"So many flying ants."
Hua Shuying frowned and looked at the goose-yellow light bulb above her head, and said with disgust.
"So many flying ants gathered in just such a short time?"
In the corridor on the third floor, there was a goose-yellow electric light on the central staircase. In the surrounding darkness, groups of flying ants flew towards the light source, densely surrounding the electric light. Some of their wings fell off and fell all over the ground.
"In my hometown, these flying ants only appear when there is heavy rain or flooding."
Li Ran said something and continued walking towards the T-shaped staircase on the fourth floor.
Hua Shuying let go of Li Ran's arm and kept slapping the flying ants that fell from his body.
She looked at the stairs that bifurcated again, and suddenly pointed to a mark on the wall and said, "Does this mean we are going to separate?"
On the wall in front of the two people, a "←→" mark appeared, and there was a little person on each end of the mark.
"It seems so." Li Ran walked to the fork and took the stairs on the right.
Hua Shuying walked to the stairs on the right and said in a low voice: "What will happen if we don't go separately?"
"Try them all." Li Ran said.
Therefore, the two did not intend to separate. After all, it was safest to stay together in the face of the unknown.
The two walked up the stairs on the right, and when they reached the fourth floor, Li Ran raised his head and frowned slightly as he looked at the electric light above his head that was almost covered in flying ants.
He turned to look at the corridor and the darkness outside the corridor, and made a judgment based on the reference in the distance.
"We seem to be back on the third floor." Li Ran said.
Li Ran remembered the classrooms on both sides of the corridor very clearly. There was a hole in the ground at the door of the first classroom on the left side of the third floor, and the height of the playground and the grove seen in the darkness outside had not changed.
This shows that their floor height has not changed and is still on the third floor.
"How could this happen? We have been going up." Hua Shuying looked back at the steps behind her and said with a look of disbelief: "The stairs are also obviously upward. Could it be that a ghost hit the wall?"
Li Ran frowned slightly, looked at the stairs on the fourth floor, and said to Hua Shuying, "Wait for me at the right stairwell, and I'll go up and take a look."
"Um."
Li Ran walked to the fourth floor and came to the bifurcated staircase. He still chose the staircase on the right.
Hua Shuying stood there and waited. She watched Li Ran go up and turned to the stairs on the right.
But the next scene made her widen her eyes and pointed in horror at the man Li Ran who was coming up from the stairs on the right below: "Oh my god, you, you, you..."
Li Ran walked up to the fourth floor, turned the corner and walked from the second floor to the third floor. What was even more incredible to her was that Li Ran turned the corner of the fourth floor stairs at the same time as she saw Li Ran walking up from the second floor. There is no sense of frustration at all, as if the stairs are just like walking up to the fourth floor and going from the second floor to the third floor.
Li Ran walked to Hua Shuying, looked at the light bulb above his head and then at the hole on the ground at the door of the first classroom on the left.
"It's like entering an endless loop. It's so strange." Li Ran dragged his chin and looked at Hua Shuying and said, "Go and try, I'll wait for you here."
"good."
Then Hua Shuying walked to the fourth floor, and when she was about to go to the stairs on the right, Li Ran shouted: "Try taking the stairs on your left."
Hua Shuying walked to the stairs on her left obediently.
Then Li Ran saw Hua Shuying walking up the stairs to her left on the second floor.
"I hate these flying ants, they always fall on me." Hua Shuying covered her little head with one hand and slapped the flying ants in front of her with the other hand, and said resentfully: "Should we go away separately? Crack the ghost wall?"
The two walked to the fourth floor again. At the bifurcation, Li Ran walked to the stairs on the left, and Hua Shuying walked to the stairs on the right.
They looked at each other and walked up the stairs together.
Li Ran's eyes were fixed on the light above his head. The goose-yellow light illuminated the stairway in an unclear or dark way. The sky outside was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. There was dead silence in his ears. The only sound was the sound of him walking up the stairs. .
Have Hua Shuying's footsteps disappeared?
Li Ran was confused. He came to the corridor and looked up at the goose-yellow light above his head.
No flying ants!
"This is the fourth floor."
Li Ran looked at the playground and the woods in the distance, and his field of vision was obviously much higher.
He looked at the door of the first classroom on the left corridor. There was no hole on the ground.
"We're out of the loop."
Li Ran heard Hua Shuying's footsteps coming up and raised his head to look at the stairs on the right.
His eyes slowly looked up and down the stairs on the right. As soon as he saw no shadow on the stairs from the corner of his eye, his body suddenly stiffened.
Under the dim light, Li Ran stood stiffly at the entrance of the stairs, and at the entrance of another staircase directly opposite him, a man poked his head out from the wall.
The man was completely black and hazy, with no hair. He was holding on to the edge of the wall with both hands, and his head stuck out from the wall. The face without facial features stared at him lifelessly.
Li Ran's scalp almost exploded on the spot!
He heard footsteps and thought it was Hua Shuying walking up.
When he looked up, he saw such a ghost staring at him. Who wouldn't be shocked?
At this moment, Li Ran felt a chill running straight from his tailbone to Tianling Gai. His scalp and back felt cold, and even his palms were covered in cold sweat.
Moreover, he also sensed an unknown spiritual force attacking his mind, but it was lifted by the Chain of Silence.
"Shadow's Grip!"
He reacted quickly, and after a brief shock, he took action like lightning, shooting out a ghostly hand to grab the ghost thing.
“Rustling!!!!”
The ghost transformed into a thin black shred of paper and flew towards the corridor.
"Damn it, you dare to scare me?!" Li Ran cursed: "You can run fast."
He ran to the stairs on the right, looked down, and shouted solemnly: "Where are you, witch?"
Hua Shuying went up the stairs with him, but he disappeared and a ghost probe came out.
Damn it, no matter how mentally strong a person is, he will be frightened.
"Damn, arrows are traps too!"
Looking at the stairs where Hua Shuying disappeared, Li Ran did not go down. He knew that going down would only make him fall into a more complicated circular staircase.
(There are many complicated and weird spaces on this floor, but as long as you can walk to the studio on the fifth floor, you can break the loop and weirdness.)
According to the previous divine scan, there were only six people in a classroom on the left side of the fifth floor.
This kind of situation where all the time and energy gathered in one classroom has happened once before.
That was the troll kitchen in the dining room under the "hungry" rule of the boat sailing against the current. Under that rule, clearing out the trolls in the kitchen was key, otherwise everyone would starve to death.
"Are we going to clear out the people in the studio?"
He wasn't quite sure yet what was in the studio on the fifth floor, but it certainly couldn't be a player.
Moreover, the difficulty of this task is placed at the most difficult position in the hunter's hall, so it must be extremely dangerous.
Thinking of this, he used the magic shadow to carve the words "Fifth Floor Studio" on the wall of the corridor. As long as Hua Shuying can break through the strange space and get here, he can see the message he left.
Li Ran continued walking to the fifth floor. He walked towards the stairs on the left, which was to his right.
This time we reached the fifth floor without any obstacles.
The dim electric light hung alone above his head, illuminating only an area less than two meters in diameter centered on Li Ran.
He noticed a brightly lit classroom at the end of the dark corridor.
The area between the lighted classroom and the corridor where he was was pitch black, as if no light could penetrate.
This feeling made Li Ran very uncomfortable. The lighted classroom at the end of the corridor was like a mirage, and he had to walk through a dark area to get to the bright classroom.
(You must not meet their eyes in the classroom until you reach the end of the corridor, otherwise you are dead!)
A line of prompts appeared in front of Li Ran.
"Weird rules?"
Li Ran was shocked in his heart.
Are there weird rules in bounty missions in human towns?
He finally understood why so many players died because of this.
Because those players came here without getting the mission information with weird rules, the results can be imagined.
If he didn't hide the hint, he wouldn't be able to pass here.
It’s easy with tips.
As on the fourth floor, he left a message on the wall saying "Don't look at things in the classroom."
Then he strutted into the corridor.
Walking from the light to the dark, first there was a whooshing wind coming in from the corridor, and then a cold breath came from all around. The open windows of the classrooms in the corridor were like turning on the lowest temperature air conditioner. The air-conditioning is constantly being poured into the corridor with the same "whooshing" sound.
Li Ran felt as if he had walked from summer to a world of ice and snow. If he hadn't had a devil's physique, his scalp would have been numb and his skin would have been covered in goosebumps.
He strode forward, staring straight ahead, with only the light at the end of the corridor in his pupils.
After passing the first classroom with an open window, there seemed to be a few pairs of malicious eyes looking directly at the dark windows. Their eyes were like cheetahs crawling in the grass, motionless watching their prey outside the classroom. That, especially the prey's eyes.
What they like most is the panic and fear in the prey's eyes. Although their faces are full of calmness, they know very well that the prey's apparent calmness is temporary, and soon the prey will be overwhelmed by the fear inside. Beat down.
Li Ran walked through the first classroom smoothly. Apart from blinking during the whole process, his eyes did not shift even half an inch. He looked straight ahead, his eyes firmer than ever before.
After passing the second classroom, there were many strange sounds coming from inside.
"Boy, stop, I'm calling you, stop!"
A hoarse voice came from the window of the second classroom, and the voice moved with Li Ran's movements, as if it was right next to his ears.
Li Ran could even feel the strange thing in the window trying to grab him with his hands.
But he ignored it and continued towards the end of the corridor.
"Li Ran, save me."
Suddenly, Hua Shuying's voice came from the third classroom.
"Li Ran, help me, help me quickly." There seemed to be a woman holding the window with her hands outstretched and shouting for help. Her voice was exactly the same as Hua Shuying's.
If he couldn't see the hidden prompt, he might have fallen into a trap. After all, Hua Shuying was indeed missing.
In this case, if you are in a team, your teammates may fall into the trap.
Li Ran smiled disdainfully and said, "I have never told the witch my name."
How can such clumsy tricks be deceived.
When he left the darkness and walked toward the light, the wind and chill around him suddenly receded.
(Rule lifted.)
After seeing the prompt, Li Ran dared to look at the classroom at the end of the corridor.
The glow of the warm lamp illuminated the entire classroom. Li Ran walked to the window and looked into the classroom.
This is a studio filled with drawing boards. A dozen bright incandescent lamps above the studio illuminate the classroom like daylight.
In the center of the classroom, five students were sitting seriously in front of the drawing board. A teacher wearing glasses, a suit and a tie was sketching a woman's face on the blackboard with chalk on the blackboard.
As the last stroke of white chalk fell, a sketch of a girl with a shy and aggrieved look appeared on the blackboard, vivid and lifelike.
"Today's lesson is about facial expressions," said the gentle teacher.
"Teacher, there are so many human expressions, how can you describe them all?" said a man in a white shirt.
"Yeah, I hate drawing facial expressions the most. I can't draw them well no matter how I draw them."
"Draw people first and then draw gods. This is the first step to learn art well."
Several students expressed their opinions.
The gentle teacher smiled and said: "Don't panic, today the teacher brought you a piece of material."
"Oh? Is there a life drawing class today?" the boy in the white shirt asked excitedly.
Several other people also stood up, obviously very excited, and their eyes were very excited.
"Then, please present today's material."
The gentle teacher clapped his hands.
A graceful and exquisite figure slowly walked from the front door of the studio to the center of the group of people.
Outside the classroom, when he saw the person coming out, Li Ran's pupils shrank and he was shocked: "Why is the demon girl..."
In the studio, the sparse figures of flowers stood quietly in the center, looking painful, with despair and grievance in their eyes.
"Wow, the material this time is so beautiful." The young man in the white shirt stood up excitedly.
Several other people also stood up, their eyes glowing with heat, and even their breathing became rapid.
They surrounded the sparse shadows of flowers in the center, holding paintbrushes in one hand and gesturing at the figures in the air with evil smiles and excitement on their faces.
"Everyone, sit down, sit down," the gentle teacher shouted.
The students returned to their seats one after another, still using their brushes and hands to draw body shapes in the air.
"Everyone's attitude towards the material is to study it as a still life without any evil thoughts. Do you understand?" said the gentle teacher.
"clear."
The students said in unison.
"Draw the body first, then the spirit. Be sure to observe every detail. If you can't see clearly, you can go closer and observe, but remember, don't do it." A sly look appeared on the lenses of Wen Binbin's men's glasses in suits. He licked the corner of his mouth and looked at Hua Shuying from bottom to top.
"The witch is controlled?"
Outside the window, Li Ran found that Hua Shuying's expression was extremely painful, with anger and grievance in her eyes, but her body was motionless, as if she could not resist.
"The witch is being manipulated." Li Ran quickly came up with the answer.
The arrow marks on the third floor heading towards the fourth floor belong to two different weird spaces. If you walk separately, you will find two different spaces. If you stay together, you will enter an infinite loop of stairs.
The main purpose of separating players is to break up the cohesion of the players so that they can be defeated one by one.
When Li Ran successfully arrived at the fourth floor, the Probe Ghost he saw was actually one of the traps. The Probe Ghost's dead gaze seemed to have a spiritual attack on the player, but Li Ran's sly power was higher, and he also had the Chain of Silence, the spirit of the Probe Ghost. The attack was completely ineffective against Li Ran, and he was almost killed in reverse.
But if it is another player whose guile value is lower than that of the Probe Ghost and who does not have the ability to resist mental attacks, they are likely to be tricked, and the final result will definitely be death.
Obviously, Hua Shuying was also tricked when she walked up another staircase, and was taken to the studio to be used as material.
Before, he was still debating whether to sacrifice color to make material, but now it's okay, the witch is the first to bear the brunt.
"The human body is a complex shape. Drawing it can improve your skills. It has many details, such as bones, muscles, fat, and wrinkles. Learning it can observe more details. At the same time, it is a dynamic shape. Different movements and different postures help the painter capture movement."
"It is also a beautiful situation. It has a variety of expressions. By learning it, painters can effectively capture emotions and improve aesthetics."
The gentle man in a suit explained his understanding of drawing in a serious tone, but his eyes never left Hua Shuying's back.
He slowly took out a paintbrush, and a white light was reflected in the lens. He smiled and said, "Please show me the materials."
After saying that, he used the paintbrush to tease it through the air.
A strange scene appeared. The fastening rope at the collar of Hua Shuying's purple robe automatically untied from the collar to the abdomen...
The students' eyes became hot and their breaths became hot.
"Our material is pretty, isn't it?" the man in the suit asked.
The man in the white shirt swallowed his saliva and said with dreamy eyes: "Beautiful, the most beautiful material I have ever seen."
As the brush strokes, the purple robe with sparse shadows of flowers slowly slides to one side, revealing the charming collarbone and white shoulders.
Hua Shuying was in agony. At this moment, she felt great humiliation and despair. She never thought that one day she would turn into one of these weird things that would be humiliated at will.
The weird looks around her wanted to eat her up, no art student, these were all beasts, all weird.
Doing dirty things in the name of painting!
Her inner despair reached the extreme, and these strange looks made her feel crushed.
At this moment, she just wanted to ask Li Ran to save her.
But this building is so weird and weird, can Li Ran really come in and save her?
"Can I observe the material up close?" The young man in the white shirt raised his hand.
"There are a lot of details in the material, you can only see them clearly if you get closer," another person said.
The man in a suit pushed up his glasses and gave an evil smile: "It's okay to observe closely, but don't get started."
Hearing this, Hua Shuying felt like a thunder struck in his mind, and the whole world turned into a dead gray color!
