Mo Yi frowned slowly, looking solemnly at the changed corridor in front of him.
The air was filled with the smell of old carpets and rotten wood. Along with the faint smell of blood coming from the room behind him, they mixed into a disturbing atmosphere, spreading in the long dead and dark corridor.
He took a few steps outside slowly, the broken carpet under his feet couldn't cover up the desperate groan from the floor.
The cracked ground was covered with spider web-like marks, extending from the door to the dark end of the corridor. It looked like tentacles protruding from the shadows, deeply carved on the dusty ground, slowly coming from under the carpet. Protrude slowly.
Mo Yi roughly circled the corridor with the flashlight, and the cold beam of light illuminated every bit of weird detail.
He pursed his lips, and the lines between his brows became deeper.
It is unlikely to be entering the illusion—the illusion is to deprive the players of their sense of reality, and also to make them unknowingly follow the guidance of the illusion into a road of no return, so the illusion in this dungeon will try to make the player feel that they have been trapped. Confused, instead of making drastic changes to the environment in the copy as it is now.
Well, if it wasn't for the illusion, a dungeon would change so drastically without warning...
Another possibility jumped into Mo Yi's mind, causing his pulse to quicken and his breath to become short of breath—
The opening of the branch plot.
This is the most optimistic and most likely guess right now.
Jiang Yuanrou is an experienced senior player. If she can comprehend the prompt Mo Yi gave her in the corridor just now, and realize that the key clue of this dungeon is her experience in the last dungeon, it will not be difficult to start the branch plot. Very difficult.
Coupled with the traces in the room just now—Jiang Yuanrou may have entered that room and found the key clues in it, and she met the Edwin who was locked in the room, then The clues she has will only be more than him, not less than him...
Wait, that Edwin locked in the room!
Mo Yi's brows and eyes were slightly startled. He frowned and stared at the appalling situation in the corridor on this floor, feeling an indescribable uneasiness in his heart.
He subconsciously clenched the flashlight in his hand, rubbing its hard metal shell with his cold fingertips.
Mo Yi took a step forward, and walked towards the direction he had just come according to the route in his memory. His steps were hurried, and the sound of his footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, and the surrounding walls collected the echo of his steps. Extraordinary restlessness.
He walked down long, dirty and dusty corridors, and turned off the branching roads in the corridors.
The further Mo Yi walked, the more frightened he became.
The walls in the corridor seemed to have been shaken by something, and became distorted and skewed. Shocking cracks spread like spider webs above the head. The entire corridor seemed to be twisted by hands, and the ground became rough.
Finally, he came to the corridor where he left just now.
The originally lit wall lamp in the corridor has been extinguished, and there is a bottomless darkness in front of it. There is a palpitating silence in the darkness, which makes people always wonder whether there is something hidden in the depth of the darkness.
Mo Yi took a deep breath, and a thin layer of cold sweat appeared in his palm. He adjusted the flashlight in his hand, and then walked towards the depths of the corridor without hesitation.
Everywhere the light goes is a mess, it seems that the further inward you go, the worse the situation in the corridor - the floor is scattered with bricks and dust that have fallen from the ceiling, and the dirty wallpaper is rolled up to reveal the cold gray wall Skin, the whole corridor is filled with a smell after the disaster.
Mo Yi's gaze stayed on the wall on the right for a few seconds.
There is a large mirror there, the blurry mirror surface is covered with dust, and the surface of the glass is covered with messy and dense cracks.
And in the corner of the mirror, through the thick dust and dense cracks on it, one can see an incomplete and blurred palmprint printed on the surface of the glass—this should be the "window" that Edwin let him see before.
He looked inside, and there was another corridor and blood-red door, only his own image was printed in the center of the cracked mirror, the light in his hand was the only light source in the corridor, on the mirror that was shattered into countless pieces Leave a small spot of light.
Mo Yi moved his Adam's apple, his throat felt dry, and with his movements, there was a burst of burning pain.
He exhaled slowly, then turned his head to look at his side—
Although he was mentally prepared, Mo Yi still gasped when he saw the scene in front of him.
The wall of the room that closed Edwin was completely distorted, the door panel was squeezed out of the door frame, shattered into several pieces and scattered on the ground, the iron plate was lying in the dust not far away, only Half of the wooden plank was still attached to the lower door hinge, hanging unsteadily in mid-air.
The black and twisted door frame grinned at Mo Yi, revealing a silent and mocking laugh.
Mo Yi only felt that his breath was stuck in his throat, his head was a little dizzy, and he was a little suffocated for a while.
... the door opened.
Before his confused mind could react to the situation in front of him, he saw a pale hand stretched out from the door without warning, grabbed Mo Yi's arm suddenly, and pulled him into the door. into the door!
Mo Yi only felt dizzy before his eyes, and his back hit the cold and hard wall heavily, and the twisted and uneven surface pinched his back, bringing a burst of unbearable pain.
A pair of hands clenched his arms tightly like iron hoops, making him stick against the wall and unable to move.
Mo Yi wanted to struggle subconsciously, but only heard a familiar voice approaching his ears:
"It's me, don't make a sound."
Jiang Yuanrou
Mo Yi's eyes widened slightly due to surprise, and for a moment he even forgot to resist, and pulled the flashlight away from his hand with a force, and then only heard a slight "click", the beam of light from the flashlight disappeared instantly, and his eyes suddenly fell into a turmoil. In a darkness without light.
In the darkness, only the messy and intertwined breathing of the two people remained.
Jiang Yuanrou's breath trembled slightly, she leaned close to Mo Yier's ear, and said quickly in a low voice:
"I now understand the connection between this dungeon and the last dungeon..."
She paused and added in a low voice, "Thank you very much."
Mo Yi held his breath in the dark, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked in a breathy voice: "Did you open a branch dungeon?"
Jiang Yuanrou's breathing stopped abruptly, and then she said hastily: "... yes, but I don't really want that time..."
Halfway through her words, she suddenly stopped, and then added solemnly:
"It's not the time to talk about this, we have more important things."
Then, before Mo Yi could say anything, Jiang Yuanrou sped up and said:
"The boss of this dungeon is the same person as the last dungeon, both Edwin, Edwin's father is a serial killer, he locked the victims in his basement for torture, Edwin was also a child The object of his father's perverted desires, and later his father was arrested and imprisoned in a mental hospital, and he was also sent to a boarding house to grow up."
Mo Yi listened quietly, his eyes fell on the darkness thoughtfully—
According to the prompt that "up is down", then although this level is the top level, it should be the deepest level of Edwin's consciousness, which is also the killing corridor of his father when he was a child, so the boss on this level is the childhood level. Edwin of the period.
Just listen to Jiang Yuanrou continue to say:
"Edwin's host family didn't treat him well. The hostess didn't treat him directly and violently like his father, but treated him in another cruel and covert way..."
She paused, and added: "I think it is precisely because of this extreme split between patriarchal and matriarchal rights that later Edwin split into two personalities, one male and one female."
Mo Yi leaned against the wall and listened quietly, the cold touch of the wall behind him invaded the texture along the thin clothes, he could almost feel the slight trembling of Jiang Yuanrou's palm holding his next door, only to hear her speed up her speech and continue said:
"What I said just now is based on the clues I found in the last dungeon, and what I found in this dungeon complements Edwin's later experience—"
Mo Yi frowned slowly, interrupted her, and asked in a low voice:
"Wait, can you tell what happened in the last copy now?"
The outline of Jiang Yuanrou's face looked blurry in the darkness. She glanced at Mo Yi, then shook her head hastily, and nodded again:
"You can't say that... The game does not allow players to communicate with the dungeons they have experienced before, but after opening the side storyline, the two dungeons have been merged by default, and the game will naturally not prevent players from communicating about the dungeons they are in. clues."
She paused, and continued: "This is the only advantage for me to open the branch line in advance."
After finishing speaking, Jiang Yuanrou didn't wait for Mo Yi's reaction, and continued the topic just now: "Edwin was admitted to the medical school later, and the way he chose to treat mental illness was very extreme, so he was stopped by the hospital, so he Choose to go back to his father's old house and experiment in private—"
Mo Yi pursed his lips, recalling the mountain of dead bodies in that room just now.
Just listen to Jiang Yuanrou continue to say:
"I don't know why later, Edwin used extreme methods to treat mental patients-slowly turned into massacre. Later, he was arrested and diagnosed with split personality."
Just as Jiang Yuanrou finished speaking, a familiar metallic voice came from his ears:
"Dangdangdangdang! Congratulations to player 02, Mo Yi, for unlocking the hidden plot of this escape game!
The side missions are open, completing the side missions will reward rich points, players please keep working hard! "
Hearing the metallic sound in the air, Jiang Yuanrou seemed relieved. She let go of Mo Yi's palm, stepped back a few steps, and said in a deep voice:
"In this dungeon, up is down. We seem to be close to the ground now, but we are actually deeper."
Her words stopped abruptly, then she turned her head and looked deeply at Mo Yi:
"To leave Edwin's spiritual world, we have to go back—"
go back
A ridiculous idea flashed through Mo Yi's mind.
Before he could ask anything, Jiang Yuanrou stared at him in the dark and said in a low voice:
"Yes, back to the third floor."