When Jiang Ning dialed the hands to the number 12, unexpectedly, the grandfather clock did not ring, and the time of this world was not really changed, but the small wooden door engraved with the golden Ouroboros mark opened.

Inside the small wooden door, a golden key lay there quietly, and Jiang Ning could determine at a glance that the key was the key to open the secret room of the secret door in the study.

Picking up the key, Jiang Ning quickly ran upstairs, and before leaving, he glanced at the stewed vegetables that Enoshima was eating, saying that it was a stewed vegetable, to be precise, it should be "Mo Mo Chirp", that is, mixed vegetables, the kind that has a little bit of everything.

The food at this hotel is not very good......

After having such an idea, Jiang Ning immediately suppressed his strong hunger, it is better to say that it is because he saw the appearance of the food and felt that it was a little difficult to accept, so he did not have a "short" hunger.

If it's time to go back to the time when you really can't hold on, let's go to the kitchen again.

Jiang Ning almost snatched the door into the study on the second floor, the lock of the secret door was still there, he grabbed the golden key, and opened the secret door tremblingly.

All the secrets will be unlocked behind this door, and Jiang Ning felt a little excited at the thought of this.

What appeared in Jiang Ning's eyes was a small dark space, and the entire space was almost occupied by a small elevator.

It is said to be a small elevator, but the rough workmanship really makes people not see that this is a small elevator, it is a box assembled with wood planks and motors, the internal wires of the box are wound, connected with two button switches, to control the up and down of the elevator, it can be seen that the practicality far exceeds its aesthetics.

On the button switch, the downward button is slightly shiny, which means that there is no upper space? This elevator leads to the basement, right?

Jiang Ning looked around, and found a note torn from a notebook on the wooden board of the elevator for standing.

Who left it here?

The only answer Jiang Ning could think of was the owner of this secret door.

After picking it up, Jiang Ning found that the handwriting on this note was very similar to what he had seen in the newspaper before, could it be that the owner of this secret door secret room was the same as the person who wrote on the newspaper?

The words on the note are some things that I don't know what to say-

The first line is "Number 371".

The second line is "20 15 30 15"

There is only one "✓" in the third line, which is the symbol that the teacher often uses when he sees the correct answer when he corrects the homework.

Seeing these things that he didn't know what the intention was, Jiang Ning almost reflexively felt that this note was a password question for decryption.

Jiang Ning stuffed the note in his pocket, he had already used his brain just now, and if he continued to answer any questions, he would temporarily fall into an unnecessary predicament.

Besides, he didn't want to fall into such a passive situation at all - why should he take the initiative to solve a password problem when he saw it? This directly uses him as a transcoding machine to understand passwords.

Looking around again, Jiang Ning found that the elevator seemed to be powered by an independent motor, so it could operate in the event of a power outage, so there was a power outage at the hotel at twelve o'clock, and he was able to come here to find clues, and by the way, he brought the lighting facilities in the utility room.

In addition, the inside of the box can barely accommodate two standing adults, and after pressing the downward button, the elevator carries Jiang Ning to sink slowly.

About three minutes later, Jiang Ning arrived in the basement of the hotel.

After the door of the elevator made of broken wood opened, Jiang Ning really saw the so-called hotel basement, which was much more spacious than he imagined, with four walls of black walls with complex patterns, and there was no exit except for a small elevator.

In the center of the entire space, an intricate pattern based on a circle is drawn.

Jiang Ning walked to the black wall, but found that the so-called black patterns on the wall were actually just densely filled with words with black pens.

These vine-like, crazy words on the wall span a long time, sometimes clear and neat, sometimes scribbled and busy, but more often, they are distorted, crazy, incomprehensible handwriting, revealing the author's hysterical mental state.

There was nothing else on one of the walls, just the same sentence written over and over again—

"Time is an Ouroboros, and there are countless of us trapped here at the same time."

Jiang Ning felt fear in an instant, except that he felt that the handwriting on this wall was the same as the handwriting on the newspaper on the previous note, those more crazy words were his own handwriting.

Because of the confusion and sheer volume of the content, some of the text even overlapped each other, and at a cursory glance, you could only get some meaningless incremental numbers, as well as some words such as "spell", "reaper", "recipe", etc.

Jiang Ning closed his eyes slightly, just like he thought, this basement really contained a lot of secrets in this time cycle.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm his fears, and although the words on the three remaining walls of the basement revealed hysterical mental states, if he wanted to know the truth, he still had to sort out the information he could get his hands on.

But......

It's really hard to accept reading your own handwriting and looking for the clues you left for yourself.

After some adjustment of mentality, as well as careful reading, Jiang Ning finally sorted out effective content-

"The First Wall"

"Before 2:30 in the middle of the night, the basement is a safe place that will not be discovered by the Grim Reaper, and after 2:30, no matter where you hide, you will be found, and the Grim Reaper has a face of Jiang Ning's own.

The person who wrote this text had a premonition that he would one day lose his mind completely, so he would come here every time he went back to record the results of the investigation. ”

"The Second Wall"

The person who wrote this text speculated that the reason for the retrospection was the incomplete resurrection of the dead, so there were two ways to get out of the retrospection.

The first is to complete the spell, and the second is to destroy the spell, the former requires enough sacrifices, and the latter means that the spell is invalidated.

The living and the dead, choose one or the other. ”

"The Third Wall"

"This text is written in two different handwritings, and the person who wrote it, after countless backtracks, seems to have been searching for some kind of value, which he calls 'slim hope'.

But judging from the notes and content of the later writings, the mental states of both have reached a critical point. ”

After Jiang Ning read these contents, his legs weakened, and he fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

As he read the records, he felt a heartfelt pain and depression, as if something was pressing on his chest and making him breathless.

Suddenly, Jiang Ning laughed.

Leaning back against the wall like a vine, he looked up and laughed loudly, a flash of sadness in his eyes.