Chapter 045: Eating Watermelon at the Ladder Apartment (11)
After hearing Liu Tang's guess, Ji Zehan didn't say much and continued walking towards the right door.
He turned his back to the others and said, "If the fire originated from Mother Rabbit's house, then the room where the fire occurred would be the last room, which is also the first floor we saw at the beginning.
"We don't have to check the footage room by room. We can just go to the end on the right."
Ji Zehan felt a little heavy.
When he realized that the little rabbit was himself, then the rabbit mother was his mother.
Originally, his emotions were affected by the side effects of his innate skills, and he would be exceptionally calm in the face of anything.
But seeing his mother might do something stupid, his emotions still fluctuated.
The fragmented memories of being with my mother had long become blurred, and the repeated torture of the pain of drowning had worn away that warmth to the point where it had almost lost its temperature.
But everything he witnessed in the dungeon gave him a new sense of awareness.
It was as if the solid ice was knocked into hideous cracks, some of which were eye-catching and some of which were painful.
The temperature continued to rise. When Ji Zehan turned the door handle, his skin was quickly burned and blisters appeared. However, he seemed to be unaware of it and continued to cross the room to open the door in front of him.
When he opened the eighth door, Mo Qianhe stepped forward and blocked him.
Mo Qianhe reminded him, "Let's take a look at the images in the room first. Your speculation makes sense, but I don't think the replica will allow us to identify the last room so easily."
Ji Zehan frowned: "What do you mean?"
Mo Qianhe turned his head to signal Liu Tang to close the door on the left side of the room, and explained, "According to your speculation, the last room either doesn't have a door on the right side, or the door on the right side can't be opened.
"This way we can confirm that the room we are in is the last one, right?"
Ji Zehan was nodding halfway when he suddenly stopped.
His awakening emotions had disrupted his rational thinking, and only now did he understand Mo Qianke's concerns: "According to the design ideas of most dungeons, the door on the right side of the last room is not unopenable, but leads to the first room."
Seeing that the other party started to think again, Mo Qianhe let go of the hand that was trying to stop him.
Du Qiuyun also understood the key point of their discussion and said, "This is equivalent to designing a horizontal room loop.
"If you don't look at the image and keep turning right, you will miss the last room and enter the first room, and then the cycle will continue endlessly without a clear end."
Mo Qianhe nodded to Du Qiuyun: "That's right."
Ji Zehan said: "There is a faster way. We can check the floors outside the main entrance directly. As long as it is not the first floor, it means we have not reached the last room."
Mo Qianhe still looked at Ji Zehan, silently waiting for him to come to his senses.
Seeing that the other party remained silent, Ji Zehan realized that there might be a loophole in his method.
He pondered for a moment and understood: "If we have missed the last room, the main entrance is not on the first floor. If we continue to go right, we will only get further and further away from the main entrance."
Mo Qianhe nodded: "So checking the video once is the safest method."
At this time, the door on the left behind them was closed by Liu Tang, and the light and shadow in the room turned into that of evening.
Mother Rabbit brought out hot dishes from the kitchen, walked past Ji Zehan who was blocking the right door, and placed the dishes on the dining table by the window.
She opened a bottle of homemade plum wine, poured the colorless transparent liquid from a small glass bottle into the wine, covered it with a lid, and shook it vigorously for a while.
The expression on the mother rabbit's face remained calm, as if all this was normal.
After everything was ready, she sat at the dining table and waited quietly.
Until there was a knock on the door.
The mother rabbit, who seemed very calm, trembled as if frightened.
Du Qiuyun felt that his grandmother beside him was also shaking with fear.
They all guessed that the person knocking on the door at this moment might be the murderer who killed two people.
Barrage:
"Why am I so scared? Request for barrage protection!"
"I can't protect you a little bit, I need protection more!"
“Turn off the Blu-ray quality and surround sound, and turn on the automatic blur mode for scary scenes.”
"You're a bunch of weaklings. Why don't you just focus on the empty shot on the rooftop like I did?"
The image ends here.
Everyone's nervous mood suddenly relaxed.
What can be confirmed at this moment is that they have not missed the last room.
The next few rooms are likely to be the "last room" where the fire occurred.
The temperature around was getting higher and higher, so Du Qiuyun used the prop "constant temperature skin suit" on his grandmother.
After old lady Qiuli was covered with a thin layer of bright yellow skin-protecting clothing, she instantly felt that most of the heat was blocked out.
She looked at her granddaughter with some distress and persuaded her: "It would be a waste for an old lady like me to use this good thing, so I'd better give it to you."
As she spoke, she began to take off her clothes swiftly, but was stopped by Du Qiuyun.
Du Qiuyun looked at his grandmother and said seriously, "Grandma, this prop is disposable. Once you take it off, it will be useless."
The old lady paused and slowly withdrew her hand.
Mo Qianhe and Ji Zehan, who were walking in front, had already opened several doors.
When entering each room, they quickly confirmed whether the main door was on the first floor. If not, they would quickly move to the next room.
After passing through several rooms in a row, Liu Tang, who was following behind them, frowned.
"Something's wrong." He said to the two people in front of him.
Mo Qianhe and Pavilion Master Ji, who were walking in front, turned back at the same time.
Liu Tang pointed outside the main entrance and said, "Don't you find it strange? The floors outside appear to have changed very little to the naked eye."
When Mo Qianhe heard this, he immediately became alert.
Based on their previous experience of opening doors in other rooms, after the doors of the adjacent rooms on the left and right were opened, the floors outside the doors would be very different, which was easy to see.
But the few rooms they just passed seemed to be at a similar height, or even at the same height.
Ji Zehan quickly highlighted the label on the railing.
I went to the door connecting the three rooms to confirm, but found that there were no labels on the railings on the upper and lower floors, no matter how far or near.
After learning about this, Liu Tang said, "It seems that what we see outside the door is an illusion. It is not the actual floor where the room is located."
Mo Qianhe sneered: "Sure enough, the dungeon rules don't want us to get stuck easily."
Ji Zehan nodded: "It seems that we can only continue to watch the video step by step."
As he said this he closed the main door of the room he was in.
In fact, he really wanted to know the truth of that year, but the temperature in the apartment was getting higher and higher, and his first priority became "getting his benefactor through safely", so he deliberately suppressed his curiosity.
Now he had to confirm the truth, which would save him from tossing and turning in the future.
Feng Xiansu, who was walking behind, had been like a zombie the whole time. When she heard the word "bug", she instantly remembered that when she was on the second floor, Liu Tang had said something similar on the sound wall.
Her willful actions and defiance of the rules cost her brother his life in vain.
All this made Feng Xiansu feel both frightened and regretful. Her body began to tremble unconsciously and tears welled up in her eyes again.
Du Qiuyun helped his grandmother walk to the room where the others were staying and closed the left door behind them.
Seeing that Feng Xiansu was in a bad state, out of guilt for not stopping the brother and sister before, he stepped forward to comfort Feng Xiansu.
The moment her hand rested on Feng Xiansu's back, Feng Xiansu dodged to the side in shock.
After confirming that the other person was Du Qiuyun, Feng Xiansu covered her mouth and began to cry, suppressing her voice.
At this moment, images began to play in the room.
The food on the table fell to the ground, and the top of the foldable dining table stood up.
The otter fell into the soup and the rabbit mother tied his hands and feet with a rope.
It seems that after drinking the wine that the rabbit mother had spiked with something, the otter fainted and overturned the table, causing all the food to spill.
The rabbit mother didn't even bother cleaning up and tied the other person up on the spot.
It was unknown how much time had passed since the otter fainted.
It was night outside the window, and the dim light inside the house illuminated the still sleeping otter.
Everything looked chaotic and depressing.
At this time, Mother Rabbit appeared in the room with a basin of water.
She splashed the water hard on the otter's face.
The otter shivered from the cold and woke up from his slumber.
After the otter understood the current situation, he asked the rabbit mother: "What are you doing?"
Mother Rabbit squatted in front of the otter, took out a stack of photos and held them in front of the otter, letting him see them one by one.
The otter was originally a little worried that the mother rabbit had discovered what he had done. When he saw the photo, his heart finally settled.
His expression became guilty and panicked: "Listen to my explanation..."
Tears welled up in the mother rabbit's eyes. She tried hard to control her sobs and said, "You killed my son."
"I, I didn't mean it. It was him! He said that on purpose to irritate me! He said that unless he died, he would never agree for us to be together! I did all this for you!" The otter lost control of his emotions.
"So you just let him die?" Mother Rabbit was furious.
The otter shook his head: "No, no, I, listen to me.
"If I hadn't been passing by, he would have drowned! I just undid my actions!"
Mother Rabbit took out a knife from the kitchen and walked towards the otter. "You murdered my son and you don't feel any guilt at all! Then you will be buried with him!"
Just as the mother rabbit raised her knife to stab the otter, the otter broke free from the rope tied around its wrists and rolled over to avoid it.
The image stopped at this moment.
Ji Zehan did not rush to the right door, but opened the main door to observe the floor outside.
The floors changed, and highlighted labels appeared on the railings of other floors.
He turned around and said to the others, "It seems that after watching the video, the outside floor will return to normal."
Liu Tang and Grandma Qiu Li both observed Ji Zehan's expression with some concern. The calmer he was, the more they felt that there was an undercurrent.
Enduring the severe pain from the burns, Mo Qianhe twisted the handle to open the right door and walked in, saying to the others, "This rule didn't appear when we first entered the dungeon. It seems it's because we're getting closer and closer to the correct answer."
Several people strengthened their confidence and quickened their pace to move forward.
They felt the soles of their shoes begin to melt.
The smell of various burning substances mixed together and became extremely unpleasant.
Closing the door behind him, the image continued in the next room.
The otter and the rabbit mother were fighting, and they knocked over the jar of homemade wine, spilling the wine all over the floor.
Mo Qianhe was puzzled: "It was such a loud noise, but no neighbors heard it at the time. Did they come to check it out?"
Mrs. Qiu explained: "That year, the factory was worried that burning paper money at home might cause a fire, so they organized the workers to burn paper money together in a newly opened area. It was safer to handle the fire together.
“Only the old lady of the Ji family, whose second son and grandson had just died, didn’t like to join in the fun and hid at home.
"Brother Chuanzi's mother said she was worried about the safety of the elderly being alone at home, so she declined to go.
"After I finished burning paper money for our ancestors with my family and were walking back to the factory, I heard that a staff dormitory had caught fire."
In the video, after fighting with the otter for a while, the mother rabbit gradually became weak and was pushed away by the otter. She hit her head on the corner of the cabinet and fainted.
In the next room, the otter stood in the room in a panic for a while, and saw the paper money prepared by the rabbit mother in the room, and a plan came to his mind.
He lit the paper money and threw it into the wine on the floor, and the fire quickly spread.
He left the rabbit mother fainted on the ground and turned around and ran out of the apartment.
The fire in the room grew bigger and bigger, but Mother Rabbit never woke up until the fire completely engulfed her.
"Mom!" Ji Zehan couldn't help but call out softly the moment the video ended.
Liu Tang looked at this scene in disbelief and said angrily, "They actually let this otter escape?!"
Grandma Qiu sighed: "Good people don't live long, but evil deeds last for thousands of years."
The comments were also very excited:
"Oh my god, oh my god, why is this happening?"
"I'm so angry! Fortunately I died, otherwise I would have developed nodules!"
"It's no surprise. On one side is the ruthless murderer, and on the other are the innocent victims' families. The winner has already been decided."
"Let me do it! I'm strong!"
Mo Qianhe looked at the door on the right side of the room. The door there disappeared and turned into a metal wall.
The only two doors left in the room were the main door and the door on the left.
He turned to the others and said, "Looks like this is the last room."
A system prompt sounded in everyone's mind:
[Please choose the correct door to exit the apartment. You only have one chance.]
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