Chapter 275 Flowers are not flowers

Chapter 275 Flowers are not flowers

Chapter 275 Flowers are not flowers

Click.

Ning Zhe released his thumb and the lighter in his hand went out.

In the darkness, he bent down and picked up the corpse oil lamp on the ground. He lifted up a corner of the covering and splashed the bright yellow light onto the wall. On the wet stone surface, a line of Chinese characters was clearly visible.

[The road below is a dead end.]

This short sentence, with only 5 words and 1 period, made Ning Zhe confused.

"If this line of text is regarded as a tip from an old player who has explored the underground area to a new player, then this tip is too short."

It was much shorter than the messages Ning Zhe had found in the closet and on the corpse before.

If this line of words was hastily carved when the person concerned was in some dangerous situation and ran out of time, and therefore is so short, then why is there such an extra period at the end of this sentence that serves no purpose and cannot convey any information?

Besides this, there is another doubt.

Ning Zhe put down the skin, covered the corpse oil lamp again, and relit the lighter with his right hand.

Under the illumination of the lighter, the wet bricks on the wall became dry, and the dust accumulated in the cracks became lighter in color. Only the stone-carved Chinese characters "There is a dead end below" remained there, showing no sign of disappearing.

It is known that the [Old Vanessa Castle destroyed by floods] and the [New Vanessa Castle after renovation and reconstruction] are two independent parallel worlds. The player is in the New Vanessa Castle, and the corpse oil lamp illuminates the Old Vanessa Castle. So what's the matter with the Chinese characters that can be clearly seen no matter whether it is illuminated by a lighter or a corpse oil lamp?

This line of words exists in two worlds at the same time?

Click...

The lighter went out again.

Ning Zhe lifted the veil and looked down at his feet in the light of the corpse oil lamp. Some broken bricks were scattered on the wet ground. In the dim candlelight, the words on the wall were clearly visible.

Ning Zhe stared at the period at the end of the Chinese character and suddenly realized that he seemed to have been overlooking something.

"Whether it is the old Vanessa Castle that was destroyed by the flood or the new Vanessa Castle that was renovated and rebuilt, they are essentially the same castle. The main structure of the building is not much different from before. The stones are still the same old stones, and the buildings are still the same old buildings. There has been no replacement like the Ship of Theseus."

That is to say...

Ning Zhe grasped the unsharpened blade of the handicraft straight sword and, with the help of the light from the corpse oil lamp, poked the tip of the sword into the wet wall.

Snap…Snap…Snap…

In the dim light, Ning Zhe carved a line of words on the wall of the old Vanessa Castle. Then the corpse oil lamp went out, and the light of the lighter lit up again. The orange flame danced in the darkness, illuminating Aurore's soft profile and the two lines of words engraved on the stone bricks:
[The road below is a dead end.]

【Really? 】

The first sentence was originally on the wall, and the second sentence was just carved by Ning Zhe.

"The words I carved in the old Vanessa Castle appeared simultaneously in the same location in the new Vanessa Castle."

So there is no parallel world, there is only a castle here?
No, that's not right...

Ning Zhe frowned slightly. The situation here made him feel strangely familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere else... but where? "...I see." Ning Zhe suddenly realized it.

He had indeed seen strange phenomena similar to that in Vanessa Castle in other places. To be more precise, he had personally used the two notebooks of Xia Yubing that were made using that strange phenomenon to impart power.

"The old and new castles are like the two notebooks that Xia Yubing and I hold one each. The two castles will synchronize their states with each other. One of them is located on the Apennine Peninsula in the real world, and the other is hidden in the strange world, forming a state similar to 'inner and outer worlds'."

"The Vanessa Castle in the surface world has been renovated and rebuilt by the European government, but the old Vanessa Castle in the inner world has not been maintained at all and still looks like it was destroyed by the flood... Assuming that this is the case, why is the well-repaired state of the Vanessa Castle in the surface world not synchronized with the inner world?"

Why did the words I just carved appear on the walls of the two castles in the inner and outer worlds at the same time?

Ning Zhe thought back to the message written in lipstick that he had found in the closet at the beginning, and he had the answer in his mind:
"When I was using Cynthia's identity and holding the corpse oil lamp to observe around the room at the birth point, I didn't notice the lipstick marks in the closet. It wasn't until I blew out the oil lamp and used a flashlight to illuminate the room that I saw the lipstick marks in the closet."

That was a message that only existed in the surface world, and the message left by the player who wrote with lipstick did not appear in both the surface and the inner worlds at the same time.

Ning Zhe had roughly guessed the reason.

"—because the wardrobe was changed."

Just as it is impossible for the chairs in the living room to be placed in the same position every time you eat, Vanessa Castle has been renovated and rebuilt, and its wooden furniture has been soaked in floods. It will either rot and be replaced with new ones, or be repaired and put back, but even if it is put back, it may not necessarily return to its original position in the room where it was originally located.

It's like tearing off a page of paper in a notebook and sticking a new one back in. Even if you continue writing on the new page, you can't sync your writing to another notebook.

Because this piece of paper does not belong to this notebook.

The European government's engineering team carried out the restoration project on the Vanessa Castle in the surface world, replacing new furniture, applying new paint, patching new bricks... and even pasting new paper on it.

"The bricks here are old. The load-bearing structure at the deepest part of the bell tower has not been replaced. The stones are still the original ones. At most, the iron pipe for heating has been replaced."

It is for this reason that the words carved by Ning Zhe appear on the walls of the two castles in the inner and outer worlds at the same time.

After wandering in this castle till now, Ning Zhe finally began to approach the truth hidden in the fog.

But after figuring this out, a new question arises:

"Those two notebooks are the granting props that Xia Chan got through the Xia family's channels and connections. Then what about the two Vanessa castles here?"

Are the two Vanessa castles located in the inner and outer worlds also the same authorized props as the two notebooks?

Or is it that the ghost that caused the strange synchronization phenomenon is lurking here?
Ning Zhe recalled the tips he had received when he first arrived here, the first of which was: [Cannot be found by ‘it’]

Does 'it' refer to the wandering ghosts that roam the other world, or specifically the source ghost that caused the synchronization of the two castles?

If so, where is it now?

Ning Zhe looked up at the two lines of words carved on the wall, took a deep breath, walked to the broken heating pipe with the corpse oil lamp, and jumped in without hesitation.

[The road below is a dead end.]

(End of this chapter)