Chapter 3210: Roof

Su Xiao lit the calendar paper in his hand, the paper ash fell slowly, and he could faintly smell the burnt grease.

Although he guessed who was in Room 7, for the sake of stability, Su Xiao took out a gold coin and flicked it with his thumb.

Ding~

The gold coin made a pleasant sound, flipping in mid-air. After reaching the highest point, it flipped and fell. Logically speaking, it should make a ding sound again when it landed, but in fact, it didn't.

The gold coin disappeared the moment it landed, and there was no sound behind the door of Room 7.

"Damn, why is this guy suddenly so cautious."

Baha landed on Su Xiao's shoulder. Watching this scene just now, he also guessed who was in Room 7, and he said with a bad smile:

"Boss, shall we..."

Baha lowered his bad smile. Su Xiao took out another gold coin, pinched a corner of the gold coin with his thumb and index finger wrapped in crystal layers, took out the Fate Dominator lighter to ignite it, burned the gold coin pinched between his fingers, burned it for a while, and then threw the gold coin up.

The moment the gold coin landed, Su Xiao faintly felt something probe out from under the door crack. It was too fast, very difficult to perceive. This was nine times out of ten a high-level ability specifically used for plucking feathers from a passing goose.

The burnt hot gold coin just disappeared, and a smell of grilled protein drifted over. Even so, he still didn't hear the sound of the gold coin landing inside the door. The person inside must be holding the hot gold coin tightly. The degree of greed could be seen.

No need to think, the one inside the door of Room 7 was definitely Caesar. When the other party just handed out that calendar paper from the bottom of the door, Su Xiao had faintly guessed this point.

Why was Caesar hiding in Room 7 without speaking? This showed that the Main Painting World and the Inner Painting World were more dangerous than imagined, so much so that even Caesar's greedy and treacherous personality was scared.

In the past, Caesar would have jumped out actively to cooperate with Su Xiao to get benefits. After all, the two sides had cooperated many times on similar things.

This time, Caesar was cautious, not even daring to speak, only expressing his intention to cooperate through text.

Su Xiao's attitude was very clear: cooperating to get benefits was fine, but Caesar couldn't be cautious in the dark.

Su Xiao waited for a few seconds outside the wooden door, and a copper key was stuffed out from under the door. This was Caesar's sincerity.

Baha landed without changing his expression. In the next instant, the copper key on the ground disappeared.

There were a total of 14 room doors in the Shelter Hall. The 7 doors on the right wall had been roughly explored. The 7 doors on the left wall represented the houses belonging to the participants. The silver-gray metal doors at the main entrance of the Shelter Hall didn't have a key yet and couldn't be opened.

Su Xiao looked at the ladder leading to the roof of the Gubao, then walked toward his own room door. Pushing the door and walking into the room, as soon as he closed the door, the cold to the bone marrow gradually receded. It seemed that the days of those participants on the first floor of the Gubao were not easy.

Taking out the copper key obtained just now from the team storage space, this copper key was not used to open the silver-gray metal doors, but to open the cover on the roof. The reason he didn't explore immediately was that he didn't want to be discovered by Wood and Zuiyas.

The aroma of food drifted over. Su Xiao didn't have much hunger originally, but after smelling this smell, his stomach began to protest.

It was the maid · Anas cooking meals. The ingredients were taken out by Baha from the team storage space. More than ten minutes later.

"Guest, sorry to keep you waiting."

Anas served a portion of seafood noodles. Su Xiao tasted a mouthful, the taste was very good, not the same style as Xia's cooking, although slightly inferior, it was also outstanding.

Su Xiao examined Anas. If it weren't for this ghost being closely connected to the ancient castle, he would have been ready to tie this ghost away and use her as a portable cooking maid.

After a full meal, Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the bed to meditate. About half an hour later, a strange fluctuation spread, which was like an aura ability, and also had some characteristics of a continuous gain state.

【Hint: You have received the gain of 'Lullaby', and the sanity recovery speed has been significantly increased.】

Just after receiving the bonus of 'Lullaby', Su Xiao discovered that a very obscure black energy drifted out from all over his body.

Before, this black energy had been hidden in all parts of his body. The Green Steel Shadow energy hadn't devoured this external energy. The reason was that the characteristics of this black energy were spiritual and mental, very ethereal.

Su Xiao thought that the black energy dispelled in his body was the culprit that caused the mental beast-like nature, and it was also the madness that spread every moment in the world of painting.

The origin of this black energy could not be found yet, the clues were too few. Su Xiao combined the known intelligence in his mind.

Known intelligence: the Main Painting World he was in, which was the ancient castle, although not large, was the main body of this world. The four Inner Painting Worlds could not exist independently and must rely on the Main Painting World. No matter how small the Main Painting World became, without this place, the Inner Painting World would also cease to exist.

There were four Inner Painting Worlds in total. The first was the Nightmare World, the second was the world related to the desert, sun, and heat, which was also the world about to be entered. The third and fourth were tightly wrapped by iron chains, making it impossible to see the content of these two paintings, at most guessing.

Before, Su Xiao met a strong person named Great Knight. The other party came from a place called 'Ancient City', and the other party's purpose was to seize more 【Scroll Fragments】.

The reason was that the Inner Painting World where the Great Knight lived must consume 【Scroll Fragments】 as the price to maintain its current appearance, otherwise it would gradually collapse.

Combining these intelligence, in fact, there were only three Inner Painting Worlds: Sand Painting, and two unknown paintings. The Nightmare World could not be counted as an Inner Painting World.

The Nightmare World was stitched together using the 【Scroll Fragments】 of the Main Painting World, while the Sand Painting and the other two unknown paintings had their own world frameworks. They used the 【Scroll Fragments】 of the Main Painting World as consumables to ensure the stability of the world framework. This was a typical case of drinking poison to quench thirst.

The three Inner Painting Worlds were taking their former glory and history toward destruction step by step. They were like three giants about to die of thirst. For the three of them, 【Scroll Fragments】 were like poison. Every time they drank a mouthful, they were one step closer to madness and beast-like nature, but this poison could quench thirst. If they didn't drink, they would die of thirst. What was even more tragic was that this poison would eventually be finished one day.

In this way, although the Nightmare King's character wasn't very good, it had to be admitted that it had dreams. It used the 【Scroll Fragments】 it collected to stitch together the Nightmare World.

This seemed to be a life-saving method, but it wasn't. The former Nightmare King was the sacrificial department of the dynasty and one of the mainstays of resisting the 'Beast-like Faction' at that time. At that time, the Nightmare King had a lot of backbone and valued dignity more than life.

Why did the current Nightmare King become unable to play? This was because it was beaten. The Nightmare World stitched together with 【Scroll Fragments】 was not a life-saving method at all.

The existence of the Nightmare World was equivalent to a signal receiver with a messy frequency. Ancient gods, void alien existences, drifters, disaster creatures, dangerous groups, etc., could all arrive here.

Just like the Skeleton Gambler encountered before, the Nightmare King dared not provoke such an existence, not even daring to breathe loudly. However, there were also gentle ones, such as Dudu Gugu.

The various existences coming to the Nightmare World were too messy. As the master of the Nightmare World, how could the Nightmare King be beaten less? After being beaten for too many years, it had a bit of persecution delusion, hiding in Nightmare Town and not daring to come out, its temperament changed greatly.

Ask, where did the scroll fragments of the Skeleton Gambler and Dudu Gugu come from? The answer was, after the Skeleton Gambler arrived in the Nightmare World, it found the Nightmare King and wanted to gamble with the Nightmare King.

The Nightmare King politely declined, then was beaten up by the Skeleton Gambler, and another piece was torn from the world canvas of the Nightmare World.

A piece of world canvas torn off by the Skeleton Gambler was stitched together from 5 【Scroll Fragments】. The Skeleton Gambler kept 3 pieces for itself and gave 2 pieces to Dudu Gugu, just to coax Dudu Gugu to play.

Of course, these were all Su Xiao's speculations. Analyzing this way, the Nightmare World didn't need to be cared about at all. It was about to collapse, and presumably the Skeleton Gambler would take Dudu Gugu away from there.

The three Inner Painting Worlds at present were definitely not to be provoked, because these three worlds were much larger than the Nightmare World.

Thinking of these, Su Xiao emptied his mind and completely entered a meditative state. He found that the cooking maid... cough, Anas's Lullaby ability had a slight bonus to meditation, but the effect was very small.

A few hours later, Su Xiao opened his eyes. Although he didn't sleep, under the gain of Lullaby, he felt much more relaxed mentally, and the mental 'burden' that existed at all times before disappeared.

"Xiang Bubu."

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked low. Amu opened the door. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had integrated into the environment, probed his head out of the room door and looked around.

After Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang retracted his head, he broke away from the environment and barked low, meaning there was no one outside.

"Let's go."

Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Benny out. There was indeed no one in the Shelter Hall. He came to the silver-gray metal door, climbed up along the ladder, reached under the metal cover, inserted the copper key in his hand into the keyhole, and twisted it.

Click.

The lock bolt opened. Su Xiao pushed the metal cover upward and climbed onto the roof of the Gubao along the ladder, with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and others following closely behind.

A smell of decay drifted into his nasal cavity. After Xiang Bubu, Amu, and others all came up, Su Xiao checked the opened metal cover and found that this thing was designed very strangely. It could be twisted open from the outside with a wrench, but it required a key to open from the inside. This structure was like wanting to lock the people inside the ancient castle.

Su Xiao locked the metal cover and looked around at the situation. The roof of the ancient castle was flat, or rather, this was not the roof originally, but the third floor of the ancient castle.

The entire third floor of the ancient castle was cut from the middle and lower sections by something. The surrounding walls remained one meter high. Four meters above, purple-black semi-fluid hung in the sky. Judging from the shape, it seemed as if the third floor of the ancient castle was still there, supporting the surrounding purple-black semi-fluid.

The position where Su Xiao was currently was the third floor of the ancient castle, no, it should be the middle of the roof, and both the east and west sides could be explored.

Su Xiao walked toward the east side. Below him was the Shelter Hall. If he went further forward, he would reach directly above the reception hall on the first floor, which was above Morei and the others.

Although the roof was not small, there were not many things worth noting, mostly furniture that only had the lower half left, as well as low walls less than one meter high.

Not long after walking, Su Xiao saw a rough old medical record on the ground with a few blood stains on it. This medical record had clearly changed color and cracked, but the few blood stains on it were still bright red, as if they still contained vitality. On the medical record was written:

Patient: Rosa... (blood stains covered, unable to see the full name).

Mental beast-like estimation: five stages, the body should show signs of beast-like nature.

Actual beast-like degree: none, including the mental level.

Consultation situation: good, Rosa... (blood stains covered) is willing to cooperate with treatment, temporarily no unique talent found in her.

30-day observation report: The reason why Rosa... (blood stains covered) did not become beast-like is very likely because of her special blood. Her blood does not dissolve in water. Placed naturally for more than 30 days, it still maintains the activity of the blood, and her blood has clustering. Two drops of blood separated by no more than 0.7 meters will gradually adsorb to each other and finally gather.

60-day observation report: Part of Rosa... (blood stains covered)'s blood has been retained in the ward.

61-day observation report: Attempted to inject Rosa... (blood stains covered)'s blood into Patient No. 72. The beast-like speed seems to have changed, which is four-stage beast-like. I need to use patients with more serious beast-like nature to conduct this experiment. If any evil consequences are triggered, ha, this world can no longer become worse.

62-day observation report: Attempted to inject Rosa... (blood stains covered)'s blood into Patient No. 5. Patient No. 5 is the strongest receptor I can find. His beast-like situation has reached the rare six stages, which is the degree of mental mapping to the flesh.

63-day observation report: This is a miracle! Patient No. 5's beast-like nature has been suppressed! God, am I going to save this world? Unfortunately, it's too late, it's too late. If my daughter Daya hadn't died yet, hahahahaha, my own daughter died three days after beast-like nature, I, actually, discovered a method to suppress beast-like nature, hahahahahahahaha...

64-day observation report: What kind of miracle is this? Patient No. 5, who was originally six-stage beast-like, entered the seventh stage of beast-like nature this morning. I have created the first monster with seventh-stage beast-like nature in history.

64-day observation report: I must go kill Rosa... (blood stains covered) immediately. ===== CHAPTER 3211 =====