Chapter 35: The Corridor of the Chamber of Secrets
"I'm not a little girl!"
Susan was a little unhappy with the title that Qin Lun imposed on her, but Qin Lun didn't have time to pay attention to the small emotions of this temporary female companion. He pushed open a two-leaf door again and led Susan inside.
Looking at this large study, Qin Lun felt that he was about to gain something.
The reason is that the current scenery of the entire Wilson Manor is basically dilapidated and decaying, as if it has been left unattended for hundreds of years, and it is completely like an ancient ruin. However, this study is clean and tidy, just like hundreds of years ago, when the owner was still around.
The study in front of him was a rotunda with tall bookshelves that surrounded the two like walls, making it look like a circular Roman gladiatorial arena. And it has more than one floor, it is a leap structure, and a large chandelier hangs from the dome, which is at least ten meters above the ground.
In the center of the study, to the left, there is a small wooden spiral staircase that leads to the bookshelves hanging corridor on the two floors above. Although this study room is not the largest library Qin Lun has ever seen, it must be the most elegant and artistic library.
If there is a secret room hidden inside Wilson Manor, then it is likely to be here.
"Keep up with me, there may be a trap here!" Qin Lun lightly instructed Susan, and began to observe the surrounding bookshelves.
Qin Lun's left eye flashed with a yin-yang fish pattern, and after looking at it for a while, he knew that he had found the right place. Originally, it was easy to see through the hidden secret room with his gaze aura, but this study seemed to be shrouded by some kind of power, and he couldn't see through any of the rows of bookshelves.
However, Qin Lun was not disappointed, which proved that his idea was correct.
Unable to use the pupil technique to see through, Qin Lun had to use the simplest method to identify them one by one. But he quickly got bored, maybe that Qin Lun had this patience, but it was definitely not him.
"Susan, you can also help find it, maybe your luck is a little better!" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he said to the woman with a smile.
"Of course!" The girl, who had always felt that she couldn't help, was a little elated, and if it weren't for the two heavy chains still in her hand, she would have been even happier, "Damn, this thing is too heavy, I think I should find a tool to get it off first." ”
Susan tugged at the iron collar around her neck uncomfortably, temporarily lowering the chain on the ground and checking the surrounding bookshelves. Anyway, you don't have to go too far now, and you don't have to worry about tripping.
"Should I be aware of anything?" Susan touched the bookshelf and asked.
"This study is as tidy as it was hundreds of years ago, and while it's weird, it's good for us to find clues. It's hard to imagine that the owner of the manor would read so many books on a regular basis, so you just have to pay attention to the less dusty areas and books on the shelves. Those places move a lot, most likely the mechanism that opens the secret room. ”
"yes, I see!" Susan suddenly realized.
The bookshelves on the bottom floor of the study were quickly searched by them, and it didn't seem that there were any secret rooms or mechanisms that Qin Lun called them.
"Is it on the upper two floors?" Qin Lun frowned and looked at the spiral staircase, he was reluctant to climb the hanging corridor next to those bookshelves.
"Why don't we check the desk and the salon?" Susan asked, puzzled, pointing to the desk and sofa in the center of the study.
"Over to you!" Qin Lun thought about it and stepped on the spiral staircase, in fact, he didn't move the desk and sofa, because he didn't think that the master would set up an opening mechanism in such an obvious place.
However, this time he thought wrong, the owner of Wilson Manor was not evil when he established the manor, so although he had a secret room, it was not so unsightly inside, so the way it was set up was also very simple.
"Ha, I found it!" Just as Qin Lun walked through the spiral staircase to the second floor of the hanging corridor of the study jump, Susan let out a soft cry from below.
"Don't touch it yet!" Qin Lun looked down and saw the woman touching under the desk, and immediately reminded in a deep voice.
"Huh? Ah~~" But his reminder was too late, and with the sound of a "click", a black hole of several squares suddenly cracked on the ground in front of the desk, and Susan screamed and fell. And a bookshelf not far behind the desk also opened with a "click" sound, revealing a portal.
At the same time, perhaps because the secret room of the study was opened, there were one after another somewhat transparent figures on the bookshelves around the circular study. Looking at their faces and outfits, it was obvious that they were all servants in the manor, and Qin Lun even saw that Cook Meranda was among them.
However, Qin Lun didn't have time to pay attention to these ghosts at this time.
With his right hand stretched out, a holy thorn flew out of his cuff, wrapping around the chain that had not yet fully slipped into the hole. The iron chain that prevented Susan from gaining freedom became the only straw for women at this time.
"Up!" Qin Lun's movements were very fast, and before the hole could be closed, he pulled Susan out of it.
"Ahem!" Susan's face turned purple and she lay on the ground and coughed repeatedly, and the chain wrapped in the holy thorns, which happened to be the one around her neck, almost strangled her to death.
At this time, the ghosts that emerged from the surrounding bookshelves seemed to be beginning to wake up, and the originally transparent bodies slowly solidified. Qin Lun knew that they would probably soon become the appearance of the original two zombie maids, so that they would have the ability to attack entities.
"Let's go!" Qin Lun picked her up with one hand, carrying it on his shoulders as if it were as light as nothing, and the holy thorns in his other hand were like a long whip, sweeping away the two zombies that had rushed in front of him, and his feet kept running into the secret room of the study that had just been opened.
Because with the opening of the bookshelf that served as the door to the secret room, he could already see that there was a narrow corridor behind it. I don't know where it leads, but it's better than being besieged by ghosts here.
Qin Lun's shoulder was on Susan's lower abdomen, if it weren't for the fact that there was nothing in her stomach now, she felt that she would definitely vomit.
"Chains, my ......" Susan was sure she had never been so unlucky in her life, and pulled back the two chains weakly, she had seen zombies heading towards them, and she didn't want to wait for a tug-of-war with them.
The moment he stepped into the corridor of the secret room, Qin Lun glanced back at the floor of the study again, and a trace of chagrin flashed in his eyes.
When Susan was in distress just now, he looked down from the hanging corridor on the second floor and suddenly realized a huge mistake of his own.
In this study just now, he didn't notice that there was no carpet on the floor, but only some strange patterns similar to murals.
You must know that this study has always retained its original neatness and arrangement, and it is impossible for an English hereditary nobleman like Baron Wilson to be negligent enough not to carpet his study. Otherwise, it means that there are traps on the ground and carpet is not suitable.
If he had found out earlier, the two of them would have been in a much better situation now, at least they wouldn't have fallen under the siege of ghosts.
Since the emergence of his master's personality, there have been many similar mistakes. Qin Lun knew what was going on, firstly, he did not have the patience and meticulousness of the original personality, and secondly, there was not much time left for him to be able to control this body, so it began to affect his sanity.
"At least until you lose consciousness, play a big handful!" Qin Lun's eyes showed a little madness, "It's coming, it's going to be soon, it's going to be all the elements!" ”
Qin Lun's judgment of rushing into the secret room was correct, and after they entered the corridor of the secret room, those zombie servants could only linger at the door, hesitating and not daring to come in, and finally had to howl unwillingly again, turning into clouds of black smoke and disappearing without a trace.
"Chris, those things didn't follow up, let me down!" Seeing that the ghosts behind her had disappeared, Susan could no longer bear the bump on Qin Lun's shoulder, and struggled to climb down.
"Well, wait for you to rest before you go, soon, I think we can find important clues this time." Qin Lun looked at Susan's pale face, and couldn't help but smile and comfort.
As it turned out, he was right to take Susan's oil bottle with him. As a plot character related to Wilson Manor, even if the original plot and characters have changed beyond recognition, there is still a force in the dark that guides her and returns the plot to its original appearance.
Qin Lun believes that he may have taken the place of Wilson and Luke, and if those two college students hadn't died, he believed that the person who accompanied Susan in the original plot to find clues would be at least one of them.
"I'm better, let's go!" Susan relented, stood up against the wall, and asked with some curiosity, "What was the thing you used to save me, like a vine?" ”
"Do you mean that?" Qin Lun smiled, and a holy thorn burst out of his cuff, "After so many things, you should understand that this world is not so simple, and I also belong to a part of it, this is my special function!" ”
“COOL!” Susan touched the Holy Thorn in surprise and dispelled some doubts in her heart, after all, even if Qin Lun had a little secret, he had saved her at least twice.
"Oh, by the way, you said before that there are a lot of people coming in this manor, why haven't we met one until now!" Susan asked, confused.
"That's exactly what I'm worried about!" Qin Lun sighed without pretense this time, "As I said before, this manor has the ability to change the illusion realm as if it were fake. The people who came in before me were most likely separated one by one. The environment may all be the same, except that the manor may have become innumerable. ”
"So what are we going to do?" Susan was shocked, she had never thought so much, "Does that mean we'll never get out!" ”
"No, it's still what I said." Qin Lun smiled faintly and said confidently, "Even if there are countless manors, we can crack the illusion as long as we find out the secret here, because there is only one truth that has caused it to become what it is now." The past, present, and future of these countless estates...... The same scene that happens all the time! ”
"Oh!" Susan's mood calmed down, a little starlight appeared in her eyes, and she said admiringly, "Chris, you are the smartest one I have ever met...... Really, I don't feel like it's exaggerating at all! ”
That's the one you haven't seen yet, including the one in my body! Qin Lun glanced at her, neither refuting nor admitting it.
"It's here!" As the two spoke, the hallway had come to an end.
Qin Lun cautiously pushed open the door at the end of the corridor, and then he was slightly stunned, he found that there was another very familiar person standing opposite him.