Nita led the way, her high heels making a crisp and rhythmic sound on the beautifully carved floor.

But the distance between each step of her is fixed, and the frequency of her steps does not fluctuate in the slightest, as flat and rigid as she is.

Nita led them through corridors, twists and turns like a labyrinth, making people almost unable to remember the path.

Xiao Zhi noticed that the doors of the surrounding rooms were all closed, and there was no sound inside. The three of them are undead and have no footsteps. At this moment, only Nita's footsteps echoed lonely, as if she was the only one in the entire mansion.

Nita's footsteps suddenly stopped, she turned towards Xiao Zhi, and bowed to him: "This is a guest room for you, please come with me."

It looks like it's still one room.

Xiao Zhi and the senior brothers exchanged glances, signaling them to be at ease, and then followed Nita into the room.

The room is still so delicate and gorgeous, only the candle lighting, it looks a little dim. In the middle is a large bed that is enough for several people to lie on. The bed frame is black metal, and it is covered with bright red silk bedding, which gives a luxurious feeling.

Xiao Zhi thought he would see something weird in the room, but he didn't.

At least there were no bizarre statues, incomprehensible books, bizarre dolls and the like within his sight. It looks like a room with nothing unusual other than an over-the-top glamour.

After that, Nita also arranged rooms for Einstein and Vidi. There were only three guests, but their rooms were spread out and arranged in different positions in the corridor, just like the other closed doors were full of people.

After Nita left, the three brothers and sisters carefully searched their room.

A moment later, in Vidi's room.

Xiao Zhi sat on the sofa: "I turned over all the corners and found nothing strange."

Einstein sat in the high-back chair: "Me too, I even got under the bed, but there was nothing."

The sofa and chairs were all occupied, and Wei Di could only lie on the bed: "I checked all the decorations, and there are no ghosts and legends, and the books on the table are also normal romance novels."

Einstein: "What do you want to do with this level?"

Xiao Zhi guessed: "Since it is a Hessian level, could it have something to do with supernatural events? Enter the strange foreign mansion and experience various death crises in it, and finally successfully find a way out."

"According to the game's routine, such a closed mansion must have elements of exploration and puzzle solving. Do you remember the corridor we came from? The corridor is so tortuous, there may be a chase."

Einstein touched his braid: "Yeah, I've also played this kind of game, the ghost that is chasing after you in the closed scene, as long as you make a little mistake, you will be caught, knowing that it's just It's a game but it's still exciting. Oops, I'm suddenly looking forward to what's going to happen next."

Vidi: "..."

He didn't expect it at all. Why can these two make it so simple to actually experience a horror game?

Xiao Zhi said: "Under normal circumstances, the horror story begins after the protagonists are dispersed."

Einstein: "Take turns to die, each is destroyed."

Wei Di shrank under the quilt, he felt that the whole person was not very good. Obviously it's playing games, ZERO is already very terrible, why come to Hesse and add horror elements? Couldn't Hesse be a bit more consistent with the style of painting elsewhere on the continent? What local features are added? ! ! !

Wei Di looked around: "Could it be haunted here?"

Xiao Zhi looked indifferent: "We are ghosts now."

Wei Di looked at Einstein on the left, and Xiao Zhi on the right. Their faces were pale at the moment, and their bodies were translucent. After using the soul crystal of the dead, what are they not ghosts now?

He slumped a little more.

Einstein comforted his junior brother: "The big deal is to die, don't be afraid."

Wei Di did not seem to be comforted at all, and even more stunned, his eyes were straight, staring blankly at the back of Einstein.

The other two also found that the situation was not good, Xiao Zhi quietly turned his gaze, and looked towards Wei Di's gaze point.

The windows of the room are colorful stained glass, and because of the pattern on it, the three people in the room can't see what is outside. But a human-like shadow appeared on the window, the shadow was motionless, and didn't know what it was.

When was this thing lying there? There was no sound at all.

The three of them didn't act rashly, and there was a strange silence inside and outside.

After a while, the shadow wriggled and slowly retreated. It was obviously not small in size, but there was no sound during the whole process, just like when it appeared.

When the shadow completely disappeared, he got up and tried to open the window, but found that the window was welded to death, Xiao Zhi turned his head: "It can't be opened at all."

Einstein: "Is this because we are afraid of escaping from the window? Really want to explore and decrypt."

Xiao Zhi asked, "Would you like to go out and have a look?"

Einstein raised his mouth: "Of course, such an interesting place, I want to take a closer look."

Vidi: "..."

Holding the quilt, he looked weak and pitiful and helpless.

Xiao Zhi asked a question that directly hit the soul: "Senior Brother Sixteen, are you going out with us to die? Or stay and die by yourself?"

The word "kill" is really good to use. In horror games, wouldn't it be death to chase after something strange.

Of course, so are orders.

Wei Di thought about it, the lesser of the two evils, he may be left to die, but if he joins the team, the three of them may be wiped out, and if he is lucky, he may not stay. will die.

Then he got into the quilt, pouting his butt and motionless, even his head was covered tightly, and he didn't show it at all, and he looked downright slumped.

Einstein also understood when he saw it. He waved at the quilt: "Then let's go first, be careful yourself, send us a message if something happens."

A hand stretched out from the quilt and said "OK".

Xiao Zhi and Einstein went out one after the other.

The outside was still as quiet as before, the rooms in the corridor were closed, no one was seen anywhere, and Nita was nowhere to be seen. don't know where she went.

They kept quiet and walked quietly to other areas.

The two were eager to discover ghosts, but they didn't expect to find anything along the way. Not only were there no terrifying ghosts that suddenly rushed out, there were no doors that opened automatically, and there were no strange sounds that suddenly sounded.

It's so normal, but it makes one feel like a heart is about to break.

When I came to the hall again, the hall was the same as before, and the candle was still on, but Nita, who was sitting on the sofa, was gone now.

Xiao Zhi went to try the door first, and it was as motionless as the window.

Xiao Zhi: "I can't get out of the doors and windows, where will the way be?"

Einstein came over: "Is it possible that the exit is not set in such a simple place, or it may require a special method to open it."

Xiao Zhi pondered: "It might even be possible to leave without using the door. In this magical world, it's really hard to say."

Einstein nodded, and after exploring to no avail, the two left here.

The two continued to search for clues in the house.

After a while, a bigger and more ornate door appeared in front of him. Xiao Zhi stretched out his hand and pushed it gently, and the door actually opened.

Xiao Zhi turned his head to look at Einstein, and found excitement in each other's eyes. This was the first door they could open apart from their own room. There must be something different inside.

The two walked back and forth into the room lightly.

Xiao Zhi walked in front, the room in front of him was still gorgeous with an icy texture, and the furnishings in the room were far more than Xiao Zhi's guest room.

This probably belongs to the master's room, and the area is not small. Xiao Zhi and the others are currently only in the outermost room.

In the middle is an oil painting, which depicts a beautiful woman in a white dress, with pale skin, a pretty face, and her hair in a high bun.

There was no smile on the woman's face, her light blue eyes stared straight ahead, unable to tell whether she was sad or happy. There was a necklace around her neck, and there was no other ornament on her body.

After checking the surroundings, no clues were found. After Xiao Zhi greeted Einstein, he walked towards the place where the bedroom should be.

As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Zhi was taken aback. A figure dressed exactly like the oil painting at the door appeared in front of him. The person turned his back to him, and he couldn't tell if it was the woman in the oil painting.

It was quite embarrassing to break into the empty door and get caught, Xiao Zhi didn't know how to explain it for a while, and it seemed that he entered the hostess's room.

Said that we just went to the toilet hand in hand, I wonder if we will be beaten out as stinky hooligans.

Xiao Zhi waited for a while, but found that the figure in front of him did not respond. Not only did he not turn around because he was disturbed, he did not even move slightly.

Xiao Zhi was suspicious, and tentatively said, "I'm sorry, did I bother you?"

The other party still did not respond.

Xiao Zhi took a few steps forward and walked closer, only to realize that the person in front of him was not a person at all. Because its exposed neck is snow-white, not the kind of snow-white that describes a person's fair skin, but literally, as pale as snow.

Not only that, Xiao Zhi also observed reflections with the help of subtle candlelight, which is only seen on hard material surfaces, with clear and neat reflections on the edges, this is not the texture that human skin should have.

This time, he resolutely walked to the front of the figure. It turned out that this woman dressed in the same way as the woman in the female painting was also a doll, but it was far less delicate than Nita in the hall, her face was blank, and she didn't even have any facial features.

Xiao Zhi retreated to the door and shouted, "Senior brother, come and have a look."

Footsteps sounded from behind him, gradually approaching him.

Xiao Zhi said, "Look, I found a puppet, and inside that oil painting outside—"

His voice suddenly stopped.

Because Xiao Zhi suddenly remembered that Einstein, like him, used undead soul crystals. Unless they deliberately stepped on it, the undead would not make a sound of footsteps when they moved forward.

So, what exactly is this gradually approaching his back?

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, Xiao Zhi didn't have time to think about it, he took advantage of the undead's light body and flew up suddenly, instantly opening the distance from the bottom.

Xiao Zhi looked down from a height, and saw a pale puppet in Einstein's clothes standing below, raising his blank face to "look at" him.

Xiao Zhi looked around the room and saw no trace of Einstein.

Where did Brother Ai go? Why did such a thing suddenly appear?

At this moment, there was a rustling movement in the room, and it sounded like the rubbing sound when a gorgeous big skirt was dragged on the ground.

Xiao Zhi followed the voice and looked over, and sure enough, the doll in the room also moved.

It took stiff steps, stretched out its hand and walked towards Xiao Zhi.

Another puppet also reached out to him, trying to grab him.

Xiao Zhi sent them a fireball with a backhand, and then rushed out of the room with flying speed.

Just after rushing out, Xiao Zhi saw Einstein rushing out at the same time, and the two were stunned when they saw each other.

Xiao Zhi: "I saw that you became—"

Einstein: "I see you become-"

The two did not continue to talk, presumably the other party must have encountered the same situation as himself. I don't know why, they entered the same room, but were separated into two spaces afterward, and they encountered similar encounters but couldn't see each other.

Footsteps continued to be heard in the room.

The two looked back at the same time, and this time there were four dolls in the room, two wearing the same gorgeous clothes as the oil painting, one wearing Einstein's clothes, and one wearing the same style as Xiao Zhi.

At this time, their speed was significantly faster than before. Light blue energy fluctuations appeared in the hands of the two puppets wearing long skirts, and two ice blades attacked them respectively.

Xiao Zhi and the two hurriedly dodged. At this moment, a burst of music sounded, as light and sweet as a music box.

Accompanied by the music, there was also a rustling sound in the rooms that could not be opened on both sides, as if many people were slowly approaching the door.

Einstein smiled: "It's exciting again."

Xiao Zhi rushed forward: "Don't run fast, the chase is coming."

After speaking, he slipped away without any brotherly affection.

"Little Junior Brother, you are running so fast!" Einstein quickly followed after seeing this, he didn't want to be left at the bottom.

The pale figures of the two undead passed by quickly in the corridor, and as they advanced, the sound of the door opening kept coming from behind them. Xiao Zhi took time to look back. All these rooms were filled with pale puppets, no wonder there was no sound coming out before, it turned out that they were all dead objects.

The dolls have all come out now, standing at the door with their blank faces facing them, while slowly and stiffly reaching out to them, the picture is quite strange.

The situation is not right, they plan to go back to find Wei Di first, and take him to run together.

While running, the two discussed.

Xiao Zhi: "I think the room just now must be very important, otherwise the whole house will not change as soon as we enter."

Einstein: "Have you found a clue?"

Xiao Zhi: "No, but I suspect it has something to do with the portrait, how about you?"

Einstein spread his hands: "I doubt her too."

Xiao Zhi: "Let's bring Senior Brother Sixteen over to take a look."

Einstein agreed with this, and he was not determined to find a scholar when he was in trouble. Although Vidy's game level is negligible, he is quite sharp at finding clues and analyzing it.

The two changed lanes several times in the corridor, and finally got rid of the puppets behind them.

Back in the corridor where their room was located, it was still as calm as before, not affected by the disturbance in the distance.

When he came to Wei Di's room, he was still in the shape of the quilt covering his head, a posture that he wanted to live and die with the quilt.

Einstein stepped forward: "Come up, we found the clue."

Saying that, he will reach out and lift the quilt of Vidi.

A hand suddenly stretched out in front of him, blocking his movement. Einstein turned his head in confusion, but saw Xiao Zhi holding the address book in one hand while lip-mouthing him: Look at the address book.

Feeling that the situation was not right, Einstein withdrew his hand and opened his address book, and saw that there was a new message from Vidi in the contact group of the three.

Sixteen: Be careful, I'm dead, I don't know what's going on, as soon as I open my eyes, it's the resurrection point.

The two put away the address book, then took out their weapons.

Xiao Zhi looked at Einstein, who nodded.

Then, they suddenly lifted the quilt and hit the puppet disguised as Vidi inside. The poor puppet was waiting for the chance to assassinate, but he didn't expect the two to be so unreasonable, and they came up and smashed it to pieces.

The scum of the doll was scattered on the big bed, and the human form was almost invisible, and there were still defects swallowed by the fire of the undead, which looked particularly miserable.

Einstein was a little worried: "Wei ... what should I do if Sixteen hangs up?"

It felt like the scumbag found out before the exam that the school tyrant at the same table today was not able to ask for leave.

Xiao Zhi was also a little worried. His eyes searched on the bed, and suddenly he saw a little reflection under the light of the candle. He reached for the thing and found it to be a key.

Einstein came over: "The key? This thing doesn't seem to be Sixteen, I know all his stuff."

Xiao Zhi looked at the key: "Does it sound a little familiar, as if I've seen it before?"

Einstein touched his chin and thought for a moment: "No."

Xiao Zhi frowned, he still felt suspicious. Suddenly, the oil painting he had seen before flashed in his mind. The woman in the portrait had a necklace around her neck. Because it was her only accessory, Xiao Zhi took a few more glances.

Xiao Zhi: "We may have to go back to that room to have a look. I think the pattern on the woman's necklace in the oil painting seems to be a bit like on a key."

Einstein: "You mean, the exit door may be hidden in the portrait"

Xiao Zhi nodded: "Go and have a look?"

Einstein: "Okay, there are no other clues now anyway."

Once again come to the corridor where the ornate door is located.

The corridor had returned to calm, but as the two stepped in, the quiet rooms on both sides became commotion again. The two kept walking, rushing forward with the speed of the undead.

Opening the door, two dolls in identical clothes were waiting for them, and next to them were two dolls imitating Xiao Zhi's clothes.

The four dolls "looked" straight at them and attacked them the moment they stepped into the room.

The two female puppets still used ice magic, and the puppets imitating Xiao Zhi also used the attack methods of the mage and the assassin respectively. They imitated the ground in a prudent manner, which was much stronger than Vidi's puppets.

Xiao Zhi thought that the reason why the Weidi puppet just now was so easy to deal with was probably because the target of its imitation was Weidi...

Einstein turned around and blocked the attack coming towards Xiao Zhi: "Little Junior Brother, go and try it first, I'll block it here."

Although he is a scumbag, Einstein is a very reliable and good senior brother when fighting, even if he is a 1v4.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhi immediately pulled away and quickly floated towards the portrait.

A puppet wanted to chase, but was kicked back by Einstein. He dodged in the puppet's attack, and sometimes he would be narrowly brushed by it. It looked very dangerous, but he still stopped them. on his own side.

But the situation is not good, because the surrounding rooms are opened again, and the dolls are slowly approaching here.

Xiao Zhi quickly came to the front of the portrait, the woman in the painting still looked like she had no sadness and no joy. He took out the key and compared it with the necklace on the woman's neck, and found that it was the same.

Not seeing the keyhole, Xiao Zhi tried to attach the pattern on the key to the woman's necklace.

In the next instant, a light blue light lit up, and a familiar teleportation formation appeared where the portrait was originally.

"Go!" Xiao Zhi greeted Einstein and threw a series of fireballs to support him.

After a while, the two worked together to get rid of the dolls and entered the portal.

The transmitted light passed.

Xiao Zhi found himself floating on a gray ocean. The sea here was not turbulent, nor did it feel flowing, just like a pool of stagnant water.

If you look closely, there are vaguely dead souls floating in the water, but their expressions are dull and their movements are very slow, looking ignorant. Maybe the things below that look like water are not actually water.

The sea was covered with a light gray mist, obscuring his vision from the distance.

Einstein, who entered the portal at the same time as him, disappeared, and there was no trace of people around.

Xiao Zhi took out the address book and wanted to contact the brothers, but found that the news could not be sent out, there was only a prompt "in a special environment, temporarily unable to communicate".

It seems that the last level can only be advanced alone.

Xiao Zhi floated on the sea, not knowing how to leave this level. Hesse's three levels, the first level tested combat effectiveness and judgment, the second level tested analytical skills, so what about the third level?

It's not like the entire clerk selection does not test the undead writing skills of the participants, right? What if a totally illiterate clerk is elected?

Just thinking about it, a small slate floated on the water in front of me. don't know what texture this slate is, but it can float on the water surface. It looks a bit strange.

Xiao Zhipiao took a closer look, and the words were engraved on it:

He walked through the corridors of life and death,

Break the noise of the world,

peel off the heavy body,

Invite me to dance and enter the peaceful embrace of death.

This is what Xiao Zhi learned this month. The undead poet Sifrina dedicated the love poem to the god of death - "Death is Eternal Love". The whole poem describes her feelings and yearning for death in the moment of life and death , here is a small snippet of it.

Xiao Zhi picked up the slate, which was just a long strip the size of a slap. Obviously, there was content in the front and back, probably for the participants to find other parts and complete them.

Xiao Zhi smiled: "The final written test? It's quite romantic."