Chapter 15: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
The city is slowly dissolving.
The sound of the explosion was as pleasant as a symphony, and the towering buildings were like fireworks, exploding into confetti all over the sky.
It's raining confetti.
The soft pieces of paper floated high in the air, drifting quietly, and in a blink of an eye they covered the entire ground tightly.
The pieces of paper piled up more and more, falling like snow, covering up many things.
"Probably in this direction!" Li Dangxin ran to the corner of the street and pointed in another direction, "Brother, go look there!"
More and more pieces of paper fell, and soon they piled up into small hills.
The red-haired guy who was traveling with them rushed to a pile of paper and started digging around, searching for Chen Li.
The socially anxious man had a broken leg and was searching in another direction with a simple crutch.
He searched every corner carefully and finally found the sunken hat lying on the mountain of confetti.
He looked very tired and lay there motionless, with the rain of flying confetti still falling.
He closed his eyes and breathed calmly.
The socially phobic person limped to the "top of the mountain", used his hands to block the rain of confetti for Chen Li, and took out the whistle hanging around his neck.
Following a clear whistle, Li Dangxin, who was searching in the paper mountain, suddenly raised his head and said to Hongmao:
"It's my brother! He's found it!"
Socially anxious people don't like to yell or scream, so they can only use whistles to shake people.
While waiting for someone to come for support, he looked up at the sky.
There was a hole in the azure blue sky, and more scraps of paper floated down from there.
The monster that was lurking in the clouds had long since disappeared.
The rain has stopped.
"elder brother!"
Hearing his sister's voice in his ears, he turned his head and blinked his eyes that were stung by the sunlight.
When I opened my eyes again, the world around me suddenly became much darker.
Everyone returned to the inn, and the black-covered notebook and Shen Li lay on the ground.
Red Hair was very excited, "He's back!"
Everyone in the team was safe and sound, and there were even a few more people in the post station.
The extra people are Fengzao and his subordinates.
Obviously they didn't expect that they would be able to get out of the notebook and return to the real world in this lifetime.
There is a simple lounge and bunk beds on the second floor of the inn.
Several people worked together to move Chen Li upstairs. Some people stuffed a pillow into his chest, some covered him with a quilt, and some touched his forehead to test his temperature.
"He must be exhausted. Let's all go out and don't disturb him to rest."
After carefully checking the doors and windows, Li drove the group of people out of the lounge.
"It's not over yet. Go downstairs and summarize the information you know."
Although they returned safely from the notebook, the order was not over yet.
First, they lived in the notebook for two full days, and the time in the notebook was synchronized with the real world.
The system gave them three days to deliver the package, so they had 24 hours left to complete the task.
Li Dangxin placed the black-covered notebook on the center of the table.
There was a hole in the middle of the notebook. Through the hole, you could vaguely see that the page, which was originally blank, was filled with handwriting.
This is a major shift.
After escaping from the notebook, they can now read the contents of the notebook.
Considering that the blind cannot see, everyone sits together and takes turns reading out the contents of the notebook, of course, with the exception of the socially anxious person.
Li Yixin just sat far away from them, listening quietly.
The reading session lasted for several hours.
Shen Li upstairs woke up.
He rubbed his eyes and walked downstairs, and suddenly asked them for no reason:
“Is smoking… a good thing?”
The red-haired guy kept poking Li Dangxin, indicating that her "thigh" had woken up, so why not hurry up and show her affection?
"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
Li Dangxin recalled that when he helped Shen Li cover the blanket just now, he did smell a faint smell of cigarettes from him, so he quickly taught him: "Smoking is a bad behavior, don't learn it!"
The red-haired guy at the side echoed, "Yes, yes, smoking is unhealthy and will shorten your life. Blind brother, please educate him about the harm of secondhand smoke!"
Chen Li stood there and listened to their popular science lecture obediently, then turned and walked into the bathroom.
Red-haired held a bowl of hot instant noodles of different flavors in his hands, ready to greet "the hope of the whole village" at the door of the bathroom, but he waited and waited, but he never came out.
Li Dangxin knocked on the bathroom door carefully.
The bathroom door was not locked, and it suddenly opened when she knocked.
Red Hair walked in carelessly, "Chen Li, this time it's all thanks to you hehehe..."
Not in the first box, not in the second box, and certainly not in the third box.
Red Hair couldn't laugh anymore.
"Fuck! Where are they? Something terrible has happened! Our great leader is gone! The hope of the whole village is gone!"
"I was not seeing things just now, was I? I did see him come in, how come he suddenly disappeared? Could he have been washed away?"
The red-haired man’s words became more and more outrageous. How could a living person suddenly disappear before their eyes?
But his positioning point shows that he is here!
The entire post station was suddenly plunged into panic over Chen Li's disappearance.
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The first thing Shen Li did when he woke up was to go to the bathroom mirror to check if the passage was reopened.
When I tried it, I was sucked into the mirror as expected.
The bright red moon is still hanging in the night sky.
The corpses of demon beasts and monsters piled up like mountains, and the ground was covered with blood.
He should be thankful that he had no sense of smell and could not smell the disgusting smell of blood in the air.
The monsters not far away were still pouring in.
During the hours he was away, they continued to fight desperately.
Shen Li was a little worried about that person's condition.
The traps under the building had long been destroyed, and there were more corpses of monsters outside the building than in the wilderness.
The gate was also breached, and the ground was covered with messy human and monster footprints.
After Chen Li used the Shadow Technique to temporarily lure away the monsters surrounding the building, he quickly went up to the fifth floor.
In a corridor so long that it seemed to have no end, he saw Ye Minglang, covered in blood, fighting with a monster with two heads.
He was exhausted and covered in wounds.
Behind him were the dying people he called his "family".
After Ye Minglang fiercely thrust the sharp blade into the monster's heart, he looked in his direction with some surprise.
"How did you..."
He didn't say the second half of the sentence. He looked relieved and wiped the blood that splattered on his cheek, then smiled at him.
Shen Li approached him step by step, looking at the wounded man lying behind him with some concern.
At a quick glance, all of them had fatal injuries, and some even lost an arm. It was a horrific sight.
At this moment, Ye Minglang was at the end of his strength and had to lean against the wall on one side of the corridor to barely stand.
He took out another cigarette, lit it, took a puff indifferently, slowly slid down to the ground, and looked at Chen Li.
"I find that you only look obedient on the surface, but you are actually a bit rebellious. The more I forbid you to come, the more you want to come?"
Chen Li heard the teasing and sarcastic tone when he spoke, and he didn't seem like a man who was seriously injured.
But the fact is: he had a deep scratch on his abdomen and he was dying from excessive blood loss.
"Can you still stand up?" Shen Li asked him.
Ye Minglang put the cigarette in his mouth and tried to stand up by supporting himself against the wall with his hands.
Halfway through standing, his body tilted and he fell directly onto Shen Li.
Shen Li subconsciously reached out to support him.
Most of Ye Minglang's body weight fell on Shen Li, and with him as a fulcrum, he managed to "stand" up with difficulty.
He started laughing.
Shen Li was too close to him, and his chest was pressed against his, so he felt the slight vibration transmitted from his smile.
Ye Minglang: "If you hold me, I can do it."
Chen Li put one of his hands on his shoulder and helped him walk two steps forward. Suddenly he remembered something, paused, freed one hand, took the cigarette out of Ye Minglang's mouth, and threw it on the ground.
Chen Li said woodenly, "They say smoking is bad and will shorten your life."
Ye Minglang was stunned.
Then he started laughing again.
"Then did they tell you that running around in other people's worlds will also shorten your lifespan?"
Ye Minglang smiled, and the blood in the wound flowed faster.
He tilted his head and leaned on the side of Chen Li's neck with a pale face, "You know the kind of villain in TV dramas, the kind that wants to take someone with them before they die."
Chen Li: "I haven't watched the TV series. The place where I live is quite different from where you live."
So what is it like where you live?
Ye Minglang could have asked this, but considering that his body had been pushed to its limit, he might faint in the next second.
While I'm still sober, I'll tell you the key points.
"I've already given you one chance. I told you to leave but you insisted on coming. So, you'll die with me tonight, okay?"
He made an invitation, and a slightly warm breath rushed to Chen Li's ears.
Chen Li felt his ears were a little itchy and he felt uncomfortable all over.
"Where is the Ghost Box?"
He is very satisfied with his current life and he doesn't want to die.
Ye Minglang: "What? You don't want to die, so you want to help me deliver the package?"
Ye Minglang said this, but his hands honestly pointed the way for him.
Shen Li hummed.
"I want to try it."
There is no time limit, send the Wuling Box to the roof of the sixth floor.
His inability to smell was a big plus.
The only obstacle is the monsters that gather outside the building.
Ye Minglang looked at Chen Li's expression and felt that he was a bit unrealistic and blindly naively optimistic.
Before Shen Li came, they had struggled.
"This corridor has no end." Ye Minglang reminded him.
"The staircase leading to the sixth floor appears randomly. It may appear ten meters ahead, or it may never appear."
Before he took over this order, the number of previous failures was also in the tens of thousands.
Delivery from outside windows and damaging floors is prohibited.
The only way allowed is to keep going forward until you find the stairs leading to the upper side.
Once the stairs are found, they are fixed and will not disappear.
They spent a full six months searching for the stairs from the first floor to the fifth floor.
There is indeed no time limit for this delivery, but the monsters when the blood moon comes will not let them survive tonight.
Chen Li tried to move the Wangliang Box and found that universal wheels had been installed at the bottom of the box for easy transportation.
Ye Minglang's wound was in great pain. Without Chen Li's support, he slumped down against the wall again and swallowed the sweet and fishy taste in his mouth.
"I won't follow you. I'm a little sleepy. I'll take a nap first. Remember to wake me up. If you can't wake me up, forget it..."
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