Chapter 32 Punishment Mechanism

After being separated from Nan Shan, An Wu Jiu has always felt weird.

In this round of the game, other than leaving the closed containment center, there are no additional tasks, and there is not even a setting for players that may break trust.

I'm afraid the hidden task behind it is to figure out what exactly this containment center does.

What happened to the children in the shelter in the end?

This shelter is bigger than he imagined. According to the evacuation plan, the floor area of ​​this floor is already very considerable. If the American is really just a philanthropist, this kindness can be learned from the world. But it is very strange why this building was built in the shape of a pagoda.

There must be some special meaning.

In order to better understand the orientation, An Wu Jiu and Shen Ti marked the orientation at the four corners of the corridor, and then walked forward.

They didn't meet anyone along the way.

The most incredible thing is that after passing four corners, when you return to the first place where the mark was made, the mark disappears.

Going down, going down, the four marks that were made before are all gone.

An Wu Jiu and Shen Ti's eyes met under the light, and there was a tacit understanding.

"We should be isolated from others by some kind of force." An Wujiu said calmly.

Shen Ti spread his hands, "So there are supernatural things in this game."

“Perhaps.” An Wujiu had a natural resistance to supernatural things, and he couldn’t tell the reason. But if it does appear in the game, it will be tricky.

"What I'm worried about now is Yirou. It seems that she is the only one left alone."

I thought Shen Ti would approve, or show sympathy for his worries. Unexpectedly, he pointed out a fact inexplicably, "She has a surname."

An Wu Jiu looked at him with a somewhat unclear expression.

Shen Ti crossed his arms and continued to emphasize, "Her surname is Zhong, Zhong Yirou."

An Wujiu couldn't understand this, "For people who have a good relationship, they can omit their surname from their address."

"Then you can also try to omit me." Shen Ti said suddenly.

When An Wu Jiu heard this, he was puzzled.

He put on a pitiful expression again and pursed his mouth, "Don't we have a bad relationship? Just because I had a duel with you before, are you not willing to forgive me now?"

Another person, such as Wu You, might turn around and leave.

But An Wu Jiu accidentally took this set, and even denied it with a straight face.

"No, I never hold grudges. Of course our relationship is not bad."

"Then you call it a try."

An Wu Jiujiu stayed where he was, like he swallowed three eggs in one go, stuck in his throat and couldn't go up or down.

vigilant...

He finally shook his head, "Your name is oddly pronounced, like visiting a stranger's house and answering his question 'Would you like coffee or tea'."

A disappointed expression appeared on Shen Ti's face.

But he thought about it, maybe this was An Wu Jiu's little trick. For example, when he calls everyone, he removes his surname and only calls his full name, which is also special.

He's very different after all, some people call other people's names repeatedly, it's just annoying, but there are people who can pronounce a person's name something wonderful, like a gift attached to a gift. Butterfly Ribbon.

"Okay, An Wujiu."

At this moment, An Wu Jiu seemed to have forgotten their discussion just now, he put his finger on his auricle and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Shen Ti asked. But An Wu Jiu quickly made a silent gesture to him.

"Yirou, just found out that our right ear has a device with intercom function..."

Shen Ti noticed the black dot on An Wujiu's auricle, this guy's ear was like a snow-white shell, and anything else placed on it was very clearly visible.

Could it be this that made him contact Zhong Yirou?

Shen Ti also touched it, and there are also on his ears.

At this moment, the signal received by An Wujiu seemed to be interrupted, he called Zhong Yirou's name several times before giving up.

“The signal was suddenly cut off.” An Wu Jiu looked at Shen Ti, and suddenly saw a huge ball from behind him, covered with dark green mucus. It wasn’t exactly a ball, because the ugly and disgusting mucus stretched out. Countless hands.

Young hands.

At that moment, An Wu Jiu felt a huge shock, but the next second he immediately recovered, reached out to grab Shen Ti's arm, and pulled him over, "Be careful!"

The next second, the spherical monster covered in mucus disappeared without a trace.

An Wu Jiu was surprised, could it be his illusion? But it was so real that he could even smell the strong smell of decay.

Suddenly, a pair of arms hugged him, An Wu Jiu was stunned for a while, he raised his head very vigilantly, and found that the distance between him and Shen Ti was too close, so close that when he raised his head, his lips could almost touch the edge of Shen Ti's lower lip. .

"What are you doing?" An Wujiu's tone was a little flustered unexpectedly, it was because he didn't have any emotions even when he was on the verge of death.

Shen Ti also released the hand that was on An Wu Jiu's back.

His expression was pure, like a child just learning to hug.

"You dragged me." He retorted in advance, then put his hands behind him, "I just think this distance is suitable for...holding."

Really weird.

An Wu Jiu turned around, "It's because I just saw something very dangerous, and it appeared behind you."

After explaining, An Wu Jiu left Shen Ti and walked a few steps forward. He found that his heart beat faster for no reason.

Then, as expected, the heartache struck again.

He clutched his chest and stopped there.

"What's dangerous? Someone is going to kill me, right." Shen Ti deliberately made a frightened tone, chasing after him and sticking to An Wujiu's side, "You have to protect me."

After he leaned over, An Wu Jiu was so in pain that he could hardly stand up, but he still pretended to be okay and put down his hand, walking slowly forward.

"It should be a hallucination..."

"I'm afraid we're in a hallucination."

As soon as they finished speaking, a nine palace appeared out of thin air on the ground in front of them, and numbers appeared on it one by one.

But soon, Jiugong disappeared again.

“Have you seen it?” This time, An Wu Jiu confirmed to Shen Ti.

"Well, Jiugong."

Surely he wasn't wrong.

An Wujiu stood there, watching the connection between the wall and the floor.

If this corridor, which is always going around in circles, is an optical illusion similar to the Penrose Stairs, then the ground will at least be inclined to a certain extent and cannot be level.

Plus they haven't met anyone...

In a trance, An Wu Jiu heard the sound of a blunt blow, but it was not too close, more like a hallucination.

"Hello? Hello..."

Shen Ti seemed to have received a message from someone and said "hello" to him, then "hello", and even said Mosimoxi in Japanese.

"Who?" An Wu Jiu got closer.

"Ah?" Shen Ti shrugged, "Your brother Wu Jiao is right next to me... I don't, you beg me and I won't be your microphone... Ha, am I immature? I'm the most mature here. The most reliable and tallest adult male, you are just an underage kid..."

An Wujiu held his forehead, "Stop bickering."

Shen Ti was more honest, "Okay, let's be a microphone for you."

Then he quieted down, listened to a few words, then turned into a poker face, and said to An Wujiu, "Brother Wujiu, Nanshan and I encountered a ghost attacking the wall, and later he cracked it with Bagua Jiugong, and then we found He, that's where E07 works."

It's like learning.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Ti continued to listen, but his face changed subtly.

An Wu Jiu saw it and knew that they must have discovered something.

After Shen Ti heard this, he said to An Wujiu.

"Nan Shan is a special worker."

"That's right." An Wu Jiu nodded, "The work clothes he wears are not the same, and he also has a face mask." After speaking, he seemed to have some bad guesses.

Shen Ti told him, "It's the burning workers."

"There is a very large incinerator in the house where he works, and there are still broken bones with residual temperature. The bones are very thin and belong to children. A work log was also found, which records the relevant information of the incinerators. , No name, but in terms of height and weight, they are not big."

When he said these words, Shen Ti's tone was too calm, but An Wu Jiu was stunned in place, the ball covered with small hands and feet just now appeared in his mind, and for a moment, he even wanted to vomit come out.

He suppressed the strong nausea, raised his eyes and asked, "How many?"

Shen Ti conveyed his words again.

They got a less clear, but still startling result.

"A lot, a lot."

In An Wu's heart, this shelter has now become a purgatory on earth.

Why are so many children dying here and being quietly cremated?

What exactly happened?

Just then, a new nursery rhyme was heard in the corridor.

"Pick up small stones, draw grids on the ground, large grids, small grids, draw grids for hopscotch..."

At the moment when the clear children's voice appeared, a new grid appeared on the ground in front of An Wujiu and Shen Ti, which was different from the previous Nine Palaces, this seemed to be an outdoor game that children liked to play in a certain era.

The squares meet in a vertical forward direction and are marked with numbers 1 to 9. The squares written with 4 are horizontally juxtaposed with the squares written with 5, the squares 7 and 8 are also side-by-side, and all other squares are separate In columns, falling together in a straight line.

Behind the grid marked 9, there is a final grid with a golden glow.

There are two words written inside - heaven.

The jingling continued, An Wu Jiu suddenly felt a gust of wind behind him, and when he turned around, he found that behind them there was an incomparably gorgeous bronze relief gate, which was full of lifelike little angels.

An Wu Jiu walked towards the door, but after pulling up the knocker, the door could not be opened, instead many red warnings popped up in front of the door.

[! Please do not be a bad kid

! Please do not be a bad kid

! Please do not be a bad kid

! Please do not be a bad kid]

Four identical sentences in English, warning him to be a good boy.

But strangely, in addition to this warning, there is a blank input box below. An Wujiu clicked and found that he could enter characters.

When he tried to type, a prompt appeared in front of him.

[You only have one chance. 】

It's too risky.

"Let's play this game."

Hearing Shen Ti's voice, An Wu Jiu turned his head and saw that he was already standing on the starting point marked with the number 1.

"Maybe there is a fraud." An Wujiu finished and asked him, "Do you know how to play this game?"

Shen Ti can't, there are so many things he can't. However, he looked at the ground, there was a single number grid, and there were two side by side, and he had to go from the start to the end.

"It is estimated that it is to walk over, or jump over, use one foot for a single grid, and two for two."

An Wu Jiu suspects that he just pretended not to.

"Be careful."

Shen Ti nodded and started his game.

A 1.9-meter tall man jumping on one foot in a small grid is a little funny, An Wujiu thought.

But this mentality didn't last long, because Shen Ti suddenly failed.

He stably landed on both feet and stepped on top of 4 and 5, but when he jumped to number 6 with one foot again, a transparent wall suddenly appeared out of thin air, blocking him from jumping, so Shen Ti Unstable center of gravity, left the "house".

So over this house, a red exclamation mark appeared, and the singing stopped there, and it became an alarm.

"It's alright."

An Wu Jiu was about to examine him, but found that his chest was full of blood, and the front of his shirt was almost all dyed red.

"What's wrong?" An Wu Jiu grabbed Shen Ti's arm and checked his chest.

But strangely, Shen Ti was not injured at all.

Where does this blood come from?

"I'm fine, it's not my blood." Shen Ti shook An Wujiu's hand, "Stand farther away."

The siren disappeared, and the tender and crisp children's voice reappeared, repeating the nursery rhyme of hopscotch.

"Large grid, small grid, draw grid hopscotch..."

"Single grid, single foot jump, double grid, double foot jump, stop and take a breath, it's not good if you fall."

Shen Ti knew this was a new opportunity.

He starts at 1 again in order. Shen Ti is like those children, his ability to learn is fast. You give him a negative feedback, one time intimidation, one shock, and then he will know what to do and what not to do.

This is punishment education.

This time, with his feet on 4 and 5, Shen Ti stretched out his hand and touched the top of 6, and found that there was indeed a completely solidified wall of air, even hot.

He withdrew his hand, "It won't work after 6."

An Wu Jiu nodded, remembering the number.

Standing on the spot, he suddenly realized that there was a follow-up to the nursery rhyme.

"The road doesn't work, don't be discouraged, go back and start jumping. Children, remember, don't run away when you encounter difficulties."

“It means to let you go back.” An Wu Jiu said, “Go back by jumping.”

Shen Ti also understood, he jumped back to the first frame, a thumbs up animation immediately appeared above the "house", and an extremely excited encouragement appeared: "You are such a good boy!"

Immediately afterwards, the children's song was played again, and Shen Ti moved forward again. He very carefully stretched out his hand at the age of 6. Sure enough, the transparent wall blocking him disappeared, but he was still careful, every time he moved forward, All reach out first.

From 8 to 9, the hand he stretched out was full of blood when he came back.

"This time it's 9."

6 and 9, An Wujiu silently remembered.

This might be a hint.

When Shen Ti returned along the original road, the small house once again showed him his thumb and encouraged him.

Such a good boy.

The third time set off, the point where was forced to stop fell on the head of 6 again.

Is it a cycle?

"Try again." An Wujiu said.

Shen Ti tried again, and this time, when he stepped on the grid with 1 written on it, he suddenly felt a sharp pain. Standing on it, his internal organs seemed to be corroded and melted.

“What’s the matter?” An Wu Jiu saw him crouch down and immediately went over. Shen Ti also retreated, and as soon as he retreated, the severe pain from the inside out disappeared instantly.

An Wu Jiu watched him get up, and when he turned around, the corners of his mouth were full of blood.

Even though he knew it wasn't Shen Ti's blood, his heart beat fiercely for it.

Shen Ti also felt it. He wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand and cuff, and reported a few numbers to him, "6, 9, 6, 1, the last time you reach 1, you can't continue."

The grid on the ground behind them suddenly disappeared, along with the last words left.

"You are such a good boy."

An Wujiu recited this sentence silently in his heart, and suddenly felt that it was not right.

The red warning that appeared on the gate of heaven just now said that please be a good boy.

He pulled Shen Ti to the front door, staring at the four lines of English characters above, "It should be for us to fill in a result."

Those scarlet, almost jumping letters, like bloody punishment.

Four lines of warning.

four numbers.

"I see." / "It's a password."

The two of them spoke at the same time, and their voices overlapped.

Their eyes met again, An Wujiu nodded affirmatively, "There is a type of cipher that requires long text as cipher text."

"Bill's code." Shen Ti answered, but he doubted why he knew this. He had no systematic education in his memory, but his cognitive scope was unusually wide.

An Wujiu made a "hmm", "The sixth letter of the first line..." He hesitated for a moment at the beginning of the exclamation mark, but after quickly going through the possible answers twice, An Wujiu was sure.

"To count the exclamation mark, the sixth character on the first line is an S, and the ninth character on the second line is an O."

Shen Ti stared at the red warning, "The third is S, and the fourth is an exclamation mark."

【SOS!】

An Wu Jiu entered the result with complicated feelings and clicked OK.

He got a feedback that called him little bird and told him.

[You have no right to choose. 】

In the dull sound, this gorgeous door to heaven slowly opened.