Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

On the system panel, time passed bit by bit.

Zhou Qian saw a line pop up on the message bar: "The body is trapped, but my spirit will enter the game. Yindao is my teammate."

Zhou Qian: "Oh."

【137】: "So... um? Click 'Agree'."

Zhou Qian: "Hey, I'm actually very embarrassed when you're like this."

[137]: "?"

Zhou Qian: "I think that Yin Dao is also very sincere. Although you said that you asked him to take me as a disciple. But when I chatted with him, he said that he admired me very much, thought I was amazing, and wanted to Accept me as an apprentice."

【137】: "...As far as I know, it seems that this is not the case."

Zhou Qian: "What do you mean? Oh, you think I'm not good enough. You look down on me."

【137】: "Of course not."

Zhou Qian: "No? Oh, since it's not you who look down on me, then Yindao looks down on me. Did he say bad things about me?"

【137】: "No."

Looking at the three words replied over there, Zhou Qian smiled very wickedly.

After a while, [137] sent over: "Zhou Qian, click 'Agree'. I'm going to log off soon."

Zhou Qian replied: "Oh, then you go offline. I happen to have something else to do."

[137]: "...what's the matter with you?"

Zhou Qian: "Go find Jiang Yuqing. I'm going to have a relationship with him. Goodbye."

[137]: "..."

No longer looking at the system panel, Zhou Qian stretched out his hand and took out a scale from his luggage.

Can this scale bring the dragon back?

Zhou Qian didn't know.He tried to align the scales with the watch, but he couldn't read its function through the system.

He had to put the scales away again, and then Zhou Qian pushed the door out, and walked to Room 701 on the opposite side.

Through the glass, Zhou Qian could see Jiang Yuqing turned over in the room, got out of bed, went to the bookshelf and took out a book to read. His brows and eyes were quiet, and his expression seemed to be more awake than the day before.

Probably because the player completed the task, Jiang Yuqing remembered something about the past.

In fact, his current behavior is completely in line with the setting. Zhou Qian remembered that the front desk said that Jiang Yuqing was not noisy at night, and the implication was that players can ignore Jiang Yuqing at night.Going through the level during the day and resting at night, this is the routine of the players in this dungeon.

Looking thoughtfully at the person on the bed, Zhou Qian looked at the watch panel again, and tried to send a message to [137].

The system prompts that [137] is offline.

After narrowing his eyes and staring at the prompt for a while, Zhou Qian raised his eyebrows and opened the recent chat history.

Zhou Qian originally wanted to harass Qi Liuxing or He Xiaowei, ask about their current situation, and introduce them to each other by the way.Anyway, Qi Liuxing wanted to find someone to form a team with, and He Xiaowei happened to be able to form "Sword Brave Qin Xin" with him.

Zhou Qian's original plan was interrupted.

He accidentally discovered that [Hidden Knife] was online.

Seeing this, Zhou Qian immediately sent a message: "Hey. Isn't this my master?"

[Hidden Knife]: "???"

[Hidden Knife]: "The two of us are not in that kind of relationship, don't talk nonsense!"

Yin Dao sent two messages in a row, and Zhou Qian replied without haste: "Wow, didn't you want to accept me as my apprentice before? Changed your mind so quickly?"

[Hidden Knife]: "What the hell? I told you clearly, I helped my friend! I don't want to accept you!"

Zhou Qian: "Why is your friend called '137'?"

[Hidden Knife]: "How would I know?"

Zhou Qian replied viciously: "By the way, 137 said that you are not very good, just average."

——He Xiaowei praised this hidden knife to the sky, and vowed to worship him as his teacher.Then, any capable person must be upset when he hears what he said, right?What will happen to Hidden Knife?Are he and 137 really good teammate and friends?

Zhou Qian did not expect that [Hidden Knife] replied: "What? He actually praised me as 'average'?! That's great! Thank you Zhou Qian. I want to be praised by him even in my dreams!"

Zhou Qian: "..."

"Okay, I'm going to brush the book to fight monsters. I won't talk anymore. Please don't call me master. I don't dare to snatch the person he likes."

After leaving such a sentence, Yindao will not reply any news, probably entered the copy.

Zhou Qian raised his eyebrows, and then glanced at Jiang Yuqing in the room through the glass. After all, he didn't go in again, but went back to the room again.

·

Early the next morning.Zhou Qian woke up very early because he had enough rest.

He looked in the mirror while washing up.

He no longer knew the person reflected in the mirror.

Because his current appearance has completely become [Northern River].

Jiang Yuqing has only three days left in his life, and he doesn't want to forget himself or his teammates because of dementia.

Now that he passed the double checkpoint, he remembered himself and his teammates, so in the memory world, the appearance of those teammates, including Jiang Yuqing himself, became completely clear.

In addition, because of clearing the levels with high difficulty levels, the players even achieved hidden achievements - Jiang Yuqing recalled that all his teammates died in Baicheng.

So... what would Jiang Yuqing's third wish be?

Could it be that he wanted Bei He to be resurrected from the dead?Even if it is a false resurrection in the memory world?

While thinking about all this, Zhou Qian did not immediately go to Room 701 to find Jiang Yuqing, but walked to the elevator and went to the lobby downstairs.The hall was empty.The security guard, the front desk, and the rest of the nurses all disappeared.

Now in the whole building, there are really only Zhou Qian and the elderly Jiang Yuqing left.

And the front door was wide open, the sunshine and green lawn outside the door seemed to welcome Zhou Qian to leave this false world, give up the branch line, and return to reality.

Zhou Qian did walk slowly to the door, and looked at the very alluring green grass.

But he just exhaled lightly in the direction of the sunlight, then turned around resolutely and walked towards the elevator.

In the elevator, the buttons on the rest of the floors still seemed fake and couldn't be clicked at all. Zhou Qian tried it, and finally returned to the seventh floor.This time, he went straight to Room 701.

In room 701, the elderly Jiang Yuqing was reading a book.

Zhou Qian knocked on the door, and when he pushed the door open again, he raised his head and looked at Zhou Qian with a smile.

Zhou Qian glanced at the table, it was empty.

I don't know whether the sweet-scented osmanthus cake yesterday was eaten by Jiang Yuqing or simply forgotten by him.

After walking a few steps into the house, Zhou Qian looked at Jiang Yuqing and asked him, "Do you remember me?"

Jiang Yuqing nodded first, but then his eyes became a little blurred again, and he shook his head again.

Suddenly, Zhou Qian glanced at something out of the corner of his eye, and looked at the bedside table.At this moment, he found that the blue and white porcelain vase on the cabinet had actually disappeared under his nose.

Therefore, the elderly Jiang Yuqing is still "killing" things in the memory world.

Looking away, Zhou Qian looked at Jiang Yuqing again, and found that he yawned, then put down his book, got up, and walked to the bed.

He is going to sleep again, which means that the next checkpoint is coming soon.

Zhou Qian immediately stopped him: "Mr. Jiang, wait."

The sweet-scented osmanthus cakes that Zhou Qian took away from the front desk of the lobby on the first floor the day before yesterday, has been sparing.At this moment, he took out another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and handed it to Jiang Yuqing.

Jiang Yuqing was really interested in it, so he took it and started eating it.

In this way, the elderly Jiang Yuqing was temporarily prevented from falling asleep, and after giving himself some preparation time, Zhou Qian turned his head and faced the photo on the wall.

The appearance of the four people in the photo is relatively clear. They are the players who successfully cleared the main line and survived.

His eyes flicked over these four people one by one, and finally Zhou Qian looked at the young officer in the photo.

Touch your finger on the photo, and the familiar feeling will come immediately.With that wet and cold touch, Zhou Qian went to that dreamlike scene again - Jiang Yuqing was writing poems by the candlelight.

When Zhou Qian touched this photo for the first time, he felt a rare emotional upheaval. He seemed to resonate with the people in the illusion—it was a kind of sadness from the bone marrow, which almost made people breathless.

At this moment, Zhou Qian finally understood where this sadness came from.

Because Jiang Yuqing, the owner of the illusion, was sad when he wrote the letter.

Bei He is dead, no one can receive the letter.

Jiang Yuqing wrote this affectionate letter, but he could only express his grief by burning it.

"Jiang Yuqing, do you remember me? I'm Beihe." In the illusion, Zhou Qian asked the person standing in the soft light.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuqing immediately raised his head to look at Zhou Qian, and his eyes immediately showed joy. "Beihe! You are actually here? You, why did you come..."

Unlike in the previous illusions, where the facial features of the handsome officer were always blurred, this time the light illuminates his handsome face, which is really pleasing to the eye.

After a while, he lowered his head again, finished writing the letter, folded it up, and put it in front of the candle again.

But this time, before he burned the letter, Zhou Qian stopped him in time and said, "Are you writing to me? "Night Rain Sends North"...the word 'North' here means I?"

Jiang Yuqing seemed to be taken in by what he said, his ears turned red, and he quickly put away the letter. "You nonsense, nonsense."

Zhou Qian smiled and reached out to him: "Don't burn it, give it to me. I'm here."

"you you……"

Is there still a chance to say that sentence that I couldn't say?

Those secret and ambiguous thoughts... Can he understand?

Jiang Yuqing seemed a little hesitant, but in the end, as Zhou Qian said, he took out the letter he had just received.

In the illusion, the scene is always old and dim, it seems to be raining outside the house, and the ground is full of moisture.

Zhou Qian felt that he was standing under a dim and warm candlelight, and Jiang Yuqing was approaching him step by step, about to give him the letter.

But just when Jiang Yuqing was so close, even when Zhou Qian felt his fingertips touched his palm——

Jiang Yuqing suddenly withdrew his hand.

At the same time, when he looked at Zhou Qian's eye sockets, they turned slightly red.

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

Jiang Yuqing shook his head sadly and desperately at him. "No. This is all my fantasy. You...you died...you died in Baicheng...I'm dreaming again."

Zhou Qian squinted his eyes, and instead of forcing him to hand him the letter with the poem, he asked again, "How did I die?"

"Beihe, you—" Not only did Jiang Yuqing's eyes turn red, but he seemed to be thinking of some extremely sad past. He pulled a stool over, covered his heart and sat down, his shoulders trembling a little.

Jiang Yuqing looked very pitiful now.

But Zhou Qian was merciless, and asked him almost cruelly: "Jiang Yuqing, you have to tell me. I'm trapped in hell, and I can't remember how I died. If this continues, I'm afraid I won't be able to reincarnate, and I won't be able to enter reincarnation !"

"You——! You are a hero. How could this happen?" Jiang Yuqing looked at Zhou Qian in horror.

Zhou Qian said: "Then tell me the truth."

After a while, Zhou Qian got a satisfactory answer from Jiang Yuqing.

Immediately he looked at the environment in the room.

Before, everything here was permeated by this layer of fog and a curtain of rain, all hazy, but because the master of consciousness has recovered part of the memory, the situation in the house is now somewhat different, allowing people to see clearly.

Zhou Qian could clearly see the kettles, cups, trinkets, and portraits in this room...

All of them, he found, were distinctly dated.

Looking at Jiang Yuqing again, Zhou Qian asked him again: "What era is it now? Have you won?"

Jiang Yuqing clenched his fist and nodded again: "Victory! Now...everything is fine now. There is no war. I, I am old too."

Zhou Qian smiled and said to him: "No. You are not old at all, you are still so handsome and tall."

Hearing this, Jiang Yuqing's eyes became dazed again. "You...how are you...hey, I don't know whether you are my fantasy, or you really came to see me from the underworld."

At this point, Zhou Qian suddenly heard a voice behind him, that is, from outside this illusion.

——That was the sound of old Jiang Yuqing standing up and walking.

It seems that he has finished eating the sweet-scented osmanthus cake and plans to go to bed.

Seizing the last moment, Zhou Qian looked at the person in the illusion again. "I want to ask you a question at the end."

Jiang Yuqing nodded: "You ask."

Zhou Qian's questioning was still very cruel. "Bei He is dead, and all your trusted comrades are dead. They all died to protect you. Do you feel guilty?

"If you are going to die alone all your life...then, what is your real wish?"

·

Five minutes later, Zhou Qian had left the illusion and stood at the door of room 5.

On the bed behind him, Jiang Yuqing could hear the sound of long breathing, he was sound asleep.

Zhou Qian looked back at him again, put his hand on the doorknob, turned it slightly, and opened the door——

Sure enough, he went to a new scene.

It was a dark and narrow corridor that could barely accommodate one person.

The reason Zhou Qian was able to make such a judgment was only because when the door of Room 701 was not closed, the light from the door illuminated the room a little.

And when the door was closed, all the light disappeared, and the corridor returned to complete darkness.

Zhou Qian didn't know if there was something messy hidden here, so he didn't turn on the light rashly, but raised his left wrist and opened the system panel.

In this game, all NPCs can only act according to the plot rules. One of the obvious things is that the system should set the NPCs so that they will not have any reaction to the player's watch and system panel.

Even players can only see their own system panel and cannot see other people's.

But when the system interface pops up from the watch and hits the air, in the eyes of each player, there will still be light, but the light is too weak.

Therefore, Zhou Qian is exploring the corridor at this moment, relying on this extremely weak light on the system panel.

Zhou Qian didn't walk forward immediately, but turned his head and looked behind him first.

The door of Room 701, which was here, disappeared. Zhou Qian took a few steps forward tentatively in the darkness, and his outstretched palm touched the wall unexpectedly.

He knocked and found that the wall was solid.

This means that there is no way in this direction, and he can only turn around and go in another direction.

However, Zhou Qian didn't turn around immediately, but stopped at the spot, raised his watch, looked up, and tried to push it up with his hands.

But above him is actually a solid wall.

Well, at least where he is now, there is no way out.

The reason why Zhou Qian tried to push up, of course, was for a reason.

According to the inference of the current information, the old Jiang Yuqing is the one who wants to kill the player, and the young Jiang Yuqing is the opposite.

In the side mission of "Check and Balance", Room 701 always exists. Players can return to the room at any time to view the photos, and trigger the illusion through the photos, and ask the young Jiang Yuqing to help provide clues.

But starting from "West Pier", room 701 disappeared.

Therefore, from then on, if the young Jiang Yuqing in the illusion can provide clues to help the player, it may only be before the level is officially opened.

So, at that time, Zhou Qian would use sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to restrain old Jiang Yuqing, and instead of letting him fall asleep immediately, he would enter the illusion, find the young Jiang Yuqing, and try to get clues from him.

Now this branch is called "Night Rain to the North", and the story undoubtedly revolves around the two main characters, Bei He and Jiang Yuqing.

Therefore, most of Zhou Qian's problems in the illusion were related to Beihe.

One of the most critical issues was the real cause of Bei He's death.

At the West Wharf, the young Jiang Yuqing witnessed his comrades turned into ghosts, and he realized that everyone was dead.

He should also have remembered the real cause of Bei He's death.

Sure enough, in the illusion, Jiang Yuqing told this story in a very sad mood.

That was when Baicheng was invaded, and the Falcon team found him at great risk, and then tried to take him to break out.

But on the way, all five comrades in arms died, and Bei He was the only one left to flee with Jiang Yuqing.

The two escaped into the tunnel under extremely dangerous circumstances, and then fled along the tunnel to the outskirts of the city.

But on the way, they were discovered by a S Army team of more than ten people.

Several forwards of that team opened the stove of a family and were about to chase Jiang Yuqing into the tunnel.

After Beihe shot several times until those people didn't dare to enter the tunnel, Jiang Yuqing let Jiang Yuqing hide, and jumped out from the stove alone to start a fight with the team.

Bei He is worthy of being a member of the Falcon Squad, with one against ten, he is unparalleled in bravery.

After a fierce battle, Bei He was seriously injured, but the opponent's soldiers were even more seriously injured, more than half of them died, and there were barely four left in the end. They didn't dare to confront the red-eyed Bei He head-on. Run as fast as you can.

Worried, Jiang Yuqing crawled out of the stove, trying to drag the injured Beihe back to the tunnel.

After Beihe forcibly sent Jiang Yuqing back to the tunnel, he immediately turned around and wanted to leave.

Jiang Yuqing firmly grabbed Bei He's hand and asked him to walk with him. "This is the last section of the road. If we escape from here, we can leave from the pier. Beihe...you come with me!"

Bei He shook his head resolutely. "Those little soldiers have escaped. They already know the location of the tunnel. If they go back and report to their superiors, you may be finished. Yu Qing, you...

"You wait for me. You wait for me in Nancheng. If I am alive, I will definitely go to you."

After saying this, he pushed Jiang Yuqing into the tunnel, quickly rearranged the pots on the stove, and Bei He left with a gun, chasing after those soldiers.

In the end, Jiang Yuqing escaped safely.

But in his whole life, he couldn't wait for Beihe.

After he entered the tunnel alone, Jiang Yuqing did not witness what happened to Bei He.

But he could guess—Bei He and those S Army soldiers died together.

In order to prevent them from leaking the secret, he risked his life.

At this moment, Zhou Qian was walking slowly in the narrow and dark corridor, his palms kept probing the top of his head and surroundings, just trying to find if there was an exit.

He guessed that he is now in Baicheng again.

However, this Baicheng may be closer to the real world than that fake ghost town full of allusions.

As for this tunnel... perhaps it should not be called a tunnel, but a tunnel.

This tunnel, corresponding to the real history, should be the last part of the road that Bei He and Jiang Yuqing walked side by side when they fled together.

Sure enough, there was a loud noise from the ground, and then Zhou Qian felt that the ground around him and under his feet was shaking violently.

He was in the tunnel, and the entire city outside was probably bathed in the rain of shells and bullets.

Zhou Qian thought again - but why isn't Jiang Yuqing by his side now?

Jiang Yuqing's conscious world... How will this road be constructed?

Did he hope to escape this miserable city with Bei He?

Does he hope that Bei He will be by his side for the rest of his life?

Or...he just wanted to tell Bei He his secret, unspoken love before he died?

There are so many unfinished regrets in the world.

What exactly does Jiang Yuqing want most?

After walking a long way slowly, Zhou Qian didn't hear any sound, nor encountered any danger.

Calculating something in his mind, he no longer carefully illuminated by the dim light of the system panel, but finally used the flashlight.

Turn on the flashlight and move forward, and the long beam of light is immediately swallowed by endless darkness.

Looking at the unfathomable darkness ahead, Zhou Qian raised his brows slightly—couldn't it be that this tunnel will be endlessly long, is it also Jiang Yuqing's thought?

After all, in this way, he and Bei He could go on forever.

As long as they didn't go to the entrance of the tunnel where they were discovered by the S Army, Bei He would never die.

But this road has an end after all.

After walking for about two hours, Zhou Qian raised his flashlight and pointed it forward - there was a wall there.

Zhou Qian stepped forward and pushed it with his hands, but the wall was thick and he couldn't push it away.

Instead, he clenched his fist and knocked, the wall still sounded solid.There is no way ahead.

In addition, Zhou Qian kept beating on the top of his head and the surrounding walls during the journey just now, but he never found any way out.

So now there is only... the two sides of the wall in front of him, which he has not seen.

Zhou Qian first raised the flashlight and looked to his left.

Immediately afterwards, an unexpected scene happened, there was a glass door there.

When Zhou Qian's flashlight was turned on, the light inside suddenly lit up.

Standing under the lamp was a young and handsome man—it was Jiang Yuqing.

As soon as the young Jiang Yuqing saw Zhou Qian, he immediately walked over.

He pressed his hands to the glass door, as if he wanted to come out very anxiously, but he couldn't push the door open, and only looked at Zhou Qian more eagerly.

This scene is really surprising.

Zhou Qian thought for a while, then turned the flashlight to his right.

There is also a glass door on the right side.

Just like the scene on the left, the moment the torch was fired, the light inside the glass door turned on.

This time, standing inside was an elderly Jiang Yuqing.

Not as anxious as the young Jiang Yuqing, the elderly Jiang Yuqing stood motionless, his expression was numb, his eyes were cloudy and lifeless, as if he had returned to his old dementia.

The system sent a message at this time.

[Two glass doors, only one can be opened; the glass door can only be opened by players, not by NPCs]

[Please choose one of the glass doors and push it open. After pushing it, the next step of the plot will be triggered. The player may pass the level, or may die]

[Player Zhou Qian is asked to make a choice within 10 minutes]