Chapter 164: House Of Evil Ghosts
It was clearly just Lu Jinzhao who didn’t want to stay on the first floor and chose to return to the third floor, but the end result was that the others also came back one after another.
“Little Lu.” Before opening the room door, Lu Jinzhao was called again.
Auntie Duan walked behind her, looking at her and saying, “This is already the second day. Do you have any thoughts on the truth?”
Lu Jinzhao turned her head to look at her, squinting her eyes slightly: “Not yet.”
“Then, how about we exchange and check each other’s rooms to see if there are any new clues?”
As she spoke, Qiu Tian and Tan Meng also came up the stairs one after another.
The two heard this sentence but didn’t say anything.
Lu Jinzhao looked straight at this middle-aged person and asked bluntly, “Why bring this up suddenly?”
“I just feel that we might need to hurry up with time. The longer it drags on, the more changes there will be.”
“So, do you want to come to my room and take a look?” she suggested.
Strange.
Lu Jinzhao looked at her, observing her expression when speaking, her eyes, listening to her tone, and only felt that Auntie Duan was saying these words with some strong purpose. Her language and eyes both revealed insincerity; she didn’t really want to exchange clues with her to find the truth.
Then what was she doing it for?
No matter what for.
“Sorry, next time.”
Lu Jinzhao chose to refuse.
She opened the room door, ignoring the anxious appearance of the other who still wanted to say something, walked in, and closed the door behind her.
Her room door was immediately knocked on, but the person knocking only dared to call her softly, not daring to make too much noise, and also because of the rules on the blackboard, didn’t dare to barge into her room.
But at this moment, Lu Jinzhao had no mind to care what the person outside the door wanted to do.
Her room had a little problem.
The same problem as on the first floor.
At first glance, it seemed like nothing had changed, but Lu Jinzhao remembered that the white cloths in the room had been lifted and covered by her, and their shapes and folds had actually undergone significant changes. Even the dust on them had been shaken off quite a bit. It absolutely shouldn’t be this current appearance, as if they had never been lifted at all.
Her room had also returned to its initial appearance.
Clearly, before she left the room, there had been no changes at all.
So when did the change start?
It could only be during the time from when she stepped out of the room door to when she arrived on the first floor.
Lu Jinzhao walked to these white cloths again, reached out to lift one of them. The corpse hidden under the white cloth was no different from what she had seen when she first arrived yesterday.
She walked to the bedroom again. Even though she hadn’t rested here, a room that had been unoccupied for a long time suddenly having one more person stay overnight would leave some traces no matter what, but now, they were completely gone.
“Is it time rewind? Or something else?”
If it’s related to time, then it’s trouble.
The knocking at the door temporarily stopped. Lu Jinzhao looked at the remaining two white cloths in the room, which were no different from yesterday, and fell into thought.
Apartment, room, blackboard.
Scenes like time flowing backward, but different “rules” on the blackboard.
“No, it’s not time rewind.”
If it were time rewind, then the writing on the blackboard shouldn’t have changed.
She suddenly thought of the surrounding environment she had observed just after entering the platform but before entering the apartment.
The gloomy sky, several buildings identical in appearance to the current apartment. She had thought at the time that they were probably from the same batch of completion, which was common, but now.
“So, it’s the space that has changed?”
What if several apartments were not only identical on the outside, but even the interiors were completely the same?
The only difference might be the [rules] on the blackboard.
“Everything else is the same, but each apartment has different precautions, or rather rules, written on the blackboard.”
If thought of this way, it seemed much more reasonable.
“But what is the reason for the change?”
How did they transfer from one building to another?
Ghosts could certainly do this silently, but there had to be a time, a node when the change occurred.
“Then, let’s do again what was done earlier.”
Empty speculation had many possibilities, but if she redid everything she had done earlier, she might be able to draw a conclusion.
If she did this and the writing on the blackboard changed again, then it meant she might have jumped space again.
If there was no change at all, then the problem might not be in the actions done, and jumping space might be fixed at a certain time point, or some other trigger point she hadn’t realized.
But before that, Lu Jinzhao lifted the white cloth and threw it on the ground.
She needed to make this room different from before and any possible after.
“Then, this room is number 2.”
Initial room, number 1.
Lu Jinzhao opened the door again. She wasn’t too worried about someone messing up the things she had arranged in the room, after all, the blackboard wrote prohibitions on unauthorized entry, and it seemed the other teammates all abided by the rules on the blackboard.
All very cautious.
But she didn’t expect that as soon as she opened the door, three lines of sight came at her.
Her three “teammates” were all standing outside their respective room doors, seemingly discussing something.
Seeing her come out, they turned their gazes to her.
Lu Jinzhao raised her eyebrow slightly, ignored these people, closed the door behind her, and planned to go to the first floor.
“What are you going to do?” Qiu Tian, who lived across from her, suddenly walked over quickly to block her and asked.
“I think you’re right; we still need to watch the first floor.” Lu Jinzhao had a look of sudden realization.
Irritation immediately appeared on Qiu Tian’s face: “You!”
She wanted to say something, her voice suddenly rose sharply, but in the next second, she realized something and immediately lowered it.
Lu Jinzhao looked at her and found it a bit strange. Since the rules on the first floor had changed, why was she still abiding by the old rules?
But she didn’t say much, just turned around and walked downstairs.
Behind her, several footsteps sounded; it was her unfamiliar teammates following again.
“Really clingy.”
Lu Jinzhao thought this in her heart, but her facial expression showed no change.
When she arrived on the first floor and looked at the blackboard, Lu Jinzhao saw that the writing on the blackboard had changed.
[Prohibit occupying the bathroom for a long time, prohibit damaging others’ property, prohibit theft, prohibit robbery]
Third kind of rules, number 3 blackboard, so had her room also become number 3?
Lu Jinzhao didn’t rush back to the room to check first, but went up to the second floor first, then returned to the first floor to check the blackboard; the blackboard hadn’t changed.
She went up to the third floor again, then back to the first floor; the blackboard still hadn’t changed.
So, excluding these, there seemed to be only one possibility left.
Lu Jinzhao stepped toward upstairs again, but she was blocked. Her teammate looked at her puzzled and asked, “What exactly are you doing?”
There’s still today
