Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?

Now, looking at the Snow Mountain Villa from the inside, it appears to have six floors above ground, with the lowest floor having the largest area, and the higher up you go, the smaller the area becomes.

When Liang Yiming activated the Eye of Detection and quickly fell into a coma, he was at the doorway of the E.A. room.

If you take that position as the center and draw a sphere with a radius of 5 meters, the space the sphere touches is the core area Wen Nan is searching for—the most important place within this Snow Mountain Villa.

If you cut the sphere radiated by the Eye of Detection into six pieces like slicing a mango—east, west, south, north, up, and down—and examine them separately—

The fifth floor, where both the E.A. room and N.O. room are located, is actually quite small. The north and south portions of the sphere extend directly into the snowy night sky outside the villa, making it impossible for the secret chamber to be there.

Meanwhile, the east and west portions of the sphere just connect to the ends of the corridors on both sides, so it's unlikely there's a secret chamber there.

The only parts that might touch that core secret chamber are the upper and lower portions of the sphere.

The height from the second floor to the sixth floor is roughly 2.2 meters, so standing on the fifth floor in the E.A. room, the sphere below would likely be somewhere between the L.F. and R.F. guest rooms, while above, it would be directly overhead on the ceiling of Wen Nan's E.A. room.

Faced with a choice of two, Wen Nan thought it must be right above him, on the ceiling.

After all, if you were to install the core of this villa, would you choose between your feet or your brain? The choice is obvious to pick the brain, right?

Thinking of this, Wen Nan raised his head and looked at the ceiling above. As expected, with careful observation, he could vaguely make out several fine cracks on it, just enough to form the shape of a secret door.

Above that ceiling, there must be a secret chamber—that's the core Wen Nan was looking for.

Thinking of this, unable to contain his excitement, Wen Nan dragged the sturdiest-looking chair to directly beneath the secret door from the nearby floor-to-ceiling window. Without much hesitation, he stepped onto it, raised his hand, and reached for the edge of the secret door's gap.

At the instant his fingertip touched the gap, a small amount of golden light immediately seeped out. Immediately after, the wall skin covering the secret door cracked with many fine lines.

Wen Nan gently fiddled with it, and the cracked wall skin immediately fell silently, covering Wen Nan's face in white wall dust.

"Cough, cough..."

He raised his hand to wipe off the wall dust from his face, bent his back, and coughed twice. At this time, there was a knock at the door.

Wen Nan immediately stopped coughing, held his breath, and stared in the direction of the door.

The door was knocked twice again, followed by Jiang Xueying's voice from behind the door: "Mr. Ye, are you alright? I heard you coughing."

He couldn't dodge it, so Wen Nan had to say to the outside, "I'm fine, just went to bed already, not convenient to get up."

There was a moment of silence outside the door, then she said, "Sorry to disturb you at this hour. I came to deliver the check-in instructions for you. Please open the door to receive them, and I'll leave right away."

Wen Nan felt a bit helpless, asked the person to wait a moment, put the chair back, dusted off the wall dust on his body, then got up to open the door.

He only opened the door a narrow crack. Wen Nan reached out, "Just give it to me directly, thank you."

Jiang Xueying looked down at Wen Nan's extended hand, hesitated a moment, and placed a thin piece of paper into his hand.

Upon seeing the paper, Wen Nan immediately realized the other party wasn't really there to deliver something to him, otherwise they could have easily slipped the paper through the crack earlier. Why the insistence on making him come out?

Sure enough, in the next moment, Jiang Xueying pushed the door in front of Wen Nan with force.

Watching the frail woman, who surprisingly had a lot of strength, Wen Nan was caught off guard and stumbled back two steps.

Jiang Xueying took half a step into the room, her face turning pale as she saw the exposed secret door on the ceiling after the wall skin had fallen.

Retracting her foot, she stepped back outside the door, looked coldly at Wen Nan with an angry warning: "Mr. Ye, if you don't want to disappear from this world forever, never touch that secret door!"

"Oh," Wen Nan responded casually.

Angered by his nonchalant attitude, Jiang Xueying's eyebrows shot up, and her chest heaved violently. She eventually suppressed her anger and added, "Unluckily stepping through that door, no one can ever come back out!"

Wen Nan nodded, "Got it, Xiao Xue Butler, thanks for the reminder."

Still maintaining that indifferent demeanor, as if Jiang Xueying was just being alarmist.

With a deep breath, Jiang Xueying threw a terse "Mr. Ye, take care of yourself," and turned to leave.

Watching Jiang Xueying's retreating figure disappear at the stairway, Wen Nan closed the door, locked it, turned around, and looked up at the ceiling again.

Although Jiang Xueying had seriously warned Wen Nan to absolutely not go near the secret chamber.

Instead, this warning only made Wen Nan more determined to open this door—

First, Jiang Xueying's angered warning indicated the chamber was indeed important, lending credibility to his speculation that the core secret of the Snow Mountain Villa lay behind it.

Moreover, although Jiang Xueying seemed angry, she hadn't really done anything to Wen Nan. As the villa's butler, if she truly didn't want guests near the chamber, she could've relocated Wen Nan to another room or arranged for him to share space with other guests downstairs, right?

Yet she did nothing, even stepping back outside after seeing the secret door, as if she was deliberately avoiding it.

If Wen Nan guessed correctly, Jiang Xueying had no authority over the core secret chamber behind the ceiling.

So all she could do was use the guise of delivering check-in instructions to test him, then warn him, before storming off unable to take any real action.

As for Jiang Xueying's claim that no one returns after entering the secret chamber...

Wen Nan wasn't sure about the truth in that, but to resurrect Guan Ailin, he had to go inside.

He slowly walked back to that spot below the ceiling and looked up.

After the wall skin had fallen, the secret door was fully revealed. Now closer, Wen Nan could see clearly there were 12 distinct symbols engraved on the door, some resembling a "Y", some looking like an "→," others like "m"...

These seem to be symbols of the 12 zodiac signs?

Why would they appear on a secret door?

...

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[Short and Fat: My gosh! This! Could this be, could this be that thing?!]

[What thing?]

[ygs.qs: It really seems to be that thing...]

[ygs.qs: How do you know this? Were you a ghost master when you were alive?]

[Short and Fat: You too?]

[Bosses, what exactly is that thing?]