Chapter 43: The Mystery of Time

The landlord's strange self-talk made Yang Ke suddenly feel his hairs stand on end.

He finally understood that the encounter with the landlord in the past two days was not accidental, but that she had been guarding him all along.

What exactly do landlords want to do?

Do you want to have a relationship with him?

Or is it just plain perverted?

Or maybe it's for some other purpose.

Yang Ke knew that he couldn't stay here for too long, and the landlord must have heard the sound of him going up the stairs.

If you don't go up for too long, it will arouse the suspicion of the landlord.

Yang Ke retracted his empathy ability and walked upstairs with a hard head.

As soon as he reached the corner of the third floor, the landlord walked out of the house with a bag of garbage.

"Isn't this Xiao Yang handsome guy, he just got off work so late."

The landlord smiled very naturally, as if it was really just a chance encounter.

But Yang Ke broke out in a cold sweat on his back, and the more natural the landlord behaved, the more terrifying he felt.

"Yes, Aunt Xiong, there are more things going on today."

"Eh, is this all blood on your body?"

"No, it's just like blood, we played a game today, and I hit the most shots, so I was sprayed all over. Aunt Xiong, I went up first, the smell of this body, I have to take a shower quickly. ”

"Go, go, I have to hurry up and take out the garbage, hehe, young man, be refreshed."

The landlord patted Yang Ke's back as he spoke, so frightened that he hurriedly tightened his waist and abdomen and quickened the pace of going upstairs.

, what the hell is she trying to do?

As soon as Yang Ke walked to the corner of the fourth floor, he hurriedly sped up the speed of going upstairs.

But he always felt that someone was following him, so he got faster and faster, until he reached the sixth floor, opened the door and entered the house, and then locked the door, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

If he had the strength of Kumen, he wouldn't have to be so afraid.

Yang Ke is still struggling with the issue of rank and strength.

He turned on the lights in the room and suddenly heard something on the stairs outside.

"I'll go, won't the landlord follow?"

Once planted, the seeds of doubt will only grow bigger and bigger.

Although the noise disappeared after a few moments, Yang Ke really couldn't feel at ease, so he used empathy again to get the landlord's attention.

In the dark and narrow alleyway downstairs, the landlord hummed a cheerful song and threw the garbage in his hand into the trash can.

Her mood is happy and relaxed, humming to a happy place, and even jumping two small steps.

"Handsome guy Xiao Yang is back, handsome guy Xiao Yang is back~"

The landlord returned to the third floor of the house, and the place where she lived was not isolated by a single room, but a full 150 square meters of three bedrooms, two living rooms, one kitchen and two bathrooms.

Yang Ke found that the landlord's house was very quiet, and it seemed that she was the only one living here.

And the furniture in the landlord's house is also very simple, the tables, cabinets, and sofas are basically empty.

The landlord took out a new garbage bag from the cabinet in the living room and put it on the garbage can, then she looked left and right, threw away a pair of shoes that were still brand new, then shredded some toilet paper and threw it in, and then tied the garbage bag and put it at the door, and then returned to the bedroom satisfied.

The furnishings in her bedroom are much simpler, a bedside table and a double bed with no beds and only hard slats are all there is to the bedroom.

There is a family photo on the bedside table, but except for the landlord, the other four people in the photo have their heads blackened.

The landlord lay flat on the bed with his hands on his abdomen, and within a minute, he fell asleep with a smile on his face.

It was very peaceful.

It's like dead.

Yang Ke waited for a while, and after confirming that the landlord was really asleep, he withdrew his gaze, sat on the bed, and fell into silence.

What's going on?

He remembers that when he first moved here, the landlord lived with her grandson and husband.

The landlord has a warm personality, collects rent every day, chats with the neighbors, pays attention to the latest current affairs, and then picks up and drops off her grandson to and from school, almost all of her life.

At that time, Yang Ke was still very envious, fantasizing that he would be able to live such an idle life one day.

But now, the landlord's strange behavior and the unusually deserted situation in her home are reminding Yang Ke that something must have happened to the landlord's house.

Is it related to healing blood?

The consequence of using healing blood should be bestiality, not bizarre behavior like the landlord.

Yang Ke remembered that the landlord inadvertently said the word church before, could she have been brainwashed by someone and then used to spy on herself?

For example, Zhang Tongtong.

Since regaining his memory, Yang Ke realized that he had most likely been living under Zhang Tongtong's surveillance for the past seven years.

And once Zhang Tongtong learns that he has recovered his memory, the seven-year deadlock will definitely be broken in an instant.

So he had to pretend to be the same as before, he didn't know why Yang Pengfei was imprisoned in a mental hospital, why his mother could recover suddenly, and he didn't know that he had met Liang Jun seven years ago, let alone the transactions he had with Luo Ming and Zhang Tongtong.

Those skeletons in room two must not be handed over to him.

A wave of sleepiness hit, Yang Ke yawned loudly, he felt that he couldn't bear it anymore.

After going through so many things today, if he didn't sleep again, he was afraid that he would die suddenly.

But before that, Yang Ke has one more thing to do.

"Little skeleton, come out."

The little skeleton came out of thin air from the ground, Yang Ke handed the black top hat to it, and then said, "Put the top hat back and come out again, I have something to ask you to help with." ”

The little skeleton shook its head and disappeared in place.

Yang Ke quickly found his dusty English dictionary on the desk.

He bought this English dictionary with a hot head, but he didn't expect it to be useful one day.

The little skeleton reappeared, and Yang Ke handed the English dictionary to the little skeleton and said, "You help me quietly put this book on the desk, don't be discovered by the one-eyed book." ”

"What, you said the one-eyed book didn't let you do that? It just said that you are not allowed to take things outside, but it doesn't say that you are not allowed to send things inside, right? And I'm just a book, I can't kill people or pick locks, at most I can read it when I'm bored. ”

"You know, I don't know the words in those books, it's easy to get bored by being alone, and you've got to give me something to pass the time."

The little skeleton thought for a moment, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

So it took the English dictionary and quickly disappeared where it was.

successfully deceived the little skeleton over, and Yang Ke's mood was much smoother.

He no longer thought about the connection between Zhang Tongtong and the landlord, and went straight to the shower and sleep.

……

……

Yang Ke opened his eyes in the rocking chair in the study, and there was no discomfort under his buttocks.

It seems that the one-eyed book did not continue to sleep here, and it was not in the study.

Yang Ke didn't go to look for it, with the current situation of the two of them, it was best to be out of sight and out of mind.

Seven years of grievances are not easy to write off.

He saw the little skeleton standing in front of him empty-handed, looked at the desk again, and wondered, "Little skeleton, where is my English dictionary?" ”

The little skeleton pointed to the scraps of paper in the trash can next to his desk and shook his head.

Oh, it turned out to be bitten by the one-eyed book.

"Didn't I tell you to be careful?"

"You said it was right next to you when you came back? If I go, will it be able to hear my voice outside my dreams? ”

Yang Ke rummaged through the trash can and found that his English dictionary was not only torn to shreds, but also had a lot of disgusting mucus on it.

One-eyed book, enough.

No way, it seems that Fred will have to translate.

But before that, the things in his recovered memory still need to be confirmed.

Yang Ke rummaged through the stacks of books on the desk, and soon found the letter he had read in his memory.

The letter was written by Fred, addressed to the original owner of the building, Count Harlow Cabel, on August 1, 1764, about twenty-two years apart from Fred's thought of 1786.

Combined with Cagle's observation diary, Harlow Cabell was forced to leave St. Norls for the past twenty-two years because he lost power.

Cagle then bought it and renovated it.

Therefore, the Hunter Dream that Yang Ke entered seven years ago was the building when Harlow Cabell had not left, and it was not the same time as the Hunter Dream he entered now.

Why is this happening?

Yang Ke looked at the pendulum clock on the wall, the hour and minute hands of the pendulum clock were pointed at twelve o'clock, and the second hand took a step forward and backward, as if time had stopped.

Time stops.

Well?

"it!"

It occurred to him that in the hunter's dream seven years ago, the hour and minute hands of the pendulum clock pointed to eleven o'clock, not twelve!

Connect with some changes to the building in the two dreams before and after.

Yang Ke suddenly got goosebumps all over his body.

Damn, it can't really be time stopping, right?

The pendulum clock goes from eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock, and the time in this building is actually from 1764 to 1786?

So he spent seven years outside, and in the hunter's dream, twenty-two years actually passed?

So the walls, staircases, and rooms here can only be restored after they are damaged, because time has not passed in the first place?

But if time really stops, then the restored study should be a messy study, not a neat and new study.

But in addition to this point that cannot be sorted out, some other doubts can be figured out.

Fred thought it was still 1786, not because he had lost his memory, but because he was trapped in the building.

The building in the hunter's dream seven years ago was very luxurious, but now it is very deserted and dilapidated, because Yang Ke is at a different point in time.

And there is only one reason for this change.

That was the ritual that Yang Ke had performed in Room One seven years ago.

What does that ritual mean?

Yang Ke quickly came to the hall downstairs.

He walked to Room One and found that the door to Room One was locked with an iron lock.

He could only go back to the study, find the key in the second drawer on the right hand side of the desk, and come back again.

Yang Ke took out a handful casually, wanting to try to open the lock, but to his surprise, there was a faint halo protection in front of the door lock, and the key could not be inserted at all.

Could it be that once the ritual is completed, the next room can only be opened?

Bang bang bang.

"Is there anyone out there? It's so dark in here. ”

There was a sudden knock on the door in room No. 2 next to Yang Ke, and the voice coming from inside was the lifeguard from the swimming pool before, Wu Gang.