A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"Then where did he go?"

"Have you gone up?" He Xiangwu scratched the icicle on his head with a bitter face, "After we punched out the hole in the mezzanine below, we actually didn't plan to go up at the beginning, because there is obviously a road in front of the mezzanine, and it feels like we can go straight up again." Go up to the next floor. But at this time... the construction worker NPC from before suddenly appeared, saying that he wanted to talk to us."

Speaking of this, he shivered several times in succession, and he didn't know whether it was cold or frightened.

"That NPC... looks really scary. I think you are right now," he turned to Gu Jinhong and said, "He is a vicious murderer."

"Get to the point!" Fang Shiqing wanted to grab him and shake him.

"Important...? Ah, oh, after that Brother Xiao told me not to move, he and the NPC continued to walk along the road, maybe to the mezzanine on the upper floor, I don't know where I went "He Xiangwu continued to tremble, "But I can't wait there all the time, I just climbed up, I didn't expect that there would be water on it. Sigh, fortunately, I took swimming lessons..."

"...He and that npc left alone?" Gu Jinhong asked abruptly.

"correct."

"..." Gu Jinhong's expression suddenly changed.

Fang Shiqing suddenly felt very bad.

It can also be seen from the previous conversations that Gu Jinhong is a very careful person, and his attitude towards "guiding players" has always been subtle, and he doesn't seem to be too trusting.Now that Xiao Fengdi and that npc are acting alone, this incident actually can't explain anything, but—combined with the cooperation invitation initiated by the npc before, it is enough to make this person suspicious.

Although this suspicion had nothing to do with him, it just made him feel a little uncomfortable.

He Xiangwu sat up from the ice, looked at the different expressions of the two people, and said blankly: "What's the matter? Hey, I don't think there is any need to worry about it. Brother Xiao won't be able to beat that middle-aged uncle, right?"

Fang Shiqing patted him on the shoulder with complicated emotions.

"Well, I believe the boss will be fine. Uh, in that case, has he already gone up early? If we want to meet him, we have to hurry up."

Gu Jinhong was silent for a moment and said, "Let's go outside the ice rink first?"

Because of the height difference, turning it out from the inside is much more difficult than turning it in from the outside.The three of them finally climbed out from the inside, and sat down in a row under the wall near the exit. The temperature outside the ice rink rose slightly, and the ice on their bodies melted a little, and they finally felt a little better.

"Cough... so what, anyway, let's take a look at the clues first?"

Fang Shiqing had no choice but to spread the folder he had just fished up from the bottom of the water on the ground, and forcibly changed the subject, "Actually, I don't know if it's a clue, but I took everything..."

He opened the sealed waterproof bag and poured out all the contents.

The folder was bulging, and inside were several pens, a work permit, and several kinds of paper of different textures.

The work card seems to have been soaked in water, and the information has been blurred. It can only be vaguely seen that the photo is indeed of the underwater body, and the identity information says "first-class architect".

——This deceased person actually walked with the underground boss?

The top few sheets were obviously blueprints, and the three of them stretched their necks to look at them, and recognized that they seemed to be the design sketches of this abandoned building, and there were many strange-shaped annotations with red pen on the side, which looked quite professional.

The few people here don't know anything about architecture, and they don't have the time to think about the blueprints, so they put them aside for now.

The next few sheets are all A4 paper, with various information written in different colors in different colors.

The three of them glanced at the first piece of paper together, which recorded in small letters his experience of entering the abandoned building in detail, including when he arrived at the door, when he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and the items he carried were completely different. What is there, how many milliliters of water is left in the water glass... It is so detailed that it is a little weird, God knows how this person has the patience to write so many words in this environment.

Because the handwriting is too small and there is no grid on the paper, it seems very laborious.

He is also engaged in construction, and the account in the underground is neat and clear. In comparison, this one is far behind.

He Xiangwu flipped through the paper and said with a grin, "If anyone writes something like this on the Internet, they will definitely be scolded by readers for cheating money."

Gu Jinhong glanced at the next few pages: "It seems to be the same content, nothing special."

Fang Shiqing thought about it for a while, and simply divided the several sheets of paper into three parts, and put one part in each person's hand.

"Let's look at it separately, and if we find useful information, let's talk about it."

This thing seems to be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is too inefficient for three people to watch it together.He still wanted to hurry up and go upstairs to find Xiao Fengdi, and he didn't want to be entangled here for too long.

As a result, the huge space fell silent, and for a while, there was only the slight sound of paper rubbing against each other.

For modern people, there are not many opportunities to read such purely handwritten paper content.Especially for Fang Shiqing, a young man with severe internet addiction who has graduated, especially the writer's handwriting is still small and dense.

It took him a while to focus on the paper, patiently read the first few paragraphs, and found that this should be what the recorder wrote down in the interlayer.

His records are still trivial. They are all about how many meters of the roadside, how many corpses appear, how long the corpses have been dead, and what shape they are in. They don't seem to have any meaning at all.

After reading a few lines, Fang Shiqing's eyes gradually wandered, and he unconsciously jumped down several paragraphs.However, before he lost his patience, a line of words suddenly caught his attention.

"From now on, I'm going to say something really important." The line reads, "Before that, I have a piece of advice. If you're alone here, stop reading and just Destroy this piece of paper. If you are a team, ask yourself first: Do you want to live? How much do you want to live?"

Fang Shiqing was stunned for a moment, wondering why this person suddenly started playing tricks.

If it was "really important", why didn't he mark it in red pen or large characters, instead of just mixing it up in a large block of black and small characters?

He didn't think much about it, and just looked at it.

The style of writing in the back is much different from that in the front, and it is more like a memoir than a running account.

"As you must already know, I am an architect. Probably because of this, the monster in the ground didn't hurt me, but told me something. He couldn't speak, but he could write, and we communicated a lot through writing .

"He told me that he was also an architect when he was alive, and he was the designer of this building. When the building was halfway under construction, he accidentally crashed into the murder scene and was killed by the murderer. , die with regret, it is embarrassing.

"This monster... It doesn't seem right to call someone a monster, so I'll call him the landlord. The landlord said that he didn't mean to hurt anyone, but just wanted to finish the building. However, this building is no longer A building that actually exists; this building lives between yin and yang, lives in his own obsession, and integrates with him. It has long been repaired by building materials and workers.

"I asked him why there were so many dead bodies in the building since he didn't want to hurt others. He said that he hated the murderer very much, but it might be because of this hatred that the murderer followed him into the building lingeringly Come on, it’s still the same as before. This made him very upset, so he used his abilities after becoming a monster and created many machines that communicated with himself, and searched the whole building day and night, trying to catch the murderer and tear him apart. Break it into pieces and build it into the wall.

"However, he is no longer a human being. He spends half of the day going crazy. When he is crazy, he can't tell who is who, and even innocent people who stray into this building will be killed. I noticed that for He didn't feel any guilt about the murder, he was just a little regretful - sure enough, he was no longer a human being.

"I asked him how he could get out of here, and his answer was, unless the building was repaired. It was his obsession and the building itself that kept us here. Only when the obsession disappeared could it let us go.

I asked him how to fix the building, and he gave me an answer. "

After reading this, Fang Shiqing's heart was raised high: this is undoubtedly the most critical part of the method of ending the dungeon.

I never imagined that such an important thing would be recorded in a document that was casually fished out of the water!But think about it carefully, this is a game after all, maybe the system has prepared several files with the same content in different locations, and they can use any one they pick up.

——What is infuriating is that the next line of the recorder suddenly changed his style of writing, and did not say what the answer was at all.

He wrote: "I have thought about it carefully along the way. In fact, I don't want to live so much, nor am I so afraid of death. I am an architect, but unlike the landlord, I don't love my work at all. Work. I’m tired of working overtime every day, just for the little money, but I dare not ask for leave because of the livelihood. I have talked with two girlfriends, but they all fell through because I didn’t have time to accompany her, and I didn’t feel that I loved them much. As for Parents, it may be an obligation to support the elderly, but I don’t want to go back to them. I will only feel depressed when I am around them.”

"Living is very tiring and very unhappy. I can't find the meaning of life, everything is so boring. This may be a modern urban disease. I have seen a psychiatrist and prescribed medicine, but I have no courage to take it.

"So, along the way, I have been thinking - this building, maybe, is an opportunity given to me by God. Even if I die here silently, no one will blame me. I die here only because it is surrounded by Horrible monsters and brutal murderers, not because I don't value life."

"I want to use this method to relieve the moral pressure of suicide. But I can fool everyone, except myself.

"All the way here, the five people who strayed into the building with me all died. They were killed by the murderer. The host is right. The murderer was a madman. But the madman didn't kill me. He Maybe I saw the way I wrote and communicated with the landlord, and thought that following me can leave here, so I have been trying to blackmail me. Every time I hear him say those crazy things, I find it funny. For a person who wants to die, you threaten to kill him Without him, how could it be useful? This just made me more determined to die.

"The landlord gave me his floor plan, and I put it in the folder. You must have seen it. You can see it from the picture. Now there is an ice pool above my head. I have decided to let myself forever Stay there forever, forever—quietly, undisturbed, in still water.

"Of course, since you can read this far, you should also understand that I still have a sense of responsibility for those who come later. After all, I know that there are only a few people like me who want to die. I will definitely seal up all the materials I have collected. It's in a waterproof bag, otherwise you wouldn't see it.

"The matter has come to this, let me point out the way for you. First of all, if you are alone, then you are dead. So I told you not to look at it from the beginning, hoping to see here and suddenly Despair, I feel cruel for you.

"If you are a team, then, let's go back to the original question. Do you want to live? How much do you want to live? What steps can you take to survive?

"If the answer is yes, then continue to go up. Look carefully at the blueprint I gave you. The hidden passage is marked with a red pen. You can go directly to the seventh floor from there (note, can this building go up? Next). There are no monsters and organs in the hidden passage, but you need to beware of the murderer. He has been in this building for a long time, and he can go up and down freely, and he knows the details of the building very well. By the way, if the murderer offers you cooperation, Don't believe his nonsense. No one with a brain would believe it, so I won't explain it here."

"You need to go up to the top floor. When you get there, the journey is over. You may meet the host again, and he will give you the answer. But the host is mad half the time, and can only communicate the other half of the time. I can only wish you Good luck, I hope you happen to meet a reasonable landlord."

"Of course, if you don't want to live anymore, you can come and accompany me. I've done research, and this piece of water is definitely the most suitable resting place for souls upstairs and downstairs."

The content ends here, and the old man even drew a smiley face emoticon at the end in a relaxed mood.

Fang Shiqing didn't know how to evaluate this passage.

He felt that the amount of information was a bit too much, and he also felt that this person was just playing tricks, and the useful content was limited.

Besides, "Do you want to live? How much do you want to live?" This question is also very strange, and...for him, it is subtly piercing.

"Brother Fang, have you finished reading?" He Xiangwu poked him with his elbow, "There is nothing special on my paper, it seems to be his experience on the second floor...he had five teammates who died on this floor Three, it seems that they were killed by that NPC."

Fang Shiqing took a deep breath and said, "He said, if we want to escape, we have to continue climbing up to the top floor."