There is nothing in the south hall except the big round table and those broken chairs. You can see clearly at a glance, and there is no need to go there. As for the stairs that can be climbed or descended, the four people looked at the stairs to the upper and lower floors respectively.
"Up or down?"
After reading this, Gao Han turned around and asked Ma Tao.
“Go down and have a look first”
Ma Tao did not look at the stairs leading to the third floor but walked directly to the next floor.
Everything must be resolved first. They are on the second floor. The building is so high. Of course, they must first confirm the safety below. Otherwise, they have to pay attention to the bottom at all times, because when they don’t confirm whether the bottom is safe, they will feel in their heart. It will always be on your mind, and distraction is essential for this.
Gao Han actually had the same idea as Ma Tao, but he just wanted to seek Ma Tao's opinion. Now he saw Ma Tao walking to the next floor and followed him directly.
"You two just keep an eye on this."
After going down a few steps, Gao Han looked back at Xiao Jinzi and Su Lanyu.
"OK"
Xiao Jinzi made an OK gesture and said.
Su Lanyu didn't want to follow at all. Hearing Gao Han's words, he nodded symbolically to show that he understood.
Ma Tao originally expected that there would be some danger downstairs in the future, so he kept going downstairs cautiously. When he reached the first floor, except that the light was very bad, there was no danger at all, which made Ma Tao and Gao Hanbai worry again.
The first floor is a closed space. There is nothing, and it cannot be said that it is nothing. There is also a broken cabinet. I don’t know what it was used to contain. The large open cabinet door has turned into a pile of black stuff. There is still some mold growing on the things.
Ma Tao walked around and found no hidden door or mechanism, which made him even more confused.
What was this layer used for before it was designed like this?
"Did you feel something strange?"
Gao Han also got nothing, but he said something like this.
“What’s weird”
Ma Tao asked her.
"This building is so big, and it's been so long since we've been here that we haven't met a single monster. Don't you think it's strange?"
Gao Han said to Ma Tao, who was staring at the things in the cabinet with his eyes white.
"It's not as good as not having monsters"
Ma Tao reached out and touched the black thing with his fingertips with copper claws, then looked at it carefully and said.
"Do you really think so?"
Gao Han suddenly laughed softly, and then asked Ma Tao in an interested tone. She didn't believe that Ma Tao, who had always been thinking about everything, would not notice this problem.
“You know and you still ask.”
Ma Tao confirmed that this pile of things should be the remains of some kind of fungus after it dried up, and then sighed.
In fact, Ma Tao had thought about this issue before, but now that Gao Han raised it, he still felt a little unwilling to admit his idea.
As a bounty hunter, I have been dealing with monsters for a long time. It is really awkward not to see monsters for such a long time. But to be honest, if I can't see them, I really hope I can't see them all the time. I'm afraid that one of them will suddenly come. Big ones, that's what gives Ma Tao a headache, and it's also the situation he least wants to encounter.
"I just want to remind you"
Gao Han laughed sweetly again, and his tone of voice sounded quite seductive, but it was incompatible with their current environment.
"thanks for your reminder"
Ma Tao knew that Sister Han would never speak to him in such a tone for no reason. At such times, he had to be more cautious, lest he offend this elder sister and no one would know about it.
"Hey! Brother Tao! What's wrong with you!!!"
Xiao Jinzi, who was still upstairs on the second floor, didn't know how the lowly Ma Tao and Gao Han were doing, so he shouted down below in a low voice.
"Don't worry, it's safe down there. We'll go up now."
Hearing Xiao Jinzi's shouting, Gao Han raised his head and responded. Ma Tao, not caring about the pile of things, turned around and walked back up the stairs with Gao Han.
"What's down there?"
As soon as he saw them coming up, Xiao Jinzi couldn't hold back his curiosity at all, so he hurriedly came over and asked.
"There is nothing down there. It is a closed space similar to a basement. Let's go up."
Ma Tao answered him directly, and then planned to head directly to the third floor.
"etc!"
Xiao Jinzi suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Ma Tao's sleeve and said, "Brother Tao, will you let us go up this time?"
Ma Tao looked at Su Lanyu, saw that she turned her eyes away indifferently, then looked at Xiao Jinzi, and then nodded.
As soon as the boy saw Ma Tao agreed, his face immediately overflowed with an extremely excited expression. He turned his eyes to the stairs on the third floor, raised his sonar gun and strode upwards. He just rolled up his arms and sleeves and was ready to go up and have a big fight. .
Su Lanyu didn't say anything, just held her sword behind her back and followed her quickly in a low voice.
"Be careful"
Out of concern for this kid, Ma Tao still warned him, and then looked at Gao Han beside him. The latter saw Ma Tao looking at him and gave him a helpless look, and followed him.
Just like that, Xiao Jinzi was the first in line, Su Lanyu was less than half a step away from him holding the sword, and behind him was Gao Han. The three of them walked upstairs.
Ma Tao was not worried, but soon, the situation suddenly changed.
As soon as he stepped onto the third floor, Xiao Jinzi said "Hey" in surprise, and then Su Lanyu's eyes were like lightning, and he shouted loudly. The sharp knife in his hand was slashed from back to front, like lightning and flint, and then there was a burst of glass shattering. When the voice sounded, Gao Han's expression changed and he rushed forward.
Ma Tao, who was still on the second floor, could only see the shadow of Su Lanyu's knife, and then heard the sound of broken glass. He immediately knew that they must have encountered something, and he couldn't care much at the moment, and rushed upstairs. .
When Ma Tao arrived upstairs, he saw Xiao Jinzi, Su Lanyu and Gao Han studying something in front of a broken mirror.
"What are you doing! What's going on?"
Ma Tao first looked at Xiao Jinzi, and then turned his attention to Su Lanyu, because she would definitely not attack without any reason. She must have discovered something abnormal before taking decisive action.
"I...I...I just saw a little girl when I got up, and then I was stunned."
Being stared at by Ma Tao angrily, Xiao Jinzi clicked his lips and spoke with some stumble.
"What did you say?"
Ma Tao frowned, but did not doubt Xiao Jinzi's words, because Gao Han had just said the same thing to him. Even if they had hallucinations, they couldn't both have hallucinations about the little girl. This was incredible.
"What about you? What's wrong with you?"
Ma Tao, who was puzzled, immediately looked at Su Lanyu and asked.
He just saw a little girl, so he wouldn't let Su Lanyu go up and stab her. There is no injustice or grudge. When anyone sees a strange little girl, his first thought is definitely not to stab her with a knife. After all, after that, Su Lanyu's skills are still afraid of a little girl. Even if it happens suddenly, this situation should not happen. Now the mirror is broken. If it was really a girl, she would have been killed on the spot. A sharp titanium alloy knife would definitely be able to Easily split the human body in half.
"The little girl's legs are hanging in the air..."
Glancing at Ma Tao, who was a little annoyed, Su Lanyu directly said such words that made Ma Taolei uncomfortable.
"I...I saw it too..."
Xiao Jinzi raised his hands and nodded to indicate that what Su Lanyu just said was true and he also testified for her.
“Nani???”
Ma Tao, who was stunned when he heard this, was completely stunned, and even the spoken language of his century came out.
"Don't look at me, I just heard that too"
Gao Han quickly cleared the relationship.
Needless to say, Su Lanyu's sword skills were very fast. The mirror was already broken when she ran up, and what she saw was not much more than what Ma Tao heard just now.
"Are you sure you read that right?"
Are your feet hanging in the air? How could such a thing happen? Ma Tao once again cast a questioning look at Su Lanyu.
"Believe it or not"
Su Lanyu didn't bother to explain, and withdrew his sword without looking at him.
"Then what?"
Ma Tao could only go on to ask Xiao Jinzi.
"But...then that's it"
Xiao Jinzi didn't dare to talk back to Ma Tao, so he answered honestly.
My Brother Tao just got him a Leopard medium tank combat vehicle. Such a good car was given to me. If I made Brother Tao so angry that I took the car back, I would definitely feel uncomfortable. a few days.
After hearing this, Ma Tao stared at the pile of broken mirrors on the ground and pondered for a while, then looked at the direction corresponding to the mirror and found that the broken mirror was facing a narrow entrance, but after going up the stairs, It's not facing the entrance but you need to turn around, but it is facing the mirror. When Leng Buding saw this mirror, he really wouldn't have thought that the exit was behind it.
"By the way, when I first went upstairs, I heard a little girl's voice saying something... something... it saved my life..."
While Ma Tao was studying the broken mirror, Xiao Jinzi thought of another thing and quickly reported it to Ma Tao.
"Are you sure that's what you heard?"
Gao Han suddenly smiled. According to this, the little girl who scared them so much seemed to be scared so much by them. I don't know whether it was a person who scared a ghost or a ghost.
Suddenly, Ma Tao noticed some unusual reflections at the entrance on the third floor, about a dozen meters high. When his figure flickered, he seemed to be able to see several figures shaking from inside.
It’s also a mirror!
This discovery was no small matter. Ma Tao immediately walked towards the exit. Sure enough, at the exit there was a step similar to a threshold, with a mirror embedded on the outside.
"Oh, I see"
Seeing this mirror, Gao Han and Su Lanyu both realized it instantly.
It turns out that this is a setup similar to a blindfold. The top of the raised mirror at the door must be higher than the one standing on the ground. The mirror on the opposite side will refract the mirror under her feet, from a certain angle. The angle will make people think that the person can stand there in the air. This is a simple trick of optical projection and refraction. Unexpectedly, it really frightened people.
"You see?"
Ma Tao stepped on the raised mirror and stamped his feet vigorously, and also wanted to understand the reason, but now the large mirror opposite had been chopped into pieces by Su Lanyu's knife. It was impossible to restore what Xiao Jinzi and she had just seen. The scene where you can stand in the air.
"Holy crap! It took me a long time to do this, but it was this broken mirror that did it."
Xiao Jinzi stepped forward, looked at the mirror at Ma Tao's feet, and then kicked the mirror into pieces with his leather-booted foot.
"Telling you to scare people!"
Then the kid didn't feel relieved, so he went up and kicked it several times, directly smashing it to pieces.
"okay"
Ma Tao stopped him from venting his anger, and then looked inside the entrance to the third floor.
In front of them at this moment was a long corridor with some partitions in the middle, but they were all very small and could not hide anyone, let alone any monsters.
Opposite them is a cracked window. The glass window frame is gone. You only need to cross it lightly. From their position, you can see the weather outside and the forest in the distance. The wind blows through the window. There was a sound of howling wind.
"Let's go"
No longer entangled in these deceptions, Ma Tao clenched the sonar gun in his hand and walked towards the broken window.
When he reached the window, Ma Tao looked outside. Climbing out of the window was a balcony about five or six meters wide. There was nothing on the left, and there was also a damaged window on the right.
The balcony outside looked quite solid, and Ma Tao climbed out of the window and onto the balcony almost without thinking.
"I...fuck...I...I'm a little...afraid of heights"
Xiao Jinzi glanced outside, then looked at the edge and quickly retracted his head, closing his eyes tightly and not daring to look.
The elevating frame of this building is very high. The distance from the top of each floor to the ground is about five meters. They are currently on the third floor. Counting the floor slab and foundation, the distance from the ground is about two meters. About ten meters.
"I never thought you still have this problem?"
Su Lanyu was quite surprised that this kid was still afraid of heights. He stepped on the edge of the window and jumped out of the window.
"No one is perfect, who doesn't have some flaws?"
Xiao Jinzi closed his eyes and still refused to admit defeat.
"Just walk close to the wall. You still have to get used to this problem."
Ma Tao looked at him, then shook his head helplessly.
There are many things that cannot be overcome by others and need to be overcome by oneself. For example, if there are no handrails on the stairs, many people are afraid to walk on them. Even if the stairs are quite safe, they still won’t walk on them because they always feel that they may fall. Go down.
"Sister, please help you."
Gao Han also lightly crossed to the balcony outside. Seeing that Xiao Jinzi still had his eyes closed, he stretched out his hand.
The boy first opened one eye and then looked at Sister Han's hand stretched out in front of him. Then he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't have to! I can do it!"
As if he felt that asking a woman to help would save his face, Xiao Jinzi blushed, took a deep breath, and then started to crawl back using his hands and feet. But as soon as he stretched out one leg, he didn't know what was going on. This kid was acting strangely again. He glanced down, then quickly stepped back.
"you……"
Ma Tao almost laughed angrily at this kid. Just as he was about to speak, there was suddenly a thin crackling sound above his head, and then some gravel and cement blocks fell. Some of them even fell to Gao Han and Gao Han. Su Lanyu's helmet and shoulders made a crackling sound.
Ma Tao and the other three subconsciously looked up, but they couldn't see anything because there was a balcony blocking them.
"Ma Tao! There is someone above you! It's a little girl!"
The three of them couldn't see it, but that didn't mean that sister couldn't see it either. The aircraft was hovering over the building at this moment. Sister R, who was remotely controlled, immediately saw a child who could be eight or nine years old running past the outer corridor on the fourth floor. The girl immediately told them using her communication watch.
"Can you follow her?"
It's a little girl again. This is the fourth time Ma Tao has heard this word. No matter she is a person or something else, she is not allowed to be caught talking today.
"No! She entered the building again"
My sister's voice was a little disappointed, but there was nothing I could do about it. The space in the building was not in good condition, and it was not suitable for aircraft to enter rashly. Once something unexpected happened, there was no guarantee that they would escape unscathed. It would be fine if it was an ordinary aircraft, but This is a part of my sister's body, how can I risk it so easily.
"I understand, sister, please continue to help us keep an eye on it."
Ma Tao turned his head and glanced at Xiao Jinzi, who was looking at him eagerly. He hesitated for two seconds, then said "You can figure it out yourself" and got into the building again through another broken window.
"come on"
Gao Han also looked back at him, stretched out his hand to cheer, and then followed in Ma Tao's footsteps, followed by Su Lanyu.
No one can help him at this time. Sister R just said that the little girl was running outside, which means there must be a balcony outside the fourth floor. If Xiao Jinzi can't overcome this problem, even with the help of Ma Tao and others, he can come here Okay, what about the fourth floor? What about the fifth and sixth floors? What next? So he had to rely on himself. After saying that they had already explored the first and second floors, there was no danger. Even if Xiao Jinzi stayed here or returned to the chariot, there would be no problem. This is exactly what Ma Tao said. The reason why he dared to leave Xiao Jinzi here alone to lead others away.
"Hey! I..."
Xiao Jinzi looked at the unobstructed balcony outside the balcony with a bitter look on his face. A feeling of dizziness immediately came over him. However, Ma Tao and the others had already passed by, so he was holding back. He immediately gritted his teeth and worried. With a fierce move, he stretched out his hand to grab the window frame on the side, finally jumped out to the balcony, and then climbed into the window on the other side as if his butt was on fire.
Ma Tao and the three of them had just finished checking the situation here. This place is also a sealed space. There is no way out except for the upward stairs. There is nothing except a few dusty dining tables in the room inside. The three of them were about to go up to the fourth floor when Xiao Jinzi crawled in.
“Well done”
Ma Tao looked at Xiao Jinzi, who looked a little pale, and gave him a thumbs up.
"It's... not bad"
After calming down, Xiao Jinzi forced out a smile and answered with a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Congratulations on your success"
Gao Han walked up to the boy, then reached out to wipe the cold sweat from the boy's forehead.
"ah!"
Only then did Xiao Jinzi realize that he was sweating on his head. He quickly thanked Sister Han and wiped the sweat beads on his face with his sleeves.
"Are you okay? Okay, let's go upstairs."
Ma Tao waited for him for a few more seconds and asked.
"no problem"
Xiao Jinzi also knew that this was a special period, so why did he signal that he was fine.
Walking up to this kid, Ma Tao reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and then said, "You're behind."
A person who has just been frightened is not suitable to be frightened again. Even if he overcomes fear, he must take it step by step. He cannot become a fat man in one go. He still doesn’t know what is on the fourth floor. Ma Tao doesn’t want Xiao Jinzi to be the first to be in danger. He still decides. Charge yourself.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Gao Han and Su Lanyu were already on the fourth floor first.
Ma Tao hurriedly chased after Xiao Jinzi.
On the fourth floor, the layout has obviously changed. From the outside, the building looks like a wine bottle. The lower floors are wider, and the top floors are relatively narrower. The first thing that comes into view when you go to the fourth floor is You can still continue going up the stairs, but just now my sister saw that the little girl was walking outside the building and did not go up to the fifth floor. Ma Tao had no intention of going upstairs and decided to go find the little girl with a phantom soul first. .
Regardless of whether this girl is a human or a ghost, catching her so familiar with this building will definitely reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble. This is what Ma Tao cares about most.
The layout of the fourth floor is very simple. On the right side of the stairs is a bathroom, and on the left are some desks and chairs. They are now scraps, piled there and covered in layers of dust. Many wooden things have become damp and hairy. Some are full of holes eaten by insects.
The elevator on the fourth floor is still inoperable, but there are two places on the entire fourth floor that lead directly to the corridor outside the building, where the little girl must have gone out.
Sure enough, after coming out, there is really a long corridor surrounding it. It is said to be a corridor, but it can actually be said to be a large platform. Fortunately, the cement wall guardrail on the edge is very high. You can't see the outside unless you lie on the fence. It saves Xiao Jinzi the trouble.
He carefully walked along the gentle corridor outside to the other side of the building.
Because the space was spacious enough, the four people hardly left too far apart, and the distance between each other was less than two or three meters. Soon, they reached the corner of the building, and the four people gradually gathered together.
Ma Tao first quickly stretched out her head and took a look at the other side. This sight really made her jump. On the side she turned to, there was a little girl in blue clothes standing, and this little girl obviously also When he saw Ma Tao sticking his head out, he seemed even more frightened than Ma Tao. He stood there shivering and even took two or three steps back. This was obviously a human being! ! ! !
