Chapter 174
Chapter 174
Jian Fan kept holding up the mirror and did not lower it.
His gaze lingered on the mirror for a long time. Only after quite a while did he slowly look away.
Once again, he turned his attention to the wall, but he still noticed nothing. Then he swept his eyes around the room one place at a time. Finally, he raised his head and looked at the lampshade overhead. At that glance, Jian Fan’s brows drew together.
If there was still one thing suspicious about this washroom, it was the bloodstains on the shattered lampshade. How had they gotten there? What information was hidden in them?
Jian Fan’s thoughts raced. At the same time, after holding the mirror up for so long, an ache began to spread through his arms.
Qin Nan had been watching Jian Fan’s movements the entire time. When he saw the mirror dip slightly, he guessed what was happening. Although he did not know what Jian Fan was doing, Qin Nan was the first to offer support. He stepped forward and braced the mirror. With his help, Jian Fan immediately felt much less strain.
The weight in his hands suddenly lightened by half. Jian Fan was surprised, and his eyes instinctively moved to Qin Nan.
Qin Nan immediately gave him a smile.
Jian Fan smiled back. His gaze swept over Qin Nan’s hand gripping the edge of the mirror. He was just about to look away when he suddenly froze.
He looked at Qin Nan’s hand again. More accurately, he looked at the broken edge of the mirror. Then, all at once, he raised his head.
The jagged edge of the lampshade and the edge of the mirror… those protruding and recessed corners were somehow strangely similar. This… How was that possible?
Before Jian Fan could think too deeply, his hands were already moving.
He held the mirror flat. This time, he was not aiming it at the wall, but at the light overhead. His eyes were locked on the lampshade as he slowly shifted the mirror, trying to align the mirror’s edge with the edge of the lampshade.
It looked like an utterly absurd thing to do, but in the Realm of Death, this was far from the most absurd thing they had seen.
The light in the washroom had been on from beginning to end. Under the illumination, the broken lampshade cast a shadow into the room.
Naturally, the size of the lampshade and the size of the mirror did not match. But after Jian Fan kept shifting it, they were shocked to discover that the edge of the mirror actually pieced together with the shadow cast by the lampshade. Even more coincidentally, the blood on the lampshade seemed to connect with the red words on the mirror.
It was then that the light from the lampshade changed.
The light seemed to be covered by the entire lampshade, softening all at once. As that light fell on the wall, the wall in front of the sink gradually began to change as well.
Among the marks on the wall that had looked like cracks, a few slowly began to seep out thin red lines.
Jian Fan looked up.
The bloodstains on the lampshade and the red words on the mirror had been projected onto the cracks on the wall. After that, these red lines appeared one after another until, in the end, they connected into a map.
The map was very simple, just a few plain lines. At first glance, there was nothing strange about it. But the small hole that had originally been in the wall now appeared on the map as a red dot. Judging from their current surroundings, that dot should correspond to the dormitory supervisor’s room.
The dormitory supervisor’s room?
This answer was beyond everyone’s expectations.
However, there were no coordinates on the map. Moreover, the dormitory supervisor’s room covered an area, so naturally, it could not contain only that one possible point.
They still needed more detailed information.
Jian Fan turned directly to Lin Junruo.
Lin Junruo was startled at first. Then, somewhat uncertainly, she took out the Hair Ribbon in her hand and reached toward Jian Fan.
Jian Fan was holding the mirror at the moment and could not move. Qin Weiyi, standing nearby, immediately stepped forward, took the Hair Ribbon from Lin Junruo, then handed it toward Jian Fan, asking what he meant.
The final key to solving the puzzle was definitely on the Hair Ribbon. But how were they supposed to use it?
Jian Fan was just as stumped.
How were they supposed to use a Hair Ribbon?
A girl’s Hair Ribbon was for tying up hair, an accessory. What else could it possibly do?
Qin Nan was thinking too.
It was just an accessory. It couldn’t hide a key like the Strawberry Hair Clip. What could it do?
Wait. An accessory…
Qin Nan looked at the Hair Ribbon in Qin Weiyi’s hand and anxiously opened his mouth at him.
Qin Weiyi noticed Qin Nan’s movement and looked over in confusion.
No one dared to speak, and Qin Nan had no way to accurately express what he meant right now. Helpless, he lowered his head and nodded his forehead in the direction of the mirror.
This time, Qin Weiyi understood. And he wasn’t the only one. Yellow Hair saw it too and stepped forward at once, taking Qin Nan’s place.
The moment Qin Nan was freed up, he took the Hair Ribbon from Qin Weiyi’s hand, then casually tossed it, throwing it directly onto the mirror.
Everyone watched as Qin Nan tossed the Hair Ribbon onto the mirror so casually, puzzled by what he was trying to do. Then they saw the spot brushed by the Hair Ribbon faintly flash with a string of numbers on the wall-the specific coordinate points.
Holy shit?
That worked?
Yellow Hair held up the mirror and felt like he’d truly learned something new this time.
A Hair Ribbon could be used like that?
Qin Nan hadn’t expected it to be this easy either. He had thought of the Hair Ribbon as an accessory, which meant it very likely wasn’t only a girl’s accessory, but also possibly… an accessory on the map. Although Qin Nan had guessed this much, he still didn’t know how exactly the Hair Ribbon was supposed to decorate anything-whether it should be placed on the mirror or on the wall. He had purely felt that the mirror was closer and more convenient, so he had tossed the Hair Ribbon onto it at random.
Who would have thought… the answer would appear so quickly?
And as everyone watched Qin Nan get the answer they had been racking their brains over with such a casual toss…
Qin Weiyi gave Qin Nan a thumbs-up.
Qin Nan tugged at the corner of his mouth, feeling a little guilty accepting Qin Weiyi’s praise.
However, he soon had no attention to spare for that.
He continued moving the Hair Ribbon. Soon, the Hair Ribbon covered the red dot-the location of the dormitory supervisor’s room.
Very quickly, the coordinate points appeared on the map.
After all, the map was a scaled-down version and couldn’t display everything in perfect detail. But looking at the rough position… this direction seemed to be… that foul-smelling wardrobe?
So that wardrobe was the boundary point they could use to leave this world?
Qin Nan understood.
If they had been left to find it on their own, none of them would have thought to search inside a wardrobe that stank badly enough to suffocate someone! In other words, unless they found the final answer like this, even if they were unbelievably lucky, they couldn’t possibly trigger it by accident.
But after learning the result and thinking it through from that angle, Qin Nan found it perfectly reasonable.
In the real world, quite a few people should be dead in this dormitory building by now, and with Zhao Yingguo, that malicious ghost, drifting around everywhere, of course the place would be filled with a stench. The wardrobe was connected to the real world, so it had carried over the smell of corpses from there.
Sure enough, he still had too little experience.
Now that they had the answer, there was no need to stay in the bathroom any longer.
Jian Fan and Yellow Hair carefully set the mirror down.
After that, the group prepared to head for their final destination.
Return to the dormitory supervisor’s room, open the wardrobe, trigger the boundary point, and return to the real world.
As for whether they would clear the instance and return directly to the Realm of Death after going back this time, or return to the real world where Zhao Yingguo was and have another confrontation with Zhao Yingguo the malicious ghost, there was no way to know just yet.
But the answer would soon be revealed.