Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 486 The Domain of Mathematics

... Lin Sanjiu raised his head when there were only the last few steps left on this staircase.

As she expected, a three-seater sofa occupying most of the corridor and a reddish-brown red panda appeared in front of her again.

Lin Sanjiu sighed lightly.

She started from here and walked upwards just now, but after climbing three floors, she returned to the original point.

These three stairs seem to be impossible to get out through ordinary means.

"Don't tell me, this is really like a ghost hitting a wall." Lin Sanjiu folded his wings and lay down, and didn't leave: "I used to read ghost stories, and it seemed that a boy's urine could crack a ghost hitting a wall. "

"Don't look at me when you're talking about a boy," Qing Jiuliu bared his teeth at her: "Don't insult people."

"...It shouldn't be that way," interjected the blue cloth floral sofa, "I think we have been tricked by someone else."

"It's that old woman, right? We didn't provoke her, so why is she staring at us..."

Lin Sanjiu looked at the two of them, but thought of a way - she stood up and walked to the door marked "EXIT", pushed the door open with her huge body, turned her head and said: "You follow behind!" , I'll think of a way from the floor... If it doesn't work, I'll jump out of the window to see if I can break this vicious circle."

Hearing this, the little panda immediately jumped onto the sofa nimbly, and squeezed through the door with Ji Shanqing gritting his teeth and moving forward a little bit.

...The 16th floor doesn't look unusual.

The carpet was soaked with blood and dried in the shade over time, making it crunchy when stepped on.There is a suffocated iron and musty smell in the corridor, which is even more unbearable compared with the top floor - the rooms on the 19th floor and above are too expensive, and they are all empty before the end of the world, and they are kept clean In good condition; unlike the 16th floor, the doors of several guest rooms are still ajar, because they were blocked by the dead bodies of the tenants at the door.

It is said to be a dead body, but in fact, no human form can be seen for a long time.

It seemed that it had been bitten and cut after death. The pitted corpse exposed most of the white skeleton; the dried black skin and flesh hung on the skeleton, which was shaken by Lin Sanjiu's footsteps along with the rags. wobbly.

"It's similar to what I saw last time." After quickly checking the corridor, Lin Sanjiu walked back quickly and said to the other two: "Wait for me here, I will climb up from the balcony try."

After she finished speaking, she pushed open a door next to her—the huge chicken wings were like a broom, sweeping out the broken corpses on the ground, and stepped into the house.

The guest rooms on this side all have a delicate small balcony; although climbing becomes difficult without hands, but if you flap your wings and jump up vigorously, Lin Sanjiu's beak can still touch the upstairs. The edge of the balcony—followed the two people in the room, and watched as the two big chicken feet kicked vigorously in the air a few times, finally climbed up and disappeared out of the window.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

"What do you think?" After a long while, the little brown-red panda spoke suddenly.

"...not too hopeful." The blue cloth sofa said with a sigh.

"What if we go down?"

"If we go downstairs now, we should return to the 18th floor."

Qing Jiu stayed for a moment, turned half of his body and looked at the sofa behind him: "Could it be that you have—"

"Look," Ji Shanqing interrupted him suddenly, "outside the window."

As if to confirm his words, something "slapped" on the edge of the small balcony outside the window; with the support of its wings, a familiar bird's beak also grabbed the iron railing—gradually, Lin San The old hen transformed into wine thumped vigorously and popped its head out from under the balcony.As soon as her bright black eyes met the two people in the room, a series of "grunts" came out of her throat, probably cursing.

"...Damn it!"

After she managed to stabilize her body, this was the first sentence she said.

"What's the matter with these three floors? Why can't I get out!" As the messy old hen walked into the house, tiny feathers fluttered in the air: "...how about I just jump downstairs to try it out?" Try? I can still see the ground."

"Don't you," Ji Shanqing said quickly, "I guess if you jump from the 16th floor, you will fall from the 18th floor... and then keep falling between the 16th, 17th, and 18th floors, forever. can not stop."

Lin Sanjiu raised his head and looked at the sofa in front of him.She didn't know where Ji Shanqing's "face" was, so she could only turn her eyes suspiciously back and forth: "...do you guess what's going on?"

"Well, I thought of an answer, and it's actually not difficult to guess." Probably because Lin Sanjiu's eyes lit up, Ji Shanqing's voice was a little shy: "Although I don't know who this is." abilities—or special items—but the distance from the 16th floor to the 18th floor has probably become a Mobius ring.”

This word was so familiar that Lin Sanjiu frowned, and when she recalled where she had heard this word, Qing Jiuliu had already responded with an "ah": "That endlessly looping tape! "

"Yes, if you walk on the surface of the Mobius ring, you can go on and on, without end..." Ji Shanqing said in a deep voice, "Isn't it very similar to our current situation?"

"I vaguely remember this thing, it seems to have something to do with mathematics." Lin Sanjiu responded, "Knowing this, what should we do next?"

The question was very constructive, but no one answered her.

She was about to ask again, when she suddenly noticed that the little panda raised its head—the other's bright black eyes slowly moved up to the sky, staring at her back.Kiyokuru also fell silent, like a real sofa.

There is something behind me!
Lin Sanjiu turned around suddenly, and when his eyes fell on that thing, he was startled.

On the top of the balcony, a head of black hair was hanging in the air; at the same time Lin Sanjiu saw it, that head of black hair suddenly shrank upwards and completely disappeared upstairs - it seemed that someone just now Just hanging upside down like this, looking into the house.

"Wait here for me—!"

Before the two people behind could speak, the old hen rushed out with a stride; her wings fluttered in the air, and she had already grasped the iron railing on the upper floor familiarly, pulled the chicken's body up, and quickly disappeared.

Qing Jiuliu sat up straight and stared closely at the balcony - but instead of staring at the top of his head, he stared at the bottom of the balcony.

If that black hair escapes all the way up, it will soon emerge from under this layer.

After waiting for a few minutes, the edge of the balcony was still painted off-white, and the dark head as imagined never appeared; and Lin Sanjiu didn't even know where he was tracking.

At this time, Ji Shanqing behind him spoke.

"Qing, stay for a long time?" His voice suddenly softened for some reason, and it was still a little trembling.

This guy is very smart, but he is a bit timid... Qing Jiuliu crossed this thought in his mind, and asked without turning his head, "What are you doing?"

Although there was no saliva or esophagus, the blue cloth floral sofa still made a clear "gudong" sound of swallowing saliva.

"Just now...someone touched my backrest."

The little panda immediately twisted its neck, and the hair on its back had sprung up.

... There was no one behind the sofa.Since the sofa was parked obliquely at the entrance, apart from a wall, there was only a wide open room door and a small stained corridor exposed by the door.

"What do you mean by touching...?" Qing Jiuliu lowered his voice and asked.

"I can't see behind me, but it feels like someone accidentally brushed me when I passed by." Ji Shanqing's voice was almost inaudible. "Anyway, I was touched by something."

Could it be the owner of the black hair?

The little panda grabbed the back of the sofa with its front paws, stood up with the support of its two hind legs, and poked out its eyes cautiously.

His black eyes turned from left to right, and turned around.The luggage table, the carpet, the light switch, the door, and the pile of broken bones under the door...

It seems that there is no difference from before, and there is no "person" as Ji Shanqing said.

Wait a moment.

(End of this chapter)