Chapter 641: The Claustrophobic Garden (Part II)
The maid doesn't walk fast, but it's not slow either. Rod hung far behind her, watching the maid walk down the stairs and then to the living room, and then saw the maid bow her head like this, and respectfully said to the eldest lady who was sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
"Miss, the guest has gone to rest."
"Well, I see, it's late at night, let's go rest."
Hearing the maid's words, the aristocratic lady Syros smiled slightly, and then she put down her teacup and walked out of the room. Soon, Rod saw her and the maid Silos arrive in another room on the other side of the second floor, and the maid opened the door, set the bed for the eldest lady, and served her to rest. Then he quietly walked out, and then walked into another bedroom next to him and closed the door -- it was as simple as that, he didn't go to any strange places as Rhodes thought, and he didn't change into any strange form and appearance at all, everything was normal............ No, not really.
Hidden in the shadows, Rhodes stared motionlessly at the door in front of him, and he remembered very well that these two doors were the ones he hadn't opened in the morning. At that time, Rhodes knocked on the door all day long, and he didn't see half a person come out. This was obviously not normal, because according to the aristocratic lady Herose, she had been sleeping in her room until she woke up, and Rod's knock on the door was almost equivalent to slamming the door, and I am afraid that even the dead would have been smashed out of the coffin. But even then, they didn't react, which was a little weird. However, Rhodes did not act rashly, on the contrary, he remained hidden in the shadows, although he was sure that he was not discovered by the two men, but to be safe, he still did not leave immediately. Instead, he waited quietly for a moment. It wasn't until nearly an hour and a half later that Rod quietly stepped out of the shadows, and then came to the front of the two doors, and then he squinted his eyes, raised his head, and carefully examined the door in front of him. It seems that these two doors are not boring, and they are very normal............ Come to think of it. Rod reached out and grabbed the doorknob.
"Click."
Sure enough, the locked door had no intention of opening at all, but this time Rod did not choose to give up. On the contrary, his figure flickered, and the next moment Rod's body turned into a thin shadow, and then he slowly merged with the shadow in the crack of the door, just in the blink of an eye, Rod quietly entered the locked room in front of him with the power of shadow. Luckily, Rod's abilities are there. There wasn't any weird enchantment or anything like that in the room in front of him, which was why he was able to enter the room so easily. In the interior of the room, Rhodes did not find anything different, the maid Syros was lying on the bed like a dead man, her body did not rise or fall in the slightest, and she looked like a dead person—in fact, she was a dead man in the first place.
Rod walked slowly to the maid Syros, and looked at her carefully, after a moment. He reached out and grabbed Herose by the neck. Then he pulled her up suddenly. But even so, Heros did not wake up, on the contrary, with Rod's movements, her body made a "bang-bang-bang" sound, and through the moonlight outside. Rod could clearly see the brilliance reflected from the joints of Herose's body in front of him, and saw that the maid lying on the bed at the moment was not a real human, but a doll that looked like a human!
"Boom!"
Rod then threw the doll in front of him to the ground, and the doll fell heavily to the ground with Rod's movements. But there was still no response. Seeing this scene, Rod pursed his lips. Then he reached out again and grabbed the maid, threw her back into bed, and set it up as she had just slept. But even so, the maid did not change otherwise.
"Something really isn't right."
Looking at the incomprehensible scene in front of him, Rod shook his head and said to himself. He has the most say in whether Heros is a puppet or not, and he has done it with Heros a few times, and with Rod's character, messing around with black lights is his least favorite thing. Even if Heros herself is unkempt, Rhodes will still wash her from the inside out to make her eyes good. So Rod can be sure that the Herose next to him is definitely not a doll. Although Heros herself is a "necromantic doll", this "necromantic doll" was not an artifact in the first place. Don't forget, the original intention of the Necro Doll was the Dark Dragon's attempt to create an undead race capable of reproduction (although this premise itself is very tempting to complain about), so it can be believed that the "Necro Doll" created by the Dark Dragon in the first place must have living vital signs. And in fact, if Rod's memory was correct, he could be sure that Heros herself was no different from a normal living being except that she could not breathe, had no heartbeat, and had no body temperature, either outside or inside.
But now the maid, Rod, may understand a little why she has always been so cold. Maybe it's because this puppet itself has no expression like a robot, so it becomes a taciturn Sanwu? But at the moment, it was clear that there was nothing to investigate here, so after glancing at the puppet maid Silos, Rhodes melted his body into the shadows again. Then, he made his way through the heavy wall to the next bedroom. Here, too, the eldest lady was still lying on the bed and falling into a deep sleep. Although Rhodes made such a big move next door. But she still looked completely unaware, and with the previous experience, this time Rod did not hesitate at all, he strode to the sleeping noble lady Silos, and then grabbed her, and carefully groped up and down. Unlike the doll just now, the Syros in front of her has a completely human body, and after probing, Rhodes can be sure that "her" body is also very complete, and there is nothing strange about it. But like the previous puppet, the current aristocratic lady Heros is completely like a dead person, and she doesn't react at the mercy of Rhodes.
"What the hell..............."
Throwing the tired Herose back to the bed again, Rhodes reached out and touched his chin, then pursed his lips with some dissatisfaction. Now he is a little impatient. He always felt as if he had fallen into some kind of trap and couldn't extricate himself, but this was different from the trap of the previous people's spiritual world. The spirit traps of Celestina and Greyhill and Madaras, one is active and the other is passive. But Rhodes was able to perceive their existence and respond in the shortest possible time. But now the trap gave Rhodes the feeling of boiling a frog in warm water, and he felt as if he were the frog, soaked in a pot of warm water. But what made Rod depressed was that although he had expected that something was unusual, he still hadn't found a way to jump out of the pot. At the moment, these two Heros may be the spiritual projections of Heros, but they are definitely not the ontological projections of Heros. Because Herose's spirit was even more abnormal than Serestina's, Rhodes was sure that there must be a third of the most powerful and terrifying spiritual projections in addition to these two projections. But where is she? How come I've never seen her before?
"Woo..............."
And at this time, suddenly the aristocratic lady Silos, who was thrown back to the bed by Rod, called softly. Hearing this voice, Rod was also startled, and then he hurriedly jumped into the shadows and quickly hid back into the shadows. And with the soft groan of the aristocratic lady Silos, there was soon a knock on the door. Then the maid Syros opened the door and entered the room, and then came to the noble lady Syros, and called to her softly.
"Miss, please wake up, it's already breakfast time."
"Uh............ Is it breakfast time? I didn't expect it to be so fast..............."
Watching the aristocratic lady Syros open her sleepy eyes. As if he was talking to the maid Syros as if he had just woken up from a dream, Rod couldn't help but feel a little weird. Obviously, just now to confirm whether Herose was really asleep. He played with this eldest lady's body once, but he didn't expect that now this eldest lady didn't feel it at all, and looking at her appearance, it seemed that she really just woke up from sleep.
However, it is precisely because of this that the uneasiness in Rod's heart becomes more and more intense. I don't know why, but now he suddenly remembered a movie called "Truman's World" a long time ago, and Rod had a strange feeling that he seemed to be very similar to the protagonist in that movie now...............
Then, as before, the noble lady Syros ordered the maid to wake up Rhodes. And Rod also disguised himself for a while, and then followed the maid to the reception room again. Then another peaceful day was spent under the hospitality of Herose, and everything was no different from yesterday.
But it was this smooth routine that made Rod feel like he was about to vomit, and he would rather be involved in some strange incident than stay idle all day long. Rhodes had almost turned the place upside down, but he hadn't found even the slightest trace of the oddity. Of course, the only two doubts for him are that the master and servant will feel like dead people after sleeping, and this gives the impression that both of them are robots controlled by commands, and will only act after entering commands. Then wait until the action is complete and then return to the original state. For this reason, Rod also deliberately tested them, and told the stories he told yesterday, but found that the two people still did not react at all, but listened to Rode's narration with relish as if they had heard it for the first time. Not only that, but Rhodes was also surprised to perceive the fact that in the impression of these two people, he was not a guest who had been staying here for two days, but a guest who had just moved in yesterday. In other words, for these two people, no matter how long Rhodes lived here, he would always be a "traveler who just moved in yesterday" in the eyes of both of them.
It's literally an infinite loop!
We can't go on like this.
After watching the maid girl send herself back to the guest room again, and then did the same as yesterday, after leaving. Rhodes made up his mind to find out the key to this spiritual world. Now he had vaguely sensed that these two spiritual projections probably had no restraining power on Heros herself. Because he couldn't see the elegance of the aristocratic lady and the respectful and obedient maid in Helos, it means that perhaps the personalities of these two spiritual projections were formed by Heros a long time ago, but now Helos has abandoned them. It's also normal, everyone grows. It's like every teenager imagines that he can become Ultraman and save humanity when he is in elementary school, but no one will see a man in a suit in his thirties still raising his right hand and shouting for Ultra to transform. That's normal. And Herose's "growth" may also fall into this category. So Rhodes was sure that staying here any longer wouldn't help.
But......... Since there are no clues inside, the only thing to do next is to look outside.
Rod Ke still clearly remembers that the eldest lady had warned him that it was dangerous outside and that it was best not to go out. And Rhodes used to focus on the interior, after all, most of the shady scenes in places like this will create secret spaces indoors. But now there is no harvest in the Western-style pavilion. Then he had to go outside and have a look.
"Squeak..............."
The heavy door wasn't locked as Rhodes had expected, so it was quickly pushed open with ease. Then Rod quietly walked out of the room, and then thought about looking outside. There was little change from when Rhodes had arrived, the bright moonlight shining on the woodlands and lakes in front of him, and the forests in the distance. Everything seemed so peaceful and serene. There are no strange monsters roaming around, and no wolf howls or dogs are heard to open new routes. But now Rhodes has no choice but to continue to investigate. In line with the plot that in all secret room movies, the prisoner will definitely be in the back garden if he is not in the secret room, Rod first went to the back garden where the weeds were overgrown to explore, but he was disappointed. Although there is indeed a dilapidated shack that looks like a clue to the case, when Rod braved the dust and dug inside, he reluctantly found that it was really just a dilapidated shack, there was no secret door hidden in the ground, and there was no strange existence, so Rod was still blind after tossing for a long time. What made Rod even more depressed was that at this time, it was still raining in the sky.
"Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, .........Boom, Boom, T
Listen to the sudden sound of pouring rain outside. Rod sighed helplessly, and then he pushed open the door of the hut and walked out. But at this time. Rhodes raised an eyebrow suddenly, and then he jerked towards the place where the rain sounded. Then, an extremely strange scene appeared in front of Rod's eyes.
In front of him, half of the Western-style pavilion was shrouded in torrential rain, including the location of the reception room before, but there was not even a shadow of rain in other places. Even the hut where Rhodes was staying, it was so dry that there was no sign of rain at all!
"It's ............!!"
Seeing this, Rhodes also remembered that the noble lady had said that it had rained heavily before. But when I got up, I didn't feel any signs of rain at all. Now it seems that it was all because of the "location", because the room where Rhodes was located was on the other side, so he didn't notice that it was raining heavily. In addition, the soundproofing facilities of the Western-style pavilion are very good, so Rhodes did not notice anything abnormal before.
But now...............
Rhodes looked up in the direction of the rainstorm, and then he saw a huge watering can that stretched through the sky. At this moment, this huge watering can fell from above, forming a rainstorm-like existence that enveloped the Western-style pavilion in it. Seeing this scene, Rhodes was finally speechless. He was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath and shouted loudly.
"I know you're here, Herose!!"
"Herose ..............."
"Herose ........."
Rod's call echoed in the distance, and soon disappeared without a trace. But at this time, the earth began to tremble. Then, in front of Rod, a strange scene emerged -- a huge head that occupied half the sky emerged from the other side of the horizon, her mouth cracked, revealing an excited and crazy smile, her unkempt hair was loose on her shoulders, and her eyes were full of frantic excitement. With the appearance of this huge head, Rhodes felt that the scenery in front of him quickly disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, the originally deep dark night disappeared, and the bright moon became a fluorescent pebble. The whole mansion and the island have become a small and delicate model at this moment, and Rhodes is a part of this model. When he looked up, he could see the dilapidated tomb covered with huge cobwebs, and the piles of bones lying around it—it was clear that this was what Rod had of Heros.
"Huhuhu............ Huhuhu............ Interesting? Master? ”
Then, like this, Heros opened her "bloody mouth" and asked Rod. (To be continued......)