First Film Chapter 10 Opening the Window at Midnight
Because it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon and night would fall in two or three hours, everyone did not divide into too many groups for the sake of caution.
"Why don't you go outside to check? The pool and the maze are obviously the most eye-catching symbols in the entire painting!" Xin Beibei questioned.
Shi Zhendong said earnestly: "At present, it seems that these two things are not suspicious for the time being. We'd better concentrate on finding out the rooms in the castle."
Xin Beibei showed a regretful expression, but didn't say anything more.
The remaining people were divided into two groups, each inspecting the other buildings of the castle one by one, and then they were scheduled to gather in the hall at 6:30 for dinner.
More than two hours passed quickly, and the two groups did not dare to waste any more time outside, and both returned before dinner.
Qin Ci's team was in charge of the circular building: "The building has six floors in total, and it is the tallest building in the castle. The first three floors are accessed by stairs from the bottom. The layout is exactly the same as the fourth floor, with a semicircular hall and a semicircular room with a closed door. The door is currently log color, and it is very empty inside, with only one... empty large glass jar standing in the room, about two meters high."
Everyone's mood became heavy, as if those empty glass jars were waiting for someone to fill them.
"You mean, the circular building has six floors?" Zhu Haowen, a member of another group, asked at this moment, "We are currently divided into five colors , so what is the other floor used for?"
Qin Ci naturally couldn't figure it out: "The fourth, fifth and sixth floors are separated from the floors below. Our corridor leads to the fourth floor. To get to the fifth and sixth floors, you need to climb up the copper ladder outside the building. I thought Brother Ke's movements would be more agile..."
Ke Xun understood: "I'll go up and take a look tomorrow."
Ye Ningchen couldn't help but ask, "How's the situation over there, Senior Zhang?"
Qin Ci's expression darkened. "The red liquid is no longer overflowing, and the thing inside has become as big as a fist. If you don't look carefully, you can almost miss it."
Everyone seemed to have become numb to the fact that Zhang Tianwei's body was shrinking in size. The result of such continuous shrinkage was probably that it would be completely drained, with every last drop of color squeezed out.
"What about Haowen's group? What did they find?" Shi Zhendong looked at Zhu Haowen.
Xin Beibei looked a little unhappy, and her eyes turned directly to Ke Xun: "What new discoveries did the team leader have?"
Ke Xun thought Xin Beibei was a little funny, but his group didn't gain much just now, so he couldn't laugh at all: "We went to the building in the center, but the door was locked. We couldn't open it without a key. The same was true for the two buildings next to it. We had no choice but to go outside to see the pool and maze."
"You went to the maze?!" Xin Beibei exclaimed in surprise.
"You seem to be very interested in mazes." Mu Yiran's eyes were sharp .
"I've always wanted to go to that maze. I've seen it in a movie before." Xin Beibei felt a little aggrieved. "Did you find anything new in the maze ?"
Ke Xun: "The structure inside the maze is very complicated. We only walked around the outer circle and found nothing wrong for the time being."
Zhu Haowen: "If possible, tomorrow we'd better stand on a high point to look down at the maze and draw a map of its route. This way it will be easier to find the direction."
Xin Beibei looked at Zhu Haowen and said, " That is to say, your group didn't find anything just now."
Zhu Haowen didn't bother to look at the woman, and turned his gaze directly to her boyfriend: "We found something wrong with the pool, and the coins in it have changed."
"The currency has changed? Is it different from what we observed this morning?" Shi Zhendong asked.
Ke Xun nodded: "We didn't look at it very carefully this morning, and something happened upstairs, so we were interrupted. We only remember that there was a coin with a moon-shaped pattern related to Zhang Tianwei in the pool at that time. As for the tic-tac-toe pattern representing He Yu, no one took a close look at it at that time."
"What happened to the coins?" someone asked.
"The moon-shaped coins are gone," Ke Xun replied, "and we searched the entire pond but didn't find any cross-shaped coins."
"What does this mean? When a person dies, the coin pattern representing that person will disappear? " Shi Zhendong couldn't figure out the mystery. "But you clearly saw the moon-shaped pattern this morning. Could it be that... Zhang Tianwei was not dead at that time?"
Zhang Tianwei had been soaked in the blood-red bottle at that time. It was hard to imagine that the man was not dead at that time.
There was dead silence at the dinner table.
It was Ye Ningchen who broke the silence: "If the same thing happens to me, please do everything you can to kill me."
No matter how hard I tried, what else could I do?
Although the dinner was sumptuous, everyone only regarded it as a necessity to fill their stomachs. After eating it reluctantly, they went upstairs with heavy steps.
The colors in the hall are gradually getting darker, and a night unique to this world is about to arrive.
"Be extra careful tonight." Mu Yiran, like last night, was not in a hurry to leave the first floor.
"I'm the one who should say this," Ke Xun stood beside Mu Yiran, "The person most likely to get into trouble tonight is Ye Ningchenyi in your room."
"The greatest danger is not the one that can be predicted."
"You mean..."
Mu looked at the gradually darkening indigo pattern on the clock with a smile: "Indigo is bright, and cyan is dark."
"That's right. No matter which color it is, it's inseparable from our blue room." Ke Xun crossed his arms. "According to the principle of color addition, the blue victim can only be in our room or the green room."
If two bodies appear tomorrow morning, one of them should belong to Ye Ningchen, and the other could be anyone in the blue room or the green room.
"I just wonder if the person related to Qingse knows everything." Mu Yiran's words were meaningful.
"If you know, why don't you tell us so that we can work together to find a solution."
"It's hard to say. Maybe it's because they're afraid of being rejected, or maybe it's because of something else." Mu Yiran looked out the window at the pool and maze that were gradually turning gray. "In any case, the dangers at night are irresistible. Don't act rashly."
"Yiran, you are concerned about me." Ke Xun's voice suddenly became relaxed - after experiencing too many life and death experiences, some things can be beyond life and death.
Mu Yiran said nothing more. As the night deepened, the fine curling grass patterns on his body appeared distinctly black and white, and he seemed to have turned into an intricately carved print.
The two went upstairs one after the other and returned to the second floor lobby.
Although it was night, everything was a clear silhouette, such as the light gray stairs, the dark gray tables and chairs, and the bottomless black floors and walls.
The bedroom doors were a dazzling light gray in the darkness. At the moment, it looked like there were only four doors. The middle door was integrated with the wall, as if it had disappeared into the void.
Ke Xun returned to his own room. Everything inside was the same as it was last night, with the two ladies' special patterns lying on different beds.
"Team leader, we were just talking about why no one called for help when something happened last night." Guo Lixia's Polka Dot Pattern turned over and seemed to be facing Ke Xun. "If something happens again tonight, will no one say anything?"
"Even if someone calls for help, we can't go to other rooms to help." Xin Beibei's body looked like a narrow strip at night, and the small diamond patterns all over it made people dizzy.
Ke Xun didn't say anything and just lay down in the same position as last night.
Now, facing the two women in the same room, he felt a little complicated. After all, the color blue can only be brought out of the blue room. Ke Xun firmly believed that he had not done this, so the only suspects were the two women in the room.
"What secrets do you think are hidden in that maze?" Ke Xun suddenly asked.
"There won't be a signature hidden in there," said Xin Beibei.
"How do you know?"
"There are only green plants there, and no other facilities. Unless you sign your name on a leaf, how can you find it?"
"Yeah." Ke Xun yawned and said no more.
Perhaps everyone was tired, and Guo Lixia's snoring soon filled the room.
Ke Xun was not sleepy. He stared at the silhouetted window and the black velvet night outside without blinking.
If you look closely, the window lattices are really like what Miao Zipei said, with lilies of various shapes, but because of the complicated composition, it is almost impossible to distinguish their original appearance.
About two hours later, Guo Lixia had fallen into a deep sleep, and Xin Beibei was also silent. Just as Ke Xun's eyelids were fighting, the whole room suddenly fell into darkness.
All sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and Ke Xun silently opened his eyes, trying to see through everything hidden in the darkness.
If, as previously speculated, this darkness belongs to a shadow, then what is the coverage of this shadow? And where is the entity of the shadow?
When people are in extreme danger, they often develop something like a sixth sense. Ke Xun felt like this at this moment. He seemed to be able to confirm without any basis that the shadow was just passing by his window.
But when the darkness gradually left, Ke Xun almost screamed.
All the Morris patterns that were originally part of the windows are gone!
This means that the windows in the room were fully opened.
Who did it? Someone outside or someone inside?
Ke Xun didn't move, listening to Guo Lixia's snoring. He rolled his eyes and suddenly found that Xin Beibei had changed her position at some point and was now sitting on the opposite bed.
Ke Xun said nothing, trying his best to make the other person think that he was still asleep.
The diamond pattern that belongs to Xin Beibei is placed upright by the bed. Due to the darkness of the night, one cannot tell where she is looking attentively.
Was he looking out the window? Or was he looking at the bed that Ke Xun and the others were lying on?
Xin Beibei sat upright for a few minutes before lying back down on the bed.
Ke Xun stared at the open window and found that he didn't have the strength to sit up and close the window. He felt like he was collapsing on the bed. He had a similar feeling when the shadow descended last night.
Who opened the window? It should be Xin Beibei.
It could only be Xin Beibei, because the window latch was inside the house and could not be opened from the outside.
What does Xin Beibei want to do?
Is Xin Beibei still Xin Beibei?
Was this the way He Yu and Zhang Tianwei opened the window of the room last night?
Could it be that the shadow could only open the window with the help of the people inside the house? Then is the shadow a shadow or a real entity?
Ke Xun looked at the empty gray window frame. The entire window was like an open door, inviting something outside.
