Mo Yi couldn't understand what he was feeling for a moment, he quietly looked at Jiang Yuanrou in the darkness.
Back to the negative third floor...
Although this conclusion is absurd, it is unexpectedly reasonable.
He lowered his voice and asked, "Do you know how to get back?"
Jiang Yuanrou paused in surprise. She stared at Mo Yi in the dark for a while, then said in a low voice:
"...I thought you were going to ask me a lot of questions."
Mo Yi gave a low laugh, and the deep sound wave was fleeting in the dead silent room:
"If I ask, can you answer it?"
Jiang Yuanrou's tense face relaxed a little, revealing a slight smile:
"...I'm afraid not."
Everything in this dungeon is unknown, and every step you take is highly uncertain, and all the decisions you make cannot be guaranteed to be without fallacies and completely correct, as if you are walking in complete darkness. You can never be sure whether your next step is to lead to the light or step into the abyss.
In games, hesitation means death.
The only thing to do is to put all your eggs in one basket and bear all the consequences it brings.
Mo Yi knew it, and Jiang Yuanrou knew it too.
Everything goes without saying.
The atmosphere between the two relaxed a little, not as tense as it was just now, which was almost suffocating.
Mo Yi straightened his waist, stood up from the wall behind him, glanced roughly around the room he was in in the dark, and then let out a foul breath:
"And... anyway, this floor can't stay any longer."
The consequences of Edwin being released from this room would be disastrous. Mo Yi was not yet naive enough to believe that he was locked deep in his consciousness only because he was unwilling to join forces with the other two personalities. Not to mention that he tricked Edwin once, staying on the third floor now would be courting death.
Jiang Yuanrou nodded solemnly, then lowered her voice, and said suddenly in the dark:
"I know how to get back."
Mo Yi was stunned for half a second before realizing that she was answering his question just now. Just listen to Jiang Yuanrou continue to say:
"Also... I don't know, I just have an idea."
Mo Yi nodded: "Then where are we going now?"
Jiang Yuanrou stuffed the flashlight back into Mo Yi's palm. The cold fingers and the cold shell of the flashlight almost melted into one, and they were separated from Mo Yi's palm.
Her voice rang in Mo Yi's ear:
"Go to the elevator."
The two walked out of the twisted and deformed door frame one after the other, walking carefully in the cracked and rugged corridor, trying not to make the slightest sound from their steps.
However, the cracked ground and broken carpets always make a soft rubbing sound under the feet, which sounds in the silent and long corridor, which makes the scalp tingle.
They walked to the room where Mo Yi found the key. Jiang Yuanrou took a step forward, reached out and grabbed the door panel that was firmly stuck in the twisted door frame, put one foot against the corner of the door frame, and then pulled it out forcefully. .
The fragile wooden door let out a hoarse moan, and then it suddenly collapsed under Jiang Yuanrou's strong drag.
She looked around the dark and quiet corridor vigilantly, and after confirming that her actions just now did not attract any undue attention, she walked in with Mo Yi.
The dark and closed room was filled with a thick dusty smell, and the sound of gravel and sawdust falling to the ground was clear and vivid in the extremely quiet room.
Mo Yi's pace paused slightly, and he frowned forcefully.
Jiang Yuanrou, who was walking in front, realized that something was wrong with Mo Yi, she also stopped, turned her head and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Mo Yi didn't answer, his brows were tightly frowned, and his dark eyes were stained with a dignified look——
Something is not quite right.
His icy fingers tightened subconsciously, flicked lightly on the surface of the flashlight twice, and then seemed to have finally made up his mind, and slowly pushed the switch of the flashlight one notch—a dim beam of light instantly spread across the room. lights up, dispelling the darkness within.
Jiang Yuanrou was startled by the sudden light, she squirmed her lower lip, as if she wanted to stop Mo Yi's daring behavior, but in the end she swallowed the words she wanted to say back into her throat without saying anything.
Mo Yi stood on the spot, turning his body slowly, and the light beam of the flashlight in his hand slowly illuminated the scene in the room following his movements—
The house was in a mess, the broken ceiling and the floor were covered with cracks after the huge earthquake, the dirty carpet and wallpaper showed a dull brass color under the light, other than that, it seemed to be the same as before...
Except, the room was empty.
There are no broken and dismembered dolls and dolls, no disembowelled animal corpses, let alone the corpse of a man whose internal organs were exposed and the flesh and blood on his upper body was spread into butterfly wings—
The trophies displayed in the room disappeared without a trace, and there was no trace of blood left on the ground.
If it wasn't for the semi-solidified blood remaining between Mo Yi's nails, he would almost have thought that those corpses were just his hallucinations.
He now knows what his sense of disobedience was—
The bloody and rancid smell that once lingered in this room, which almost made him unable to breathe, has completely disappeared, leaving only the dusty smell that an old room should have.
Mo Yi's brows were furrowed tightly, and a faint sense of uneasiness could not help but appear in his heart.
Jiang Yuanrou also looked around the room in shock, and asked in a low voice, "This...how could it be?"
Mo Yi lowered his eyes to cover up the contemplation in his eyes, he pursed his lips, and interrupted Jiang Yuanrou's words:
"I don't know, but now is not the time to worry about this. The most urgent thing now is to get out of this floor."
Jiang Yuanrou restrained his exposed emotions, nodded slowly, and took over the conversation:
"Yes, let's go."
Mo Yi looked around the whole room for the last time, as if he wanted to imprint the scene here in his eyes, then he turned off the flashlight in his hand, and continued walking forward with Jiang Yuanrou.
After opening the door, the familiar corridor appeared in front of them.
It doesn't seem to have been damaged that badly, and it still tenaciously maintains its previous state.
The few remaining small wall lamps on both sides of the wall flickered faintly, all the other lights had completely disappeared in a heavy and thick shadow, and the depths of the corridor ahead were shrouded in darkness.
The dirty wallpaper can barely cover the slightly cracked wall below, which extends to the distance like a pulse.
The two walked in the dark to the depths of the corridor.
Since this corridor didn't have any branches, but a whole winding corridor, and this time there was no cyclic phantom to interrupt them, the two soon came to an end.
In the dark depths, the familiar metal door of the elevator was embedded in the wall. A dark gap was revealed between the slightly twisted metal door under the pressure, and several deep cracks spread out from the wall next to it, reaching deep into the ceiling. Dust fell from it, which made people faintly startled.
There are no card slots on the wall next to the elevator.
Jiang Yuanrou let out a long breath, handed the flashlight to Mo Yi, and then took a few steps forward.
She stuffed her fingertips into the gap between the metal doors, and exerted force with her two arms. As several teeth-stinging metal friction sounds sounded in the cramped and closed corridor, the gap between the two doors slowly widened—
Mo Yi was a little uneasy, he took a few steps forward: "Do you need my help...?"
Jiang Yuanrou sneaked a glance back at him, with a smile on his lips, and said in a low voice:
"Need not."
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the dying hiss of the two metal doors, and then slowly separated the gap enough for one person to pass through.
"..."
Mo Yi looked at Yijiang Yuanrou's slender arm, then silently looked away.
Jiang Yuanrou took a few steps back, took the flashlight from Mo Yi's hand, opened it and shined it into the crack of the door, only to see that it was pitch black inside, and the metal wall of the elevator reflected light white light—the elevator room was still there.
She took a deep breath, then turned sideways, and deftly got into the elevator.
The elevator made a slight tremor and a hoarse hissing sound with her movements, which made Mo Yi's heart raise involuntarily.
Jiang Yuanrou stood still in the elevator, her voice muffled through the crack of the door: "There is no problem inside."
Mo Yi followed her into the elevator.
The air in the elevator was turbid and stuffy, and the dim light in the corridor shone into the dark space through the door crack of the elevator.
The iron sheet under his feet trembled slightly, which made people feel uneasy standing on the steel wire.
Jiang Yuanrou turned on the flashlight to the maximum, and groped for something beside the small black screen in the elevator. She didn't know what she pressed. She paused suddenly, and then inserted her nails deeply into the iron sheet, and then Forcefully lift off a small metal plate next to it—
Jiang Yuanrou breathed a sigh of relief, and then took out a magnetic card from his pocket.
Under the light of the flashlight, Mo Yi saw the appearance of the magnetic card—it was covered in dark red from the beginning to the end, and it seemed that it was not sure whether it was frozen blood or its own color.
I saw Jiang Yuanrou swipe hard with the magnetic card in the small metal plate that was raised, and the elevator seemed to be reinfused with vitality.
A bright red number suddenly lit up on the darkened screen: -1
The elevator door closed slowly, and a small scarlet inverted triangle appeared next to the bright red number.
There was a slight vibration in the elevator, and then it began to fall. Unlike the previous few times, there was no sound in the elevator this time, only the friction sound of the elevator falling silently, which made people feel so quiet. disturbed.
The air in the closed room is heavy and dull.
Jiang Yuanrou let out a long breath, wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead with his hands, and said with some gratitude:
"... I thought I guessed the wrong use just now."
Mo Yi took the scarlet card from her hand, flipped it back and forth under the light of the flashlight, observed carefully for a while, and found that there was no information on it, only a thick blood red, covering the whole card heavily The surface exudes a faint smell of rust.
Jiang Yuanrou stood aside and said:
"I found it in a room full of dead bodies. When I found it, there was a note with a few lines of upside-down words on it. I guessed its purpose based on the words above."
At this moment, Mo Yi suddenly thought of something, and asked:
"By the way, regarding the timing of your opening the branch dungeon, just now you said that you didn't actually want... didn't want anything?"
Jiang Yuanrou was taken aback by Mo Yi's sudden question, but after she realized it, her face couldn't help but a gloomy expression, she pursed her lips and said:
"After I came out of the corpse's room, I entered the illusion, and you are inside the illusion."
Mo Yi was startled, only to hear Jiang Yuanrou's tone was low, and he said slowly:
"You asked me about the clues about this dungeon, but I couldn't figure it out, so I told it all—"
She lowered her eyelids and continued:
"So the side plot of the copy was opened, but your name was not in it, and then I realized that I had fallen into an illusion, and then the fake you showed a terrifying smile, and then disappeared."
Jiang Yuanrou added: "Then I went to see the prison where Edwin was trapped, and found that he had disappeared. Then I heard your footsteps, so I hid in the empty room and waited for you to come."
Mo Yi had a gloomy look on his face.
He stared at the slowly moving inverted triangle on the screen thoughtfully, sorting out the new clues that appeared in this layer in his heart:
The hallucinations in the other two floors are all to confuse them and lure them to be left forever by this copy, and the bosses inside are also low in intelligence.
This is not the case on this level—the illusion on this level can be manipulated by Edwin. He controls the illusion to let the player see what he wants the player to see, and then use the player to achieve his goal.
But the only question is...
When he saw the illusion, he happened to be next to the room where Edwin was locked up, so he saw the picture of Jiang Yuanrou being controlled.
And Jiang Yuanrou entered the illusion in the room where the corpse was placed just now...
If it is said that she entered the illusion because Edwin lured her to start a side plot, and wanted to gain freedom through the transformation of the interior of the copy—
Then, at that time, Edwin should still be locked up, and he should not be able to let Jiang Yuanrou, who was so far away from him, see the illusion.
Mo Yi's eyebrows were deeply marked by thinking, and he was a little puzzled for a while.
At this moment, the speed of the elevator under his feet gradually slowed down, and then it jolted and stopped steadily.
Mo Yi couldn't help being startled, and subconsciously raised his head to look at the small screen next to the elevator door.
The blood-red inverted triangle above has stopped flashing, and the bright red and dazzling -1 has also changed to -2.
The next second, the elevator door opened slowly and silently.