Chapter 31 Chapter 31 We still have a dead end (3w plus more...
Who is Pei Shuo?
Why would they ask that?!
Lin Jianyuan felt a sudden sense of utter unreality. He looked around blankly: his familiar colleagues, his office, the familiar vines crawling across the walls and ceiling, and the chattering tinkle toy and small stone in his pocket.
It was all things he was already familiar with.
But it wasn't right. Something had been wrong since a long time ago.
Those vines growing out of the eyes, the talking squishies and the rocks... it just doesn't make sense.
No. No. These things shouldn't exist.
These things are illusions!
...So Pei Shuo was also hallucinating?
That enthusiastic and cheerful young man, with his bright eyes and a golden retriever who couldn't bear to see humans suffer, even brought him breakfast every day.
If Pei Shuo was also hallucinating, then what were those breakfasts he ate?
"Lin Jianyuan? Lin Jianyuan!"
Lin Jianyuan suddenly felt extremely dizzy and nauseous. He couldn't hear what the people around him were saying, so he pushed through the crowd, suppressing his nausea.
A roar of anger blocked his way.
"Lin Jianyuan! Where are you going during working hours?!"
Yu Xiuli's eyes were wide open, and behind her black-framed glasses was an extremely stern look.
The irritated Lin Jianyuan was too lazy to explain.
He simply chose the simplest method.
"Ugh—Ugh!"
Lin Jianyuan opened his mouth and vomited violently. The sticky brown fountain immediately sprayed Yu Xiuli's head and face!
Yu Xiuli: “?”
Everyone: “???”
Wow, last time he just took shit out of his pocket, but this time he put it directly in his mouth?!
In an instant, everyone's face showed extremely horrified expressions.
But the next second everyone realized: No, that's not poop!
That's just undigested soda crackers...
It turned out to be just vomit.
That's okay.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course, the “people” here does not include Xiu Li.
Because she was actually vomited all over!
Not to mention the sticky vomit still dripping down her cheeks and clothes, just the smell! That sour and hot smell!
vomit!
Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!
Yu Xiuli also collapsed and started retching!
Compared to Yu Xiuli who broke down on the spot, Lin Jianyuan was much calmer.
He just casually took a tissue from Qin Shi's workstation, wiped his mouth randomly, and then walked out.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, feeling that the scene was extremely familiar.
The same psychotic patient, the same defensive leader who retched non-stop...
How to say it.
Just one word.
Cool! ! !
Lin Jianyuan came out of the office. His throat was no longer nauseous, but he still felt dizzy.
I don't think he got high blood pressure from working. This must be a work-related injury.
Thinking of the work injury, Lin Jianyuan became happy again and couldn't help but imagine the wonderful life with work injury compensation and sick leave.
His mind was still a little confused, and he couldn't tell the truth from the false. He even doubted whether he had taken his medicine properly in the past two days.
Forget it, let me go and have a cigarette to calm down.
Lin Jianyuan walked towards the elevator. At this moment, an extremely distant and faint voice reached his eardrums.
"Brother Yuan!..."
Pei Shuo?!
Lin Jianyuan paused and suddenly pushed open the door of the fire escape!
The sound came from the fire escape.
Regardless of whether it was an illusion or not, he had to go and see what was going on.
The fire escape was dark. Dark, dark, dark. As if something had devoured the light in huge gulps.
Even the "EXIT" sign near the ground flickered, and the little green men escaping not only failed to give people a sense of security, but instead created a strong horror movie effect.
However, the most terrifying thing is never the darkness itself, but the unknown hidden in the darkness.
Lin Jianyuan stopped at a certain floor.
The cry for help that sounded so similar to Pei Shuo's did not reappear. Instead, there were some vague gurgling sounds, like something spitting bubbles underwater.
Gurgle. Gurgle. Gurgle.
"Don't go down anymore..." Nienile said anxiously, "I feel something is wrong down there..."
"It's strange," Little Stone hesitated, "but what is this aura?"
Lin Jianyuan's ears itched as he listened. He was also annoyed by the two little decompression toys in his pocket frantically tugging at his sleeves, urging him to stop.
What's that gurgling, bubbling sound? Where is Pei Shuo?
Is what he is seeing, hearing and experiencing now reality or an illusion?
What the hell is going on?
——Is he crazy or is this world crazy? !
The more Lin Jianyuan thought about it, the more confused he became, and the more confused he became, the angrier he became.
Then he heard an extremely speechless voice coming from down the stairs.
"No way, you've only eaten a little and you can't eat anymore. Are you any good at this? How dare you come out here with such a big appetite?"
Lin Jianyuan: “.”
Pinching Music & Little Stone: “???”
Lin Jianyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
He said to the two small toys in his pocket, "Look, that bubbling sound isn't a monster at all. It's just someone overeating and experiencing indigestion."
Nie Nie Le: "No? Wait a minute?"
The next second, Lin Jianyuan saw two strange things at the corner of the stairs.
To be precise, it was two strange shadows, because the corridor was very dark, with only the green man on the escape route sign providing a little bit of horror movie light.
With the help of this little green light, Lin Jianyuan could barely see the two things in front of him:
On the left is a black... black garbage bag with shark teeth?
On the right side is an eyeball as big as a basketball, with three pairs of wings spread out on both sides of the eyeball like an angel.
N eyes met.
Lin Jianyuan: “?”
Shark Teeth & Angel Eyes: "???"
Pinching Music & Little Stone: “???”
No, how come the three of you fell in love with each other?!
It was Nienile who reacted first. It struggled out of the pocket and rushed to the other side, dragging the little stone with it.
At the same time, a sharp explosion sounded: "Lin Jianyuan, run! This is an A-level Abyss Maw and--"
Mouth of the Abyss and what?
Lin Jianyuan wanted to listen to Nienele complete the settings, but Shark Tooth suddenly appeared in front of him.
At that moment, the distance was extremely close. Time almost stood still, and he could almost see the tiny wear marks on the hundreds of densely packed shark teeth.
Then everything went black.
Lin Jianyuan disappeared into the deep and dark escape passage.
…
Lin Jianyuan felt dizzy. When he felt his feet touch the ground again, he opened his eyes and saw a huge... garbage dump?
In the dark and deep cave, all kinds of debris piled up like mountains, including bound documents, greasy sauce-flavored pancake packaging bags, dirty red seals, and countless other messy things.
...Wait. Documents? Jiangxiang pancakes?
Lin Jianyuan's heart moved, and he shouted into the dark cave: "Pei Shuo!"
"Pei Shuo, are you there? Pei Shuo!"
The call echoed in the dark cave. Not long after, a distant voice came from behind the garbage mountain.
"Brother Yuan!!! I'm here!!!"
Even from a distance, one could hear the excitement in the voice. Lin Jianyuan quickly ran towards the source of the sound, and Pei Shuo also ran and shouted.
The two people quickly found each other through sound positioning.
"Brother Yuan! It's really you!"
Pei Shuo was almost in tears when he found him, his eyes filled with grievance and excitement. Lin Jianyuan could even picture the big golden retriever's thick, powerful tail lashing wildly.
Lin Jianyuan: "What's going on?"
Pei Shuo: "I don't know either! I went to work normally this morning, and everything was fine when I entered the elevator. But when I got out, it was pitch black in front of me. As soon as I walked in, I was here..."
Lin Jianyuan: "Don't you feel that there is something wrong?"
Pei Shuo scratched his head: "It's okay. I thought the power was out in the corridor."
Lin Jianyuan was speechless for a moment and said, "You are really generous."
Pei Shuo: "Then how did you get in?"
Lin Jianyuan: "Oh, there were two monsters chatting on the stairs. I wasn't paying attention and bumped into them in the face. One of them opened its mouth and swallowed me."
Pei Shuo: “…”
Who is so careless?
"It's come to this." Lin Jianyuan said, "Let's find a way out."
"No, brother." Pei Shuo was shocked. "How can you be so calm? Aren't you afraid at all?"
Lin Jianyuan: "I'm mentally ill. I have hallucinations all day long, and this is just the beginning. Don't you know that?"
Pei Shuo: “.”
OK.
Lin Jianyuan: "But this hallucination seems to be different from the previous ones."
Pei Shuo immediately became nervous: "What?"
Lin Jianyuan: "Why are you also in my illusion?"
Pei Shuo: “Huh??”
Lin Jianyuan walked forward and waved his five fingers in front of him.
Pei Shuo: “?”
Pei Shuo's eyes followed him subconsciously. When Lin Jianyuan pointed east, Pei Shuo looked east. When Lin Jianyuan pointed west, Pei Shuo looked west.
Lin Jianyuan poked his finger on the tip of his nose, and Pei Shuo became cross-eyed.
Lin Jianyuan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
When the big golden retriever heard him laugh, he realized that he had been fooled and couldn't help but yelled madly: "Brother Yuan!"
Lin Jianyuan suddenly remembered something, retracted his hand and muttered, "No, this is useless. Even if it feels like a human, it may not really be a human. After all, a frog looks like a frog when you pinch it, but a frog is actually a tangerine. A pinching le does look like a pinching le, no, a pinching le is really a pinching le..."
Lin Jianyuan's mumbling sounded like complete nonsense to Pei Shuo.
Pei Shuo became more and more terrified as he listened, and said with a sad face: "Brother, please stop talking, I'm scared!"
Lin Jianyuan: “?”
Pei Shuo showed an expression that said, "Please stop going crazy first." Lin Jianyuan sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, let's walk around first and see what's going on here."
"Do we really have to walk everywhere?" Pei Shuo hesitated, "Or we should stay where we are and wait for rescue... I'm afraid I'll get lost if I go any further. In fact, I was already lost before you came..."
Lin Jianyuan: "Don't count on others, no one will come to save us."
Pei Shuo: "Why?"
The mouth of the abyss, outside.
The moment the Nienenle snail crashed into the mouth of the abyss, its three pairs of wings suddenly opened.
Under the angelic white wings, huge eyeballs stared at it.
Nienilecuo was caught off guard and looked into its eyes. His entire body froze instantly.
Click.
The Nienjiele fell to the ground, and its very elastic body bounced twice.
"Huh. Why am I here?"
The time thief scratched his head with his tentacles, then dragged the heavy snail shell and twisted away.
The snail left a long, wet trail behind it.
Dadadada...
Small stones rolled down the steps.
It rolled all the way to the bottom floor of the building.
"No one will come to save us," Lin Jianyuan said, "because once we are devoured, everyone will forget us. This mouth of the abyss doesn't just swallow living people, it can devour the very existence of this thing."
"What? How do you know all this?" Pei Shuo's eyes widened, filled with shock and fear. "No. Am I dreaming? How can there be such a thing as 'devouring existence' in the real world? Have I watched too many anime..."
Lin Jianyuan: "Because this worldview is something I created in my mind."
Pei Shuo: “Ah???”
Pei Shuo became more and more confused as he listened.
"Then why do you still remember me, Brother Yuan?" Pei Shuo asked puzzledly, "Didn't you say you came to me because you heard my cry for help?"
Lin Jianyuan: "Oh, right. Then just pretend I didn't say anything. This rule doesn't apply. I'm really not suited to mystery and suspense."
Pei Shuo: “…”
"What should I do then?" Pei Shuo was about to cry. "I'm not good at reasoning and suspense either! And I'm most afraid of this kind of dark secret room. Every time I play it, I have to reduce the intensity. What should I do now..."
Lin Jianyuan comforted him, "Don't worry, we are not without a way out now."
Pei Shuo's eyes lit up: "Hmm?"
Lin Jianyuan: "We still have a dead end."
Pei Shuo: “………………”
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