Volume Three, Second Floor, Abyss, Chapter 113, Familiar Strangers
I have been hiding and resting in the maze for several days. Except for the first day when everyone was shocked when they saw Liu Ruyan coming back covered in blood, there was no big danger in the following days. With Tang Ling as the person,
A super-advanced danger radar detector. It can be said that the group of them enjoyed pleasure and leisure in this maze for the first time in a long time. They felt like they were really on a trip.
During this period of time, everyone has gradually figured out the second level of the maze and some of the characteristics of those monsters. The entire maze has a fixed daytime time of nine in the morning to two in the afternoon, with a five to nineteen day and night change.
According to this rule, everyone also arranged a night vigil pattern. Because Tang Ling insisted repeatedly, it finally became necessary to rely on her to pay attention to the surrounding situation every night, and then the other people took turns to accompany them every six hours.
Then, during the five hours during the day, Tang Ling was responsible for resting, and everyone followed the route Tang Ling provided at night to the next safer location.
Then there are the monsters that everyone has met so far. They clearly discovered that these guys hardly appear during the day, but at night, the kind of dolls they first encountered are everywhere around them. When their vision is dim,
If you turn around at any corner, you will encounter them. In addition, there is another kind of monster that they need to be wary of, which is the flowers growing on the wall that they originally didn't care about.
It was Zhang Ziang who knew that this kind of flower was also dangerous. He suddenly had a stomachache in the middle of the night and wanted to find a corner to deal with it. As a result, he fell asleep in a daze and didn't know which corner he ran to. The flashlight in his hand shone on the wall.
A brightly blooming flower, and since he was not very conscious yet, his first reaction was to reach out and pick the flower to see what kind it was. However, Tang Ling, who had a premonition of danger, called out to him.
Then, under the gaze of a group of people who had been awakened, a flower that looked very similar to a poppy, a few steps away from Zhang Ziang, grew in size at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a baby slowly appeared in its stamens.
The head, the face that was originally sleeping peacefully, was stimulated by the light of Zhang Ziang's flashlight, so that the whole face wrinkled, and then let out a scream as sharp as the tip of a knife rubbing against the glass. Randomly, the vine leaves wrapped around the flower
It began to twist wildly, flying straight towards the culprit that disturbed its peaceful dream.
Zhang Ziang, who had been frightened by the ferocious baby's face, stayed in place and watched the rattan ropes wrap around his body until Zhang Ziang woke up from the tightening force and struggled hard.
, those rattans had thorns on them, which had cut through his clothes and penetrated into his smooth flesh. It was like being given an anesthesia needle in the hospital. Zhang Ziang felt that his head was getting more and more dizzy.
He could clearly feel that these rattans were greedily sucking the blood from his wounds.
It was obviously a very bloody and cruel torture, but Zhang Ziang began to feel strangely comfortable. He seemed to have fallen into some illusion. He saw himself in high school, wearing a school uniform, asking him the most basic math questions.
Lu Li, who was at the front table, gently tugged on her flowing ponytail, and then looked at the other person who turned her head and glared at him with a somewhat coquettish look. Zhang Ziang smiled contentedly. In his youth, he couldn't hide his love for having his chest full.
When he was full, he tilted his head and watched Lu Li turn around and lie on his desk, explaining math problems in a low voice beside him. His mouth was full of complaints and ridicule of his IQ, but he still took a patient step forward.
Teach him step by step.
As Lu Li concentrated, Zhang Ziang's tilted head came closer and closer. His throat moved several times due to nervousness. The faint fragrance emanating from the girl's body became stronger and stronger. He moved tentatively little by little.
Lower your head until the white forehead is very close to yourself...
Then the next second, the beautiful picture was shattered, and a huge slap fell on his face. With a "pop" sound, the man woke up, and his happiness was gone. Zhang Ziang opened his eyes blankly, and his consciousness gradually came back.
Then what I saw was Zhou Chen, who was very close at hand, staring at him with an indifferent expression. After seeing him finally waking up, he mocked lightly: "Hey! I finally woke up, what are you dreaming about? You are so pouty.
Just like a kettle spout."
"What? Ahhh, it hurts!" Zhang Ziang, who was still immersed in the fantasy just now, was full of questions. Then the next second, his body felt severe pain, and the vines wrapped around his body were torn off by brute force.
Lu Li looked at him speechlessly from the side, still holding the vine man he had just torn off in his hand.
Later, after Liu Ruyan's treatment, Zhang Ziang became lively again, and based on other people's accounts, Zhang Ziang knew that he had been trapped in an illusion by the toxin secreted from the thorns on the vine. Fortunately, Tang Ling
There were other people who came to the rescue in time, otherwise Zhang Ziang would have become fertilizer for so many baby-faced flowers.
After this experience, everyone also knew about a new kind of monster in this maze. The flowers growing on the wall looked harmless to humans and animals. After being stimulated at night, they would use the vines and paper strips around them to get entangled and break in.
The person secretes toxins to make him fall into a sinking illusion, and then devours his flesh and blood bit by bit.
As for Zhang Ziang, after experiencing this disaster, when he saw flowers blooming around him, he had a stress reaction. He hid far away and kept chanting: "The more beautiful things are, the more poisonous they are!"
It made everyone dumbfounded. As for those who were curious about what was in Zhang Ziang's illusion, he himself refused to tell him even to death. No matter how many tricks Zhou Chen used, he still refused to let him go.
I have been in the second level for more than a week, maybe more? I don’t know. I can only keep looking up and see the rotation of day and night, too many times to count. So far, everyone still has not found the maze that the cat mentioned.
Exit. This place was much bigger than they thought. The merchants had put small marks on all the places along the way. But so far, they had never gone back to the place they had gone through. They would never go back.
It's a completely new scene, and I'm constantly groping in the unfamiliar.
"If we keep going like this, let alone a month, we won't be able to reach the exit in a year." Arriving at a new resting place that Tang Ling mentioned, Zhang Ziang suddenly collapsed on the ground and looked at the afternoon display on his phone.
One point, and the number of survivors has dropped to 21, Zhang Ziang was a little discouraged.
They are always groping in brand-new scenes. Although Tang Ling has cleverly avoided many dangers with her abilities, the eternal maze, the towering walls, and the endless road are the only ones that can see changes.
, there is only the sky above the sky that regularly alternates day and night, and this broken mobile phone in the hand, and the number of survivors is constantly decreasing. So far, they have not met many people, they are not clear about the situation of other people, and they have even begun to suspect that this
In this vast space, will they be the only ones left who can still breathe and breathe? Slowly, human life seems to have become a series of numbers, coldly lowering, witnessing the passing of another life without any real sense.
Fall.
In addition to self-perception, the existence of life must also be witnessed by others. Animals living in groups will start to feel empty and numb if they stay away from their own group for too long, and they will doubt the meaning of their own existence. This is the case with Zhang Ziang's group of people now, although
They still had each other, but only each other was left. They looked at each other as if they were looking in a mirror of themselves. The other person and themselves seemed to be in the same state - numbly doubting the value of survival.
Hanging on for dear life with the little food left, and then holding on to the outlet of hope given to them by the cat in the video, they kept wandering in this maze, from full of joy to nothing, disappointment and despair.
Continuously accumulate.
They thought they would continue to look for the so-called way out in such a dejected manner, until they saw people other than their group again.
At 1:30 in the afternoon, everyone moved to a new place again. As soon as they arrived at this place, Lu Shang noticed something was wrong. He stopped the people around him and observed the surroundings vigilantly.
"What's wrong?" Tang Yong asked Lu Shang, carrying Tang Ling who was still sleeping on his back.
"There are signs that someone has been here. Look at the grass on the ground, it has obviously been trampled on." Lu Shang pointed to the squashed weeds on the ground and said to everyone, "It looks like they just left not long ago?
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"So are there any other living people in this maze? I feel like after this period of time, I almost thought that we were the only ones left in this maze." Zhang Ziang listened to Lu Shang's words and looked at the ground curiously. Sure enough,
As Lu Shang said, the grassland in this area was obviously different from the places they had passed before. A large area of weeds seemed to have been pressed down by heavy objects and fell to the soil.
But did he really leave? Could it be that he heard the sound of their group arriving and hid on purpose?
Lu Shang observed the surrounding scenery with a sullen face. There were intersections where he could leave everywhere. Whether the group of people really left by chance or on purpose, Lu Shang was not sure at this time, but his heart was already lifted, but at the moment
There was no other way. It was getting dark and he couldn't risk putting his teammates and himself in other dangers. He could only be more careful here.
After Lu Shang warned the people around him, he took Zhou Chen and Zhang Ziang to check the surrounding intersections, while Liu Ruyan, Lu Li and Tang Yong were responsible for waiting where they were.
"It seems they have gone far."
Zhou Chen looked at the clear traces extending into the distance underground and said to the Lu Shang beside him.
"I hope so. Let's go back." Lu Shang nodded and was about to take Zhou Chen and Zhang Zi'ang back when he heard the noise of other people in the distance.
problem occurs?!
The three of them looked at each other and hurriedly ran in the direction of their companions. As soon as they returned to the resting place, they saw several people standing there. Opposite them was a wary-looking Lu Li. Tang Yong hugged him tightly and woke up.
Tang Ling stared nervously at the people opposite her.
"Shang Lu, be careful!"
Lu Shang, who was about to step forward, suddenly heard Zhang Ziang's cry. He was pushed aside randomly, and a huge fireball flew past him and hit the wall in the distance. The winding blades of grass randomly
It burned, and fierce flames began to spread across the entire wall. Then suddenly, under the shocked eyes of Lu Shang and others, the fire gradually extinguished, leaving only a piece of burnt stumps.
"It's such a pity that we didn't hit." A frivolous male voice said regretfully. Lu Shang turned around and saw that among those people, a man with long hair and a strong build waved his hand with regret, and then looked at Lu Shang.
Shang and others smiled even brighter.
"What... do you want to do?"
Lu Shang squinted and looked at the men and women in front of him. Several of them looked particularly familiar. His vague memory slowly linked the names to the faces of these people. These people were all among the 50 players.
It was just one of the couples. If he remembered correctly, they seemed to have died in that corridor at the beginning of the first level. Why were they standing here safe and sound now?
"Mr. Lu, are you surprised to see us?"
The man behind the long-haired boy came out and smiled slyly at Mr. Lu. This man was the husband of the couple who was kicked out of the room before they had time to pack their things, Zhou Wei, and the man standing next to him.
Wearing the same sinister smile is his wife, Chen Lu.
"Mr. Zhou, Ms. Chen, weren't you killed in that corridor?"
