The light tube above the head flashed, and the moment it dimmed, the wooden door with the number "601" in front of it suddenly turned into a thick black; in the blink of an eye, it returned to its old deep color under the light.
Mahogany color. Due to the accumulation of a thick layer of gray, it looks dark and faded.
In the corridor, it was so quiet that you could clearly hear the sound of your own blood flowing.
The muscles all over Lin Sanjiu's body were already aching a little because they had been stretched all the time.
Slowly, and as quietly as possible, she took a step back towards the stairs.
...The apartment building was still silent, and was not awakened by her step.
Already...four minutes have passed.
Reva never opened the door again.
…Does it take so long to sort out clothes?
After the door of Room 601 closed, the entire apartment fell into a deathly silence, as if only this dim corridor and the door in front of me were left in the whole world.
The sound of her own shallow and rapid breathing filled Lin Sanjiu's ears. With every second that passed, her heart sank a little deeper.
She raised her hand several times, but never dropped it - Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to knock on the door.
She had already knocked on Room 601 once. No matter who, Ye Lan or Lei Wa, told the truth, she did not dare to risk knocking on it a second time. After waiting for a while with a sense of luck, she
The entire chest felt like it was filled with ice and was freezing cold.
Step by step, extremely carefully, Lin Sanjiu approached the stairs - she could just reach back and touch the wooden handrail of the stairs.
...No, it seems something is wrong with Reva. This somewhat confusing thought flashed through her mind.
She had no doubt that Reva had indeed entered the amusement park, but as time passed by the conversation just now, it looked more and more like she was lying to herself and knocked on the door a second time.
Could it be that Reva has already——?
Maybe she is trapped in this building just like the girl in room 320...
Taking another step back, the bone wing behind him followed Lin Sanjiu's movements and hit the stair handle with a "dang" sound - the sound quickly reverberated in the silent space, sounding like a crisp knock.
The sound of the door; in the dim light, the door handle of 601 seemed to have suddenly moved - Lin Sanjiu's nerves, which had been tense for a long time, suddenly exploded. Unable to control himself anymore, he turned around and headed downstairs.
Run away.
It seems Ye Lan is right——
Every floor was the same, quiet and silent; only her "dong-dong" footsteps rushed down, and in a few breaths, Lin Sanjiu had returned to the first floor.
When I looked back, there was nothing behind me.
"The residents on each floor will only be active on the floor where they live..." Ye Lan's voice echoed in Lin Sanjiu's mind again.
If Reva really has a problem, she won't be able to chase her down...
Thinking of Ye Lan, Lin Sanjiu calmed down her breathing. She started to feel a little inexplicably angry.
Even if Ye Lan is cautious and smart, he has discovered many traps in the apartment building - but this person is too unreliable! We have obviously agreed to knock on the door together to find a way out, so what if we haven't waited yet?
, he ran back alone first; he was so cowardly, no wonder he couldn't get out after being trapped for twenty days!
"Hey!" She rushed to the door of Room 101 in two steps and knocked hard twice: "Are you here? Come out!"
The angry questions disappeared into the air. After waiting for two seconds and seeing no one answer the door, Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand and turned the doorknob, but found that it could not be turned; it felt as if someone had locked it from the inside.
Living.
The last time she walked into Room 101, Ye Lan opened the door for her, and she didn't remember whether the door was locked or not.
When she raised her hand again, Lin Sanjiu's joints paused just before they touched the wooden door.
The golden 101 number plate flashed with dim reflection; there was still silence inside the door.
...If she knocked on this door, wouldn't it be the second time?
Lin Sanjiu was so frightened by this idea that she immediately staggered back two steps. Then she felt that she was a bit nervous.
She met Ye Lan on the third floor and spent another two or three hours together. If he had a problem, there were two things that couldn't be explained: first, he couldn't have appeared on other floors;
There are so many opportunities to attack her, so why wait until now?
But thinking so, Lin Sanjiu could not muster the courage to continue knocking on the door.
To be cautious, she took advantage of the silence around her and quickly retreated to the stairs on the second floor. She did not dare to look down, and avoided the direction of the first floor. Lin Sanjiu stood on the steps and called out softly.
"Ye Lan?"
Not only was there no response in the air, but it also seemed to have stopped flowing, clinging to the body with a heavy, sticky feel.
"Ye Lan, are you there?" After waiting for a few seconds, she called again.
The longer the silence in the apartment building lasted, the higher Lin Sanjiu's heart became. After waiting for a few minutes, Ye Lan seemed to disappear out of thin air, without even the slightest response.
If he wasn't in room 101, where else would he be?
...Unknowingly, Lin Sanjiu had quietly broken out in a cold sweat, which even soaked through the back of her top.
She sat on the steps a little anxiously, not daring to go up or down for a while.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Sanjiu tried to organize her thoughts - if she thought about it from another angle, maybe the situation was not as bad as she thought. After all, when she met Reva on the sixth floor, she didn't look back. She couldn't.
Ye Lan must have run downstairs; what if he did the opposite and went up to the seventh floor?
There were no apartment rooms on the seventh floor, and it was the closest to the sixth floor. In panic, Ye Lan might have really escaped to the bathroom!
When she thought of this, Lin Sanjiu immediately jumped up and subconsciously glanced at the spiraling stairs above her head.
She had already tried it with Ye Lan just now, and there was indeed no one in the corridor on the third floor; so she rushed up to the fifth floor in one breath and stopped on the last step.
The belt buckle used for testing last time had been taken back by Ye Lan a long time ago - he didn't fasten it at that time, he just held it in his hand. If he had known this, he might as well have kept it and used it.
After waiting for a long time with bated breath, Lin Sanjiu finally took a hesitant step in the silence.
The door of Room No. 601 is still the same as before, facing the stairs with an expressionless expression. Half of the dried garland hanging on the door fell off at some point, and it hangs crookedly on the door. It seems that it was knocked off by someone.
of.
During the short distance to the seventh floor, Lin Sanjiu wished she could become invisible and invisible to anyone... Finally, after she turned a corner, 601 disappeared from her sight.
She has never felt so friendly in the bathroom.
Panting, Lin Sanjiu rushed into the door of the men's restroom on the left. Ignoring the water on the ground under her feet, she quickly closed the door.
She didn't know what she was hiding from - she didn't see anyone in the whole building...
"Is there anyone?" When Lin Sanjiu asked this question, she realized that her voice was trembling a little. "Ye Lan, are you here?"
Except that the left and right hands are reversed, the layout of the men's and women's restrooms is the same. On the right side of the entrance is a long sink with a large mirror that can shine up to the waist; on the left against the wall are several
There are dirty urinals, one of which is filled with dirty yellow liquid, and a few cigarette butts are floating on the water; beyond that are several separate cubicles, which extend back for a long distance.
The end of the space has been sunk in the darkness where light cannot illuminate it.
The female voice hit the tile wall and was bounced back, forming a faint echo in the empty bathroom.
"Ye Lan...?"
The water pipes here were obviously leaking constantly. Lin Sanjiu took just two steps and her shoes were soaked through.
The first gray cubicle door was ajar. Only a dark gap was exposed. She did not reach out to push the door open, but just bent down and glanced at the gap below the door.
A very old-looking toilet sat silently on the ground in the dim light, with no one around.
After reading the four compartments one by one, Lin Sanjiu stopped in confusion.
Ye Lan is not here - in fact, if the memory of a few minutes ago was not still vivid, she might have thought that she was the only living person in this building.
"Strange……"
Perhaps because the continuous silence was so disturbing, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but whisper to himself in a low voice. "Where can Ye Lan go?"
You couldn't have run into the women's restroom in a panic, right?
But other than this guess, Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of where else he could go. He had no choice but to take a chance and plan to go to the women's restroom again.
As soon as she turned around, she suddenly had a vague idea, as if... something was wrong just now.
what is it……
Lin Sanjiu thought and slowly turned around.
The woman's figure in the mirror also turned around as she moved. Her skin was pale and her bones were dense. The bathroom behind her was half-hidden in shadow and still quiet.
As she took a step forward, the water on the ground made a "snap" sound and splashed a little.
Ye Lan once mentioned that there was a painting of a metropolitan scene posted behind the window of the men's restroom on the seventh floor.
This fake window was close to the last compartment, and it was difficult for people to see clearly in the darkness. Lin Sanjiu slowly approached it, squatted down and reached out, picking it up from the corner below the window.
He put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
...The lenses reflected a little under the pale light.
Lin Sanjiu's first reaction was that something had happened to Ye Lan - but when she thought about it again, she suddenly couldn't tell whether his glasses were gold-rimmed or not; she tried carding the glasses, and the card explanation also said
It just said that it was an "ordinary astigmatism lens" and did not mention the owner's name at all.
Not knowing what to do, Lin Sanjiu carried the frame and thought for a moment, then put it into the card library. Then she stood up and went out, planning to go to the women's restroom opposite.
In fact, judging from the noise she had made for such a long time, if Ye Lan was really in the women's bathroom, she would have heard it long ago. Therefore, when Lin Sanjiu opened the door, she actually had no hope.
In fact, it was just as empty as she thought.
After confirming that there was no one here, Lin Sanjiu felt a strong sense of fatigue welling up in her heart; since entering this amusement park, all the strange things that had happened had almost exhausted her mentally and physically.
With a long sigh, she didn't want to go downstairs and face the apartment rooms one by one. Lin Sanjiu simply opened the door of the compartment, chose a cleaner toilet, closed the lid and sat down.
Go up. The bone wing was placed on the water tank a little awkwardly, and the placement was not very suitable, but naturally she was not in the mood to care about it at this time.
Staring blankly at the slowly closing compartment door, Lin Sanjiu didn't even know what to do next.
The dilemma she was in at this time was neither a problem that could be solved by intelligence nor force - to be honest, this place always vaguely reminded her of Kisaragi Station.
How can I get out?
If she hadn't known that the dungeon would definitely not arrange a dead end for her, Lin Sanjiu would have been driven unbalanced by anxiety. Just as she scratched her neck irritably and was about to stand up, she suddenly heard the sound of the bathroom door.
He was pushed away with a "squeak".
The air condensed in her trachea for a moment.
The sound of people's footsteps stepping on the stagnant water sounded very loud in the silent space - when they were about to approach the compartment where Lin Sanjiu was, someone made a sound.
"Ms. Lin...are you here?"
Lin Sanjiu stared at the floor under the door. A pair of black flat shoes that obviously belonged to a woman came gently to the door of the compartment; because the shoes had been stepped on by the owner before, they could still still wear them now.
A little crease is visible.
...It seems to be Reva.
"Didn't I tell you to wait for me to tidy up my clothes? Why did you leave as soon as I came out?" It sounded like Reva had already concluded that Lin Sanjiu must be here - until she called out "Lin Sanjiu" twice more.
Miss".
...Since you can come to the seventh floor, does that mean there is nothing wrong with Reva?
Maybe she is someone who moves very slowly when changing clothes?
As if testing, Lin Sanjiu responded with a trembling voice, "You...why did you come up here?"
"You are indeed here. Didn't I look for you?" Reva responded naturally. "I came out to use the bathroom by the way. I don't know what's going on in this apartment. There is no toilet in the room, so I can only go to the seventh floor."
After taking a gentle breath, Lin Sanjiu felt that her heart seemed to be a little calmer.
Not to mention the issue of changing floors; she had never touched the door of Room 601 for the second time, nor had she called Reva's name, so from any point of view, she could not be regarded as "knocking on the door for the second time".
Door"……
"The other evolver I met here is also missing," Lin Sanjiu said as he stood up. He didn't understand why he used the word "ye": "It's a man. I don't know if you have seen him before."
——”
The last word was stuck in her throat and she couldn't spit it out.
Lin Sanjiu, who was already 1.8 meters tall, inadvertently raised his head and looked at the edge above the bathroom door, and saw a patch of black hair peeking out from there.
...Rewa is not that tall.
"What are you still doing in there? Come out."
The female voice outside the door seemed to say with a smile. (To be continued.)
ps: Sincerely thank you for the mystery, 3 pieces of Squirrel's egg tarts, Hashimoto Hanzi, 2 pieces of isyu, three bright lanterns, ghost Wuxin, 2 talismans of Mianchen, the flying mushroom, the sachet of the mushroom wife bird,
Peach Blossom Fan by Cosmodemyanskaya (Aren’t you fattening)~!
Thank you also to book friend 150214222341783, Hun Dan 11, Cat on the Balcony, Mu Qingchen, Meow ⊙w⊙ Nonsense (I copied it before I typed it out...), Swordsmanship Wuming (I missed it yesterday), Guigui d
Guoguo, monthly tickets for Good Little Meow!
I went out to have a barbecue tonight, and I came back after 10 o'clock and hurriedly wrote the remaining half... I feel like I can write more carefully... Oh, forget it, I'll just finish the book later.
