When they returned to the gap between the 21st and 22nd floors, Jiang Wan and Chen Qing had already prepared special bright flashlights.
An 8,000-lumen flashlight was like a flashbang indoors. He couldn't believe it. How could it illuminate a place that it couldn't illuminate?
With this idea in mind, the two set foot in this area again.
The moment they stepped into this place, Jiang Wan and Chen Qing shivered at the same time. After stepping out of the elevator, the temperature could clearly feel that it had dropped by more than four or five degrees.
They looked back and saw that there was actually no door opening button where the elevator could be opened. Chen Qing frowned, feeling a little worried.
"There is no way back in this world for all the suffering in this world."
He murmured, perhaps understanding the literal meaning.
"But if there is no way back...where are we going to leave? Not to mention that we discovered the back room."
Jiang Wan frowned, took the flashlight in his hand, and held it together with the pistol in a tactical posture.
She had her hands roughly in front of her chest, and the direction the muzzle of the gun was pointing was the direction the light hit. It also allows the flashlight to function as a red dot at this moment.
Chen Qing frowned slightly when he heard her confusion, yes. If there is no way back, aren't the entrances and exits of the back room together?
"If it's a one-way street...who knows where the exit will be." But after a moment, he shook his head: "No, I should know. Yin Zhengchu told me that he knew the so-called address related to the foundation.
That back room is connected to here, and that area is safe to access.
Then we shouldn't be stuck here.
and……"
Chen Qing hesitated for a moment and looked at the elevator door behind him.
Maybe there isn't really anywhere to leave.
There is no turning back in this world, but maybe turning back does not mean "turning back".
The target position may not always be in front.
He looked at the dark floor in front of him and greeted Jiang Wan. This floor was very large, as large as the area occupied by Yin Zhengchu's three companies.
An area of several hundred square meters is separated by support columns, creating several zones.
There were three in total, and they first walked to the area directly ahead.
That is also the area where the flashlight is easiest to light after entering.
They took a few steps, but as they moved forward, they were surprised to find that their flashlights seemed to only be able to illuminate a maximum range of five meters.
After exceeding this range, the light began to become extremely weak, until about ten meters away, it began to diffuse into a gray-white light curtain.
And because the environment itself is mostly black, with the help of these two factors, this 8,000-lumen flashlight eventually turned into an ordinary flashlight.
After walking about ten meters, Chen Qing began to frown slightly.
The position difference of ten steps, the change of space of ten meters, he turned to Jiang Wan and asked with a little hesitation: "Do you still remember where we came from?"
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, then naturally turned behind her and pointed the way with a flashlight: "Are you kidding me? Isn't this the case?"
Chen Qing nodded, with a solemn expression: "I don't feel wrong. There is indeed a problem."
"What's the problem?" Jiang Wan frowned, seemingly confused.
He said nothing and just pointed at his feet. Under his feet, there were two footprints.
One is facing forward and the other is facing to the right.
The two footprints were the same. Jiang Wan smiled blankly: "Are they the footprints left by people in the past?"
But Chen Qing shook his head, raised his foot, and stamped another stamp next to the two footprints.
Yes, these are his footprints.
They seemed to turn in a circle.
Chen Qing did not answer, but took her hand and began to push backwards towards the footprints on the ground.
But after taking three or five steps back, their expressions began to become extremely solemn.
Yes, they're back here and adding a third companion to the footprints.
"How is this possible?" Jiang Wan's fingertips felt a little cold. She raised her head, hoping to hear a sentence from Chen Qing's mouth.
It could be seen that the other party's expression became more and more solemn, and she knew that something was wrong.
"We might..." He looked at Jiang Wan and hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'm afraid we have already entered the back room."
He looked forward, and countless possible ways to solve the maze flashed through his mind. Jiang Wan was standing aside, her face became much more stable because of these words.
It would be okay if we knew it was in the back room, but if this was just an ordinary floor, it would mean a lot more.
"First try to see if it is caused by visual problems." Chen Qing closed his eyes and nodded to Jiang Wan. The two held arms, closed their eyes, and began to try to walk forward.
After walking another twenty steps, the two opened their eyes, and what they could see were two extra rows of footprints on the ground.
Yes, they are back again.
Chen Qing was not discouraged and tried the second method. He looked at Jiang Wan and said to her: "Try pressing the flashlight on the place name. We will use it to ensure that the route is straight and then start again." once."
He bent down and placed his fingers on the ground.
Also thanks to the fact that no one has set foot here for many years, the dust on the ground easily left two fingerprints.
Jiang Wan nodded. After seeing Chen Qing draw a circle, she put down the flashlight and started pushing it forward.
After walking more than seven or eight steps, the two of them saw those marks appearing in front of them again. Jiang Wan was about to say something, but she saw Chen Qing immediately draw a horizontal bar at the current finger position.
And then, he turned over and said to Jiang Wan: "Let's go, walk in the opposite direction again."
She didn't know why, but she still followed him further.
After taking three or four steps, Jiang Wan saw another line on the ground.
He walked forward all the way, and when the two of them returned to the starting point, Chen Qing drew a horizontal line opposite the previous horizontal line, which was the point where he was now.
"Let's go, do it again."
She listened to Chen Qing's words with confusion in her eyes. What on earth was she doing?
Seeing Chen Qing's appearance, she instinctively felt that the other party already had the answer.
With this thought in mind, she followed Chen Qing and took further action.
After the two of them walked seven or eight steps, the horizontal line they left for the first time appeared in front of them.
And that horizontal line is now on the right.
Chen Qing watched the horizontal line move back about half a meter and drew another horizontal line, and then repeated this action.
Jiang Wan seemed to understand something, but she was a little confused.
She followed Chen Qing, and after repeating this for about thirty or forty times, the horizontal line in front of the two finally became closer.
And Jiang Wan finally saw a glimmer of the answer.
"Are you looking for...the turning point that will make us turn around?"
Chen Qing laughed and nodded slightly: "Not too stupid."
He shook off the blood that seeped out from the friction on his hands, and the horizontal lines on the ground were connected.
When you turn around, you see the horizontal line on the left, but in front of you is the one on the right.
He looked to the left and right of where he was, and after casting his eyes at Jiang Wan, she understood what Chen Qing meant.
After the two repeated this move on the left and right sides, they quickly found another turning point.
And when they stood at that turning point, the two began their journey to find the next turning point.
Yes, this has to be in terms of journeys.
It took them about three to four hours to find eight turning points.
The inflection point between the two is destined to be an easy process.
With a sigh, the two finally turned their backs and sat down on the ground to rest.
"I have to say...the rules in this back room are really outrageous."
Jiang Wan pulled on her clothes to escape some of the heat.
But when Chen Qing heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "Actually, it's hard to say it's hard, but it's easy to say it's easy.
This place is very safe, at least it is safe to criticize people here. "
He smiled bitterly before continuing: "But what I didn't expect was that that sentence contained not only the meaning of entering here, but also the rules of this back room."
"Is there no way back in this world?"
He nodded, regardless of whether Jiang Wan could see it.
"How did you find out?"
She was a little curious.
"There is no way back, which means always moving forward, but there should not be no way back in this world. What if your goal appears behind you one day?
So I tried walking backwards.
But found that it didn't work.
Since there is no turning back and we keep going back to the starting point, it means that the path we are taking is wrong and we are always going back. "
Chen Qing smiled calmly and then continued: "Look, after we found the road, we found it quickly.
Because we didn’t hit a turning point this time, we never looked back.
That's why!
We met the rules of this back room. "
They looked back and saw that the space of more than 300 square meters behind them was still as big as dozens of football fields. They looked forward and saw the broken body in front of them.
The body of the corpse was swallowed up by the wall, leaving only a pair of hands and a head fixed on the cement wall.
His body had already turned into bones, but the bones seemed to have been fixed with cement so that his body did not break away.
Each of his fingertips is still on the wall, as it was when he was alive.
"Do you think..." Next to Chen Qing, Jiang Wan asked him in a low voice: "Will he be related to the rules of the back room?"
Chen Qing said "hmm" and nodded calmly: "But what happened in this building back then..."
He frowned and walked closer to the corpse. He reached out and touched the corpse's fingers. The touch was extremely cold.
He was silent for a moment, and then he said to Jiang Wan: "Let's go, let's look at other places here. There is no reason for this body to be here."
