The end of the world starts with failing the exam

"Old man..."

"I'm wiping your ass..."

"I hope you don't blame me..."

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[Countdown to return to the examination room: 235 hours, 11 minutes and 35 seconds]

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Chapter 61 The Secret in the Old Man’s Study

Chen Jing's idea is very simple.

He only needs to let Baiaji cooperate with the control of the four corpses and let them walk around the house a few more times to leave more clues that they have been to the old house. After that...

I'm afraid it will be very lively at the association.

"Aji, please let them stand aside and wait for me to mop the ground."

Chen Jing found two thick towels in the coal shed outside the door. Although they looked a little worn and even had a few holes, they were still washed clean, as if there was no dust on them.

This should have been left behind when the old lady was still here.

She is the only one who is so mysophobic.

"Fortunately, I didn't go into the back room and just took a few steps in the living room, otherwise the workload would have been too much..."

Chen Jing carefully picked up the towel, wrapped it around his feet and wrapped the two shoes, then picked up the mop, and then re-entered the gate of the old house fully armed.

Starting from the entrance in his memory, to every place he stayed, Chen Jing used a mop soaked in rainwater to mop it back and forth several times.

After making sure that nothing was missing after the scene was processed, Chen Jing raised his hand and threw the mop outside the door, and then signaled Bai Aji with his eyes to let it start "working".

At this moment, Chen Jing couldn't help but stretch lazily.

It was only a few hours.

I was so tired that I felt like I hadn't slept all day and night.

"It's time to get down to business..." Chen Jing turned to look at the study room with the door closed. Without any hesitation, he raised his feet and walked in that direction.

It was the only room in the old house that Smith had not opened.

The liver-colored wooden door has many marks that look like coal smearing, which should have been left by the old man not long ago.

Maybe this is why Smith and the others couldn't find the entrance to the study.

"very messy……"

Chen Jing stood outside the study door, raising his hand to touch these black marks.

But after thinking about it, he took his hand back.

He was afraid of leaving fingerprints.

now.

The four corpses controlled by Bai Aji were standing behind Chen Jing.

They are different from their original state.

Many strange black markings appeared on the skin, and the whites of the eyes were almost invisible, becoming as clear as black stones.

Among the four corpses, the one with the most obvious changes was Zhou Guojian.

Because his body has been corroded by the poison in Baiaji's saliva.

The whole body looks a little too bloated.

When Zhou Guojian's body was walking, Chen Jing could even hear the heart-wrenching sound of water sloshing back and forth in his body.

Although Chen Jing is not afraid of corpses, nor is he afraid that these ghosts will suddenly pretend to be corpses and attack him, but seeing these four things standing behind him... Chen Jing always feels a little uncomfortable and feels unlucky.

"Don't come in!"

Chen Jing saw Bai Aji poking his head at the door, as if he couldn't help but be curious and ran into the house at any time, so he hurriedly stopped him.

"The house is small and can't handle your tossing and turning. Wait for me outside the door!"

"Woo!"

Bai Aji seemed a little aggrieved, but Chen Jing could no longer care about comforting him at this time. He had more important things to do.

Set your mind.

Chen Jing took out the key the old man gave him from his pocket.

This was taken from the iron box in the tomb.

Judging from his feelings, Chen Jing felt that the importance of this thing was probably no less important than the video in that DV camera.

After inserting the key into the keyhole, Chen Jing looked back at Smith's body.

Although he didn't say anything, Baiaji standing outside the house clearly understood what he meant.

Soon, Smith's body came forward, like a puppet on strings, and under Baiage's control completed a series of actions from turning the key to opening the door.

The moment the door opened, there was a burning smell.

Chen Jing hurriedly looked inside.

Ever since he was a child, he had been very curious about this airtight room.

After all, with that paranoid old man around, Chen Jing never had a chance to sneak in, or even have a chance to stand at the door and take a look.

until today.

Only then did he have the opportunity to take a closer look at what secrets were hidden in this room...

"Is this... a fire?" Chen Jing murmured in surprise. The study in front of him was like a ruin scorched by fire.

Walls, floors, ceilings.

Everything was burned black.

The furniture was burned to the point where nothing was left.

The ground was covered in dazzling white ash.

Seeing that there was nothing in the study, Chen Jing felt that he must have been deceived by the old man.

The study is in such a state of disrepair and why are you so mysterious? !

Old man, what exactly do you think? !

Chen Jing sighed in disappointment.

Suddenly, he seemed to catch something out of the corner of his eye...

There's something on the edge of the threshold.

Just put it on the ground.

It was only twenty centimeters away from him, and he would touch it if he raised his feet slightly.

"Shouldn't that stone tablet be hidden in the study... Why is it like this..." Chen Jing frowned and looked at the kraft paper envelope on the ground, with many question marks appearing in his head.

The envelope on the floor is made of the most common kraft paper.

But it seemed to contain more than just letter paper, there seemed to be something else bulging inside.

Chen Jing hesitated for a moment, and finally let Baiaji control Smith's body, pick up the envelope and hand it to him.

It's always good to be careful.

The envelope contained a folded letter and a key.

"Key again?"

Chen Jing was quite surprised and took out the brass-like key with his fingers. After looking at it for a moment, he felt that it was different from an ordinary key.

It is as long as the palm of your hand.

The front section is round like a copper rod, with irregular serrations at the top.

As for the end of the key...

It is a hollow carved pattern.

He didn't know if it was Chen Jing's misunderstanding. No matter how he looked at it, the key seemed familiar to him. He always felt that he had seen it somewhere not long ago.

"Why does this pattern look so familiar..." Chen Jing muttered, turning the key left and right, racking his brains to remember, "It seems like... hiss!"

Suddenly, Chen Jing took a breath of air.

He subconsciously took off the backpack from his back and put it on his chest, then opened the zipper and took out the Yellow King's Holy Grail from the bag to compare...

How come the patterns of these two things are the same? !

Chen Jing looked at the key in his hand in disbelief, and then at the raised totem patterns on the surface of the Yellow King's Holy Grail.

"This thing...is it also a relic???"

Just when Chen Jingbai was puzzled, the light screen that had been closed appeared without warning.

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Tip: "Relic" has been detected, target details are being analyzed...

Relic: [Old Relic·Yellow King's Courtyard·Key to the Door]

Details: This is an old relic from the Yellow King's Courtyard. The user needs to pay the price of his life to show his pious faith, and then he can use the door key to open the door of the courtyard.

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Chapter 2: Divine Revelation for Advancement to Sequence

The Yellow King's Courtyard.

This vocabulary is not unfamiliar to Chen Jing.

When the community in the original world was invaded by wasteland pollutants, it was Lawrence who finally rescued him.

And Lawrence said this after seeing the "Yellow King's Holy Grail".

"This ancient relic is very dangerous. I once saw a totem similar to it in an ancient ruin in the wasteland, with the same pattern..."

"Which ancient ruins did you see it at?" Chen Jing remembered asking him at that time, and Lawrence's answer was still fresh in his memory.

"Deep in the wasteland, there is a place called the 'Yellow King's Courtyard' by the local tribe..."

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Huangwang Courtyard...

At this time, Chen Jing couldn't help but begin to wonder, why did everything he experienced in the other world... and this key feel like "collusion"?

The sequence of his awakening is "Deep Space". As an old descendant of this sequence, he can use relics from the "Three Paths" at any cost.

The three paths are [Yellow King] - [Luoyan City] - [Kakosa].

"The Holy Grail of the Yellow King comes from the Yellow King's path... and the whistle that summons Bai'aji comes from the path of Kakosa..."

"That is to say..."

"I use this key to open the door..."

"No need to pay the price of life..."

At this moment, Chen Jing's expression was a little complicated.

Although he obtained another relic that met the conditions for use, and it was an ancient relic of a higher level than ancient relics, he was not as happy as he imagined...

He just felt like a puppet now.

Yes, just like the four corpses manipulated by Bai Aji.

Being led by a string.