Chapter 254: Vicious Game

The moment he heard this sound, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stopped, and even his breathing stopped because of it.

He glanced down at the kerosene lamp in his hand, which was still in the extinguished state.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe quickly unbuckled his belt, tied the kerosene lamp to his belt to free his hands, turned back to the top floor, grabbed the edge of the stone block with both hands, and tentatively stretched his feet down, stepping on the window of the observation window, and the whole person crawled down slowly like a gecko against the outer wall of the tower.

The howling wind swept past his ears, and the rustling friction sound got closer.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe crawled down one floor, his feet left the window of the observation window, and he rode on a protruding round wood on the side of the outer wall, the whole person curled up, trembling from the cold wind at high altitude.

This round wood was located directly below the observation window, which was part of the load-bearing column of the floor of this layer of the tower. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held the wall with both hands and looked down. Not far below, there was another window. The orange firelight flashed past the window, and hurried footsteps approached.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

The angry Europa national curse and footsteps sounded together, moving rapidly downward along the spiral corridor. That survivor carrying the lamp quickly ran from under Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's feet to a lower floor and was still continuing to run to the ground.

The flickering lamp light gradually moved away, and the window of the observation window became dim again.

At this moment, that rustling friction sound rang out again.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held his breath, his body close to the wall, his eyes staring at the observation window below without blinking. A thin, withered, and severely deformed eerie human figure slowly appeared in the window, dragging a pair of swollen legs emitting a corrupt stench, using both hands to hook the stone steps on the ground, and slowly crawled down along the spiral corridor.

*Sha—sha—*

It was the sound of clothes wrapping skin and flesh rubbing on the stone brick floor. The deformed monster was wearing a loose down jacket and an old-fashioned wool sweater, slowly disappearing from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's sight.

"I seem to have seen that down jacket and, and the wool sweater." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stepped on the protruding round wood and stood up slowly, blowing hot air on his frozen hands.

Strictly speaking, it wasn't seen, but worn.

The thing that just crawled past below the window was wearing... it was the clothes on the crew-cut man when Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe first came here. Except for being more worn out, it was almost exactly the same.

Did that thing kill the crew-cut man and then strip his clothes off to wear?

Or would the survivors in the castle also become it after being killed by 'it'?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood up straight, climbed back into the tower from the observation window above his head with difficulty, and looked up. The niches on the wall had lit up at some point. Under the illumination of the flickering firelight, a large area of the wall was damp, permeated with a musty smell.

"That thing seems to only manifest under the illumination of the lamp." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe reached out and extinguished the oil lamp in the niche, looking at the wall that had become dry again, and found some rules:

1. 'It' wandering in the castle has two states: invisible, manifest

It is usually invisible, and only when illuminated by the lamp light will it manifest and kill.

2. The castle itself also exists in two states: dry and tidy, damp and corrupt

The walls of the castle under normal circumstances are dry and relatively clean, obviously having undergone proper maintenance and cleaning. But the parts of the walls illuminated by the lamp light will become damp, old, and emit bursts of musty, corrupt smell.

And the key to switching these two states is 'lamp light.'

"The red handwriting in the wardrobe also mentioned that only by carrying a kerosene lamp can one reach the basement, otherwise one will be trapped to death here." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked at the oil lamp placed in the niche, thoughtfully: "And it seems that it must be the lamp light from the castle itself that can make the environment switch between the two states. My previous use of the lighter and anti-wolf flashlight didn't affect the environment here."

Thinking about it, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe picked up the oil lamp in the niche and smelled it. The burnt smell of the cotton wick rushed toward his face.

But hidden under that burnt smell was a smell of corrupt grease, like a corpse that had been rotting underground for several months.

Because of the cold weather and the burnt smell of the oil lamp itself, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe hadn't been able to accurately distinguish this smell before. Now that he was close, he could clearly smell it.

"This is, human oil?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe examined the oil lamp in his hand. There was little oil left in the lamp.

Untying the kerosene lamp tied to his belt, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe opened the glass cover and brought his nose close to the brass lamp base to smell it. The burnt smell of the wick mixed with the corrupt corpse smell was the same as the oil lamp in the niche.

It turned out that there was no kerosene in this kerosene lamp at all, but corpse oil. This was a corpse oil lamp.

"Interesting." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe poured the remaining lamp oil into the brass base of the corpse oil lamp, installed the glass lampshade back, and carried the lamp downstairs.

Along the way, he didn't encounter any changes, nor did he see other survivors, which confirmed Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's idea.

Although 'it' was in the same castle as himself, it was not in the same space, just like two people existing in two parallel universes, neither of whom could perceive the existence of the other.

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Only when the corpse oil lamp was lit would the two parallel worlds intersect briefly, and people could see ghosts, and ghosts could find people.

"So theoretically speaking, as long as you don't light the lamp, this castle is safe. But if you want to escape, you must light the lamp, because only with the light of the corpse oil lamp can you find the way to the basement." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe carried the corpse oil lamp, walked down along the spiral corridor, and soon reached the first floor.

Walking out of the tower, a gray-white open space surrounded by high walls on all sides came into view. The ground was paved with neat stone bricks. In the center of the open space, two thick wooden pillars stood straight on a square stone platform, with a guillotine with an oblique mouth hanging between them with iron chains.

This was an execution platform used for beheading.

Bypassing the execution platform, opposite the open space was a rusty big iron gate, firmly locked by thick iron chains, without any gaps to pass through. There were two other such big gates, but they were all locked, and with this white girl's physical strength, she couldn't open them at all.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe touched the wall with one hand and walked around this open space, but didn't find any other exits besides these three tightly closed big iron gates. The area around the execution platform was empty, and there was no place to hide.

"Where did that survivor run to?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt a bit confused.

Was he killed?

Or was there actually a hidden exit here that he could see, but I couldn't?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pondered, cast his gaze at the corpse oil lamp in his hand, and suddenly smiled:

"The things happening here, compared to a strange event, seem more like a strange game."

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