After a moment's pause, the horses moved again, and another sound came again.

The night was silent, and suddenly there was a strange atmosphere.

Ding Ruoyu rode her horse at a gallop, and the sound followed closely behind, until she came to the street and alley she was most familiar with, and then suddenly disappeared.

She didn't go back immediately, lingering for a moment at the corner of the deserted street, finding nothing.

Leading the horse into the backyard, it was pitch black, and not a single room was lit.

It was already the middle of the night, and everything was silent, and the slightest cool breeze was blowing, blowing a slight chill on people's bodies. She went back to her house and lit a candle that remained unextinguished all night.

That night, she was thinking about something, and she barely slept much. When I woke up, it was still gray.

In the courtyard, only the little maid Shunzi was sweeping the fallen leaves alone, and she turned around under the porch, her face pale.

The layout here is completely familiar to her in the backyard of Caihualou, but it is not popular at all, and it is so cold that it seems to have been uninhabited for a long time.

Realizing this, she looked back at Junko who was sweeping the floor, where was his figure?

Rushing to the courtyard, the grass on the ground also turned barren, just a blink of an eye, everything in front of him seemed to be after a few years, things are different, familiar and unfamiliar.

Ding Ruoyu stretched out her hand to cover her eyes, and it took a while to put it down, and the world in front of her was just as she imagined in her heart, becoming more and more decadent.

"Is it an illusion?" This familiar transformation reminded her of the Netherworld Chaos.

She didn't expect to fall into the phantom array again without warning.

The surrounding weeds, the mottled vermilion paint on the pillars, and the corridor that quietly extends forward...... She walked down, but couldn't find the back door out of the courtyard.

Everything is like a dream, but it is completely real in another world.

If this is really an illusion, if it goes on like this, it will never find an exit.

Ding Ruoyu set up a wind shield on his body, emptied the distracting thoughts in his mind, and walked straight down the side. The surrounding scene has changed, there is Caihua Building in front of it, and the courtyard has returned to its normal size.

The building was empty, unlit, cold and dim.

The hallway leading to the lobby was now sealed, and she walked to the side, where another staircase zigzagged up, a hidden entrance to the hallway in the backyard leading directly into the building. Each section of the staircase has a floor sign on the wall, and the rest of the floors have been locked, leading to the fifth floor, and a section at the bottom that leads to the cellar where the old wine is stored.

At this moment, the building is gray, and it is not even possible to read the words at the door. Ding Ruoyu raised a small fireball from his fingertips, although it was not too bright, but it could finally illuminate everything in front of him.

She stepped on the stairs, ordinary height, ordinary planks, for some reason walked up like a thousand boulders tied to her feet, and her head was also dizzy, as if she didn't pay attention, she might fall and roll down at any time.

Holding the fireball in one hand, the other hand couldn't help but reach the wooden railing at the edge of the staircase. Walking much more steadily now, Ding Ruoyu walked forward with difficulty, came to the corner, looked up at the sign on the wall, and it was the third floor.

"After walking for so long, how did you get to the third floor?" She held on to the railing and stopped.

Based on the time and distance, she should have reached the fifth floor by now.

Looking at the staircase that turned upward, she didn't stay long and continued to climb up.

When I got to the corner again, I raised a small fireball, and when I looked up, there was a "two" word on the sign.

"How is that possible? Obviously it's been going up, how can you go lower and lower the floor? Ding Ruoyu leaned against the railing, his mind in confusion.

She closed her eyes and shook her head vigorously, then looked at the stairs on both sides, and was stunned again.

Originally, the stairs were on the left-hand side, but when I closed my eyes and opened them, the direction changed and I appeared on the right-hand side.

"Illusions change with my inner thoughts, so how can I take control of all of this?" She didn't act rashly, retreated to the cold wall, forced herself to calm down in her panic, and thought of a solution.

The more you think about the result, the more you will eventually be distorted by the illusion. Ding Ruoyu vaguely discovered something, a wave of dizziness hit, and the sky was spinning in front of her, and she had to squat against the wall to relieve this inexplicable sense of oppression.

Clenching her teeth, Ding Ruoyu barely controlled the Ice Blade, lifted her sleeves and scratched blood marks on her arms, the sharp pain stimulated her senses all over her body, making her sober again.

"There is no exit to the lobby hallway above this staircase." She kept whispering to herself, hinting that she believed everything, and then continued to walk upwards step by step.

A faint white light appeared in front of him.

Outlet?

Ding Ruoyu was secretly happy, and rushed up in a few steps, but after turning the corner again, he found that he was still in the corridor, and the light came from a window open on the wall, and the sign next to it was marked "three".

fell short, and she failed to paralyze herself to the end.

But things have changed.

She clearly remembered that there were no windows on the wall on the third floor.

"One more time." Ding Ruoyu calmed down, without distractions, and told himself that this was the third floor, and even if he went up one level, there would be no fifth floor leading to the corridor.

This time, instead of being overjoyed by the side door in front of her, she landed down in the hallway and continued her next hint.

"That door in the lobby is just a decoration, you can't get out at all."

She came down from the corridor and pushed open the tightly closed door of Caihualou, and a gust of cold wind poured in, blowing her spirit, and she returned to the deserted street in the second half of the night.

Stiff and cold, she opened her eyes and moved, and she fell asleep on the back of the horse. The night was long, the stars were fading, and there was no one around.

"The timing is not right...... I've already slept and woken up, why is it still here? Ding Ruoyu drove the horse to wander around in the night, which was the darkest time of the day.

Could it be that the time in the fantasy world is not the same as the length in reality?

Caihualou was in sight from afar, and she hesitated a little fearfully until dawn, before finally whipping away.

The hoof sound that followed it has long since disappeared.

In the backyard, the little maid Shunzi carries a broom to sweep the yellow leaves flying everywhere in autumn.

Ding Ruoyu glanced at him with palpitations, then looked at the other side, and suddenly settled down.

She saw that Jiang Wenxin had been guarding outside the Lihong house early, yawning and practicing the tricks with his hands and feet.

"What are you doing?" She hurriedly ran over, the dead silence in the previous phantom array almost drove her crazy, she just wanted to find a real living person, just say anything.

Jiang Wenxin stopped, rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Miss Ding is back so soon?" ”

"Well, he ......" Ding Ruoyu pointed to the closed door and said softly, "He hasn't come out?" ”

"No, I've been watching for a day and a night." Jiang Wenxin replied, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide again, as if he wanted to eat people.

Seeing that the other party was staring, he felt rude, his face turned red, and he immediately raised his sleeves to cover it.

"Thank you for your hard work, I thought you would go back to rest at night......" Ding Ruoyu didn't expect the other party to be so dead-eyed, and said that he would not leave for a moment, and he would help her watch it day and night, and he was very unhappy for a while.

It was still early, and after thanking him, Jiang Wenxin went back to Caihua Building for the little girl to rest, and Shunzi also returned to the building to be busy, and only Ding Ruoyu was left standing in the corridor in the backyard.

She stood silent for a long time, then reached out and pushed open the door in front of her.

In the unfurnished hut, a translucent cocoon stands out from the ground.

It's just that now, the light of the sky is cast, and the originally translucent cocoon has been turned into a blood-red patch by something, and it has become dirty, and it is no longer possible to see the scene inside.

Ding Ruoyu looked at the giant cocoon in a daze, and suddenly, a piece of blood red rushed out of it, splashing on the cocoon in a large area, and then quickly evaporated and solidified, like a layer of red paint tightly attached to the inside.

"Lihong ......" she couldn't help but call, her voice trembling a little abnormal.

Another splash of blood spurted on the cocoon, slightly diluting some of the bright red sticky matter on the giant cocoon, and then adding new ones.

At this moment, Ding Ruoyu vaguely saw something.

In the giant cocoon, there is no shadow of Lihong at all.

Except for a mass of flesh and not flesh piled up on the bottom of the garment, there was nothing else in the cocoon.

She covered the bottom half of her face and stared at the cocoon until blood flew out again.

Out of thin air, out of the pile of debris, a hand, then a wrist, an elbow, ...... In the next moment, the blood dried up, and it became impossible to see anything clearly.

This process lasted for half an hour, after which the blood stopped splattering and a hazy figure reappeared in the cocoon.

Ding Ruoyu sat down on the ground, only feeling suffocated. There was the sound of maids moving around in the courtyard, and she hurried to the door and closed it.

When leaning against the door frame, the giant cocoon began to shake, shaking the wooden floor creak, and then wrinkled and melted away like a layer of sugar coating.

He stood up with his feet on the ground, glanced at Ding Ruoyu, who was crawling over by the door, and sighed: "It's really useless, and I won't be able to walk." ”

Ding Ruoyu was like a little leopard whose head was suddenly enraged, and pounced on him and pressed him to the ground like lightning.

She tugged at his hair and looked at him from beginning to end before finally breathing a sigh of relief.

"Why did you disappear into the barrier and then appear out of nowhere?" Seeing that his face was pinched red, Ding Ruoyu realized that he was too ruthless, so he hurriedly moved to the side and knelt down obediently.

After Lihong fell to the ground, he didn't bother to move anymore, looked at Fang Liang and said, "I was so hungry, I ate myself, and then grew it back." ”

Ding Ruoyu propped his hands on the ground and retched.

"Net nonsense, how can you eat your own business, you will die if you eat less than half of them!" She didn't vomit anything for a long time, she wiped the corners of her mouth and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Nonsense? I seldom make up nonsense and deceive people like a pontoon. Lihong put on a posture of believing it or not, and turned his back to look at her.

Ding Ruoyu moved over in fear, plucked up the courage to pat him and said, "Then are you still hungry?" ”