Chapter 474 Above the Posa (9) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
A-Lian and A-Yuan seem to understand this world much better than they do.
And A-Lian is not as harmless as she appears.
"Look at your expressions..." She paused, accurately catching the expression that flashed across Qiu Zihan's face, who was the most cunning. "Which category of the game I just mentioned does the way you entered here belong to?"
The expression that passed across Qiu Zihan's face clearly showed that he had been hit on something.
"Didn't Brother William say that you came in accidentally?" Yuan blinked and looked over.
Chang William winked at Qiu Zihan nervously.
"We..." Qiu Zihan looked at Chang William's expression, then looked at Skao hesitantly. After seeing Skao nodded slightly, he continued, "We came in accidentally, but we may have encountered the elevator game you mentioned just now."
"When we were leaving just now, we passed by a building," Zhao Yinglai took the initiative to take over the conversation. "The building looked pitch black from the outside, but the elevator lights in the lobby were on. It was strange that there were people in the elevator at this time, so we stayed to take a look."
"The elevator went up and down several times and finally stopped on the first floor. After the elevator door opened, two people appeared inside. One of them was a girl with her hair disheveled. When she saw us, she was startled and ran away without looking back." Zhao Yinglai roughly processed what they had experienced, concealing some key content.
"We wanted to ask what happened to the girl who ran away, but when we turned around, the person in the elevator was gone," she said with a vivid look of shock, "We thought we had seen a ghost..."
"You have met someone playing the elevator game," Yuan said bluntly. "The process of the elevator game is that one person enters the elevator and presses the buttons in the order of fourth floor, second floor, sixth floor, second floor, tenth floor, fifth floor, first floor. If a passerby enters the elevator during the process, the game process is considered a failure and needs to be started over."
He sounded very familiar with this game: "According to the process, when the elevator stops on the fifth floor, a young woman will enter from the outside. She is not who she seems, and the person playing the game cannot talk to this girl."
"After the young woman enters the elevator, she can press the first floor button. If the elevator goes down to the first floor, it means your game is successful and you have entered a different world. Once the elevator door opens, you must get out immediately. You cannot look back or talk," A Lian continued. "If you press the first floor button but the elevator goes back to the tenth floor, you can choose to get off the elevator or stay in it. If you stay in the elevator and get off, the young woman will ask you, 'Where are you going?'"
She had a great talent for storytelling. When she paused here, Qiu Zihan, who was the most timid, shivered a little: "And then?"
"Then you can't answer. You can also enter another world by leaving the elevator at this time," A-Lian continued. "If you choose to stay in the elevator, then press the first floor button again. When the elevator reaches the first floor, don't look back or say anything. Just leave here."
"So the person we met... was the one who succeeded in the elevator game?" Tang Ling wondered.
"Maybe, sister," A-Lian smiled, "She might be frightened by you."
"The rules of the elevator game say that the only sign of whether you have reached another world is that the player is the only person here, so she thinks you are ghosts."
Tang Ling and Zhao Ying looked at each other and recalled the state of the girl when she walked out of the elevator. It really matched what A-Lian said.
There was clearly another person in the elevator, but she acted as if she didn't see him and didn't have any eye contact or verbal interaction with the other person.
Even though he was scared to death and his whole body was shaking, he still mustered up the courage to walk out, wanting to get away from them.
And when I tried to stop her and ask her a question, she just ran away without looking back, as if there was a ghost chasing her.
Now it seems that from this girl's perspective, there really is a ghost chasing her.
After being a human for more than 20 years, this was the first time Tang Ling became a ghost. He was silent for a few seconds and actually felt a strange sense of guilt.
The girl was so scared, probably because of the rule of the game: "The only sign of reaching another world is that you are the only person here."
In other words, they were the ones who scared people like that.
The investors who were frightened before also reacted:
[So the girl who disappeared as soon as the door closed was actually the person who came in from the fifth floor in the elevator game? ]
[Correction: The ghost came in from the fifth floor. ]
[Damn, do I have to feel so involved? This elevator game also exists in our world. I played it with my classmates when I was in junior high school.]
[Ah? Sister in front, did you really enter another world later? ]
[No, it's not that easy to get in. We went up and down the elevator several times but no one came to the other world. When the elevator stopped at the fifth floor, no one came in. Not only was there no ghost, but the elevator went up and down abnormally and the security guard was called. In the end, my mother scolded me, and I never tried these psychic games again.]
[Grass, so real,]
[The end result of the psychic game is a scolding from parents. 】
[Just now I thought this floor sounded familiar, but I didn't realize it was an elevator game. Now that these two people said this, I realized that this is what I played when I was a child. Children are really brave. If it were me now, I would definitely not dare to try it. ]
"You two seem to be very familiar with these games?" Bai Jinshu looked at Yuan unintentionally, "Did you get in this way too?"
"Yes..." Yuan touched the tip of his nose. "My girlfriend and I are ghost hunters and fake news broadcasters. We have been posting live broadcasts on Midnight Call. This time, we were asked by fans to try a horror game that is said to have driven people crazy after trying it abroad. I didn't expect that I would actually enter another world."
Touch the tip of your nose.
The manifestation of lying.
It’s just such a long sentence, which part is true and which part is false?
Bai Jinshu sighed as he spoke: "I see. If we hadn't met you, we wouldn't know where this place is. You've been here for so many days, have you found a way out?"
"No," A-Lian wrinkled her nose and sighed, "The game only tells you how to enter the other world, but it doesn't tell you how to get out. A-Yuan and I have never been successful in our ghost hunting live broadcasts before, but who would have thought that this time it would actually be successful."
"A live streamer who is fighting against fake spirits?" Bai Jinshu was worried. "Then you have tried the elevator game, right? Why didn't you succeed, but the girl we met succeeded?"
"...To be honest, we don't know either." A-Lian was silent for a few seconds, then slowly shook her head and replied, "Before this time, A-Yuan and I were both firm materialists. We have been fighting against counterfeiting in supernatural games in Midnight Calls. We have tried many kinds of games, but for some reason, only this time was successful."
The two of them acted back and forth. A'lian acted like a poor unlucky person who had really mistakenly entered a different world and had been trying to survive for several days and couldn't find the exit, while Bai Jinshu was worried, and he played the image of a person who had just entered a different world and was unclear about the situation here vividly.
No one could find anything wrong in the other's words.
"Ah? Then what should we do? How do we get out?" Qiu Zihan, who really thought they were worried, asked naively, "You have been in this world for a long time, have you found any clues?"
"A clue..." A-Lian thought for a while, half-seriously, "There is indeed a little clue. Did you meet any police during the day?"
"Yes," Zhao Yinglai nodded, "We encountered a chase, and the police finally took away the person who was running away in front. We hid nearby and saw it. Were the police catching the person who had also mistakenly entered here?"
"Yes," Yuan nodded, "The police are catching those of us who strayed in. The places we have appeared in will be blocked by them, and anyone who appears from there later will be taken away directly."
"That building..." Qiu Zihan spoke subconsciously.
"The building will definitely be sealed off," A-Lian nodded. "If anyone else wants to use that elevator game to enter this world from the building, they will be taken away directly."
"What will happen if you are taken away?" Tang Ling asked.
"We don't know either... but we are not the only ones who got here by mistake. Those who were caught by the police before were locked up. We didn't want to be locked up, so we escaped on the road..." Yuan shrugged, "Now... we only dare to act at night."
"It wasn't peaceful at night, was it?" Bai Jinshu looked worried. "There were some things walking around on the street outside. We were very careful to avoid them when we came back."
"Those things only appear at night," A-Lian said softly, "and only appear in places where there are few people. We don't know what they are, and we dare not get close to them. We might get caught if they find us."
"By the way, I haven't asked yet," she suddenly turned her head, "what were you doing out there last night?"
Under the dim light, she tilted her head slightly, rested her head on her knees, and looked sideways at the long-haired young man sitting on the wicker chair.
A pair of light brown eyes seemed to sparkle with starlight under the light.
"We are looking for someone." Tang Ling heard Scarao answer.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that at this moment, Scario seemed to have an indescribable temperament.
She couldn't find words to describe this temperament for a moment, but she instinctively felt that it was completely different from the Scarao she had seen today.
It was a feeling as if something suddenly came alive.
But it is not dangerous; on the contrary, it is unusually gentle, unusually...kind.
"We have a friend missing," Skaol said. "Do you think he was taken away by the police or eaten by one of those monsters that appear at night?"
"Maybe he's just hiding," A-Lian said in a soft Wu dialect, as if she was acting coquettishly. "He'll come out during the day."
"Really?" Tang Ling saw a cheerful smile suddenly appear on Scaro's face, "Then I'll give you my good wishes."
Under the dim light, he suddenly changed the subject: "Qiu Zihan, what time will you go to work tomorrow morning?"
"Eight o'clock," Qiu Zihan answered subconsciously, "What's wrong, Brother Faye?"
"It's already four o'clock," Bai Jinshu looked at his watch, "Why aren't you and your sister going home yet?"
"It's so late!" Qiu Zihan shuddered, "Then I have to go back quickly!"
It would have been better if he hadn't said it. As soon as he said it, sleepiness came over him and Qiu Zihan immediately yawned loudly.
"Sister, can I sleep with you?" He hugged Tang Ling's arm pitifully, "You sleep on the bed and I sleep on the sofa."
"Let's go," Tang Ling did not refuse, "Xue Ni, do you want to share a bed with me?"
Di Xueni nodded frantically.
Three people who did not work at the pharmacy left together.
It was obvious that A-Lian and A-Yuan could not stay here for long.
"We two have a fixed place to hide during the day," A Lian blinked, got off the bed, and smiled at Chang William, "Thank you, brother William, with the food you gave us, we can last another day."
"You're welcome..." Chang William hesitated, "Are you leaving?"
"See you tonight?" A-Lian winked playfully. "Thank you for the food."
The two men also left.
For a moment, the only three people left in the pharmacy were Bai Jinshu, Zhao Yinglai, and Chang William.
"Can you trust what these two people say?" Zhao Ying came over.
"What do you think?" Bai Jinshu turned his head to look at her.
"Half and half?" Zhao Yinglai thought for a moment, "This is another world, and the intruders taken away by the police never come back, and the places where the intruders enter will be strictly blocked. I am more inclined to believe that this is true, because we have heard that the places where the intruders enter will be blocked, and this has been confirmed."
As for the contents of the other world and the elevator game, although we don’t know whether they are true or not, there is no point in faking them.
If they could only meet a third non-indigenous person who had strayed in, they would be able to confirm these words.
"What about the fake part?" Bai Jinshu asked casually.
"Their professions are definitely fake," Zhao Yinglai said with finality, "These two people can't be forum hosts who detect ghosts and fight fakes."
Bai Jinshu gave a faint laugh.
"What's wrong?" Before Zhao Yinglai could speak, Chang William came over and said, "Kao, have you discovered their identities?"
"What kind of identity are you asking about?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyelids to look at him. "If you mean their profession, I'm sorry I don't know and I can only make a simple inference. The two of them can't be ghost hunting and fraud fighting anchors, and it doesn't make sense that they are familiar with so many psychic games, so I am more inclined to believe that they originally planned to enter this world, but succeeded after trying many ghost hunting games."
Yuan and Lian definitely came prepared.
If they didn't come in by mistake, then why did these two people deliberately come in here?
"Then...what about your identity besides your job?" Chang William stuttered.
"An identity other than his job?" The long-haired young man on the rattan chair yawned. "There's blood on A-Lian's hands."
"Yeah, she just used the rope to strangle my neck and it made me bleed..." Chang William was complaining halfway when he suddenly realized something and stopped abruptly.
"There's blood on her hands. Has she killed someone?" Zhao Yinglai reacted quickly.
"Well," the two people in front of him had curiosity written all over their faces, but the one who brought up this topic shrank back into his chair and closed his eyes peacefully, "Turn off the lights, I'm going to sleep."
"Ah?" Chang William didn't react. "No, don't sleep, Kao. I almost died in their hands!"
The light bulb above his head went out, and the pharmacy fell into darkness. Only Chang William's questioning voice echoed: "Kao, how do you know she has killed someone?"
The room was silent.
A few minutes later, Skao's voice came faintly: "Feeling."
*
Not far away, A Lian and A Yuan had already left the pharmacy.
"Alian," A Yuan pulled her sleeve, "Do you think what those people said is credible?"
"It's not credible." A-Lian's voice sounded, in extremely standard Mandarin without any accent.
"It's impossible that they entered here by mistake, right?" Yuan muttered, "But Tang Ling is not easy to deal with. She seems to be a martial artist..."
"Do you think Tang Ling is difficult to deal with?" A Lian turned her head.
"Isn't it?" Yuan was stunned.
"The hard one is the long-haired man," she curled her lips, "he has blood on his hands."
"How did you know that?" Yuan was shocked.
"Feeling." A-Lian replied.
Same feeling.
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Seven o'clock in the morning.
"Qiu Zihan posted everything we said to those two people last night in the group." In the early morning, just as the sun came out, the door of the pharmacy was already opened.
"Bo Jiren asked us what happened that night, but he woke up too early and no one replied to him," Zhao Yinglai said as he opened the door. "I should have brought him along earlier, otherwise I wouldn't have to explain so much in the group."
"I don't know what happened to the girl who came in from the elevator game," she squatted down to insert the door latch and fixed the door open, "I hope she's okay."
"Brother Faye, Brother Faye?" After she finished speaking, she realized that the captain behind her was still curled up in the chair, looking like he hadn't woken up yet. "Skao? Did you hear what I just said?"
"...I heard it." A few minutes later, the person in the wicker chair moved, half of his head popped out, and looked at her slowly with a sharp look in his eyes.
Good job, it’s only been three hours since he went to bed.
He got angry just thinking about one of them having his real body lying in a comfortable big bed, or remotely controlling a shadow puppet to be full of life in a dangerous unknown world.
Bai Jinshu let out a long breath, rubbed his temples, suppressed his irritability, and opened a temporary group chat.
Jiang Jie, who was lying on the big bed, stood in front of the broken window of the pharmacy and stroked his chin: "Brother Faye, how do we explain this window?"
"It was hit by a kid with a slingshot," Bai Jinshu yawned, half leaning back in the rattan chair, and gave the broken window a look. "Or maybe we don't know what happened, and it was like this when we woke up."
"Will this work?" Chang William was full of worry, "How about we sell those two people and say someone kidnapped me last night."
He stretched his neck, revealing a red mark above his Adam's apple.
After one night, the mark had not faded, but had become deeper, with the skin in the middle rubbed off. It was obvious that the two men had really no intention of showing mercy when they wanted to attack Chang William yesterday.
"Look at my neck, Kaa." He touched the wound carefully and drew in a hissing breath. "I almost died here yesterday."
"Whatever," Bai Jinshu said lazily, not even wanting to look at him. "You can say whatever you want, but I don't recommend you to provoke them."
Chang William couldn't sleep last night because of Bai Jinshu's last few words. He had two huge dark circles under his eyes. Now he was very obedient: "Then I won't say anything."
Among the three, only Zhao Yinglai looked the most energetic, as if it was not her who went out with them yesterday, which made people curse the unfairness of fate in their hearts.
Bai Jinshu closed his eyes and planned to take a nap before the owner came.
Unfortunately, fate was not going to let him go.
A few minutes later, another person who was full of energy as if he didn't need sleep rushed into the pharmacy.
"Brother Faye!" Qiu Zihan was full of energy, "Let's go take a look at that building! Didn't those two people yesterday say that the building would be fenced off? We might be able to find a clue! I still have an hour to go to work, so let's go back and forth before I go to work!"
Bai Jinshu: ...
He slowly opened his eyes and stared at Qiu Zihan expressionlessly.
"What, what happened?" Qiu Zihan stuttered.
[You disturbed the Ao Shen.]
[You woke up Ao Shen, you kid. ]
[Ao Shen's eyes seemed to be considering where to start. ]
[It is recommended to strike from the neck to kill with one strike. ]
[What happened last night? I fell asleep while watching something. Can any buddies or sisters come and give me some advice? ]
[Where did you see him sleeping? I’ll give you a rough idea…]
Amid the scattered barrage of comments early in the morning, Bai Jinshu slowly closed his eyes, trying to fall asleep.
After a few more minutes, he opened his eyes expressionlessly and stood up from the stool.
"Walk."
Damn it, Skao couldn't fall asleep once he was woken up.
The streets in the early morning seemed to be back to normal, and the monsters that were wandering the streets late last night had disappeared.
The pharmacy needed someone to stay behind to look after the store. This time, Chang William refused to stay no matter what, so Zhao Ying had to be left behind to look after the store. Chang William and Bai Jinshu went to the building they were in yesterday together.
Perhaps because those words yesterday had too much of an impact on him, Chang William was unusually quiet along the way. He even ate the breakfast handed to him by Qiu Zihan without saying a word. He was so quiet that it was unbelievable.
Also unusually quiet was Bai Jinshu, who was in a bad mood when he woke up.
Walking between these two unusually quiet people, Qiu Zihan's belated emotional intelligence finally came into play, and he dared not say a word along the way.
The city was extremely busy at eight in the morning, with people coming and going on the streets getting ready for work or school. The three of them looked very awkward among them.
Fortunately, this abruptness was quickly alleviated.
They walked to the foot of the building.
The building has been cordoned off and is surrounded by police, who are also maintaining order.
Surrounded by people are office workers who work in this office building. They got up early in the morning to go to work, but when they arrived downstairs of the company, they found that the building was surrounded. Now they don't know whether to leave or not, so they gathered together and waited for news or notification from the company.
There was chaos around the cordon.
It wasn't surprising that Bai Jinshu and the other two entered here. The determined expressions on their faces were exactly the same as those of the workers around them, or even stronger.
"Hello," Bai Jinshu looked around and stopped a social animal, "What's going on in our building?"
"Oh, you ask me, I don't know either," the office worker complained casually without any suspicion, "I came here at around 8 o'clock and they surrounded us. It's been almost half an hour now, and there's no notification in the company group. What should I do? If we can't work, they should just let us go home!"
"Brother, has your company notified you?" he asked.
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head, "I just wanted to ask you about your situation because I didn't notify you."
"I don't know either. I asked the policeman just now, but he wouldn't tell me," the man complained. "I squeezed to the front and only saw that the glass of the door was broken. Does anyone know what happened? Did someone break in last night? Hey, hey, hey, Sister Liu, I'm here, coming!"
"Sorry," he waved at Bai Jinshu, "My colleague called me, so I'll leave first."
The office worker left quickly.
Bai Jinshu stood where he was, looking in the direction he left, and saw that Sister Liu, who was waving at him, was a middle-aged woman with short hair.
Just as he was about to look away, a familiar white skirt behind Sister Liu suddenly caught his attention.
"Isn't this the girl from last night?" Qiu Zihan also saw her, "I'll go after her!"
He pushed through the crowd and ran quickly towards the white figure.
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