Chapter 144 (Minor Repair)

As the woman's voice fell, the room fell into a deathly silence.

The shadow dog's threatening growl suddenly increased, and Landor also frowned. Lu Yueling's throat moved slightly, and she quietly looked at Xu Ming's expression - although she basically didn't understand what the consultant said, she instinctively knew that what the other party said was probably not a good thing.

In comparison, Xu Ming's reaction was rather calm. He just crossed his arms and said lightly "Oh".

Then he turned to the others: "It seems that we can't get anything out of this. Let's just go out. Landor will leave a dog to watch."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the door, as if he really didn't intend to pay attention to Teacher Jing anymore.

"..." Teacher Jing, who had a profound smile on her face just now, was stunned. The curve of her mouth was frozen on her face, as if she couldn't make up her mind whether to retract it. Seeing that Xu Ming's hand was about to touch the door handle, Fang hurriedly said, "Aren't you curious about who the real key is?"

"It's none of my business." Xu Ming didn't even turn his head, "I'm not interested either."

"Teacher Jing": "..."

Her mouth was slightly open but she fell into silence. Her brows were tightened. With the sound of the door handle turning, she finally couldn't help but speak, and her usually gentle voice was slightly raised: "Okay, if you are not interested, then tell me something you are interested in!"

"..." Xu Ming paused in turning the door handle.

Then he turned around leisurely.

"That's right." She crossed her arms and raised her chin slightly. "If you want to fish, you have to lay some decent bait.

"Come on, I'll give you another chance. Let me see what kind of hook you can lay this time."

"Teacher Mirror": ...

Wait, if I remember correctly, I am the one with the information advantage, right? Why does it seem like I am the one who is rushing to deliver the intelligence...

Realizing that something was wrong belatedly, the bound woman closed her eyes as if to adjust herself. When she spoke again, her voice returned to its usual gentleness:

"You may not believe it... but I didn't lie."

"?" Xu Ming raised his eyebrows pretending to be calm, and his arms became more and more tense. "What do you mean?"

"Children's rhymes. "Teacher Mirror" looked at Xu Ming slowly and deeply, with a hint of envy in his eyes, "I really can't hear that nursery rhyme."

"Because it is something that only those who are qualified to be the key can hear.

"But I was once qualified...but I forgot.

"It wasn't until I saw the note you left that I remembered that I could hear nursery rhymes. It's just that this unfortunate missed glory, along with other memories, has been taken away by time."

"..." Glory? What glory? The glory of opening Pandora's box? Do you want to hear what you are saying?

Xu Ming couldn't help but glance at the consultant, trying to control his expression, but his heart was already surging with waves.

Keys - Auntie's notes did mention that the keys to "open the door" are mostly mutant roots, but the possibility of other types is not ruled out. However, the notes did not go into detail on this aspect, so Xu Ming thought that at most it was a dead person or Things like roots, I never thought that living people could be counted in it...

What is behind the door? Hot pot? Any material is compatible?

The most important thing is, according to what the consultant said, the key chosen this time is me... Why is that? ?

Because I have the rule book? Or because I have made a deal with the thing behind the door? Or because I happened to come to the 100th floor? What will it do next? How can I defend myself?

...Wait, I can't rule out the possibility that the other party is deliberately creating confusion... Anyway, no matter what, I can't panic. At least for now, I still have to continue collecting intelligence...

After a few breaths, Xu Ming calmed down and looked at the consultant again, but asked a question in another direction:

"You just said that you have heard nursery rhymes? What does that mean?

"Yes, when I was still alive." "Teacher Jing" answered very smoothly this time, without dragging out those clattering words, "when I was still a human."

"...When I worked with your elder, Xu Zhuangyan." "

..."

"…………"

Okay, it's too early to talk.

Silently tightening the fingers grasping on his arm, Xu Ming felt that his cheeks were about to be bitten by himself.

This guy's words can actually make people's hearts skip a beat.

*

In fact, it was more than just a thump in the heart.

Xu Ming herself did not feel anything, but Lu Yueling who was standing next to her saw it clearly - the moment the consultant's voice fell, Xu Ming's already pale face became even uglier on the spot. Lu Yueling

only knew that Xu Ming had an aunt who raised her, but she did not know more about this, let alone that Xu Ming's aunt's name was Xu Zhuangyan. Therefore, even after listening to the consultant's words, she was still confused, and the look she gave Xu Ming was even more dazed. She opened her mouth slightly, but did not know what to say.

It was still Lando who reacted first, and hurriedly called Xu Ming. Seeing Xu Ming come back to his senses as if waking up from a dream, he hurriedly reminded him: "Don't believe her words completely, she has ways to collect information. ”

“…” Xu Ming seemed to realize something when he heard it, and instinctively touched the small bag slung across his side, and his eyes finally calmed down a little.

"Teacher Mirror" just smiled lightly.

"If you think this will make you feel better, then it's up to you." She smiled, "Honestly, I don't remember much about the past, and most of it was just what I remembered when I saw the nursery rhymes before."

"Da Zhuang, pickpocket, villain... It's so far away, like something from another time and space. I also remember you, Xu Ming, Da Zhuang brought you to the card table, and after that you were just a little bit small, not even as tall as the table..."

"Okay, okay, I know, you even hugged me back then." Xu Ming interrupted her unbearably, "What on earth do you want to say? "

...Nothing, I just feel regret for our past, deep regret." "Teacher Mirror" said softly, "We were the first to sense 'it' and the first to have contact with 'it'. We should have been the most favored group, and even many of us, like you, had the qualifications to become the key..." "But we

wasted it all. Wasted on the so-called exploration, the so-called rescue, the so-called sacrifice."

"Can you understand? The nature of human beings is actually not much different from that of ants. We are all ants, ants living in caves.

"And I, your aunt, and those others are like sentinels among the ants. Because of our identity, we stay closest to the light. We could have touched the light, we could have! But we are too stupid, and have been speculating about everything with the thinking of ants...

"We are ignorant, arrogant, and cowardly. We let the fear of the unknown dominate us, and we are blinded and slowed down by reality. We cannot see the gifts and glory in front of us, until we come to the wrong position, and finally we even give up everything for that insignificant position, but we don’t know what we have missed... We don’t know that we are just a little bit away from real salvation...

"But you are different. You still have time."

Looking at Xu Ming again, the tone of "Teacher Mirror" suddenly changed: "You are still qualified, you still have time.

"It favors you, so it chooses you to be its key. You still have a chance to respond to this gift. You can make the right choice. You can get its salvation. You can become its true dependent. You don't understand... this is an opportunity that many people can't even ask for."

She closed her eyes and exhaled deeply.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not forcing you. You are the key, and it's up to you to decide whether to open the door or not. I just want to give you advice as a person who has been through it. Please believe that I really have no ill intentions, and I don't have any intention of attacking you."

"Teacher Mirror" said, and slowly opened his eyes:

"Whether you believe it or not, I just hope you can make a better choice, that's all."

"..."

After the words, the room was shrouded in silence again.

"Teacher Mirror" still had a faint smile on her face, and when she looked at Xu Ming, she even had a bit of the gentleness of an elder.

Lu Yueling watched from a distance, but her scalp tingled for some reason.

To be honest, she still didn't understand much of what this guy just said. But she still understood the general meaning - she seemed to be an old acquaintance of Xu Ming's parents, and as a person who had been there, she was trying to persuade Xu Ming to "open the door"...

If it was a normal situation, Lu Yueling would certainly not worry that Xu Ming would be fooled. To put it in an exaggerated way, for someone like Xu Ming, if she received a fraudulent text message, she would worry whether the scammer would cheat her out of 800 yuan; the problem is that the other party is playing the emotional card this time.

It also concerns Xu Ming's aunt... Xu Ming is a sentimental person. Lu Yueling has heard her mention her aunt's disappearance more than once, and it is obvious that she cares a lot about it...

Who knows what Xu Ming will think this time? Moreover, even if he refuses this time, what if the other party makes a more tempting condition? Something like "If you cooperate with me to open the door, I will take you to find your aunt"... Who can say for sure?

The more Lu Yueling thought about it, the more frightened she became. She looked at "Teacher Mirror" with a bit of cruelty. Just when she was seriously thinking about whether to use her hair to cover the other party's mouth, Xu Ming finally spoke again.

...But the question he asked was completely unrelated.

"Do you know why 'idiot' is called idiot?"

Lu Yueling: "..." Huh?

Not only her, but also the "Mirror Teacher" opposite was obviously stunned. Xu Ming waited for two seconds, but the other party did not answer, but he did not seem surprised at all:

"You don't remember? It doesn't matter, I'll ask something else.

"Why is the villain called a villain? Who originally came up with the idea of ​​the rule book? Why does it really exist? What is the full name of the 'pickpocket'? What is Ms. Tian's full name? What is my aunt's favorite group sport?

"Don't know anything? Forgot everything? Or... is it because you can't find the answer at all?"

Xu Ming said in a calm voice, and noticing the other party's increasingly stiff face, he smiled unceremoniously and patted his bag again.

"It seems that you lied to me from the beginning." She shrugged, "You said that you can only 'see' the rules in the ghost story, but in fact, you have peeked into the notebook in my bag a lot, right?"

In addition to the required rule book, she also brought her aunt's notebook in her bag. It did contain a lot of records of her aunt's investigation of the "world behind the door".

But coincidentally, none of the questions Xu Ming asked just now were written in the notebook.

For "Teacher Mirror" who could peek into the notebook, it was like suddenly adding two beyond-the-scenario questions to the open-book test, the kind that were not in the book. It would be strange if he could answer them.

- Sure enough, just as Xu Ming expected, after being exposed by himself for the truth of "emotional card", "Teacher Mirror"'s face became ugly again.

His eyebrows became visibly gloomy, but his face was still smiling. The raised muscles and the eyes without a smile made his originally delicate features suddenly look fierce.

The shadow dogs in charge of vigilance were frightened and tucked their tails to make warning howls. But the woman ignored him and just stared at Xu Ming with her eyes wide open and didn't say a word. The curve of her mouth seemed to be welded to her face.

Xu Ming didn't want to continue to pester her. The fact that she could see the notebook in her bag showed that the other party's intelligence advantage was far greater than she expected. In this case, if she continued to ask questions, she might be led away by the other party. It would be better to go outside and look for clues.

Having made up his mind, Xu Ming put his hand on the doorknob again. Just as his fingertips touched the coolness of the metal, he heard "Teacher Mirror" behind him suddenly laugh. It

was completely different from the previous chuckle, it was sharp and mournful, even from Xu Ming's perspective, he could hear it clearly. As she laughed, the voice seemed to be filled with endless crying, and the helplessness that could not be concealed in the crying -

"I'm so sorry." Xu Ming heard her say, "I don't care where you are going, I just feel so sorry."

"You still don't know what you should do, you still don't understand how much favor you have received.

"You could have been the most perfect, the most perfect key...

" "But now-"

"You can only be a defective product. "

…"

What? "

Xu Ming's heart burst into doubts again, but before she turned her head to speak, a burst of intense pain instantly interrupted her thoughts.

The pain came from her ankle. She reached out to hold Lu Yueling who hurried to help her, and struggled to look at her feet. Her eyes immediately froze.

- I saw that there were marks on her ankles again.

The circle of dark handprints had been removed by her with the rule book, but now it appeared again, hanging on her ankle like a clinging gecko.

What's worse is that the handprint - its middle finger and thumb, are obviously connected.

Connected end to end, it formed a complete circle.

Almost at the same time, a dazzling light exploded in the room. Realizing that the light came from under her feet, Xu Ming hurriedly dodged backwards, and her back hit the door heavily, but what she hit was not the door, but a soft wall.

She opened her eyes in surprise, only to find that in the blink of an eye, the scene in front of her had been turned upside down -

the snow-white walls, the exquisite display cabinets, and the dolls on the shelves, all disappeared.

Instead, dark red walls appeared, soft, plump, and full of elasticity, like pieces of flesh and blood.

Bodies were hanging from the ceiling, their hairless heads looked pale and dead, with huge butterflies resting between their lips, their red wings trembling slightly, complementing the surrounding walls.

"Mirror Teacher" was sitting under those hanging bodies, with light spreading beneath her. There was even a partition on her right side... Unlike the surrounding walls, this wall was far less smooth, and translucent bulges were clearly visible on the wall. The bulges seemed to be filled with something, but Xu Ming couldn't see clearly.

- And at this time, whether you can see clearly or not is obviously not the point.

The door behind me has disappeared, and instead, there is a metal door on the right wall... So what is going on now? Am I not an idiot?

Strong doubts quickly passed through her mind, but she had no time to think carefully. Xu Ming's attention was quickly captured by the tentacle-like light under her feet. The dazzling light spots flowed on the ground like liquid, and thin arms made of light grew out of the ground as if asking for help, rushing to grab her! She

had no time to dodge, and her ankle was grabbed again.

Grabbed, and quickly let go. Then another hand grabbed, one after another, endlessly.

Every time she was grabbed, a deep mark was left on Xu Ming's ankle, accompanied by pain that could not be ignored. Without time to think, Xu Ming could only struggle desperately. With the help of Lu Yueling, she managed to break free from the hands below. Then, she was carried on the back of Landor who rushed over, and stumbled towards the door on the other side.

The light below seemed to be unwilling to give up, and was still chasing her closely. Xu Ming took the time to look at the center of the room, and her breathing stagnated -

she saw that "Teacher Mirror" was still standing there quietly. There was still a smile on his face. The light under him spread like water.

Next to him was the shadow dog that Landor left to guard. While baring his teeth threateningly, he lowered his body uncontrollably, as if facing something terrifying.

... Something was wrong.

Xu Ming felt this more and more strongly.

It's ok that Idiot suddenly failed, but why did the safe zone suddenly take effect? ​​When did the other party complete the arrangement? If she could have done it earlier, why did she keep delaying before...

and then there are... these lights.

Looking at the lights below carefully again, Xu Ming's brows knitted tighter.

Those lights were still trying to grab his ankles, but they were limited to grabbing his ankles.

And the target of the attack has always been himself. Neither Landor, who was being chased by him to escape, nor Lu Yueling, who was covering him, were affected at all.

Wait... attack?

Something seemed to be passing through his mind quickly, and Xu Ming's eyes suddenly widened. At this moment, Landor finally ran to the door and was about to touch the door handle. Xu Ming suddenly shuddered and said hurriedly: "Don't touch it! We can't open this door--"

Before he finished speaking, a bare hand suddenly appeared from behind, grabbed Xu Ming's neck, and dragged her straight down!

Xu Ming was caught off guard and fell backwards heavily. Lu Yueling hurriedly used her hair to cushion it, and finally prevented her from falling directly into the pile of bare hands-but when her quivering hair touched the radiant light, she immediately retreated in fear, and Xu Ming was unstable and almost fell again.

Even if she didn't fall, her condition was definitely not good. The light hand that grabbed her throat was still holding on tightly. Although it didn't suffocate her, it was like a stone pressing directly on Xu Ming's vocal cords, making her unable to make any sound.

What's worse is that at the moment Xu Ming landed, more light hands reached out - they were like hunters with precise attacks, separating Landor and Lu Yueling beside them like a tide, and at the same time, they kept wrapping around Xu Ming's wrist. Xu Ming was thrown forward suddenly, and her hand slammed on the door panel.

The door panel, which seemed to be closed tightly, actually opened a crack under this collision.

...Why is this?

Xu Ming's eyes widened in shock, and she tried desperately to take her hands away, but she couldn't get rid of the light hands that were holding her. When she saw her ankles while moving, her heart skipped a beat.

——On her ankles, there were still scratches from the previous attack, layered on top of each other, one circle, one circle, one circle...

It reminded people of the operation that "Mirror Teacher" had tried to induce her to complete before.

Turn the clock in reverse. One circle, one circle, one circle.

... So that's it. I understand. I

finally understand.

At this moment, the door in front of him was almost half open. Xu Ming closed his eyes and tried his best to turn his body back, just in time to meet the eyes of Landor who was blocked by the light wall.

Sound... I need sound...

Xu Ming tried to signal with his eyes, raised his chin towards Landor, and revealed the bare hand grasping his neck.

Landuo was startled for a moment, then he seemed to understand something, his eyes became firm again, and the next second, he was seen calling Lu Yueling while rushing towards Xu Ming without hesitation!

Lu Yueling's cursing voice echoed in the air, and her hair like a waterfall cut out diagonally, just blocking Landuo's back. The moment it came into contact with the light, the shiny hair made a sizzling sound of corrosion, and several light hands took the opportunity to drill through the hair and rushed out, the extremely stretched five fingers were like open sharp teeth, biting down hard on Landuo's back! With a swish

, Landuo's back shoulder was bitten, and a piece of flesh was torn off. But he didn't care about all this, and rushed to Xu Ming in a blink of an eye, stretched out his hand to pull Xu Ming's shoulders, took a deep breath, and turned his head to bite her neck!

The moment he opened his mouth, the teeth in his mouth were replaced by sharper beast teeth. Xu Ming felt his approaching breath and bit her cheek tightly. The next moment, she heard two "clicks" and "clicks" sounds -

two sharp teeth fell to the ground one after another.

Landor covered his mouth and stepped back from Xu Ming. Xu Ming felt her neck loosen, and she subconsciously let out an "ah".

- Can make a sound!

Realizing this, Xu Ming's breathing stopped again, and then he spoke without hesitation:

"Any behavior that goes against the will of others, regardless of the motive, will be considered an attack!"

"Any will imposed without regard for the will of others will be considered malicious!"

"Once again reiterate the rules of the safe zone - if you suspect the existence of malicious intent, you may not take any offensive actions in the safe zone! Absolutely prohibited!!"

As the voice fell, the anxious air suddenly froze. The

surroundings suddenly darkened. The tight feeling on the hand also disappeared abruptly. Xu Ming slowly withdrew his hand, trying to adapt to the sudden change of light and shadow in front of him. It took a long time before he realized that the world was quiet.

All the light and light hands disappeared.

The door in front of him was still there, maintaining a half-open state. Behind the door gap was pitch black, and it was also quiet.

...Sure enough.

Xu Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She was right.

The safe zone has never expired. It's just that before, "Teacher Mirror" used language to cleverly exploit the loopholes in the rules, and now that I have blocked that loophole, they can no longer make trouble.

The problem is... what to do with this door?

It has to be closed.

Xu Ming swallowed, looked at the door in front of him, and frowned again.

This door has no door handle. If you want to close the door, you can only grab the edge of the door panel. Xu Ming pursed her lips and moved her hand over carefully. The moment she approached the edge of the door panel, her breathing suddenly stagnated again.

She saw a head slowly poking out from behind the door.

It was her own face.

An even more childish face with a blank expression.

The face looked over silently, with an empty space in the eye sockets. Xu Ming stared at the dark eyes in a daze, and felt dizzy, as if he would pass out in the next second.

... No, wait, I seem to be really dizzy...

Xu Ming swayed on the spot, and swayed again. He blinked with a blank expression, and looked at Landor who was pursing his lips and looking at him nervously.

Finally, he couldn't control himself, closed his eyes, and fell down.

*

"So - couldn't you have left me some time at that time? Would I die or what?"

A few minutes later.

In the room still full of blood and flesh, the late "cat" was squatting on the head of "Teacher Mirror", and hissed at Lando in front of him with righteousness:

"You obviously know that I know more about the door than you! You are a dog man, what are you doing!"

"..." In response to it, Lando gave it an unpleasant look. The next second, his eyes fell back on Xu Ming.

The latter was lying with his eyes closed, and the rest was covered with clothes donated by Lando and Lu Yueling, and the clothes they took from "Teacher Mirror".

...Anyway, this guy has lost consciousness since Xu Ming fell into a coma, and asking her will be fruitless, so it is better to take it yourself.

The skinny shadow dog whimpered and lay down beside Xu Ming, his eyes rolling pitifully, earning another rude roll of the eyes from the cat.

As if noticing its action, Landor spoke: "If I give you some time, Kuai Le will also see it."

The mutant root had always identified him as a bad guy, and Landor didn't like her or trust her.

Hearing this, the cat sneered even harder.

"You're worrying about things you shouldn't be worrying about." It muttered softly, "I've already taken care of her."

Landor: "......? When?"

"When you and my future shit shoveler are sweetly exchanging secret codes." The cat made no secret of its eccentricity, "Some people have just found the door, while others are already feeding cat punches to traitors."

Landor: "......"

Landor: "......She never said she wanted to raise you."

"She will accept me." The cat raised its tail proudly, "I've also changed my look this time. It's the type she likes."

Landor: "......"

He couldn't help but look at the cat in front of him again. It was indeed a look he had never seen before, with blue eyes and white fur, and the fur was particularly long. He looked very imposing and really good-looking.

However, he still expressed his doubts tactfully: "Who gave you the confidence?"

"I thought of it myself!" the cat said, and proudly raised his head again.

No one will reject the lion cat! No one!

"..." Xu Ming was still unconscious, and Lando was too lazy to talk to it. After entrusting the person to Lu Yueling, he walked to the side carefully, looked up at the lion cat, "You said you beat Kuai Le before? Where is she now?"

Since it is confirmed that Kuai Le is also a contaminated part, you still have to be prepared.

The lioness cat licked its paw nonchalantly: "She's gone."

Landor: "?"

"I was suppressing her with my butt, and suddenly a ball of light appeared and swallowed her." The lioness cat washed its face, looked at the unconscious Xu Ming, and suddenly sighed.

"I was wondering what was going on. After seeing the situation on your side, I finally understood."

"???" Landor frowned, "What do you mean?"

"According to your previous description, this guy tried to persuade Mingming to open the door but failed, so he decided to use force, right?"

The lion cat pointed at the unconscious "Mirror Teacher" below, and shook his head after getting an affirmative answer: "That's right."

"Although I don't have many opportunities to deal with the things behind the door head-on, I still have some understanding of its behavior patterns-because of the restrictions of the rules, it generally prefers to let the selected 'key' open the door by itself. Firstly, it is because the effect of opening the door will be better, and secondly, it is because this can save a sacrifice."

"Sacrifice?" Landor looked thoughtful, "You mean, it regards happiness as..."

"Happiness has been contaminated, so it is its property. It is qualified to be a sacrifice." The lion cat continued, "If I am not mistaken, it should have controlled the peeping mirror and happiness at the same time. After confirming that it could not persuade Xu Ming to open the door, it directly sacrificed happiness, thus creating an opportunity to force Xu Ming to open the door..."

But somehow, it failed to open the door - at least when it arrived, there was no trace of the "door" in this place.

There was only an ordinary door left, connected to the corridor leading to other rooms.

"So, she's so happy?" Landor was still struggling with this.

"How should I know?" The lion cat rolled his eyes at him, jumped off the mirror teacher's head, and walked towards Xu Ming cautiously, "Compared to this, I'm more curious about how she interrupted the door-opening ceremony. Obviously, there is no decent help around this time..."

Landor & Lu Yueling: "..."

Who is this cat? It's really annoying.

Lu Yueling thought silently, and stretched out her hand to put Xu Ming's head on her lap. After thinking for a while, he whispered, "Maybe it has something to do with the rules of the safe zone? I seemed to hear her say something about attacking, which is not allowed..."

"Safe zone?" The lion cat was surprised, "What safe zone?"

Lu Yueling was still upset about its previous evaluation, and after a moment of silence, she gave an answer in a showy manner. Unexpectedly, the lion cat was even more puzzled after hearing it.

"Okay, thank you for your kindness. I have more doubts now." It licked its paws in silence, "Without opening the door, even 'it' can't modify the rules as it pleases, not to mention that it can only parasitize now..."

Then how did it make the rules of the safe zone invalid?

The cat licked its fur, and licked its fur again, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and raised its head abruptly. Almost at the same time, Xu Ming's weak voice trembled:

"...It's not ineffective."

"Mingming!" Seeing that she finally moved, several people in the room immediately became excited and surrounded her. Xu Ming responded softly, rubbed his eyes and sat up, and continued:

"They just took advantage of the loopholes in the existing rules and modified some key definitions."

For example, "malice" and "attack."

——The reason why "Teacher Mirror" played the emotional card for so long was not only to deceive, but also to modify the definitions of these two words.

"I am doing this for your own good", so "my will is not malicious"; "I just want to help you achieve a better result", so "my behavior is not an attack."

The successful modification of these two definitions gave the consultant room to take action. It was not until Xu Ming changed the definition again and defined the corresponding behavior as "attack" that all her actions had to be interrupted.

"As for the many scratches on my feet, I think it should be related to the 'ritual'. If I open the door on my own initiative, all I have to do is draw circles with my pointer. If I don't want to, the corresponding thing is that they draw circles on my body..." In a word, just draw circles.

Xu Ming said, and sat up completely with the help of Lando. Her hands were still rubbing around her eye sockets, as if she was extremely uncomfortable. Lando couldn't help asking, but Xu Ming just shook her head and said it was okay, but she just couldn't close her eyes. Lando looked at the back of her head, but frowned slightly.

After a while, he spoke again, his voice was a little tense.

He asked, Mingming, where did the bump on your head go?

*

At the same time, in another space.

"...I'll go."

The moment he saw the situation clearly, Xu Ming couldn't help but cursed.

But the voice seemed to be swallowed up by the space and soon disappeared. She rubbed her arms nervously, took a deep breath, and tried to adjust her surging emotions. When she looked around again, she couldn't help but change her face.

After all, this place...it doesn't even look like a "place".

There is no clear ground, and the feet are stepping on the empty darkness. The messy lines are bouncing in the air like little insects. A huge human head can be seen in the distance. Xu Ming can't be sure whether it is a building or something else.

Plants with human faces grew from all directions, their roots piled up like fat, rising and falling rhythmically with loud breathing.

... What was even stranger was that even though there was no light source, she could see everything around her clearly.

Although Xu Mingning wished she couldn't see clearly.

She didn't know how she got here. She only knew that after reading the new rule changes, she finally got rid of the entanglement of the light hand. When she was about to close the door, she saw her own face sticking out from behind the door - and then she was in a trance and passed out uncontrollably. When she

woke up again, she was already here. She

was alone, with no one else around her. The things in the backpack were still there, but the flashlight for self-defense could no longer be turned on, and the rule book was full of gibberish and completely unusable.

... Damn it. What a death start. He

restrained himself and closed his eyes again. Although he felt disgusted, Xu Ming still forced himself to carefully observe his surroundings.

After seeing a cockroach with a human face pattern crawling past his feet, he couldn't help cursing again.

"What the hell is this place..." Xu Ming swallowed his saliva and seriously suspected that he might be experiencing a near-death ticker. "This is too abstract. There are no rules at all."

As soon as the voice fell, he heard a sneer from behind:

"It's so funny, a place like this, it would be weird if it wasn't abstract.

"Looking for rules at the source of chaos, are you doing something wrong? "? " "

?!" Xu Ming turned around alertly and saw a girl in a golden skirt walking towards him.

...Well, actually it wasn't that much. To be precise, she was limping over.

When she got closer, Xu Ming discovered that the other person's skirt was not completely gold - the skirt seemed to have many layers, and only the outermost layer was golden. At this moment, the outermost golden layer had peeled off a lot, revealing the gray inner layer.

As if guessing something, Xu Ming frowned slightly: "Excuse me, who are you? What exactly is this place..."

"I allow you to call me Happy, although I'm not very happy now." The girl in the golden skirt said very bluntly, slowly folded her arms, "As for this place... let me tell you this."

The girl tilted her head and paused for each word:

"Welcome to the world behind the door. "