Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 354 The Second Resident

With a sound of "dang", Lin Sanjiu put the empty drink can on the table and crushed it; the distorted white "Coca-Cola" words crookedly emerged from the bend of the red can It came out.

"I don't know why, there is only Coke here, but no drinking water." Ye Lan pushed a bunch of things on the small coffee table towards Lin Sanjiu, "...I guess that's the reason why there is a bathroom on the seventh floor Bar."

Coke will increase the burden on the kidneys, not to mention not being able to replenish water, but it will easily cause dehydration symptoms; from the perspective of survival, pure water is indispensable - Lin Sanjiu knew this, so he drank the whole can .

"But I've been to the bathroom on the seventh floor." She frowned, glanced at the cakes and biscuits on the small tea table, and found that she had no appetite: "The faucet there is dry and there is no water."

"I know," Ye Lan pushed her glasses and sighed, "...On special occasions, I can't be so picky; I drink only reclaimed water from the toilet tank these days."

It's not like Lin Sanjiu has never drank anything worse than middle water; she nodded, and looked at Room 101 again.

As Ye Lan said, there is almost nothing in this room.The empty room looked no more than twenty square meters in size, and the beige carpet had almost turned dark brown due to stains.In the whole room, there was only a small tea table and two black and dirty double-seater sofas in the center.

However, when she entered through the door, these furniture were not the first thing she saw - Lin Sanjiu's gaze was firmly grasped by the things on the opposite wall almost at the first second.

That is a window.

She couldn't remember if she had seen a window in Room 320; this was the first window she saw in her memory, and she could even see the gray sky outside through the pane——Lin Sanjiu's heart beat, After a few steps, he rushed forward, intending to see what it looked like outside the window.

...Outside the window, there is a small village located by the river.

The moment Lin Sanjiu saw the "Little Village" clearly, after feeling cold all over his body, he immediately ignited an unknown fire mixed with anger, depression, and wanted to yell, and he couldn't even utter it for a long time. voice comes.

"...I guess every room is different," Ye Lan said quietly behind her, "There is a picture of a big city pasted behind the window of the men's bathroom."

After getting closer, even through the glass, Lin Sanjiu can still distinguish the traces of the paintbrush on the "view outside the window".Coupled with clever lighting and shadows, this painting can almost have the effect of being fake when viewed from a distance.

"Are you teasing us?" She suppressed the churning emotions in her heart, her voice was cold and deep—it was strange to say that when the girl on the third floor told her that there was no exit in this building, Lin Sanjiu still She was quite calm; but after seeing this painting disguised as the outside world, her hands trembled uncontrollably.

Perhaps to calm her down, when Ye Lan handed her an unopened can of Coke, Lin Sanjiu took it and drank it dry in a few gulps.

The sugar in the drink took effect quickly; after a while, she felt her emotions lighten up.
"...So the first priority in this apartment is not to be able to knock on the doors of the residents here, right?" Lin Sanjiu asked Ye Lan thoughtfully, "What else do you know about this apartment? ?”

The skinny man shook his head.If one can calculate the most "average" face among Chinese men aged 30 to [-], then it must be Ye Lan's.

"I don't know much more than you, except for Room 101, which is the 'gate of life', and the knock on the door." Ye Lan folded her hands on her knees and said, "...but here I have been sleepy for more than 20 days, and I have carefully thought about this amusement project; plus some news you just told me, I have some ideas now."

"What do you think?"

"You said that before you came in, the conductor lady clearly said that this is a sightseeing project, right? So is it possible that she means that we have to see every place in this apartment building where?"

But I didn't miss any corner—Lin Sanjiu was about to refute, but suddenly remembered something, and immediately stopped talking.

What she had seen was only the smallest part of the apartment building, that is, the corridor; she was still at a loss as to what was behind each dark red wooden door.

Thinking of this, no matter how courageous she is, her complexion is a bit ugly.

Probably aware of her expression, Ye Lan added: "...After knocking on the door for the first time, it is still safe for the time being, maybe this is an opportunity to hide some information-look, you are still doing well ?"

That's just now—if she opens the door of Room 320 for the third time... From the corner of Lin Sanjiu's eyes, she seemed to be able to vaguely see the abnormally huge round figure; after a pause, she asked in a dry voice Said: "...the people who knocked on the door for the second time, or even the third time, what happened to them?"

"Who knows." Unexpectedly, Ye Lan shook his head again, and his face turned pale: "There is an evolutionary who walked into a certain household upstairs for the second time, and the next morning Appeared on the first floor; but... I don't know how to say it, you can understand what I mean...I spent that day hiding in the bathroom."

"It's not that...it's not that he's changed in any way," Ye Lan doesn't seem to be a person who is good at words, but the trace of residual panic caught in his tone made Lin Sanjiu vaguely feel a little nervous. What did I understand-"People still look the same; but I have survived so many worlds, and I still have the most basic intuition, so I avoid as far as possible. At that time, the building There is also an evolutionary person, who is not familiar with me, and doesn't talk to each other very much, and I haven't seen him since that day."

Lin Sanjiu fought excitedly.

Now she can only hope that Ye Lan's guess is wrong - otherwise, she won't be able to set foot in Room 320 at all, so what about "sightseeing"?
The thin man paused, as if he had thought of the same thing; after hesitating for a while, Ye Lan sighed and said: "...Of course, it may not be the case at all. After all, if this is the case, this level will be easy It's a little bit... as long as you look at each household, you can go out, how can there be such a good thing?"

Even though he knew that he might be trying to comfort himself, Lin Sanjiu still felt better, and nodded gratefully at him: "Actually, what you said may not be unreasonable. If there are 'people' living behind every door, Then after knocking on the door for the first time, according to my experience just now, they should provide some information... Maybe we should go to collect information now."

It's just that no matter which plan it is, it involves the "residents" behind the door... Both of them fell into silence, unable to make up their minds for a while.

Ku sat for a while, seeing that sitting like this was not an option, Lin Sanjiu was the first to stand up and let out a heavy breath.

"Anyway, let's act first." Ye Lan may be a cautious and smart person, but from the looks of it now, he is acting a little too cautiously—otherwise, he wouldn't be trapped in the Almost 20 days here.And when Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of a good solution, she would start to rely on her own muscles: "Let's go!"

"Where are you going?" Ye Lan asked in a daze.

"From the seventh floor—no," Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered that there was nothing on the seventh floor except a bathroom, and changed his words: "From the sixth floor onwards, we will knock on the door one by one—whether we Whoever's guess is right, at least have to look at the... things behind the door first."

... As for room 320, she decided not to think about it.

Even though he still seemed full of doubts, Ye Lan finally stood up and went out with Lin Sanjiu.

The fluorescent tubes seem to be getting worse.

After closing the door of Room 101, the long corridor on the first floor was silent under the flickering lights, and the end was covered in darkness.If you stare at something for a long time in the flickering lights, even your eyes will start to sting slightly—the two walked as lightly as possible, and slowly went upstairs.

When they stopped talking, the whole building returned to deathly silence.Every "squeak" of stepping on the wooden stairs can be heard clearly like a drum; when Lin Sanjiu was about to reach the third floor, Lin Sanjiu stopped.

"You said that the residents on each floor will only move around on their own floor..." She felt a slight chill on the back of her neck, and her scalp was tense: "Then... how long do they usually move around in the corridor?" ?”

Ye Lan pursed his lips tightly, took two steps up without saying a word, listened carefully, and then took off his belt from his waist; the shiny square piece hung down from the belt buckle. It didn't quite fit his silent personality.

"Generally speaking, it shouldn't be too long. But to be on the safe side, let's tie this to the bone on your back, like this," Ye Lan demonstrated, then pointed to the bright silver belt buckle and said: "...then you Stretch out that bone—yes, that's it...Although you can't see it clearly, it is still a metal product, and if there is a shadow moving on it, you can still see it."

Standing on the stairs below the third floor, Lin Sanjiu stretched out a long thorn in the bone wing with some difficulty, and stared at the small piece of metal with breathless concentration.

There was no reflection on the metal sheet at all, only the shadow cast by the corridor itself, which, along with the reflection, was cast on the surface of the belt buckle.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the shadow on the metal sheet remained still, the two of them went upstairs cautiously—a quick glance at the closed corridor, and they quickly ran up to the fourth floor.

When the door number "601" appeared in front of them, the expressions of the two of them could not help but become serious.

Anyway, now I can only grit my teeth and give it a try...

After glancing at Ye Lan, Lin Sanjiu approached the crimson wooden door by herself, and slowly raised her hand amidst the violent heartbeat of "dongdong".

There is a withered garland hanging on the door of room 601, which should be a trace left after the festival, and it has not been removed.

...Lin Sanjiu had never thought before that he would be frightened by knocking on the door.

Gently, almost with a little fear, her knuckles hit the wooden door—Lin Sanjiu could even feel that Ye Lan had stepped back a few steps, and was standing on the edge of the stairs—knock After a few clicks, there was still silence behind the wooden door, without any sound.

"Yeah, let's forget about it," Ye Lan's voice was still so soft, but the speed of speech suddenly became faster: "...Let's go back and discuss it..."

Lin Sanjiu turned a deaf ear, and knocked on the door twice again, but this time the voice was a little trembling.

... There seemed to be slight footsteps behind the door.

Different from the usual step-by-step, crisp footsteps, this sound was dragged on the ground, and each sound wiped a long distance forward; Lin Sanjiu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his muscles tensed She stood up—when the brass doorknob was gently twisted, there was almost nothing left in her mind but a blasted blank.

The deep red wooden door creaked, and a gap was slowly opened.

Immediately following the sound of the door, there was a "creak" of the wooden stairs—even without turning around, Lin Sanjiu knew that Ye Lan had run away—

It was too late for her to think about "Did he frame me?" The person behind the door—let's call it "human" has already revealed a piece of her heart through the gradually widening gap. face.

Lin Sanjiu's eyes were glued to that face, and he didn't move for a long while.

She never imagined that she would meet this person——

"Lei, Leva?"

The brown-haired woman glanced at the corner of her mouth, and deep lines were engraved on it.She had one bare foot, and only stepped on the shoe on the sole of her foot. It seems that the sound just now was made by her dragging the shoe while walking——

"W-how could it be you?" Lin Sanjiu asked dumbfounded: "You also went on the swan road?"

"You're still alive." Seeing Lin Sanjiu again, it seemed that Leiwa was also a little surprised.She glanced behind Lin Sanjiu, and raised the corner of her mouth slightly. "I entered this amusement project yesterday morning...and I haven't found the exit yet."

...Then why are you in this room?
This question stuck in Lin Sanjiu's throat, and he didn't ask it for a long time.

Reva stroked her tired-looking face.

"Every room in this building is empty, so I randomly picked one to come in and rest. Are you here just now? Do you want to come in and chat? But you have to wait for me, I'm disheveled now..."

Then she closed the door.

(End of this chapter)