By the time I realized something was wrong, I was already in the middle of the manor. I wanted to go out, but when I turned around, the iron door carved with a pair of snake heads had been closed, and either I forcibly jumped out, or I panicked and asked someone to open the door. But Zoraku, you know me, neither of these will be my options, I think since I'm already in, I'll try to solve my doubts, or, just I didn't realize at the time, it's not easy to get out of here.

……

"It's kind of weird." Seeing this, I turned my gaze to Du Youlan, "Shao Zun, he is more verbose than usual." ”

"Shao Zun, is his name?"

"Hmm."

"But judging by his story, you're kind of alike."

Du Youlan is right, to some extent, we do have similarities. But what would it be like if I were to ask for help after something had happened? Not to mention this strange way of calling for help, it was just for the purpose of calling for help, and he seemed to have written the content of this email too carefully. I look at the number of pages, and there are two more pages.

But his description does look like what Shao Zun did.

So, I continued to look down, trying to know what the reason was, and asked Shao Zun to send me this somewhat strange email.

……

Who is she? Or rather, who are you?

I asked him this question, to the man who seemed to be my old friend. I don't think I told you his name yet. His name is Guan Fengchen, and his appearance can be said to be ordinary, but people should not only look at their appearance, so he is not an ordinary person. He has a lot of energy, or aura, in the crowd, no matter how many chatty characters steal the scene, you can never ignore him. I can't think of a specific reason, so I have to give an answer, and that's the eyes. And those eyes, speaking of which, he is a bit like you.

"He's complimenting you?" Du Youlan asked.

"Heh, you say he's like me, and he says I'm like this friend of his, so he's boasting about himself, maybe he's praising himself. However, this is not what he is going to say, you can see ...... below."

Back to the content of the letter.

In the face of my question, my friend was very confused, so I asked him clearly: You are not him, and the eyes are wrong. And she's not Guan Fengchen's girlfriend, the one outside is real. Who are you and what kind of tricks are you playing?

Friend responded: What inside and out, I just wanted to play a joke with you.

Then, naturally, he ignored my question and began to introduce me to the estate. Let's talk about the area of the manor first, I forgot how big it is, in short, it's not small. Then, there is the profession of the master, who is said to be an archaeological enthusiast. It's a strange statement, and I still think it's strange, but what's the blame? I can't think of it, maybe it's too vague? But that's not what I was concerned about at the time. Finally, he explained the purpose of the manor's existence, which is said to be the manufacture of skeleton models and leather objects.

He started showing me around, and throughout the whole process, I mentioned his and his girlfriend's problems more than once, but he ignored them.

I'm also a human being, and I've always been angry when I don't solve the problems that I have always been concerned about, and I have always been ignored. But just as I was about to get angry, he took me to the villa in the center of the manor, but it didn't seem to be a place to live. When the doors opened, it felt more like a factory, with a thick smell of blood and the sound of washing water. Because of the dim light, I didn't see what was going on inside at first, but as the headlights turned on, the light that broke into my eyes also illuminated the strange scene in front of me, which was a huge pool, full of blood, and some people dressed in the same way as the fake Guan Fengchen, salvaged and cleaned a skeleton in the blood pool.

Yes, it's a skeleton!

Some even have residual flesh and blood attached to them, and some have unrotten eyeballs in their eye sockets!!

It's all human skeletons!!

Is it weird, Zoraku? Compared to the story you've told me lately, maybe that's nothing. But that's not the whole story.

Do you believe that the skeleton is still alive? yes, those things aren't dead, I can see they're moving! It was small, but it was moving, especially the eyeball I had found, which was spinning in its socket and froze when it saw me. You know, it turns out that the eyes are really not the influence of facial micro-expressions that give meaning, and an eyeball also has eyes.

It was telling me that it was in pain, and it was asking me for help.

But I was stupid on the spot.

I asked Guan Fengchen, that's what he said, model?

He said yes.

But this is clearly nonsense. I've realized that I can't stay here. But why did he want me here? I can't imagine it, I just know that it won't be so easy to leave. I tried my best not to be so flustered, and he seemed a little surprised that our relationship hadn't broken down for the time being. He asked me if I wanted to see leather art, and I refused for the time being.

Oh yes, one thing that comes to mind, there's something strange about those living skeletons, they only have an upper body, but no legs.

I remember asking the fake Guan Fengchen around me at the time, what is going on?

His response was: because when he made their legs, they all failed.

I don't understand.

Leather, I didn't look. You know that I once faced a bloody case where the murderer was a pervert who hung the skin of a person stripped from him in the living room of the deceased's house. I was the first to go to the scene after receiving the report, when I was still young, and that was the first time I saw the whole skin of a person peeled off, the shadow of my life. So the speculation in my head didn't allow me to take risks. But my strange journey didn't end there, and I was trying to find a way to get out of here and find a suitable reason not to talk about the temporary stability of our relationship. And then he took me to the back of the villa, which was a large cemetery, crisscrossed with tombstones, surrounded by a cloudy wind, and I felt as if I had come to the border of hell.

The fake Guan Fengchen told me that this is the place where the victims sleep.

I asked him what the victims were? He said it was a failure.

The whole visit took up three hours, and it was already dark, but I never saw the owner of the manor. The fake Guan Fengchen invited me to finish eating, I said that I had no appetite, and then found a reason to leave his sight, wanting to take advantage of the darkness to escape from here.

But the manor is so big that I get a little lost. When I finally found the exit, I found that there were many people guarding it, and they did not have any weapons, but the stiff posture and the strange smile on the face that was exactly the same and did not show the slightest emotion made me give up the idea of going through the main door.

So, I decided to find a boundary to circumvent the wall.

But helplessly, I got lost again, and in the process I tried to call the outside world, but the strange thing is that my mobile phone has no signal, and I can't even dial the emergency number. I don't know what the reason is. And I got lost, and at this time, I inexplicably walked to the cemetery where I had been during the day. At night, there was no light, and I shuttled between the crooked tombstones, one foot deep and the other shallow, but I could always hear the sound of skeleton joints rubbing against each other, and a special "hum" sound, which I was not sure if it was auditory hallucination.

At this moment, I suddenly felt something trip over me, I almost fell, and when I looked back, there was a half-white thing next to a tombstone, and I instinctively leaned closer to look, and the thing suddenly broke through the ground and bounced out!

It's a dry arm!

The bone claws hold my ankles firmly! It's amazingly powerful!

I tried my best to break free, and it was only with great difficulty that I got rid of it, but most of the remains were turned out under the tombstone! It's a skeleton too! What's more, it also has an eyeball, embedded in the socket, and it stares at me like the eye in the daytime! I didn't know how I got out of the cemetery, I only knew that when I woke up, I was already lying on a bed, white all around. It scared me, I felt like I was in an autopsy room!

But luckily, there was a warm bed underneath.

Then, I saw the fake Guan Fengchen, but at this moment, the way he looked at me became extremely weird. He said that he was disappointed in me, an old friend of mine for many years, and that I actually didn't trust him and tried to escape. I tried to explain, and I was terrified, but I didn't say a word when the words came to my lips, and instead I was asked: What are you here for?

But he asked me a rhetorical question, asking me if I had any regrets?

I didn't understand what he meant, so I continued to ask.

And he, once again, ignored my question and asked me: Do you have that kind of wish that cannot be realized in just a few decades of life? Do you think that this less than 100 years is too short? Have you ever wondered why God wants you and me to come to this world? Is it more joyful or more painful to live? Maybe you don't want to admit it, but most people are more miserable, why? The reason for ordinary people may be that they have no money and their material life is not satisfied. But I understand you, you're not, think about what is that reason that makes you miserable?

This time I understood what he meant, and he wanted me to say that I hated the brevity of life.

But that still doesn't answer the question I want to know most.

He didn't continue to ask me questions, he just said, let me calm down here, think about it, and figure it out, when I decide to join them, he will come and pick me up at any time. And during this time, he will make sure that I will not starve to death. My gut told me that loosening my mouth was not a good option for me, and if I didn't let go, at least he said, I wouldn't starve to death. So, I waited.

During this time, I lost my freedom, and they would deliver me meals on time every day, but they would not allow me to leave my room. By chance, I heard a clash of sounds outside the door. It just so happened that someone was delivering food, and the moment the door opened, I heard a voice that should have come from next door, which was also a person who was trapped here, couldn't stand the imprisonment, and wanted to forcibly leave. He took advantage of the opportunity to open the door and fight with the food deliverer, but it didn't seem to be good, I heard a scalp-tingling scream, just outside my door, and the scream finally ended in weakness.

But there is also a good thing, I took advantage of this chaos and secretly hid a chicken leg bone on my body. I polished it and when it became drier and stronger, I kept the bone on my body. Finally, one day, he came again and asked if I would like to join them.

This time I noticed that there was no one else outside the door when he came.

So, I lied that I had figured it out, and he was so happy that he was going to take me to the owner of the manor. Leaving the room, I saw a long white hallway, and there was no one there. So, without the slightest hesitation, I stabbed the half of the chicken bone into his neck!

The plasma squirted onto my face, and it was so hot that it tingled.

……