After hearing this, Mingqiao couldn't help but give Shi Xin a thumbs up.
"Teacher Ming, you're out of breath after running like this, you must be out of energy."
Ming Qiao waved his hand. He had just run through the maze and followed Shi Xin to escape. He had been running so hard that his throat was burning and it was extremely uncomfortable to breathe. Now that he had rested, he slowly adjusted his breathing to make himself less embarrassed.
"Let me tell you about the situation on the third floor first." Shi Xin lowered his voice and said to Ming Qiao, "There are words engraved on the wall, probably something like help."
"I know this, is there anything else?" Mingqiao asked.
"I found the hand you mentioned. After Zhang Wanqiao and the others left, the flow of people on the third floor was really fast. I looked at my watch at the time and it was about a hundred times faster than usual. But the bone formation of this hand was not formed naturally due to the accelerated flow of time. This was gnawed." Shi Xin rummaged in his trouser pocket, took out the hand bone and handed it to Ming Qiao: "Don't you think the size is wrong? Qin Xue is a boy, and his hands at this age should be bigger than this."
Mingqiao took the hand bone and placed it in his palm. He couldn't see it clearly because the light was too dim at the time, but now he found that there were indeed traces of wear and tear, and they were very small. Even if the five fingers were spread out, they were two joints smaller than his palm.
"It looks like a girl's hand," Mingqiao said uncertainly.
"It's not like," Shi Xin said, "It is. Do you feel that Deng Ya's words don't seem to make sense?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Do you remember her escape note?"
"You mean..." Mingqiao figured it out after hearing what Shi Xin said, "Deng Ya said that Wang Lu 'tricked' the two into creating an escape route for her, but in fact, Deng Ya found the note in the maze. Wang Lu was not with her, so she should not know the content of the note. But Deng Ya preconceived that Wang Lu asked the two to go to the second and third floors separately so that she could escape?"
"Of course this is just speculation. Now we only have Deng Ya's family's words, so we can't easily draw a conclusion." Shi Xin said seriously: "But Wang Lu did go out. There is no sign of other people on the first and third floors. Now I want to know how she got out."
Ming Qiao pondered, "Is there a possibility that Wang Lu made an exchange with 'it'? Using her own hand to buy a way out?"
"It?" Shi Xin asked.
"The mastermind behind the scenes." Mingqiao explained.
"Okay. So this 'it' bit off that hand?" Shi Xin felt a chill at the thought: "Isn't it forbidden to eat one's own kind? Because of the Nguyen virus."
"I don't know." Mingqiao thought of the thing that bit his finger in the office before and said, "Maybe it wasn't bitten by a human."
Shi Xin nodded reluctantly, temporarily agreeing with his point of view: "Then let me continue. I crawled out of your hole and found the old man holding a bunch of keys in his hand, sneaking around and trying to open the door."
"Then you took the opportunity to push someone in from behind and ran away."
"You can say that and you can't say that."
Mingqiao looked up at him.
"I wanted to go up and grab the key, but the employees found out," Shi Xin said. "I didn't have time to think about it, so I pushed the old man into the small dark room and locked the door from the inside."
Mingqiao could already imagine the chaotic scene, and it was estimated that the old man didn't react at that time.
"I'll go in and grab the key from the old man first." Shi Xin took out the key from his pocket and handed it to Ming Qiao. "The old man couldn't grab it and he spit on my face. How could I tolerate this? My temper flared up immediately. I'm tall and I can reach the hole in the ceiling with just a jump by stretching my arms. The old man wanted to pull me up with him, but I kicked him to the ground and climbed up by myself."
“And then you plug the hole.”
"Yes." Shi Xin said honestly.
"Then how did you get hunted down by those employees?"
"After I came out, I went to the back kitchen to look for the 'it' you mentioned, and I saw a group of people surrounding a cage and shouting. I was so curious that I went to take a look."
Mingqiao held his forehead with his hand: "You have been discovered."
"Yeah." Shi Xin nodded: "They also found out that the old man was gone, got angry, and started chasing me."
No one else could do this with this experience.
Mingqiao was reflecting on whether he had been too cautious before. Perhaps he should have rushed in like Shi Xin did, and maybe he could really find the key point.
"What are we going to do next?" Shi Xin asked.
"Turn off the power." Mingqiao said, "Go to the third floor."
The two men moved the robot in front of them as quietly as possible, and by the time they reached the distribution box, they were both sweating profusely.
Shi Xin opened the door of the distribution box and saw a row of circuit breakers.
"Turn it off." Mingqiao said.
"Which one is the main switch?" Shi Xin felt dizzy looking at the levers one by one.
"Just turn off all the lights." Ming Qiao said simply, "It's just to avoid surveillance, so dimming the lights is just right."
"...Okay." Shi Xin gritted his teeth, pulled a whole row of levers, and pushed them down together.
In an instant, except for the restaurant entrance where there was enough light, everywhere else became dark, but not so dark that the road could not be seen clearly, which was just convenient for the two to move around.
"Hurry up." Mingqiao pushed Shi Xin and said, "Now that the power is off, the third floor will be in chaos. Let's hurry up and go up."
"good."
The two of them hurried up the stairs.
Sure enough, the third floor was in chaos, and the employees were walking around with lifeless eyes, like mad zombies in the movies.
"You lead the way." Mingqiao didn't want to look at these people, and whispered, "Let's go to the cage quickly."
"Are you scared?" Shi Xin asked.
"Aren't you afraid?" Mingqiao asked back.
"Scared." Shi Xin led Ming Qiao to the kitchen, "A normal person turned into a monster. Who wouldn't be scared?"
Mingqiao was silent for a while after hearing this.
These were the original staff of the restaurant. Some of them looked familiar to him, but now they were like zombies, without thoughts, language, or souls.
Normal people turned into monsters.
The canteen has become a cooking pot for the soul.
"We're here." Shi Xin, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. Ming Qiao was distracted by something and didn't have time to brake, so he bumped into his back.
Shi Xin was knocked to the ground and Ming Qiao quickly covered his eyes: "Sorry, the light was too dim and I didn't see it."
"It's okay." Shi Xin turned sideways and let Ming Qiao look at the scene in front of him: "Is he Qin Xue?"
Only then did Mingqiao see clearly the person in the cage.
The boy sat against a corner of the cage with his head hung. He was wearing the black and white school uniform of No. 1 Middle School. Even if he was not Qin Xue, he was definitely a student of No. 1 Middle School.
"I can't see the face clearly." Mingqiao said.
Shi Xin immediately took out a flashlight from his pocket, turned it on for a moment and then turned it off immediately: "Did you see it clearly?"
"I can see clearly. It's Qin Xue." Ming Qiao said, "He's good-looking, and there are seven or eight girls in the class who like him."
"Just make sure it's this person." Shi Xin stretched out his hand in front of Ming Qiao: "The key."
Mingqiao quickly handed over a bunch of keys, fearing that there would be delays.
Shi Xin took the bunch of keys and eliminated some that didn't fit the locks or those that didn't match the size, and there were still about ten keys left.
"You keep watch." Shi Xin tilted his head and motioned Mingqiao to squat at the door and watch.
But just as Mingqiao stood up, Shi Xin pulled him back. Shi Xin felt a little awkward: "Forget it, you try the key, I'll go check on the door."
Mingqiao was completely confused by him and could only try the dozen or so keys again and again.
When they tried the fourth key, the lock opened. The crisp sound of the lock opening relieved the tense nerves of the two people. Mingqiao leaned forward and climbed into the cage, waking up Qin Xue, who had his eyes closed.
"Teacher Ming." Qin Xue's eyes brightened when he saw the person in front of him clearly. He wanted to stand up in surprise, but was hit on the head by the short cage.
"Can you walk by yourself?" Mingqiao asked worriedly, "We have to escape from here."
"I can walk." Qin Xue stood up and jumped a few times, and seemed to be fine.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Shi Xin shout, "Someone is coming, hurry up."
Mingqiao didn't dare to delay, he picked up the key, pulled Qin Xue and ran away. The three of them listened to the approaching footsteps, and their heartbeats quickened to the extreme.
"Take the students and go first." Shi Xin turned around and elbowed the employee who was in the front.
Mingqiao understood what Shi Xin meant, and immediately took Qin Xue into the deeper part of the kitchen.
"Teacher Ming," Qin Xue asked as he ran, "Should we ignore him?"
"He'll be fine," Mingqiao said.
The two of them immediately saw a row of doors side by side. Mingqiao spotted the person in charge's office hidden in the middle, ran to the door, picked up the key and poked it.
When Shi Xin was retreating and fighting, and reached the door of the office where Mingqiao and the other man were hiding, Qin Xue immediately opened the door. Mingqiao pulled hard, and when Shi Xin's feet were all inside the office, Qin Xue, who was waiting at the door, immediately closed the door and locked it. The series of actions were smooth and there was not a single stumble.
Shi Xin recovered and asked Ming Qiao, "How did you know it was me?"
Qin Xue stood by with his arms crossed, watching the show: "Teacher Ming said that you run very fast, and your speed is different from those monsters."
Shi Xin glanced at Ming Qiao and said, "You can tell that? The footsteps were very chaotic."
"Yeah." Mingqiao coughed twice and changed the subject: "Let's talk about business. Qin Xue, can you tell me everything you have done since you entered the restaurant."
"Deng Ya, Wang Lu and I came to the cafeteria to eat after school. There was no one in the cafeteria, so we wanted to leave, but we were stopped. Wang Lu said we should split up and look for an exit. But I knew there was a ladder outside a window on the third floor that led directly to the ground, so I told them this. Wang Lu said she was willing to try the third floor, and let Deng Ya and I stay on the first and second floors. I was worried about Wang Lu, but Deng Ya thought it was okay, so we stayed on the first and second floors. But the first floor was soon surrounded by robots, so Deng Ya and I wanted to go to the second floor to take shelter."
"We met Wang Lu at the second floor staircase. She said there was nothing on the third floor, but when she tried to go down, she found that the staircase was blocked. She dug a hole to get down."
"The three of us went up to the second floor together, and the second floor became a maze. I saw Wang Lu push Deng Ya into the maze. Just as I was about to follow Deng Ya in, Wang Lu grabbed me and said she was scared to go to the third floor alone. I thought Deng Ya was also alone, so I choked her. Who knew she got so angry that she sprayed something on my face. When I opened my eyes again, I was in a cage."
Qin Xue said the same thing as Deng Ya. He asked, "Did you hear the broadcast say that Wang Lu went out?"
"I have a vague impression, but I was not conscious at the time and didn't hear the specific content." Qin Xue scratched his head and suddenly slapped his thigh: "There is another strange thing. I saw Wang Lu hiding her left hand after coming down from the third floor, and there was a lot of blood on the floor. I was wondering where the blood came from."
Mingqiao was a little sad after hearing this. He didn't want to tell Qin Xue too much, but now he was sure that Wang Lu didn't get out by the most normal means. She probably used her classmates and a hand as collateral to find a way to escape.
It turns out that no matter what is placed in front of life, it will seem so small and insignificant.
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