… Invitation!

"The sun is flipping, Kronos is standing in the north, and the feast begins before the eyes of Essa, please be sure to visit, without delay—the lord of the Wujiang Mansion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"-What does that mean?"

"Sounds like an invitation..."

"Do you have all of them?"

With this, everyone began to check their "list of activities", without exception - everyone had the same "invitation" in the middle of the title page of the booklet.

Suddenly, everyone went into disarray, and many people didn't stay in their seats, but got up and walked back and forth in the bus compartment.

"Hey, please all go back to your seats, do you hear..."

The driver shouted a few words, but no one paid attention.

"Did you know that Mr. Ikezawa is also going?"

I don't know who said this sentence, but it attracted everyone's attention as soon as it came out.

"Teacher, he didn't travel with me in a car, did he take another bus?"

"Anyway, I didn't see Mr. Ikezawa's people when I left..."

Indeed, this problem was discovered by me since I got in the car.

――The destination is a very interesting place, so let's keep it a secret, so that everyone will be more surprised than expected, so I can't say it first, but I won't disappoint everyone...

I remember what Mr. Ikesawa said when he announced the notice, so is the "invitation" in the title page also a "surprise"?

Except that the car engine answered me with a "boom", as if we were loading us into an unknown game.

"I didn't expect you to be so calm."

Suddenly, a guy sitting in front of me got up and turned around, a weird smile on his lips.

"Ken Shimada—"

I silently recited his name in my mind, or I should have called him Hegu, to see how he reacted, but I didn't do it yet, because the time was not yet ripe to expose him, and it was not a rational act to expose him now, and he seemed to have a great interest in the destination.

"Calm? How? ”

I asked.

"Of course it's the 'Devil's Hand', I heard that the doctor hasn't disappeared at all, he has been hiding in that mansion, where no one can find it, and has become a ghost-like existence, this 'invitation' is probably written by him himself."

"Why?"

"The 'Devil's Hand' that the doctor is looking for is among us, so I remind you to beware of your right palm being cut off-"

Shimada still has a smile on his face, but no matter how I look at it, I think that his smile at me and his smile at other classmates are completely different things.

"Hmph." I snorted dismissively and twisted my head out the window to ignore him.

Shimada saw that I didn't give him any good looks, so he shrugged his shoulders lightly and said.

"Ruri-no-mi, maybe you can meet that doctor at dinner. But we have to figure out what 'invitation' means, I remind you. ”

After he turned around, I quietly took out the "invitation letter" from my backpack, and was just about to ponder the meaning of those few lines when I heard Momoi shout to everyone, "Pack your things and get ready to get off, it's about to arrive." ”

According to the introduction on the "list", the house was built at the end of the 19th century, more than 100 years ago, there are 100 rooms in the house, but the actual number is only 99, and the legend is that the hundredth room is... This was the last line of the penultimate page of the booklet "List", and I thought that turning through it would explain the "purpose" of the hundredth room, but I turned to it and there was nothing—the last page was blank.

"It's weird."

Norito Chiba, who had already gotten out of the car and walked with Momoi, said.

"Why does the 'list' say, 'Please check in your own room,' is our name already on the room?"

"Maybe that's the case."

The brilliance next to Chiba Dian also flipped around, and from time to time he looked at the huge Wujiang Mansion in front of him, this heavy stone building.

There were twenty-one of us in total, because the teacher was not there, all the arrangements were made under the command of the class leader Momoi, the room was quickly assigned, everyone found their own room, sure enough, the door did have everyone's name pasted, all of them were concentrated in the room on the right side of the house, the whole house was five stories high, and seven rooms on the first, second, and third floors were each labeled, and everyone took their backpacks into the room to tidy up, and according to the list of manual prompts, dinner was held in the restaurant on the first floor at twelve o'clock at noon.

After entering the room, I observed the whole situation inside and out, here, except for the twenty-one of us, I didn't see anyone else, and I still didn't see Ikezawa-sensei, normally, the teacher couldn't let us come first, but why didn't he ride in the same car with me? Is there a delay that needs to be delayed?

This mansion is divided into east and west layouts, the layout on both sides is the same, we are all in the east room, and I found that everything here is placed on the left and right side of the same, such as the two room doors on both sides of the corridor at the same distance opposite each other, as well as the decorations in the room, what is on the left and the right is definitely exactly the same, and the more terrible detail is that even the wallpaper patterns on the left and right sides of the corridor are the same, and the large dark blue pattern tiles on the floor and the pattern on the ceiling are also the same, and they will never deviate in the slightest. It occurred to me that the person who designed this house must have been a person with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, or rather a madman, and that all the places in the house exude an indescribably strange atmosphere from any angle.

I casually sorted out my backpack and things I needed, and then there was a knock on the door.

"Xiaoxi, are you there?"

Judging by the voice, I could already hear who it was.

Shui Jing and the beginning of spring stand outside the door.

"You two are on this floor too?"

"That's right, I saw you went up to the third floor just now, so I'm going to pay a visit after I put my things together."

"Which room do you stay in?"

I asked.

"Two rooms over there."

Shui Jing pointed with her chin and said, "Our names are on the door, so it's clear at a glance." ”

Chunchu didn't speak, just nodded shyly on the side.

"That's right."

The three of us entered my room, and Shui Jing said mysteriously after closing the door.

"Xiaoxi, in fact, we are here for another purpose."

The two of them and I looked at each other, a little confused.

"Purpose?"

"-Well, before I went upstairs, I heard Ken Shimada say to someone, 'Ask Ruriki-san to answer the contents of that invitation, she should know what it means...' That's what he said, so we're in a hurry to come to you."

"Huh-?"

I was shocked and asked me for answers? I'm as confused as everyone else, what can you ask me for the answer...?

"Anyway, after I've seen that thing... It seems to feel like a literal riddle. ”

Chunchu whispered between me and Shui Jing, but every word was clearly legible.

"What do you think?"

I hurriedly took out the "invitation letter" again and looked at it carefully, the gilded printed paper, wrapped in black silk thread, and the handwriting was not printed, but handwritten.

"The sun is flipping, Kronos is standing in the north, the feast begins in front of Aisha's eyes, please be sure to visit, without delay - the lord of the Wujiang Mansion."

"I don't understand what the first sentence means..."

Shui Jing said impatiently, "Why do you have to make it so complicated..."

The sky flips... I thought about it, if it's not the day sky, is it the night sky?