The Black Card - Chapter 1284

[Chapter 1282 A ridiculous painting]

After putting the bedside table and chairs back to their original places, Shi Lei placed the rocking chair in its original place.

Then, Shi Lei checked the rocking chair. There was almost only one point where the bottom of the rocking chair was in contact with the floor.

This rocking chair is slightly different from what you usually see.

Generally, rocking chairs have two legs, and the footrests are located under the armrests on the left and right sides.

There is only one foot underneath this rocking chair, and its bottom is designed to look like a hemisphere, which can also serve the purpose of making the rocking chair rock.

However, this design, in addition to shaking, also has a function, that is, this rocking chair can rotate like a compass.

Moreover, Shi Lei saw an arrow on the back of the chair as he expected.

This arrow is hidden in the middle of the pattern on the back of the chair. It is not conspicuous, but it clearly has the function of guiding the direction.

Sitting on the rocking chair, Shi Lei took out his phone and turned on the compass function on his phone.

Sure enough, the compass on the mobile phone was affected by a certain magnetic field. It did not point correctly in the north-south direction, but started to rotate bizarrely.

This shows that at this moment, the magnetic field in this room has undergone strange changes, and there is more than one source of magnetism. This has caused chaos in the magnetic field, making the compass unable to find north at all.

Standing up again, Shi Lei gently moved the rocking chair. Sure enough, the rocking chair started to rotate.

Shi Lei didn’t have to wait too long. The rocking chair stopped and the back of the chair pointed at the bedroom window.

Shi Lei walked to the window and looked outside. The sky was already very bright now, but Shi Lei could not find anything strange outside the window.

Because, outside that window, it was the location of the winery’s grape fields. Even if it was the location of the winemaking workshop, Shi Lei would think that it might be the location where the biggest secret of the castle was hidden.

But in the grape fields, it’s obviously not possible.

After all, the ground in the grape fields had to be plowed every year to hide the secret passage under the grape fields. If it was true as the records left in the handbook said, the secret passage would have collapsed many times.

Shi Lei returned to the rocking chair and turned the rocking chair again. The rocking chair quickly stopped again.

But this time, the position pointed by the back of the chair was no longer the window.

Shi Lei turned several times in succession, but the back of the chair was not pointing in the same direction, which seemed to indicate that Shi Lei’s thinking was wrong.

However, Shi Lei had clearly noticed the location of the mechanism in this room, how could he come up with such a random result?

Is it because the portion is not enough?

Shi Lei weighed more than 130 kilograms. He immediately moved the bedside table and some other things, and placed them on the rocking chair, which roughly equaled his weight.

Then, he turned the rocking chair again, but the direction pointed by the arrow on the back of the chair still pointed to different positions three times in a row.

Shi Lei once again fell into an impossible situation. Could it be that his judgment was really wrong?

Thinking back carefully and thinking even more seriously, Shi Lei wanted to know where he had missed anything.

He remembered the sheepskin codex he had read before. There seemed to be nothing in it that was helpful to Shi Lei.

Recalling the tablet computer I saw before, there was nothing on the documents that could help Shi Lei…

Finding nothing, Shi Lei became depressed.

Shi Lei was very unwilling to find out the problem, but it was stuck at the last moment.

There must be something weird in this room, otherwise, what’s going on with this chaotic magnetic field?

But Shi Lei had been studying this room for a long time, and the cause of the magnetic field chaos could only be in the middle of the surrounding walls, and it was controlled by the pressure device on the floor under the rocking chair.

Only when the weight is enough to press on that floor can the magnetic field in the room change, and the change in the magnetic field eventually causes the rocking chair to rock on its own.

The function of this rocking chair is to point the direction to the entrance of the secret passage, but why does the rocking chair point differently every time?

After researching for a long time, Shi Lei could not find the final answer, but he heard Andre’s voice talking to someone outside the door.

Shi Lei looked at the time and found that more than three hours had passed without even realizing it, and it was already past nine o’clock in the morning.

He washed his face and walked out of the room. Anyway, he and Andre were now friends. There were still many opportunities to enter this castle, and he was not in a hurry to find the answer immediately.

Seeing Shi Lei walking out of the room, Andre immediately walked forward with a smile and mumbled some French. Shi Lei didn’t understand, but he roughly guessed that Andre meant to invite him to have breakfast.

The two of them went downstairs and had breakfast together. The beautiful translator from yesterday came over again. Andre asked her to tell Shi Lei that he was going to take Shi Lei to the wine cellar today. He had a lot of his private collection there. No matter what Shi Lei saw, If you serve any kind of wine, you can open it and drink it directly.

This is true, even the 1945 Chateau Mouton is willing to part with it, and there are no other wines that I can’t bear to part with.

Shi Lei didn’t want to leave just yet. He was originally worried that Andre would not continue to entertain him. Now that Andre has taken the initiative to speak, it means that Shi Lei can continue to stay in the winery, which of course he wants.

After going to the wine cellar, Andre took the trouble to introduce his collection to Shi Lei. It was really a wide variety of wines, and each bottle of red wine cost at least tens of thousands of dollars.

Shi Lei was also a little absent-minded about this. At least at this time, he was not very interested in these fine wines.

Making an excuse, Shi Lei said it was too early and he didn’t want to drink so early, and Andre took Shi Lei to leave the wine cellar.

Just as the two of them and the beautiful translator were about to leave, the beautiful translator suddenly bumped into an oak barrel.

Shi Lei got closer and quickly supported the beautiful translator.

The beautiful translator expressed her gratitude repeatedly, but Andre took the initiative to help up the oak barrel that was knocked down by the beautiful translator.

It was at this time that Shi Lei suddenly saw what seemed to be a picture frame behind the oak barrels.

After taking two steps forward, Shi Lei grabbed the picture frame and took it out.

After Andre saw it, he smiled and said: “This is a painting that was originally hung in the room where you slept yesterday. I originally left that room to my father. After he came once, he saw I thought this painting was too ridiculous, so I took it down from the house. Although this painting is quite old, probably from the 17th or 18th century, the brushwork is poor and it should be an ordinary painting. It was a painting by someone, so I threw it here.”

Shi Lei picked up the painting, took a look at it, and was slightly stunned.

What was painted in the frame was exactly the situation in the room where Shi Lei slept yesterday. It was almost the same except for the placement of the rocking chair.

Moreover, just by looking at it, Shi Lei understood why Andre’s father said that this painting was ridiculous, because in this painting, the rocking chair was actually hanging on the roof.

Turning the painting over, the rocking chair looks like it is placed on the roof, in a stable position, while all other furniture in the room is upside down.

found it!

4.

There is more to make up for yesterday later

(end of this chapter)