Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

About 40 minutes ago.

The player has just returned to Hotel Cesar from the tattoo parlor.

Bai Zhou went to take a shower, Zhou Qian had just finished drying his hair with the hair dryer when he heard a knock on the door.

Come to hide the knife.

Seeing Zhou Qian, he cut to the chase and said, "Where's Bai Zhou?"

"I'm taking a shower." Zhou Qian squinted at him, "Are you looking for him?"

To Zhou Qian's surprise, Yindao said: "Not exactly, this matter, it would be better for the three of us to talk together. But I feel that the task will come soon. In this game, I have a feeling Related talents, it generally can not go wrong.

"So It's not too late. Since he is taking a bath now, let me hurry up and talk to you."

[System prompt: After real-time monitoring and prediction, the content that god-level players are about to talk about involves the core secrets of the game, and high-level/low-level gamblers have no permission to know; the following conversations have been silenced and shielded]

Seeing Yindao's expression and the prompt that popped up from the system, Zhou Qian quickly understood what was going on.

He asked Yin Dao: "In the rest area of ​​the exhibition hall, you talked to Brother Zhou alone, just to talk about this matter?"

"Well." Yindao said, "We discussed it, and it's time to tell you. Let me make a long story short——

"Bai Zhou's mental strength has reached the threshold, and he is about to go berserk. 'Dragon Transformation' is one of his active ults and has a CD. But in the berserk form, he may also passively take on... a strange form, maybe it will be you The monster in the eyes.

"In short, he will appear delirious at that time. Before he is completely monsterized, you must help him restore his prototype, otherwise the situation will be unimaginable."

Zhou Qian asked: "What characteristics will he have before he loses his sanity and goes completely berserk?"

Yin Dao said: "The most obvious thing is the eyes. After being completely monsterized, his eyeballs will be blue, but in the process of gradually losing his mind and transforming, his eyeballs will appear red.

"When the red is the thickest and purest, his eyeballs will turn blue. But at that time, it is the most dangerous, which means that he has completely turned into a monster and lost his sanity. By the way—"

Yindao asked Zhou Qian again: "Did he give you anything?"

Zhou Qian nodded: "Yes. A scale."

Taking out the scale, Zhou Qian got the detailed usage method from Yindao.

In addition, he asked Yin Dao many details about Bai Zhou's berserk transformation into a monster.

Not long ago, Zhou Qian realized that the "He Xiaowei" next to him was probably a fake. Just when he discovered that Bai Zhou had a premonition of berserk and was about to turn into a monster, he suddenly felt that he might be able to use this to catch a big fish. He Xiaowei's identity was thoroughly detected.

Zhou Qian pretended to be ignorant of Bai Zhou's violent symptoms as a god-level player, and mistook him for a "ghost" in the dungeon, in order to trick "He Xiaowei".

That's how it was planned.

But Zhou Qian hadn't thought it through thoroughly yet, Bai Zhou had already had a fit.

The timing of his berserk attack was really different from what Yindao said, much earlier than Zhou Qian expected.

At this moment, Zhou Qian was in a messy room, and there was only one half-good lamp left in half of the corridor outside the house, which was flickering on and off, as if haunted.

What's even more weird is that Zhou Qian felt that from the thigh down, he was entangled by a slippery and cold thing.

He guessed that it was probably a tail turned from Bai Zhou's legs.

The tail is growing and tightening.

As a result, Zhou Qian's body was tightly bound, leaving little room for movement.He couldn't raise his head, and couldn't see exactly what kind of changes had taken place in Bai Zhou's body.

In such a chaotic and treacherous situation, Zhou Qian was quite composed.

He recalled the whole incident in detail, then looked into Bai Zhou's red eyes, and answered the question as if he was asking himself.

"I get it. I said that line, 'We're going to separate'.

"Did this sentence excite you?

"Brother Zhou, you are delirious, do you think...I want to tie me up because I want to leave you?"

"Separate", "leave", these two words seemed to stimulate Bai Zhou again.

This time he leaned forward, opened his mouth and bit Zhou Qian's ear directly.

His teeth had visibly sharpened.

Zhou Qian knew that his ears must be bleeding.

He subconsciously frowned and "hissed" in pain, and then the teeth on his ears loosened, but he didn't leave completely.

This time, Zhou Qian couldn't even see the changes in Bai Zhou's face clearly.

He tried to push Bai Zhou, but he couldn't push it away, so he had to give up.

"Although I want to wait a while to see what you will become. But are you uncomfortable?"

Zhou Qian raised his right hand and placed it behind Bai Zhou, what his fingertips touched was a piece of cold, slippery scales.

Gently patted Bai Zhou's scaly back, Zhou Qian's expression did not change, but whispered in his ear: "Brother Zhou, now, let me comfort you."

Lowering his eyelids, Zhou Qian could see Bai Zhou's shoulders. He raised his hand and tore off the blood-stained clothes vigorously, so that Bai Zhou's shoulders could be exposed.

Through the flickering lights coming in from outside, Zhou Qian could see the bloody wounds on his shoulders and the scales growing out of the wounds.

Putting the scales that Bai Zhou gave to him earlier on his forehead, Zhou Qian then pressed his forehead on Bai Zhou's cold and bone-chilling bare shoulders.

In this way, a scale becomes a medium connecting the spiritual worlds of two people.

Zhou Qian opened his eyes again, and found that there was a dark world in front of him.

——This is Bai Zhou's spiritual realm.But Bai Zhou didn't know where he was hiding.

After walking a few steps, Zhou Qian stepped on something.

He didn't know what it was, and wanted to see it clearly, but he couldn't do it for the time being.

In this spiritual world, the luggage cannot be opened, and he cannot take out tools such as a flashlight.

For the time being, Zhou Qian had no choice but to move forward tentatively.

Walking through the blood-red world, he couldn't see anything clearly, so he almost tripped unexpectedly.

After a stagger, only hearing a "ding" in front of him, Zhou Qian squatted down, searched tentatively, and then found a flashlight.

After turning on the flashlight, Zhou Qian saw bloody skulls one after another.

This seems to be a world made of blood and bones.

Taking a slight breath, Zhou Qian looked down at the flashlight in his hand, the corners of his lips still raised.

Then he spoke loudly and said in a seductive tone: "Brother Zhou, that scale is the key you gave me. Now I took the key to open the door and walked into your world. Why did you hide instead?" Woolen cloth?"

"You can feel me walking into your world, can't you?

"Brother Zhou is the best, he still misses me at this time, he knows how to hand me the flashlight. So—"

"Don't hide, okay?"

"Brother Zhou, I'm Zhou Qian, and I'm here to find you.

"Are you coming out to meet me?"

While exploring Bai Zhou's spiritual world, Zhou Qian kept talking to him, trying to lure him to appear.

After some time, he heard some voices.

Looking for the sound and walking over, Zhou Qian saw a light.

——That was the classroom they used when they were in the third grade in elementary school.

Silenced, Zhou Qian walked over lightly, and looked in through the window.

Bai Zhou, a third grader, is in the classroom, as is Zhou Qian.

There are many cakes with candles in the classroom.

After staring at the situation for a while, Zhou Qian smiled slightly, finally remembering the past.

It started with the midterm exam in the first half of the semester three years ago.

After the exam, the class teacher organized a parent meeting.

Parent-teacher conferences are held in the small auditorium and are attended by both parents and children.

Zhou Qian's parent meeting was attended by his father Zhou Chongshan's assistant.

During this period, he noticed that he was the only one in the position of monitor Bai Zhou.

It wasn't until the end of the parent-teacher meeting that there were only 10 minutes left before Bai Zhou's mother rushed over.

His mother was dressed as a senior white-collar worker, and she must have been very busy, so she was so late.

After the parent meeting was over, the assistant brought Zhou Qian to the gate of the campus, and told him to wait here, and he went to drive the car to pick him up.

Zhou Qian nodded, carrying a small schoolbag and standing on the sycamore path at the gate of the campus, waiting.

At this moment, he saw Bai Zhou and her mother walking out of the school gate together.

For some unknown reason, Zhou Qian did not continue to wait for his father's assistant at the door, but followed behind Bai Zhou.

Because of the parents' meeting, the school gate was full of cars, people coming and going, and it was very noisy.

Zhou Qian followed Bai Zhou and his mother for a long time before arriving at a place with a little less people.

Bai Zhou's mother's car was parked by the side of the road, and she dragged Bai Zhou all the way and hurried over in high heels. When she saw a fine was posted on the car window, her complexion suddenly became very bad.

With a stern face, she walked to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and hurriedly picked up something and stuffed it on Bai Zhou's body.

She was so in a hurry that before Bai Zhou reached out to catch her, she had already let go.

That's a birthday cake.

Because of Bai Zhou's mother's wrong hand, it just fell to the ground in all directions.

Bai Zhou's mother was stunned for a moment, and soon took out a wad of money and stuffed it to Bai Zhou as if nothing had happened. "You take a taxi and go home by yourself. I'm going back to the company for a meeting. It's not allowed to come out for so long—"

When his mother was about to leave, Bai Zhou held her hand. "Didn't you say that if I get the first place in the exam, you will celebrate my birthday with me this year? I have never had a birthday yet."

"No, where did you hear that you have to eat cake on your birthday? Isn't this all formalism? I usually buy you delicious food! Or, when I am empty, I will buy it for you again Is the cake okay?"

After saying this, seeing that there was no smile on Bai Zhou's face, she seemed to be sulking, and she was also a little angry. "Bai Zhou, be sensible. It's not easy for me either. It was because I was pregnant with you that I was not promoted to a partner, and I have been overwhelmed for so many years! This case is very important. I can't lose again. Be good, go home and eat and do your homework. The big deal——

"I'll let your dad come back to celebrate your birthday with you!"

Well.So today is Bai Zhou's birthday.

At that time Zhou Qian thought so.

The next day is the weekend.

My father was not at home, and my mother was lying on the sofa watching TV listlessly.

Zhou Qian was bored and thought of Bai Zhou.

He suddenly felt that after school yesterday, after Bai Zhou's mother drove away alone, he looked down at the broken birthday cake on the ground alone, looking very lonely and pitiful.

At that time, Zhou Qian hadn't encountered Zhang Yanjun's incident, and his mentality hadn't been out of balance.

In his heart, he is still a rich and arrogant son of a rich family, and he is still very willing to show kindness and help poor classmates.

So Zhou Qian asked Bai Zhou to meet in the classroom because he wanted to ask Bai Zhou something he didn't understand.

When Bai Zhou arrived at the classroom at the appointed time, he saw that there were nine cakes with candles in the classroom.

Bai Zhou was stunned.

When he reacted, Zhou Qian had already arrived in front of him holding a gift box, and said to him with an expectant smile, "Open it!"

Bai Zhou didn't reach out, Zhou Qian took his hand and stuffed the gift box over, and said, "Happy ninth birthday to you! No one has ever celebrated your birthday before? Then I'll buy you nine cakes, even if Completed all at once!

"Look, am I not a bad person?"

While listening to Zhou Qian's voice, Bai Zhou unwrapped the present.

The gift was opened, and inside was an electronic watch that looked very fashionable back then. Bai Zhou picked up the watch, and the time displayed on it was exactly 13:7.

Hearing something, Bai Zhou looked away from the watch panel, and raised his eyes to look at the opposite side——

Zhou Qian stood in front of him holding a cake, blew out the candle in one gulp, then raised his head and smiled at him.

The afternoon sunlight through the sycamore leaves spills into the classroom, forming a hazy filter of light and shadow.

Under the filter, Zhou Qian's smile, holding the cake, was the most brilliant smile Bai Zhou had ever seen.

Zhou Qian almost never laughed like that again, especially after Zhang Yanjun's incident.

Since then, Bai Zhou would recall that afternoon scene many times.

If time can be paused, he would like to press the pause button at 13:7 so that the moment can stay longer, longer.

·

At this moment, looking inside through the glass, Zhou Qian saw two children blowing out the candles, and they had already started eating cakes.

The classroom that was empty on weekends was used by them as a place of entertainment for birthdays. The two children even sat directly on the podium, and one of them ate a cake with a plate. Suddenly, little Zhou Qian dipped his fingers in cream and licked his nose and forehead. Wipe it off.

Bai Zhou let him do whatever he wanted and didn't care about him at all.

Zhou Qian back then didn't think that, looking at this scene now, no matter how he looked at himself when he was a child, he would feel that he was naive and playful.

In short, the more he looked at himself when he was a child, the more he disliked him.

Without warning, Zhou Qian felt a shock under his feet.

Looking sideways, the blood-colored world in the distance was surging with dark waves, and countless rustling sounds sounded, as if countless flesh, blood and bones scattered on the ground had all crawled over.

The earth is crumbling, and the spiritual world is about to collapse.

Let it go any further, and the small classroom with the only light here will be completely swallowed by darkness.

Zhou Qian didn't delay any longer, shattered the glass with a "bang", and jumped directly into the classroom from the window.

Hearing this voice, the two children sitting on the podium raised their heads and looked over in bewilderment.

Zhou Qian strode over, unceremoniously picked up his childhood self and put it aside, then occupied his original position like a dove occupying a magpie's nest, and sat next to Xiao Bai Zhou.

Xiao Baizhou didn't seem to recognize him, thinking that he had bullied Zhou Qian, his eyes froze, and he was about to punch him hard with his fists.

Zhou Qian grasped his wrist, "Take a good look, who am I?"

Staring at his eyes, Zhou Qian asked again in a deep voice: "Who is the real Zhou Qian and who is the fake, are you confused?"

After a while, little Zhou Qian suddenly disappeared, as if overlapping with big Zhou Qian in front of him.

The ground trembled more and more.

The dark sky was lit up by countless lightning bolts. When the thunderstorm hit, there was a loud bang, the roof was pierced by lightning, the ceiling split apart in an instant, and a large stone fell straight down, smashing towards Bai Zhou.

Zhou Qian immediately jumped off the podium, picked up Bai Zhou, who had just turned nine years old, and protected him in his arms.

The rubble fell directly on Zhou Qian's shoulder, and a piece of his arm was quickly ripped off.He frowned in pain, but Zhou Qian did not delay in his actions, grabbed Bai Zhou and ran to the corridor outside the classroom.

Rubbles fell down like rain along the road, and while Zhou Qian was protecting Xiao Baizhou to dodge one by one, the situation became more and more critical. He ran and ran, and suddenly saw something, and he immediately stopped. The child rolled to the ground——in front of them, the earth actually split open, and there was an endless abyss below, and it was unknown where it would lead people.

When he landed, Zhou Qian held Xiao Baizhou tightly in his arms, preventing him from being hurt at all.

Zhou Qian's own side face and shoulders were all wounded by gravel. Before he had time to catch his breath, he heard something strange behind him.Turning around, he saw one lightning after another striking down in the air, approaching him inch by inch!

Turning back is lightning, and going forward is the abyss.

But when another bolt of lightning struck, Zhou Qian had no choice but to roll with Xiao Baizhou in his arms, and fell into the abyss.

During the fall, Zhou Qian hugged Xiao Baizhou's waist with both hands, lifted him up, and then stared closely at his eyes. "Brother Zhou, wake up!"

Xiao Baizhou's eyeballs flashed blue and red, and finally returned to bottomless black.

He looked at Zhou Qian momentarily, as if he wanted to engrave his current appearance deeply in his heart.

At that moment, his body in the spiritual world was still only nine years old, but there seemed to be an adult shadow overlapping with this small body.

Staring at those extremely deep pupils, Zhou Qian suddenly felt that he was going to be sucked into a dark world deep in Bai Zhou's heart.

Then he heard Bai Zhou asking himself in his ear: "Aren't you afraid?"

"Afraid of what?" Zhou Qian gritted his teeth and asked back.

"Fall to pieces with me."

Zhou Qian smiled.

Looking back at Bai Zhou with the same deep gaze, Zhou Qian's tone sounded similar to his usual tone when he was bewitching and coaxing other teammates. Determined.

"Don't be afraid. Brother Zhou, you wouldn't do that."

"I'm here to take you back. Get out of here with me."

"You must leave with me now!"

At this point, Zhou Qian held the back of Xiao Baizhou's head and moved forward, making the two foreheads touch each other.

At such a close distance, Zhou Qian stared at those eyes, as if he was in an invisible confrontation with him.Then Zhou Qian emphasized in a low tone: "You will take me away."

Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and another bolt of lightning broke through the air, causing countless gravels to fall down one after another.

Zhou Qian saw that Bai Zhou's figure in his arms suddenly began to grow, and then transformed into a dragon.

The dark blue dragon's tail circled over, engulfing Zhou Qian tightly.Afterwards, the dragon body faced the lightning at an extremely fast speed and went straight into the sky, like a lone moon, hanging high in the sky - it is the real master of this world.

With a swing of the dragon's tail, Zhou Qian's body was thrown out, and the dragon's body followed closely, letting Zhou Qian land on his back.

Dark clouds gather densely from all directions towards the center, and a new round of thunderstorms will be born again.

But the dragon's body continued to go against the sky, and the dragon's tail swung fiercely in the sky, and all the haze was swept away.

Immediately afterwards, the dark clouds dispersed, the sky burst into light, and the world was shrouded in sunshine again.

Zhou Qian put his arms around the dragon, and felt that he was leading him up rapidly. The extremely fast speed almost made him dizzy. At the same time, the strong light after the dark clouds cleared forced him to close his eyes to relax .

After a while, the light went out and the feeling of flying stopped. Zhou Qian opened his eyes again and found that he had returned to the dilapidated room 1107.

The scales had unknowingly fallen back into his palm, and now it was Bai Zhou who was tightly touching his forehead.

The horns on his head have disappeared, and the scales on his face are slowly fading away. Those eyes are still dark blue, but they are getting darker and darker. When Zhou Qian saw them, Zhou Qian felt as if he was going from Swim in the shallow sea to the depths of the dark sea.

There was some moisture between the foreheads of the two of them, and it was unknown who was sweating, or both.

Zhou Qian walked through the spiritual world of a god-level player. The fatigue and pain from running seemed to be real. He took a slight breath, and his body subconsciously leaned back.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Zhou's hands that hadn't fully transformed back into a human quickly stretched out and pressed the back of his head.

So soon the foreheads of the two people were pasted again.

Forehead against forehead, nose tip against nose tip.

With this posture, Zhou Qian heard Bai Zhou ask in a hoarse voice: "Choosing to use that scale means that you are willing to be my shepherd. Zhou Qian, so... are you willing?"

"Then what else, do I still have a choice?" Zhou Qian's voice sounded a little weak, but he still teased Bai Zhou with a smile, "Do I let you go berserk? In fact, I am also thinking about my own life. What if you tear me up and eat me after going berserk?"

The fingers covering the back of Zhou Qian's head moved forward inch by inch, and then gently touched his face cautiously and restrainedly. Bai Zhou asked again: "Have you never doubted that I am a fake?"

"You have taken the elevator alone, so in theory, there is indeed such a possibility. But you have shown no flaws. I would think that, at most... At most, there is an extra parallel time and space.

"But you in the parallel time and space are still you. Anyway, as long as it is you, you will never harm me. Maybe the time and space will merge at the end of this dungeon, and then—"

Zhou Qian's words were interrupted by Bai Zhou. "not me."

"Yeah." After a while, Zhou Qian nodded, emphasizing along with his words, "It's not you."

Then Bai Zhou stopped talking.

When he didn't speak, Zhou Qian said, "Yindao described your appearance after berserk as scary. But I think...you seem to be okay."

"Aren't you scared?" Bai Zhou asked again.

"No." Zhou Qian said.

After a moment of silence, Bai Zhou's voice became deeper. "Don't you think I've changed beyond recognition?"

Zhou Qian seemed to have suddenly realized some crux of Bai Zhou's body.

When the two of them were still very young, he said this to Bai Zhou many times——

"Brother Zhou, I found that you are really good-looking."

"Well, it's really nice."

"Brother Zhou, you are perfect in every way in my heart."

……

"Unrecognizable? Does it mean that you have become a dragon with scales on your face? It's a pity—" Zhou Qian pretended to be relaxed, "I didn't see it clearly."

"Zhou Qian—"

"Then, let me take a good look at you next time. See what you think is the real you." After Zhou Qian said this, he felt Bai Zhou leaning forward, as if he was going to get closer to him .

The two of them were close to each other, and his actions undoubtedly almost brought their bodies into close contact.

Bai Zhou wants to...

Zhou Qian was taken aback for a moment, then gently closed his eyes.

After a while, he felt Bai Zhou's body go around him to the head of the bed.

It turned out that what he did just now... was just to help him untie the restraint of his left hand at the side and rear of his body.

Zhou Qian: "..."

2 minute later.

Zhou Qian sat on the head of the bed, while Bai Zhou held the flashlight in one hand and wiped the wound behind his ear with a cotton ball in the other, and asked him if he had any injuries.

"Are my hands too heavy?" Bai Zhou asked.

Zhou Qian didn't say anything.

Bai Zhou raised the flashlight to hit his face, looked carefully, and stretched out his hand to his forehead. "Your face is very red, do you have a fever?"

Zhou Qian: "..."

After helping Zhou Qian with his wound, Bai Zhou held up his left hand to help him rub his wrist, and took out a clean suit from his luggage. "Your clothes are covered with blood, don't you like it? You go change your clothes, and I'll wash my face too."

Putting the clothes beside Zhou Qian, Bai Zhou got up and went to the bathroom.

When he opened the door, he heard Zhou Qian ask, "Hey, brother Zhou."

Bai Zhou looked back at him: "Huh?"

Zhou Qian looked at him and blinked. "You don't regard me as... a younger brother, a close buddy, a close friend, etc.?"

Bai Zhou: "?"

"Forget it, it's nothing." Zhou Qian asked him, "Your previous injury..."

Bai Zhou: "It's all right now. When it transformed from a monster back, it was all healed."

"Oh. That's fine. The delay is too long, let's continue with the plot. I guess there is a surprise on the first floor."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Qian grabbed the clothes beside him and threw them towards Bai Zhou.

"Zhou Qian—?" Bai Zhou didn't hide, but was hit by the clothes.

Zhou Qian said angrily: "It's nothing. I bought it from the system store myself."