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The time went back to the time when the four of them had just left the chess room and were divided into two groups to search for the whereabouts of the "pestle".

Wearing a gorgeous aristocratic attire, but not at all gentlemanly, Daxiu put his arms on his head and said lazily as he walked, "Where are you going?"

You Yunran held up the lantern in his hand, looked down at the map by candlelight, walked methodically towards the target, and replied, "Go and find useful clues."

Daxiu snorted and said, "At this time, just wander around in the ghost castle. If you encounter any death flags or the first kill, you will be finished."

After hearing this, You Yunran turned to look at Daxiu, and said with a smile, "You are very proficient in similar games."

Daxiu pouted, glanced at You Yunran who rolled up the map and put the parchment roll in his pocket, and said to him, "Who do you think is a ghost?"

You Yunran pondered, and replied: "In theory, you, me, and Annie are more likely, and John is the least likely."

Daxiu raised his eyebrows and said, "Why?"

"Because he is 'Orion', and we are nobles." You Yunran smiled and said: "But the possibility of him forging his identity is not ruled out. After all, when he just changed the noble clothes, he didn't feel uncomfortable at all."

Daxiu wondered, "It's the same as if you didn't say it!"

"So we have to look for more clues." You Yunran led Daxiu around a corner.The two of them are not timid, without Annie to set off the trembling and startled feeling, so when they walked side by side, the atmosphere did not seem so tense.You Yunran said: "It is important to find the pestle and destroy the mirror, but it is also very important to find the 'ghost' in advance and be on guard. Otherwise, it is also good to be able to find some ways to deal with ghosts. Otherwise, we humans can only be beaten passively .”

Daxiu said indifferently, "Then how do you find it now? Are you wandering around like a headless chicken?"

"There is a study room and a studio in this castle." You Yunran explained: "The study room is usually the place where the owner of the castle reads and handles official business. If there is a place where clues are most likely to be left, it will most likely be here. As for the studio... There are usually portraits of the owners of the family in the past, and there should be the owner of the castle in this generation. As long as we can see the painting, we can learn from the face shape, hair color, eye color, etc. of the characters in it. Waiting for the place to guess who the owner is."

John's brown hair, You Yun's black hair, Annie's blond hair, Daxiu's red hair.

All are the most direct evidence.

After hearing this, Daxiu was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's go."

After finishing speaking, he shrugged and said to You Yunran: "I hope our journey will be safe and sound, and nothing will happen to us."

You Yunran couldn't help complaining: "Your words are the biggest flag..."

As soon as the words fell, the lantern in his hand went out without wind, and the two of them fell into darkness.

You Yunran paused, shrugged and said, "Look."

Daxiu: "..."

You Yunran sighed helplessly, groped in his pocket with his right hand, found a matchbox, and said to Daxiu: "Fortunately, I was prepared."

Crack...the sound of flames burning, and a small glimmer of light appeared on You Yunran's fingertips.Daxiu looked at You Yunran, saw the small swaying flame and the ordinary wooden stick, and asked in surprise, "How did this thing light up?"

You Yunran explained: "This is called 'match'. A long time ago, when technology was not yet developed, people used the potassium chlorate and sulfur on the tip of the match to rub against the phosphorus layer on the rough surface to make the sulfur and potassium chlorate react. , release more heat energy, and then ignite a fire."

Da·Cultural Black Hole·Xiu seemed to hear a heavenly scripture: "..."

He "suddenly realized" and said: "Well, oh, it turns out to be like this, simple! I understand!"

You Yunran couldn't help laughing.

"You guys really know a little bit about everything!" Daxiu said.

"It just so happened to know." You Yunran smiled modestly.

After lighting the candle in the lantern with a match, You Yunran shook the half-burned match to extinguish it.Accompanied by the curling gray smoke from the match, You Yunran raised his head and continued to walk forward.

Before he could move his legs, he saw a slender black figure standing silently in front of him.The black shadow just stood silently in the corridor and watched him, gloomy, weird, and malicious.You Yunran's cold hair exploded in an instant, and he yelled at Daxiu: "Run!!"

Da Xiu panicked and shouted: "I knew it! I knew it would come out!!!"

If the housekeeper and chess player in the past were still human, the guy in front of him, with his body that had been abused, had nothing to do with human beings at all!

You Yunran turned his head and ran away, Daxiu followed behind and yelled, "F*ck, shit, shit...he's chasing me!!"

You Yunran's speed was fast, and his running movements were exceptionally standard. Like a trained special soldier, he even had time to say to Daxiu: "He's blocked over there, let's take a detour."

Daxiu shouted: "This ghost thing is here to steal the mirror! You share the mirror with me! Let's run separately! Don't let him take it!"

You Yunran said: "Don't worry, he won't catch up." After finishing speaking, You Yunran pushed open the door beside him and ran in with Daxiu. There was another door inside. After the door opened, It is the corridor on the other side, Daxiu said in a daze: "How do you know—"

"I've seen the map, and now I can remember all the routes in the whole castle clearly." While running, You Yunran could still keep his voice steady, and turned to Daxiu and said, "It seems to throw him away Well, it's pretty simple."

Daxiu looked back, but he didn't see the black shadow falling, and he said dumbfounded: "Jane, simple?"

Are you what people say? !

Although looking back now, it seems really simple, just turn around and run a few steps...

Daxiu scratched his hair, frowned in wonder, and was a little speechless for a moment.

You Yunran said: "Go ahead and hurry up. I'm afraid that guy will follow again, and then there will be no chance to search for clues."

Daxiu asked in astonishment, "Will you come again?"

You Yunran said: "It would be strange not to come."

After the words fell, the candle in You Yunran's hand was extinguished again.Looking at the darkness in front of him, You Yunran sighed helplessly, he could only slow down his pace, and stopped again.Daxiu couldn't see the way clearly, and his calf accidentally bumped into a vase placed in the corridor beside him, his upper body fell down, and he threw himself against the wall with a muffled "bang".

"Fuck..." Daxiu cursed while covering his nose.

You Yunran lit the lantern again, and as expected, he saw the black shadow standing in front of him again, and the black shadow rushed towards him, You Yunran dodged sideways, and said to Daxiu: "Run!"

Daxiu said in a muffled voice, "This thing can fucking teleport..."

You Yunran frowned and said, "This won't work. Even if we know the way, we can't outrun him. It's a waste of energy."

Daxiu said, "Then what should we do?"

You Yunran thought about it and said, "I don't know if I can beat it."

Daxiu was shocked: "Stop joking! Can this thing be touched?"

"That's right, you can't take risks at will." You Yunran pondered: "Test his nature first, and find a way to solve the puzzle."

Daxiu couldn't help but said: "Hey, do you think this is an adventure rpg? It also has a test ghost attribute?"

"Try the sound first." You Yunran pulled Daxiu to stand where he was, watched the ghost running closer and closer, pulled the decorations placed on the side and threw it behind the ghost.Accompanied by the sound of "哐", the ghost movement did not stop at all, and the target was still directed at You Yunran.At this time, the distance between Ghosting and You Yunran seemed to be only a dozen meters, and You Yunran dragged Daxiu back and ran away again: "It seems not."

Daxiu was startled and said: "You are really courageous..."

You Yunran said again: "Try again..."

Daxiu couldn't help but said: "I don't think there is any need to try it, it must be a mirror!"

After saying that, You Yunran put the lantern on the ground, and pulled Daxiu back a distance of more than ten meters.The ghost's pace suddenly slowed down, as if someone had pulled the brakes suddenly, and changed from a locomotive to a snail at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally stood in front of the lantern, motionless.

Daxiu stared blankly: "..."

You Yunran breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems to act according to the light."

After finishing speaking, he strode towards the direction of the ghost, and Daxiu immediately said, "Hey, where are you going?"

You Yunran took out the match from his pocket and said to Daxiu, "You can't just give him the lantern, we will use it to find the way."

Daxiu shouted, "But what about this guy?"

"It's enough to give him a match." You Yunran struck a match with one hand, stood in front of the ghost, and stood face to face with this eerie guy.Then he bent down, put the match on the ground, picked up the lantern, opened the cover, and blew out the flame in one gulp. Immediately, the whole corridor became pitch black, and only a small spot of light flickering around his feet could be seen.If a person walks a little faster, the wind that is driven by it may be able to blow it out.

You Yunran said to Daxiu: "Come on, this match can last at most ten seconds."

Daxiu didn't need You Yunran's reminder, and hurried to You Yunran's direction.At this time, You Yunran, who was calm and methodical, was so fucking reliable!

When passing by the ghost shadow, Daxiu couldn't help but stare at the ghost shadow's position, fearing that he would rush over to arrest him in the next moment.The ghost shadow stood there silently, without eyes, it could only rely on the position of its mouth to observe which side the "front" was.Its head turned slightly, and the "eyeballs" met Daxiu.Daxiu pretended to be calm and light footsteps, afraid of accidentally extinguishing the match at his feet, moved his position slightly, and stared at the ghost all the way until he reached the back of the ghost, and the head was still upright. Facing Daxiu's direction, there was a creepy smell all over his body.

Leaving the small area illuminated by the match, the two trotted away from the direction of the ghost, and walked forward in the dark.You Yunran noticed that the fire behind him was extinguished, but he couldn't hear the sound of the ghost running again, and said to Da Xiu: "It seems that he only responds to the light, and will not actively attack people."

Daxiu said with a dry smile, "Yes, yes."

You Yunran led Daxiu all the way forward. Although he couldn't see anything, he walked along the wall with his palms, and he could always find the direction he should go.You Yunran compared the map in his mind, walked forward, and occasionally talked to Daxiu, telling him the next direction.In the darkness, people's fear of the unknown is maximized. At this time, You Yunran's calm, as if confident voice can be heard in the ear, which gave Daxiu a lot of confidence and made him nervous. Not so tense.

At the next corner, You Yunran's vision brightened, and the hazy moonlight shone through the glass of the window into the corridor, casting a layer of light fog on the whole space.You Yunran turned around and glanced at Daxiu, Daxiu looked at him for a moment, then nodded, You Yunran then turned around and stretched out his hand to hold the doorknob beside him, and said to Daxiu: "This is the study."

After saying that, You Yunran slowly unscrewed the handle and pushed the door open.

Inside, more than a dozen slender figures stood in the moonlight, silently facing You Yunran who pushed the door in.

You Yunran: "..." The way to open the door is not correct.

Daxiu looked at this scene numbly, lowered his voice and said to You Yunran: "Do you want to go in like this? In the same room with these ghosts?!"

You Yunran said helplessly: "I can only hope that these guys like to bask in the moonlight, and peace is harmless."

Daxiu complained: "Are there still harmless types of ghosts?"

"At least they haven't rushed over yet." You Yunran walked into the study, walked around the ghost standing aside and came to the desk, bowed his head and quickly flipped through the books on the desk.

Daxiu shook his body unconsciously, murmured to himself, "It feels colder", and then followed into the study room, staring at the bookcase that took up two walls, dumbfounded Said: "How do you find this?"

You Yunran seemed to have found some crucial clue, picked up a black leather diary, and said to Daxiu: "Here."

Daxiu leaned over.

You Yunran quickly flipped through the pages of the book, and said to Da Xiu: "It seems that this disaster is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster."

Daxiu said: "How to say?"

"Remember the news we read in the newspaper before? A resident near the forest suffered a tragic accident, and the blood was drained from all over his body... There was a mysterious demon circle in the house, and the pattern was like this."

You Yunran displayed the contents of the diary, which were filled with various weird and cumbersome hexagram formations, and some strange symbols, and said to Daxiu: "This castle is not far from the forest. That family It should be regarded as an 'experiment' or 'material'. Moreover, ordinary nobles would not study these things for nothing."

"Ha!" Combined with the historical background of the castle at present, Daxiu snorted and said mockingly: "So this guy is suicidal?"

You Yunran glanced at the words on the paper, and said to Daxiu: "He seems to be trying to find a way to live forever, so he used some kind of mysterious bloodline as an introduction to sacrifice a lot of lives to make a deal with the devil..."

Daxiu said, "Did he succeed?"

You Yunran said: "It's not certain, to some extent, the people in this room who have become ghosts have indeed achieved 'immortality and immortality'."

Daxiu couldn't help looking at a group of ghosts standing beside him. He didn't have the courage of You Yunran to stand shoulder to shoulder with ghosts in a haunted house and read a book calmly without changing his expression. He urged: "Okay, just look at this kind of thing casually, and find the key point quickly! Look where the 'pestle' is!"

You Yunran closed the diary and said to Daxiu: "It's not written in the diary, but it should be hidden in this place, or in the bedroom. You can look for it here, and I'll go to the bedroom not far away."

"Damn it! You want to leave me here alone?!" Daxiu jumped up.

After the words fell, the clouds outside the house covered the moonlight, and the whole room suddenly became pitch black again.Daxiu and You Yunran were standing face to face just now, and behind them were a few black shadows who had turned into ghosts and could enjoy the moonlight leisurely.After losing his vision at this time, Daxiu's whole body can't recover. He trembled and didn't dare to say anything. He pricked up his ears to listen to the movement behind him, fearing that the guys who were close at hand would suddenly attack, and he would definitely be scared to death. .

You Yunran waited quietly for a few seconds, and said to Daxiu, "Look, it's okay."

Daxiu gritted his teeth and said, "...you."

Feeling in the dark, You Yunran walked towards the door according to his memory, and said to Daxiu, "You don't want to delay any longer, do you, find it early, and leave early."

After finishing speaking, You Yunran had already arrived at the door, and the clouds drifted past the moon behind him, revealing the white moonlight again.You Yunran reached out to grab the doorknob, but the door suddenly opened from the outside.A ghost was standing outside the door, standing face to face with You Yunran.You Yunran's expression froze: "..."

You Yunran's body was slightly stiff, and he said with a dry smile: "This place is really unfriendly to the heart." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and said to Daxiu, who still looked pale, "Then I'll go there, something happened. Shout out loud, I can hear you."

Daxiu said with an aggrieved face: "When you hear the voice and run over, I'll be cold!"

You Yunran comforted: "Don't be afraid, maybe you are a ghost?"

Daxiu said violently: "You really know how to comfort people!"

After the words fell, the clock in the corridor began to make a "dong, dong" sound, You Yunran said: "It's ten o'clock, try to end all this before twelve o'clock."

After finishing speaking, You Yunran walked towards the bedroom not far away.In the study, Daxiu, who was left behind, stood there with a dazed face. After a while, he choked out a sentence, and said to the ghosts around him in a slightly trembling tone as if discussing:

"That... everyone... do you think... I am a ghost?"

Ghosts: "..."

What do you think? ? ?