The entire mutation process lasted for more than two hours, which was indeed a long time as Artemis said.
But we didn’t look for a book to kill time, as the other party said.
Because I was deceived by Paopao saying that "it is the wife's duty to prepare the luggage for her husband for a long trip", I suddenly found that the little otaku girl had put a lot of strange things in my personal space, so the two of us couldn't laugh or cry.
I played StarCraft 2 online for two hours in Artemis. Facts have proved that in front of the powerful tourist group of the Empire, there is no limit to not slipping away.
Although she was startled by the bizarre sights around her at first, Qian Qian's ability to adapt was indeed worthy of her title of "the most heartless empire leader in history" (Sandora language). In just ten minutes, she was able to accept it calmly.
The scene where he was doing a slide dance on the stairs in front of him, and then he threw himself into the hot battle of StarCraft 2. How rubbish it is to play while compromising the strength of each race. The so-called battle cruiser formation has a combat power of only 5 in total.
Scumbag, the Mother Ship was only a quick shooter in front of the energy skimmer for ten seconds. Obviously, the record of sweeping the three major races in the Koprulu sector at that time made this girl full of confidence and confused the game and reality.
So much so that she could open the game and fill the screen to find where to find ravens and armored scorpions...
Anyway, the final result was that Qianqian, Artemis, and Sister were tortured to pieces by me, Lilina, and Lin Xue together.
I'm really curious about what your sister is planning to do with more than 150 farmers...
"If I mine all the mines in the entire map in advance, wouldn't I be able to cut off your supplies?"
Onee-sama explained it so confidently.
Sister, you are a natural strategist, but unfortunately, Blizzard’s engineers are not...
"You guys are really...incredible"
When the surrounding movements gradually calmed down and the collapsed wall clattered back to its original position like a video played backwards, Artemis said this with a tangled expression.
Come on, you have never seen the more boring guys in the Undercity. Two skeletons competed in a boxing match to tear each other's ribs apart!
"Does this happen often?" Sister asked Artemis curiously as she watched the last crack on the wall opposite close.
"There is no pattern," Artemis breathed out. Although she could face that kind of scene calmly, a little nervousness was still unavoidable. "Sometimes this building would go without movement for a year or two, and sometimes it would last for a whole day.
There will be several mutations. When the situation is the most serious, we even have to collectively take shelter in the open space outside. But that needs to be done during the calm time between the two mutations, and if the second mutation comes too quickly,
It is even more dangerous to leave the room rashly. When the mutation is in progress, in addition to the internal distortion of the room, every corridor and every staircase in the entire building is unsafe. In the past, we did not understand this situation due to lack of experience.
, when the mutation started, a friend tried to run out from the corridor, but...he is still pressed under a pillar on the first floor. Some people also said that they saw him in the classroom. Who knows?
…”
Artemis said, tearing off a piece of paper from the book at her feet, taking out a thick marker pen from her pocket, and scrawled "Chemistry Department" on the piece of paper.
Big characters, and then walked out the door on his own. We looked at each other and followed.
The scene outside has been turned upside down. The activity room of the Chemistry Department, which was originally located at the end of a corridor, is now facing an elevator. The distance between the elevator door and the activity room door is less than two meters, and on the wall next to the elevator, there are several
The cracks were quickly dissipating, and after a while, the elevator that suddenly appeared became integrated with the surrounding walls.
Artemis ignored the sudden appearance of the elevator, but turned around, hopping with her feet to try to reach down the sign at the door of the activity room, but her height was obviously not enough, and she tried several times without success - what if this was Pandora?
, I guess that girl will just pull the entire door frame off, right?
"Do me a favor and stick this up." Artemis turned over the paper with the scrawled characters in her hand and sprayed it twice with the spray paint she brought with her, "While the paint is still wet."
I took the dirty-looking piece of paper, turned around, and saw a cardboard with the word "Library" attached to the unfamiliar door number next to me, and underneath the cardboard,
It seems that there are several layers, which have changed the original good house number beyond recognition.
"Every time there is a mutation, the walls, corridors, stairs, and roofs will change. Although writing these things will not last long, at least it can let everyone know where to stay safely in a short time."
Artemis said in a normal tone, she was very used to this kind of thing.
I helped stick the temporary new "house number" on the house number that had almost turned into an irregular rectangular shape due to the layers of cardboard. I asked curiously: "This building is so weird, why don't you change it?"
place?"
"Only here can protect us from falling into deep sleep," Artemis shrugged. "After that night, only the teachers and students who stayed in this building became awakened ones, while all the people outside became sleeping ones.
Ghost, and after several attempts, I also discovered that although people around me can stay awake very well, my ability is more effective only when I am in this building. We have also tried before
I let some of my companions live in a nearby dormitory, but after a few days, they all disappeared."
"This is really bad."
Lilina muttered, then raised her head: "Then how do you usually find your way in the mutated building? Everything here is out of shape, right?"
"Patience, seriousness, and luck," Artemis curled her lips and said, then turned around and opened the door of the newly appeared elevator. A long staircase appeared opposite the elevator door, "In this world, even if
You won't starve to death if you don't eat. You just feel hungry. As long as you are careful and don't fall into dangerous places when finding the way, you will be fine. It once took me four days and four nights to find the way from the sixth floor to the fifth floor.
, that’s not difficult to do... Come here, you may be very powerful, but here, I’m afraid your skills are of no use.”
Artemis is right, the information here is extremely confusing. All the probes we released previously have lost contact in this building, and even if they still have signals, I'm afraid those contradictory data are nothing.
It has reference value.
Under the leadership of Artemis, we walked in this narrow and twisted passage. The steps under our feet started upward, but after walking less than ten meters, they turned into a steep downhill. There were no lights in the passage, but
There is always a certain level of light so we don't have to walk in the dark.
"There are certain rules for mutation. For example, the stairs on odd-numbered floors will definitely go downwards after mutation, while the opposite will be true for those on even-numbered floors. The north-south corridors will slope upward after mutation... Well, sometimes it is not necessarily the case.
Ah, there's a door ahead."
Artemis suddenly made a discovery. On the left wall less than a few meters in front of us, a bright yellow door appeared. Only half of this door was exposed to the outside, while the other half was covered under the stairs.
"Well, if there is someone inside and the entire door is sealed, will the people inside be blocked in the room?"
Looking at the wooden door that was usually hidden under the stairs, Qian Qian asked curiously.
"No, although there have been cases where you hid in a room and couldn't come out due to architectural mutations, but in this world, you won't die if you don't eat or drink. You just need to wait until the next mutation to come out. According to our
Experience, a room will not be sealed twice in a row, and generally, a room that is completely sealed will experience a second small-scale movement in a short period of time. It seems that this building still retains the definition of a 'door'
...But perhaps there are exceptions to these experiences we have summarized. There were cases where friends hiding in the room disappeared after the building changed and never came back. Even the room where they used to hide was not known to have been moved.
Somewhere, many things in this twisted building have disappeared. We don't know whether they are hidden in the tangled corridors or have really been wiped out... This door seems to be able to open, come and help me.
"
Artemis pushed the blocked door hard several times and found that it opened inwards, so she turned around and called us for help.
"Be careful, hold on to the wall next to you. The door may open suddenly. If there is a dangerous place on the other side, you will be dead if you fall in... Well, I don't know if you will care about such an environment. Anyway, we have suffered losses because of it.
A dozen partners."
"You don't seem to care about them?"
I stepped forward and gently pushed the motionless yellow wooden door, tilted my head in confusion and asked.
"Of course not!" Artemis immediately retorted loudly, but then turned her head, "You won't understand... Well, there was movement on the other side of the door..."
Sure enough, when we calmed down, the faint friction sound coming from the opposite side of the door became obvious. It was like something with a large mass being dragged on the floor, with the sound of friction and cement cracking along the way.
, Artemis put her head against the door panel and listened breathlessly, then suddenly raised her head, with obvious panic on her face: "It's still moving in there...run!!"
It's already a step too late.
Before Artemis could finish her words, the wooden door suddenly turned into scattered debris, and the entire wall on our side was suddenly broken into pieces by something massive rushing towards us from the opposite side.
The fragments of cement mixed with steel bars bloomed from the wall like fireworks, and swept towards Artemis in a violent storm, who had no time to escape. Before the shocked expression on the blonde girl's face could disappear, she was about to be beaten by this.
The bomb exploded and was swallowed up by a storm a hundred times more powerful.
But the next moment, everything stopped.
"You're right, you really should be careful here."
Qian Qian stepped forward and roughly picked up Artemis, who was still dazed. She dragged the weak-footed girl forward quickly, and we followed closely behind, keeping those things suspended in the air as time stopped.
The fragments were left behind.
It took us nearly three minutes to get out of this narrow and dangerous corridor after running so fast. When Artemis fell to the ground in embarrassment with Qian Qian's hand, the latter snapped his fingers.
"Boom!"
A series of low sounds sounded in the corridor behind us, and after a while, the pungent smell of lime powder and smoke wafted out from there.
Artemis looked at the completely collapsed passage in shock. After a while, she stiffly raised her head. Before she could speak, Qianqian threw out an impatient sentence: "Shut up!"
Okay, you are really strict with strangers...
"Don't be surprised, that's how her alter ego is. It's not malicious," I smiled awkwardly and gave Hei Hua Qian Qian a moderate blow on the head. The latter immediately gave me a threatening nod.
Teeth - changed back.
"Did time just stop?" Artemis asked cautiously.
"That's right, we used this trick to catch you back then!" Qian Qian looked proud, her naughty little girl look completely different from the cold and rude look just now.
"I didn't expect to see it in the real world..." Artemis sighed with a little excitement, which made me complain: "Do you still think those are all in your head?"
The sudden small crisis was just an inconspicuous episode. According to Artemis's description, this was the first time such a thing had happened. The mutation of the entire building did not stop at the same time. Instead, some parts were destroyed due to the continued mutation.
The building structure has been stabilized, but in this weird world, unexplainable and unprecedented things happen almost every day. Just like the dusk suddenly disappeared a few days ago, the surviving awakeners have become accustomed to facing it calmly.
Such disasters have even reached the point where they can be treated as a joke in the aftermath of the disaster.
"If we were not in a narrow passage, but in a spacious corridor or classroom, we could have avoided it, so it's not that scary, right?"
Artemis said easily with a smile that didn't seem to be fake.
"Child, you are mentally ill and need to be treated." Lilina looked serious and planned to start attracting clients for herself. Since she blackmailed Renault and Uncle Z several times in the Koprulu sector, she likes this little girl more and more.
It's a magic stick.
"I don't need to," Artemis refused flatly, "In this hellish place, being mentally extreme is not a bad thing."
"You lost lamb..." Lilina shook her head, looking pitiful.
No matter what interest this bad pseudo-loli has in Artemis, under the leadership of the latter, we finally found the activity room where we met for the first time and used her as the awakener.
The activity center has obviously been well thought out. Among the changes in the entire building, it has caused the smallest displacement, and the main passages connected to it have not changed much. At the corner of the corridor near the activity room, we saw a
The conspicuous red arrow, with the words "Headquarters, safe direction" written behind it, was obviously spray-painted with new spray paint. According to Artemis, after every building mutation, the members of the Awakened
You are obliged to put such a mark on the new safe passage you have found, so that everyone who is separated due to room displacement can quickly regroup.
We seemed to have arrived a little late. There were already quite a few people gathered in the activity room. At first glance, there should be about ten or twenty of them. They were all dressed as middle school students. They should be the only remaining members of the Awakened. After seeing Artemi
When Si appeared, everyone looked obviously relieved, and then everyone's eyes focused on us with unfamiliar faces.
"When we were newcomers," I said directly in Artemis' mind through mental connection, "Now we are not sure whether we can help you. The greater our hopes, the greater our disappointment. Don't let them know about us yet.
identity of."
"Understood." Artemis agreed, and then said loudly to the crowd opposite: "The mutation is over! I'm glad to see that everyone is still standing here! Huwen and Lingyin should have informed everyone about the
The arrival of these newcomers..."
All the survivors showed great enthusiasm for our joining. From the initial loss of hundreds to only ten or twenty people left now, the light of hope in the hearts of these "awakened people" may have long been dim, even with Al
The amazing influence of Themis supporting them cannot change the fact that everyone's morale is low, but now our appearance has obviously greatly alleviated this situation.
New partners, and five of them appeared at once! Even if the gloomy status quo of this world does not change, the addition of new blood is enough to make them happy.
The joyful result was a small but lively and joyful party. Huwen, who was a little depressed because there was no welcome party immediately in the morning, finally got what he wanted. This guy who looked like a bad boy actually
He is a straightforward and enthusiastic person. When Artemis announced that there would be a long-lost party in the evening, the excited Huwen almost took on fifty percent of the preparations by himself.
Because it is a rare opportunity to relax, naturally everyone hopes to relax their tense nerves. Artemis specially allows everyone to spend this evening outside the "old building" and leave this weird building for a short time.
It will not immediately make people fall into "sleep", but it can make people temporarily forget the twisted scenes in the absurd refuge. Therefore, the awakened people usually put various celebration activities, parties and other things in the old days.
It's done outside the building. After all, although the world outside is more dangerous, at least it still looks pretty beautiful.
The party was held in an open space on campus not far from the old building. The resuscitators collected a large amount of firewood from nearby. Most of it came from tables, chairs and benches in the classroom, and some were dry branches from nearby flower beds. These things
They were piled into a pile and used as fuel for the bonfire. All the survivors in the world surrounded this bright flame and released great joy that was difficult for outsiders to understand. Not far from the gathering place, dozens of meters away
, is the dormitory area of this school, where the lights are bright, and you can vaguely see the students inside moving in the dormitory. The gathering of the awakened people is huge, and Hu Wen doesn’t know where he found the speakers to play a series of inexplicable sounds.
The noise was sent to the entire campus, but the people in the dormitories ignored it and were not affected by the sound at all. Only occasionally one or two "students" looked here blankly, and then continued.
Focus on what you are doing.
The dormitory building not far away and the bonfire party close at hand were clearly right in front of me, but they seemed to be two different worlds. Looking at such a scene, the feeling in my heart was indescribable.
"That building is like a wild beast that chooses people to devour." Lilina seemed to have drunk some wine, and walked over unsteadily, then sat down next to me crookedly, and then turned around.
Wei, lying on my lap, stretched out his little hand and pointed tremblingly at the old building not far away, "But they have to accept the protection of that thing... Boss, can we help them?"
?”
"Of course," I gently patted Lilina's sleepy silly face, looking confident, "don't forget, your boss is the biggest good person in the world!"
"Well..." Lilina's confused voice came over, "Also, the most powerful daddy..."