musicians of old

Chapter 540 The extra door
"Gone?"

"Did he still stay in the last room and not follow?"

"You shouldn't be so confused when you're sleepy."

When Ivan, the cook, opened his mouth, everyone realized that there were indeed only five people entering the house. Including the two guarding the door, one was missing.

Someone shouted a few times toward the outside of the dead black camp, and Tukweil asked Lieutenant Andrew and cook Ivan, who were standing guard by the door, if they saw Brigadier General Boles following or coming in.

The two of them nodded immediately at first, saying "it's definitely coming."

Even Tukweil repeatedly asked details such as "were you in front or behind the team when you didn't come in?" "Where did you stand after coming in?" "What did you check?" When asked, they both blurted out their answers, and what they said could corroborate each other.

But they couldn't answer the question "Why did the person disappear?" and several priests couldn't explain it clearly.

"Go back to the previous house first and have a look. Let's go together and don't get separated."

Fan Ning first made arrangements.

Before using the "Sneaky Water" elixir, would Brigadier General Boles be so sleepy that he fell asleep?It's not impossible, after all, even I, a profounder, feel far more tired than usual.

If you have just fallen asleep, you may not dream so quickly, and you may not be able to wake up in time.

"Okay, everyone, please pay attention."

Priest Duerke raised his arm to warn, and then with a creaking sound, he used his foot to push open the half-covered steel door.

When we went out, the air felt very humid, and it started to rain.

In the virgin mountain forests in no man's land, the weather is unpredictable.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there was a muffled spring thunder in the distance.

Everyone stepped on the mud and carefully returned to the previous room with the double bass.

Brigadier General Boles was not there either.

Just now, I used a flashlight to shine on some places where there might be blind spots, such as fences and bushes, but there were none.

In fact, with the vigilance of a senior military general, even if he really fell asleep, in such a quiet place, there was no way that he would not react to the few voices calling him by his name just now. This time, a palpable sense of haze enveloped him. Seven people remain.

Fan Ning could only take out the "Night Watchman's Lamp", light it with the very tired spiritual fire, and try to recite the prayer about "The Secret of Illumination":

"Stairs ascend into gray neon, lights and windows open to wait."

"We illuminate to drive away darkness, we guide the way forward, and we have no mercy."

"Brigadier General Boles' current location."

Bright light bursts out from it, projecting light and dark textures on the floor and walls, but it is flickering and shaking, very chaotic.

There is no indication of a more worthwhile direction or path.

"Even the 'Night Watchman's Lamp', a very high-level 'candle' ritual tool, cannot directly work? It seems that seeking enlightenment in it is also more difficult than in the outside world. This is because of the abnormal confusion of Honkai Did you understand the original rules and principles of the seven major phases? I remember that in the previous interrogation information of the church, it was recorded that someone came out of the abnormal zone and claimed that 'there are more than 40 kinds of phases in the world'."

However, there are two ways to further strengthen it. Use it after entering a dream, or use a secret ritual.

Of course you can't try the former, but you can do the latter.

As Fan Ning was thinking in his mind, the drizzle outside the house turned heavy, the wind blew violently, and a lightning bolt as thick as a bucket pierced the sky.

The entire mountain col and camp were photographed into a contrasting film of black and white. The trees and flowers stretched out with claws and teeth, and then returned to darkness and silence in an instant. "Hangka!——"

The thunder that followed exploded heavily in everyone's ears.

"Leave these barracks with unknown purposes first." Fan Ning opened his mouth and made a decision. "This place is too weird. Find another place to stay to arrange the secret ritual. The unknown elixir involving the 'Sneaky Water' is also needed. It will be refined immediately.”

Even if there is no revelation to be found, you have to rest and look for someone again at dawn.

Everyone who was soaked in the rain immediately carefully returned to the original path and walked towards another road marked with an arrow ahead.

"It's quite big in here."

"Let's first look to see if there are any files."

Soon after, people with water stains all over their bodies began to shine flashlights into the empty main barracks.

This is a lobby that covers an area larger than a basketball court. The layout is somewhat similar to Fan Ning's car sales showroom in his previous life. Its interior is relatively less weathered. The large area in the middle is empty and contains several groups. There was a rusty old steam equipment that Fan Ning could not name, and several "pool tables" filled with fallen leaves and soil. Fan Ning quickly realized that these should actually be terrain sand tables or something like that.

As for the edges of the "exhibition hall", there are three-by-two combinations of negotiation tables, chairs, filing cabinets, and some tattered camp beds that can no longer sleep on.

Through the stairs, you can go to the corridor on the second floor. Standing on the first floor of the hall and looking like this, there are grid-like inner rooms above.

Thunder exploded from time to time outside the barracks, and it was as bright as day.

The pollen and mold on the wall, which were originally hidden in the darkness, were illuminated by lightning into paintings with extremely high black and white contrast. Bishop Tucville lit as many damaged lamps as he could perceive, although these firelights were not visible in the huge space. It was still dim, but it diluted the thrilling feeling of the dramatic changes in color when the hall flashed.

As they searched the file cabinets and cubicles on the first and second floors, everyone discovered more and more things that were contrary to common sense. For example, the vertical railings that formed the fence on both sides of the stairwell, some of which were silver or black. A bright flute or oboe; the wall behind the desk has been dug out with large and small, densely packed, funnel-shaped holes with a bright yellow metal texture. At a glance, it reminds people of the mouth of a brass instrument; while in the In a long and narrow room used as a bathroom, the team members found that where the toilet should have been, there was a timpani, and several French horns seemed to be melted and glued to it on the drum surface.
Looking at the team members who were searching carefully with bright flashlights, Fan Ning already had a vague hunch that they had certain tendencies.

However, this time the search was fruitful and the team found some of the paper files they were looking for.

"Go back to the hall and arrange the secret ceremony."

Fanning did not accept what the team members handed him. He was not prepared to stay next to these weird things for a long time.

After going down to the first floor, Tukweil directed everyone to clear every corner and come out to set up a spiritual wall.

The two priests prepared various items and tools for refining the elixir, while he himself leaned over and placed candles in a mysterious display on the ground.

After he finally controlled an oval mirror suspended in the sky, Fan Ning controlled the "Night Watchman's Lamp" again and repeated the prayer he recited before.

This time, the picture in the mirror began to change and reorganize.

"Is it still that room?" Everyone's eyes were filled with surprise and uncertainty.

The perspective of the picture is the front view of the door of the second house, which is where the "wall-mounted" piano was placed and where the disappearance of Brigadier General Boles was discovered. The door was kicked half open by Priest Durques before leaving. The steel-bar spliced ​​door is crumbling in the wind and rain in the mirror.

Do you think the disappearance of Brigadier General Boles is related to this room?

Could it be that I missed it during the search just now?impossible.

This room is so big, even if one person looks around 360 degrees, there will be no blind spots. What's more, there were seven well-trained people at that time, and they could find even a bug.

"wrong."

Fan Ning, who stared at the mirror for a long time, finally realized something was wrong.

"I remember clearly when I entered that this cabin had no door at all!"

(End of this chapter)