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When He Lizhou thought about it carefully again, he still couldn't confirm in which copy Uncle Zhao accidentally connected to his hotel. If it was in this copy, then Uncle Zhao must have found the disappeared fourth floor.
When he appeared in the hotel room, his face was covered in dust, so he must have crawled out from underground. My previous direction was correct. There should be a basement hidden in a room.
They had already looked at most of the rooms on the first floor, and the only ones left were the players' locked rooms. Xu Zian also thought of this, and the three of them looked at each other, "Tonight?"
After Uncle Zhao leaves tonight, they plan to go to Uncle Zhao's room to find out what's going on.
He Lizhou tapped his little wooden man's head gently and said, "After Uncle Zhao leaves the room, squeak."
A very faint light flashed across the little wooden man's eyes, but when He Lizhou wanted to take a closer look, it had already disappeared.
He Lizhou waited for a while, but there was still no other movement. He thought he was dazzled or the light was reflected from somewhere, so he put the little wooden man back to his side and said, "Tonight, Jiang Jiang will continue to look for the person who died of poisoning. Xu Zian will study your talisman paper. There are so many of them, maybe there are other uses that have not been discovered yet. I will go to other people's rooms and meet up with you in the basement. Is that okay?"
He Lizhou's arrangement was basically what everyone had been doing before, so the other two had no objection, "Okay, everyone be careful."
Since they have already formed an alliance, Jiang Jiang did not hide it and opened his door. "Come to my side first. I haven't touched the things in the house yet, so I'm not sure if there is a basement."
Jiang Jiang's room was no different from other rooms. She slept on the floor and placed the things she brought next to the carpet. The other furnishings remained the same as before.
Xu Zian was equally cautious, but after choosing a room, he checked every place first.
He Lizhou squatted in the corner of Xu Zian's room and gently lifted the wallpaper in the room, revealing the charred wall.
They both looked at Xu Zian. After a long silence, He Lizhou said, "Your room was the one that was on fire."
Jiang Jiang couldn't help but look suspicious, "What did you do during the day? Did Chen Ling die in his room?"
Xu Zian was speechless, "...I couldn't sleep during the day, so I went to the garden once, but it was only for ten minutes, and I was out of the room for fifteen minutes at most."
Is fifteen minutes enough time for Uncle Zhao to call Chen Ling out, move him to the bed, and kill him immediately?
Very nervous.
Jiang Jiang asked again: "Are you sure you went back to your room during the day?"
Xu Zian smiled, with a hint of silence in his smile, "How could I not know the way back to my room? There's no way I would have missed the room number in broad daylight."
That's true. He Lizhou broke the deadlock: "Let's go to Chen Ling's room and take a look."
*
Chen Ling's room.
Chen Ling was still in the same posture as during the day, and no one had moved the body. He Lizhou walked forward and turned him over, revealing the covered bed.
He Lizhou once rolled up the bedding in Chen Ling's room and threw it into the utility room, so there was only a blanket on the bed frame, and there was a smear of carbon ash on the blanket, which came from Chen Ling.
Xu Zian walked forward, picked up the blanket and shook it out. Except for the place where Chen Ling had been lying, the rest of the place was clean, including under the wallpaper that Jiang Jiang had lifted.
It is very clear that Chen Ling was moved to Xu Zian's room, and then moved back to this room after his death, to create the illusion that he died here.
So, how did Uncle Zhao avoid Xu Zian's sight, and why didn't he kill Chen Ling directly in Chen Ling's room?
Xu Zian held his head and recalled what happened during the day...
He lay on the bedding on the ground. He had gone through many dungeons before and he was not a delicate person, but today he could not fall asleep no matter how hard he tried. Sometimes he felt that the bedding was not thick enough, and sometimes he felt that the sunlight was too glaring during the day.
Thinking of the human finger bones found last night, Xu Zian couldn't sleep anymore. He simply turned over and sat up, standing by the window and looking out. His room looked just like the garden from the outside, and a little to the left was where the human finger bones were found.
Xu Zian thought about it, opened the door and walked out.
Relying on his memory, Xu Zian returned to that place again. This time he did not go in again. He walked around the area for a few times, trying to see if there were any lost clues. It was very strange that he could not fall asleep in the room, but now that he came out, he was so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyelids.
He blinked hard, but failed to stop the sudden drowsiness, and returned to the room again...
Xu Zian suddenly became hoarse, "The room I returned to doesn't seem to be my own room anymore."
A chill ran down his spine. "When I left, I found the bones on the left side of the room. When I came back, they were on the right side of the room."
He had unknowingly returned to the other room, which he had not yet discovered.
Xu Zian is quite capable and has good observation skills, otherwise he would not have noticed the system's plan in the first place and formed an alliance with He Lizhou. Jiang Jiang was also shocked, "What is Uncle Zhao's method? To confuse people?"
He Lizhou raised his eyes and looked out the window. They were now in Chen Ling's room. Looking out from Chen Ling's room, the place where Xu Zian discovered the human bones was on the right.
In other words, the person Uncle Zhao wanted to kill last night was actually Xu Zian, but after switching Xu Zian and Chen Ling's rooms, Xu Zian escaped and found a safe room?
At this time, He Lizhou had not yet realized that Chen Ling’s death was a very unexpected situation for the completion of the copy, and it directly affected everyone’s departure from the copy.
"Uncle Zhao is going out! Uncle Zhao is going out!"
When the room was silent, He Lizhou suddenly let out a small cry. Even though it was very subtle, it was almost enough to make the voice break.
Xu Zian and Jiang Jiang looked at He Lizhou when they heard the voice. He Lizhou thought of something and quickly took out a small wooden sculpture from his body.
When the little wooden man came out, he was still shouting, "Uncle Zhao is leaving!"
It was probably a gesture of shouting with eyes closed. When it finished the sentence, it saw three enlarged faces approaching in front of it and immediately fell silent.
He Lizhou found it a little funny and tapped the little wooden man's nose, "You're quite shy."
Since Uncle Zhao is out, He Lizhou also has to prepare to sneak into his room.
He lay by the door, listening to Uncle Zhao's footsteps slowly leaving. After confirming that he was far away, he opened the door.
The rooms of Chen Ling, Jiang Jiang, He Lizhou and Xu Zian are on the left side of the hall, while Uncle Zhao and the other four are on the right side of the hall. I didn't notice it before, but now that I think about it, it's really a very subtle layout.
He Lizhou didn't see Uncle Zhao, so he walked out quickly. In the blink of an eye, he had jumped to Uncle Zhao's door as nimbly as a cat.
He Lizhou reached out and grasped the door handle, twisted it gently, and it actually opened.
Uncle Zhao would definitely not make such a mistake. There is an ambush.
But the door handle made a slight noise, and it was too late to escape. He Lizhou could only bite the bullet and move forward, putting his right hand behind his back and taking out a dagger.
The door was pushed open, and Dongping was waiting for him.
The two people's eyes met, and Dongping smiled, "You are here as expected, Uncle Zhao guessed it right."
*
After He Lizhou left, Jiang Jiang and Xu Zian went to look for clues respectively. Jiang Jiang released the venomous snake with gorgeous patterns. The snake affectionately coiled around Jiang Jiang's wrist twice and spit out its tongue.
Jiang Jiang reached out and touched the head of the venomous snake, and whispered, "Good Wenwen, good partner, can you help me go around the castle again? We need to find something poisonous."
The venomous snake Wenwen spit out his tongue again, as if responding to Jiang Jiang's words. Jiang Jiang seemed to have heard his answer and smiled, "Thank you, Wenwen. You are my best helper."
Wenwen slid down from Jiang Jiang's wrist, landed on the carpet, merged with the pattern of the carpet, and slowly slid to a place where Jiang Jiang could not see.
Wenwen made a "hissing" sound, and soon more and more snakes appeared near the castle. There were simple solid-colored non-venomous snakes as well as colorful highly venomous snakes. They gathered more and more, and finally scattered in every corner of the castle when no one was paying attention.
Xu Zian was in his own room, and this time he made a point to confirm that it was indeed his room before returning inside.
Xu Zian took out the talismans and placed them on the ground one by one, trying to find the difference between each one. However, the talismans' incantations were numerous and complicated, and an outsider could not find the subtle differences in the strokes at all. Xu Zian felt dizzy after looking at them.
He picked up two of them at random and recognized that one of them was the one that He Lizhou took out and said was the talisman, so he lifted them up to compare the two.
Unfortunately, He Lizhou said that he only knew some simple talismans by chance. Xu Zian sighed, and when he looked at the talisman again, a bold idea suddenly popped up in his mind.
He burned the talisman and used it on himself.
The moment Xu Zian burned the talisman, he felt like something was missing in his body. When he raised his eyes again, he saw a man standing in front of him who looked exactly like him. However, the man did not look like the playboy he had played according to his "personality", but was a playboy in his bones.
The other person looked at Xu Zian with a pair of smiling eyes and said, "You are quite smart."
Xu Zian felt his hair stand on end when he saw a face like his and heard such teasing words. "Well, I called you out because I wanted to ask you what these talismans are?"
I originally wanted to ask if it had any effect, but after seeing the talisman work twice, I no longer have this question.
"Xu Zian" waved his hand, "I'll only teach you once, remember it."
“The Heaven-reaching Talisman…”
"Wait, wait, what is this Tongtian Talisman?"
"Xu Zian" said mysteriously: "Predict the future."
Xu Zian burned the Tongtian talisman. In the smoke after the talisman was burned, a figure slowly emerged with a scepter in his right hand pointing to the sky, his left index finger pointing to the ground, and an inverted 8 on his head.
Xu Zian knew this person, but because he knew him, he was even more speechless, "How can this be a combination of Chinese and Western?"
Burning the Eastern talisman, a magician from the Western Tarot card appeared.
And before I could figure out what it meant, it disappeared.
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