Chapter 203: Building Area in the Mist

Chapter 203: Building Area in the Mist

Chapter 203: Building Area in the Mist
The elevator goes down.

There were constant creaking sounds in the car, making people feel that this thing was very unsafe. It might break down at any moment, or stop suddenly, or fall directly.

Luo Xi tilted his head and looked at the inner wall of the elevator next to him.

Suddenly he smiled.

"I found the Dui hexagram. In other words, the real clue to pass the level in "The Haunted Mansion" is still related to the hexagram that was disrupted by Mao Dao Ren. For example, correcting the disrupted hexagram, I think this must be the condition for a perfect clearance in the scene."

Luo Xi suddenly said something.

An Zhiyan was stunned. At first she thought Luo Xi was talking to her, but she soon found out that he was not.

Luo Xi was talking to himself.

But then, Luo Xi's behavior made her feel cold.

"You know nothing. If you come here, you won't even know how you died."

"And Glasses, you don't know that you died once in my dream, and you still dare to talk to me like this."

"Let me tell you, the whole building is in the shape of the Chinese character 'concave', which corresponds to the eight trigrams. I have seen the 'Zhen' trigram in area A, and Ke Lan found the 'Li' trigram in area D. According to due east versus due west, the correct trigram for area D should be the 'Dui' trigram. So, AD corresponds to due east and due west, and the remaining two areas BC include the three directions of northeast, north and northwest, which are the three trigrams of 'Gen', 'Kan' and 'Qian'."

Then, Luo Xi raised his head, his eyes empty: "Because of the structure of the building, the hexagrams in the southeast, south and southwest directions cannot be changed. Because there is no building to support it, these three hexagrams cannot be messed up. They are fixed and there is no need to worry."

"That is to say, Taoist Mao can only disrupt the five hexagrams of Zhen, Gen, Kan, Qian and Dui. The other party said that there is only one step left to succeed. This statement may not be true, but at least it is certain that the Zhen hexagram in the east has not been disrupted because the little devil Zhang Hao failed. And I found the Dui hexagram here. Taoist Mao replaced the original Dui hexagram with a fake Li hexagram. In this way, I only need to bring the Dui hexagram back to Area D to correct the hexagram over there."

Luo Xi smiled at this time.

"Finally, there are only three hexagrams left: Gen, Kan, and Qian. Assuming that the hexagrams in these three positions are all messed up, then either the positions of the hexagrams are swapped, or the normal hexagrams are replaced with fake ones. The normal hexagrams cannot be placed randomly. The place where these hexagrams are hidden is most likely in this space where only "scapegoats" can exist. Putting things here will not affect the hexagrams outside, just like the Dui hexagram I can find here. And the location where the hexagrams are hidden must also have special ghosts and dangers, such as Zhong Kui in the Wanying Shrine. This way, it even saves time for large-scale investigation. As long as you see where there is danger here, you will definitely find the hidden hexagram nearby. Ha, this scene design is very interesting. If I don't pass it, wouldn't it be a waste of the designer's painstaking efforts?"

"You said that, right?"

He talked to himself and rubbed his hands.

His face was full of eagerness to try.

An Zhiyan, who was sitting on Luo Xi, had no idea how many times she had silently chanted "Amitabha, may the Buddha bless you."

She felt that Luo Xi's situation just now was even scarier than Zhong Kui who ate ghosts.

The sudden mumbling to herself was very strange and made her feel extremely uncomfortable, and she could tell that Luo Xi was not acting or playing tricks.

He was really 'arguing' with something.

The inner wall of the elevator is made of relatively smooth iron sheet, like a blurry mirror. At this moment, the rusty and scratched inner wall of the cabin reflects shadows far larger than two people. These shadows sway constantly, like a group of ghosts hiding in the reflective surface.

Ding~!

The elevator door opened.

At this moment, An Zhiyan unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Since there was no threat anymore, Luo Xi decided to go directly down to the fifth floor.

He didn't know the area he was in, so there was a one-fourth chance that he could find Mao Dao Ren's house directly by doing this. If he could find it, it would undoubtedly be the best situation. If he couldn't find it, he could also quickly check through the fifth floor and the passages in other areas.

Because there are passages connecting the four areas ABCD in the building, only on the first, fifth and ninth floors.

The building shrouded in fog seemed like another world. Luo Xi looked at the thick white fog and murmured, "Fog is water in the wind. Among the eight trigrams, the one belonging to water is Kan."

Controlling the wheelchair out, Luo Xi arrived at the fifth-floor corridor and looked outside first.

The sky was covered with fog, and the sun and moon were not visible. Even if you looked from the fifth floor to the sixth floor, you could only see the ceiling below, and you couldn't see clearly upwards.

"Woo woo!" An Zhiyan suddenly made a sound at this time. Luo Xi glanced at her and saw that she was also looking at the fog outside with a sidelong glance, with a hint of fear in her eyes.

"Is there something in the fog?"

An Zhiyan blinked.

"So, you can hear that the ghost who replaced you possessed extraordinary hearing and perception of danger. Now that you have this ability, it was indeed the right thing to do to bring you out." Luo Xi actually thought of more things.

He already roughly knew the true location of the "Kan Gua".

"Let me think about it. Oh, I got it. It is written in the Daoist Canon that the heavenly ghosts live in Fengshui, hidden in the vast clouds and mist. Their shapes are unpredictable and their traces are hard to find. In the past, there were ancient sages who discussed Taoism and talked about the heavenly ghosts. They were said to be the spirits that condensed from the air, hidden in the deep mountains and rivers and dragon veins, traveling on the clouds and mist. They are neither human nor god, but ghosts and immortals. They change without reason and often disturb people's minds and disturb the air of heaven and earth."

"When a demon appears, it is accompanied by thick fog, the sun and moon are dim, the wind is howling, and all the plants and trees are frightened. It can confuse people's minds and make them lose their way. What's worse, it can suck people's essence."

".The arrow body is engraved with spells, and the arrow feathers are dipped in the light of the stars. Only then can it penetrate the mist and directly hit the Sky Ghost's body!"

“So, there is one hidden in this fog as well.”

Luo Xi muttered to himself: "In fact, it is not difficult to find the hexagram hidden in this spatial dimension. In danger, there is a blessing, so the hidden Kan hexagram is most likely on this sky ghost in the fog."

"Ghosts come out of the Taoist temple, and the mysterious comes from all directions. This scene is so interesting, it is definitely not something that an elementary school student could design."

After saying that, Luo Xi reached out and patted An Zhiyan: "Can you determine the location of the Sky Ghost in the Mist?"

An Zhiyan's eyes widened. When she heard the name "Tiangui", she knew that this person was not someone to be trifled with.

But Luo Xi seemed to be planning to take action against the other party.

She thought about it and nodded.

In this situation, she can only rely on Luo Xi, so it is wise to cooperate with her to the best of her ability.

"it is good."

After Luo Xi finished speaking, he took another look at the thick fog dome before controlling the wheelchair to move forward.

Unfortunately, this was not Area A where Luo Xi was before, so he couldn't find Taoist Mao's room on the fifth floor.

But since the fifth floor has passages connecting the four building areas, it is easy to explore. I should be able to walk around before the next dark. "We were in Area C just now!"

After passing through the connecting passage, Luo Xi observed and roughly determined the location of the previous area.

And now he has entered Area D, which can be roughly inferred from the structure of the buildings he passed by. In other words, he is getting farther and farther away from Area A.

At this moment, An Zhiyan whimpered twice.

Luo Xi immediately stopped and looked at An Zhiyan. Luo Xi also looked up at the ceiling, and soon he heard the sound of footsteps.

Someone is running wildly.

This is normal. The absence of movement does not mean that there is no one here.

Because according to the rules that Luo Xi has deduced, all the people who have been replaced by ghosts can only enter this unique building space during the day after assuming the identity of "ghost".

Most of the people who had regained their memories and entered the building before had been replaced by ghosts. Therefore, during the daytime, as long as you were willing to look, the probability of encountering other people who had regained their memories here was very high.

Just because there are many terrifying existences here, smart people choose to hide or keep quiet and will never take the initiative to expose their location.

So the person who ran to the rooftop just now was either a panicked memory collector or a terrifying monster.

Just then, An Zhiyan started to whimper again.

"understood!"

Luo Xi immediately looked for a place to hide.

Unfortunately, there are not many places suitable for them to hide. Fortunately, the monsters here are not good at finding people. As long as you find something to cover yourself, they can't see you.

This can be considered as a small blessing for the two disabled ghosts, Luo Xi and An Zhiyan.

In order to make it easier to hide, I carried the large striped plastic sheet I had just found with me. When I needed it, I just spread it out and covered myself with it.

As soon as he hid, Luo Xi heard a strange noise.

"Someone's playing drums?"

Boom boom boom.

It was indeed the sound of a drum, but not a bass drum. It sounded more like the small drum that children play with.

The sound came from upstairs, but the distance was very close, so to be on the safe side Luo Xi still hid and did not move.

Then the drumbeat faded away.

Luo Xi skillfully rolled up the plastic sheet and placed it next to the wheelchair, then straightened An Zhiyan, who was lying slightly crooked.

click!
At this time, a door in front was opened, and a person stuck his head out and happened to see Luo Xi. Of course, the latter also saw the other person.

The man was surprised, but was overjoyed when he recognized Luo Xi.

"Luo Xi? Sister An"

"It's you."

Luo Xi knew the other person. She was the scene recorder named Zhang Ming who followed Liang Qu in the Awakener Association. There was also an analyst named Feng Kai beside her, but he was not seen this time.

Soon, Luo Xi entered the other person's room.

There were a few people who had recalled memories in the room, but they all looked a little scared and at a loss. However, after seeing An Zhiyan, they became excited.

"Have you been hiding here all the time?" Luo Xi asked.

"Yes, it's too dangerous here. Feng Kai went out to investigate before, but was..." Zhang Ming was a little embarrassed, with scratches on his face, but he was very calm when he spoke: "Sister An..."

"She just had bad luck." Luo Xi had a good impression of this scene recorder. He had great potential and was probably the first person to warn others in the chat group that there was a 'ghost' in the group. If he experienced more cycles, he should achieve something.

"What do you know about the monster that beats the drum?"

"We only know it's dangerous, but we haven't seen what the monster looks like. We only know the sense of terror and oppression that comes with the drumbeats. Feng Kai was killed because he wanted to find out." After Zhang Ming finished speaking, a memory-collector next to him added, "But in fact, if you hide when you hear the drumbeats, there will be no danger."

This is the other party's experience.

"I see. So, besides you guys, do you know the situation of other people?" Luo Xi asked.

"Yes, the short and petite girl with you, Wu Rui, was here before, but she said she was going to investigate, and she left and never came back."

"What about the one with short hair?"

"never seen it."

Luo Xi nodded, then held up two fingers: "Now you have two choices. One is to continue hiding here. It seems safe, but it is actually very dangerous, because the most basic requirement for passing the level is to 'survive' for seven days and nights, but now you are 'ghosts', so according to the rules you are not alive. If you hide here and don't go out, the biggest possibility is that you will be trapped here and waste the entire cycle day. The second choice is to go out and explore, and find the memory collectors who know you in the dark. As long as they recognize your identity, you can switch your identity back."

I briefly talked about the rules of identity conversion.

"But after the switch back, the roll call rules still apply, so there is still a possibility of being replaced again. Anyway, it's up to you to decide how to choose. By the way, where's Liang Qu?"

"I haven't seen Brother Qu either!"

Luo Xi didn't ask any more questions. He asked Zhang Ming to open the door and control the wheelchair to leave the room.

Time was running out and he couldn't waste it here.

But just after he walked for a while, he heard footsteps behind him, and then the wheelchair was pushed by someone and the speed increased.

Turning around, I saw Zhang Ming pushing a wheelchair and whispered, "I think you need help now. At least, someone should push you."

(End of this chapter)