Chapter 31
Although the adults had cheated them several times before, they were forced to do so by the circumstances and had no grudges against them and did not really want the children to die.
Now they still need to study this heart. And it is said that the area next to this seal is the safest place in the entire campus, and this knowledge makes them feel at ease.
The man with the gun looked at the black heart with ecstasy on his face.
After waiting for a while, he nodded: "Okay. But we won't give you any more of our food."
We have already found a place with these adults. They are no longer of value, so it is not surprising that we don't give them food.
The little mummy heard it and said intermittently: "I can... help you get it."
Lu Jiamu looked at it and said, "Thank you."
The little mummy walked down the stairwell step by step. This time it took him a little longer. After more than half an hour, he finally brought back a pile of canned biscuits and instant noodles and threw them in front of them.
The children immediately divided the food, eating some and leaving some.
A group of people settled down in the principal's building, arranged a shift schedule, and made sure that at any time there were at least two people awake and alert to the surrounding environment. Then they studied the heart while waiting for visits from other survivors.
The little mummy just sat quietly in the corner of the room and stared at them.
Although Lu Jiamu still felt maliciousness in the little mummy's eyes every time it looked at him, it never spoke on its own initiative and rarely moved, and it always responded to their requests.
They went to get food when they were asked to, and went to fetch water when they were asked to, saving them from many risks of exploring the black fog.
Anyone who doesn't take advantage of the opportunity is a fool, so Lu Jiamu often ordered it to go outside to get things.
Seeing that it had completed the work well, Lu Jiamu wanted to ask it to go back to the library to check on the situation, but the little mummy seemed not to hear the request and remained silent.
Lu Jiamu pinched his chin, guessing that it was not a wish-granting machine, but was more like raising them. Although he didn't know what the purpose was.
If the request is related to survival, it will immediately agree and even take the initiative to complete it, but if it is a request that it thinks is unnecessary, it will completely ignore it.
The time passed peacefully with food and drink. The adults studied the heart for several days but could not figure it out.
This heart still has complete blood vessels connected to the outside world and cannot be removed alone.
If they mess around without knowing the correct method, they will either be killed by the backlash or the item will be destroyed. Both possibilities are what they don't want to see.
When Lu Jiamu finished his three-hour shift, it was already very late and most people had gone to bed.
He was just about to wake up the next child to take his turn when he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye that the huge heart in the middle of the second floor twitched abnormally.
Lu Jiamu immediately stopped and looked at his heart.
The little mummy, who had been sitting quietly in the corner like a doll, also moved.
The clear light that shone through the illusory light gate on the heart contracted inward and jumped.
In the darkness, there was a kind of unreal "creaking" sound of a door opening. The door slowly opened in the darkness, as if welcoming its visitor.
Lu Jiamu subconsciously glanced at his pocket watch. It was just five minutes past midnight on Tuesday morning.
The other four people also felt some changes and woke up in shock.
Yu Leng wiped the corner of his mouth, turned his head and looked at the light gate, blinking: "So early?"
He thought that fourteen days meant exactly the same thing, and they had to go back the same time they came.
Although the adults could not sense the light gate, the noise of the four children waking up woke them up: "What's wrong?"
The little mummy's eyes began to move as it looked around the room greedily, but it seemed like it didn't know where to look.
Wang Biao whispered, "Let's go."
Then they suddenly heard a series of crisp "crackling" sounds behind them, like the sound when a person moves a joint.
Several people subconsciously looked back.
Then he noticed that the heads of those adults were turned more than 90 degrees. They remained twisted like this for only one or two seconds before falling to the ground and rolling back and forth.
The donated blood gushed out and sprayed onto the wall. There was still a hint of surprise and disbelief on their faces.
Just a moment ago, something broke the necks of six of them at the same time.
The little mummy in the corner stared at them intently, and the bandages began to move: "You... really exist."
What did it do?
Although I knew before that it might not be a good thing, after all, I have been taking advantage of it for so many days and have already gotten the hang of it.
Moreover, they may be quiet one second and then turn hostile to each other the next. Don't be too quick.
Yu Leng cursed, then shouted loudly: "Run, run, run, run!"
Without his reminder, Lu Jiamu had already started running wildly.
Although the remaining children didn't know where to run and were too frightened to react to what was happening, they also followed Lu Jiamu and ran.
But the surrounding environment has begun to become strange, and thick black fog has begun to spread in the principal's building.
In the black fog, the shadows began to twist and grew sneaky eyes. Countless hands seemed to stretch out from the carpet, blocking them from running towards the light gate from different directions.
A group of children were running in the thick fog, just like ants stuck in glue, finding it increasingly difficult to move forward.
The bandages wrapped around the little mummy had loosened, giving up its original disguise and revealing a body made of sticky black mist. It suddenly expanded several times and no longer had the size of a child. Only the resentful single eye was still intact on its body.
Lu Jiamu drew out the Tai Chi sword and swung it back and forth, but there were too many monsters of unknown origin, so the effectiveness was limited.
The mummy's eyes scanned back and forth several times, then he followed the direction in which the people were fleeing and rushed towards the huge heart.
In the sight of several people, it was rushing towards the light gate and was about to enter.
But its misty form quickly passed straight through the heart and reached the other side of the room.
The mummy floated back again, its cold eyes constantly scanning the surroundings, but it obviously didn't know where to look.
It finally leaned down and approached the children, splitting into several wisps of thick black mist, which, together with the bandages, wrapped around the children.
It seems like they want to assimilate them and pollute them.
It wrapped around them, laughing maliciously, causing some kind of spiritual pollution. Several people began to have headaches and felt a deep-seated fear from the bottom of their hearts.
This inexplicable fear left them no time to think about anything else except running away to a place they thought was safe.
Suddenly, the resistance coming from all sides decreased imperceptibly.
As soon as they saw the opportunity, they immediately broke free from the entanglement and ran quickly towards the direction of the light gate.
Just as the few people were about to pass through the light gate, a surge of bright and clear light burst out from the fully opened light gate, instantly engulfing the figures of the few people.
The librarian started shouting again: "Take me! Take me!"
"good."
Under the dazzling light, the entire space was dazzling white. Lu Jiamu couldn't see where the door was at all and could only run forward in the direction he remembered.
The black mist and the bandages covered with yellow dirt that were originally attached to his body were uncontrollably bounced away by the light.
The black fog roared and tried to wrap around him again, but Lu Jiamu had already passed through the light gate.
What was bounced back was not only the black fog, but also a small iron box.
The black mist and bandages fell to the ground and condensed together again, forming an image resembling a mummy.
It watched the five children run towards the core seal, and then disappear with the help of some concept that it could not see, like a door.
The mummy's single eye began to move back and forth, and then quickly circled the core seal back and forth, shuttling back and forth repeatedly, trying to find the door, but failed without exception.
It just keeps passing through the core seal but can't find the key.
In the small iron box on the ground, a pair of eyeballs looked upward, trembling uncontrollably.
***
After Lu Jiamu ran through the light gate, he rushed into the circular plaza.
Lu Jiamu felt that some changes had taken place in his body.
His vision became higher, his legs became longer, and his clothes changed from the simple and worn school uniform to that long black windbreaker.
The "click-click-click" sound of mechanical operation once again filled the entire space.
Lu Jiamu raised his head slightly and slowed down his pace.
The sky above the circular plaza was still very high, and there was a dazzling light. One could vaguely see something similar to the veins of the brain.
He felt his pocket and found that the iron box was missing and he didn't know where it fell.
According to their respective impressions, Yu Leng, Wang Biao, Kouman and Wei Xiaoyan ran into the light gate and also changed respectively, becoming their previously grown-up appearances.
But a few people were so frightened that they rushed to the middle of the circular plaza before stopping breathlessly.
The door slammed shut behind them, blocking out the world behind it.
Several people looked back with lingering fear.
A concept formed in their minds at the same time:
This place is called the Wheel of Time and Space.
Welcome to visit, please abide by the following rules
Rule 1: …
The cross and Tai Chi sword originally held in Lu Jiamu's hands began to fall apart, losing their original image and turning into two pieces of fine but shining black sand.
Then Lu Jiamu felt something eating his hand. Because it was eating too fast, it almost bit his hand.
Lu Jiamu lowered his head and saw the death diary tucked between his right arm.
The black sand scattered in the hand over there has disappeared.
Lu Jiamu paused, put the diary on the ground, took out the bottle of eye drops from his pocket, poured out the liquid inside, put the black sand in his hand into it, and then used his empty hand to flip through the diary.
Except for "Please give it to Lu Jiamu" on the first page of the diary, all other words seemed to have been erased and disappeared.
All previous conversations between him and the diary had been cleared.
Lu Jiamu began to shake the diary, trying to see if he could shake something out.
New words slowly appeared on the paper: [Stop shaking, I ate it.]
This time I wrote much faster than last time. The ink dots were no longer so shaky, and the handwriting began to become more mature, no longer sounding like a kindergarten kid learning to write.
You can already see some traces of Fang Gu's handwriting.
How can a diary be eaten?
Lu Jiamu did not show any attitude towards this. He just fumbled in his pocket for a moment, took out a pen, and then wrote in his diary tirelessly: [Are you a ghost?]
This time, the diary did not change the subject: [If you insist on thinking this way, that’s fine.]
Lu Jiamu actually already had his own thoughts about this question in his mind and didn't care about it. He just asked casually.
Because there are only a few possibilities: it was Fang Gu who turned into a ghost, it was someone else who turned into a ghost, or it was something else.
Ghosts are not to be trusted anyway, that's what Mr. Gao taught him. So it doesn't matter which one it is.
Lu Jiamu picked up his pen and wrote down the question he was most curious about: [How did you die?]
[Even if I write it down, you still won’t understand it.]
When outside, in order to keep it secret, no one can say anything about this place, otherwise they will be distorted and silenced. But why can't it be said here?
So Lu Jiamu changed the way he asked: [Have you been here before? Answer yes or no.]
The words in the diary were written quickly: [Yes.]
Is that why you pulled me here?
[no. ]
The diary did not provide a detailed explanation, perhaps because it knew that any explanation would turn it into a childish doodle.
In this regard, they actually cannot communicate at all.
After asking the two questions that concerned him most, Lu Jiamu nodded and stopped asking. He closed his diary, walked to the center of the square, picked a sofa and sat down.
The other four people had not felt such an absolutely safe environment for a long time, and now that they relaxed, they completely collapsed.
Seeing him coming over, Yu Leng forced himself to sit up straight, showing a bright smile, clasping his hands together, and looking at them one by one: "Thank you all for your care. So we will be teammates from now on, right?"
After these fourteen days, they have developed a certain tacit understanding between each other and have a basic understanding of each other's personalities. They like each other and get along well.
Wang Biao nodded: "Yes."
Yu Leng asked again: "What are your plans next?"
Lu Jiamu said what he had wanted to do since he came here last time: "I want to try if those doors can be opened now."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com