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~Chapter 23: Getting separated
During the second transmission, everyone seemed much calmer. After the cyan light gradually disappeared, An Shui was the first to say: "This room is different from the previous ones."
"Has the level of the trap been increased?" This was the consultant's first reaction.
This room is not big, so it cannot be called a "giant room". It is an ordinary room, about twenty square meters, and the ceiling is more than three meters above the ground.
The consultant's guess was accurate. The trap here was indeed not a mechanical guard, but a more direct attack.
This blow could be described as simple and direct to the extreme, that is, the ceiling at the top of the room was pressed down. If you think the ceiling will slowly lower, you're wrong. Traps such as the closing of walls on both sides, the approach of a giant garden saw, and the lowering of the ceiling. In movies, traps often move slowly after being activated. Those traps cannot be called murder traps at all, but are at best human traps. If you intend to kill people, the faster the trap will run, the better. Have you ever seen the mousetrap take about twenty seconds to slowly close after the cheese on the mousetrap is removed
Therefore, the best trap to really kill someone is to crush the people in the room into meat patties the moment the mechanism is triggered. The design of this room is based on this concept.
The moment the consultant finished asking the question, the ceiling above his head fell down with a roar like a falling object. The only reaction everyone had in time was to lie down, so that they would be crushed a few tenths of a second later.
However, the ceiling could not be pressed down to the bottom in the end. As the saying goes, when the sky falls, there are tall people holding it up. At this moment, everyone in this room finally understood this truth.
An Shui spread his legs and raised his hands high, like Pangu holding up the sky, actually holding up the lowering ceiling.
"After the trap is activated, the teleportation mechanism can be used." Anshui still said in a calm tone: "At my eleven o'clock direction, about six meters away, that handprint, anyone, go and press it ." As he spoke, there were two bangs, and his knees fell heavily to the ground, with a pool of black flesh splashing out from his knees.
Anshui was forced to his knees, and the ceiling naturally lowered accordingly. After the fall, there was still a height of about two meters, but now it has dropped to about half a meter.
Among the four people, the one closest to the handprint mentioned by Anshui was the gunsmith. He knew that Anshui would definitely choose the most correct approach, which was to tell him a plan to get out of trouble, instead of saying nonsense like "I can't stand it for long." Judging from the fact that he only lasted five seconds before kneeling on the ground, it would be too late if he didn't act quickly!
The gunsmith was originally lying on the ground. After hearing this, he did not prepare to get up and move forward at all. Instead, he quickly put his hands by his side and rolled sideways on the ground, quickly rolling towards the handprint symbol.
Facts have proved that his choice was correct, because Anshui's kneeling posture could no longer withstand the force of the ceiling. His legs were bent at a strange angle and became semi-solidified. Fortunately, An Shui reacted quickly and immediately changed his position, lying on the ground, straightening his two arms, leaning his back on the ground, and raising his hands to continue supporting.
At this time, the height of the room was only about one meter, and the other people couldn't stand up even if they wanted to. The gunsmith's movements did not slow down at all. Anyway, there was still room for him to roll on the ground. He had rolled to the side of the handprint symbol and pressed it decisively.
At this second, Anshui's two arms were also crushed, and the ceiling completely lost its resistance and fell downwards. Before it came into contact with the ground, cyan light lit up from the gap.
Naturally, the five people did not turn into meat paste, and they successfully arrived in another room.
Dark Water was lying on the ground, his limbs returning to their original shape at a speed visible to the naked eye. His eyes only showed green light and no pupils, so it was difficult for others to know where he was looking. After the transmission, Dark Water quickly observed the information recorded on the texture on the wall of the new room, and immediately said: "Get off the ground."
This new room is more than three times larger than the previous one, but this room is pyramid-shaped. In a building with this shape, it is almost impossible to climb up the wall inside it without using tools.
But Dark Water had already spoken, and no one dared to stay on the ground for a second longer. They all chose to jump up before talking.
The four people were originally lying on the ground. When they supported their bodies and jumped hard, the black metal floor of the room actually began to liquefy and turned into a semi-solidified solid like a mud swamp. The bag and the rope that had been transported together from the first giant room sank and disappeared.
Dark water is even easier. After this guy's body is liquefied, it is almost the same thing as the liquefied black metal below. In less than two seconds, he melted into it, like a piece of mud falling into the mud. There is no way out at all. Find it.
The remaining four people jumped very high. After all, they were all ability users. They all jumped into the air and almost touched the highest point of the spire in the middle of the room. However, jumping high does not mean that they can stay in the air for a long time, nor can they stay in the air for a long time. It just buys a few more seconds.
Seeing everyone starting to fall under the influence of gravity, and about to fall into the black pool, the black pool below suddenly surged violently, as if it was boiling. Then, the central part of the black pool returned to a solid state, and its influence spread rapidly to the surroundings. The floor of the entire room soon turned into a single black piece.
The four of them all landed safely, stepping on something solid to stand on. They looked at each other, confused about the situation.
"Dark Water must have done something." The consultant was the first to say. He saw that the cyan texture tracks on the ground disappeared and all turned into black, and he thought of this possibility.
"I assimilated part of the metal on the surface of the floor." The dark water rose up from somewhere on the floor without warning like an evil spirit in the water. "But I can't transform the deeper parts in large quantities. The equipment has sunk to the depths and I can’t retrieve it.”
"That's quite troublesome. Where should I put the treasure after I find it?" the gunsmith said.
"Just let Dark Water eat it." The consultant had already come up with the answer, and he immediately said: "If no one is injured, then teleport to the next room."
Anshui had already observed the five fingerprints in this room, pointed at the one high up and said, "That's the one."
"I feel like I'm participating in some kind of lottery, except that the box contains no prizes, but an unknown death threat." Although the gunsmith said this, he still took a deep breath, and then jumped up. Within two seconds of jumping to a high place and staying in the air, he pressed his hand on the symbol.
The blue light still lit up, and it seemed no different from the previous transmissions. But when Vanessa opened her eyes, she found herself in a space slightly smaller than a phone booth. The consultant stood in front of her, almost face to face. , the distance from nose to nose.
"Where are the others?" Vanessa asked.
"You ask me?" the consultant asked.
"What the hell is going on?" Vanessa asked again.
The consultant shrugged, "I'm as surprised as you are."
"Then what's your idea now?"
"First, I suggest we turn around and stand back to back."
Vanessa realized something. After a second, she hit the consultant's nose with her forehead and quickly turned away.
The consultant turned around, holding his nose, and said angrily: "I have a nosebleed."
"You asked for it."
"It's unreasonable." The consultant shook his head and sighed. He was indeed unjust. No matter whether it was physical or psychological, he did not behave in any irregular manner. Just because of this woman's big bust, he was inexplicably hit on the head.
After calming down for a while, Vanessa felt that she had gone too far. She asked, "How are you? You can't die."
The consultant pinched his nose and thought: Of course I can't die, but you will.
But on the surface, he still didn't say anything. He just replied: "Forget it, it's not that uncomfortable anyway. Compared with this, it's better to worry about the trap."
After his reminder, Vanessa replied: "There should be no traps in this space. If there were, it would have been triggered by now more than a minute later. In this situation, if a blade comes out of the wall and cuts us into pieces, , we are certain to die."
"Then let's turn around again. If death is inevitable, I choose to die face to face." The consultant said.
"Believe it or not, I used the back of my head to make your mouth bleed."
"A woman without a sense of humor. Apart from using the one-time killer joke, she has never reacted well to my jokes or made any decent jokes." The consultant said with a heavy nasal voice, and he did not say anything in reply to the other party. Given the opportunity, he immediately changed the conversation to the main topic: "I suspect that the trap this time is suffocating."
Vanessa replied: "How do you know?"
The consultant did not answer, but turned around and said, "Turn around first."
"You..." Before Vanessa could say the next words, the consultant interrupted: "Hurry up, don't waste time."
She originally wanted to say: "What do you want to do?" But she thought about it for two seconds and turned around.
As soon as she turned around, Vanessa discovered that the consultant's face was purple and blue, and the veins in his neck were visible to the naked eye. Her question became: "What's wrong with you?"
The consultant raised his head, looking for handprint symbols everywhere, and replied: "I feel your heartbeat is getting slower and slower, and judging from your current face, you are not far from the stage of muscle failure and incontinence." He Standing on tiptoes, he reached out and casually touched a handprint symbol above their heads.
After the light passed, the two were teleported to another place again. This time it was also a huge room. In the middle of the room, there was a hexagonal platform.
"I heard An Shui say that a house with such facilities should be safe." The consultant's implication was that there were no traps here. After he said that, he opened his mouth and breathed heavily. From what Vanessa had just seen, You could tell by his eyes that his complexion should be similar to Vanessa's at the moment, and he was in urgent need of oxygen.
Since she didn't feel suffocated, Vanessa didn't feel uncomfortable. She just took a few deep breaths and asked, "How did you know you should press the fingerprints on the top of your head in that room just now?"
"I can also bend my knees, squat down slightly, and try to touch the lower handprint." The consultant said sarcastically: "But I think I might still get beaten if I do that."
Vanessa snorted coldly, ignored him, and walked towards the hexagonal platform.
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