The mineral water was unscrewed, and the clean pure water was carefully poured into the bottle cap. Lin Nian watched as Li Qing fed the water from the bottle cap little by little into the girl who was leaning against the vending machine. Her age and
Li Qing is about the same age, and both are young people, but the degree of hunger and weight loss can be regarded as the worst on the entire platform. Lying in Li Qing's arms, he is like a light paper man, who can become weak with just a little push.
It was dented and shattered to the bone.
Lin Nian circled around the hot and hungry gazes from the platform. Those gazes were all glued to the mineral water in Li Qing's hand. Every change of the water line in the plastic bottle under the fluorescent lamp made countless throats squirm.
For a moment, but due to the previous Shuwei, no one dared to take a step closer, and even took the initiative to avoid Lin Nian's turned gaze.
"They are all victims. There are people who came in with a purpose, and there are also innocent people who were implicated. There is no need to vent your anger on them." Li Qing's voice drew Lin Nian's attention back, and he drank two or three bottles of water.
The young girl's originally inaudible breathing gradually gained strength. At least she could barely open her eyes and glance at Li Qing, who was feeding her water, and Lin Nian, who was standing beside her.
"Is she also an orthodox person?" Lin Nian had never seen this girl before.
"Well, he can be regarded as my senior. He came to the Nibelungen a few shifts earlier than me. In the early years, he was taken care of by others in Langjuxu." Li Qing lowered his head and wanted to give the girl some water, but the girl refused.
He motioned for him to drink some himself, "Are you the only one who comes to Nibelung?"
"Do you still recognize me?" Lin Nian asked.
"We met at Apple Orchard Station. You followed the people around Yue. You were the only one who came in. Where is Yue?" Li Qing looked at Lin Nian with a trace of hope deep in his eyes.
"They also entered the Nibelungen. It seems they came here a step later than me." Young Lin nodded lightly in response to his expectations, giving the young man some hope for life.
"It may be that they were assigned to different starting points." Li Qing murmured to himself.
Lin Nian was quiet for a moment and then spoke again, "I won't say any more nonsense. What is the situation here? Why are everyone gathered here waiting to die?"
"Because staying on the platform and waiting to die is probably the best outcome." Li Qing sat on the ground and took a sip of mineral water. He drank very sparingly, only wetting his chapped lips with water, and sipping off the water bit by bit.
"What you see now are the eliminated ones who failed to enter the maze."
"maze?"
"Did you see the entrance over there?" Li Qing gestured to Lin Nian to look at the only aisle entrance at the deepest point of the Line 3 platform. "That entrance leads to a huge underground maze."
"Maze?" Lin Nian frowned slightly.
"Have you ever experienced getting lost in those branching tunnels when changing stations on the subway?" Li Qing asked.
"No, I have a good memory and I usually don't go the wrong way, but I roughly understand what you want to express, so you can continue."
"The entire Line 3 is a huge maze. On the way from the starting platform to the transfer platform of Line 4, there are countless long tunnels as the main body, and there are countless branching roads. There are no maps and no guide signs. You can only follow the
Only by clearing this maze can you escape, otherwise you will be trapped here forever." Li Qing looked at the lifeless passengers on the platform around him, "The people who stayed here all failed to clear the maze and chose the original choice.
People whose roads turn back.”
"Is the maze complicated?"
Li Qing took out a notebook from his pocket and handed it to Lin Nian to open. After taking it, Lin Nian glanced at the map drawn on it, and then frowned deeply. It was more like a ball of yarn than a map.
balls, and these yarn balls are specially painted with a perspective effect when they shuttle between each other, and lines of different colors are used to differentiate the layers.
He just took one look at the map and didn't want to look at it a second time. Compared with the map, it looked more like graffiti on the wall by a psychopath holding a crayon to vent his anger.
"The maze is three-dimensional." Li Qing said, "It is not so much exploring forward as it is exploring downward. You can imagine that thousands of wool balls are placed on the same parallel surface, and all the thread ends are falling downward due to gravity.
, and then blown by a gust of wind, they were chaotically interwoven into a three-dimensional grid. Those lines were thousands of aisles, and the entire grid was the map of the maze."
"How big is the maze?"
"The longest distance I walked was 10 kilometers on a non-repeating path. I still couldn't see the end, so I finally chose to return the same way. There were people who walked further than me. I heard in the maze that there were people who walked to the starting point of other platforms.
After 20 kilometers, there is still no trace of the exit of the maze." Li Qing looked deeply at the passage that no one dared to approach, "There may be people who have gone further than 20 kilometers, but those people are afraid
They all died in the maze."
"What are the specific dangers in the maze?" Lin Nian continued to ask.
"The most noteworthy ones should be the Deadpools, the alien Deadpools." Li Qing said in a low voice, "Those Deadpools seem to have been genetically adjusted or surgically modified, and have the genetic characteristics of wild beasts in nature, making them quite difficult to deal with. These things like
They hide in the dark places or corners of the maze and jump out unexpectedly to attack those who explore the maze."
"Only Deadpool?"
"You came from Line 2. You should have encountered those dangerous hybrids who actively attacked you, right?" Li Qing suddenly asked.
"If you encounter him, kill him."
"There are also these guys with ulterior motives in the maze. They seem to have some mission and are dedicated to ambushing those of us who explore the maze. Compared to Deadpool, these guys may be more dangerous." Li Qing gave Lin Nian a deep look.
, "Ours is not the only starting point of the maze. People on other platforms are also a mixed bag. They are likely to attack people in the maze for food resources."
"I understand that people's hearts are separated from each other. Is there anything else I need to pay attention to?"