With a "dang" sound, Lin Sanjiu put the empty drink can in his hand on the table, and squeezed it flat; the deformed white "Coca-Cola" words were crooked from the bend of the red can.
It came out.
"I don't know why, but there is only Coke here and no drinking water." Ye Lan pushed a bunch of things on the small coffee table towards Lin Sanjiu, "...I guess the reason why there is a bathroom on the seventh floor is for this reason.
Bar."
Coca-Cola will increase the burden on the kidneys, not to mention not replenishing water, but it will easily cause dehydration symptoms; from the perspective of survival, pure water is indispensable - Lin Sanjiu knew this, but still drank the entire can
.
"But I've been to the bathroom on the seventh floor." She frowned, glanced at the cakes and biscuits on the small coffee table, and found that she had no appetite: "The faucet there has dried up and there is no water."
"I know," Ye Lan pushed up his glasses and sighed, "...you can't be so picky during special times; all I drink these days is gray water from the toilet tank."
What's worse than being drunk is that Lin Sanjiu has never drunk it. Nodding, she looked at Room 101 again.
As Ye Lan said, there is almost nothing in this room. The empty room does not look to be more than twenty square meters in size. The original beige carpet has almost turned into dark brown due to stains. In the whole room,
There was only a small coffee table and two dark and dirty two-seater sofas placed in the center.
However, when she came in from the door, the first thing she saw was not the furniture - Lin Sanjiu's eyes were firmly caught by the things on the opposite wall almost in the first second.
That's a window.
She couldn't remember if she had ever seen a window in Room 320; this was the first window she remembered seeing, and she could even see the gray sky outside through the pane - Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat.
After a few steps, he rushed forward, intending to take a look outside the window.
…Outside the window, there is a small village located by the river.
The moment he saw the "small village" clearly, Lin Sanjiu felt cold all over, and then he ignited a nameless fire mixed with anger and depression. He wanted to yell, but he couldn't even do it for a while.
The voice comes.
"...I guess every room is different." Ye Lan said quietly behind her, "Behind the window of the men's bathroom, there is a painting of a metropolis."
After getting closer, Lin Sanjiu could distinguish the traces of the brush on the "scene outside the window" even through the glass. With the clever light and shadow, this painting can almost look real when viewed from a distance.
"Are you teasing us?" She suppressed the turbulent emotions in her heart, and her voice was cold and deep - strangely enough, when the girl on the third floor told her that there was no exit in this building, Lin Sanjiu still remained
She was still calm and well-mannered; but after seeing this painting disguised as the outside world, her hands began to tremble slightly uncontrollably.
Perhaps to appease her mood, when Ye Lan handed her an unopened can of Coke, Lin Sanjiu took it and drank it up in a few sips.
The sugar in the drink quickly took effect; after a while, she felt her mood became lighter.
"...So the first priority in this apartment is not to knock on the doors of the residents here, right?" Lin Sanjiu asked Ye Lan thoughtfully, "What else do you know about this apartment?
?”
The thin man shook his head. If one could calculate the most "average" face among Chinese men aged 20 to 30, then it must be Ye Lan.
"Except for Room 101, which is the 'student door', and the matter of knocking on the door, I actually don't know much more than you do." Ye Lan crossed his hands and put them on his knees and said: "...But here.
After being sleepy for more than twenty days, I have also thought carefully about this amusement project; plus some of the news you just told me, I now have some ideas."
"Tell me about it?"
"You said that before you came in, the conductor lady clearly said that this was a sightseeing project, right? So is it possible that she meant that we must visit every part of this apartment building?
Arrive?"
But I didn't miss any corner - Lin Sanjiu was about to retort when he suddenly remembered something and immediately stopped talking.
What she had seen was only the smallest part of the apartment building, which was the corridor; she still didn't know what was behind each dark red wooden door.
Thinking of this, no matter how courageous she was, her face still looked a little ugly.
Probably aware of her expression, Ye Lan added: "... After knocking on the door for the first time, it is still safe for the time being. Maybe this is an opportunity to hide some information - you see. You are still okay.
?”
That was just now - if she opened the door of Room 320 for the third time... From the corner of her eye, Lin Sanjiu could still vaguely see the abnormally large round shadow; after a pause, she asked in a dry voice
Said: "...what happened to those who knocked on the door for the second or even third time?"
"Who knows." Unexpectedly, Ye Lan shook his head again, and his face couldn't help but turn a little pale: "There was an evolver who walked into a certain household upstairs for the second time and was still there the next morning.
Appeared on the first floor; but... I don't know how to say it so that you can understand what I mean... I spent that day hiding in the bathroom."
"It's not that...it's not that he has changed in any way," Ye Lan didn't seem to be a person who was good at words, but the trace of residual panic caught in his tone made Lin Sanjiu feel a little bit...
What I understood - "People still look the same; but I have survived from so many worlds, and I still have the most basic intuition, so I avoided it as far away as possible. At that time, this building
There is another evolver in there who is not familiar with me and we don’t speak much to each other. I haven’t seen him since that day.”
Lin Sanjiu trembled excitedly.
Now she could only hope that Ye Lan's guess was wrong - otherwise, she would never be able to set foot in Room 320 again, so what would be "sightseeing"?
The thin man paused and seemed to have thought of the same thing. After hesitating for a while, Ye Lan sighed and said: "... Of course, it may not be the case at all. After all, if that is the case, this level will be quite simple.
That's a bit... you can go out as long as you look at each house one by one, how can there be such a good thing?"
Even though she knew that he might be trying to comfort her, Lin Sanjiu still felt better and nodded to him gratefully: "Actually, what you said may not be unreasonable. If there are people living behind every door,
Then after knocking on the door for the first time, according to my experience just now, they should provide some information... Maybe we should collect information now."
It's just that no matter which plan it is, it all involves the "resident" behind the door... The two of them couldn't help but fell into silence, and they couldn't make up their minds for a while.
He sat there for a while. Seeing that sitting down like this was not an option, Lin Sanjiu was the first to stand up and let out a heavy breath.
"Anyway, let's take action first." Ye Lan may be a cautious and smart person, but from the looks of it, he is a bit too cautious in his actions - otherwise he wouldn't be trapped in the trap.
It will be nearly twenty days here. When Lin Sanjiu can't think of any good solution, she will start to rely on her own muscles: "Let's go!"
"Where to go?" Ye Lan asked a little confused.
"From the seventh floor - no," Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered that there was nothing on the seventh floor except a bathroom, and changed her words: "Starting from the sixth floor, we will knock on the door one by one - regardless of our
Whoever's guess is right should at least take a look at...the thing behind the door."
...As for what to do with room 320, she decided not to think about it for now.
Even though he still seemed full of doubts, Ye Lan finally stood up and followed Lin Sanjiu out the door.
The fluorescent tube seems to be worse.
After closing the door of Room 101, the long corridor on the first floor was silent under the flickering lights, and the end was hidden in darkness. If you stare at something for a long time in the flickering lights, even your eyes will
It started to sting faintly - the two of them walked as gently as possible and slowly went upstairs.
When they stopped talking, the whole building returned to deathly silence. Every "squeak" on the wooden stairs was as clearly heard as a drum; when they were about to reach the third floor,
At that moment, Lin Sanjiu stopped.
"You said that the residents on each floor will only move around on their own floor..." She felt a slight chill on the back of her neck, and her scalp was tense: "Then... how long do they usually stay in the corridor?
?”
Ye Lan pursed her lips tightly, walked up two steps without saying a word, and listened. Then she took off his belt from his waist; the shiny square piece hung down from the belt buckle, and he looked
It doesn't quite suit his silent character.
"Generally speaking, it shouldn't take long. But to be safe, we'd better tie this to the bones on your back like this." Ye Lan demonstrated, then pointed to the silver belt buckle and said: "...Then you
Put that bone out - yes, that's it... Although you can't see it clearly, it's still a metal product, so if there's a shadow on it that moves, you can still see it."
Standing on the stairs below the third floor, Lin Sanjiu stretched out a long thorn in the bone wing with some difficulty, and stared at the small metal piece with breathless concentration.
The metal sheet didn't reflect anything at all, only the shadow cast by the corridor itself, together with the reflection, spread on the surface of the belt buckle.
After waiting for a while, and seeing that the shadow on the metal plate remained motionless, the two of them cautiously went upstairs. After a quick glance at the closed corridor, they quickly ran up to the fourth floor.
When the room number "601" appeared in front of them, both of them couldn't help but look solemn.
Anyway, now I can only grit my teeth and give it a try...
After glancing at Ye Lan, Lin Sanjiu approached the dark red wooden door on her own. She slowly raised her hand amidst the violent "dong dong" of her heartbeat.
There is a dried wreath hanging on the door of Room 601, which must be a trace left after the festival and has never been taken off.
...Lin Sanjiu had never thought before that she would be frightened by knocking on the door.
Gently, almost with a little fear, her joints hit the wooden door - Lin Sanjiu could even feel that Ye Lan had taken a few steps back and was standing at the edge of the stairs - knocking
After a few clicks, it was still quiet behind the wooden door, without any sound.
"Yes, why don't we forget it," Ye Lan's voice was still so soft, but her speaking speed suddenly became faster: "...we will discuss it when we go back..."
Lin Sanjiu turned a deaf ear and knocked on the door twice again, but this time her voice was a little trembling.
...There seemed to be slight footsteps behind the door.
Different from the usual step-by-step, crisp footsteps, this sound was dragged on the ground, and each sound wiped a long distance forward; Lin Sanjiu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his muscles all tensed up.
When the brass door handle was gently twisted, there was almost only a blank after the explosion in her mind.
The dark red wooden door "squeaked" and slowly opened a gap.
Immediately following the sound of the door, there was a creaking sound from the wooden stairs - even without looking back, Lin Sanjiu knew that Ye Lan had run away -
Before she had time to raise the thought of "Did he frame me?", it was already too late when she tried to make a move; the person behind the door - let's call it "person", had already emerged from the gradually widening gap.
Make a face.
Lin Sanjiu's eyes were fixed on that face and he didn't move for a long time.
She never imagined that she would meet this person——
"Rei, Reiwa?"
The brown-haired woman glanced at the corner of her mouth, which revealed deep lines. She had one bare foot and only stepped on the sole of her shoe. It seemed that the sound just now was made by her dragging her shoe while walking -
—
"Why, how could it be you?" Lin Sanjiu asked dumbfounded: "Are you also on the swan road?"
"You're still alive," Reva seemed a little surprised when she saw Lin Sanjiu again. She glanced behind Lin Sanjiu and raised the corner of her mouth slightly. "I entered this amusement park yesterday morning... until now.
No exit was found."
...Then why are you in this room?
This question stuck in Lin Sanjiu's throat, and he didn't ask it for a long time.
Reva stroked her face, which always looked a little tired.
"Every room in this building is empty, so I just picked one and came in to rest. Are you just here? Do you want to come in and have a chat? But you have to wait for me, I'm disheveled now..."
Then she closed the door. (To be continued.)
ps: It’s time to compete with Dian Niang again...
Today is a good day! After being informed, it turns out that the famous Weibo v Tianya Li Zhiyun recommended this book again, which really flattered me~! Then I opened the page at night and took a look, "Almost every chapter I read, I will be rewarded with a Heshi
The sinful dream of "bi" once again gave me a wall and a monthly pass~! This heavy reward made me feel a little embarrassed, and I felt that my writing was not so good... Oh, I can't pay off the debt, what should I do...
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Thank you for the 2 capsules of Chuantiangu, the capsule and 3 talismans of Baozi Invasion, the 2 talismans and capsules of isyu (I am thanking you!), Hashimoto Hanzi, three bright lights, book friend 160108133350681, Margaret
2 green-eyed ones, 2 grandsons, Yuki Sakurana, Fu, and 2 peach blossom fans that I signed up just to read your book (oh my god)!
Thank you to everyone who came to Qidian to support me. I know this is not easy!
I would also like to thank the monthly ticket holders of diqi, Dawn Night 001, Nympho, Sorrow of Youth, Wuxinxiyan, King of the Immortal, Mirror V Scale, Clear Sky and Blue Sky for monthly tickets! Today is another side issue, so scary...
It’s been a long time since I wrote a plot like Kisaragi Station. I feel like my hands are raw...