The muscular man has been getting close to Shen Yun.
He used his usual honest smile and flattering tone, but none of these seemed to be of any use to this cold-faced youth.
In the end, the muscular man couldn't help talking, cursing the dead-faced guy viciously in his heart.
What's so good about it! It's annoying to look at!
Probably this time the nightmare has a "harvest", so the muscular man has no intention of pretending. After a few failed conversations, he rolled his eyes, turned away and said nothing.
It's a pretty straightforward posture.
However, Shen Yunju still had that expression, no matter whether the muscular man was pleased or cold, he had no response.
Such people are quite common in narrow buildings. They are nicknamed "zombies" because they seem to have lost the emotions and desires that humans should have because they have spent too much time in the narrow buildings.
These "zombies" are cold-faced all day long, do not speak, and have no vitality. It seems that they are not humans at all, but real zombies.
The muscular man had seen this kind of person before, but at least there were some reactions that normal people should have, not like Shen Yunju, who even didn't respond when other people talked to him.
In fact, Shen Yunju just instinctively froze at this time. All his brain cells are thinking about a problem that he can't even think about.
—He has seen that commercial area on Earth.
What is it... He can't remember clearly. He just turned to find some familiar scenes from his fragmented memory. Rather, the commercial district made him feel familiar.
The two buildings, the sky bridge on the third floor, the open-air square on the basement floor... Just staring at the business district from a distance, he can directly think of these eye-catching features.
But…
Except for these characteristics, he couldn't remember anything.
He has been reminiscing, thinking, and wanting to recall the name of this commercial district, where it is located, when he has been there, and what are the shops inside.
He thought about two full rounds of nightmares, but he couldn't remember anything.
His memory was like the apartment that could not be left within an hour after the nightmare began, was sealed. He didn't know if he couldn't remember it because those memories were really too far away, or because...
Because of something else.
He meant that they, their taskers-these human beings, originally appeared in the narrow building inexplicably, didn't they? Theoretically speaking, there are... behind the scenes, this kind of thing... right
At the thought of this, Shen Yunju's complexion turned pale involuntarily. His "zombie" expression became more and more rigid and rigid.
It was actually the first time he realized that there might be some problems with his memory.
He didn't know, he just felt so... He didn't know if it was his illusion.
Perhaps, he just passed by that commercial district accidentally when he was on the earth. Because of its special architectural shape, he left a little superficial impression, so he can't remember the scene at that time now.
But, but... But it's also possible that those behind the scenes who put them into this game have moved their memories, right
Otherwise, how could all the taskers in the narrow building not know how they got here
Shen Yunju was trembling almost all over, clenching his teeth tightly, to muster the courage to face this possibility.
He never dared to think deeply. There are many taskers like him in the narrow building. They never dared to think deeply about why human beings appeared in the game "Escape from the Sky". They dare not think about it or face the heavy topic of the future.
They become ostriches, zombies, anything that can resist these terrible guesses, trying to make themselves live ignorantly.
They may be like Shen Yunju, still going back and forth in vain from one nightmare after another; or they may be like Jiang Shuangmei Jiang Shuangmei, who suddenly stopped one day, and then fell into the drunkenness of life and death.
The narrow floor... Ha, the narrow floor.
They are too timid to believe any conspiracy theories.
Therefore, when Shen Yunju was caught off guard, he realized that the business district—this nightmare! -After bringing him a sense of familiarity, his first reaction was fear.
He doesn't want to know those things... He doesn't want to face those things!
But his brain is still searching for memory in vain. He found that his memory was almost in fragments. He found that he couldn't remember his parents, his job, and his friends at all.
He found that they were just fragments one after another, which couldn't be connected together, and they couldn't represent anything at all.
He thought, it might be because that is too long, isn't it? Not because... It could not be because someone touched his memory!
Shen Yunju's expression became colder and stiffer, he almost ignored all the whispering words of the man next to him. He turned a deaf ear at all, because he was facing something more terrifying, a devil, a monster that was flaring his teeth and claws.
With their own minds in mind, they worked together to explore the first floor of this apartment building.
There are no residents on the first floor. The apartment starts on the second floor, and the first floor contains the apartment’s lobby, security room, property office, and various functional rooms, such as power distribution rooms.
One hour after the second round of nightmare, after the tasker was able to leave his room, the first few taskers who came to the first floor had actually already explored the first floor, but they had probably flipped through the property office.
And now, they found something more interesting in the security room.
The muscular man picked up the complaint letter, flicked the paper with some interest, handed it to Shen Yunju, and said, "What do you think this is?"
Such an obvious action made Shen Yunju, who had been wandering, come back to his senses. He took the paper that the muscular man handed him, and read it with his head down.
The muscular man also approached him eagerly, wanting to take advantage of his props card while he was reading attentively.
The vast majority of card dealers work with clothing manufacturers, but this does not include muscle men. Because of his prop cards, he tries to avoid showing his true colors on any occasion.
Therefore, his stealing technique is really "self-taught".
He had carefully observed the clothing of the young man in front of him, and finally set the target on the mezzanine under his left armpit, because he noticed that when the young man walked, his left hand almost did not swing, and he kept close to his side.
This position is a bit difficult, but... the muscular man has a blade between his fingers. As long as it does not directly harm the tasker, the use of the blade will not be defined as a lethal attack by the mastermind.
He only needs to use a blade to lightly slash the clothes, take advantage of the gap between the other party to read the complaint letter carefully, take out the prop card in it, and then take the opportunity to restart the nightmare, everything can be unconscious, just as he did in the previous round of nightmare Like that...
Greedy thoughts flashed in the muscular man's eyes.
And Shen Yunju knew nothing about it. He looked down and read the letter of complaint.
"To Rocco Property:
"In the last few nights, the lights in the corridor on the eighth floor have been flashing back and forth. I told the security guard several times that I didn't see them for repairs. Therefore, I write this letter and hope that the property will pay attention to this issue.
"The property fees paid by the residents will not disappear out of thin air, right
"I heard from the owners group that an elevator always goes up from the first floor to the eleventh floor for no reason, and then goes down by myself. What's the matter? Hasn't it been repaired after so long?
"The last time I took the elevator, I got down from the eighth floor, and the elevator fell straight down like weightlessness. I almost thought I was going to die! Fortunately, when I got to the third floor, the elevator returned to normal... But it was too ridiculous!
"I have been living in Rocco's apartment for three months, and I have encountered uninterrupted problems. Whether it is the sudden turn on of the TV in the middle of the night and wakes me up, or the panting of the ventilation system, I can bear it. Maybe the apartment I rented is not good.
"However, the public space is also a lot of problems... I really can't bear it!
"This apartment building looks high-end and gorgeous on the outside, but the inside is rotten! I can't understand why there are so many messy problems with those seemingly expensive electrical appliances and apartment facilities.
"If you don't solve it anymore, then I will work with other owners to ask your property company where the maintenance fund is used!
"Owner K
"September 30, year x."
Shen Yun gathered his eyes and read this letter of complaint carefully. When he saw the date of the last inscription, he subconsciously glanced at the calendar placed on the desk in the security room. The top page indicated that today is October 31.
In other words, this is a complaint letter from a month ago.
Some of the contents of the letter gave Shen Yunju some guesses about this nightmare.
Although he has always been going around in the nightmare of the bottom, but at least he is well-informed. At this time, after seeing this complaint letter, he thought almost instantly that the furniture... No, it should be said that there is something wrong with the electrical appliances.
"I think..." He turned around and wanted to say something to the muscular man, but he caught a glimpse of the light of the knife between the fingers of the muscular man. His eyes changed slightly and he continued calmly, "I seem to know that this apartment building is out. What's the problem."
The muscular man still regretted that he had not grasped the right time, and hated the cold guy in front of him for reading the letter so quickly. He could only withdraw his hands, pretending to be innocent, and replied, "What's the problem?"
He didn't even realize that Shen Yunju had discovered his attempt.
Shen Yunju handed him the letter and said softly: "There is a problem with the facilities in this apartment building."
After realizing that there was something wrong with the muscle man, Shen Yunju had no extra good intentions, and told the muscle man his real guess, and he chose a big category at random and told the muscle man.
After reading the complaint letter, the muscular man didn't understand, he nodded pretentiously, "Well, that's right. There is indeed something wrong with the facilities. Maybe the property company has problems too."
Shen Yunju glanced at him, his face froze without speaking.
The muscular man can only ask: "Then what are we doing now?"
Shen Yunju was about to speak, suddenly, from outside the security guard, there was a woman's scream!
They were all taken aback, looked at each other, and ran out in unison.
Shuangmei Jiang felt that she had never been so desperate in her life.
In this damn nightmare, life is so ups and downs.
When she had just escaped from that terrible room in 1104, she was almost completely dumbfounded. She saw an empty elevator stopped on the eleventh floor, so she ran in quickly and pressed the first floor, hoping to escape the apartment building as soon as possible.
She was in a daze, her mind was empty... No, there might be fear and uncertainty.
Why does the air conditioner suddenly return to normal? Why did the door lock suddenly open? Why... Why, the bathtub is putting water on its own? Why did the sweeping robot hit her like a convulsive wind
Now, in Jiang Shuangmei’s eyes, that apartment is like hell, full of unknown dangers.
Like her sister, she crouched in the corner of the elevator, curled up.
Soon... "First floor, here."
The calm mechanical male voice reminded her that the elevator had reached the first floor.
The elevator stopped and the door opened. Shuangmei Jiang stood up instinctively, walked out, and...
She was caught in the elevator door.
It was more like a prank than a deliberate injury. However, Jiang Shuangmei was scared to death. She let out a horrified scream, waving her hands wildly, slapped the elevator doors, and kicked her feet hard on the ground.
Her soul seemed to be frightened away. After the elevator door reopened and returned to normal, Jiang Shuangmei slumped directly on the ground, embarrassed on her hands and feet, and crawled out of the elevator on the ground.
She leaned her back firmly against the wall, and tears came directly from her eyes. Her stiff facial muscles made her look more like a dead person at this time than a living person.
When Shen Yunju and the muscular man walked out of the security room, they saw Shuangmei Jiang escaping the elevator in such embarrassment.
When they tried to approach her, Jiang Shuangmei screamed and waved her arms indiscriminately to prevent anyone from approaching her.
She turned her long hair upside down and put it on her face, like a hat, and she looked at the whole world in horror through the gap in the hair.
Shen Yunju and the muscular man looked at each other, not understanding what was wrong with this woman.
The muscular man touched his head and said, "This is... the person we just saw?"
Shen Yunju shook his head.
Inexplicably, the muscular man could understand what he meant. He said, "That's her sister?" He paused, and finally thought, "Oh, it was the one who died in the last nightmare, right?"
Shen Yunju acquiesced to his guess.
So the muscular man looked at Jiang Shuangmei, and said without any malicious intent, but said straightforwardly: "How did she die? How could she be scared?"
Shen Yunju glanced at the elevator where Jiang Shuangmei escaped.
Inexplicably, he thought of that in the complaint letter, an elevator went to the eleventh floor empty, and then came down again.
He remembered that Jiang Shuangmei’s apartment number was 1104. It's on the eleventh floor.
Could this be a coincidence
Shen Yun was thinking about himself, and the muscular man was also asking himself to be boring, too lazy to talk anymore.
There were three people on their side, and on the other side, Sister Jiang and the three had already walked through the entire apartment building, but found nothing unusual, so they returned to the lobby on the first floor.
Sister Jiang saw Shuangmei Jiang squatting against the wall at a glance, and she subconsciously yelled, "Shuangshuang!"
Unexpectedly, this shout seemed to activate something. Shuangmei Jiang bounced from the ground like a spring, flew over and hugged Sister Jiang, her body still trembling because of fear.
Sister Jiang hugged her quickly and comforted her quietly.
The thin man hesitated to speak but stopped. Although I really want to know what happened in the last round of nightmares, looking at the unstable mental state of Jiang Shuangmei, it is estimated that nothing can be asked.
He looked at the muscular man again, especially the piece of paper in his hand.
The muscular man shrugged and handed the paper to the thin man. After the thin man was about to speak, Shen Yunju suddenly said, "It seems that there is something wrong with the facilities in this apartment building."
The thin man was taken aback.
The muscular man nodded, "Yes."
The thin man looked at Shen Yunju and then at the muscular man, silent. He handed this piece of paper to the little girl next to him, and the little girl said nothing after reading it.
The entire lobby on the first floor was very quiet for a while.
The muscular man looked at them suspiciously, but didn't know what was happening, he could only treat them as thinking. He doesn't want to use his brain, he has always been like this.
No matter what the nightmare, he put on that simple and honest look, what others said he did, and thus won the trust of other taskers. Sometimes, those people obviously got the item cards stolen by him, but they even brought him out of nightmares.
With luck, he can go to a higher floor. Unfortunately, he does not have the ability to stay on higher floors all the time.
The nightmare of higher floors is not as simple as the ground floor of a narrow building. It's more dangerous, crazier, more... cruel.
At the bottom of a narrow building, taskers often only need to work together to solve this nightmare. If you don't talk about the true ending, there must be no problem with the ordinary ending.
Even with a bad ending, it's okay, after all, they don't have a lower floor to go to. However, if I heard a bad ending, it is very likely to fall into the nightmare of eternal collapse... Who knows, it is another rumor that is not true or false in the narrow building.
On the higher floors, there is some competition among taskers themselves. They will no longer belong to the same camp, and may be divided into multiple camps, or even opposing each other.
This kind of hindering each other makes the nightmare of the higher floors of the narrow building full of primitive cruelty. Some taskers would rather jade pieces than be complete, and he would rather drag others to hell.
So, after the muscular man went to higher floors a few times, he felt anxious not to go anymore. He felt that even if it was rot, he wanted to rot in the bottom of the narrow building.
Besides, his greedy nature told him that it was easier to steal item cards in places like the ground floor of a narrow building than on a higher floor.
So he stayed at the bottom of the narrow building, and became more and more lazy to use his brain.
He waited for the others to speak.
The thin man looked at Sister Jiang. Sister Jiang hugged her sister, while speaking comforting words, she raised her eyes and looked at the thin man coldly.
After a while, the thin man nodded slightly.
He suddenly looked at the muscular man and said, "Please go to a room and don't come out again."
The muscular man was dumbfounded on the spot: "Wait... what?!"
"Card dealer." The thin man said utterly, "This is the rule recognized by the taskers to deal with card dealers in a nightmare. We will exile you."
The muscular man stunned for a moment, and then blushed instantly: "What... What the hell are you doing?! I said, I'm not a card dealer at all! Why do you believe this crazy woman?!"
"I saw it." Shen Yunju said suddenly, "I saw it, there is a blade between your fingers."
He stared at this tasker with the unique indifference of the "zombie".
The muscular man trembled all over. Just a few minutes ago, he was still in delusion, in this nightmare, he could "success" twice. But now, he will be exiled by the rest of the taskers.
...What a joke!
The muscular man shouted furiously: "This is not... You have no evidence at all! What card dealers... What nonsense!" He stared at Sister Jiang bitterly, "... Crazy woman, wait for me!"
He wanted to go to Sister Jiang, and Shouzi and Shen Yunju also took a step forward. Sister Jiang touched Sister Jiang's hair, and then said calmly: "I'm waiting for you."
The muscular man clenched his fists and flushed. He couldn't accept his failure, so he sneered loudly. He ignored what the thin man said, looking for an empty house to stay in, and rushed out of the apartment building.
The thin man wiped his face irritably, and said to Sister Jiang, "Sorry."
Sister Jiang shook her head and said softly: "No... Thank you."
The thin man said again: "He may have put your prop card in his apartment." He hesitated, "Let's go to the property office to find it, and then go to the apartment to find it?"
This sentence did not know what touched Jiang Shuangmei’s fear, she instantly screamed: "No! Can't go to the apartment!!! Can't... Can't go!!!"
The rest of the taskers were stunned.
Sister Jiang straightened her hair for Shuangmei Jiang, and she said softly: "Shuangshuang, what have you met before?"
"Go crazy..." Jiang Shuangmei shivered, "Sister, those things are going crazy. Furniture. The bathtub is full of water... The sweeping robot is hitting me... The air conditioner... The door is locked... They, they want to kill me... Can't go to the apartment... "
Her words were inverted and confused. But the taskers all understand.
"Electrical appliances!"
Several people said in unison.
Afterwards, the thin man said inexplicably: "Household appliances... are they refined? Is there such a magical nightmare in the narrow building?"
Suddenly, he thought of going to the toilet by himself and then flushing the toilet himself. For a moment, he felt a subtle discomfort.
…No, no, no need to empathize with the toilet.
He comforted himself so in his heart.
Fortunately, the first round of nightmares made him mentally prepared. After the second round of nightmares began, he worked hard to relax himself and no longer felt nervous. Therefore, he no longer wanted to have diarrhea.
He may have been overshadowed by the toilet all his life.
What the thin man is thinking, I am afraid that the rest of the taskers will not be able to guess. After all, they did not have any physical needs to eat and drink in this nightmare. And thin... he didn't understand why he had diarrhea.
Is it because this nightmare is too realistic
In any case, the taskers already have a basic understanding of this nightmare at this time.
The thin man said, "So... what shall we do now?"
"Property office." The little girl said coldly, "Go and search again. Whether it's □□ or something, look for it again."
The thin man thought for a while, and added: "We were walking around in the apartment building just now, and we didn't find Big Ringo. I don't know where he is now. We have to look for him."
The rest of the taskers nodded.
Jiang Shuangmei who had slowed down hesitated to speak. She wanted to say, don't go back to the apartment again, it's really dangerous.
But... She also thought, if they don't explore, then how can they leave this nightmare
In the end, she remained silent, but stubbornly tugged Sister Jiang by the sleeve, not daring to leave her sister half a step away.
They went to the property office.
On the other side, the muscular man who left Loko's apartment building naturally went to the commercial district, and after a few minutes, he saw Xu Beijin.