Chapter 10 Endless Stairs (5)
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[The current level exploration degree is 90%. ]
4 rooms, plus the corridor from the 6th floor to the -20th floor, is exactly 90%. As for the remaining 10%, Yi Han now knows where it is, which is the rooftop where the passage has just appeared.
He calmed down, inserted the key into the shabby rooftop door, and turned it gently. The door opened.
Before, when he was on the -18th floor, he closed his eyes when facing the window, so he didn't see what was outside the window. Now that he was on the normal rooftop of the 6th floor, he suddenly remembered the chilling coldness he faced at that time.
As a haunted building in an escape game, will the scenery on its roof be normal?
Yi Han took a breath, reached into the virtual system inventory, made sure he could take out the iron pot at any time, and then opened the door.
Unexpectedly, what he saw at first glance was really the starry sky just like the normal world.
The night was not gloomy, but rather as if it had just been washed by rain, and without the smog pollution of big cities. The sky was dotted with stars, and the moonlight was bright and charming.
There was nothing special on the rooftop except a thin layer of water. There was no one there. The atmosphere was peaceful and quiet, and there was a smell of fresh rain in the air.
There are several similar buildings a little further away from this building. If all the windows were not completely dark with no lights on, one would really think that one has returned to the real world.
"There's nothing here, so where is the way out?" Yi Han took a quick glance around and confirmed again that there was nothing like a door here, not even any garbage.
But the system did say that the rooftop key was the "life" key. No matter how perverted the system was, it wouldn't lie to people in this place.
Yi Han thought about it, and looked down at the low wall near the edge of the roof.
There were small patches of rainwater on the ground near the bottom of the haunted building, and the water surface clearly reflected the building and the starry night sky.
...I always feel like something is wrong.
Yi Han frowned, as if he realized something, and suddenly leaned his entire upper body out of the wall, finally taking in the entire building he was in.
There are a total of 3 ghost NPCs in this haunted building, located in rooms -2001, -1801, and -1802.
The rest of the rooms, including those on floors 1 to 6 above the ground, were empty.
What Yi Han saw was a residential building with all the windows pitch black.
——However, although it was a little unclear due to the distance, Yi Han was very sure that there was a light on in one of the windows he had just seen through the reflection of the puddles!
This reflection of the building in the water... is it a real reflection? !
Only the three rooms with ghost NPCs in the building had lights on, but their windows all had curtains drawn. Only -1802 had opened the curtains with his eyes closed because Yi Han lost the dare.
Therefore, the window with the light on in the reflection must be the window of -1802! The rooms on the floors in the reflection are the rooms in the other world that appear below the first floor for no reason and have negative signs on their house numbers.
...But how does knowing this help you escape from the haunted building?
Yi Han still remembers the shuddering feeling he had when he stood by the window. Even if he only relied on his intuition, the accumulated water was definitely not a good thing. Although the accumulated water downstairs was not deep, it surrounded the entire building. This made him feel that there seemed to be no way out of this level. Because according to common sense, if the player wanted to escape from the haunted building, whether he went out of the door or the window, he would inevitably step into the accumulated water.
There must be some clue we haven't discovered yet.
Yi Han's eyes were heavy, and he kept thinking in his mind.
Finally, after changing several angles, finally——
He saw the only special surface of water.
"It's almost midnight... Hey, this water..." Jian Lin said halfway, and looked from Yi Han's angle, and immediately noticed the weirdness of the water on the ground.
"The other puddles reflect the underground floors, only this side is different - is it the exit?" Jian Lin murmured, "But... the system says that the rooftop is the correct way out. How can we go directly from the rooftop to that body of water?"
Yi Han didn't answer, but just stared at the water surface, and suddenly curled the corners of his mouth.
Unconsciously, several hours had passed in this copy. Yi Han had an idea of what was going on, so he relaxed. Then he suddenly felt a little hungry.
I looked at the time, 23:30, half an hour left before the deadline.
He took out the "honey chicken drumstick" he had prepared earlier from the system inventory, placed it on the low wall, and began to eat slowly...
Jian Lin...although he was shocked by his boldness, he only looked at him hesitantly, then leaned against the low wall and continued to rack his brains for a way to escape.
After Yi Han finished eating, he felt the buff effect starting to take effect, so he stood up.
"Let's go," he said.
"Have you thought of a solution?" Jian Lin was stunned. "...There is no door on the first floor, and we can't go out through the window. The rooftop is so high, how can we get there?"
"Jump down." Yi Han said.
Jian Lin took a breath when he heard this.
"You, don't be impulsive, there must be other ways - and although that piece of water is special, we can't be sure that it is the exit..." What if it is a method used by the system to confuse people?
Yi Han understood what he meant. In fact, Yi Han also felt that given the cunningness of the system... it was possible for it to do such a thing.
But Yi Han also didn't think that the doors and windows of this building were normal ways to exit.
Sometimes thinking too much will lead to a vicious circle of being too clever for your own good. The game system seems to love playing this kind of trick, so Yi Han chooses to only trust his own judgment.
Since no other way out has been found, the only possibility at the moment is the real way out.
Jian Lin was still hesitating, and Yi Han had no intention of convincing him, so he didn't explain and just stood on the low wall, facing the direction of the only normal accumulation of water.
From this angle, the moon is reflected on the water. The summer night breeze blows on my face, gentle and comfortable.
"I'll go with you," Unexpectedly, after Jian Lin realized that he was serious, he gritted his teeth, climbed up the low wall and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.
Yi Han was a little surprised now, and reminded him inexplicably: "...You know, whether the player passes the level or dies, the system will send a notification, right?"
The implication is that since you are still hesitating, just wait for your teammates to rush ahead and scout the way for you... After Yi Han jumps, it will be very clear whether the way out is real or fake, and then he will jump again. What's the point of rushing out now, stupid?
But Jian Lin had obviously thought of this.
"...I know, but I can't let the girls rush in front and make mistakes while I hide behind and wait for an easy win...Since we have to pass the level together, we should share the risks together." he said.
Yi Han: ...
Suddenly I didn't know what to say.
He stared intently at the mirror-like water downstairs.
The accumulated water was actually quite a distance away from the building. With a normal adult's long jump ability, it could be reached with some effort.
But now he had to jump down from the rooftop of a sixth-floor building. Yi Han had never jumped off the building, so he didn't know if there was any trick to landing at a fixed point. He ate the honey chicken leg because this level was about to end, but he was not sure if it would help.
Jian Lin's body is weaker than his, and he doesn't seem to like sports. This distance might be a bit too much for him.
"Jump." Yi Han reached out and grabbed his arm. Without saying anything else, he pulled him and jumped towards the water.
In an instant, a feeling of weightlessness came over me, my heart beat faster, and a cool breeze blew on my face.
Many people have probably had that feeling. In moments of excitement, fear, or tension, the heartbeat speeds up, the five senses are heightened, and time seems to slow down.
Falling from a height of more than 20 meters, it only takes 2-3 seconds to hit the ground, but the time seems to be infinitely stretched.
The scenery in front of me, the smells around me, and the feeling of the wind blowing on my skin all became extremely clear at this moment.
Yi Han stared intently at the path formed by the accumulated water, trying to determine the landing point.
After a long landing process, the body finally passed through a gentle curtain of water.
In a flash, the two of them were standing in front of an ordinary residential building.
The water on the ground had disappeared, and behind me was the door of the residential building that had returned to normal. Looking up, I could still see the windows that were still pitch black. But at this moment, the stairs that should not have existed on the first floor of this building should have disappeared.
"The inner world is within the inner world, and this level of difficulty is just a one-star level." Yi Han laughed in his heart, and then he heard the system prompt.
[End of the level, debuff: the soft and lovely female clothing illusion has expired. ]
[Congratulations, you have successfully escaped from the level: Endless Stairs (1 star)! ]
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