First Film Chapter 5: Wishing Well
Although people's eyes were fixed on He Yu's body, their steps were subconsciously moving farther and farther away from it. This strange phenomenon made people feel very unlucky, as if once touched, they would become the same dimension as him.
Qin Ci did not plan to examine the body: "I'm afraid this is beyond the scope of medicine. There is nothing I can do."
The girls' sobbing stopped at some point. In everyone's eyes, the corpse on the bed seemed to have no connection with He Yu anymore.
Everyone tried to check every corner of the room, searching for possible causes of death. Ye Ningchen even carefully observed the walls, fearing that Zhang Tianwei was "painted" somewhere unknown.
"Are all the windows in your room open?" Zhu Haowen's gaze rested on the fully open windows.
There are no screens on the windows here. Once the glass windows are opened, the air is completely let in - although it seems that there is no wind in this world.
People in the other four rooms denied it and the windows of their rooms were closed tightly.
So who opened the window of this room? Was it Zhang Tianwei who "left"? Or was it the murderer last night?
No one had the desire to stay in this room any longer, and after checking without finding anything, they all closed the door and left, and came to the more familiar lobby on the first floor.
There was a sumptuous breakfast on the table, with fresh fruits, exquisite pastries and tempting sausages, but most people had no appetite.
"What are our plans for today?" Shi Zhendong asked first.
Qin Ci swallowed the jam bread in his mouth and took a sip of hot milk. "According to the NPC's request, our task today is still to store three large jars of berries. According to yesterday's workload, if everyone works together, it can be completed in two or three hours. So we might as well divide the work and leave one person in each room to work, and the rest of the people will go and look for signatures separately."
Ye Ningchen said: "And Senior Zhang, maybe he is imprisoned somewhere."
Although everyone speculated that Zhang Tianwei was in danger, they still nodded comfortingly.
Qin Ci: "Then each group should discuss the personnel arrangements, and they can take turns in the morning and afternoon."
"Let me be the only one left to work in our blue group. Those two kids are clumsy. I can finish the work in five or six hours by myself." Guo Lixia's words made everyone look at her with new eyes. Then she said, "Everyone, try this fried egg. It's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It's delicious! I've already eaten four!"
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Wei Dong from the purple group took the initiative to say, "Boss Mu will be searching for signatures all day, why don't we take turns in the morning and afternoon?" Wei Dong said this to Ye Ningchen, who was in the same group.
Ye Ningchen nodded slightly: "Then I will work first in the morning, Brother Dong and Brother Mu can go and look for autographs."
After discussion, the Yellow Group decided that Miao Zipei would stay behind to work first, while Qin Ci and Mi Wei would be responsible for finding things.
Shi Zhendong from the Green Team volunteered to stay and work in the morning: "Xiao Zhu has a strong observation ability, I believe he should be able to discover something."
Xin Beibei looked unhappy. She wanted to be with her boyfriend. "Your observation skills are not bad. Why do you have to let him find it?"
Guo Lixia interrupted Xin Beibei directly: "Didn't we switch this afternoon? How about we switch now?"
"Auntie Guo! Didn't you say that you are fully responsible for all the work in our room?!" Xin Beibei's voice suddenly became louder.
Ke Xun looked at his team members and said, "Working is everyone's duty. Sister Guo took on all the work, which is a kind of contribution to everyone."
Xin Beibei curled her lips and had nothing to say. She looked at Zhu Haowen and saw that he was eating breakfast slowly.
Shi Zhendong somehow coaxed his girlfriend softly, and Xin Beibei's expression became much better. She also whispered to her boyfriend: "Don't work so hard like that..."
Zhu Haowen wiped his mouth with a napkin: "I advise everyone to eat something. Looking for autographs is a physically demanding job."
The others thought it made sense and forced themselves to eat some breakfast, then they went about their business according to the division of labor just now - Guo Lixia, Ye Ningchenyi, Miao Zipei and Shi Zhendong temporarily stayed in the rooms of different colors to work, while the others prepared to look for things.
Qin Ci reminded everyone again: "Everyone must remember, never break the rules again. Do not enter rooms that do not match your own color, or you may be suspected of polluting the color."
Everyone nodded secretly, no one wanted to be the next He Yu.
Shi Zhendong said to Ke Xun: "Xiao Ke, I have to ask you to take care of Beibei and don't let her go to places she shouldn't go."
Ke Xun didn't say anything more, just nodded.
The four people in charge of the work then went to the rooms of their respective colors.
There were seven people left in the hall.
"Let's divide them into two groups, indoors and outdoors." Qin Ci expressed his opinion, "The two girls are relatively weak in mobility, so it's best to separate them."
Mu Yiran also expressed his own thoughts: "For now, our focus on the outdoor places that are within sight is mainly on the pool and maze outside. The orchards and rivers in the distance are too far from the center and are not considered for the time being."
Xin Beibei couldn't help but said, "I want to go outside to find something!"
Everyone ignored Xin Beibei's willfulness and continued to listen to Mu Yiran: "There are a lot of rooms in the building, estimated to be hundreds of them. This is a huge workload. We need to check each room one by one, so it's better to leave more people in the castle to search."
Qin Ci nodded: "I will stay in the castle, who else will come?"
Mu said happily, "Count me in."
Ke Xun's voice followed him like a shadow: "Count me in, too."
Weidong: "Ke'er and I can't be separated."
The others left were Zhu Haowen, Mi Wei and Xin Beibei.
Xin Beibei looked at Ke Xun: "You promised Zhendong to take care of me! I want to check the pool!"
Ke Xun really wanted to kick this annoying girl, but suddenly he heard her say, "Also, I don't want to be in the same group with this person!"
The person Xin Beibei was referring to was Zhu Haowen.
Zhu Haowen smiled faintly: "It's best for you to stay in the hall to eat and drink."
"What did you say..." Xin Beibei was so angry that she was shaking.
Mi Wei, who was always calm, stepped forward and said, "Doctor Qin is right. It's best to separate the two girls. My idea is that Brother Ke and Brother Wei take Beibei to search outside, and the rest of us will be responsible for the castle."
"Let's do it this way." Mu looked at Ke Xun with a proud look, "If you find anything, come back and discuss it together."
Ke Xun tilted his head to look at Mu Yiran, and pursed his upper lips, as if making a silent kiss, or a silent whistle, or even reciting a word, smooth? Or maybe something else.
Mu Yiran's expression was indifferent, but not as cold as before.
Mi Wei's allocation was actually very reasonable. The five men present were all experienced "old men" and it was not appropriate to assign them too densely together.
So, people split into two groups and went searching separately.
Xin Beibei was very interested in the pool and walked towards it quickly. The pool seemed to sense someone approaching and suddenly sprayed out bright silver water, splashing everyone with water droplets.
"Look, there are so many coins in the pool! This is really a wishing well!" Xin Beibei called everyone to come and see.
Ke Xunweidong walked over to take a look and found that the bottom of the pool was indeed covered with shiny coins with a very strange texture on the surface.
Wei Dong teased Xin Beibei: "Have you forgotten what Mi Wei said yesterday? Don't make wishes for things you don't know the details of. There is no such thing as a wish that can be obtained for free."
Xin Beibei sat by the pool and splashed the cool water with her hands: "I have everything, I am very content! As long as we get out of here, I will be the happiest person in the world~"
Weidong felt embarrassed for Xin Beibei. He looked at Ke Xun who was leaning against the pool studying the coins carefully and said, "What? Are there signatures on these coins? We can't be that lucky."
Ke Xun stared at it for a long time and said, " Dongzi, come and see!"
Wei Dong squinted his slightly nearsighted eyes and looked at it for a long time: "The patterns on them are all different. Look, this one is covered with leaves, that one is covered with dots, and the one closest to it is covered with crescent moons..."
At this point, Wei Dong also felt something strange, and hurriedly looked down at his clothes. The white background was covered with triangular purple patterns. He looked around in the pool and indeed found several coins with triangular patterns on them.
"These coins match the patterns on our clothes. What does this mean?" The more Wei Dong looked at the pool, the weirder it seemed. Perhaps because the patterns on everyone's clothes were different, these patterns were like textures that belonged to each person. "There is definitely something wrong with this pool. It feels like it knows our birth dates."
Xin Beibei was completely : "There are so many patterns in the world. Could it be that this triangular pattern belongs to you alone?"
Ke Xun stroked his chin and walked around the pool twice: "Since the pattern representing Zhang Tianwei is still there, it proves that the coins in the pool do not indicate anything - if this is really a wishing pool, then these patterns should represent various elements."
"Elements?" The other two obviously didn't understand.
"Just like some people worship the five elements, and some people worship wind, rain, thunder and lightning and so on, people in this world probably worship these elements, so they engrave them on coins and throw them into the pool when making a wish. This is probably like people in our world praying for good weather and good harvests." Ke Xun expressed his thoughts, but for the time being he couldn't figure out what the connection was between these elements and the main line of the entire picture.
Xin Beibei observed the fountain in the center of the pool and said, "It's really strange. What do you think this stone sculpture is trying to express? I can't really tell whether it's a person or an animal."
Ke Xunweidong's attention was also attracted by the fountain shape carved from black stone. This thing really had no shape or style, and it was really hard to tell what it was.
"It's really strange. Even if it's abstract, people should be able to understand what it's trying to express. And in my experience, the more abstract something is, the clearer its meaning is." Xin Beibei finally became a professional art student.
The stone sculpture in front of you seems to be deliberately telling you that this is a mess without head or feet, and it is a concrete chaos.
Ke Xun suddenly remembered the black band that kept changing in width that he saw in front of the window last night. If they had to be linked together, the two things were really somewhat similar.
"Let's go take a look at the green maze again. I particularly like this kind of furry maze made of green plants. It seems to be something we can only see in foreign fairy tales!" Xin Beibei turned her gaze to the maze again.
"Come back! Something happened!" A loud shout came from above the castle.
Everyone looked up and saw Qin Ci waving down from a window above.
