Chapter 282: Man in the box

In these rooms of Shenhai, a mirror is attached behind the door of each room.
This room is no exception, except that the mirror is covered with dry reddish-brown liquid, which looks like a large blood splash on it.
Of course, Wu Fei was not stunned. It was not just this, but when he turned around, he saw the dark deep sea in the mirror. The brown-green water was innumerable and entangled. In the gaps between the seaweeds and the seaweeds, you can see something that resembles a human figure. At the deepest level beneath the layers of seaweeds, there is a huge, bloodshot eye.
At the moment when his eyes looked at him, countless black hair-like seaweeds generally tried to break through the mirror and roll towards him, but when they met the red trace, those things disappeared together with the strange scene under the deep sea. Too.
"An intellectual appraisal is required. If the number of points is greater than 3 points, 1 to 3 points of sanity are randomly deducted; if the number of points is less than or equal to 3 points, 5 points of sanity are deducted." The system sound sounded in his ear, prompting.
So ruthless. If he deducts this at 5 o'clock every time, his 30-point sanity may only be enough to support 5 or 6 times.
Wu Fei murmured in his heart, but he rolled the dice helplessly.
3 points.
Good luck.
Just when Wu Fei took a sigh of relief, he heard the system prompt: "You have been deducted 3 sane values, and the remaining sane values: 27 points."
...I don’t know if it was because he didn’t deduct his sensible value after finishing that dream that night, so I have to make it up this time. Faced with the strange appearance of the little monster, Yuan San-fat was only detained a little. He saw an illusion and was unluckily detained by three points.
In the Cthulhu running group and some game settings of this theme, too much reason can be deducted at one time, and it will also fall into a crazy state, but I don’t know how to define "too much at one time" in this level. At least this time he was deducted by 3 points, but his condition is still stable in all aspects.
After buckling his reason, Wu Fei speculated that he would not repeatedly buckle his san value in the same place, so he calmly took the fairy knife and walked to the mirror, leaned down slightly, sniffed the red on the surface, and sniffed the red above. Brown liquid, carefully buckled a small piece of paper towel from above and placed it on your fingertips to observe-although it looks like blood, it is actually just dried paint.
However, there is such a large area of ​​red paint adhering to it, and the sight of the san value is seen from the mirror. Wu Fei did not believe that this mirror will have no problem here and this room.
He stepped back a few steps, observing the shape of the paint on the mirror from a distance, speculating how it got on the mirror-from the location of the paint, the thickness, the size of the area, and the shape of the downward dripping by gravity , This piece of paint does not seem to be accidentally splashed on, there seems to be no need to use this kind of paint in this room, then most likely, the paint was intentionally poured.
So why paint on the mirror?
The most direct answer is because I don’t want to see what is in the mirror, I want to cover it.
If so, is it okay to take off the mirror or break it?
Is it because there is something on or in the mirror that people who splash paint dare not approach or break?
still is……
Thinking of this, Wu Fei suddenly had a speculation.
However, to be careful, he didn't do it directly, but ran to the first floor. He told the seafarer in charge that the window in his room was broken, so he asked a seaman to help repair it, and then pretended to be casual. I picked Mubei from the seafarers on the side and nodded: "Just you and I will repair it."
The seafarer's supervisor knew that he was a guest brought to the boat by Little Bert, and he had a very respectful attitude towards him. It was easy for him to take Mubei away.
On the way back to the upper floor guest room, Wu Fei told Mu Bei about his experiences these days, and then he talked about the mirror and his speculation.
In the speaking room, the two had returned to this room. Wu Fei bought the corresponding shoveling tools and potions from the system store, let Mu Bei stare at him next to him, he squatted in front of the mirror and shoveled a layer of paint on it—
When the largest and thickest piece of paint that was clearly at the center of the splashed paint was shoveled, the two saw the things behind:
It was a crooked and slanted star pattern that was red to black, and at the center of the pattern was an eye. With this strange pattern exposed, the whole room seemed to be dark.
Unlike the paint on it, this pattern was drawn with real blood.
At the same time, both Wu Fei and Mu Bei heard the prompt that the reason was deducted by 3 points.
In this short period of time, a total of 6 points of reason were deducted. Even if he had a high initial reason, he would not be able to take such a deduction. Wu Fei had a bad feeling in his heart. As his reason was deducted, for a moment of trance, he saw that the entire room had changed. Like an old movie lens, the entire bedroom had become black and white. The mirror was splattered with blood stains, the single bed was sunken, the white sheets were the blood of the big beach, and the whole room was in chaos, with blood stains, flesh, and even mucus from everywhere.
The scene is not even like a general murder scene, but more like... completely contaminated.
After about a minute, Wu Fei felt that someone was vigorously patting his shoulder, and at the same time called his name loudly in his ear: "Wu Fei, Wu Fei!"
Wu Fei was sober from that bad situation, but his heart was heavy, with a feeling of depression.
He looked up and saw Mu Bei's face, and then looked around. This room was the same as when he first came in. There were no dark and polluted scenes. Except for the star pattern on the mirror, there seemed to be no other abnormalities. .
But is everything seen before me real?
Although now it seems that Rixulu is a horror subject, it is always associated with various elements such as tentacles, meat blocks, and secret fears. However, as Wu Fei understands, Cthulhu is actually a science fiction work. And its real sense of terror comes entirely from "unknown" and "discover the truth".
People trap themselves in a small box, think that everything in the box, what they know, explore, and understand is what constitutes this world, and strive to explore and study more about everything in the box . However, one day, someone pierced the box and saw a corner outside the box, saw something outside that completely exceeded his own cognition and understanding, the feeling of being small in the face of the huge unknown, the kind of self and right Despair and powerlessness in the world where you are incapable and uncontrollable are truly terrifying and irrational.
So which of the normal room he sees now, and the completely polluted room he saw in his hallucinations, which one is true?
Wu Fei faintly felt that his spirit was a little unstable, and quickly stopped thinking about this issue. He can no longer lose the san value today, otherwise who knows what will happen. In the world of Cthulhu, it is not a good thing to know too much truth-the more you know, the more you will only go to the inevitable madness and perdition. If you don’t know anything, you can still be a fool who can’t understand anything. Alive.
Mubei looked at him hesitantly, his eyes a little frightened, and I wondered what it was associated with: "Wu Fei, are you okay? Just now... what's wrong? I feel you are in a wrong state."
Wu Fei shook his head: "It's okay, it should be because San dropped two consecutive times, and reason fell too much in a short period of time, so his mental state was a little unstable."
He said to Mubei Road: "This room and even the whole ship has a lot of weirdness. Everything here may not be what we see. You need to be careful."
Because the sanity value is too much, for the sake of insurance, Wu Fei did not dare to check with Mubei in that room again, fearing that continuing to lose the sanity would trigger bad consequences. So he quickly took Mubei back to his room and asked them if they had found anything in the past two days.
"On the day after I arrived, I didn't find much." Mubei Road, "Because the planners of the last level left a message about the crew often getting together to drink at night, we paid special attention to it. Ten o'clock in the evening In the beginning, the crew did get together and drank, and they were a little exclusive. The four of us and two other new crews were not accepted by them. We can’t get in for the time being.

In order to make things easier, both the contractors Selena of Sapphire and Aoyama used the disguise props in the system shop to disguise as men, and then they were able to successfully apply for the work of Shanghai staff.
"And there was a phenomenon of bullying among the seafarers. Last night a new seafarer wanted to join and drink, but the seafarers disagreed and he quarreled with other seafarers. As a result, he was thrown into an empty room by two old seafarers. The warehouse was locked and he was kept in confinement, and he has not released it yet." Mubei Road.
Wu Fei grabbed something in his head. To Mubei Road: "Mubei, I remember your last stage. The earliest drama I encountered was that many crew members were missing, and then you go to investigate. What are these crew members? Well, do you remember? Can you tell me something?"
Because the clue they got after entering the level is that the suspects have all been concentrated on the Bert family and the Shenhai. The missing crew members are more like a primer, so they ignored the relevant information.
Mu Bei nodded: "We initially spent a lot of time and energy to investigate these crew members, so I still remember very clearly."
Mu Bei told Wu Fei the information he remembered one by one. Wu Fei summed up the information while absorbing it, and soon summed up some corroborating commonalities along his own way.
These crew members are in good health before boarding the ship. After all, many cargo ships are physically active, and good health is the most basic requirement. In addition, some of them are introverted and cowardly, some are cowardly and stubborn, and some are upright, all of which are not easily integrated into a chaotic organization.