Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1241 Elevator?

It was a bit difficult to hold the door all the way.

To be precise, for example, she used up a little bit of consciousness, but this bit of consciousness can't be stretched like the texture of chewing gum.In order to make it stretchable, Lin Sanjiu had to change the "capacity" that was originally its volume into a length; when this part of consciousness was pinched like clay, it was extremely long and thin. When the time comes, add a second point of consciousness and continue pinching it.This is a process that must continue to focus on energy. If she is distracted and climbs two steps when she has no consciousness, the end hanging on the door will be pulled down.

Although yes, she is not familiar with this method, so it is naturally a bit difficult, and sometimes she has to stop and reason.When she raised her head several times, she found that the three people in front had already climbed far away; the few swimming fish that Bohemia took out to illuminate the crowd turned into blurred light clusters, hanging high in the dark and narrow on the stairway.

Walking in single file in such a narrow and dark place, it is really easy to sneak in people, or there are few people; after catching up again, Lin Sanjiu slowed down a few meters away from the puppeteer, and secretly let out a sigh.

The stairs and the walls on both sides are made of unknown material, as if the countless mouths that have been thirsty for an unknown period of time quickly swallowed all the noises they made; not to mention the sound of footsteps, sometimes the wave walking at the forefront When Simia said something, before she could hear it clearly, the words were scattered—for example, now.

"...What?" She had to raise her head and shouted loudly. Under the dim light, all that could be seen in front of her were the puppeteer's dark and silent back, and two shadows higher up that flashed and disappeared. "Who spoke? Is it Bohemia?"

"I said it," Bohemia raised her voice and shouted again: "The steps in front are steeper and narrower! It will really save labor and materials!"

The narrower and steeper steps are one of the reasons why they cannot climb up close together; another reason is of course the puppeteer.

"Take out a few more of your fish," Lin Sanjiu responded, "I can't even see how far I look back."

"You have consciousness. If someone pushes the door hard, you will be the first to find out. Why do you have to look back?" Bohemia still kept fighting with her while separated by two people, "Do you think my Swimming fish can be used indefinitely—”

Before she finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt her eyes darken; the light fish swam away from her head as soon as it flicked its tail, and together with several other light fish, they had already swam to the front of the team quickly—— When she made a sound, she heard Bohemia shouting in surprise: "Who is it!"

Several people stopped in their tracks.

"……Eh?"

Lin Sanjiu vaguely heard another question from Bohemia, and also saw the shadow of the former guard standing sideways by the wall, stretching his neck and looking forward - he was the most obedient, every time he stopped on the road When they got down, they would immediately press their backs against the wall, leaving a fighting space for the puppeteers.

"Strange," Bohemia finally turned around and shouted after two seconds, "There's a dead man here!"

"Is, really dead?" The former guard asked tremblingly.

Really dead fake dead, let her know it by touching it.Lin Sanjiu yelled "Give way" and squeezed past the puppeteer. He couldn't forget to continue to "shape" his consciousness, and finally came to the next step of Bohemia; because The space was too narrow, and the former guard staggered a few times, barely standing still.

In order not to step on the skirt when climbing the stairs, Bohemia changed into a pullover and shorts at some point, as if suddenly changing an era. "Look," she pointed, "it scared me."

A man's body spread down the steps like a snake, his head fell on the step closest to them, and he was staring up at the two of them.He obviously had not been dead for a long time, and the degree of body spots was not serious, but because the head was at the bottom, the blood sank to the face, and patches of blue and red floated on the skin. [Flat World] The conversion card quota for the second day has not been used yet. At this time, when Lin Sanjiu touched his forehead, the corpse was successfully transformed into a card.

【Corpse of unknown cause】

Another body found on the road.

"How could this man die here?" Bohemia murmured.

"It's... the person who was going to squeeze into the elevator before?" The former guard guessed, "If he rushed in when the last batch of discharged players was about to run out, then the people in front took the elevator and left. Once the NPC behind locks the door, he won't be able to get out."

Bohemia shuddered: "It's just... Trapped to death in the stairway? Does that mean that the last time someone was discharged from the hospital was a long time ago? Or is there danger in the stairway itself?"

"I can't tell." The former guard scratched his head, and he was a little confused: "Really...why didn't I read this part in the strategy?"

Now that he and his side are grasshoppers on the same rope, Lin Sanjiu didn't feel that he was deliberately concealing the situation, so he nodded: "Since he is a dead person, it doesn't matter, let's go on."

"Throw away the dead man." The puppeteer said coldly.He stood at the bottom, his figure congealed into a pitch blackness darker than the darkness: "Are you a junk picker?"

Just as Lin Sanjiu was about to ask why, he immediately responded. The NPC said that as long as there is one more person present when the elevator is running, they will be disqualified, but they did not say whether the fifth person is alive or dead - the puppeteer can consider this early, it must be because he Have you ever thought about turning someone into a doll?

I really don’t forget my old job wherever I go.

She returned to the end of the line, unlocked the card of the corpse, searched him randomly with one free hand, and found that there was nothing, then reached out and lifted him, causing the corpse to roll all the way down the stairs— ——Whether it was shadow or sound, they were all swallowed up by the endlessly stretching stairway in the darkness.

"Sorry," she whispered, turning to follow the line.

The sound of footsteps, breathing, and rubbing of clothing materials of the three people in front... were all completely absorbed by the stairway; if Lin Sanjiu hadn't looked up, he might have thought that he was climbing this long road alone. Endless stairs.The long stairs that she dropped behind her were immersed in the darkness, looking at the group of four people, they could not make a sound.

Several times, she even felt quite sure that as soon as she turned around, she could see the dead body just now climbing up silently and on all fours; but each time, of course, it was just her nervousness. There was nothing but the empty darkness, and the messy footprints left by his party in the dust.

"That, sir?" When she kept looking back, Bohemia in front suddenly called out, "You...do you think there are only four of us in this stairway?"

The puppeteer in front still maintained the same action posture as before, without even looking back; she didn't see how he looked around, but half a second later, she heard the familiar gloomy voice being sent to her ears: "... Follow closely, are you putting your cerebellum in the hospital?"

Lin Sanjiu was startled.As soon as she came in, the puppeteer felt that the distance was too close, so she had to retreat several meters; since then, she has kept the same distance—he suddenly wants her to get closer now, could it be because he feels Something weird about this place?
However, at least he didn't say that someone else was in the mix.

She gave a hasty "Oh" and hurried up two steps; she was still cautious, and only shortened the distance by one meter - after all, the puppeteer is moody and unpredictable, and it is very likely that he will drive her away with illness in a blink of an eye.But she didn't expect that she had only climbed two steps, and she was greeted with "Get down!".

...Sometimes he is too close and sometimes he is too far away, what is going on with this person?

Lin Sanjiu has also been tossed by him recently, and he didn't have the temper to cooperate well, so he simply stopped and watched his back all the way up, until he walked seven or eight meters, and then he followed again.It's strange to say that the puppeteer is satisfied now that she is farther away than before, and doesn't ask her to follow closely; in order to maintain this new distance, Lin Sanjiu still follows the speed of the three people in front, Adjusted the position several times.

After climbing an unknown number of steps step by step, even a powerful evolutionary began to feel a tingling pain from the thigh muscles.She wiped off her sweat, but she was a little impressed by Bohemia: Don't look at her who is usually gossiping and shy of the easy, but when she should be serious, not only did she not say a word, but she always kept the team Its forward speed was maintained at a steady rhythm, just like a light fish swimming back and forth above its head, its movements were unhurried and very regular.

... It's okay to come in for so long, the elevator is almost here, right?Could it be that they finally turned around once in a while and passed a level without wind or waves?
Consciousness condensed into a long line in Lin Sanjiu's hands, and there was no vibration from the door, which reassured her a lot.If she can stand still for 5 minutes, using the method Kurosawa Jixin taught her, and slowly feel the "distortion" after the surrounding space is occupied, then she will be more confident-if someone really sneaks in, they can cover it up. I can't hide my own traces, my own voice, but I can't hide the sense of "existence" that I occupy a part of the physical space.

"Hey, I want to stop for a few minutes," she yelled forward, "Bohemia, don't go! Do you remember when I found the red-faced man?"

She couldn't speak clearly because of the former guard who didn't know what was going on in her belly - but Bohemia would definitely understand what she was going to do when she heard it.

Bohemia's reply was quickly swallowed by the stairs again; if not for seeing the shadow of the puppeteer in front of him slowly stop, Lin Sanjiu almost thought she hadn't said anything.A few swimming fish turned back and forth regularly in the air, and as their bodies swayed, they evenly cast shaky light.Everything in the stairs was hazy, as if even the swaying shadows had life.

The method that Hei Zeji taught her is really very practical, and there is another chance to practice so soon... Lin Sanjiu took a breath, closed her eyes, and followed every word that Hei Zeji told her in the memory, slowly Slowly diffuse the mind, waiting for the wonderful feeling of "the universe is a membrane" to come again.

"elevator……!"

The former guard suddenly took a low breath, probably because he was about to finally get what he wanted. Under the excitement, his voice was soft and indistinct, as if it came from far away; the strange thing is that his voice was so small that it was also heard Lin Sanjiu heard it——when she realized that she immediately heard Bohemia's excited, shattered voice, her heart was suddenly shocked. All the fine hairs stood up.

No, what's wrong... How could they suddenly see the elevator while standing still?
At the same time, that sense of wonder exploded in her mind: the space of more than ten meters around her was not occupied by anyone.Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes suddenly, and saw the backs of the puppeteer and the other three standing on the stairs in front of her; she closed her eyes again, and in the physical dimension she "seeed", only herself and the endless stairs ahead.

(End of this chapter)