Zhou Xian did not give Ren Zhifei time to feel sad. When no one was paying attention, he quietly stepped forward and said to the two of them, "Follow me." After that, he walked to the twelfth floor. Ren Zhifei exchanged glances with the old madman and followed him.
Arriving on the twelfth floor, Ren Zhifei discovered that the entire space was completely different from the eleventh floor. The walls of the hall are covered with gear patterns, and the pillar in the center is actually a rectangular clock. There was a man sitting under the swaying pendulum. He had an old face and his eyes were closed. He didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
"Fang Weijiang!" Zhou Xian called the man, but there was no response.
"Who is this person?" Ren Zhifei asked in a low voice.
Zhou Xian replied, "He is the guardian of the death knell, waiting here for your arrival."
"Death knell? Us?" Ren Zhifei was confused.
Fang Weijiang suddenly moved and slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were so cloudy that one almost thought he was blind. In fact, he was not blind. When he opened his eyes, his eyes were already locked on Ren Zhifei and the old madman. Fang Weijiang spoke, "You are finally here."
The old madman couldn't hold himself back and asked, "Do you know us?"
Fang Weijiang shook his head, "I don't know you, but I know your purpose of coming here."
"Purpose?" The old madman rolled his eyes and said, "Tell me, what is the purpose of our coming here?"
Fang Weijiang smiled and said: "Perhaps you yourselves don't know what the purpose of coming here is. After all, the last watchman Li Feng has also disappeared, and you are just a replacement."
"Li Feng! You know Li Feng!" The old madman's tone changed.
Ren Zhifei tried to understand the conversation between the two, but the more he listened, the more confused he became. Fang Weijiang noticed Ren Zhifei and said with a cold smile: "It all starts with a prophecy left by an ancestor. The other prisoners only know part of the prophecy, and only Zhou Xian and I know the whole prophecy."
"Prophecy?" Ren Zhifei remembered that someone did talk about prophecy when he was on the eleventh floor. He also asked Lang Zhijia, but his time in Weilou was too short and he didn't know the content of the prophecy.
The old madman felt that Fang Weijiang's next words were crucial, so he controlled his excitement and gradually calmed down. Fang Weijiang nodded with satisfaction and said: "When the scavenger's action patterns change, it will be the moment when the doomsday knell rings, and everything will be destroyed. These are the prophecies that the prisoners know."
Zhou Xian explained: "The doomsday knell is the bell on the twelfth floor. Once it rings, it means that everything will be destroyed. The prisoners are afraid of this bell, so they will only hide on the twelfth floor. Eleventh floor.”
"Isn't there anyone going to the thirteenth floor?" Ren Zhifei asked subconsciously, remembering that there were thirteen floors in the dangerous building.
"That's a good question." Fang Weijiang said calmly, "This is related to the rest of the prophecy."
"Say it quickly!" The old madman couldn't wait any longer.
Fang Weijiang raised his head and glanced at the big clock, his face changed, "Time is running out, I will tell you everything I know. The person who caused the death knell to ring was none other than the two watchmen who followed the black cat. Who! The black cat will lead them through the maze on the thirteenth floor to the end of the dangerous building and get all the truth."
At this point, Lang Zhijia ran up in panic, "The scavenger has appeared again, and the brothers on the tenth floor can't stop it at all!"
Zhou Xianman looked in disbelief, "Impossible! I have clearly arranged for twice as many people as usual to guard the tenth floor. How could it be possible for just a few scavengers..."
Lang Zhijia said: "The number of scavengers this time is much larger than usual, there seem to be forty or fifty people!"
"What!" Zhou Xian's face became even more ugly, "So the entire army on the tenth floor was wiped out?"
"Not only that!" Lang Zhijia continued: "After they wiped out the tenth floor, they didn't mean to stop, but rushed to the eleventh floor! Now Cheng Qian is leading people to block the corridor, but they can't hold on for long. "
Zhou Xian could no longer stand. Before turning around and leaving, he glanced at Fang Weijiang. Fang Weijiang waved his hand and said, "Go ahead. I'll give them a few final words. I hope it's not too late."
Zhou Xian nodded, took Lang Zhijia three steps at a time and ran downstairs. Then there were chaotic sounds from downstairs, mixed with screams and cries. Ren Zhifei couldn't help but worry when he thought that Lang Zhijia was among them and that he might be in a very dangerous situation.
"You have time to worry about others, why not quickly understand your mission!" Fang Weijiang reminded Ren Zhifei.
"Mission?" Ren Zhifei felt baffled from the moment he heard the prophecy. He only felt that Fang Weijiang's words were too strange and confusing.
Fang Weijiang didn't have the patience to explain, so he just laughed and said, "Do you think your experience can still be explained by common sense?"
Ren Zhifei was silent. The sounds downstairs were getting louder and louder, and they were approaching the corridor.
"In short, you must pass through the maze on the thirteenth floor and go to the end before the sound of the death knell ends. Only when you get there will you gain the authority of the watchers, get the truth and save everything!"
The old madman didn't question anything, he just asked: "If we reach the end of the thirteenth floor, can everything be saved?"
"I can't promise you anything." Fang Weijiang's answer was surprising. "This is just a prophecy that has been passed down. No one can prove its authenticity. But now, do you have any other choice?"
"What do we do now?"
Fang Weijiang glanced above his head and said, "Waiting for the black cat to appear."
At the entrance to the thirteenth floor, Ren Zhifei and the old madman saw a narrow door in front of them.
"Is this the entrance to the maze?" Lang Zhijia asked in a low voice behind him, for fear of alerting the unknown dangers in the maze.
"I think that's right!" Ren Zhifei also replied in a low voice. His eyes fell into the maze door, and the deeper he looked, the darker it became. The maze seemed infinitely vast and far-reaching. In a state of anxiety, Ren Zhifei remembered the previous conversation downstairs.
"The black cat will appear at the entrance of the maze before midnight. All you have to do is follow it closely." Fang Weijiang said slowly, his tone sounding weaker and weaker.
Ren Zhifei still had doubts and asked: "Since you can get out of the maze by following the black cat, why don't you go?"
Fang Weijiang wanted to laugh, but the grin turned into a violent cough. After a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Don't you know? By the way, they are just replacements for the Watchers. You must know that the prisoners are There’s no black cat in sight.”
The old madman recalled the experience of that year and confirmed Fang Weijiang's statement, "Indeed, when I asked the prisoners about the whereabouts of the black cat, no one said they saw the black cat, but the black cat's cry was heard upstairs. appeared on.”
Ren Zhifei looked at the big clock. There was still a little time before midnight. He wanted to use this time to get as much information as possible, so he asked: "What is a watcher?"
Fang Weijiang opened his mouth to speak, but fell to the ground exhausted. Ren Zhifei and the old madman hurriedly stepped forward, but saw that Fang Weijiang could only take in air but not out. Fang Weijiang leaned in the old madman's arms and said weakly: "My mission... completed..."
After saying this last sentence, Fang Weijiang slowly closed his cloudy eyes and lost his breath. Like the erased prisoner, Fang Weijiang's body became transparent and gradually disappeared.
Rapid and chaotic footsteps came from the corridor. Lang Zhijia ran over and said breathlessly: "There are too many scavengers! The eleventh floor has been lost, and everyone is moving to the twelfth floor. "
Almost at the same time, the old madman grabbed Ren Zhifei's hand and pointed upstairs, "Listen."
The familiar cat meowing sounded from above, and even though the surrounding sounds became noisier, the two of them could still hear it very clearly. From the corner of his eye, Ren Zhifei saw the figure of a man in black appearing in the corridor, holding an electric baton and even a pistol, clearing out the few remaining prisoners. Screams came and went, and several more prisoners turned into phantoms and disappeared. The scavenger has broken into the 12th floor!
"We can't help them at all. Now we have no choice but to go to the thirteenth floor!" The old madman couldn't help but said, pulling Ren Zhi and rushing towards the corridor.
Seeing that this place had become a dangerous situation, Ren Zhifei did not want Lang Zhijia to be accidentally accidentally again, so he took him to the thirteenth floor. Just as they were observing the entrance to the maze, the black cat's cry sounded again.