Observation
Sweat ran down Wang Keke's face.
She didn't know if it was because of the increased sweat or the cold sweat from fear, but she was sweating profusely and her sleepiness faded.
Ugh!
To be ignored!
Nothing happened!
She endured the discomfort of motion sickness and sat upright, her heavy chest feeling like it was being pressed by a stone.
"Don't fall asleep." Lu Miao, who was sitting diagonally opposite, tried not to look at the blurry figure. "Otherwise you'll miss the updated rules."
The others opened their eyes wide instantly and suppressed their sleepiness.
"Look, the first rule we found takes effect at 7 o'clock, which happens to be shortly after we woke up." Lu Miao poured out two toothpicks from the toothpick holder. "Have there been any rules before 7 o'clock?"
"We have no way of knowing." He Ping'an pulled his hair to stay awake.
"Does it count as sleeping if we are unconscious?"
"I think so." Wang Keke asked for two toothpicks.
Soon, five people used toothpicks to prop up their eyelids, which looked like they were covered with glue, to prevent their eyes from closing.
"For example, the rule before 7pm also requires us to block out red light outside."
They understood what Lu Miao said.
The bathroom exhaust fan and kitchen windows were not papered before 7am.
"We received the emergency notification before midnight and fainted. We cannot ensure that after midnight is a night that falls within the scope of the rules. If it is night, we have already violated the rules."
Wang Keke's face turned pale. "If it is daytime after midnight, according to the frequency of rule updates, we have missed or violated a rule that we haven't found yet."
Yu Xiaowan was confused: "Why didn't the rules that appeared remain? But the rules after 7 o'clock remained."
They fell silent.
Pick up the latest rule sheet on the weekend. "If we don't find the 7 o'clock rule, will the following rules be updated?"
They kept an eye out for the last clause of the latest rule, waiting for the word "invalid" to appear on it.
"Since we have nothing to do, why don't we do an experiment?" Lu Miao curled his lips.
Five people squeezed into the second bedroom, turned all the rule papers upside down, and stared at the desk waiting for new rules to appear.
A verdant cactus is placed on the desk, releasing purified oxygen.
"If we stare at it like this, we'll become even sleepier." Wang Keke yawned for the third time.
Yu Xiaowan felt her eyes were dry. "Will we be staring blankly for 12 hours?"
There was no movement on the desk surface. Every fifteen minutes, He Ping'an would open the latest rule paper and check it.
It was so boring that I took out playing cards and took turns playing Landlord on the weekend.
Occasionally, it becomes four pairs of hands holding cards.
The three players playing Landlord only recognize the team’s logo, and the extra pair of hands never have the chance to play a card.
It was almost 6 o'clock and daybreak, but the latest rules had not appeared on the desk yet.
At 6:01, He Pingan turned over the rule sheet that was effective at 12 o'clock. In a blink of an eye, the words on the last rule turned into "invalid".
"There are new rules on the table!" Yu Xiaowan was very excited. She had never been brave enough to test the rules.
Thank you for your cooperation in prevention and control. Now please be sure to follow the following rules to help you stay sane.
1. The time unit for the effectiveness of these rules is hours.
2. Going out is prohibited.
3. It is forbidden to take off the white raincoat.
4. Do not eat food that is exposed to air. (crossed out)
5. Do not drink water that has come into contact with air. (crossed out)
6. Please be wary of neighbors who behave in an unusual way.
7. Maintain an optimistic attitude.
8. The above rules will take effect at 6 o'clock, and the next updated rules will appear on the sofa.
No
good
Play
The main content is the same as the first rule they found.
Rules 4 and 5 are crossed out.
As for what "not fun" means, they are too lazy to delve into it.
“It’s better not to write it at all than to cross it out. Its IQ is as good as its handwriting.” Wang Keke said disdainfully.
"Go take the nutritional supplement first."
During the meal, their minds became more alert.
"It seems we missed the night rule of following it before 7 o'clock yesterday. No wonder we felt so uncomfortable when we woke up."
He Pingan made a guess: "We actively pay attention to the rules, so they will be updated. So when we woke up yesterday, we only found the rules for 7 o'clock."
He licked his dry lips. "It's a bit like Schrödinger's cat. Before opening the lid, the cat in the box is in an intermediate state, neither alive nor dead. After opening the lid, the cat may be alive or dead. If we don't look for the rules after waking up, it will not appear on its own and will be in an intermediate state."
The studious Yu Xiaowan seemed to understand it, but didn't quite understand it, so he wrote it down.
He Pingan was a little embarrassed: "Sister Xiao Wan, you don't have to write it down, it's just my personal guess."
“I think it’s very useful.”
"Thank you." He lowered his head and took the nutrient solution.
Tap the solar xue on the weekend. "This leads to a question: what day is it now?"
"The rules only state the effective hour but not the date. How cunning." Wang Keke thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, the end of the night is the beginning of a new day. We have gone through two nights, and now it is the third day?"
"It's the third day." Lu Miao checked the time of day and night recorded by He Ping'an. "The day lasts for 6 hours, the night lasts for 6 hours, and a day is 12 hours. In fact, we don't know whether he was in a coma for 6 hours or 12 hours."
"The amount of sweat we produce misleads us about our physical state."
"That's right." She gave Weekend an admiring look. "What is the purpose of calculating the number of days? Perhaps our neighbor can explain it."
Lu Miao conducted another experiment and threw the empty nutrient packaging bags into the closet in the second bedroom.
"Is this really a good idea?" Close the closet door on the weekend.
"Shouldn't it pay a price for making us suffer so much?"
He smiled.
This captain is really interesting.
At exactly 9 o'clock, under everyone's gaze, a piece of white paper appeared out of thin air on the sofa.
It is rule paper.
Thank you for your cooperation in prevention and control. Now please be sure to follow the following rules to help you stay sane.
1. The time unit for the effectiveness of these rules is hours.
2. It is forbidden to leave the building. Please wear a gas mask when going out.
Don't abandon us
3. You can visit neighbors on the same floor.
4. It is forbidden to take off the white raincoat.
We were supposed to live together
5. Do not eat food that is exposed to air.
6. Do not drink water that has come into contact with air.
7. Please be wary of neighbors who behave in an unusual way.
8. Maintain an optimistic attitude.
9. The above rules will take effect at 9 o'clock, and the next updated rules will appear at the dinner table.
good
Disaster
eat! ! ! !
Weekend looked at Lu Miao with a half-smile. "He has learned to use exclamation points. He has improved."
"It's anxious and its speech is incoherent," she said in a calm tone. "But the more anxious it is, the more likely it is to leak information."
Next they split into three groups.
Yu Xiaowan stayed and waited for new rules to emerge.
Weekend and Wang Keke, who were in stronger physical condition, endured the double discomfort and went to the eighth floor to search the house of the man with the pustule for bottled water and food.
Only Lu Miao and He Ping'an were left to visit the woman in 701.
Yu Xiaowan was the only one in the huge three-bedroom, two-living-room house. She hugged her pillow tightly and stared at the dining table and the rule paper.
As soon as he went out, He Ping'an felt his headache worsen and he started breathing heavily. The gas mask made his breathing difficult.
Lu Miao went to knock on the door of Room 701.
The woman who opened the door was pale and thin, with dark circles under her eyes. She looked at the two men warily.
Lu Miao held up the note she had stuffed in her pocket. "We live in 704."
The woman opened the door and let them in.
Her house was rather messy, with empty nutritional supplement packaging bags scattered everywhere and a "fence" drawn on a piece of white paper on the coffee table.
The two noticed that every group of five vertical lines was crossed out by a horizontal line.
Three groups were drawn in total.
"I will remain silent if I can't answer that," the woman said first, examining the two men's team logo decorations with curiosity.
Lu Miao took off his gas mask. "We are from the military and have a search and rescue mission."
The woman was suspicious.
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe our identities. We came here just to confirm some things. For example, why do you know that you can visit the neighbors on the same floor today?"
The woman said nothing, but glanced at the paper on the coffee table.
He Pingan understood why she had deliberately revealed it. "You have been here for a long time and have already mastered the rules."
The woman was silent.
"Why did you ask us to visit you? Do you need our help?"
She finally spoke: "How many days have you woken up?"
"The third day."
She frowned. "Are you sure?"
"Sure."
If they violate the rules more than once, when they wake up they will be in a similar state to Lu Miao when he violated the rules and went out, too dizzy to get up.
"Well, let's assume your judgment is correct." The woman changed the subject. "We can't escape, and we are becoming more and more desperate. Death is the beginning of despair."
Lu Miao and He Ping'an secretly pondered her hint.
"Can't you find a way to escape?"
“Not possible at the moment.”
The woman's eyes were filled with mixed emotions, trying to tell them more.
"Today is my second day." The woman said something confusing again. "The environment in the building has changed."
The two were secretly surprised.
They spent two nights, and the day after 6 o'clock must be considered the third day, unless it is calculated as a 24-hour day.
He Pingan asked: "Is 12 hours a day here?"
"Yes."
The two of them had more doubts.
Unable to get any more information, Lu Miao and He Ping'an stood up, put on gas masks, and prepared to leave.
"Have you ever run a marathon?" the woman suddenly asked.
"No."
The woman hesitated, her face turning pale. She had to change her words and said, "I have never seen anyone in the military wearing your jewelry."
The door of Room 701 closed, and Lu Miao pondered her last words.
Why did she emphasize this?
They had already moved in before the Golden Mansion's ghost story realm arrived, so there was no such thing as being late for entering the ghost story realm.
The Pustule Man and the Woman in Unit 701 have obviously been trying to survive in the field of ghost stories for a long time.
Is she trying to imply that she, Lu Miao and He Ping'an are from different places?
Yesterday during the day, she was sneaking around in front of the door of Room 704. Was it the first time she discovered that someone was living there?
"Captain, her rules are not exactly the same as ours." He Ping'an said in a low voice.
Lu Miao nodded. "Strange, why can't she tell the new residents what the rules are? The two men last night didn't know the rules."
"At least we can be sure that she lived in the same era as us, but possibly in a different region."
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