After spending about ten minutes checking the stumps left on the ground, Lu Ning finally agreed to go upstairs.
The stairs in B3 are made of wood, and there will be a slight creaking sound when you step on them. Except for Shang Wenxue who can keep moving silently, Lu Ning and Zhou Weiyuan inevitably made some noises. However, there are no monsters on the second floor, only on this floor. The glass was broken, and when the light shone over it, you could see many marks on the walls, doors and windows, as if there had been a war not long ago.
Lu Ning's fingers traced a sword mark on the wall. This mark went deep into the wall and was interrupted halfway through. It was obvious that the weapon was not sharp enough and the sword flicked. In contrast, there was a sword on the ground. There was blood spattered about half of the body. Judging from the amount and shape of the bleeding, it was undoubtedly arterial spatter. The person was probably dead.
There were several bullet holes in the next place, and the ballistics estimated by the naked eye were from close range shots. A shell casing fell at the base of the wall, which was a standard submachine gun bullet.
"Lu Ning?" Shang Wenxue saw that Lu Ning was in a trance and shouted.
"The battle here is over." Lu Ning walked slowly. With those insignificant clues, she was able to basically restore everything that had happened here. There was a melee. There were many teams fighting, and many people started to fight. In hand-to-hand combat, even those who use firearms will inevitably be approached. There are few skills left in such chaos. The most primitive fights left some traces behind, becoming the last epitaphs of those who were once alive.
"What?"
"Tourists will naturally investigate the three locations nearby. I'm afraid something similar happened to those we encountered on Building A1. It's just that there is no common enemy here, so a multi-party melee broke out."
Lu Ning returned to the stairs. Sure enough, there were a lot of traces of battles here.
"The area from the second floor to the third floor is undoubtedly the main battlefield. There is no sympathetic device here to disrupt the space, so the battle will definitely continue to the third floor until 304..."
"Wait, there's a problem." Zhou Weiyuan frowned, "Before discovering the real hidden secrets of 304, tourists usually wouldn't exclude other teams as their first choice, right? Or maybe these people already know What’s in 304? Then this isn’t an unexplored place?”
"Whether it was before or after, someone from 304 must have gone in. The question now is, who else is there."
Lu Ning pointed to the corridor, her voice a little low.
"You don't believe that there will really be an ending where both sides suffer, right? We came here a little late, and the people who came earlier are gone? If there are any powerful weapons in 304, we are the ones in danger."
"Then we won't go up?" Zhou Weiyuan asked.
"Of course not, we have to make some preparations first... Shang Wenxue, what's wrong with you?" Lu Ning suddenly noticed something was wrong with Shang Wenxue's expression next to him, and asked immediately.
But Shang Wenxue didn't seem to hear it at all and walked upstairs step by step. Lu Ning noticed that the hand she had been holding the cane had changed from a leaning hand to a backhand grip, and her body was slightly arched. Although her expression was still the usual smile, it made people smell an extremely dangerous aura. .
"Hold her!"
Lu Ning instinctively felt that she couldn't let Shang Wenxue walk up like this, so she and Zhou Weiyuan immediately reached out from the left and right to grab Shang Wenxue, but their eyes blurred slightly, and Shang Wenxue just twisted and slipped out of their hands, and then He quickly ran upstairs.
The two people who didn't catch him hurriedly chased after him, but when they climbed to the third floor, there was no one in the corridor.
"Isn't there a space conversion point here?" Lu Ning immediately turned around and asked.
"If there is, we will definitely be transferred in such a short time." Zhou Weiyuan understood what Lu Ning meant, "The speed of space switching is not that fast yet. Which room Shang Wenxue should have entered, it is definitely not too far away. .”
In the room near the stairs, the left-hand side is 306 and 317, and the right-hand side is 305 and 316. Although Lu Ning and Zhou Weiyuan are not as fast as Shang Wenxue, the time difference in such a short journey is only about three or four seconds, and it cannot be further.
After Lu Ning glanced at it, she walked towards the door of 316.
"Prepare for battle." After she said this, she swung her knife and cut the door open.
A layer of film visible to the naked eye appeared in front of him, like a layer of frosted glass blocking the door. The blade scratched through it, but it had no impact. The film had no substance.
Zhou Weiyuan was shocked when he saw this thing. At the same time, a voice sounded in their ears at the same time: "Since we have companions, let's go together."
"Lu Ning, Zhou Weiyuan, you can come in."
The second voice rang, it was Shang Wenxue.
Lu Ning reached out and touched the thin film, gritted her teeth and rushed in. She didn't feel any physical discomfort, but the pungent smell of blood as soon as she entered the classroom made her cry.
Zhou Weiyuan, who came in behind, didn't feel too good either. He stepped into a pool of blood that had not yet solidified. He almost fell. He stretched out his hand to hold on to the wall to steady himself, but he happened to be eye-to-eye with a dead head. However, this kind of terror could no longer scare Zhou Weiyuan. He glanced at it and stood up, looking at the person sitting on the table at the front of the room.
Shang Wenxue held up his cane, and the light of the candle illuminated the entire room, and also illuminated the broken and dead state of nearly thirty corpses here. And the culprit of all this is not in a good condition at the moment. She is wearing a leather armor and holding two thin swords in her hands, but the leather armor has cracked, and there are two intersecting wounds from the shoulder to the ribs, and blood is still flowing along her body. It flows outward from the wound.
Although she was seriously injured, there was no sign of pain on the woman's expression. She looked at Shang Wenxue with a straight face, without moving her eyes to Lu Ning and Zhou Weiyuan.
"I really didn't expect to see you in such a mess." Shang Wenxue raised the corner of his mouth, "Look at this classroom, you are still the cruel guy."
"I don't think so. Although I was a little injured, there is no problem in dealing with you."
"Lu Lin, I just want to know what thing can hurt you. Don't tell me it's a pile of dead things. I will kill you if you give the wrong answer."
"You will kill me no matter what, but I don't mind causing you some trouble..." Lu Lin flicked the rapier in her hand, "This is a shelter, you should feel it, right?"
Lu Ning raised her eyebrows: "Are you talking about the temperature here?"
She noticed as soon as she entered the room that the temperature in the room was suitable, and the blood flowing from the corpse was only slightly coagulated. Overall, it didn't look like a room in the extremely cold weather outside.
"This is an interesting space device. It can open an independent space in a small room and connect it to any world." Lu Lin pointed to the door, "I don't know where this independent space is. I just know that someone has opened a shelter here...Have you ever heard of this?"
"No." Lu Ning said.
"It seems you haven't run into trouble yet, haha, that's good." Lu Lin lowered her head slightly, then looked up at Shang Wenxue and said, "You really want to kill me, right? No matter what the reason is, I will definitely do it today. Death, it’s just that the person who made the first move now makes you feel afraid.”
"Don't change the subject. Since you are here, you know what 304 has to offer, right?"
"I don't know." Lu Lin sneered, "Everyone was pulled in by the unfolded shelter, and that guy planted the real killer... I think my life was deliberately left behind. When I I only realized this after I killed all these people. Unfortunately, I have no chance to leave here."
"Then it looks like I'm going to send you on your way." Shang Wenxue took off the candle, raised his cane and pointed it at Lu Lin, "Your last words are really meaningless."
"For people like us, it's very easy to make up half-truths and falsehoods. How much do you believe what I just said? And your friends? The hunting game in this scene is far from over..." oh."
At this time, the corpses around him began to show signs of freezing and disappearing, and a smile appeared on Lu Lin's face.
"Kill her!" Lu Ning immediately raised his gun, but Lu Lin had already pierced her heart with the rapier in advance.
"The time in the shelter is over, the mystery has not yet been solved, farewell."
As Lu Lin lost her life, her body began to freeze and disappear quickly. The cold outside swept through the room again, leaving Lu Ning with more mysteries.
At this moment, Shang Wenxue suddenly raised his head and laughed.
"Lu Lin, hahaha, do you think I would believe this lame trick? Give up life? It's so funny. We are tourists, tourists looking for a glimmer of life in death, especially people like you who don't even have a heart. I will not choose to commit suicide!"
As the words fell, Shang Wenxue's expression returned to a calm smile, and the speed of his face change was breathtaking.
"Let's go to 304."
Lu Ning and Zhou Weiyuan couldn't say anything at this time. After all, this was Shang Wenxue's private matter. Even if both of them could conclude that Lu Lin was indeed dead, they couldn't say it at this time.
After walking out of the classroom, Shang Wenxue used his cane to scrape off a few drops of wax dripping at the door. Lu Ning had seen this trace before and judged that Shang Wenxue had entered the room.
304 is right next to it, and there is no change in the surrounding space. It is once again confirmed that there is no sympathetic device here. Zhou Weiyuan studied the door for a while, and was generally sure that there was no mechanism on the door, and then pushed the door open.
The scene inside looked peaceful, but the atmosphere was a bit strange. The environment here was transformed from a former medical laboratory, and some things that were not removed are left here and have not been replaced: the infusion pole is placed next to the door as a coat rack, and the two unfolded operating tables have become utility racks. , white curtains and hanging racks are still retained, and the picture albums, props and messy reports used in psychological experiments are piled together, making it even more bizarre.
This is a laboratory with a view to the end. There are no extra rooms, and the temperature is about the same as outside. There are no abnormalities.
The three people looked at each other and began to search the room.
"Strange……"
Soon, Zhou Weiyuan began to mutter.
Yes, Lu Ning also felt very strange. Since it was so easy for three people to come in, it would probably not be difficult for others to come in. However, there were no traces of being disturbed in the entire house. Although things were piled up in a mess, they had not been touched for a long time, even in some places. The softer areas left marks. Based on these, Lu Ning could easily judge that no one had come in and looked through it.
This is contrary to the previous information that [many people have come here to explore].
"Did you find anything?" Shang Wenxue poked the operating bed. The metal bracket was still very strong and made a crisp collision sound.
"No, this place is full of professional books and some psychological measurement drawings. But these things are normal." Lu Ning picked up the book placed on a square table, but felt that it lacked the smell of dust.
This place must not have been abandoned for a long time, at least it is different from the cold environment outside.
Just when she was about to see if the same was true elsewhere, the light around her began to dim.
"The gradient begins."
After the second experience, the three of them were relatively calm and chatted together. In a white candle held by Shang Wenxue, they felt the darkness gradually engulfing the surroundings.
"Zhou Weiyuan, what should this darkness be? It can change the world, so it should have some meaning, right?"
"Maybe, but if we want to align the logic of everything, Lu Ning's previous reminder will be in vain." Zhou Weiyuan made a joke.
"I don't know where the trap is in this scene now. To be honest, it makes me feel very uneasy." Lu Ning said, "We have seen the tricks of time and space, but they are not that fatal..."
"The fatal one is coming."
When Lu Ning heard Shang Wenxue say these words, something cold was stuffed into her mouth. Listening to the sound from Zhou Weiyuan next to her, it seemed that the same situation was happening.
"These four snakes!" Zhou Weiyuan called out.
"Don't swallow it. This is a lozenge. It will last longer if you press it under the base of your tongue." Shang Wenxue said in a low voice, his voice a little vague, and it was obvious that he also sucked one.
Lu Ning pressed the thing under her tongue and took a closer look at the surrounding environment.
The severe cold has subsided, replaced by a feeling of dampness and heat, like the weather before the rain in the dog days of summer. The clothes on the three people are still autumn clothes, and some sweat has begun to break out on their foreheads.
But it wasn't just sultry heat. Lu Ning smelled a smell of vegetation drifting into the room. It was not a fresh smell, but more like the musty smell of rotten wood and rotten grass. As the gradual darkness gradually faded, light green light shone in from the window, but it penetrated the fine light and shadow formed by some sparse vines.
A dim sun sank to the west in the green clouds, but the sun itself also had four strange tentacles extending into the sky. In the gradually dimming sky, you can clearly see the traces of the tentacles that are slightly darker than the sunlight, reaching to the other end. horizon.
And this world has been occupied by plants.
