Host Paradise

Chapter 241 Building ([-])

After the time stop ended, the surroundings returned to color.

The system immediately gave instructions:

"Please go to the dangerous area—the corridor outside the house to explore. Due to the nature of this expedition, it will provide you with a buff-the shadow of retrospection."

[Status name: Shadow of Backtracking]

[Status Type: Special buff]

[Effect: When you stop moving for 3 seconds, a blue figure will be generated at your position 15 seconds ago, which will reproduce your action trajectory during this period. 】

[Note: I would rather be wrong than do nothing. 】

"What's the use of this?" Wang Tianxiao complained in his heart after watching it.

"Dangdangdang~"

A sound with dense and tight frequency suddenly sounded.

Wang Tianxiao turned his head to look at the source of the sound, and found that it was the alarm clock on the bedside table. It was red on the outside and white on the inside.

At this time, its pointer has gone from 12:[-] to [-]:[-].

"Did someone live in this room?" Wang Tianxiao walked to the bedside table in doubt.

He picked up the alarm clock, pressed the top round button, and then the ringing stopped.

Wang Tianxiao turned the alarm clock to the back and found two small black cylinder buttons.

When they go up and down, there are many small recessed gaps around the column body.

The one above, next to it is the icon of two pointers.The one below is the icon of a bell.

Obviously, the upper part is used to manually adjust the time, and the lower part is used to set the alarm time.

Wang Tianxiao turned the alarm adjustment button, and then saw the pointer turning. Finally, he adjusted it to the 7:15 position and stopped.

The alarm clock didn't go off.

Of course, the alarm clock that is adjusted in this way will not go off in the first place.

So he turned the row of artificial time buttons on the back and set it to 7:14.

After that, he waited quietly for 1 minute.

"Dangdangdang~"

Sure enough, the alarm then rang.

Seeing this, Wang Tianxiao became more and more sure of the speculation that someone lived here.

Afterwards he turned off the alarm and left it alone for now.

Instead, focus on the bedside table itself.

The bedside table is made of brown elm, and has only one drawer, but it is very high.

Wang Tianxiao bent down slightly and pulled it away.

Then, he saw a gray sealed iron barrel inside.

Although it is sealed, it is just an iron cover.

Wang Tianxiao broke it apart easily.

After breaking it open, I found that it was just ordinary white paint inside.

So he put it back and closed the cabinet door.

Then I looked in the room again, the bed was also an ordinary bed, and there was no one hiding under the bed.

So he came directly to the door, but when he held the handle, he found that the material of the handle was very interesting—it was actually stone.

"The door is wooden, but the handle is stone?"

Although he had doubts, Wang Tianxiao still twisted it, and it didn't happen when he thought it wouldn't be able to twist. The handle twisted smoothly, and the door opened all at once.

The corridor outside was pitch-black, and with the help of the lights inside the room, one could vaguely see the opposite door and the corridor in front of this room.

The structure of the door of the opposite room is the same as this one, and it is also a wooden door with a stone handle.

In the corridor, the underlying material is invisible, because a purple carpet with dense patterns is laid.

Wang Tianxiao stepped over the threshold and walked up to it.

However, just as he was about to close the door, "Dangdang~", the alarm rang again.

He turned his head suddenly, only to find that the bedside table with the alarm clock was right behind him!

Of course, it wasn't the bedside table that ran over with long legs.

Because Wang Tianxiao looked around and found that he had returned to the place where he stood in the room at the beginning.

Ahead, the door is closed.

And he remembered that there was no sound of closing the door just now.

Wang Tianxiao turned his head again, looked at the alarm clock again, and suddenly found that the pointer on it had changed back to seven twelve.

"Fuck, what's the situation?"

In doubt, Wang Tianxiao suddenly remembered his buff [Shadow of Backtracking].

As long as he doesn't move for 3 seconds, a phantom will appear to reproduce his situation 15 seconds ago!
Thinking of this, Wang Tianxiao sat on the bed beside him, waiting for the phantom to appear.

Sure enough, a phantom appeared after 3 seconds.

It looks exactly like Wang Tianxiao, but its body is blue and translucent.

It is now where Wang Tianxiao was standing just now.

I saw him leaning down, making the gesture of opening the cabinet, then piercing the cabinet door with his hand, making the motion of opening the cover, and then taking out his hand to close the cabinet door and getting up.

Later, Wang Tianxiao's movement path was repeated as he walked towards the door, and then opened the door.

Seeing this, Wang Tianxiao hurried to the door.

Because when he opened the cabinet door before, he found that phantoms can't affect reality, so they can penetrate solids.

After opening the door and standing still for two or three seconds, it was time for him to go out.

So Wang Tianxiao had to hurry over and open the door to see what was going on.

When he went to open the door, Xu Ying just stepped out of the threshold.

Just when Wang Tianxiao thought that an important clue was coming, the phantom disappeared directly.

What remained in Wang Tianxiao's field of vision was the same corridor with patterned carpets as before.

"Damn it! What's going on?" Wang Tianxiao felt confused.

The key point is that he doesn't know the situation of other teammates now, and he can't contact them. After all, this is a dungeon mode and there is no team voice.

Looking at everything dimly outside the house, Wang Tianxiao did not dare to go out.

After all, there was previous precedent, and he was worried that he would return to the original position as soon as he walked out.

After closing the door, Wang Tianxiao went back to the bed and sat down on the bed. He thought about everything he had experienced before.

"By the way, why did the alarm go back? Didn't I set it to [-]:[-]?" Wang Tianxiao reached out and took the alarm clock from the bedside table, and looked at it.

It is now 50:[-] at [-]:[-], more than a minute away from [-]:[-].

Seeing this, he turned the button on the back and adjusted the minute hand directly to seven fourteen, and then waited for the remaining few seconds when the second hand moved.

However, when the minute hand reaches exactly 3, no alarm goes off.

"Ah." Wang Tianxiao sighed, "Two possibilities, either someone quietly moved the clock, or I went back in time."

It is said that there are two possibilities, but when making these conjectures, Wang Tianxiao has already leaned towards the second option in his heart.

Because at this normal difficulty level, he didn't think there was an NPC that could manipulate things behind his back without being noticed by him at all.

"If you go back to the past, it would be difficult. I want to go out to complete the mission, but as soon as I step on the threshold and land, I will go back to the past?"

Speaking of this, Wang Tianxiao suddenly had an idea, he took out the [Different Universe Solid Core (Qi Xingfeng)] from his backpack, and held it in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Tianxiao came to the door again, opened the door, and then jumped out.

The moment before landing, he clenched the object in his hand and floated his body in the air!
"This should be"

"Dangdangdang~"

Just halfway through my mind, the alarm bell rang again from behind.

Wang Tianxiao looked at his feet, he stood on the porcelain floor again!

And ahead, the door is closed.

(End of this chapter)