Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 353 Please Don't Knock on Strangers' Doors

The sound of "tick, tick" water, one after another, sounded very loud in the empty bathroom.The fluorescent lights above the head flickered from time to time, making people's vision flicker and then dark, as if they would be completely plunged into darkness at any time.

Exhaling wearily, Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand to turn on the rusty faucet—she desperately needed to splash some cold water on her face; It didn't drip out either.

Raising her eyes, she stared at herself in the mirror.

Under the flickering fluorescent lamp, her face in the mirror looked pale without a trace of blood; the bony wings behind her stood tall, and most of them were hidden in the shadows.

"...What should we do next?" Teacher Yi, who hadn't shown his head for a long time, suddenly asked quietly.

Lin Sanjiu didn't answer.

...Because she doesn't know either.

A few minutes ago, she had already walked all over the apartment building—from the first floor, Lin Sanjiu did not miss every detail; when she searched carpet-like to the seventh floor, the apartment came to an end.The stairs there were gone, just the old heavy ceiling, blocking the way as if mocking her.

The whole building looks like it was dug out of a brick, not to mention the exit, there is not even a crack.

Knowing that violent destruction was probably useless, Lin Sanjiu still tried to hit the wall at the end of the corridor.The bricks of the wall were shattered, not very hard; but no matter how many times she hit them, after clusters of broken bricks fell, there was still an endless thick wall, as if the wall had no end—after a few minutes When I went downstairs to look again, even the gap she made had disappeared, and the white and green walls were still intact.

Every minute of being trapped here, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but wonder - where is the puppeteer now?
"We've been stuck in it for almost three years," the girl's smile seemed to appear in front of her eyes again, and every word seemed to be so clear in her ears: "...At first I was still thinking about finding an exit. , but now I see it too. Where can I live? Here I don’t have to suffer the punishment of reincarnation, my life is not in danger, and I have everything you need... You’d better change your mind sooner. Would you like some more whiskey?”

three years—

It was the girl's words that made Lin Sanjiu rush out the door in a few steps, and searched the whole building again unwillingly, but still found nothing.

... Sighing, she suppressed the anxiety in her heart and walked out of the bathroom door.

It was obviously an apartment building, but there was a public bathroom on the seventh floor—although it was in disrepair and leaked all over the place, it was still usable.

Under her footsteps, the wooden stairs creaked one after another, following Lin Sanjiu all the way back to the third floor.The corridor was still the same as usual, only the loud music had disappeared at some point.

After thinking about it, she walked towards the room 320 just now.Anyway, after all, those people entered the dungeon before her, and they might know some other news...

Stopping at the door of 320, Lin Sanjiu raised his fist and knocked a few times with "dongdong".Dust fell in clusters from the dark golden number plate, and after she took her hand away, her joint marks were left on the dust-covered dark red wooden door.

After knocking several times, the room was still as silent as death.

"Is anyone there?" She yelled suspiciously, "...I'm the one just now, open the door!"

The voice echoed far from the corridor, but no one answered; she put her ear close to the door and listened for a while, and there was only silence in Room 320.

When she raised her hand again, a low voice suddenly came from the dead silence behind Lin Sanjiu's ears: "Don't knock anymore."

Lin Sanjiu was covered in hairs, and when his bone wings suddenly opened, he had already taken a few steps back in a hurry; however, the owner of the voice did not follow, and still stood there quietly watching her, with a pair of glasses on Reflections flickered under the fluorescent lamps.

"Who are you?"—and when did you come?Why didn't she catch a sound?

Facing the tense Lin Sanjiu, the thin young man stretched out his hand to adjust his glasses, and then pointed his hand full of veins to the door of Room 320, without answering her question: "...don't call the door again. Believe me, you don't want to meet someone who opens this door a second time."

"...What do you mean? Who the hell are you?"

The thin man's voice was very low and light, as if he was afraid of disturbing someone with every word he uttered.
"You just came in today, right?" He said, turned around, walked a few steps and saw that Lin Sanjiu didn't follow, he couldn't help but turned his head and frowned. "...I came in last month, and I've been stuck here for almost 20 days. My name is Ye Lan."

It seems that it is also one of the growth types who entered the Starry Sky Amusement Park—Lin Sanjiu was a little uncertain whether he was a member of the Growth Alliance, so he nodded cautiously: "...My name is Lin. Why didn't you let me Knock again? What do you know about this ride?"

The thin man tilted his head, as if he was caught by something in her words; but soon, he responded in a low voice: "I heard you knocking on the door last time, and I saw it too. gone."

Ye Lan seemed to be a calm person, with a calm and cautious tone; he pointed to the stairs and said, "I was standing on the stairs at that time... No, don't think it's impossible. In this building , no matter what kind of investigation method you have, the result will always be chaotic... Just like just now, didn't you notice my approach?"

Lin Sanjiu suddenly went dumb.Her pure touch really didn't sense anything... This is almost unimaginable outside.

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to be hostile, Lin Sanjiu kept his distance and followed after showing his back again.

"I won't let you knock on the door because..." Speaking of this, Ye Lan seemed to be at a loss for words for a while, and after thinking about it, he continued: "It's because you and I don't know what's behind the door --thing."

"In the past 20 days, I have also seen a few evolutionaries in the dark... I have knocked on the door. I don't know if they met the same group of people as you met; but they are all like you. Similarly, after searching the apartment, they often come back to call the door a second time and a third time."

"I also understand that in order to find the exit, everyone dare not let go of any clues... If I hadn't been lucky enough to discover something was wrong, I'm afraid I would have knocked on the door to ask questions." When Ye Lan spoke, He had already come to the edge of the stairs; he put his hand on the banister, turned his head to Lin Sanjiu and said, "I found that every evolutionary who sees the second time to answer the door--"

Before finishing a sentence, his eyes behind the glasses suddenly widened; Ye Lan's eyes turned behind Lin Sanjiu, and then his face turned white. Before Lin Sanjiu could speak, he turned around He rushed down the stairs without even saying a word——

Lin Sanjiu's scalp went numb, and before she could pull up her heels, she heard a "squeak" from the door - the sound came from behind her, and it seemed to be from Room 320.

... After all, she knocked on the door of Room 320 for the second time.

A drop of cold sweat slid down her back and into the groove of her spine.

"...You're back. I fell asleep just now and didn't hear the door." The girl's voice sounded behind her.She still sounded the same as last time, with alcohol and anesthetized laziness in her voice: "Am I right? You didn't find the exit, did you?"

Resisting the urge to turn around, Lin Sanjiu almost stiffly took a step forward with straight eyes.

Ye Lan ran away without finishing her sentence, but this did not prevent her from getting information from the few words he left - "Any evolutionary who has met the door answerer for the second time..." - what happened, Lin Sanjiu didn't know; but she was absolutely sure that the fate of those evolutionaries would definitely not be good.

...That is to say, no matter what, she can't turn back now.

The Converse shoes seem to be walking towards her, Lin Sanjiu is not sure; the soft carpet and the strange apartment building have made her unable to trust her five senses - she suddenly spread her bone wings backwards, In the gust of wind, Lin Sanjiu quickly rushed to the stairs, slammed on the brakes and twisted her body, and she rushed downstairs.

At the moment of turning a corner, the corner of her eyes seemed to catch a huge, round black shadow, which had approached the back of her head at some point, like a face; In the shadows, he uttered a sentence: "Why don't you come over? You come..."

Covering her left eye with one hand, Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to sweep in the direction of the corridor at all, and almost rolled and fell down the stairs; she rushed to the first floor in one breath, seeing that there was no way out, she Just like a little beast being forced into a corner, his whole body tensed up, and he quickly glanced upstairs.

...whatever that girl was, it seemed like they didn't catch up.

After holding my breath and waiting for a few seconds, the stairs were still quiet, and no one came down.

... As long as you don't see the "person" who opened the door for the second time?
Lin Sanjiu thought with dread in the sound of her "thumping" heartbeat——after waiting for a while, seeing that the surroundings were always peaceful, she cautiously let out a breath.

The place she was at right now happened to be the place where she had just come in; looking around, Lin Sanjiu had a doubt in his heart.

... Where is Ye Lan?

This apartment building goes straight up and down, and there is no exit. He ran down from the third floor just now, so he should be down there right now?
Did he stop on the second floor?

Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to make a sound, stepped on the carpet, and walked slowly through the corridor on the first floor step by step; however, in this straight and simple corridor, there is no place for people to hide.The big man who was still alive just now seemed to have evaporated in the blink of an eye, and he was nowhere to be found.

"Ye Lan...? Where are you?"

It was hard to meet a normal person. Although he seemed unreasonable, Lin Sanjiu still hoped to see him again——Ye Lan had survived in this apartment building for more than 20 days, so he must have mastered it. A lot of things she doesn't know...

If there is any difference between the first floor and the other floors, it is that where the entrance and exit should be, there is a vaulted and enclosed small hall at this time.Standing helplessly in the small hall for a while, just as Lin Sanjiu was about to go back upstairs to check the situation, a familiar "squeak" came into her ears again.

...It was the sound of the special dark red wooden door being pushed open, and it sounded almost close to her at this time; under Lin Sanjiu's almost blank eyes, the door of No. 101 opened.

A pair of spectacle lenses glowed under the lamp, and the thin man who had just exchanged names stuck his head out from behind the door.

Ye Lan saw Lin Sanjiu at a glance, but he didn't move. Instead, he glanced cautiously at the stairs; seeing that no one came down, he turned his head and said softly to Lin Sanjiu: "Unexpectedly, you are quite clever." ! You didn't look back?"

Lin Sanjiu's bone wings pressed against the wall without moving.

"It seems that my guess is correct. The 'residents' on each floor will only be active on that floor..." Ye Lan pushed his glasses, "...what's wrong with you?"

Lin Sanjiu swallowed with a "gudong".

She didn't forget... just now she opened the door of room 101 after she called "Ye Lan" a few times.

From a certain point of view, this is the first time room 101 has opened the door——

"You...why are you in the room?" Lin Sanjiu asked dryly, a little afraid of the answer he was about to hear.

Not to say, there is something in the room...

Ye Lan tilted his head, and suddenly understood—he suddenly realized, "Oh", "This? This room 101 is the only place in the entire apartment that can provide protection for evolution...that is our 'Shengmen' There is nothing here, just some sofas and drinking water, and the drinking water will be renewed every day."

"How did you find out?" Lin Sanjiu stared at him without blinking, as if trying to find any trace of suspiciousness on Ye Lan's face—but the man's skin, hair, eyes and The body looks very normal, no different from just now.

"Because... the first door I knocked on was luckily Room 101." Ye Lan seemed to be a little embarrassed and scratched her hair, "Seeing that there was no answer, I walked in as soon as I opened the door. Later I found that this was the only room in the whole apartment building that was truly empty—"

He came out, stood in the corridor, followed Lin Sanjiu's gaze and nodded his finger forward; two rows of dark red wooden doors stood quietly on both sides of the corridor, without a single sound.

"Don't look at it as quiet as if no one lives in it... If you knock on these doors, each of them will eventually open."

　Even though I know that I will be swallowed by the girl, I still want to put a thank you list!I know that it was invisible when I first posted it, and I have to go back and edit it again before the thank you list appears; however, after the students on the mobile phone have read it for the first time, if they don’t clear the cache, my newly added testimonials will not appear. Come on... what should I do, I can't convey my words...

In any case, I still want to thank the following rewarding parties who have not been thanked but are still persevering: Thank you for the 2 sachets of Zangtiangu, Gufuniao, and Yiluo Zhisu, 2 mikasayou (stable peace talisman exporter), and the big one. The amulets of Spider Market Price, popo2990, Hashimoto Kanko, and Yuki Sakurana!

还要谢谢冰霓栗子、懒懒懒死了、青陀罗花的2张、鬼鬼de果果的2张、阳台上的猫咪的2张、小小书的2张、 我看我读、长梦守夜人、carrie00100的月票！听说今天月票双倍，八方人民就纷纷发来贺电了？

　
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