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Chapter 509 Four Doors

The winter morning was wrapped in mist, and the pine forests in the distant mountains seemed covered with a layer of white gauze. Under Bai Huang's gaze, Gao Ming opened the gate of the manor.

The heavy wooden door slowly opened, and Bai Huang, her clothes soaked, entered the house. There was mud on her cuffs and obvious scratches on her fingers.

"Are you hurt?" Gao Ming smelled a faint smell of blood on Bai Huang.

"This happens to be the proof that I am alive." Bai Huang's eyes were cold. She had not drunk a drop of water since she entered the nightmare, and seemed to have lost a lot of weight in just one night.

Thick boots stepped on the wooden stairs, and the creaking sound seemed to be louder than yesterday. The owner of the house ran to Bai Huang with a shotgun in hand, pointing the muzzle at Bai Huang's forehead: "It's freezing cold, and the mountains are covered with snow. Almost no one can spend a whole night in the wild. Where did you hide last night?"

Gao Ming noticed the words used by the owner of the house. He did not ask where Bai Huang had gone, but instead asked where Bai Huang was hiding.

"How do you know that no one can survive a night outside? Have you abandoned a lot of people outside before? And then went to look for their corpses the next day?" Bai Huang was pointed at by a gun, but she still spoke toughly, which made the people around her sweat for her.

"Do you think I don't dare to shoot?" The man's fingers slowly pressed down. Gao Ming and Xu Deyi did not dare to step forward to stop him, for fear of accidentally touching the other party and causing an accidental discharge.

"It's the hut next to the manor where firewood is stored. I spent the night there last night." Contrary to everyone's expectations, Bai Huang had no intention of continuing to provoke the owner of the hut and answered the question decisively. Her previous behavior seemed more like a test of something.

"Why didn't you come back all night?"

"I went to East Lake." The chilblains on Bai Huang's face were bleeding, but she didn't seem to feel any pain. She even smiled: "I saw fish under the ice. They were really big fish."

The owner's hand holding the gun trembled visibly, and he slowly moved the shotgun away: "There is frostbite medicine in room 3009, I will help you treat the wound."

Without giving the others a chance to speak, the man grabbed Bai Huang's arm and walked towards the stairs while shouting to Gao Ming and Xu Deyi, "Something strange sneaked into the manor last night. We must find it before dark, otherwise no one will survive tonight."

The two disappeared in the corridor. A moment later, the door of room 2004 was opened. Qian Jin walked out cautiously with an axe in hand. After making sure there was no danger around, he waved behind him, and Raorao and Zhige, who were left behind, walked out one after another.

"You three are really cowards. A lot of big things happened in the manor last night, and you actually stayed in the room and waited until dawn to come out." Xu Deyi became annoyed when he saw the three-man team. He was scared by the climbers last night, and then he was forced by the owner of the house to get a toolbox. He was really scared and thought about asking for help from the three-man team. As a result, he knocked on the door of room 2004 for five minutes, but there was no sound from inside.

"Was it really you who knocked on the door last night?" Qian Jin looked at Xu Deyi in surprise: "We thought it was a ghost in disguise, so we didn't open the door."

"The owner of the house has told us not to open the door and not to walk around casually. Before you are ready to destroy the nightmare, following the rules can help you live longer." Raorao's mouth was still sarcastic: "It is said that newcomers are prone to bad things."

Xu Deyi clenched his fists when he was scolded, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that it was because the fool opened the curtains last night and violated the rules that they saw the body of the climber outside the window.

"Don't waste your time." Patting Xu Deyi on the shoulder, Gao Ming stood in front of the three-person team and said, "Following the rules of the owner will only lead to deeper trouble. If we hadn't discovered it early last night, those zombies would have crawled into the manor through the gap in room 2001."

"I just heard from the owner that some dangerous things have sneaked into the manor. You worked so hard, but in the end, didn't dangerous things still get into the manor?" Raorao put her hands on the fence and leaned forward: "The inevitable trend of the development of mid-level nightmares is that the safe area continues to shrink. This is the process of the dream owner's psychological defense line collapsing, unless you have the ability to heal his mental trauma." If you want to heal mental trauma, you must first find out the crux of the problem, but Gao Ming and the others haven't even found the real dream owner yet.

"Psychological trauma often accumulates bad emotions." When Gao Ming went to the kitchen last night, he saw four special keys hidden in the owner's arms. They were written with pain, sorrow, resentment, and hatred. The key with pain opened the door of the cellar: "Each key should correspond to a door in the manor. The thing hidden behind the door is attracting the snowman. Maybe it is the body and memory of the nightmare owner."

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately went into the kitchen. Seeing that Gao Ming seemed to have discovered something, the three-member team followed him.

Lifting the dirty blanket on the ground, Gao Ming stared at the lid of the cellar entrance. The thick wooden boards were stacked together and embedded in the ground tightly.

"We don't have the right tools, so it's difficult to open it. If we chop it with an axe, it will definitely attract the owner of the house." Xu Deyi also noticed the strange keyhole on the cellar door, which looked like a large blood scab solidified on the skin.

"We have seen similar doors in other places in the manor." Qian Jin came over with a smile: "Want to cooperate? Tell me what is hidden inside the door, and I will take you to find other doors."

"The snowman entered the manor last night. When the owner of the house found out that the snowman had been here, he became very nervous and opened the cellar with a key engraved with the word 'pain'."

"Did you see the scene in the cellar?" Zhi Ge pushed Xu Deyi aside and squeezed in front of Gao Ming: "Did you see the road?"

"road?"

Zhi Ge was a little anxious, and he exuded a completely different strong aura from before, like a helmsman of a large ship that had sailed through a storm: "The way out of the middle-level nightmare is hidden behind the exit. The so-called exit may be a window, or a mirror or a wardrobe, but most of the exits are 'doors', which is formed according to people's subconsciousness."

"Except for the fourth floor, which we couldn't get through yesterday, we found a total of three doors in the manor that couldn't be opened." Qian Jin stepped on the wooden door: "The cellar door is only one of them. The other two doors are in the small room behind the woodshed and room 3009."

Ignoring Raorao's obstruction, Qian Jin really wanted to cooperate with Gao Ming.

"The owner of the house entered the cellar with a lamp last night. He was very wary of me and didn't let me get close to him. But I saw that he had four keys, so there is still a door in this manor that you haven't found." After Gao Ming told the truth, he called the fool and Xu De and ran out of the manor.

The sky was covered with heavy snow, the snow had already reached above the ankles, the yard was very cold, and the whole world seemed to be frozen.

The words on the road sign were not very clear, so Gao Ming came to the back of the woodshed based on the impression in his mind. There was indeed a gray brick house here.

It is old and solid, with no windows and the walls are specially thickened.

Patting the solid wall, Gao Ming was very puzzled: "There is no smoke duct and no windows. Such a thick wall is definitely not for warmth. Is it for sound insulation?"

The door of the brick house was built on the side. It was a big red iron door. Originally, there was an upside-down blessing pasted on the center of the door, but it was wet by rain and snow and most of it fell off. Only a few small "口" characters could be seen on it, which made people feel uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)