I rely on sand sculptures to dissuade dead NPCs

Yu Yi stood on the fourth floor and looked up at the escalator that kept circling up.

Yue Ge stepped over from the last step and stood behind him: "Go up?"

Yu Yi glanced down at the scratches on the handrail, which should have been left when the goat man came up the stairs holding on to the handrail.

There is no trace above the fourth floor, and there may be other clues waiting for them to discover...

Yu Yi nodded coldly and said, "Go up and have a look."

The castle has seven floors.

The first floor is the hall, the second floor is the servant's room, the third floor is the library, the fourth floor is the guest room, and they only know that the sixth floor is the room of the earl's daughter, and the seventh floor is the room of the earl and countess...

Yu Yi and Yue Ge went up a level.

The wooden steps creaked and creaked continuously due to the weight pressure too close, like a rubber ring rubbing against the ground, making harsh noises.

The passage in front of it was tightly sealed by a wall, and there was a small door on the right, which should be the only entrance.

Yu Yi glanced at Yue Ge, put his hand on the handle and pressed down lightly.

The door creaked open.

A rotten musty smell spread out, and the only light was the few candles on both sides of the corridor.

Even the windows are sealed with stone bricks, it seems that they don't want to leave a trace of light from the outside world.

Different from the lower floors, the corridor on the fifth floor spreads deeply, and the ground it passes through seems to be uneven, like a slope from bottom to top.

Yue Ge grabbed Yu Yi's hand, and the two of them stopped.

pat, pat.

There was still a burst of small footsteps behind them.

Yu Yi quickly turned his head and half-closed his eyes to look at the woman in the candlelight.

It was the girl who was drawn together with Yu Yi in the game of kings. It seems to be Mi Lai.

Mi Lai caught the eyes of the two of them, and looked around helplessly.

The mouth moved: "I... I just wanted to go out for a stroll, and saw that the door here was open, so..."

The air in the dark depths carried a chill that permeated the bone marrow.

Yue Ge coughed in a muffled voice, drawing Yu Yi's attention.

Mi Lai looked at the two of them, and quickened his pace to get closer.

Yu Yi and Yue Ge slowed down, waiting for her to catch up.

Mi Lai seemed to realize the thoughtfulness of the two, and said "Thank you" in a very low voice.

The candlelight suddenly disappeared somewhere, and in the depths of the darkness, they glanced at the slight candlelight behind them.

The slope seemed to follow a bend and disappear behind the rounded wall.

Mi Lai pinched the corner of his clothes uneasily, looking a little scared, but still nodded: "...I want it."

Yu Yi didn't continue talking, and the hand hanging on the right squeezed the hand on the same side as Yue Ge's in the dark.

Yue Ge was silent, hooked his little finger.

They walked not far from the candlelight, Yu Yi lowered his head and could still see the expression on Mi Lai's face.

Mi Lai moved suddenly, a very strange subconscious movement.

She raised her hand and touched the bridge of her nose lightly.

Yu Yi doesn't wear glasses, but Yue Ge does.

He knew very well that this was a habitual action of a person who wears glasses.

But... Millais wasn't wearing glasses.

Maybe she didn't bring it into the game.

Yu Yi was silent for a moment, then asked suddenly: "Can you see the corner ahead?"

Yue Ge said in a low voice, "I still have influence in the dark."

Even with recovery surgery, it's still a bit difficult to discern the environment in poor lighting.

"Just." Mi Lai whispered, rubbing the corner of his clothes again: "It's almost there."

Yu Yi curled his lower lip in the dark, his voice was cold: "That's good."

He glanced at Mi Lai's nervous expression from the corner of his eye without any ups and downs.

As if sensing his gaze, Mi Lai turned her head, looked at him with her red lips tightly pressed, and smiled palely.

·

After the corner, there is still a steep slope that continues upward.

But a bright spot of candlelight appeared in front of him.

Next to the bright spot is a low wooden door.

The three quickened their pace and walked over.

A second before the light fell, Yue Ge and Yu Yi quickly let go of their touching hands.

Before Yue Ge left, he scratched Yu Yi's palm, feeling a little itchy.

Yu Yi glanced at him: "..."

The door was unlocked, probably because the people who built it didn't expect anyone to walk in.

Or it could be a door left intentionally, waiting for an intruder to come.

A straight line of light was cast through the crack of the door, which grew bigger and bigger as the door opened.

Eventually it becomes a fan shape.

The door also opened.

Yu Yi withdrew his hand and let Mi Lai stand behind him.

Behind the door is a collection room.

A flickering white candle on the table is the only light source that illuminates the entire room.

The hidden things are very miscellaneous, including broken porcelain bowls, copper bells with mottled surfaces, and scrolls with broken pages...

Placed in the depths of the darkness is a transparent glass jar.

It is filled with a watery liquid, and there are some fleshy flocculent structures floating in the water, which are still transparent.

In the center of the transparent glass jar, there is a heart.

A still beating heart.

The beating of the heart caused water waves, and the surface of the water in the jar was filled with waves ranging from small to large.

Yu Yi leaned over and held the jar in front of the candlelight, and took a look under the light.

There was an old label on the glass jar.

It reads in cursive - Londo Bronte Eternal Heart from 1673.

A heart that has been stored for an unknown amount of time.

Yue Ge murmured "Hmm", and walked out of the darkness with a piece of paper in his hand.

Yu Yi and Mi Lai looked at him.

Yue Ge held a piece of kraft paper as thin as a cicada's wings between his fingers. The paper was already very brittle, as if it would break into pieces if he exerted force.

Yu Yi frowned, and took the kraft paper from his hand.

It was written in English, and even some old English.

With a drawing of a heart.

The name that appeared was Rendo Bronte,

This heart has been preserved to this day through some kind of summoning ceremony. It was just an experiment at first, but no one thought that the experiment would be successful.

They passed a spiritual summoning ceremony to keep the heart beating forever.

But no matter how much this group of people prayed, they never realized such a miraculous phenomenon.

Some places on the paper were circled with a pen and highlighted.

"I think……"

Miley groaned suddenly.

Yu Yi and Yue Ge looked at her at the same time.

Mi Lai was dumb, and boldly said: "Could it be that Elizabeth discovered this heart and wanted to make her appearance permanent through the above ceremony..."

Her voice gradually decreased, and she glanced at the faces of the two uneasily: "I just guessed randomly..."

Yu Yi said, "It may be very large."

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Yue Ge.

Yue Ge let out a "huh", frowned, and nodded.

Mi Lai relaxed and leaned closer to observe the glass jar.

Twirling his fingers on the jar, his eyes were almost obsessively looking at the beating heart inside, and he murmured: "This is really a miracle..."

Yu Yi took a deep look at her, then turned his head to meet Shang Yue Ge's eyes poking out of the darkness.

……

The three came out of the room, and the time had jumped to 1 pm.

The flow of time in the castle seems to be faster again.

It was still raining heavily outside.

Yu Yi glanced through the window.

The raindrops maintained a downward arc, slowly falling drop by drop from the air, and even the trajectory of the fall could be seen clearly.

The flow of time inside and outside the castle has the same degree of

There must be something waiting for them to solve.

The last round of the emergency game will not be so simple to leave the game between them.

Yu Yi suddenly thought of a possibility, and turned to look at Yue Ge.

"If the time inside the castle and the time outside the castle maintain different reflows at the same speed of light at the same time, will it form a closed time?" He frowned.

When the time outside slows down to a certain extent, and the inside reaches the highest speed they can bear, these two time spaces with different degrees of distortion may reach an agreement, and let them fall into a reciprocating cycle of time.

Yue Ge arched his hand and tapped his temple: "There must be something connecting the internal and external time."

Just by finding this critical link, they were able to reset time back to the original flow rate.

·

1:30pm.

lunch time.

There is no food for moths.

Yu Yi glanced at the dining table, and hooked his hands at the butler standing beside him.

housekeeper:"…………"

"What's the matter, sir?"

Yu Yi blinked and asked, "Is there any pork?"

The butler smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, but the pork is gone."

Yu Yi nodded, looked at him thoughtfully, and looked at the housekeeper with horror.

There is no need to look for clues, everyone is in an ambivalence that is both nervous and fishing.

Commonly known as dawdling.

Yu Yi put the napkin on the table and was about to get up.

Inadvertently glanced at the painting on the wall.

Different from the arrangement when they came to the restaurant for dinner in the morning, now there is a portrait painting in the center of the portrait on the wall.

Same as the portrait he saw earlier in the lobby, but moved here.

The portrait is hung in a very high position, and it is not convenient to move it. It must be a long ladder to move it.

Moreover, it is very difficult to pass through the hall where people come and go.

Yu Yi's hand on the dining table tightened suddenly.

Yue Ge looked up at him suspiciously, and saw Yu Yi frowning tightly, staring intently at the oil painting on the wall.

Yue Ge frowned and looked over, his lips pursed tightly.

The eyes of the woman in the painting lowered slightly, as if directly meeting Yu Yi's gaze.

Yue Ge covered Yu Yi's eyes from behind him.

He breathed hotly and whispered in his ear: "Don't look."

"Is there a problem?" Yu Yi's slender eyelashes stroked his palm.

"Yeah." Yue Ge said in a deep voice, "Do you know the legend of Bloody Mary?"

Yu Yi let out a "hmm".

Yue Ge turned around with Yu Yi.

Yu Yi opened his eyes, staring at him with clear and bright light-colored pupils.

Yue Ge said: "I have felt something wrong since I knew Bloody Mary. There are three completely different versions in the legend of Bloody Mary."

One of the oldest versions is Lady Elizabeth, citing maiden blood for beauty.

One is Mirror Mary, when you shout 'Bloody Mary' three times in the mirror, Bloody Mary will appear at night to kill people.

The last one is the oil painting Mary...the evil spirit hidden in the oil painting...