Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 576: Again and again

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According to the predetermined plan, Shang Jianyao didn't stay on the third floor too much, and went straight to the fourth floor, which should not have been involved in the room owner's first exploration.

When he walked down the stairs that seemed to be copied and pasted and arrived at his destination, he found that the light coming in from the outside windows of the rooms on both sides dimmed a lot.

This seems very logical, because the starting time of this psychological shadow is close to dusk, and the darkness has already enveloped the earth. At this moment, the night is a little deeper and there is no problem.

But Shang Jianyao found that the night sky outside the window not only did not have the bright moon, but also did not even have any stars, it was pitch black.

Logically speaking, such an environment should be out of sight, close to the state of "Pangu creatures" after the lights are turned off at night, but in fact, there is still a light shining into the food company from nowhere, so that the outlines of different things appear faintly in the dark .

"It seems that when the room owner's subconscious perfected this scene, there was a little problem with some details..." The cyborg monk Shang Jianyao took a pipe out of nowhere, brought it to his mouth, and took a sniff.

The pipe disappeared, and he flashed a flashlight and walked slowly down the corridor to the other end.

The discovery just now showed that he was now in a memory of the owner of the room when he explored the food company for the second time.

After walking for a while, Shang Jianyao suddenly felt something, and shone the light of the torch toward a room next to him.

There was a figure in the room, wearing a white women's shirt and a small blue suit, just like the "professional woman" who should have been on the second floor at this time.

Under the light, Shang Jianyao found that she seemed to be a little older than when she met before.

Although at first glance, her black hair has not changed, and she still looks like she is only in her early twenties, but the cheek muscles have loosened to a certain extent, and the nasolabial folds have become deeper.

Just when Shang Jianyao was trying to "retain" the other party and prevent her from escaping in a hurry, the "professional woman" turned her bloodshot eyes and turned her attention to Shang Jianyao.

Unlike the previous two encounters, the fear, fear, panic, and rush she showed were different. At this time, she was calm, silent, and indifferent.

"That's right!" Shang Jianyao patted the side of the flashlight with his left palm and made a dang sound.

This is the state of the big boss in his imagination.

The next second, the "professional woman" opened her mouth and made a drake-like voice:

"leave here."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao's eyes turned pitch black.

He couldn't see anything, couldn't hear anything, couldn't feel anything, couldn't think anything.

He was completely unconscious, and he didn't even have a dream.

I don't know how long it took, Shang Jianyao woke up slowly, and once again saw the vehicle with the front door pushed open and the billboard smashed on the ground not far away.

He went back to the starting point.

"The owner of the room failed in his second exploration..." Shang Jianyao muttered to himself.

His previous experience should be the experience of the owner of the room when he explored the "Tieshan No. 2 Food Company" again, otherwise the experience would not be so clear and completely different from the first time.

—If it is just a subconscious self-improvement and there is no corresponding experience, then Shang Jianyao thinks that he will inevitably repeat the last encounter, his body is stiff, his mind freezes, and he hits the wall by himself, because this is the most natural, worry-free and energy-saving way.” repair".

After feeling the state of his body and finding that there were no problems left, Shang Jianyao did not rush out of "522" room and returned to reality, but dived into "Tieshan No. 2 Food Company" again.

This time, he not only passed the first three floors in one go, but also directly transferred to the fifth floor without staying too much on the fourth floor.

He wanted to see if the owner of the room had explored this place for the third time.

The layout of the fifth floor is not much different from the second, third, and fourth floors, but the radiance that penetrates through the window seems to be a little brighter, as if the light is returning.

With the help of such an environment, Shang Jianyao turned off the flashlight, and only relied on natural light to observe the rooms on both sides.

They have signboards and belong to different companies. Shang Jianyao, who is familiar with old world entertainment materials, is not surprised by this, and easily understands what is going on:

"Tieshan No. 2 Food Company" obviously couldn't use up the building that belonged to them, so they rented out the fifth floor and above to others.

"Xiangsheng Technology", "Baihai Petroleum Tieshan City Office"... In order to identify the names of those companies, Shang Jianyao turned on the torch.

As the yellowish beam of light swayed, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a white bone in a room in front of him.

This white bone is radiant and moist, and there is no rotten flesh hanging on it, which is very strange.

At the same time, it is wearing a white shirt and a small blue suit.

When the cyborg monk Shang Jianyao saw this, he turned the six sense beads, and whispered the Buddha's name:

"Namo Anuttara samyaksambodhi, beautiful people will eventually turn into bones, all things are empty, and consciousness is true."

After finishing speaking, Zen Master "Pudu" bowed earnestly and slowly approached the past.

After careful observation, he found that inside the small suit, above the white shirt, hung an employee ID card wrapped in plastic film.

It has a photo, a name, and a job title:

"Liu Lu

"Sales Manager

"Work number: 100482"

The cyborg monk Shang Jianyao squatted down and tried to search the pocket of his blue suit.

The red light in his eyes stained the bones with blood.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed before his eyes.

It was a thick, smooth tentacle with evil patterns.

This tentacle is sticking out from the pile of bones!

Almost at the same time, Shang Jianyao felt a surge of secret gazes from all directions.

He instinctively looked around and saw that there were dark holes one after another on the wall, and there seemed to be various eyeballs staring in the holes.

Shang Jianyao pushed his knees hard and jumped up.

He ran to the window outside the room without looking back.

During this process, out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the changes in the bones.

It took out a human skin from nowhere, put it on itself, and changed back to the "professional woman" before.

The only difference is that her current clothes seem to be painted on the skin, and black tentacles keep coming out from below, extending to Shang Jianyao.

Bang, bang, bang! Shang Jianyao rushed out of the metal texture.

He jumped, smashed the window, and jumped off the fifth floor.

As a cyborg monk, he landed exactly on the narrow window sill sticking out from the fourth floor, and then jumped down one by one, quickly descending into the alley behind the food company.

Before he could stand still, he looked up, and there was a feeling that the whole building had come to life. It was shaking, squeaking, and opening windows after windows, as if opening their mouths.

In the clanging and clanging movement, Shang Jianyao could not find human consciousness at all, so he did not have the goal of using props and the ability of the awakened person, so he could only take big steps and continue to run wildly.

He made a half circle and returned to the starting point along the same path.

Huhuhu... After such a tossing, even the cyborg monk, Shang Jianyao was panting heavily.

Calmly and rationally, he quickly made a decision:

"Exit first, rest and come back."

The gray-green jeep was parked beside the burning campfire, and the windows shone with indeterminate flames.

Jiang Baimian and Long Yuehong, who were on high alert, saw Shang Jianyao open the car door and walked down.

"How is it?" Jiang Baimian asked.

Long Yuehong was quietly relieved:

It doesn't seem to be a big problem...

Shang Jianyao walked to the bonfire, came to the side of his companion, and described the experience just now.

"The owner of the room seems to have explored the food company more than three times..." Jiang Baimian was moved after hearing this.

The second time he fell into a coma, woke up and returned to the starting point, and the third time he was frightened by the mutation there and ran away.

Long Yuehong frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong.

After a few seconds, he came up with an idea with less conviction:

"The abnormality inside the food company doesn't seem to have much malice to the owner of the room?"

Otherwise, the owner of the room would never have a second, third, or even fourth chance to explore, and those who have already died can no longer die.

A very simple reason is that his body is stiff and his mind is frozen. When he hits his head against the wall, if he pushes his head a little harder, he probably won't be able to wake up. He also has no future in the area where the Heartless People gather.

"It seems so." Jiang Baimian nodded, "The owner of the room should have discovered this later, or he would not have dared to explore there again and again."

Shang Jianyao followed with a smile and said:

"That's why I dared to go back to the food company as soon as I woke up."

Jiang Baimian continued to analyze:

"From the details you observed, there was a long time interval between the first, second, and third explorations of the owner of the room. That strange woman named Liu Lu grew old step by step, then died and turned into a bone.

"What will happen next?"

"She, resurrected?" Shang Jianyao's thoughts were always unusual.

"That's terrifying." Jiang Baimian didn't comment too much on this "possibility", but instead said, "You went into a coma on your first exploration today. Does this look like 'consciousness deprivation'? The second exploration encountered scenes like ghost stories, does this seem like some kind of application of 'Six Paths of Reincarnation'?"

Slap clap, Shang Jianyao applauded.

Long Yuehong said sincerely:

"It is indeed one of the holy places of Buddhism..."

Shang Jianyao immediately pointed to Jeep:

"I'll go to sleep for a while and try again later."

"Okay." Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said, "Try to go to the sixth and seventh floors."

When it was close to the early morning, Shang Jianyao woke up and entered the "Spiritual Corridor" again.