Chapter 293

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took stock of the known information. There were at least 5 ghosts in Vanessa Castle converted from officers, namely the 3 people in Su Nake's group, plus John and Suxi.

Among them, only Suxi's cause of death was certain: she was tricked to the third floor by a phone call from Su Nake, then killed by a ghost and turned into a ghost. This is currently the only deceased with a clear cause of death. It is also the only breakthrough in this matter at the moment.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Dejin Hansa and the others standing at the entrance of the interrogation room not far away: "Besides, they should have died once just now."

That was the direct reason that led Pulu Meiliya to make the decision to take back the move: after the investigation team members entered the interrogation room, they were very likely wiped out directly.

"Then why did the investigation team want to enter the interrogation room?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked himself in his heart.

"Because they wanted to find the missing Su Nake and others." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe answered himself in his heart again.

He still remembered the back that went against the flow of people when the main force retreated. Suxi was already a ghost at that time. She took the initiative to run to Mei Lin and said she wanted to find her missing brother.

It was also from Suxi that the investigation team members first determined that the last place Su Nake and others went missing was on the third floor.

"It is known that ghosts cannot kill directly, but mostly use means such as fraud and deception to kill indirectly. First, Su Nake tricked Suxi to the third floor, and after Suxi turned into a ghost, she tricked the investigation team to the third floor... wait."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pondered and suddenly remembered something: "Before, when I was in the dream, those messages and notes I found all over the castle seemed to be some kind of guidance, trying to lead me to the basement of Vanessa Castle?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe quickly recalled the first message he found in the dream:

【Red handwriting hidden on the inside of the wardrobe:】

【To the survivors:】

【If you are still alive and want to escape from here, please move to the basement.】

【Do not leave through the front door, back door, windows, or any other passage that looks like an exit of this castle. That is a dead end! Those who take the dead end will lose their way without exception and will never be able to return.】

【The only exit is in the basement of the castle, in the secret basement at the bottom of the sewer of this 'Vanessa' castle. If you want to escape, go there. Remember to bring a lamp, you must bring a lamp! Without a lamp, you cannot reach there.】

【Be careful, don't be found by it, I'm going to set off too.】

Thinking of this, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt that he had grasped the key to the problem:

Just like Su Nake led Suxi to the third floor, and Suxi led the investigation team into the interrogation room, the messages in the dream were also leading him and outsiders like Bai Zhi who had stumbled into the castle to the basement.

And the message also emphasized that one must bring a corpse oil lamp and must go to the Vanessa Castle in the inner world to reach the basement.

And the inner world... has ghosts.

"Su Nake told Suxi that he found clues of the intruder on the third floor. This is a lie."

"Suxi told the investigation team that Su Nake and the others might be in the interrogation room. This is a lie."

"The message in the dream told me that the basement is the only way to leave Vanessa Castle... This is also a lie."

The deepest basement of Vanessa Castle had long been destroyed by a landslide, and the two major renovations only repaired the boiler room and warehouse on the first basement level. The deeper basement was abandoned directly.

"Any inductive words spoken from the mouth of a ghost are likely lies." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lay on the cabinet, quietly moved his wings, and retreated backward: "And the common point of these lies is to lead people to a certain place." What place?

The place where the "ghost" is entrenched.

"People who are tricked into the forest by ghosts, after being eaten by tigers, also turn into ghosts, continuing to trick others into the mountains to be eaten by tigers... It really is the set of 'acting as a tiger's accomplice'."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe silently retreated to the wall and quietly jumped to the ground. In his mind, he recalled the instructions Housekeeper Mei Lin gave to the investigation team just after taking back the move: 【Absolutely do not approach the interrogation room. From now on, no matter what you see or hear, do not believe it, and absolutely, absolutely do not approach the interrogation room.】

Now, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe understood the meaning of this sentence.

"It seems that the key to the rules of this ghost lies in 'deception'."

With the help of the small size of the long-tailed tit, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe quietly slipped to the moon-viewing terrace and squatted behind the railing to observe Pulu Meiliya and Mei Lin on the open ground downstairs.

Combined with Suxi's reaction when her identity was exposed just now, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe roughly inferred the lethal conditions of this rule:

1. 【Once a living person believes the ghost's lie and takes the initiative to enter the area where the ghost is, they will die.】

2. 【People who die in this way will turn into ghosts enslaved by the ghost.】

3. 【Ghosts will use lies to trick others into entering the area where the ghost is.】

Whether it was Suxi, the investigation team, and others in the real world, or Spencer, Gai Zha, and others who died in the dream, their deaths had one thing in common—they all believed the ghost's lies and took the initiative to go to the place where the ghost was.

No errors in the content, read it at a glance!

"This does make sense, but it still can't explain one problem." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head: "That is: how did the first ghost come about?"

Before killing the first person, how did the "tiger demon" with no ghosts kill people?

Therefore, in addition to the ghost's deception, the ghost in the castle must have another hidden killing condition that has not been revealed.

"Pulu Meiliya and Mei Lin should not know this hidden condition either. This is also the reason why they didn't go to catch the ghost directly, but set up a chess game on the spot and let the investigation team and others act as pawns to explore the way."

Thinking of this, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe no longer hesitated. He glanced at the tall housekeeper and the beautiful girl in a black dress standing on the open ground downstairs. Mei Lin was lowering her head slightly, saying something into the microphone.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned and returned to the building. The door of the interrogation room had been closed. Dejin Hansa used an iron bolt to prop up the iron door, and several people stood guard outside the door with guns, obviously having received Mei Lin's instructions.

"Time is running out."

The investigation team had already determined the location of the ghost, and there was no time left for him to continue exploring the puzzle.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took a deep breath, changed from a tit back to human form, squatted behind the curtain next to the bookshelf, and took out a small octagonal wooden box the size of a fist from his arms.

"Xia Rong, are you there?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his voice and called out softly while holding the music box.

Before the words fell, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt a light weight appear on his shoulder. Turning his head, he saw a cute rag doll in the shape of a little girl. It had beautiful golden curly hair and eyes made of sapphire buttons, its two short legs dangling as it rode on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's shoulder, its little hands gently hugging his neck.

This is a unique granting prop of the Dai Ke family—the Soul-Summoning Doll.

(End of chapter)