But after all, Zhang Long has never lived in a place like this, so his lack of experience in this area is understandable.
The vent is about two meters above the ground. Zhang Long can climb in with a slight jump. Nicholas is not a problem. He is already tall enough, and he can climb in without even jumping.
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The only question now is whether Nicholas climbed in by himself, or whether something captured him from here.
Zhang Long held a flashlight in his mouth and climbed up to the vent.
Looking through the light of a flashlight, it turned out that there were signs of something crawling or dragging inside the passage, and the dust inside was disturbed.
But it is still difficult to tell whether Nicholas climbed in by himself or was pulled away by the monster.
At this moment, Zhang Long can only move forward along this passage.
Only by keeping moving forward will you have a chance to solve the puzzle.
This ventilation system seems to extend in all directions.
When Zhang Long was crawling inside the ventilation duct.
I often hear some weird sounds because I don’t know which room they are coming from.
Moreover, the pipes of the ventilation system have many forks.
If Zhang Long hadn't had a strong sense of direction, he would have been lost long ago.
Zhang Long didn't know how long he had been crawling, but suddenly he heard a very strange sound.
Those other weird sounds disappeared after just one or two sounds, making it difficult for Zhang Long to find their direction.
But the sound was very persistent, as if someone was tapping something on the water pipe, making a ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding sound.
It's like someone is sending a message using some kind of code.
This was because Zhang Long didn't know anything about Morse code, and he couldn't understand the meaning of those knocks at all. He only knew that the ding-dong-dong-dong sound had a certain pattern.
Although Zhang Long lost contact with Nicholas and Zhang Xiaotong at this time, in the dark ventilation duct, Zhang Long didn't know which way he was going, which was the right direction.
So I couldn't help but crawl towards the ding-ding-dong-dong direction.
The sound sounds quite close, but it actually sounds quite far away.
At least Zhang Long didn't reach that place after crawling for a long time, and from the feeling, it didn't seem to be close to the place where the sound came from.
It seemed that after climbing for a long time, we were still quite far away.
At this time, Zhang Long also felt that he really wanted to find Zhang Xiaotong, so caring about him would lead to chaos.
I lost my greatest magic weapon of all time: calmness.
And later it was discovered that Nicholas was missing, which made things even worse.
This has led to the current impetuous behavior.
So Zhang Long took a few deep breaths in succession and forced himself to calm down.
Obviously Zhang Long still has a magic weapon that he has not used yet.
That's his spatial perception.
So Zhang Long also closed his eyes.
He made some gentle sounds from his mouth, and then felt the space he was in based on the bounce of the sounds.
Ever since Zhang Long regained his sight, this ability seemed to have been forgotten by him, and he had only used it very few times.
In fact, in such a dark place, this ability is more useful than a tactical flashlight.
So Zhang Long simply turned off the tactical flashlight to save battery power.
She relies solely on the sounds produced by her own mouth and the information fed back to move forward.
He had just used this spatial perception ability and felt that there were three forked roads in front of him, but two of them were dead ends.
Of course, the so-called no way out is just that the shutters of the cell are in front of you. You can still jump into the cell by opening the shutters, but the other one is different. The shutters of the other one seem to lead to a wider space.
Zhang Long didn't want to go back from one cell to another, so he also wanted to see that place with a wider space.
In particular, the feedback he received was that the shutters of the two cells had not been taken down, which meant that if Nicholas really crawled through this ventilation duct.
Then he probably won't take those two roads.
In addition, Zhang Long finally used a tactical flashlight to confirm the traces. One of the two roads indeed had no traces of recent passage of objects.
So first of all, we eliminated the passage without any traces.
There are two left that have traces. There is no doubt that the one Zhang Long should check is the one that leads to a wider area.
It took Zhang Long some time to finally climb to the exit, and the blinds at the exit were also missing.
Zhang Long first confirmed that there were indeed no other weird creatures outside. As long as he held his breath, there was silence outside.
So Zhang Long got out of there at this time.
After Zhang Long landed on the ground, he discovered that the shutters of the vents had indeed been taken off and placed in the corner.
At this time, Zhang Long looked around carefully and found that this was a place similar to a warehouse.
The floor area is large, and there are three shelves in total, with some things piled randomly on them.
Zhang Long flipped through it casually.
Nothing noteworthy.
But what Zhang Long was more concerned about was in this warehouse-like room.
There is a statue.
The statue is quite weird.
It was a headless statue.
Of course, it is not accurate to say that this statue has no head.
To be precise, it should be said that the head of this statue is not where it should be.
Because the head of this statue is held in the hands of the statue.
It's really weird to hold up your own head as if you were holding a lantern.
Zhang Long looked at the statue for a moment and felt that his back was hairy.
Indeed, when Zhang Long was about to take a closer look, he heard the sound of footsteps running past.
Zhang Long took a flashlight and took a photo. It turned out that there was a door in the corner of the warehouse.
Zhang Long walked over and opened the door, only to find that there was a corridor-like place outside.
The sound of footsteps just now came from here, but Zhang Long looked towards both ends of the corridor, but did not find any figure.
This corridor is quite long.
If calculated based on the speed of those footsteps, when Zhang Long came out of the room, he should not have turned around any corner.
But Zhang Long didn't see anyone.
At this time, Zhang Long also had goosebumps all over his body.
He held a flashlight and shined it on both sides. It seemed that on this side of the wall, there were no other entrances or exits except the door of the warehouse. He really didn't know if he heard the footsteps wrong or something.