"Uh... yes, that's right." Ye Suling shook her head slightly and muttered to herself feeling a little strange, "Why did I say he was dead? Not only was he alive, he also continued to work in the history department.
…”
At this moment, there was suddenly a booming sound next to his ears, and a stone escalator was automatically lowered from the ceiling and extended in front of the two of them.
"What is this?" The two people's attention was attracted by the sound. They put the topic of discussion aside for the time being and looked at the airborne escalator with some suspicion.
Obviously, the shape of this escalator is not unfamiliar to them. It was the only passage leading to the ruins above the ground after pressing down the Liuhe threaded bricks. It was the only way to go down from the top of the head. But this time it was because the threaded bricks could not be pressed down, so
The two of them were forced to have no choice but to start exploring the surroundings, trying to find other ways out.
When he asked Troy in the room before, he did say that if Zhang Ke wanted to go out in a hurry, he could try again - but now Zhang Ke was clearly still talking to Ye Suling and had no time to try pressing the button again.
Put down that brick.
This also means that either the escalator moved on its own, or someone else was secretly manipulating it and lowering the ladder secretly.
"Troy?" Zhang Ke immediately realized who was the most likely first candidate. He immediately turned around and knocked on the iron door, loudly asking: "Troy? Is it you? Did you lower the iron door?"
However, the silence inside the door was as quiet as death, and there was no answer at all. I don't know if Troy didn't want to answer, or for some purpose, he deliberately didn't prepare to answer.
"But no matter what, this escalator is exactly the same as what I remembered, and the direction is correct. It is indeed the only shortcut to the ground." Ye Suling looked at it for a while and then said, "As long as we climb up from here, we can
Then you can leave the ruins."
"Leave the ruins?" Zhang Ke glanced at the steel door that was like a barrier. Although he still had endless questions in his mind and wanted to ask Troy for clarification, as long as the other party's attitude remained unchanged, he would be turned away.
Besides, then staying here is indeed just in vain and a waste of time.
It is indeed a good choice to leave as soon as possible. With Troy's character, if he is really willing to continue to communicate, he should take the initiative to come over. If he really manipulated some devices to lower this staircase, then it is equivalent to lowering it.
A silent eviction order, asking the two of them to leave quickly.
Sure enough, it would be better to leave temporarily? Although he thought so rationally, Zhang Ke always felt vaguely uneasy when looking at the strangely descending stairs.
"Let's go, it will be troublesome if the ladder goes back up again. I still know too little about the mechanisms here."
Ye Suling reached out and grabbed Zhang Ke, and the two of them walked up the stairs. As the ground got closer, they also noticed a little sunlight coming from the gap, which shone warmly on their bodies, making people feel quite warm.
to be appropriate.
"It seems that it's daytime already." Ye Suling said, "Indeed, we have been delayed in the ruins for long enough. It took about two or three hours just to crack the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Entering the central
After falling unconscious in the sacrificial area, we should have been delayed for at least an hour or two, and it's almost early morning now."
"If the sun rises again, then what day is it outside now?" Zhang Ke said thoughtfully, but more like he was talking to himself, "Is it postponed to the next day? Or if it was like last time, a new one
Has reincarnation begun? Will the outside world still be empty?"
Even Zhang Ke couldn't confirm this before actually seeing the outside world. After all, judging from the fact that he was not rebooted back to Xu Xiaoli's room, he did not jump to a new reincarnation.
But based on the last experience, it seems that during the time Zhang Ke and Ye Suling stayed underground, everything on the ground has been reincarnated, but they were not affected and continued the ongoing process, like
Relying on some special blessing from the ruins, it escaped the restart.
I don’t know if it was because they escaped the bug caused by the restart. Last time, there was no living person on the entire land. It was not until the end that they were surrounded by a group of people wearing silver uniforms. Although the overall outline was humanoid, it was impossible to tell whether the clothes were human or not.
If it exists, use the sonic weapon to knock it directly to the ground and destroy it.
Will he encounter the same situation again this time? This is the question that Zhang Ke is most concerned about now.
"Well, isn't the sunlight a bit too strong?" After walking a few more steps, he was already very close to the ground. The bright sunlight from the dark door shone down, making Zhang Ke feel a little dazzled. "The sunlight in the morning is so good now."
Yet?"
"...for a light of this brightness, based on Shanghai's average air visibility, it would be at least after ten o'clock, maybe even noon." Ye Suling frowned and said, "Based on the intensity of sunlight and the position of the sun, we can estimate the approximate time.
, is also a required course for police officers.”
"Is it almost noon? Then we have stayed under the ruins for long enough. This means that the time you and I were unconscious in the central sacrificial area was probably much longer than previously estimated, probably three or four hours."
As soon as Zhang Ke finished saying this, he suddenly heard a "puff" sound, and then he felt a slight itch on the side of his thigh next to his knee, so he stretched out his hand to scratch it.
Scratch...scratch...can't scratch?
For some reason, Zhang Ke found that he couldn't do this apparently simple movement. He felt that no matter how he bent over, he couldn't touch his thighs at all, as if his legs had disappeared in an instant.
What's going on? Zhang Ke's eyes were a little confused, but he only heard an exclamation of "Zhang Ke, what's wrong with you!" coming from beside him, and then he saw Ye Suling and the stairs flying up unexpectedly, farther and farther away from him.
Coming higher and farther, farther and farther.
No - it's not that they are flying, but that I am falling, right?
Zhang Ke stretched out his hand to grab something, but then he realized that the numb and itchy feeling from before had spread all over his body, even the tip of each finger was not spared, and his vision and hearing gradually fell into silence.
In the darkness, except for the barely retained self-awareness, his body could no longer sense any information from the outside world.
What exactly is going on?
He didn't have time to think, he just felt as if his body hit something hard without any pain, and then his consciousness was torn apart and swallowed by the dark abyss.
"ah--"
When Zhang Ke opened his eyes again, he found that he was standing on the first step of the stairs, just about to step up. Ye Suling, on the other hand, looked calm.
Chapter completed!