The entire mutation process lasted for more than two hours, and it really was a long period of time as Artemis said.
But we didn't find a book to pass the time as the other party said.
Because I was fooled by Paobao that "it's the wife's duty to prepare the luggage for the husband's trip", I suddenly found that the small house girl put a lot of weird things in my personal space, so we couldn't laugh or cry. My Artemis played StarCraft 2 online for two hours. Facts have proved that there is no limit to how long you can stay in front of a powerful tour group from the empire.
Although she was taken aback by the bizarre scene around her at first, Qianqian's ability to adapt really deserved her title of "the most thoughtless leader of the empire in history" (Sandora language), and within ten minutes, she was able to accept a part of it calmly. The scene where the stairs danced in front of me, and then I was thrown into the hot StarCraft 2 journey, and while playing, I lost the strength of each race. What kind of garbage, the so-called battlecruiser formation adds up to only 5 combat power Slag, the Notre Dame is a ten-second quick shooter Yunyun in front of the energy skimmer. Obviously, the record of sweeping the three major races in the Koprulu sector at that time made this girl full of confidence and confused the game and reality. So much so that she can open the game and fill the screen to find where to get ravens and armored scorpions...
Anyway, the final result is that Qianqian, Artemis, and my elder sister were abused by me, Lilina, and Lin Xue.
I'm really curious, what is your sister planning to do with more than 150 farmers...
"If I dig out all the mines on the entire map in advance, won't I be able to cut off your supplies?"
My sister explained it in this way confidently.
Sister, you are a born military strategist, but unfortunately, Blizzard engineers are not...
"You guys are really... incredible"
When the surrounding changes gradually calmed down, and the collapsed wall returned to its original position like a video played backwards, Artemis said this with a tangled expression.
Tch, you haven't seen the more boring guys in the Undercity, two skeletons punching each other's ribs in a boxing match, are you sure
"Does this kind of thing happen often?" Elder Sister looked at the last crack on the opposite wall and asked Artemis curiously.
"There is no pattern," Artemis breathed out. Although he could face the scene calmly, a little nervousness was unavoidable. "Sometimes this building will last for a year or two without any movement, and sometimes it will last for a day. There will be several mutations, and when the situation is the worst, we even have to take shelter in the open space outside, but that needs to be done during the calm time between the two mutations, and if the second mutation comes too soon It is even more dangerous to leave the room rashly. When the mutation is in progress, except that the inside of the room will not be distorted, every corridor and every staircase in the whole building is not safe. We did not understand this situation because of our lack of experience. , when the mutation started, a partner tried to run out from the corridor, and as a result... he is still crushed under a certain pillar on the first floor, and some people said that he was seen teaching in the classroom, sarcasm, who knows... "
As Artemis said, he tore a piece of paper from the book at his feet, took out a thick marker pen from his pocket, and wrote "Department of Chemistry" on the piece of paper. Big characters, and then walked out the door on our own. We looked at each other and followed.
The scene outside has been turned upside down. The activity room of the Chemistry Department, which was originally located at the end of a corridor, is now facing an elevator. The distance between the elevator door and the door of the activity room is less than two meters. On the wall next to the elevator, several The cracks were dissipating quickly, and after a while, the elevator that appeared suddenly became one with the surrounding walls.
Artemis didn't care about the elevator that suddenly appeared, but turned around, hopping and trying to reach the sign at the door of the activity room, but she was obviously not tall enough, and she failed after several attempts—if this is Pandora, I guess that girl will just pull down the whole door frame, right
"Do me a favor and post this up." Artemis turned over the paper with big scrawled characters in his hand, and sprayed it twice with the spray paint he carried with him, "while the paint is still wet."
I took the dirty-looking piece of paper, turned around, and saw a piece of cardboard with the words "library" pasted on the strange door next to it, and under the cardboard, It seems that there are still several floors, which have completely changed the original good house number.
"Every time there is a mutation, the walls, corridors, stairs, and roofs will change. Although it won't last long to write these things, at least it can let everyone know where they can stay safely in a short time."
Artemis spoke in a normal tone, she was used to such things.
I helped to glue the temporary new "door plate" on the door plate that had almost become an irregular cuboid due to the layers of cardboard, and asked curiously: "This building is so weird, why don't you change it?" place?"
"Only here can protect us from falling into a deep sleep," Artemis shrugged, "After that night, only the teachers and students who stayed in this building became awakened, and all the people outside became sleeping ghost, and after a few tries, I also found that although people around me can stay awake very well, but only when I am in this building, my own ability can be more effective, we have also tried before I let some of my companions live in a nearby dormitory building, but after a few days, they all disappeared."
"This is terrible."
Lilina muttered, then raised her head: "Then how do you usually find your way in the mutated building? Everything here is out of shape, right?"
"Patience, seriousness, and luck," Artemis said with a curl of her lips, then turned and pressed the door of the newly appeared elevator, a long staircase appeared opposite the elevator door, "In this world, even If you don’t eat, you won’t starve to death. You just feel hungry. Just be careful and don’t fall into dangerous places when looking for the way. It took me four days and four nights to find the way from the sixth floor to the fifth floor. , that is not difficult to do... come here, maybe you are very powerful, but here, I am afraid that your skills are useless."
Artemis is right, the information here is extremely confusing, the probes we released before have all lost contact in this building], and even if they still have signals, I am afraid that those contradictory The data has no reference value.
Under the leadership of Artemis, we walked in this narrow and twisted passage. The steps under our feet were upward at first, but after walking less than ten meters, it became a steep downhill. There was no light in the passage, but There is always a certain amount of light that keeps us from walking in the dark.
"The mutation has certain rules. For example, the stairs on odd floors will definitely go down after the mutation, but the opposite is true on the even floors. , there is a door ahead."
Artemis suddenly discovered that there was a bright yellow door on the left wall less than a few meters ahead of us. Only half of this door was exposed to the outside, while the other half was covered under the stairs.
"Uh, if there are people inside and the whole door is sealed, will the people inside be blocked in the room?"
Looking at the wooden door that is usually hidden under the stairs, Qianqian asked curiously.
"No, although there have been cases of hiding in the room and being unable to come out due to building mutations, in this world, you will not die if you don't eat or drink. You can come out after the next mutation. According to our Experience, a room will not be sealed twice in a row, and generally, a room that is completely sealed will undergo a second small-scale movement in a short period of time. It seems that this building still retains the definition of 'door' …But maybe there are exceptions to the experiences we have summarized. Some partners who hid in the room disappeared after the building changed and never came back. Even the room where they hid, they don’t know what they moved to Place, a lot of things are missing from this twisted building, we don't know if they're hidden in some tangle of corridors or if they're really gone... This door seems to be open, come help me."
Artemis pushed the blocked door hard a few times, and found that it happened to open inward, so she turned around and called us for help.
"Be careful, hold on to the wall next to it, the door may open all of a sudden, if the opposite is a dangerous place, you will be finished if you fall in... Well, I don't know if you will care about such an environment, anyway, we have lost ten times because of it." Several partners."
"You don't seem to mind mentioning them?"
I stepped forward and gently pushed the motionless yellow wooden door, tilting my head and asking in doubt.
"Of course not." Artemis immediately retorted loudly, but then turned his head away, "You won't understand... Well, there is movement on the other side of the door..."
Sure enough, when we quieted down, the faint sound of rubbing from the opposite side of the door became apparent, as if something of great mass was being dragged across the floor, with the sound of friction and cracking of cement along the way , Artemis put his head on the door panel and listened breathlessly, then suddenly raised his head, with obvious panic on his face: "It's still moving inside... run!"
It's already one step too late.
Before Artemis finished speaking, the wooden door slammed into scattered debris, and the entire wall on our side was suddenly shattered into pieces by a large mass rushing towards us from the opposite side. Fragments of cement mixed with steel bars bloomed from the wall like fireworks, and the storm swept towards Artemis who hadn't had time to avoid it. The bomb exploded and was swallowed by a hundred times stronger storm.
But in the next instant, everything stopped.
"You're right, you really should be careful here."
Qianqian stepped forward and roughly pulled up Artemis who was still in the trance, and the girl who shuffled her feet and walked forward quickly, while we followed closely behind, hovering in the air as time stood still. Fragments left behind.
Speeding all the way, it still took us nearly three minutes to get out of this narrow and dangerous corridor. When Artemis fell to the ground in embarrassment with Qianqian's flick of his hand, the latter snapped his fingers.
"Boom"
A series of deep voices sounded in the corridor behind us, and after a while, the pungent smell of lime powder and smoke drifted out from there.
Artemis looked at the completely collapsed passageway in shock, and then raised his head stiffly after a while, and before she could speak, Qianqian impatiently threw out a sentence: "Shut up"
Well, it's really harsh on strangers...
"Don't be surprised, her second personality is like this, there is no malice," I smiled awkwardly, and knocked lightly on the blackened shallow head, and the latter immediately bared at me threateningly Teeth - changed back.
"Was time standing still just now?" Artemis asked cautiously.
"That's right, we used this trick to catch you back then." Qianqian had a proud face, her mischievous little girl form was completely different from the cruel and rude one just now.
"I didn't expect to see it in the real world..." Artemis sighed slightly excitedly, in exchange for me to complain: "You think those are all fantasies in your mind?"
The sudden small crisis was just an inconspicuous episode. According to Artemis' description, this was the first time that such a thing happened. The building structure has been stabilized, but in this weird world, unexplainable and unprecedented things happen almost every day, just like the dusk suddenly disappeared a few days ago, the surviving awakened people have become accustomed to facing it calmly. These kinds of disasters have even reached the point where they can be regarded as a joke for the rest of their lives.
"If you were not in a narrow passage, but in a wide corridor or classroom, you could have avoided it, so it's not that scary, is it?"
Artemis said with a relaxed smile on his face.
"Son, you're mentally ill and need to be cured." Lilina said with a serious face and planned to start attracting clients for herself. Since she blackmailed Renault and Uncle Z several times in the Koprulu sector, this little girl has become more and more fond of her. It's full of magic sticks.
"I don't need it," Artemis rebuffed bluntly, "In this hellish place, extreme mentality is not a bad thing."
"Lost lamb..." Lilina shook her head with a look of compassion.
No matter what kind of interest this vile pseudo-loli has in Artemis, we have spent a lot of effort under the leadership of the latter and finally found the activity room where we met the other party for the first time before, and used it as the awakened person The activity center of the activity center has obviously been well thought out. Among the changes in the entire building, it has the least displacement, and the main passages connected to it have not changed much. At the corner of the corridor near the activity room, we saw a The conspicuous red arrow, with the words "Headquarters, safe direction" marked behind the arrow, was obviously sprayed with new spray paint. According to Artemis, after each building mutation, the members of the Awakened It is obligatory to mark such a mark on the new safe passage that you have found, which will allow everyone who has been separated due to the displacement of the room to regroup quickly.
It seems that we came a little late. There are already a lot of people gathered in the activity room. At a glance, there should be ten or twenty people, all of whom are dressed as middle school students. They should be the only remaining members of the Awakened. After seeing Artemi When Si appeared, everyone showed an obviously relieved look, and then everyone's eyes focused on us who had strange faces.
"When we are newcomers," I said directly in Artemis's mind with a spiritual connection, "now we are not sure whether we can help you, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, don't let them know that we are identity of."
"Understood." Artemis agreed, and then said loudly to the crowd on the opposite side: "I'm glad to see that everyone is still standing here after the mutation is over. Huwen and Lingyin should have informed everyone about these few days The arrival of a newcomer... ”
For our joining, all the survivors showed great enthusiasm. From the initial loss of hundreds of people to now only ten or twenty people, the light of hope in the hearts of these "awakened" may have long since faded, even with Al The incredible influence of Themis is supporting them, and it doesn't change the fact that everyone's morale is low, but now our presence has obviously alleviated the situation greatly.
New partners, and five people appeared at once. Even if the gloomy status quo of this world has not changed, the addition of fresh blood is enough to make them happy.
And the result of the joy and joy was a small but lively and joyful ceremony. Huwen, who was a little depressed because he didn't hold a welcoming ceremony in the morning, finally got his wish. This guy who looks like a delinquent boy actually On the surface, he was a straightforward and enthusiastic person. When Artemis announced that there would be a long-lost party at night, the excited Huwen almost took over 50% of the preparation work by himself.
Because it is a rare opportunity to relax, everyone naturally hopes to relax their tense nerves as much as possible. Artemis specially allows everyone to spend outside the "old building" tonight, leaving this weird building for a short time and It won't make people fall into a "sleep" immediately, but it can make people temporarily forget the twisted scenes in the absurd refuge. Therefore, the awakened usually put all kinds of celebrations, parties and other things in the old After all, although the outside world is more dangerous, at least it looks pretty good.
The meeting place was held in the open space of the campus not far from the old building. The awakened people collected a lot of firewood from nearby. Most of them came from the tables, chairs and benches in the classroom, and some were dry branches from the nearby flower beds. They were piled into a large pile and used as fuel for the bonfire. All the survivors in the whole world surrounded this bright flame, releasing great joy that outsiders could not comprehend. Not far from the meeting place, dozens of meters away , is the dormitory area of this school, where the lights are bright, and the students inside can be vaguely seen moving in the dormitory. The noise was sent to the entire academy, but the people in the dormitory ignored it and were completely unaffected by the sound. Only occasionally one or two "students" glanced dully at this side, and then continued. Focus on the things in your hands.
The dormitory building not far away, and the bonfire party close at hand, are clearly in front of me, but they seem to be two separate worlds. Looking at such a scene, the feeling in my heart is indescribable.
"That building is like a wild beast that chooses and eats people." Lilina seemed to have drank some wine, walked over unsteadily, and then sat crookedly next to me, and then turned around. Crooked, lying on my lap, while stretching out his little hand, pointing tremblingly at the old building not far away, "But they have to accept the protection of that thing... Boss, can we help them? "
"Of course," I patted Lilina's drowsy silly face with a confident expression, "Don't forget, your boss is the nicest person in the world."
"Well..." Lilina's confused voice came over, "Also, the most powerful daddy..."
Me: "..."X