The heart is beating [Fifth Personality]

It was cloudy again.

I have been here for the sixth day, but I have never seen the sun.

This manor must be a place despised by the gods.

The sky is always gloomy, as dark as dawn and dusk. Time seems to be frozen here, but it seems that night will come at any time.

I looked at the shadow of the whirling tree and couldn't sleep all night.

After the weird groan last night, I didn't hear any sound, but the fear in my heart tortured me all night.

Excited and stressed, I am now top-heavy, walking like I am floating, have a splitting headache, and my eyes are blurred and I can't see clearly.

It's bad.

After waking up, I asked everyone around the corner, but they all said that they didn't hear any strange movements last night.I even asked about that horrible maid, and she told me that there were only us in the whole manor, and there were only two males, a lawyer and a philanthropist.

They looked at me a little weirdly all day today, well, I know that I’m a little crazy when I’m holding on to people and asking them, and it’s a bit sluggish because I haven’t slept all night and I’m not in good shape, but their answers let me My heart is more disturbed.

I don't believe I heard it wrong, but I can't find evidence to prove the existence of this person.

But I'm sure there must be another person in this manor!And all of us have never seen him, even the maid didn't find him, he never showed his face, what's more frightening is that he walks silently and doesn't look like a person.

Maybe he has been lurking in this manor, maybe he just came here after we came.

What is his purpose?

Has he been spying on us from a certain corner of the manor?

……

No, I can't think about it anymore.If this continues, maybe I will crash before the game even starts.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

It's okay, the game is tonight, whether I can become the winner or not, whether I can get that huge bonus, I can get out of this damn place!I can't bear to be here for another second!

Looking up, I saw a few faint lights flashing in the dark cloud in the distance, some dazzling, it was lightning.

There was no thunder in the early morning, but now it's almost evening, and I can already clearly hear the rolling thunder, which is heavy and muffled, very depressing.

Storm is coming.

This was not a good sign. It was unthinkable enough for the owner of the manor to set the game time after dinner. Now it seemed that it might rain again.

If the playing field is outside...heavy rain and night?

It sucks.

"clang----"

The bell at the manor rang, and it was time for dinner.

There are many more crows on the tree branch today than in the past, and they are all in pitch black like the ominous messenger of hell.

After the bell rang, they all flapped their wings and circled in the sky, refusing to leave. "Yuya" screamed as if predicting something unfortunate.

These crows are disturbing me, I already have a headache, and now it's worse.

I touched the scalpel in my pocket, feeling a little helpless.

But now it's dinner time. The scary maid said before that if you don't abide by the rule of gathering in the lobby for meals on time, you will immediately lose your game qualifications.

This rule is inexplicable, but I have to abide by it.And this dinner is the last time, I don't want to let it go.

As for those annoying crows outside, well, after the game is over, I will always have a way to teach them a lesson. If I am still in such a bad mood at that time, they will be in bad luck.

I walked back to the hall in silence, came to the dining table, and sat down.

In the hall we were all four, the lady gardener sitting at the short end of the long table with me next to the lady gardener, and the lawyer between me and the philanthropist.

I looked at the empty chair between the lawyer and the philanthropist and felt a little uncomfortable.

That chair has always been there, the back of the chair is missing half and no one has been sitting on it. Everyone seems to subconsciously avoid it. I don’t know what happened today. I always feel that there is something on that chair.

I didn't realize the strangeness until now. There are only four of us, why are there five chairs?

I turned my head to look at the table, and unexpectedly found that there are five sets of tableware today! ?

What's even more unbelievable is that there was no food on the table today, and the maid who was one step ahead of us didn't see anyone.She always sets meals in advance. Although the food is not abundant, there is always some.

Everything has become abnormal since last night. Maybe everything here is abnormal from the beginning, but I just started to discover it.

The gardener lady sitting on my right seemed to be a little puzzled. She turned her head to look at the door frequently, waiting for the maid to arrive.

The philanthropist's eyes followed the gardener lady, looking at the gardener's eyes with some hidden lust and lust, disgusting.

The lawyer sitting next to me was exceptionally silent. His arms were standing on the table, his hands were crossed covering half of his face, and he was staring at the table under the gold-rimmed glasses without saying a word.

I remembered what he said last night, and I was still curious. I glanced at the pocket on his chest. I saw the Parker pen firmly pinned to it. There seemed to be something in the pocket, but I couldn't see it.

Just when I was about to observe carefully, suddenly, I heard the sound of humming again in the room.

"Bo-la-la-la-loo-"

The singing was different from last night, it was so clear, coming directly from my front.

It's ballet Swan Lake again! ?

It's that man who eluded us last night again!

The fear that had been suppressed with great difficulty reached its peak at this moment.

I stared straight ahead, trying not to make the expression of fear too obvious, but there was nothing in front of me but an empty sofa.

No one, no one in this room except us!

Damn it, who is humming again! ?

I stretched out my hand, like grabbing a life-saving straw, and grabbed the hand of Miss Gardener. I didn't dare to turn my head and still looked at the man who was trying to find the man in front of me.

"You...do you hear... the singing?" I heard my own voice in the room, trembling badly.

As soon as the words fell, the singing stopped abruptly.

He heard me?

He heard me!

I stared wide-eyed at the sofa in front of me, and my intuition told me that there was someone there, definitely someone.

Almost immediately, I felt that man looking at me, staring at me maliciously, I seemed to be frozen by that emptiness, my whole body was like falling into an ice cellar, my body was cold and stiff.

That intense gaze made me feel so scared that my own breath would not be tolerated.

"Ah~~ha~"

I heard his groans, as slippery and cold as last night, clearer and louder than last night.

"Squeak-qua-qua-qua-"

It was the door that opened, and it was the maid who looked dead expressionless.

All attention was turned to the maid, and no one answered my questions.

And I still shrank my neck and stared at the empty sofa directly in front of me.

Fortunately, I felt that I was instantly liberated from his malicious gaze, and the guy who didn't know if he was a ghost should have also shifted his gaze and stopped staring at me.

The maid was standing beside the unoccupied short side of the long table with a tray in her hand as usual, but the strange thing was that the tray was empty, no plates, no food, nothing.

But as if she didn't notice it at all, she grabbed a ball of air on the tray and placed it in front of the four of us one by one.

All three of them except me watched the maid complete this series of actions in stunned amazement.

The maid stood up straight, still expressionless, and a piercing voice came out of her mouth like a broken bellows: "The game is after dinner, the rules are very simple, you just need to turn on five cipher machines, open the door and escape." OK."

She smiled strangely, her eyes were no longer dull, she became mad and full of malice, and said word by word: "Please enjoy your last dinner to the fullest."

I stared blankly at her bloodless lips moving up and down, and suddenly felt that my body gradually became heavy, I couldn't lift my hands, I couldn't stand up, and even my eyelids became heavier and heavier...

I didn't eat anything, and I didn't smell any strange smell. I couldn't figure out why I passed out anyway, but I didn't have time to think about it. The scene in front of me terrified me.

The moment before I fell into a coma, I vaguely saw a slender black figure slowly become clear, then slowly become transparent again, and finally disappear with the shaking of the candlelight.

He was wearing a tuxedo, and the top hat on his head was very high.And his left hand... what is that! ?

The game has officially started!

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