Pan Cui stood on the balcony, looked up at Pina who was climbing down little by little, and gasped: "Don't look at them... they can't jump to the rope!"
Lin Sanjiu was leaning on the balcony railing and sitting on the ground. After resting for half a minute, her breathing finally calmed down and she should be able to stand up. However, the lost physical strength could not be recovered for a while -
—The ferocious hunger burned a hole in her body, and the stomach acid seemed to squeeze all the internal organs together, making everything feel sizzling and uncomfortable.
After she was pulled out of the window by Pan Cui, the two of them did not dare to delay any longer and quickly slid down to the balcony on the next floor. At this time, the yellow arrow was on the ground at Lin Sanjiu's feet, pointing straight towards the dark space behind the door.
indoors.
"Too much," Pina's voice and the rope under her feet trembled together. The rope was not long, but because she seemed to be possessed by a demon, she couldn't help but glance behind the office window again and again.
, so much so that he still hasn’t climbed down after half a minute. "Then, those faces... are all crowded on the glass, and they are all looking at me..."
"Stop looking," Pan Cui said anxiously, "Hurry up!"
With a low scream, Pina almost half-stumbled and half-tumbled onto the balcony. Her hands and feet were weak, and when she wanted to get up for the first time, she actually fell; she finally stood up holding on to the railing.
His face turned pale and he said, "I'm so tired and have no strength... Are you the same?"
Pan Cui gasped and nodded, even in the night, there was a glimmer of sweat on her forehead.
"It's those things," Lin Sanjiu said coldly.
For more than an hour, her subconscious seemed to have collected every piece of the riddle and pieced together a rough shape. The shapeless thoughts that had been running under the water suddenly turned into coherent language: "I didn't expect it either.
, the protective measures we had on us turned out to be of no use at all on this road... because what we faced was not attacks and injuries at all. From the moment we entered the office, we entered an environment designed for evolvers.
In the environment.”
"Do you know what's going on?" Pina was stunned and asked quickly.
"I just have a guess, but I guess it's pretty close."
Lin Sanjiu looked up, immediately reached out to grab the balcony railing, stood up with difficulty, and said: "We can't continue to stand here chatting, let's follow the arrow first. We have walked at least half the distance, and the rest is
There shouldn’t be much way down.”
After Pina jumped down, clusters of human faces emerged from the smashed windows upstairs; several Lin Sanjiu, several Pina, several Pan Cui... all in the dim sky
, silently looking down at the balcony below, as if wondering whether they could jump from this distance.
"I'm watching them. If they jump down," Pan Cui whispered, "I'll fly them under the balcony."
"I'm afraid it's not that simple. I guess our biggest chance is to finish this section of the road quickly." Lin Sanjiu shook his head and said, "None of you have ever broken in, so you may not see it as clearly as I do...
…Did you see what was under those faces just now?”
It was just such a short distance from the balcony to the door. Pina walked in a sloppy way, and it seemed that it was already very difficult to lift her limbs. Just as she was about to open the door, she paused again, as if she didn't dare.
"Under the face?" Pan Cui frowned and scanned the clusters of faces upstairs. "I only saw the neck. There was a picture of Pina's face. There seemed to be some shoulders, but further on
I didn’t see it next time. Does it matter?”
"Do you know what's under those faces?" Pina asked over her shoulder.
Lin Sanjiu was about to speak, but at this moment, there was a sudden bang in the room behind the balcony door; several people were startled and turned their heads at the moment when the indoor lights turned on at the same time.
I saw that the ceiling in the room seemed to have lost its support, cracking downwards, and a black shadow fell from the clusters of dust fragments.
The black figure hit the ground with a thud, supported its body with two arms, and then raised its head toward them, revealing Pan Cui's face.
As conspicuous as it is, is the yellow arrow under it; the arrows are connected one after another, crossing the empty and large room behind the balcony door, extending into the dimness where the lights are not turned on, seeming to point to a vague
's door.
In less than a minute, Pan Cui's face had already learned to smile - maybe it was a smile, because its cheek muscles squeezed its eyes into two thin, curved black arcs.
This time, there was no need for Lin Sanjiu to answer.
Everyone can see clearly that the face is connected to a neck, the neck is connected to a shoulder, a chest is under the shoulder, and the belly is under the chest. What is different from the owner is that except for its shoulders, head and arms, it is normal.
In addition to the size, the further down you go, the smaller and narrower the size, like a baby with abnormal growth, only a part of the body has grown, and like a ball of flesh squeezed out of some narrow mouth, a shape has been pinched out.
Human-like.
From below its belly, which is only as wide as a fist, it has no lower limbs, and its upper body emerges from a dark, thick ball that looks like dried meat.
"That, that one looks familiar..." Pina said tremblingly, taking a step back.
She seemed to recognize it.
Pan Cui suddenly held her shoulder from behind and stopped letting her go back. At some point, she raised her head again.
"Up there," Pan Cui murmured, "those faces seem to be about to..."
As if to complete her words, Lin Sanjiu suddenly stretched out his arms, pushed out of the upstairs window, and fell into the air crookedly.
Because the head and shoulders were fully developed, they were the heaviest; Lin Sanjiu's head was facing down, carrying his small body and the black ball of flesh connected to it, and landed behind several people with a "snap"
on the balcony floor.
"How can the thing that imitates you be as tiger as you? It will jump if others don't jump," Teacher Yi yelled angrily in Lin Sanjiu's mind, "What should we do now? The road is blocked in front and back!"
Pan Cui had already turned around, and before Lin Sanjiu could stop her, she stepped forward, just like a baseball player swinging a bat, and smoothly knocked out the black rope in her hand - the black rope was at the beginning
When it broke through the air, it made a sharp sound, like cutting through the air; however, when it really touched Lin Sanjiu, it seemed as if someone had drained its strength, and fell softly to Lin Sanjiu's body.
He was hit on the shoulder and slid to the ground.
Pan Cui's arm suddenly fell down, and she almost fell on Pina when she lost strength. When Pina supported her, she cried out uncontrollably: "Are you okay?"
The half Lin Sanjiu that emerged from the black flesh ball was only staggered by the slap, and then stood on the ground with two arms to steady itself. It dragged its body with both hands and slowly crawled forward.
Taking a step forward, the black ball made a rustling sound on the ground; I don't know if it was an illusion, but it seemed to have "grown" a little longer than before.
"Don't make too big a move." Lin Sanjiu said breathlessly, "I suspect that the power we used on this road may have been fed back to them in the form of energy."
When Pina and Pan Cui heard this, they both stopped for a moment. "What? Are you sure?"
"Whether it's the first or second floor, we need to move things with our own hands and constantly expend energy to clear the way. Don't you think it's strange? Why do we have to do hard work? There must be some purpose... I think this purpose is
Let us use our power."
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly. "The reason why the protection is useless is because we release the energy ourselves. Whether it is applied to the garbage or the windows, it will ultimately be applied to this road."
"Well, then," Pina stammered, "the internal organs in those corpses absorbed energy and... grew into what we look like?"
"It looks like this. When we walked through the first floor and found the corpse, it was equivalent to activating those hibernating internal organs," Lin Sanjiu said in a low voice, "As for why the corpse moved, I still have a lot of doubts.
."
"We can't stand here forever..." Pan Cui said weakly, staring at Lin Sanjiu who was looking at them with his head tilted across the way, and said: "If we are directly hit by them, I'm afraid we will also suffer. What I just said
Just by touching it indirectly, a large chunk of my strength was suddenly taken away..."
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but shudder when she recalled the moment when her physical strength was rapidly drained.
It took a lot of effort for her to break through the window; the physical contact with her face also caused her to lose part of her strength. After she fell to the ground due to loss of strength, she couldn't remember it.
It felt like I was surrounded by several faces - I wonder if I became a feast for those faces at that time?
In the room behind her, Pan Cui's face had already crawled to the door; it didn't hit the door, but just spread its nostrils as if to smell their scent through the glass, crawling back and forth behind the door.
"Wait, wait a minute," Pina said with a pale face, "We can't make any big moves, because the energy we spend will be sucked away by the road and used to nourish these faces. But we can't be touched by them, otherwise it will be
The same result. We can't escape yet, because if we want to go out, we can only take this way...Isn't this a dead end?"
As if she was saying "right", as soon as she finished speaking, the ceiling in the room behind her suddenly resounded with another crack - this time the cracks were larger, and the garbage and debris from upstairs rumbled down;
They dropped to the ground together with seven or eight faces of Pina, Lin Sanjiu and Pan Cui.
Pan Cui's face was lying on the door, with its not yet fully developed hand resting on the door handle.
Although I posted this early today, I started writing at ten o'clock in the morning... As of now, I feel like I'm about to die... The main reason is that I took a melatonin pill last night in order to get a good night's sleep.
I didn’t expect that the melatonin I bought this time was too strong. I took the melatonin at 9 o’clock last night, slept in it, and drank two cups of coffee. I was still sleepy. After sitting still on the sofa for ten minutes, my head stopped.
Little by little, it felt like a veil was covering my mind. The melatonin I bought was obviously a drug (don’t read in parentheses).
PS: I’ll just sit here and see if anyone talks about Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin’s skit!
