"Phew, it's finally here."

Lin Xun pushed aside the bushes and stood in front of a lake.

In front of him was a deserted castle, if it weren't for the clear indication on the map, Lin Xun would never believe that this ruined castle, which looked like it was about to collapse, would actually hide food.

With a creak, he pushed the castle gate open, and in the dim light, the view of the castle's interior was clear at a glance.

There was dusty wooden furniture everywhere, and there was even a white skeleton covered in cobwebs lying in the corner, which didn't look much like a human skeleton, after all, it had a long tail.

"No one?"

Lin Xun still took out the black light saber very cautiously, ready to be attacked at any time.

At the entrance to the second floor, an iron fence was set up with a suggested cipher device, and if you wanted to open the door, you had to tap the gear to push the cylinder to turn.

"Decryption? It seems that this time it's drudgery again, and I'm not very good at decryption. ”

Having said that, Lin Xun noticed that the gate of the castle had been closed, and the owner of the castle, or the will of the castle, had made it clear that he wanted him to solve the puzzle.

If the decryption is not successful, maybe he will never get out again.

Lin Xun rolled his eyes at Chaotian, feeling extremely depressed. When he can't get enough to eat, it's torture to force his brain to use, but he has to do it anyway, and he has to do it patiently.

In this room, which looked very messy and had the distinct imprint of the owner's life, Lin Xun began to explore carefully.

The gray-white walls are covered with cracks, and above the fireplace to the southeast, a portrait of a sunflower hangs crookedly. This is obviously not the work of someone, after all, this sunflower is very strangely drawn, the flower stem is tall and thin, the flowers are shriveled, and the proportions are very incongruous.

The soil under the petals is reddish-brown, the sky is grayish-blue, and there is no sun, giving an extremely oppressive feeling.

Apart from this painting, the most striking thing is the piano in front of the fireplace.

The piano is covered with spider silk, which has long lost its original luster, and on the lid of the piano is a carved wooden doll, about the size of an adult's palm, carved fat and fat, and the craftsmanship is very poor.

In addition to the piano and paintings, the debris on the ground, and the mountains of garbage piled up in the corners of the walls are also the objects of Lin Xun's attention.

In the garbage heap, Lin Xun saw a large amount of excrement and food scraps, and continued to turn through the strong stench, and he found a more valuable thing: a very thin picture book.

Most of the paintings are stained, and only a few distorted sunflower-like paintings can be faintly seen.

After enduring the discomfort in his stomach and flipping through a few pages, Lin Xun suddenly had a strange idea.

"I always felt that this place was less like a fortress for shelter, more like a prison. The owner of the house was imprisoned here, relieved by painting and playing the piano, and finally collapsed in the corner and ended his life, so the man who locked it up here...... Who is it? ”

The owner of the house is not human, after all, it has such a long tail.

Lin Xun didn't move the things in the house easily, judging from his years of experience in playing games, moving around would only trigger a worse plot, unless he was sure enough.

"Wait, there seem to be words in the painting."

Lin Xun decisively tore off a piece of paper and looked at the light carefully.

Under the illumination of the light, Lin Xun saw a curse that made him creepy.

"Ai, you're going to hell!!"

"Ai, I'm going to curse you for the rest of my life!"

"Ai, you can never leave this world, you don't want to be free!"

……

Ai, Ai again!

Seeing this name, Lin Xun only felt a headache, it was like a ghost in this world, it existed all the time, but it was not visible all the time.

Until now, Lin Xun couldn't imagine what Ai looked like, and could only guess based on these notes and curses that he might be a stingy and perverted gambler.

So, what did Ai do to make so many people hate him and not hesitate to cut him with a thousand knives?

It's all a mystery.

Of course, this mystery was not yet the time to be solved, and he needed to open the fence to the second floor faster, because he had already seen something very bad.

"The ground started to melt and the walls ...... At the speed at which they're being destroyed, I have ten minutes at most, and if I can't open this lock, I'll be melted too, which is terrible. ”

The original stone floor was now like mud, and if you were not careful, you would step on it and make a hole, and the walls were covered with strange slime, as thick as paint.

Thankfully, these changes did not bring a peculiar smell, if it still emitted a certain smell, it would be a catastrophe, and the peculiar smell would affect Lin Xun's brain thinking more seriously.

"But now there is no clue at all! If it's a general puzzle game, there will probably be a number prompt or a more obvious pattern! If there is nothing, then the person who set up this puzzle probably did not intend to let the person who broke through the level alive from the beginning. ”

Lin Xun touched his chin, carefully went through all the discoveries from entering the door to the present, and finally could only sigh helplessly.

"Let's try to break the violence."

Swing your sword, slash!

After the black light flashed, the fence was still intact!

"This ......"

Black light, slash again!

Chop, chop, chop!

"It doesn't make sense. Even if the fence is truly impregnable, what about the surrounding walls? With such a powerful wind blade attack, even if it can't break through this wall, it won't even be able to scrape off a piece of wall skin! ”

The continuous wind blade attacks made his survival state worse and worse, and hunger and exhaustion went hand in hand, making him irritable.

The entire castle was melting, and sticky liquids kept falling from the ceiling, some even hitting Lin Xun's body.

In just a few minutes, the slime on the ground had accumulated to a depth of half a person, and Lin Xun had to step on the wooden chair to avoid being swallowed by the slime.

A large green patch appeared on his arm, which was caused by mucus corrosion, which was not painful or itchy, but made his skin as translucent and soft and brittle as apple-flavored jelly.

"I must have overlooked something, calm down, I have to be calm!"

Filtering the clues in his mind again, he suddenly remembered the painting he had seen for the first time, the sunflower painting hanging in the southeast direction!!

At this time, the painting had been assimilated by slime and disappeared, but Lin Xun still remembered the details of the painting.

"The sunflower symbolizes hope, which is the flower of hope. As the book says at the end, the flower of hope often blooms in the land of despair, and there is a huge price to pay to obtain hope. ”