The apartment was on the fifteenth floor. One of the men was guarding the elevator entrance. Once he spotted someone coming, he would immediately notify the other two.
Lu Yanli and Zhuang Ci entered the room smoothly, walked through the living room, and found a familiar picture album open on the table.
That picture album was created by him.
"Eh, ..." Zhuang Ci also found the album, carefully flipped through a few pages, and turned to look at Lu Yanli with a look of surprise, "You should have an impression, right?"
She remembered Lin Chu's warning and did not tell him that they found an identical album with Yu Huaiyao's body. But judging from Lin Chu's expression, this album should be the one he drew.
It's strange, why was Lu Yanli brought to a different world when he saw the picture album in the psychic town? No strange abilities have been detected in the picture album itself, so who brought it
Moreover, they found that one album from Yu Huaiyao was stained with blood, but the other was clean. Either they were not the same album, or... someone brought the album into another time and space and then took it back.
The two sides had unequal information. The album that Lu Yanli had found in the library had been lost a long time ago. He thought that the one on the table now was the one that he had redrawn halfway and was taken away by his future self. But now, he still had a redrawn album with him.
There are three books in total.
So, why would I draw an atlas in the future? What exactly is this atlas used for
Is it to record a story
The two of them fell into silence, each with their own thoughts, but also with their own hidden agenda, unwilling to reveal the information they knew to each other.
This was exactly what Lu Yanli had expected in the future.
He is suspicious by nature, and his collaborations are always short-lived, so he would never reveal important information easily. This is both his biggest disadvantage and his only advantage when facing his past self after gaining more information.
Lu Yanli had to guarantee that he would follow the route he had preset.
At this moment, Lu Yanli and Lin Chu, who came from an unknown time and space in the future, were walking in a psychic town after a major disaster.
The psychic town is the place where he conducts experiments and where he looks for the intersection between the inner and outer worlds.
The outside world of the research institute, Lu Yanli called it the surface world, and he called his own outside world the inner world.
According to several tomb raiders, the weirdness in the inner world was caused by the invasion of the Erdai Kingdom from another time and space brought by the strange statue many years ago. The strange things came from the research institute in the surface world, who researched out many strange things for unknown reasons.
Because of the characteristics of the deity, in addition to the inner world itself, more and more worlds are constantly created. The problem of the inner and outer worlds is like the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect.
Lu Yanli wanted to break the cycle, so he used the statue to make a wish and opened up an independent space, and then used the Pisces jade pendant to copy the space.
Now, their current location is a replica of the psychic town space. He introduced the statue's body, implanted corrosive green spores, and intercepted the face of a man who could slow down everything in the tunnel...
He had done this experiment many times, but all of them failed except one.
Every time he fails, he must use the statue again to escape from the psychic town copy space that has become a ruin. And this time...
Lu Yanli was sitting in the shop. He knew that Lin Chu, who was hiding next door, would not come over.
In front of him, on the ground, a little boy fainted.
She looks exactly like Lin Chu who is hiding next door!
The Pisces Jade Pendant creates replicas that will be constantly attracted to the original body. Lu Yanli has already created several replicas, erased their memories of being replicas, and let them go to the outside world.
Lu Yanli had one purpose here, which was to trap the original Lin Chu and let the copy go to the outside world to complete the task, and then return following the attraction to the original.
After a while, the girl's eyelids kept struggling and twitching, and she looked like she was about to wake up. Lu Yanli lowered his eyes and let her struggle.
“… you are in a tunnel… you have to keep going forward, and when you see the light, remember to go…”
Lin Chu was half asleep and half awake when she heard a soft male voice. The voice sounded like a dream and made her stand up unconsciously. Lin Chu vaguely felt that she had opened her eyes and she saw a pair of dark eyes that seemed to be able to shine into the depths of her heart.
"I... I am confused..."
The boy walked out in a daze.
She didn't know that she had summoned a clone from the future. She forgot what happened in the future. She only remembered that she and Lu Yanli and others walked out of the tunnel against the psychic town. Now she was still in the dark.
"Very good... Remember your mission..."
Lu Yanli let her continue to be unconscious, made a wish with the statue, and sent her to the tunnel that was originally the psychic town.
With Lin Chu's determination, if he had not planted the seeds of obedience in her heart since she was a child, he might not have been able to hypnotize her so smoothly when she grew up.
It seemed like a very long time had passed. In the long and dark tunnel, Lin Chu leaned against the wall and suddenly opened his eyes!
she…
Lin Chu shook her head and felt dizzy. She didn't know what she had just seen, and she lost consciousness for a short time. This made her feel very uneasy, so she quickened her pace and walked forward.
She didn't know that she had already taken a different path from Zhuang Ci and others.
At this moment, inside the apartment building, Zhuang Ci was flipping through the album, maintaining his composure on the surface, but his heart could not calm down for a long time.
Lu Yanli made another discovery.
There seems to be something in the gap of the closet door...
"Zhuang Ci." He didn't intend to do it himself, so he stopped the man who was flipping through the picture album, "There's something wrong with the closet."
There seemed to be whirlpools in his pair of dark eyes. He stared into their eyes and said, "Don't you want to go and take a look?"
Zhuang Ci looked into those eyes and somehow felt very familiar with them. She thought what he said made sense, so she put her head down and turned to walk towards the closet.
Lu Yanli took the opportunity to step forward, exchanged the picture album he brought with him for the one on the table, and turned around to look.
Zhuang Ci opened the wardrobe, revealing a small red statue of a deity.
It's this again...
Zhuang Ci consciously wanted to destroy the statue, but before she could take out the fluorescent green spores, she was stopped by Lu Yanli.
"You saw nothing after you opened the closet... Did you remember that?" Lu Yanli's voice was very gentle. He had a dagger hidden in his palm, pressing it against the carotid artery on Zhuang Ci's neck.
He is very wary of those people from outside. If hypnosis is unsuccessful, he will choose to eliminate those people as soon as possible.
Fortunately, he succeeded again. Zhuang Ci nodded in a daze, and after snapping her fingers, she looked at the empty closet with a dazed look on her face.
"There's nothing in the closet. Could it be that you saw it wrong?"
Lu Yanli had already arrived at the door: "Maybe."
"Although I'm afraid of alarming them, but... let's alarm them. I need to take this album away." Zhuang Ci briefly explained to Lu Yanli and put the album close to him.
They quickly searched the room again, made sure nothing suspicious was found, and immediately left the place.
The other person was still standing outside the elevator door, leaning against the wall and seemingly not hearing their footsteps. Zhuang Ci quickly ran over and patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go."
"Wait! Don't touch him!" Before Lu Yanli could finish his words, Zhuang Ci's hand had already clapped away.
The figure leaned against the elevator door and fell limply. His reddish-brown hair was puffy, and his eyes were wide open, with veins bulging and pupils dilated as he stared at the two of them. He seemed to have seen something very horrible before he died, so that the fear on his face did not diminish even after his death, which was chilling.
Outside the elevator, the numbers on the display began to change, jumping up and down at a completely unreasonable speed. However, they saw from the first floor that the elevator was not descending that fast!
Now take the elevator, what is it
"Hurry up!" Lu Yanli reached out and grabbed Zhuang Ci, and the two of them ran towards the stairwell quickly.
It is difficult to escape from a high-rise building when encountering a ghost, and the elevator is confined, and the stairs are prone to being blocked by ghosts. Both of them understood the reason very well, but there was nothing they could do, because the thing was obviously coming in the elevator, and they could only choose to go down the stairs.
The designer of the staircase in the apartment building had some idea and designed it in a spiral shape. Looking from one side, the circles can make people dizzy. As the two stepped on the stairs, they were startled.
Sure enough, the ghost wall came.
The first floor of the fifteenth floor should have been the fourteenth floor. I don't know if it was due to the decoration, but the number ten had fallen off, and there was a big, bright red number "4" embedded in the white wall. The lights were dim, and the escape route sign emitted a faint green light.
They didn't care too much and continued to run. The sound of the elevator arriving on the first floor could be heard. But they didn't hear footsteps, just a "dong dong" sound similar to the sound of a head hitting the ground, which made people involuntarily think of someone turning his body upside down and jumping forward with his head.
The fourteenth floor is the first floor, and it is still the fourteenth floor. The number 1 falls off, leaving only a bright red number 4.
The first floor remains the same.
They seemed to be trapped on the fourteenth floor of a fake house, unable to escape. From one floor came a "dong dong dong" sound, getting closer and closer...
Neither of them spoke, they just ran as fast as they could, holding onto the handrails as they ran up each floor. When they looked up, they saw a vortex of stairs that spiraled endlessly. When they looked down, it was still a vortex, with no end.
But they had to run, the sound behind them was getting closer and closer. They could already feel the coolness coming from behind.
"Why don't you wait for me?" The voice of the gatekeeper came from behind.
His voice was dry and cold, like the friction of a piece of iron that had been rusted after being soaked in water for dozens of days. It was very uncomfortable to listen to.
Zhuang Ci didn't look back and continued running.
"You can't leave first." The voice continued.
"Wait for me! I'll go with you..."
Lu Yanli and Zhuang Ci ran faster.
Before he knew it, the staircase had become quiet, except for his own footsteps and the "dong dong dong" sound that was getting closer and closer, and the cry for help from his dead companion.
"Wait for me... Save me! Save me!!"
He let out a desperate scream, mixed with the sounds of nails scratching against the iron door and the soles of shoes rubbing against the ground. It was clear from the sounds that he had encountered something very terrible before his death.
"Wait for me! Wait for me!"
"Save me!! Why don't you save me!"
The sound became more and more shrill and closer, as if it was shouting right next to my ear. The "dong dong" sound of the drums became more and more frequent, interweaving together.
Lu Yanli ran away with confusion.
He died too quietly. Either the wailing just now was just fake, or... he really suffered such terrible pain, but they didn't hear it for some reason.
Lu Yanli took out the statue.
It was because of Zhuang Ci's reminder that he suddenly realized that the statue was not only used to make wishes for resurrection.
If used well, he can travel through time and space through the statue.
“Why do you carry it with you…” Before Zhuang Ci could finish her words, the two of them disappeared from the spot.