Going up the narrow stairs,
The sense of oppression brought by this threshold space is still very strong. After walking about ten floors, both William and Catherine felt a little uncomfortable, as if there was a pressure on their hearts.
But he still gritted his teeth and continued to climb, but after walking up thirty floors he still couldn't reach the roof.
"It's so frustrating!"
William couldn't help but swear. If he were in his normal state, he could quickly penetrate the current stairs and find out the problem with his epileptic brain alone, but now he could do nothing.
“Hahaha~” Catherine covered her black lips and couldn’t help laughing, “You also have moments like this, William~ Seeing you like this, this nightmare trip is really worth it.
What do you do if you can’t get out of the stairs?”
"This way."
William retreated directly to the stairwell and returned to the original passage.
By observing similar wards along the way and seeing the ward with the iron door slightly open and the statue smashed, it was confirmed that the two people's floors had never changed.
The two spent more than ten minutes just marking time.
“There’s something wrong with the stairs, but there’s something else that’s strange.
The female doctor clearly said that the "Level 3 alert" had been activated, and logically, surveillance in all areas would be strengthened, but we walked around the stairwell for half an hour and no one came to find us. "
William had no choice but to look to the other side of the passage, which was also the only option at the moment - the "elevator".
But modern equipment like elevators must be full of surveillance cameras, and once the two people enter, they may be trapped.
"However, we can choose not to take the elevator and instead climb up along the elevator shaft."
After saying that, he quickly walked to the elevator entrance. William forced the elevator door open, and the elevator shaft with metal cables hanging down was right in front of him.
When William tried to look down, the elevator car about ten floors below blocked his view, and he was unable to see what was going on deeper.
When I looked up at the top, I couldn't see the end at all, it was pitch black.
"How tall is this hospital?"
William jumped into the elevator shaft and climbed up along the central steel cable.
Catherine used her octopus legs to easily climb the wall, and her speed was naturally much faster.
"Can you do it, William? Hurry up!"
The two climbed nearly twenty floors, but when they looked up, it was still pitch black.
William stopped wasting energy, turned around, opened the elevator door and returned to the floor corridor. Sure enough... it was still the original floor, which meant that he could not leave the current floor whether he took the elevator or the stairs.
Some unknown ability creates the effect of "ghost wall".
Although he did not have the effect of epilepsy, William's thinking ability was not weak. He leaned against the wall and thought quickly.
“No matter what I do, I can’t leave the current floor. The stairs and elevators that seem to exist cannot fulfill their functions.
However, it seems that the hospital's relevant personnel are unable to reach the current floor, otherwise, during the time we were wandering here, hospital staff would have come to arrest us.
In other words, this layer is "locked".
Can neither go out nor come in.
Who blocked it
According to the female doctor, she will track Catherine and me throughout the hospital. If they block the area from the outside, they can't get in, and can't conduct various investigations and patient management, which is completely unnecessary.
In this case, there is only one possibility.”
William clasped his five fingers on his face and looked through the gaps between his fingers at the current corridor and the various wards arranged in this corridor.
"A patient has blocked our floor, or has used some method to prevent us from moving vertically. We need to find him."
By the time William came to this conclusion, Catherine had already taken action.
She walked through each ward in turn and sniffed the odor at the window near the door, and soon she had the answer.
"William, found it! This should be the guy."
Catherine always kept an eye on things.
Every staircase she walked down or elevator shaft she climbed through was left with a strong smell of tentacle slime.
If someone deliberately manipulates the 'spatial structure' of stairs or elevators to prevent them from leaving, they will inevitably be contaminated by the smell.
William also smelled a deep sea stench when he approached, "Smell? Catherine, you are quite smart."
"The method of duplicating the threshold space to achieve an infinite loop and trapping the opponent for a short period of time is something I often used when creating nightmares. It couldn't be simpler.
Now that I have found the culprit, I can finally try the feeling of killing people in this world."
The tentacles unlocked the iron door and pushed it open.
The two men saw a dark ward in front of them, with only the red candles on the shrine providing light, which was also a pale red glow.
The patient imprisoned here is a little girl, at least from the back, she is between 8 and 10 years old, wearing a long red skirt and black hair falling on her shoulders.
She stood straight in front of the shrine, gazing at the statue, with her back to the door.
A spear-like tentacle had grown out of Catherine's right arm, intending to pierce the little girl directly.
"Wait, Katherine!"
William grabbed it and blocked the attack.
"What are you doing?"
"I didn't sense any killing intent, and your direct attack just now could be dangerous... Let me do it."
In fact, Catherine herself also felt a sense of inexplicable danger. Since William took the initiative to volunteer, she gave up her position.
"Please come in, Mr. William. Who told you to be the chief?"
William and Catherine swapped positions.
He did not touch the little girl directly, but stood two meters away to negotiate.
"Since you have the ability to tamper with the stairs and elevators and prevent us from going to other floors, you should also be able to inform the outside world of our situation here and have the doctor arrest us, right
Why not do this? If you make a contribution, the hospital will probably reward you, right
Or do you mean no harm to yourself?"
Ka~ka~
A strange sound came from the front of the little girl, and she began to slowly raise her head. The sound was exactly the sound of her cervical vertebrae folding.
He kept leaning back, even his throat was torn apart, until he leaned back 180 degrees, with his head hanging upside down, facing the two people at the door.
Looking at the appearance of the 'little girl', both William and Catherine were stunned for a moment.
No face, or the whole face has been removed.
A constantly rotating "flesh and blood Rubik's Cube" is embedded in the little girl's face. It seems that it is this Rubik's Cube that is constantly affecting the stairs and elevator shaft, forming the effect of a ghost wall.
However, the little girl was unable to speak, and tilting her head back seemed to be the only movement she could do.
Moreover, the Rubik's Cube embedded in her face was still bleeding, and it seemed to be quite painful.
It was obvious that she was also suppressed by the statue. The reason why she prevented William and the other man from leaving was that she hoped they would find this place and help her destroy the statue and gain her freedom.
William took a step to the side of the shrine.
At this time, Catherine's voice came: "Hey! It's not easy to be a good person. Once you are bitten back, you might die directly. William, you have to think it through."
William did not respond, but smashed the shrine and the statue to pieces with one punch.
In an instant, the flesh cube on the little girl's face stopped bleeding, and her whole body quickly recovered.
He even constructed a mouth in the middle of the Rubik's Cube, "Thank you~ There are actually people who can break the influence of 'God' on their own, you are really amazing.
Please follow me, the hospital is currently under lockdown, I will do my best to get you out."
"May I have your name."
"Just call me Fangfang..."