A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

It was difficult to see through the ice, Fang Shiqing hesitated, and swung the pickaxe down.

It took him a long time to smash it more than a foot deep, and finally he smashed through the ice with a pick, and the cold water rushed up immediately.

With an opening, the rest is much easier.He made the hole wider until it was about two feet in diameter.It feels like making holes on the lake in winter. You can carry out winter fishing activities with just a fishing rod-although there are probably no fish underneath.

He touched the surface of the water with his fingers and shivered from the cold.Then use a flashlight to penetrate below the water surface and find that the water under the ice layer is two or three meters deep, which is comparable to the deep water area of ​​a swimming pool.

"What are you going to do?" Gu Jinhong moved and asked, "...you don't intend to jump down, do you?"

"No, I don't know how to swim at all . . . but I do have to see what's under the surface."

Fang Shiqing said, then took a deep breath, and plunged his head into the ice hole.

The cold water made the scalp tingle.For a person like him who knew nothing about swimming, it was difficult for him to even open his eyes underwater. It took him a while to get used to it, and he turned his neck to look at the dark shadow before——

A pair of cloudy eyes looked at him through the clear cold water.

His mind froze for a moment, and then exploded with a buzzing sound.

It was indeed a corpse—a corpse that was completely dead and frozen in water, and it was unknown how long it had been dead.Because the temperature here is very low, it is not as dry and twisted as the previous mummies, the details are very complete, and it looks like it is asleep.

Looking at the appearance, this is a man in his 30s, with a pale and unfamiliar face, and a strange sense of tranquility in his expression.He was wearing an ordinary shirt, with a fanny pack around his waist, and he was holding something in his hand.

Fang Shiqing was frightened, he couldn't hold his breath, he choked several saliva, and almost fell out of the ice hole.Fortunately, he finally reacted in time, supported the ice and pulled his head out.

He coughed twice, coughing out the water that choked the air duct, then sat blankly beside the ice hole, dazed for a while.

His face was also frozen, pale and pale, and his expression was numb, which probably looked scary.

Gu Jinhong should have sensed something was wrong, so he came over to poke him: "What's the matter, is there... anything under the water?"

"No, nothing."

Fang Shiqing patted his cheek vigorously. After being frozen in the low temperature for dozens of seconds, he didn't feel much of a slap on his face, but the crackling sound brought him back to his senses, "It's just...there is a dead body."

"...Really." Gu Jinhong frowned and was silent for a moment, "Whose?"

"Ah?" Fang Shiqing shook the water off his head, "Who's what?"

"Isn't there a dead body? Whose?"

"Uh..." He was stunned for a few seconds, "Then how could I know? There are so many background board corpses upstairs and down, I'm afraid the game system didn't set a background story for them, how could I know its name? who."

Gu Jinhong paused, nodded, and said nothing.

Fang Shiqing rubbed his cheeks repeatedly, and after a while, he suddenly realized.

"Wait, wait a minute, didn't you just think...there was a teammate's corpse underneath?!"

Gu Jinhong didn't deny it: "You look very bad, and based on previous experience, I don't think an ordinary strange corpse can scare you."

"..." Fang Shiqing said, "Don't worry, there's really no such thing. I'm just more afraid of this kind of... drowning things."

Everyone has their own special fears, and Fang Shiqing is no exception.He is okay with other things, including dead people and skeletons, and he can quickly adapt to them. The only two things he is more afraid of are the scene of a car accident squeezed by a heavy truck, and the other is a drowned body in cold water.

——For him, this is something far more straightforward than "death".

"In short, this corpse undoubtedly shows that the ice is far less quiet than it seems. There may be more than one corpse. I'll look for it later."

Gu Jinhong seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just nodded quietly.Fang Shiqing felt that he might also want to help, and most likely he would not be ashamed to lie on the ice with his ass upside down like himself - after all, this posture is really not very good-looking, this person is also a model, sings and plays, he must be an idol very heavy.

After resting for a while, he crawled around against the ice again.The temperature on the ice rink was very low, and the water droplets on the tips of his hair froze a bit, and he didn't bother to take care of it - anyway, he would wipe it off by himself when it was time to refresh.

It was too laborious to move on the ice, so he only took a rough look at the surrounding situation, and found several black figures deep in the ice.

——It looks calm on the surface, but in fact, it is no different from the previous few floors, and they all exist like "corpse piles".

It's too big here, and it's not realistic to check them all.In the end, Fang Shiqing had no choice but to go back to the ice cave, and said helplessly: "I didn't find any monsters, mechanism traps, etc. I don't know how these people died."

"Then, what do we do next?"

Fang Shi said with a clear heart, I knew you would ask such a question.Same as before, in fact, the current situation is already obvious, and the other party definitely already has the answer in his heart, and he is just waiting for him to say it.

"There's nothing we can do next. The water is so cold that even people who can swim can't jump into it to check the situation. There is no other entrance here, there is only one exit, and others should not be able to get here. Come on, how about we take a break and continue to the upper floor?"

"Okay, let's do this." Sure enough, Gu Jinhong nodded in a second.

It was too cold on the ice to actually have a good rest.The two planned to turn over to the outside of the barbed wire.

Just as he stood up, Fang Shiqing hesitated for a moment, and looked at the ice hole again.

The male corpse next to this position, in his hand... seems to be holding something?

At that time, he was basically frozen and frightened. Compared with the details of the movements, he was more attracted by the corpse's pale face and dead eyes.However, after playing too many games, people will have some intuition for clues. Now that he calmed down and thought about it carefully, he felt that maybe it was something useful.

Although, if he wanted to muster up the courage to probe down again, he still had to get something from the hands of the drowned dead man. For him, it seemed... a bit difficult.

Seeing him squatting by the edge of the ice hole, Gu Jinhong didn't show any signs of impatience, and just waited silently.

Fang Shiqing wiped his face vigorously, feeling that he couldn't drag on any longer.If it is really a clue, it must be taken, who knows if it will be the key to leaving here.

He took another deep breath, plunged his head into the ice hole, squinted his eyes and looked around.

The male corpse was only a little over a meter away from him.Taking a closer look, he found that it was indeed holding something in its arms, which looked like a file folder.

He reached in with an arm, pushed forward enough, and yanked the folder from the dead body.When he touched it, it felt smooth, and he realized that the folder was actually sealed in a waterproof plastic bag.

Was this corpse prepared before death?

The body was pulled like this, and it floated forward for a while, almost touching his face.Fang Shiqing panicked all of a sudden, his arms fluttered wildly in the water, and he almost threw the file bag out again, and his pent up breath was released all of a sudden.

Even if you have done enough psychological construction, the psychological shadow of many years is not so easy to overcome.

Gu Jinhong grabbed his shoulders in time and pulled him up.Fang Shiqing pulled his head out of the water at once, lay down directly on the ice, and coughed earth-shatteringly for a long time.

"...Are you okay?" Gu Jinhong patted him on the back, "Why did you suddenly go down again, did you find anything new?"

He coughed so hard that he couldn't speak, and it took him a long time to slowly support the ice surface and straighten up.

"Ahem...yes, I...cough cough, remember, I have something to take..."

Half of his arm was actually still soaking in the ice water. He had choked so much just now that he forgot to hold his fist. Fortunately, he didn't really throw the file bag out, otherwise he really didn't know who to cry to.

At this moment, a cold hand suddenly grasped his arm under the water——

"Fuck!!"

The hand was so heavy that he was almost dragged down without noticing it.Fang Shiqing broke out in a cold sweat, frantically shaking his hands while pulling his arms up, his mind went blank.

—Could it be, could it be that the corpse in the water was a fraud?

In the next second, a head popped out of the water.He gasped for a few breaths and howled, "Brother Fang, Brother Fang is me! Quick, give me a hand, I'll freeze to death!"

"..." Fang Shiqing couldn't react for a while, and was stunned.

"It's... He Xiangwu?" Gu Jinhong looked at the face emerging from the water, and immediately reached out to help pull him out.

——It really is He Xiangwu.

He was paralyzed on the ice half dead, gasping for air, his whole body was wet.Gu Jinhong pushed him: "Don't lie here, your whole body will freeze in a while, come on, come with us to the outside of the ice rink."

He Xiangwu barely moved, turned over like a salted fish, and muttered in his mouth: "Wait, wait a minute, let me rest for a while, I have no energy, I have no energy at all."

Fang Shiqing squatted on the side, staring blankly at the file bag in his hand, and at his teammates paralyzed on the side, still a little unresponsive: "You...why did you suddenly emerge from the bottom of the water?"

This guy suddenly appeared from the wall last time, and this time he suddenly appeared from the ice. Could it be that he was cursed by something that would definitely appear from a strange place?

"Hey, don't mention it," He Xiangwu almost burst into tears when asked, "It's really unlucky to say."

"You don't know, we ended up going all the way up from the mezzanine—yes, that's the mezzanine before. Go down from this place," he pointed to the ice hole, "straight through the floor below, and the bottom is the third and fourth floors. Between the mezzanine."

He Xiangwu said that when he exploded before, he was blown back to the third floor by the airflow for some reason, and for some reason, the restriction that he could only move forward and not retreat suddenly became invalid.

When they reacted, the stairwell in front of them was gone, and because there was no other way out, they had to go down to the mezzanine.

When walking forward from the mezzanine, half-decomposed corpses gradually appeared on both sides. They looked much fresher than the dead corpses I had seen before, as if they were preserved in liquid.

Fresh corpses are much scarier than dead ones.Although the performance in the game is far from being as realistic and aggressive as in reality, it is still not something ordinary people can face. One can imagine how psychologically he suffered along the way.

But on the contrary, the road was uneventful, and it was easy to find an upward turning point, reaching between the third and fourth floors.Later they found the movable opening at the top of the interlayer, and he broke it with a pickaxe. Unexpectedly, when he drilled upwards, he actually entered the water.

Each scene in the game is an independent space, and the passages between them are equivalent to space tunnels, so even if the passages are opened, the water in this scene will not leak to the other side along the passages.

"You said 'you'?" Fang Shiqing noticed this detail, "Who were you with before? Why are you the only one left now?"

"Oh," He Xiangwu had already caught his breath, but now his body was covered with icicles and he was trembling non-stop. When he was asked this way, he remembered, "Before, I was with Brother Xiao all the time. How dare you pass through so many dead people and go to the mezzanine. But he didn't come up from here."

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I... (covering my face) I probably didn't have a good mind yesterday to use OTL

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