Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

On the roof of the office building, a place that seems to be a courtyard is covered with creepers. Through the gaps between the leaves, you can see the barbed wire inside.

Qi Liuxing slashed with his sword a few times, and all the branches and leaves fell to the ground, but he couldn't do anything about the barbed wire for the time being.

He Xiaowei quickly found a pair of pliers from his luggage, and then he cut open the iron net smoothly.After that, a group of people saw the sealed courtyard itself.Sure enough, it was supposed to be an elevator shaft.

According to the original design of the building, the elevator should be able to go directly to the roof, so there is a one-door-high building directly on the roof.

It's just that this elevator is of a very old style. Compared with modern elevators, it looks extremely unique.It has concrete walls on three sides, and the elevator door is an old rusty iron fence door. At first glance, it does not look like a door, but like a prison cell, which looks very strange.This fence door needs to be manually shaken to open.

He Xiaowei went forward and tried to pull the fence for a long time, but found that he couldn't pull it away directly.He put his hand on the swinging mechanism again and tried to turn the mechanism, but the gears of the mechanism were rusted and could not be turned at all.

Seeing this, Zhou Qian found a can of lubricating oil from his luggage and gave it to him. "Try this."

He Xiaowei opened the lubricating oil and poured it on the shaking mechanism.This method worked well, and after a while he tried again, and he was able to turn the mechanism.

Following his vigorous shaking, the fence gate suddenly made a loud "creaking" sound.

Afterwards, the elevator door in the shape of a fence opened.

Seeing He Xiaowei's next move, Zhou Qian immediately reminded: "Be careful, don't go inside."

"Yeah, I see." He Xiaowei paused, stopped and turned to look at Zhou Qian, "Then we are now...?"

Zhou Qian didn't answer the call for the time being, but walked to the elevator shaft, raised his flashlight and looked inside. It was empty inside, as expected, there was no elevator.

If He Xiaowei walked directly inside, he would probably fall directly to the seventh floor.

Zhou Qian flicked the flashlight down again, bent down slightly, and looked down. He was quite surprised by what he saw - the bottom was actually bottomless, like a monster with a huge mouth that swallowed all the light.

This elevator shaft is actually very deep, definitely more than the height of a seven-story building!

There was some movement around him, Zhou Qian turned his head and saw Bai Zhou.

Bai Zhou had already taken out a rope, and with a "clang", he tied one end of the rope to the fence, and then put the rest around his waist.

"I'll go down and have a look." Facing Zhou Qian's gaze, Bai Zhou said.

Zhou Qian frowned slightly, but didn't say much.

Stepping forward, he held the rope on the fence with both hands. "Be careful. Call me in time if you need something. You still have that butterfly pollen on your body. If there is any emergency, I can come to you right away."

"Well, don't worry."

Bai Zhou put a head-mounted flashlight on his head, jumped into the elevator shaft, and slowly sank down.

In order to protect the player, the release of the rope has a very slow speed.

But even so, Zhou Qian felt that he had waited too long before he felt the rope in his hand being pulled.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Zhou's voice sounded from the prop in his ear. "There is nothing unusual about it for the time being. Two people are left on it. If other people are interested, they can come down and take a look."

"I'll come down." Zhou Qian looked back at He Xiaowei and the others, "Brother Xiao Wei, you are afraid of ghosts, you and Yindao are guarding here, Xiao Qi, let's go down and have a look together."

Zhou Qian and Qi Liuxing took out a similar rope, and after testing the firmness of the fence door, they both entered the elevator shaft.

The depth of the elevator shaft indeed far exceeds the height of a seven-story building.

As Zhou Qian sank, he took the measuring tool and calculated simultaneously.

After finally landing on the ground, he picked up the tool and saw that it showed: "137.5 meters."

Qi Liuxing asked him, "Did you find anything?"

In the narrow elevator shaft, the two people spoke with great echo.

Zhou Qian got used to it, and said in a low voice: "After coming down from the roof, I measured from the position of the seventh floor, and the bottom is actually 7 meters deep.

"Before I went to the rooftop, I deliberately calculated the height of the building, including the thickness of the ceiling. The difference between each floor is not 5.5 meters. So..."

Qi Liuxing immediately realized: "137.5 meters, corresponding to the 25th floor, excluding the 7th floor on the floor, this elevator shaft is 18 floors deep! Does this symbolize... 18 floors of hell?"

"Look and talk."

After landing on the ground, Zhou Qian raised his flashlight and took a photo of where the elevator door was.

There should have been a fence gate in front of him, but it had been shaken open by Bai Zhou's hand.

At this moment, Bai Zhou was standing in the darkness, his body was in a halo from the light of the flashlight above his head.He was looking towards a place, and his back looked very slender and straight.

After staring at Bai Zhou's back for a while, Zhou Qian led Qi Liuxing to his side, then raised the flashlight to look forward, and saw a rather shocking scene——

In front of the three of them, there was a huge pit.

There is a secret passage in the middle of the deep pit, with wet water marks faintly visible on it, it looks like an underground river, and it does not know where it leads.

As for the two sides of the river, they are located almost directly below the office area, and the two sides together account for almost as much as the office area on each floor.

The deep pits on both sides are evenly divided into three areas, adding up to a total of six small pits.

Among them, five small pits were filled with bones, while the remaining pit was completely blank.

Pile after pile of corpses were arranged neatly, almost piled up like a hill.From this, the total number of bones here can be seen.

And the weirdest thing among them is that none of these bones have heads, and what are lying here are only their bodies.And the places where their heads were severed were all very neat, as if done by very experienced executioners.

After looking at the bones, Zhou Qian set his sights on the only blank pit again.

In this kind of underground, no longer afraid of being discovered by other players, Zhou Qian simply switched to a high-wattage flashlight to shine on it, and then saw that there were many spells and weird symbols painted on the ground in that area.

Pulling the flashlight back, Zhou Qian looked at the five piles of bones again, and made a new discovery—a number was engraved next to each pile of bones.

One of the obvious things is that those numbers are years.

Zhou Qian checked carefully, and he found that these years corresponded to the years when the transportation company lost money.

This is a bit strange.

"Interesting." Zhou Qian squinted his eyes and said, "We thought that in the first five years of starting a business, because the company lost a transport ship at sea every July, this led to annual losses. So later , the boss of the company started the plan of killing people and offering sacrifices to appease the anger of the sea god and begging for its blessing. Sure enough, after five consecutive years of losses, thanks to the sacrifice, the transport ship no longer had accidents, and the company began to make money.

"But the original mysterious coincidence was never really a coincidence, but out of careful design. Now it seems..."

Having said that, Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou beside him.

Bai Zhou looked at him, apparently having the same opinion as him, immediately took over his words and said, "Well, now it seems that the truth is actually the other way around."

Every July, the ship of the transportation company will have an accident, resulting in a large amount of compensation.

Five years later, the boss started offering sacrifices, and things got better.

This is not only very metaphysical, but also too coincidental-why must it be July?Could there really be a sea god?

But when you look at things the other way around, it all makes sense.

What happens every July is not metaphysics or a coincidence, but a coincidence.

Zhou Qian said: "We have limited clues, and we can only deduce from them. All cases have a serial murderer, and this case is the same.

"If the motive of the murder is to appease the anger of the sea god, then the year corresponding to the corpse is the year when the company started to make a profit. But the information we get now is not like this. Instead, it was exactly the five years of loss, and each year corresponds to a pile of corpses .

"From this point of view... that means that killing people corresponds to losing money. Why? A thief shouting "Catch the thief" would be a very good idea."

"The company's transport ship took the delivery away, and at sea, some people killed people and took the goods, and then pushed everything to natural disasters such as storms and tsunamis.

"The bodies of the sailors and crew members who were killed were all smuggled here and hidden. But everyone believed that they had already died in the sea."

After a brief pause, Zhou Qian said again: "In the office area on the first floor, I had the idea that the transport ship was destroyed by wind and waves, and I looked up the notes on the accounts to confirm that this is indeed the case.

"From this point of view, if the transport ship was hijacked, why was it never discovered, and all can be attributed to an accident?

"It is very likely that there is an internal response of the murderer on the transport ship. Before the so-called 'accident' happened, this internal response sent a signal to the outside world that everything was caused by wind and waves. He sent a fake distress signal pointing to a natural disaster."

"Having such a great ability to organize and plan everything, and hiding so many corpses in this building... the murderer is probably the boss.

"The boss is not referring to the company's shareholders, but the general manager who is usually in charge of operations. Brother Zhou—"

Zhou Qian looked at Bai Zhou, "The boss's office you saw on the second floor is actually the general manager?"

"Yeah." Bai Zhou took over the conversation, "The sign says 'general manager' office. I didn't know that this company had an additional shareholder, so I simply called him the boss."

"That's right. The cabinet we opened on the first floor is full of financial-related records. I also looked for the annual report inside. There are three shareholders in the company, and they are not responsible for daily operations. They hired a general manager to help They do things.

"Look, what a good calculation this general manager has. The company does not belong to him. He takes the company's salary and steals the goods that the company is responsible for transporting. The company loses money, and he makes a profit by reselling the goods."

"Wait—" Qi Liuxing said, "I have a question. If it's killing people at sea, why not just throw the body into the sea? Isn't that more convenient to deal with?"

Bai Zhou replied: "These spells and the things I found on the second floor are enough to show that he is a superstitious person. It's just that I thought at first that he was offering sacrifices to the sea in order to stop the company from losing money. Now it seems that he engaged in these spells only because he was worried about being retaliated."

"Yes. The general manager sometimes goes out to sea with the transport ship." Zhou Qian said, "He is afraid that the crew members who died because of him will become water ghosts, and when he passes by a certain sea area, they will be dragged down by the water ghosts The sea. In my opinion...

"He cut off the heads of these people, maybe so that their undead can't see, can't think, and can't find a way to go home, or in other words, can't find a way to take revenge on people.

"There are 18 floors down here from the ground, which may indeed be a metaphor for the 18th floor of hell. These people were killed by the general manager in life, and they were pressed down by the magic circle on the 18th floor of hell after death... The murderer wanted them to live forever You must not turn over, and you will never be able to retaliate against him again."

At this point, the elevator shaft has almost been explored. As for the dark river, Zhou Qian plans to find Xiaolong Dian to explore later, to see if there is anything else to discover.

Zhou Qian was just about to suggest that the three of them should leave here together, when he caught a glimpse of Qi Liuxing's figure froze from the corner of his eye, and after waiting for a while, he even let out a rather heavy sigh.

In the darkness, Zhou Qian couldn't see Qi Liuxing's expression clearly, so he immediately switched to a darker flashlight and raised it up to shine on his face.

Under the dim light, the young man pursed his lips tightly and his gaze was extremely serious.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Qian asked him.

"I..." Qi Liuxing lowered his head slightly, and when he raised his head to look at Zhou Qian, his expression had returned to calm, "It's nothing. I just feel that people's hearts... are really scary."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Qian asked him, "But you still want to believe me, don't you?"

Qi Liuxing glanced at Zhou Qian and nodded.

Zhou Qian said: "People's hearts are indeed scary, but sometimes they are very cute. This is actually what you taught me. So Xiao Qi, you and Xiao Weige have actually taught me a lot of positive things. I don't want it to be you. On the contrary, only the negative remains.

"Growing up is indeed cruel. But what it brings to us is not necessarily cruel. Now I don't have much time to help you untangle your knots. Let's have a good chat after the copy is released."

At this point, Zhou Qian patted him on the shoulder, and said again: "Speaking of which, Ke Yuxiao's matter is actually not that simple. His abnormality in "Flowers of Evil" always makes me feel... there is something wrong with him. , which I overlooked. Besides—”

Zhou Qian stared into Qi Liuxing's eyes and said: "Don't be burdened. We came here not entirely because we want to avenge you. There must be a big reward waiting for us in this hidden dungeon.

"Even brother Zhou said that the game chose me, and specially opened the hidden copy for me. Now I have collected all the items related to the fourth day of creation, and there is no reason to miss the fifth one.

"Now, let's go out and talk."

Putting the microphone in his mouth casually and biting it, Zhou Qian grabbed a rope with both hands, and was about to go up, when Bai Zhou suddenly jumped over in a big stride.

Bai Zhou stretched out a hand from Zhou Qian's back, quickly wrapped his arms around his waist, and then led him back with unstoppable force, until he was far away from the elevator shaft and stopped, with his back to the cold wall stand.

Soon Bai Zhou raised his other hand and covered Zhou Qian's mouth in time before he wanted to say anything.

Qi Liuxing didn't know what happened, but he didn't have time to be surprised, he had already aimed his sword at Bai Zhou in time, his brows and eyes were full of menace.

Qi Liuxing did this because he was afraid that if something supernatural happened, Bai Zhou would be possessed.

But then he met Bai Zhou's heavy gaze.

In the dark pit, Bai Zhou looked at Qi Liuxing, left Zhou Qian's mouth with his palm, put his index finger in front of his mouth, made a gesture of silence to him, and pointed at the top of the elevator shaft.

"Sorry." Qi Liuxing mouthed to him, withdrew his hand, and immediately hid sideways, his body tensed up, and his expression showed a state of high alert.

At the same moment, on the rooftop.

Yin Dao and He Xiaowei were held to their heads with guns.

Both men wore purple wristbands around their wrists.

Accompanied by the sound of crisp footsteps, another man with a purple wristband appeared in front of them holding a gun.It was a very beautiful woman.

She is tall and tall, and looks very cool.

Staring at Yindao and He Xiaowei's wrists, she smiled, then threw a purple wristband to Yindao. "You didn't wear anything. Now that you see it, within 3 minutes, you have to put it on. Otherwise you will be directly killed by the system."

Then she looked at He Xiaowei again, and threw a purple wristband at him. "Threatening your friend, using the system rules is enough, and there is no need to waste my bullets. As for you, if you don't obediently put on the purple wristband, my subordinates will shoot your head off. How about it, act quickly .”