"What do you mean? What is' The Haunted Palace '? "Wang Tanzhi asked.
"Are you going to ask, 'Can I eat it?'" Feng Bujue asked.
"I'm already past the age of asking 'can I eat it?' to act cute … and I'm being very serious!" Wang Tanzhi said.
"Take a look for yourselves." Feng Bujue stood up so that Xiao Tan and Brother Long could see what he had been looking at when he was squatting down.
When the two got closer, they saw words on the wall. They appeared to have been carved with a knife. The content was all in English, but when the players opened the game menu, they could see the translation.
It seemed to be an English short poem, and the content was as follows:
"Deep in the green valley
Angels stopped to guard
There was once a beautiful palace —
Dazzling — that rose to the sky.
In the kingdom of 'thinking'
Stood tall and proud
The six-winged angel never spread its wings
So beautiful was the Jade Palace. "
"What is the meaning of this?" Wang Tanzhi was confused after reading it.
"It probably means that this passage is called 'The Haunted Palace', and there are six paragraphs in total." Long Aomin was just guessing.
They all thought … Since Feng Bujue was there, the man would know everything. They could just ask him. Unexpectedly, when the two of them turned around, they discovered that the kid had already disappeared …
"Brother Jue?" Wang Tanzhi looked around and took a step back to look at the stairs that led to the second floor. "Where is he? Did he disappear when we weren't looking? "
Long Aomin looked around but could not find him. He shrugged helplessly. "He said that he was going to split up, so he must have slipped away when we were reading this passage."
Wang Tanzhi said, "Then let's go look for clues. After all, Brother Jue said that we can meet up here after the main quest changes."
Long Aomin nodded, and the two started to investigate the first floor. They pushed open the doors that could be opened one by one to see if there were any other passages or clues about the Haunted Palace.
…
Inside the complicated corridor on the first floor.
Two female players were moving forward slowly and cautiously. Looking at the situation, it was obvious that they had encountered some sort of trap.
At this moment, Yu Ruo Li held a shiny longsword in her hands. Although this item was only of normal quality, she was able to obtain the title of [Ruthless Beheader] with this ordinary weapon, which was enough to show that it was extraordinary.
Laughing Soul did not take out her gun. She came to the same conclusion as Feng Bujue. If the scenario was filled with ghosts and traps, there was no need for guns.
"Eh?" Laughing Soul, who walked at the back, was startled. Several seconds later, she said, "Ha … they found a side quest."
Passing Rain and Ruo Li looked at the quest details and asked, "Should we also cooperate to find this' Ghost Palace '?"
"Hmm … There's no need to deliberately look for it." Laughing Soul thought about it and replied, "For now, we have no idea what it is. Furthermore, we are looking for clues."
"Then let's continue." Ruo Yu and Ruo Li replied and continued forward.
…
On the second floor, Invincible Champion was inside a very large room. Similar to the living room, the window in this room was long and narrow. It was placed high up, and there was a distance between it and the dark oak floor. Red light shone through the window, and it was just enough to light up the more obvious things in the room. However, where did the red light come from in the middle of the night?
Invincible Champion tried his best, but he could not see the corner of the room or the mosaic. Of course, he did not care about these details. So what if he saw them clearly? He only needed to know that there were no monsters hiding in the corner.
Dim curtains hung on the walls, and all the furniture was large and shabby, old and dilapidated, and did not look comfortable at all. The scattered books and musical instruments did not add any liveliness to the room. It was as if the air was filled with sorrow. A gloomy and gloomy atmosphere floated in all directions, permeating everything.
After hearing the mission announcement, Invincible Champion glanced at the menu. His first reaction was that the two female players had discovered something in the mansion and triggered the side quest. He did not think that the other three noobs would be able to find this quest.
Even though he was not good at puzzles, Invincible Champion was a professional gamer. Even though he was not good at deduction, he had gaming experience. He searched the room roughly, looking for equipment or consumables. Unfortunately, there was only a wooden guitar and a violin with a broken string in the room. He might as well fight with his bare hands instead of using these fragile wooden objects to smash monsters. His title [Reckless Fighter] gave him the special ability to passively increase the destructive power of his fists.
Since he could not find any equipment, Invincible Champion started to look for the quest item. He had no idea what the Haunted Palace was, and he had no interest in picking up the books on the floor to read. He walked toward the thing that looked like a clue — an envelope on the table.
Everything else in the room that could be read had fallen or piled up on the ground. Only this envelope was left on the table, pressed down by an ink bottle.
When he picked up the ink bottle, Invincible Champion noticed that some ink had seeped through the envelope, leaving a stain that had dried. He picked up the envelope and blew on it. He patted it lightly to remove the dust before opening it. He pulled out the letter and started to read.
The letter was not complete. Many parts of it were covered by ink, and the remaining parts were also blurred. The beginning and the signature could not be seen, but from the content, it was probably written by the owner of the house to a friend.
The writer said that he was suffering from an illness due to some kind of 'curse', and he was tortured by insanity. He wished to see his best friend, his only personal friend. He hoped that his friend could come and stay for a few days. Perhaps that would help him recover.
The letter did reveal some signs of mental disorder. Some of the content was hard to understand due to the writer's shaking hands or the inability to form sentences in his mind.
Even though Invincible Champion could not figure out what was going on, he still took the letter with him. He scanned the room one last time before turning to leave.
…
Inside a dark stone tunnel.
A flashlight suddenly came on, and it lit up a small part of the path ahead. When Feng Bujue saw what was before him, he mumbled, "There's something seriously wrong with this house … Is this a demon's castle? Space is chaotic, and it can teleport? "
Actually, a few minutes ago, he did not mean to sneak away from Xiao Tan and Brother Long. He just walked to the other side of the living room to take a closer look at a painting on the wall …
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