"This is obviously not a road," Lin Sanjiu said, squatting on the ground beside the stairs.
She and Pina walked back along the original path without much effort, and the journey went smoothly beyond her expectation. The two soon discovered that if they walked in the opposite direction after entering the floor door, they would end up in a circle.
Go back to the route indicated by the yellow arrow; this way, there is only one other way left to try - the staircase that continues to go down outside the floor door.
In the first one or two floors, everything was normal.
Under the dim light of the stairwell, there are many dark corners hidden, but other than that, there are only bright red warnings painted on the wall one after another: "You have deviated from the designated route", "Please turn back to the designated route immediately"...
The further down you go, the more intensive the warnings become and the harsher the tone.
When the red letter warnings reached an almost shocking level, they suddenly stopped.
It was against the backdrop of a blank wall that Lin Sanjiu and Pina found themselves unable to walk any further.
There was no light in the stairwell below, and the only light source was the dim light bulb coming from behind them, which felt very unreliable. Darkness and gloom engulfed the next section of the stairs - but this could not explain why the stairs were in a blur, as if
The water churning with sediment at the bottom of the lake is also circling and shapeless. It makes people feel that if they step on it, they will be lost forever in another world of madness and confusion.
A fool would not continue walking; Pina, who was squatting next to Lin Sanjiu, patted her knee and said, "Go back. It seems that Jia Jiatian was wrong. This is not a maze at all."
"The way forward should be under that wall," Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and said, "Maybe the difficulty of this road lies in how to go forward. It's strange, why Pan Cui didn't pick up the communicator
Well...could it be that we have found a way and can't make a move?"
With a bit of worry, the two followed the route indicated by the yellow arrows and this time entered the empty corridor again in an orderly manner.
Everything was the same as last time. When they passed the coffee room, they quietly looked inside and found that the ordinary person was still sitting on the sofa, with the computer turned off and reading a paperback.
Lin Sanjiu and Pina looked at each other. They didn't know what to do with this situation, and they were also worried about Pan Cui and Jia Jiatian who were always silent in front of them. They simply turned around and left without saying a word - no matter what they thought about it.
How ordinary people react, or whether they react, seems to have no impact on their schedule.
Not long after leaving the coffee room, Lin Sanjiu received a call from another contact.
"Hello, Pan Cui?" She picked up immediately and greeted.
"It's not Pan Cui, it's me," it was Jia Jiatian's voice that rang out from the contact. He didn't give Lin Sanjiu a chance to ask questions, so he continued, "Have you found any results in finding the way?"
"Oh, this shouldn't be a maze," Lin Sanjiu said while walking, "We have searched everywhere we can, and there is no other route except the one pointed by the yellow arrow."
"Are you on your way back now?" Jia Jiatian asked: "There is something new here. I can't say exactly what it is. Is there a new road... Anyway, you'd better come back as soon as possible.
."
Apart from sounding a little confused, he didn't seem to be in a hurry, as if the "new situation" was not dangerous. Lin Sanjiu made an estimate and felt that they were not far from Pan Cui's location, so he simply hung up the contact.
He called Pina, speeding up and rushing over.
In just a moment, the two of them crossed the remaining distance and passed the last corner of the corridor; when Lin Sanjiu took in the scene behind the corner of the corridor, she hurriedly stopped the car.
Pina also followed behind her and stopped abruptly; she raised her eyes and exclaimed in low voice, asking: "Wasn't this a dead end just now? Why is there an extra hole? No, that's not it.
Hole……"
The last yellow arrow on the route and the wall blocking the road in front are still the same as before; however, there is a small distance between them, as if the ground suddenly opened and exposed.
A slope that goes deep into the ground.
The angle of the slope is very steep. When a person stands on the ground and looks at it from a distance, it is like looking at a well. You have to walk a few steps forward to see the slope surface in the dark, which is as violent as a collapse.
The ground slid deeper into the ground.
However, when Lin Sanjiu looked away from the "well mouth" and looked around, her heart suddenly tightened, and she rushed towards the corner of the wall and asked urgently: "Pan Cui? What are you doing?
OK, are you okay? Are you injured?"
At this time, Pan Cui was sitting on the ground with a pale face, leaning softly against the wall.
The clothes on her chest and the ground were spattered with scattered bright red blood spots, which were dazzling in contrast to the nearby white wall. Jiajiada pressed a piece of cloth tightly on the wound on her neck with considerable force,
It was so hard for Pan Cui to speak out - when Lin Sanjiu rushed over and squatted down beside her, Pan Cui could only blink at her, as if to indicate that she was fine.
"It's a skin injury," Jia Jiatian explained for her. "I checked her and found that only one layer of the skin was cut. The depth of the wound was coincident. The skin was completely cut, but the throat was intact.
The artery was not severed...otherwise her life would not have been saved."
As he spoke, he slightly lifted up the piece of cloth in his hand - Lin Sanjiu then realized that it seemed to be Jia Jiatian's T-shirt, and most of the bottom was already stained with blood - he checked it and sighed.
: "The bleeding is getting better, but it hasn't completely stopped yet."
"You just use dirty clothes to stop the bleeding? What should I do if there's an infection?" Pina also rushed over and said hurriedly: "Let me look for it, I seem to have some disinfectant ointment..."
Lin Sanjiu also remembered that she had a lot of first aid supplies in her card library, and quickly took out a box. She motioned to Jiajiatian to take away her hand and carefully checked the wound; Jiajiatian was right, the one on Pan Cui's neck was different.
The deep and long crack looked shocking, but fortunately it was not fatal.
She quickly pressed several large balls of hemostatic cotton on the bleeding mouth and asked, "How did she get injured?"
"I don't know either," Jiajiada said with a frown, "I only know that the opening on the ground and her injury happened at almost the same time. I didn't expect that a slope would suddenly open under my feet at that time.
I almost fell down, but when I reacted and regained my footing, Pan Cui had already fallen against the wall, covering her neck with one hand, and her hands were covered in blood... I was almost frightened at that time."
Pan Cui seemed to be pressed hard by the hemostatic cotton, and she let out a slight groan of pain from her nose.
"Didn't you see clearly?" Lin Sanjiu asked her, then realized that Pan Cui couldn't answer now.
"Anyway, let's help her take care of her wound first." Jiajiada seemed to feel that his mission had come to an end as soon as they arrived. He sat aside and said, "Fortunately, her injury will not affect her actions and will not hinder us."
Continue to go."
Pina glanced at him unhappily, as if she wanted to say something, but she still didn't open her mouth.
Although Jiajiada's words may sound unkind, it is the reality that several people have no choice but to do: Starting from Pina, who entered first, after waiting for people, exploring the path, and turning back, she only has a little more than 22 hours left.
, and the real danger on the road seems to have just begun.
"Can you keep walking?" Lin Sanjiu was a little worried and asked Pan Cui, "Is it better to take a rest?"
Pan Cui raised her hand, pointed at the slope opening not far away, and gestured to herself, probably signaling that she could go, no problem.
"Okay," Lin Sanjiu was not at ease, and asked Pina: "I will bandage Pan Cui's wound, and you can see if there are any hidden weapons or other things nearby. If we are attacked again next time, we can
You may not be so lucky."
Evolutionaries living in a doomsday world have extensive experience in dealing with trauma. After a while, the work of stopping bleeding, disinfecting, applying medicine and bandaging was all done. During this time, Pina also
She carefully checked the opening of the slope more than once, and her report surprised several others - but it was not because there were any traps nearby.
"This is not a slope," Pina, surrounded by three people, pointed to the ground and said, "This is a pipeline...or, in other words, a closed slide. And, it is indeed the path we should take."
"Slide?" Lin Sanjiu glanced deep underground, and indeed saw a vague yellow arrow in the shadow. She reached in and carefully explored the circle, and found that Pina was right; this
The ramp is surrounded by plastic covers and goes down steeply. If someone sat in it, it would slide down very fast.
Lin Sanjiu tentatively threw a few small objects into the slide, but nothing happened. No matter how she looked, she couldn't see what could jump out and cut people; they gathered together to discuss for a while -
Pan Cui could only signal with gestures - seeing that it didn't look like a trap, she finally decided to slide down.
"Let me get off first," Lin Sanjiu suggested. "If there is any danger, I will handle it."
"Pan Cui," Jia Jiatian asked, "How about you go down second? It may be safer to follow her. Pina and I can stay behind."
Pan Cui paused and smiled with a pale face.
"Okay," Lin Sanjiu sat down at the opening of the slide and said, "I'm leaving -"
The last word was washed away by the sudden darkness, and was pulled into a burst of uninterrupted exclamations inside the long, twisting slide. Lin Sanjiu also did not expect that the slide was actually steeper than it looked.
She fell straight into the depths of the ground - there was no next floor, no ceiling or floor, the entire building seemed to be a solid piece of cement, hollowed out with a tunnel that kept going downwards.
I slept for a long time over the weekend...and finally came alive again
