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The access control failed and the door lock could not be locked, so they could only hold the door together.
"There is another door next door." The aunt reminded quietly.
They choked.
The young man trembled: "There's a problem with the display screen next door. I don't know if anything will crawl out."
"It's over. We've walked into a trap." Zhang Yonggan thought to himself, feeling unlucky - the misfortune of being dragged into the realm of ghost stories, the misfortune of being surrounded by terrifying things.
"There are no footsteps outside." Yu Xiaowan put his ear to the door and eavesdropped.
It took them a moment to react.
"Didn't catch up?"
"You went next door?"
Yu Xiaowan frowned. "It's impossible to go to the next door without hearing footsteps passing by."
Everyone listened carefully and indeed did not hear any sound outside the door.
"He might be squatting over there waiting for us to go out," Zhang Yonggan said.
"Or maybe they'll kill him by opening the door." the young man said softly.
Wang Keke leaned on the door and looked through the peephole. "There's really no one outside the door, but it's a pity that I can't see the blind spot near the door."
"What now?"
Everyone decided to take a gamble and quietly went to the next door to open the door to check. Even if the other party was squatting in a blind spot, they would not expect them to open the door next door.
The five people tiptoed out from behind the door.
Yu Xiaowan suddenly felt creepy and had goose bumps all over her body. She turned back stiffly and saw the wooden door opened a little. "He's coming in! Run!"
The five of them slipped into the anchor and cameraman's office area with their shoes greased. This time, they pushed an office chair to jam the door handle, preventing the other party from opening the door.
The dim candlelight dyes the office area yellow.
"Don't be in a hurry, check through the peephole again." The old lady stopped the young man who wanted to open the door.
"Oh, yes...someone just came upstairs..." The young man kept wiping his sweat and looking at the location where the display screen was lit.
This time, the aunt lay on the door and looked through the peephole.
Outside the peephole, the street light pouring into the corridor barely illuminated a corner.
"No one. No one is outside the door."
Zhang Yonggan couldn't believe it. "I saw no one outside the door just now, but someone opened the door and came in. We should be more careful this time."
"Um... I have a question." The young man pointed at the screen that had been lit up. "The screen that just showed a strange picture is now black. Does it mean that the thing has crawled out?"
Wang Keke looked around the rectangular office area, then squatted down to check under the desks and chairs. "I didn't find anything suspicious, so it may not be able to crawl out of the display screen."
Yu Xiaowan opened the file cabinet but didn't find anything suspicious.
The aunt looked at the two grown men dimly. "Both girls are braver than you."
The two embarrassed people pretended to look around.
The good times didn't last long, as a terrifying noise came from the office next door.
Da da da.
The sound of wandering footsteps.
"Let's go."
"Wait a minute." Wang Keke put her ear to the door. "Why didn't he knock or bang on the door?"
The young man was terrified. "Isn't that a good thing?"
"That's weird. He must have heard us when he opened the door. It's not hard to guess that we came here. Why didn't he just break in?"
"My aunt, do you really want him to break down the door and come in?" Zhang Yonggan complained.
Yu Xiaowan quickly chimed in: "Maybe there are hidden rules that prevent him from doing this. If we find the hidden rules, we can avoid people like him."
"They have a point," the aunt agreed. "Running away is not a solution, it also wastes energy."
Zhang Yonggan scratched his head, unable to figure out the hidden rules.
The young man was still paying attention to the display screen, wandering around it and looking around.
Yu Xiaowan walked around, her horrified eyes fixed on the wall next to the door. "There's a hole in the wall!"
The wall with the hole was right next to the wooden door where the office chair was stuck, very close to Wang Keke.
Only this time, the hole in the wall was the size of a fingernail!
The dim candlelight shone into the cave, and there were shadows inside, and it seemed that something was moving.
"Get out now!"
They had no time to think and had to leave here immediately.
The messy corridor was littered with papers and other debris. They took two steps at a time, rushed to the elevator, and frantically pressed the "up" button.
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Tips posted by the elevator door:
Before taking the elevator, please confirm that there is a piece of paper with blood writing on it in the corridor. Otherwise, you must find the paper with blood writing before taking the elevator.
At this moment, an ominous atmosphere permeated the quiet second floor.
The two men, with their backs to Lu Miao and the others, stood still and muttered to themselves towards the wall: "...It's broken...It's broken..."
The two of them spoke in unison, with the same rhythm, which was very strange.
"It's broken..."
"It's broken..."
"It's broken..."
Even a fool could see that there was something wrong between the two of them, and the girl with earrings didn't dare to ask any more questions.
The chill ran from Shao Rongrong's toes to her head. She whispered in a trembling voice: "There are no candles lit here... Should we..." She swallowed and said: "Search?"
Obviously.
Lu Miao quickly assigned tasks. "Shao, you are responsible for keeping a close eye on them. Once they turn around, alert us. The two of us are responsible for finding candles."
“Hmm…”
The earring girl had no objection.
The two of them searched quietly separately; Shao Rongrong opened her beautiful eyes and stared at the two men facing the wall.
“…It’s broken…”
“…It’s broken…”
“…It’s broken…”
Mechanical repetitive murmurs, with no ups and downs in tone and a steady pace.
Lu Miao and the girl with earrings agreed to find office desks and chairs at the end first.
The earring girl squatted down to check the underside of the office chair, and when she found nothing, she searched the drawers.
Lu Miao rummaged through the desk surface and drawers.
“…It’s broken…”
“…It’s broken…”
“…It’s broken…”
The two dark figures were like shadows in the corner, spreading a strong sense of uneasiness.
The two women approached the two figures from the front and the back, and the light from the two flashlights converged together, illuminating the two figures.
The deer seedling was suddenly startled.
She knew what was wrong.
The halo illuminated the side of the uncle with slicked-back hair. She glanced at him quietly and rummaged through the desk.
The uncle with slicked-back hair stared at the wall with his eyes wide open, muttering to himself, as if he was possessed by a ghost.
The row of display screens behind him was pitch black, and the televisions hanging on the wall showed color bars.
Everything seemed normal.
Lu Miao pulled out a white candle from the file storage rack and lit the fuse with a match.
The light yellow candlelight suddenly illuminated the area.
However, the girl with earrings and Shao Rongrong saw her pick up the candle and burn the man with the slicked-back hair's fingers!
The teardrop-shaped candlelight burned his fingers red!
The two were so frightened that they were dumbfounded and dared not shout.
What’s even more bizarre is that the uncle with the slicked-back hair remained indifferent and continued to mutter to himself like a possessed person.
“…It’s broken…”
“…It’s broken…”
“…It’s broken…”
The tone and rhythm of the muttering did not change at all.
Lu Miao fixed the candle on the desk only after he finished the experiment.
The girl with the earrings and Shao Rongrong were already weak in the knees.
The mission was accomplished, and Lu Miao gestured to leave.
Each of them had their own thoughts as they opened the door of the post-production office and went out.
It was a close call.
"Why...why did you burn his fingers? Aren't you afraid that he might suddenly attack you?"
"Yeah, what if he goes berserk and pollutes our cognition?"
"Let's do an experiment." Lu Miao spoke concisely and in a calm tone.
The girl with the earrings and Shao Rongrong were frightened, and there was a strong fear in their eyes when they looked at her.
Even their companions are abnormal, they have it so hard!
Suddenly, Lu Miao frowned and stopped.
"What's wrong?" Shao Rongrong was afraid that she would do something shocking again.
“This isn’t right.”
"What's wrong?"
"Originally, these papers in the corridor had reddish-brown writing on them."
The girl with the earrings looked down hastily and was immediately terrified. "Yes, the wind just blew these papers over, and the words 'I'm dead' were written on them."
The ground is now covered with papers, either snow-white or covered with small black characters.
Lu Miao and the girl with earrings searched for a long time but couldn't find any paper with "I'm dead" written on it.
"How... could this happen?" The girl with earrings had cold hands and feet, and her body was chilly.
Shao Rongrong was worried. "So what if there is none?"
"It proves that this is not the corridor we were in before." The street lights outside the window showed half of Bai Lu Miao's face and half of the mask, and her eyes were dark as hell.
Shao Rongrong knelt down against the wall, feeling deeply frightened by the strange situation. "What should we do now? What's the harm in going to another corridor?"
Lu Miao quickly walked to the beginning of the corridor where the duty notices were posted and carefully read each rule.
It was the first time that Shao Rongrong saw different versions of the duty notice, and she was confused. "There are contradictions between the two duty notices. Is there a fake rule?"
The fonts of the two duty notices were both artistic fonts that Shao Rongrong could not appreciate, and she could not tell which one was abnormal.
Lu Miao asked back: "Why is this duty notice posted in the corridor?"
She was confused. "How should I know? I didn't post it!"
"There's no computer in the hallway, right?"
"Isn't it obvious? See there's a computer in the corridor?"
"Since this duty notice is also for office staff, why is it posted in the corridor?"
Back to this question, Shao Rongrong chose to give up thinking. "I don't know, I'm illiterate."
"Is it intentional for us to see?" The earring girl followed Lu Miao's thoughts. "We were standing in front of this duty notice as soon as we came in, to warn us... something is wrong, some rules are inconsistent with what is in the office."
Lu Miao asked in a different way: "Which corridor is the corridor duty notice for?"
The girl with earrings suddenly lost her mind.
"There are two corridors. Are there two offices as well?"
It was as if a bolt of thunder struck through the fog in the earring girl's mind, and she vaguely caught a glimpse of a certain guess.
Lu Miao saw a piece of paper taped to the elevator door. "Go to the elevator and check. There's a note there."
Precautions for using the elevator
Before taking the elevator, please confirm that there is a piece of paper with blood writing on it in the corridor. Otherwise, you must find the paper with blood writing before taking the elevator.
Shao Rongrong and the girl with earrings turned pale.
They still remember that the duty notice in the corridor stated: Under normal circumstances, the elevator can be used.
It turns out that the normal situation is that there are papers with blood writing on them in the corridor.
"The clues here prove that there are two similar corridors and even two similar offices." Lu Miao said in a loud voice: "In other words, this strange story field has two overlapping spaces."
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