Cheng Ye shuddered.
He squeezed the handle and closed the window.
It seems that this can reduce some fear.
He stared out the window.
Night has fallen.
The feasting lights are already on.
The lanterns are on.
There are more people and cars on the street.
The whistles mingled with each other.
Cheng Ye took a step back and couldn't see the scenery downstairs for a moment. Instead, he could see his pale face clearly.
The reflection in the glass made him look haggard.
It seems that through this reflective glass, you can still see those strange things.
…
Have you ever tried to picture a ghost in your mind?
Is it a black shadow, or is it just like a human being?
Or has a head but no body, or a body but no head?
At least in Cheng Zizi.
They were imagined into strange shapes, and all of them stared at Cheng Ye with big mouths...
He tried hard to get rid of the inexplicable thoughts in his mind, but the more he imagined, the more he imagined.
He became more and more disgusting and frightened.
It was as if the thing on him was smiling and greeting the things next to him.
They are crowded together.
It's like he is Tang Monk Meat.
…
Cheng Ye shivered.
Being frightened like this, I woke up a little bit.
But soon, overwhelming fatigue hit me again.
It is physical exhaustion, exhaustion that cannot be resisted by self-control.
He has reached his limit.
Cheng Ye suppressed his fear and walked back to the sofa in two steps.
Just listen to a "plop".
He slumped on the couch.
The soft feeling of sleep immediately relaxed him, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier...
...He is about to fall asleep...
At this moment, Cheng Ye suddenly rolled off the sofa.
There was a "boom" sound.
He rolled a few times on the ground.
He rolled and crawled towards the bedroom.
doom--
It is an active choice.
He almost caught it.
The original owner, who loves cleanliness so much, must have slept in the bedroom every day. Suddenly he slept on the sofa and he didn't know what terrible things would happen.
He really had no strength left, so he climbed into the bed in the bedroom and fell asleep directly...
…
The clock on the wall in the living room is ticking slowly.
Tick, tick, tick.
It seems that he is conscientious in his duties and records the time carefully.
but,
That eerie smell is always there.
The whole living room became strange.
I can't say there's anything wrong, but something is wrong...
…
It is now around 11pm on July 10th in the New Calendar.
It was the second day after Cheng Ye came to this world.
He was already a third of the way through the mission.
But the further you go, the more dangerous it may be.
The second hand of the clock runs forward, driving the minutes.
Finally, the last frame points to the number 12 on the clock along with the seconds.
The time finally reached the early morning of the third day.
The system softly announced:
[Ding, I successfully escaped on the second day. 】
[Entering the third day of survival, the current progress is completed (2/7). 】
…
Cheng Ye didn't know anything, he had already fallen asleep.
If you sleep where you should and do nothing unnecessary, there should be no danger.
The gray-white thing on his body pressed intimately against his skin and began to squirm.
Suddenly, it slowly climbed up and left Cheng Ye's body. He grabbed Cheng Ye's back with both hands and started eating with big mouthfuls.
You can't see what it's eating, but you can feel the shadow on the wall and see a group of gray-white things resting on Cheng Ye's body, with his head lowered and chewing something...
…
The next day, nine o'clock.
Cheng Ye finally opened his eyes while struggling.
The alarm clock was still ringing crazily in my ears.
Cheng Ye turned off the alarm clock tiredly and slept for an extra hour...
One night, I fell into a deep sleep.
It's like being pressed into bed by a ghost.
After waking up, I was still in a daze.
His mental strength seemed to be declining again.
He sat on the bed and tried hard to cheer up, but he was still in a daze. It wasn't until the sunlight hit his face through the gaps in the curtains, blinding his eyes, that he suddenly remembered what he should do today.
He forced himself out of bed.
Today was already the third day, and he had a hunch that if he didn't get any necessary information in the last two days...
Then, it is very likely that he will die in this inexplicable misfortune.
He must find the rules of real doom while these two days are not so dangerous.
Only then can we truly avoid it and survive.
Cheng Ye stood up and walked towards the bathroom with all his strength.
Standing in front of the mirror, he felt that his skin was darker than usual today.
It seemed like there was a layer of black mist, and wisps of black air came out of his skin.
This is probably what the fortune teller said: I see your hall is dark.
Cheng Ye raised his hand and looked at it for a long time, as if he suddenly had dark magic and was surrounded by black energy.
He sighed self-deprecatingly.
What was he so afraid of in his heart that he was so unlucky to encounter such a strange copy?
It seems that everything is possible, and it seems that you will fall into death at any time.
This parasitic thing on his body is like another form of life form.
Clinging to him, surviving by absorbing his own energy.
When you are completely absorbed, you will be enveloped by overwhelming misfortune.
The energy they absorb is their own good luck.
Cheng Ye dragged his tired body and quickly finished washing.
Taking advantage of the fact that he was still mentally strong, he walked towards the elevator.
This morning, I went to take a look at the inaccessible 18th floor.
…
Cheng Ye entered the elevator and tried pressing the 19th floor button. (Actually on the 18th floor.)
Sure enough, I couldn't press it down.
He reluctantly pressed it a few more times, but it still didn't work.
There was an old lady standing next to him. She looked Cheng Ye up and down, and said to Cheng Ye very kindly: "Oh, that floor is inaccessible. It was designed as a fire evacuation floor, so you can only use the stairs to get there."
Then he pressed the 20th floor (actually the 19th floor) for him.
"You go down the stairs from this floor. Same thing. It's also good for young people to take a few more steps to exercise."
Cheng Ye was a little surprised when he heard this explanation.
But he still said politely: "Okay, thank you."
In other people's minds, the 18th floor is actually the fire evacuation floor.
If, in other people's minds, it is a fire evacuation floor, then it is normal that it does not arouse other people's suspicion.
The fire escape floor is indeed a floor that cannot be reached by elevators, so you can only take the stairs.
And most people will not hang out on the fire evacuation floor.
How many people have lived in commercial housing for more than ten or twenty years and have never entered the fire evacuation floor where the floor is located?
only……
Cheng Ye's eyes were solemn, this was no ordinary fire evacuation floor.
It can't be reached.
Cheng Ye walked out of the elevator, smiled at the old lady again to express his gratitude, and then walked to the stairwell on the 19th floor in his old way.
He looked at the darkness in front of him, confident that he could enter the 18th floor after being invaded.
…
Cheng Ye stretched out his hand and touched the darkness.
Not much different from last time.
A cold feeling rushed down the palm of my hand.
A slight chill ran down his arms.
It was as if when he stepped into this darkness, he would come to hell.
Cheng Ye didn't move for a moment.
It seems that humans still treat death with awe.
He stared at the darkness in front of him for a moment.
Just like last time, even the sunlight that was approaching noon could not penetrate this darkness.
Cheng Ye didn't know what he would face.
Inexplicably, he felt timid again.
These two strange emotions made Cheng Ye stunned for a moment.
This fear and timidity are not like his...
But something like the thing that possessed him.
Could it be...
Cheng Ye frowned and fell into deep thought.
Could it be that they have become one?
So I can start to feel its emotions?
Cheng Ye touched his chest.
First I listened to my own heartbeat, then to its heartbeat.
Sure enough, one is fast and the other is slow.
Its heartbeat was faster and more nervous than the last time I noticed it.
It's afraid.
Why?
If the 18th floor is really their world, why is it afraid?
Shouldn't it be the joy of returning home?
Cheng Ye suddenly thought of the voice of the ten-year-old boy he heard in the laboratory yesterday.
"This is what I chose."
Does this sentence have any profound meaning?
If, this sentence is possessed it says.
The laboratory at that time was being invaded and fused by another world...
So.......
Cheng Ye's eyes lit up and he caught a clue.
When he looked up at the dark stairs again, he felt vaguely interested.
I feel like today, another guess will be verified.
I feel like I am getting closer to the truth.
For safety reasons, he also brought a sheet with him.
There was no rope at home, so he chose a sheet.
Cheng Ye tore the sheets back and forth into long strips, tied them to himself, and tied them to the stairs.
Make sure you can return to reality more safely.
All preparations are ready.
Cheng Ye raised his left leg and stepped into the darkness.
In order not to affect your senses.
He closed his eyes.
After walking down a few steps, he suddenly opened his eyes.
A huge flat space appeared in front of him.
The rope he was tied to was still visible on him.
But behind him, there was nothing.
In just a short moment, Cheng Ye looked around in the limited light.
He found that his vision seemed to be getting better.
It's like evolution.
He raised the flashlight in his hand.
The environment here is exactly the same as the environment in the laboratory that day.
The air seemed to be filled with fine powder.
The smell of moisture filled the nostrils.
It was like a basement that had been abandoned for a long time. Nothing could be seen, only a disgusting smell and a musty smell.
Compared with this unpleasant smell, the cold and permeating feeling is crowded around me all the time.
Here is another world.
It was a world that seemed completely dead without any sign of life.
It's like a desolate world after a nuclear war.
Cheng Ye felt that the one on his body seemed to be trembling with fear.
It seemed to be very scared and trying hard to hold on to something.
Cheng Ye could vaguely feel its feelings, but there were more things that he couldn't touch.
My ears seemed to be filled with a lot of chirping sounds.
But he couldn't hear clearly what was said.
It feels like an argument, like a quarrel.
The current state is like, because he was invaded by it, he has some characteristics of this world, so he can enter this world.
But as for the rest of this world, it would take a longer period of intrusion, or even until assimilation, he would not be able to find out.
He can only be regarded as half human and half them.
Therefore, the world did not fully accept him.
But, waiting for the day he assimilates...
Who knows if he is still alive or not...
Cheng Ye smiled lightly.
This time he kept his mind in a state of not thinking about anything.
I thought silently in my heart: one one makes one, one two makes two...three seven twenty-one...
In short, I will definitely not associate it with anything else.
We are born under the red flag, and we should be upright and fearless of the invasion of ghosts and gods.
Cheng Ye lowered his eyes and closed them again.
He fumbled with the sheet cord around his waist.
Go backwards and walk up step by step.
He moved slowly, for fear of tearing the sheets.
As long as you open your eyes, you will see another world.
So I can only close my eyes and quit.
This is a bit like a second space.
Like a Klein bottle.
Intersect but do not touch each other.
In one place, but independent of each other.
Soon, Cheng Ye returned to the stairwell on the 19th floor.
He looked at the familiar darkness in front of him and felt relieved.
The brain is running at high speed.
The darkness in front of me is another world.
Being invaded, he seemed to have a passport to another world.
So he has the authority to enter the 18th floor.
However, because he has not been completely invaded, he can only see the vague outline of that world.
More things may only be visible after he is invaded deeper step by step.
The smell there was exactly the same as yesterday's lab.
Cold, damp, rancid.
I don’t know what those dense powders are.
However, by entering the 18th floor, he was able to confirm one of his guesses.
The two worlds are indeed quietly merging.
The tone of that world was cold, pitch black.
Based on this guess, he got a new guess.
It was what he suddenly thought of when he was about to enter this world.
The world is merging.
So does myself.
He and the thing possessing him were also quietly merging.
...
That sentence "This is what I chose."
It turns out that there are many, many of them, competing for a host.
The hosts are the humans infected by the stones.
So, it wasn't that he saw more the longer he was invaded.
Instead, he is slowly being assimilated.
When his human features completely disappear, he can naturally see everything in that world.
It originally belongs to that world.
They are opportunities to compete for survival,
Everyone who is infected can become their nourishment.
The opportunity is to find a way to invade.
After invading, it continuously absorbs energy.
You are like their nutrition. The moment you are hollowed out, they can be reborn...
.......
The most critical figure is Professor Guo, who seems to be the initiator of everything.
Cheng Ye frowned.
Professor Guo's special actions step by step had a deeper explanation in his heart.
All the key clues seem to lie in Professor Guo.
If he could deduce the correct meaning of his actions after seeing himself.
I should be able to pass through this instance safely.
…
The two worlds are merging.
So does the person who was invaded.
He felt that he was very, very close to the truth, just a little bit close.
It seems that we still have to find Professor Guo.
