Check from west to east.
Pushing open the door of the first room, another puff of dust rushes towards them. Fortunately, Ke Xun and Mu Yiran were already prepared. Voila.
This is an old-fashioned room. The upper part of the wall is painted with white powder, and the lower part is painted with green paint. The walls have been peeled off due to the age, revealing the bricks and cement inside.
The room was filled with old wooden tables and chairs, slumped up and down, covered with thick cobwebs, and the window sash was also an old-fashioned open window with a wooden frame. The glass was covered with ash, making it difficult to see the outside scene through it.
Seeing this, the three girls refused to enter the house, and only stood at the door. Ke Xun and Mu Yi stepped in and searched the house carefully.
He opened the drawer of the wooden table, and there were scattered office supplies in it. Ke Xun searched for a while, but found nothing useful.
There are 20 rooms on each floor. The facilities inside are basically the same. They all look like offices. At the end of the corridor, facing the stairs are two toilets, the men's toilet is on the east, and the women's toilet is in west.
There are also no notable clues in the toilet.
Back in the foyer on the first floor, the first two groups had also returned one after another, and Xu Zhen asked everyone what they had gained.
"There are conference rooms, warehouses, libraries, archives, offices and small canteens on the first floor," Qin Ci said. "There are no clues in the meeting rooms, offices and small canteens. There are many things in the warehouse, library and archives. We I didn't have time to find it, I need help."
Xu Zhen said: "The second floor seems to be the staff dormitory. All rooms have single beds and washstands. No suspicious items or signatures were found. What about the third floor?"
"The entire third floor is an office area, and there is no useful discovery." Ke Xun said.
"Then we might as well go to the warehouse, library and archives on the first floor to find out." Xu Zhen said.
The warehouse is not large, and there are various things in it, including spare office supplies, various instruments, daily necessities, and even food.
"By the way - what are we going to eat here?" Zhang Hanrui suddenly asked, "The food in these refrigerators is too old to be eaten."
"Yeah, we're going to stay here for seven days, this is an abandoned building, where are we going to get food?" The two girlfriends also quickly asked.
Everyone seemed to realize this problem only now, and couldn't help looking at each other.
"The refrigerator is not powered off," Mu Yiran's voice sounded calmly, "The food inside is edible."
"But it's obviously a facility from many years ago," Xu Zhen disagreed. "Even if the refrigerator has never been powered off, the food in it will have already expired."
Mu Yiran glanced at her lightly: "I saw it just now, there are white rice and beans that are vacuum-packed and sealed, below 4.4 degrees Celsius, the shelf life of white rice can reach 30 years, and the same is true for mixed beans. In addition, edible And those jars of pure natural honey on the shelf, as long as they are properly sealed, pure anhydrous honey is the only food that can last forever.”
Xu Zhen was speechless.
"Little brother is really amazing, he knows so much!" The three girls exclaimed in admiration.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and find it!" Xu Zhen looked worried.
The things in the warehouse are messy and messy. After everyone rummaged through it, it was already dark outside.
Cai Xiaoyan went to pull the light rope hanging by the door, but the light could not be turned on. It seemed that all electrical equipment had failed except for the few refrigerators.
"Obviously, the reason why the refrigerator can be used is to provide us with food. This is a deliberate setting of 'painting'." Zhu Haowen said with a blank expression, "and other things can not be used, of course, also to meet the night. The setting for what's going to happen."
"What happens at night?" the girls asked nervously.
Zhu Haowen's face is still expressionless: "A death event that fits the setting and background of the institute will happen."
The girls hugged each other in fright.
The market man Qi Qiang couldn't bear it anymore and threw a thermos to the ground, smashing it into pieces, and said angrily: "I don't care! I want to leave this ghost place! Fuck you!"
Saying that, he strode out of the warehouse, listening to the sound of footsteps and running towards the door of the research institute opposite the hall.
Then there was a loud banging sound of him banging on the door, and after a long time, seeing him rushing back angrily, there was still a hint of surprise on his face: "What's going on?! Why did the door open? Off?!"
"This is the setting of the painting," Qin Ci told him calmly, "We can only stay in the research institute until we find the signature."
"What a fucking shit setting!" Qi Qiang was so angry that he picked up a few washbasins and smashed them at other things on the warehouse shelves.
A few girls screamed and shrank into a ball. The screams made Qi Qiang even more irritable. He grabbed Cai Xiaoyan, who was closest to him, and raised his hand to slap his face hard.
Before the slap could fall, someone grabbed his wrist and stopped him. Qi Qiang turned his head with his eyes wide open, and saw that it was the tall boy with a dick face. Courageous, he pushed away Cai Xiaoyan, whose face turned pale with fright, and slammed his fist at Ke Xun's face, yelling, "You fucking want to die!"
This punch was blocked by Ke Xun's palm as soon as he reached the front. He raised his knee and slammed into Qi Qiang's stomach. Qi Qiang bent down with a cry of pain, and retched with his mouth open.
Ke Xun let go of his hands and patted him on the shoulder, but his face was cold: "Stop it, you scared the girl."
Qi Qiang was speechless for a while, just squatted on the ground with his stomach covered.
Qin Ci couldn't care about the chaos in this room, and was discussing with Mu Yiran: "So far, we have obtained too few clues. According to the past rules, there should be group settings at night, but we still haven't received any similar information. prompt, I think maybe we overlooked something."
According to the rule that everyone must die every night, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for everyone to be in the same closed space.
Mu Yiran pondered: "Since the background of the painting is set in the research institute, then the focus may be related to the project studied here. Through our search on the third floor just now, we can find that this research institute has a Pretty obvious bug."
"What bug?" Wei Dong asked.
"Since this is the research institute," Mu Yiran looked up at the crowd, "Then where is the research room?"
Everyone was shocked. Indeed, in these three floors, there are offices, dormitories, conference rooms, warehouses and even canteens, but there is no research room! Isn't that weird
"Did we miss something?" Xu Zhen frowned and recalled, "No, this building is obviously a flat building, and there can be no corners."
"Will there be a darkroom or something?" Wei Dong said.
Mu Yi shook his head: "No. Ke Xun and I have specially noticed that the distance between the walls and the thickness of the walls of each room are equal to the length of the corridor outside. There is no mezzanine in the secret room."
"Where's the basement?" Ke Xun pointed to his feet.
Everyone looked at each other, turned their heads and walked out.
When I came to the stairs at the end of the corridor, I saw that there were cardboard boxes, tables, chairs and other debris piled up between the stairs and the wall. "We haven't had time to search here," Qin Ci said.
The old members didn't say much, and immediately started to move these piles of debris to one side, and saw a dark red small iron door slowly appearing at the corner of the dark stairs.
"Meow, it's a combination lock." Ke Xun glanced at what looked like a turntable lock on a safe next to the door handle, and tried to pull the door first, but it couldn't be opened.
"Is there a password written next to it?" Zhu Haowen asked.
Ke Xun put his face on it and looked at it, with a cobwebs on his face: "I can't see clearly, it's too dark."
As he said that, he took out his phone from his pocket and turned on the lighting function.
However, he saw that the light from the mobile phone, which was supposed to be white, was now a dim yellow, a bit like the light from an old-fashioned old flashlight, hitting the door in darkness.
Seeing this, Zhu Haowen, who was next to him, also took out his mobile phone and turned it on. Seeing that the light beam was also dim and yellow, he focused on it with the light of Ke Xun's mobile phone, so that he could barely see things clearly.
Several people searched carefully with the light of the mobile phone, but unfortunately nothing was gained, and the pointer of the combination lock stayed at the position of 0.
"Look in the desk drawer of the office," Xu Zhen said, "usually the password will be recorded on some notebooks or pressed under the glass plate of the desktop, or even on the desk calendar."
Qin Ci turned his head to look at the sky outside, then looked at the few newcomers in front of him who could hardly help, and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid it's too late."
"Get out of the way!" Qi Qiang, clutching his stomach, also walked to the entrance of the stairs at some point, fiercely shoved away Deng Guang who was standing in front of him, pushed Wei Dong who was standing by the door again, and pushed him to the front of the door. Suddenly he squatted down, put his ear against the door, and turned the dial of the combination lock with one hand.
"Howl, you're on the road." Wei Dong whispered to Ke Xun.
"I see." Ke Xun wasn't surprised at all, "This person always looks at others sneakily, and he habitually likes to look at other people's pockets. He is a habitual thief."
Wei Dong subconsciously took out his trousers pocket. Seeing that the phone was still there, he was relieved. He took it out and turned it on. He glanced at the time, it was 8:20 in the evening.
Seeing Wei Dong taking out his mobile phone, Zhang Hanrui next to him also took out his own mobile phone. Seeing that there was still no signal, he couldn't help but sighed. Can't even receive the signal of the mobile phone base station in this ghost place? I can't make calls, and I can't get on the V-mail. Except for the time and lighting, all other functions are useless... Well, it's fortunate that the selfie can still be turned on— what-"
The sudden scream startled everyone present. Qi Qiang, who was turning the combination lock, shivered, jumped up and kicked Zhang Hanrui: "What the hell!"
The others stood a little further away, and could not stop him in time. Zhang Hanrui was kicked on the waist by this foot, and he fell out on the spot and fell heavily on the ground.
However, this kick seems to be more serious than what caused Zhang Hanrui to scream. She sat on the ground and threw out her mobile phone. She covered her head and continued to scream desperately. The scream was full of endless panic and panic.
Her two best friends, Li Yaqing and Zhao Youyi, were frightened by her screams, and they hugged each other and did not dare to approach her.
Ke Xun walked to the place where Zhang Hanrui's phone had fallen, bent down to pick it up, and pressed the screen to turn on the screen, but seeing that he needed a gesture password, he had to walk to Zhang Hanrui's side and squat down, patted her on the shoulder: "Sister, stop first, you can do this again. If you call, I'm afraid something strange will come out."
Zhang Hanrui suddenly stopped and plunged into Ke Xun's arms frantically and couldn't stop shaking.
Ke Xun held her shoulders and asked her as gently as possible: "Sister, tell me, what did you see on your phone just now?"
Zhang Hanrui shrank, her long hair covering half of her face, which made her eyes look extraordinarily dark, she trembled with her lips that looked gray in the dim light, and pointed to the phone in Ke Xun's hand: "You... You turn on the camera function... take a look."