The Black Card - Chapter 1283

[Chapter 1281 A rocking chair that rocks on its own]

on its own. After sitting for a while, Shi Lei thought about walking around the castle alone to see if it was possible to find the secret passage.

The room he was in was, after all, on the second floor, and the secret passage was obviously unlikely to appear on the second floor.

He had also carefully observed the floor height of this castle before, and there was basically no possibility of a mezzanine between the first and second floors.

It was already late at night, and Andre must have gone to bed. The servants in the castle had also gone to bed long ago. But I didn’t know if there would be any guards on duty in the castle with Andre’s identity.

After opening the door, Shi Lei walked down the stairs quietly.

In the castle, there are dim night lights at every corner, which makes Shi Lei’s movement much easier.

It was very quiet everywhere. Shi Lei soon discovered that there were indeed guards on duty, four of them in total, but they were all outside the castle, while absolute silence was maintained inside the castle.

This was probably Andre’s arrangement. He didn’t like other people walking around in the castle when he was sleeping, which further facilitated Shi Lei’s movements.

Shi Lei searched almost every room inside the castle, but couldn’t find anything special.

The time quietly pointed to more than three o’clock in the middle of the night. Shi Lei sighed. It seemed that it would be difficult to find anything anymore. He could only go back to the second floor along the stairs and enter the room that Andre had arranged for him.

After pouring himself a glass of water, Shi Lei sat on a rocking chair in the room and drank.

The rocking chair rocked gently, and Shi Lei felt very comfortable. In addition, he drank a lot of wine at night and searched alone in the castle for more than two hours. He was really tired, so Shi Lei actually fell asleep on the rocking chair.

The rocking chair rocked gently and rhythmically. It was very comfortable for Shi Lei to sleep on such a chair, even more comfortable than sleeping on the bed.

I don’t know how long he slept, but Shi Lei was woken up by urination. He opened his eyes and looked out the window. It was still dark, so he got up and walked to the bathroom.

After coming back, he wanted to go back to bed, but because he was thirsty, he sat back in the rocking chair and drank water. The rocking chair began to rock rhythmically again.

After drinking the water, Shi Lei stood up. The rocking chair shook twice and then stopped.

But when Shi Lei walked to the bed, he suddenly realized that something was wrong…

When he got up from the rocking chair just now, the rocking chair was still shaking, but when he came back from the bathroom, the rocking chair stopped shaking.

This means that if no one rocks the rocking chair, it will stop completely in two or three minutes at most. But why is the rocking chair still shaking when Shi Lei wakes up after sleeping in it?

He immediately raised his wrist and looked at his watch. The time already pointed to 5:05 in the morning.

And it must have been less than half past three when Shi Lei was lying on the rocking chair.

This rocking chair seems a little weird.

Shi Lei immediately walked back to the rocking chair and sat on it again. His body gently rocked back and forth twice, and the rocking chair began to rock rhythmically again.

Lying on the rocking chair, Shi Lei tried his best to maintain the balance of his body without exerting any force.

However, the rocking chair kept shaking, and each time it rocked, it was almost exactly the same frequency and rhythm as the previous one, with no intention of stopping at all.

It’s interesting, this rocking chair can actually rock on its own…

Shi Lei frowned slightly.

He continued to lie on the rocking chair, wanting to test how long the rocking chair could rock.

Five minutes passed quickly, then ten, and the rocking chair was still rocking.

Shi Lei finally confirmed that there was something weird about this rocking chair.

He stood up and looked at the rocking chair. Then, the rocking chair slowly stopped and finally returned to calm.

Grasping the armrests on both sides of the rocking chair, Shi Lei moved the rocking chair easily, which surprised him. Originally, he thought that the rocking chair was fixed in this position. There must be a mechanism underneath and some kind of transmission device. Only when someone is lying on the rocking chair will the rocking chair always keep a slow but steady rocking rhythm.

But the rocking chair was moved away easily, which seemed to indicate that there was no mechanism underneath the rocking chair.

Shi Lei lay on the rocking chair again and rocked the rocking chair gently.

However, this time, the rocking chair only shook for more than a minute before stopping on its own.

“Hey, stopped?” Shi Lei was greatly surprised.

He rocked the rocking chair again. Just like the previous time, the rocking chair rocked for more than a minute and stopped again.

Shi Lei stood up and put the rocking chair back to its previous position based on his memory.

He lay on the rocking chair and continued to rock the rocking chair.

Five minutes passed quickly, and the rocking chair was still rocking.

Outside the window, a faint hint of fish belly white appeared. It was almost dawn, and Shi Lei seemed to have finally discovered some terrible secret.

He moved the rocking chair away and began to study the floor beneath it.

The floor was tightly fitted. Although it was made of wood, it had been treated with good anti-corrosion treatment. However, Shi Lei also saw that this floor was definitely re-laid in recent years and could not be the floor from two or three hundred years ago.

Squatting on the ground, Shi Lei gently knocked on the floor. The thumping sound was no different from a normal floor.

Shi Lei knocked on the floor next to him again, and the floor made the same sound.

After changing several places in succession, the sound coming from the floor was the same, and there didn’t seem to be any hollow space underneath.

However, there were more places to tap, and Shi Lei’s hearing was now much better than ordinary people, so he still discovered some differences.

This difference was very subtle, but even such a subtle difference made Shi Lei completely sure that there must be some kind of secret hidden under this floor.

After thinking about it, Shi Lei moved a bedside table and placed it on the floor where the rocking chair was originally placed.

Then, he sat on the rocking chair and rocked gently.

The result did not change at all, and the rocking chair quickly stopped shaking.

Is it not heavy enough?

Shi Lei found two more chairs, overlapping the chairs and placing them on the bedside table. Shi Lei reached out and rocked the rocking chair.

This time, the shaking time of the rocking chair increased significantly. Although it still stopped, it survived for three minutes.

He found a bunch of furnishings from the house and placed them all on the bedside table, continuing to increase the weight on the floor.

The rocking chair was shaken again, and this time, the rocking chair lasted for five minutes…

Shi Lei completely confirmed that there was definitely something wrong with this floor.

There seems to be some kind of transmission device set according to the weight below. I don’t know whether it changes the magnetic field in the room or some other reason. In short, this transmission device can keep the rocking chair rocking for a longer time.

Shi Lei grabbed the rocking chair with one hand and lifted it up. He found that the material of the rocking chair seemed to be the same wood as the two chairs, the bedside table, and even the bed frame in the room.

But it seems that the weight of this rocking chair is particularly heavy, and it seems to be much denser.

There was a small mallet on the table, and Shi Lei tapped it gently on the recliner. The sound made by the recliner was obviously not exactly the same as the sound of other furniture in the room.

Shi Lei smiled, this is where the mechanism lies.

There is a certain potential connection between the recliner and the mechanism in the room. If you want to open the mechanism in this room, you must need the cooperation of this recliner.

Looking at the sky, it was still a while before dawn. Shi Lei immediately left the room, quickly went down the stairs, found the location downstairs of the room where he lived, and began to study the ceiling on the first floor.

However, after observing for a long time, Shi Lei didn’t find anything special about the ceiling downstairs. Judging from the distance between the two floors, it was unlikely that there was any mechanism hidden in it.

Shi Lei felt puzzled.

Back upstairs, Shi Lei suddenly realized something.

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(End of this chapter)