016. The merits
"Bang!"
As if something had hit a window, Jiang Ning's expression froze, he sat up suddenly, opened his eyes, and his eyes were filled with the pain that the black-robed man had brought him just now.
Looking around, it was exactly the same as the place where he woke up before, no, to be precise, it should be the room when he woke up before.
So was all that just a dream?
No, Jiang Ning quickly rejected the idea, and he still felt the pain of tearing the part that had just been touched by the black-robed man, but it just seemed that there was no wound.
So, what's going on?
Is he really dead?
Countless questions popped up in Jiang Ning's mind, but he could never answer them.
He looked up at the ceiling, his heart pounding, and seemed to have the same fear as before, and in order to calm his mind, he got up and left the bed, and walked to the window to look out.
Although it was an unexpected situation, it still made Jiang Ning stunned, and there was a palm-sized crow curled up on the edge of the outer window, and the position of the wound was exactly the same as the position where it was curled up before.
Jiang Ning carried the crow back into the room while pondering what was happening now.
So......
Is the current situation that I have entered a period of reincarnation?
In some specific times, if an incident is not successfully resolved, then he will continue to reincarnate this time, because he is the author of suspense novels, so Jiang Ning, who often has the bridge in this kind of novel, quickly understood.
Jiang Ning looked at the crow in his arms, although according to the understanding just now, it was impossible for the crow to be rescued by himself, but he still wanted to try it out of the kindness of his heart.
As expected, even if Jiang Ning wanted to rescue the crow, the crow refused Jiang Ning's treatment as he did at the beginning, and left this world safely after a while.
Jiang Ning hugged the crow, his heart was a little complicated, he had just experienced the pain of dying, but he didn't expect that every reincarnation started when this poor crow hit the window, the corpse in his arms became more and more cold, and his face became more and more pale.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
There was another knock on the door, and even the sound just now was exactly the same, Jiang Ning continued to wrap the crow in the white sheet on the bed, and then walked to the door and opened the door.
Standing in front of the door was Enoshima Lian with an anxious and worried expression, she saw Jiang Ning open the door and immediately squeezed into the room, and after seeing that there was nothing unusual in it, she looked at Jiang Ning.
"Jiang, Jiang Ning, are you okay? I just heard some terrible noise coming from your room, and I thought something was wrong with you......"
Although it was a little different from the initial rhetoric, but when he thought that he had asked "you are" at the beginning, Jiang Ning suddenly let down his guard, and at the same time, he temporarily determined in his heart that Enoshima Lian was also a member of this time reincarnation, and she did not retain the memories of the last reincarnation like herself.
"It's okay, the muffled sound you just heard was a crow accidentally hitting the window of my room, don't worry, I've taken care of it all."
Jiang Ning still said almost the same as last time, as just said, he only let down his guard "temporarily".
He glanced at Enoshima Ryo, carefully observing her next actions and expressions, trying to find out if there was anything wrong with her.
Why did Jiang Ning do this?
As he said from the beginning, he felt that something was not quite right in the corridor.
This kind of aberrations is mainly reflected in the mood swings of her speech, and there are always some strange and illogical emotions that emerge inexplicably.
Out of the instinct of the author of suspense novels, he will always magnify these seemingly extremely small points, which directly leads to Jiang Ning's somewhat suspicious personality.
"Crows in the inn? Isn't that ridiculous...... I knew that we would have chosen a city close to the city for this vacation. ”
Like the answer last time, Jiang Ning glanced at Enoshima, didn't find anything unusual about him, and answered quietly.
"yes, as soon as we got here, it started raining, and crows hit the windows, so I feel like something bad is going to happen today." Jiang Ning sighed, and then he touched his stomach, "By the way, Enoshima, I'm hungry, I see that dinner time is almost up, let's go to the restaurant to find something to eat together." ”
"Huh? What does Jiang Ning like to eat? After hearing this, Enoshima's worried expression immediately disappeared, and she looked at Jiang Ning with a bright smile.
"I'm not a picky eater, so I'll have to go to the lobby to see the specifics." Jiang Ning responded to Enoshima with a smile, stretched out his hand to hold her, and walked towards the stairs leading to the first floor, "Let's talk while we walk." ”
After descending the stairs, there is a long corridor with a front door leading to the spacious lobby and a side door to the hostel's reception, where the main door is located.
There is also a door in the depths of the hallway, which is the kitchen of the inn.
Jiang Ning looked around, and to his surprise, there was also a painting hanging on the wall of the corridor here, and after looking at it carefully, it was the same as the painting he saw in the corridor before, it was "Sisyphus".
And it is the same as the characteristics of the previous painting, if you deviate from the line of sight a little, the posture of the stone and the figure will change when you look at it again, but it will always push the stone up the mountain, and it will never change or stop.
Jiang Ning stood in the middle of the corridor and vaguely smelled the smell of food wafting from the direction of the kitchen.
It seems that the previous speculation about the bell in the lobby can rule out a possibility.
Judging from the cooking time in the hotel kitchen, it was indeed dinner time, but now neither of them has any equipment on them to check the time, so I don't know what time it is.
Jiang Ning looked around, although the hunger in his stomach became more and more intense, but out of politeness, he did not go directly to the kitchen of the hotel to eat and drink in advance, so he chose to go to the lobby to wait first.
After asking Enoshima what he thought, the two went to the lobby of the hotel.
The lobby is furnished with several sets of round wooden tables and chairs, as well as a number of items for entertainment.
On one of the walls, there are a number of posters, the design style is more bizarre and grotesque, and there is a floor-to-ceiling table clock on the side of the poster wall, and the dial time is 11:35.
Dinner at 11:35 p.m.? Although he had such a hunch, Jiang Ning was still a little surprised, judging from the time, this can already be said to be a supper.
To be precise, according to common sense, most hotels don't actually provide supper service, so does it mean that dinner time in this world is around half past eleven?
Jiang Ning was stunned, and did not ask any questions in the spirit of following the local customs, he let go of Enoshima's hand, walked to the wall, and set his eyes on the posters.