Chapter 227 Mary Shaw and the King in Yellow

Building No. 5.

"Why do we have to go back to our respective rooms separately?" Chao Mingsheng felt his heart trembling with every step he took. His 1.83-meter tall body was now covered in sweat. He was not very courageous to begin with, and was deceived by Fang Ze into joining the Lingwen Society.

In the previous dreams, everyone played together in a team, and even if they were scared to death, there were still people to pull together to take the blame. Now in this dream, Fang Ze asked to separate because he felt that there might be hidden clues in each room, so it would be better to separate and search for them separately.

After being alone, the fear in my heart was magnified countless times, and everything I saw seemed to be wrong.

"0811, the eighth floor is here." Chao Mingsheng did not walk out directly after the elevator door opened, but first stuck his head out and looked around. It would not have mattered if he hadn't looked around, but this look almost made him press the elevator directly to the underworld.

The two words "Quiet" were written in blood on all the walls, large and small, and the words overlapped, causing the corridor to be filled with an unpleasant smell of blood.

Moreover, the residents of this floor seemed to be particularly considerate of this quiet evil spirit. Cotton strips or something like that were pasted on the door frame to prevent the door from making too much noise when closing, and reminders were also posted in conspicuous places.

Don't knock on the door if you have something to do. If the door is not closed, just push it open.

Chao Mingsheng couldn't help but think of one of the rules that said to keep quiet. Could it be referring to his own building? He seemed to have hit the jackpot.

He wanted to quit the game immediately, but since he was here, it would be a bit unreasonable not to take a look.

Take a look, just take a look, if it doesn't work, you have to quit the game at the risk of social death.

Chao Mingsheng finally made up his mind and walked into the eighth floor. After a few steps, he saw a resident who just opened the door and was about to go out.

It was a middle-aged man in a sweatshirt. The floor of the room was covered with clothes and quilts, and even the books were wrapped in thick cloth strips. When he saw Chao Mingsheng, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and nodded and smiled silently as a greeting.

"Hello, I'm the new resident of Room 0811..." Chao Mingsheng just made a sound, and the middle-aged man's face changed, pointing at his mouth and waving his hands.

"Can't you even talk? I just want to ask where Room 0811 is going?" He also realized this and asked in a very low voice.

The middle-aged man didn't even turn his head, and went back to the house and closed the door.

This made Chao Mingsheng worried. Although it seemed that there were not many corridors, he didn't want to wander around, but just wanted to get back to the room quickly. God knows what he would bump into if he walked around here.

But there was no other way now, so he could only look for it room by room. When he walked to the end of the corridor, he found that there was a room with an open door, and there were complicated sounds coming from it, which sounded very lively.

In this silent and dead place, this lively sound seemed so noisy and weird.

Chao Mingsheng swallowed his saliva, but couldn't suppress his curiosity. He walked towards the room. He had already imagined countless possible scenarios and called out the system panel. He would yo-yo without hesitation if something was wrong.

Room 0888.

The room was spacious and bright, but the entire wall on the left was transformed into a glass cabinet filled with all kinds of dolls, staring at the front with a dead look.

In the middle of the living room, two men and one woman were sitting at the dining table for dinner. The two men were one old and one young. The woman looked about the same age as the old man, with gray hair and graceful manners, like a decent lady.

They were eating and talking to each other with smiles. They were a family that couldn't be more normal.

"Are you a new neighbor? Welcome." The lady first noticed Chao Mingsheng standing at the door and invited him in enthusiastically. Her voice was not loud, but every word was clearly audible. "Would you like to eat together?"

"Can we talk?" Chao Mingsheng asked uncertainly.

"Of course, speaking is everyone's right."

"But the outside is full of silence, and the other residents I just met were unwilling to speak."

"These kind neighbors are always very willing to consider others, right?" The lady spoke to the two people dining at the same table, and after getting their nods of approval, she continued with a smile: "Because I will have an important performance at the Aldebaran Theater soon, I need to hurry up and practice, and then present the most wonderful performance for the King in Yellow."

"I am very taboo about noisy sounds during practice, which will prevent me from fully devoting myself to it, so the neighbors kept quiet for me. In fact, as long as I don't make too much noise, it will be fine."

"What performance?" Chao Mingsheng felt that the woman in front of him was a little familiar, and suddenly remembered the poster he had seen on the community bulletin board, and asked: "Mrs. Mary Shaw?"

Mary Shaw did not answer, but stood up and took down a puppet wearing a yellow robe, a crown, and a pale mask from the glass window.

Her lips did not move, but a voice of extraordinary bearing sounded, cold and arrogant.

"On a strange night, black stars rose, strange moons circled the sky, but even stranger was... the lost Carcosa."

"The song of the Hyades began, and the king's steps fluttered, and he would quietly disappear in... the dark Carcosa."

Chao Mingsheng's eyes widened. Through the window, he seemed to see a star emitting a strange black light in the boundless universe, a shallow and boundless lake on the star, and a hideous and majestic palace beside the lake, in which sat a lofty yellow-robed king.

He seemed to feel the gaze, lowered his head slightly, and looked at the world without emotion.

Chao Mingsheng's whole body trembled uncontrollably, and tears of blood flowed from his eyes, but he could not control his gaze from the king on the throne. He could not help but want to look at him and worship him.

[San value -10. ]

[San value -10. ]

[San value -20. ]

[San value -20. ]

"How was my performance? Do you think it can satisfy the great yellow-robed king?" Mary Shaw restored her original voice, elegant and calm.

"What did I just see?" Chao Mingsheng wiped away the blood and tears, smearing his face with dirt, and Mary Shaw dragged him back from the scene.

"Oh? You seem to have seen that king too?" Mary Shaw was no longer calm, and her words were full of excitement, like a fanatical believer, "Has He ever mentioned me, a pious and humble believer?"

[Because you are being watched by the King in Yellow, Mary Shaw's favorability +10. ]

Chao Mingsheng didn't dare to answer. He felt that if he continued this topic and talked about that existence, He would come here from the stars on the stairs made of bloody moonlight, and turn around and leave without even saying hello.