"go out!"
The shadow lurking in the darkness of the stairwell forgot what it had said, and screamed hysterically: "I said, let it out!!!"
Lin You: "..."
How deep is this psychological shadow.
Looking at SCP-096 who just took a step forward, the taupe paper bag rattled as it kept turning its head. It doesn't move the paper bag by itself, so the bag is naturally not easy to drop, but it obviously feels that something has happened vaguely.
Lin You didn't know the relationship between the avatar that turned into "Ren Mingde" and was torn to pieces, and the main body. However, looking at 096's small movements, the monster in the shadow might not be so nervous for no reason.
Maybe in a few minutes, SCP-096 will sense something is wrong, and turn to the guy who has seen its face in a sense.
"Quick," cried the voice in horror, "take it away—"
"Why."
Compared with it, Lin You looked much more relaxed.
"Didn't you say it was impossible to go back on your word?"
... ... It doesn't matter! ! !
It was as if she could hear the subtext stuck in her throat, Lin You smiled and made a condition to it.
"Okay, I can take him away if you want." She said, "It's still the same sentence, answer my question first."
There was a long silence.
In the darkness, a flat face slowly appeared.
The monster in the stairwell has no pupils, and its skin is an inorganic silver gray. The bridge of the nose protrudes a little, but the nostrils are not visible. Likewise, there is a blank space where there should be a mouth.
His face was floating in the air without any body support, and obviously he couldn't see the vocal cords or any vocal organs, but the thin voice sounded again.
The voice was between a child and a woman, and it sounded much calmer than before.
"...ask," it said, "as soon as you take it away."
"Over there... is everything going well?" After placing the right leg in the coffin and stepping up the stairs, Li Jing still hesitated step by step and turned her head.
It took a long time for the elevator in the middle of the hall to go down, and there was no sound coming back—of course, nothing could be heard from the distance between the upper and lower floors.
She herself was rescued twice, but she believed in their strength, and no one could guarantee that nothing would happen.
"rest assured."
Wang Yiming's heart was wide open, "Isn't that guy still following me anyway?"
Li Jing: "..."
It was only from them that she knew that the weird humanoid creature that was inseparable was not within the control of the boss as she thought. If the car accidentally overturned, it would be a double rear-end collision!
She didn't want to be a crow's mouth, so she could only keep her words in her heart.
While talking, they had returned from the underground to the first floor, Wang Yiming said again.
"Anyway," he said, "let's finish our task here first—see what places we haven't found on this floor, and none of the remaining three are here."
Li Jing answered vaguely.
"—Speak up."
She spoke suddenly.
"We have all demonstrated our abilities more or less," he glanced at someone meaningfully, "Shouldn't some people also show some sincerity?"
"Okay, okay." Wang Yiming quickly smoothed things over, "Didn't everyone put in a lot of effort to find that leg, so don't worry about it at this time."
Xu Yan, who was bathed in the eyes of the two, was still calm and composed.
"It's not about sincerity or insincerity, it's better to say that I have already used it on the platform." He said.
Li Jing: "... huh?"
She thought about it and didn't remember what skills she had seen him use. Wang Yiming next to him was also confused, so she just asked him to explain it clearly.
Seeing them both at a loss, Xu Yan smiled, and was about to speak again—
"Bo... Bo."
This slight movement made him swallow the words straight away.
The voice seemed to come from not far away, and in the next moment, all three of them realized how close the other was to them.
Even Wang Yiming, who had never faced him before, couldn't help being shocked for a moment.
The snow-white dress was torn to pieces, and only half of the foreign cap on the head was left. The neck and arms were covered with bloodstains from nail scratches and blood holes from sharp teeth.
However, despite this, she can still stand here, which shows that she is the winner in that battle.
"Wave."
Hachisha-sama tilted his neck abnormally at ninety degrees, staring straight at them with his dull and empty pupils.
She raised the corner of her mouth.
"Yes," under duress, the monster in the stairwell made it clear in a high-pitched voice, "I knew what you were going to do from the very beginning."
"So I was with that kid—oh, he thought he'd just bend over the seal, but he didn't think he'd just walk up the steps and it'd be over. So I just took his place, and…"
It snorted heavily.
Lin You pretended that she didn't hear it.
"Who made you do this?" she asked.
The stairwell monster was quiet.
She thought it would not be easy to answer it, it involved enough to measure whether it was worth betraying the people behind it.
To get this answer, she had to add some chips.
So, Lin You went up another step happily, and SCP-096 behind her also rubbed in for some unknown reason.
"… … … I said!!"
The strange face screamed again. It cautiously looked at 096's reaction, and heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that the other party had no special reaction.
Lin You: "Is it a celebrity?"
"No, it's not her, or it's not just her." The strange face said cautiously, "There is also a little girl who made an appointment with this station to play their games here."
"I... I'm just one of the helpers." It confessed.
The little girl it was talking about, Lin You thought, might be the one on the radio.
"I want to know where that little girl is."
"Isn't it easy to find?" Strange Face asked back, "Obviously you can hear the radio, you just need to find the radio station, the location of the radio station is upstairs—"
It shut its mouth abruptly.
A strong intuition hit Lin You.
The weird coercion behind her made her suddenly recall the astonishment when she was face to face with the celebrity. Realizing who was not far behind, Lin You immediately took two steps back, and rushed to the straight ladder directly opposite without looking back.
In the next second, SCP-096 stepped into the elevator car, and Lin You didn't care about it anymore. She leaned half on the wall, desperately trying to press the "B1" button.
A scream came into my ears.
"That's not what I meant!" cried the monster in the stairwell. "She made me, she made me—"
The girl covered in blood ignored it, and couldn't stop laughing "hahahaha" horribly. Her two eyes that were about to pop out of their sockets were fixed on Lin You, and she rushed towards her!
Lin You gritted her teeth and punched the button hard.
— The elevator moves.
The door was finally closed with the tip of the bloody finger.
Lin You didn't have time to relax, and all the afterimages left in her mind were the twisted smile of the other party.
— Just now, the celebrity who had announced his temporary withdrawal from the game appeared outside the stairwell.
The motivation is clear at first glance.
Lin You leaned against the wall of the car and exhaled slowly.
The little girl didn't want to be found, but the location was forced out by her former mole. So the celebrity appeared and forcibly obliterated her.
The elevator doors opened.
In front of her was the familiar station hall, Lin You shook her head and strode out. Fortunately, she escaped, and then I had to figure out how to meet up with other people and tell them about it.
The strange face in the stairwell only said that the radio station was upstairs, and didn't have time to say the exact location. It's a bit...
Hearing a hum, Lin You's steps stopped.
The old radio had blared so many times, of course she knew what the prelude hum meant.
"Please note."
said the little girl.
"The celebrity appeared behind Lin You, please check back."
Lin You's heart skipped a beat.
She suppressed the urge to turn back. Looking at it this way, even if the celebrity is called out again, the killing will follow the previous conditions-turn back, or finish singing that song.
Not to mention how the other party knew her name, the little girl was trying to trick her into turning around, and killed her instantly when she was satisfied.
"Please go back and confirm." Seeing no response from her, the radio repeated.
That's what fools do.
"Okay—" Lin You didn't move for a long time, and the little girl was inevitably disappointed, "If you don't want to confirm it, it's fine, but I didn't lie to you, the celebrity is really behind you."
Before he finished speaking, a pair of arms suddenly strangled Lin You's waist.
... ? !
The opponent exerted so much force that she staggered a step, and she still seemed to be increasing her strength. Lin You breathed steadily, resisted not looking back, and stepped forward step by step.
"Please...give me...the red dress..."
She felt that the person hugging her waist was very short, and the weight of her whole body was leaning on her.
Plus this song...
Really popular.
"Dye... white clothes... also red..."
The red man is so strong that he almost becomes a conjoined twin. Lin You knew that she couldn't get SCP-096's attention at this time, so if she hugged like this, who knows if the celebrity can see its face, and moreover, it is very likely that she will even hit her when attacking the celebrity.
Every time he sang, the red man's arms tightened. Fearing that she would be torn apart at the moment the singing was over, Lin You gritted her teeth and dragged her inch by inch to the door.
She reached out and pushed open the glass door.
In front of him was a convenience store that he had visited more than once, and Lin You continued to drag his feet.
She walked to the nearest shelf.
"dyed scarlet scarlet..."
Holding the shelf to catch her breath, Lin You casually grabbed a box of packaged fruit on it, and tore off the plastic wrap in twos and twos. Other fruit bones rolled all over the ground, she grabbed an apple, felt behind her back, and stuffed it into the red man's mouth.
—Blocked back the lyrics of the second half of her sentence.
Celebrity: "..."
She pressed her tongue against the apple hard, but it was fastened too tightly and stuck in her teeth, and she couldn't push it out no matter what.
Red Man: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu—"