...When there were only the last few steps left on this staircase, Lin Sanjiu raised her head.
Just as she expected, a three-seater sofa that took up most of the corridor and a brown-red red panda appeared in front of her again.
Lin Sanjiu sighed softly.
She just started walking up from here, and after climbing three floors, she was back to where she started.
It seems that these three flights of stairs are inaccessible by ordinary means.
"Don't tell me, this is really like a ghost breaking a wall." Lin Sanjiu hugged her wings and lay down, not moving away: "...I used to read ghost stories, and it seems that children's urine can break the ghost's wall.
With."
As she spoke, she turned her attention to the red panda.
"Don't look at me when you talk about boy," Qingjiuru bared his teeth at her: "Don't insult people."
"...That shouldn't be the case," the blue floral sofa interjected, "I think we fell into someone else's trick."
"Is she that old woman? We didn't provoke her, so why did she keep staring at us..."
Lin Sanjiu looked at the two of them and thought of a way - she stood up and walked to the door marked "exit", pushed the door open with her huge body, turned around and ordered: "Follow me."
, I tried to think of a way from inside the floor... If it didn’t work, I jumped out of the window to see if I could break this cycle.”
Hearing this, the red panda immediately jumped onto the sofa lightly, and with Ji Shanqing's gritted teeth, he moved forward a little bit and squeezed in through the door.
...The 16th floor doesn’t look out of the ordinary.
The carpet was soaked with blood and dried over time, making it crunchy and brittle when stepped on. The corridor was filled with a suffocating iron and musty smell, which was even more unbearable than the top floor - 19
The prices for rooms on the first floor and above are too high. They were all empty before the end of the world and were relatively clean and well-preserved. Unlike the 16th floor, the doors of several guest rooms are still ajar to this day because they were blocked by the dead bodies of tenants at the door.
It is said to be a dead body, but in fact, there is no human shape at all.
It seemed as if someone had chewed and cut it after death. The pitted corpse revealed most of its white skeleton; the skeleton was hung with dried black flesh, which, together with the rags, was shaken by Lin Sanjiu's footsteps as he passed by.
Shaky.
"It's similar to what I saw last time." After quickly checking the corridor, Lin Sanjiu walked back quickly and said to the other two people: "You guys wait for me here while I climb up from the balcony.
Try it."
After saying that, she opened a door next to her - the huge chicken wings were like brooms, sweeping out the broken corpses on the ground, and stepped into the house.
The guest rooms on this side all have an exquisite small balcony; although without hands, climbing becomes difficult, but if you flutter your wings and jump up with all your strength, Lin Sanjiu's beak can still touch the balcony upstairs.
The edge of the balcony——The two people who followed the room watched helplessly as the two big chicken claws kicked hard in the air a few times, finally climbed up and disappeared out of the window.
The room fell into silence for a while.
"What do you think?" After a while, the brown-red red panda suddenly spoke.
"...Not very promising." Blue Sofa sighed.
"What if we go down?"
"If we go downstairs now, we should return to the 18th floor."
Qingjiu Liu was stunned for a moment, turned half of his body and looked at the sofa behind him: "Have you already——"
"Look," Ji Shanqing suddenly interrupted him, "outside the window."
As if to confirm what he said, something clicked on the edge of the small balcony outside the window; with the support of its wings, a familiar bird's beak also caught the iron railing - gradually, Lin San
The old hen transformed into wine fluttered vigorously and popped up from under the balcony. As soon as her round black eyes met the two people in the room, a series of "gurgling" sounds came out of her throat, probably
Swearing.
"...what the hell!"
This was the first thing she said after she finally stabilized her body.
"What's going on with these three floors? Why can't I get out!" As a messy old hen walked into the house, tiny feathers were fluttering in the air: "...or I just jump downstairs and try.
Try? I can still see the ground——"
"Don't," Ji Shanqing said quickly, "I estimate that if you jump from the 16th floor, you will fall from the 18th floor... and then keep falling in a cycle between the 16th, 17th, and 18th floors, forever.
can not stop."
Lin Sanjiu raised her head and looked at the sofa in front of her. She didn't know where Ji Shanqing's "face" was, so she could only look back and forth suspiciously: "...Have you guessed what's going on?"
"Well, I did think of an answer - it's actually not hard to guess." Probably because he saw Lin Sanjiu's eyes light up, Ji Shanqing's voice also sounded a little shy: "Although I don't know this is
Whose ability—or special item—is that the distance from the 16th floor to the 18th floor has probably become a Möbius ring."
This word was so familiar that it made Lin Sanjiu frown. Just when she was recalling where she had heard this word, Qing Jiuliu had already responded with an "ah": "That tape that connects the end to the end and loops endlessly!
"
"Yes, if you stand on the surface of the Möbius Ring and walk on it, you can keep walking over and over again, without end..." Ji Shanqing said thoughtfully: "Isn't it very similar to our current situation?"
"I vaguely remember this thing, it seems to be related to mathematics." Lin Sanjiu responded, "Knowing this, what should we do next?"
The question was very constructive, but no one answered her.
She was about to ask again when she suddenly noticed that the red panda raised its head - its bright black eyes slowly moved to the sky, staring at her back. Qingjiu Liu also became quiet, like a real picture
Same as the sofa.
There is something behind me!
Lin Sanjiu suddenly turned around, and when her eyes fell on that thing, she was immediately startled.
Above the balcony, a head of black hair was hanging in the air; just as Lin Sanjiu saw it, the head of black hair suddenly shrank upwards and completely disappeared upstairs - it seemed that someone had just been there
Just hang upside down and look into the house.
"Wait here for me—!"
Before the two people behind her could speak, the old hen had already rushed out with a single stride. With her wings fluttering in the air, she had already grasped the iron railing upstairs with familiarity, pulled the chicken body up, and quickly
There was no trace.
Qingjiuru sat up straight and stared closely at the balcony - except that he was not staring above his head, but below the balcony.
If that black hair escapes all the way up, it will soon emerge from under this layer.
After waiting for a few minutes, the edge of the balcony was still painted off-white, and the dark top of the head as imagined never appeared; and Lin Sanjiu had no idea where he had tracked it.
At this time, Ji Shanqing behind him spoke.
"Qing, Qing Jiu Liu?" His voice suddenly became softer for some reason, and he was still a little trembling.
This guy is pretty smart, but he is a little timid... This thought passed through Qingjiuru's mind, and he asked without looking back: "What are you doing?"
Although there was no saliva or esophagus, the blue floral fabric sofa still made a clear "dong" sound of swallowing saliva.
"Just now...someone touched my backrest."
The red panda immediately twisted its neck, and a streak of hair grew on its back.
...There was no one behind the sofa. Since the sofa was parked sideways at the entrance, apart from a wall, there was only a large open room door and a small stain exposed at the door.
Dappled corridors.
"What do you mean by touching...?" Qingjiuru asked in a lowered voice.
"I couldn't see behind me, but it felt like someone accidentally brushed me while passing by." Ji Shanqing's voice was almost inaudible. "Anyway, I was touched by something."
Could it be the owner of the black hair?
The red panda grabbed the back of the sofa with its front paws, stood up with its two hind legs, and cautiously poked out its eyes.
His black eyes turned from left to right, turning around in a circle. The luggage table, the carpet, the light switch, the door, and the pile of broken bones under the door...
It seems that there is no difference from before, and there is no "person" as Ji Shanqing said.
Wait a moment.
(It is said that you can’t see the author’s remarks, so I’ll write them at the end of the article. I’m back and I’ll start updating daily tomorrow. Thank you for not abandoning me during this time. I’m still looking for inspiration, so please bear with me!)