Under Luigi's confused eyes, Angel strode to the floor tile where Luigi was sitting before, took out his cane and tapped the ground lightly.
A crisp "dong dong" sound sounded instantly.
Every time the cane hit the wall or brick surface before, the sound was dull, indicating that it was solid underneath. But this time there was such a crisp sound, which meant that there was a high probability of a hidden space under the floor tile.
.
It seems that he was in the dark before.
Angel silently complained to himself, but without hesitation, he gently pressed the sharp end of the cane against the edge gap of the floor tiles, and pried it up with skillful force.
The floor tiles were opened smoothly, revealing the dark space below.
The space is not big, only half a meter square.
In the space under the floor tiles, there was nothing except a somewhat broken thread-bound notebook.
Angel picked up the thread-bound note. Although there was no writing on the cover of the note, there was no doubt that this was Xiao Ke's diary.
"Hey, Xiao Ke's notes are actually here?" Luigi touched his chin and stepped forward: "It's quite deep. Were you looking for it just now?"
Angel: "Whether it is hidden deeply or not, that is another matter. But it is true that it feels warm when you sit on it."
Luigi: "..." How can it be that exaggerated?
Watching Angel open the note, Luigi also stepped forward: "You said you had something wrong, just to read this diary? I heard from people who have read the diary that there is nothing special about it."
Angel ignored Luigi's words, but read them carefully one by one.
Each page of the diary is not long.
It was right to think about it. Xiao Ke unfortunately fell into the ghost in the mirror. In the panic, it was good to record a sentence or two, but how could he make a long speech.
In less than five minutes, Angel read the entire diary.
The general content is about what happened after Xiao Ke came to the Ghost in the Mirror. However, from Xiao Ke's self-narration, we can know that the first ten diaries were all added by Xiao Ke after he came to the secret room, and they were not written immediately.
, but a flashback record.
There are thirteen chapters in the diary. The first ten chapters record Xiao Ke's various experiences after he came to the Ghost in the Mirror. The last three chapters record Xiao Ke's mental journey after he found the secret room and confirmed that there was no hope of escape, as well as some of his last words.
There is nothing special in the last three chapters. The last words are the same as what Luigi said. The key point is still this sentence: ""There is already the laughter of the evil ghosts outside the secret room door, and I also heard the footsteps... If...
A minute can be used as a year, no, even if it is just a month, a day, or even half an hour, I am willing to give everything for it... He is here..."
This sentence reveals the secret of the birth of the haunted house.
Therefore, whether it is Baba Regon, Luigi or others who have experienced the haunted house, they all pay more attention to the last three diaries.
However, after Angel read the entire diary, he paid more attention to the first ten entries.
Before reading Xiao Ke's diary, Angel only knew some general stories: A human named Xiao Ke accidentally came to the Mirror Ghost. Faced with the endless pursuit of the Mirror Ghost, he panicked and finally escaped to
A dark underground chamber.
This background story seems to happen very quickly, making people mistakenly think that it didn't take long for Xiao Ke to find the underground secret room after entering the Mirror Realm.
But after actually reading the diary, I discovered that the truth is not that simple.
After Xiao Ke came to the secret room, he added ten diary entries, which means that after Xiao Ke fell into the ghost in the mirror, he spent ten days before finding the secret room.
Of course, Angel was skeptical as to whether there were really ten days. After all, ghosts couldn't tell time, and the concept of time was likely to be distorted and confused; unless Xiao Ke had a pocket watch-type timing tool on him.
It is not known whether Xiao Ke has a timing tool, but since he has made up ten articles, it will be calculated as if he has indeed experienced ten days.
Just imagine, an ordinary person falls into a ghost in the mirror. How should he survive facing the mirror ghosts in the sky?
Angel couldn't think of an answer.
Not to mention ordinary people, even extraordinary people may not be able to find a way to survive if they fall into the mirror.
However, Xiao Ke lived in the ghost world for ten days as an ordinary person, which made Angel very confused.
The reason why Xiao Ke is confirmed to be an ordinary person is because in the first ten diaries, Xiao Ke repeatedly repeated himself to look for food and water. Extraordinary people would not care about food in this situation.
To sum up, the content of the first ten diaries is probably: "I'm about to be discovered. It's great that I haven't been discovered. Run away, run away. This thing seems to be edible. Keep running. I found a building. There is something to drink. Ah! There is something inside
Ghost, keep running away."
These records are very cumbersome and highly repetitive, and there is nothing special about them. It is normal for them to be ignored by Baba Regon and others.
But Angel looked very awkward.
He always had the illusion that those mirror ghosts were "blind".
Obviously Xiao Ke is an ordinary person, how can those mirror ghosts ignore him? It doesn't mean that they ignore him completely. The mirror ghosts will still catch Xiao Ke after seeing him, but Xiao Ke can escape smoothly every time.
This is really puzzling.
There are similar records in countless novels. No matter how brave a warrior is, he will appear extremely powerless in the face of extraordinary power, unable to resist or escape.
Angel also agrees with this point.
Xiao Ke is very brave and bold, but he is an ordinary person after all. How did he escape the pursuit of the mirror ghost time and time again?
Angel turned to look at Luigi: "Have you ever thought about how incredible it is that Xiao Ke escaped from the Mirror Ghost again and again?"
Luigi nodded: "I have thought about it, but it doesn't matter... Xiao Ke's last words can give birth to semi-mysterious things, which shows that he is not that ordinary."
"Maybe he has some extraordinary qualities?"
What Luigi means is that they know that Xiao Ke is an ordinary person, but ordinary people may also possess some strange powers. Similar to the special talents recorded in the novel, maybe Xiao Ke has the talent to avoid mirror ghosts?
In other words, Xiao Ke himself has the talent of delayed sense of time, so he has been able to escape the pursuit of the mirror ghost time and time again.
Angel: "If he really has any special talent, he could escape the last time, how could he accept death?"
Luigi: "You are right, but maybe the talent is exhausted?"
Angel shook his head. He felt that Luigi's thoughts tended to be "presumptuous". After setting an answer in his heart, his thoughts would always lean towards that answer.
In fact, Angel is not necessarily impartial in his heart. He firmly believes that Xiao Ke is an ordinary person, an ordinary person without any special talents.
If Xiao Ke really had any talent to escape the mirror ghost, Angel personally believes that he would record it in his final diary. Since he didn't write it down, it means he didn't.
Of course, there is no empirical evidence for this, and no one can tell whether this is the specific situation.
But if you look at it from Angel's perspective, Xiao Ke's behavior is not abnormal. What is abnormal is Mirror Ghost.
He had an inexplicable guess that maybe the Mirror Ghost did not want to kill Xiao Ke in the first place, otherwise Xiao Ke would not have been able to get rid of the Mirror Ghost again and again, and he could even find a lot of food and drink to sustain his life after getting rid of the Mirror Ghost.
But if the Mirror Ghosts don't want to kill Xiao Ke, what is their purpose?
-- Force Shock to go somewhere.
This is a guess Angel made after thinking deeply.
Perhaps, it was not Xiao Ke who found the secret room, but the mirror ghost forced Xiao Ke to come to this secret room.
As for why Xiao Ke was forced to come to this secret room? Angel didn't know, but he had a very outrageous and baseless idea.
To put it simply, it is just a blind thought without any evidence.
Xiao Ke's coming to the secret room may have become some kind of ritual.
Xiao Ke's death in the secret room was a kind of sacrifice, a sacrifice made for the success of the ceremony.
The host of this ceremony is most likely the owner of the footsteps in the last entry of Xiao Ke's diary, who is also the "him" in "He's Coming".
The other mirror ghosts spared Xiao Ke, but this "him" killed Xiao Ke.
In Angel's view, this "he" is the mastermind of everything. "He" asked Mirror Ghost to let Xiao Ke go, and at the same time forced Xiao Ke to come to the secret room.
Therefore, if there really is some kind of ritual here, the person presiding over this ritual is definitely the "him" at the end of the diary.
However, Angel couldn't figure out what kind of ceremony this ceremony was, even if he was just imagining it.
Maybe it’s a ritual that allows a “mysterious thing” to be born?
Or maybe it was some kind of special ritual, but the ritual failed, and the residual energy caused the birth of Xiao Ke's Haunted House?
In short, after reading the diary, Angel had more doubts.
Angel told Luigi his speculation. After hearing this, Luigi did not refute immediately, but asked curiously: "Why do you just think in the direction of the ceremony?"
Angel: "Because until now, I don't understand why there is a link to find a safe house. In my opinion, this link is unnecessary. In paranormal science, anything that is apparently meaningless but cannot
The redundant links eliminated are most likely related to rituals."
To be continued...