Chapter 33 Spiral Staircase
A game full of innocence, a gorgeous door, and the decrypted text pointed to is a shocking distress signal.
Behind this door, there is no monster that will suddenly attack, nor is there a scene of blood flowing into a river. There is only a marble-cast rotating ladder, like a genetic spiral chain, leading to an unknown but established upper level.
Beautiful and exquisite angel reliefs are dotted with snow-white handrails.
It's like a ladder to heaven.
The moment the door opened, a golden drop of water floated in front of An Wujiu.
The moment he stretched out his hand and touched the water droplets with his fingertips, under a ray of light, the water droplets turned into four fragments with different information printed on them.
[consecration]
[our]
[shall]
[!]
"The four characters just now are hidden here." Chen Ti pointed, all the letters were capitalized.
"Well, this should have something to do with the key." An Wujiu looked at the fragments and whispered the meaning of these words, "'Dedication', 'Our', 'Original'..."
It seems to be a few words that are temporarily unrelated.
They stood there, and Wu You's voice suddenly appeared behind them.
An Wujiu put away the fragments and turned around and saw Nanshan and Wu You walking side by side in the corridor. But before that, they had never encountered them.
Nanshan stretched out a cage hand, raised it, and greeted him with a smile, "It seems that you have found the way to the second floor."
An Wujiu also nodded slightly.
Chen Ti imitated Nan Shan's greeting method, but he raised his hands a little perfunctorily. Compared to saying hello, he was more like a proud young man sitting at an auction raising his hand to bid.
"Brother Wujiu." Wu You stepped forward quickly, "After we entered his workshop, we found these debris in the incinerator."
He spread his hands to An Wujiu without reservation, and his palm was the fragments he had collected.
Nan Shan, who was standing beside him, felt a little sad. He was still a comrade-in-arms fighting side by side, but he didn't even have a name in his words.
So he specially added to An Wujiu after Wu You reached out: "Yes, we found it. My name is Nanshan."
An Wujiu looked up at him, "I remember your name."
This person is so weird.
"We have it too." Chen Ti grabbed An Wujiu's wrist and grabbed it more because of his injury. His movements were very light. "You stretch your hand out and show him ours."
An Wujiu was only immersed in checking the fragments Wu You got at this moment.
He and Nanshan found only one piece, which was [burned].
An Wujiu quickly combined shall and burned, because it was a passive voice, and could only be [...should be burned to death].
"Please leave it with you." Wu You handed it to him directly, with absolute trust on his face.
Nan Shanyuan looked at him beside him, thinking in his heart that he didn't expect that this little boy with poker face was still a little loyal dog, so why would he only complain indifferently in front of him?
It seems that the handsome guy with long hair in front of me is very reliable and looks very kind.
But how did kind guys survive in such a cannibalized place?
An Wujiu agreed to Wu You's proposal.
When he looked up, he saw the other three people walking from the corner, Yang Erci, Zhong Yirou and Josh. He was about to ask Zhong Yirou's microphone, but he didn't expect that the other party would hide behind Yang Erci as if he had seen him.
"Be careful! This An Wujiu may be fake!"
An Wujiu was a little confused, turned his face and looked at Chen Ti beside him for a moment, and then looked at Zhong Yirou again.
Chen Ti said directly, "You're wrong?"
"Is there another me?"
Everyone was a little confused, and a hint of strangeness emerged from the originally calm atmosphere.
Zhong Yirou also stood up behind Yang Erci and asked An Wujiu tentatively: "In the last game...what color of clothes did I wear the next day?"
Chen Ti and Wu You rolled their eyes at the same time when they heard this question.
"Who can remember this?"
"You've played this game into a drag game."
An Wujiu thought about it and glanced at his cautious face again.
"It looks a bit like his eyes, it's...mint color."
I really remember it.
He's not straight at all.
Zhong Yirou's face showed a little surprise, and then she coughed twice, "Then I'll ask you, I'll sleep in the bunker with a careful care..."
"Handcuffs." An Wujiu interrupted her almost immediately, "Don't ask, I remember if I don't believe it, I can take it out of the storage threshold for you."
His voice became less and he spoke so quickly that he could not even break the sentence, as if he was very guilty.
"Oh!" Nan Shan showed a sudden enlightenment expression, "It turns out that Mr. Wujiu and Mr. Green Eyes have this kind of relationship."
Wu You showed an expression that I knew, but did not deny it for them.
No one cared about An Wujiu's own denial. Zhong Yirou was happy that he had found the real him. Yang Erci breathed a sigh of relief. Qiao Xi's ears were red and she looked at the others with shy smiles. Nan Shan communicated with their relationship with each other through An Wujiu and Chen Ti.
After the reunion, everyone felt much more anxious, even though no one said that.
"Let's go up first." An Wujiu had no choice. "After going up to the second floor, we have to exchange the information we obtained on the first floor, because if I guessed correctly, we were forcibly separated by some hallucinations."
So everyone walked into the gate together, climbed the stairs, and hung many photos against the wall. They were all smiling faces of children, each of which was very cute.
But the more cute it is, the more it makes An Wujiu feel heartbroken.
The door on the second floor is also an exquisite relief door. Before I opened it, An Wujiu thought that it might be similar to the first floor, but he didn't expect that after it was really opened, he saw colorful scenes, pink floors, blue ceilings, and various children's drawings on the walls, drawing the protagonists of various fairy tales.
In addition, in the corridor full of innocence and childlike fun, there is also a jumping bear, who seems to be a robot. But he can only go forward and backward, and can only jump, unable to walk or talk.
When everyone entered the second floor, the door leading to the first floor closed.
Unlike the clean and empty ones on the first floor, the signboard on this floor is full of fairy tales from the door. A sign to the left says [Rainbow Baby], and the sign on the right says [Double Angel]. Both signs are inlaid with a circle of gem-like mini-colored lights, which is very eye-catching.
"Let's sort out the information first." Yang Erci spoke in a calm tone, "and don't separate. I suspect that as long as we separate, sub-space will be split here. We will go in ignorantly and will not find anyone else."
Zhong Yirou nodded, "I was alone before, and I met a guy who looked exactly like Wujiu."
An Wujiu's eyes widened a little, and his way of expressing surprise was also very restrained.
"So you cut off my signal."
"I accidentally broke it. I didn't know which one was real or which one was fake, so I just told An Wujiu who stood in front of me."
Zhong Yirou put his hands on his hips, "But he didn't even know his name. I used to shout Wujiu at him in panic, but he didn't seem to notice it. Later, I called him Wu You, and he didn't refute it. At that time, I knew he was fake."
An Wujiu didn't understand: "Is it an NPC? But if disguised identity is a task given by the altar, they cannot not know the identity information of the person being disguised."
"I feel strange all of it." Zhong Yirou reminded others, "I don't know if there will be other players in the future. Everyone must be careful. If Erci hadn't saved me, I would have been strangled to death by Fei Wujiu."
Yang Erci pursed her lips at the familiar name Zhong Yirou.
But An Wujiu had another question, "How did you find her?"
Just as Yang Erci had guessed before, indeed, no matter how long An Wujiu and Shen Ti were wandering in the four corner corridor, they could not find any other players, and Zhong Yirou only encountered a fake self.
"I was with Josh. I was accidentally connected to Zhong Yirou with my microphone. I heard that she was in danger, but we couldn't find her."
Josh added: "The most terrifying thing is that we looked at other rooms and corridors in the monitoring room, and there was no one. Later, we went out together and walked a few times, and suddenly saw a particularly strange nine-cluster suddenly appearing on the ground."
Shen Ti said: "We have seen it too."
"Everyone, I did that." Nan Shan spoke and explained to others what he encountered with Wu You, including his experience of using the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams and the Qimen Escape Technique to unlock the ghost and hit the wall.
"Maybe as Ms. Yang said, this is not an ordinary place. Perhaps different parallel spaces will be classified because of the different choices we make. In these spaces, we cannot see others. Even if she stands in front of us to make the next mark, we cannot see it because the space is misaligned."
Shen Ti nodded, "So it is because of your Nine Palaces and Bagua that these parallel spaces have intersections."
"That's right. Only when everyone passes through the Nine Palace Formation can they meet and enter the same space. This open and split fantasy can be closed."
An Wujiu pondered for a moment and showed the fragmented information he had obtained to others. Everyone exchanged clues that they found from different spaces. After learning about the incinerator, it was not surprising that Zhong Yirou talked about the paradoxical sleeping house.
After hearing this, Wu You nodded, "So the white coat on you does not mean a doctor, nor does it mean a researcher... is a person who guards the morgue."
"Do you know what makes me feel most terrified?" Zhong Yirou took out a hard drive from Yang Erci's white coat pocket very easily.
"This was found by Erci. I can only open it with my fingerprint permission. It is my work log, but the fake Wujiu used this information to deceive me. He told me that he found my work log and asked me to go there with him."
An Wujiu immediately reacted, "So, this fake me, know more about this shelter center."
"That's right." Yang Erci speculated, "not only did he know, but he was also very familiar with it. Being able to directly bring Zhong Yirou to the designated room to commit the crime, which shows that he is very clear about which room has the whip he needs."
"What is written in the work log?" Chen Ti asked.
"It is a lot of children's information, with the time and reason for input. Time should be the time of death. The reason is replaced by the Roman numerals one, two, three, and four. It is not very clear, except for a special one, which is directly stated."
An Wujiu frowned, "What is it?"
"Alienization." Zhong Yijudo.
Nanshan repeated these two words, "This word is also found in my work log."
"The alienation here is definitely not just a concept of sociology and philosophy, although we are constantly alienated by technology." Yang Erci said meaningfully.
"I think this should be related to some mysterious Western religion," Nanshan explained. "This alienation is a process from human to non-human, for example, becoming a monster."
The mucus ball monster suddenly flashed in front of An Wujiu's eyes.
"What you mean is that some children have undergone 'alienation' and are destroyed." Chen Ti asked in a tone of incomprehension, "Why aren't people going to be destroyed?"
"It's probably to blame the natural rejection mentality of human beings." Nan Shan added with a smile, "Of course, what we Taoism pursues is to establish a world of great harmony, advocate equality between things, and unevenness..."
"Are you here to preach?" Wu You said coldly.
Nan Shanping smiled peacefully, "Of course not. We Taoism never seek universality, but only seek freedom in our hearts and unity between man and nature."
Seeing that he was talking about it, Wu You couldn't argue, so he thought that his peacock had opened his tail again.
After discussing the information from the first layer, they also gathered all the fragments currently obtained from the e layer, which is likely to be the information of that key.
But after Zhong Yirou opened the log, he only got one piece, printed with [hell], meaning hell.
The current fragments cannot form anything, so they had to look at the second floor of the shelter center where they are.
The little bear robot had already turned around and jumped to their eyes again, and then shook them away.
Just after everyone finished discussing, in the few seconds of silence, a sound appeared in this magnificent fairy tale corridor, and the traces of synthesis were obvious.
[I am here.]
An Wujiu frowned. The others were also very confused and looked at each other.
[I am here.]
The voice repeats again.
[What help is needed? Please give me instructions.]
Josh's goosebumps came out. He touched his arm and said in a low voice: "Do you think this... looks like the kind of artificial intelligence system for home use?"
"But no one called him at all." Zhong Yirou's face frowned.
Just as they were whispering, the voice appeared again.
Or, it is some kind of response.
[No problem, the song will be played for you soon.]
Suddenly, a crisp and sweet nursery rhyme was played again in the corridor. It was a classic English nursery rhyme sang by many children, with a very pleasant melody.
[London Bridge falls down, falls down, falls down…]
Everyone looked up and looked at the ceiling full of stars and lakes, following the sound.
But An Wujiu felt something flashed and turned his head.
He saw a little boy with two heads standing in the corridor at the end of the [Rainbow Baby]. His two heads were tilted in different directions and smiled at him.
The next second, it disappeared.
Chapter completed!