Ke Xun stood up, clicked on his mobile phone, and called up the camera function.
The camera is in selfie mode by default. The first thing to appear on the screen is his own face. Maybe because of the dim light, the whole face is bluish-gray, and the black eyeballs are so large that they almost cover all the whites of the eyes. It made the eyes look extra hollow and dark, and the lips were bloodless, like a dehydrated patient who had been dry for a long time, with gray and wrinkled color lines.
Ke Xun clicked on the camera switch, the front camera was switched to the rear, and then with a "fuck" sound, the phone flew out with a shake of his hand. Mu Yiran, who was a few steps away, quickly caught it and grabbed it. In his hand, he looked at the screen in a shooting posture.
"What, what's wrong?" Wei Dong asked Ke Xun hesitantly.
"...It's okay." Ke Xun wiped the cold sweat from his palms on his trousers, "I'm so handsome by myself."
Wei Dong did not dare to ask again after hearing this.
Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen next to them silently turned on the camera function in their mobile phones. Despite Zhang Hanrui and Ke Xun's lessons learned, after seeing the picture in the camera, the two still shook their hands uncontrollably, and then silently He put the phone back in his pocket.
But the newcomers obviously didn't have such determination, Xu Zhen also took out the phone, and after taking a look, she screamed out of control and threw the phone to the ground.
"What is that?! What is that?!" No matter how calm the OL, after seeing such a scene with his own eyes, it is difficult to keep calm and calm. He turned around and grabbed the arm of Mu Yiran, who was closest to her, and his fingers were frightened. cold.
"As you can see." Mu Yiran avoided her scratching expressionlessly, took a few steps over, and handed the phone back to Ke Xun.
The camera function of the mobile phone has not been turned off, and the gray picture is displayed in front of you.
It's still the corridor in front of you, the rooms with doors facing each other, and the cluttered corner of the stairs. It should be empty, but in the camera at this moment, there are people who are thin, pale, and expressionless. .
These people, dressed in empty and fat gray and white clothes, stood in every corner, looking expressionlessly in the direction of the crowd. Their faces were gray and thin, like dry and withered tree bark, and their lips were gray and wrinkled. The dead skin, the black hole-like eyes looked at this indifferently, like a block of human-shaped tombstones.
However, if you look away from the phone screen and look straight ahead, but there is nothing in front of you, you can only see these gray and dead people from the camera.
Ke Xun looked away from the screen of his mobile phone and pulled Wei Dong.
Because there is a person standing in front of him on the screen, and the dark eyes are staring at his eyes.
The newcomers were frightened, and Qi Qiang awkwardly looked away from the screen of his mobile phone, and looked at the old members: "What the fuck... how can I do this?"
At this moment, Qi Qiang finally believed Qin Ci's words, and the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.
"Continue to open the door." Mu Yiran's calm and still voice made Qi Qiang regain his composure, and put it on the iron door again to try the door code.
Before Ke Xun crossed out the camera function, he saw seven or eight gray-white figures standing in front of the iron gate, as if they were watching Qi Qiang.
Qin Ci walked to Mu Yiran's side, lowered his voice and said, "What do these 'people' do? Why are they here?"
Mu Yiran raised his eyes and looked at the void, as if he was looking at the "people" who only existed in the dark: "Maybe it's the staff of the research institute, they are wearing the same clothes."
"No, it's not exactly the same." It was Ke Xun who answered the question, Mu Yi looked over and saw him pointing to the position of his left chest, "In this place on their shirts, there is a set of numbers, each person's number. It's all different."
Mu Yiran's eyes moved slightly: "Are you sure?"
"Trust me, my eyesight is very good." Ke Xun said.
Qin Ci wanted to say that if he was unsure, he could turn on the camera function of his mobile phone to take a look, but Mu Yiran seemed to trust Ke Xun's vision so easily, and didn't mean to take out his mobile phone for verification.
"What do these numbers represent, job number?" Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun.
"Maybe," Ke Xun said, "the way these numbers are formed is a combination of a letter starting with a horizontal bar and a number, such as A-013. I glanced at it just now, and the first letter is A, B, C and D. There may be more, but I didn't take a closer look."
"Could these numbers be clues?" Xu Zhen tried her best to calm down her frightened mood, her voice still trembling.
Qin Ci nodded: "Yes, but the specific direction of this clue needs further verification."
While speaking, Qi Qiang let out a low growl: "Open!"
The door lock of the iron door made a "click" sound, as if there was a huge finger, which flexed violently and then popped out, and the fingernail hit the hearts of everyone.
Qi Qiang didn't open the door immediately, but just stood up and looked at the old members with a gloomy expression: "Next, do you want to enter?"
"Come in." Mu Yiran said lightly without any hesitation.
Just as he was about to walk over, Ke Xun grabbed his arm: "Wait a minute, let's take a look first." He raised his phone and activated the camera function again.
In the picture, a few gray figures were still surrounding the door, motionless.
Ke Xun suddenly felt that these people in the corridor might not be looking at the outsiders who broke into it. They were staring at this door motionlessly.
Mu Yiran walked over and held the door handle. The girls were so frightened that they screamed and asked for shelter. Since Ke Xun was holding his phone, Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen were standing by the door. So they swarmed and hugged Wei Dong, the only old member who had nothing to do.
Weidong: … The peach blossoms came too fast like a tornado, but I am neither moved nor dared to move at the moment.
Mu Yiran used a slight force in her hand to pull open the thick and cold iron door.
The screen of Ke Xun's mobile phone was suddenly filled with dense gray and thin faces, and the small door was crowded with people.
Or rather, crowded with such faces.
From the door beam to the threshold, every gap was squeezed by their faces, and their bodies could hardly be seen. They seemed to be scrambling to climb over, trying to escape from the door, and raked along the door frame. His thin, gray fingers were so strong that the bones protruded so sharply that they almost burst the skin.
Ke Xun's scalp went numb.
It's not just because of the crowded faces in the door frame, but because the mouths on these faces are desperately open, like bottomless black holes, open to the extreme that ordinary people can't do, and they can't see in the black holes. Teeth and tongue, only endless black, and screaming screams if there is substance.
Ke Xun removed the phone, took a deep breath, and suddenly moved the phone to the corridor behind him.
In the picture, those gray figures who stood indifferently in all corners and looked towards this side just now, like the people inside the door, desperately opened their black mouths, such mouths embedded in their gray and expressionless. His face, embedded in the dusty corridor, looked more distinct, dark, and terrifying.
Ke Xun was frightened by the giant mouth full of black holes, rubbed the goose bumps that suddenly appeared on his arms, followed behind Mu Yiran and walked into the iron gate.
There was no one in the door as far as the naked eye could see. The entrance was a counter similar to the front desk. Next to the counter was a narrow staircase leading to the underground. The entrance of the staircase was blocked by an iron gate, and the steps inside the door gradually descended. It also gradually sank into the deep darkness, making it impossible to see what was at the end of the stairs.
Mu Yiran turned on the lighting of his mobile phone, and searched on the iron fence door, but did not find any manual locks or combination locks.
"The door is an organ or electronic control." Mu Yi turned his head and rummaged on the counter at the front desk. Qin Ci, Zhu Haowen and Ke Xun stepped forward to help. Among the few newcomers, only Qi Qiang and Xu Zhen stepped into the door, Huang Pi stood outside the door, staring gloomily and calmly at the people inside.
Wei Dong was stumped by the girls and held a group outside the door to strengthen his courage. Deng Guang shrank even more, almost burying himself in the pile of debris next to him.
The few people inside the door didn't spend much time and found a machine covered with dusty spider webs in the corner of the counter. On the diamond-shaped metal plate, the words "Number Picker" were written.
"No." Ke Xun looked at several people, and everyone exchanged glances.
"Don't rush to get it, we need to make arrangements." Qin Ci said, looking up at Mu Yiran, "What do you think of this number taking machine?"
"We're not sure how and how it will assign numbers to us," Mu Yi sank his eyes. "We can only try it out with four people first, and look at the pattern of the first four numbers."
"So which four will come first?" Qin Ci asked.
"I don't recommend that all the old members come." Xu Zhen, who has been listening in, couldn't help but answer, "It's best to have both new and old members, as well as men and women, so that you can try out more patterns."
"I agree." Qin Ci said, "So, who is the old member?"
"Me." Ke Xun came over, and without waiting for everyone's reaction, he reached out and pressed the button on the number taking machine. He heard a "click", and a business card popped out from the card-like exit above the machine. The size of the cardboard card, Ke Xun held in his hand, glanced at the light of the mobile phone, it said: A-182.
Seeing that several other people were looking at him silently, Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "What?"
Zhu Haowen looked at him and said calmly, "When you are uncertain about the risks, you are always ahead."
"... So," Ke Xun put his hand on his shoulder, "Are you praising me for being brave?"
Zhu Haowen lowered his eyelids and did not answer.
Qin Ci suddenly smiled beside him: "You made our prudence hesitate, it looks timid and selfish."
"Don't, I don't have such a high level of consciousness," Ke Xun fiddled with the card in his hand between his two fingers, "I'm just used to it. In the past, when I participated in the competition, the first person to appear was the most stressed and the most responsible. I've always been in this position as captain."
Mu Yiran suddenly said, "Hurry up."
Saying that, he reached out his hand, but Ke Xun couldn't stop it.
A-183, Mu Yiran's card number is linked to Ke Xun.