...As if to confirm that she was doing the right thing, as Lin Sanjiu slowly walked out step by step, the conversation with the apartment residents flashed back in her mind.
...The person living in Room 207 was a slender woman. When she stood up straight, she was actually a head taller than Lin Sanjiu. When she lowered her head to speak, Lin Sanjiu suddenly thought of a giraffe.
——"Yes, that's right, you are not an official resident yet."
She paused and continued expressionlessly: "...To become a formal resident, you must meet with a resident who has officially stayed here twice or more. I heard that there is another way...is
What, I don’t know.”
There was a young couple living in Room 304. When the husband came to open the door, the petite wife kept laughing from behind and shouted, "I'm still in my pajamas, please close the door first" - but this
Lin Sanjiu had already experienced this scene once. She immediately stretched out a foot to block the door, and finally let the husband finish what he said.
"You ask me if I can go out through the window? Are you kidding me? Why should I climb up the window if I can't open the door... The girl in 320 said there is no exit? That's because she is also a migrant and can't find an exit.
Those who have settled in this building...of course there is a gate here."
The person living in Room 411 was a young man who looked like he was preparing for an exam. When he opened the door, he had a pen between his fingers and said impatiently: "I don't know what you're asking about.
Just wait a few minutes, wait until my mother comes back, and then come over - ah? You won’t come here a second time?”
The young man lowered his head when he heard the words, his face shrouded in shadow. After a while, he spoke quietly: "...Okay. In this case, I will tell you what I know. This apartment
The security outside is not very good. Recently, there are often thieves, homeless people, etc. crawling in from the outside, causing a lot of impact on us. What? Of course you can also go out along the way they came in... But you
If you go out, you will become a refugee. We will not allow people like that to live in our apartment - Oh, let me take you to see them? You can just see those people from my window..."
After coming out of Room 411 almost as if he had narrowly escaped death, Lin Sanjiu knocked on the door of Room 608.
"You are still preparing to live in the room. There must be a lot of things missing in the room, right?" A chubby middle-aged man greeted her enthusiastically: "...would you like some coffee?"
Lin Sanjiu immediately shook his head. The middle-aged uncle put down the coffee pot and squeezed his body into the crack of the half-open door. He stared at Lin Sanjiu without blinking: "... in this apartment
The management is not strict, not only thieves will come in through the windows, but also people who don't know what they are doing often knock on the door. The first time I knock on the door, it's okay, but the second time I knock on the door, I get angry...
Once I pushed a guy into the fire escape outside the window. I later found out that he seemed to be a friend of the new resident on the first floor."
...There are six floors in total, except for Lin Sanjiu on the first floor who did not go down because she was worried about "Ye Lan". She avoided the few doors she had knocked on and tried her best to get as much money as possible from every other resident.
Some messages came out; if you inquire more, you will find that these messages are generally divided into several categories - of course, the residents whose doors were knocked on almost without exception used various means to trick her into opening the door.
Second door.
But no matter what, Lin Sanjiu finally got a rough idea from these messages.
First of all, this amusement ride is divided into two parts: behind this apartment building that she is very familiar with, there is actually a hidden, more dangerous "world outside the window" - from the tone of voice, this "world outside the window"
"There are only "thieves and vagrants" there: once the people in the apartment go out, they can never come back; but the "people" outside can occasionally take the opportunity to appear in the apartment, causing great trouble to the residents.
"Trouble" - But on the other hand, the residents here can use coercion or coaxing like the middle-aged uncle to let the evolved people go out of the window...
Although it is no longer possible to know what the truth is, Lin Sanjiu has still drawn out a timeline that she believes should be very close to the truth.
After she entered this amusement project, the "world outside the window" should be a new death trap that appeared after the difficulty increased. When she knocked on the door of Room 601, Ye Lan turned around and ran up to the seventh floor; from the pair of glasses
Judging from the location of the fall, it was probably in the bathroom window on the seventh floor. He saw the Evolver who had been pushed out of the window by the middle-aged uncle before. According to the middle-aged uncle's title, Ye Lan should at least have some trust in that person.
of.
But at this time, the "person" outside the window is naturally no longer a person.
Ye Lan was a cautious person and would not rush into a painting rashly; perhaps it was because of his caution that he finally died inside the apartment building - just in response to the slender woman's words,
He met the second condition of becoming an "official resident" and fully moved into Room 101.
After him, Reva finally left from the window for unknown reasons; there was a great possibility that she was frightened as she said, so she jumped out of the window of the old lady's room, and from then on
Trapped in the "world outside the window".
If Lin Sanjiu had not come in, neither she nor Ye Lan would have died on the window; their series of actions after that could probably be regarded as revenge from a certain perspective - and because the apartment residents
The information they give is random, and the previous person and the next person may not be metaphorizing the same thing at all: for example, the words of the girl in Room 320 are actually a way to identify the official residents and the preliminary residents;
But the old lady was talking about "the world outside the window" - thus creating an illusion for Lin Sanjiu, making her mistakenly think that the window in a certain room was the exit, and she almost fell into Rewa's trap.
The "neighborhood meeting" should be the last level in this apartment building.
...At least that's what Lin Sanjiu guessed.
She will probably never forget the feeling of walking among her "neighbors" -
The light suddenly became so bright and dazzling that it even illuminated the inside of her eyelids; the gaze that fell on her was so real that even though there was nothing around her along the way, Lin Sanjiu could still feel it somehow.
Arrive. She is walking among the "crowd" step by step.
The "residents" were very close to her; in fact, a little too close... Her left cheek was slightly itched a few times, as if it had been rubbed by some hair; if you think about it carefully, the touch seemed to be the eyelashes when blinking.
.
A pair of eyes were fixed on her face.
...This thought is so uncomfortable that it makes me shiver, and it also makes me want to open my eyes immediately.
"Ye Lan, are you here?" Lin Sanjiu suddenly called out in a low voice as she closed her eyes and slowly walked out based on her memory. She didn't dare to reach forward for fear of touching something.
.So every step was taken extremely slowly. Like his voice, his eyelids were trembling faintly: "...You must be here."
There was no response from the surrounding air for a while.
"...I'm sorry," after thinking for a while, Lin Sanjiu was finally able to say only these three words.
Even though she knew very well that it was not her fault, whenever she thought of Ye Lan's expression when he came up to stop her and continued to call the door, she felt her throat was a little sore.
If he had stood idly by and let it go, then it would have been Lin Sanjiu who died, not him.
Ye Lan was probably there, but even after hearing this apology, he still didn't say anything.
Sighing deeply in his heart, Lin Sanjiu tried his best to suppress the mixed emotions of fear and guilt. He tried his best to feel everything around him.
The "pure touch" state that was originally chaotic in the apartment building unknowingly turned on after I closed my eyes. I don't know when it gradually became clearer. As the perception became clearer. Lin Sanjiu
She knew she was going in the right direction; after a sudden "bang", a breeze rushed up to her face. While blowing the hair on her neck, it also made her heart fall straight into her stomach.
.
"Congratulations, you have completed the first game of 'Cowards House'."
After waiting for several seconds like a frightened bird, Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes tremblingly after she felt the skylight shining on her shoulders.
The broad-shouldered young girl she had met once before was sitting behind a glass window in front of her: "...You didn't do anything special in this round. You only got six physical points. Come and get it."
Looking back, I saw that in front of the warehouse-like building, the rolling shutter door was slowly being lowered - what apartment building, dark mahogany door, blue leaves... there was no trace of its existence.
The next second, Lin Sanjiu rushed towards the window with the word "ticket sales" written on it.
The huge bone wings were fully unfolded in anger, forming a sharp angle in mid-air. With the momentum, the ticket window was instantly shattered with the sound of shattering glass.
The young girl with a panicked look fell into the shadow cast by the dense bone wings, as if she didn’t know what to do at all——
But the next second, all Lin Sanjiu's offensive froze as the female voice came from the loudspeaker.
"Player No. 57, please pay attention. If you do not stop attacking our staff, you will be punished by deducting 50 points of physical strength... Player No. 57, please pay attention..."
However, even after stopping the attack, Lin Sanjiu's anger was still completely uncontrollable - she waved her arm fiercely, and several large pieces of broken glass flew out, grazing the young girl's face: "Practice room for cowards?
Is this a fucking haunted house? What are the so-called 'tourism projects'?"
"This, according to the regulations, I can't tell you in advance," the girl swallowed. No matter her movements or expressions, she looked the same as an ordinary person, not like a creature in the copy. "...Besides,
"How many people in the world have seen ghosts? Isn't this more worthy of sightseeing than famous mountains and rivers?"
Her chest was heaving with anger. Lin Sanjiu froze on the spot for a long time, and finally let out a long breath.
"No wonder..." Teacher Yi finally spoke up: "-No wonder! You can't attack them, and they won't attack you!"
"Yes," the young girl sat up in a piece of glass, "How can any haunted house let you beat the staff casually? Of course, the staff cannot touch you."
staff member……
Lin Sanjiu felt a little bitter in her mouth.
The two living lives of Ye Lan and Lei Wa are trapped behind this rolling shutter door forever like a joke?
"...If you don't pass the first level, what will happen to the evolvers inside?" she asked softly.
The girl glanced at her and didn't answer directly - it seemed that she was also afraid that Lin Sanjiu would become more energetic and vent his anger on herself even if he lost 50 health points - she thought about it for a long time before choosing the right words to say.
: "This depends on their fate. Some people who are not completely in despair will never come out..."
...Although it sounds like there is little hope, it is still better than having no room for change at all.
After exhaling, Lin Sanjiu wiped her face, raised her head and looked around.
The place she came out of was actually at the entrance of the warehouse; the surrounding scene looked exactly the same as before she entered, making it unclear how long she had spent inside.
When she asked this question, the young girl searched among the broken glass and overturned tables and chairs for a while, and then took out a watch.
"It doesn't take long. It actually only took you less than four hours."
Four hours... Lin Sanjiu frowned.
She didn't know if this time would be enough for the puppet master to pass his amusement ride - anyway, the past was over. What she had to do now was to rush through the level and try to catch up with the puppet master as quickly as possible.
good.
"Okay, hurry up and give me my physical strength. I want to participate in the next round." Lin Sanjiu said to the young girl, and then stretched out his wrist.
The girl with broad shoulders and stuffed clothes quickly picked up an instrument from the ground and scanned it on her wrist. Probably a little afraid of her temper, the girl added: "...
There are different scenes inside this time, so don’t mess around."
As the rolling shutter door slowly opened again, Lin Sanjiu glanced at her, exhaled, and started to walk in.
But to her surprise, before she could take this step, a pair of feet had already emerged from the shadow behind the rolling shutter door - and then, a person walked out from behind the door.
"Eh? Miss Lin, why are you here? I'm still looking for you everywhere. What a coincidence!"
Akol opened his eyes in surprise and said. (To be continued.)
ps: Thank you for the He Shi Bi and the monthly ticket from Sinful Dream. I have received the report! Such frequent rewards make me a little soft... It seems that I have to hold back one as soon as possible to get more...
Thank you Squirrel Family for the egg tarts, gold on the wings (and the monthly pass), Hashimoto man, sunbathing in winter, the two of me who are obsessed with kasa (I really got used to it...), the good little cat, the ghost Wuxin, the obese one
Little bird, silent hfymyyyy, Ying§ Xueruo, Qingzhi*Wange, Bread and Milk House, Honey Meow Meow Meow’s Peace Talisman~!
I would also like to thank Shayan, Ghost Wuxin, p, Worm Whisper, Changfeng Xinglu, and Nausicaa for the monthly pass!
Isn’t this rule about fighting particularly cheating and very reasonable...