Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

The second floor of the old house, the study room.

Chi Feichi was standing in front of the bookshelf, talking on the phone with Koizumi Hongzi in a low voice.

"That's the pattern."

"I received an email...it's very similar, but it's not the one I drew before," Koizumi Hongzi said, "My pattern in Red Magic means hiding, and your pattern should be the one of the Holy Spirit." The pattern of the door..."

"The Gate of the Holy Spirit?" Chi Feichi thought about it, "I only know a pattern in the Cthulhu Mythos created by Howard Philip Lovecraft in the United States, called the Gate of the Dead, which is similar to this Somewhat similar."

"Hmm... wait a minute," Koizumi Hongzi dawdled for a long time, "the gate of the dead... I found it. The meaning explained on the Internet is the same as the gate of the holy spirit. It has the meaning of protecting and resisting evil, and at the same time it is a The entrance to the older gods. When I use magic and need to rely on the power of dangerous gods like Satan, I will prepare a door of the Holy Spirit. It is indeed a formation to prevent being killed by cruel gods. The Necromancer's Gate was probably imitated by the creator from the legend of the Holy Spirit's Gate, the drawing method is wrong, it's useless at all..."

"It's not bad if you don't misinterpret it." Chi Feichi asked, "Is there really Satan?"

"Yes, do you want to meet? Then when you come back, I'll summon you once, but it's just a projection, and the projection's power is not much," Koizumi Hongzi seemed to be still flipping through the webpage, "Speaking of misinterpretation...dead The Gate of Spirits seems to have been regarded as a symbol of Satan and evil these years, which is obviously a symbol of resisting evil..."

Chi Feichi sorted out his thoughts.

The owner of this house, that is, the murderer, in the books he had read, there were a few pages with the pattern of "the gate of the dead" messily drawn, and then he searched and found a letter in the cracks of the bookshelf. letter.

The main content of the letter is: my child, this is a house handed down from the ancestors, don't change its layout, you will have a miraculous discovery, when it is opened, you will get the gift of God...

Yes, it's this kind of message that there seems to be a treasure in the house.

I don't know what's going on in this world, the ancestors seem to like to play this kind of routine.

He went around the house, and the layout, plus some fixed furniture and furnishings, was very similar to the pattern of the gate of the dead drawn by the owner in the book.

In other words, the homeowner discovered the key to the house's hidden secrets.

The ancestors set up the layout of the house as the pattern of the gate of the dead, which probably means to make this house a safe haven that can resist evil, but the tragedy is that because some people misinterpret the pattern, the homeowner thinks it represents With the pattern of evil or Satan, on the road of pursuing evil, it will never return...

Koizumi Hongzi listened to Chi Feichi's analysis, and agreed, "Maybe that's the case, that's a pity, he didn't understand the meaning of the senior at all..."

"Master!" Feimo found Chi Feichi, jumped into the house, and looked at the room, "It's amazing, this study is right under that secret room, and it's also right under the crime scene on the third floor..."

Chi Feichi turned his head to look at Feimo. He seemed to have found something more interesting than looking for Joshua, "Tell me about the layout of the house."

Feimo began to talk about his discovery.

The study on the second floor, the bedroom on the first floor, the crime scene on the third floor, and the secret room above the third floor are all in a straight line.

Chi Feichi restored the house layout in his mind, "These houses are exactly in the middle of the Necromancer's Gate pattern..."

"The middle point?" Koizumi Hongzi was puzzled, "It's the middle of the outer circle? That means the end point."

"In other words, are there other important points?" Chi Feichi asked.

"I'm not sure about the gate of the dead, but this pattern is the same as the gate of the holy spirit. It is composed of circles, pentagrams, inverted V-shaped patterns, and inverted 'and'-shaped patterns overlapping, but there are some details. It’s not the same,” Koizumi Hongzi said, “For the Gate of the Holy Spirit, the center of the circle is the end point, where the Gate of the Holy Spirit opens and the projection of the gods appears. The place, the pentagram is used for stability, the final landing point of 'you' is the place where the power is transmitted, that is to say, the door is just a projection for you to see the gods with power, and the real power is transmitted from another point came over..."

Chi Feichi turned around and went out.

As a person who doesn't learn magic, I don't understand the principle.

Feimo flew over with flapping wings.

What? What about Joshua?

How can those things be as interesting as watching the master solve puzzles and hunt for treasure?

Talk later!

"I don't know if there is any meaning to the wrong pattern like Necromancer's Gate," Koizumi Hongzi suggested enthusiastically, "Would you like to take a look? Go to the starting point of V Take a look at where the pen is written, as for which floor it is..."

"I'm already going, it should be on the first floor," Chi Feichi went downstairs to a room according to the map restored in his mind, "Look at the overlapping parts of the Necromancer pattern, the order of drawing is circle, pentagram, And, V, the combination of four patterns, the three-story building plus the attic and the secret room are also four floors. If the secret room on the fourth floor corresponds to the end point in the middle of the circle, then the order of drawing should be reversed. The third The first layer represents the pentagram, the second layer is You, the first layer is V, and the starting point is on the first layer.”

The destination is a storage room, and there are some sundries placed against the corner of the wall, and a thick layer of dust has fallen.

After Chi Feichi entered the door, he walked to the starting point corresponding to V, raised his left hand to the inner wall, and knocked on the wall. There was nothing unusual on the wall, so he stamped his foot.

Click.

There was a faint sound underfoot.

It seems to be the right one.

However, isn't this ancestor a bit embarrassing for future generations?

According to the layout and furnishings of the house, it is not easy to find the pattern of the gate of the dead.

Who in this society knows that the starting point is where V started?

If it wasn't for Hongzi Koizumi, he wouldn't be able to find it, and he would probably think that the secret room in the middle of the pattern is all there is.

...

Ten minutes ago, in the secret room.

The middle-aged man who didn’t see Feimo looked back, saw that Joshua was still staring at the door in a daze, and frowned, “Joshua, what do you mean? I personally came to invite you to join my church. You're losing face!"

Joshua saw that the pattern on the ground still didn't respond after the crow left, and lost his gaze, "You don't understand."

The middle-aged man had scolding words in his heart, and he said angrily, "What?"

"I know him, the original owner of this house was the murderer who stabbed two people," Joshua said slowly, "No, there should be three, and one was when he went to Romania, I have known him for more than twenty years, he has always been a humble person, until twelve years ago, when his parents passed away, he seemed to be a different person, and began to chase the gifts from the devil..."

The middle-aged man endured his impatience.

Is this old man mentally ill?

Forget it, it's still early, and no one here is looking for it, so it's good to listen to a story.

"He doesn't go to church anymore, he says he shouldn't believe in God, his belief is Satan, the devil," Joshua lamented, "I think he's crazy and I have to save him."

"He doesn't need to be saved," the middle-aged man said, "It's you who should be saved."

Joshua ignored the man, and continued to speak to himself, "He told me that he was destined to serve Satan. He became obsessed with vampire legends, and he also said things like opening the gate of the dead and praying for eternal life. He killed someone and was shot dead by the police because he resisted when he was arrested. People who used to live near here found the church and asked me to pray for the dead souls who died here so that they could be included in the kingdom of Jesus. After I came, Walking around the house, I discovered a secret, there is indeed a gate of death in this house..."

The middle-aged man looked at the pattern made of black and white bricks at the door, "I know!"

"No, you don't know!" Joshua had a serious face, with a trace of disdain.

What he was talking about was not the pattern of the gate of death at the door, but the layout of the gate of death in this house.

This stupid man has no idea that this secret room is in the middle of the layout of the Necromancer's Gate in the entire house. To be precise, the pattern of the Necromancer's Gate at the door of the secret room is in the middle of the big Necromancer's Gate that covers half of the house .

His friend had specially measured it at the beginning, and he was sure that it was the place where the gate of the dead was opened!

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#~%@\u0026/...!

Come on, talk about it!

Isn't the pattern at the door the gate of death?

Joshua retorted, didn't look at the man again, and continued, "This secret room is in the center of the Necromancer's Gate. When I found it, I also found the things he used to clean up the blood and transport the blood... "

The middle-aged man couldn't help but look at the pile of sundries in the corner, the black and brown stains on it were very eye-catching.

"That's right, those are the traces left by the dried blood of the victim," Joshua said without raising his head, "But when I found this place, the case was closed, and I don't want anyone to come here again." Disturbed him and the undead of the two people he brutally killed, so I concealed the matter of this place. This time, my original beliefs abandoned me. I am willing to throw myself into the darkness. My faithful faith..."

"That's why you should join my church," the middle-aged man couldn't help but said, "We are all devout believers in Satan!"

Joshua: "No, you're not!"

Middle-aged man: "..."

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"You don't even know Belial." Joshua didn't take the man's blushing face seriously, and said sadly, "My friend said back then, 'When the gate of the dead is opened, you will gain the power of God. Bestow', after I found out that the pattern on the door of this secret room is the gate of the dead, I have always treated it as an evil thing. When I wanted to open it, I found that I, like him, could not open the secret here. I think I probably need Prepare some sacrifices..."

In the middle of the door pattern, Chi Feichi slowly rose from below: "..."

This is a terminal, how to open it?

The storage room on the first floor is the starting point, that is, the entrance. After activating the mechanism, stand still without moving, and the plate under your feet will be automatically taken away by the mechanism.

While going up, there were a lot of gold nuggets along the road. Based on the rising height he felt, the place where the gold nuggets piled up was probably on the second floor, which was in line with the meaning of power represented by the corresponding 'again' pattern.

And there is nothing on the third floor, it probably exists to stabilize the second floor and take over the secret room on the fourth floor, which also conforms to the stable meaning of the corresponding 'pentagram'.

The fourth floor here is the end point and the exit, which is the meaning of the end point corresponding to the center of the 'circle'.

The design is very interesting, but this mechanism should not be able to run in reverse, and cannot return from the exit to the entrance.

It also led to... a pit for future generations.

No matter how many sacrifices there are, if you can't find the right entrance, you still can't open it.