The sudden banging on the door only distracted Tianyang and his son, but it didn't scare them. After the two exchanged glances, Su Lie raised his Juque, as if he was going to open the door to see what was going on.
But Tianyang shook his head and pulled the father and son back, hiding behind a pillar. Through a few mirror fragments scattered in the corner, he saw an eyeball suddenly appear behind the door of the big iron door in the mirror, and then a sharp child's voice sounded outside: "Sister, sister, are you hiding in there!"
"I think I saw you. Why did you leave? Don't you like me anymore? Didn't you say you would be with me forever?"
"You liar! Liar!"
Something outside the door was banging against the iron door frantically, making it clang, and then a hand reached in.
The hand was very small, and was wearing a children's watch, but it was very dirty, with black paint between the nails and one or two strands of hair stuck in it.
It looked like there was a child outside, and from the voice, it was a girl.
This immediately reminded Tianyang of the resident named "Xiao Dai". His next-door neighbor was a pair of sisters. The elder sister was missing, leaving only the younger sister.
Could it be that the sister is outside the door
The little hand that was stretched into the crack of the door was groping, and suddenly, it stopped and shrank back, and then footsteps were heard and quickly went away.
After waiting for a while and hearing no sound, Tianyang and his son came out.
"I suspect that the 'Endless Labyrinth' is a projection of Dream God's memory. The scenes seen here, including the residents here, are likely 'fragments' from other eternal night worlds."
Tianyang explained the reason why he stopped his father just now: "So if it is not necessary, we'd better not interfere and have no contact with the 'residents' here, so as not to cause some unpredictable changes."
Su Lie suddenly realized, "Are you worried that the dream will change, and the rules of 'turn left' will change, and we will never be able to find Ah Li again, and will be trapped in this maze forever?"
"yes."
Tianyang nodded, then pushed open the door and found that there was no suspicious or moving things in the deserted and damp alley outside.
Su Lie chuckled and said, "I haven't thought about it that much, but your concerns are reasonable. The world of Xingdu is already very strange, and the Endless Maze is even stranger than Xingdu. It is indeed not appropriate to interfere casually."
They walked forward, and after a few steps, they stopped.
In the distance, under an awning, under a sign that read "Electrical Appliance Repair," stood a woman. She was tall and slender, holding an umbrella, but because of the umbrella, Tianyang and the others could not see her.
But he could feel that the woman under the umbrella was looking at them. What made Tianyang feel strange was that there was nothing strange about this woman. Her aura seemed very peaceful, which was out of place in this strange and twisted street.
Suddenly, the woman turned around, quickly crossed the alley, and disappeared into a corridor on the left.
"Chase!"
Su Lie rushed forward without saying a word. He suspected that the woman was the target of this trip: the dream god Qingluan!
Tianyang also thought of this, because that woman was too normal. In this world, things or people that are too normal seem abnormal.
But when he and his father chased after her, the corridor was quiet and there was no woman there.
Since the corridor was on their left, the two nodded, took steps, and walked into the corridor calmly. It was pitch black in front of them, and they could not see anything, only the sound of their footsteps echoed in their ears.
"Something's not right." Su Lie said, and at the same time his body glowed with silver light. The silver-white light condensed into armor. Even if Su Lie condensed the fighting spirit armor, the light could only illuminate the space less than one meter around them.
But even in such a small space, the two still couldn't see anything, the ground or the walls, but they could feel that they were passing through a relatively narrow passage, and this passage was very long.
Tianyang looked back and saw that it was pitch black behind him and he couldn't see the place where they came in.
At this point, they could only move forward. Fortunately, not long after, they heard faint voices and the sound of wheels rolling quickly on the ground.
"Quick, the patient in bed 3 is having trouble breathing and may need intubation."
"I need help here, the patient is in shock, give me a pacemaker..."
Gradually, they could hear the content of the conversation clearly, and in the light of the fighting spirit, both father and son could see the surprise on each other's faces.
Judging from the conversation, the place ahead seemed to be a hospital, but the place they just came in was obviously a densely populated residential area.
As a clear voice came from the front, a light gradually came on. A moment later, Tianyang saw a woman wearing grass-green clothes and a mask, holding a folder and running past him hurriedly.
Then a man in dark blue clothes and pants with his ID pinned on him pushed a metal bed with four wheels and passed by Tianyang. On the bed lay an elderly man wearing a respirator and gasping loudly.
An old man sitting on a chair in front of him covered his neck and coughed violently, coughing up a little blood from his mouth. The blood drops fell to the ground and actually moved slightly. A few thin things like hair stretched out from it, but they quickly shrank back.
When the old man put down his hands that were covering his neck, Tianyang saw that there was something like a plant rhizome growing on the old man's neck.
Tianyang turned around and looked at the place where they came from. It had become an automatic door. Outside the door was an open space with many vehicles parked.
At this time, a girl's anxious voice sounded outside: "Help, help, doctor, doctor."
A girl of about seventeen or eighteen ran in. She ran too fast and in a panic and fell to the ground. But she ignored the pain and quickly got up.
A male doctor in a white coat helped her up: "Miss, what's wrong with you?"
"No, it's not me. It's my father. Please save him."
The girl pointed outside, and a middle-aged woman walked in, supporting a man wrapped in a bed sheet. The man not only wrapped his body tightly, but even most of his head was covered as well.
The middle-aged couple looked like the girl's parents. From time to time, a yellow-brown liquid dripped from the edge of the man's bed sheet. Suddenly, he started coughing violently, and his wife failed to hold him steady, so the man fell to the ground and rolled around, and the bed sheet opened, exposing his body.
When the doctor saw the man's body on the ground, he suddenly stopped, his eyes full of horror.
No wonder the doctor was scared. The man on the ground had half of his body transformed into a vegetable.
, shoulders and even chest, where roots were tangled, and under his nose, small branches were growing out from under his skin.
Hard branches like horns had already sprouted from the back of his head and his back.
At this moment, there was a movement under his eyelids, and his eyeballs slowly turned upwards, and finally a few thin roots emerged from his eye sockets.
"Guards...Guards!"
The doctor suddenly yelled: "There is a deeply infected person here, clear him out immediately, quickly!"
At this moment, the man whom the doctor called an 'infected person' suddenly jumped up from the ground, knocked the doctor to the ground, and then opened his mouth and coughed.
A cloud of yellow-green mist was coughed out of the man's mouth and sprayed on the doctor's face, causing the doctor to quickly close his eyes. At this time, two guards in biochemical defense suits rushed over. One of them hit the infected person's face with the butt of the gun, knocking him away, and the other dragged the doctor away.
Then the two guards raised their guns at the same time, pointed at the infected person and shot him. They shot directly in the hospital without caring about the impact. The infected person was shot so hard that his whole body trembled, and he kept retreating and fell out of the door.
Only then did the wife scream and try to throw herself at her husband, but was held back by her daughter from behind.
Seeing this scene, Tianyang inexplicably thought of the reverse world bacteria group, but the symptoms and transmission methods of the infected people were not exactly the same.
This might be a plant virus from another world. In that world, will all humans become this kind of "vegetable" in the end
In addition, the current hospital and the previous densely packed buildings obviously belonged to two different worlds, which meant that after they passed through that dark passage, they had actually arrived in another projection world.
This is the true face of the "Endless Maze". It is not a specific maze, but a "maze" connected by countless projection worlds, where it is almost impossible to find the exit.
"Tianyang."
His father's voice rang out, Tianyang looked at him and saw that he was staring straight ahead.
Tianyang turned around and looked. In the passage ahead, behind the people running back and forth, stood a slender woman in a plain robe and holding a black umbrella!
The woman I saw in the previous projection world also appeared in this hospital. This means that she does not belong to any projection world. She can come and go freely in any world. She is very likely the dream god Qingluan!
The woman holding the umbrella turned and walked away, entering an office on the left. Tian Yang and the others immediately followed her in. When they were in the corridor, they could see people coming and going in the office, and the doctors seemed to be discussing the infection outside.
But when Tian Yang and the others walked in, the scene changed. The hospital office disappeared and turned into a tent. There were many instruments in the tent, and several people were standing in front of a screen, watching a dissection video.
It is not difficult to see from the picture that it is a human hand, but after cutting it open, it is found that there are plant roots everywhere...
At this time, a voice came from a corner of the tent: "You are not residents of Xingdu, how did you come to the 'Endless Maze'?"
Tianyang and the other man turned around and saw the woman still standing in the corner of the tent with the umbrella. Her voice was gentle and pleasant, without a trace of hostility, nor any hint of madness or distortion.
Tianyang took a step forward and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"