Earth Exam [Unlimited]

Chapter 16 Clare Manor

After Jane quietly sorted everything out, he had time to look at the new changes in his room.

The window that was closed last night was opened a crack at this moment, the cool night wind came in, the window creaked, and the wine-red bed curtain trembled slightly in the wind.

The half-black, half-white painting on the wall with a lot of mud stains has disappeared, replaced by a new painting

On a starless and moonless night, a bonfire was lit on the ground, and something was placed on the altar in the distance, which could not be seen clearly in the night, and almost melted into the background.Distorted figures are singing and dancing, some ears of wheat are scattered on the ground, food is placed on the bonfire, and the smoke from the food has been lingering in the upper part of the painting.

If you ignore this weird painting style, it seems like you are really celebrating a good harvest.

Jane approached the painting quietly, and he noticed that all the decorative floating nails on the wall had disappeared, leaving only small holes on the wall.

The distorted figure in the painting gave a mocking smile.

He silently pasted the mop standing in the corner of the wall on the painting. The mop seemed to have not been cleaned, and it still carried the black mud from yesterday. When he put the mop down, there was a large group of dirty marks on the painting. .

The mocking smile gradually froze, and it was hard for you to imagine how it was possible to see the despair of "Don't come here" in capital letters from the abstract and distorted face.

Jian Qiao moved forward a little more.

The character who first showed a mocking smile backed away, and pulled the person behind him to the front of him. The other distorted face stared at him, looking at each other without saying a word.

Jane faintly heard a few terrified sobs.

Also... quite interesting?

His eyes wandered around the wall, and he confirmed that there was not a single floating nail decoration, and it was all holes that could be seen, and it was pulled out very clean.

He sighed in disappointment, took a few steps to the side, and fell down on the soft bed.

There was a sigh of relief in the air.

Adorable and cute.

This was the last thought in Jane's mind before she quietly fell asleep.

When he woke up, it was already the next morning.

Sure enough, as long as you are a little more careful after the kill, there will be no danger to your life.

He opened the door, and the interior of the manor was still dim, with a vaguely rotten smell lingering in his nostrils.

The stairs were empty, and the group of weird maids from last night were nowhere to be seen.

The two doors on the left opened. No. 65 still looked stupid. When No. 78 came out, he was a little limp, as if his leg was injured by something. He walked to Jane and whispered a thank you.

Xie Jianqiao's reminder to him last night made him more vigilant and managed to save his life.

After NO.13 came out of the room slowly, the elusive Earl Claire appeared under the stairs. It seemed that because it was about time, he didn't even have the false standard smile on his face, and his eyes looked creepy: "Guests, today is the last day to visit. Tonight, a harvest festival will be held in my manor. Welcome to come."

His appearance seemed to be just for the reminder of what he had to say. As soon as he finished speaking, he turned to the room under the next staircase and disappeared.

The whole manor was empty, as if there were only four of them left.

The gate of the manor was opened at some point, and the scene outside the gate clearly caught their eyes, desolate and dilapidated, overgrown with weeds.

It was a completely different scene from yesterday.

"This isn't haunted, is it?" NO.13 muttered in a low voice.

When the four of them left through the gate, the feeling of desolation and dilapidation became even stronger.

The criss-crossing fields and houses I saw yesterday have all turned into weedy wasteland. The dead branches of the roadside are stretched out in a strange posture, and the crows can still be vaguely heard screaming.

Walking out from the gate, the ground was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, and the dead branches and leaves creaked when stepped on, and the rotten and silted dead branches and leaves in the ground gave off an unpleasant and strange smell.

Walking a few steps forward, Jane kicked something hard under his feet. He squatted down, broke a branch from a dead tree nearby, and started digging towards the ground under his feet. The fragments of agricultural tools seemed to be the materials of the agricultural tools they saw slaves and farmers working in the fields yesterday.

All this shows that this land has been barren for a long time.

Jane stood up quietly, and when she turned her head, she was shocked to find that the dark, majestic and gloomy manor behind her had turned into a dilapidated scene at some point, and the gate nailed with black copper decoration had turned into a few tattered pieces. The wood was hanging crookedly on the door frame. The outer wall of the manor made of stones was broken with several big holes. The desolation after the wind and rain.

It seems that it went from resplendent to ruined walls overnight.

"call---"

Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and a piece of rotten wood fell off the door frame and hit the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

This sound woke Jane up from her daze, and he realized that his surroundings were not generally quiet, and the other three people had disappeared at some point.

He re-entered the manor.

When he came out, the ground of the manor was covered with dark red carpets, the walls were gray and white, and everything seemed to be inhabited, but now when he returned, everything was turned upside down, and the ground was covered with big clumps of dirt. The dirty flocs are probably the carpet in the hall, but the original color can no longer be seen. They are scattered in the whole hall in piles here and there. The gray and white walls are peeling off one after another, and there are mold spots and rain erosion everywhere. There are even traces of mushrooms growing in the corners of the hall. There is not a single intact piece of furniture in the room, it is all broken and full of dust. The handrails of the stairs leading to the second floor are also crooked. In the center, the cobwebs covered almost half of the room, and every time they landed, a lot of dust would be raised.

More like a haunted house than a haunted house.

Jane quietly broke several long dead branches from outside the house, covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves, and rolled down the dense spider webs from the air, barely clearing a narrow path that people can walk on.

The stairs leading to the second floor are also in a state of disrepair, creaking every step of the way, and the cracked wooden boards tremble slightly under the feet, as if they will collapse at any time.

At the end of the stairs is the door of No. 26. At that time, after No. 39 was killed on the first night, the carpet was cleaned by the maid, but the blood splattered on the wall still exists, and the large swaths are shocking.

But now, even though the wall skin is mottled, a large area of ​​inconspicuous dark color can still be barely seen on the wall, which definitely proves that they did live here the previous two nights.

They have been living in this deserted manor. Is it hallucinations that interfere with people's self-perception, or did they stay in the past two days ago and return to the present on the third day?

Jian Qiao had a vague guess in his heart. He walked slowly along the decaying wooden ladder along the corridor outside the room. On the far right side of Room 78, there was a rusted door. With just a light push, the door crashed to the ground. , revealing a deep spiral staircase inside.

It's the way to the third floor.

While cleaning up the cobwebs, Jian Qiao climbed to the third floor. The distribution of the third floor is different from that of the second floor. Once inside, there is the living room, but the inside is also full of thick dust, and there are still large swaths of ominous dark colors faintly visible between the rotten wooden boards. Chen dirt.

The layout of the third floor is very clear. Looking to the left from the stairs, there are living room, study room, bedroom, and a small balcony at the end of the bedroom.

In addition to giving people a sense of age, each room is more like the wreckage left after smashing.

Jian Qiao only found a few bits and pieces

A "Bible" with missing corners and pages was crushed in a pile of rotten wood, a few pieces of broken porcelain in the corner, and a pinched and deformed medal discarded on the ground.

The paper of the "Bible" is a bit damp, and many pages are moldy, and most of the annotations can no longer be read clearly, only a line of scrawled words on the last blank page is still relatively clear: [People who have no light in their hearts are everywhere. hell. 】

The inscription was painted into a black ball.

Wipe away the dust from the fragments of porcelain, and you can see the remaining patterns on it. According to the standards of this era, it should be a relatively rare treasure.

The pinched and deformed medal is engraved with exquisite patterns, the sapphire inlaid on it is dull, and there is a cursive lettering on the surface of the gem [Randall———] The surname has been erased, and the surface of the gem is blurred , the back of the medal has a symbol that looks like the number "1".

That's all the clues known.

Jane quietly put these few things in her pocket and went to check the last small balcony.It is said to be a small balcony, but it is actually half the size of a room. There is a huge bookcase on the far right of the balcony, which occupies an entire wall. Dusty shredded paper.

He first walked around the bookcase, then knocked on the inner wall of the bookcase, and there was a crisp echo from under his hand.

The back of the bookcase is empty.

He found the broken stone table leg in the next room, and without much effort, he knocked out a hole in the decayed bookcase for people to drill through.

Behind the bookcase is a secret room. The space in the secret room is very large. The ground is built at an angle of nearly seventy degrees. There are some portraits on the steep slope. At the top of the slope is a statue of the Crucifixion, with a lifelike expression. , with a book under his feet and a human-high cross behind him.

Jane quietly used a lot of strength to climb up, and there was only one sentence in the stone-carved book: [The beginning is also the end. 】

Now he has only one question left.

Indifferent clues will not be given in the additional questions.

But Randall could never be Earl Clare.

So... is it the person he guessed?

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