Chapter 314 Invasion of Brain Cells (Twenty-One)

After this conversation, Feng Bujue and the succubus have reached an "agreement". At this time, the succubus has changed from a monster to an NPC camp and no longer has the intention to attack.

However, the system did not give any prompts for this. After receiving the key, whether to let the succubus go or not is still up to Feng Bujue to decide.

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue first looked at the key for a few seconds and looked at the item description.

[Name: Cursed Key]

[Type: Plot-related]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Function: The holder will be haunted by bad luck (the item cannot be discarded, destroyed or traded)]

[Can it be taken out of the script: No]

[Note: After opening the corresponding door, the key is consumed. ]

When he saw the effect of this thing, Feng Bujue thought of the second message: [When you think you have got what you want, you have actually lost more]

"Hey... I seem to understand why you are trapped in my bed." Feng Bujue muttered.

"I just had bad luck." The succubus replied, "Your room is so small. After I passed through the wall, I flew forward one meter and landed on top of the bed. Who would have thought... someone would use King Solomon's magic circle as a bed sheet pattern."

From her response, she seemed to be unaware of the nature of this "Cursed Key".

Feng Bujue was not surprised, because he fully understood why... the characters in the script looked at things differently from himself, a "traveler from another world".

In the eyes of the succubus, this was just a key. If no one told her that this thing would bring bad luck to the holder, she would naturally not know.

From the player's perspective, you can intuitively see the relevant description of this thing through the game menu.

Of course, the player's perspective will also bring corresponding problems. For example, the succubus can hand over the key. But Feng Bujue cannot discard or transfer this thing...

"Can I ask you where this key came from?" Feng Bujue asked again.

"My boss asked me to bring this to you." The succubus replied.

"Huh?" Feng Bujue asked in confusion, "He asked you to bring something to me, so why didn't you just tell me your intention? And after falling into the trap, you kept trying to kill me."

"Who said I want to kill you?" The succubus patted the edge of the bed and smiled charmingly, "Just when I asked you to come over, did I definitely want to kill you? Can't I do something else? I can give you the key afterwards."

Feng Bujue felt it again after hearing it. It seems that this sentence is in line with the saying [When you think you have got what you want, you have actually lost more]

But he also knows very well that there will be no erotic elements in the horror park. It is probably because the key is in hand at this moment. The succubus said this line, as if the player had an opportunity to take advantage of it. In fact... if he really went over just now, he would definitely be attacked, and it is possible that the instant death flag would be triggered.

Feng Bujue has seen this method a lot when playing single-player games. Some depressing games love to play this trick the most, giving you an option before the ending. You choose a, and the ending is a pitfall. Then you load the game and choose B. You thought you could see the true ending this time, but it turns out that the true ending is even more disappointing.

It's like someone puts a cake in front of you and asks you to eat it or not. If you eat it, you will die of poison; if you don't eat it, he will eat the cake and smack his lips and say, "It's so delicious, but it's a pity that you can't eat it anymore."

Woo--

The water in the kitchen happened to boil. The kettle made a buzzing sound.

Feng Bujue turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey! You haven't..." The succubus wanted to stop him.

"I'll come after you turn off the fire." Feng Bujue knew what the other party was going to say, interrupted directly, and walked towards the kitchen.

Two minutes later. He turned off the gas stove and returned to the bedroom with a pair of scissors.

In order to be foolproof, Feng Bujue took out the [Vajra Bell] before approaching the bed and activated the special effect. As a result, the command one (observe the detailed information of an NPC) was triggered.

[Name: Succubus]

[NPC Force: Reasoning Club]

[Level: ? ? ? 】

[Height: 165 cm]

[Weight: 42 kg]

[Can the battle be triggered: Yes]

[Additional plot: Cursed Key]

"Since the information displayed is not about the monster, it means that the battle can be avoided. From the current communication between her and me, as long as I don't actively attack her next, there should be no problem..." Feng Bujue thought to himself.

"What are you dithering for?" Succubus urged.

Feng Bujue was worried about complications, so he didn't delay any more: "Well... nothing." He said, took two steps forward, grabbed a corner of the bed sheet, and quickly cut it towards the middle area.

The creatures trapped by Solomon's magic circle cannot destroy the magic circle by their own strength. No matter how fragile the magic circle is, even if it is made of fallen leaves or building blocks, it will fall apart with a gust of wind, and the trapped person will still be helpless. But if a creature that is not affected by the magic circle, such as a human, walks into the magic circle, then the trapped person can use the blood of this creature to contaminate the magic circle and escape.

After Feng Bujue opened the bedroom door, he was not moved by the spring scenery at all. Instead, he quickly saw through the other party's trapped state, thus gaining the initiative and coming to a plot line that could be advanced without fighting.

Ten seconds later, when a gap was cut on the outer edge of the heptagram, Feng Bujue suddenly felt his shoulders sink, and an invisible pressure suddenly appeared. This was undoubtedly a sign that the succubus had regained its strength.

At the same time, the pair of small bat wings behind the succubus trembled slightly, and then she floated up. "Huh... I'm unlucky today." She said unhappily, turned around, and left the room through the wall.

"Hey~" Feng Bujue lowered his head and looked at the key in his hand: "From now on, it will be me who is unlucky." He put the key into his coat pocket and left the bedroom.

After coming to the kitchen again, Feng Bujue put the scissors into the drawer and closed the drawer completely. Then he scanned the surrounding scenery with alert eyes, "How serious is that 'bad luck'?" Well..." His eyes quickly fell on the knife holder, "It's like 'The God of Death is coming' and you could die at any time..." As he spoke, his eyes moved to the ground again: "It's still like walking normally. , and ended up falling flat on the ground and shattering two front teeth..."

In fact, he thought too much. If the cursed key really had such immediate and fatal lethality, the succubus would have noticed something unusual on the way here, and would not have waited until Feng Bujue's bedroom before falling into the trap due to carelessness.

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Five minutes later, Feng Bujue came to the living room with instant coffee brewed in boiling water. He put the coffee on the coffee table first, then put the overturned sofa back into place and sat on it comfortably.

He picked up the coffee and took a sip, and then let out a hearty "ah-", as if he was an addict who had just taken a sip.

"If I remember correctly. Pages 599 to 602 should be..." Feng Bujue put down his coffee cup, crossed his legs, opened the book he had placed here before, and said, "Aha! It is indeed " "Return".

That's right, s.h's reminder refers to "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" on Feng Bujue's bookshelf.

Reading addiction is not developed in a day.

As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For Feng Bujue, this book is the starting point of a long journey.

When he was little. It's really different from other kids. Although he also likes to play games and read comics, his talent and enthusiasm for reading are obviously much better than those of his peers, even more than adults.

This is "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes". It contains all the Sherlock Holmes detective stories written by Conan Doyle. It was bought by Feng Bujue with his own pocket money when he was in elementary school. His family was not wealthy and his pocket money was very little, so he bought a reduced copy. A book has more than 1,400 pages. The characters are printed very small and look quite laborious.

But Feng Bujue still read the book countless times and kept the book well. He never reads while eating. I won’t touch the paper with oily or stained hands, I won’t even fold the corners, and I will remember which page I saw every time.

More than ten years later, this book is still on his bookshelf. Although the paper looks slightly yellow, the writing inside is still very clear, and not a single crease can be found.

"I never thought I would open this again." Feng Bujue muttered, and his attention quickly focused on the text in front of him.

Pages 599 to 602 are part of the story "The Empty House", which is a story in "The Return".

From the perspective of an experienced reader like Feng Bujue, the story series "Return" should be regarded as the beginning of the decline of the entire series. The later "Uncanny Valley", "Last Regards" and "New Detective" no longer have the rigor of the early works in the logical reasoning part. During this period, Holmes seemed to be able to truly judge a person's thought activities and the cause and effect of a case from "the changes in his face, the changes in his eyes, the closing of his lips, the clenching or unclenching of his fists...".

This phenomenon can also reflect to a certain extent that Mr. Conan Doyle has gradually lost his enthusiasm for writing such stories, and is only writing to satisfy the wishes of publishers and readers. This is why none of the Sherlock Holmes stories after 1902 were as successful as previous works.

Today's Feng Bujue can actually understand Conan Doyle's original state very well. Many writers are like this. When they write a story with a high degree of creative enthusiasm, no one cares about it. And when they become famous, even if they fall into a creative slump, there are still people who are willing to pay a lot of money to let them submit their manuscripts.

"A Study in Scarlet" was written in April 1986. At that time, Conan Doyle was submitting manuscripts everywhere but could not get it published. It wasn't until Christmas of 1987 that it was published in a Christmas annual magazine.

And just five years later, despite his intention to refuse, "Seaside Magazine" actually offered him a thousand pounds in exchange for twelve short stories.

As a writer who had long wanted to write but was still "forced to do it" for many years and could not get off, it was indeed not easy for Conan Doyle.

"Oh...is it the part where Holmes retells his escape at the Reichenbach Falls to Watson..." Feng Bujue finished reading the content on page 599 and basically recalled what was written on the next three pages. But he continued to read.

"'I didn't fall at all', 'When I found Professor Moriarty with a sinister face standing on the narrow path leading to the safety zone, I had no doubt that my end had come',' In his gray pupils, I saw the ruthless intention." Feng Bujue repeated Holmes's description: "The description of the fight... Haha, it's basically no description, and then Lao Mo fell. The scene was... ...'I looked over and saw him fall a long way, then hit a rock, and then was ejected, and finally fell into the water.'

Feng Bujue picked up the coffee and took another sip, "Judging from this, Moriarty is definitely dead. Unless his physical fitness is close to Captain America, and he can still swim down the waterfall after suffering such a heavy injury." Come out." He paused: "If that's the case...is the owner of the reasoning club actually a ghost?" Something suddenly flashed in his eyes, "If it's a living person...could it be that the one who fell was a substitute? But what kind of substitute can deceive Holmes's eyes..."

He put down the coffee cup: "Hmm... Or maybe. Old Mo in the Mystery Club is just a projection of Moriarty from a certain period in the original work, just like other fairy tales and novel characters in the test building."

I'm afraid I have to ask the professor himself to know the answer to this question, so Feng Bujue put it aside for the time being and continued reading.

Although he can read ten lines at a glance, now he read every word very carefully and recalled what the original English sentence of this paragraph was like (he also has an English version of Sherlock Holmes, but those books are based on the series) divided into volumes, the number of pages in each volume shall not exceed 500).

"'The moment the professor fell into the abyss, I suddenly realized that this was the unique opportunity that fate had arranged for me." On the cliff that you assert is a cliff, there are actually several narrow footholds, and there are A place similar to a ledge. It is obviously impossible to climb all the way up a cliff, but it is even more impossible to follow the wet narrow path without leaving footprints.'" I feel like seeing this. He couldn't help complaining: "You are worthy of being a role model for our generation. If you think about cheating death, you will follow through on it. You would rather risk real death to climb the cliff."

Looking further back, the descriptions from 600 to 601. Mainly it’s Holmes’ rock climbing experience. During this process, one of Moriarty's accomplices who had been ambushing nearby attacked Holmes twice with large rocks. If this was a fantasy novel, our great detective would probably have fallen into trouble, and then the story of falling off a cliff and surviving, acquiring magical powers, magic weapons, beauties, or carrying around an old man would unfold...

Unfortunately, in this early 20th century novel, the role of the protagonist's halo is only: "When I grabbed the edge of the ledge with both hands and hung my body in the air, another stone fell from my side with a roar. My foot slipped, and fortunately, God blessed me, and I fell on the path under the cliff. I fell badly, but I got up and ran away. After a week, I walked in the dark. When I arrived in Florence, no one in the world knew my whereabouts."

After reading this paragraph, Feng Bujue said, "Well... this week's content can be used to write a fanfic about wilderness survival..."

Finally, there is the content from 601 to 602, which is also the end of this description.

This paragraph is mainly composed of two parts. The first part describes where Holmes went to level up in the past few years.

"I have been traveling in Tibet for two years, and I often go to Lhasa to chat with the great lama. You may have seen an excellent inspection report written by a Norwegian named Sigerson. I believe you will never imagine that this is exactly News from your dear friend. Then, I passed through Persia, visited the Holy Land of Mecca, and went to Khartoum (the capital of Sudan) for a brief but interesting visit to the Caliph (the title of the theocratic leader of the Islamic country), and The results of the visit were shared with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After returning to Europe, I spent several months in a laboratory in Montpellier, southern France, studying derivatives of coal tar, which I completed to my satisfaction. At that time I heard that only one of my enemies was left in London, and I was ready to come back."

The second part is about the situation of Moriarty's remaining parties.

This paragraph is not described very clearly, because on page 600, Holmes said "It was not only Moriarty who had sworn to kill me, but at least three such people existed. And their desire for revenge against me It will only become more violent with the death of the leader."

But in Watson's narration in "The Last Case", this number became two people. These two people were said to be important figures in Moriarty's criminal group and successfully escaped trial for their crimes.

On page 602, he became a person again.

Feng Bujue had already thought about these questions when he read it. Of course, the simplest explanation is that the author just wrote casually. Indeed, this change in the number of people is not important in the original work and has little connection with the main story.

Moriarty's criminal empire collapsed when its king fell.

However, now in Thriller Paradise, in the script of confronting the virtual character Moriarty, the system has set up a very clear prompt 599-602. Then Brother Jue has to consider this as a reality...

"The 'Swiss boy' who appeared in the last case escaped. Watson's analysis is very reliable. He should also be Moriarty's accomplice, but obviously insignificant." Feng Bujue closed the book and raised his head to read: "Assume that the person who attacked Holmes on the ledge is one of the 'three people', and the other two are characters who have never appeared and only exist in the description." His brain was thinking intensively: "Is the decrease in the number of people due to death, arrest, or seclusion..." He cast his eyes on the key in his hand again: "Also, what is the direct relationship between the contents of these four pages of the book and this key and my escape from this room?" (To be continued...)