Chapter 1 Correct Model

"Water, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

This solar system model is correct.

If the mechanism is currently closed, then to open it, the model must be wrong?"

Li Ang pondered, manipulating the hanging lamp's planetary model, sliding the differently sized and colored spheres along the rails.

Changing the order from Water, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, to Earth, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.

Placing Earth at the center, constructing the pre-Copernican Ptolemaic "geocentric" model.

The moment Li Ang dragged Saturn to the outermost position, the brownish-yellow metal sphere representing Venus fell from the ceiling, landing on the bed.

"Dropped an egg?"

Li Ang picked up the Venus sphere and discovered that the sphere could be rotated open at the top and bottom. The lower half of the sphere contained an electrified switch connected to insulated tweezers.

When energized, the insulated tweezers would clamp onto the chandelier cable; when de-energized, they would release the wire.

"Moving the chandelier to the geocentric solar system model will cut off the chandelier's power, thereby obtaining the Venus sphere..."

Li Ang fiddled with the small metal sphere, discovering that after removing the insulated tweezer component, a metal piece shaped like a knife coin remained in the middle of the sphere,

Exposed like a USB drive.

"This shape... should be the key to the study."

Li Ang picked up the metal sphere, put on his shoes, and walked out of the children's bedroom. Instead of rushing to open the study door with the key, he went downstairs to the first floor.

He moved all the obstructions around the doll, including sofa fragments, ceramic flowerpots, tables, chairs, and benches, leaving only the wooden doll standing in the empty space,

While Li Ang himself stood at a distance, quietly waiting.

He had been calculating the time in his mind, and according to his calculations, it was almost time for the doll to be unsealed.

Li Ang's finger hovered over the flashlight button, silently counting down, ten, nine, eight...

*Crack.*

The slight sound of wood rubbing was particularly loud in the silent room.

The unknown doll, almost instantly, violently turned its head, staring fixedly at Li Ang standing behind it. The utility knife in its hand flashed, creating another deep knife mark on the living room floor.

However, Li Ang was prepared for this. He had anticipated this and stood in the dining area, out of range of the knife aura. The beam of the flashlight in his hand enveloped the unshielded wooden doll.

*Crack, crack.*

The doll in the dress jumped up unwillingly, waving the utility knife to approach Li Ang,

But it could only gradually slow down under the flashlight's beam, until it completely solidified.

"Hmm?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow.

The wooden doll happened to be leaping up at the moment of the sealing freeze.

At this moment, the doll was actually suspended in mid-air, motionless.

"This... the flashlight can freeze the anomaly in the air?"

Li Ang's expression was somewhat strange. After continuing to shine the flashlight for a while, he stepped forward and poked the doll suspended in the air with the half of the table lamp rod that was hanging down.

The doll was poked by the table lamp rod and floated away lightly like an astronaut in a weightless state, crashing into the wall, the utility knife in its hand leaving deep marks on the wall.

"It can even simulate weightlessness?"

Li Ang was first stunned, then immediately realized something, holding up the frozen doll in mid-air, and quickly rushed towards the side hall.

The first seal, twenty minutes,

The second time, ten minutes,

Then the effective duration of the third seal was probably only five minutes.

He had to act fast.

Li Ang carried the doll to the side hall, directing the suspended doll towards the floor-to-ceiling window of the side hall,

Pushing the doll's hands so that it could cut the solid floor-to-ceiling window with the utility knife.

*Shred—*

The teeth-grinding friction sound echoed in the side hall.

Visible white scratches appeared on the floor-to-ceiling window of the side hall, and some glass powder fell off.

"It really works."

Li Ang's heart stirred. Since the utility knife in the doll's hand could affect the walls that players could not destroy, it would probably also work on glass and doors.

"If I manipulate the doll to cut a slit in the floor-to-ceiling window with the utility knife, then maybe I can escape directly from the house..."

Before the last word could be uttered, Li Ang felt that burning, stinging sensation on his left arm again,

A line of black tattoos appeared out of thin air on the back of his hand.

【Don't do it】

It appeared again.

Li Ang raised an eyebrow. Instead of listening to the tattoo's advice, he accelerated the shaving action of the utility knife, and said loudly to the air, "Born with a proud spirit, how can I submit?

This wild horse doesn't know the way home, but this petty person must be eliminated.

Please show yourself, otherwise I'll cut this glass away."

Ever since entering the script mission, he had felt an uncomfortable sense of being spied upon.

The source of the tattoo

Must be spying on him in the dark.

"The title skill of 'Secret Digger' can be used. As long as I see the other party, I can discover the secrets hidden deep in their heart..."

Li Ang manipulated the wooden doll, continuing to cut the floor-to-ceiling window, while maintaining a high level of vigilance, watching his surroundings.

Suddenly, his heart trembled and contracted violently,

Like a roller coaster, first pausing for four seconds, then thumping heavily seven times.

His vision shook incessantly, and his feet staggered backward several steps,

*Step.*

Li Ang stepped on the leg of the sofa seat, barely stopping the backward momentum,

His consciousness, however, seemed to be drawn out of his body, floating lightly,

And a hazy illusion appeared before his eyes.

——

Hospital, ward, unfamiliar ceiling.

The vision was hazy and turbid, the scenery blinked and merged.

Li Ang stared blankly at the scene before him. He couldn't feel or control his body, and could only watch the strange ceiling with his own eyes.

It was only after a few seconds that he realized he was watching a fragment of memory from someone else's perspective.

"Drip, drip, drip..."

The sound of life-sign monitoring instruments came from outside the vision,

The owner of the vision slowly shook his head, seeing more of the ward's scene.

This was a double room, with a sterile floor, white wallpaper, and blue curtains.

The curtains were open, and it was nighttime, allowing a view of the starry night sky outside.

The owner of the vision was covered in bandages,

On the bed next to him lay a woman with long black hair, wearing a breathing mask, making it impossible to see her face clearly.

Through the glass window of the ward door, one could vaguely see a middle-aged couple standing in the corridor, talking to a doctor in a white coat and mask.

"Her condition is very dangerous..."

"We may have to take more aggressive treatment options..."

"Requires family signature..."

The conversation gradually faded, and the vision gradually blurred and dimmed.

When Li Ang came back to his senses,

He was already lying on his back on the sofa, looking at the ceiling of the living room.

"Hmm??"

Li Ang subconsciously sat up straight, but found three people sitting on the sofas on both sides of him.

On the left was an old lady wearing a brown dress and glasses, looking kind and amiable, and on the right was an elderly black-haired couple with worried expressions—the same middle-aged couple who had appeared in the hallucination just now.

"Where am I? Who are you?"

Li Ang took a deep breath and clenched his fists. He was still wearing the expensive suit, but the left sleeve of the suit had been rolled up.

Two lines of words had been written on the back of his hand with a black marker,

The words were exactly 【Use Flashlight】,

And 【Don't Do It】

"Calm down, Steven, calm down."

The kind old lady said gently, "You're safe, don't panic, you're with your family."

"Family?"

Li Ang looked at the elderly white couple next to him, his brows furrowing deeply.

These were Steven's parents?

What was the hallucination just now?

Was Steven seriously injured and hospitalized?

Was that something that had actually happened in the past, or a precognitive hallucination that would happen in the future?

Li Ang turned his head and looked around.

The place he was in was undoubtedly the living room of the house at the start of the script mission. The tables, chairs, and benches were all properly placed.

There was no wooden doll or the corpse of a rabbit sitting on a stool,

Nor were there any traces of utility knife cuts on the floor.

"Yes, family."

The old woman wearing glasses and looking kind said gently, "They are your parents. Do you remember what happened just now, Steven?"

"I woke up in this house and was chased by a wooden doll that looked like Annabelle and Pinocchio's love child with a knife,

Because I said it was weird that it was surnamed Pi."

Li Ang grinned and said, "Otherwise, what do you think I should say?

Just now my parents told me that our family is actually a billionaire, and our previous poor life was to test my willpower, and now I can safely inherit billions of assets?"

"Uh..."

The old woman was somewhat stunned and exchanged glances with the elderly couple next to her, awkwardly explaining, "Astral walking can cause disorientation and memory confusion. After all, it's still too rushed now.

Fortunately, we have a recording."

The old woman took out a bright silver tape recorder from under the table, pressed the play button, and a man's voice immediately came out of it.

"Steven, this is a recording I made for myself.

When I hear this recording, I should already be in an astral walking state.

My name is Steven Carter.

My wife's name is Maeve Carter.

Our children are named Robin and Lynn.

My wife and I met at the entrance of the community. We grew up in the same place, went to the same school, but had never seen each other before.

We met, got to know each other, fell in love, shared the same hobby of cryptography, and eventually got married, had children, until an accident happened..."

*Pa.*

Li Ang pressed the pause button on the tape recorder, his brows furrowing deeply, his eyes shifting back and forth between the old woman and the so-called Steven's parents, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, what's going on?

Why are there marker marks on my hand?

Why are you here?

Where are my wife and children?"

"Steven... I'm a psychic that your parents hired."

The old woman took a deep breath and said slowly, "Your wife is dead."

"Dead?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow, "How did she die?"

"Suicide."

The old woman said, "You and your wife initially had a happy marriage and a harmonious family.

However, during a family trip, your wife ran over and killed a young motorcyclist while driving.

Although it was proven afterward that it was just a pure accident and your wife was not primarily responsible,

She was still tormented by a deep sense of guilt and fell into severe depression.

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Your wife was an orphan without parents from a young age, and her mental state was not very stable.

That car accident caused her to suffer from severe mental illness, becoming increasingly crazy and starting to exhibit mentally deranged behavior.

For example, staying in the bedroom all year round and never coming out.

When depressed, refusing to eat,

When anxious, smashing the items in the room, tables, chairs, benches,

Quietly walking out of the bedroom at night, coming to the bedrooms of the son and daughter, standing at their bedsides, just staring at them quietly.

When you found out, she had already picked up the pillow, ready to press it on her children's faces at any time.

She realized her problem, cooperated with treatment, but it had little effect.

After one treatment, she even killed your family's black cat named Hope, buried it under a tree in the yard, and lied to you that Hope was lost."

The old woman, who claimed to be a psychic, paused for a moment, and slowly said, "After one treatment after another, her madness did not improve, but instead worsened,

Beginning to commit self-harm or harming others.

The last time, which was half a year ago, she first gave you sleeping pills in the evening, and then told the children to go to school as usual the next morning.

After the children left, she dragged you to the swing in the yard, injured you with a knife, and finally took sleeping pills herself.

A neighbor saw it and called the police. The police came, sent you to the hospital,

Your injuries were only superficial, but she eventually died."

"..."

Li Ang was silent for a moment after hearing this, thought for a moment, and tilted his head, "My wife has a mental illness, okay, so what?

Judging from the decoration style of this house and the clothes I'm wearing,

Steven should be relatively wealthy,

Able to support his son and daughter on his own.

The economy isn't an issue.

Considering that you claim to be a psychic, then the plot development is likely that my wife died, but things didn't just end there.

She came back, in spiritual form."

"..."

The psychic paused, seemingly not expecting Li Ang to react so quickly, nodded, and slowly said, "You guessed right.

Your wife loves you too much, and she loves her children too much.

She returned after death, came to the house you lived in, and continued to live with you.

At first, it was just the tables and chairs in the house that would move on their own, making noise at night,

The piano in the study played on its own,

Or the Sudoku puzzles on the newspapers on the table were inexplicably completed.

However, as time passed, her love for you became more and more intense, even turning into an intense, unstoppable possessiveness.

She wants to live with you, whether in life or in death."