Chapter 299 I’ve been waiting for you for a long time
Chapter 299 I’ve been waiting for you for a long time
Following the corridor, Luo Xi saw a staircase leading downwards.
This place is not far from the tavern hall, but because it requires passing through a fork and a door, it is almost completely isolated from the outside sounds.
very quiet.
The soles of shoes stepped on the wooden floor, and even if you deliberately slowed down your pace, you could still hear the sound.
Sometimes, there is even a creaking sound.
After going down the stairs and walking a few meters forward, you will see another wooden door, which is obviously more dilapidated than the other doors in the bar. It feels like a door panel that was removed from a dilapidated old house with decades of history and installed here.
Luo Xi walked closer and examined the door panel carefully.
There are many signs of time on it, with wear and scratches all over it, and even some messy marks mixed in, such as some numbers and letters of unknown meaning, and some are completely unrecognizable symbols.
It's a bit like something carved by several children with knives at different times.
Luo Xi didn't knock on the door, but stared at it carefully.
He knew that during the days of confinement, things that looked very "old" might hide some secrets, especially things that were obviously inconsistent with the surrounding environment.
There is a 'reset' mechanism both in Fairy Tale Town and outside.
Most things will not be preserved.
And what can be preserved must not be ordinary things.
The door in front of him was obviously something that could be 'preserved', and it was very obvious.
The next moment Luo Xi's pupils shrank.
He seemed to have seen something that shocked him so much that even though he possessed "absolute rationality", he was momentarily distracted.
The old door panel, which is covered with all kinds of messy scratches, hides some information.
This is not surprising.
The key point is the content of this information and the person who recorded it. After deciphering it, Luo Xi was shocked.
But if you associate some of the previous things together and connect them together, you will find that the information on the door panel is not so abrupt and surprising.
Instead, it has become a necessity.
There are several numbers on the door panel, randomly engraved in different positions and hidden among the various messy scratches. Even if you look closely, you may not be able to detect the problem.
But for Luo Xi, the combination of these numbers immediately awakened some memories in him.
From top to bottom and from left to right on the door panel, you can find '0', '4', '6', '2', '6'.
There are 120 possible combinations of these five numbers.
But Luo Xi instantly locked onto one of the arrangements.
64206!
'Project Cocoon'.
This is what Luo Xi heard when he began to hallucinate after becoming a memory collector.
For Luo Xi in this life, this number and the four words "Breaking the Cocoon Plan" can be said to be the beginning of everything.
And this number is more like a 'signature'.
A signature that is unique to you.
"So the previous analysis was correct. The mayor deliberately didn't give me an admission ticket because I had been to Fairy Tale Town before. It's really wrong for them to treat old customers like this." Luo Xi muttered.
However, it is not 100% certain whether the numbers on the door were left by himself.
This needs further exploration.
In addition to numbers, there are other things on the door.
Luo Xi saw a familiar name.
Cinderella!
It is engraved on the lower right side of the door, and you can't see it unless you squat down.
In addition, Luo Xi also saw another word that should be a name, 'Addaperle'.
Other than that, there are some unknown carvings, or things that look like some kind of runes.
Very messy anyway.
Luo Xi looked at it for a full five minutes, writing down everything on the door that he thought was valuable and some that he thought were worthless.
This kind of thing can take pictures, but the phone and the photos cannot escape "reset". Only the "memories" protected by "memory" can be retained.
After doing all this, Luo Xi started knocking on the door.
Actually, because of this door, he was already looking forward to meeting the tavern owner.
The knock on the door could be heard from far away, and there was movement inside the door almost instantly.
Someone opened the door.
An expressionless middle-aged man with a beard, a scar on his face, and cloudy white light in his eyes. It seemed that some force had shattered his pupils and merged them with the surrounding tissues into a chaotic thing.
With just one glance, Luo Xi knew that the thing in front of him was a "puppet" possessed by some kind of spiritual power.
A living corpse, sort of.
After seeing Luo Xi, the middle-aged man made a strange sound. "You you."
The cloudy white in the pupils seemed to be pulsating, as if some soul attached to them was affected by some force, causing instability.
The next moment, the turbidity in the eyes of this "puppet" instantly dissipated, and then this "puppet" fell to the ground with a thud.
Luo Xi squatted down and took a look.
This is indeed a corpse.
However, this corpse does not look like a 'local' on Node 2. It looks more like an Arab with Persian ancestry. Judging from its race, it is definitely not a Caucasian person on Node 2. In addition, it does not look like a Shiyi person.
The lack of a card ring is one thing, and the other is that the other person has a lot of weird tattoos on his body, which most people who have lost their memories don’t have.
“Did you get it from another node?”
Luo Xi gave a possible guess.
At this moment, he remembered the information about Node 6 that he had bought from the receptionist.
At node 6, the plot background there is based on "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves".
This corpse does fit the background of that world.
"This tavern owner is also a powerful person." Luo Xi walked into the house and asked, "Is there anyone else inside?"
When this "puppet" saw him, it said the word "you" twice and then died.
Luo Xi didn't understand what it meant, so he hoped to find another person, who could be a puppet, or preferably the tavern owner himself.
same moment.
The ballroom in the palace was still very lively at this moment. The court band was playing music and singing. People of status and nobility gathered in twos and threes to chat. In their hands, they held a glass of unfinished wine, and the crystal wine glasses emitted all kinds of brilliant lights under the reflection of the lights.
The ladies here also shine.
They are all beautiful long dresses, carefully dressed up and matched with various jewelry to show their best side.
Because this dance party is a place for the upper class to expand their social circles and connections.
In addition, they knew that the prince of the royal family would also attend the ball and might find his other half at the ball.
Of course, married ladies would not dream of having anything happen with the prince, but getting to know some handsome, wealthy, and powerful men is also a way to spend the boring life of a noblewoman. Especially those noblewomen whose partners have died and who are widowed, their eyes are even more hungry.
At this time, a handsome young man looked pale, without his original calmness and sophistication. Facing the widowed but still beautiful and charming Duchess, he did not continue talking to her at all, but immediately got up and walked outside.
He even seemed to be in a state of confusion, excitement and a little distracted, and he bumped into a waiter carrying a wine tray and broke all the wine glasses on the tray.
But even so, he still didn't care. At this moment, he was like Cinderella who found the clock striking twelve at midnight. He ran out in panic, while the Duchess chased after him, but like the prince, she failed to catch up with her (his) 'prince' (Cinderella).
But the difference is that at least the young man didn't lose his shoes while running.
"Who is he and why is he so reckless and rude?" someone at the dance asked dissatisfiedly.
"I heard that he is a poor nobleman with a title, and he seems to have opened a bar."
"Oh, it's really down and out."
The young man almost ran out of the ball and got into his carriage.
"Go back immediately!" He told the driver in an almost trembling voice.
"Boss, are you okay?" The driver was also a man who had regained his memory. He had been with his boss for a long time and had never seen him so distraught.
"Shut up and get back to the tavern as fast as possible." the boss roared.
The driver didn't dare to say any more nonsense and immediately drove the horse. Soon, the crisp sounds of horse hooves and wheels were heard on the stone road, and then quickly went away.
Civilians were not allowed to run around in the city, but for the rich, especially the nobles with titles, this rule was meaningless. The carriage returned to the Darkfurnace Tavern as quickly as possible. The guards patrolling along the way did not choose to stop it after seeing the emblem on the carriage, but would only curse behind its back.
bang~
The people in the carriage jumped out and pushed the door of the tavern open almost as if by a ramming motion.
The people guarding the door inside were startled.
He was about to call for help, but after seeing who it was, he swallowed the rest of his words and bowed his head hastily.
"boss!"
Several people in the tavern who chose to spend the night here also stopped talking instantly. You know, the tavern owner is rarely seen.
In Fairy Tale Town, at least at Node 2, the tavern owner is definitely one of the top memory collectors.
However, the tavern owner ignored everyone and walked quickly into the tavern. Someone came over and reported in a low voice that the bodies of the female receptionist and the burly man were found in private room No. 4, but the owner waved his hand as if he didn't care.
"Don't bother me. Also, no one is allowed to follow me."
Here, the tavern owner's words are the emperor's decree.
No one dared to disobey.
Soon, the tavern owner walked to the wooden door that only he could enter on weekdays. At this moment, he stopped, took a deep breath, and even looked a little nervous.
But before he could open the door, someone pushed it open from inside.
Seeing the tavern owner, the man smiled and said, "Tavern owner?"
The latter's pupils constricted and he nodded nervously.
"Come in, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
(End of this chapter)