Luo Xiao knew that he had met his opponent.
When ordinary people meet people like her, they usually try to keep them calm, and their momentum is invisibly at a disadvantage. Lu Ning, on the other hand, didn't care about any threats from her at all, and prioritized his own safety based entirely on his own judgment.
If someone with a softer heart could threaten them with hostages, there were rumors from various quarters that Lu Ning was a cold-hearted person and probably didn't care about the life and death of these hostages. If she was endangered, she might kill them all before herself.
"It seems that I was right?"
Lu Ning took two steps back. Luo Xiao held the blast button between her fingers, but did not press it.
"Then, you can continue playing by yourself, but be careful when you are killed by a surprise attack."
"You threaten me?"
"It's not necessarily me who attacks you. Who wants you to die the most in this scene... You know, right?"
It's fun to blow up others, but it probably won't be that easy if you encounter a trap you've set.
After Lu Ning said that, she turned around and ran out.
When she returned to the lobby of the library, she was sure that Luo Xiao really had not installed any extra bombs. And just now she couldn't get close to Luo Xiao, who was surrounded by bombs. Once such a person blew himself up, it would be more dangerous than anything else.
But just as she reached the gate, Lu Ning stopped.
"Something's wrong?"
There should be eight people left at the door, the six Luo Xiao brought, plus the sneak attacker and the gatekeeper. She didn't attack directly at the vital point, so there shouldn't be any sound in such a short period of time.
Getting closer, Lu Ning saw the corpses of the people whose wrists had been cut off before.
It was as if they had been sliced by an extremely sharp blade, turning into a neat pile of thin slices. The width of each piece is exactly one centimeter thick, and the muscles and bones inside are cut perfectly, as complete and precise as a cross-section.
The blood stopped flowing the moment the cut occurred, so except for the blood that flowed from the broken wrist, everything about these people remained intact. It was so complete that putting all the slices together would even make people think that the person would come back to life.
The two men who guarded the gate and attacked by surprise also met the same fate. The only difference is that from the perspective of the fallen body of the gatekeeper, he rushed in from the gate and shouted loudly, but the sound should have been covered by the previous explosion. Lu Ning did not. hear.
Such a bizarre death made Lu Ning's scalp numb. She thought of something in an instant and quietly glanced at the sky outside from the window on the side of the door.
A tall black figure who was still eye-catching in the gloomy rainstorm was disappearing, and the features hanging from his body like strips of cloth were all too obvious. In this scene, this monster is the only one that cannot be messed with casually.
"The Rain Master... passed here?"
This was the first time for Lu Ning to see what the people killed in the hands of the scene controller looked like. She finally understood why the professor had to secretly carry out these plans after planning for a long time, and why the more ambitious core members acted in secret.
After all, the most terrifying existence in the scene is not the people planning the conspiracy, but the overwhelmingly powerful aborigines.
The rain master gradually walked away, and Lu Ning did not dare to delay and ran into the rain curtain again.
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On the D1 floor, after going through multiple scenes, Lu Ning finally returned to this place. It is a good thing that the preservation status of Heavy Rain World is relatively complete. The probability of being able to search for useful information here is higher.
She walked into the building, and the dark corridor still smelled of danger, but Lu Ning was no longer the cautious state she was when she first entered this world.
The target is the principal's office upstairs.
Since there were problems in this world back then, the principal's office should have retained its original state - despite this, many of the newly built buildings in the school still exist in the nine worlds here, with certain shadows on both sides. synchronicity. Combined with the data of the Sixth Experimental Group previously found in the D1 building, it is obvious that the data items have been preserved, which means that the principal's office is also in the same state as when the "principal" used it.
The route up the stairs is not smooth sailing. There are many monsters in the world of Heavy Rain, and they are good at launching sneak attacks from the shadows. In addition, there were some who had weird special abilities. Lu Ning noticed an obvious problem on the way upstairs.
The path is elongated.
It's not infinite, but as Lu Ning silently counted in her mind, the number of stairs to go upstairs was increasing, and once she stopped, everything would return to normal.
"What is it again..."
She concentrated and continued walking up, but this time she slowed down significantly to see what had happened to the stairs.
But until she got to the next level, she still didn't find anything wrong.
"Sixteen steps, I walked a total of...twenty-five steps." Lu Ning stood at the corner of the stairs on this floor. He did not continue to go up, but first counted the steps going up.
There are twenty levels in total, so the number of steps going down is almost the same. The number of steps I have taken must be wrong, but where is the problem? What is the purpose of this attack method?
She continued walking up, listening to the sound of rain outside, and paying attention to the steps under her feet.
Thirty-three steps.
It is not a correspondence of quantitative relationships, steps——
"it's here."
Lu Ning raised her head suddenly and aimed her eyes at the ceiling. The micro rush she grabbed used the power of the last bullet, hitting dots of ink on the ceiling.
"Gah!"
An unpleasant cry sounded from above, and then the entire ceiling began to squirm. The black shadow soon twisted into a weird pattern, just like the thing he met when he first came to this world.
This thing is a shadow. Not only is it above Lu Ning's head, but at the same time, a second twisted black shadow is also separated from the shadow under her feet that is lengthened by the light above her head.
"From that time on..." Lu Ning threw the gun aside, pulled out the dagger and struck the ground. The shadow began to twist and scream, which was very unpleasant to hear.
But these monsters don't stop there.
They were not recorded by Mergan, Harold or Sodom. The stories of the Rainstorm World are full of all kinds of weird and strange colors. Perhaps there are too many, and they alone cannot record them all.
Not long after the shadow twisted, Lu Ning suddenly felt a pain in his body, and a cut-like pain came from his ankle, but when he lowered his head to look, he found that there was no injury.
"Hallucinations? What are these things..."
"Close your eyes!"
A sharp shout interrupted Lu Ning's guess, and then a strong wind hit, and a crossbow arrow passed in front of her and was nailed into the wall. Lu Ning quickly closed her eyes, and then there was an explosion of bright light and the scream of shadows. As soon as the light bloomed, it disappeared, and then everything around it slowly dimmed.
"Cryptomeria?"
The voice at that moment also made Lu Ning know who the person who made the move was, but did Liu Shan actually arrive upstairs?
"Who are you? Why do you recognize me?"
Liu Shan asked coldly.
Lu Ning raised her head and saw Liu Shan standing upstairs. The difference between her and Zhengshu Liu Shan was obvious: she was holding the heavy crossbow with one hand, and the hand holding the crossbow was from the elbow down. It's a robotic arm. The attire on his body is a tan waterproof material blouse, an adventure hat with a dim yellow light on it, carrying a huge travel bag, and the other intact hand holds two dart-type pulse bombs.
It is worth noting that there is a large burn scar on her right cheek. I don’t know if it happened at the same time as the arm. From the appearance alone, this Cryptomeria has obviously had much more experience.
"My name is Lu Ning, I've heard of you, and the person who told me your name gave me this."
Not knowing whether Liu Shan knew about the split, Lu Ning lied half-truthfully, picked up the narrow sword Teng Zijian gave her, and showed it to Liu Shan.
"Why do you have this?"
Seeing the narrow sword Cryptomeria was slightly surprised and took half a step back.
"Teng Zijian, do you know him?" Lu Ning decided to fool him to the end.
"He is dead. I saw him die with my own eyes. He was killed by the Rain Master." Liu Shan's voice deepened, "This sword has been destroyed, why is it still in your hand? No, you can get it from the merchant Buy it there..."
"Even if I bought it from a merchant, why would I know that Teng Zijian owned it, and why would I tell you his name to answer your question?"
Lu Ning knew that Liu Shan had to be distracted from the problem at this moment, so she began to use words to press forward step by step.
"Teng Zijian is not dead, he is just separated from you. He gave this to me so that when I see you, you can be sure of my identity. And why are you here? What happened just now?"
Liu Shan wasn't sure what was going on for a moment, but when she heard Lu Ning's question, she subconsciously replied: "I found something... Why should I tell you?"
"Then why did you save me just now?"
"What reason do you need to save people? You are really strange. I saw someone being entangled by the Shadow Master. Of course I will help disperse them, but this does not change the fact that you are very suspicious!"
"Then I'll tell you my purpose. I'll investigate the principal's office."
Lu Ning changed the topic and quickly took the initiative in the conversation.
"What? The principal's office?"
"I encountered two attacks before. One group called their leader 'Principal', and the other group called 'Engineer'. I plan to investigate the situation related to these two people before making any plans. So come and take a look at the principal’s office here.”
"Principal's office? You can choose whatever code name you want. Besides, what's the point of forming a clique in a place like this?"
"If you don't collect clues, you won't be able to figure it out anyway, right? It's better to take action. It's not that dangerous here anyway."
"You don't even know how to deal with the Shadow Master."
"They're afraid of light, but you can't completely eliminate them, right?"
Liu Shan pursed her lips and stepped aside to get out of the way of the stairs: "Come up, I also want to see what tricks the principal's office can find. It's best if I can get out of this damn place as soon as possible."
She was still very wary, and she never put down the mechanical arm holding the heavy crossbow. Lu Ning put away the weapon and walked up the stairs in this state. This time, the number of steps was finally normal.
"Shadow Master just..."
"It is a monster with a two-way feedback mechanism. Part of your behavior will be transmitted to it, and part of it will also be transmitted to you. So when you go upstairs, some of the steps will be shared by it. This This characteristic is its attack method. If you don't pay attention, it will consume a lot of physical strength, and attacking them will have some effects on you, and the accumulation of these effects will be fatal."
"But it doesn't sound like a very dangerous monster."
"Corresponding to this is that they are difficult to kill and can only be driven away. If one is not careful, they will be entangled again." Liu Shan's eyes seemed to say, "You'd better be careful."
"Thanks for the advice."
"I don't know how you survived." She said angrily.
Lu Ning didn't care. After all, Liu Shan was originally a cold-faced and warm-hearted person. It was good to still have such a mentality after going through various changes.
"Your arm..."
"Master Yu. I was only affected at the edge, otherwise I would have been really sliced. So I don't believe what you said about encountering Teng Zijian. I saw them all dead with my own eyes." Liu Shan gritted his teeth.
"Why do you want to provoke the Rain Master?"
"While we were avoiding another powerful monster, we accidentally bumped into its path. The Rain Master will kill all creatures within a certain range under his feet, even monsters. I was in the remote position at the time, so the distance was a little farther. a little."
Lu Ning was silent for a moment and then said:
"Feel sorry."
"It's nothing, I just want you to explain it clearly later."
It turns out that no matter which Cryptomeria tree it is, its knowledge of the monsters here is the same, just like it is the same choice of heavy crossbow as a weapon. This reduced the resistance Lu Ning encountered when going upstairs, and she soon reached the floor where the principal's office was located.
The design of this floor is also quite special. The principal's office is a very large room, which is connected with several nearby rooms to form a large room integrating office and life. After Lu Ning used the old method to destroy the lock, the two people walked into the room, and their first reaction was that it was spacious.
This office can be described as luxurious. The main room entering is a large living room, with doors on the left and right sides connecting different rooms. The left side is the study room plus daily office supplies, and the right side is the living room. This floor alone is suitable for one person to live here without any problem.
What is worth noting is that there is a portrait hanging in the living room, an authentic realistic ink painting of a middle-aged man with a serious expression, and a nameplate hanging below the frame.
[Aviation Electronics University, President, Xu ██, academic calendar 1-present]
"The name was crossed out?" Liu Shan also noticed this problem.
"This is the principal's portrait. Have you been to the principal's office before? Theoretically, there should be portraits of previous principals here, but there is only one like this now, and the name was crossed out to hide it." Lu Ning looked up at the man, but Suddenly, I felt the lips of the man in the painting move slightly.
"Did he move his mouth just now?"
