Chapter 3162 Questions

What Angel was thinking about was naturally related to Shock's haunted house.

After he entered, he was always confused about why there must be a process of "finding a safe house"?

In Angel's view, if there must be a process of "finding a safe house", then the safe house will most likely be hidden very deep and very difficult to find, which is a negative characteristic. ——This is a common feature of many powerful alchemical works, semi-mysterious objects, and even some mysterious objects.

In other words, it is a kind of restriction and cost.

Such restrictions and costs are countless in the extraordinary world. Just like the "red sword" in Dox's hand now, he specially asked a famous alchemist to refine it. When refining it, the other party gave him three choices: either have extreme sharpness and agility, but the sword body is relatively fragile; or have extreme blood carrying power, but the sword body is relatively heavy; or have extreme sharpness and blood carrying power, but neither is outstanding.

In the end, Dox chose the second one.

When you want to reach a certain limit, you have to pay a price somewhere else. Just like a scale, if one side is pressed down, the other side will rise.

Of course, it is not impossible to achieve both, and both are at their limit, but this is a test for the refiner. And even if both are good, it is not to say that there is no price, but this price may not be put on the surface.

For example, expensive materials and superb blending levels are also a price.

In addition to the example of the red sword, there are similar prices in mysterious objects... However, this is not the problem of the refiner, but this price itself is part of the mysterious object.

Just like "Dark Movement", it will force you to give birth to a second personality, but the second personality must be evil, and you will lose your name.

Or the "Master Key", it can open the key to all locks; but the more you use it, the more difficult it is for your heart to be knocked open.

There is also the "Seed of Death". If you want to be blessed by luck, you must experience a catastrophe of facing death.

The last two are the price. In other words, it is the cost that humans evaluate from their own perspective. If it is good for humans, it is a positive effect and function; if it is not good for humans, it is a cost.

Therefore, it is normal for Shock's haunted house to have constraints.

- You have to climb mountains and cross rivers, spend energy, and go through hardships to find a safe house.

If it is the above situation, Angel will not be surprised.

Constraints, it is normal to spend more time and effort.

But this is not the case. At present, the constraints of Shock's haunted house are the maximum limit of the daily mirror ghost's attacks and time sense, not the search for a safe house.

Because finding a safe house is too simple.

This time the safe house is already difficult to find, but it only took a few minutes; and the safe houses in other environments before, such as some magnificent castles, are simply open cards in front of you, and you don't even need to look for them.

In this case, why set up a process of finding a safe house?

This question may be a very boring question in the eyes of Luigi, Barbaregon and others.

But in Angel's opinion, this is actually very strange.

Finding a safe house is a "redundant" act.

You can go directly to the safe house after entering, but you have to go through a process to find a safe house. Isn't this a redundancy?

If this haunted house was made by humans, it might be a flaw of the refiner; but this haunted house was born "naturally", and it was designed with this redundant link, which was very puzzling to Angel.

In the extraordinary world, many things that you think are inexplicable are often linked to a situation, that is: ritual.

So, what Angel is thinking about at this time is whether the process of finding a safe house is a ritual?

However, Angel thought deeply and shook his head. This is a guess that cannot be confirmed or falsified. At present, there is really no trace of ritual... Moreover, will there be a ritual for a semi-mysterious thing born naturally? Natural ritual?

Putting aside the speculation of the ritual for the time being, there is another possibility that Angel can think of: finding a safe house is likely to simulate Shock's situation at the time, and fleeing into the safe house in a panic.

After all, the birth of the haunted house is closely related to Shock, and it seems possible to simulate his search process.

However, this is also difficult to verify.

As Angel was thinking, he suddenly thought of something: Luigi seemed to have mentioned before that there would be Shock's diary in the haunted house?

Shock's diary cannot be taken out of the haunted house, but appears in the corresponding safe house with each change of the haunted house environment. Sometimes it is on the bookshelf of the castle, sometimes on the table of the tree house, and sometimes it falls on the ground of the amusement park...

According to this rule, Shock's diary should also appear in this cellar? Maybe you can find Shock's record before escaping into the secret room from the diary?

Thinking of this, Angel raised his head and looked around every corner of the cellar.

But after looking around, he did not find Shock's diary.

This cellar is the same as when he first saw it, empty around, with nothing.

Angel believes that Luigi should not lie about such things, so Shock's diary is likely to still exist, but he did not find it.

Perhaps there is a hidden space or storage in this cellar? And Shock's diary is in the hidden place?

With this idea in mind, Angel released his mental tentacles... However, it was useless.

The mental tentacles can be extended, but the surroundings are full of rich and constantly flowing mysterious charm. When the mental tentacles are extended, it feels like entering a quagmire or a sand pit. They can move, but the surroundings are all dense materials. It is very difficult to find hidden space in this situation.

Not only mental power, but other spells are also the same. Although they can be released, the perception ability is obviously much weaker.

The only thing that is not affected is the nightmare spell, but the nightmare spell cannot invade the surrounding walls and ground infected by the rainbow light.

In the absence of perception, it is better to stand up and walk around, and use your hands and feet to measure the hidden space.

Angel is not a hesitant person. If you think of it, just do it.

Anyway, the mirror ghost has not come yet, Angel stood up, walked into the illusion, and searched for possible hidden places in the cellar.

Luigi was immersed in the "Priest's Dream" at this time. With the illusion blocking the sound, there was no need to worry about disturbing him.

As Angel walked, he took out his cane and knocked on the ground, and determined whether there was a hidden space by the echo of the sound.

Soon, ten hours passed.

Angel found all the bricks in the middle and found nothing unusual.

Now, he began to knock on the wall of the cellar, and more carefully than before... Generally speaking, the probability of a hidden space appearing on the wall is greater than on the ground.

This knocking lasted for six hours.

Although Shock's diary was still not found, the mirror ghost attack today came.

The first wave of mirror ghosts that appeared was a non-human creature, more like a stick with wings.

If it was smaller and thinner, and the color of the appearance changed from black to pink, and there was a heart on the top, it would be very similar to the magic wand used by the magic girl in the storybook novel.

Angel didn't know what the name of this mirror ghost was, so let's call it the "magic wand ghost".

As Luigi said, the first few waves of mirror ghosts were very weak. The wand ghost was the same. It had no other extraordinary abilities except being able to fly and use its wand to release some negative energy attacks.

According to Angel's estimation, it might be at the level of a second-level apprentice in the early stage?

Under normal circumstances, a second-level apprentice would definitely not be able to kill the wand ghost, but the wand ghost could not do anything to a second-level apprentice.

So weak... as soon as it entered the misty illusion, it flew around anxiously; once it flew around, it became even more confused.

Angel didn't even control the illusion, and it was firmly controlled.

There's nothing to say about the strength of the wand ghost, but the way it came out was quite interesting. It came unexpectedly, and it didn't come in from the door, but from the ceiling above its head.

From this, it can be seen that Angel's previous attempt to set up an illusion on the stairs at the door was actually useless.

The way they came in was not a normal way at all.

What Angel is curious about now is whether the wand ghost is one of the mirror ghosts from the outside world. When the time is almost right, it is pulled to the cellar by the invisible force in the haunted house?

There is still no answer to this question. After all, Angel cannot go out to count the number of mirror ghosts.

However, Angel went to the ceiling where the wand ghost first appeared to see if there is any hidden space on the ceiling...

The answer is: No.

Angel was not discouraged. He still had time. Moreover, the first wave of mirror ghosts appeared in the sixteenth hour. According to the rule of one wave per day, he had at least eight hours to worry about the mirror ghosts.

Thinking of this, Angel picked up his cane and knocked on the wall again.

The knocking sound of "dong dong dong" echoed in the cellar. Every knocking sound was very dull, which meant that he had not found the hidden space until now.

There was no way around it. The cellar was too big. When the second day came, Angel had only knocked half of the wall.

When he finished knocking on the walls around the cellar, there were only fourteen hours left before the third day.

Unfortunately, there is still no hidden space on the surrounding walls.

Angell could only look at the ceiling above.

Could the hidden space be on the ceiling? Angell personally felt that the possibility was a little low. If there was really a hidden space on the ceiling, it would be too weird.

And in the haunted houses with other backgrounds before, Shock's diary was not that difficult to find, right?

Although he didn't believe that there would be hidden space on the ceiling, Angell decided to give it a try. He released his magic hand and still held the cane to knock on every inch of the ceiling.

The knocking process was still the same as usual, not worth mentioning. The only thing to say is that when there were still two hours before the third day, the mirror ghost of the second day finally appeared.

There were three mirror ghosts this time.

They came out from three different walls respectively. The first one to come was a dark humanoid mirror ghost. Although it was humanoid, its face could not be seen clearly. It was completely dark, and there was no blank space even for the eyes and mouth. It was like a shadow built entirely of darkness.

As soon as the humanoid mirror ghost appeared, he lay on the ground and walked on all fours like a wild beast.

His movements were extremely fast and his body was agile. He could easily float and stick to the walls, as if he was free from the constraints of gravity.

However, Angel did not see him release any powerful abilities. Perhaps, his abilities would only be released after he saw people?

But unfortunately, as soon as he entered the cellar, he was surrounded by the surging fog. No matter how agile and sharp he was, he was just like a hamster running on a hamster wheel. It was fast, but it was completely standing still.

The second and third mirror ghosts appeared together, flanking the left and right walls.

Their appearance was more like the ghosts imagined by humans, floating in the air, with a "big bed sheet" on their heads, covering their entire bodies.

However, one was covered with a black bed sheet, and the other was covered with a white bed sheet, and there were obvious protrusions on their heads, which seemed to be horns.

Only one corner was on the right, and the other was on the left.

Angel still did not recognize this type of mirror ghost, and could only call it a "bed sheet ghost".

Both bed sheet ghosts were not strong, and even the energy fluctuations emitted from their bodies were weaker than those of the wand ghost, but Angel had an inexplicable feeling that these two bed sheet ghosts might be able to "merge"?

One white and one black, and the horns on their heads are deliberately on the left and right, which complement each other.

If you want to be flawless, you can only merge.

Angell doesn't know if his guess is correct, but if these two bed sheet ghosts really merge, perhaps their strength will not be as weak as it is now.

Unfortunately... when they came in, they were on the left and right of the cellar, and the fog easily surrounded them, so there was no need to worry about their merging.

The second wave of mirror ghosts is generally not strong.

However, Angell did not take it lightly. Although the second wave of mirror ghosts was not strong, they were already "potential" mirror ghosts.

According to this rule, the third wave of mirror ghosts may be the mirror ghosts that really stimulate potential.

Moreover, there was only one magic wand ghost in the first wave, but three mirror ghosts appeared in the second wave. Will the third wave increase the number again?

If this is the case, then we must be more cautious.

Angell thought about it, released some illusion nodes, and stopped after confirming that there was a faint fog everywhere from the ceiling to the ground.

In the following time, Angel still ignored the mirror ghost trapped in the fog, but continued to pick up the cane and knock on the ceiling.

The sense of time continued to extend, and the third day arrived as expected.

Luigi said before that he might learn "Black Sheep Confession Song" in half a day. Now it can be confirmed that this is just a boast.

However, it must be said that the "Black Sheep Confession Song" he played today is obviously much higher than the previous two days in terms of emotional abundance.

The appeal has also risen to a higher level.

Angel even thinks that if this "Black Sheep Confession Song" really suits Uriel's appetite, it is not impossible for Luigi to get the top three seats at his current level.

Luigi's progress is obvious, but Angel's progress is... zero.