Chapter 129 Rhythm 0
Chapter 129 Rhythm 0
Afula was obviously very cautious, and Shen Yongle went to observe her secretly again afterwards, and found no signs of her moving independently.
Shen Yongle and Mo Jue had gone through this room more than once before, and the only thing they didn't check carefully was actually Afra's room - because there were players who took care of her.
In order to prevent the scene of the player abusing Aphra, like Xue Miaoxuan, and causing the other party to collapse, the two deliberately avoided this place when they acted.
And the players also tacitly only abused in the room, giving others enough room to explore.
In addition, Shen Yongle thought that the death of the nanny was the beginning of the story, and the focus of the investigation had always been on the nanny. Now that she realized that Afula's situation was different, she turned her attention back to the girl.
In order not to collapse the character setting, the two performed a play in front of Afra, found an excuse to transfer her to another room, and searched the room again seriously.
Fortunately, they were not disappointed. Mo Jue found that there were obvious indentations on the carpet left by the bed when it was moved. The two moved the bed and finally found a secret door under the bed.
Le Shen raised his head and exchanged glances with the Sir, heaved a sigh of relief.
However, a new problem soon appeared. The secret door was found, but there was no way to open it. There was no clue to open the door in the house.
There was a lot of voices outside the window, crying mixed with cursing came from afar, as if urging the two of them in disguise.
The barrage is very anxious: [I hope other players will work harder and resist those mobs for a while...]
[Ahhh, I can't help but think of the lock that Fanfan opened last time!This can't be so difficult, can it? ! ]
[That's over, Fanfan didn't come...]
[Fanfan's lock still has some rune hints, but there is only a small hole in the door, and there are no other hints, how to open it? ! ]
[Of course there is no prompt, the nanny should be the only one to open the door, this doesn't look like a keyhole, maybe it needs the nanny's fingerprints or something? ]
Mo Jue has been checking the wall next to the hidden door since just now, and at this moment he just raised his head: "There is a newly buried hidden line here, I don't know where it extends... Or should we go and see?"
Shen Yongle has no objection.
The two chased the wire all the way out, but saw that it had split into multiple wires in the corridor, Mojue chose the thickest one and continued to follow, until they reached the kitchen, and found that it was connected to the wall behind the gas stove.
Shen Yongle didn't understand a bit: "Do you want to dig it up and have a look?"
"No," Mo Jue explained with a condensed expression, shaking his head, "it should be a self-destruct device."
Shen Yongle paused slightly: "So it means... that lock can only be tried once?"
The barrage was still discussing how to try to unlock the lock, but it froze when it heard that: [Damn it? ! ]
[Is this too tricky? !Can't try it, and there is no prompt, how can others open it? ! ]
Shen Yongle pondered for a moment: "Then I probably know how it works..."
A row of question marks appeared in the barrage instantly: [? ? ? ]
[Once again I can't help but doubt my IQ. ]
Shen Yongle smiled: "Didn't you say it yourself? You can't try it, and there is no prompt - it means that this lock is not for players to open..."
Mo Jue glanced at him, obviously understood: "Go back?"
The barrage is still flashing question marks.
Shen Yongle and Mo Jue turned their heads back upstairs, seeing this, they could only give a clearer answer: "Have you forgotten? There is a living person in this dungeon who knows the secret of the mansion."
The barrage paused, and finally realized: [I understand!It's Aphra--didn't the lord have seen Aphra move just now? ]
[So originally this lock was not reserved for players to open, but should be opened by Aphra? ! ]
[The way to unlock the lock is on Aphra? ]
[Yeah, I just had a brain twitch, that is Aphra's room, the nanny doesn't know how many times she opened the door in front of Aphra, of course she knows how to open the door!]
Le Shen nodded in agreement: "Maybe it's not just knowing the method, the key to that door may be Aphra herself."
Shen Yongle actually felt that Afula hadn't fully recovered, maybe she was only able to move a little, that's why she was so careful, for fear of being discovered.
And the normal plot should indeed be guessed according to the barrage
Most of the players have to wait for a few people to die first, and the external chaos will be more thorough, until the entire instance falls into a battle royale-like melee, people completely lose trust, as if the end is coming, Aphra takes the opportunity to recuperate and recover her mobility , and then with hatred, I opened Pandora's box with my own hands...
And their series of actions accelerated the plot, causing the serfs in the manor to riot before Aphra fully recovered.
The plot has deviated from the original track since they guessed the situation in front of them and called on everyone to speed up the progress and finish all the players quickly.
Before Shen Yongle felt that they entered this dungeon, Tang Yu said that Akesha would probably be aware of it, and then tried to reduce the prompting effect of the original main line clue.
But until now, Shen Yongle did not know how this mechanism works.
Aksha is a replica construction artist who insists on self-aesthetics, and never bothers to use blunt methods to interfere with the script that has already started.
It didn't even do anything, or in other words, didn't do anything directly, but used the player's own prediction and judgment of the main line, set a subtle plot time difference, and modified the original main line without any trace.
Shen Yongle explained: "Because the player knows the content of the main line, they can guess the main line plot earlier than the development of the story. Without Aksha doing anything, the player will actively advance the main line, causing it to deviate from the original track..."
He paused.
The two were going upstairs back to Afula's room while carefully paying attention to the surrounding environment. Shen Yongle walked behind Mo Jue, who was originally talking to the barrage in a low voice while walking, but when there was a pause, the whole room instantly fell silent.
Mo Jue turned his head sharply: "What's wrong?"
Shen Yongle seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, and shook his head: "It's okay."
Mo Jue glanced at the various puppets in the closets around him, and smiled knowingly.
He didn't ask any more questions, he went down two steps and took Shen Yongle's hand, and while leading him upstairs, he started another topic: "You said before that Afra itself is the key to open the door?"
"Yes," Shen Yongle focused his attention back on the content of the conversation, and nodded slightly, "I suspect that the hole is for iris recognition, or fingerprint recognition..."
Mo Jue frowned slightly: "Then the original correct way to clear the level should actually be to guard Aphra and peep quietly when she opens the door?"
"It's too late." Shen Yongle lowered his head and walked a little slowly, as if he was trying to keep his eyes on the floor, not looking at the puppets staring at them all around, "but we can try other ways to confirm the unlocking method .”
Mo Jue responded, "Oh?"
Shen Yongle fumbled in his pocket for a while, and took out the [Aksha] that everyone is familiar with.
"Have you all forgotten?" He tilted his head and smiled, "In the dungeon, the way to open the door should also be one of the rules."
The two quickly returned to the room, and confirmed the correct way to open the door with [Aksha]'s item card, and it turned out that Aphra's iris was used to unlock it.
The two seized the time and finished the operation carefully.
Fortunately, after opening the door, nothing dangerous happened.
Thinking about it carefully, this secret room should have been built by the nanny, and besides the nanny herself, only Aphra was left in the mansion, and there was no need to take strict precautions against anyone who opened the door.
Mo Jue turned his head and looked at Shen Yongle, and entered into it first.
This is a narrow step embedded in the thick wall, probably because the nanny is thin and small, it is quite convenient to go up and down. It was Mo Jue and Shen Yongle who had to bend their backs and head sideways to go up the stairs.
The steps lead up to the top of the attic.
This is a narrow dark room located above the attic, the floor height is only half a person's height, and there are various beams in the middle that hinder movement. Shen Yongle and Mo Jue can't straighten their backs even when they are sitting, and the room for movement is very limited.
No matter the size or location of this room, it does not look like a hidden room reserved in advance. Instead, it seems that someone forcibly found a gap in the original house structure to open up a space in order to hide what he was doing. No wonder The two did not find any obvious lack of space in the mansion at first.
In this darkroom, there are only two things. One is like a test bench, on which various chemical vessels, tools, and research materials piled up are placed in an orderly manner.
The second is a small refrigerator, which is still in use, and there are rows of some kind of medicine labeled "Hypnos".
Shen Yongle frowned slightly: "Hypnos..."
Mo Jue: "What is it?"
"Hypnos," Shen Yongle explained, "is the twin brother of Thanatos, the god of sleep and the god of death in ancient Greek mythology."
The barrage began to make daily guesses: [So this is a hypnotic drug? ]
[Should it be a potion for ossified disease?Isn't this the nanny's house? ]
[Yes, reasonable!The things here were originally reserved for Afra. If Afra wants to become a big boss, she must have the props to tenderize everyone! ]
[Reasonable ghost, the secret room was made by the nanny, didn't the nanny really treat Aphra well?What is the use of the medicine for schizophrenia? ]
[And the mission of this dungeon should be to find an antidote to zombosis, right?Now that we've only found poison, what's the use? ]
[Uh, maybe... the antidote can be released through the poison? ]
In fact, it is not impossible...
It's just that the difficulty is estimated to be a bit high.
Shen Yongle frowned and thought, Mo Jue had already started to look through the stack of documents next to him.
There are no windows in this room, only a small lamp with low wattage, the whole is very dim, and the air is not very well ventilated.
The Lord had a glance at ten lines, and quickly summed up the content to Shen Yongle: "It's the medicine information, it's very advanced and complicated, it shouldn't be for non-professional players."
The barrage originally waited with bated breath for his discovery, but was very disappointed when he heard that: [Ah!It's over! ]
[Aksha's father is too ruthless, is this forcing the player to master everything in mathematics, physics and chemistry? ! ]
Shen Yongle had already expected this. He noticed that a corner of the page had leaked out of the booklet when Mojue flipped through the materials, so he stretched out his hand to pull it out, and found that it was an envelope.
The letter inside was gone, only the two addresses and names written on the cover remained.
The sender was a research institute, and the recipient's address was at the Lotlandus Manor, but the recipient's name was relatively unfamiliar, called Endymion.
"Endymion?" Because the font was the same as that of the previous Shupnos, even Mo Jue quickly realized and looked up at Shen Yongle, "A Greek mythological figure again?"
"Yes," Shen Yongle explained, "Endymion was punished by Zeus to fall into an eternal sleep because he fell in love with the moon goddess Selene. He asked Shupnos, who executed the order, to let him sleep with his eyes open, so that even if he fell asleep , and can always look at his beloved Selene."
Shen Yongle paused slightly, as if thinking of something.
While listening to his narration, Mo Jue didn't stop what he was doing. He found another item from the pile of materials and spread it out in front of the two of them.
What appears to be a medical record shows that someone named Catherine suffers from "surrogate Munchausen syndrome."
The barrage quickly helped Baidu find out the symptoms.
Proxy Munchausen syndrome, or proxy hypocrisy, is a medically rare mental disorder in which the patient is usually the mother and the victim is usually her child.
Sick mothers will claim that their children are sick or even deliberately make them sick, and then take the children to seek medical treatment, or take care of them, in order to win the attention and sympathy of others, or to prove the value of their own existence.
"Perhaps it's not the agent-type Munchausen syndrome." Shen Yongle took a deep breath, "In fact, she doesn't have the motivation to gain attention and sympathy or to prove her self-worth, but more of a desire to possess or control Aphra. ... more like paranoid schizophrenia."
"But this is not too important." Shen Yongle finally figured out the original main line, and heaved a sigh of relief, "I know the original logical line of this story."
"This secret room was indeed built by the nanny. Her name is Catherine, and she is a patient with mental illness. I don't know if Aphra's initial illness was caused by her, but after a long period of refractory treatment, she even had to live Being taken care of by a nanny in this manor is probably due to her intention."
Just like Endymion, Catherine was finally able to watch her beloved girl forever with the help of Hypnos.
Shen Yongle said, "She obtained a joint-stiffening potion from a research institute, and secretly drugged Aphra in the name of love, thus causing her to become an immobile puppet."
The most important thing on the list of things to do every day is "feed the lady with medicine according to three meals".
I wonder if Aphra knows about this...
But with Aksha's consistent urgency in writing scripts, Aphra probably knows everything clearly.
She knew that she was not sick, but she still lost control of her body little by little, and even lost the ability to ask others for help. She was so anxious and helpless, screaming and crying frantically in her heart, she sat on the chair with full of prayers. He stared intently at his parents who came to visit him...
However, no one found out.
No one reached out to save her.
No one knew that she was just trapped in her own body and became another person's living puppet.
She was so desperate, thinking that she was going to live like this for the rest of her life... The demon who controlled her suddenly died unexpectedly.
For the first time, Aphra thanked God so much!After all, she waited for hope and was finally able to be free...
But in the blink of an eye, she fell into a darker abyss.
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