Chapter 40 The Mountain Pool and the Haunted Mansion 7 (1/2)

Chapter 40 The Mountain Pool and the Haunted Mansion 7

TenBujue was inside the cellar Feng Bujue knocked on the coffin lid and said teasingly, ”Hey, Miss Madeline, are you there?”

He did not expect a reply to come from inside the coffin because he knew that the coffin was supposed to be e the first stanza of The Haunted Palace, Feng Bujue had begun to suspect that the house was inspired by the House of Usher in the short story When he arrived at the cellar and saw the coffin and the fifth stanza on the wall, his suspicion was confir Bujue read raphic memory Other than the memories that were pushed out of his mind as trash, for the rest… like stories that he had once read, he could recover around seventy percent of the memory To have the man stand there and recite all six stanzas of The Haunted House from pure memory was i to issue so his memory before the other two stanzas beco Bujue could reeneral plot of the short story quite clearly

Many people knew of the naar Allen Poe; he was the founder of detective novels His 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' was deemed as the first actual detective novel in modern literature, and he was the man who popularized the term detective novel when he published the story But that was 1841, and The Fall of the House of Usher ritten before that It was a Gothic thriller story, and the whole passage was steeped in a dark, scary atmosphere

The summary of the story was as well; it detailed the story of the main character's dead friend, Roderick Usher Roderick's family suffered from a mysterious hereditary disease The house that he lived in seemed to be tainted by some kind of weird curse as well Over hundreds of years, the lineage of the Usher fa frootten, and the house itself was equated to the name of Usher When peopleto both the house and the family

One day, Roderick wrote a letter to theto die soon He was tor between the physical and hallucinatory realms The mysterious poithin the House of Usher destroyed his rationality, draining him of his life

Thethat his visit would breathe soht of the main character's arrival, Roderick's little sister, Miss Madeline, 'died from an illness'

She was the only family that Roderick had left in the world, his only companion for all these years Miss Madeline had been sick froes, and the doctors had announced that there was no treatht the disease, spending most of her time in bed The curious depression and collapse of Roderick's mental state was mostly due to her condition

Before Roderick died, he made a request He wanted them to find a cellar to store his sister's body for fourteen days Thewish He placed Miss Madeline inside the coffin and placed her down in the cellar, but no one knew that she was actually still alive

After eight days, the distraught Roderick fell into ht, theMiss Madeline roa brother to death before finally dying After the main character escaped from the House of Usher, he saw the house crumble into the pond next to it with his own eyes

There were many 'unscientific' plot points in the story For example, how could no one realize that Madeline was still alive when she was placed inside the coffin? How could a woht days have the energy to crawl back into the house? Why did the house collapse? Was it due to an earthquake or explosion?

But the readers in the 19th century would not have had questions like that It was not until the end of 20th century when 'criticism' became an actual professional career, especially in the field of literature where Poe's works were questioned If Poe was alive in the 21st century, any 'professor' who dared to call himself a critic would have some choice words for this famed author Let's not dwell on this subject; it's about tiot back to the story

Based on the plot of the story, the coffin had to be e Bujue saw in the tunnel was Madeline's spirit or not, her body was not going to be inside the cellar but inside the house

Feng Bujue pushed open the coffin, and it was empty, devoid of a dead body He waved away the dust that flew all over the place and shone the flashlight inside the coffin On the board inside the coffin near the head, he soon discovered that a small row of letters had been carved It looked like it had slowly been gouged out using one's fingers

It read ”he knoithout any punctuation, and the letters were toppled all over Placing hiht inside the coffin, and Madeline would not have knohether her handwriting was neat or not Furthermore, she had to maintain a fixed posture to carve those words, so the fact that it was legible was already aBujue heard the syste at the forefront ”The hidden quest in the scenario will provide you with considerable rewards, but the difficulty for discovering and co the hidden quest will be much harder than the main and side quest

”The syste the voices and words in the gaered the hidden quest If the hidden quest is triggered within the coain the update to said quest But hidden quest cannot be shared While the player with the hidden quest can share the information with other players, and the other players can obtain the quest details and progress in theirthe quest, and they are unable receive any rewards fro the quest

”Above is the inforers a hidden quest for the first tih the ga Bujue lanced at the quest ”Rescue Miss Madeline's soul”

”Oh… What is this?” He had a brief idea of the scenario and its plot, but theto escape froain and s, but he found nothing He turned his gaze back to the coffin Other than the sentence and other scratchhile

Feng Bujue leaned the flashlight against the wall of the coffin, pointing the side that gave off the light upward Then he bent down to pick up the heavy coffin lid and lean it against the wall He looked on both of its sides, but there was nothing special about it

Wait a ht, The person inside the coffin should have been facing up, and technically speaking it, is more convenient for the person to carve on the coffin lid Even if she orried that so on the lid, so she decided to carve it on the coffin itself, why isn't there any sign of a struggle on this lid? There are signs of kicks and scratches on the coffin itself, but the coffin lid looks brand new