Chapter 136 (Overhaul)

On the other side.

Inside the dark floor.

Watching the arm with red shoes gradually crawling away, Gu Yunshu didn't spend more time on her. He waved to the big guy standing beside him and turned around and left with him.

If you can see the light, the exit of this floor is not difficult to find. Just collect the clues under the light in a specific order. Gu Yunshu took the strange newcomer to confirm the location of the exit without much effort. On the way, he had a good chat with the big guy, so as to establish a preliminary understanding of each other.

...Although the so-called "chat" was basically just himself talking.

It's not that the other party is unwilling to talk, but he seems... not very good at communication. His speech was somewhat incoherent, and his words were not clear enough, so communication was very difficult.

And it was obvious that the other party had a big problem with his memory. He couldn't even remember his own name, so Gu Yunshu could only call him "Meili" based on the name on his work badge.

Fortunately, Gu Yunshu has always been very patient and has a lot of experience in communicating with ignorant spirits. By the time the two of them really walked to the exit, she and Meili were already quite familiar with each other.

Of course, familiarity is familiarity. When she occasionally glanced at the other party's huge body full of holes, Gu Yunshu couldn't help but secretly marvel.

As a dead person, she could clearly feel that this guy was different from herself. Maybe it is a bit similar to the red shoes, but the essence is still different - but she couldn't tell where the difference was.

Is it a mutant root? But it is not exactly the same as the ones she encountered before. If I have to say, it seems to be more blubber than Landor...

Gu Yunshu was thinking endlessly, and suddenly heard a low call from the front. She looked in surprise and saw a familiar figure waving at her desperately under the light in front of the elevator.

"Hey, hey!" Fang Xueqing tried to keep her voice calm, "I remember you, the teacher from the demolition office! I'm Fang Xueqing, we've met before..."

"Yes, I know you." Gu Yunshu blinked and approached quickly with beauty, but saw someone standing behind Fang Xueqing. It was not Ling Guang whom he had seen before, but a strange flat-headed man wearing a sweatshirt and tall.

The presence of a stranger made Gu Yunshu look a little cautious. As if seeing her alertness, Fang Xueqing took the initiative to say: "This is Fang Zheng, he came in with me. Ling Guang had something to do and had to go to another ghost story, so I temporarily changed my partner."

After that, she pointed to the elevator behind her and said: "We just came in not long ago, and followed the clues to find this door. On the way, we happened to meet other people who entered by mistake. They said that they got help from the Demolition and Relocation Office on this floor, so I thought that I should be able to find someone from the Demolition and Relocation Office here, so it's a good opportunity to gather and exchange information first."

"?" Gu Yunshu was stunned, "Help from the Demolition and Relocation Office?"

"Yes." Fang Xueqing nodded. "The two people we met were both users of the forum. One of them was an administrator, with the last name Du. She said that they had been followed by a strange shadow before, and someone from the Demolition Office secretly stopped it, and the shadow stopped."

After getting rid of the shadow, they almost got lost, and it was the same person who reminded them in the dark. Out of caution, they also asked about the other party's identity, and the only response they got was "a temporary employee of the Demolition Office."

This is why they confirmed that the person who helped them was someone from the Demolition Office.

"..." As if he understood something, Gu Yunshu slowly turned his head. The beauty next to him shyly and proudly raised her chest full of holes.

"I know I look a little scary." As if afraid that Gu Yunshu might misunderstand, he deliberately added, "So I didn't show my face from beginning to end."

Gu Yunshu: "..."

That was really hard work.

On the other side, Fang Xueqing and the others finally saw the appearance of the big guy - although they tried to restrain themselves, Gu Yunshu still clearly heard their simultaneous gasps.

...I have to say, this guy's decision not to show his face was quite right.

Now that it has been merged, there is no need to stand outside the elevator. Gu Yunshu opened the elevator, swiped the card to trigger it, and then skillfully opened the setting book hanging on the elevator. The moment he scanned the text above, his usually calm eyes trembled violently.

Next to her, Fang Xueqing was looking at the slogan from the Demolition Office on the wall with emotion and let out a long sigh:

"To be honest, I was quite nervous when I came in. I thought I would at least break a leg this time... I didn't expect you to move so quickly. It hasn't been such a long time and you have already completely controlled the situation."

"..." Gu Yunshu pretended to be calm and turned to a blank page in the notebook. He lowered his head to write and said, "It's not completely under control. The core rules are still being cracked."

"That's also amazing, isn't it." Fang Xueqing did not hide her amazement. Although she had not used this elevator yet, she had come in to explore it while waiting for the demolition office. "By the way, can this elevator take people to a designated floor? I'm from Fujian, and I have always had a special belief in Mazu..."

Gu Yunshu: "... Mazu?"

"The sixteenth floor." Fang Xueqing's new partner kindly pointed it out to Gu Yunshu. "Sister Fang just turned to this page and was so excited that she almost ran away in the elevator."

Gu Yunshu: "..."

"It takes more cards to go to the designated floor." She sighed, "and your consultant wants you to go to the 100th floor."

"?!" Fang Xueqing's eyes widened immediately. After listening to Gu Yunshu's explanation, a bit of worry appeared on her face, "Teacher Jing actually said that... Then we still have to find a way to collect the cards first."

"Xu... The director has already gone down. If there is new information, we will synchronize it to the elevator for you to obtain." Gu Yunshu said, and began to seriously add settings to the notebook to start the elevator, "So your consultant's last name is Jing? Quite special."

"No, it's because the external form of her ability is usually a mirror, so we call her that." Fang Xueqing explained, "Peeping Mirror, that's what she calls herself. Sometimes we also jokingly call her Stepmother Mirror..." "

?" Gu Yunshu paused with the tip of his pen, and raised his head in confusion, "Stepmother?"

"Snow White's stepmother." Fang Xueqing said, "Doesn't the queen in the fairy tale also have a magic mirror?"

"Oh." Gu Yunshu suddenly realized and closed the notebook with the settings added - and then, there was a sharp buzzing sound, and the elevator finally started running.

While the elevator was running, Gu Yunshu simply shared with Fang Xueqing the information currently held by the demolition office. Fang Xueqing wrote down everything with a focused look on her face. The moment she finished speaking, the elevator stopped. Fang Xueqing looked at the open elevator door, but she didn't rush out.

"By the way, I just wanted to ask... Is the guy named Landor from your unit also here? Can we contact him now?" Fang Xueqing held down the elevator door button with one hand and looked over carefully, "Because we received a strange message here, maybe he can understand what it means."

"It may be difficult to contact him. But if you have any news, it's the same to tell our director." Gu Yunshu's eyes moved slightly, and he chose a more clever answer, "What is the specific matter?"

"Well, this... wait for me to sort it out, it's a little complicated." Fang Xueqing closed her eyes and exhaled, "Let me put it this way, do you remember what I just said, our consultant's ability is the peeping mirror?"

Gu Yunshu nodded slightly, and Fang Xueqing immediately said: "Her strength is collecting information. She can peek into the situation or clues inside without entering the strange story, and can even share the ability of peeping with other people through a medium... But this also has a side effect. Sometimes she will receive targeted harassment from other strange stories..." "

I understand what you mean." Gu Yunshu nodded, "Peeping itself is also a kind of connection. Once someone captures this connection, they can in turn lock the location of the peeper."

"That's about it." Fang Xueqing nodded. "Coincidentally, after our consultant disappeared without a reason, we found her personal mobile phone among the items she left behind. There was a message like this."

She showed her mobile phone to Gu Yunshu. On the screen was a photo of a mobile phone text message. The text message was full of messy characters and some Chinese characters, which looked very messy.

"You can't understand it, right? Don't worry. We extracted all the Chinese characters in the text message and rearranged them according to the normal word order, and we got another text like this." Fang Xueqing said, and slid the screen again. Several lines of text immediately appeared in front of Gu Yunshu:

[Sorry to bother you, but you are the only one who can receive my message now.

[Please go to Landor immediately and tell him that the sealed door here is loosening. Let him pay attention to other places. ]

The signature is "Tianyu Eye Hospital".

"..." Gu Yunshu looked at the last signature and frowned slightly - if she remembered correctly, she had heard Xu Ming mention this place.

She had suffered a serious injury, and it seemed that she was healed in this place, and it was Landor who brought her there.

"That's the situation." Fang Xueqing put away her phone and curled her lips, "When we found this message, it was still unread, and Teacher Jing probably hasn't had time to read it yet."

After restoring the content of the message, they immediately synchronized the message with Gu Ming, but did not receive a reply for a long time; on the other hand, the words "the door is loosening" were really worrying. So Anxin Gardening decisively retrieved the past data of "Tianyu Eye Hospital" and temporarily transferred personnel to let them investigate first.

Ling Guang was one of the people who were transferred away. This is why Fang Xueqing changed her partner this time - she is good at using the rulebook, but she is the best at running away. Therefore, after much deliberation, the organization still sent her here with trepidation. If she really can't do it, at least she can force the door open to save people.

As for her current partner, he was specially matched for her. He doesn't have a rulebook, but he has a distorted yellow fish brain, which can effectively prevent her from losing her ability to save people due to amnesia, cognitive confusion, etc.

Not only that, he is also a paramedic and has great strength - if Fang Xueqing breaks her arms and legs because of using the rulebook, he can still help her in time.

"Wait a minute." Gu Yunshu noticed something else. "You just said, 'call up' the data of Tianyu Ophthalmology?"

"Well, because we have also paid attention to that strange story." Fang Xueqing showed a look of reminiscence. "I remember it should be two or three years ago? The information of this strange story suddenly began to spread on the Internet... 'A supernatural hospital that can only be entered at a specific time. After entering, you can make a wish to the dean, but no matter what wish it is, you must exchange it with your eyes', I remember it seems to be like this."

It was at that time that "Tianyu Ophthalmology Hospital" attracted the attention of Anxin Yuanyi. But at that time, the players were wandering around, and even if Anxin Yuanyi wanted to, he was too busy. And when they finally had the energy to study the hospital, the strange story closed itself.

Even if they followed the rituals circulating on the Internet, they could not enter again. No one knew how and why it was closed. They tried every possible means, but only learned two things.

First, before it closed, a group of "players" went in together. And no one came out again.

Second, there was a very powerful existence in that strange story, and it was not certain whether it was the domain master - and the characteristic of that abnormal existence was that it was covered with eyes.

After that, they signed a contract with Teacher Jing to cooperate. Because they cared about those "players", they specially commissioned a consultant to use his ability to investigate.

After a long period of investigation, the consultant at that time only gave three strange sentences:

"Changes in hospital equity", "The door is closed", and - "Don't pay attention to it."

"?" Gu Yunshu frowned even more tightly, "What does it mean?"

"I don't know. Teacher Jing didn't explain it either." Fang Xueqing spread her hands helplessly, "Our consultant is actually a bit like a psychic... Do you understand? Sometimes, she is only responsible for obtaining information from strange stories, but she herself doesn't know what the information means and how to interpret it."

But no matter what, the four words "ignore it" are still easy to understand. In addition, there was indeed no movement after this strange story, and Anxin Gardening sealed the data.

Until this time, when they found the help message from Tianyu Ophthalmology on the consultant's mobile phone, they paid attention to this strange story again.

"It is possible that we overreacted... But, it mentioned the 'door'." Fang Xueqing pursed her lips, "At this juncture, we think it is better to be cautious."

"Yeah." Gu Yunshu was silent for a while, and nodded gently, "Thank you for telling me. I will convey it to the director and Lando as soon as possible."

"Okay." Fang Xueqing breathed a sigh of relief and finally released her hand from the door-closing button. The elevator door slowly opened: "Then we will leave first, and collect the cards first. If there is any new information, we will communicate through the elevator."

Gu Yunshu nodded again and watched the two people walk out of the elevator one after another. Then he took out a pen and wrote on the work card.

"Tianyu Eye Clinic..." She wrote and read aloud subconsciously. She noticed the thoughtful look of the big guy next to her and looked over: "What's the matter?"

"...Nothing." The big guy tilted his head and said in confusion, "It just seems a little familiar..."

Gu Yunshu: "? Familiar with what?"

"...I don't know." After another moment of confusion, the big guy shook his head as if giving up, "I can't remember."

All right. Gu Yunshu retracted his gaze and continued to write and draw on his work badge.

*

The other side.

The 100th floor.

Although the whale blubber man only mentioned it once, Xu Ming always remembered the 100th floor it described very clearly.

A hanging human head, a red butterfly resting on its mouth, and a bunch of hair hanging down like a brush - these few words of description were enough for Xu Ming to fill in a chilling picture.

... Unexpectedly, after she really stepped into the 100th floor, what she saw was not these.

"I say, are you sure you are in the right place?"

Next to Xu Ming, Lu Yueling, who had just been released from the rule book, was looking around curiously and said bluntly: "This looks nothing like the legendary 100th floor."

She was telling the truth. There were no human heads or red butterflies.

Connected to the elevator is a beautiful lobby with a blue door at the end. Opening the door leads to a long corridor, and through the corridor is the room they are in now -

it looks to be about fifty square meters, with white carved shelves on all four walls, and on the shelves are dolls of all sizes. They are

in various postures and cute, filling the shelves.

The edges of the shelves are decorated with lifelike roses and colorful ribbons, and in the corners of the room are gorgeous flower stands. Lu Yueling looked up curiously and found that the ceiling was also carved, with intricate patterns that were delicate and elegant, and the floor was made of marble, white and shiny.

"Hey, they still have candies in their hands!" Noticing the sparkle in the hands of a doll, Lu Yueling carefully leaned over to take a look. Then she noticed that the seams on the doll's belly had broken a little. Looking through the broken seams, she could clearly see the shiny candy wrappers.

Not only in the hands, but also in the doll's belly, it was full of candies.

Lu Yueling was amazed and became more and more suspicious that Xu Ming had gone to the wrong place. Xu Ming took out the floor list he copied from Qiu Yufei from his bag, checked it carefully, but frowned.

"Theoretically... it should be correct." She carefully put the paper away, her expression still tense, "None of the contents of the previous ninety-nine floors can match the contents here."

Moreover, the method to enter the designated floor was what she found out from Crazy Bag, and it was clearly written on a small piece of paper, and the handwriting was consistent with other hints... It didn't seem fake at all.

"Then maybe someone changed the settings?" While speaking, Lu Yueling had already turned to the other side and admired another row of dolls with relish, "I quite like the style of this change."

"How is it possible? It's just a change of settings, not a decoration." Xu Ming said softly, looking around again, but his brows were even tighter.

There are not only dolls in this room, but also a large number of display cabinets.

The glass display cabinets full of texture fill almost every corner. The things in the display cabinets are equally amazing, and it looks like a small fairy-tale theme toy exhibition -

little soldiers with red hearts embedded in their chests, pretty little people dancing in red dancing shoes, old soldiers staggering with torn bags, young men sitting in flying boxes and curiously looking out, a wooden barrel filled with newspapers and with a tongue...

Each item is in a small display cabinet, shining brightly under the light strips. Xu Ming's eyes stayed on the little soldier with a red heart for a moment, and he raised his hand to call Lu Yueling, trying to force the display cabinet open. Who would have thought that there was no crack on the surface of the cabinet. After trying several times, he had to give up temporarily.

So the two of them explored separately again. Xu Ming forced himself to shift his attention from the display cabinets. Just as he was about to look at the dolls on the shelf, he heard Lu Yueling's low cry, and a doll fell to the ground, and the candy in its belly scattered all over the floor.

Xu Ming looked over in surprise, but saw Lu Yueling covering her mouth with her hands, with a look of shock and fear on her face. Meeting Xu Ming's gaze, her face became even uglier. After a long pause, she finally found her voice: "It's okay, I just had an illusion..." "

?" Xu Ming looked at the candies on the ground vigilantly, "What illusion?"

"Here." Lu Yueling pointed at the candies on the ground with a complicated expression, "I wanted to peel one to see what was inside, but in a blink of an eye, they all turned into insect eggs... The kind that can move, so disgusting."

"..." Xu Ming replayed the scene in his mind, shuddered involuntarily, and silently distanced himself from the candies on the ground.

Looking at the doll that fell on the ground again, his eyes fixed again. The next second, she quickly picked up the doll, reached into its belly, and took out a piece of paper.

"It's the employee rules!" Lu Yueling saw the handwriting printed on the outside of the note at a glance, "Is it left by Landor?"

When trapped in a strange place, it is reasonable to use the paper you bring with you and tear it into small pieces to leave information!

Xu Ming obviously thought of this as well, and her eyes lit up slightly - as the note unfolded, her eyes froze, and her expression gradually became subtle.

Noticing her expression change, Lu Yueling hurried over. Only then did she realize that the handwriting on the note was not Landor's - but several lines of familiar italic words.

The handwriting is much more beautiful than Landor's, but it also looks quite messy, and the words written are also very confusing:

[It's getting more and more chaotic. This place is getting more and more chaotic. Even I can't see more.

【The dog [crossed out] Happy tried to interfere with the rules here, but it didn't seem to work.

【The bucket's mouth would open periodically, but I couldn't hear what it was saying. No one else could hear it either.

【The cat [crossed out] The dog got even sicker. We were all very hungry, but there was no food. The display case couldn't be opened.

【Closed, inescapable, separated... So, are we also in the display case?

【...Maybe the cat is right. We are not the key.

【We are just part of the food. 】