Chapter 17: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
Ye Minglang was crawling on the ground, his silver hair almost covering his eyes.
"He died just like this..."
Just now when Chen Li pushed him to run on the corridor, for a moment, hope was rekindled in him.
He felt like smoking again.
Chen Li’s death did not make Ye Minglang feel sad.
He struggled to turn over, from the crawling position to lying on his back, and with difficulty he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
While looking for a lighter, I suddenly saw something black sliding across the back of my hand at a very fast speed out of the corner of my eye.
It's hard to tell whether it's like seaweed or kelp.
The thing disappeared under Chen Li's feet. Chen Li, who had just been out of breath, suddenly took a deep breath and sat up.
Ye Minglang: “???”
As soon as Chen Li came back to his senses, he naturally took out the cigarette that he hadn't lit yet and threw it aside, then put him on the ghost box and said in a hurry: "I found the stairs."
After saying that, he pushed him and started running mode.
Ye Minglang fiddled with the monster box and kept looking at his feet.
Chen Li's shadow did return, but it was very faint.
"Has anyone ever told you that you're weird?"
"No."
"Then let me say that you are very evil!"
Chen Li's attention was now completely focused on finding the way. Just now, his shadow walked along the corner of the wall and almost walked through every fork in the road in a short period of time before finding the stairs.
Now the shadow returned to him and he began to remember where he was going.
"Do you know that you didn't breathe just now?" Ye Minglang asked him.
Shen Li pushed him around in the maze corridor and replied in a flat tone: "The shadow transition, after all the shadows are used up, they disappear completely. That's what happens. I'll pay attention to it next time."
There will be a next time?
Ye Minglang no longer felt the slightest bit like dying.
There seemed to be countless mysteries surrounding Shen Li.
It makes people unable to help but untie one and then want to untie the second one.
"After all the shadows are used up, will they come back?"
"Yes, you can recover as long as you get more sun."
After Chen Li pushed him forward a few steps, he started back and circled around in the maze.
Ye Minglang: "Didn't you say you found the staircase leading to the sixth floor? You've already walked around this place three times."
Chen Li explained to him seriously: "I went in the wrong direction just now. Actually, it's this direction. I won't go wrong this time."
Ye Minglang felt a surge of anger rushing to his head, "It was also in this direction just now!"
Just as Shen Li was about to explain what he was writing, his mouth was covered by Ye Minglang.
"Don't talk."
Because of his weak body, the hand that was covering Chen Li's mouth immediately dropped and hung on his left shoulder.
His chin was resting on Shen Li's right shoulder.
At a life-and-death moment, no one cares whether this half-hug type of physical contact is too intimate.
Chen Li received Ye Minglang's body language message at the first moment, and saw that the hand hanging in front of his chest was pointing upwards.
Chen Li naturally looked up.
Due to spatial dislocation and gravity changes, the corridor maze was split into two like a mirror.
One is above and one is below.
Chen Li and Ye Minglang had already stood on the ceiling of the building without realizing it.
Although he was standing upside down, he didn't feel like his head was congested at all.
At this moment, in another mirror maze below them, the monsters were standing there sniffing around, looking for their traces.
It’s a pity that the monsters always search on the ground based on instinct and rarely have the consciousness to look up.
It should be due to the influx of a large number of monsters in a short period of time, that the originally straight corridor was almost collapsed.
In order to protect itself, the building split into a mirror maze to divert and deal with the monsters, thus avoiding being destroyed.
The building's self-preservation action was an accident, but it benefited them instead.
After the monster below left in another direction, Ye Minglang whispered in Shen Li's ear:
"Since the maze is a mirror image, please point out the location of the exit."
Shen Li glanced at the other mirrored maze corridor and recalled the location of the exit, "Probably there."
Knowing the location of the exit, he can determine where they should go now based on the rules of the maze mirror.
"From now on you listen to me. If I tell you to go left, you go left. If I tell you to go right, you go right."
Ye Minglang spoke in a very low voice, almost whispering in Shen Li's ear.
Shen Li nodded obediently.
"Now to the right."
"Right again, then left."
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The two people cooperate with each other.
Ye Minglang, who was sitting on the Wuliang Box, showed the way, while Chen Li pushed the Wuliang Box forward.
Not long after, I actually found the staircase leading to the sixth floor.
Now that he had come to this, Ye Minglang felt that even if he was about to die, he had to grit his teeth and hold on.
If the delivery mission can be completed, as long as the couriers are not completely dead, the injuries they suffer will be healed the moment the mission is completed.
"Now, upstairs."
He came down from the monster box and wanted to help carry the huge box to the sixth floor.
But the box was too big and heavy, and the universal wheels were useless in the stairwell.
He exerted force and drops of blood fell to the ground.
Shen Li felt that this was not a solution, so he suggested:
"The box is too heavy. The two of us can't lift it. I think we should open the box. It will be much easier to just carry the things inside."
Chen Li's proposal was somewhat outrageous.
The existence of the Monster Box is to seal the things in the box. Opening the box means that the seal is completely lifted.
They may encounter something even more terrible next.
It's time to make a decision.
Ye Minglang looked at him deeply.
He seemed to have never seen fear in Shen Li's seriousness.
He said without fear that opening the Monster Box was a serious violation of the rules and a warning.
So now, he was going to trust him once.
Ye Minglang leaned against the wall in the corridor, and in the last moments of his life, decided to take a gamble with him.
"dismantle."
The seal on the ghost box was torn off.
Chen Li opened the lid of the box and found another box inside, which was still sealed.
I tore it open again and opened it again, and there was actually a box inside.
After three years of delivering parcels, this was the first time Ye Minglang had seen such a careful form of sealing.
Originally, there was only a very small thing inside, but the monster boxes were sealed layer by layer, like Russian nesting dolls, repeatedly, which seemed to verify that there was something extremely dangerous and extremely important inside.
Shen Li removed the boxes layer by layer and opened the last box lid.
The rich fragrance in the air was gradually released as the seals were released layer by layer, becoming so strong that it was choking.
What smells so good?
It makes people forget all the pain for a short while, leaving only an empty stomach and endless hunger.
Smelling the fragrance, Ye Minglang, who had just had to lean on the wall to barely stand up, actually walked to Chen Li without any support, took a step ahead of Chen Li, and reached out to take the things in the Wuling Box.
I'm so hungry.
Smells so good.
He's kind of losing his mind.
In the last box, there is a small, still beating heart.
It turns out that the thing that was delivered at the cost of countless lives was a heart.
What a warm heart.
It makes people want to swallow it.
Just when Ye Minglang's fingers were about to touch it, his wrist was grabbed by Shen Li.
Shen Li changed his usual calm expression and appeared cautious and nervous in front of him for the first time.
"Don't touch it."
Ye Minglang was interrupted briefly by him and instantly regained his senses.
"I'll do it."
He saw Shen Li carefully hold up the heart, then closed his eyes and sensed it.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew up from the plain, blowing away the black hair covering his eyes.
At this moment, Shen Li looked sacred and solemn. I wonder if it was because his skin was too pale that gave him the illusion.
He felt that Shen Li seemed to be glowing.
After a moment, Shen Li opened his eyes and said very seriously: "This heart needs to be sent to the sealed place immediately. It is a very dangerous existence!"
After saying that, he ran upstairs holding the heart.
Not good, not good. Something very bad is happening.
After Chen Li rushed to the sixth floor, he vaguely saw that the ground was covered with golden totems.
He continued to climb up and reached the roof of the sixth floor.
Sure enough, on this completely open rooftop, at the terminal station on the heart's delivery route, there is a very powerful seal.
The existence of the seal itself is to completely seal this heart.
Now, he just had to place the heart in the center of the seal.
The destination is within reach.
The surroundings suddenly became dark.
The blood moon hanging in the sky disappeared into the clouds at some point.
Several huge fox heads popped out from around the tall building and instantly surrounded the building.
These foxes are huge in size. They surround the tall building and squat on the outside.
There were six of them in total, and they were completely different from the foxes that had chased them before.
They lowered their proud heads and looked down at Shen Li on the roof, as if they were about to judge him.
A huge sense of oppression came towards Shen Li along with their gazes, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.
They want that heart!
They don't want that heart to be sealed!
Chen Li endured the suffocating feeling of oppression and moved closer to the sealed area step by step with determination.
The heart was carefully protected in Shen Li's palm, but the foxes' claws were too big for Shen Li.
As long as they waved their claws, Shen Li would be turned into a pool of meat paste.
But they obviously didn't want to hurt the heart, so they could only extend their claws to the strong seal.
The foxes seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.
One of the foxes suddenly opened its mouth and started to bite the seal.
The golden rune floating in the air suddenly lit up.
The terrifyingly huge fox's head and body were separated in an instant.
Shen Li suddenly stopped.
At this moment, he seemed to feel that some ancient and wise soul had dissipated.
He stared blankly in that direction. When the headless fox fell down, the ground was shaking.
Its body petrified and turned into a mountain.
A bloody rain fell from the sky.
"don't want!"
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