Chapter 254: Vicious Game

Chapter 254: Vicious Game

Chapter 254: Vicious Game
The moment he heard the voice, Ning Zhe stopped and even his breathing stopped.

He looked down at the kerosene lamp in his hand, and it was still off.

Ning Zhe quickly unbuckled his belt and tied the kerosene lamp to his belt to free his hands. He turned around and went back to the top floor. He grabbed the edge of the stone with both hands, tentatively stretched his feet down, stepped on the window of the lookout window, and slowly climbed down, clinging to the outer wall of the tower like a gecko.

The whistling wind passed by my ears, and the rustling sound was getting closer.

Ning Zhe climbed down one floor, took his feet off the lookout window, and sat on a protruding log on the side of the outer wall. He curled up and shivered in the cold wind from high altitude.

This log is located right below a lookout window and is part of the floor-bearing column of this level of the tower. Ning Zhe held onto the wall with both hands and looked down. There was another window not far below. An orange light flashed from the window, and hurried footsteps approached.

“Fuck! fuck! fuck!”

The angry Europa curses and footsteps sounded together, moving quickly down the spiral corridor. The survivor holding the lantern quickly ran from Ning Zhe's feet to a lower floor and continued to run towards the ground.

The flickering lights gradually faded away, and the lookout window became dim again.

At this time, the rustling friction sound sounded again.

Ning Zhe held his breath, pressed his body against the wall, and stared at the observation window diagonally below him without blinking. A strange figure, thin, shriveled, and severely deformed in the lower body slowly appeared in the window, dragging a pair of swollen legs that exuded a foul stench, and slowly crawling down the spiral corridor with his hands holding onto the stone steps.

rustle--

It was the sound of flesh wrapped in clothes rubbing against the stone floor. The deformed monster, wearing a loose down jacket and an old-fashioned wool sweater, slowly disappeared from Ning Zhe's sight.

"I seem to have seen that down jacket and that woolen sweater." Ning Zhe slowly stood up on the protruding log and blew a breath on his frozen hands.

To be precise, it's not that I've seen it, but that I've passed through it.

The thing that just crawled under the window was wearing... exactly the same clothes that the man with a crew cut wore when Ning Zhe first came here. Except for being a little more worn out, they were almost exactly the same.

Did that thing kill the man with the crew cut and then take off his clothes and put them on itself?

Or will the survivors in the castle become it after being killed by 'it'?
Ning Zhe stood up straight and climbed back into the tower with great effort from the observation window above his head. Looking up, he saw that the niche on the wall had lit up at some point. Under the flickering firelight, a large area of ​​the wall was wet and filled with a musty smell.

"That thing seems to only be visible under the light." Ning Zhe reached out and extinguished the oil lamp in the alcove. Looking at the wall in front of him that had become dry again, he found some patterns:
1. The "it" wandering in the castle has two states: invisible and visible

It is usually invisible, and only appears and kills people when it is illuminated by light.

2. The castle itself also exists in two states: dry and clean, damp and stale

Under normal circumstances, the castle walls are dry and relatively clean, and have obviously been properly maintained and cleaned, but the parts of the walls illuminated by the lights become damp and old, and emit a musty and decayed smell.

The key to switching between these two states is 'light'.

"The red handwriting in the closet also mentioned that only with a kerosene lamp can you reach the basement, otherwise you will be trapped here." Ning Zhe looked at the oil lamp placed in the niche and thought: "And it seems that the light must come from the castle itself to switch the environment between the two states. I used lighters and anti-wolf flashlights before and they did not affect the environment here."

After thinking for a while, Ning Zhe picked up the oil lamp on the alcove, put it close to his nose and sniffed it, and the smell of burnt cotton wick hit him.

But beneath the burnt smell, there was a rancid smell of grease, like a corpse that had been buried underground and rotting for months.

Because of the cold weather and the obstruction of the burning oil lamp, Ning Zhe had not been able to accurately identify the smell before. Now that he had gotten closer, he could smell it clearly.

"Is this, human oil?" Ning Zhe looked at the oil lamp in his hand. There was very little oil left.

Ning Zhe untied the kerosene lamp tied to his belt, removed the glass cover, put his nose close to the brass lamp base and sniffed. The burnt smell of the burning wick mixed with the stench of rotting corpse was the same as the oil lamp in the alcove.

It turns out that the kerosene lamp is not filled with kerosene at all, but corpse oil. It is a corpse oil lamp.

"Interesting." Ning Zhe poured the remaining lamp oil into the brass base of the corpse oil lamp, put the glass lampshade back in place, and walked downstairs holding the lamp.

There were no other accidents along the way, and no other survivors were seen, which confirmed Ning Zhe's thoughts.

Although 'it' was in the same castle as him, they were not in the same space. It was like two people existing in two parallel universes, neither of them aware of the other's existence.

Only when the corpse-raising oil lamp is lit will the two parallel worlds intersect briefly, and people can see ghosts and ghosts can find people.

"So theoretically speaking, as long as the lights are not turned on, this castle is safe. But if you want to escape, you must turn on the lights, because only with the help of the corpse oil lamp can you find the way to the basement." Ning Zhe carried the corpse oil lamp and walked down the spiral corridor, and soon arrived at the first floor.

Walking out of the tower, a gray-white open space surrounded by high walls on all sides came into view. The ground was paved with neatly laid stone bricks. In the middle of the open space, two thick wooden pillars stood upright on a square stone platform, with an oblique gate knife hung in the middle with an iron chain.

This is an execution platform used for beheadings.

After passing the execution platform, on the opposite side of the open space was a large rusty iron gate, which was locked tightly with a thick iron chain, leaving no gap for passing through. There were two more gates like this, but they were all locked, and the white girl could not open them with her physical strength.

Ning Zhe touched the wall with one hand and walked around the open space. Apart from the three tightly closed iron doors, he did not find any other exits. The area around the execution platform was empty and there was no place to hide.

"Where did the survivor go?" Ning Zhe was a little confused.

Was he killed?

Or is there actually a hidden exit here that he can see but I can't?
Ning Zhe thought about it, cast his eyes towards the corpse oil lamp in his hand, and suddenly smiled:

"What happened here seems more like a bad game than a weird incident."

(End of this chapter)