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There was no one in the fire escape, and Zhang Xiao smoothly walked along the fire escape to the fourth floor.

As he thought, the fourth floor began to be the traveler's room, and finally in front of him was no longer the crew and waiters.

Rows of rustic-looking, but more private, solid wood doors replaced the previous metal hatches.

The people who come and go have also become tourists of different clothes and ages, but most of them are smiling.

This was not a scene that Zhang Xiao expected, but it made Zhang Xiao suddenly feel weird, but he didn't mean what was weird.

Shaking his head, Zhang Xiao didn't think deeply, now he didn't have much time.

Zhang Xiao wandered away from tourists who were not alone, occasionally entering some rooms to see if there was a suitable target.

But Zhang Xiao almost floated on an entire floor and didn't find a suitable target.

"Click", casually dropped the photo frame of the two people in the room.

"Damn, don't you even have a single dog now?"

The situation does not look good, and it is very difficult to find someone who is not the slightest implicated.

Zhang Xiao considered whether he wanted to lower his goal, choose a guy who was temporarily alone and quickly possess himself, after all, he didn't have much time now - this damn cruise ship was still constantly repelling extraordinary powers, Zhang Xiao could feel that even if his consciousness body barely maintained its own existence due to the fusion of part of the tranquility and darkness, once the time exceeded a certain limit, his illusory consciousness body was likely to dissipate directly!

But it only seems simple to find a person who is acting alone for the time being, at least Zhang Xiao has not found a person who acts alone until now.

This is not good news.

"Huh?"

Just when Zhang Xiao was worried and entered the most important cabin on this floor through the wall, he suddenly burst into disbelief.

"This ...... It's very chic. ”

It's no wonder that Zhang Xiao made a fuss, it's really a bit unreasonable in this room.

Obviously, all cabins have several sets of unified layouts, and different passengers stay in it, at most, they put some small items with them, causing a little difference, but this room is completely different, which attracts Zhang Xiao's attention.

Yes, this strange cabin has a completely different layout than a normal cabin, but it is not a special arrangement made by the cruise ship, but the behavior of the guest on his own initiative.

Zhang Xiao walked around the room, and the most eye-catching thing in this room was that the walls around the room were covered with various stickers of different lengths, all of which were written with strange sentences in a language that Zhang Xiao couldn't understand - although Zhang Xiao couldn't read it, he kept repeating a few words in red ink, which was not normal.

"Although the alphabet is written, it is clearly not English, nor is it Russian, French, etc., it looks older, but it is not hieroglyphics."

Zhang Xiao is not an archaeologist, at most he knew a little in the past, and now he can only rule out some of the origins of these texts.

But it didn't work, he still didn't know what the strange-looking words were, let alone what they were written.

However, the reason why Zhang Xiaoken wasted his little time studying here instead of leaving was because these things had a faint hint of magic!

It's so rare, considering that this place is on a strange cruise ship that completely rejects supernatural powers!

Zhang Xiao sensed carefully, but there was magic on these notes, and each one of them had it.

Although the magic power is very shallow, and it doesn't look like it comes with paper or ink, so Zhang Xiao can't understand where the magic comes from, and it's a little inexplicable, but it's really magic!

This was just the beginning of the strangeness of this room, and what Zhang Xiao noticed next was the carpet in the room.

Because it was floating, Zhang Xiao didn't notice anything unusual about the carpet at first, until he noticed that all the furnishings in the room were against the wall, which was very unnatural and made Zhang Xiao question.

At this time, Zhang Xiao realized that there was something on the dark carpet in the original room—there was also a pattern painted on it by some kind of liquid.

"Five corners, concentric circles...... Is this a pentagram? …… No, if the direction of the door represents the concept of "up", then the pentagram is upside down...... Inverted pentagram? ”

The pentagram represents life and the universe, is sacred, able to protect against demonic aggression, is a closed door, and has strong magical powers.

Its counterpart is the inverted pentagram, which represents magic, dark mystery, sin, and ...... The devil has descended.

The appearance of this kind of thing made Zhang Xiao have some guesses about the slightly magical note stickers he saw before.

"Demon Language? Or is it some kind of spell? To help summon or defend against demons? ”

Zhang Xiao crouched down and looked at the inconspicuous dark liquid on the carpet, which had completely dried up.

"Looking black, it's also the red ink on those slips of paper...... It's a subtle color. ”

Yes, this color is very "subtle", because Zhang Xiao soon discovered that this color was originally red when it was not dry.

The liquid had dried and was very dark, and at first glance it looked black, but Zhang Xiao noticed a few spots at the bottom of the curtain—which the owner of the room had accidentally touched when he was "painting" on the carpet.

It didn't take much effort for Zhang Xiao to find a small bucket in the corner behind the curtain, which contained a brush and a liquid that had dried up about the same color as the liquid on the ground.

Picking up the brush and seeing through the light, Zhang Xiao was sure that the true color of this thing should also be red.

In this way, the color is very subtle, because the color looks very similar to blood, both in its original color and in the present.

It was originally red, but when it solidified and dried up, it turned purple-black, which is very close to blood.

But Zhang Xiao pounded the last bit of base in the jar that had dried up, and after a little twisting out some research, Zhang Xiao denied that this thing was blood, or at least most of the liquid was not made of blood.

Although Zhang Xiao, who only has a conscious body, cannot use the senses of taste, smell, and touch other than vision to perceive the essence of the color, he can also determine through experience that although this thing has been added with blood, the blood content is extremely low.

Because Zhang Xiao saw too much blood, whether it was fresh, semi-coagulated, or completely coagulated, he could see too much.

It can only be said that the red liquid on the carpet is very similar to blood, and there is a small amount of blood in it, but it is not complete blood, and even the proportion of blood is exaggerated.

Far from making it less weird, it makes people feel more subtle about the color, the liquid.

What's even more bizarre is that Zhang Xiao's spiritual sense (sixth sense) can clearly perceive that the inverted pentagram on the carpet does not have the slightest magic...... Not at all!

"The paper has magic, but it is not the ink and the paper, and the ground is painted with a magical inverted pentagram with red paint added to it, but there is no magic at all...... Interesting. ”

Zhang Xiao had some guesses, but more doubts, with some strange thoughts, Zhang Xiao rummaged through the other things in the room, and thoroughly checked the corners of the room.

"No pens, no books, no personal belongings to identify, not even a suitcase, just five candles, and a few unidentified plant debris."

"All the mirrors in the room were destroyed, but they were cleaned very clean, and not a single debris was left."

Zhang Xiao finally stopped in the room, talking to himself very suspiciously.

"Mirrors are seen as exits to the Otherworld, and the absence of mirrors is to create a completely enclosed environment?"

"The inverted pentagram is used to gather magic and positioning, the candle represents the spiritual gaze, and the five roots represent the five different elements, or some special being? Then those plant crumbs should be incense, although you can't smell it, but it should be true, it is used as a method of concentrating or temporarily raising spirituality. ”

After entering the Ten Thousand Worlds of the System, although Zhang Xiao spent most of his time fighting, killing, or recuperating from injuries, as a highly educated person with a high IQ who had become an elite member of the upper echelons of society, Zhang Xiao was very aware of his shortcomings and understood the importance of knowledge.

So although it didn't take long, after having the ability of nightmares, Zhang Xiao could collect a wave of memory experiences every time he used it—other people's memories and experiences!

The essence of Nightmares' ability is to communicate with other life consciousnesses, so whether it is used for combat or exploration, Zhang Xiao will actively or passively detect a lot of memories.

Although most of these memories are superficially trivial, they are neither secret nor very messy, and if ordinary people might lose them, they are far from important.

But Zhang Xiao is not an ordinary person, he knows what he lacks deeply, he does not lack courage and faith, but experience and insight are far from enough, whether it is the ordinary world or the extraordinary world, once the added value of the person is stripped, only the essence of a person, he is just a young man who can make money.

This is a limitation of age and experience, Zhang Xiao does not feel inferior to this, but he will find ways to strengthen his weaknesses, and Nightmare is the best helper.

Whether it is the ordinary direction of identification, the experience of understanding plants and plants, or the various common sense of the transcendent world, Zhang Xiao did not let go as long as he encountered it.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Xiao can roughly figure out what the things in this room do, and then figure out what this room is doing!

"So, this should be some kind of summoning array? Those strange paper stickers on the walls, the inverted pentagram and five candles at your feet, and the plant scraps used to aid contemplation should all be materials prepared for the summoning ceremony! ”

And this is not the self-amusement of some enthusiasts, this is obvious - to be able to make a little magic arrangement on this cruise ship that seals extraordinary powers, this is not the level of enthusiasts.

"But these are all in vain, this strange ship rejects all supernatural powers, and the master of this room has worked in vain."

Zhang Xiao looked at the obviously lit candles, only a few debris of the plant remained, and the inverted pentagram on the carpet that had dried up for a long time, and he didn't understand the taste of the owner here who had tried and failed.

However, Zhang Xiao will not sympathize with the other party, on the contrary, he is very happy at this time, because he has obviously found the most suitable target!

"Although there are no personal items to prove how many people live in this room, but if you think about it, you know that the guy who got these things is most likely one person!"

“…… And not a good guy. ”

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It's the last day of 2018! I wish you all a happy New Year's Eve~