The daily life of the retired devil

As the sound got closer, under the electric lights, in the stairwell, two human-shaped black shadows gradually elongated and cast on the wall opposite Xie Feiyan, dancing with teeth and claws.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Xie Feiyan watched the two shadows getting bigger and bigger, and suddenly felt that they seemed to be breaking away from their masters, and even breaking away from gravity, flying up to the ceiling and blending into the dark and obscure damp darkness.

Xie Feiyan frowned, looked up at the ceiling again, and then hid himself deeper.

"Look, I'll pick the lock!"

"no problem!"

The shadows on the wall parted.

One of them stopped in the middle of the corridor, and then there was the sound of rustling iron tools, and the other was looking around at the stairs, urging from time to time.

"What's the matter? It's still not good? It takes so long to pick such an outdated lock?"

"Don't rush! Immediately!"

"Hurry up! The guards will return from outside the monastery at nine o'clock, and we have to rush back to the assembly point before 08:30!"

"I know, I told you not to rush... that's it!"

With a soft click, the door opened.

The two were overjoyed, urged each other, and soon walked into the office.

Xie Feiyan poked his head slightly at this moment and glanced lightly.

But at this moment, he saw two familiar shadows walking back and forth on the wall of the corridor.

--and many more?

Xie Feiyan's heart skipped a beat. He listened attentively and heard clearly that two players had entered Dr. Ian's treatment room. After roughly searching the outside room, he began to pry the second door.

However, when the two players entered the treatment room, their shadows did not follow. Instead, they separated from their respective masters and wandered blankly in the corridor.

Xie Feiyan:? !

At this moment, even Xie Feiyan couldn't help showing a look of astonishment.

How is this going?

Why does a pure shadow exist independently of its master?

Don't say it's "unscientific", it's not even "metaphysical"!There has never been such a thing in Xie Feiyan's previous knowledge system!

After Xie Feiyan came to the monastery, with the idea of ​​taking precautions, he used his own ability to perceive the monastery, and learned that there was no breath of dead souls in the monastery, so no matter how strange the elements that Xie Feiyan came into contact with this day, he only thought It's a puzzle-solving theme. I thought it was a battle royale in a madhouse caused by a mad scientist accidentally leaking a virus, or a werewolf in a madhouse after the arrival of an alien mimic monster... I didn't expect the result? !

What are these weird things?

Or to put it another way—every judgment on his "role-playing" and those stares like dead fish eyes come from the game system or from the monastery itself? !

And those "researches" that were kept secret by the nurses, were they the crazy experiments of the mad scientists he originally envisioned, or something deeper?

Xie Feiyan was confused by this weird monastery, full of doubts, and hid himself in a corner again.

This sixth floor is really, really weird and doesn't seem to make sense.

Just be more careful.

Xie Feiyan was thinking, when inside, the two players suddenly cheered softly.

"Open!"

"Look what it is!"

"Wait, come back!"

"what happened?"

"Keep your voice down and be careful! This Dr. Ian is very likely to be the BOSS, you are desperate to break into the BOSS's secret room?! Wait until I throw a puppet in to explore the way."

While speaking, there was another rustling sound.

Xie Feiyan didn't hear what the players inside were doing, but after hearing it for a while, the players couldn't help but start talking again.

"Are you ready? Our time is almost up, we have to go back quickly!"

"Okay, okay, check it out right away."

"What did you see?"

"It seems to be a laboratory inside, with dissecting tables, strange, I thought I would see a slaughter scene... The equipment is quite ordinary, nothing special, oh, there are too many brain lobes on the shelves, I don't know about this How many people's brains did the doctor take as specimens, tsk tsk tsk, let me say that there is something wrong with this doctor, it is really a villain's configuration!"

"Come on, don't talk nonsense, is there anything useful? If not, let's withdraw first and come back tomorrow!"

"Wait! I'll finish reading it right away... There is nothing on the desk, and the experimental records and other things are carefully stored. He is a villain who does big things... The dissecting table... By the way, there seems to be something on the dissecting table? Is it a human? Hey! He’s still moving! Wait, I’ll jump up and have a look!”

"Hurry up! There's really no time!"

"Come on, don't rush! I'll see right away, he—"

Suddenly, the sound stopped abruptly.

The other player was taken aback.

"what happened?"

no respond.

"Hey! Hey!! What's wrong?!!"

Deathly silence.

The second player panicked, followed by the sound of footsteps.

Xie Feiyan turned his face slightly, and saw that the second player made a decisive decision and dragged the first player out of Dr. Ian's treatment room.

hiss--

With a long breath, the first player seemed to lose touch with the puppet in the crack of the door and came back to his senses.

His face was pale, with abnormal flushing in it, his face was terrified, his head was covered with cold sweat, and his voice was hoarse.

"Run! No! Quit the game! Get out of here!"

"What? But our mall coupons..."

"quick!!!"

As if operating something in the void, the two players froze, their eyes went blank, and their souls instantly escaped from the body.

Facts have proved that the effectiveness of their decisions is indeed worthy of their level, because almost the second after they left the game, the sound of sticky objects sliding on the ground suddenly sounded in Dr. Ian's treatment room, and then, that The two shadows wandering blankly in the corridor also had their own purpose. They stepped down from the wall in one step, changed from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, and even stretched out their hands, pushing the bodies of the two players at the door into the treatment room. room.

thump.

thump.

Two humanoid objects fell upside down into the treatment room, like two corpses.

Two shadows followed in with slender legs, and closed the door with their backhands.

click.

The door closed, and the hallway fell into dead silence again.

But soon, within 3 minutes at the most, the door was opened from the inside again, and two people wearing guard uniforms walked out with stiff steps, and left the sixth floor without a word, carrying their respective shadows. Returning the same way, the whole journey was eerily quiet.

And after they left, the sliding sound of sticky objects sounded again, as if they were looking for something in the treatment room, or trying to leave, but in the end, this unknown thing was thinking about something, and finally stopped at the treatment room door Before, gently closed the door of the treatment room.

click.

The corridor returned to dead silence again.

For a long time, those weird voices and weird shadows never appeared in the corridor again.

In the corner, Xie Feiyan, who had watched all this from the sidelines, finally breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed slowly.

——It's finally over.

Not daring to stay here any longer, Xie Feiyan stepped on silent steps and left as quietly as when he came.

At night, around 09:30.

The guards patrolling outside finally returned.

Xie Feiyan stood on the stairs, looking down at the guards talking and laughing as they filed in through the gate.

He glanced quickly, and found the two players on the sixth floor among the guards.

However, at this moment, these two "people" who have escaped from the player's control, have not been noticed by anyone or any "thing", and have perfectly integrated into the guard team, joking and joking with others without hindrance. As if they were part of the Guard, as if they were one.

Xie Feiyan's eyes became more and more condensed, and without letting anyone feel his presence, he took a step back and left quietly again.

ten o'clock.

The appointed time is up.

The same toilet, the same two people.

Xie Feiyan and the young man with dark circles looked at each other after confirming that there was no one else in the toilet.

Xie Feiyan: "Let me talk first."

Let me tell you the information I got first—this is not only to show my sincerity, but also because Xie Feiyan is confident enough and has no fear in his heart.

Xie Feiyan said: "There may be other factors in this dungeon. Tonight, I went to Dr. Ian's treatment room, but because I felt that there seemed to be something wrong in the corridor, I quit, and then..."

Xie Feiyan didn't mention anything about Sister Irene, but only described Dr. Ian's treatment room and the two players who broke into the treatment room and left the game immediately to the young man with dark circles.

In particular, Xie Feiyan explained in detail the shadows that jumped from the two players, the location objects in the treatment room, and the shadow manipulating the players' bodies.

The young man with dark circles was a little surprised by Xie Feiyan's intelligence and frankness. After pondering for a while, he also explained to Xie Feiyan what he saw at the book club.

"...At the book club, I didn't find anything strange for the time being. Those rumored patients who suddenly went crazy while reading a book didn't exist today either."

"...The books that Sister Irene asked the patients to read were all Catholic religious books. Except that she strongly asked everyone to read them sincerely, I didn't see any other abnormalities."

"...I searched for unusual books or scents in the reading room of the book club, but unfortunately there were none."

"...So based on your information, my preliminary judgment on all this is that some kind of change has taken place in the monastery. This change may be supernatural, so Sister Irene wants to turn to religion. But Dr. Ian as helpless Believers, he did not agree with Sister Irene, and wanted to turn to science, so they carried out some kind of research, but in the end, under the interference of certain factors, they not only failed to stop this change, but even failed completely. The entire monastery has completely turned into a ghost town."

After hearing this, Xie Feiyan nodded slightly: "It is indeed the most likely judgment at present, but when it comes to the supernatural, it may not be possible, because there is no breath of undead in this monastery."

The young man with dark circles looked at Xie Feiyan in a daze, "Supernatural factors don't just refer to dead souls."

Xie Feiyan said: "I know, but there is no change in the superpower either."

As an old monster who has lived for an unknown number of years, and an old monster who has been approved for an unknown number of vests, Xie Feiyan still has a good say on this point.

This monastery is very weird, but what is even more weird than weird is that it is obviously so strange here, but there are no traces of ghosts and ghosts.

——It was as if something that Xie Feiyan could not perceive came here.When Xie Feiyan walked through the sunny world, that thing flowed in the dark shadows.

between being and not being.

Hearing this, the young man with dark circles fell into a strange silence.

This is a very smart person, so when he spoke again, his question went straight to the core: "Sorry for asking one more question—have you heard of the Cthulhu mythology?"

Xie Feiyan frowned: "What is that?"

Isn’t the earth myth system generally all Greco-Roman mythology, Norse mythology, Mesopotamian mythology, Indian mythology and Chinese mythology?

He has also heard about the mythological system of Japan's 800 million gods, but Cthulhu...

When did the earth pop up a Cthulhu myth?

The young man with dark circles had no expression on his face, and nodded calmly after listening: "I see, I understand."

Case solved.

This is an old man.

The author has something to say: Young people: old people (convinced

Xie Feiyan: Are you polite?

I don't know why, but when the author wants to code seriously, there will be accidents, such as the burst water pipes on the first and second, or the long wisdom teeth in the past two days.

I don't know which nerve this wisdom tooth pressed on. When I was teething, my head was throbbing in pain. I couldn't open or close my mouth. When I bit my teeth, I bit my gums, and my head throbbed in pain. It's even more powerful... I'm just convinced, this tooth has been growing intermittently for several years, and it's still growing, I almost fainted in place

The food will be temporarily suspended for the past two days, and I will continue to update my life first. After I recover my blood, I will continue to add updates_(:з」∠)_