodies were well preserved in it, and other important things must be in it as well.
When he entered the living room, he saw the new living room rules.
He guessed that this set of rules was rewritten by Ling Changye based on what he thought were the correct rules. There were also his hints in the rules. He added a sentence "Just don't go" after the last rule "Don't go to the attic", meaning that they can watch and use various methods as long as they are not in the attic.
At this time, Xia Bai missed Lao Qian and his little paper man very much.
However, Lao Qian has his little paper figurine, and Xia Bai also has his own sister Xue Mu.
He tapped his cell phone and called out his hard-working sister Xue Mu.
After reading so many books, he was seeing visions. He didn't have much energy to begin with, and could no longer support his poor body, let alone take care of the three corpses. He could only rely on his sister Xue Mu.
This hole seemed to be prepared for her, it was perfect for her black hair to fit into it.
After seeing that she didn't have to swallow the dirty blood, Sister Xuemu seemed to be in a good mood. Her wildly long hair showed a hint of lightness, and she quickly crawled into the hole in the roof.
Xia Bai was already having trouble standing, and in order to conserve his remaining energy, he slowly moved to the sofa and sat down, panting as he held the trash can, waiting for Sister Xue Mu's black hair to find something.
You are not allowed to litter in the castle. No matter what you find, you have to put it in the trash can first.
Xia Bai was actually a little anxious. He could feel that his body was in much worse condition than last time. He might faint before he fell asleep, but he couldn't show it for fear of affecting his sister Xue Mu. The danger of the attic might not just be in the rules.
After a while, Xia Bai saw Hei take action and pulled out a small card from the hole.
Xia Bai immediately caught it in the trash can, then picked it up and looked at it.
Sister Xuemu said softly, "There are so many of them in the box that I can't pull the box down."
Xia Bai nodded, "Take your time, just look for these cards, letters, diaries and other paper. These usually contain a lot of clues."
No noise was allowed in the living room, so Xia Bai spoke in a low voice. In fact, he couldn't make a very loud sound.
Sister Xue Mu, who was lying on the side table, turned to look at his smaller, paler face, crawled over to him, and stuck to him, while continuing to search the attic with her black hair.
Xia Bai felt warm in his heart and touched her head with his fingertips.
While taking the things that Sister Xue Mu pulled down from the attic, she put them back one by one.
What Sister Xue Mu pulled down earlier were all cards. They should be the ones she said were placed in a box. They were birthday and holiday greeting cards that were carefully collected.
From these blessing cards, Xia Bai seemed to finally know the protagonist of this game.
Some family members call him Xiaobai.
Some family members call him younger brother and older brother.
[Happy birthday, Xiaobai. You are one year older. Mom will always love you.]
[Today is our Xiaobai’s festival. Although Daddy was not able to attend your birth, Daddy hopes to attend every birthday of yours in the future. ]
[Happy birthday, little brother. I have to tell you in secret that you are the most obedient and lovely little brother in my heart. You are so cute today.]
[It’s my little brother’s birthday again. You know, this day was chosen by our whole family for you. It is the most important day in our family and the day that is loved by the whole family. 】
[Brother, I’m sorry that I can’t go back to celebrate your birthday this year. I miss you so much. I heard that you are already reading junior high school textbooks. That’s amazing! I’m so proud of you!]
[Brother, I secretly gave you all the tang for a month, dear.]
[I have spent another year with my brother. I really want to be with him forever. I will always protect him. ]
[My dear grandson, did you see the egg that grandma secretly hid at the bottom of the bowl for you? You are the most special today, so you must eat more. Look, your little brother is almost taller than you.]
There were so many cards, it seemed like he had collected all the cards he had ever received.
There were no important clues on these cards, but for some reason, Xia Bai, who was extremely tired, couldn't let go and looked at them carefully one by one.
Maybe there is a lot of love hidden in it.
The cold wind still blew against the windows in the middle of the night, howling from the distant woods. This castle was far away from the city, uninhabited, as if it had been forgotten by the world.
At some point before, when Xia Bai stood here, he felt lonely from the world to the spirit to the body, but now, looking through these cards, he no longer felt lonely.
This is probably not an ancient castle abandoned by the world, but a rare paradise haven in the bustling city.
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