The World Below Surface

Chapter 43

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Elevator game, you can choose to stay in the elevator or go out to have a look. But their mission is obviously not so kind, and will not let them get through it peacefully.

The four people stopped shortly after they rushed out. This was because they didn't know where to go. The corridor in front of them was long, dark, and cold. The surroundings were blurry and it was like walking in a gray fog.

"Everyone, be careful and don't get separated." Chu Xiu said, "It's best to hold each other's clothes."

The corridor was too narrow, not even enough for two people to walk side by side, so they simply lined up in a row, holding onto the hem of the person in front of them. Chu Xiu walked in front, followed by Shi Yan, then Nie Yunzhen, and Ye Shengke. The four of them quickened their pace and walked forward.

"Remember, it's easy to get lost in another world, so we must not get separated and must remember the way back." Chu Xiu emphasized again and quickened his pace.

There was no other way. The female ghost in the elevator might catch up with him at any time. If he stayed in the elevator, it would not work. Therefore, he planned to lure the female ghost out of the elevator first, so that she would also get lost in this world. Then, they could go back to the elevator.

It’s just... why is this corridor becoming more and more weird

One could just about make out a white base on the wall, and besides the thick dust, there were also some traces of scribbles, most of which were weird stick drawings that looked like those drawn by children. Chu Xiu took a quick look at them and continued walking forward without paying any attention.

The further you go, the more strange pictures you see on the walls. Most of them are of incomprehensible limbs and faces with strange and distorted expressions. Perhaps because all the colors used are dark, it makes people feel uncomfortable.

Chu Xiu looked back and saw three figures behind him. He felt relieved and continued to move forward.

The road surface felt soft and rotten when stepped on, as if the ground was covered with rotten and smelly animal carcasses and expired fruits. However, no matter how hard the soles of their shoes sank, and even though it seemed as if some juice would come out of them, they still walked steadily on it without any wet stains on the soles of their shoes.

"This corridor is so long." After walking for an unknown amount of time, Shi Yan behind him said softly.

"Indeed, I don't know if it has caught up with us." Nie Yunzhen followed behind Shi Yan and lowered his voice.

In order to prevent people from getting lost, they agreed to speak in order every few minutes. It didn't matter what they said, as long as it made a sound.

After Nie Yunzhen finished speaking, the next person should be Ye Shengke.

But there was no sound behind him.

Nie Yunzhen's whole body stiffened.

He suddenly felt that the hand holding his glove was so cold, and the footsteps behind him were also very strange, light and floating, without the touch of a living person at all.

Nie Yunzhen didn't say anything, fearing to alert the enemy, but continued to walk forward. Not long after, he noticed that the hand had changed its position and began to gradually stretch up his back, with four fingers drilling straight into his skin, and the force was getting stronger and stronger.

"Xiao Ye, please don't poke me anymore. It hurts." Nie Yunzhen said casually after a while.

There was no answer from behind, and the hand slowly moved towards my neck.

This made Nie Yunzhen sweat all over. He forced himself to calm down, poked Shi Yan's back, and said in a calmer tone: "Wait a minute, I'll tie my shoelaces."

In fact, his statement was completely wrong. No one wore shoes with laces when they came. If the shoelaces came loose during the escape, it would be a fatal thing.

As soon as he finished speaking, he squatted down and pretended to tie his shoelaces. At the same time, he took this opportunity to turn his head slightly and saw a pale figure. The figure seemed to be made of white paper, and it was standing behind him lightly! Its pale hands were still in an outstretched position.

Sure enough... Ye Shengke is missing.

The tension in Nie Yunzhen's heart suddenly tightened. This ghost was able to take Ye Shengke away without the three of them knowing. The ghost's ability was too terrifying.

He withdrew his gaze, pretended to close his eyes for a while, then stood up, his brain working rapidly.

What should I do? The corridor is so narrow, and I'm standing in the third place. There are two people in front of me, so there's no way I can suddenly run over. And if I let them run first, won't I be the last one

And where did Ye Shengke go

In order not to attract the attention of the ghost behind him, Nie Yunzhen had to remain calm no matter how much she was trembling. She slowly stood up and reached out to grab Shi Yan's clothes again.

At the same time, the ghost behind him also reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"Let's go." Nie Yunzhen forced himself to remain calm.

Wait! Why are the corners of Shi Yan's clothes also as light as paper

Under Nie Yunzhen's astonished gaze, Shi Yan and Chu Xiu, who was walking in the rear, slowly turned their heads.

And their faces… had completely turned into paper figures. Pale face, bright red mouth, their heads turned 180 degrees, looking at Nie Yunzhen, and laughing.

"What's the matter with you?"

The paper man behind him also walked forward, put his hand on his shoulder, opened and closed his slit-like mouth, and uttered words that were exactly the same as Ye Shengke's voice.

"What's the matter with you?"

This was the last sentence Nie Yunzhen heard, and immediately his consciousness fell into darkness.

If Lu Yanli was here, he would definitely recognize it. The paper man at the scene was extremely similar to the one he met in Honghe Village. Unfortunately, Lu Yanli was not there, and by accident, he stepped into a deeper dimension.

"This corridor is so long." After walking for a long time, Shi Yan finally couldn't help but say.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the further she walked forward, the more realistic the stick drawings on the wall became. In the end, she could even see the strong emotions that the painter had endowed the pictures. The pairs of eyes were staring at her intently, full of resentment and malice.

This painting is also very strange... Shi Yan thought.

She turned her head and looked into one of the paintings. She felt frightened and immediately rubbed her arms and looked away. But when she came to her senses, she found that the other three people had disappeared!

She was the only one standing in the corridor, looking at the darkness beside her. She was suddenly frightened out of her wits.

How, how could this happen

She didn't think that these three people could suddenly disappear without a sound. So far, there has been no phenomenon of ghosts killing multiple people at once in this mission, so it might be that she was the only one in trouble.

Calm down... Calm down.

Shi Yan held back her screams and tried hard to think.

She just stared at the painting and then separated from the three of them. So, is the painting the key point

This time, Shi Yan resisted the urge to look at the painting. Instead, she lowered her head and stared silently at the tip of her shoes. She slowed down her pace and walked forward, while listening carefully, trying to hear other people's footsteps.

However, to her disappointment and also some relief, no matter how hard she listened, she could only hear her own footsteps. There was no trace of the other three people.

This is... where

Shi Yan suddenly heard an unknown rustling sound coming from all directions. She looked around in confusion, but could not see anything because of the overly dark environment. She even almost felt dizzy once because of the dense paintings on the wall.

Yes, these paintings are becoming more and more dense. Although the style is rough, that face... that face is exceptionally clear!

Somehow, when she saw that face, Shi Yan felt particularly uncomfortable. Her heart was gradually filled with some unknown irritability and depression. She couldn't help but avoid that face, and in the end she simply quickened her pace and jogged.

Where to run

This corridor has no end at all!

Shi Yan gritted her teeth, hardened her heart, turned around and ran back!

A common admonition in ghost stories is: Never look back! Because if the protagonist of the story turns back inadvertently, it is easy to see all kinds of ghosts. Running like Shi Yan and suddenly turning back is really a risky behavior.

But she no longer cared about that.

Now, the female ghost in the elevator should have been led away, right? It doesn't matter if she goes back.

But to her surprise and despair, the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower! !

Oh no! The road is changing!

Once she realized this, the faces on the two rows of walls began to become clearer and clearer, and the outlines of skulls gradually emerged. Vicious and hideous faces stared at her with malice from all directions, and there were bulges on the walls, high and low.

The walls were getting closer and closer, and no matter where Shi Yan hid, she couldn't escape. She kept running forward, trying to get closer to the elevator, but the cruel truth was that when she was only ten meters away from the elevator, she was completely stuck by the wall and couldn't get through.

"No!!" Shi Yan screamed suddenly. She stretched out her hands with all her strength and kept trying to squeeze forward through the crack in the wall. For this, it didn't matter if those monsters with only a head bit parts of her body. As long as she could get out and come back alive, it would be fine.

But she could no longer escape into the elevator.

"Mother… "

Before she died, she uttered her last word.

“Crunch, crunch…”

There were chewing sounds coming from the wall; it was a feast of delicious food for the faces on the wall that had been hungry for years.

A large amount of blood gushed out and was then sucked into the wall. It quickly returned to its previous state and slowly opened to both sides.

The corridor was clean and empty.

"Remember, we'll wait outside for a while. After five minutes, we'll go back and take the elevator back to the real world." Chu Xiu said.

After walking forward for a few minutes with three team members, he immediately stopped and prepared to stay put for the time being.

They had several tasks to complete, so there was no need to spend time exploring the world. Besides, if they didn't complete the next game after midnight the next day, a punishment worse than death would await them!

But when he said this, there was no reaction behind him. Chu Xiu turned around suddenly and was surprised to find that there was no one behind him!

So... who was holding his clothes just now

Chu Xiu didn't think much about it. He immediately turned around and ran back, but after running for only a short while, he immediately changed direction.

It turned out that on the ground, there was a girl in school uniform with a twisted body, whose bones seemed to have been broken and reassembled. She was crawling towards him, leaving a long trail of blood behind her.

Obviously, she was not crawling very fast, but the distance between them was getting closer and closer, so close that Chu Xiu could smell the stench of death on her body several times.

Chu Xiu saw the other person's face clearly.

This girl... is actually Wen Qing!

After being killed by the ghost grandmother, Wen Qing prayed to the gods, asking them to start over again, to redeem their mistakes, and to save everyone. The almighty gods agreed to her request, but asked her to pay a price, which was to sacrifice everyone in the hotel.

To this end, Wen Qing hid in the elevator and killed everyone.

But she never expected that her father was also in the hotel. When she found her father's head among the corpses on the ground, it was too late - the dead cannot be resurrected.

What she didn't know was that before this, her father had also made a wish, which was to revive his daughter. To do this, he had to pay the price: killing all the creatures that his daughter loved most when she was alive.

In order to resurrect his daughter, Wen Zhengxin killed Wen Qing's black cat and mother-in-law, and killed Yun Qian, but he missed one person - himself.

He is also one of my daughter's favorite things.

When Wen Zhengxin himself was killed in the elevator by Wen Qing along with everyone in the hotel - the conditions were met and Wen Qing was resurrected.

After resurrection, Wen Qing, who has not yet recovered his memory, is driven by his subconscious mind to come to Yinming Road with his friends again to bury Xiao Mi who was killed by the old woman, thus repeating the same death again and again.

What Chu Xiu and his group didn't know was that if they had not initially chosen Wen Qing as a participant in the game, but instead randomly picked two people from the street, they would not have been involved in the subsequent evil god incident, and their mission would not have become so complicated.

Wen Qing and Yun Qian's appearance in the underworld at that time was a conspiracy. This is the way to break the cycle of reincarnation from the source. The way out is - don't take them to play ghost magic.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

The Four Corners Game and the Elevator Game both caused chaos due to the involvement of the evil god, which would cause them to fall into the turbulence of time and space. Even if someone survived and successfully lived to the next round of the game, he would still have to face a greater test, because the difficulty of this mission was completely increased by the taskers themselves!

Chu Xiu ran very fast, but the corridor was too narrow, and there were subtle turns from time to time, which greatly affected his running speed. He ran and ran, and suddenly he felt something was wrong.

Why did the sound of that thing crawling behind me disappear

No, that's not right. It didn't disappear. It just...

Chu Xiu suddenly squatted on the ground and avoided the sharp claws of the flying ghost.

That thing... it went to the ceiling!

Just now when Chu Xiu was desperately trying to escape, it was chasing him all the way on the ceiling!

At this moment, Wen Qing stared at Chu Xiu with resentful and vicious eyes. Her eyes were pupilless and her whole face was bluish white. It seemed that all the bones in her body were broken. She could not stand steadily and could only crawl on the ground. She crawled on the ceiling very quickly.

what to do

What is their way of survival

Chu Xiu had already run to the end of the corridor. There was a staircase at the corner. He ran down the stairs without thinking, and even sat on the railing to slide down. Soon, the speed of the two people increased immediately.

He slipped and fell to the ground suddenly. When Chu Xiu got up again, he was a little shocked.

Where has he come to

Is he back

No, it's impossible. When you walk out of the elevator door, you will come to another world. I heard that this world may be very similar to your original world, but it is definitely not the original world.

Chu Xiu stood in the busy street, feeling a little dazed. He looked disheveled, but his temperament was stern. Soon someone noticed him, and a girl took two photos of him when she passed by.

Strange... Is this game really so powerful? Can it create a world out of thin air

Chu Xiu still didn't move. He stood there and looked back. The stairs and hotel behind him had disappeared.

At the end of the street, a group of people in red and white robes were walking towards him.

Chu Xiu frowned when he saw this group of people.

He knew about this evil cult, which claimed to be omniscient and omnipotent and believed in a so-called omniscient God, but he didn't understand much more.

Chu Xiu moved aside to give them a passage to avoid them from targeting him. Unexpectedly, when the group passed by, the leading woman suddenly stopped in front of him and looked at his face carefully.

"Sir, do you believe that there is an omniscient and omnipotent God in the world?"

Chu Xiu had no intention of saying anything, but the woman did not let him go. She smiled gently and holy, waved her hand, and asked the people behind her to carry the statue over.

That statue—looks damn familiar!

"Believe in my Lord and you will have eternal life. My Lord knows everything and is omnipotent."

"Really?" Chu Xiu noticed something was wrong and asked, "Can it take me back?"

When the woman heard him ask the question, her smile became even gentler: "My Lord is omnipotent, but there must be an equal exchange."

"Equivalent exchange?"

Before Chu Xiu could continue asking, someone in the distance called his name loudly. Chu Xiu did not respond, but turned his head to look over.

Ye Shengke stood across the street and waved at him, looking so natural.

If his shadow on the ground wasn't so much longer.

Chu Xiu, who was about to run over, stopped abruptly, his heart full of suspicion.

Just then, he heard another call.

"Chu Xiu, come here."

Chu Xiu turned around and looked up, and saw the upper body of a person emerging from the balcony on the second floor. That person was Lu Yanli, whom he had been looking for for a long time.

He said goodbye hurriedly and rushed upstairs without hesitation.

By the time he went upstairs, the long line downstairs had disappeared.

"What did you see?" Lu Yanli asked bluntly.

Chu Xiu: "Have you heard of the Omniscient God Religion?"

Lu Yanli had naturally heard of it and nodded: "I have heard of it."

"I plan to ask him to make a wish and try. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to get out of my current predicament." Chu Xiu said to himself.

Lu Yanli didn't find it strange at all.

Because, not long ago, he also made a wish to this omniscient god.