Chen Chen was the first to hear the footsteps. His body had already turned into a non-human being. Naturally, his perception was far superior to that of ordinary people. Before the other two people were aware of it, Chen Chen had already locked onto the sound of footsteps. Location.
The footsteps had already appeared in the shopping mall and were slowly approaching the second floor.
Click, click...
For some reason, to Chen Chen's ears, the footsteps sounded inexplicably weird, like the most rigorous robot. It had no vitality unique to humans at all, but had a sense of death, as if the person walking outside the corridor was not a human being at all. A living person, but a corpse that has been dead for a long time...
As the footsteps got closer and closer, gradually, even Zhao Shanhe heard them.
Suddenly, Zhao Shanhe's breathing stagnated slightly. He sat up from the bed and tilted his head, silently identifying the voice.
"Boss..."
Jenny was the last to hear it. When she heard the footsteps, she immediately jumped up and sat up. Zhao Shanhe raised his finger and shushed slightly, signaling Jenny not to make any sound.
The situation is unclear now. Once the footsteps are disturbed, no one can predict what will happen next.
Click, click...
The footsteps finally came outside the door. At the same time, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny stood up suddenly, alert, but Chen Chen still sat where he was.
However, something strange happened. The moment the footsteps arrived outside the door, as if they had arrived at their destination, they suddenly disappeared!
The footsteps disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared before, and the whole world fell into deathly silence again.
However, an invisible pressure has enveloped the entire staff dormitory.
Chen Chen's spiritual energy has enveloped the entire dormitory, and at the same time, the essence of the forest is highly concentrated. As long as something happens in the dormitory, it can burst out instantly.
However, when the confrontation lasted for ten minutes, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny already hesitated.
Because they discovered that the footsteps outside the door had no subsequent movements, as if the people outside the door had left, leaving only an empty corridor.
However, the two of them naturally would not believe that the person had left, because there were only footsteps coming in, but no footsteps leaving. The only possibility was that the person was still standing outside the door, waiting silently for something.
What are you waiting for
In this countercurrent world of subspace where no one is around and even the corpses have disappeared, there is a sound of footsteps outside the door. Facing the unknown horror is far more stressful than facing an alien. At this time, Jenny is already full. I was in a cold sweat and almost couldn't hold on anymore.
Until about twenty minutes passed, and the confrontation seemed to be over, the footsteps outside the door sounded again, but this time the sound was slowly fading away.
The footsteps left.
Jenny and Zhao Shanhe breathed a sigh of relief until they felt that the footsteps had completely disappeared. Zhao Shanhe wiped his cold sweat with lingering fear, "Damn, that footsteps stopped in front of our door for so long!"
"The other party didn't rush in?"
Jenny was also a little lucky, "I really hope it can rush in directly. At worst, you can use civilized principles, but it stood outside the door motionless for more than 20 minutes. This feeling is really unbearable."
"The other party didn't come in, not because we hid it well, but because we didn't trigger its pattern."
Zhao Shanhe said, "And the principles of civilization are not omnipotent. Every time I use it, it will put a great burden on me and require a lot of time to recover. In the countercurrent of subspace, it is best to use it as little as possible."
The two communicated in low voices, but Chen Chen did not speak, but silently listened to their conversation, absorbing clues.
Obviously, everyone understood that the footsteps outside the door just now were definitely not human.
However, just when the three of them gradually relaxed their vigilance, suddenly, an unexpected voice came from outside the door -
"Knock knock, knock knock!"
The sound was so sudden that the three of them were startled. Zhao Shanhe's cheeks twitched, and a creepy feeling seeped out from behind!
Obviously the footsteps have gone away, but who is knocking at the door again
Chen Chen only felt a chill coming out of him. He simply controlled his psychic energy and tried to seep out through the crack in the door. However, when the psychic energy really seeped out, he found that the door was empty and there was no one at all!
"Knock knock, knock knock!"
The knocking on the door continued, and became gradually more urgent.
At the same time, Chen Chen even heard the familiar footsteps coming from the distance. The footsteps had a sense of death and were walking towards here in a leisurely manner.
This time, even Zhao Shanhe heard the footsteps. A ruthless look suddenly appeared on his face, he took a step forward and opened the door directly with the force!
Buzz!
The door opened with a bang, and the deep sound echoed far and wide, revealing the empty corridor outside the door!
But until this moment, the knocking on the door suddenly stopped.
For a moment, the three of them froze in place, and the anger that was about to explode was suddenly blocked.
That knock on the door, is it coming in? Or left
"what happened?"
Jenny murmured in a low voice. Her force force kept sweeping the corridor outside the door, but she saw nothing. However, the torment became stronger and stronger, and more and more gnawing at the mind.
Click, click...
The footsteps at the end of the corridor were still approaching.
At this critical moment, Chen Chen raised his eyebrows slightly. He seemed to have thought of something, his expression suddenly changed, and then he waved his hand again!
boom!
The door is closed again!
"what are you doing?"
Jenny asked Chen Chen angrily.
"Shh..."
But Chen Chen raised his index finger, making a silent gesture, and then silently listened to the changes outside the door.
Snap!
The footsteps outside the door came to the closed door again, and then it became completely silent as before.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
This time, the footsteps outside the door stayed for about ten minutes before leaving again and walking towards the other side of the corridor.
It wasn't until the footsteps moved away again that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Didn't you notice?"
Chen Chen spoke in a low voice, "The knock on the door just now seemed to come from inside the house."
Zhao Shanhe and Jenny were shocked when they heard Chen Chen's words.
"The knock on the door was obviously much clearer. It didn't sound like it was coming through the wooden door at all. Instead, it seemed like a knocking sound from inside the door."
Chen Chen slowly explained, "So when the door opened, the guy who knocked on the door had already gone out, but we were affected by the footsteps and subconsciously thought that the knocking came from outside the door."
Jenny's expression suddenly changed when she heard this.
If the previous knock on the door really came from outside the door, wouldn't it mean that the three of them were actually in the same room with each other just now
Thinking of this, Jenny and Zhao Shanhe’s expressions kept changing, which was extremely exciting.
"No, I still have to try."
Suddenly, Zhao Shanhe let out a low shout. He raised one hand, and suddenly a palm-sized black slate appeared in the palm of his hand. The black slate was slightly suspended in the palm of his hand, and at the same time, an undetectable wave swept the entire room. !
However, that wave of fluctuations encountered nothing.
Seeing this, Zhao Shanhe relaxed slightly and retracted his palm.
Silently watching Zhao Shanhe's actions, Chen Chen shook his head and simply continued to think empty-handed and silently recharge his batteries.
However, he was also secretly wary in his heart. He did not expect that his field energy was blocked here, and his psychic energy also lost its effect. He could not even detect what was knocking on the door.
I don’t know what the knocking on the door and the footsteps are. Is it really an unknown memetic effect as Zhao Shanhe said
Chen Chen didn't know.
Next, the three of them gradually discovered that the footsteps seemed to have a fixed frequency. Every hour or so, the footsteps would pass through the corridor outside the door, and then stay outside the door for ten minutes.
At first, the three of them were still vigilant, but as the number of times increased, they gradually became relieved. After all, the other party never broke in, and it was useless to worry.
Time passed by, and Jenny, who had just recovered from a serious illness, did not last long and fell asleep on the bed. Only Zhao Shanhe and Chen Chen were left with their eyes closed and silently staying on the chairs.
Gradually, as the night passed, the sky gradually became brighter.
The reason why Chen Chen could feel it was dawn was because he was sitting under the window. Although his eyes were closed tightly, he could still feel the sky gradually getting brighter from darkness at the beginning. Finally, the first ray of morning light shone through the window and curtains. Go inside.
"It's six o'clock in the morning the next day..."
Chen Chen silently calculated the time. With his brain power, he could estimate the time at every moment without looking at the watch, and the error would not exceed five minutes.
At the same time, Jenny also woke up, she sat up directly from the bed, her spirits were obviously better.
"Get ready. After this round of footsteps passes, we can continue our journey."
Zhao Shanhe whispered, then took out the food from the package on the side, handed some to Jenny, and then faced Chen Chen.
Chen Chen shook his head. His body was made up of more than 5,000 death row prisoners. It was beyond the scope of ordinary people. It was trivial not to eat or drink for a few days, so he directly rejected Zhao Shanhe.
Seeing this, Zhao Shanhe was not surprised, but he just ate in silence.
But before breakfast was finished in the morning, the sound of footsteps that had been ringing all night came again...
Listening to the approaching footsteps, Chen Chen's heart moved again. He had already wanted to use his spiritual power to find out from the crack in the door to see who the owner of the footsteps was, but things hadn't reached the worst point yet. , Chen Chen was worried that his psychic observation would lead to some kind of potential crisis, so he never took action.
But now that he was leaving soon, Chen Chen naturally didn't want to miss it again.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen took advantage of the footsteps to reach the door of the dormitory, and used his spiritual energy to poke out the crack of the door little by little...
Psychic energy and field energy are both invisible and qualityless forces. Although the penetration ability of both is not strong, even a steel plate one or two millimeters thick cannot penetrate, but a door crack of a few millimeters cannot stop it. He just had some difficulty in the process of penetrating in.
At this time, as traces of spiritual energy were detected and began to cover the corridor outside the door, the footsteps gradually approached.
Click, click...
Chen Chen held his breath and tried his best to explore as deep into the corridor as possible, and then made contact with the owner of the footsteps for the first time.
However, when he "saw" the owner of the footsteps, Chen Chen was suddenly startled.
Outside the door, it turned out to be a robot with a large body of rust that was almost scrapped!
The robot was covered in a skin made of a large number of dead people's skin sewn together. Because the skin had rotted, it could only be hung on the robot's shell like a cloak. It was covered with holes, and you could faintly see the rust under the holes. metal skeleton…
"this… "
Chen Chen looked surprised. He didn't expect that the guy who had been lingering outside the door all night was not the weird meme he expected, but an old machine!
Chen Chen had never seen the style of this robot before. He could only tell that the robot had a roughly human shape, with two arms, two legs, and a head. If you didn't look at the layer of dead skin on the outside, Chen Chen even thought that he had entered some alien ruins.
No wonder these footsteps sound cold and unpopular, because they are not the footsteps of normal people at all...
However, Chen Chen did not contact the other party rashly. He just relied on his spiritual power to keep observing. At this time, the other party came to the door of Chen Chen's dormitory again and stopped, as if he wanted to scan the door.
However, its body was too old, and the original life detector and other tools might have been scrapped long ago, so it could only stand quietly outside the door and wait for ten minutes before turning around again and heading towards Go to the other side of the corridor.
After hearing the footsteps go away, Zhao Shanhe sat up, stretched a little, and then said to Chen Chen, "The footsteps just left. According to the night pattern, it will take about an hour and a half to get back here." , this time is enough for us to enter the 'Aerial One' and go to the real subspace."
Chen Chen nodded slightly, and then Zhao Shanhe opened the door carefully, and then was the first to leave the room and leave the mall.
I don’t know what that robot is
Although Chen Chen was a little curious, he knew that now was not the time to find out these things, so he still followed Zhao Shanhe and left the mall.
A few minutes later, the three arrived in front of the downed Air Force One.
As soon as he arrived here, Chen Chen felt that the black mist here was extremely dense, and even the range of psychic energy began to shrink repeatedly, from a radius of twenty meters to eighteen meters.
At the same time, Chen Chen silently observed it with his spiritual power, only to find that the surface of the aircraft, which was supposed to be brand new, was now covered with vines like blood vessels.
This plant exists by absorbing the black mist. It is growing and spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it wants to completely wrap up the extremely damaged Air Force One.
Zhao Shanhe did not stop, but climbed straight in through the break as if he was accustomed to these vines.
"Follow up!"
Zhao Shanhe whispered, then stretched out his hand and pulled up Jenny, who was unable to move.
Seeing this, Chen Chen frowned slightly. He controlled his spiritual energy to lift himself up, and then followed him into the cabin with one step...