[Comprehensive British and American] Welcome to Arkham's Infinite Journey

first night 09

Hannibal and Sephiroth stood in a very "strange" place.

There is no decoration in the cement room, and the walls are all bare. Two very simple single beds are placed on both sides of the room.

There is a small square window above the wall against which the single bed is leaning.

It's just that it's pitch black outside the window, and I can't see anything.

The real peculiarity of the room is in the middle.

A huge square gap runs through the top and bottom, about one meter in length, completely separating the single beds on both sides.

Hannibal stood at the square gap and looked down. It was deep and dark below, and he couldn't see where the bottom was. There was also a very slight wind blowing up from below.Blowing on a person's body, it seems that it is about to drill into the cracks in the bones.

Look up.

Hannibal only saw layer after layer, similar to the room he was in.

It's just that the top is not dark, but there is a faint light.

This is a place similar to the previous wooden room, but completely different.

It's just that there are stairs to climb in the corridor outside that room, and here...

"Where did the stairs go?"

When Hannibal turned his head, he couldn't find the flight of stairs he had come from.

Sephiroth thoughtfully replied: "After we walked up, the stairs disappeared by themselves."

Hannibal with a broken face closed himself for a while, pointed to the number 333 written on the concrete wall and asked, "What does this mean?"

Sephiroth: "... minus 333 floors?"

This number is exactly the same as the number of floors before the waiters started falling infinitely in the wooden room above.

Hannibal wanted to cry, "My lord, do you know what's going on?"

Sephiroth laughed lightly, stood at the square gap, stepped hard, and jumped to the edge of the square gap on the upper floor with great ease.

Then turned to look at Hannibal below, "Want to come up?"

Hannibal immediately put away the collapse on his face and the resentment in his heart, especially sincerely, "Think!"

The height of the room is about three meters.

The square gap is in the middle, and there is no place around it that can be used for strength.The single beds on both sides were still covered with cement, and they couldn't be moved even if they wanted to.

Under such circumstances, it was really difficult for Hannibal to reach the upper floor.

At this time, with the dean's help, he naturally has no complaints at all.

Sephiroth held out the long knife at his waist.

The blade of the authentic knife seems to be hidden, not as cold and pressing as when Sephiroth drew the knife before.

The blade passed through the collar behind Hannibal's neck, and with a slight pick, Hannibal was still dazed, and he had already reached the 332nd floor.

Floors 332 and 333 are not any different.

The dampness and coldness in the room, and the cold wind blowing up from under the square gap, all followed like a shadow.

For a period of time after that, Sephiroth led Hannibal all the way up through the square gap.

When they reached the 200th floor, the light in the room finally improved.

The small windows above the single beds on both sides of the room are no longer pitch black, but glowing white.

Hannibal jumped on the single bed for a long time, finally lay down on the bed and looked out, and there was nothing in sight except a piece of white.

The window is tightly sealed with glass, and if you want to reach out, you can only break the glass.

But whenever Hannibal wants to try this, he can't help but think of the player who ran into the stairs but was "eaten" by the stairs.

Hannibal, who raised his hand and knocked on the glass, did nothing in the end, and Sephiroth continued to climb up with his collar.

When the two reached the 176th floor, they finally saw someone.

In the 176th floor, there is a living person and a... dead person.

The sudden appearance of Sephiroth and Hannibal obviously startled the living.

The living man, who was cutting meat from the dead with a knife, stared at the two of them motionlessly with his eyes widened in horror.

As if the two of them shouldn't be here.

Everything in the room is very simple, Sephiroth can see everything at a glance.

The dead man was lying on the single bed, his whole body was tightly tied up, his face maintained a hideous expression when he died, and the corpse smelled rancid.

Fortunately, the environment here is special, and no insects are attracted.

The living person was unkempt, like a savage, and there was a very strong bloody smell all over his body, especially his mouth.

Sephiroth stared at the living man for a moment, then turned to look at Hannibal, and said sincerely, "Do you think he looks like you?"

Hannibal had an obviously offended look on his face, he couldn't help but said, "I wouldn't be so barbaric."

Unless you're too hungry.

Sephiroth chuckled, and said to the living: "I want to ask you some questions."

The living man wiped his mouth, revealing his jagged teeth.Although he looks crazy, but the most basic reason is still there.

Under Sephiroth's gaze, he was extremely obedient: "You say."

Feeling that Sephiroth didn't like his appearance at this time, the living man put away the knife in his hand, and wiped his hands on the dark prison uniform.

"Where is this place?"

Sephiroth's question made the living man's face even more strange, but he did not express his thoughts, but answered Sephiroth's question carefully.

"This is an endless prison, don't you know?"

From the living, Sephiroth knew.

In this endless prison, prisoners from all over the world are held.

No one knows exactly how the prisoners were selected.

The prisoners who are locked up here range from the heinous to the petty thieves; there are men and there are women.

But no matter what happened in the past, all the prisoners locked up here, as long as they want to survive, will eventually become human-eating monsters.

because……

"The prisoners locked here have only one meal a day, which is passed from top to bottom on a square platform." The living man pointed to the square gap in the middle of the room.

"The amount of food is fixed, so the prisoners on the upper floor can eat enough, but the prisoners on the lower floor may not necessarily have enough to eat. Especially...you see..."

The living man opened his mouth and looked at his own floor nervously, "This is the 176th floor, and there are two criminals on each floor. By the time the food arrives at my place, it will be gone long ago, and even the plates have been licked." clean.

"Every prisoner needs to endure in his own floor for a month, and if he is still alive after a month, he will be assigned to a different floor again. If we are lucky, maybe I will be assigned to the upper floor next time. Go to the floor, as long as I can... survive..."

Hannibal asked, "Is it random to reassign the floors after one month?"

The living person laughed, "I don't know, it's probably random."

Hearing this, Sephiroth already understood why the prisoner said that all the prisoners locked here would eventually become man-eating monsters.

The living person hadn't talked to anyone for a long time, and after saying this, he retracted back to the corpse, stared at the corpse with both eyes, and murmured nervously, "I didn't want to kill him, I have to raise him, I It takes longer to eat. But we didn't have food, and he didn't hold back, so he just died.

"I didn't intend to kill him..."

The living people were immersed in their own world, completely ignoring the existence of Sephiroth and Hannibal.

Sephiroth didn't ask any more questions with the living.

In the system he captured, Sephiroth learned that every player will be pulled away from the infinite world by the system after completing the task.

After a fixed period of time, you will return to the infinite world to perform new tasks.

But he and Hannibal were obviously not among them.

All the players in the novice trial level left, but they came to a brand new "map".

Sephiroth just wanted to know if there were other players here.

Seeing half-mad living people made Hannibal feel bad.

It reminded him of a lot of things he wanted to forget.

So he urged Sephiroth to say: "Let's go, Dean..."

Sephiroth turned around and stared at the square gap and said, "He said that there is a square platform for passing food, maybe the prisoners can leave their 'cells' through the platform."

Since the platform passes food down every day, it will have time to go back.

In this way, no matter whether the prisoners above want to go down, or the prisoners below want to come up, it should be fine.

However, Sephiroth did not wait for this platform to appear, and took Hannibal up again.

From the 176th floor up, every floor is occupied by people.

It's just that in the next dozens of floors, most of them are people who died in miserable conditions, and few of them are alive.

Either the two people in the cell were all starved to death, or one of them was cut off from the flesh and died in a miserable state, while the other was half mad and half insane, guarding the corpse weakly.

They were completely indifferent to the presence of Sephiroth and Hannibal.

Only when someone tries to get close to him, will he roll his eyes, showing a little vigilance, showing a little bit of remaining anger.

So on the 145th floor, Sephiroth finally found the person he was looking for.

a player.

The player is a tall, dark-skinned man. It is not known how long he has been locked up here. His eyes are full of fierceness and cruelty. The other person in the room is tied to the bed. His breath of life is weak, but he is still alive.

Dark-skinned players reacted greatly when they saw Sephiroth and Hannibal.

Those eyes with distinct black borders stared as if they were about to fall out of their sockets.

He looked at Sephiroth and Hannibal in disbelief, and lowered his voice, "...are you players?"

Hannibal sensibly reduced his sense of presence, Sephiroth looked at the player and didn't answer, the player just took it as their default.

After all, in this place, it is still very easy to distinguish players from ordinary prisoners.

Because only players will wear clothes other than prison uniforms.

All the players who want to live a good life, have already figured out a way to change their clothes, and those who are still wearing the original clothes and survived have two brushes.

Sephiroth nodded to the half-dead person in the room, and asked, "Is it delicious?"

When Hannibal heard this, he wanted to stop breathing, but the player laughed and said, "Why are you pretending to be kind? If you can live to this day, don't tell me that you haven't eaten people. Look at your well-dressed appearance, with What's different about me? It's just a monster in human skin."

Hannibal looked down at himself, who was wearing a "well-dressed" hospital uniform for a severely mentally ill patient, and deeply admired the player's courage.