Qian Yipeng's idea and modifications, and the version that was finally successfully uploaded is also a product of compromise. Obviously, the ghost president would not let these people go easily, so the previous version that contained too many private goods was naturally pushed back. After three rewrites, the current version was finally uploaded.
"Now it seems that there is no need for a scary atmosphere. In other words, it has entered the stage of advancing each branch. After all, the detective has to appear at the right time, and the story cannot be left so unsolved." After many discussions, Wang Zhongnan was not so afraid. "We can even have me appear later to deal with this problem, since the detective's restrictions are more relaxed anyway."
"I'm afraid we can't count on detective rescue in reality. What we put in is the setting, but the setting will be different from what happened, and the things in the story will be taken apart and formed in another way." Lu Ning said.
"So why do you insist on giving the head nurse a name and asking her to lead Yang Cai?" Chen Hang asked.
"For a hidden setting." Lu Ning walked to the door and opened it. Everyone was shocked. Yan Zidan and Qian Yipeng immediately chased out and looked at both sides of Lu Ning cautiously.
"No problem, the taboos on the wall have been changed. Now I can talk, oh, but I can't run, turn on the lights, or throw things around, right... It's simpler."
Lu Ning shook her phone: "We have to be more cautious in our actions in the future. If this had happened before, we would all have died here."
"What are you doing out here?" Qian Yipeng asked.
"Well... giving a name to a character also means constructing the character's past, present, and possibly even the future. A person's experience will be many different, so this is just an attempt... Everyone, if it's not just a story Are we there?"
"What? You want to say..."
"What you see is what you know, and what you know is what you see. Although I don't believe in idealism, it might be useful if you use it occasionally." Lu Ning had already reached the door of 1004 and raised her hand to press the doorbell.
After a moment, a vigilant "Who?" came from inside.
"Miss Xin Mi, if you are willing to believe us...how about joining us to escape from here?" Lu Ning said.
Qian Yipeng and Yan Zidan looked at each other.
After a period of silence in the room, the door was opened, but the chain on the door was still hanging. There was no light in the room, but luckily I could barely see clearly.
"Who are you?" Half of the face poked out from the crack in the door, at a relatively safe distance.
Sure enough, as described in Solitaire, he is a very beautiful face and very calm. Lu Ning couldn't help but thank Yan Meng for being able to create such a character at that time. Maybe she just hoped to have a reassuring pillar in the article, maybe just to set off the despair and terror. But this character has been taken over by Lu Ning and used.
"We are also the unfortunate ones trapped here." Lu Ning said.
"Why do you know me? I have never seen you." Xin Mi was very vigilant.
"It's a long story, can we not talk in the corridor? The taboos here are changing a bit fast, and we don't want to die suddenly." Lu Ning said, "I think you should have something in your hand that can ensure your own safety. , please let us skip those boring mutual tests."
The door slowly closed a little, and then there was the sound of the door chain being pulled off. Xin Mi opened the door and looked at the three people calmly: "Please come in."
Lu Ning smiled and nodded: "Excuse me."
After the three people entered the house one after another, Xin Mi closed the door again. The TV in the living room was turned on, becoming the only light source in the room. A tall woman wearing a military coat and a sturdy man wearing a sweater were lying on two sofas in the living room respectively. This was a bit beyond Lu Ning's expectation. outside.
"Huh? Did you put it in?" The woman tilted her head back and glanced this way with a pair of phoenix eyes. She held a chocolate bar in her mouth and her pronunciation was a bit unclear.
"Is he a trustworthy person?" the man asked in a low voice.
"They know something about me, so they put it in to say a few words. If it's a friend, fine, if not, just throw it away." Xin Mi replied coldly. Fortunately, Yan Zidan and Qian Yipeng had seen some scenes before, so they were not frightened by these three people.
"My name is Li Wenyue, nice to meet you." Lu Ning was not affected by the aura of these three people, but became even happier. Free teammates? Then she would be disrespectful.
"You know me." Xin Mi walked back, picked up the remote control and pressed the pause button. It turned out that the video was playing on the TV.
"My name is Long Tiangang." The strong man looked at Lu Ning with a scrutinizing gaze, "It seems that you are not some kind of ghost."
"You all don't seem to be afraid of ordinary ghosts." Lu Ning said with a smile, "Can I ask what you can rely on?"
"Kill the monsters with their scraps. Of course, first of all, don't die yourself." The woman in the military coat chuckled lightly, "Can you two also tell me your names? I am Deng Zhiyi. If you are human, it would be nice to meet you."
"My name is Qian Yipeng, hello."
"My name is Yan Zidan."
The two people also reported their names respectively.
"That's it for greetings." Xin Mi raised his hand and made a gesture, "No matter how you know me, we also need to know your origins and your purpose. Since you are here to seek cooperation, there should be cooperation. Basics. Any attempt to deceive us will be considered a breakdown in negotiations, and we will not receive any preferential treatment even if you look young."
"This is best. I don't want to waste too much time on the conditions. We don't have enough time, right?" Lu Ning also said, "It's just that I can represent the two of them. I don't know which one of the three can be the representative." Real representation? Talking with a lot of people will only end up spending more useless time listening.”
"Xin Mi, it's just you." Deng Zhiyi took out another pack of chocolate bars from the snack box on the coffee table, "We can just listen."
Xin Mi pointed to the dining table next to him, Lu Ning nodded, and the two of them walked over. When Yan Zidan and Qian Yipeng were at a loss, Long Tiangang patted the sofa and said, "Sit down and have something to eat. We are not enemies until they discuss the outcome."
In Lu Ning's design, Xin Mi herself is outstanding enough, and she is a reliable teammate in various situations. And how different is Xin Mi in reality from the story?
"To make a long story short, we came here to save a friend, and the situation here seems to be much more complicated than we thought. What we know so far is that this place has become the Red Prison that originally belonged to Hades. In other words, it has basically fallen into Entered a different space. Tell me about your situation?" Lu Ning took the lead in speaking.
"We just got together here on the weekend." Xin Mi said, "We didn't expect something like this to happen. About three days...three and a half days ago, we woke up and noticed the change in the scenery outside the window. There was a fishy smell similar to blood in the tap water, and the property phone number couldn't be reached. Such a weird feeling made us not act rashly. We just investigated on this floor first and discovered the problem with the elevator. There were still some living people here at that time. .”
"then?"
"Yes, some people took the elevator to leave, and some people thought it was safer to take the stairs. Of course, no one who took the elevator was heard from in the end, but the person who took the stairs found the body...if only one head was left. You could say it was a corpse.”
"What happened? Did you try to go there too?"
"It depends on how much information you can provide. Our exploration is also a very dangerous operation, and some of the information obtained cannot be shared with you casually."
"So, you probably haven't learned about the elevator yet?" Lu Ning took out her mobile phone and showed Xin Mi the photos taken in the elevator, "This is what we found in the elevator when we came up. Regarding these written words People, do you have any clues?"
"We have never entered the elevator...wait a minute." Xin Mi tapped her fingers, turned around and said, "Dalong, come here and take a look. This handwriting is very much yours."
"What handwriting?" Long Tiangang stood up and walked over, looking carefully at the photos on Lu Ning's phone. Lu Ning asked Xin Mi: "There may be similarities in the handwriting. Why do you think it is his?"
"Dalong's hobby is calligraphy. His calligraphy is very unique. If someone deliberately imitates it, it is not impossible to imitate him, but judging from the content of these sentences, I am afraid he is not such a boring person."
"Yes, this is my font." Long Tiangang nodded, "I'm pretty sure I haven't written these words myself, so...is there another me?"
"You accepted it quickly." Lu Ning took the phone back.
"I've seen too many weird things these days, and I always accept more weird things." Long Tiangang nodded, and Xin Mi waved his hand to let him go back, and then continued talking to Lu Ning.
"These graffiti in the elevator do provide some potentially shocking facts...but this does not affect our continued discussion. Continuing with what I just said. Through the stairs, we have some general understanding of the condition of this building. On the same floor The interior remains normal, but once you move up and down through the stairs, the floors change."
"What specific changes are they?"
"There is no pattern, it just makes you go to an unknown floor. We tried four times in total. Two times to go upstairs and two times to go downstairs. The two times we went upstairs reached the forty-fifth floor and the one hundred and ninety-sixth floor respectively. , and the two times I went downstairs were the seventy-seventh floor and the root number two."
"Is there still a root number two on the floor?"
"Special floor. We only encountered it on the fourth time. Specifically, the forty-fifth floor is a large supermarket that sells a very complete range of daily necessities at low prices. The only requirement is that you need to be checked in when leaving. Take away a syringe of blood. If there are copies of us, it may be related to this, but we are not short of supplies now and it is related to this. The 196th floor is a breeding farm, where there are a large number of spiders, There were beetles and centipede-like red creatures. We didn’t dare to stay on that floor for too long before returning. The seventy-seventh floor was a maze, where we encountered some zombie-like monsters, but this monster moved slowly, although it was strong. It was slightly bigger but could be killed by smashing the head. We were just afraid that the monsters would gather, so we left after a little investigation. Finally, there were many large cabinets like the medicine cabinets in a pharmacy, but with very huge volume proportions. , each drawer can accommodate about four to five people lying side by side, and in the center of the floor is a copper instrument like an alchemy furnace."
"It doesn't sound like these floor structures are the same as ours?"
"We were not able to reach any of the original floors of this building. Fortunately, we can go back down the stairs to get back here, which is the tenth floor. The structure of each floor is different."
"Which floor did you see the human head on?"
"The maze, there are many small rooms there, and there are some cocoons with blue and red eyeballs inside. Human bones are scattered on the ground, most of them are just white bones. It was there that we saw the head of a person who left before, so Decided to return. Let me state in advance that we don’t know all the dangers. This place is weird beyond imagination.”
"I understand this very well." Lu Ning nodded, "I still have a question, but I think you can ask one thing first."
"Did you come up by the elevator? Can the elevator take people to the correct floor?" Xin Mi asked.
"No, the elevator also has its own rules. You need to put the buttons together in certain ways to reach it. Yan Zidan knows the method. But the methods for going up and down are not the same. They should not be the same set of password symbols, so don't count on them. According to the instructions in the elevator Leave a message, it is more likely to send you to an unknown floor, without even a way out."
"That's going to be tricky..."
"Okay, now it's my turn to ask my question. Can I take a look at your weapons?"
Xin Mi frowned.
"It's what you said. I hope you won't hide it. I'll just say it straight away. No matter how courageous ordinary people are, they will not go exploring everywhere without any support. You even dare to risk attacking the monsters here. I judge that you are in the first place. A supermarket floor I met also purchased corresponding weapons. I would like to see what weapons you have in your hands, okay?" Lu Ning said with a smile.
"...Okay." Xin Mi took out a lancet from his lapel and placed it on the table. Deng Zhiyi took out a large bone knife from under the sofa and shook it, while Long Tiangang pointed to a police baton on the bookshelf behind him.
Lu Ning wanted to see it, but they really just showed it to Lu Ning without explaining it in detail. Lu Ning also knew that these weapons must have some special effects. After all, Xin Mi and others were just ordinary people. Even if they stayed in this hell-like place for more than three days, it would not be enough to quickly transform into the kind of bodies experienced by tourists. With the appearance of Bai Zhan, it is understandable that he has some precautions and reservations.
"Thank you, I have no problem. Next we should be able to discuss how to cooperate. I think the three of them are ordinary people. Since they want to escape from here, they must need some help. It just so happens... there is one person with us. Taoist priest, I can't guarantee how trustworthy he is, but at least it's better than nothing now."
