"My room is close to the stairs, and the music room is close to my parents' room."

I frowned, still unable to tell which of the four doors were the prince's room and the music room, and could only continue to ask, "Are there any other features?" I guess from what you said, I can't make out which one is the real room door. ”

The four gates in front of him were very strange, two by two, and the two adjacent doors themselves were the same, as if they were made to confuse people. Even if I wanted to ask the ghost by distance, I don't think I'd be sure if I chose one of the two doors next to each other, and I didn't have to estimate it with precision.

The voice of the "feature" ghost was also a little hesitant, probably racking his brains to think about what the characteristics were, "That's right! I remember! On the door of my room, there is a scratch about 15 centimeters long in the middle and lower part, which I accidentally scratched when I was a child, and the lower part of the inside of the handle in the music room should also have some marks, I remember that after using it many times before, I don't know if it was rusty or worn off the paint, it was not very smooth to the touch. ”

According to what the prince said, I first chose to explore the music room near me, bent down and moved quickly, groped against the wall, reached out and touched the handle, and sure enough, as the prince said, the inside of the handle of one of the doors was not very smooth, while the handle of the other door was very smooth, and I made sure that it was the real door, I clenched the knife and slowly pressed the handle.

However, there was no one or any other danger in the room, and I walked into the music only to find that it was really an ordinary music room, and the whole holiday was very empty, except for a piano on the left, and the night breeze blew the curtains, and the starlight shone right on the piano through the window.

I was a little surprised by such a normal room, and I walked vigilantly in the direction of the piano, but unexpectedly nothing happened. As I walked, I observed my surroundings while describing to the ghost what I saw.

"I went into the music room, and there was only a piano in the middle, nothing else, and no one else." As I spoke, I looked up at the window, through which I could see the situation outside, but there was an iron fence outside the window, and through the fence I could see that the pouring rain had stopped when we came. Although I already know that the environment here cannot be considered with common sense in our cognition, I am still amazed when I see the starry sky.

"Well, that's how it was when I died, it seems that no one else has come back for so many years." The ghost sighed, "Yes, she and I have always been the only ones who like this place, and we are the only ones who will come here." ”

I knew that the ghost meant "she" meant the mermaid, and thinking about the two people's different words about the past, I didn't know what to say for a while, so I had to observe the surroundings in silence. What I didn't tell the ghost was that it wasn't like no one had been here since he died, the windows were open, and the curtains blown up by the night wind didn't look like they were in tatters. The floor was smooth, and it was clear by the starlight that it was made of marble, and it was clean and dusty.

After hesitating for a moment, he walked over like a piano, the lid on the keyboard was not covered, and even the score was placed on it. I reached out and touched the top of the piano, and I touched the sheet music, and there was no dust on the piano, and the sheet music was indeed a little old.

However, according to the ghost's words, no one else should have come here except him and the mermaid, but there must have been someone here who had even touched the piano, and this person was obviously definitely not him or the mermaid.

It's just that the piano has been played a lot, or has it simply cleaned the dust from the surface?

Thinking so, I stretched out a finger and pressed it on the key, only one point, so that the key pressed was slightly staggered from the key next to it, but not to the point of pressing the sound, and by a slight staggered distance, I touched the side of the keyboard with my fingertips. After rubbing his fingertips to make sure that there was a wisp of dust on his fingertips, he confirmed that the piano should have only been cleaned and had not been used by anyone.

The piano that has been cleaned I looked at the piano thoughtfully, this music room has obviously been deliberately cleaned, and the people who cleaned it up are not to think about it, only the middle-aged man and woman who are the king and queen. But why would they do it? Does that make sense to them?

I frowned in confusion and looked up to see a painting hanging on the wall behind the piano.

I approached the painting and looked through the starlight through the window, and the environment seemed so familiar that I seemed to recognize it as the music room with just one glance. And the people in the painting, I think I should also recognize, are the ghost prince and the mermaid.

The painting is very delicate, and although the figure is not large, the facial features can be seen clearly, even the necklace in the shape of a mermaid worn by the prince's neck is depicted. The mermaid with human legs dances to the right of the music room, while the prince watches the mermaid dance while playing the piano, and the tender love in his eyes almost overflows. The windows were as wide open as they are now, the curtains were blown up, and the bright sunlight shone in through the windows, gilding the two young people who were in love with each other with a layer of golden blessings.

I reached out and touched the paper and the border, especially the edges of the paper, and it didn't feel like something that had been there for many years

"Prince, do you know how to draw?" I asked about the ghost, and my instinct told me that the ghost might not have known about the existence of the painting, and that the painting was not meant to be recorded, but to mourn.

"Why do you ask that? I'm not good at drawing. The ghost seemed a little surprised, but replied anyway, "It's my mother who can draw, did you see the portrait hanging on the first floor?" My father, mother, and the three paintings I had painted were all painted by my mother. ”

"That's right," I said, and I vaguely guessed the author of the painting. After a closer look again, I found that the painting was actually signed, but the signature was very cleverly hidden in the lace of the dance skirt on the mermaid in the painting. "What's your mother's name?"

The prince said a name, and sure enough, it matched the signature in the words.

Did the middle-aged woman paint this picture I frowned, not understanding why she did this. It stands to reason that she killed her son and imprisoned her daughter-in-law, and in order to maintain her youth, she can still brutally eat people, will such a person still have a heart and feelings? I wondered what her intention was in painting such a picture. Mourning the son who was killed by himself?

The ghost and the merfolk have two very different versions of the past, and the queen has a painting of unknown meaning to join in the fun. For a while, I only felt that all kinds of confusion in it were like a fog, so that I couldn't see clearly who was good and who was bad, and I couldn't see what kind of entanglement the past was.

After searching again and making sure there was no other useful information in the music room, and no secret rooms to hide, I withdrew from the music room.

The corridor in Hunan outside is still quiet, this silence reassures me but also makes me uneasy, there is no sound at least means that I am still safe for the time being, and there is no danger approaching, but this has been quiet The pair of middle-aged men and women are not now, why is there no sound even the wolf's teeth? Where have they all gone?

Wolf Tooth, Lin Ya, Yu Pu, Fang Ruoxi, Chen Si, Qu Ying plus the pair of middle-aged men and women, not counting the mermaids imprisoned in the secret room, in addition to me, there are a total of eight people whose locations are unknown in this castle, but I didn't hear the slightest sound, what the hell is going on?

I recalled Wolffang's words, he said that the middle-aged man and woman were aiming for the heart of the real princess, and they mistakenly thought that the real princess was me.

The silence now makes me feel like the calm in the storm, terrible, terrible, but I can only wait for the storm to come, there is nothing I can do.

I followed the ghost's clues again to the bedroom he was talking about, holding my hand on the handle. From the exploration of the music room just now, I can already be almost sure that only two of the seven doors on the second floor are real doors, and there is no room behind the remaining five doors, which should be just fake doors. Although I don't understand why the middle-aged men and women of that team made five fake doors came out, but the mind of the perverted ogre is not something that mortals like me can guess after all, and I can only secretly rejoice that I met a ghost and can accurately identify whether the door is real or fake.

I had secretly made up my mind that if I couldn't find anyone else in this room, I would have to choose to throw myself into the net and go to the secret room. No matter how terrible and dangerous it is, it's better than me being alone here and worrying about it useless, since it's a place where they kill people, and there are mermaids, if anything happens to the others, they will inevitably be taken there. All I could do was wait there for the storm called Danger to come.

Once I had made up my mind, I took a deep breath, tightened my grip on my knife again, and pushed open the door to the last room that hadn't been explored.

"Forest Cliff! Fang Ruoxi! ”

As soon as the door opened, two familiar figures came into view, and I couldn't help but let out a low breath, and then hurriedly stopped the sound.

"I've finally found you!" I didn't even bother to close the door, and excitedly took two steps forward, looking at the two people who were gagged and tied back to the bedpost, "I'll let you go!" ”

Seeing that the faces of the two of them were also excited, and finally seeing my companion made me relax a lot, and I was about to step forward to untie the ropes on their bodies as I spoke.

However, at this moment, I saw the expressions on the faces of the two of them change suddenly!