Chapter 598

I didn't feel the chill, at least I was sure that there weren't any active monsters hiding in this room.

{Let’s go, Haijun, let’s see if there’s anything hidden in here}

The girl who said this stepped into the house first, while Gao Hai followed silently and stepped into the dim villa.

Chapter 15 Portraits and Unspecified Premonitions in an Uninhabited Villa

What does it feel like to have to go back to work just after the holidays?

If possible, Gao Hai doesn't really want to think about this kind of problem. However, with the current crisis, Gao Hai really can't enjoy his vacation with peace of mind as before. Especially when the enemy has come to the door, and it is clear that the problem this time will be more serious than before, Gao Hai estimates that even if he really allows himself a holiday to enjoy his daily life, he probably will not be able to relax.

No matter what, since trouble has arisen, we can't turn a blind eye to it. Gao Hai still knows this.

It's just... ha, I obviously never wanted to be a good person, but in the end I still took the path of being a savior. Why do I always feel a little ironic?

But along the way, although it seems to have only been more than three months, I have established a quite profound connection with the world. Whether it's the girls who have walked with him all the way, or the light of humanity that he has witnessed in these copies. Unknowingly, he has indeed integrated into this world, and there is no way he can no longer just care about himself. Gao Hai himself finds such a change somewhat ridiculous. He would definitely not have been able to do this a few months ago.

Of course, this feeling is not bad, and he will not put too much burden on himself. In the final analysis, what Gao Hai really cares about are those who are good to him. As for most other people, Gao Hai can only say that he will save as many as possible within his ability, but if his Enemies, or those who cause trouble for him when he should be honest and obedient, Gao Hai can only say sorry. After all, even if he has decided to save the world, Gao Hai does not intend to be a good person who is good to me and everyone.

Squeak——

While thinking, the real concubine who was walking in front had opened the door first and entered the silent mansion under the dark sky.

Gao Hai followed closely behind. He planned to enter the house directly, but noticed that Zhen Fei took off her shoes at the door and put on her own slippers, so after thinking about it, she used her mental power to get two plastic bags and modified them into shoe covers. He put it on himself and summoned three old Guo to search in other directions of the villa, and then entered the villa and walked towards the true concubine.

{It looks quite big. It must be more than 200 square meters, right? }

Gao Hai, who followed the true concubine in a few steps, said casually in the spiritual link.

{To be precise, it is 280 square meters. This is the house that Mr. Yanke bought when he was middle-aged. According to the information obtained from the investigation, he originally hoped to live with his wife and three children in this house. But just after he bought the house and before it was renovated, his wife fell seriously ill and died. After that, the old man had conflicts with his three children. As a result, his three children soon chose to separate when they became adults. , and later he was the only one living in the house. Judging from the information, he lived alone here for at least thirty years until he became seriously ill and was hospitalized}

Now accustomed to communicating in the spiritual link, Zhen Fei said casually, walking slowly along the corridor entering the villa, and quickly arrived at the living room.

After no one has been in or out for several months, the living room is now covered with a thin layer of dust. Even though it doesn't look like it's completely abandoned, the two people who entered this place can clearly feel the lack of "human touch". It's hard to describe this feeling clearly. Gao Hai can only say that although the house seems to have nothing wrong with it, as soon as he walks in, he will instinctively realize that it is an "uninhabited" house.

{On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be anything special about it. Hmm, should we look for it separately? }

The true concubine walked to the middle of the living room, her eyes swept over the high-end sofas placed in the living room, the various precious ornaments on the coffee table and the paintings on the wall, and finally she just said this in the spiritual link.

{No need, we are not in a hurry. Can you tell anything about these portraits and ornaments? After all, I am not from a wealthy family, so I don’t see any characteristics in these things}

Gao Hai walked to Zhen Fei's side and observed the surroundings. But compared to the real concubine, he couldn't see the problem, so he had to ask the other party.

{The taste is very poor. At first glance, it looks like all kinds of taken advantage of decorations that people who just made money and want to show off will buy. But there is nothing strange about this. After all, people who want to go up will always suffer some losses, so in general, these things... Well, it seems that there is still something wrong with one of the portraits}

The girl's evaluation of the living room was very unkind. For the real concubine who came from a wealthy family, this kind of nouveau riche decoration was obviously not popular with her. But after Gao Hai's inquiry, she still observed it carefully again, and this second careful observation allowed Zhen Fei to notice a small detail that she had not noticed before.

It was a self-portrait. By comparing the photos, it can be seen that it should be a portrait of the old man named Iwako when he was young.

There is nothing wrong with the portrait itself, it is just a very ordinary full-body portrait. From the portrait itself, it seems that a middle-aged man with a powerful presence is in a state of closing his eyes, but the way he is posing in a suit looks a little funny. But the reason why Zhenfei noticed this portrait is that the portrait was placed among a bunch of landscape paintings, and from the distribution of other portraits, the figure paintings and landscape paintings are strictly arranged in different directions, so this portrait is relatively unusual.

Dingling-Dingling-

In the crisp bell sound, it was on the side of the living room facing the courtyard, and several wind chimes hanging by the window rang.

Accompanied by a cool breeze, Gao Hai took a step forward, stretched out his hand to grab the edge of the portrait, and took it off the wall.

Then, he turned the portrait over and looked at the face of the woman behind the portrait.

{It seems that the back of the portrait is a portrait of this man's wife}

Putting the portrait in front of the sofa next to him, Gao Hai casually said in the mental link that the portrait of the gorgeously dressed woman with closed eyes was exposed, and his mental power was constantly searching the entire villa and the surrounding environment to ensure that nothing would sneak up on him and Zhenfei.

Although his mental power has not sensed any problems so far, considering that the other party had drained the soul of an old man to communicate with him before, Gao Hai felt that it would be better to be more vigilant to avoid trouble.

However, it seems that it is not easy to find clues here, at least from the feedback of the three Lao Guos who were released for investigation, there are no clues.

{Are the two sides portraits of two people? Well, I can't see any problem. Let's put this thing here first and go to other places to have a look. This house gives me a feeling that something is a little wrong. Maybe there is really something hidden here. I'm not sure if this feeling is a kind of omen, but it's worth a try}

The real concubine walked to the portrait and looked at it carefully, pinched it, but found nothing.

However, the girl did not give up, but said in the mental link with some hesitation.

The reason why she said this is because of a strange power brought by the blessing of the blood flower. The real concubine has not been able to fully understand that power until now, but since she obtained this ability, the girl has more or less developed a special "intuition", and will instinctively feel that something may happen, and feel that she should do something. This special sense of omen is very unstable, sometimes effective and sometimes not, and has never been controlled, so the real concubine is so hesitant at this moment.

Compared with Jianzi's ability to predict the future direction in a short period of time, the real concubine's new ability seems very unstable and has the tendency of a riddle man. But relatively speaking, the effective time range of this thing is obviously greater than Jianzi's ability. For example, Zhenfei had vaguely guessed the approximate range of the exam the next day, and two days ago she had a premonition that she could not send blessings to find Gao Hai at night during this period, otherwise something embarrassing might happen (referring to the embarrassment of meeting the child).

Her ability can work on this place, does this mean that there might be something here?

Thinking of this, Gao Hai and Zhenfei exchanged a few more words, and then the two quickly left the living room, intending to investigate several rooms on the first floor again.

Before leaving the living room, Gao Hai looked back at the portrait of a woman smiling and opening her eyes leaning against the sofa, frowned, and then he turned away without saying a word.

Chapter 16 Zhenfei's new ability and the discovery of the underground secret room

Tap-tap--

The crisp footsteps gradually spread on the high-end solid wood floor.

The four Zhenfeis slowly walked along the dim corridor, stopping from time to time to observe the surrounding situation.

This villa, which was full of nouveau riche-style ostentation in her eyes and had a bit of weird incongruity, gradually became clear as she explored step by step. Zhenfei could feel more and more clearly that there were traces of something left in this place. Although it had left now, it still had a strong smell. Zhenfei didn't know what that thing was yet, but she was sure that this thing that had been with Mr. Yanke in this mansion for a long time was definitely not a human.

And to be able to perceive this, Zhenfei also relied on a certain blessing ability brought by the blood flower. If the mysterious omen ability is called [unseen omen], then the ability given to Zhenfei by the blood flower can be simply named [deep perception]. Its effect is also very simple, equivalent to a weakened version of the perception ability of Jianzi, which is a permanent passive effect that can greatly enhance Zhenfei's detection ability. Through this ability, Zhenfei can often find many unusual things with simple observation, which is why she came here to explore this villa with Gao Hai today.

The blessing power of the blood-colored flower has different effects on each girl. According to the statistics shared between them, the power of the blood flower's blessing seems to have two main directions. One is to make up for the defects of the blessed, such as Jianzi's ability to switch on and off his own perception talent. The other is to respond to the wishes of the blessed, and Zhenfei believes that the blessing she has received is the latter.

Among the blessing effects of the blood flower, except for the first effect [Anchor of Origin], which is possessed by all girls who are close to Gao Hai and can provide Gao Hai with the basic functions of mental induction and coordinate release, the other three effects obtained by Zhenfei are all responses to her desire to help Gao Hai and hope that she can help Gao Hai solve his problems. Because she wanted to help Gao Hai detect the possible danger, Zhenfei obtained the ability of foreshadowing; because she wanted to better assist Gao Hai in the investigation, Zhenfei obtained the ability of enhanced perception.

As for keeping up with Gao Hai in terms of combat power, Zhenfei herself no longer has any expectations. She can feel that Gao Hai's growth rate is destined to far exceed everyone else, so it is unrealistic to force Gao Hai's ability to keep up with Gao Hai in all aspects. Therefore, she hopes that she can at least help the other party in some aspects, and in this choice, Zhenfei prefers the direction of [Investigation Intelligence]. Therefore, the effect of the last blessing ability she obtained, [Mystical Resonance], is that after confirming the existence of extraordinary power, she can gradually track this trace, so as to trace its trajectory and source.

Well, there is actually a fifth effect that increases the strength of all blessings. This is the same as the first effect and is available to everyone. Although it lacks Gao Hai's [Overclocking] ability, it can also be said to be an all-round enhancement of the girls. Because of this enhancement, Zhenfei had to spend more than ten minutes to adapt to her physical fitness after becoming stronger. Fortunately, Gao Hai now has the ability to distort the real world with his will, otherwise the process of the girls adapting to the changes in their own strength alone would be enough to demolish his house.

{There are many traces... everywhere. Whatever that thing is, it must have stayed here for a very long time. Maybe a few years? It is also possible... more than ten years? That thing may have been able to leave the copy and stay in the real world for a long time before the [Sacrifice Game] was officially held.}

Zhenfei stopped in front of a guest room, closed her eyes, and said in a calm voice in the mental connection.

{Although this situation is not unexpected, it is more than ten years. Can other KPs not see and care? Or did no KP notice anything wrong before that thing officially exposed its fangs? Moreover, since that thing needed to drain the life and soul of an old man before it could communicate with me normally, what would it consume to stay in the real world for more than ten years? }

Gao Hai shook his head slightly, and the news brought by Zhen Fei made him sigh. And soon he noticed a suspicious point in the information, and associated it with some very bad possibilities.

{I think the answer to your question, Haijun, should be found in the basement. I felt something not so good from the traces of these powers. It seems to have entered and exited the underground area of ​​this villa many times, and every time it entered and exited, it was accompanied by the breath of death}

Zhen Fei's eyes fell on the stairwell in the corner. The location of the staircase was exactly in the middle of a staircase, and there was no window next to it, so it was very dim, and it was completely unclear what was under the stairs.

It can be vaguely felt that there are a lot of traces left there.

Although all the traces are very old and obviously from a long time ago, such density...

The girl couldn't help but think of what Gao Hai said, about the fact that time is running out in this world, and the abnormal acceleration of the process of the [Sacrifice Game]. Judging from the reaction of the blood flower, this anomaly was actually discovered ten thousand years ago, but it has only reached the stage of eruption until now. So, in these tens of thousands of years, in the process of strange power brewing at an abnormal frequency, how many... Well, it's meaningless to think about these now, let's investigate this place first.

Tap-tap-

The footsteps continued smoothly in the darkness.

Zhen Fei calmed her mind and walked in front and slowly walked down the stairs step by step.

Gao Hai, who was following her, took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight function for lighting, and his mental power had spread early, wrapping Zhen Fei around to prevent possible danger.

But as Zhen Fei said, there is nothing here anymore, only traces remain. Therefore, after spending some time, the two found a hidden secret passage from the basement that seemed to be just a private wine cellar, and entered the second underground floor deeper through this secret passage, a place that looked a bit like a doctor's office in a hospital.

The office was not very big and was very plain. There was a table, two chairs, a sink and a bed. There was nothing else. On the table was an old telephone, several books on mental illness and some documents related to diagnosis and treatment. The documents looked relatively new, and the latest date was a few months before the old man was hospitalized. The old ones were already yellowed, and must be at least ten or twenty years old.

Takahashi and Shinki looked through some of the files and found that they were all records of the diagnosis and treatment of some mental illnesses. So Gaohashi immediately activated Alice and asked her to link to the Internet to query the names in these records. It turned out that all the people on the list were missing persons, and all of them had serious mental illness records before they disappeared. Many people were even abandoned by their families because their madness was too serious and difficult to treat. Of course, the disappearance of these people did not attract much attention, and there was no record of calling the police. Their families all forgot the existence of these patients, just like most people in the real world.

[Psychologist]

This is the unified message on the doctor column on all the records.

This so-called psychologist did not leave a name record, but only a signature that was exactly the same as printed, with no difference in font size or shape.

Alice did not find anything about this. There was no record of the old man named Yan Ke visiting a psychologist before his death. Even from the existing records, it seems that he was actually a person who was more disgusted with going to the hospital. The reason why he stayed in the hospital later was that he was transferred by his children after he became seriously ill and lost consciousness. When this old man could still decide his own affairs, he was actually a person who would never go to the hospital no matter how seriously he was ill.

In a sense, it can be said that this old man has a stubborn temper and just doesn't like to see a doctor.

But after discovering this weird basement that was deliberately arranged like a doctor's office, Gao Hai felt that the situation might not be what it seemed on the surface.

{Found it}

The voice of Zhenfei sounded in the mental link.

She reached out and pressed the wall on one side of the room. With a little force, the wall slowly moved away, revealing the space inside.

There was no rotten smell, nor any gloomy breath.

In that room, there were only translucent bags, and the dried corpses wrapped in the bags, which were sealed with air sucked out and had no breath of life.

Tap-tap--

The clear footsteps echoed in the room.

Gao Hai and Zhen Fei walked along the corridor full of mummies step by step until they reached the end of the corridor. They counted more than 200 corpses in total.

{The vitality was completely drained, and every cell was completely necrotic, just like that old man}

Gao Hai commented after a brief observation of the corpses.

{So, there is a weird individual who calls himself a "psychologist" and may have a certain self-thinking. He stays in the real world by constantly absorbing the vitality of others and hides in this old man's home for decades? To be able to build such a secret room, the old man was either controlled or actively became an accomplice while awake}

Zhen Fei, who has followed Gao Hai to see many human bottoms, is no longer afraid or disgusted by such things. Therefore, she stood in the pile of corpses without changing her face, and continued to communicate with Gao Hai very calmly.

{Considering the message on the bed railing, I actually suspect that it was brainwashing}

After Gao Hai confirmed that there was nothing else in the secret passage on the second floor of the basement, he shook his head and answered helplessly, and prepared to go back out.

It is still very useful to find something. Although there are not many clues, if he continues to investigate along this line, Gao Hai feels that there should still be hope to find more things, and maybe he can catch the opponent's feet before the danger really comes to the real world.

Tap-tap-tap-

The floor here seems to be particularly loud when stepped on, and every step can be heard very clearly. It is so clear that it seems that there are other people's footsteps mixed in, following himself and Zhenfei.

But this is impossible. If there is really something following him, Gao Hai can be sure that his mental power will definitely find something. You must know that the strength of his mental power has far exceeded the strength of the players, and it can even be said that it is a level that even the weird things cannot compare to. Even the existence of the god level can hardly hide from his perception.

But, it seems that there is really another footstep?

Gao Hai turned his head suddenly.

But in his eyes, only the bodies hanging in the bags were shaking gently, and he could not see any abnormality.

It was the wind that blew the bags.

But... why is there wind here?

{Haijun, something is wrong. It seems that there are new traces, just after we entered here. But this trace is very faint, I can't track it, it seems to disappear immediately after it appears, as if... the other party is not in the real world}

The real concubine also noticed the abnormality at the same time, and vaguely discovered what this abnormality is.

Gao Hai did not speak, but motioned for the real concubine to follow him and leave quickly. The current situation is a little abnormal, Gao Hai decided to withdraw from this area for the time being, and let Alice investigate it in spirit form before going up.

Dinglingling——Dinglinglingling——

However, his actions had just begun, and the ringing of the phone from the doctor's office made Gao Hai realize that the next step might be the first formal contact between the two sides.

{This is a call from this old-fashioned phone at this time, do you want to answer it? }

The real concubine was still a little hesitant.

{Take it. It's come to this point. There's no need to be timid. But I have to take it. You close your senses and don't listen to the content. This way, if there is any curse or mental attack, I will take it alone. I can handle it.}

Gao Hai stared at the phone not far away, and made a decision after just a moment of thinking.

He first temporarily sealed Zhen Fei's senses with his mental power, and covered them with mental power to prevent attacks from external forces, and then walked to the phone and reached out to press the hands-free button on it.

The familiar cold breath spread from the phone the next moment.

The intensity of the Red Moon-level core obsession... no, maybe it's higher than this, after all, this is just the breath leaked through the phone. Moreover, this feeling doesn't seem to be completely a weird thing, but a part of the living people are mixed in? Maybe it's a monster with self-thinking like Alice?

Before the other party spoke, Gao Hai had already felt a lot of things through this breath.

[The doctor you need to see has been booked for you, Mr. Gao Hai]

A gentle voice that sounds like a young girl came from the phone.

"Appointment? You made the appointment for me?"

This made Gao Hai raise his eyebrows, and then he grinned slightly and responded to the other party.

[Yes, Mr. Gao Hai, your heart is full of pain, you are not happy, you are suffering from illness, and the pain comes from your heart]

The extremely soft voice is as pleasant as a musical instrument, and it has a bit of comfort, sleepiness and fatigue.

However, such gentleness cannot make Gao Hai lost, it will only make his expression more indifferent.

And the voice on the phone did not intend to stop, but gradually brought a bit of fanatical joy, and the weird breath leaked from the voice became stronger and stronger.