[Fifth Personality] Escape from the manor

It was a girl who was telling her thoughts.

You can't see other people during non-dinner hours, Qiao Yan walked towards the direction of the voice with this doubt.

Qiao Yan saw the back of a straw hat girl after pushing away a branch that blocked her view:

That was Emma Woods.

At this moment, she is holding a scarecrow and talking about something.

The scarecrow was silent in the shadows, only the girl holding it spoke alone.

This scene was very weird, and Qiao Yan didn't want to disturb her. When she was about to go back, the straw hat girl suddenly turned her head and saw her.

"Yan! Are you coming to the garden to see the flowers?"

The girl waved to her enthusiastically and greeted her.Qiao Yan, who couldn't pretend she didn't see it, could only approach her, pretending that she didn't notice anything abnormal like before:

"I can't sleep, so I want to go out for a walk."

"Me too~Mr. Skelclaw asked me to meet here."

She held her face slightly, looking a little shy.

Mr. Skelclaw?

Qiao Yan looked at the scarecrow next to Emma, ​​and was a little surprised that she actually regarded this scarecrow as a real person.

"Then... I won't disturb your date."

Qiao Yan pretended to understand very well, and was about to leave the garden and go back to her room.And the girl in the straw hat didn't stop her, but happily hugged the scarecrow and whispered:

"Is there a reason Skelclaw didn't speak to me today because someone else was there?"

When she was about to leave the garden, Qiao Yan glanced back at the girl happily hugging the scarecrow, and suddenly wanted to ask her some questions.She had an intuition that Emma Woods knew much more than she did.

After thinking about it again and again, Qiao Yan still couldn't stop this impulse. She asked Emma Woods a question:

"Emma, ​​have you ever thought about how to live after leaving Orytis Manor?"

The girl holding the scarecrow turned to look at her with her usual smile.It's just that half of her face is shrouded in the shadow of the scarecrow, so the smile is a bit subtle:

"Why should I leave here?"

She smiled and rubbed the scarecrow's face with her face, then whispered to herself:

"Here is the father I have always missed, the unforgettable uncle, and the angel I love... How could I leave here?"

Emma Woods is indeed different from other survivors.Without getting the information she wanted, Qiao Yan stepped up again and planned to go back to her room. Before that, she didn't forget to cast one last look at the wall that she was thinking about.

"Don't be too curious about the outside of the wall, it's nothingness~"

A familiar voice like an auditory hallucination came from behind, and Qiao Yan immediately looked back:

The straw hat girl still hugged the scarecrow and smiled happily.

……

*

By the time we got back to the Orydice Hall, the clock had just struck twelve—it was already midnight.

Qiao Yan found it difficult to move when she walked in front of the tall white stone statue.She thought of the mirror behind the statue, hidden by a red curtain.

Behind the mirror lies a dangerous world.

There is no exit from the Oletes Manor on their side, but the guests in the Oletes Manor can go there immediately.As long as the conditions for winning the game are met, they can go out—this shows that there must be an exit in Oletis Manor.

Since the exit is not at the Survivor's manor, what about the Orytis Manor that belongs to the regulator connected by the mirror?

Is the exit on that end?

At this moment, Qiao Yan combined the contradictory information in the notebook with her current conjecture, and deduced the reason why she wrote such contradictory information before she got lost:

The "I" at that time must have suspected the issue of exporting, but I was not sure, so "I" was very contradictory when I left that message.

……

Qiao Yan opened the red curtain, and the mirror connecting the two worlds appeared in front of her.

Her hand touched the mirror, and she still hesitated to go to the world over there.

She should find another person to investigate together, so that they can help each other a little bit.Yet she was unlikely to meet anyone except at mealtimes.And the opening time of the mirror is after midnight, not during the meal time.

The only person she sees at all times is Emma Woods.But it is impossible for her to invite Emma Woods to accompany her.

Qiao Yan just finished a game, and she still has a day's rest before the next game.If she misses this opportunity, she will have to wait for another game.And in the next game, she can't guarantee that she won't get lost.

Qiao Yan stood where she was and took a deep breath.In the end, she entered the mirror again and went to another Orytis Manor.

……

*

The cold moonlight through the floor-to-ceiling windows left a layer of hoarfrost on the floor of the manor hall.

Qiao Yan, who walked through the mirror, was about to go through the hall and go directly to the garden outside to find the exit.However, when she passed the floor-to-ceiling windows, a shadow flashed past the window.

Qiao Yan stopped a little stiffly, and she walked slowly towards the French window, then carefully looked outside.

A pair of vertical yellow pupils looked at her through the glass window.Giant lizard-like creatures were crawling on the glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows and watching her.

Its long tail swayed behind it, and the tip of the tail glowed a bit of silver in the moonlight, making it particularly hard and sharp.

Those golden vertical pupils staring at her were full of a predator's breath.It opened its mouth and licked the glass with its bright red tongue.

The distance between her face and the creature's tongue was extremely close. Without this glass, her head might have already entered the creature's mouth.

When people are in the midst of sudden fear and danger, their nerves experience temporary numbness.

Qiao Yan was like this. She looked at the creature outside the window in a daze, her whole body was cold, and she almost couldn't stand up.

"Meet you again, Miss Yan."

A young boy's voice came from behind, dispelling the chill on Qiao Yan's body.She quickly regained her mobility.

The giant creature lying on the floor-to-ceiling window quickly crawled away as if frightened. Qiao Yan, whose legs were half weak, turned around and looked:

The noble boy who seemed to exist in a long time ago was walking downstairs step by step, his glass-like blue eyes locked on her.

Before Qiao Yan could speak, the boy spoke first:

"fate?"

He used Qiao Yan's words to ask her last time, with an ambiguous smile in his words.

Qiao Yan chose to play dumb and maintained this superficially calm relationship:

"fate."

"So, would you like to take a break in my room?"

The aristocratic young man walked up to Qiao Yan, and extended his right hand without a knife to her in a very gentlemanly manner.

Qiao Yan hesitated.

And at this moment, another person walked up the stairs on the other side.

"A meeting of fate."

The man was tall and thin, and he wore a black gentleman's suit with a certain elegance.He wears a tall black top hat.Under the hat was short black hair and a surprisingly handsome face.

His eyes are very special, with red precipitation in the golden pupils, which look very much like the setting sun.

His eyes were also fixed on Qiao Yan, with a moving smile on his face, and a silent invitation:

"Why did Miss escape from my arms last time? Is it because I didn't entertain you well?"

His words reveal affectionate and lonely.

However, Qiao Yan's gaze unconsciously shifted to his left hand:

Those were not human fingers, but five mutated sharp blades.

At this moment, the blade was facing Qiao Yan with a cold light.

He has nothing to hide.

Seeing Jack's seemingly affectionate smile, Qiao Yan turned her gaze to Joseph again:

Ignoring the French saber in his left hand, he at least looks like a normal guy.

Qiao Yan feels that she is currently in a great crisis: this is a difficult problem of choosing between two dangers.

But no matter what you choose, it is dangerous.

Qiao Yan tremblingly put her hand on Joseph's inviting hand:

At least this one hasn't shown its true colors yet.

On the balance of the two phases, the danger here seems to be less.

"It's so cute to be trembling with fear."

The black-haired man with sunset eyes couldn't help sighing. He looked at Qiao Yan's hand held by Joseph, and continued his performance:

"It really breaks my heart."

"This is my guest, Mr. Jack."

The young man with a delicate and beautiful face turned his head to look at Jack, with a warm smile on his face.

The knife in his left hand disappeared temporarily, and a piece of black and white photo was turned on the slightly sharp fingertips, announcing the truth to the person in front of him:

This is my prey.

Qiao Yan couldn't see clearly what was on the photo, but Jack could.

That photo shows a sleeping oriental girl.

The prey that has fallen into the trap has no fun in chasing.

Jack glanced at Qiao Yan with regretful eyes, then went upstairs humming the melody of Swan Lake.

07

Qiao Yan followed Joseph upstairs and went to his room.

The room was still the same as what Qiao Yan saw last time—all the walls were covered with his own portraits.

Joseph led Qiao Yan to a sofa in the inner room:

"You can rest here for a while, just like last time. You can go back in the middle of the night."

He had a smile on his face and couldn't see anything else.

Qiao Yan looked at him carefully, trying to find some clues from his face, but she failed.

She couldn't see what he was thinking at all.

"It's not very polite to look at a man like this, or what are you trying to imply to me?"

The young man's delicate and beautiful face was not far away, he still had a smile on his face, and he looked like a beautiful oil painting.

Qiao Yan immediately looked away, and subconsciously apologized:

"Feel sorry."

joseph from her side