Activating the Magic Array
A flash of light, and when her vision cleared again, Yu Xing was back in the room with only a table.
The crimson magic circle on the table was completely broken, as if all its energy had been drained, rendering it useless.
Calodi leaned against the table, catching his breath. He looked at the oil lamp in his hand and the bag of goods he had gotten for free, and fell silent.
Just now I was outside, relying on an oil lamp to walk through the market, but now I'm back in the dark space of the inn, and a sense of security, like being in a home, wells up inside me.
He then looked up at Yu Xing, his gaze filled with scrutiny and a hint of apprehension, and continued Yu Xing's words, "Regarding what you said, Daisy and I have both thought about it, but we haven't come to any conclusions."
He blinked, his face expressionless. "We are all prisoners in this hotel. Even if we know who's in control behind it all, what can we do? We can't even escape our little cages."
Yu Xing drew out an "Oh," then shrugged. "Alright then, now you know I'm not someone to mess with, and you're back in familiar territory, do you have any plans to kill me?"
"No," Calodi answered decisively, "Your arrival might just bring some new changes to the hotel."
"Congratulations. If you had answered yes, you would be gone now." Yu Xing walked forward with a smile, and asked under Calodi's tense gaze, "What are you going to do after you buy everything?"
"... Usually, Daisy puts the groceries in the kitchen after shopping, then goes back to her room to rest." Calodi looked at the bag. "If you're still interested, you can go ahead and do it."
"There's a chef watching over things in the kitchen, so you'd better be careful," he reminded you, then chuckled, "Of course, the chef might not necessarily pose a threat to you..."
"And what about you? Do you have anything else to do?" Yu Xing asked again.
He felt he had talked too much nonsense, but with the two of them present, guessing the answer through the questions was the simplest method.
He suspected that Calodi was lying.
Calodi said, "I'm going back to my room to rest too, since there's nothing else to do."
Yu Xing pondered silently.
That can't be right. If that's the case, where would Xixi, Mummy, and Miss Mino be? If this room is the end, Little Rosie wouldn't have told him to be careful of the others.
Even though she already knew the answer, Yu Xing still asked, "How do I get to the kitchen?"
The hotel's nighttime layout was too chaotic on the map, containing scenes of a hospital as well as some indescribably oppressive and confined spaces. Under such circumstances, how could he possibly know which one was the kitchen?
"Use my teleportation array." Calodi beckoned to Yu Xing, leading him to a wall and pointing to a stark white wall. "There's a teleportation array here that leads to the kitchen. After you've put your things away, you can come back through this array."
As he spoke, his hand touched the wall again, and a small red circle suddenly appeared on the previously empty wall.
The moment the circular array appeared, Yu Xing sensed a stable and peaceful energy within it, a peace that was far more serene than the power of the curse.
He had to admit that Calodi's talent and abilities were both practical and safe; if it were him, he would probably have had to put in a lot of effort to precisely construct such a magic circle.
Calodi is like a transit hub, a functional talent; no wonder Daisy considers Calodi one of her own.
"My job is to create various teleportation arrays, which is why Daisy needs me to accompany her around at night. The dark environment is too dangerous. After Daisy finds me, she usually asks me to use an array to send her directly back to her room." Calodi shrugged elegantly. "Are you going now? You'll be back to find me soon."
"It seems there should be other magic arrays on this wall." Yu Xing changed the subject abruptly, walking away from Calodi and tracing the wall surface at the same level with her fingers.
Calodi was initially quite calm, because he was the only one who could ever trigger these hidden magic circles.
He didn't actually know why, but when he touched the magic circle, his fingertips would have an indescribable feeling, as if the energy from all his limbs and bones converged at a single point on his fingertips, thus activating the resting magic circle.
However, the next second, his pupils magnified, and he stared in disbelief as beams of light appeared on the wall.
Yu Xing's fingers brushed across the wall, it was as if a switch had been flipped, and one magic circle after another, large and small, appeared. Some were blood-red, like the teleportation circle to the market on the table, while others were gold, deep purple, or ghastly green...
Unlike the magic circles that Calodi usually triggers, the magic circles triggered by Yu Xing were all shrouded in a thin layer of black mist. If you focused on sensing them, you could also find that the peaceful energy in these magic circles had become strange and violent, like an unfathomable evil deep sea.
"So surprised? It seems you really don't understand these power systems." Yu Xing caught a glimpse of the shock in Calodi's eyes and thought to himself that he was a trapped beast confined to a hotel.
Regarding the power system, Yu Xing has only now been able to truly define and grasp this concept.
His curse power originates from the Ghost Tree power system, extending to control black mist, casting curses, enhancing Spiritual Sense, precognition, manipulating inanimate objects, and mending and modifying ghosts, among other things.
He and Yu Fengchen both belong to this system of Wizard Cult, which is barely acceptable, since they were both created by this Ghost Tree.
In any case, the differences in capabilities within the same system will not be too significant.
From this, he also deduced that the Lingren should also be part of this system, because the original curse power in his body was extracted from the Lingren and then injected into his body through experiments.
The person in front of him, Calodi, developed his ability to create arrays due to the hotel's curse, and the other guests, such as the doll Xixi and the grandmother with the human head cane, should also have the same ability.
Expanding the scope further, all the masked tourists in the market are part of this system.
This at least suggests that there is a massive and terrifying entity behind this system, like the Ghost Tree, or one or more.
Yu Xing thought about these things, he inexplicably recalled the gray sky Dead Silent Island.
Although Dead Silent Island is large to humans, it is just a tiny speck in the vast ocean, where countless enormous creatures roam.
In short, Yu Xing had no interest in interfering with this system; he simply gained a deeper understanding of the world.
The Ghost Tree system alone has already caused enough headaches for the deducers and experiencers of two worlds. How many other worlds are involved in the various systems beyond that?
However, these are things that Yu Xing will gradually come into contact with in the future. At this moment, in this small, dark room, Yu Xing is simply conducting an experiment using the power of the curse.
The array that Calodi could activate could also be activated by Yu Xing by infusing it with the power of curses, but the feeling after activation was very different—one was peaceful, and the other was eerie.
He turned his head, his face appearing extremely dangerous in the eerie, flickering light of the array. "You certainly won't obediently wait for me here. Let me guess, before you go back to your room to sleep, you'll at least go check on Xixi, won't you?"
Calodi: "!?"
How could you think that?!
It was clear that Calodi swallowed the last two words of "How did you know?"
Yu Xing laughed, "Xixi at night must be a terrifying presence that needs to be monitored... Little Rosie let it slip; you can go and beat her up tomorrow."