Chapter 124
After coming out of the second level and returning to the evil ghost apartment, it seems that nothing has changed in the Jinhua community. The green lawn downstairs has been occupied by ghosts and turned into a "market". The "Youzhagui Chuanchuan Shop" is still open there, and business is booming.
Now standing in the corridor on the 8th floor and looking down, the black fog still exists, but it can no longer block Ye Chenyi's sight. He clearly saw several hands sticking out of the "Giant View"-like belly of the fried dough stick, grabbing the yellow fat in the belly of the fried dough stick and putting it into the oil pan to refine the oil.
Ye Chenyi couldn't eat the chicken wing, lobster and barbecued pork rice in his hand.
Xu Maorong, who was eating steak next to him, also saw it, and there was a strong weirdness in his eyes. Seeing that Ye Chenyi was uncomfortable, he turned his back and leaned against the concrete wall of the corridor, and said to Ye Chenyi: "Brother, why don't we go back to the room to eat? It's the same if we open the doors and windows for fresh air."
Ye Chenyi nodded, and went back to the room with Xu Maorong. He finished dinner with a bit of a loss of appetite, and wanted to have a good rest in the next few days, not to do anything, not to think about anything, just to stay quietly with Xu Maorong. But after he put down his chopsticks, Xu Maorong took the initiative to say to Ye Chenyi: "Brother, ask the group members who are still alive in your group to see what they experienced in the third level. Maybe there will be gains, and it is better than knowing nothing, so it is better to know and prepare early."
Ye Chenyi looked at Xu Maorong helplessly, smiled, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to grab his neck, brought him in front of him, and kissed his forehead.
"Don't worry. I won't die that easily."
Xu Maorong looked at him with sparkling eyes.
Because of being kissed, her face was filled with happiness and sweetness.
"I know, bro is awesome."
Ye Chenyi opened the game panel.
The number of people in the first level group has not changed.
Those people are still alive.
But the number of people in the second level changed again, and there were only 6 people left. Then, he saw [I don’t want to be a little yang person] in the nicknames of the 6 people.
Ye Chenyi raised his eyebrows: I missed [I don't want to be a little Yang person]. But it's okay, such a BT is definitely not easy to deal with, it's best not to meet it.
Ye Chenyi sent a message in the group, asking everyone what the third level was, but no one responded for two days, and still no one responded on the third day.
Xu Maorong immediately regretted asking Ye Chenyi to ask. Wouldn’t he feel uncomfortable if he didn’t get a reply?
Ye Chenyi didn’t feel uncomfortable. What he was thinking was: people’s hearts are becoming colder.
He didn't have much friendship with the people in the group, so it was normal for others not to reply to him. And in the strange global situation, it was unknown whether many people still had humanity.
On the third day, six o'clock in the evening was getting closer and closer. Ye Chenyi held Xu Maorong's hand tightly. If Xu Maorong was by his side, it would be much easier to get through any situation. If Xu Maorong didn't follow him to the third level, it would be okay. He was mentally prepared.
After all, with Xu Maorong following him, it was like he had a big cheat.
The game panel time has reached six o'clock.
The bright red blood flowed out the words "Game Start".
There was a flickering light in the room all of a sudden. After the light faded, Ye Chenyi and Xu Maorong both disappeared from the room.
In the blink of an eye, we arrived at the third level from the haunted apartment.
Ye Chenyi observed the surroundings vigilantly. The strange place in the third level was very ominous. All the buildings here were very different from those in other cities.
This is a city made of steel. Except for the ground, all the buildings are made of steel without any cement or marble. The sharpness reaches up to the sky.
They were now standing on a road in the city, with crossed steel blades growing obliquely from both sides above their heads, and the blades were sprouting new ridges like thorns and ice spikes.
The dim sunset light shines through the thorny edges, and the steel feels cold.
At a glance, the further forward you go, the denser the thorns become.
The steel blades were piled up one after another, forming countless steel mountains with a 60-degree angle. The rows of blades rushed into the sky. It seemed that only this road under my feet could lead to the top of the mountain.
Ye Chenyi frowned as he looked at the thorns. They were sharp as if they had been sharpened. If someone got pricked by them, they might be pierced with holes just like a giant mutated steel sea urchin.
Xu Maorong looked at these thorns, his eyes full of deep thought, even with a hint of subtle surprise.
Ye Chenyi said to Xu Maorong: "Be careful, this strange place is very unusual."
Xu Maorong nodded and followed Ye Chenyi forward.
Ye Chenyi had known for a long time that it would not be smooth to reach the "top of the mountain" along this road, but he did not expect that he and Xu Maorong had only walked less than twenty steps when the steel blades around them made sharp sounds, and whole pieces of steel were flowing and twisting, and the ground was shaking and cracking.
The road in front of them suddenly broke, and a huge gully appeared. Steel rushed up from the ground like a torrent, spanning the sky and the earth, and all the sharp edges rushed straight towards Ye Chenyi and Xu Maorong's faces.
The tip of the blade made a brief contact with the tiny hairs on the face.
The steel torrent is like a python raising its head and looking down.
Ye Chenyi grabbed Ye Chenyi's arm and looked up at the sky.
In an instant!
Ye Chenyi and the steel torrent moved at the same time.
A torrent of steel rose from underground, moving like a dragon and lightning. Ye Chenyi held Xu Maorong in his arms, and his tentacles swung out to climb and escape. They were instantly riddled with holes when they hit the steel blades, and then they were crushed into minced meat. The evil spirit's power was rapidly recovering.
The thorn blades that originally grew diagonally on both sides of the road also rose from the ground at this time, blocking Ye Chenyi's retreat. The steel torrent went around the bend, chasing up and down, left and right at a high speed, and soon Ye Chenyi's space for escape became smaller and smaller.
"We must not be locked by it." Ye Chenyi gritted his teeth.
It is conceivable that once it is surrounded by it into a ball shape, the end result is that it will be pierced all over from top to bottom, front to back, left to right, and then squeezed by the steel, and it can basically be used to make wontons.
The strangeness in Xu Maorong's eyes suddenly burst into a black light, and in an instant the space above the sky was distorted. But the steel rushed over, and the distorted space was instantly shattered.
But at least I can hold out for one minute.
The steel that was clearly within reach seemed to have slowed down and could not touch Ye Chenyi and Xu Maorong in any way.
Ye Chenyi took advantage of this opportunity and immediately took Xu Maorong and fled far away.
After the space collapsed, the steel torrent stayed in the air for a short while before falling directly to the ground. However, it was now like a giant python lying across the road, with its sharp thorns threatening and shaped like a vicious beast.
It seemed to stop anyone who wanted to move forward.
The steel didn't catch up, and Ye Chenyi and Xu Maorong breathed a sigh of relief after landing. These steels were so strange, they were all metal, but they seemed to have been given a spiritual life, which made people completely unable to resist.
If they just rely on physical combat, they are no match for their opponent.
Ye Chenyi said to Xu Maorong: "How do we get through the third level?"
Xu Maorong said to Ye Chenyi: "The steel is blocking us and doesn't want us to move forward, which means that the things we need to pass the level are ahead of this road. Perhaps only when we reach the end can we know what the necessary conditions are for passing the level."
Ye Chenyi thought so too. He looked at the city of steel blades, frowned, then opened the game panel and looked at the number of people in the third level.
48/1000
Ye Chenyi showed the number of people to Xu Maorong, and both of them looked serious. What does this mean? It means that if the third level started at the same time, more than 900 people would have been killed in other parts of the city in just a few minutes.
The danger of this city was far beyond their imagination.
I could hear rumbling sounds coming from other places and screams from other people. This went on for an unknown amount of time before the city finally fell into absolute silence.
There was not even the sound of an insect, not even the flutter of a mosquito's wings.
Ye Chenyi and Xu Maorong placed two foldable sofa chairs in a safe place. Ye Chenyi sat on the sofa chair with his feet on the ground, which was more elegant. Xu Maorong sat cross-legged.
"Brother, it's eight o'clock in the evening."
"Um."
"The ghosts in strange places often follow certain rules. The ghost apartment will start a carnival of ghosts at 6 pm, the sea of fire in Furnace City will cover the entire city at 6 am, and the sea water will appear in Sea City at 6 pm... We have seen the situation in this city after 6 pm. We can't move forward. If we move forward, we will trigger ghosts and be hunted. But we have never seen ghosts at 6 am. It is possible that the day will be more difficult than the night. Brother, you should sleep for a while. I will keep watch for you. It doesn't matter if I don't sleep."
Xu Maorong looked at Ye Chenyi with burning eyes after saying these words. Ye Chenyi pondered for a while, nodded, lay down, and fell asleep soon after.
His nerves had been stretched too long, and he had not recovered at all after just three days of rest. He was afraid that he would not be able to recover during the day, so he planned to conserve his energy.
Xu Maorong looked up at the blood-red moon in the sky, looked at the sparse stars, then lowered his head and looked at Ye Chenyi tenderly, and then he sighed sadly in his heart: I hope it is not what I think.
When he woke up at around five the next day, the sky was light in the east. Ye Chenyi yawned, and his eyes were still bloodshot. He didn't sleep well last night. His dreams were full of twisted struggles, escapes, and fights...
Ye Chenyi put away the sofa chair and stood on the road with Xu Maorong, waiting for the time to reach 6 o'clock. Time passed by minute by minute, and he was concentrating on watching the time change on the game panel, when a violent rumbling sound rang out.
Ye Chenyi's tentacles suddenly became extremely thick and long, pointing up to the sky. Densely packed eyeballs popped out from the cracks on the tentacles, rolling around and observing the environment.
The Steel City during the day is indeed different from the Steel City at night.
The Steel City at night is more like towering mountains blocking people's progress.
During the day, the Steel City turns into a series of enclosures with "8" connected to another "8".
Those "0"s are surrounded by fallen thorns and blades, and the blades are all covered with thorny edges.
Inside was an unclear black fog, exuding a strong sense of ominousness and filled with death.
Ye Chenyi and Xu Maorong looked at each other and saw solemnity in each other's eyes.
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