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After the ghost-like unknown creature got out, there was a hole in the center of the originally flat and clean window glass, enough for a person to poke his head out.The eroded glass flowed down like viscous glue, and even the color became cloudy and whitish. After re-condensing, it looked like some kind of disgusting secretion.

Lu You pulled the bed sheet over to rest his hands, and carefully pinched the glass on the edge of the hole—although it has not been pierced, it can be seen with the naked eye that this piece has become very thin, like thin ice in early spring, and the feeling of feedback is also That's true - he only used a little force, and he saw countless small cracks spread rapidly from his fingertips, and the glass left in the window frame shattered into pieces, and all collapsed with a "crash".

Lu You was taken aback by the unexpected noise.All his movements stopped in place at once, all his attention was focused on hearing, and he listened intently to the movement outside the door, lest he heard the sound of approaching footsteps——

A few seconds passed, and the surroundings remained silent.Perhaps it was the guard who saw his companion off and walked far away, but did not hear the strange noise just now.Fortunately, the sheets on the floor caught the falling debris, only a few crumbs fell through the gaps on the floor.Lu You breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately began to push away the debris on the windowsill to clear a place for climbing and stepping.He was barefoot, so he had to be careful not to be cut by the debris, and he had to be careful not to make a sound. It was just such a simple job that he felt like he was sweating when he finished it.

Just waiting for Lu You to put his hands on the window sill, poke his head out from the window frame with only an empty shelf, and look at the ground below, he inevitably hesitated again.For the sake of anti-theft, the positions of the windowsills and water pipes on the walls of each house were deliberately set up to be difficult to climb, and he is not the kind of person with particularly good athletic ability. Jumping straight down doesn't make any difference, it's basically a dead end.

It's not impossible to get lucky, and there are still people who fell from more than ten floors and survived.Just judging from the things he encountered recently, Lu You really couldn't believe his luck.And... Even if he is not dead or injured, with the speed of human action, can he escape in time to a place where monsters can't reach?Can help be found?What's more--will the rescuers be killed by monsters instead?

Lu You felt blood rushing to the top of his head, making his head swell, and everything in his vision seemed to be spinning.During the long and difficult time locked in that closed room, the only thing that could keep him mentally stable and not easily go crazy was thinking about how to escape.Even the simple act of repeatedly thinking about opening the door and going out can give him some kind of psychological comfort.

However, at this moment, he was standing in front of the window, facing this road of freedom, his heart was throbbing violently, but he was unable to act because of fear, and he realized that he was subconsciously looking for an excuse to give up... This was because he was too much weak?Or can it be called sanity?Lu You only knew that no matter what the original intention of those excuses was, after all, they forced him to face a truth that he had deliberately avoided thinking about before—it might be impossible to escape.

Even if he could escape from the monster this time and return to his normal life, Lu You didn't know what to do to avoid being found again.The monster would chase him, catch him again, and cage him again—

Unless one day, the monster gave up the incomprehensible obsession with him - let him go on his own initiative.

Or... one of them died...

Lu You took a deep breath, straightened up and looked away from the bottom of the building, feeling dazed for a while.He took a step back in the dizziness of the backflow of blood, and stepped on something small and sharp, which made him let out a low "ah" in pain, and then remembered that there were still broken glass shards scattered on the ground.He didn't even dare to breathe loudly, trying to maintain his balance and hopped a few steps away from the "hidden murderous" place, and then he endured the pain to check the injury on the sole of his foot, and took a small piece of it. Small fragments of blood—fortunately, the wound was not too deep, although blood still flowed out.

The wound on his palm hadn't stopped bleeding, and he had hurt his foot again, and he hadn't even officially started to escape, so he died before he could finish his mission.Lu You's face was pale, and a little sweat oozes from the corner of his forehead. He tried the toughness of the clothes and sheets, and gave up the plan to tear off a few cloth strips to bandage the wound.The pain of being cut reminded Lu You of the threatening plan he planned to try when he smashed the porcelain bowl. Seeing a piece of narrow glass shards wrapped in the bed sheet, he gritted his teeth and stood on tiptoe to avoid the wound, limping He walked over crookedly, picked up the fragment and held it in his hand.

The eroded glass is thin and brittle, except that it can cut a hole in the skin when it is caught off guard, and it doesn't have much lethality.Even a real knife may not be able to change the situation where Lu You has nowhere to escape at the moment.However, holding the "weapon" in his hand gave Lu You a sense of security. He collected himself, turned his head and glanced at the door in fear of the passage of time: there was still no movement outside, and the guards seemed to be relieved to let him go. A "comatose" person was left alone in the room, not ready to come back for a while.

hope so.Lu You thought, and then suddenly realized another escape route that he should have tried earlier.

It was because he was too excited to see the long-lost sunshine, and then the unknown creature floated over again... Maybe he was also instinctively afraid of the monster, which made him subconsciously avoid the same route—he actually only thought about it. Escape from the window and forget to try the door!

After the two footsteps went out, there seemed to be no sound of locking.Urged to take action by a sense of urgency, Lu You decided to try it without hesitation.He shuffled towards the door. At first he touched the wound, causing his knees to tremble and go limp in pain. But after a few steps, the wound became numb, or after he got used to the pain, Lu You's pace began to speed up, and the last few steps almost It was trotting to the door.

The floor of this room is covered with white tiles, and the coolness invades from the bottom of the foot to the top with every touch.A series of fine blood stains smeared on the smooth tile surface, like the small footprints of sparrows walking on the snow.When it was supposed to be racing against time, Lu You stopped at the door. His palms were covered with cold sweat, and the wound twitched with irritation. He stared at the wooden door in front of him, feeling as if he was submerged in water. After a few seconds, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it on the handle of the door.

The process of depressing the handle encountered no resistance until the very soft "click" when it was turned to the limit.

The door is really unlocked...

Lu You gasped slightly, only to realize that he had held his breath before.It was as if a sledgehammer was beating continuously in his mind, causing his eyes to stare and his body to shake.The next thing to do is very simple, just open the door and go out——

Even if he will be caught in the end, this time he will not give up and escape.Open the door, go out, go outside the room where he was imprisoned, even if it is a few seconds of freedom...

But Lu You always just maintained the posture of pressing his hand on the doorknob, and there was no further action.Only the line of sight moved down slowly, falling to the ground below: along the gap under the door, there was a light gray shadow.

The shadow remained motionless, and there was no sound from outside the door.But a certain kind of trembling was emerging from inside his body, like the cold wind blowing on the back of his neck, making him start to tremble unconsciously, and even the doorknob trembled slightly under the palm of his hand.The interior of the lock emits a slight

The "click, click" sounds like teeth chattering in panic.

Lu You smelled the wet fishy smell belonging to aquatic organisms again.What was stained on his body, what he tasted in his mouth, he remembered the half piece of pitch-black scale that he didn't pay attention to where it was thrown in the end, maybe he swallowed it unintentionally, and it has already taken root in his body like a seed .That smell was always present in the room, like the peeping eyes of a monster... It stubbornly penetrated deep into his skin, and it could no longer be washed off.

At this moment, Lu You couldn't tell if the smell was an illusion caused by tension, or if it was really seeping through the crack in the door.However, as if he had been trained for conditioned reflexes, he already felt the cold, smooth, and powerful feeling pressed against his skin again.

He suddenly thought, that "ghost" who was in the room for some reason...would choose to leave through the window just because of the proximity?Or it can only dissolve glass, but it can't do anything to the wood of the door, and it can't be squeezed out from the narrow door gap?

Or... afraid of something outside the door...

Lu You slowly relaxed the strength in his hand, allowing the depressed doorknob to return to its original position little by little.As if the light was blocked, the shadow under the crack of the door turned a dark color, and the shadow began to spread, like a puddle of ink seeping into the room.Lu You stepped back, step by step, the pain in the palms and soles of his feet could not be felt, he stared at the position of the doorknob, his receding figure was distortedly reflected on the clean and reflective silver metal.

The doorknob turned slowly—

Lu You turned around and ran away.Crackling, the sound of bare feet stepping on the tiled floor had an almost crisp texture, as he rushed across the room, the shards of glass that he kicked slid far away, almost hitting the window frame before he could brake.The vision was blurred, and the tears that started gushing out from nowhere moistened the eyes. Lu You pressed the piece of glass that was tightly held in his hand all the way under the palm of his hand, and climbed up the window sill with hands and feet at a speed that even surprised him. .

The wind was blowing from the outside, and Lu You squatted on the outside of the window sill, holding the edge of the cold metal window frame tightly with his hands, feeling his hands and feet go weak.Before he climbed up, his mind was blank, and he didn't think about whether he would really jump down, or just threatened the monster to let him go by jumping - from the conversation he overheard while pretending to sleep, the monster really liked him. He was very concerned about his life—his own life, this was the only bargaining chip he had.But he didn't have time to carefully weigh these things, he just subconsciously wanted to escape from the door, wanting to get as far away from the thing that was about to open the door as possible——

There was no sound behind me.

Lu You froze for a while, trying to distinguish any unusual subtle sounds from his panting and heartbeat.In the silence that seemed to freeze the whole world, he turned his head slowly, his heart beating so violently that it seemed to burst through his chest—then gradually calmed down.

The room is empty.No human beings, nor the snake-like tentacles of monsters.The door was still firmly closed, and the doorknob was in its original place.The turning and shadows he saw just now seemed to be just hallucinations produced by his over-tension.

Lu You's tense heartstrings relaxed a little, and suddenly he felt that his body was on the verge of falling, and the wound on his foot that happened to be pressed also started to hurt again.In order to turn his head to look behind him, he wriggled in an awkward posture, unable to use his strength, so he wanted to stand up a little bit and make some adjustments.Unexpectedly, there was a movement just now, the foot slipped somehow, and the hand holding on to the window frame couldn't hold it firmly, only to hear the wind in my ear suddenly sharpen, and the whole person leaned out of the window——

Something pressed against his back, wrapped around his waist, and supported him firmly in the blink of an eye, strangling the tendency to fall at the very beginning.Lu You opened his eyes wide and forgot to struggle. He saw a very familiar pitch-black tentacle passing by his side, grabbing the edge of the window frame that had lost all the glass.

He wanted to clenched the piece of glass that was still in his hand, but his fingers could no longer be closed.Another tentacle forcefully broke his hand away, and took away the weapon that was just a comforting weapon. Lu You heard the sound of bones breaking—in fact, the sound of that piece of glass being easily crushed into powder.The tentacles swarmed around him, embracing him, pushing him back into the room with a gentle movement.

Lu You did not find any chance to resist.Although he tried his best to push back, it was only a weak force that could be ignored by the monster.After the posture was fixed, they couldn't even struggle, and at most they tensed their bodies in vain... They landed on the floor of the room, and the monster stretched its body silently, still holding him in its arms with those tentacles.Lu You's drooping toes touched the floor tiles, and the coolness made him want to curl up, but the small abrasions on the soles of his feet and palms began to burn violently like being burned by fire.

When he raised his head, he could clearly see the shape of the shadow above.The scales and skin of the monster are all black, and the pupils are like abysses, except for the iris with a very thin golden ring inlaid around it, reminiscent of a solar eclipse and lava.

Since that day, after a long period of avoidance, the watchman is finally willing to show himself in front of him.

In full monstrous form—

The body of the human being embraced by the monster began to relax, but it was not because of peace of mind, but more like a loss of strength.Lu You's hair was scattered in a mess, and a few wisps of sweat stuck to his cheeks. His face was wet, more because of the tears that finally flowed down.A tentacle lingered back and forth on the side of his face, and finally touched him lightly, rubbing against a little water - far away from the ocean, tasted the familiar salty taste.

Lu You closed his eyes for a moment, as if he wanted to escape but didn't move.He was in pain, and there was a hollow feeling in his chest.He looked like he had just woken up from a nightmare, and there was still fear in his eyes, but from the other pair of eyes looking down at him, there was still a small, unyielding flame burning deep in his pupils.

The pale lips that lacked blood moved slightly. "Please..." Lu You whispered, "Let me go..."

The monster didn't respond.The monster tightened the tentacles wrapped around his body a little more, wrapping them into a tight black cocoon.When the last lingering sound of begging fell, the prey, who knew there was no way to escape, closed his mouth tightly and stopped making a sound.The shadow undulated, carrying him across the windy and sunlit room, toward what might be a doorway into a deeper darkness.

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