Chapter 40

Time goes back more than ten minutes. At that time, the invincible had not yet died, and was still in the cellar.

Feng unconsciously knocked on the coffin board and jokingly said, "Hello, Miss Madeleine, are you still there?"

Naturally, he didn't expect someone in the coffin to say, "go!"

Because he knew it was supposed to be empty.

After reading the first section of ghost palace, Feng unconsciously speculated that the setting of this mansion might be the usher mansion in a novel. When he came to the cellar and saw the coffin and the fifth ghost Palace on the wall, he was more certain.

It's true that Feng is not aware of his extensive knowledge and strong memory, but he hasn't reached the realm of never forgetting. Except for the things that are used as information garbage to sweep out the memory loft, other memories For example, the content he can recall in novels he has read is about 67%.

It is impossible for him to stand there and recite the six paragraphs of ghost palace after reading the first paragraph. So later, he asked Xiaotan and Longge to say some words to remind himself that the two verses in his memory were gradually clear.

Of course, I still remember the general plot of the novel.

A lot of people know the name Edgar Allan Poe. He is the founder of detective stories. His "mugger Street murder" is considered to be the first real detective story in modern literature. He used the term "inferential novel" when he published it.

But it was in 1841, and "the collapse of the house of Usher" was a gothic thriller written before that story, full of gloomy black atmosphere.

The plot of the story is like this: the protagonist's old friend Roderick Usher, his family has suffered from a mysterious genetic disease for generations, and his big house seems to be bound by some strange curse. For hundreds of years, the name of the ancient house has been gradually forgotten by the people. The building and the family have been equated. When people refer to the house of eshe, they refer to both the house and the family.

One day, Roderick wrote a letter to the protagonist, in which he said that his life would not be long. The disease had tortured him to a state of haggard and trance. The unknown terrorist force in the house of Usher would destroy his reason and take his life.

The protagonist comes to visit and accompany his old friends, hoping that he will get better. But on the night of the protagonist's arrival, Roderick's sister miss Madeleine "died of illness".

She was Roderick's only relative in the world, her only companion for many years. Miss Madeleine had been ill for many years, and she could not be cured, but she had been fighting against the disease, and had never been bedridden. Roderick's abnormal melancholy and nearly broken mental state is mainly due to her.

Roderick asked to find a cellar to lay her sister's body to rest for 14 days before burial. The protagonist helps her friend put Miss Madeleine in the coffin and the cellar, but no one knows that she is not dead

Seven or eight days later, the grief stricken Roderick has fallen into madness. On that horrible night, the protagonist saw Miss Madeleine appear in the house, scared her brother to death, and then finally died. The protagonist fled the house of Usher and saw the building collapse in the mountain and pool.

There are many "unscientific" places in this story, such as why Madeleine was buried alive without anyone noticing? How can a woman who has been struggling in the coffin for seven or eight days have the strength to kill all the way back to the big house? How did the mansion collapse? Local earthquake or directional blasting?

But readers in the 19th century would not question a story of horror and suspense. Instead, in the years after the end of the 20th century, more and more "professionals" in various fields, especially in the field of culture, relied on "over interpretation" and "finding fault" as their main business. If Poe lived in the 21st century, any academic swindler with the name of "Professor" would dare to belittle him to nothing. Or to interpret his works by "depth" to express some unnecessary views in the original works.

This topic will not be discussed in depth, or go back to the story.

According to the plot of the novel, the coffin must be empty. Whether the ghost I saw in the tunnel is Madeleine's ghost or not, her body is no longer in the cellar, but in the big house.

The cover of the coffin could not be opened. As expected, it was empty and there was no body. He waved away the dust, then lit up the inside of the coffin with a flashlight, and soon found that on a board at the end of his head, there was a line of small characters carved, which seemed to be a trace of picking out with his fingernails.

There is a sentence "he knows", without punctuation, and the words are askew. Put yourself in the picture There was no light in the coffin, Madeleine could not see whether her letters were neat or not, and she had to hold a certain position to carve them on her head, so it was good to be able to recognize them.

[hidden task triggered. ]

when he hears the system prompt, he immediately opens the menu. At this time, he sees another prompt window covering the front:

[the hidden tasks in the script can provide you with considerable rewards, but the difficulty of finding and completing the hidden tasks is higher than the main line and branch line tasks. ]

hide the system prompts related to the task, including the task content in voice, text and menu, which can only be seen by the player who finds the task. If a hidden task is found in multiple occasions, the players on the scene will get the task together. However, hidden tasks cannot be shared in time delay. After a single or multiple task executor describes the task content to other players, the other party can get the task content and progress in the menu, but it is not considered to accept the task, nor can it get the completion reward. ]

[the above prompt will only pop up when the player finds the hidden task for the first time. If you need to read it again, you can search and view it in the game description. ]

"that is The one who finds it will take care of it, and then one person will get the reward. " He closed the two prompt windows and looked at the task: "save Miss Madeleine's soul"

Feng said: "Oh This is the case... " He has already made an inference about the direction of the plot in the play, but now the question is how to get out of the cellar?

He raised his flashlight again and made a more detailed search around him, but nothing. He turned his eyes back to the coffin, and there was no more valuable clue than the line and some scratches left on the wood.

Feng unconsciously put the flashlight on the inside of the coffin obliquely, raised the glowing end, and then bent down to pick up the heavy coffin plate from the ground, leaned it against the wall, looked at both the front and the back, but there was nothing on the big wood.

"Wait..." The movement stopped suddenly and said: "the person lying in the coffin should lie on his back and engrave words on the coffin plate. Even if she was worried that someone would ignore the inscription on the coffin cover when opening the coffin, she just engraved it on the top of the head, but why there was no sign of struggle on the plate The scratches and the kicks are elsewhere, and the coffin lid is as new as it is

Feng unconsciously picks up the flashlight, looks at the coffin cover leaning against the wall, squats down, and stares at the wood, "HMM..." He reached out and knocked again. The coffin lid made a normal sound of solid wood. It didn't sound like a sandwich.

At this time, Feng unconsciously made a very bold (at least for others) decision. He raised the coffin board and covered two-thirds of the coffin longitudinally. Then he went in by himself. After lying down, he held the coffin cover with his hands and lifted it up hard to restore the coffin to a closed state.

He lay in it, feeling uncomfortable, not because of psychological reasons, but because the coffin is not embedded with soft cushions, it is pure wood, he is like sleeping in a hard bed with nothing to lay.

Feng unconsciously put himself in the same situation as Miss Madeleine. He flashed a flashlight at the coffin and said, "how on earth did you get out..." He said, trying to push the lid with one hand.

Unexpectedly, it can't be pushed at the moment.

"Oh?" Feng didn't realize that he was shocked. He immediately put the flashlight on his neck, put his hands and feet together, pushed hard for several times, and kicked several feet. The coffin cover was still motionless.

After some tossing, he just wanted to stop for breath, but saw the wood on the coffin cover, which was facing his face, slightly raised, and gradually became a face.

The gender of that face is hard to distinguish, and its voice is like an old witch. It's not aware of Feng. "Dying man, do you want to go out here?"

"Yes." Feng doesn't realize that he wants to see what tricks the coffin monster has.

"What can you give me?" Asked the coffin cover.

At this time, the system prompts: "you can give an ordinary or higher quality equipment, let the monster send you back to the space outside the cellar]

" Oh "Yes," he said In other words, I can choose not to offer He thought, "and If the player doesn't have the equipment that meets the requirements, it's not necessarily trapped here, eh There must be something else. "

"Coffin, I don't want to give you anything." I don't know how to open my mouth.

The face suddenly changed dramatically. The eyes and mouth opened strangely and became ferocious. People would be shocked if they changed. However, it is only a slightly protruding face floating on the coffin board. It is impossible to attack the people in the coffin and scare at most.

"Then you will be trapped here forever and die in fear and hunger. Even if your fingertips are worn to flesh and blood, even if your toes and knees are broken, they cannot be broken..."

Click, seal unconsciously took out the m1911a1 pistol from the luggage bag, and opened the insurance.

"Let me introduce you..." Feng could not help but put the muzzle of the gun on the brow of that face: "some interesting gadgets born after the second industrial revolution."

"The damage done to me by your weapons is not enough for you to escape. One or two small scars are nothing." The coffin was closed.

"I know you can change and repair yourself, but what about the coffins around me, over my head, and under me?" I don't know.

"Ha ha..." The face on the coffin lid actually smiled, and at the same time, the handwriting carved by Madeleine on the top of the head and the traces on the surrounding wood disappeared, "as long as I want."

"Well So it is. Anyway, the task has been received and the secret of the coffin has been discovered. So it's OK to give up the details such as the nicks, isn't it... " Feng can't help but put the gun away.

"Now, do you want to change your mind?