Shi Xin and Qin Xue rushed out the door first, and Ming Qiao stayed behind. He turned around and went out, then slammed the door shut, blocking it sideways, trapping the people behind him in the casino.
Although the monsters were chasing them relentlessly and banging on the door, the moment the iron door closed, it was as if a safe zone had been marked out, and the three of them felt much more at ease.
Shi Xin helped Ming Qiao to come to the door. The intense running just now made his muscles all sore and weak. Ming Qiao winked at him silently, indicating that he should come alone.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sound of banging on the door behind me weakened until there was no sound anymore. Mingqiao then relaxed his strength, supported his forehead and slowly squatted on the ground.
He was sweating all over, his shirt was sticking to his back so wet that it made him feel uncomfortably wet, and the sweat that seeped from deep in his scalp slid down his forehead and hung on his face. He wiped off the sweat on his palm with his hand, and he looked as disheveled as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
But they didn't have much time to rest. When Mingqiao thought of the meat grinder and the endless supply of acid water, he felt like a guillotine was hanging around his neck.
He took a few deep breaths and tried his best to calm himself down. Even if he couldn't help, he didn't want to hold Shi Xin and Qin Xue back.
The atmosphere among the three of them gradually became tense again.
Shi Xin spoke first: "Someone must stay here to block the door, and the remaining two people go to the basement to look for clues and deal with the meat grinder."
"Then I'll stay here." Qin Xue volunteered, and then added a reason: "I'm still strong enough. If those monsters knock on the door again, I can hold on by myself. Besides, you and Teacher Ming work well together and are familiar with that room, so it's more appropriate for you to go."
Qin Xue is indeed a little taller than his peers, and the loose school uniform T-shirt looks very stylish on him. It is not difficult to imagine the tight and thriving muscles under the hem of the shirt.
Besides, it’s not difficult to give young people opportunities to exercise.
Mingqiao was not too worried about him being here alone. Compared to his current sickly self, it was more appropriate for Qin Xue to stay.
But when he heard the words "good cooperation", Ming Qiao's eyes changed. He touched his nose twice uncomfortably, then looked up at Shi Xin.
And the other party was just looking at him.
The two eyes met, and the constantly flashing neon lights around made it difficult for people to open their eyes. Mingqiao stared at Shi Xin's tiny pupils, which were filled with tiny lights like stars. An indescribable sourness and itch instantly took root in his heart.
It's not like he hasn't met people who share his aesthetic taste over the years, but in this environment, he suddenly pushed Shi Xin to the top of the list.
Ming Qiao was shocked by his own thoughts. He was distracted and looked away first. When he spoke again, his tone became a little stiff. He turned to Qin Xue and said, "If anything happens here, shout and we will rush over."
"Okay." Qin Xue's tone was firm and courageous.
"Then let's go?" Shi Xin extended his hand to Ming Qiao, trying to pull him up from the ground.
But Mingqiao seemed not to have seen the hand, and he stood up on his knees without any embarrassment.
Shi Xin moved his fingers slightly and retracted his hand.
"Let's go." Ming Qiao didn't dare to look at Shi Xin's expression. He walked forward a few steps. When he was a little distance away from Shi Xin, he turned his head slightly and said calmly, "I just sweated for a long time, but I feel a lot more relaxed."
"That's good." Shi Xin put his hands behind his back and grabbed the hem of his clothes awkwardly.
What did Mingqiao mean by not holding his hand just now? Wasn't it okay for them to touch each other so many times before? Did he make Mingqiao angry? It didn't seem like he did anything inappropriate, right? But what if Mingqiao was a straight man and suddenly realized something and deliberately avoided him?
It's over, he thought.
Feeling inexplicably disliked, Shi Xin lowered his head as if depressed and followed Ming Qiao silently.
He reflected on whether he had gone too far recently. After all, even if he had a crush on Mingqiao, he couldn't keep wanting to turn her gay.
Mingqiao noticed that Shi Xin was in a low mood, but he couldn't explain it. The eye contact just now had already hit a huge rock in his heart, and the ripples had not disappeared until now. He could no longer pretend that nothing had happened, so he simply avoided talking about it.
Both of them were preoccupied with something, and it was not until they turned the first corner and clearly felt the corridor widening that they were suddenly awakened.
Based on previous experience, the corridors did not change, but they were getting smaller, just like walking through Doraemon's shrinking tunnel, which was exactly the opposite of when they came out of this basement.
Mingqiao turned his head and met Shi Xin's eyes again.
I don’t know if it was my psychological effect or something else, but this time the feeling of soreness, itching and numbness reached its peak.
"Teacher Ming?" Shi Xin tilted his head to look at him.
Mingqiao coughed lightly: "Shall we hurry up?"
"good."
Mingqiao was very sure that Shi Xin had also noticed something strange. With that glance just now, they had already exchanged information.
The two of them quickened their pace in tacit understanding, and even started running in the end, but their pace was surprisingly consistent, like students doing exercises.
By the time they arrived at the familiar wooden door, which was huge for them now, Ming Qiao was already gasping for breath. His mouth was filled with the taste of rust, his throat was burning and hoarse, and his already weak body was in a state where his muscles were sore and swollen that they were about to burst.
Shi Xin walked silently to the door and pushed it open with force to create a small gap that was big enough for two people to enter.
"Mr. Ming, are you okay?"
The man was too tired to speak. He frowned and put his hand on Mingqiao's neck.
Hotter than before.
So the sentence just now, “Sweating makes you feel relaxed” is a lie.
"It's okay." Ming Qiao dodged the hand on his neck, held his chest and took two deep breaths of oxygen. "It feels hot to the touch. Actually, I'm much better now."
Shi Xin obviously wouldn't believe his nonsense.
"It's important to do the right thing."
After Mingqiao said this, Shi Xin didn't know what to do. He first stuck his head into the room and looked around. After finding nothing unusual, he waved to Mingqiao to come in.
Mingqiao discovered something different as soon as he entered.
His not-so-sensitive intuition really came true - two fist-sized windows appeared on the wall where there was nothing originally, and these two windows also existed in the basement at the beginning.
"I just felt like I was missing something." Ming Qiao pointed at the two windows and said, "Remember? In the first basement, there was a ghost man mechanism in the window."
"Yeah." Shi Xin nodded: "You were really scared at that time."
"I was so focused on other things when I first came here that I didn't notice something was missing." Ming Qiao thought for a moment and said, "I have to go up and take a look. The sudden appearance means there is something inside."
"I'll do it."
Shi Xin stood at the foot of the wall and looked up.
The height of the wall, which was usually only about one meter, has now become unattainable for him. Fortunately, the unevenness of the wall has been magnified several times, making it a perfect stepping stone for climbing.
"be safe."
"Hmm." Shi Xin rubbed his hands together twice, reached a depression above his head with his left hand, and began to climb up.
Mingqiao stood right below Shi Xin and thought of a short video about extreme climbing that he had seen some time ago.
The person in the video doesn't take any safety measures and climbs up the cliff alone. If he climbs up, he will be above thousands of people. If he fails to climb up and falls down, he will be crushed to pieces.
Shi Xin's back gradually overlapped with the one in the video, and Mingqiao's heart ached.
The people above occasionally climbed smoothly, but sometimes they would be delayed in one place for several minutes, and after several attempts to move upwards they could not find a foothold.
Mingqiao clenched his fists and stared at Shi Xin silently.
He even held his breathing tightly, not daring to make any sound for fear of affecting him.
This nearly one hour was a constant torture not only for Shi Xin, but also for Ming Qiao.
Fortunately, although the journey was difficult, Shi Xin still climbed to the narrow windowsill. When Ming Qiao saw him leaning over and waving at her, she felt more relaxed than ever before.
"How is it?" Mingqiao asked.
"It's pitch black, I can't see clearly." Shi Xin said, "But there must be something there, I don't know how to trigger it."
Mingqiao's mind quickly flashed back to the scene of seeing the ghost mechanism in the first basement. The window was also pitch black at that time, and he couldn't see anything clearly, but he did one thing.
"It's light." Mingqiao said.
Because he couldn't see clearly, he turned on the flashlight of the old phone and shone it inside. When the light reached, the ghost mechanism suddenly popped out, scaring him.
Mingqiao immediately looked around, looking for anything that could glow.
But the phone should have been locked in the drawer by the tall guy. His current body shape was not enough to support him to open the drawer with the key, take out the phone and throw it to Shi Xin.
He needed something lighter.
Mingqiao's gaze finally fell on the bottom of the bed.
He saw a mirror.
This mirror is a style from the last century. A mirror covered with thick dust is embedded in the red plastic disc. The handle with a peony pattern was broken into two pieces, and the broken parts are also covered with dust.
Maybe the tall guy accidentally dropped it under the bed before, and he never found it, so he just let the mirror lie there. He didn't know how long it had been.
The height of the bed bottom reached Mingqiao's waist. He frowned as he looked at his relatively clean clothes. Finally, he lowered his body and crawled in, then grabbed the handle and dragged the mirror out.
"Teacher Ming, just a small piece will do." Shi Xin looked at Ming Qiao's actions and shouted at him.
"I know." Ming Qiao spread the mirror flat on the ground, then walked to the center of the mirror, jumped up, and then stepped down with all his strength.
With a "crack", the mirror cracked from the middle to the sides, and Mingqiao picked out a piece that was as big as his head.
The process of picking out a mirror is neither easy nor easy. It is really difficult to take out a piece when there are only cracks but no gaps.
Mingqiao could only break a small area around the lens with his bare hands to make a gap large enough for his hand to reach in, and then he could take the lens out.
His hand was cut, and it was a little painful. He didn't know if the remaining fragments had entered the flesh. But Mingqiao didn't care about that. He aimed at Shi Xin's position and threw the lens out like a frisbee.
Although it deviated a little and fell in the air a little distance away from Shi Xin, Shi Xin still caught it.
Shi Xin gave Mingqiao a thumbs up.
Mingqiao also gave a thumbs up in response.
Shi Xin held up the lens and adjusted the angle to allow the light to refract into the small window.
The next second, a man who looked like a devil leaned on the window glass and hit Shi Xin head-on.
Although he was prepared, the sudden impact still made Shi Xin tremble all over.
He calmed his heartbeat, and waited until the ghost mechanism fell down before he shook the lens and looked inside again.
Just under the ghost mechanism, there are three poker-shaped grooves, with the patterns on them being: Ace of Hearts, King of Clubs, and King or Joker.
"Mr. Ming, I need three playing cards." Shi Xin shouted to Ming Qiao below, "But maybe four."
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