sunk in yesterday

The bullet hole was an old wound, the flesh was torn open by the bullet and then regrown, turning outwards and leaving ugly marks, which were shockingly attached to the white and soft body.

Jiecheng understood: "No wonder there is such a big reaction to the gun."

Yu Ziang pondered for a while, and said, "That person was also injured yesterday, so it shouldn't be a coincidence."

Guan Yuzhou narrowed his eyes slightly, quickly integrated the clues before and after in his mind, and made further speculations about the plot of this dream.He walked in the direction he came from, intending to see what was in the prayer room, so that snatching the key became a mandatory guiding task.

Jiecheng tore off the white gauze from the nun's head and wrapped it around the back of her hand casually, and raised her heel while complaining about the disproportion of the gun.

The door of the prayer room is made of iron, or the doors of the entire jurisdiction are made of this hard material.It seems that there is a fear that patients will escape from the gray building, so a temporary shelter is guaranteed anywhere.

The pair of small white wings on the key fluttered with the movement of the participant's wrist. I don't know how long the door lock has not been oiled, and there is some resistance to opening it, but it turns out that the two match each other.

The crosses were broken and piled all over the floor, oxidized black blood stains stretched from the door all the way in, the waiting benches were scattered crookedly aside, the white tablecloth on the long table in front had been dyed red, a glaring His handprint is impressively covered on the top, half of which is submerged in the complicated decorative pattern.

Guan Yuzhou lifted the knee pads for prayer, and there was nothing hidden underneath.He quickly moved his eyes to the candlesticks on the table, and the matches were scattered on the ground in a mess. It is not difficult to imagine that someone hid in and desperately wanted to polish them, but because of impatience And broke one after another.

The problem also arises here.

Since the situation is urgent and you are seriously injured, why do you come to the prayer room to light the candlesticks?Do you really need to repent and pray before you die?

He felt that the possibility of this was almost zero.

The two candlesticks on the table cannot be moved, as if they were built together with the table.Usually, many organs are triggered by rotation. He stretched out his hand to hold the cold metal, and after confirming that it could not be rotated, he cast his eyes on the wall.

A cuckoo clock with a wooden structure hangs within reach. The hour and hands are still working. The diary on the side is on December 12, which is consistent with the supply board at the entrance of the cafeteria.

At this time, it happened to be eleven o'clock in the morning. The small door on the wooden clock was opened from the inside, and a white-painted mechanical bird came out of it. The golden beak opened and closed, but no one could hear the crisp sound. time chime.

After opening and closing the bird's beak eleven times, the small wooden door closed again, and no matter how hard it was to be closed by human hands, it could not be opened.

Guan Yuzhou lifted the protective cover on the surface of the dial and moved the hands forward by one hour.The little white bird that hadn't been able to rest came out again and dutifully called twelve times silently. After several times of fiddling with it, it looked like an ordinary clock.

Yu Ziang has been standing by the side watching his movements, and after a moment of silence, he said: "It should be to a certain point in time."

"Yeah." Guan Yuzhou picked out a match that was broken off but the head was still intact, "Pull the curtains."

The thick coarse cloth immediately blocked the light that was not much, and the prayer room was instantly dark.This oppressive and dangerous atmosphere lasted no more than a second, and a faint spark swayed in Guan Yuzhou's hands, and then lit two candles on the left and right in turn.

The light meter lights up again.

【Special Event】Triggered guide to the task.

[Special Mission] There is a secret waiting to be discovered in the prayer room.

[Special Tips] The clock on the wall seems to be the core of the secret, please touch it carefully.

[Additional rewards] None.

(task countdown 10s)

The ten-second countdown ended, and the originally unpredictable and complicated patterns on the wall changed. The candlelight revealed things that were invisible to the naked eye. The messy dots and lines were connected in sequence in a regular order, and the clock was the center of the circle. A circle, the blue-purple all over the wall is full of mystery.

Yu Ziang glanced quickly: "It's the twelve signs of the zodiac."

When it came to the blind spot of knowledge, Jiecheng didn't feel too flustered. He sat down on the abandoned cross and raised his legs casually.

"You don't even know this?" Chu Jin cast a disgusted glance, relying on the knowledge that Yu Ziang had given him before, he proudly said: "It's the twelve constellations that everyone knows, and Babylonian astrology only talks about twelve constellations." palace."

"Do I really know or do I have to tell you if I don't know?" Jie Cheng smiled half-smile, confirming the rascal: "Anyway, I don't know how to use my brain."

If you want to use your brain, you have to have a brain, Chu Jin secretly slandered.

After comparing the zodiac map in his memory with the wall, Yu Ziang raised his hand to push the glasses on the bridge of his nose.His eyesight has always been a problem, and it is time for a new pair of glasses. He half-closed his eyes with some difficulty: "There seems to be words on the top, can you see it?"

Guan Yuzhou raised his chin slightly and read out the words: "'Pray that there will be no more storms on the sea, and we will set sail in the morning.'"

Chu Jin asked, "What do you mean?"

Yu Ziang said: "The person who wrote this sentence should be praying to the mythical Gemini."

In Greek mythology, a pair of brothers encountered a storm at sea while they were sailing far away, and stars appeared above their heads, so the storm stopped.Therefore, the guardian star of navigation is Gemini, which can be seen in the sky from dusk to night in winter. Voyagers in many areas will wish for a safe trip to the stars when they see it.

This point is not difficult to guess, as long as anyone who has a little understanding of myths and stories has the answer in their hearts, but the question arises when Gemini should correspond to what time on the dial?

Chu Jin thought hard: "Winter dusk to night... The dream we are in now happens to be winter, right? Then what time is dusk? Is it possible to take an intermediate value?"

Yu Ziang rushed to Guan Yuzhou with a "sorry" expression, "His knowledge in this area has never been very extensive."

Chu Jin: "..." He silently raised his middle finger.

"In astrology, each house represents a corresponding point in time on the right ascension." Guan Yuzhou brushed his fingertips across the wall to represent the graphic of the Brothers Palace, lifted the glass cover on the surface of the wooden clock dial, and moved the hour and minute hands It was ten past seven in the morning.

The right ascension of the center of Brothers Palace is 7:10.

In the room with the doors and windows closed, a gust of wind blew out the candles.

The sudden darkness made Chu Jin habitually catch Yu Ziang. Before he could touch someone he was familiar with, a flash of white light hurt his eyes. Guan Yuzhou waved the flashlight in front of him, then hit the one that stopped working on the cuckoo clock.

The small wooden door, which only opened on time, opened a crack at this time.

Yu Ziang glanced at the hand stretched out to his waist, and shook it cooperatively.

Chu Jin tugged at the corner of his mouth, speechless for a while.

The slit did not open again for a long time, and after a few seconds passed without moving, Guan Yuzhou raised his wrist and opened the door, illuminating the situation inside.

A piece of index finger was lying on the place where the mechanical bird should have been standing. The blood on it was completely dried, but there was no sign of decay at all. The fingertip was slightly healthy pink, and every streak on the skin was clearly visible.

Chu Jin wowed, "It's pretty pretty."

The moment it was picked up from the wooden stand, there was a slight vibration under its feet for a moment, so fast that it was almost imperceptible.The tablecloth hanging on the ground swayed with the shock, and the light outside the window returned to normal, not as invisible as before.

As soon as they came in, they were attracted by the waste products all over the floor and the candles on the table. So far, they haven't seen if there is anything hidden under the tablecloth.

If there were really an aborigine down there, one or two out of four people would probably have died under the dim conditions just now.

Jiecheng kicked the piece of cloth, raised his toes to look at it, and raised one eyebrow in surprise: "The ground is cracked."

The slight shock just now came from here, and the tiles were broken into several petals, and after being pulled apart, the safe hidden below could be seen.

The safe facing up was fixed between the bricks and tiles by concrete, a little red light flickered on the upper right corner of the electronic screen, and there was a ring of fingerprints faintly on the input port, which should match the obtained index finger.

Chu Jin became more energetic: "Open it quickly and have a look, there may be some ulterior secrets inside."

He has watched those messy domestic TV series a lot. Recently, the lower limit of this kind of drama is full of tricks, which makes him very curious when he sees the safe.

In the end, this really opened his eyes again.

The severed hands, dead bodies of babies, and bombs that he expected were all gone, and there was a dark hole under the lid of the opened box for fingerprint verification.

This is a secret passage with a rope ladder hanging downward.

At this moment, a weak groan came from the bottomless cave. It was difficult to distinguish between men and women, but it could only be heard that the person hiding was in a bad condition.

Guan Yuzhou's pupils shrank, and he immediately grabbed the edge and turned over.

"Take it easy, you don't know how deep it is." Jie Cheng was taken aback by his reckless behavior, and quickly reached out to grab the rope nailed to the top for him, watching the man sink into the darkness in the blink of an eye, He opened his mouth and cursed, "...fuck, is there some treasure buried underneath or some beautiful woman hiding, running so fast."

Chu Jin nodded in agreement: "Xia Mingming is a treasure to him, he dares to jump into a fire pit below here."

Jiecheng squeezed his fingertips together, gritted his molars and said to himself: "Is that little patient so good?"

Chu Jin gave a look of "you don't understand this", and said in a reasonable tone: "Love makes people blind."

The rope ladder stopped shaking, and when I looked down, I could see the light of the flashlight. Before the three people on the top could ask about the situation, some piercing screams rushed out of the hole first, with panic and pain: "Turn off, put It turns off-"

Seeing that there seemed to be an accident, Jiecheng stepped out of his legs neatly.

Yu Ziang held down Chu Jin, who was also about to move, and said to Jie Cheng, who had already slid down the rope ladder: "We will guard the top, so we won't go down."

Chu Jin squatted down honestly with regret, and said to Yu Ziang in a low voice: "I dare not say anything, I think Xia Mingming didn't come in at all this time."

Yu Ziang responded lightly, "Maybe."

Chu Jin said: "I'm afraid I'll be beaten by him if I say it."

Yu Ziang nodded: "It is true that I will be beaten."

"Then why don't you stop him from beating me?"

"maybe."

"..."

Jiecheng quickly landed on the ground, his feet were wet, and the waterproof layer was not done well.

Guan Yuzhou stood in the middle, and the flashlight in his hand did not listen to the voice and turned off. The food bags on the illuminated ground had piled up into a small garbage mountain, and the person huddled behind the garbage covered his eyes and trembled violently, with long hair. It was a mess, the clothes on her body were crumpled into rags, and she was vaguely recognizable as the nun they just bumped into outside.

Jiecheng stood beside Guan Yuzhou, "What's the situation?"

When the woman heard the voice of the second person, she was even more frightened, and she kept saying, "I have no cigarettes on me, and I have nothing to give you... I didn't harm you, I didn't participate in those things, Let me go, please..."

She was a little agitated, but she was still mentally normal, at least not as weird as the employees they met before.

The expectations in my heart were in vain, and Guan Yuzhou's chest rose and fell faster, as if he was suppressing his anger.Jiecheng consciously moved back half a step, keeping a safe distance from this person who might explode at any time, hugging his arms and the dirty woman and said: "We are not here to harm you, tell us everything you know come out."

"You didn't come to harm me... who are you, are you here to rescue us? No... there is no one else, only me, and they are all dead..." The woman's tone was full of hope, and soon It went down again.She began to cry, her wide sleeves slipped off, and there were a few cigarette butt burn marks on her bony arms.

"Don't cry, you will die after crying in a while." Jiecheng clicked his tongue irritably, urging her to speak clearly as soon as possible.

The pupils of the woman's eyes had lost color, she spread her hands, and one of ten fingers was broken.She stared blankly at the bare spot and said, "She took my... nail polish."

Jiecheng rolled his eyes, and threw away the index finger that Guan Yuzhou had just thrown away.

The woman didn't feel the joy of getting it back. Two lines of tears flowed down silently, holding the amputated finger and said excitedly: "You have to contact the outside world, contact the Trans-sea Operations Deployment Bureau... Only by contacting them can the status quo be changed. No, no. ...they must have cut the radio, those lunatics are not going to let us get help!"

Jiecheng interrupted impatiently: "Who is to whom what you say?"

The woman staggered and wanted to stand up, but one of her legs was broken, so she could only stumble and climb two meters to the center, and said loudly, "They escaped!"

Jiecheng thought of what Guan Yuzhou said before that the employees were replaced, and made a long, clear cry, then turned his head to discuss with Guan Yuzhou: "There is a radio on the cargo ship, so you can just use that, but I don't know that the signal will be released after the storm leaves. won't recover."

"Ha, cargo ship?" The woman gave a self-deprecating laugh, "They won't let you get close to the cargo ship, and they won't let anyone who comes to this island leave alive."

Jiecheng asked: "Why, you just said that you participated in 'those things', what exactly are they?"

Guan Yuzhou frowned, he is very impetuous now, if Xia Zhuo really did not appear in this dream, then he must leave quickly to find out what went wrong.

Therefore, he was impatient with Jiecheng's words that always missed the point, and before the woman opened her mouth to give a rambling answer, he asked the most critical question first: "Since the radio has been cut off, how should we contact the outside world now. "

The woman opened her mouth: "Lighthouse..."

"lighthouse?"

"There is a spare radio signal transmitter on the lighthouse, which can get in touch with the shore... There is a night watchman in the forest, and he is in charge of the key to the lighthouse."

Jiecheng slapped his hands: "Sure enough, it has something to do with this night watchman."

Guan Yuzhou continued to ask, "Where is this person?"

The forest is so big, and there are only eight participants in total. They search aimlessly and don't know when they will find it.

"This person's name is... Yan Liang." The woman took a long time to think about the name, but a red cloud appeared on her messy face, and her voice became shy like a girl's Huaichun: "He is very tall. , very strong, and has a lovely dog."

Jiecheng: "..."

Fortunately, the woman hadn't been offline for too long, she barely sat up, and finally had the intention of providing clues in a serious way: "Find his dog, and his dog will help you."

The corner of Jiecheng's mouth twitched, isn't looking for a dog the same as looking for a person in this situation?I don't know where.

Guan Yuzhou suddenly thought of the ball he saw in the gray building before coming to the monastery. After a moment of hesitation, he asked uncertainly, "How big is the dog, is it gray?"

"No, it's white!" The woman spoke a lot more smoothly, raised her hand to gesture, and described verbally: "It's a Pomeranian, the size that can be easily held in your arms, all of us like it , if you find it, be sure to treat it well, it is really good, it likes to eat the mushrooms that the chef picked from the forest, it is very easy to feed..."

"Yes." Guan Yuzhou agreed perfunctorily, turned around and planned to leave.

Jiecheng was surprised by his eager attitude, and asked, "Are you leaving now?"

"If you ask again, you can't find anything." Guan Yuzhou climbed up the rope ladder, and the scene of the mud ball jumping into the gray building in the rain swayed again in his mind.

I thought it was a big gray mouse, but I didn't expect it to be a white dog.

Dogs really don't like to be clean.

Guan Yuzhou thought expressionlessly.

It seems that Huilou must go there.

The author says:

Xia Zhuo: Even if I am a dog now, my man will definitely recognize me!

Guan Yuzhou: Dogs really don't like to be clean.

Xia Zhuo: :) You are done.