metaphysics
Ou Ranyu!
Chen Can jumped up excitedly, clenched his hands, and tried hard not to grab Ou Ranyu's collar and punch him a few times.
"What are you doing here?" Ou Ranyu asked him with a smile.
You even asked him what he was doing here!?
Chen Can suppressed his anger and said calmly, "I'm just passing by."
It's too hard to endure, and it sounds sarcastic.
Ou Ranyu seemed not to hear his tone and continued smiling: "Then let's go back."
Do you think you are a primary school student? Let's hold hands and go home together.
"Do you know what this place is? You can come and go as you please." Chen Can continued his sarcasm. "What are you doing here alone in the middle of the night? Are you crazy again?"
"Do you know that this place is dangerous, or are you doing this on purpose?"
"Ou Ranyu, you should think twice before doing anything. Don't always joke with your life."
“Do you know that others will worry?”
Honestly, Chen Can blushed a little when he said the last sentence, because he didn't care about his own life. He ran here recklessly to look for someone and was almost killed by a dead body...
No, he came for a reason, but what was Ou Ranyu’s reason?
"I'm here to find 'them'." Ou Ranyu restrained his smile, and a hint of coldness appeared in his expression.
Here we go again, talking at cross purposes.
Chen Can sighed and decided to change the subject: "Let's go, let's get out of here."
Ou Ranyu's face turned pale and he didn't move.
"So what..." Chen Can walked closer to look at Ou Ranyu. Ou Ranyu leaned over and fell on his shoulder.
It really fell...
Through a thin layer of cloth, Chen Can felt the chill from Ou Ranyu's forehead against his shoulder.
Chen Can shivered and touched the man's forehead. It was too cold to be alive. He sniffed and found heat, so he was not dead.
Could it be that he's possessed?
Chen Can dragged Ou Ranyu to sit on a stool and bent down to support him.
Just as he supported the person, he looked up and met Ou Ranyu's eyes.
Her eyes were wet and red at the corners, as if she was about to cry.
Chen Can thought of the injured puppy and then turned his head away to end the eye contact.
Ou Ranyu closed his eyes again, and then his whole body became red and hot like a cooked shrimp.
This is unscientific. Why is it so hot and cold?
Chen Can held Ou Ranyu's arm and felt his body temperature gradually rising.
It’s bad, if we go up any higher, someone will die!
Chen Can was helpless and was anxious to take off Ou Ranyu's clothes. As soon as he lifted a corner of the clothes, his wrist was clamped.
"Don't move."
The corners of Ou Ranyu's eyes became even redder, perhaps because he saw the person in front of him clearly, his originally alert and sharp eyes became gentle and pitiful.
Chen Can's hands froze, and he was too embarrassed to notice this subtle change.
"How are you?" Chen Can pulled back his hand and asked stiffly.
"I'm fine, we'll leave here soon."
Ou Ranyu forced a faint smile and said to Chen Can.
Chen Can wanted to ask him what was going on, but he didn't know how to start. He froze for a while and simply gave up asking.
"I just ran into some trouble and was tricked. Don't worry." Ou Ranyu seemed to read his thoughts and comforted him.
Chen Can felt uncomfortable all over, even his hair was uncomfortable.
"Have you seen Zhu Baifeng?" Chen Can finally asked.
"No, is he coming too?" Ou Ranyu smiled faintly.
"I don't know if he came in." Chen Can became worried again.
"Including you and me, there are five living people tonight." Ou Ranyu suddenly said.
Five, are they alive?
Chen Can hoped that Zhu Baifeng hadn't come in.
Come in
Li Yachang looked at the sign "Come in" hanging on the door, hesitating whether to go in or not.
But there is only one door in front of me, and no way out.
Li Yachang pushed the door open and stared at Zhu Baifeng in the room.
"Why are you here?" Zhu Baifeng was a little bit unconvinced of the person in front of him.
"Oh, I wanted to ask that too."
Li Yachang accidentally broke into the forbidden building of No. 2 Middle School tonight and encountered more than one strange thing. He was calm when he saw Zhu Baifeng. After confirming that he was a real person, he explained everything to him.
"So you met Venatis, and she led you into the forbidden building of No. 2 Middle School, and then inexplicably came to the Gentlemen's Building in the old campus of No. 10 Middle School." Zhu Baifeng believed it belatedly.
This is too unscientific. If it could be explained in the virtual space of the game before, it can't be explained by science at all now. It's too mysterious.
"I followed Chen Can to the South Building of No. 10 Middle School. We went up one floor and found only a corridor and a room at the end. I was wondering why the building was so strangely constructed," Li Yachang frowned as she listened to Zhu Baifeng's narration. "As soon as I entered, I was locked in. Then, after some time, I heard a group of people running up the stairs outside. The noises kept coming in waves. I was standing there, hesitating whether to go to the door and listen, when you came in."
Stairs? Lots of people? Running?
When Li Ya often came here, she would just walk through a corridor to see this room.
"It seems that I was really possessed by an evil spirit. I only passed through one corridor when I came here," Li Yachang said truthfully.
"In fact, the North Building across from the South Building is the building where the explosion occurred. Do you think it's the students who died tragically who are causing this?" Zhu Baifeng added, "If that's the case, then even if we don't die, we'll be scared to death."
Li Yachang leaned against the door and looked back. The empty corridor had been replaced by a sloping staircase. If she took a few more steps back, she would fall down.
"Let's go downstairs."
It was pitch black downstairs. Chen Can and Ou Ranyu stood at the edge of the stairs, feeling as if they were on the edge of an abyss.
"Are we really going down?" Chen Can looked at the bottomless floor below, unconvinced. But up, down, left, and right, this was the only way to go.
"Keep walking down and you'll find the way out." Ou Ranyu said, "You can lead me, it's a little hard to see down there."
How could Chen Can hold Ou Ranyu's hand?
No lead.
The two walked one in front and one behind. The further they went down, the less they could see. It was as if they were in a bottomless pit. Only when they stepped on the steps did they feel the reality.
Chen Can turned on the light, confirmed that he and Ou Ranyu were still walking on the stairs, and turned it off again.
Repeat this process and check every time you walk a certain distance.
Until the fifth time he confirmed, when he turned on the light again, Ou Ranyu, who had been walking in front of him, disappeared.
"later."
Chen Can turned around, and the dazzling light hit Ou Ranyu's face directly, adding a bit of weirdness to the flatness of his delicate face.
Ou Ranyu didn't dodge or evade, not even blinking. Chen Can put down the light, wondering when this person had run behind him.
Ou Ranyu said: "I was walking in front of you just now."
Chen Can could be sure of this, because in the dark people's hearing could be infinitely amplified. He heard clearly just now that there was someone in front of him, but the moment the light was turned on, the person moved to the back.
Unless there is more than just Ou Ranyu in front of Chen Can, and more than just Chen Can behind Ou Ranyu.
"Take my hand."
Ou Ranyu extended his right hand to Chen Can. This time, Chen Can did not refuse. He took his hand and continued walking down.
Forget it, you can’t see it in the dark anyway, and it’s not like he’s held hands before.
When their palms touched, warmth filled the air. Chen Can felt the newly formed scab on Ou Ranyu's palm. He didn't dare to hold it too tightly. He only felt a slight itch when he rubbed it occasionally.
Can I change my hand?
Chen Can was about to speak, but then he changed his mind and thought that if Ou Ranshan encountered something ahead, he wouldn't have to use his injured hand to block it, so he had to give up.
He can entrust vulnerability to him and use strength to drive away danger.
They held hands for as long as they walked.
It seemed like they had finally reached the end. Ou Ranyu pushed open the door with one hand, and there was another staircase inside.
"Continue going downstairs." Ou Ranyu looked at the bottomless cave and said.
"Haven't we come down to the first floor yet?" Zhu Baifeng leaned against Li Yachang, practically clinging to her. Li Yachang moved aside, slightly disdainful: "You think it's not hot enough even though you're so close?"
"No, I think it's quite cool and gloomy." Zhu Baifeng retorted, "Just let me lean on it. The armrest is too dusty."
"If you push down a little more, you'll have to lean against the dust on the ground." Li Yachang used his elbow to push people up.
"If anyone wants to lean on you, you should lean on it first... lean on——"
Zhu Baifeng had not been leaning on it for a few minutes when the steps under his feet suddenly stopped as if a moving conveyor belt. There was a violent earthquake, which knocked Zhu Baifeng off Li Yachang and rolled down to the platform at the corner. Li Changya also did not stand firmly and fell down, landing on Zhu Baifeng.
"Wait... one, hand, waist, waist..."
Zhu Baifeng moved his body with difficulty and was helped to sit up.
Because Zhu Feng had taken the blame for Li Yachang, she was fine except for some dust on the ends of her hair and some scrapes on her wrists.
"How is it? Can you move your hand?" Li Yachang carefully held Zhu Baifeng's hand, lifted his shirt and looked at his waist.
"There's a red spot on your waist. If it hurts, just bear it. If you can't stand it, just lie down and I'll collect your body." Li Yachang livened up the atmosphere.
"Are you talking like a human being? I at least helped you cushion the pain, and you talk to the person who took your back like this?" Zhu Baifeng cried out in pain, rubbed his waist, and did not forget to complain.
"He can still talk, so it seems he's not dead yet. Get up quickly, the ground is dirty." Li Yachang looked at his butt full of dust with disgust.
"Pull me up." Zhu Baifeng stretched out a hand towards him.
"If you have the guts, try using your other hand." Li Yachang said this with a stern tone and pulled him up.
"By the way, did the stairs shake just now?" Zhu Baifeng asked while holding the handrail.
"Is it possible that it has been moving all the time? It seemed like it was stuck just now." Li Yachang guessed.
"Should we continue going down?" Zhu Baifeng asked again, "Should we try going up?"
"No, it feels like we're constantly going down, but we're actually constantly going up. If the staircase in this entire building were truly moving, or if it were a circle, no matter which direction we go, we'll eventually return to the starting point, in an infinite loop." Li Yachang analyzed, "But, it clearly paused just now, which means it's not completely flawless. It's possible someone has modified this place, but the most likely scenario is that we've encountered a ghost, as we just happened to meet for no apparent reason."
"That must be a ghost. No. 10 Middle School and No. 2 Middle School are dozens of blocks apart." Zhu Baifeng said, "Then let's continue walking down? That flaw probably appeared randomly. Instead of just sitting there, why not try our luck?"
"Okay." Li Yachang followed Zhu Baifeng and looked back at the darkness above.
They always felt like someone was watching them.
"You said there's someone up there..." Chen Can lowered his voice and asked Ou Ranyu, "What's his purpose?"
Chen Can looked upstairs for a long time but didn't see any figure or hear any movement.
"A living person." Ou Ranyu said, "I'm telling you something. Ignore him, let's continue walking down."
Ou Ranyu held Chen Can's hand and continued walking down.
Chen Canxin said, you won’t lie to me again?
In this kind of ghost place, apart from the two of them and Zhu Baifeng whose life or death is unknown, are you sure there are other living people?
Chen Can didn't dare to ask him back, so he could only look back every few steps to confirm that there was really no one following him.
Ou Ranyu held Chen Can's hand tighter and tighter, and his pace became faster and faster.
"What's going on?"
Chen Can looked back in surprise and asked him.
Ou Ranyu said calmly: "It's okay, don't let him catch up."
Chen Can didn't say anything else. He walked with Ou Ranyu in silence for a long time.
It was so long that Chen Can seemed to be unaware of the passage of time. His feet had already drifted away and it no longer belonged to him.
At the corner, Chen Can stumbled twice, perhaps because he tripped over something or his legs went weak. He didn't need any support, but Ou Ranyu quickly supported him, and Chen Can instinctively held his arm.
The change only took a moment. When Ou Ranyu and Chen Can looked up again, they bumped into two people head-on.
"Oh my god...it's a ghost..." Zhu Baifeng slapped Li Yachang's arm as if he had seen a ghost.
Li Yachang was stunned for two seconds, then accepted the fact.
"...Fuck you." Chen Can let go of Ou Ranyu's hand and reached out to Zhu Baifeng's waist.
"Hiss--" Zhu Baifeng woke up as if from a dream and bounced back.
Chen Can was shocked by his reaction, "You're using too much force... I'm talking about you."
"He just fell and hit his waist." Li Yachang was recalling the scene of Chen Can and Ou Ranyu holding hands, and suddenly reminded him.
"You even threw this bull." Chen Can said as he lifted up a corner of Zhu Baifeng's shirt and took a look at his waist.
Ou Ranyu's eyelids twitched, and he stretched out his hand a little but stopped halfway.
"Not bad, it will be healed in a few seconds." Chen Can commented.
"You know what? I have internal injuries!" Zhu Baifeng slapped his hand away, then looked at it with an inquiring look and changed the subject, "Don't think I didn't see it!"
Seeing something that made it seem like he was...having an affair.
Chen Can quickly erased this word from his mind. He and Ou Ranyu... were innocent.
Chen Can smiled sinisterly, his knuckles cracking. "Do you want to try it too?"
Upon hearing this, Ou Ranyu gently pulled him back.
Chen Can looked at him in confusion.
Ou Ranyu smiled and said, "Your clothes are a little dirty."
"I didn't say that. He was the one who wanted to try." Li Yachang quickly distanced herself from the matter and took the opportunity to give Zhu Baifeng a push that night.
Ou Ranyu pulled Chen Can back again without leaving any trace.
"It's dirty again." Ou Ranyu looked sincere.
Chen Can: “…”
Zhu Baifeng: "...Heh." Zhu Baifeng looked at Ou Ranyu's sinister smile and wanted to spit on him.
Don't mess with our volcano.
Chen Can was not unaware of this Shura scene, so he diverted his attention and said, "I said before that there were five living people here, so where is the other one?"
"Five makes sense. Maybe it's the fifth person who's behind this." Li Yachang joined the discussion.
"He's coming." Ou Ranyu looked up.
Step, step, step... the footsteps came slowly and steadily.
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