The screen of the mp3 lit up, and Chen Yang and others all held their breath and stared at it without blinking.
"Why is there no sound? Is the volume not loud enough?" Zhang Qi was getting impatient waiting.
"The biggest." said Chen Yang.
The mp3 seemed to be broken, lying quietly in Chen Yang's hand.
"This shouldn't be the case. There was a hissing sound just now, which means there's no problem." Jiang Jiang supported Qi Bei, feeling extremely anxious.
"Since it was given by the doctor, it must be useful." Lao Xiao said, "Wait a minute, it won't hurt to wait a little longer."
Although he said this, the fire in his head was burning more fiercely than Jiang Jiang's, and he wanted to swallow the MP3 player.
"Let me see." Miss Qiao stretched out her hand.
Chen Yang handed the mp3 to her.
"Xiao Yangyang, you should be on guard against others. You should say 'I'll take it.'" Miss Qiao took the MP3 player. "After all, I don't know what I will do at this moment."
Chen Yang felt the same violence from her as from himself, even stronger.
Maybe she would reach the final stage earlier than him. If they didn't have spores in their bodies and could make it that far.
Others thought Miss Qiao was joking among her acquaintances and didn't take it seriously. They just urged her to hurry up with heavy breathing.
Miss Qiao studied the MP3 for a while, scratching the screen with her red-polished nails.
Chen Yang was worried that she might crush the MP3, so he quickly took it back.
"Now you believe what I say, right?" Miss Qiao scratched the MP3 player too hard and two of her nails were broken. She casually wiped the blood on her white cheongsam, leaving a bright and charming blood color.
"Ayuan, do you still have your gloves?" Chen Yang rubbed the scratches on the MP3 with his fingertips.
A Yuan looked at the bloodstain on Miss Qiao's cheongsam and thought of her cousin.
Chen Yang: "Ayuan?"
Ah Yuan came back to his senses, listened to him repeat the previous question, and nodded: "Yes, there are quite a lot of gloves."
Chen Yang asked her to take one to Miss Qiao.
"It's so ugly." Miss Qiao put it on reluctantly. She had a label of being mature and charming, and her inherent charm made her both hated and loved by others. This time, she rarely showed her girlish side, as if she was acting coquettishly with her family.
"Your hand is injured, and there are white threads in the air. You'd better be careful." Chen Yang glanced at his teammates, each one more irritable than the other, "If anyone wants to see, come over here."
He didn't dare give the MP3 to anyone else, although he wanted to smash it.
Everyone looked at the MP3 with the thought “I’m sure I can figure it out”, and walked away with an angry expression of “this thing is useless, just tear it apart”.
Seeing Qian Qin standing behind and not showing any intention of coming forward, Chen Yang took the initiative to ask him if he wanted to take a look.
Qian Qin shook his head.
Chen Yang pursed his lips. Qian Qin returned to his personality as he was in the old village. He spoke very little and looked dull. He did not team up with his teammates and kept to himself. All his thoughts were sunk to the bottom that no one else could see.
Chen Yang lowered his eyes and looked at the MP3 in his hand. This was not a solution, so he held the MP3 under Chao Jian's nose.
Chao Jian said: "It's good."
"I know that, but it..." Chen Yang moved closer to the MP3 player. He suddenly tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and frowned.
Several people looked at each other in bewilderment. How could Chen Yang look like he was hit by an invisible and powerful airflow? The next moment, their faces all changed.
There is sound in the mp3!
A very loud sound of wind floated out from the MP3, like the howling of hundreds of beasts, and it seemed that the whole world was about to be overturned.
That was a disaster warning coming from a distant place.
Chen Yang's soul was trembling, and he had instinctively taken a protective stance to escape.
Chao Jian lowered his eyes to look at the hand that was tightly holding him, his throat moving up and down, he faintly heard someone say in his ear "Don't be afraid, I will not abandon you, I will take you with me even if I die". The person later said "We can't go together, you wait here for me, I will be back soon".
Taking a deep breath, Chao Jian grabbed Chen Yang with his backhand, his fingertips trembling slightly.
After the terrible sound of wind continued for a few seconds, there was the sound of a chair falling to the ground, the crisp sound of glass breaking, and chaotic footsteps.
The series of movements and sounds of wind were like two different spaces. The former only made Chen Yang feel panicky, without the kind of terrifying feeling that surged from the bottom of his heart.
The footsteps were followed by the sound of climbing stairs, and then a loud shout - something is wrong, Lao Zhang, quickly notify others, quickly evacuate all the tourists in the museum, quickly!
"What? Explain clearly, Old Yuan!"
"Everybody get out of here!"
The roar was accompanied by a lively and noisy sound.
After that, there was a relatively long period of rapid running breathing sounds, and at the end there was a scream from a distance, mixed with the two words "It's over..." from a frightened and helpless voice, and then there was no sound.
No one around spoke. The recording was divided into two parts. The first half was the alertness and panic of a very responsive employee, while the second half could imagine the confusion and indifference of a group of tourists.
The two parts represent life and death.
Chen Yang waited for a while, but the MP3 did not make any other sounds. It seemed that these were the contents and nothing else.
"That old Yuan is a staff member of the computer room and also a family member of the doctor. He accidentally recorded the sound." Zhang Qi suppressed the shock and fear in his heart and inferred based on the existing information.
No one objected, they all thought of the same thing, after all, that part was easy to deduce. What they couldn't deduce now was where that terrifying sound of wind came from
"The sound of the wind came from another time and space. Maybe that's also the mission site." Lao Xiao said, "There is a connection point here that connects the two places."
"There was an accident at the connection point that year. Not only the sound of wind came in, but also air currents and mutated plant spores. This is the source of the black miracle." He glanced at the others and said confidently, "You have guessed what I said."
The silence of the crowd is tantamount to consent.
The black miracle happened again, indicating that the connection point was opened again.
"Last time it was an accident, this time it was man-made." Jiang Jiang said to himself, "Then how did it end last time?"
"Stupid, are you still an experienced tasker? How can there be any accidents? Aren't they all set by the rules?" Lao Xiao has a simple and crude way of thinking. "The last time it was able to end, it was because those taskers finally completed the task. This time it's our turn."
Chen Yang remembered the words on the wall in the small gap on the first floor.
Jiang Jiang felt that Lao Xiao's logic was wrong, and he countered: "After decades, only two groups of taskers were assigned to one mission point?"
"Time can be adjusted, right? People here think decades have passed, but who knows how much time has really passed." A girl seemed to be unable to bear Jiang Jiang's stupidity, so she interrupted, "Maybe the previous batch of taskers also started with the murder of three staff members, which led to the death of the female tourist. The general trend is similar. Those who have played the game, right? When you clear a dungeon, others will come in to clear it, but the game designers are a bit perverted, and every time a group of players enter the same dungeon, the clearance process will be slightly adjusted, that's it."
Jiang Jiang swallowed all the words in his mind. Indeed, all traces of the dead taskers' existence could be cleared away. Nothing was impossible.
"Let's not talk about useless things. Where is the connection point?" Zhang Qi held up his almost dead cell phone and scanned the surroundings.
Others also started to check.
There were many computer boxes stacked in the computer room, all connected to the same computer. The computer could not be turned on.
A group of people gathered in front of the computer to check, while the rest went about their own business.
Chen Yang carefully scratched his face through the mask. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he felt that his face was allergic and it was very itchy. He really wanted to take off the mask to get some fresh air.
Chao Jian frowned: "Think about something else."
"Thinking." Chen Yang leaned against Chao Jian. Among the tasks he reset, a large proportion were related to time and space. Xiaoyin Island had overlapping spaces in the cave. Chao Jian calculated the overlapping points and took him to the altar. The train station was an infinite loop of time and space. The beach was a reversed space. When the weather was bad, the beach turned into the sea, and the sea was the beach. The time and space in the old building was flowing.
Chen Yang tried to find the common points among those space-time tasks and found that they were all related to time.
Will the connection point appear at a fixed time? Or will something unusual happen in the computer room
"Sit down for a while." Chen Yang pulled Chao Jian to sit on the ground, "Take a break."
Chao Jian closed his eyes, one of his hands was held by Chen Yang, and the other hand was in his pocket, stroking the medicine bottle.
Chen Yang turned off the flashlight on his phone. His increasingly disordered breathing could be heard in the darkness. His voice became hoarse: "Chao Chao..."
This address made Chao Jian's face twitch slightly, but he still responded: "Yeah."
"Zheng Zhitan and Lin Shuwei have both stopped." Chen Yang took a few short breaths. He tried his best to suppress his emotional fluctuations, but was still swallowed by the tsunami and choked.
It’s not about how good or close the relationship is, but the sadness that there are fewer and fewer people who share the same path with us.
The world has been broken. Even if there is a piece of candy outside the end, it is still broken, a small piece of candy, but Chen Yang still wants it. If he doesn't want it, there will be nothing else. He wants to give the small piece of candy to Chao Jian.
The sobbing sound in Chen Yang's throat became more and more intense.
Chao Jian took out the hand holding the medicine bottle and held Chen Yang's hand. He sighed and said lightly: "The man surnamed Zheng didn't stop."
Chen Yang was stunned, and the next second he quickly turned on the flashlight and pointed the light at the door of the computer room.
There was a subtle sound of leather shoes rubbing against the ground outside, and the rhythm of the footsteps had the aura of a CEO meeting. Zheng Zhiqin walked in neatly dressed, turned his leather shoes, and faced the beam of light in Chen Yang's direction: "Why, are you excited to see me?"
Chen Yang's hand holding the phone trembled, and the light trembled with it: "Where have you been? Why are you alone, Lin..." The rest of his voice was stuck in his throat.
Zheng Zhiqin walked over from the door. There was a hole in his trousers burned by cigarettes, and his coat was nowhere to be found. He was only wearing a suit with a loose tie. In his hand was an old thermos cup that looked out of place with him.
Lin Shuwei is gone.
This was Chen Yang's strong reaction when he saw the thermos. He threw the phone between his fingers to the ground, leaned back, and hit his back against the wall.
"Is it spores?" Chen Yang asked in the dim light. He already had the answer when he asked.
"Yeah." Zheng Zhitan sat over.
Chen Yang closed his eyes.
"The things that the tasker brings into the task world can only be taken out with the tasker. Others cannot take them away." Zheng Zhitan said, "The final destination of this relic is Sanlian Bridge."
Chen Yang said: "Maybe the cup is something from the real world." Just like his book, he can take it with him.
"From now on, keep the cup with you. If it's still in your hand when you go back, then it's something from the real world. If it's not in your hand, then it's not. You try it, it won't have any effect on you." Chen Yang pulled up Chao Jian's disposable gloves.
Zheng Zhitan said nothing.
Chen Yangfu was inspired: "You want to give me the cup?"
Zheng Zhiqin raised his eyebrows: "His last wish was to go to the finish line with his teammates."
"You should take this cup." Zheng Zhitan smiled.
Chen Yang’s reaction was very strong: “I don’t want it!”
"This is something Lin Shuwei asked you to do. It has nothing to do with me. You should figure it out yourself!" Chen Yang pushed Zheng Zhiqin, his nose flaring and his eyes reddening. "You want to hand the cup to me so that you can be free and unburdened. That's wishful thinking."
Zheng Zhitan: “…” Okay, I’ll take it and take it wherever I go.
Zheng Zhitan ignored Chao Jian's mad dog, looked at his master, and said incoherently: "Xiao Yangyang, although you are not ugly, you are still very cute."
Chen Yang’s sad mood froze. What kind of nonsense is this
"If you let me lick the scar on your left ear, you'll be even more..." Zheng Zhiqin was slapped against the wall.
Zheng Zhiqin licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and cursed "shit" silently. There was really no surprise at all.
The door of the computer room was closed, and seventeen people were staying inside. Negativity and pessimism actually bound most of them, and a few were bound by other things. No one was free.
Qi Bei smelled strongly of blood and he said little.
Jiang Jiang wished he could become a god so that he could just wave his hand and his companions’ hands would grow back.
Every time he encountered bloodshed and casualties, Jiang Jiang would think that his dream was to become a god and make everyone happy.
In fact, he himself was not happy.
Lao Xiao's partner came over and said, "Jiang Jiang, I have some painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. Ask your companion if he wants to take some."
"I can't take off the mask, so I can't eat." Jiang Jiang glanced at the mushroom-headed boy with a complicated look.
"Oh, right." A flash of embarrassment crossed the boy's face. "No wonder the doctor didn't prepare those oral pills for us."
"Luckily, Lao Xiao didn't hear what I said, otherwise he would have called me stupid again." The boy muttered.
"I'm stupid too." Jiang Jiang felt extremely guilty, "If only I hadn't touched the scissors."
The young man glanced at Qi Bei, whose half face was hidden in the darkness, and whispered to Jiang Jiang: "Your companions are so nice to you."
Jiang Jiang held up his phone case and said, "I saved him, and we became partners. Now he has saved me, and we have changed from partners to..."
"What?"
"A better partner." Jiang Jiang said in a loud voice.
The boy seemed to understand: "Oh..."
Qi Bei groaned in pain, and Jiang Jiang immediately went over to comfort him.
The boy returned to Lao Xiao and sighed, "The negative energy here is exploding."
"You are also a mother of negative energy. You gave birth to a bunch of them." Lao Xiao said.
Boy: “…”
Someone asked who wanted to go to the bathroom and wanted to meet someone else. Everyone had forgotten about it, but when their teammates mentioned it, their physiological needs came to the fore.
There is no toilet on the second floor underground, so we have to go to the first floor, and everyone has gone there. Now we only know that the computer room is the starting point and the end point of the black miracle. Others are still checking. They are waiting for the computer to start up. I don’t know when they can complete the task. This trip will last for a while.
Among the seventeen people, two-thirds were men. The urinals were full, and those who had no space went directly to the cubicles.
Chen Yang and Chao Jianjin were in the same cubicle, and they took the toilet side by side.
"Oh." Chen Yang sighed.
The smooth sound of water beside him paused.
"I remember the time on the boat in Xiaoyin Island. You didn't let me see you." Chen Yang felt that it was something from his previous life. At that time, Chao Jian was still in the suspended period and didn't remember him.
Noticing that Chao Jian hadn't moved for a long time and hadn't poured out the water, Chen Yang quickly said, "I don't blame you. Don't hold it in. It will be bad if you hurt yourself." Kidneys are very important.
He put on a stern face and dripped a few drops towards Jian.
Chen Yang took a breath: "What's going on? Wasn't it just like a small fountain?"
"… I can't get out." Chao Jian hugged his waist and rubbed it gently, "I'll take my time, don't say anything."
Chen Yang packed up and stood aside waiting for Chao Jian.
In the women's restroom next door, Ah Yuan thought she had her period, but she checked and found that it had not come, but was about to come. This made her feel relieved. Although she brought her things in, it was still inconvenient to have her period, so it was better that she didn't come.
Ayuan threw the paper into the trash can, stood up and tidied her clothes. She heard hurried footsteps outside and stopped in front of her cubicle door.
"Excuse me, is there anyone inside?"
"I'll be there soon." Ayuan answered subconsciously, and she suddenly stopped buttoning her pants. There were not many girls in the line, so it was impossible for all the toilets to be occupied. There should be several empty toilets still.
A Yuan opened the door and a stale and moldy smell hit her face. There was no one in the bathroom.
Where are the other teammates? Did they leave so quickly? How come I didn't hear any noise
A drop of cold sweat slid down Ayuan's back. She walked quickly towards the door, but suddenly turned back.
There was a girl in school uniform standing in the cubicle she had just used, her head hung in front of her, her long hair covering her face.
Ayuan turned around and ran!
But she returned to the cubicle again, all wet, and she was stuck in a maze!
The footsteps stopped outside her cubicle door again, and the same voice rang out: "Excuse me, is anyone inside?"
Ah Yuan was going crazy. She pushed the door open and ran out again and again, and returned to the cubicle again and again. When she stood in the cubicle for the seventh time and heard a voice outside asking, "Excuse me, is there anyone inside?", she grabbed the wrist where she used to wear the Buddhist beads and said, "Yes."
"Great!" The person outside cheered and asked quietly, "Can you lend me your phone?"
A Yuan was stunned. She carefully opened the door of the compartment, but there was no one at the door.
The surrounding area was filled with heavy yin energy. When Ayuan walked out of the cubicle, she suddenly felt a pair of eyes looking at her from behind, and she turned around quickly.
It was still the female student in school uniform, and she was still standing where she had been before.
"Lend it to you." A Yuan lowered his eyes and handed over the phone.
A pale hand stretched out, and Ayuan hurriedly handed it forward, her dark eyes full of sincerity.
The female student held a cell phone with no signal and dialed a number. A childish expression seemed to appear on her face behind her long hair: "Mom, don't wait for me to have dinner. I can't come back. You and Dad need to be well."
Ah Yuan had a hunch that this was his last words, but the call was not made. While she was in a daze, the phone was handed back to her.
"Thank you." The female student said gratefully.
Before A Yuan could figure out how to respond, he gasped. The female student's head that was hanging in front of her slowly raised up, her long hair spread out on both sides, revealing a face full of splinters!
This ghost is different from the other two that have appeared. The cause of death should not be Baisi, but rather a stampede during the mutation outbreak. He was pushed to the ground and his face was stepped on by the broken glass.
A Yuan held the phone tightly with trembling hands. She was about to inquire about the information related to the task when she found herself standing in the cubicle by the door, where the female student had just stood. There was a faint sound of cold wind blowing past her ears.
"Computer room... headphones... listening..."
"QQ"
The door of the cubicle was suddenly knocked, and Ayuan's nerve endings twitched. She heard the voice of her teammate Ai Xiaoyu.
"Ayuan, are you okay?" Ai Xiaoyu was just outside the door.
A Yuan opened the door of the cubicle and met Ai Xiaoyu's concerned eyes. Several teammates were waiting for her.
Back in the computer room, A Yuan told Chen Yang about the incident. She said helplessly, "I was not the only one in the toilet at that time. Why did that student come to me?"
"It's probably because of the magnetic field." Chen Yang said.
Ah Yuan adjusted her medium-length hair and pouted: "I thought it was a ghost who thought I was kind."
Chen Yang: “Maybe.”
This time, A Yuan did not shamelessly admit it. She changed the subject: "Computer room, headphones, listen, what does this mean?"
"It means that we can complete the task." Chen Yang said, "The sentence structure of those three information points is very simple. There will be headphones in the computer room, and we need to listen."
A Yuan: "Aren't you not allowed to wear headphones?"
"Yes." Chen Yang said, "This means that something will happen at that time and we must do it."
When Chen Yang shared the latest clues with his teammates, most people's reactions were as he expected. The computer in the computer room could not be turned on, and the host computer was silent. They could only wait for the headset to appear.
But they didn't know whether there were spores in their bodies. Waiting one more second would be a crisis. They didn't want to wait, and they didn't dare to wait, but they had to wait, so they collapsed.
Among the group, except Chao Jian who was not registered for the test, Qian Qin, Lao Xiao's partner and a few others calmed down. They had already come down from the tightrope, and the anger in their bodies gradually died down. Their condition was very close to their usual level, but none of them were good at comforting others.
Especially in this environment where if you get a little closer, a madman might pull your mask off and kill you.
Chen Yang couldn't care less about these things; he relied entirely on Chao Jian to give him strength.
Accompanying Chao Jian on this trip, he was like a cane, and also like his foot. He would not be able to walk without it.
Chen Yang sat in front of the computer, typing away on the keyboard. He caught a glimpse of Zhang Qi walking outside and shouted worriedly, "Brother Qi, where are you going?"
Zhang Qi paused.
Just such a small detail made Chen Yang stand up suddenly. His movement was so large that the table and the computer shook.
The buzzing sound in the computer room also stopped. The taskers who were in a state of emotional outburst realized something and looked at Zhang Qi at the door. At the same time, they also covered their masks tightly.
Zhang Qi staggered out of the computer room, and Chen Yang chased after him with heavy breathing. Chao Jian didn't pull him, but just followed him out of the computer room.
“Don’t… don’t follow me…” Zhang Qi leaned against the wall, with his back to Chen Yang, and shouted with heavy breathing, “Brother, don’t come over!”
The pleading in the roar made Chen Yang stop. His chest rose and fell faster and faster. His nose felt sore and tears fell into Chao Jian's palm.
Chao Jian pulled down the brim of Chen Yang's hat to block the cruel scene before his eyes.
“Brother Qi…” Chen Yang’s mind was in a mess. He was at a loss, like a child who was about to lose his friend.
At the time in the square, when the white silk was floating, no one was wearing a mask. If there were spores in the body, they would only be inhaled at that time.
Whether it is possible to parasitize and develop is unknown. Chen Yang thought about this and prepared himself mentally, but he still could not accept Zhang Qi's departure.
He had already made arrangements with Wen Qing Xiangdong, and they also promised to take care of Zhang Qi, Wu Yu, and Xiang Zimu for him, and to invite them to get together whenever they wanted.
Now Zhang Qi is leaving.
Chen Yang stepped towards Zhang Qi.
Zhang Qi stopped him without looking back: "Brother, let me go alone."
Chen Yang smiled bitterly: "I want to see you off."
"No." Zhang Qi's back trembled, "I can go alone, don't send me off..."
The corners of Chen Yang's mouth, which he had raised with great effort, fell back.
Zhang Qi wanted to die in a place far away from his teammates. The door of the computer room was closed, and there couldn't be any more white hair inside. It would be best if he could go out, outside the experience hall, and die outside.
But Zhang Qi couldn't stand it after just two steps. He felt sorry for his teammates and even more sorry for his younger brother.
He knew that his younger brother was sad because of the departure of his friend and could not bear the grief any longer, but he still stabbed him in the back.
I don't know if my brother can hold on.
Zhang Qi couldn't stand up and fell down on the steps: "Hurry up, go back to the computer room!"
He only had time to yell before he arched his back and his body began to swell. The mask was grabbed in his hand, and he struggled so hard that veins bulged on the back of his hands, but he finally managed to get it off.
"Ah!" Chen Yang kicked the wall frantically several times.
Chao Jian held him in his arms and kept patting his trembling shoulders.
There were four people standing at the door of the computer room.
"Poor little Yangyang, he got hurt one after another. I saw that his mental and emotional defenses were almost collapsed." Miss Qiao held the door.
Qian Qin returned to the computer room, and Zheng Zhitan and A Yuan were still at the door.
"If I'm going to die, I will definitely take off my mask and take a few puffs of cigarette before I die." Miss Qiao was craving for cigarettes, which the medicine in her bag could not resist.
Zheng Zhitan held up the thermos cup and said, "Aren't you looking for someone to have sex with?"
Ayuan left.
"The girl is still young, why are you polluting her world?" Miss Qiao frowned, with a hint of coquettishness at the corners of her eyes.
"How can it be my turn to pollute? There is no clean world for taskers." Zheng Zhitan smiled.
"Oh, Mr. Zheng is right." Miss Qiao looked at Chen Yang who was crying bitterly, and Chao Jian who was looking at him crying with a sad look, and let out a leisurely breath, "Every time a teammate leaves, it is like shedding a skin."
—It won’t be excruciatingly painful, but it will be painful.
"drop"
"Drip... drip..."
The alarm sounded suddenly, and everyone in the computer room was startled by the sound.
At that moment, the computer room emerged from darkness, and the surroundings became extremely bright, yet also extremely chaotic.
A group of people wearing protective clothing and masks suddenly appeared on the stairs leading to the first floor. They walked into the computer room cautiously.
Chen Yang remembered that the ghost man in the jacket said that even the military was dispatched in the end. It seems that this is the military.
Now the original scene is reproduced!
Chen Yang withdrew his gaze from the steps where Brother Qi's body was not, and his scarlet eyes widened. Not only military personnel came, but also leaders of the management office. They were not wearing military masks, but ordinary ones, so part of their faces could be seen.
There were some people in the management office that Chen Yang was familiar with, two men and one woman. They were the elders of Ye Yu, Guan Xiaoyun, and Cheng Jin, and he could tell from their expressions.
Chen Yang's grief was overwhelmed by this scene. He was just trying to figure out the cause and effect of this incident when he heard a scream.
It came from the girl in the couple who were guarding the old man in front of Liu Zhi’s door. She was staring at one of the men in the group, her face full of fear.
It was someone from the military, and judging by her figure, she was a woman, with a black gas mask covering her face.
Chen Yang didn't understand why the girl behaved like that, so he went over to ask her the reason.
"It's a ghost..." The girl held her boyfriend's hand and squeezed out the words with difficulty, "The ghost's relatives."
"She is covered from head to toe, with only a pair of eyes showing. How are you sure?" Chen Yang's eyelids twitched and he whispered.
The girl was a little incoherent: "When she turned her head to look at me just now, she gave me a very similar feeling to the female ghost behind the old man. They must be from the same family!"
Feeling that it couldn't be used as evidence, everyone stopped thinking about it and continued to stare at the group of people to see what they were going to do.
The computer in the computer room was not what Chen Yang and the others saw. It was surrounded by headphone wires. Those headphone wires went through the roof, and no one knew where they went.
The group of people pointed and talked from a distance.
Chen Yang caught some words like "alien", "different time and space energy", "blockade" and "disc". When they mentioned the disc, they were referring to the military personnel who the girl said was the relative of the evil spirit. It was probably a family heirloom.
At this time, several people suddenly mutated, they were infected with spores and broke out, causing a riot in the machine room, and the military quickly evacuated after a burst of shooting. Because even if the mutants were killed on the spot, they would still spread seeds.
Moreover, the mutated people back then were much more brutal than the current wave. They were very aggressive, like zombies.
Originally there were only three or five mutations, but they soon became a large number, and the speed at which their numbers increased was terrifying.
Chen Yang and the others knew that they did not belong to that time and space, but they still reflexively hid to the side and held down their masks.
The next scene was not what Chen Yang expected. He witnessed the military personnel who provided the disc escorting the elders Guan, Ye and Cheng out of the computer room, but when she needed help, the three men pushed her away.
The woman was surrounded by a group of mutants. The moment her gas mask was destroyed, she inhaled white silk, but she did not give up. She still wanted to get out.
When she was sure she couldn't get out, she shot herself in the temple.
"Bang"
The body fell next to where Miss Qiao was standing, the mask was gone, revealing the purple face.
Chen Yang turned his head to look at the only girl who had seen the evil ghost.
The other person was supported by her boyfriend and was about to faint: "It's her! It's her!"
Chen Yang looked at the corpse at Miss Qiao's feet again. She was really the relative of the evil ghost.
The grievances of the previous generation involve the next generation, and the background of the mission has such a big turn.
The evil ghost, that is, the female tourist who is still alive, somehow found out the things behind the death of her relatives, and came to Sanlian Bridge to meet the descendants of the three management office staff, well prepared.
"That anonymous person who seduced Cheng, Ye, and Guan couldn't be a ghost!" Jiang Jiang said in surprise, "The disc belongs to her. She knows how to open the black miracle. This makes sense!"
"From her point of view, my family and my belongings saved Sanlian Bridge, saved those ungrateful guys. I hate it." Jiang Jiang said excitedly.
No one responded.
Chen Yang was thinking that Liu Zhi's elder was one of the three people who were rescued that year. He might have heard something from his elder. When the female tourist came to him before her death, he was not drunk and lustful, but he took the initiative. He just didn't expect that she would become a fierce ghost.
"This is quite a big deal." Zheng Zhitan clicked his tongue.
"Yeah." Chen Yang wanted to see Zhang Qi's body, but he heard A Yuan's voice behind him, "The computer is on!"
Chen Yang quickly glanced at the stairs and saw that Zhang Qi had turned into ashes.
When you turn on the computer, you will see a common desktop, but there is nothing on the desktop except a recycle bin.
I opened the Recycle Bin and it was empty.
"What's going on? Nothing."
Chen Yang thought for a while, pressed the restart button, and the computer turned on again. There was still only a recycle bin on it.
Disappointment flashed across everyone's faces, but Chen Yang pressed the restart button again. The computer lit up and restarted...
Under everyone's surprised gaze, he kept pressing the restart button.
"Mr. Chen, what's wrong with you? If you restart your computer so frequently, it will break down." Someone anxiously tried to stop him.
"No, there is something. Pay attention to the boot screen." Chen Yang said shockingly.
After Chen Yang's reminder, everyone focused their attention on the flashing startup screen of the computer. They found that the startup screen would be different after each restart.
"1, 2, 3, 4...10... 15, 16, 17, 18..."
"There are eighteen in total, and then it starts to repeat." Chen Yang took out a pen from his pocket and found a piece of paper from somewhere else, "Ayuan, you press the restart button and I will record it."
"Okay." Although A Yuan was curious why Chen Yang didn't let Chao Jian do this, she still cooperated immediately.
Every time the computer restarted, Chen Yang stared at the screen and drew quickly on the paper. Until then, everyone noticed that in the lower left corner of each boot screen, there would be several white squares forming a pattern under a series of characters.
And every time you turn on the computer, the graphics will be different.
"There are eighteen kinds of graphics in total. They must represent different meanings and are likely related to the black miracle." Jiang Jiang stared at the graphics until his eyes became cross-eyed.
Qian Qin left the computer desk with a flashlight, sat alone against the wall, and wrote and drew something on the ground.
Zheng Zhitan and Miss Qiao also went to the side.
Everyone was busy studying these graphics. After a while, there was a sound of footsteps from the other side of the corridor. Everyone was startled. Was there someone else upstairs
"It's Lao Jiang." Ai Xiaoyu explained that Lao Jiang found some plastic bags. He said he wanted to go up there and see if the filaments had dispersed, so he went up with the bags covered all over his body.
No one said anything after hearing this.
"Thump thump..." The footsteps became more and more obvious, and everyone suddenly felt something was wrong, because the footsteps were getting more and more frequent. It was a series of footsteps, as if many people were going downstairs.
"It's not Lao Jiang!" Everyone realized that it wasn't him, but a group of people, and it wasn't a re-enactment of the original scene! They immediately put away their pens and papers and stood alertly in the computer room.
As the footsteps got closer, everyone finally saw who was coming. In front of the crowd, there was a person with a large plastic bag on his body, and the way he walked looked a little funny.
"It's really Old Jiang!"
"Then those people behind him..."
"Hey! Come here quickly, guess who I saw up there?" Lao Jiang took off his bag, pulled up the mask on his face, and said with emotion, "It was Xiao Zhou and the others! They also changed their minds and came in together."
"Xiao Zhou! Come here quickly, don't be shy, we are all in the same boat now." Lao Jiang waved.
Under everyone's strange gazes, Xiao Zhou and the few people who had chosen to stay at the door all walked in.
"Xiao Zhou, I'm glad you're here..." Jiang Jiang patted his shoulder.
Xiao Zhou nodded slowly, and Xiao Wang behind him suddenly asked, "What are you doing here?"
"This computer is the switchboard for the entire experience center. Mr. Chen found that there was a problem with the computer's startup screen. We recorded it and see if we can decipher it." A tasker replied.
"Really? Can I take a look?" Xiao Wang walked over with curiosity in his eyes.
"Uh, okay..." Before he could finish his words, Xiao Wang grabbed the paper on the table and looked at the diagram on it.
After looking at it for a while, Xiao Wang put the paper down and asked: "Have these figures been deciphered?"
"No, I have no idea. Can you understand the picture above?"
"I don't understand." Xiao Wang looked confused. "I'm a poor student, how can I understand these?"
Chen Yang looked at the eight taskers. He didn't say anything, but focused his attention on the pictures again.
Xiao Wang looked at Chen Yang, as if he wanted to take his paper.
He raised his eyelids slightly at Chao Jian.
Xiao Wang turned on his tiptoes and went to Lao Jiang, who warmly welcomed them.
Originally, after Zhang Qi left, there were only sixteen people left in the team. Now, with the eight people who came down from the first floor, there are twenty-four in total.
Everyone was concentrating on studying the graphics. The computer room was very quiet and there were no noisy sounds for a while.
The light was in beams, not connected into one, and there were many dark corners.
"Lao Jiang, Xiao Zhou has been in the toilet for a long time. I'm a little worried about him. Can you accompany me to see him?" Xiao Wang lowered his voice.
"Okay." Lao Jiang put down the paper and pen that hadn't written a word for a long time. He really couldn't do any brain work, so he might as well look around to see if there were any other discoveries.
Lao Jiang accompanied Xiao Wang to the toilet. When he heard the coughing inside, he asked, "Xiao Zhou, why are you still squatting in there? It's been a long time."
"Waiting for you!"
"Ah?" Before Lao Jiang understood what was going on, the mask on his face was taken off.
Chen Yang did not solve the puzzle of the figure. He put his pen down and unconsciously counted the number of people. No, the number was wrong.
There were 24 people, but now there were only 21 left in the computer room? Where were the other three
Chen Yang asked the twenty-one people present, and everyone said that they did not notice the movements of the three people.
"Could something have happened?" Jiang Jiang asked suspiciously.
Everyone went out to look, and they soon found the bodies of Lao Jiang and three others.
The three of them fell into the toilet cubicle, their faces twisted with horror.
“Those who wore headphones or were infected by spores will have their bodies swell up and turn into ashes after death. However, those who simply died of poisoning from inhaling the white silk will remain in their original state and will not turn into ashes.” Lao Xiao put his hands behind his head.
"If you inhale white silk, you will die very quickly, just a few moments, so Lao Jiang and the others just died..." Jiang Jiang said, "How is that possible? Weren't they all wearing masks?"
"Wearing a mask doesn't necessarily mean you're safe," said a middle-aged worker.
The death of Lao Jiang and the other two ended in misfortune. Chen Yang returned to the computer room, picked up the pen and put it down again, feeling uneasy.
Chao Jian held the flashlight in one hand and patted Chen Yang's back with the other.
Chen Yang tried to cheer himself up and continued looking at the blueprint.
With fewer teammates, the light source in the computer room will decrease, and there will be more dark areas.
The middle-aged worker was drawing in the corner. Something flashed through his mind, but he couldn't figure it out. He was extremely anxious. He walked out of the computer room without noticing and paced back and forth at the door.
His arm was touched and he got a little angry: "What for?"
"Uncle, I have discovered something about Lao Jiang's death," said Xiao Zhou.
"Ah? Really?" The middle-aged man came closer.
Two or three seconds later, a body appeared on the ground. Xiao Zhou and his eight companions gathered around the body with indifferent expressions.
"Why can't we be like the ghosts here? If anyone touches us, black lines will grow in our bodies?"
"Who knows? It doesn't matter. This will work. It will be quick."
"It's not fast at all. It's too troublesome to take them out of the machine room one by one and take off their masks."
"What do you know? If we can't do it all at once, we'll have to separate them."
“Why can’t we do it all at once?”
"Several already suspect us."
“So what if I doubt it…” Xiao Wang stared at the door of the computer room.
Xiao Zhou and the remaining six people also stared over, a layer of death appeared on their faces.
“We’ve been discovered.”
"Discovered..."
They spoke in unison, chattering, and suddenly became hideous and distorted.
"None of you can crack the mission!"
"Why don't you stay with us? Let's all stay here."
"Yes! We can also find spores for you to parasitize, and then you can turn into ashes like us and never die. How great!"
“Do you take off your masks yourself, or do we help you?”
Chen Yang found it very ironic. Lao Jiang was a typical example of someone who did good but got no reward. He invited evil into his home and harmed not only himself but also his teammates.
"There are curses on these eight people." Miss Qiao said, "The evil spirit has come into contact with them, everyone please be careful."
Everyone understands the principle, but it is not easy to put into practice.
Here, only Heihu Chaojian can cause physical damage to ghosts, but he cannot take action, and others cannot fight back, which is very troublesome.
The computer at the switchboard was smashed by the group of people. Ai Xiaoyu, a literary girl, was driven crazy and screamed. She held the tool bag and swung it wildly.
The water in the tool bag was thrown out and broke open, splashing water everywhere.
Xiao Wang suddenly screamed.
"They are afraid of water!" Ai Xiaoyu was stunned. She picked up the broken mineral water bottle on the ground and threw it at Xiao Wang while shouting.
As long as water is poured on these "people", they will become muddy and collapse like wood ash mixed with water, and then stick to the ground like sticky mud, wailing in pain but unable to move.
All of a sudden, everyone was looking for water to throw on them.
Chen Yang saw A Yuan take out the mineral water given by the doctor from his backpack, and his eyelids twitched. It turned out that the doctor put a few bottles of water in the medicine bag, not for them to drink, but for this purpose.
That's how it was solved back then.
When the room became quiet, the floor was in a mess. Chen Yang looked towards the door suddenly, and Liu Zhi was standing there, looking for an unknown amount of time.
The exhausted crowd tensed up again. Liu Zhi didn't come in, he just stood there for a while and then left, but his action made everyone feel cold all over.
After Liu Zhi turned around, he saw a woman's face at the back of his head. She gave them a grateful smile. Although it was silent, her happiness was still so strong that it was chilling.
This mission is not to end Black Miracle.
The evil ghost wanted to watch the tourist festival with black miracles, and they stopped him because it was a taboo.
How do I complete the mission? When can I enter the last level? Can I still get in? Chen Yang slumped on the ground, and Chao Jian was pulled down by his strength.
"I can't hold on any longer." Chen Yang said, covering his head.
Chao Jian wiped the lime off Chen Yang's ears very gently. I was almost unable to hold it anymore. His mouth was already filled with a fishy and sweet taste.
Chen Yang's condition was very bad, and before long, his condition deteriorated even further.
There were originally two pairs of heterosexual lovers in the team, and one of them died at the hands of Xiao Zhou, Xiao Wang and others, from poisoning.
Another couple has been on the verge of breaking up since the beginning of the mission. They quarreled and bickered all the time, and they have been together until today. The girl's mask was opened during the fight just now, and she accidentally inhaled spores and became infected. The boy took off his mask and kissed her.
Miss Qiao was right, both couples failed to survive.
Only eleven people were left in the team of a hundred, the computers were destroyed, and a sense of despair stirred up the broken air, spreading rampantly in the dark computer room.
"Those eighteen graphics correspond to the interfaces on the back of the eighteen host computers." Qian Qin's voice was like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, cutting through the silence.
When Chen Yang heard Qian Qin's words, he instantly jumped out of the feeling of impending death. He also thought of this, but his thoughts were stuck.
"There are three rows of sockets behind each host." Qian Qin turned on the flashlight, and a beam of light appeared in the computer room. He followed the light and began to move. Starting from the first one, he connected the wires to it according to the diagram.
Ai Xiaoyu and the others climbed up using their hands and feet and ran over to help.
When all the wires were connected, a strange and huge energy was generated in the computer room, and then everyone heard a familiar sound of wind. It was the same as in the mp3!
Countless headphone wires were blown in from the source of the wind, not every one of them was connected to a black headphone.
A Yuan murmured: "Ten headphones..."
Chen Yang's narrowed eyes suddenly opened: "Ten?!" He counted quickly, and there were really ten.
It is exactly the number of audited task subjects who are still alive.
Chen Yang understood that this was the last stage of the audit task. If you pass this stage and reach the threshold, you can go to the next stage. If you don’t reach the threshold, you will be sent out.
We all know what the number of headphones means. The question now is, do you dare to wear them
Those people in the square who wore it were all possessed.
But this is prepared for them, they must wear it to pass the customs...
Zheng Zhiqin was the first to put it on, followed by Miss Qiao and Qian Qin. The three of them had different states after putting on the headphones.
No one knew what the first two had heard, and an indescribable sadness welled up on their faces, while Qian Qin was completely expressionless.
These two completely different phenomena left Jiang Jiang and his friends with no reference. They thought their teammates would be like the people in the square, wearing headphones and looking happy and joyful.
It seems that the things in their headphones are different from those people. Qi Bei grabbed a headphone and gave it to Jiang Jiang: "Put it on."
"What about you?" Jiang Jiang's eyes were full of determination to advance and retreat together with his companions.
Qi Bei answered Jiang Jiang directly with action. He put on his headphones.
After a while, Chen Yang was the only one in the team who had not put on headphones, and he was also the only one with a partner, so he had a lot of things to do.
Chen Yang took out several boxes of milk tablets wrapped in plastic bags from his backpack: "I'll give them all to you. You can see me when you finish eating."
"What if I can't see it?" Chao Jian couldn't raise his hand, he stared straight at Chen Yang.
"Then wait a little longer. Don't be afraid. Brother will come to find you." Chen Yang stuffed the milk tablets into Chao Jian's arms. He became anxious again, "You may not be able to bring the milk tablets to the end point. If you can't bring them to the end point, what will you do?"
"I'll take medicine." Chao Jian took out the medicine bottle and laughed paranoidly, "After I finish taking it, you will come back, right?"
"Yes." Chen Yang kissed Chao Jian through the mask.
Chen Yang reached his headphones. As long as he entered the last level, Chao Jian, who was bound to him, would leave here and wait for him at the finish line.
Go to the finish line. Chen Yang looked at the nine teammates next to him. He didn't know if they could hear him, but he still shouted with all his strength: "Stay alive!"
After yelling, Chen Yang's eyes froze. "I seem to have yelled these three words before. When was it?" He turned to look at Chao Jian in a daze.
At that moment, a picture appeared in front of Chen Yang's eyes. In a pile of monsters full of limbs and body parts, he hugged Chao Jian, who was also covered in blood, with his blood-stained body and shouted those three words loudly.
Chao Jian's ears were covered in blood and he could no longer hear anything. He just stared at his lips opening and closing, and repeated what he said.
"To live... To live..."
Chen Yang had a splitting headache. He endured the pain and put on his headphones. Countless voices rushed into his ears. Who was calling him
"Ugh..." Chen Yang suddenly dry-heaved, and then the whole world was destroyed.
Chen Yang's body began to grow bigger. He looked at Chao Jian helplessly, like a child who had done something wrong and was afraid of being blamed by his parents.
Chao Jian was not a parent, so he did not blame him, but just touched his forehead.
"It's okay." Chao Jian closed his bloodshot eyes and said gently, "It's okay, it's okay..."
Chen Yang's eyes widened and his tears flowed more violently. His heart seemed to be pierced by an icicle, bleeding and freezing cold. He clasped Chao Jian's hands tightly with both hands, and his smooth nails dug into them.
I don't want to stop here... I don't want to stop here...
I don't want to stop here!
"I don't want to stop here—" Chen Yang vomited a ball of bloody white silk, and cried out heartbreakingly. The faith that he had carefully hidden under the ruins suddenly broke out of the ground and never faded. At that moment, the scenery in front of him changed, and a strong wind blew on his dry face without a mask.
Before Chen Yang could react, a car drove over. In the driver's seat was a young man wearing a pink winged hat. He waved at Chen Yang: "Brother Yue, hurry up!"
Chen Yang blinked his eyes slowly without any soreness or stinging. Who is Brother Yue? The corners of his pursed lips trembled a few times. Brother Yue? Li Yue
Did I come in...
The window of the back seat of the car was lowered, and a black head popped out. The wind blew up his thick bangs, revealing the black birthmark on his forehead. He shouted, "Get in the car--"
Chen Yang opened his mouth: "Wenqing...?"
"Hurry up, Brother Yue, the mass grave has exploded!" The young man driving the car glanced at the rearview mirror and urged in panic.
Only then did Chen Yang realize that he was on the side of the road, with a mass grave behind him, and a large number of zombies were running towards him.
His body muscles moved faster than his brain and he jumped into the car nimbly.