The seagull remained blurred and flew around the chamber, and Ian watched with his eyes.

After familiarizing himself with the structure inside, he summoned the seagull.

The two entered the secret room.

"Boom-"

The walls of the chamber slowly close and fit in with the exterior walls, and the exposed gaps are covered by bookshelves, giving it a sense of secrecy.

If any detective came, I would not have imagined that there would be a door hidden behind the huge bookcase.

The secrets in Alice's Mansion will not be too clear to anyone except the head of the family.

The style of painting in the secret room is a bit like a prison, and when Alice sees it, she is at first a little puzzled, and then immediately shows surprise.

"This doesn't match what you remember?"

Ian asked, and through his Eagle Eye, he sensed that there were ten times more traps hidden here than in the hallway outside.

Seem...... The owner of the trap thinks that this place is very precious and must be kept secret.

Alice had a complicated expression and nodded slowly.

She walked to what resembled a research bench on the left, and recalled the image from her memory:

"I think it was supposed to be a bed...... It's ...... desk."

"But the layout of this place now has a creepy feeling to me......"

Ian followed Alice's introduction and re-looked at the layout of the room.

The Chamber of Secrets has been overhauled once, what does it do?

Puppetry must be similar to alchemy, it requires a complete workshop, Ms. Du Jia deliberately modified the environment here, transforming the original guest room into a secret room, is it...

"Is it a secret room where test subjects are imprisoned?"

Ian guessed that Alice's cheeks turned white at hearing his words.

She knew that Ian was referring to the previous generation of family heads, who used puppetry on humans to find out the shortcomings of puppetry and improve it.

The previous head of the family was the mother of Ms. Dujat, and it is very likely that Ms. Duggard also inherited this idea.

At the very least, it's very likely.

Ian used his dagger to pick up the chains on the walls, which were covered in black dirt, and when he examined them closely, he found that they were traces of dried blood.

This secret room is so bad in every sense of the word, it has all kinds of little butter, and it has it without it.

From various bondage beds wrapped around belts, to surgical knives, bandages, and cylindrical cans.

Judging from the size and traces of use, it is probably similar to the specimen jar used in the horror laboratory, adding formalin to it, and then throwing the internal organs into it.

Thinking of this, Ian only felt a little chilly, he glanced at the layout of the room, and he could make up the whole process of a person being caught and then becoming a "talent".

"Gatekeeper, I'm a little scared, it's very different from what I remember......"

Alice whispered with a shudder.

She retrieved the information from the cabinet, which was a codebook with a tawny lock.

To open it, you need to have a key, but the layout of the secret room has changed drastically, how does she know where to hide?

"Any clue?"

Ian asked, and he searched around and found various mechanisms, but this was the mansion, and if it failed to crack it, it would trigger an alarm and alarm Ms. Duggard.

To be on the safe side, he needs to restrain himself and ask Alice for the correct solution.

Alice shook her head: "I don't understand...... I don't know the layout of this. ”

Is that so?

Over the course of a few decades, the mansion has changed, and some places are different from what Alice remembers.

But...... Since it was Ms. Duggard who caused these changes, Alice, who has memories of her 16-year-old years, should be able to give it a try.

Ian approached Alice's quizzling gaze:

"You can close your eyes and imagine if you needed this chamber and did some experiments here, how you would design the trap and where you would hide the key."

Some of the keys in the mansion are placed in the mansion, and I hope that the keys in the secret room are the same.

The two of them had worked hard to enter the mansion, and they had already broken through many obstacles, and if the key in the secret room was on Ms. Duja, it would be a real failure.

"Imagine?" Alice didn't understand Ian's words too much.

"Psychological profiling, bringing in the habits and position of the target, pretending to be Ms. Duja."

Alice can do this very easily, and if Ian or another psychologist were to do this, the difficulty of profiling would increase several times over.

They weren't familiar with Ms. Dujat at all.

Although Alice didn't quite understand, she followed Ian's method and substituted herself into Ms. Duggard, who designed the secret room.

She walked over to the cabinet under Ian's expectant gaze and looked at the empty space behind it.

Empty.

"Failed ......"

"It's normal to fail, try again."

Ian also started his own investigation.

He picked up the materials placed on the bookcase, which recorded how to dismantle a living person in its entirety.

The steps were so detailed that they were bloody, and Ian closed the book after reading it, preventing Alice from looking at it.

"It's not a good thing, you're still young, don't look at it."

"I'm not small!"

Alice retorted unusually, puffed up her bun face and continued to work.

Gatekeepers are truly hateful!

There is not much space in the secret room, and Ian divides it into a prison area, a slaughter area, and an experimental area.

There was a lot of information in the experimental area, and the unlocked books were generally stained with dried blood, and the owners who wrote them seemed to have no idea about the blood on their hands, but happily recorded them in the notebook after research.

Ian took out the Dream Nail and knocked it a few times, and the content obtained was about the same as in the book.

He swept the words in the notebook and found a good harvest.

The book records how to make spiritual gems, and by collecting some materials, crushing them, and firing them, they are fused with gemstones.

If it weren't for the lack of time, Ian would definitely try to learn how to make spirit gems first.

In addition to the method of making spirit gemstones, there is also a record of the efficient use of the coupling silk thread.

All such records in the archives of knowledge will be parsed by the sequence system.

【Ding! Through perseverance and hard work, you have unlocked the special skill of "Puppet Control Silk Thread Blade". 】

[You can make a puppet control silk thread and harden it to form a blade that is almost the same as a blade, which can control the enemy's body and chop the enemy into pieces.] 】

It seems that human research can indeed accelerate the progress of puppetry, and Ms. Du Jia has gone one step further and developed the "blade line"?

The puppet control wire is now in control and can also produce good output.

Ian tried to condense a bladed thread, and the hard thread took on a snow-white color unlike the normal thread.

In a moment of condensation, Ian felt his perception being slowly elongated, as if his vision was expanded by the blade line in his hand.

Blades can be crafted over long distances, or they can be crafted into short daggers, with the main distinction being how much mana is consumed.

If Ian wanted to, it would be easy to create a nearly kilometer-long blade line.

"Gatekeeper, here."

Alice successfully found an anomaly through psychological profiling.

It was a stone statue placed in front of an empty wall, the head of a certain generation of the head of the family.

"There's something hidden behind this, I can see it, but I can't push it."

Alice tried to push the statue, as she said, and with all her might, the statue did not move.

This shattered her idea of finding the mechanism on her own.

She had to ask Ian for help.

Ian activated Eagle Vision and marked the stone statue, which immediately glowed faintly in Ian's eyes.

That wasn't enough, Ian needed to see the stone statue in its entirety so he could be sure it had no traps.

The part of the stone statue that touches the wall is so small that there is no way for one to see inside.

What to do?

Ian pondered for half a second, remembering the skill he had just unlocked.

He condensed the puppet control thread, hardened it into a 'blade line', and then manipulated it to bend slightly.

In this way, a wire with a field of vision is ready!

He pinched the blade line and stabbed it behind the statue, and the vision from the silk thread suddenly darkened.

Ian has a little night vision, and he can't see the black of his fingers in the eyes of others, and he can see half a shadow in his eyes.

He manipulated the blade line to continue to stretch in, and a gray square pillar appeared in his field of vision.

This is...

Ian looked up at the statue, which had a trap of its own, a very insidious trap that connected the statue to the wall.

Others may seem to push the statue to unlock the lock, but this is a misguided one, and the statue is the real trap.

Alice is still trying to exert herself, but unfortunately her strength can't even be compared to a normal person, and it is only about fifty pounds of strength.

Ian stopped Alice from pushing the statue first.

"Be careful, the stone statue is fake, but it's not all fake."

Stone statues do unlock, but they need another way.

Ian felt a lock hole in the back of the statue, which was like a safety valve, and when the key was inserted in the statue, it could be easily pushed open without triggering the trap.

However, once the key is gone, the stone statue will become stiff and connected to the mechanism, and relying on the original method, it will trigger the trap and cause death.

Ian didn't want to try the power of the traps in the mansion at all.

He controls the blade line and gently places it on the part that connects the stone statue to the mechanism.

Qiang –

After a sharp blade-like sound, the connection of the stone statue was cut off by the blade wire, and Ian turned the stone statue around under Alice's confused gaze.

During this time, a series of machine blades were stretched out from the stone wall, and Alice was very close to the wall, but before she was injured by the blade, she was still pulled in Ian's arms.

"Here we go."

The moment the stone statue spun around to the left and a half, the vision in Ian's eyes immediately turned crimson.

The attack is coming.

His mind was racing at high speed at this moment, seeing through the hidden arrows coming from all directions, as well as poisonous needles and gas traps.

9 percent of the traps won't trigger, Ian has a way to solve them, and the last 1 percent is the real danger.

Bang!

The trap retracted into the wall, without warning, and Alice saw Ian insert a bladed silk thread into the keyhole behind the statue.

There was a safety valve, 9 percent of the trap closed, and the last 1 percent emerged from the stone statue's body, the ceiling above Ian's head, and the cracks in the floor tiles underfoot.

At this moment, Ian switched the mandala bow and hung three lunar arrows.

The Lunar Soil Arrow will hit the area, inflicting a 10-second Moon Territory effect, which is what Ian needs.

There was no sound in the Lunar Territory.

Sou!

The arrows are fired, and the traps are triggered, and they themselves are within the range of the Moon Territory, so naturally they can't make a sound at all.

With Eagle Vision, Ian tilted his head slightly, and three arrows passed through his face without hurting him.

The rest of the trap attacks enter the Lunar Territory, where they fall or rise 90 degrees in extreme gravity, silently flashing and turning into garbage.

Alice stared blankly at this scene, and with her ability, she couldn't even see how Ian did it.

It's just that as soon as the perspective is blurred, everything is over.

Ian let go of his hand, and several broken arrows fell from his hand and fell to the ground.

He looked at the position behind the stone statue and rejoiced in his heart.

There, there are several dolls in display cases, not plush toys like grizzly bears, but dolls like Alice.

However, compared to Alice, they have no face and no clothes.

The time is marked under the transparent display case, and the interval between each of them varies from 3~5 years.

The owner of the doll has made several breakthroughs, but none of them have been able to make the perfect doll, and these dolls used for display are more or less problematic.

When Ian walked into the showroom, he was not unusual, but Alice's mood became depressed.

When she saw these dolls, she naturally thought of herself, and could even see some traces of her own.

"These are...... Was it the perfect doll that Mother tried? ”

Alice asked in a whisper, looking at the dolls.

They are very different from Alice, tall, short, fat and thin, and even different skin colors, each with its own randomness.

Ian sent a dream nail to a puppet, and when he saw the dream language on it, his eyes suddenly flashed:

"Maybe you're a little hurtful, but these dolls aren't an attempt at the perfect puppet......"

He looked at the dream words that recorded 'pain' and said:

"The material of these dolls is people."

In addition to marble, Ms. Duggard also uses people as the material of her dolls, which is a crazy idea.

Alice's hand was caressing the blank face of a doll, and her hand trembled at Ian's words.

"People?"

"Yes, Ms. Duggard doesn't use too many marble and other materials, these are the real and original 'human' dolls."

The doll's dream words were the deceased's last words before he died, perhaps because the pain was too strong, and Ian didn't see any other dream words.

Normal dolls are made of marble, just like Alice, and if they lose their magic or spirit gems, they will become stone statues.

And these dolls are made of flesh and blood, and their skin feels like a human texture, after all, they are human themselves.

"In order to make a female doll, the natural use of human female ......"

Ian rubbed his eyebrows, "Alice, have any women gone missing in Momiji Town?" ”

He had suspected that Ms. Duggard was behind the scenes, and that she had personally caused the partial eternal night, but now that the living puppet has been found, this suspicion has been further confirmed.

Alice didn't know what to say because of the shock, but in her mind, her mother, who was originally kind, was a villain who did evil experiments behind her back?

"I ...... I need to think about it......"

She whispered.

Momiji Town is located deep in the forest, and there is no place to move around except for the trade routes that follow one after the other.

There have been some disappearances here, all of which have not been followed, and have been judged to have been killed by monsters.

It's not new to go to the wilderness and be killed by monsters.

Momiji Town is guarded by grizzly bears, and monsters can't enter this town, and adventurers and hunters are even rarer.

"There have been many ...... of disappearances"

Alice replied truthfully.

It's been nearly five years since she was created, and she's been in Red Leaf Town all these years, and she can't get too far away from her mother.

She resembles a real human being, and her mother has given her high hopes and has been working for her for many years.

Unable to get outside, Alice turned her gaze to the town, remembering most of the things that had happened in the town.

In 5 years, the disappearance here has ...... It has been nearly 100 times.

"Whew-"

A gust of wind blew from the corner, and Ian immediately became vigilant and slowed down to the corner.

His sequence ability, 'Agnostic', can mask his information, which is equivalent to a passive that clears traces.

This ability allows Ian to easily spot enemies, such as the strange noises outside, whether it be a puppet or something.

Ian came to the wall and listened to the voices outside.

"Pa-da-pa-"

It's footsteps, someone is approaching the secret room!

Ian's pupils shrank in tension and he looked back into the chamber, where various traps were activated, and fragments of arrows were scattered all over the ground.

Worst!

These East XZs need to be put in order as soon as possible and hide in unseen corners, otherwise this sneak tonight will be a failure.

Ian covered the cloth that had been covering the living doll and removed the hourglass from the compartment of his backpack.

Time jumped by 5 seconds, Alice in the blink of an eye, and the messy secret room in her eyes was much less rubbish.

Arrow shards can be loaded into a backpack, but as the backpack is almost full, Ian holds them in his hand.

Then, as the walls of the chamber were slightly opened, Ian slipped into the deep chamber where the living puppets were hidden.

The stone statue is returned to its original position.

A female figure walked into the secret room, it was Ms. Duggard herself.

After she entered the door, she first glanced suspiciously at the environment in the secret room.

I always feel that there is something weird.

"Alice? Come out! ”

A slightly stern voice came out of her mouth.

But after waiting for a moment, and not hearing a response, the suspicion in Ms. Duja's eyes diminished slightly.

Blood was faintly visible on her hands, and five pigeons wearing gold-rimmed glasses took out towels and other props to help her clean the dirt on her body.

Du Jia stretched out his right hand, pinched the bloody demon wolf's heart with his thumb and forefinger, and threw it into the transparent cylinder jar.

Blood flowed from the cut parts of the internal organs, the necromantic wolf had just been transformed, it hadn't rotted yet, and the blood was warm.

"Duja! Durja! The gatekeepers are starting to suspect you, and this will definitely affect your plans! ”

A pigeon jumped in front of Duja's eyes, and it spoke very fluently, and its pitch fluctuated so much that it caused the voice to sound as funny as a clown.

"He's just a little skeptical......"

(End of chapter)