When Xiao Lou opened his eyes, he found himself in a dark corridor. There was a mirror at the end of the corridor. He struggled to stand up and took two steps forward, and then he clearly saw the person in the mirror——
The man's face was as pale as paper, his lips were chapped with several obvious gashes, his hair was as messy as weeds, his clothes were stained with yellow sand and it was almost impossible to distinguish the original color, and there was a large pool of dazzling blood on his chest.
If Xiao Lou hadn't walked around with the people in the mirror moving at the same time, he would hardly have recognized himself in such an embarrassing state.
Xiao Lou gently touched the blood-stained chest. The injury there seemed to be healing, but the cold touch of the blade cutting through the body was still clearly engraved in his memory.
The image of Liu Qiao stabbing his heart with a knife flashed through his mind again.
He never believed that Liu Qiao would kill him, something must have gone wrong...
Xiao Lou didn't have time to think about it, when he heard a familiar mechanical sound in his ears.
【Welcome to the nightmare chamber.】
[This will be your last chance. Once eliminated in the nightmare chamber, you will be completely wiped out. 】
I heard this voice when I entered the double king's secret room. One was gentle and clear, and the other was deep and cold. The two voices were combined together to form a strange reverberation - this is the maker of the rules of the card world, the big king and the little one.
The king's voice.
Nightmare Chamber, does that mean that he is dead in the Double Kings Chamber?
At that time, he was suddenly attacked by Liu Qiao, and he had no time to react. Therefore, he did not have time to activate the team-limited resurrection card. Liu Qiao's knife killed him with one blow, and it was inevitable that he would be sent to the nightmare chamber.
As early as the beginning, the gatekeeper told him that once the challengers failed to break through the level, they would be eliminated from the nightmare chamber. The difficulty of the nightmare chamber was several times higher than that of the ordinary chamber. Very few people could survive the nightmare chamber.
Ye Qi was eliminated from the nightmare chamber of [Spade 3] and struggled to survive for 7 days by eating leaves. Jiu Ge, Tang Ci, Hua Ying and Gui were eliminated from the nightmare chamber of [Ji of Clubs]. What happened to the three of them?
He was seriously injured, and Tang Ci even lost his legs there.
This time it was the nightmare chamber of [Double King Pass]. The difficulty was definitely higher than what his teammates had encountered. He didn’t know if he could survive. Xiao Lou clenched his fists hard and quickly regained his sanity. No matter what he encountered, he would
You must stay calm first.
At this moment, the mirror reflecting Xiao Lou's figure at the end of the corridor suddenly turned 180 degrees, revealing a door.
It's pitch dark inside the door, but this is the only way right now - the way to the nightmare chamber.
Xiao Lou did not hesitate and walked in.
The iron door squeaked shut behind him, and in the dark environment, the sound was particularly harsh.
Xiao Lou's Night Pearl card has been invalidated after being used before. Now, he only has one lighting card left on him, which is the palace lantern he got in the [Shangyuan Lantern Festival] copy.
This lantern can illuminate an area of 100 square meters, but the lantern will go out after the candles burn out.
A candle can keep burning all night. Xiao Lou did not hesitate and took out the palace lantern - he had to understand the current situation he was in before he could find a way to escape.
However, the moment he took out the lantern to illuminate the surroundings, Xiao Lou suddenly froze on the spot.
This is a closed secret room. Xiao Lou stands in the center of the secret room. There are four doors surrounding him. There is a mirror on each door. As he lights the lantern, the image in the mirror is clearly displayed in his eyes.
before--
In the mirror directly in front is his mother. The woman is smiling and looking at him with gentle eyes.
Xiao Lou quickly turned around and looked behind him——
In the mirror behind him was his father, with a stern look on his face, staring at him intently.
On the left and right sides are his cousins who have been clinging to him since he was a child.
The lively and cheerful girl has a bright smile on her face, and her eyes are full of admiration when she looks at him, like a little girl; the introverted and shy cousin has a nervous look in his eyes, and his cheeks are a little red when he looks at him.
The looks and expressions of these people were all too real, as if they really appeared in front of him.
Xiao Lou looked at the familiar relatives in the mirror, and his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly. He took a step forward with the palace lantern and pushed open the door where his mother appeared in the mirror.
The next moment, he entered an almost endless corridor.
There are countless doors in the corridor, and each door has a mirror. Every time Xiao Lou takes a step, the mirror next to him will play some clips like a movie. The woman in the picture is either smiling gently or looking sad.
Or he frowned and lost himself in thought, with all kinds of lifelike expressions, as if Xiao Lou had really seen his mother.
Although he rarely mentioned his family after coming to the card world, Xiao Lou has always buried them deeply in his heart. His family is the reason why he insisted on returning to the real world. His parents worked hard to raise him, but before he had time to fulfill his filial piety,
Don't let people with white hair give away people with black hair!
Now, looking at the kind and familiar mother appearing in the mirror, and thinking of the woman crying in the real world because of her son's car accident, Xiao Lou's heart aches.
But he knew clearly that what he saw in front of him were all illusions, and he could not indulge in the illusion of the mirror.
He held the palace lantern, forced himself to ignore the phantom in the mirror, and walked forward quickly.
The moment he walked around the corner, the expressions of "Mom" in all the mirrors in the entire corridor suddenly changed. Those vivid expressions gradually became distorted, and the originally gentle eyes became cold and sharp. They stared like poisonous snakes.
Xiao Lou stretched out his hands from the mirror and pinched Xiao Lou's neck like lightning——
Xiao Lou took a breath, quickly activated the blast acceleration shoes, and ran forward quickly!
However, there were more and more women attacking him around, and each one of them had the face of his mother, like replicas produced in batches in the interstellar world. Xiao Lou's scalp was numb, and he hid and ran away.
With help, he struggled to get rid of these people, and finally saw a fork in the road ahead. He pushed the door and went in——
To make matters worse, countless "fathers" appeared in the entire corridor.
As before, his father's expression was either serious or solemn, with a few smiles. But the moment he saw Xiao Lou, the eyes of all the people in the mirror became cold and sharp, like machines without emotions.
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They came out of the mirror and attacked Xiao Lou crazily!
Xiao Lou didn't have many attack cards in his hand, and he had consumed too many cards before, so he could only use up all his strength to escape.
There are mirrors everywhere in the maze, and it's impossible to tell the direction.
Xiao Lou wore accelerating shoes and struggled to avoid their attacks at a sprint speed of hundreds of meters. More and more people were chasing behind him. In addition to the parents and younger siblings he saw before, there were also grandfathers, grandmothers, and colleagues.
Students, classmates in college, teachers...
Almost all the faces that were clear in his memory reappeared in this mirror maze.
Those who are familiar with him are all attacking him expressionlessly. You can imagine that one day your parents, brothers, and close friends suddenly start to attack you collectively. Everyone stares at you coldly and wants to kill you...
Scenes like this can easily lead to emotional breakdown.
But Xiao Lou did not collapse.
Although he ran for his life in a panic, he still maintained the last trace of sanity.
As he ran, he memorized the route in his mind.
The paths in the mirror maze are all one-way corners with no forks. Moreover, the turns at the intersection are not the common 90-degree right-angle turns. The angle between the two roads is more like an obtuse angle of about 135 degrees.
From the corridor where he first met his "mother" mirror image to the second time he saw his mother's mirror image, he made a big circle and walked through 8 corners.
A figure composed of 8 obtuse angles of 135 degrees...
If you look down from a high altitude, it should be a maze similar to the "Eight Gate Dunjia". The terrain of the entire maze is like a Bagua array!
The mirror projects memories, allowing the people in his memory to attack him and torture his spirit. The eight-door maze confuses his judgment of direction. If he continues to move forward, he will keep circling along the maze, and no matter how much he goes around, he will never get out.
Then, emotionally broken, he would die in the hands of one of his closest relatives.
The difficulty of the nightmare chamber really leaves no room for survival!
If Xiao Lou hadn't always remained calm and quickly judged the terrain of the maze, he would never have been able to get out of the maze.
Xiao Lou immediately used a card - Invisibility Cloak.
This card has accompanied him through many secret rooms. Now due to the rules of the Double King's Secret Room, it will be immediately invalidated as soon as it is used. But there is no way, he must use the time of the invisibility cloak to find the exit of the maze as soon as possible.
After becoming invisible, those who were chasing him instantly lost their target. The palace lantern was covered by Xiao Lou in his cloak, and darkness returned to the surrounding area.
Xiao Lou continued to explore based on his memory.
He remembered that when he took Liu Qiao and Ye Qi into the hospital, they were walking due north, and he saw the image of grandma in the corridor. In this maze, he saw grandma in the corridor at the fifth corner. If the nightmare room and the ordinary
If the background setting of the secret room is consistent, then the direction represented by the fifth corridor is true north.
In the eight-door Dunjia algorithm, the eight gates include the three auspicious gates of opening, rest, and life, the three evil gates of death, fright, and injury, and the two neutral gates of Dumen and Jingmen. Xiao Lou studied the arithmetic of Qimen Dunjia when he was playing escape rooms.
, he clearly remembered that the five elements of "Shengmen" belong to the earth and are located in Gen Palace in the northeast. After the beginning of spring, everything revives and everything grows in the earth, so it was named "Shengmen".
The fifth corridor is due north, up north and down south, left west and right east. The road close to the right side of the fifth corridor is the northeast direction representing the gate of life.
Relying on his memory, Xiao Lou took advantage of his invisibility to quickly reach the corridor representing the northeast direction.
There were many mirrors in this corridor. Xiao Lou counted the number of mirrors. The mirror in the middle was pointing northeast. He no longer hesitated, took a step forward, and pushed forward with all his strength -
The mirror was indeed pushed away.
My analysis is correct!
Xiao Lou felt happy and hurriedly walked into the path behind the mirror.
There was still darkness in front of him. He walked for more than ten steps wearing an invisibility cloak. Suddenly, a soft light appeared in the corridor ahead, which was exactly the same as the light of a palace lantern. Xiao Lou walked towards the light, and as soon as he walked around the corner, he encountered a
A familiar face.
——It’s Yu Hanjiang!
He was holding a black submachine gun in his hand, his body was covered in blood, his eyes were bloodshot, and the man was so violent that he looked like a Shura who had returned from hell!
Xiao Lou recognized this as Yu Hanjiang himself at a glance, but he was worried that Yu Hanjiang would mistake him for an illusion and attack him. Xiao Lou did not take off his invisibility cloak, but took advantage of the invisibility time to walk to Yu Hanjiang's side.
Yu Hanjiang alertly noticed a gust of wind blowing by his side. He just raised his gun, but the next moment, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Hanjiang, it's me."
Yu Hanjiang's bloodshot eyes suddenly surged with complicated emotions, and the finger holding the trigger even trembled slightly.
Xiao Lou stretched out his hand, gently placed it on the back of his hand, and said softly: "I am Xiao Lou."
The temperature on the back of his hand was slightly cool, and Yu Hanjiang's manic spirit gradually calmed down. Although he couldn't see the other person, the simple physical contact, the familiar body temperature and touch, made Yu Hanjiang instantly sure that the person next to him was Xiao.
building.
Yu Hanjiang held his hand hard and asked in a low voice: "Why are you also in the nightmare room?"
Xiao Lou smiled bitterly and said: "We have all been eliminated."
Yu Hanjiang's face was extremely ugly: "Did I fail to cure my disease and pass it on to you?"
Xiao Lou was startled - it seemed that Yu Hanjiang was suffering from a high fever at the time and didn't know what was going on. He subconsciously thought that his illness was serious and he had passed it on to himself.
Xiao Lou shook his head and said softly: "Liu Qiao did it."
Yu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows in surprise: "What did you say? Liu Qiao?"
"Well, Liu Qiao killed me, and then he killed you, who I had in my pocket and had a high fever."
Yu Hanjiang: “…………”
Xiao Lou explained: "There is something fishy about this matter. I don't believe that Xiao Liu will suddenly change her personality and kill both of us. It is possible that she was replaced by a hunter. I clearly remember that she and Ye Qi were
At the same time, when they disappeared in the maze, when I asked them, Ye Qi replied immediately, but Liu Qiao took a few seconds to reply to me - the accident probably happened within those few seconds."
Yu Hanjiang really didn't know what happened in the maze. Listening to Xiao Lou's description, his brows furrowed more and more tightly.
Xiao Lou paused and said calmly: "No matter what, we have to find a way to survive from the nightmare chamber. Only in this way can we return to our teammates. What I worry about is that the hunter who replaced Liu Qiao will continue to
Kill other people. And Liu Qiao himself might also be in danger."