Don't eat those dirty things, be careful not to get a stomachache."
Now Su Qingyu could understand why Song Xi reacted so violently when she saw her eating sushi.
Song Xi opened her black mouth and pointed: "I'm hungry."
Su Qingyu opened her tablet, opened the "Ming Bao" shopping app, found the strange food section, clicked on it, inside were bloody dishes made from dismembered limbs.
"Hey, what do you want to eat? I'll treat."
Song Xi looked at the food on the tablet and drooled, she stretched out her pale white fingers, using her sharp nails to choose a few dishes.
Su Qingyu didn't even look carefully at what she chose, and directly ordered.
The food appeared with a puff of white smoke, the strong smell of blood made it hard for Su Qingyu to breathe.
Su Qingyu left the bedroom, leaving Song Xi there to eat quietly.
His younger brother had stopped playing soccer, he stood on a small chair, sticking his head out the window.
"Bang!"
Outside the window, there was another loud crash.
Mother brought out a large iron pot and placed it on the induction stove, inside which a white and red soup was boiling.
"My dear, the day after tomorrow is the exam. Mother specially made soup for you, to nourish your body. You must eat it, or else mother will be angry."
Su Qingyu looked at the pot of soup containing the scalp with black hair still attached and floating hands, her stomach churning.
Clearing the dungeon, testing acting.
Even though Su Qingyu's stomach was constricting because of this pot of soup, she still said with regret and tolerance: "Mom, my little brother needs nourishment. Let my little brother eat more, he will grow taller."
During that time, no matter how mother threatened or coaxed, Su Qingyu did not touch the pot of soup.
"You are such a naughty child!"
Mother punched the dining table hard.
Su Qingyu wanted to comfort her mother, but mother looked at her fiercely, bringing the iron spoon full of soup to her mouth.
Dad scooped a spoonful of soup from the pot, and rarely spoke up to help Su Qingyu: "If you don't want to eat, don't force her."
Hearing this, Mom covered her eyes and cried.
Fresh blood seeped out from between her fingers.
"But if you keep eating healthy food, your daughter will get sick."
Su Qingyu waved her hand, assuring her: "Mom, I won't get sick."
"Then tell me, what do you see in the pot of soup?"
Su Qingyu's jet-black eyes moved around quickly: "Of course it's delicious soup and fresh meat."
"Really?"
Mom wiped away her bloody tears: "But today I went to visit grandma, and conveniently asked the doctor about your picky eating. The doctor said that it was because you ate healthy food that you became picky. You see the food I cook as inedible."
The book "The Arrival of Horror" mentioned,between instances can have a weak effect.
Especially high difficulty instances will affect lower difficulty instances.
Su Qingyu propped her chin up: "Really, I love you the most, Mom."
"Mom loves you too."
Su Qingyu lowered her head, used her chopsticks to lightly poke the rice mixed with soy sauce, and as if accidentally mentioned: "Mom and Dad love me so much, if I leave home, will you worry about me?"
The atmosphere suddenly froze.
The sad expression on Mom's face just now, Dad's excited expression while tasting the soup, disappeared in the blink of an eye without a trace.
Instead, there was numbness and indifference.
Just like Song Xi's usual state.
Dad said: "Dad loves you, I will support your choice."
Mom said: "Mom loves you too much, I can't bear to let you leave home. You're still young, wait until you grow up, when you can go far away."
Extreme love will turn into control.
Su Qingyu felt a key point flash in her mind, a strange feeling surged fiercely.
The first rule.
[Remember, you are your mother's good daughter, your mother loves you too much, love is not wrong, even if the way of expressing it is not quite right.]
Rule number nine.
[The black cat loves you.]
These two rules appear in the first rule of [Sweet Home (upper)].
And the first rule of [Sweet Home (lower)].
Love! It is the source of pollution in this instance!
Extreme love, distorted love, both protection and hurt!
If a mother's love is to control her daughter, to keep her daughter at home forever.
Then what is the love of the black cat?
Where did the black cat come from?
Su Qingyu stood up, her eyes firmly looking at her mother: "Mom, if you love me, let me be free. Home is a warm harbor, a place to return to, not a chain, a cage." The most meaningful gift for a loved one
Mother's eyes were full of obsession, like a fanatic: "No, no, it's too dangerous outside, you can't leave home so easily. My dear child, wait a little longer, wait a little longer and you will become one with this house. The doctor said, when the time comes, you can return to your mother's womb. I will give birth to you again. All your sorrows will be forgotten along with your rebirth.
We are a loving family."
Su Qingyu really wanted to give this sick mother a slap.
This was a dungeon, the rules were absolute, supreme.
Su Qingyu could not do things that went against her identity as a "daughter".
Otherwise, no matter how rich she was, she would immediately be "erased" by "it".
If the rules are an umbrella, then outside the umbrella is an endless wilderness and a frozen land.
Holding up the umbrella, one can live temporarily.
Throwing away the umbrella, one will surely die.
This dinner, Su Qingyu had no interest in eating.
Dinner ended.
Su Qingyu returned to her bedroom.The lock was so damaged that it could no longer be locked.
The corners of the walls were already covered with mold, the dark spots had changed from dark green to pitch black.
The blistering plaster occasionally shed a few spiders and cockroaches, and the bed sheets would become damp within a day no matter how many times they were changed.
Use a chair to block the door, change the bed sheets, and wear a mask to sleep.
Late at night.
Su Qingyu was awakened by the cat licking her face, and heard whispering in the room.
Her younger brother's voice was like a mouse's squeak, and he clung to the bedroom door: "Sister, are you asleep yet? The door is blocked, please open the door for me. He said that only if you open the door, can he take me to see grandma. Sister, I miss grandma so much. Sister, tell me when grandma will come back? When grandma left, she even called for help. Sister, did you hear that?"
Each word was like a life-threatening note.
Even though Su Qingyu closed her eyes tightly, she could confirm that something was crawling out from under the bed.
That thing was standing right at the head of her bed.
Song Xi stood guard beside Su Qingyu, making no movement.
If her life was really in danger, Song Xi would help her make the first move.
Su Qingyu forced herself to calm down and continued sleeping.
If she didn't break the rules, she was safe.
Early in the morning of the fifth day, Su Qingyu woke up.
When she got out of bed, she found her room flooded with dirty water.
One shoe was swept to the bedroom door by the water current, and the other one had disappeared without a trace.
Su Qingyu put on one shoe and hopped out.
The other shoe was neatly placed on the gray bedroom window sill.
It was a trap.
Su Qingyu went to the living room shoe cabinet and changed into a new pair of shoes.
Her younger brother saw Su Qingyu wake up, quickly ran to the window, and pulled open all the living room curtains.
This was the first time Su Qingyu saw the outside world through the window.
"Bang!"
A familiar loud noise sounded outside the window again.
Su Qingyu walked towards the balcony. Su Qingyu looked out the window from the side of the balcony, and found that from this corner, she could clearly see the gray bedroom window.
A faint sound fell from the gray bedroom window.
"Bang!"
Crushed into flesh.
It turned out that all the strange noises outside the window were the sounds of people jumping off the building.
The white and blue uniform fell down repeatedly.
It turned out that the daughter was dead.
Su Qingyu suddenly felt heartbroken.
In the morning after finishing online class, Su Qingyu heard the sound of a cat meowing in the bedroom.
She saw a black cat breaking the lock of her room door.
The lock and tape were falling to the ground.
Su Qingyu angrily waved her hand to chase the black cat away, and the black cat "meowed" and dived under the bed.
The black cat's stance had begun to change.
Su Qingyu noticed that the black cat was just hiding under the bed, stalking her, its eyes carrying a vicious light.
At lunchtime, Dad held an empty wine bottle: "Tomorrow you have an exam. Dad is very concerned about your results. Even though Dad likes you very much, you can't rely on that indulgence. As long as you get sixty points, Dad will still like you as usual."
Thanks to the bribery of hell money, Dad's requirement for Su Qingyu was lowered to passing.
But the teacher required a score of over ninety.
Students who didn't get over ninety points needed to attend a year-long remedial course organized by the school.
This year-long remedial course didn't sound like anything good.
Mom lowered her head and licked the plate, seemingly not caring about the score.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
After lunch, the sound came from the balcony again.
This time, Su Qingyu pricked up her ears, she clearly heard two falling sounds.
The two sounds were very short apart, so she didn't hear them before because the curtains were closed.
Today, her younger brother opened the curtains, and Su Qingyu happened to be in the living room, hearing them clearly!
The fog outside was hazy, only the gray window sill of her parents' bedroom was clearly visible.
She was alone and protruding out.
Grandma used to sit on the balcony and witness each and every death of her granddaughter.
That's why grandma was the most polluted.
In the afternoon of online classes, the online teacher pressed his face close to the lens.
Su Qingyu raised her head to look at the screen.
Rough pores, cracked foundation.
Her pitch-black eyes reflected the image of her daughter on the screen, bowing her head to study.
"...cough cough cough..."
The "sizzling" sound of the electric current and the intermittent "cough cough" sound from the teacher's mouth tore Su Qingyu's eardrums.
Su Qingyu covered her ears, those sounds would make her fall into chaos.
At night, the bedroom lock had fallen off completely, and when the chair was used to block the door, a strong wind could be felt blowing into the room from outside.
The originally clean and soft bed could no longer be used.
The quilt was filled with white insect eggs, and the ceiling was dripping with water.
On the floor, every few steps, there were red cockroach egg sacs stacked on top of each other. With one step, the crispy shells would break, and more than fifty transparent milky white baby cockroaches crawled out.
Everything in the room was rotting, only the love letter on the bookshelf was still intact.
Su Qingyu had no choice but to sit on the chair blocking the door.
Tonight would definitely be a sleepless night.
When night fell, a black cat crawled out from under the bed.
The cat scratched at the door, making a sound like a child crying and wanting to rush out.
Mother heard the cat's meowing and banged on the bedroom door with her head.
Su Qingyu was pushed back and forth.
This situation lasted until morning.
At 6am, all the conflicts suddenly stopped.
Su Qingyu lightly touched the bedroom door, and the entire door collapsed.
Dad was stuffing Mom into a pitch-black trash bag, dragging her out of the house.
His younger brother, who was lying on the balcony, saw Su Qingyu come out, and ran into the room to get a cute doll.
"Sister, give this to you."
Su Qingyu gently rubbed his younger brother's head, even though it was full of maggots: "What is this?"
His younger brother lowered his head and apologized: "This is the doll he asked me to give to you, I hid it for a long time before, and didn't give it to you. I used to hate him, thinking he was a bad guy, sneaking into your room and hiding under your bed. These past few days, he's been playing with me, and I've decided to accept him as a family member. Oh, he also said that the doll will always be by your side instead of him."
The doll's pitch-black glass eyes emitted a strange light.
Su Qingyu sneered, directly gouging out the doll's eyes, pulling the metal wire in the cotton.
She went into the bedroom, squatted down, and threw the doll under the bed.
The black cat was licking its front paws.
Seeing the doll, the black cat let out a miserable cry.
Su Qingyu grabbed the black cat by the back of its neck, the corners of her lips curled up.
"Are you Xiao Hei? Or the stalker? Or in other words, are you both?"
She questioned the black cat word by word.
The black cat cowered under the bed in fear.
At this point, Su Qingyu understood the whole story.
It was love that had crushed her daughter to death.
Everyone's love was like a shackle, locking her daughter, making her feel suffocated.
The mother loved her daughter, after her daughter reported the stalker incident to her mother, she contacted the teacher to let her daughter study online at home.
Because of his heavy debt at work, the father placed too much hope on his daughter. He was extremely concerned about his daughter's performance, making his daughter feel suffocated.
The daughter left school, and not long after, the school reported that a male student had gone missing.
The missing person was none other than Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei loved his daughter, and on one hand, he pretended to be a loving painter, an optimistic and kind-hearted boy, in love with the girl.
On the other hand, he played the role of a stalker, satisfying the dark desires in his heart, making his daughter live in fear.
He was the one holding the knife, and he was also the one pretending to protect his daughter.
The photo album was always in Xiao Hei's hands.
Even the perspective of the daughter in Xiao Hei's paintings and the stalker's photos were extremely similar.
The last selfie in the album was just a poor cover-up.
The stalker hiding in the grass was Xiao Hei's henchman who called to escape suspicion.
Xiao Hei was the stalker, the stalker was Xiao Hei!
Not only that, after her daughter started homeschooling, Xiao Hei also secretly hid in her room, stalking her life.
Until one day, while her mother was cleaning, she found a black hair stuck in the crack in the floor.
Her mother questioned her daughter if she had secretly raised a black cat.
When her daughter saw the hair, she suddenly realized something and jumped from her parents' window.
Xiao Hei discovered that her daughter had jumped and ran out from under the bed.
Her father thought that a bad guy had broken in and accidentally killed Xiao Hei.
After Xiao Hei died, he dismembered his body, hid it under his daughter's bed, and then put the pieces in a black trash bag and slowly carried it out of the house.
Her mother tried to hide everything so she cleaned up frantically, preventing Xiao Hei's hair from falling into the crack in the floor.
Her grandmother, who was already sick, was sunbathing on the balcony and witnessed her granddaughter jumping off the building. She was so agitated that she had a stroke and died.
As for why there were two explosions so close together when she fell from the balcony.
That's not an echo—
That was Xiao Hei's fantasy, the crocodile tears.
At the moment his daughter jumped to her death, Xiao Hei wished he could jump down with her.
This thought became an obsession, in the strange world it turned into a terrifying explosion.
The black cat was the embodiment of Xiao Hei's love, the embodiment of Xiao Hei's desire.
As soon as Su Qingyu realized most of the truth, the ruined house immediately returned to its original appearance.
Father, mother, younger brother, even grandmother who had just returned from the hospital, all stood neatly in front of Su Qingyu.
They did not say anything, only waved to Su Qingyu.
Each person's face had a kind smile.
The big door opened, different from the darkness before, outside was filled with light.
The black cat squatted in front of the door, playing with its tail, the light shone on it, it turned into ashes and flew away.
Su Qingyu met the S-level clearance standard, deciphered the entire truth of the [Sweet Home] instance, and survived the strange one-star rule.
Stepping over the threshold,
Su Qingyu discovered that there was a black leather backpack beside her feet.
She opened the backpack and rummaged through it for a while.
The familiar tablet.
100 hell coins.
And a piece of paper.
According to the novel "The Horror of the Land", Su Qingyu knew that after clearing the dungeon, there would be rewards.
This black backpack was like a reward for beginners.
Putting on the backpack, Su Qingyu asked Song Xi: "How much hell money do you need to go to the hospital? "I'll pay."
If Song Xi didn't receive timely treatment, Song Xi's tribute card would break.
Su Qingyu didn't have many paper man tribute cards, she didn't want to lose Song Xi - this trustworthy assistant.
"Master, I can't go to the hospital for treatment right now."
Song Xi shook her head, raised her hand, and pointed towards the dark corridor: "That's the only way out, from there, master will enter the new strange rule."
"Then you go back to the tribute card and rest."
New strange rule, Su Qingyu didn't intend to use Song Xi anymore.
Song Xi nodded, turned into white smoke and entered the broken empty card.
Next, Su Qingyu opened "mother's paper".
On the paper was handwritten:
Child, this is your first time leaving home, mother is very worried because recently this building has been infiltrated by a murderer.
You will have to grow up, mother can't keep you at home forever. In order for you to go far away safely, mother wants to remind you a few things things, please keep in mind.
[1. If you are scared, you can go home, as long as you come back, you will always be my good daughter, I will protect you for the rest of my life.]
[2. If you insist on leaving, I will also support you. Remember: Don't believe the words of strange residents, and don't go to their houses to play.]
[3. Mom stays at home all the time, you won't see Mom outside. Dad will go to work, if you get lost, you can ask him for directions. Distinguish, who is your real father.]
[4. Our building management company only knows how to collect money, never works, and doesn't manage the floors.]
[5. The security guards are very good, they are not part of the management company but are outsourced employees, if there is any problem you can ask them for help, they are very willing to help you.]
[6. If you encounter danger, call the police, the police number is 65321.]
There are six rules written on the piece of paper.
Su Qingyu put her mother's piece of paper in her pocket, the clock showed the time was 9am.
This afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30 there was another exam.
Su Qingyu decided not to enter the new rule for the time being.
She sat down on the ground, in the transition area between the two rules, waiting for the exam to come.
At noon she also spent 2000 hell coins, ordering a fried chicken on the Mingbao app.
At 4:30 pm, the exam began.
She opened the online learning software on the tablet, the entire screen went dark.
This time she took the exam on the computer.
A yellow number appeared in the middle of the screen, which was a one-hour countdown.
The countdown started, and the number shrank to the upper left of the screen.
The test consisted of 60 multiple-choice questions and 4 essay questions.
- Multiple-choice questions were divided into:
- 30 questions with one answer (1 point/question)
- 15 questions with multiple answers (2 points/question)
- Essay: 4 questions (10 points/question)
What was even more terrifying was that all the test questions were written in a strange language.
Su Qingyu had left the [Sweet Home] instance, and she could not take all the notes in the instance with her.
Even though she had been concentrating hard and listening to lectures seriously these past few days, she could not master the strange language in such a short time.
Time passed by every second and every minute.
Su Qingyu pulled out a tribute card.
On the card was a drawing of a cold young man, 7 feet 8 inches tall (~1m85), as thin as bamboo, wearing black clothes, and a sword hanging from his waist.
On the back of the card, there was a small line of text:
"Use 1 finger or pay 100 hell coins to use."
Su Qingyu threw both the 100 hell coins and the tribute card at the same time.
A puff of white smoke rose, and the man on the card appeared.
The young man had black hair and black eyes, and his pale skin exuded a gloomy coldness, with a large hole in his heart.
His right hand was white bones, and his left hand was flesh and blood.
"What's your name?"
The young man pointed to the empty space where his chest was: "My name is Wu Xin."
If you got close to the empty space where his heart was, you could hear the sound of wind whistling.
"Why don't you have a heart?"
"I was originally a young general of the Shen family, but because the Emperor was suspicious, I had my name taken away, and my heart was cut out and I died."
"Do you know how to read?"
The young man nodded.
"Very good, help me write my exam."
The young man raised his white bone right hand: "Master, give me your heart, and I will help you."
The tribute cards were divided into white, green, blue, yellow, and red.
Wu Xin and Song Xi's tribute cards were different, Song Xi's card was white, Wu Xin's card was yellow.
Su Qing Yu could feel that Wu Xin was an extremely powerful ghost.
"Can I use hell money instead?"
Wu Xin's finger moved slightly: "Then does master have ten thousand hell money?"
Although Wu Xin's face was expressionless, Su Qing Yu always felt that he heard contempt in his words.
Su Qing Yu remembered the first time he asked Song Xi if ghosts had feelings, Song Xi's answer was uncertain.
Wu Xin raised his chin slightly, his eyes were pitch black, without whites.
"Master, you should be glad that we didn't meet in the dungeon, otherwise, master would have died."
It was true that level 2 ghosts were much more fun.
Su Qing Yu immediately took out the Heaven and Earth bank card, thought about it, and took out ten thousand hell money.
A stack of hell money fell into Wu Xin's palm, which was only white bones. Wu Xin followed Su Qing Yu's instructions and started looking at the test questions on the tablet.
"Master, I'm good at ancient literature, not good at calculations."
This sentence implied that he could help Su Qing Yu write the test but could not guarantee the accuracy rate.
What a scam!
Su Qing Yu covered his forehead: "Then you translate the test questions for me, I'll write them myself." He
still had to rely on himself.
So for the next hour, Wu Xin was responsible for translating the strange language, Su Qing Yu was responsible for solving the questions.
Once the answers were solved, Wu Xin would convert them into strange language and fill them in the test.
"Master..."
"Huh?"
"This isn't a dungeon, why do you have to do the test?"Wu Xin's words made Su Qing Yu instantly come to her senses.
Su Qing Yu realized that she had almost fallen into the vortex of rules.
That's right, scoring 100 points was a requirement for clearing the [Sweet Home] instance.
But she had already met the S-level clearance standard, so she didn't need to care about this score at all.
What the teacher said during the evening class was that students who didn't score above 90 points had to attend a year-long remedial class at school.
The reason Su Qing Yu took the exam was because she was worried that if she failed, she would be forced into the strange rules of the one-year remedial class.
She had overlooked one point, which was that each strange rule had its own scope of control.
The strange rule [Sweet Home], its scope was limited to the home.
Teachers, evening classes, exams, although these factors overlapped with the strange rule [Sweet Home], they should belong to separate strange rules.
Combined with the B-level clearance rule: Get a perfect score in the exam, receive praise from dad.
Su Qingyu judged that this clearance method was not to break the strange rule [Sweet Home], and escape the dungeon.
But to achieve the "invitation" condition of a more dangerous strange rule.
If the condition of a perfect score is achieved, one will be forced to move from one strange rule to another.
To escape from one hell, one will enter a deeper hell.
No wonder, the same is leaving home, the S-level is through decoding the truth of the dungeon, discovering the nature of the source of pollution, and then leaving.
The B-level has nothing to do with [Sweet Home] at all, only requiring a high enough score, and receiving praise from dad.
This praise, dad must also be controlled by the higher level rule, reluctantly letting his daughter leave.
No matter how strong the demon is, it is impossible to force Su Qingyu into a new strange rule without any prerequisites.
They can only be done by burying the wires in another strange rule, waiting for a living person to step on it.
Su Qingyu tried to exit the exam interface but failed.
She forced herself to turn off the tablet.
Unexpectedly, when she pressed the off button, the exam paper was automatically submitted.
The tablet screen displayed a yellow smiley face icon.
A deathly smiley icon full of irony.
"Final score: 97."
"Congratulations to student Su Qingyu for receiving the title of 「Excellent Student」."
"Player has received a copy of the admission notice「Strange Rules of Sao Mai High School」."
The admission notice was black, the letters were gilded in gold, the admission date written on it was September 1st.
Su Qingyu's expression was cold, the corners of her red lips curved up.
On September 1st, she would enroll on time, encountering the strange rules of Sao Mai High School that had been buried in this newly entered instance.
Su Qingyu packed her backpack and walked towards the dark corridor ahead.
Towards the house behind her, she followed her footsteps and disappeared into the darkness.
Su Qingyu took out her mother's piece of paper and placed it in front of Wuxin, asking, "Is this piece of paper contaminated?"
Wuxin touched the piece of paper with her white bone fingers: "No."
Not contaminated, proving that her mother's piece of paper, all the rules were correct.
[If you are afraid, you can go home, as long as you go home, you will forever be my good daughter, I will protect you for the rest of my life.]
This rule was telling Su Qingyu that if she turned back, she could forever live in the strange rule [Sweet Home] as a girl.
Become an NPC.
Continue to fight against "it" to the end? Or turn into a monster under the recognition of "it", becoming a lackey of evil?
This was the choice question posed to all survivors.
As for Su Qingyu, there was no choice.
At the full level opening, if she chose to submit, it would be too cowardly.
She would fight the strange rules to the end!
Destroy all the monsters blocking her way.
Su Qingyu stepped into the corridor, she felt someone behind her!
The breath appeared in a flash.
Su Qingyu suddenly turned her head, three people were startled at the same time!
The dungeon [Endless Corridor] opened.
Number of challengers: 3.
Difficulty: ⭐⭐⭐
"You you you... are you humans or ghosts?"
The girl wearing glasses was so scared that she fell to the ground, losing her glasses, she squinted and crawled on the floor looking for them.
The boy kept rubbing his arms, keeping a safe distance from them, his teeth chattering: "1, 2, 3, 4! Why are there four people?! The dungeon opening notification in my head said there were only three people!"
"Calm down, Wu Xin is a monster."
The man pointed at the horse with a hole in it,
his right hand was all white bones, he couldn't hide it.
The young man trembled and pointed at Su Qingyu: "What about you? You two appeared together? Or are you also a monster?"
Su Qingyu's face was cold, her attitude was gentle: "I am a human, also one of the challengers in this dungeon."
This was a multiplayer dungeon, her first task was to calm her teammates, increase the strength of the group's unity.
Adding an assistant, adding a chance of winning.
The young man was half-believing, he wasn't an idiot, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to clear the dungeon [Strange Rules].
The girl also put her shoes back on, her flaxen braids hanging down in front of her chest, she reached out to Su Qingyu: "Hello, my name is Wen Xuecha, I just escaped death from the strange rule called [Sweet Home]."
The young man immediately took over, he spoke very quickly: "My name is Li Lin, also from the strange rule [Home Sweet Home]. When my parents were not home, I stayed with my grandmother, advised her to eat, helped her clean up the dirt on her body. My grandmother was very happy when I coaxed her, and gave me the customs clearance rule. That tablet could go online, I looked up the answers online and got 100 points on the test. After giving my report card to my father, he praised me for being successful enough, and was able to leave the house."
Wen Xue Cha then whispered: "I also coaxed my grandmother to be happy, helped my mother clean the house, helped my father pay off the debt—"
Su Qing Yu also gave her name, she asked doubtfully: "How did you help your father pay off the debt?"
"Dad said he needed my younger brother's two legs and my two arms, I helped him capture my younger brother, cut off his arms and legs and gave them to him."
Wen Xue Cha looked weak and gentle, the type of girl who was reserved.
But what she said made Li Lin's teeth hurt: "You're a girl, how can you be so brave?"
Wen Xue Cha covered her face: "Of course it's because I don't want to die, what else can we do? I'm also very desperate."
Su Qing Yu evaluated the two people in her heart.
Li Lin was a bit smart, timid but careful.
Wen Xue Cha appeared gentle, but was actually decisive and brave.
Each person had their own strengths.
Li Lin slapped his forehead in frustration: "Why didn't I think of this? Damn it! Even though I got a perfect score on the exam, the tablet detected that I cheated. I received this..."
Li Lin took out a black admission notice.
Wen Xue Cha adjusted her glasses and whispered: "I dropped out of the exam, didn't receive the admission notice, but received a notice to retake the exam..."Li Lin took out the black admission notice, scratching his head a little embarrassedly: "I got a perfect score on the exam, received the title of excellent student, and will be awarded by the school. That school looks very dangerous, I definitely won't go on September 1st."
Wen Xue Cha also said a little sadly: "Although I didn't receive it, the exam interface on the tablet reminded me to retake it in seven days."
Still not participating after seven days, was it an invitation to retake the exam indefinitely? Or was there another situation?
It was impossible to know.
The admission notice matter was put aside for now.
Su Qing Yu pointed to the metal plate in the hallway and said: "There are words on it."
The three people stepped forward, and the metal plate was engraved with words.
[Residents, Sao Mai Building Management Company always strives to provide quality service to every customer. No matter what your purpose is when you leave your home and enter the hallway, please follow the rules below to ensure safety.]
Endless Corridor Rules (top)
[1. This apartment complex is an old one, an old building without an elevator, go down the stairs and take the emergency exit. Remember, there is absolutely no elevator in this building, if you see an elevator, close your eyes, count to 10 and open them, the illusion will disappear.]
[2. There are two emergency exits, one on the east side, one on the west side. The east emergency exit is under repair, when leaving, take the west exit. (Don't take the wrong emergency exit, it's very dangerous there)]
[3. There is a blue sign above the emergency exit, the exit only goes down, don't go up.]
[4. Your neighbors are quite friendly, they will talk to you, you can chat with them but absolutely do not accept invitations, and do not go to their house.]
[5. Recently, due to the renovation of the old apartment building, there are often people wearing hard hats on the floor, don't panic, they will leave after finishing their work.]
[6. Each building has seven floors, two security guards are in charge of patrolling. The one wearing a black uniform and holding a walkie-talkie is the security guard,
you can ask for their help when needed.] [7. A sense of direction is very important, keep your mind clear, and use support tools when needed.]
Li Lin's mouth trembled, he clenched his fists, the veins on his forehead popped out, and he said angrily, "Damn it! I clearly ran away from that haunted house! Why do I see this damn rule again? When will I be able to completely escape!"
Su Qingyu quickly memorized the rule on the sea: "You should thank the rule, the rule is our life-saving charm."
Wen Xuecha silently recited the rule, then engraved the rule into his memory.
Where they stood was the common space in front of the three apartment doors - the public area of the building.
On the left was the fire exit glowing green.
The fire doors were dense, the green lights dim, the stairs went down endlessly with no bottom in sight.
Li Lin only felt the heavy yin energy in the corridor, he said: "Let's quickly leave through the emergency exit. This strange rule's name is Endless Corridor, maybe we just need to get out of this building."
Su Qingyu observed the surroundings.
The three apartments were closed and quiet, with a room number above each door: "This is the 7th floor."
Wen Xuecha looked at the emergency exit, slightly scared, saying: "This emergency exit also has stairs going up."
Su Qingyu saw the emergency exit, there was absolutely no way up.
She said to Wen Xuecha: "This is the 7th floor, stick to your understanding, don't doubt it."
"Yes."
Wen Xuecha bit her pink lower lip, nodded.
Li Lin didn't dare to act rashly: "The rules say, the east emergency exit is under repair, leave through the west exit. Which is east? Which is west?"
Su Qingyu said: "Let's go see the situation on the other side of the corridor first. The rules only say that the emergency exit can only go down, not up. It doesn't say that the corridor cannot be turned back. Right now we only see the strange rule Endless Corridor (upper), we need to find the rule (lower)." Li
Lin and Wen Xuecha said in unison: "Okay."
The hanging corridor connects the two rows of buildings east and west, the corridor railing is black iron bars, with a sign "Corridor railing, no climbing over".
The upper right corner of the sign reads: Sao Mai Building Management Services Company.
Standing on the railing and looking out is another building.
Looking down, endless, can't see the road.
Looking up, endless, can't see the sky.
Only in the opposite corridor, on each floor there are people like them.
Those people are walking around endlessly, like wandering ghosts without a purpose.
Li Lin pointed to the building opposite: "Look, isn't that person asking for help? They're even holding up an SOS sign. The so-called endless corridor, does it have no end?"
Wen Xue Cha clenched her fists and lightly punched Li Lin's chest: "Don't scream so loudly, we haven't even started yet, how do you know we can't get out? You have to have confidence in yourself, if you don't believe in yourself, then in the end, there's really only death."
Li Lin shrank his neck and stopped saying negative words.
The place they were just standing were three apartments 701, 702, 703.
Passing through the corridor were three apartments 704, 705, 706.
The same type of pitch-black anti-theft doors, arranged symmetrically.
There was nothing like a compass in Su Qing Yu's tribute card.
After all, who would burn something like a compass for their ancestors?
Only worried that the ancestors did not have enough money to spend, the house was not big enough, who worried that the ancestors in the underworld would get lost?
To Thanh Ngu opened the tablet, looking for the compass application inside.
Luckily the tablet the demon mother gives isn't much different than a regular tablet.
Wen Xue Cha moved closer, her eyes lit up, and she clasped her hands together happily: "Great, there's a compass!"
The compass quickly turned three times and pointed to the direction 701, 702, 703, which was the west.
Li Lin saw hope for survival: "Let's go down the emergency exit over there! The rules say we can use tools, but it turns out the tool is a tablet!"
"Wait a minute."
Su Qing Yu stopped the two people who were excited.
The sunlight could be seen reflected on the windows of the building opposite.
The rules said that this apartment complex was an old area, and each building only had seven floors.
Therefore, the endless floors they had just seen in the hallway were just an illusion caused by "it".
The time on the watch and the tablet matched, both were 6pm.
Combined with the sunlight they had just seen, Su Qing Yu judged that the sun existed normally, but they couldn't see it when they looked up directly, so they had to use the glass of the building opposite to determine the sun's position.
Using a watch, you can determine east, west,
south, and north. Divide the hours in half and point them towards the sun, the 12 o'clock position is north.
It's 6pm now, which is 6pm, 18 divided by 2 is 9, point the 9 o'clock position towards the sun, the 12 o'clock position points north.
"The compass is misleading, directions 704, 705, 706 are west!"
Li Lin only felt a chill down his spine: "You said the compass is misleading, so can your watch also be misleading?"You can choose to believe, or you can choose not to believe."
Su Qingyu never intended to convince anyone to listen to him.
Li Lin was afraid of death, he really wanted to say, let Su Qingyu go to the stairs first, try it and see if it's true or not.
But in his heart, he also understood that he couldn't reveal that selfish thought from the beginning.
Right now, they were on the same boat, conflict wouldn't benefit anyone.
Su Qingyu saw Li Lin's changing expression and knew that he was thinking of a bad plan in his heart.
Multi-person dungeons were harder than single-person dungeons, the hardest part was that teammates were unreliable.
Those who challenged the dungeons had to guard against strange plots, and also had to guard against teammates stabbing them in the back.
Wen Xuecha's personality was much more straightforward than Li Lin's, she didn't pay attention to his strange expression, complaining: "This world of strange rules is very cunning, it often deceives us, it's better to be cautious. I also think the compass app is a trap, because when I first opened the app, those rotations were very strange."
Although Wen Xuecha supported Su Qingyu's judgment, she did not dare to go down the first emergency exit.
Su Qingyu stepped onto the emergency exit.
"Oh, wait for me."
Li Lin's voice rang out from behind her.
Rule number three.
[There is a green sign above the emergency exit, the path only goes down, do not go up.]
Su Qingyu walked down the steep stairs step by step, her eyes not glancing sideways.
Wu Xin walked side by side with her.
At the corner of the stairs, there was a little boy sitting and sobbing.
That little boy was wearing a yellow hat, and his back looked very much like his little brother in the [Sweet Home] instance!
"Huhuhu, my black cat disappeared. Big sister, can you go upstairs and help me find the cat?"
Rule number four.
[Your neighbors are quite friendly, they will talk to you, you can chat with them but absolutely do not accept their invitation, even more so do not go to their house as a guest.]
Su Qingyu resolutely refused: "No, little brother, I have other things to do, I cannot help you."
The yellow hat boy turned his head, it was an unfamiliar face.
The face was normal, just squatting in the stairwell looking very strange.
The yellow hat boy cracked his fingers: "Then big brother, can you go home and help me find mom? My mom is in room 701."
Li Lin heard the two words "big brother", immediately pointed at Wu Xin: "I don't have time, you ask that big brother."
The target of the strange was very clear, it was the person who was challenged to live.
In its eyes, Wu Xin was just an irrelevant supporting role.
So the yellow hat boy scratched his neck: "Big brother, where are you pointing? I'm asking you?"
Li Lin's forehead was covered in cold sweat, his eyes darting around, patiently coaxing: "Little friend, your mother is upstairs, you know where to go, right? You're an independent boy, you have to find your mother yourself?"
Hearing this, the yellow-hatted boy puffed up his cheeks and cried: "There are three of you, yet no one helped me... hu hu hu... you are really cold-blooded and heartless adults."
Su Qingyu stopped bothering with this child and continued to go down the stairs.
The yellow-hatted boy looked at their departing backs, coldly saying: "It's obvious that coming to your house is the best choice. But it's okay, we will still meet again. Mom said, a good child must wait patiently, the candy will come."
Wen Xuecha walked over and put her arm around Su Qingyu's arm, asking softly: "Sister Yu, is that child also a monster?" The
girl was soft and fragrant, Su Qingyu glanced at Wen Xuecha's "rising waves" pressed against her hand, feeling a little embarrassed and wanting to pull her hand away.
However, Wen Xue Cha regarded Su Qing Yu as her savior and refused to let go.
To her teammates, Su Qing Yu was willing to share some information: "There are not only ghosts in the dungeon, there are also people with mild contamination."
Li Lin did not dare to follow behind alone, he also wanted to follow up, but the stairs did not allow four people to walk side by side.
He asked behind him: "What is contamination, what is mutation?"
Su Qing Yu replied: "You understand contamination as rot, the source of contamination will corrode the rationality of normal people, causing their bodies to mutate. When the rot reaches a certain level, people will turn into ghosts, becoming ghosts that serve the source of contamination."
Wen Xue Cha blinked, and said subconsciously: "If there is contamination, then let's destroy the source of contamination."
Su Qing Yu nodded: "Normally speaking, destroying the source of contamination can indeed open the dungeon."
The three of them chatted as they went down.
After Su Qing Yu reached the 6th floor, she stopped and did not continue going down.
Li Lin stabbed Wen Xue Cha in the back, Wen Xue Cha let out an "ouch", Li Lin's body became unstable, almost falling backwards.
"Be careful!"
Su Qing Yu pulled Li Lin who was about to fall.
[The passageway only goes down, not up.]
If Li Lin fell backwards, it would be a violation of this rule.
"Th... thank you."
Li Lin thought about it and still felt scared.
Wen Xue Cha was so frightened that she covered her mouth, stopping herself from screaming, she pointed behind Li Lin: "That yellow-capped boy is holding onto the railing looking down at us!"
"Don't mind him."
Su Qing Yu grabbed Wen Xue Cha's wrist, immediately stepping out of the emergency exit.
Li Lin really wanted to go straight from the emergency exit to the first floor.
But countless horror movies taught him that acting alone was no different from committing suicide.
Moreover, Su Qing Yu had just saved him,He still wanted to follow To Thanh Ngu.
Li Lin's question, Wen Xue Cha asked on his behalf: "Sister Yu, we have determined that this side is the west exit, why don't we continue down?"
"Think about the seventh rule."
[The sense of direction is very important, keep your mind clear, when necessary, you can use support tools.]
Wen Xue Cha still did not understand: "The sense of direction?"
At this time, Li Lin also discovered something unusual, he pointed at the room number plate and said in surprise: "That's strange, why are the room numbers here 604, 605, 606? When we went down, the room numbers corresponding to the west exit should be 701, 702, 703."
"The east-west direction has changed."
The second rule, the words in parentheses specifically reminded the challenger, do not enter the wrong exit, entering the wrong exit is very dangerous.
The corridor on the 6th floor was old, the black railing was covered with dust.
Standing by the railing, looking at the opposite building, it was deserted and cold, with only a few people walking in the hallway.
Su Qingyu stood in front of the emergency exit, found a relatively spacious place, and squatted down: "It's dark now, we can't rely on the sun to tell direction. We can't rule out the possibility that the room number plate is also contaminated. My plan is to wait until morning to act. You guys can do whatever you want." "
I'll wait until morning too!"
Wen Xuecha sat next to Su Qingyu.
"I also—"
Before Li Lin could finish his sentence, the three of them heard the sound of the door opening.
Room 604, something came out!
The old lady leaned on her cane and walked out of the door slowly.
She held a basket of fruit covered by a yellow cloth in her hand.
Wu Xin saw the old lady's fruit and revealed a look of disgust.
Su Qing Yu quickly realized Wu Xin's reaction.
The food that monsters hated was also something humans could eat.
Seeing Su Qing Yu and the others huddled by the door, the old lady smiled kindly: "Poor children, why are you sitting here? It's cold outside, come in and sit down, I'll bake cookies for you."
Su Qing Yu looked at the old lady's basket of fruit and smiled sweetly: "If possible, can you give us some fruit?"
Wen Xue Cha gently pulled Su Qing Yu's sleeve and whispered: "Sister Yu, you can't just eat the food of monsters."
"It's okay."
Su Qing Yu patted the back of her hand, telling her to rest assured.
The old lady was asked for fruit, paused, the wrinkles on her face trembled, slightly unhappy: "These fruits are both sour and astringent, how can I give them to the children to eat?"
"Grandma, I don't mind."
Su Qingyu spread her palms, shameless.
The second rule in her mother's note:
[If you insist on leaving, I will also support you. Remember, don't believe the words of strange residents, and even more so, don't go to their house as guests.]
The old lady invited them into her house to make cookies for them, which was also a trap.
The fruit the old lady hid in her basket was the real food that could be eaten.
"My son works at the slaughterhouse, tonight we're roasting a whole lamb."
The old lady continued to tempt Su Qingyu: "A whole roasted lamb is fragrant, tender and sweet, just thinking about it makes my mouth water."
Roasting a whole lamb?
It's likely that as soon as these challengers entered the house, she would roast them into a "whole lamb"!
In Su Qingyu's eyes, there was only the old lady's fruit basket.
"I'm a girl, I don't eat greasy food like whole roasted lamb, just some fruit makes me happy."
Su Qingyu looked at the old lady with such sincerity that this "neighbor" couldn't refuse.
In the end, the old lady reluctantly handed over two red apples, her tone fake: "It's cold here, my house also has a fireplace, do you really not want to come in and sit for a bit?"
Su Qingyu accepted the apples: "Thank you, I really won't go in."
The old lady pulled up her loose belt: "If you change your mind, you can always come to my house, my house is in room 604."
After speaking, the old lady reluctantly left, she walked to the white wall, where an elevator suddenly appeared.
The first rule of the [Endless Corridor].
[Remember, this building absolutely does not have an elevator. If you see an elevator, close your eyes, count to 10 silently, then open them. The illusion will disappear.]
Su Qingyu hugged two apples and reminded: "Close your eyes and count silently to ten."
She closed her eyes tightly. In this unfamiliar environment, closing her eyes would create an extremely uneasy feeling.
But she had to overcome her instincts. She
silently counted: 10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1.
Wen Xuecha also panicked and covered her eyes, her eyelashes trembled, she really wanted to open her eyes but told herself not to.
While she was silently counting, she heard the sound of the elevator door opening.
This building absolutely did not have an elevator, but why did the elevator appear so real?
"Thump, thump, thump..."
The old woman's heavy footsteps dragged into the elevator.
Li Lin gasped, he also started counting backwards, not daring to be too fast, not daring to be too slow.
Every time he counted, Li Lin would ask himself: Is this rhythm right? Am I missing a number?
After going through the first instance, Li Lin had long been mentally exhausted, any small movement would make him feel like he was on the brink.
His timid personality made the nerves in his head tense like a bowstring for 24 hours.
Even though he counted to ten, Li Lin still didn't dare to open his eyes.
When he closed his eyes to count, Su Qingyu couldn't hear the elevator at all.
After counting to ten, the old woman and the elevator had disappeared.
Only a small puddle of water remained in front of Su Qingyu.
Su Qingyu opened her eyes and saw that Wen Xuecha and Li Lin were still covering their eyes, cowering like quails.
"Open your eyes, the ghost has left."
Wen Xuecha opened her index and middle fingers, squinting at the gap.
After confirming that the elevator had disappeared, she immediately jumped up and shook the sweaty Li Lin: "Mr. Li, don't be afraid, the elevator really disappeared, the first rule is right!"
Only then did Li Lin open her eyes and breathe a sigh of relief.
Su Qingyu wiped the apple clean and took a bite.
The crisp sweetness and refreshing apple juice immediately awakened her taste buds.
"Oh my god! Don't eat like that!"
Wen Xue Cha thought that the strange monster looked like an old witch, and giving fruit was not a good thing.
But Su Qing Yu had read the novel [Horror Descends].
She discovered that the main character participating in the dungeon challenge, except for the food that went against the rules or looked inedible, the other common food in the dungeon was not poisonous.
Su Qing Yu raised the bitten apple, tilted her head and asked Wen Xue Cha: "In the first dungeon, what did you eat?"
"Of course it was healthy food, rice mixed with soy sauce, it was pitiful."
Wen Xue Cha rubbed her stomach pitifully, she had not eaten enough in the first dungeon.
Li Lin swallowed his saliva, looked at the remaining apple in Su Qing Yu's hand, and asked: "Sister... Sister Yu, can you give me that apple? I didn't eat anything in the first dungeon, now I'm so hungry that I'm dizzy.""
"Impossible."
Su Qingyu would not share her food with strangers she had just met.
Li Lin's request for food was rejected, her face red: "We are teammates, how can you be so selfish?"
Su Qingyu was indifferent, the kindness of a "holy mother" in a world where demons are rampant is something that should not exist.
"As a companion, I can only give you a few suggestions. First, demons will use all means to kill you, but they will definitely leave a way to live. Therefore, in this instance, there will definitely be food that can be used. Second, the prerequisite for escaping the instance is to have a healthy body. If your body is too weak, it will be easy for demons to take advantage of the situation to invade. Finally, I am not as trustworthy as you think."
If there is a rule in this instance that only one person can survive.
Then Su Qingyu will not hesitate to deal with the others!
Li Lin was speechless, he was not naive enough to think that using moral coercion could make Su Qingyu give up her food for him.
The corridor was empty, the wind from the 6th floor carried a cold dampness.
Wen Xuecha heard what Su Qingyu had just said, and remained silent.
When Li Lin calmed down, she secretly ran over and said to Su Qingyu: "Sister Yu, let's cooperate."Wen Xue Cha pushed up her thick glasses that were as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle.
The gentle-looking girl spoke sharply, "That Li Lin is not trustworthy. He's noisy when he needs to be careful, and timid when he needs to be brave. The difficulty of the first instance was 1 star, and the difficulty of this instance is 3 stars. Sister Yu, actually we're the same kind of people. When the old lady gave you the apple, I secretly pulled a piece of paper from her fruit basket."
After speaking, Wen Xue Cha slid the piece of paper in front of Su Qing Yu's face and quickly put it back.
"Sister Yu, how about it? Let's at least cooperate through this scene."
Su Qing Yu looked at Wen Xue Cha with appreciation, and slowly took out her mother's piece of paper from her pocket.
Wen Xue Cha saw that Su Qing Yu also had another rule in her hand, and said excitedly, "I knew right away that I didn't see the wrong person. Let's exchange with each other."
Tributes could sense the thoughts of their masters.
Minds were connected.
Wu Xin looked at the paper Wen Xue Cha held tightly in his palm, he nodded to Su Qing Yu, signaling that the paper was not fake.
"Alright, I'm the one who likes to make friends the most."
Su Qing Yu lightly slapped Wen Xue Cha's hand, the cooperation was successful.
First, they exchanged the rules that each person had.
Wen Xue Cha's paper read [Resident Rules].
Su Qing Yu opened the paper, on the paper were small words like flies.
The words were rusty in color, faintly smelling of fish.
[1. As a good neighbor living in the same building, you need to try to maintain a friendly attitude towards other residents. If other residents are too rude to you, you can sew a smile on their mouths.]
[2. You can chat enthusiastically with other residents and invite them to your home. Remember not to tell them the true face of the house in advance, give them a surprise.]
[3. Be careful of the guards patrolling the hallway, they always like to meddle in other people's business.]
[4. If you want to go out, you can take the elevator or go downstairs on the east fire escape.]
[5. There are bad guys in this building, if you see bad guys, remember to close the door tightly, don't let anyone out.]
In a world of strange rules, identity and perception are extremely important.
In Su Qingyu's heart, the identity of the challenger is a "resident" on the 7th floor.
Therefore, when talking to the old lady just now, if she rudely grabbed the food, she would definitely be caught and sewn up by the old lady.
After reading her mother's note, Wen Xuecha said with some disappointment, "Why didn't I receive a note from my mother after I finished the first instance? I clearly made my mother very happy, is my acting not good enough?"
To Thanh Ngu coldly said: "Maybe I wrote this paper myself to deceive you."
Facing such a cute girl, Su Qingyu's latent bad temper was aroused.
Wanting to scare her.
Wen Xuecha's eyes were filled with tears, she hugged her black backpack tightly and said resolutely: "No, Sister Yu is definitely not a bad person! Because a beautiful girl will not deceive others!"
Late at night, Wen Xuecha hugged Su Qingyu tightly and fell asleep, she was as soft as a cat without any defense.
Li Lin didn't sleep well all night, his dreams were full of the old lady's ugly face, smiling strangely at him.
"Ah!"
Li Lin woke up with a start, finding that it was already morning.
Su Qingyu looked at her watch, it was now five thirty in the morning.
Li Lin rubbed her red eyes, and asked hoarsely: "The sun is up, shall we continue downstairs?"
"Let's go, the west exit is just across the street."
Su Qingyu used her watch to determine the direction.
They crossed the corridor, the corridor was covered in dust, the soles of her shoes left footprints.
The cold wind blew through the iron railing, making a creaking sound.
Following the fire escape stairs down.
The bright yellow lights in the corridor flickered, black insects fluttered around like the pupils of an old man who was about to die.
Su Qingyu heard the sound of hopping behind her.
Wu Xin walked without making a sound, this was the sound of the fourth person.
"Bang bang, bang bang——"
Li Lin walked at the end, he felt the sound right behind him.
"Did you guys hear that?"
Li Lin panicked and walked faster, not daring to look back.
But he walked fast, the "bang bang" sound behind him also quickened.
Su Qingyu quickly escaped the fire escape, going to the fifth floor.
When she stepped out, under the dim light, she saw that thing was a corpse walking upside down on its head.
The legs were broken and twisted like tree branches in a strange position.
Where it passed, it left behind a mixture of red and white brain matter.
"Bang bang, bang bang——"
The sound of heads hitting the stairs.
"Hurry up!"
Wen Xue Cha and Li Lin jumped a few steps and rushed out of the emergency exit.
Su Qing Yu slammed the heavy fireproof door of the emergency exit.
That thing was not a resident, it was a heavily contaminated monster.
It absolutely could not be allowed to enter the fifth floor.
The fireproof door closed, and that thing began to knock on the door.
"Cough cough... what floor is this..."
Su Qing Yu pulled on the iron door: "This is the fifth floor."
Li Lin and Wen Xue Cha also helped pull the door.
"Then I want to go to the seventh floor... cough cough..."
It was quiet outside, as if that thing had left.
Li Lin let go of his hand: "It's finally gone.
"Not going anywhere!"
Su Qingyu still held the doorknob tightly.
And that thing was trying to push the door open.
At this moment, a flashlight shone on it, and a security guard in a black uniform walked over. He asked, "What are you doing here?"
The sixth rule of the Endless Corridor (top).
[Each building has a total of seven floors, and there are two security guards in charge of patrolling. The one in the black uniform holding the walkie-talkie is the security guard. If you have any problems, you can ask them for help.]
The fifth rule of the mother's note.
[The security guard is a very good person. They are not part of the management team, they are outsourced employees. If you have any problems, you can ask them for help. They will be very willing to help you.]
Su Qingyu noticed that the security guard was holding a walkie-talkie in his hand.
According to the rules, if you ask the security guard for help, you will get help.
The security guard is a good person.
So, Su Qingyu immediately said: "Security guard, it's like this. Just now when we went downstairs, a bad guy followed us. That person is definitely not a resident of this building. I hope you can help us chase him away."
The security guard was a middle-aged man with a square face and a scraggly beard.
Hearing Su Qingyu's plea for help, he immediately said seriously: "It's okay, you guys open the door, let me talk to him."
Su Qingyu immediately hid behind the security guard.
The security guard opened the door, and that thing was still there.
The security guard took out a thick registration book, flipped through it, and sternly said: "This guest, I found out that you registered to visit a resident on the seventh floor. This is the fifth floor, not the floor you need to go to, please come up to the seventh floor. If you continue to wander around the hallway, I will chase you out of here!"The thing suddenly felt a little scared, it didn't dare to argue with the guard, its legs flailing around as if it wanted to explain something.
The guard looked at it with an angry gaze: "Hurry up and leave!"
The thing looked at the three people behind the guard with regret, moved its head, and hopped up the stairs.
Su Qingyu clasped her hands in front of her chest, smiling and thanking the guard: "Uncle guard, thank you very much."
The guard smiled gently: "No need to be so polite, this is my job. The apartment complex is being renovated these days, there are often some strange people who come in. If you encounter them, don't be too scared, they are just lost guests. If they keep following you like the guest just now, just report to me, I will chase them away for you."
"Then uncle, how should I contact you?"
Su Qingyu thought to herself, the security room suddenly appeared on this floor.
Just now when she went to the fifth floor, it was certain that there was no one on the fifth floor.
The security guard appeared, there was only one possibility: that was the security guard coming out from the east exit.
The security guard adjusted the walkie-talkie, the device made a "sizzling" sound.
He said: "I always patrol the building, it's easy to meet me. If you want to find me, you can use the phone next to the east exit on the 4th floor to call the security room. The security department's colleague will notify me via walkie-talkie. By the way, the security room's phone number is five four."
After speaking, the security guard went into the west exit, and followed the stairs up.
Wen Xue Cha whispered: "Didn't they say that the stairs only go down, not up?"
Li Lin felt goosebumps all over his arms: "Isn't the security guard also not human?"
The rule of not being contaminated was absolutely trustworthy.
The door to room 505 opened slightly, and the sound of a couple arguing came from inside.
The male student's voice was filled with anger: "I told you a long time ago, you should just stay home and take care of your child, don't think about investing all day! What did you invest in that shabby hotel for? You poured in hundreds of thousands and didn't hear any sound!"
The female student's voice was choked: "But that hotel is a project developed by Sao Mai Group, at that time they guaranteed to get three times the return."
"There's no such thing as falling cakes, even if there were cakes, they would kill people!"
The male student stomped his feet angrily: "You're so stupid, it's okay to pour in the house deposit, you also borrowed money to invest. Now this hole of hundreds of thousands, how should we fill it up!"
The female student lacked confidence: "Wait... wait for the hotel to open, then we can pay it back."
At this time, the sound of a child crying rang out in the room again.
This was the nth time Su Qingyu heard the two words "Sao Mai".
From the information collected before, it could be known,Sao Mai Group is a commercial corporation with great influence in the strange world.
It was known that they had real estate activities, building management services, and hotel business.
Su Qingyu remembered the novel [The Coming of Horror], the main character once worked in a strange world to earn money from the underworld.
At that time, the company he worked for was also a subsidiary of Sao Mai Group.
Using a watch to determine the direction, Su Qingyu and everyone continued to go downstairs when it was light. As
soon as they reached the fourth floor, the hallway was filled with charred black people, causing Su Qingyu to immediately get goosebumps.
"Oh my god!"
Li Lin's heart was beating fast, his hands and feet were flustered, and his mind was in chaos.
He was so scared that his legs went weak, and he even wanted to run downstairs.
Wen Xuecha grabbed Li Lin who was about to run away, Wen Xuecha gritted her teeth and glared at him: "You go downstairs without knowing the direction, do you want to die?"
Li Lin's face turned pale: "If you don't run, you will die more miserably."
Those charred people seemed to still have fire burning in their bodies, their insides were filled with lava, their outer layers were scorched and peeling off.
One person pushed another, some were trampled underfoot, some were piled on top of each other, all of them were struggling in pain.
"It's too hot!"
"It's too hot!"
Everyone repeated this sentence over and over again.
"Don't push me!"
"You're the one who's not pushing me!"
The more they struggled, the more charred people fell from the corridor.
There was no sound of them falling to the ground.
The corridor was endless, falling endlessly.
Su Qingyu's eyes were calm, she calmly said: "What are you afraid of? There are other rules that haven't been found yet, we have to check each floor."
Su Qingyu used her watch to determine the direction, sure enough they needed to pass through this corridor filled with charred corpses, going downstairs from the opposite fire exit. There
was a white phone installed on the wall.
Su Qingyu picked up the phone and dialed five fours.
"Beep beep beep——"
The phone connected, after waiting for a few seconds, the other side picked up.
The voice of an old man rang out: "Hello, this is the security room, what's the matter?"
Su Qingyu briefly described the situation: "Yes, it's like this, my friend and I are currently on the 4th floor. The 4th floor corridor is packed with people, we want to go downstairs but can't get through. Can you send security to help us disperse the crowd?"
"You guys stay where you are, we'll send someone right away - sizzle - you can also take the east exit, it's been repaired, it's usable - sizzle -"
The phone went dead.
Li Lin just wanted to escape from this place: "The east exit is open, so let's go that way. I'm afraid these burnt corpses will rush in, two fists can't fight four fists, let alone there are so many of these monsters!"
"The phone just now was polluted, before the sizzling sound was the security guard's voice, after the sizzling sound was its voice."
At this moment, Su Qingyu slightly lowered her eyes, her expression calm: "With Wuxin here, he is my man, when necessary he will take action."
Li Lin was always afraid of Wuxin, especially when night fell, he felt that Wuxin's pitch black eyes without whites were even more terrifying than the ghosts in this building.
"Pollution..."
Li Lin was slow to understand, he was both tired and hungry, feeling like he was about to collapse.
"I've always wanted to ask, is this Wuxin sister's shikigami?"
At first, Wen Xuecha was also wary of Wuxin, but in the past two days, she discovered that this Wuxin didn't eat or sleep, didn't say a word all day, and was as dull as a log.
A dull log that exuded a strange aura.
A shikigami? She wasn't an onmyoji.
Su Qingyu felt that carrying around the ghosts with her was more like raising a little ghost.
She had to pay the price.
"You guys don't need to pay too much attention to him, he won't harm us."
The price for using Wu Xin was a fresh heart or ten thousand hell coins.
If another challenger had obtained Wu Xin, they would probably turn into a "heart thief".
Not long after, the person in black uniform came down from upstairsSu Qingyu noticed that this "security guard" was not the person they had just met. He
did not have a black walkie-talkie in his hand, nor did he have a badge on his uniform.
The uniform pocket was very large, and could hold a walkie-talkie.
Su Qingyu maintained an observant attitude.
Li Lin seemed to have found a lifeline, and walked over to ask the security guard for help: "Thank goodness, security guard is finally here. Those things are blocking the way, it's so scary, please help clean up the hallway."
The "security guard" chuckled, pointing at the fire extinguisher beside him.
Li Lin asked: "You mean if we use the fire extinguisher to help put out the fire, will they leave?"
The "security guard" did not say anything, only nodded.
Li Lin and Wen Xuecha were preparing to open the fire cabinet and take out the fire extinguisher from inside.
"Uncle, where are your colleagues?"
The rules mentioned that there were a total of two security guards.
This "security guard" waved his hand and shook his head.
Not speaking was indeed very strange.
It was reasonable to assume that talking would reveal a flaw, so they didn't say anything.
So Su Qingyu spoke up to stop them: "You two don't touch the fire extinguisher anymore. We invited the security guard to help us solve the problem, not to let the security guard guide us to solve the problem."
Li Lin still wanted to continue: "It's okay to help."
Su Qingyu said to the "security guard" who was standing still like a statue: "Uncle, where's your walkie-talkie? Use the walkie-talkie to contact your colleague and invite him to come over to help."
The "security guard" grinned, still pointing at the fire extinguisher.
At this moment, the familiar square-faced security guard ran down from the emergency exit.
He was panting: "Did you guys call me... Huh? Who is this person?"
The security guard noticed the imposter standing there.
Wen Xuecha frowned and asked: "Isn't he your colleague?"
The security guard revealed a strange expression: "My colleague is patrolling the first floor, this person is not my colleague."
After speaking, the security guard put on his gloves, he raised his hand and grabbed the imposter's collar.
The imposter's black uniform was like a layer of skin, peeled off along with his face and hair.
Inside was a similarly charred corpse.
He raised the charred corpse high and threw it down the hallway.
He shouted loudly and energetically: "Everyone go home now! Or else I will throw you all down there!"
The charred corpses crowded the hallway, one by one fighting to get into room 404 behind.
Their bodies were brittle, continuously falling into black pieces.
The square-faced security guard seemed to have magical powers, anyone who didn't make it home in time was grabbed by the neck and thrown down the hallway one by one.
After clearing the hallway,To Thanh Ngu noticed that the wrist where the security guard's gloves and uniform intersected seemed to be burned.
Su Qingyu sincerely thanked him, "Uncle, I've troubled you again."
The security guard used his sleeve to cover his injured wrist, and looked at the fire extinguisher. "Luckily, I arrived in time. You guys weren't charmed by them and used the fire extinguisher to cool them down. These guys, once the temperature drops, will become extremely dangerous. At that time, I might not be able to deal with them."
Li Lin said resentfully, "We still have to be careful every step of the way. Oh, security guard, did you bring any food? I'm so hungry, and I can't buy anything to eat here."
The security guard took out half a bag of bread slices from his pocket and threw them to Li Lin. "Last night's leftovers, the three of you can share them to ease your hunger. If you guys are hungry, you can ask the residents here. They're very friendly and will definitely be happy to give you some food."
After saying that, the security guard left.
Li Lin quickly ran through the hallway, "Let's go downstairs."
"No rush, check this floor carefully first."
In the corridor on the fourth floor, Su Qingyu found a new rule in the ashes.
The Endless Corridor Rule (bottom)
[8. If you are at the emergency exit and find someone behaving strangely and constantly following you, stay calm, stay away immediately, and report the incident to the security department. The security department will send someone to handle it.]
[9. There is a grocery store on the first floor, you can buy anything you need. It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can help the owner clean up the trash in front of the door. No matter what you see, remember, it's all trash.] [
10. The person running the grocery store is a resident of this building, she is an old lady who lives alone, don't mistake her for someone else.]
[11. Again, this building only has 7 floors, no underground parking, and no cars with keys left untouched.]
[12. Remember every neighbor you have met. If you see a strange face, call the security guard immediately. If the security guard confirms that it is a criminal sneaking into the floor, call the police - the phone number is 65*21.]
[13. Don't make a false police report. Before the police arrive, restrain the criminal. Remember, you only have one chance.]
Rule number 12, the police phone number is burned off one digit.
If it weren't for her mother's piece of paper, she would have to try ten times when calling the police.
Su Qingyu showed the rule to Wu Xin, Wu Xin shook her head, indicating that this rule was not contaminated.
At this point, all the main rules of the instance had been collected and were all real.
Su Qingyu looked at the rule while nibbling on an apple.
Van Tuyet Tra looked at the bag of bread in Ly Lam's hand, her tone a bit flattering:
"Mr. Ly, the security guard said this bread is for the three of us."
"It said it was for the three of us, but I risked my life to get it back."
Li Lin opened the bag of cakes, tore off a small piece with his hand and gave it to Wen Xue Cha: "I can only give you this much, as a way to repay you for saving me before. I've been hungry for days, this little cake isn't even enough to fill my teeth."
After saying that, Li Lin ate greedily, swallowing all the cakes.
As for Su Qing Yu, Li Lin was still resentful, and had absolutely no intention of sharing any with her.
Wen Xue Cha gritted her teeth, she comforted herself that once she got to the first floor, there was a grocery store and she could buy food right away.
Having received the new rules, they continued to go down.
While going down the stairs, Su Qing Yu suddenly remembered the fifth point of the [Resident Rules].
[There are bad guys in this building, if you see bad guys, remember to close the door tightly, don't let anyone out.]
They went down to the 4th floor from the 7th floor, now they are on their way down to the 3rd floor.
On the 6th floor, they met an old lady in room 604. On
the 5th floor, they met a couple arguing in room 504.
On the 4th floor, they met a burnt corpse in room 404.
On the 7th floor alone...
They met the boy in the yellow hat in the hallway between the 7th and 6th floors, he said his mother was in room 701.
But when they were on the 7th floor, no residents left their houses.
All the doors were closed tightly.
This proved that the 7th floor was most likely dangerous at that time, no one dared to go out!Where is the bad guy hiding on the 7th floor?
Why didn't he show up?
Su Qingyu looked at Li Lin with a strange gaze, his face was haggard, dark circles under his eyes, and his spirit was extremely tense.
Turning to Wen Xuecha who was playing with her braids, she leaned against the wall, looking at her with sparkling eyes.
These two people were indeed test subjects.
Not disguised monsters.
If the bad guy in the rules wasn't hidden among them, then it meant that the bad guy was hiding for a special reason.
Mother's note mentioned that there was a murderer sneaking into the building recently.
Whether the "bad guy" in the [Resident Rules] and the "murderer" in [Mother's Note] were the same person was still unclear.
Continuing down to the 3rd floor, Su Qingyu smelled a strong scent of blood.
A fat rich merchant walked out of room 302, his head shaved, a flashy gold necklace around his neck, and a bunch of keys dangling from his belt.
Seeing Su Qingyu, the rich merchant enthusiastically greeted him: "Hello, so there are two beautiful girls here! Are you two residents of this building? I find it a bit strange." The
rich merchant's pale eyes made Su Qingyu feel uncomfortable all over.
He rubbed his round belly and smiled: "Do you want to come over to my house to play? I also have a daughter. I do big business, but I'm often not home. Every day she says she's bored, asking me to bring a lot of good friends home to play with her."
Su Qingyu politely refused: "No need."
Li Lin had just tasted a bit of sweetness from the security guard, he leaned closer and asked: "Big brother, did you bring any food?"
The rich merchant's bean-like eyes flashed with a strange light, he rubbed his chubby hands: "My family invited a famous chef, today they are having a beef feast, butchering the whole cow, with all kinds of flavors. If you want, I can ask the chef to bring some out."
Li Lin nodded repeatedly, happy to the point of tears: "That would be great."
Those few pieces of bread were completely not enough to fill his stomach.
The rich merchant called out into the house, not long after, a man wearing a white chef's hat came out carrying a white styrofoam lunch box.
The styrofoam box contained meat sprinkled with dill and chili powder.
"This is fatty beef, seasoned with rich spices, very tender."
The rich merchant handed the meat to Li Lin, when he got closer, he even sniffed Li Lin with his nose: "If it's not enough, you can come to my house to eat more."
"Enough, enough."
Li Lin was immersed in the joy of having food, not noticing this abnormality.
They left the third floor.
To Thanh Ngu noticed that the rich merchant took out the key, walked through the hallway, and opened the door to room 304.
As for Vo Tam, his pitch-black eyes were focused on the "beef" in Ly Lam's hand.He stuck out his red tongue and licked his lower lip, showing an unprecedented appetite.
This was not beef at all, but human flesh.
Li Lin ate greedily, the dill and chili powder covering up the fishy smell of human flesh. Although the chewing sensation was a bit strange, Li Lin was so hungry that he didn't notice.
Wen Xuecha bit her lower lip, quite pitiful.
She was also hungry.
Su Qingyu didn't care about the two of them. The rules didn't directly mention food, which meant that even if she ate the wrong food, it wouldn't cause the pollution to deepen.
Asking for food from the residents was a dangerous act.
The last time Su Qingyu asked for an apple from the old woman, she judged based on Wu Xin's reaction.
After finding the rules of [Endless Corridor (bottom)], the ninth rule mentioned: There is a grocery store on the first floor, where you can buy everything you need.
Su Qingyu guessed that she could use the money of the underworld to buy food at the grocery store.
When she got to the second floor, the sun was already setting.
The door to room 205 was wide open, inside was a row of old people sitting in a row, their backs facing the door, singing in unison, evenly.
Their hair was white, their black longevity clothes were identical.
This was a choir of old people.
"The sky was dark, the road was dark, in the forest appeared a handsome guy.
The handsome guy, his stomach was growling, he lit a fire to cook a beautiful girl.
The beautiful girl, sobbing, called the rich father at home.
The rich father, his stomach was huge, a pot of fat was flowing out!
Deserved, deserved!
Misfortune has befallen him with nowhere to hide, good and evil must be paid for!"
The strange nursery rhyme was up and down.
The "rich dad" in the song easily reminded people of the rich merchant they had just met on the third floor.
If the "rich dad" referred to the rich merchant, then the "beautiful girl" must be the rich merchant's daughter.
At the moment the sun was about to set, Su Qingyu used her watch to determine the direction and went down to the first floor.
This time, Li Lin took the lead, quite excited: "Great, we finally escaped from this hellish place!"
Wen Xue Cha was not so optimistic: "If only it were this easy to get out, that would be great." There
were two grocery stores on the first floor, one on the east side, one on the west side, in between was a long corridor, with absolutely no exit.
"Where's the exit?"
Li Lin walked around the corridor, scratching his head in despair: "This is clearly the first floor, why is there no exit?"
"There's still an emergency exit here."
Su Qing Yu pointed towards the two grocery stores, still the familiar emergency exit.
The green light was flashing, the path leading down was endless.
Rule 11 of [Endless Corridor]:
[I'll say it again, this building only has 7 floors, there's no underground parking lot, and there's no car with the key removed.]
Wen Xue Cha's voice trembled slightly as she said:"Do we have to go down another floor to find the exit?"
Li Lin said loudly: "But the rules emphasize that this building only has 7 floors. If we go down, won't it prove that the building doesn't only have 7 floors!"
"The sun has set, we need to stay on the first floor tonight."
Su Qingyu observed the two grocery stores.
From the outside, the decorations of the two grocery stores were not much different.
One store had a lucky cat at the door, and an old woman with gray hair sat at the counter knitting.
The goods on the shelves were sparse and looked old.
Inside the store, a parrot was locked in an iron cage, continuously screeching: "Welcome!"
The other store had the word "Phuc" written upside down on both sides of the door, and the shelves not only had all kinds of snacks, but were also filled with fruits and vegetables.
The owner of the store was an old acquaintance.
It was the old woman in room 604 who had given Su Qingyu two red apples and taken the elevator downstairs.
Obviously, Li Lin and Wen Xue Cha also noticed the old lady in room 604.
Article 10 of the [Endless Corridor Rules]
[The person running the grocery store is a resident of this building, she is an old lady who lives alone. Please do not mistake her for someone else.]
In a dangerous environment, people often want to come into contact with familiar things.
Wen Xue Cha tugged on Su Qing Yu's sleeve: "Sister Yu, you have eaten her fruit before, let's go to her store to buy some."
Su Qing Yu shook her head: "That store is not a grocery store."