Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3164 Redundancy
Under Luigi's puzzled eyes, Angel strode to the floor tile where Luigi was sitting before, took out his cane and tapped it lightly on the ground.

The crisp "dong dong" sounded instantly.

Every time the cane hit the wall or brick before, the sound was dull, indicating that it was solid underneath.But this time there was such a crisp sound, which meant that there was a high probability that there was a hidden space under this floor tile.

It seems that he was dark under the lights before.

Angel complained to himself silently, but without any hesitation in his hand, he gently pressed the sharp end of the cane against the edge gap of the floor tiles, and pried it up skillfully.

The floor tiles were opened smoothly, revealing the dark space below.

The space is not big, only half a meter square.

In the space under the floor tiles, there was nothing but a somewhat torn thread-bound notebook.

Angel picked up the thread-bound notebook. Although there were no words on the cover of the notebook, there was no doubt that this was Xiao Ke's diary.

"Hey, Xiao Ke's note is actually here?" Luigi touched his chin and walked forward: "It's quite deep, were you looking for it just now?"

Angel: "Whether it's hidden deep or not is another matter. But it's true that it was warmed by you sitting on it."

Luigi: "..." How could it be that exaggerated?
Seeing Angel open the notes, Luigi also leaned forward: "You said you have something to do, just to read this diary? I heard from people who have read the diary that there is nothing special about it."

Angel ignored Luigi's words, but read carefully one by one.

Each page of the diary is short.

It was right to think about it, Xiao Ke unfortunately fell into the ghost in the mirror, and in the panic, it was good enough to record a sentence or two, how could he make a long speech.

In less than 5 minutes, Angel finished reading the entire diary.

The general content is about what happened after Xiao Ke came to the ghost in the mirror.However, from Xiao Ke's self-report, it can be known that the first ten diaries were supplemented by Xiao Ke after he came to the secret room. They were not written immediately, but a flashback record.

There are thirteen chapters in the diary, and the first ten chapters record Xiao Ke's various experiences after coming to the ghost in the mirror.The last three chapters are about Xiao Ke's mental journey after finding the secret room and confirming that there is no hope of escape, as well as some of his last words.

The last three chapters have no special content, and the last words are the same as what Luigi said, and the key point is this sentence: ""There are already the laughter of the group of evil spirits outside the door of the secret room, and I can hear footsteps... If 1 Minutes can be used as a year, no, even if it is only a month, a day, or even half an hour, I am willing to give everything for it...He is here..."

This sentence reveals the secret of the birth of the haunted house.

Therefore, whether it is Barbaregón, Luigi or other people who have experienced the haunted house, they all pay more attention to the last three diaries.

However, after reading the entire diary, Angel paid more attention to the first ten entries.

Before reading Xiao Ke's diary, Angel only knew some general stories: a human named Xiao Ke came to the ghost in the mirror by accident.Facing the endless chasing and killing of mirror ghosts, he panicked and finally fled to a dark underground secret room.

This background story seems to happen very quickly, making people mistakenly think that Xiao Ke found the underground secret room not long after entering the Mirror Realm.

But after actually reading the diary, I found that the fact is not so simple.

After Xiao Ke came to the secret room, he added ten diary entries, which means that after Xiao Ke fell into the ghost in the mirror, he spent a full ten days before finding the secret room.

Of course, Angel is skeptical about whether there are really ten days. After all, ghosts can’t keep time, and the concept of time is likely to be distorted and confused; unless Xiao Ke has a pocket watch-like timekeeping tool.

It is not known whether Xiao Ke has a timing tool, but since he made up ten articles, it will be counted as if he has indeed experienced ten days.

Just imagine, an ordinary person fell into the ghost in the mirror, how should he survive facing the ghosts in the mirror?
Angel couldn't think of an answer.

Not to mention ordinary people, even an extraordinary person who falls into the ghost in the mirror may not necessarily find a way out.

However, Xiao Ke lived in the ghost for ten days as an ordinary person, which made Angel very puzzled.

The reason why it is confirmed that Xiao Ke is an ordinary person is because in the first ten diaries, Xiao Ke repeated himself many times to find food and water.Extraordinary people will not be in this situation, and still care about eating.

To sum up, the content of the first ten diaries is roughly: "It's about to be discovered, it's great not to be discovered, escape, escape, this thing seems to be edible, continue to escape, found the building, there is something to drink, ah! There are Ghost, continue to escape."

These records are very cumbersome and highly repetitive, and there is nothing special about them. It is normal for Barbaregon and others to ignore them.

But Angel looked awkward.

He always had the illusion that those mirror ghosts were "blind with their eyes open".

Obviously Xiao Ke is an ordinary person, how could those mirror ghosts ignore him?It doesn't mean that it is completely ignored. The mirror ghost will still catch Xiao Ke when he sees it, but Xiao Ke can escape smoothly every time.

This is really puzzling.

Countless novels have similar records, no matter how brave a warrior is, he will appear extremely powerless in the face of extraordinary power, unable to resist or escape.

Angor also agrees with this point.

Xiao Ke is very brave and daring, but he is an ordinary person after all. How did he escape from being chased and killed by the mirror ghost again and again?
Angel turned to look at Luigi: "Have you ever thought that Xiao Ke escaped the pursuit of the mirror ghost again and again, which is actually incredible?"

Luigi nodded: "I've thought about it, but it's okay... Xiao Ke's last words can give birth to semi-mysterious things, which shows that he is not so ordinary."

"Maybe, he has some extraordinary strengths?"

What Luigi meant was that they knew Shok was an ordinary person, but it's also possible that ordinary people have some bizarre powers.Similar to the special talent recorded in the novel, maybe Xiao Ke has the talent to avoid the mirror ghost?
In other words, Xiao Ke himself has a talent for feeling delayed, which is why he escaped the pursuit of the mirror ghost time and time again.

Angel: "If he really has any special talent, he can escape the last time, how could he admit death?"

Luigi: "You're right, but maybe the talent is exhausted?"

Angel shook his head. He felt that Luigi's thinking was biased towards "self-confidence". When an answer was set in his heart, his thinking would always lean on this answer.

In fact, Angel is not necessarily unbiased in his heart, he firmly believes that Xiao Ke is an ordinary person, an ordinary person without any special talents.

If Xiao Ke really has the talent to escape the mirror ghost, Angel personally thinks that he will record it in his final diary.Since he didn't write it, it means he didn't.

Of course, there is no empirical evidence for this, and no one can tell whether the specific situation is like this.

But from Angor's point of view, Xiao Ke's behavior is not abnormal, and it is the mirror ghost who is abnormal.

He inexplicably had a guess, maybe the mirror ghost didn't want to kill Xiao Ke in the first place, otherwise Xiao Ke would not be able to get rid of the mirror ghost again and again, and even find a lot of food and drink to maintain his life after getting rid of the mirror ghost.

But if the mirror ghosts didn't want to kill Xiao Ke, then what was their purpose?

—Forcing Shock somewhere.

This is a guess made by Angel after careful consideration.

Perhaps, it was not Xiao Ke who found the secret room, but the mirror ghost who forced Xiao Ke to come to this secret room.

As for why Xiao Ke was forced to come to this secret room?Angel didn't know, but he had a very outrageous idea with no underlying foundation.

To put it simply, it is blind...remote thinking without any evidence.

Xiao Ke's coming to the secret room may have become some kind of ritual.

And Xiao Ke's death in the secret room is a kind of sacrifice, a sacrifice for the success of the ceremony.

The host of this ceremony is most likely the owner of Xiao Ke's footsteps in the last entry of his diary, and he is also the "he" in "he is coming".

All the other mirror ghosts let Xiao Ke go, but this "he" killed Xiao Ke.

In Angel's view, this "he" is the mastermind of everything. "He" let the mirror ghost let Xiao Ke go, and at the same time forced Xiao Ke to come to the secret room.

Therefore, if there is really some kind of ceremony in it, the person who presides over the ceremony is definitely the "he" at the end of the diary.

However, Angel couldn't figure out what kind of ceremony this ceremony was.

Perhaps it is a ritual that can make the "mysterious thing" born?

Or, is it some kind of special ceremony, but the ceremony failed, and the residual energy led to the birth of Xiao Ke's haunted house?

In short, after reading the diary, Angel became more suspicious.

Angel told Luigi his guess. After listening to it, Luigi did not immediately refute, but asked curiously: "Why do you think in the direction of the ceremony?"

Angel: "Because up to now, I haven't understood why there is a link to find a safe house. In my opinion, this link is unnecessary. In Transcendence, any apparently meaningless but impossible The redundant links eliminated are most likely related to the ceremony."

Luigi didn't know it before, but what really made Angor suspicious was the step of 'finding a safe house'. He originally thought that Angor was just finding fault.

It sounds a bit strange to Luigi now, indeed, it seems that the step of finding a safe house is unnecessary?

Angel: "If you regard finding a safe house as a preliminary step of a certain ceremony, it would be reasonable."

Luigi pondered for a moment and said: "The ceremony you guessed before, whether it is true or not, has passed. Xiao Ke died, and the haunted house was born as a secret treasure."

"Since the haunted house has become a secret treasure, there is no need to think about the ceremony, right?"

Angel looked at Luigi: "Indeed, if Xiao Ke is dead and the ceremony is over, there is really no need to think about it. But what if... the ceremony is not over yet?"

"If the current search for a safe house is really a step in the ceremony, does that mean that the ceremony is not over yet?"

Luigi frowned. "What do you think it would have been if the ceremony hadn't ended?"

Angor spread his hands: "I don't know either. My guess is that there may be more steps in this ceremony. Finding a safe house is one of the steps in the ceremony, and the other steps are not shown at present... If it is possible After completing the ceremony, maybe there will be new changes in the haunted house?"

New changes?Luigi narrowed his eyes: "Are you trying to say that after completing the ceremony, the haunted house will change from an ordinary secret treasure to a real mysterious thing?"

Angel: "I don't know. This may be a possibility, but there are other possibilities."

"Other possibilities?" Luigi wondered.

Angel shrugged: "For example, summoning a great demon named Luigi to wreak havoc on the world..."

Luigi: "..."

While joking, Angel put the diary back under the floor tiles.

"I don't know much about rituals, but rituals are most often used to guide the arrival of gods." Angel: "These are actually not important, and it's none of our business anyway..."

The reason why Angor researched excitedly was to satisfy curiosity that had lasted for three days.

Luigi: "It just aroused my interest, and then suddenly stopped, your behavior..."

Angel: "Are you playing with fire?"

Luigi: "???"

Angel: "Without the evil smile, I'll give you sixty points."

With Luigi's puzzled expression on his face, Angel walked to the door of the cellar.

There is still a stream of rainbow light at the gate, which shows that it is closely related to the power of time.

Now that Luigi has learned "The Confession of the Black Sheep", it's time to leave.And the way to leave is also very simple. According to Luigi, as long as you touch this streamer-like film of light, you can leave.

Angel stretched out his hand and touched the light film.

An invisible mysterious charm immediately surrounded Angel's body.

Without Angel's perception, he came to a kind of realization: as long as he moves his mind, he can leave the haunted house.

That's exactly what Luigi said.

However, what Angor cared more about was that the mysterious charm also told him another news: besides leaving the haunted house through his mind, he could also choose to go to the outside ladder and return to the original flat land.

Angel told Luigi about this discovery.

Luigi: "It's normal...it's always been like this."

Even though Luigi hadn't entered the haunted house before, he had heard the news from other people. Through the light film, he could choose to leave the haunted house or the safe house.

It seemed normal to him.

But Angel said, "Is it really normal to have redundant choices?"

"Redundant..." Luigi seemed to realize something: "You mean, this could also be a ritual step?"

Angel: "How do I know? However, you can talk to Barbaregon after you go out, maybe he can research something."

After speaking, Angel didn't say any more, and directly chose to "leave the haunted house".

As the thoughts turned, Angel's figure disappeared in the cellar in an instant.

(End of this chapter)