"I don't know either."
After Lin Sanjiu casually replied to Lila, she fell into a daze.
According to her experience after entering the dungeon, every time she left a fairy tale, the next time she entered it would not be the same time as when she left. In her absence, the story continued to progress normally. This meant that the next time she returned to the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the time to save Emma and her granddaughter from the crisis would have already passed.
If the attackers were really werewolves, Lin Sanjiu couldn't imagine how they could escape.
If the main character of the story dies, this instance dungeon, as well as me who is within it … what will happen to me?
Just when she was at her wits' end, Lara put down her knife and fork and looked at her curiously.
"Hey," Lara called her softly and pouted her red lips unwillingly. "What are you thinking about? Why are you ignoring me? "
Lin Sanjiu finally snapped out of her trance. No matter what, she had already left Little Red Riding Hood's story. The only thing she could do now was to look for clues to solve the mystery of the pocket dimension.
"Nothing, I was just wondering about your key." She smiled at Lara.
As expected, the other party's attention was immediately diverted. Lara's hand, which was tidying up her blue silk dress, paused. "Oh, right. What do you think he hid in the room?"
Lin Sanjiu took a sip of water as a cover and calmed herself down. No matter if it was Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, she had only been watching the events unfold from the sidelines. In the end, both stories had taken a strange turn … So now, she planned to do something different with Lila.
"Why don't we go in and take a look?" Lin Sanjiu picked up a piece of prawn meat nonchalantly.
She did not expect her words to shock Lara. She almost dropped her fork. "Huh? That won't do. My husband has repeatedly emphasized that I'm not allowed to open that room. He said that if I go in, he definitely won't forgive me … "
Look at Lara's appearance. She seemed to have never considered sneaking in to take a look.
This was very different from the story.
Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She paused for a moment before asking softly, "Aren't you curious? Is there anything about your husband that you don't know? "
Lara lowered her eyelids. He frowned.
Although she was usually tipsy and absent-minded in whatever she said, there were times when she was unexpectedly cautious.
After thinking for a while, Leila silently took out a thin key from the key ring around her waist and pressed it on the table.
"This is the key to the small room." She raised her head and glanced at Lin Sanjiu. His expression was conflicted. "You're right. I really want to know what's in that room, so … I want to ask you for a favor."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. "You mean, you want me to take a look on your behalf?"
Lara nodded, her eyes filled with the naive cunning of a young woman. "Go take a look, then come back and tell me what's inside. That won't be considered as going against my husband's orders."
This part was obviously different from the original story — perhaps the key was here!
"Sure, I'll go up and take a look for you now," Lin Sanjiu agreed and grabbed the key.
Under Lara's somewhat nervous gaze. She ran up the stairs quickly.
Even though Bluebeard's castle wasn't big, it had three to four floors. After living here for a few days, Lin Sanjiu was more or less familiar with the place.
She went up to the second floor and stepped into the corridor.
This was the most luxuriously decorated floor in the entire castle. On both sides of the corridor, there were portraits of the ancestors of Bluebeard's family. It was as if they were staring at every person who walked past them.
When Lin Sanjiu was about to reach the last room, she suddenly stopped. She turned around and took two steps back. Slowly, she shifted her gaze to an object.
It was a large mirror that could clearly reflect a person from head to toe.
In this era when technology wasn't as developed as it used to be. A mirror of this size and clarity wasn't something that could be found anywhere. Furthermore, Lin Sanjiu found the silver lining very familiar.
There seemed to be a mirror like this in Emma's cottage...
No. Or it might be said that it was the same thing as Emma's.
Even though Lin Sanjiu couldn't understand the meaning behind it, she could feel her blood pumping faster.
This was the first time she found a similarity among the three stories. She thought for a moment and suppressed her urge to rush down and ask about the origin of the mirror. He only touched the mirror carefully. Then, she gritted her teeth and walked to the door of the room.
Perhaps everyone who knew the story of Blue Beard knew what was behind the door very well.
Even though it wasn't a good thing to see a room full of corpses, Lin Sanjiu inserted the key into the keyhole just to be safe. She turned it gently, and the door unlocked.
When the door opened, a gust of cold air rushed out from the gap of the door and flowed into the corridor.
Strangely, there wasn't any smell of blood in the room.
Lin Sanjiu squinted her eyes and looked around. The room was very dark. Apart from a few blurry humanoid figures hanging from the ceiling, she couldn't see anything. She didn't intend to take a good look at the corpses of those pitiful women. Her hand was still on the doorknob. She took a quick glance and decided to leave.
Right at this moment, her gaze swept across a light blue figure, and she immediately froze.
It was a blue silk dress. Lin Sanjiu knew the style and texture of the dress very well because she had seen it just a moment ago.
Lin Sanjiu's gaze slowly moved up and stopped at the face of the corpse.
Her long black hair was tied up in a beautiful bun. She was in her early twenties, and her red lips were particularly eye-catching.
Lila.
Unlike the cheerful and cheerful Lila who was holding a glass of wine a moment ago, Lila's face was as white as snow. Her pair of dull brown eyes stared blankly at the door. There was a pair of purplish handprints on her neck that seemed to have been branded deep into her skin. The veins and blood vessels on her fair skin were mixed together and crawled all over her forehead.
It was Lila.
Lin Sanjiu quickly covered her mouth. She didn't even know if she made a sound. After going through so many hardships in the apocalypse for so long, she felt that she had experienced many things, but — but —
After all, she was a little flustered. She lost her balance and stumbled. Lin Sanjiu held onto the door frame and steadied herself. However, she didn't expect that the keys would fall from the door frame and fall to the ground with a loud thud.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath. She didn't dare to turn her head toward Lila's corpse. She extended her arm and picked up the key.
The key was stained with blood, just like what happened in the fairy tales.
Not far away, Lila's eyes were wide open, but she was still staring at Lin Sanjiu blankly.
All the things that Lin Sanjiu had been suppressing in her heart since she entered the pocket dimension burst out in an instant. The irrationality of the three fairy tales, the chaos and disorder, the baffling progress, the anxiety of not being able to get out of the pocket dimension, the worry for her companions … She turned and ran. The wind whipped up by her speed even flipped a few of the portraits.
When Lin Sanjiu rushed down the stairs, she was dumbfounded.
Because Lila was sitting at the dining table, gently sipping the wine in her glass. Her skin and hair were still very moist. Her fingers tapped on the crystal glass, producing a light sound.
She was a living person, right?
"Ah, you came down. What did you see?"
Lara heard the noise and hurriedly turned around, asking anxiously. "Why do you look so pale? What's in there? "
Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth and looked at Lila blankly. Then, she subconsciously turned to look at the corridor.
The person in front of her was obviously a living person, but what was that hanging in the room just now?
The iron key in Lin Sanjiu's hand was stained with blood. Lila panicked and quickly pulled it out. She wiped it with a napkin. As she wiped it, she asked anxiously, "Why is it stained with blood? Say something, I'm dying of anxiety! "
Lin Sanjiu scrutinized Lila from head to toe. Suddenly, an idea came to her.
"Come with me." She grabbed Lila's wrist and dragged her up the stairs without any explanation. (To be continued.)
PS:
"Thank you for the sachet!"
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