16 The Gate of Paradise

At the same time that Frankenstein and Carremont entered the inpatient building, Zhang Luo was continuing to look for a way out.

The "upside-down hangman" who was rescued by him just now was carrying the fainting nurse at this time and honestly followed him.

By this time, the door that had not yet been tried was the last one left in front of the upside-down hangman.

"Well, it looks like this should be here, right?" Zhang Luo stood in front of the wooden door stained with unknown black spots.

He didn't immediately open the door like a common bento character in horror movies, but first took out his phone and opened the radio software inside.

- The radio is one of the essential life-saving artifacts when traveling in Silent Hill, as long as you are in this "map", if a dangerous monster approaches, the radio will make a pleasant noise, alerting the adventurer of the approaching danger.

So now, before opening the door, it is necessary to carry out a "routine check".

Holding the doorknob with his left hand and holding his phone in his right hand to the door, the rustling sound, which originally represented "no signal", suddenly changed its tone and was replaced by a strange noise that resembled the combination of bells and drums.

"Ding-dong-"

"There's a 'friend' in there, you stay away from the door." Zhang Luo motioned to the upside-down hangman carrying the nurse to step back, then put away his mobile phone and took a deep breath, and slammed open the door.

From the blood-stained floor, a twisted figure lying on the ground, covered in blood, crawled over at a convulsive speed, its body writhing and reminiscent of an attacking viper.

As the twisted guy crawled to his feet, Zhang Luo kicked forward and hit the opponent in the jaw.

Hearing only a "click", the creeper's head tilted upwards one hundred and twenty degrees, his body collapsed on the ground, and after a few convulsions, he never moved again.

"What is this......" The voice of the upside-down hanged man hiding behind trembled, looking down at the "man" lying on the ground with unusually twisted limbs.

"It should be a resident of the inner world."

Zhang Luo walked into the room as he spoke, looking at the scene inside.

The light bulb overhead cast a dim white light, completely different from the bloody scene outside, and the tone of the room was a cold gray color. On the gray walls, hang four large bags that look like they are wrapped around people. In the center of the room is a sturdy silver metal chair, with metal carvings in the shape of the sun and moon on the armrests on the left and right sides.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Luo, who has studied old-fashioned horror games, immediately became interested:

――If you're not mistaken, this strange house is probably the usual "puzzle house" in horror adventure games!

"In that case, let's have fun."

Standing in the center of the room, Zhang Luo happily rubbed his hands.

He first investigated the chair in the center of the room, and found that the sun and moon carvings on the armrests were non-detachable, and there were no other clues.

The next thing to investigate was four humanoid bags hanging on the wall facing the main door.

Zhang Luo bent down to take a look and found that under each bag, pale feet were exposed.

It seems that the contents are indeed corpses. On the right foot of each of the four corpses, a small metal plaque resembling a "dog tag" was tied to it, on which were written different charges:

"Murder", "robbery", "arson", "kidnapping".

In addition to this, on the wall in the center of the four, a bloodstained white paper was nailed, on which it was written:

"Just open the bag and the sinner will be released. The only innocent person holds the crown, and the release of the sinner will be judged by death. ”

"Innocent people?" Zhang Luo looked thoughtfully at the four body bags in front of him.

Even if Holmes were to visit, there was no way to tell which of the four people was innocent without opening the bag. So, there should be clues nearby.

With this thought in mind, Zhang Luo continued to search, and soon found a yellowed old newspaper in the corner of the wall, on which many words had been soaked in blood and could not be read at all:

"In this ...... In the (unintelligible) case, a criminal gang of three people kidnapped a neighbor's girl and extorted her parents. When they committed the crime, they also took all the valuable things from the neighbor's house and even set the house on fire...... (illegible). When they were arrested, they immediately confessed where the hostages were hiding, but by the time the police arrived, the hostages had already died, and the police believed that it was a premeditated murder...... (unintelligible)"

Next to the text, attached is a photo of a burning house, as well as a photo of a young woman who has fallen to her death. Seeing this, Zhang Luo let out a long breath:

"The case is settled."

"Huh? So fast? Behind Zhang Luo, the "upside-down hanged man" who read the clues made a surprised sound.

"Just look at the photos in the newspaper and you can see that the hostage was not torn up." Zhang Luo pointed to a photo of a woman bleeding all over the floor in the newspaper: "The rope on her wrist has signs of severe wear, apparently cut with the glass next to it, and the cause of her death is that when she cut the rope, she accidentally cut the blood vessels in her wrist." ”

"Oh, I see." The hanged man nodded in realization.

"You're still a killer of the troops, and you can't even see this." Zhang Luo showed a look of "hating iron does not become steel", returned to the body bag with the "killing" nameplate on his feet, and forcefully unzipped it.

-- Since the three prisoners did not kill anyone, then the innocent person here must be the corpse that was condemned as "murder".

When the zipper was unzipped, there was no body inside, but an old silver crown fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Bending down to pick up the crown on the ground, Zhang Luo looked at the inside of the crown, and immediately saw a line of small words engraved on it:

"When the dull commoners proclaim themselves kings, the gates of hell will be opened."

"This time, the hint was simple and crude." Zhang Luo smiled.

He slipped the crown into the wide pocket of his hospital gown, then returned to the door, dragging the corpse of the monster he had just killed and throwing it on the metal chair. Then on the monster's head, a silver crown was put on.

After completing these steps, the floor directly in front of the metal chair began to move with a dull sound, and a hole soon appeared in the center of the room, revealing a long staircase leading to the ground.

At the same time, the sun and moon carvings on the armrests of the chair also fell to the ground.

Picking up the two carvings and putting them in his pocket, Zhang Luo slowly walked down the steps by the light of the mobile phone screen, and the upside-down hangman also carried the nurse to follow.

Although the underground passage is narrow, the oxygen in it is quite sufficient, and Zhang Luo, who was walking in front, listened to the sound in front of him and was ready to meet the enemy at any time.

However, the bastard who walked behind was still chattering:

"You seem to be pretty good, but this level of puzzle can't bother me at all......"

"Well, I'll leave it to you next time." Zhang Luo nodded.

- He had no interest in such simple puzzles, which were far from being as difficult as horror games. This "makeshifted" inner world is really far from the real inner world of Silent Hill.

If you were in the real Silent Hill, you probably wouldn't be able to be so leisurely.

After two minutes of walking down the stairs leading to the underground, an eerie red light finally lit up in front of them, and the passage began to widen, and finally in front of them was a stone gate at the end of the passage.

"Well, I'll leave this to you." Zhang Luo made a "please come in" gesture to the man next to him.

The hangman put aside the nurse, who was still unconscious, and stood in front of the door, carefully observing the pattern on the door.

The door is inscribed with reliefs of beasts, seas, and the sun and moon, which look very beautiful, and below the pattern, a neat line of text is engraved:

"After 3,000 days and nights, we will finally reach the other side of paradise."

"Hmmm......"

After reading the text prompt below, the hanged man thought for a moment and finally came to a conclusion:

"There is only one truth! All we have to do is wait here for 3,000 days and the door will open automatically! ”

Hearing his words, Zhang Luo couldn't help but sigh and patted the other party's shoulder sympathetically: "With all due respect, it seems that your mental illness has not yet recovered." ”

After speaking, he took out the metal carvings of the sun and the moon and inlaid them in the relief of the sun and moon in the stone door.

With a bang, the stone gate began to slowly open.

Then what appeared in front of the two of them was the so-called "paradise".