Chapter 33 Spiral Staircase

A game full of innocence, a gorgeous door, and the decrypted text pointed to is a shocking distress signal.

And behind this gate, there are no monsters that would suddenly attack in the imagination, and there is no scene of blood flowing into rivers. There is just a rotating staircase made of marble, like a genetic spiral chain, leading to an unknown but established upper level.

Beautiful and delicate angel reliefs adorn the snow-white armrests.

It's like a staircase to heaven.

The moment the door opened, a golden drop of water floated in front of An Wujiu.

The moment he stretched out his hand and touched the water drop with his fingertips, under a burst of light, the water drop turned into four pieces with different messages printed on it.

[conSecration]

[Our]

[Shall]

[! ]

"The four characters just now are hidden inside." Shen Ti pointed, the letters were all uppercase.

"Well, it should be related to the key." An Wujiu looked at the fragments and read out the meaning of these words softly, "'Dedication', 'Our', 'Should'..."

It seems to be a few words that are temporarily unrelated.

They stood in place, and Wu You's voice suddenly appeared behind them.

An Wu Jiu put away the pieces and turned around to see Nan Shan and Wu You walking side by side in the corridor. But before that, they had never met at all.

Nan Shan stretched out a hand that was originally caged, raised it, and greeted with a smile, "It seems that you have found your way to the second floor."

An Wu Jiu also nodded slightly.

Shen Ti imitated Nan Shan's way of greeting, but he raised his hand somewhat perfunctory. Compared to greeting, he was more like a arrogant son who was sitting at an auction with his hands raised to bid.

"Brother Wu Jiu." Wu You stepped forward quickly, "After we entered his workshop, we found these fragments in the incinerator."

He unreservedly stretched out his hand towards An Wujiu, and in the palm of his hand were the pieces he had collected.

Nan Shan on the side looked a little sad. She could be considered a comrade-in-arms of this child fighting side by side, but he didn't even have a name in his words.

So he specially added to An Wujiu after Wu You stretched out his hand: "Yes, we found it. My name is Nan Shan."

An Wu Jiu looked up at him, "I remember your name."

This man is so weird.

"We also have it." Shen Ti grabbed An Wujiu's wrist, and because of his injury, he held it up a little, and his movements were very light, "You stretch out your hand and show him ours."

An Wu Jiu was only immersed in checking the fragments Wu You got.

He and Nanshan found only one piece, which was [Burned].

An Wujiu quickly combined shall and burned, because it is a passive voice, it can only be […should be burned to death].

"Let it be with you." Wu You handed it to him directly, with absolute trust on his face.

Nan Shanlong started to measure him beside him. The old god was thinking in his heart. didn't expect that this little poker-faced boy was a loyal dog, how could he only complain indifferently in front of him.

It seems that this handsome man with long hair is very reliable and looks very kind.

But how does a kind guy survive in such a cannibalistic place?

An Wu Jiu agreed to Wu You's proposal.

Heading towards him, as soon as he looked up, he saw the other three people walking around the corner, Yang Erci, Zhong Yirou and Josh. Just as he was about to ask Zhong Yirou's microphone, he didn't expect the other party to hide behind Yang Erci as if he had seen a ghost when he saw him.

"Be careful! This An Wu Jiao may be fake!"

An Wu Jiu is a little inexplicable, he turned his face and looked at Shen Ti next to him, then looked at Zhong Yirou again.

Shen Ti said directly, "Did you make a mistake?"

"Is there another me?"

Everyone was a little inexplicable, and there was a strangeness in the originally calm atmosphere.

Zhong Yirou also stood up from behind Yang Erci and asked An Wujiu tentatively, "In the last game...what color did I wear the next day?"

Shen Ti and Wu You rolled their eyes when they heard this question.

"Who remembers this?"

"You've turned this game into a drag game."

An Wu Jiu thought for a while, then glanced at Shen Ti's face again.

"It's a bit like his eye color, it's... mint color."

Actually really remember.

Not really straight at all.

There was a little surprise on Zhong Yirou's face, and then he coughed again, "Then let me ask you, Shen Ti fell asleep in the bunker..."

"Handcuffs." An Wujiu interrupted her almost immediately, "Don't ask me, I remember that if you don't believe me, I can take it out from the storage threshold for you to see."

His voice was inexplicably small, and he spoke so fast that he could not even break a sentence, as if he was very guilty.

"Oh!" Nan Shan showed a sudden realization, "It turns out that Mr. Wu Jiu and Mr. Green Eyes have this kind of relationship."

Wu You showed an expression that I knew, but did not deny it for them.

No one cares about the blameless denial alone. Zhong Yirou was happy that she had found the real him, Yang Erci was relieved, Josh had red ears and looked at the others with a shy smile, while Nan Shan communicated with Shen Ti through An Wujiu's expressions and eyes. human relationship.

After the reunion, everyone let go of their uneasy hearts, although no one said anything.

"Let's go up first." An Wujiu had no choice, "After going up to the second floor, we need to exchange the information obtained on the first floor, because if I guess correctly, we were forcibly separated by some hallucinations."

So everyone walked into the gate together, climbed the stairs, and on the spiral staircase against the wall hung a lot of photos, all of which were smiling faces of children, and each one was very cute.

But the cuter it is, the more An Wujiu feels chilled.

The door on the second floor is also an exquisite relief door. Before pushing it away, An Wu Jiu thought that it might be similar to the first floor, but when he opened it, he would see a colorful scene, pink floor, blue ceiling, and all kinds of walls on the walls. Children's drawings of the protagonists of various fairy tales.

In addition, in the hallway full of childlike innocence, there is a jumping bear, which seems to be a robot. But he can only go forward and backward, and can only jump, unable to walk or talk.

When everyone entered the second floor, the door leading to the first floor slammed shut.

Different from the clean and empty space on the first floor, the signs from the door on this floor are full of fairy tale colors. A sign pointing to the left reads [Rainbow Baby], and a sign pointing to the right reads [ Double Angel]. Both brands are inlaid with a circle of gem-like mini lanterns, which are very eye-catching.

"Let's sort out the information first." Yang Erci said with a calm tone, "and don't separate. I suspect that as long as we separate, subspaces will be split here. If we go in without knowing it, we won't be able to find anyone else."

Zhong Yirou nodded, "I was alone before, and I met a guy who looked exactly like Wu Jiao."

An Wujiu's eyes widened a bit, and the way of expressing surprise was also very restrained.

"So you cut off my signal."

"It was accidentally broken. I didn't know which one was real and which one was fake, so I just told An Wu Jiu standing in front of me."

Zhong Yirou put her hands on her hips, "But he doesn't even know his own name. I used to yell at him in a panic, but he didn't seem to notice. Later, I called him Wu You, and he didn't refute it. I knew he was fake."

An Wujiu didn't understand: "Is it an NPC? But if the disguised identity is the task given by the altar, it is impossible for them not to know the identity information of the person being disguised."

"Everything is weird to me." Zhong Yirou reminded the others, "I don't know if there will be other players in the future, everyone must be careful. If Erci didn't save me, I'm afraid I'd be faked. Blame it to death."

Yang Erci pursed her lips at Zhong Yirou's familiar name.

But An Wujiu had another question, "How did you find her?"

Just as Yang Erci had guessed before, indeed, no matter how long An Wu Jiu and Shen Ti wandered in the four-corner corridor, they couldn't find any other players, and Zhong Yirou only encountered the fake self.

"I was with Josh, and because my microphone was accidentally connected to Zhong Yirou, I heard that she was in danger, but we couldn't find her."

Josh added: "The most frightening thing is that we looked at other rooms and corridors in the monitoring room, and there was no one there. Later, we went out together, walked a few times, and saw a very strange nine-square grid suddenly appeared on the ground."

Shen Ti said: "We also saw it."

"Everyone, I did that." Nan Shan said, explaining to the others what happened to him and Wu You, including how he used the Jiugong Gossip and Qimen escape method to solve the ghosts hitting the wall.

"Maybe as Miss Yang said, this is not an ordinary place. Maybe because of the different choices we make, different parallel spaces will be classified. In these spaces, we can't see other people. Even if she is standing by us Make the next mark in front of our eyes, because of the spatial dislocation, we can't see it either."

Shen Ti nodded, "That's why these parallel spaces have intersections because of your nine palaces and gossip."

"That's right. Everyone can meet and enter the same space only after passing through the Nine Palaces Formation. This illusion of openness and division can be closed."

An Wujiu pondered for a moment, then showed the fragmented information he got to others. Everyone exchanged clues they had found from different spaces. After learning about the incinerator, it's not surprising to hear Zhong Yirou talking about the paradoxical sleeping house.

After hearing this, Wu You nodded, "So the white coat on your body does not represent a doctor, nor does it represent a researcher... It's the person guarding the morgue."

"Do you know what scares me the most?" Zhong Yirou took out a hard drive from Yang Erci's white coat pocket.

"This was found by Erci. It can only be opened with my fingerprint authority. It contains my work log, but the fake one used this information to deceive me. He told me that he found my work log and asked me to Go with him."

An Wujiu immediately reacted, "So, this fake me, know more about this shelter."

"That's right." Yang Erci speculated, "He not only knows, but is very familiar with it. Being able to take Zhong Yirou directly to the designated room to commit the murder shows that he knows exactly which room has the whip he needs."

"What was written in the work log?" Shen Ti asked.

"It is the information of many children, with the time and reason entered on it. The time should be the time of death, and the reason is replaced by one, two, three and four in Roman numerals. It is not very clear, except for a special one, which is written directly. clear."

An Wu Jiu frowned, "What is it?"

"Alienation." Zhong Yi Judo.

Nan Shan repeated these two words, "I also have this word in my work log."

"Alienation here is definitely not just a sociological and philosophical concept, although we are all constantly alienated by technology." Yang Erci said meaningfully.

"I think it should be related to some kind of mysterious Western religion," Nanshan explained. "This kind of alienation is the process of going from human to non-human, for example, turning into a monster."

An Wu Jiu suddenly flashed the slime ball monster in front of his eyes.

"What do you mean, some children have been 'alienated', so they have been destroyed." After Shen Ti finished speaking, he asked in an incomprehensible tone: "Why aren't people destroyed?"

"It is probably due to the natural rejection of human beings." Nan Shan added with a smile, "Of course, what we Taoism pursues is the establishment of a world of great harmony, and advocates equality of all things, and that all things are equal..."

"Are you here to preach?" Wu You said coldly.

Nan Shan smiled peacefully, "Of course not. Our Taoism never seeks universality, but only seeks inner peace and harmony between man and nature."

Seeing that his old god was talking, Wu You was not easy to refute, but thought that his peacock was on the screen again.

After they discussed the information of the first layer, they also gathered all the fragments currently obtained from the E layer, with a high probability of the information of that key.

But Zhong Yirou only got one piece after opening the log, which was printed with [Hell], which means hell.

The current debris is nothing, and they have to focus on the second floor of the containment center they are currently in.

The little bear robot had turned around, jumped in front of their eyes again, and threw them away.

Just after everyone's discussion, in the few seconds of silence, a voice appeared in this magnificent fairy tale corridor, and the traces of synthesis were obvious.

[I am here. ]

An Wu Jiu frowned. The others were also very puzzled and looked at each other.

[I am here. ]

The voice repeated again.

[Need any help? Please order. ]

Josh's goose bumps came out, he touched his arm, and said in a low voice, "Do you think this... does it look like that kind of artificial intelligence system for home use?"

"But no one called him at all." Zhong Yirou's face wrinkled.

Just as they were whispering, the voice reappeared.

Or rather, some kind of response.

[No problem, the song is about to play for you. ]

Suddenly, a crisp and sweet nursery rhyme was played again in the cloister. It was a classic English nursery rhyme sung by many children. The melody was very pleasant.

[London Bridge falls, falls, falls...]

Everyone looked up and followed the sound to the ceiling painted with stars and lakes.

But An Wujiu felt something flashed past and turned his head.

He saw a little boy with two heads standing on the corridor at the end of [Rainbow Baby]. His two heads tilted in different directions, smiling at him.

In the next second, it disappeared.

[…London Bridge falls down, my beautiful lady.]