Chapter 102 The Doomsday Manor 17
“After all, we can’t come to the Strange World again for the next instance. I doubt I can obtain the Strange Power in this instance, and you won’t be able to obtain the Crystal Core after leaving this instance. Haven’t we already agreed on these things?”
After saying that, Wen Qi gently patted her younger brother's back to comfort him and tell him not to worry.
Afterwards, Wenjiu shared her experience of cultivating supernatural abilities, so that her sister would have some experience to follow when she cultivates.
Room 201.
Xiao Da and the others gathered at Li Xianwen's place again.
They discussed where they could collect more ghost coins after they went out tomorrow.
The group chatted until almost ten o'clock.
It wasn't until the clock struck 9:50 that the group emerged from room 201.
Wenjiu also left her sister's room and returned to her own room, number 502.
Xiao Da and Liang Xia live in 202, while Miao Yan and Hong Zihan live in 203.
The rooms of the group were very close together.
However, after Xiao Da and Liang Xia entered room 202, only a dozen steps away from room 203, Hong Zihan and Liang Xia saw a portrait painting in the corridor.
Rule number eleven of the room rules: If you find any portrait paintings in the hallway, please inform the manor owner immediately.
But now there are only seven or eight minutes left until ten o'clock.
The two began to look panicked, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads and palms.
"What should we do? Should we go up to the fifth floor and ask the manor owner to come down and handle it? But there might not be enough time, or the manor owner might not even bother with us at this hour," Hong Zihan asked tremblingly.
Miao Yan grabbed Hong Zihan's arm and ran, "We saw it together, we need to go to the fifth floor to find the manor owner together, if we run fast, we should make it in time."
It only took the two of them one minute to run from the second floor to the third floor.
"Bang bang bang—"
There was a knock on Wen Qi's door.
At this hour, someone actually knocked on her door?
Soon, a voice came from outside the door, "Manor owner, could you please help us? We saw a portrait painting in the corridor!"
Upon hearing this, Wen Qi was startled and quickly put on her clothes to open the door.
As she went downstairs, she glanced at the time: 9:53, with seven minutes to go.
With this in mind, Wen Qi started the simulation.
"Simulation begins, mind astral projection."
"Follow Hong Zihan and the other person quickly to the second floor."
Sure enough, on the left wall of room 203, there was an oil painting of a figure.
"You don't know what to do either."
"None of the rules mention how to handle paintings of people that suddenly appear."
"You thought for two seconds, then pushed open the door to room 203, rushed into the bathroom, grabbed a bath towel, and covered the oil painting directly with it."
"That way you won't be able to see it."
"Whether it works or not, let's give it a try first."
"Hong Zihan and the other person looked at you with complete bewilderment; they never imagined it could be like this."
You reminded the two of them, "Let's go back to our room quickly."
"Once the two entered room 203, you summoned the Shadow Gate and returned directly to room 501."
"I don't know if what we did just now had any effect. You'll need to wait at least one night to see if anything happens to you and those two."
"You lay down on the bed and fell asleep peacefully, while Hong Zihan and the other two hid under the covers, afraid to do anything, unable to sleep at all."
"When the clock struck six the next morning, you woke up to find yourself no longer in room 501."
"What's wrong? Are you sleepwalking?"
"But you don't have sleepwalking at all."
"Could it be that he ended up in another room because things weren't handled properly last night?"
You get up and look around, but you can't see anything very clearly.
"But you can clearly see that the door to this room is red."
"Manor Check-in Rules, Rule Six: You cannot check into a room with a red door."
"Although you are not required to follow the manor's rules for staying, you feel a vague unease."
"You used the Shadow Gate to get to the door of room 203 and knocked on it."
You knocked five times, but no one answered.
"Could something have happened to those two?"
"You take out the master key and open the door; the room is covered in blood."
"You found two corpses on the bed."
"It seems you didn't handle things perfectly last night, but because you're the owner of the estate, you don't have to follow those rules, so nothing happened."
Thinking of this, you went back to the fifth floor and went to your younger brother's room.
You knocked on the door, and Wenjiu quickly opened it.
Seeing your anxious expression, Wenjiu asked you worriedly, "Sister, what happened?"
You explained what happened last night and just now, and said with some self-reproach, "That's how it happened. Do you think they died because of me? I didn't handle the painting well."
"Sis, this isn't your fault. You don't need to think like that. Although they weren't bad people, everyone has flaws. Just be yourself and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Besides, those two are just NPCs in this strange world."
"Xiao Jiu, what do you think is the best way to handle that painting?" you asked your younger brother.
Wenjiu countered with a question: "Sister, if I hadn't come to this instance with you, and you didn't have to worry about me, what would you have chosen to do?"
"After thinking about it, it seems that in this instance, because of your younger brother, you have become much more restrained and no longer act recklessly."
"You said, 'If Xiao Jiu hadn't come to this instance, I might have stolen their crystal cores, or raised the room rate. As for what happened last night, I might have just torn up that painting.'"
"See, now we have the answer!" Wenjiu comforted him.
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"If tearing it off doesn't work, then put it away. Just don't let it hang there anymore. Sis, go ahead and try again. I know it's not really the next day, and this didn't happen last night."
"You nod, you've ended the simulation, and your consciousness has returned."
"Simulation complete! Current anomaly value: 95 points. Simulation duration: 8 hours and 17 minutes."
You just finished the simulation, and now you're going back to the simulation.
"Load forward!"
"Quickly follow Hong Zihan and the other person to the second floor."
"You let the two of them enter the room first, and then you tore the painting down yourself."
"You tore the painting to shreds, then used the Shadow Gate to go to the kitchen and burned the pieces of the painting."
"You returned to your room at exactly ten o'clock."
"The next day, you woke up again in a room with a red door."
"This time, instead of using the Shadow Gate to leave directly, you came to the entrance hall and turned the doorknob."
"Leave the room; this is 507."
"You actually ended up in 507? You don't even know how you got here."
"You went up to the second floor again, took out the master key and opened the door to room 203."
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