Star Trace Gate

"Change rooms?"

The old cadre was slightly stunned when he heard Ren Ye's words: "Why?"

"hehe."

Ren Ye smiled helplessly, raised his hand to hold up the calendar, and said softly: "The unlucky seat tonight is Limen. I can't live here anymore. I have to change to another one."

"Oh."

The old cadre glanced at the calendar and said, "But aren't there still three rooms vacant?"

"It is empty, but I calculated that my lucky star position today is Qian." Ren Ye replied softly: "Is it convenient for you? If not, forget it...!"

"You still believe this?" The old cadre was a little surprised.

"My wife is into yin and yang, and she's been influenced by her, so now she's also got some knowledge of metaphysics." Ren also smiled: "The final battle is coming soon, I might have to play a few scratch tickets tonight, hehe...!"

"Okay, that's not inconvenient." The old cadre agreed immediately: "Then let's change it."

"Thanks."

Ren nodded and asked with a smile, "Which room do you live in?"

"I'll just stay at Brother Hong's." The old cadre thought for a moment and said, "His room is cleaner."

"okay."

Ren also looked at him and nodded slightly.

After the two of them stood in the hall and chatted for a while, Ren turned around and was about to go downstairs.

"Sandbag, wait a moment...!" the old cadre shouted.

"What's wrong?" Ren Ye turned around and looked at him.

Under the light, the old cadre's expression was slightly hesitant. After a brief pause, he waved his hand and said, "Oh, forget it. Let's talk about it tomorrow..."

"it is good."

Ren didn't ask any more questions, just responded and hurried to do his own thing.

……

In the evening, 20:25.

The remaining five people were already standing at the door of the room.

However, unlike in the past, Ren also moved out of the Li room tonight and prepared to live in the Qian room of the old cadre, while the latter was going to move into Brother Hong's room, which was his own choice.

At the door, Fatty Tan waved his hand and said, "When we open our eyes tomorrow, it will be the sixth day. There is nothing much to say. Everyone, have a good rest. We will start the journey again tomorrow. I won't say more about wishing for victory. Let's just try to... land safely."

"Okay, Captain!"

"Goodnight everybody."

"Farewell."

"...!"

After everyone responded, they pushed the door and walked into the corresponding room.

After Ren Ye walked into the old cadre's room, he reached out and closed the door ajar, leaving a gap intentionally.

Last night, the lights in the hall went out for some reason. When everyone came back today, they bought a new bulb and replaced it. However, Ren was also curious about this matter, so he observed it until 8:30. After seeing that there was nothing unusual in the hall, he walked into the depths of the old cadre's room.

Standing in the slightly empty prison chamber, Ren was not in a hurry to rest. Instead, he summoned the Human Emperor Sword to draw the rays of light, illuminating the room.

After Ren Ye cracked the killing mechanism here, the environment of the prison chamber would no longer refresh. This was something that Xingmen had specifically reminded him of.

So, after Ren Ye suspended the Human Emperor Sword under the ceiling, he began to search in the Qian room.

He searched very carefully, including the bed, cabinets, calendars, clocks... he searched everything that could be seen by the naked eye.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Ren also heard the reminder of tonight's gold coin rankings, but he ignored it and did not think about it carefully, because as soon as he returned to the villa today, he used the prop immediately to hide his actual number of gold coins.

After searching for a while, Ren found nothing.

The old cadre's room was very clean, with no traces of life left behind. The bed was neatly made, and he had not touched anything on the long table or the cabinet...

Oh no.

Ren Ye bent over and sat on the bed, suddenly realizing that the complete absence of any signs of life here just showed that there were plenty of signs of life here.

why?

Because all the prison rooms are very dirty and messy, and people have slept on the beds, so the quilts and other things must have been turned over.

Therefore, the environment here fully proves that the old cadre is a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he will specially clean up his room every day.

The living environment must be able to reflect a person's character. The old cadre himself is taciturn, steady, and extremely emotionally stable, so the fact that his room is so tidy is consistent with his personality.

The light of the Human Emperor Sword was surging on the ceiling. Ren Ye was sitting on the bed, playing with a gold coin in his right hand, throwing it up and catching it in his palm.

This gold coin was a relic of Brother Hong. It was found at the scene of his death. There were blood stains on it originally, but they had been wiped clean by Ren Ye.

"Snapped!"

He flicked the gold coins with his thumb, stared at the ground, and began to think blankly.

……

The Gen room is the room of Yuan Hongge.

The old cadre stood beside the bed, gently and silently folded the bedding, and placed it neatly on the left side of the bed.

Afterwards, he took off his coat, spread it flat on the bed, and then sat down, ready to meditate and rest.

However, just as he was about to close his eyes, he accidentally saw Brother Hong's portrait and the two white candles on the long table.

The environment here will not refresh anymore, so the candle has burned more than half, emitting flickering flames.

The old cadre sat on the edge of the bed, his body facing the door, and his angle of view was just right to see the long table and the portrait.

So, the old cadre didn’t know whether it was a psychological effect or he had experienced too many things during the day and had trouble falling asleep, anyway, he always felt that Brother Hong’s portrait was staring at him.

Although he was a person with supernatural powers and was not so afraid of ghosts and gods, he still felt uncomfortable.

He paused for a moment, then slowly stood up and walked around the house, as if he also wanted to take a look at Brother Hong's living environment.

As the candlelight flickered, the old cadre searched the cabinets and the bed, but did not find anything special. However, he saw a few pieces of waste paper in the corner of the long table.

"brush!"

He reached out and picked it up and looked at it for a while, and found that these were three pieces of draft paper used to sort out the clues of this star gate. The handwriting was very messy. It was obvious that Brother Hong wrote them when he was free and reorganized the clues and directions.

After looking at it for a while, he found that Brother Hong's ideas were very conventional and the information recorded on it was outdated, so he folded the three sheets of draft paper neatly and put them back in place.

But at the moment of putting it back, he stared at the portrait and suddenly froze in place.

"Um?!"

The old cadre frowned, reached behind the portrait, and slowly picked up a fortune stick.

He was stunned for a moment, and then, in the light of the candle, he carefully looked at the words engraved on the divination stick.

[Rules of the ominous fortune: The lower the Heavenly Work Value, the more likely it is to cause a riot and attacks involving burning corpses. Even any item stained with the player's scent can cause a major riot.]

The old cadre looked at the words on the fortune stick, his pupils shrank sharply, and he instinctively murmured: "The big bald head reward for the scratch card? Or...the reward for the menu task?!"

He frowned and thought, and instantly determined in his mind that the rules reminded on this divination stick must be used for the Tiangong Tower level.

As for the divination sticks, they can definitely predict the future. So, Brother Hong must have consulted the Heavenly Dao rules to divine this divination after entering the Tiangong Tower, and received this reminder, which enabled him to avoid many dangers in the next mission.

The old cadre recalled and remembered that Brother Hong had reminded him that there might be burned bodies in the building not long after he entered the Star Gate.

So, this fortune stick is his? !

But why is it here again? Shouldn't he have it with him?

Brother Hong's eyes were a little empty, and he murmured with a solemn expression: "...After a person dies, the Heavenly Dao evolves the portrait and candles here...So, the things in the player's space will also explode and appear here?!"

He was a little uncertain and his eyes began to become dazed.

Under the candlelight, the old cadre took another look at the position of the portrait and found that the position where the divination sticks had just been placed was actually very obvious. You only need to stand on the side of the long table and look at it, and it can be discovered at a glance.

However, when everyone came back, their attention was focused on Brother Hong’s portrait, and they were always communicating with each other, so they may not have noticed the divination sign.

In other words, no one else saw this thing, only I saw it? !

……

In the Qian room.

"brush!"

A gold coin was flicked into the air by the thumb, making a buzzing sound in the air.

Ren Ye sat up straight on the bed, slowly raised his head to look at the time on the clock on the wall, and whispered softly: "I should be able to see it...!"

"Snapped!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the gold coin fell steadily into his palm.

Brother Hong is dead!

There is definitely something fishy!

But this cannot be said explicitly during a meeting, because if you say it, if there really is something fishy going on within the team, it will alarm him and make him feel that everyone is already suspicious.

Ren Ye's previous inferences about the murder being "homicide" and "the remaining soul of the gatekeeper" were all misleading. He just wanted to convey a message to the outside world, that is, according to his own judgment, it was not a man-made disaster, but Brother Hong triggered some kind of heavenly rule, so he died at the hands of the remaining soul of the gatekeeper.

Today, when he was collecting Brother Hong's treasure chest, he accidentally got the fortune stick that Brother Hong had mentioned, and no one saw it.

The rules of the bad fortune remind you: "The lower the Tiangong value, the more likely it is to cause a riot and attacks of burning corpses. Even any item stained with the player's scent can cause a big riot."

This reminder reminded Ren of the corpse burning attack he suffered when he was refining the Tiangong Fire.

At that time, he felt something was wrong, because Xiao Shuai had Song Mingzhe's soul in his body, and he had attracted away the burning corpses around him. Then why did a large number of burning corpses rush over not long after?

This is not normal!

The old cadre claimed that he was injured and had been separated from Brother Hong for a long time. So what was he doing? Who knows...

So, when Ren Ye came back at night, the moment he entered Brother Hong's room, he had an idea in his mind.

While everyone was chatting, he secretly placed the divination stick behind the portrait and proposed to exchange rooms with the old cadre.

The other party instinctively chose to live in Brother Hong's room...

He should be able to see the divination sign now, right?

If the surge of the burning corpse was abnormal and no one paid attention to the divination sign, what would happen when the murderer saw him?

In the Gen room, there is candlelight.

The old cadre looked at the fortune stick and took it away instantly.

"Snapped!"

A gold coin was bounced up in the Qian room and flew in the air with a buzzing sound.