A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Fang Shiqing was suddenly grabbed by the back of his neck and pulled back by the collar.At the same time, the wall in front of him made an ear-piercing clang, and stone chips fell one after another.

I saw a piece of shiny and sharp metal piercing through the wall - as long as you slow down a little, this piece of metal will poke into his stomach.

Fang Shiqing subconsciously covered his stomach.

"Thank you boss, I owe you another life."

——At such a time, it must be Xiao Fengdi who will give him a hand.It's sad to say, but he seems to have gotten used to it after being rescued by others...

Xiao Fengdi seemed to be used to this, he just nodded casually and pulled him back.

Everyone was startled by the noise here.A few people gathered around the wall, staring at the piece of metal moving up and down——

It retracted quickly, and then quickly slammed into the gap next to it with a loud bang. Repeatedly, the wall became loose within two hits.

"This is," Fang Shiqing stared at the metal object and finally recognized it, "...a pickaxe!"

It's exactly the same as the one in his hand!

He looked and looked in disbelief.There are actually monsters that can use pickaxes in this dungeon?It's too advanced, right?Or……

With a final knock on a key position, the entire cement slab finally fell off, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust.A big hole was exposed on the wall, and half a head slowly protruded out of the hole under the smoke that had not subsided——

——It was He Xiangwu's face.

*

"Fuck!"

"Fuck!"

There were several strange screams from inside and outside the wall at the same time.

"You, you, you, why are you inside the wall?" You Qingyu couldn't speak at all, "Could it be—"

Could it be that he has been swallowed by the wall and killed, and now this is just a monster in his form?

"I'll explain later, we're all alive anyway. Come on, help us out," He Xiangwu howled, "It's suffocating here!"

Fang Shiqing hurried over and grabbed his arm.The touch in his hand was still normal human skin. He calmed down a bit, and after a closer look, he realized that his position was actually very low, and his lower body was completely below the ground on this floor.

He probed and found that the inside of the wall was actually a hollow, and it was more than two meters deep into the ground - no wonder the stairwell between the second and third floors was so long.

He Xiangwu actually stepped on Gu Jinhong's shoulders, and it was not easy for the two of them to reach this height when they stacked up.

Zeng Xin also came to help, and the two of them (well, mainly the girl with strange powers) pulled them out one after another without much effort.

He Xiangwu collapsed on the ground and gasped for breath. Gu Jinhong looked a little more energetic, but he was also disheveled, just like a radish that had just been picked from the mound, not as neat and unrestrained as usual.

"Why are you in the wall?" What happened to them?

"Hey, don't mention it..." He Xiangwu kept sighing, his face full of grief, "I thought I was going to suffocate and die this time."

After a short break, they finally told their story, which was very simple.

After the first floor parted, the two of them walked down the road into the darkness.

That road was very peaceful, without any monsters, whether it was armored robots or spikes coming out of the ground; but the distance was also very short, just turning a corner and reaching a dead end.

A large collapsed concrete slab blocked the front, blocking all possibility of progress.

The two wandered along the short path several times, not knowing what to do for a while.

On the fourth lap, He Xiangwu finally decided - to start smashing the wall!

Under the system of this game, using tools like "picks" to destroy walls is considered a professional skill. In the player team, only Fang Shiqing and He Xiangwu currently have it.

The cement slab blocking the road cannot be smashed. As soon as the two get close, it will prompt "This operation cannot be performed", so they can only try to knock elsewhere.They didn't have any specific goals, they just took out the pickaxe, randomly selected a location by instinct and knocked it down.

Speaking of this, He Xiangwu suddenly laughed twice, and grabbed Fang Shiqing's sleeve: "Brother Fang, guess what I dug from the wall?"

Fang Shiqing twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking that there could be something in the wall here, isn't it just a dead person.No matter what time, this kid is still so bearish.

"Oh, you won't dig gold, will you?"

He Xiangwu was taken aback: "How do you know?"

--etc?He just said it casually? ?

Is it really gold? !

"It's ores," Gu Jinhong took the conversation, and took out a few stones from the props bar and placed them on the ground. "He dug a lot of ores of different types of metals. I don't know why, there are many such things in the wall."

These stones look dark and inconspicuous.

Fang Shiqing touched it with his hand, and under the effect of passive skills, a name popped up immediately: Primary Gold Mine.

It is really ore!Fuck, this is amazing! !

Fang Shiqing's smiling face suddenly grinned to the ears.This is the news that makes him more happy than finding gems, after all, metal ores are what he urgently needs.

At the end of the last dungeon, he thought about the need to find a way to collect some, but it was delivered to his door in this dungeon. This game is too considerate!

He grabbed He Xiangwu's hands, shaking his face with emotion: "It's timely rain, it's timely rain! You make a price, as long as you make me a price, I'll take whatever it is!"

"Let's talk about the ore later," Gu Jinhong pulled the conversation back in time, "In short, he knocked on many places one after another. Although he failed to punch through the wall, he accidentally discovered a hole hidden behind the wall. hole."

The shape of the hole is very strange. It goes up vertically for a while, and then suddenly turns horizontally. It looks like a passage has been dug between the wall and the floor.

The first floor of the shopping mall is five or six meters high, and of course normal people cannot reach the top.However, on the vertical part, there are several steel bars that can be climbed on the wall, almost like scaffolding built on purpose; with their current physique, they can easily climb up.

——Unexpectedly, this climbing in would be endless.

The two entered the mezzanine between the first and second floors, and found that the opening in this section was very narrow, more like a ventilation duct, but not as well-connected as the ventilation duct. There was only one road, and the width could only accommodate one person. Barely lie on my stomach.

Modern urbanites lack the skills to crawl forward, and the feeling of lying on their stomachs is cramped and uncomfortable.They originally planned to retreat after checking the situation for a while, but they didn't expect to go far when a small-scale collapse suddenly occurred behind them.

The situation at that time was extremely dangerous. In order to avoid being buried alive, the two had to crawl forward desperately.

After the collapse was over, they were surprised to find that the escape route had been blocked, and the space in this mezzanine was too narrow, and He Xiangwu was not even allowed to swing a pickaxe.Now there is no way but to move on.

This crawling in the dark lasted for a long time, so long that the crawling skill points of both of them were raised by a level. Later, they didn't know where they were, and they were just crawling mechanically.But hard work paid off, and finally climbed to the end, and there was an upward path ahead.

After climbing up for a while, there were two forks ahead. One section continued to go up, and the other section turned [-] degrees and became horizontal again.

The horizontal section was spacious enough even for grown men to stand up straight, so they chose this side.

——At this moment, the two of them suddenly heard a familiar voice above their heads——

He Xiangwu immediately began to smash the ceiling, and it was very difficult to swing the pickaxe up, but they had been crawling hard for too long, and they really didn't want to hold back any longer.

After smashing through, there is an empty mezzanine above, which is the cavity inside the wall.At this time, they could already clearly hear the voices outside, but the two of them tried to shout a few times, but there was no response from outside, and they wondered if they couldn't hear them.

In desperation, Gu Jinhong had no choice but to use the method of building a ladder to lift He Xiangwu up, and let him break the wall further.

——After making a fuss for a long time, it turned out that one of them was smashing the wall?

Fang Shiqing touched his stomach quietly again, and secretly complained: Fortunately, a big boss gave him a hand in time, otherwise it would be too bad if his blood fell into his own hands. (For the time being, the question of whether players are exempted from the same team is not considered.)

No matter how tortuous the middle process is, so far, the separated players have finally joined forces with a lot of victories, which is undoubtedly a gratifying good thing.

"There is such a long road down here?" You Qingyu probed into the wall, turned on the flashlight to take a picture, and exclaimed, "Really, there is a deep mezzanine underneath, and running in it is not a problem at all. Like the underground drainage system in the movie."

According to them, this lane leads all the way from the first floor to here, and there is no end in front of it.

"This should be considered the secret passage of this building, right? Maybe it can go all the way up to the highest floor." Fang Shiqing guessed, "Maybe it's also the BOSS... that guy in the underground specially repaired it? Shall we go down and find out—— "

"Don't go down anymore!" He Xiangwu and Gu Jinhong said in unison.

"……what?"

Fang Shiqing thought this mezzanine was very interesting, especially because there might be some secrets hidden in it, so he was originally very interested, but when they shouted at the same time, he was suddenly at a loss, "...why?"

"Because we are human beings, not reptiles or bugs." Gu Jinhong said, "I have crawled enough. I don't want to walk on the ground again in my life."

His usual expression control has always been perfect, but now he looks unbearable. Obviously, this too long climbing experience has caused him very serious psychological damage.

"But this secret passage looks like—"

"And it's really stuffy underneath!" He Xiangwu emphasized, "Brother Fang, I'm not teasing you. Don't think this passage has become high enough and spacious enough, but it's still uncomfortable to stay inside, and I feel like I will suffocate to death at any time." , or buried alive. No exaggeration, really."

"...How should I put it, it is indeed not easy for you."

"Then let's ignore this for the time being," Xiao Fengdi finally said, "at least read the situation on the third floor first."

Having said that, he himself approached the breach in the wall and studied it over and over for a long time.

The players stayed for a while, letting the two of them who managed to get out of the mezzanine survive.

It was too late to pay attention when the situation was intense, but now that it has calmed down, Gu Jinhong is careful enough, and soon noticed the extra strangers in the team.

The worker surnamed Liu was just walking behind, and since they were in a mess just now, he has retreated a little more tactfully, and only looked at this side curiously from a distance.

"...Who is that?"

He looked at the worker surnamed Liu for a moment, showing a subtle and unexpected expression.

"Ah...he is also a single victim who entered this building." Fang Shiqing said vaguely, and at the same time drew the word NPC on the ground with his finger.

Gu Jinhong frowned.

For them, the situation in front of them is undoubtedly difficult to understand: at the beginning, it was obviously a group of seven people to make a survival dungeon, but after entering the book, an NPC suddenly appeared, what is this?System support?

Zhao Jun cleared his throat, squatted beside the two of them, and suddenly said, "By the way, I have a question to ask. ——Have you passed Level [-] or Level [-]?"

"..."

It seemed that he had been hit so badly during the process of reading the short English composition that he actually turned to the latecomers to find excuses.

"Damn," He Xiangwu said gloomily without catching his breath, "Forget about it, I've failed the fourth grade. There are sixteen people in the two dormitories, and I'm the only one who hasn't passed it!"

Zhao Jun's expression brightened immediately.

"Level [-] or [-]? What is that?" Gu Jinhong was stunned, "Oh...the English proficiency test, I haven't taken it, so I don't know."

Zhao Jun's expression became a little more cheerful.

"Because I studied in the United States." He said again.

He said the name of a university, and it turned out to be Ivy.Zhao Jun's face suddenly collapsed.

"Actually, you don't need CET-[-] or CET-[-], you just need to know English," Fang Shiqing took out his handbook, dumbfounded, "Hey, but before reading this, let me tell you what happened here..."

*

Compared to the endless crawling between the two walls, the situation on Fang Shiqing's side was more ups and downs.It took a lot of effort for the few people to talk to each other, and it took a lot of effort to sort out the situation, and then showed them the account.

Looking at the small English composition copied above, Gu Jinhong's expression was a little dignified.

He took the pencil and slowly wrote on the last piece of white paper: "That NPC is definitely not a kind person. He has the face of a thug, so he must be a vicious person."

His attitude is very serious, but the wording of this sentence is too secondary.Fang Shiqing and You Qingyu looked at each other and almost didn't laugh out loud.

"Cough..." You Qingyu cleared his throat, "Although you are jet-lagged, you must have a high level of language application, but this small essay was obviously written by someone with very average English, and there is no need for any high-end analysis. I don't think you're going in the right direction—"

"..." Gu Jinhong glanced at her, with a hint of embarrassment on his face, and wrote: "You guys should stop acting. You've definitely worn out."

You Qingyu glared at him.

"I've always been very accurate in seeing people," he continued to write with his head down. "Believe me, we have to deal with him as soon as possible. Otherwise, we will cause a lot of trouble later."

His attitude is very serious.The others looked at each other, Zeng Xin asked in a low voice, "Even so, what should we do now?"

Gu Jinhong glanced around, then slowly shook his head, not knowing if it was because he didn't know, or because it was inconvenient to say.

Fang Shiqing hesitated and poked Xiao Fengdi with his elbow, wanting to ask his opinion.

Xiao Fengdi was silent for a moment, and said: "But, no matter what, he is indeed a human being. He is a human being with flesh and blood, not a ghost—I have confirmed this point."

His voice was so low that even Fang Shiqing, who was surrounded by him, had to concentrate on distinguishing it before he could hear it clearly.

"—That's why this matter is particularly troublesome."

As a spirit remover, he has plenty of ways to deal with ghosts, but it is difficult to harm a human being.

"Wait a minute, Brother Xiao," You Qingyu raised his head suddenly, almost forgot to control his voice, "You mean—but, this is impossible? That person should have already..."

If the worker surnamed Liu was really the original murderer, he should either be dead or squatting at the moment. There is no reason for him to appear in the abandoned building?

"No, don't forget that this is a dungeon, a special map independent of the main map. In a sense, it should be counted as a parallel world." Fang Shiqing immediately reminded.

Taking a step back, the person downstairs should have been buried in the ground long ago, but he turned into that kind of monster.Since he can be here, why can't the murderer?

But...humans?Why humans?

Why do ordinary human NPCs show up in a dungeon full of monsters?

This in itself is an anomaly, and worth digging deeper into.

"Since he is human, we have nothing to fear," Zhao Jun took out his pen after a while and wrote, "We have so many people, we will never be able to defeat him."

There is really nothing to question the combat effectiveness of the players. As long as they hold the group seriously, unless the enemy suddenly pulls out a submachine gun and shoots wildly, otherwise with the ability of ordinary humans, they can really fight one or two.

However, the description in the English last words has always hung heavily in the minds of several people: "Vicious, cruel, and weird" "ghost" - what did it do to make the previous victims give such a terrifying evaluation ?

*

No specific method can be discussed, and in the end players can only wait and see what happens.

After the rest, several people continued to check other parts of the third floor.

The worker surnamed Liu was still obsessively following a little far away, but Gu Jinhong deliberately fell behind and took the initiative to talk to him.

He Xiangwu ran to Fang Shiqing's side, and while complaining to him piecemeal about how dark, crowded and stuffy the interlayer was before, he took out the ore in the inventory and counted some of it for him.

Although this floor is very bright, Xiao Fengdi walked very slowly, almost looking along every wall bit by bit.

After a while, he suddenly turned his head and said, "Come and help break down this wall."

"Ah?" He Xiangwu was taken aback, "Brother Xiao, but this wall..."

The wall in front of me is about [-] meters long, with two or three glass panels embedded in the front, revealing a hideous human face.

"Yes. If you guess correctly, these walls should be empty."

Fang Shiqing took out the pickaxe, knocked out a fist-sized hole from the side, turned on the flashlight and moved over.An unpleasant smell suddenly wafted from inside, he was almost choked, and at the same time, an ominous premonition surged in his heart.

The wall is indeed hollow, but only in the lower half.As for the upper half, there is a layer of sticky substance that looks like glue but not glue. It is a bit similar to the liquid state of the wall when it was first created, as he has seen before.

——Several withered corpses were quietly hanging on the wall.Their heads are buried in that strange substance, their necks hang down naturally, and their calves rest on the ground, presenting a distorted posture.

"...Don't watch it anyway." He backed away silently, and stopped the curious You Qingyu.

Xiao Fengdi took out the dagger, picked out a bit of the jelly from the wall, and looked at it for a long time.His face remained stern, and he didn't know whether he saw anything or not.

"Wide the hole a little more." He turned his head and asked.

According to the instructions of the boss, Fang Shiqing expanded the hole to the width of one person, from the top to the bottom of the wall.Unexpectedly, Xiao Fengdi got in as soon as he bent down, scaring the people around him.

Fortunately, he just touched the ground in the wall and came out soon.

This was not over yet, he quickly stared at another wall that was also filled with people, let them smash it open in the same way, and then continued to drill in.

Even Fang Shiqing couldn't take it anymore, so he stopped him: "Boss, have you found something or something you're looking for, can you get to the bottom of it?"

"Oh..." Xiao Fengdi looked at him, "Do you want to go in and have a look?"

"..."

The corner of Fang Shiqing's mouth twitched, realizing that the other party was not joking.Seeing that he bent down and drilled in again, he didn't know where the courage came from, so he turned on the flashlight and followed inside.

Suddenly there were two more people inside the narrow wall, and it suddenly became crowded.He slowly took a breath, and found that the air here was a little sour, closer to the smell of disinfectant in the hospital.

In order to make room for him, Xiao Fengdi had to move further in, until he reached the side of the hanging corpse.

Fang Shiqing felt a little sorry, and wanted to move back, but was held down by Xiao Fengdi.

The opponent grabbed his hand, pressed it on the ground, pushed it forward slowly, until it reached the base of the wall, and then moved along the base of the wall.

"Did you touch it?"

"...What?" Fang Shiqing felt that he couldn't keep up with the boss's brain circuit at all.

"The gap in the floor." Xiao Fengdi pressed his finger and scratched at the base of the wall again. "The floor in the wall is separate and not connected to the outside. If I guess correctly, the floor here should be It can be opened directly from below."

"what……?"

After reacting for a while, he finally caught up with the opponent's rhythm.

A normal wall and ground should of course be integrated, even if the wall is hollow.However, in this wall, the ground below is a separate piece. If it can be opened, it will directly communicate with the mezzanine below.

But, "What's the point of this?"

Xiao Fengdi looked outside again.Under the dim flashlight, his eyes flickered on and off, with a rare sense of uncertainty.

Fang Shiqing felt that he might have some special idea.

"That... Boss, if there is anything I can do to help, just say it, and I will try my best."

He thought about it and said so.

After another moment of silence, Xiao Fengdi sighed leisurely.

"To be honest, I really can't think of anything you can do to help, oh, except for knocking on the wall."

"..." Although he doesn't think he has any abilities, but you are speaking too bluntly, right? !

Fang Shiqing felt that he was going to be autistic.

"However, if you want, you can listen to my thoughts." He turned the flashlight and shone on the corpse next to him, "Have you noticed that this layer does not seem to have the kind of armor that captures humans. In that case, How did these bodies appear, and how did they get into the wall?"

Fang Shiqing barely regained his spirit.With the previous foreshadowing, this problem is not difficult to solve.

"You mean, these people... all died in the mezzanine below, and then they were moved up and embedded here through the raised floor under our feet by some unknown method?"

"I think so." Xiao Fengdi nodded, "Isn't it too strange? How could there be such a spacious mezzanine in a good building? There is only one reasonable conclusion."

——There must be some unknown and special crisis hidden in that mezzanine.

The bad feeling is getting stronger and stronger.Fang Shiqing immediately had an even worse guess, but he always felt that if he said it, he would be crowed and the matter would come true, so he hesitated and did not dare to speak.

"If you have anything to say, just say it directly. It's just you and me here." Xiao Fengdi saw through his thoughts at a glance, "Don't worry, you don't know the magic of words, no matter what happens in the future, good or bad. It is definitely not reversed because of your remarks."

Just now He Xiangwu and the others also said that this kind of wall can block the sound transmitted outwards.Although there is a hole in the wall, some noise will be transmitted, but considering the propagation characteristics of sound waves, it can at least be weakened a lot.

Fang Shiqing also sighed, a little worried.Now he finally knew what Xiao Fengdi was worried about just now.

"I was thinking, even if there is danger in the mezzanine, we can go upstairs directly by taking the normal route - but if we can avoid the crisis in this simple way, this floor will not make us so miserable gone."

It will definitely come out with some moths, forcing the players to step into that dangerous place.

Xiao Fengdi didn't say anything, but patted him heavily on the shoulder, apparently having similar thoughts.

"...Isn't it better to explain this situation to everyone?"

"Wait a while, let's read this layer first."

Fang Shiqing nodded.There should be nothing else after that, but when he was about to climb out of the hole, he was caught by the wrist again.

"By the way," Xiao Fengdi looked at him, "I just remembered, there is actually one thing I need your help with, and only you can do it."

"What's the matter? Just mention it." Fang Shiqing's eyes lit up.

"—Stay by my side, don't lose it again."

he said softly.

The aperture of the flashlight flickered, and even the shadow under his face flickered slightly, revealing a bit of the beautiful and neat lines of his neck.Those eyes, which were always cold and hard, were extraordinarily soft because of the warm light dotted on them.

"Ah?" Fang Shiqing said blankly, "I'm not always by your side? Where else can I go? Wait, do you mean...the danger is around us? Could it be that other than the two of us Is everyone else untrustworthy? Is something wrong going on?"

- What's wrong is your emotional intelligence.

"..."

Xiao Fengdi silently let go of his hand and supported his forehead.

"Forget it, when I didn't say it."

*

Afterwards, they knocked open every side wall and inspected it, and found that the situation inside was similar.

After repeating this action several times, the other players gradually overcame their fear of corpses, and began to grope around like Xiao Fengdi, but they found nothing—after all, most people would not notice the gaps on the ground at all. Not to mention such troublesome associations.

After bypassing three or four scattered walls, his eyes suddenly went blank:

For some reason, there are no more walls around, leaving a rather large empty area; in the middle of this area, stands a strange facility with a striking shape——

--Elevator shaft.

Its posture was the same as the one they had seen on the second floor.This thing is made of metal, but like a transparent sightseeing elevator, it goes straight up and down through the middle of the room, without relying on any walls, and looks very weird.

There is also no operating panel, the metal door is wide open, and the position is exactly the same; it can be judged that this is the same elevator as the one on the second floor.

Fang Shiqing turned on the flashlight again and took a photo along the inside.The inside and outside of this section of the elevator shaft are clean, and the upper and lower parts are submerged in bottomless darkness.

Apart from itself, there is nothing suspicious around it.

So several people put it aside temporarily and continued to check the second half of the hall.Xiao Fengdi accelerated his forward speed, but still insisted on knocking open every wall to see what he was looking for, but judging from his expression, the result was not ideal.

A group of people finally walked through the entire hall completely and thoroughly. Until then, everyone finally realized the problem.

This layer—

There is no upward stairwell.

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Happy New Year!To all the little angels Bihart! !

The first update of the new year, I wanted to write more...but my upper limit is too low OTL (lay flat)