Among the several people, the skinny player who was in serious condition was sent to the fourth floor, while the other three were sent back to their rooms.
When Xu Huo was walking, he passed by the door and listened a little. The man named Xiao Gao was obviously severely hit. He repeated a sentence in his mouth: "Aren't they dead? Aren't they dead? Aren't they dead..."
The doctor gave him a sedative.
Xu Huo came downstairs and sat on the lawn to bask in the sun. After a while, Sima Xiaoer came down.
He wandered to Xu Huo's side and lowered his voice: "Those who escaped and were captured are from the Special Defense Department. What's going on? Why do they say there is no such place as Tingcheng?"
"Xiao Gao was actually called back by his parents!"
Sima Xiaoer's face showed disbelief and shock, "Weren't his parents killed by the Evolvers? Doesn't this copy cover more than one hospital?"
He didn't care whether Xu Huo answered or not, and continued: "That must be the case. Heavy fog covered Dongcheng District at that time. Maybe the dungeon area is larger than imagined. You can't escape if you run away. Even if you escape, you will be caught. .”
Xu Huo interrupted him, "What are you going to do next?"
Sima Xiaoer perked up and said, "Find the trigger point of the dungeon."
"Since we can't escape, we have no choice but to fight against the dungeon to the end. I don't believe there are so many of us who can defeat a dungeon!"
Xu Huo nodded, "This is a good idea. Tell your companions to stop speculating and search around the hospital. Maybe the entry point to the dungeon is right in front of you."
Sima Xiaoer laughed and said, "Brother Xu, you are so awesome. I was almost dumbfounded when I first came in. I have never heard of a precedent of being unable to start the game after entering a dungeon."
Xu Huo patted him on the shoulder, got up and went back to the hospital building to chat with Tang Guangbo.
After the two sat down, Tang Guangbo adjusted his glasses first, then drank water, and then smoothed the corners of the medical record, "You are in a good mood today."
"The sun is nice today. I feel like I haven't been in the sun like this for a long time." Xu Huo said.
"It's a good thing to notice the beauty in life." Tang Guangbo said: "The main reason why people are miserable is that they focus on the things that make them miserable and turn a blind eye to the beauty in front of them."
"If life is a progress bar, the longer the pain is, the happier it will naturally be. On the contrary, if the happiness is longer, the pain will be reduced."
"I don't agree with this view." Xu Huo said: "Pain and happiness are not length, but depth. Whoever has the deeper depth will last longer."
Tang Guangbo looked gentle, "It depends on the individual's thoughts. It might be a good idea to underestimate the pain appropriately."
"Most people don't analyze and think deeply about happiness, so happiness appears on the surface. Pain is a passive experience from which people can learn lessons and think more."
"But I think that for most people, there is no need to think so much. People are like a bucket. As long as one board is decisive, no matter how high the other boards are, they can only watch the water in the bucket flowing out in vain."
"Those who can notice this waste and fill up the bucket can control both their minds and their bodies. People who notice this waste but can't fill up their buckets can only control their minds but not their bodies."
"Human thinking is infinite, but a person's intelligence, ability, and educational environment are limited. The collision of the two is actually the source of most people's pain."
“So where you can’t change the latter, you can change the former.”
"Give up thinking?" Xu Huo asked.
"Of course I don't mean that." Tang Guangbo laughed, "Even people who don't notice the water in their buckets flowing out still have their own thoughts, but they haven't broken the thinking barriers, and there aren't that many things to think about. , but happier.”
"Sometimes thinking too much doesn't necessarily make you happy. Finding happiness in the secular world is also a good way. It will also help your condition. Just look at the sun and flowers."
After saying that, he took out a key from his pocket and handed it to Xu Huo. He pointed to a small door on the side of the office and said, "Open the door and take a look."
Xu Huo opened it as instructed, and looked up at his prompting. A two-meter-high step connected the exit. From his position, he could see the sun, hear laughter, and someone calling his name.
"Just go out." Tang Guangbo reminded him from behind.
"What's below?" Xu Huo lowered his head. The ground in front of his feet suddenly sank. Black steps were formed piece by piece, twisting and extending underground, all the way to the depths of darkness.
Everything around him peeled off and split like paper. The exits upstairs, the office, and Tang Guangbo behind him all disappeared, replaced by pure black. The space under his feet expanded rapidly, and the spiral staircase as narrow as a well was instantly enlarged ten times and several times. Ten times, it turned into a huge abyss opening to the depths of the earth.
Xu Huo didn't hesitate and walked down the uneven stone steps.
There were no guardrails on the edge of the steps, and there was nothing but darkness. There was no sound or airflow at all, and it was as dead as a place where even the air did not set foot.
After walking for about five minutes, I could no longer see the steps above when I looked up. At this time, there was not much difference between the top and bottom. Only the steps under my feet were the clearest.
Gradually, there was the sound of shoe soles rubbing against the stone surface.
This was followed by long breathing and a slow heartbeat.
Ten minutes later, Xu Huo felt that the strength in his legs had returned. When he was about to continue walking down, he heard another set of footsteps.
Came from behind.
He looked back and saw a shadow standing on the edge of the steps, looking down as well.
Xu Huo couldn't see the other person's face. He withdrew his gaze and continued walking. The footsteps behind him also followed.
The almost overlapping footsteps continued at the same pace for ten minutes, and then there was a third footstep.
Xu Huo walked to the edge of the steps and looked up. The figure above him also looked up - on the stairs three times apart, a third person was looking down.
The movements of the three people were at the same frequency, so when Xu Huo returned to the original path and continued downward, the other two footsteps followed closely behind.
At this time, Xu Huo's breathing and heartbeat disappeared from his ears, and only the sound of overlapping footsteps remained on the huge spiral staircase.
However, this balance did not last long. A fourth person appeared on the stairs, the person standing at the top.
The person at the top looked down like the two people in front. After spotting the people below, he suddenly accelerated and ran down.
After he started running, the third person below also started running down, and then the second person accelerated.
Hearing the footsteps of the three people behind him gradually overlapping, Xu Huo ran along the steps with his right hand on the wall.
The four people seemed to be racing on the spiral staircase, running deeper into the abyss in circles. After a while, the footsteps of the four people reduced to three people.
