Like other places, when he looked up, he didn't know where he was because of the dark environment. However, upon closer inspection, he found something different. Through observation, he quickly noticed a dark location more than ten meters in front of his sight... There seems to be a staircase!
(Huh? Stairs!)
Seeing the stairs, Liu Zhengkun's heart suddenly became lively. However, just when Liu Zhengkun was thinking about where to hide next, suddenly, without warning, a voice came from behind!
A voice asked in a plain voice:
"Are you planning to stay here forever?"
"ah!!!"
The voice came from behind Liu Zhengkun without any warning, and this sudden voice frightened Liu Zhengkun to death on the spot! First, he let out a series of trembling screams, and rolled up from the ground. He was about to run away. The next second, a hand quickly stretched out from behind, and immediately covered the bald man tightly. mouth.
"woo woo woo woo!"
"Shh, don't scream, it's me."
Hearing a familiar voice, Liu Zhengkun turned around quickly and took a closer look, only to realize that the owner of the voice was not a hawk, but a person. In other words, the person standing in front of him at this moment was a person wearing gold-rimmed glasses and putting his finger to his mouth. The person who made a silent gesture to him.
Liu Zhengkun knew the man in front of him. He was none other than a senior member of the team. In my impression, this man should be named Zhao Ping.
Sure enough, after confirming that the person behind him was not a man, Liu Zhengkun's heart that was originally in his throat dropped back. He nodded to indicate that he was no longer shouting, and the other party also let go.
"Director Liu, are you okay?"
Seeing that Liu Zhengkun had regained his composure and as soon as he let go, Zhao Ping took the lead and greeted him with a smile.
"Huh! It turns out it's you Zhao Ping. You scared me to death. Do you know that you almost scared me to death just now? Do you know that this scary person can sometimes scare people to death?"
Liu Zhengkun looked frightened and started to complain. Unexpectedly, after hearing what the other party said, Zhao Ping not only did not apologize at all, but also raised the corner of his mouth and continued: "Haha, how can it be possible? Director Liu, you have been in the officialdom for decades, so you have never experienced any big storms. ? Are you afraid of worms? Are you kidding me? I guess you won’t take anything else seriously in this world except those from the Anti-Corruption Bureau, right? "
Zhao Ping's face was full of smiles when he said this, but in Liu Zhengkun's ears, it was so harsh and uncomfortable. It was obvious that the other party was mocking him!
Thinking of this, inadvertently, the bald man's eyes flashed with a sinister look, and then it disappeared in an instant.
Back to the subject, let’s not talk about the taunt just now. In fact, I was very surprised to meet the senior Liu Fangkun in this deserted place. He first automatically ignored the taunt, and then asked the other person: "Zhao Ping, how could you do this?" Here? Could it be that you were separated from the others like me?"
After hearing this, Zhao Ping shook his head and replied: "No, I think you may have misunderstood. According to my guess, this should be the mission deliberately breaking up our group and placing them in different locations in the castle, because only this is consistent." A hide-and-seek game.”
After all, Liu Zhengkun was a cadre of a state-owned enterprise, and his understanding ability was not bad. After listening, he nodded silently, but at the same time, his eyes quickly turned in his eye sockets without the man in glasses noticing, and then he continued with a look of panic. Said: "Ah! By the way, you have to be careful, there are locusts in the hall of this castle! I was almost caught by that locust thing just now!"
Sure enough, just as Liu Zhengkun expected, when he heard that there were locusts nearby, the face of the man in glasses suddenly changed, and he asked in a panic, "There are locusts? Then... do you know the specific location of the locusts?"
After Zhao Ping finished speaking, Liu Zhengkun raised his hand without hesitation and pointed in the opposite direction where he was chased by the hawk just now and replied: "That's the place where I was chased by the hawk just now."
Zhao Ping became happy when he heard this, and hurriedly said to Liu Zhengkun: "Since you escaped here from the east side, doesn't it mean that the tiger is not nearby, the tiger is on the east side, and the west side of the back hall of the castle is safe now! ?”
"Yes, that's what I meant!"
"Okay, if that's the case, why are we still here? Go to the west and find a place to hide. As long as we hold on until dawn, we can go back alive."
Zhao Ping, who was looking happy, turned around and left immediately after saying this, trying to rush to the west. Unexpectedly, before he could take a few steps, Liu Zhengkun behind him suddenly collapsed on the ground and groaned, covering his heart with his right hand. At the same time, his entire face showed a look of pain!
"Ouch...wu..."
Seeing the middle-aged man's reaction, Zhao Ping was immediately shocked.
"Director Liu, you...what's wrong with you?"
After confirming that the other person looked at him with a puzzled look, Liu Zhengkun, who looked extremely uncomfortable on the ground, maintained his pained expression while panting and explaining: "Hey, it's an old problem. In fact, my heart has always been bad. I have a heart disease and I'm most afraid of being scared. I usually carry Jiuxin Pills with me, but since I came to the Cursed Space, I have forgotten about it. I have already eaten up all the pills on my body. In addition, I was chased by a worm just now... I finally fell ill... ugh... "
As he spoke, Liu Zhengkun's expression became increasingly painful.
"Heart disease! What should I do?"
As expected, when Liu Zhengkun said that he had a heart attack and saw that the middle-aged man was about to die, the bespectacled man panicked further and looked completely at a loss.
As for Liu Zhengkun, who was getting more and more painful, the middle-aged man seemed to be looking away at this moment. Although his whole body was shaking, he still couldn't speak clearly and continued: "Hoo, ho! You also know that if you have this heart disease, you will definitely die without medicine. I am No, young man, you don’t have to worry about me. Huh, huh, you’d better leave quickly and find a place to hide in the west of the hall. I, huh, uh...I...I can’t do it anymore..."
After he said his last words in pain, the next moment, Liu Zhengkun rolled his eyes and lay on the ground, completely motionless.
"Hello, Director Liu? Director Liu?"
Seeing that Liu Zhengkun was not moving, Zhao Ping was shocked at first. He shouted to no avail. He stretched out his hand to test the middle-aged man's breath. He hesitated for a moment, but soon, the bespectacled man left Liu Zhengkun behind and headed towards the west side of the back hall without looking back. run.
Da da da da da!
But just as Zhao Ping's back gradually disappeared into the darkness on the west side, a 'miracle' happened.
On the ground, Liu Zhengkun, who had just died of a heart attack, opened his eyes again! Not only that, there was no trace of pain on the middle-aged man's face after he woke up.
He quickly climbed up from the ground, then showed an unabashedly vicious expression towards the west side, and whispered sinisterly: "Idiot, I was chased here from the west side, what are you doing now?" There are really oysters in that direction! How dare you mock me, I want you to know what is ginger or old and spicy!"
"Boy, just wait until you encounter a wolf and be killed!"
After reciting these words in vicious words, Liu Fangkun walked straight forward, towards the stairs leading to the second floor not far away. Yes, after all, there were worms on the first floor. For his own safety, Liu Zhengkun planned to go to the second floor and then find A safer place to hide again.
After a while, the middle-aged man drifted away and soon disappeared into the stairs in front.
only……
Just as Liu Zhengkun was rushing to the second floor along the stairs, a figure, a figure who had rushed to the west not long ago, came back quietly.
At this moment, the figure stood there while looking up and forward, staring at the back of Liu Zhengkun who was about to disappear around the corner of the stairs. He first raised his hand to adjust his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and inadvertently raised the corner of his mouth, revealing a smile.
………
In the main hall on the first floor, He Fei is still walking silently in a dark environment.
The lack of light resulted in low visibility of the castle's internal environment. Of course, it is true that humans are very adaptable. Perhaps because he stayed in this dark environment for too long, He Fei became more and more adaptable to the dark environment. Although his field of vision is still limited, it does not prevent him from observing his surroundings overall.
Yes, He Fei was constantly moving. He also did not dare to stay in a fixed place for too long, so during this period of time he kept walking and stopping, resting for a while and walking for a while, repeating this while observing the surrounding environment. The first floor of the fort was too big. It would have been fine if the view was clear. Unfortunately, the dark environment prevented him from fully exploring this area. In addition, the sense of crisis persisted in his heart, which also made He Fei the only choice to use this method of constantly shifting positions. to consume time and try your best to persist until the end of the task.
At least that's He Fei's plan for now.
Just as he was walking silently and pondering something in his mind, suddenly, a series of sounds came from nearby, a series of strange sounds that were weak but extremely clear in this silent environment:
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
The sound was like friction, like iron being dragged on the ground. As soon as the sound came out, He Fei, who was walking, stopped instantly and immediately confirmed the direction of the sound...
There is a corridor ahead!
And as the sound appeared, the series of friction sounds seemed to be getting closer and closer to me!
Ding!
He Fei's heart tightened. Although he was shocked, his movements were not slow at all. Without thinking about it, he immediately dodged to the side and hid behind a fireplace on the right.
Blah, blah...blah...
The sound moved from far to near, and the result was indeed the same as He Fei's guess. The sound did come from the opposite side. Gradually, as the sound gradually approached, it became closer and closer to the location where He Fei was hiding, and the atmosphere began to become depressing. , cold sweat began to flow out, this terrifying and oppressive feeling can be imagined! Even so, He Fei still didn't run away as if he had made up his mind. He was still huddled behind the fireplace motionless. The reason was simple. He could faintly feel that although the unknown thing was coming towards him, It seems that he was not discovered. If he chooses to run away because he cannot bear the pressure, then this is undoubtedly equivalent to actively being exposed, which is no different from throwing himself into a trap!
Sure enough, the young man guessed it right. The clattering sound became smaller and smaller as he passed by the hiding place of He Fei, and gradually became farther and farther away. However, somehow, although the other party did not notice that he was just walking by slowly. , but He Fei frowned, as if something was bothering him. He gritted his teeth first, and then slowly stood up from the ground as if he had made some important decision, turned around and looked back...
Throw in the direction the sound leaves.
He opened his eyes desperately, and with the help of the weak candlelight, he saw an extremely tall human-shaped black shadow in the distance! Although he couldn't see clearly the figure due to the long distance and the dark environment, there was one thing he could see clearly, and that was the thing the black shadow was dragging...
A giant ax with an exaggerated shape!
Finally, as the black shadow continued to move, the huge black shadow dragging a giant ax quickly disappeared into the darkness behind.
(It turns out that this is where the clattering sound comes from...)
After confirming that the black shadow had completely left, He Fei took a long breath and left the fireplace and walked forward again.
Half a minute later, He Fei came to a corridor. Originally, this was just an ordinary corridor. Others might have walked straight through it, but He Fei was different. Since he had been observing the environment, when he entered the corridor, He Fei was still walking. I discovered some things that would most likely be ignored by ordinary people, such as several oil paintings hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor.
As a side note, He Fei has an instinctive concern for oil paintings. This is an instinctive reaction developed after experiencing the mission in the small town of Crosso.
Since it was the first time he passed through this place and his thoughts were in his mind, it was natural that these oil paintings attracted the attention of the young people.
Unfortunately, because the cloister is located in the corner of the hall, the already dim candlelight around it cannot shine here at all. To put it more bluntly, this is the place with the least amount of light in the entire hall, so He Fei wants to use the candlelight to see these things clearly. Oil painting is now impossible.
Of course, if you don't want to see clearly, there are other ways. He Fei first took out the cat's eye flashlight, but when he was about to press the switch button, he hesitated again. Yes, the mission information did mention this mission. There are no powerful abilities in this room, but this does not mean that they are not sensitive to light. It would be fine if you turn on the flashlight in a separate room, but if you use the flashlight in such an empty hall... what if, what if you are caught? He found out and locked himself. God knows if he would still be alive at that time.
(The flashlight doesn’t work, it’s too risky, and the candle holder on the wall is too high. I can’t reach the candle at all... Do I really want to give up viewing the content in the painting?)
It is easy to give up. It is safe and does not involve the risk of exposure. But somehow, He Fei currently has a feeling in his heart, that is, if he does not take a closer look at these oil paintings, he will feel as if he has lost something important! Because he had a vague feeling that the oil paintings in the corridor were very important, and might even have some connection with this supernatural mission! ! !
(In that case, okay!)
Snap.
In the end, after a battle between heaven and man in his mind, intuition defeated worry, and curiosity defeated fear. Thinking of this, He Fei made up his mind, gritted his teeth, and turned on the cat-eye flashlight.
As soon as the flashlight was turned on, a bright beam of light instantly shone on the oil paintings hanging in the corridor.
However, just when He Fei used the bright light to move his vision towards the oil painting on the wall, the next moment...
He Fei was stunned when he saw the content of the oil painting clearly.
His whole face was inadvertently filled with fear.
