I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 512: The Eyes on the Mural (Thirteen Updates)_1

Chapter 512: Chapter 512: The Eyes on the Mural (Thirteen Updates)_1

First, you ran counterclockwise around the corridor, then clockwise until you saw the painting on the wall before turning back and running counterclockwise again. After repeating this process twice, you took a wax plum flower from the vase, then ran counterclockwise up to the old telephone and stopped.

Approaching the old telephone, without a second thought, you picked up the receiver and furiously cursed into it, "Damn it! How fucking annoying can you get! If nobody answers, just hang up, damn it. What the hell’s the point in calling non-stop! I’m warning you, if you fucking call again, I’ll strangle you with the telephone cord until you’re dead!"

"Bang!"

Finally, you slammed down the receiver in one fluid motion.

As expected, the ringing stopped and never sounded again.

"Let’s go."

Without discussion, you took Ruan Yuling’s hand and moved forward. After turning the corner, instead of facing an endless loop, there was a staircase leading upstairs.

At the top of the stairs was a small attic, lit by a single small lamp.

With the help of the light, you noticed many pieces of paper in the attic, all made of parchment and appearing very old.

"Doesn’t seem to be much here," Ruan Yuling said, looking at you and asking.

"Not necessarily, let’s look around and see if we can find any clues."

After breaking the enchantment formed by the ringing of the telephone, you were certain that you had entered Yan Xin’s Order Barrier. However, it appeared that something else had been added to the barrier, and although it wasn’t clear what it was, you felt that being cautious step by step should prevent any problems.

As you rummaged, you inadvertently found a piece of sheet music, covered in black musical notes.

You showed the sheet music to Ruan Yuling and asked, "Sister Ling, is this a piano score?"

Ruan Yuling took it from you and sang out the notes, "Do do re re, so so mi mi."

When Ruan Yuling sang, you involuntarily reminisced about the beautiful piano piece that only you had heard when you first entered the mansion’s exterior gate.

The piano piece sounded joyful and lively, much like someone’s childhood, full of innocence and delight.

Piano music?

Considering that it was the piano music that had caused the eerie changes in the room before, you naturally assumed that the piano would be crucial in breaking through this situation.

Ruan Yuling turned around and nodded at you, confirming, "It is indeed a piano score."

"That’s right." Saying so, you immediately led Ruan Yuling back the way you came.

When you reached the spiral staircase again, you looked up to find, somewhat horrifyingly, that the eyes in the three portrait paintings on the wall seemed to follow your movements.

In such an environment, anyone would feel discomfort throughout their body.

However, you couldn’t be bothered to care about the three paintings and decided to act as if you hadn’t seen them.

Ruan Yuling sat down in front of the white grand piano again, her beautiful fingers dancing nimbly across the black and white keys.

The tune she played was indeed lively and fun, seemingly narrating a child’s joyous childhood.

As the piece concluded, Ruan Yuling was about to stand up when your fields of vision suddenly distorted!

At that moment, the two of you felt the world spinning around you, and everything in your sight, other than each other, began to twist and turn.

Ruan Yuling instinctively threw herself onto you, clinging tightly.

Her body was light and soft, her touch melting like silk ribbons in water, wrapping around you as if to entangle, bind, and never let go...

When that sense of distortion disappeared, you couldn’t concern yourself with Ruan Yuling in your arms, and immediately looked up at the huge painting of clothes.

At this moment, the painting changed once again, the originally golden sunflowers had turned blood-red!

From within those blood-red sunflowers, there seemed to be something more, you looked closely and discovered that it was actually a porcelain doll! It stood beneath the sunflowers, half its head poking out, bearing a creepy smile on its face...

Ruan Yuling then regained her balance, stood up, and quite unusually, said "I’m sorry" to you.

Looking at Ruan Yuling, you suddenly realized that this was perhaps the posture she ought to have.

With a slight smile, you took Ruan Yuling’s slightly warm hand with the familiarity of before and said to her, "Let’s go, let’s find the next piece of sheet music."

"Mm."

Now that you had found a way to break the deadlock, both of you felt somewhat more encouraged in your hearts.

Beyond the living room’s main door, there was a spiral staircase, and aside from that two other doors, you tried each door handle with your hand and found the doors were locked, unable to be opened.

Just when you felt puzzled, you noticed that the gazes of the three portrait paintings on the walls of the spiral staircase had again landed on the second-floor stairwell.

Could it be necessary to take another trip to the second floor?

Thinking so, you simply took Ruan Yuling toward the second floor.

You hadn’t walked one-third of the way up the rotating staircase when a very strange scene once again appeared before you.

The staircase, which was originally ascending, suddenly extended downward like a hillside; and when you walked down a short distance, the staircase went up again, repeating this three or four times, you realized you were trapped again.

Now if you wanted to retreat, there was no way to do so, because this too was an endless loop, and what was worse, on either side of the fluctuating staircase there were dark voids, as if they were bottomless abysses.

"Gan!"

Everyone has a little temper, and you were no exception.

Feeling somewhat irritated inside, you couldn’t help but swear.

At that moment, Ruan Yuling gently pulled your hand and nudged her sexy crimson lips toward the three portrait paintings that had always been on the wall.

Startled, you involuntarily looked up at the three portrait paintings.

Huh?

Their gazes no longer followed you but were staring straight in one direction.

"I don’t know why, but I suddenly feel like those three are secretly helping us."

Ruan Yuling said so, and you also had the same feeling.

However, there were no steps in the direction they were looking at, right?

Standing in place, you frowned.

At that moment, Ruan Yuling opened her delicate little purse and took out a lipstick. She aimed the lipstick in the direction the three were looking and threw it.

That direction was pitch-black, nothing visible, but as a result of her throwing it, a sound of it hitting the ground quickly came back.

Walking to the edge of the staircase, you looked down and indeed, from just the naked eye, you could not see the bottom, but based on the timing of the lipstick’s fall, the distance from your current position to the ground shouldn’t be too high.

With that thought, you took a position prepared to jump down.