On the third floor, Chen Hai huddled in a corner with an urn in his arms. With each floor he went up, he felt a sense of increasing chaos. If most people on the first floor still held on to the most basic humanity and did not kill people cruelly, things seemed to change all of a sudden when they reached the third floor. The speed of change was beyond Chen Hai's expectations.
Puff~ Hearing the sound of blood spurting out not far away, Chen Hai shuddered and dared not make a sound.
"Hmm~ Another heart, that's great." Nie Yu held the heart he had just taken out of the chest of an acquaintance in his hand, as if he was kneading a piece of plasticine. What's even more terrible is that the heart was still beating in his hand, giving people the feeling that if he put the heart back now, the person could still live.
"Where is your cursed object? Hand it over so that you can die more quickly." Nie Yu squatted down and said to Lu Yi who was twisting on the ground like a maggot.
"You want it?" A smile suddenly appeared on Lu Yi's painful face. "In the hands of another you, I have already imagined that your heart was grabbed out, and then... ah!"
Nie Yu squeezed the red jumping animal in his hand into a ball, as if he was very dissatisfied with Lu Yi who was still stubborn even though she was about to die. He stretched out his hand to grab her hair and began to drag her. "There is still a lot of time. I hope you will always be so energetic."
Chen Hai watched Nie Yu walk slowly past the fork in the road not far from him, and his heart was tightening. These cursed objects were not something he could deal with at the moment.
Fortunately, Nie Yu seemed not to notice him and walked over step by step.
"What luck! There is still one here." The moment Chen Hai breathed a sigh of relief, Nie Yu's head suddenly appeared at the fork in the road, looking in the direction of Chen Hai. The smile on the corner of his mouth was the greatest evil in the world, and his eyes seemed to be looking at a beating heart.
Chen Hai's whole body tensed up and he entered combat mode. The equipment on his feet was activated directly and the map in his mind became clearer.
The road ahead was blocked and there was no way to rush through. The projection of the surrounding walls on the map also began to distort. It seemed that the controlled ghost had entered the wall.
Just as Chen Hai was thinking, an arm came out from the wall and went straight for his heart. Relying on his agility and flexibility that was far superior to that of a normal person, Chen Hai dodged the first attack with a leapfrog move, then used his legs to rush out sideways.
At the moment of crisis, Chen Hai’s mind was very clear. He had no other choice. There was only one way to go, and that was to go up to the fourth floor!
However, this seemed to be a hole left intentionally by the other party, similar to the siege of a city with three sides left and one missing. Although he didn't understand the reason for doing so, Chen Hai had no time to think about it.
The internal force in his body reached its limit, and he turned into a shadow, running all the way from the stairs to the fourth floor.
"Huff, huff..." Chen Hai exhaled a few times and hid in a corner of the stairwell. Just as he had guessed, Nie Yu did not catch up with him.
However, he had just escaped from the tiger's den and entered a wolf's lair. The danger and chaos on the fourth floor should be more exaggerated than the third floor. Under the rule that this floor can only go up but not down, Chen Hai, who had completed the last flight of stairs, could only accept the reality.
Crunch, crunch, a strange chewing sound slowly came into Chen Hai's ears. He was frightened and twisted his body, but this time his luck seemed to have run out, and the chewing sound was getting closer and closer.
At the same time, Lin Zhengying, who had been wandering around on the first floor for a long time and had not come up with a suitable way to inform himself in the later timeline, was now standing on the stairs leading to the second floor. The environment on the first floor had become increasingly worse with the passage of time, and his range of activities had been suppressed to a very small size.
In Lin Zhengying's perception, every position on the first floor seemed to have been filled by his later "self". If he was not careful, the rule would be triggered, causing his internal organs to begin to distort.
"Well... do we have to go upstairs?" Lin Zhengying stood at the door and glanced at the fourth floor from afar. Why did this place force them all to the top floor
Lin Zhengying, who was thinking, suddenly felt a pain in his chest. The person behind him was gradually approaching where he was.
With a turn of his head, his Taoist robe rustled in the breeze, and Lin Zhengying stepped onto the stairs leading to the upper floor. However, unlike the others, his destination this time was not the second floor, but the fourth floor.
Judging from the current situation, no matter where you stay for a long time, the scene will slowly become like that on the first floor. People in the previous timeline will inevitably have to keep going up under the pressure of themselves in the back. So instead of reaching the fourth floor bit by bit, it would be better to just go up and be done with it.
Of course, this rule can be circumvented. That is, as long as you are no longer yourself, it is enough. Whether it is Nie Yu or Lu Yi, those who possess cursed objects all do this. They kill madly, killing all living things they can see, and then integrate the souls of those living things into their own bodies.
As the number of souls integrated increases, they will slowly become different from before, and the binding force of the rules will become much smaller. Of course, this method is not without cost. The cost is that once it starts, it cannot be stopped. Only by constantly absorbing other souls can the difference between oneself and the previous self continue to expand. Otherwise, the previous self will also increase.
Another way to avoid it is much simpler, which is to kill yourself. Although it is difficult to kill yourself directly due to the restrictions of the rules, as long as you want, you can still think of a way.
Going up all the way, as if piercing through layer of thin film, Lin Zhengying's figure flashed quickly through the second and third floors, and in a few seconds he reached the fourth floor.
As soon as he reached the stairs, Lin Zhengying saw a figure flying backwards past him. With the help of his powerful dynamic vision, he found that the figure was Chen Hai, whom he had been looking for for a long time on the first floor.
Boom! With a loud noise, a real monster smashed the wall directly, and then drilled in little by little from the gap.
It had a body more than two meters tall, with four or five deformed arms and several mouths on its arms. The fangs in these mouths were constantly opening and closing, as if craving for food. In addition, on the top of that thing that could barely be considered a head, several mouths only a few centimeters apart were fighting for something. From the appearance, it looked like a hand.
Chen Hai, who had caused a crack in the wall, fell to the ground. The physical pain was nothing, and the desolation of the desperate situation was what concerned him now.
There is an invincible monster right in front of him, and Lin Zhengying who has been chasing him for profit on the side. Chen Hai feels that he really has no way to escape. Although Lin Zhengying is now confronting the monster, Chen Hai knows one thing very well, that is, when gods fight, mortals suffer.
As the despair in his heart grew deeper, the urn in Chen Hai's arms began to emit a faint light.
The sound of the Taoist robe being blown away by the air reached Chen Hai's ears as he lowered his head. Then he felt the touch of clothes on his head. Looking up, Chen Hai discovered that Lin Zhengying was only wearing a single piece of clothing, while he was wearing the Taoist robe that the other party had thrown at him.
"Run! Just run!"
Lin Zhengying's words made Chen Hai feel extremely incredible, and at the same time, new hope emerged in his heart. Driven by this hope, he believed in this Taoist priest who radiated light, just like before he came to the unfinished building.
Wrapping the Taoist robe around himself, Chen Hai lowered his body and rushed towards the big hole that was hammered out with his head covered.
Lin Zhengying also launched an attack on the monster at the right time. A complicated talisman jumped out from the flat crown on his head and was directly imprinted on the monster's body. It exploded instantly, widening the hole for Chen Hai to escape a little bit.
Roar! The monster was completely enraged by Lin Zhengying's attack and let out a roar that was completely unlike that of a human. It shook its huge body and began to attack the surroundings indiscriminately.
Bang! A palm slapped heavily on Chen Hai's body. Before he felt the pain, his Taoist robe swelled up without wind, wrapping Chen Hai like a big balloon.
The monster seemed to become even angrier when it found that its attack was completely ineffective. The mouth on its palm expanded wildly, until it seemed to have swallowed its arm.
Crack! Multiple rows of sharp fangs bit into the Bagua formation that appeared on the surface of the Taoist robe, and the fangs shattered directly.
At this moment, Lin Zhengying made a sudden thrust and cut off all three hands closest to Chen Hai, widening the gap. The smelly black blood sprayed on the Taoist robe, making the Bagua formation on the robe shaky. Seeing this, Lin Zhengying at the back made a simple seal with his hand, and the Bagua formation glowed again, protecting Chen Hai as he rushed out.
After Chen Hai was out of danger, Lin Zhengying breathed a sigh of relief and continued to fight with the monster in front of him. The opponent's body was not very hard. No, it could not be said to be hard. It should be said that with the damage of the peach wood sword against evil creatures, the opponent's body was as easy to cut as a piece of cake. The effect of the talisman was also very good. As long as it was a talisman that could ward off evil spirits and destroy demons, it could easily make a big hole on the opponent's body.
It's just that the opponent's huge body combined with the excessive recovery speed had too good an effect. Every time an arm was cut off, a second and a third would soon grow out of the wound. Fortunately, these new arms would sometimes fight with each other, otherwise Lin Zhengying's current condition would be even more dangerous.
After all, he gave the most important piece of equipment, the Bagua Robe, to Chen Hai. From a certain perspective, it was a bit of a waste. Chen Hai was not proficient in Taoism and had no magic power. The Bagua Robe was extremely weak in his hands and was easily destroyed. However, in the situation just now, Lin Zhengying gave the clothes to Chen Hai without even thinking about it.
Huh~ The wind from the monster's slap dyed Lin Zhengying's shirt black. This defensive equipment was not very effective in facing such a strong enemy. After the equipment was damaged, Lin Zhengying would really have to fight naked. At that time, if he was slapped, he would probably be in danger.
After taking a quick look at the space behind him, Lin Zhengying discovered another problem, that is, the space in the stairwell was too small. There was already little room to dodge and move, and it became even less under the pressure of the monsters. If this continued, a head-on fight seemed inevitable.
While Lin Zhengying was worrying about what to do, Chen Hai, who had rushed out, took a few breaths, and after his eyesight was barely cleared up, he quickly stood up.
Chen Hai really wanted to help Lin Zhengying, but after comparing his small palm with the monster's huge body, he had to admit that he would only be a hindrance if he went over there. Although the opponent's body defense was not strong, his size was there. His Jingtao Palm would be like scraping on the opponent's body, and the Taoist robe on his body had become tattered because it no longer had Lin Zhengying's magic power.
That's right! Chen Hai's eyes lit up, and he came up with a solution.
He picked up the urn on the ground with one hand and clenched his hands. The map of the fourth floor quickly appeared in his mind. With his urgent mood and extremely concentrated spirit, the map was opened up very quickly.
After a while, he found his target. It was another self, another self who had never obtained the urn but reached the fourth floor. From the description on the map, the other self had what he wanted.
After finding the target, Chen Hai used the map in his mind and ran towards that direction. As the distance got closer, Chen Hai felt his internal organs begin to twist. His timeline was actually in front of the target. However, this was also good as it would not scare the other party away.
Enduring the severe pain and using his inner strength to support himself to the limit, Chen Hai picked up stones on the ground and began to smash them against the iron railings regularly, making crisp sounds that spread in all directions.
"Leave-the-box-"
This is an original ancient code taught in the law class of Handong Province. It was a tool used by the cryptography teacher at the time to arouse their interest, but now it has become the only way of contact that Chen Haineng can try.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Soon, a response came from a distance. After giving the response, the other party quickly retreated. The people who reached the fourth floor had basically figured out some of the rules of this broken place.
After the severe pain subsided, Chen Hai spat out a mouthful of blood and then rushed towards his destination quickly.
Not only was there the black suitcase, but on top of the suitcase there was also a gun with the safety on. The other Chen Hai had left behind all his life-saving items without reservation.
Picking up the box in one hand, Chen Hai rushed out. When he rushed to the corridor, he found that he was surrounded. All of them were attracted by the noises just now.
After hesitating for less than a second, Chen Hai raised the urn in his hand. The attention of both humans and ghosts was drawn to his hand by his action.
After shaking it twice, Chen Hai threw the urn out with force, then he picked up the suitcase and rushed forward wrapped in a tattered Taoist robe.
Dong~ After the urn fell to the ground, Chen Hai's figure seemed to disappear from the eyes of other people and ghosts. No one paid attention to him anymore. The urn was the most important thing.
This is the result Chen Hai wanted. It’s a pity, but it’s definitely not a loss!