Chapter 043: Eating Watermelon at the Ladder Apartment (9)
Du Qiuyun looked at Feng Xiansu as if she were mentally retarded: "Have you forgotten that Liu Tang and the others almost got thrown out after going down two floors?"
Feng Xiansu retorted, "You're stupid! We're on the third floor, and the next floor is the second. If we walk from the second floor to the first, even if the stairs swing open, people won't die if they fall from the second floor to the first."
Feng Xiansu said proudly, "As long as I don't die from the fall, I'll be able to jump around again after passing the level. I'm not afraid of shit."
Du Qiuyun's expression remained unchanged as he said, "Based on my previous experience, if even you think the fall won't kill you, then the rules will definitely find another way to kill you."
Feng Xiansu raised her index finger and waved it, "I haven't told you the most ingenious part of my plan yet."
She pointed to the doorway below and said, "See the door to the second floor? Let's go down one floor, open the door on the second floor, stay inside for a while, and then come out. Doesn't that mean we don't have to walk up two floors in a row?"
Du Qiuyun couldn't find any flaws for a moment, so he retorted weakly, "Boss's surveillance shouldn't be that easy to fool. If you want to try, go ahead and try it yourself. I won't drag Grandma into this risk."
Feng Xiansu took out the prop "airbag" and waved it in front of Du Qiuyun, saying proudly, "Let's try it. Anyway, I have this anti-fall artifact, which is perfect for me."
Zhou Songyang thought about it, but couldn't find any flaws in his sister's method. However, he was still very worried and said, "I'll go with you."
Feng Xiansu patted her brother's shoulder and said, "How's it going? I've taken you flying, haven't I?"
Liu Tang, who was on the other side of the sound transmission wall, heard this method and thought it was feasible. He praised it, saying, "That's amazing."
Mo Qianhe and Ji Zehan remained silent.
Mo Qianhe had no fatherly heart to save people, while Ji Zehan was disgusted by Feng Xiansu's bad attitude towards Liu Tang, so both of them simply didn't waste any more words.
In the last dungeon, the brother and sister played house with Liu Tang in "Wanjing Garden", which made them think that they could pass the dungeon easily. It would be good for them to experience the cruelty of the dungeon this time.
The live broadcast room also had a heated discussion:
"Don't tell me, I really can't find any loopholes in this method."
"She figured out this bug."
"Even Pavilion Master Ji didn't say anything. Does this mean this method is really effective?"
"It's possible to clear a moderately difficult dungeon this way."
On the third-floor platform, Feng Xiansu and Zhou Songyang had already started walking down.
Because the floor was not high, his fear of heights was alleviated a lot, and he was finally able to walk normally after going downstairs.
Du Qiuyun didn't like Feng Xiansu in the first place, and was too lazy to watch them commit suicide, so he helped his grandmother go to the fourth floor to see if he could find more clues.
Since there were not many sound transmission walls, before they separated, the sound transmission wall was left to the domineering Feng Xiansu.
Du Qiuyun made an agreement with other players that if they wanted to meet up later, they would just leave the room and shout on the stairs.
Feng Xiansu and Zhou Songyang quickly came to the second floor. Zhou Songyang continued to turn the door handle with his sleeve, but found that he couldn't turn it.
"The door can't be opened." Zhou Songyang said to the voice wall and looked at his sister.
Liu Tang muttered on the other side: "Sure enough, the bug is not that easy to fix..."
At this moment, two choices were placed before Feng Xiansu and her brother.
Should you play it safe and turn back, or take a risk and try a shortcut to pass the level?
"I want to go down directly," Feng Xiansu said to her brother, "If you are afraid of death, go back to the third floor and wait for my news."
Zhou Songyang looked at his sister, feeling somewhat helpless. "Before entering the base, I had already promised them that I would protect you well. How could I possibly go back alone?"
Feng Xiansu said no more and walked downstairs directly.
No one else in the sound transmission wall said anything, only Liu Tang spoke up to dissuade them: "It's obvious that the dungeon doesn't intend to let you get stuck. Are you sure you want to continue?
"The worst-case scenario is that you'll all be killed by the Boss Rule. Have you thought this through?"
When Feng Xiansu heard this, she did not answer, but did not stop.
Seeing that his sister had no intention of changing her mind, Zhou Songyang said to the other end of the sound transmission wall, "It's okay, I have a life-saving item."
Liu Tang understood that the two men were determined to take the risk, so he said no more.
Zhou Songyang followed his sister and threw a prop onto the second-floor platform, landing in front of the door that could not be opened.
The moment Feng Xiansu stepped onto the stairs to the first floor, a cold announcement sounded: "Player cheating detected."
Then the steps under my feet began to shake.
"Run!" Feng Xiansu yelled, and ran down faster.
Zhou Songyang could only follow his sister all the way down.
At the same time, the handrail that was originally waist-high gradually became higher, extending upward until it connected with the stairs on the third floor.
It was as if a spiral cage had formed, trapping the brother and sister inside.
Zhou Songyang felt something was wrong.
As Du Qiuyun had guessed before, the apartment's punishment this time was not shaking the stairs.
Feng Xiansu also realized that something was wrong.
At their running speed, they should have reached the first floor long ago, but the stairs ahead seemed endless and they could not reach the end no matter how hard they ran.
There was no door to the first floor room on the wall of the apartment.
Zhou Songyang shouted from behind Feng Xiansu, "Susu, turn back! The stairs are getting narrower and narrower!"
Feng Xiansu had been observing the front, and only then did she realize that the cage-like railings on her side were getting closer and closer to her.
"Try again! Maybe we'll reach the first floor soon!" Feng Xiansu still didn't want to give up and kept running forward.
Zhou Songyang followed behind his sister, his arm rubbing against the railing that was getting closer and closer, and he felt the heat as if it were a branding iron.
Feng Xiansu wanted to run down by holding the wall, but the moment she touched the wall, she felt the scorching heat.
She began to move sideways and downward.
On the other side of the sound transmission wall, Liu Tang heard something wrong. After such a long time, the two of them still had not reached the first floor. This method of passing the level did not seem feasible.
He reminded the two of them one last time: "Retreat quickly."
Feng Xiansu ignored the voice from the other end of the sound transmission wall and walked forward with her head held high.
She knew that now that things had come to this, there was no turning back.
Zhou Songyang knew he couldn't persuade his sister, so he shouted, "Susu, activate the airbag! I'm going to push you down!"
Once the "airbag" takes effect, it will shrink the user's body to the size of a basketball and form a highly elastic protective layer outside the user's body. At the same time, it will make the user's overall weight lighter and easier to be pushed away.
Feng Xiansu thought this method was feasible, but hesitated and said, "If I go down, what will you do?"
Zhou Songyang replied: "It's okay, I have a life-saving item for teleportation, did you forget?"
Time was running out, so Feng Xiansu didn't think any more and immediately activated the airbag.
Her body immediately shrank, and a milky white translucent protective layer appeared around her. She became as light as a feather, and even the high temperature that was originally within reach was isolated a lot.
She turned and looked at Zhou Songyang who was walking towards her.
The other party stretched out his hands, but instead of pushing her down, he hugged her tightly and activated the teleportation tool "Back to the starting point".
Before setting off, Zhou Songyang left a marking prop attached to this prop on the second floor, which was the "starting point" he set.
At this time, the props were activated, and Zhou Songyang and his sister returned to the "starting point" together.
Zhou Songyang thought they would be safe if they returned to the second floor, but he found that the railing on the second floor also reached the third floor steps, and the distance to the wall was very narrow, and it was shrinking rapidly.
He pushed his sister towards the third floor with all his strength, while he himself leaned sideways and tried to move up.
Only then did Feng Xiansu understand her brother's intention.
He didn't mean to push her down at all, but to pull himself back to the second floor.
The teleportation had just ended, and she had not yet recovered from the dizziness after the instant transfer when she was pushed away by her brother again.
Her body rolled uncontrollably upstairs and finally stopped in front of the platform in front of the main entrance on the third floor.
The abnormalities with the railings and steps only occurred on the first and second floors, so Feng Xiansu managed to escape.
Zhou Songyang felt the railing behind him getting closer and closer to him, and his chest was already burned by the hot metal wall.
But he did not give up and continued to strive to move forward.
The railings squeezed him tighter and tighter against the wall. Every time he moved, he scraped his skin, leaving patches of blood on the wall, which quickly dried and changed color.
Until the railing pressed him against the metal wall, making a sizzling sound.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Zhou Songyang couldn't bear the burning pain anymore and screamed out loudly.
He struggled convulsively with his limbs, but his body could not move at all.
He could smell himself being cooked bit by bit, which was very similar to the smell of teppanyaki.
He was only a few steps away from the third-floor platform, but he would never reach it.
"Brother!" Feng Xiansu released the effect of her props, rushed to the junction of the third and second floors, stretched out her arms to the gap between the railing and the wall, trying to reach Zhou Songyang, but she couldn't reach him.
She ignored the hot railing in front of her that burned her neck and still tried desperately to reach out and pull her brother.
But it was too late.
"Help! Someone please save my brother!" Feng Xiansu shouted at the sound transmission wall, watching her brother being burned to death bit by bit.
Zhou Songyang's face was pressed hard against the iron plate and burned beyond recognition.
Before he completely died, he said in a very hoarse and weak voice: "You finally called me 'brother' again."
Although Liu Tang was anxious on the other side of the sound wall, he had no way to help. He asked Mo Qianhe to find out if there were any props that could help Zhou Songyang.
Mo Qianhe shook his head: "We are too far away from them. There is no way to save them from a distance."
Liu Tang's heart sank.
Even though he had dissuaded the brother and sister beforehand, it was not his responsibility if anything happened to them again.
But he always felt a little guilty.
Mo Qianhe patted his shoulder and said, "This is their own choice. No matter what you say or do, it will not affect their choice."
Liu Tang understood this truth, but he still felt a little uneasy.
Mo Qianhe said: "Liu Tang, you can't save everyone."
At this moment, Liu Tang felt as if his brain was flashing, reminding him of some fragments from the past.
His mind pieced together the quarrel between Mo Qianhe and him when he was alive.
At that time, Mo Qianhe said to him in frustration: "Liu Tang, you can't save everyone! So many people die every day in this world, and there are so many ghosts trapped in the chaotic area. You can't save them all by yourself."
It turned out that this person had such a heartbroken expression at that time.
Outside the "18th Level of Hell", two shadowy figures are checking time slices of different copies.
One of the figures looked at the slice of Zhou Songyang's death and asked the other figure: "The main offender was his sister, why did you punish his brother in the end?"
The other person replied, "Bronze Pillar Hell prioritizes those found guilty of burning evidence. Her brother once possessed evidence of embezzlement, but not only did he not report it, he also used it to coerce others and destroyed it for his own selfish ends. His punishment here is not unjust."
"Okay." The other party shrugged indifferently.
In the copy.
Du Qiuyun heard Feng Xiansu's cry for help only after he finished watching the video with his grandmother in the room on the fourth floor.
She didn't want to get involved, but her grandmother pushed her.
"I know you can't bear it." Grandma said to her with a smile.
Du Qiuyun also understood what he was really thinking, so he left his grandmother on the fourth floor and ran downstairs first.
When they reached the third floor, the girl saw Feng Xiansu lying on the railing against the wall, and she was sizzling and smoking from the burns.
She hurried over and tried to pull Feng Xiansu away from the railing, but found that her skin was stuck to the railing.
Du Qiuyun hesitated for a moment, then pulled the other person up from the railing, tearing off strips of bloody skin.
Quickly use the prop "Mummy Bandage" to wrap her injured area.
Feng Xiansu seemed to be unaware of the pain. She looked at the person who came and said in panic, "Da Bing... No, Du Qiuyun, save my brother. Please, save my brother."
Du Qiuyun looked at Zhou Songyang who was downstairs not far away.
It seemed that the boss of the apartment had confirmed that the man was dead, and the railings and stairs were slowly returning to their original state.
However, Zhou Songyang's body was still firmly stuck to the wall, having been roasted beyond recognition.
The blood flowing out of his body flowed down the wall like soup, forming layers of reddish-brown burnt shells on the stairs.
The live broadcast screen was filled with comments:
"Ahhhhh, Mais, Mais! That's scary!"
"Hiss... I'm experiencing phantom pains all over my body."
"I've already enabled the automatic blocking of gory images, so I'm fearless!"
"It's so tragic! This player died so tragically."
"If you don't seek death, you won't die. It's all your own fault."
Seeing Zhou Songyang's disgusting death and smelling the odor spreading in the air, Du Qiuyun suppressed the urge to vomit, called out the most powerful life-saving item in the system backpack, and wanted to use it on Zhou Songyang, but was prompted that "there is no target for it".
She turned back to Feng Xiansu and shook her head: "I can't do anything. It's too late."
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