Chapter 206 Collapse of the City (4)
【Countdown 01:29:59】
The countdown on the LCD screen has begun. Yuna stands by the open door, her hands crossed and clutching the corners of her clothes. Her body language seems to indicate that she is introverted, but her expression does not indicate that.
She was obviously smiling brightly.
On the other side of the gate is the interior of the teaching building. Looking in from here, you can see the flashing red dot of the emergency light on the side of the corridor. Apart from that, it is pitch black as far as the eye can see.
"My doll is a little rabbit," Yuna said. "You'll recognize it when you see it. If you bring it back to me, I'll thank you."
At the end of her words, the girl finished with a light tone. She blinked her right eye, a lively and playful wink, and said to Su Yue and Zhao Shuo, "Come on!"
Time waits for no one. Su Yue didn't delay any longer and was the first to enter the teaching building. As usual, he was in the front, Zhao Shuo in the middle, and Cang Zhi at the back. As soon as the three of them entered the hallway, there was a loud bang, and Yuna, who had been smiling adorably just a moment ago, had already slammed the door shut behind her.
Su Yue: "..."
Cang Zhi: “…”
Zhao Shuo: “…”
In the sudden darkness, the three of them looked at each other in silence. Sister Yuna smiled sweetly and slammed the door shut really hard.
In the end, it was Zhao Shuo who spoke first: "Oh, think about it, even though that little girl locked us in, at least she didn't keep Brother Cang out, right?"
Su Yue thought so too. This teaching building was also a dark and closed environment that he really disliked. If he had to take care of Zhao Shuo in such a place, it would be a headache for him. Fortunately, Cang Zhi was there.
Let's check the environment first. This is the corridor of the teaching building. The fifth floor should be below. There is basically no light in the entire building. It seems to have been abandoned for a long time. However, there is an emergency light in the corridor, which is a flashing red dot. It can be used for lighting, but it can only be used for lighting, and it is quite creepy besides lighting.
However, although the atmosphere is terrifying, it should still be quite safe. At least no unusual movements have been felt so far.
Taking advantage of the ample time, Su Yue called up the task panel.
Sure enough, the current task interface has changed again. It should be said that only at this step is the entire task displayed.
-[Mission Objective: Help Yuna find the rabbit doll 0/1]
-[Mission Timer: 01:28:15]
-【Number of participants: 2/2】
-[Quest Reward: Heart Key (Red) x1]
There is a panel next to it. Click it and you can see the keywords that Yuna just mentioned. The rabbit doll may have been lost on the first floor, the basement or in the elevator. Time is running out, so they start to act immediately.
The staircases in this teaching building are different from those in ordinary teaching buildings. Instead, they are more like those in a shopping mall. The stairs on each floor are set in the opposite direction of the adjacent floors. This means that every time you go down one floor, you have to go through the entire floor to reach the stairs on the next floor.
The fifth floor seemed to be a biological laboratory. Su Yue walked past it quickly and vaguely saw glass cabinets under the emergency lights on both sides of the corridor. There were skeletons in the glass cabinets, but it was unclear whether they belonged to animals or humans.
When Su Yue passed by the glass cabinet, a skull inside shook with a "click". The light inside the skull lit up, and two blood-red spots of light suddenly appeared on the glass plate.
Unfortunately, Su Yue had just experienced a wall of white dolls in a movie theater, so he was completely immune to this kind of strange thing in the glass cabinet. He took a casual look, confirmed that the skull had no intention of coming out, and continued on his way without any hesitation.
The delay should not exceed 5 seconds.
Skull: ...嘤!
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After passing through the fifth floor and then going down to the fourth floor, there is an art classroom. On the huge display board are students' paintings. Those paintings are very strange from the brushstrokes to the colors to the content. It seems that something has been torn into pieces and scribbled on the board. Su Yue stopped in front of the board.
But his attention was only on the lower right corner of the drawing board, where a rabbit was drawn.
The rabbit's shape is also quite dark, but there is a small peach heart drawn next to it. For some reason, Su Yue felt that this rabbit should be the shape of Yuna's lost stuffed rabbit, so he took a few more glances at it.
The picture is very casual, so Su Yue can only grasp the key points. This is a black rabbit, but its eyes are red. The rabbit is sitting, and the shape of its eyes is different. The left eye is a red "X", and it is really hard to tell what the right eye is.
Because this painting looks like it was painted casually when the artist was extremely sleepy or in a bad mood, it is already very outstanding that Su Yue can see to this extent.
And then down.
The third floor is an ordinary classroom, so it is not as spacious as the fourth and fifth floors. There are windows on one side of the corridor and classrooms on the other side. Every door is ajar, and it seems that you can hear movement inside. In any case, Zhao Shuo clearly heard the sound of talking, and he broke out in a cold sweat, but Su Yue still ignored him and rushed over quickly.
The reason is that the task is limited to one and a half hours, and after completing this task, Su Yue and his team are still one key short of the three heart keys to ensure that the three of them can spend a peaceful night, so Su Yue does not want to waste any time.
Until the second floor.
Su Yue, who was rushing along, suddenly stopped.
"Shh." Su Yue turned around with a serious expression and made a "shut up" gesture to Zhao Shuo and Cang Zhi behind him.
You can actually see what's happening on the next floor from the stairs, but it's not very clear. You can only see the corner of the corridor, but it's enough.
When Zhao Shuo glanced over, he saw the trailing green light in the corridor.
Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of footsteps.
The sound was a little slower than the footsteps of an average person, but it sounded completely like human footsteps. This feeling of being both human and not human made Zhao Shuo's hair stand on end. He held his breath, told himself to stay calm, gritted his teeth and waited, and finally saw the "person" who was staying on the second floor.
It should be "people".
They were wearing clothes that looked a bit like space suits but were lighter, wrapping their entire bodies in them. The green light that Su Yue and the others saw was the headlight above the goggles, or maybe a camera. It was hard to see clearly from such a distance, but the green light swept across the entire floor like a searchlight.
The "man" in the lead even had a robot dog on a leash.
It was a Transformer-like robot dog, constructed entirely from a mechanical skeleton. The skeleton was incredibly detailed, gleaming with the uniquely cold gleam of metal. The robot dog appeared incredibly active, glancing left and right, its tail wagging and its nose twitching.
"Patrolman." Su Yue mouthed.
Yuna mentioned this word just now. I don’t know what it is, but it should be some kind of enemy. Now it is obvious that these people who are walking around in the corridor with dogs and wearing strange clothes are of course the so-called "patrolmen".
These patrolmen seemed to only see things at their own level, neither looking up nor down, and were rather slow. This was a good thing, as at least they were now squatting on the stairs halfway up the second floor, peeking, and had not been discovered.
But there are also problems.
There is only one staircase from the third floor to the second floor, and the patrolmen are walking towards the stairs.
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Su Yue has always had a strong intuition about danger. The first task after entering the door was probably not difficult, so he simply pretended not to see the strange phenomena he passed by. Sure enough, those things were just for scaring people and had no attack capability at all.
But the "patrolman" in front of him was different. Whether it was Yuna's repeated emphasis or his current sixth sense, they all pointed to the same fact - if you don't want to get into trouble, just avoid them first.
So when the "Patrolman" went up to the third floor, Su Yue did not hesitate. With Cang Zhi in his left hand and Zhao Shuo in his right hand, the three of them went straight into the classroom closest to them.
The entire teaching building is a one-way street with only one staircase on each floor, so you will run into patrolmen no matter how you walk. The only difference is in the classroom.
The classroom has a front door and a back door, both of which are ajar, so there is a great chance of bypassing the patrollers.
It may also be the only chance.
The three of them thought of going together. After rushing into the nearest classroom, they all crowded to the back door. From here they could see the patrol's movements, and the patrol was walking from bottom to top, which was the opposite of their direction. As long as they walked this distance, they would go out directly from the back door and go downstairs, and they would pass this level.
"Come up." Su Yue whispered, "Don't be nervous."
Cang Zhi silently raised a divine barrier to block their presence. He wasn't sure how intelligent the patrollers were, but it should be effective.
"I'm not nervous." Zhao Shuo whispered, "Brother Cang, please don't push me."
"I didn't push you." Cang Zhi said.
"Me neither." Su Yue said, "Yes..."
The three of them were stunned for a moment, and they turned around at the same time.
A head suddenly appeared silently between the three of their uneven shoulders.
Eye sockets like black holes, messy hair, and long curly nails that poked Zhao Shuo's shoulders.
As if sensing that Su Yue and his group's attention had been diverted, the head paused and opened its mouth to reveal a broad smile.
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