Chapter 147

He said he was going to try it, but in reality, Landor himself was not sure.

After another round of thinking, he took a deep breath and turned to walk towards the "Xu Ming".

In just a moment, "Xu Ming" who was originally sitting on the ground had stood up and was standing in front of the partition wall, looking around, seemingly not caring about the situation here at all.

The partition wall was about one-third of the room, more than one meter long, and was also made of flesh and blood. Unlike the surrounding walls, this partition wall was covered with pus bags of various sizes.

It might not be accurate to call it a pus bag. After all, through the transparent epidermis, one can clearly see that what is wrapped inside is not pus and blood, but various small objects. Including but not limited to small heart pendants, red mini dancing shoes, and the newspaper barrel that is said to talk regularly...

In short, all the objects that were previously placed in the glass display case have been transferred to the pus bag of the wall of flesh and blood. The clocks that they each brought with them when they entered the room were also swallowed up, and now they are floating in a bubble of transparent pus in front of Landor.

He stood behind "Xu Ming" and called out tentatively. "Xu Ming" responded slowly, but did not turn around, still staring at the wall covered with pus bags: "What?"

Lando calmed down and spoke softly: "I want to ask you something."

"Yeah." "Xu Ming" nodded, "Go ahead, I'm listening."

"Okay, then I'll just say it." Lando deliberately looked back and confirmed that the other two were not paying attention to the situation here, then continued, "Well, I don't know if you still remember, when you gave me... a bell?"

"Xu Ming" turned around and looked at him, expressionless, without any response. Lando continued to talk without thinking about it:

"It was a strange story in a pet hospital. Because you were not an animal, you were deprived of your sight and could not see any road. You could only rely on me to walk. At that time, you said that I should wear a bell. In this way, if you encounter a similar situation again, you can just listen to the bell to know where the road is..."

Lando spoke at a volume that only the two of them could hear. For some reason, the more he spoke, the lower his voice became.

In the end, it was almost too low to be heard. "Xu Ming" nodded slightly and asked politely: "Then what?"

"..." Lando was silent.

After a long pause, he whispered, "There's no need to talk about then."

"For some reason, Xu Ming, who belongs to reality, can't hear me say this." Landor pursed his lips. Although the temperature was quite high at the moment, he felt a chill in his heart.

To be more precise, he couldn't tell anyone who didn't know about the past between the two of them.

This was the price of his deal with the existence behind the door. Coincidentally, long before his deal, Xu Ming had also made her own deal. The price of the deal was all her own memories of ghost stories and the door, and he, as an alien root, was unfortunately included in it.

In other words, unless Xu Ming's deal was invalidated, or the memory was found through other means, she would never be able to hear these from him.

However, when he tried to tell this to "Xu Ming" in front of him, he was not constrained. On the other hand, the aura on her body did belong to Xu Ming.

...There is only one possibility.

"You came from behind the door, right?" Lando tried to appear calm, but the ending tone still carried a little barely perceptible shudder, "Mingming traded her memories to behind the door, and those memories constituted you, so you remember, so you can hear what I said..."

"What about Mingming? Where is she now?"

"..." In response to him, it was the calm eyes of "Xu Ming".

The next second, "Xu Ming" indifferently withdrew his gaze, muttered "Sure enough", and began to stare at the pus on the wall in front of him.

Lando was anxious. He rushed to her side in one step.

"What do you mean by 'as expected'? What does that mean? Can you please answer my questions first? Why did you come outside? What about Mingming? She, she..."

Lando paused, and a very bad guess flooded into his mind, making his heart sink, but he dared not say it out loud.

"Xu Ming" responded this time. He said "hmm" lightly.

"Yes, just as you guessed." She looked straight ahead, "The original body is behind the door now."

Noticing Lando's sudden change of eyes, she added slowly: "Don't stare at me. It wasn't me. I'm just a tool.

"It was the thing behind the door that sent me out. If you have any advice, please go find it, thank you."

"?!" Lando listened, and his back suddenly felt a little colder.

"Why did it send you out? "He asked subconsciously.

"Xu Ming" stopped talking again. She just looked at him indifferently, then quickly turned her eyes away and continued to stare at the wall in front of her.

As if to express her resistance, she even leaned slightly to the side.

Lando didn't care about much at this moment, and rushed to her other side, and continued to ask: "Then do you know how to get you out from behind the door? Is there anything I can do?

"You can tell me anything you need, I can do anything..."

Noticing the other party's sudden frown, Lando was startled and swallowed his voice instinctively.

When he spoke again, he was a little cautious: "Sorry, did I scare you?"

"Yes, I disturbed you." "Xu Ming" spoke word by word, and looked at the partition wall in front of him again. After a while, she slowly raised her hand and pointed at the pus bag in front of her.

Lando looked over and saw a small clock floating in the pus bag.

"Here." She said softly, "Can you help me take it out?"

...Take it?

Lando frowned slightly and tried to put his hand on it, assessing the difficulty of breaking through this thing.

It's very tough. If he wants to open it violently, he may not be able to do it alone... Lando came to a conclusion in his heart, and looked at "Xu Ming" in confusion: "What do you want this for?"

But "Xu Ming" responded to him with silence again. She seemed to be really annoyed, and only said "Please give it to me as soon as possible", and then walked to the side and sat down, exuding a kind of frivolous temperament.

...No, it should be said that from the moment I exposed her identity, she began to exude a kind of "Okay, then I won't act anymore, whatever you want" attitude...

Am I speaking too early?

Lando couldn't help but reflect.

If Xu Ming was here now, how would she handle it?

Lando pondered for a while, but couldn't figure it out. He looked at the partition wall again, hesitated for a moment, and called the cat and Lu Yueling.

In fact, he didn't expect the cat to help at first, and mainly hoped that Lu Yueling could lend a hand. The epidermis of this abscess is too tough, and he is really not sure if he can open it by himself - the reason why he called the cat is simply because he doesn't want it to take this opportunity to really go and mess around with some "letter of intent to adopt".

He is older now, more mature, and has a better temper, but this does not mean that he can accept all kinds of weird things squeezed in front of Xu Ming, especially cats.

However, when he really started to work on it, he found that this pus bag was much more difficult to deal with than he had imagined. Landor's strength, which was weakened by this strange talk, had not yet recovered, and the only shadow dog he could summon was still skinny. Finally, the cat found a way to find the weak point, and used his fingernails to dig for a long time before he managed to pierce the pus bag.

Clear pus spurted out, and Lu Yueling immediately covered her nose and jumped back. Landor gritted his teeth and dug out the clock, holding it with two fingers and looking at it with disdain for a long time. He tentatively looked at the lion cat next to him, and the lion cat shuddered and immediately shouted "Ah-oo" fiercely at him.

All right... Seeing the other party's resistance, Lando had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​using its bristles to wipe the clock. Instead, he used Teacher Jing's coat, wiped it roughly twice, and then walked towards "Xu Ming" with the clock.

"Hey." He called "Xu Ming" who was in a daze, and raised the clock in his hand, "You want this, right?"

He coughed and tried to imitate the tone of Xu Ming when he was playing tricks in his memory: "If you answer my questions well, I will give this to you, how about it?"

"Xu Ming": "..."

"But this is a key prop for opening the door." She tilted her head, as if she had heard something extremely puzzling, "If you don't give it to me, how can I answer you?"

"......?!" Lando was stunned when he heard this.

"Open the door?" Xu Ming's mischievous tone disappeared in an instant, replaced by a voice that could not hide his anxiety, "You mean, you can use this to open the door?"

"What else? What do I need this for?" "Xu Ming" looked at him strangely, "I'm not a complete key. If I want to summon the door, I must go through the ceremony again. And one of the procedures of the ceremony is to turn the pointer back many, many circles... Don't you know?"

Lando: "..." He really didn't know this. After all, when he came over, Xu Ming had basically solved the problem of being tricked by "Teacher Mirror" into turning the pointer - but Lando remembered very clearly that in the subsequent confrontation with Teacher Mirror, Xu Ming had clearly mentioned that the other party had tricked her into turning the clock...

This actually proved the statement of "Xu Ming" in front of him.

Lando thought to himself, his expression slightly relaxed. "Xu Ming" was not in a hurry, and said in a calm voice: "Didn't you ask before why the existence behind the door sent me out? The reason is very simple.

"An incomplete key can open the door, but only a complete key can close the door. That's why it shaped me - it used Xu Ming's past memories as materials to mold my shell, and took advantage of Xu Ming's opportunity to open the door to take out part of her soul and put it into my shell.

"In other words, Xu Ming's soul is incomplete now. And that door is not really closed, but we can't see it now. So the ceremony is necessary.

"Excuse me, have I made it clear enough? "

…" It seems to make sense.

However, Landor still hesitated: "But if the real Xu Ming comes out, do you have to disappear..."

When someone already has independent consciousness, will they really choose to return to their original body?

"Xu Ming" listened and smiled softly.

"What I call soul is just a few fragments taken from her. You can see that my brain is not flexible.

"Even if I stay outside, this fragment without support will only be like an ordinary dead person. As time gradually dries up and passes, it will not last long. Besides..."

Lando: "?"

"The emotions contained in this fragment are not enough to make me want to live." "Xu Ming" said frankly, "To be honest, as an individual, I don't care about the demolition office, the truth, or... social security. I don't care about these things. I just want to act according to my instinct.

She pressed her hand lightly on her chest: "And the pursuit of completeness is the instinct of a normal soul."

"..."

Another moment of silence.

Lando pursed his lips, finally made up his mind, and handed the clock in his hand over.

"Xu Ming" whispered thank you, got up and walked towards the wall.

"Next, I will turn the clock. When the ceremony is completed, the door to the world behind the door will descend again and overlap with this ordinary door. At that time, I will push the door open and use the gravity between souls to fish out Xu Ming who belongs to reality. "

She whispered her plan to others slowly: "But you'd better stand farther away.

"The world behind the door is a huge polluted space. You are either mutated roots or dead people with roots, and you are easily affected. If someone is parasitized again, it will be very difficult to deal with."

These words aroused everyone's vigilance. Especially Lu Yueling, she carefully looked at her hair draped over her shoulders, and simply retreated to the corner of the wall in one breath.

Landor was worried about Xu Ming's situation, so he didn't stand that far away, but for the sake of caution, he still kept a certain distance from the wall.

"Almost done." "Xu Ming" said slowly, taking a deep breath.

Then he placed his finger on the pointer and gently turned it one circle, two circles, three circles...

Turning and turning, it suddenly stopped.

"?" Lando saw her stop and frowned worriedly, "Excuse me, is there any problem?"

"Xu Ming" didn't say anything.

The next second, she pushed the door open without hesitation and rushed out directly!

This change was so fast that the few people present didn't react. Lando was shocked and immediately chased after her - but the initial distance was there, and when he rushed to the door, "Xu Ming" had already run away and only a distant back was left.

Outside the door, where is the contaminated space? There is only a corridor that everyone has seen countless times.

At the end of the corridor, there is another identical door. At this moment, "Xu Ming" had already rushed to the door, without looking back, he pushed the door open and walked straight in -

With a bang, the door closed, like a huge rock, hitting Landor's head heavily.

Lu Yueling ran over, peeked in, and was still exclaiming: "Wow, is this the world behind the door? It looks like the corridor we stayed in before!"

Landor: "..."

What do you mean by "like", it is!

"So where is she going?" The lion cat was also dumbfounded, his eyes widened into the shape of copper bells, "According to the original rules of this weird story, isn't she just..."

"Entering another time point far away from us." Landor murmured in disbelief, and after a moment of silence, he covered his face in pain.

"She ran away." He himself felt it was ridiculous when he said this, "That 'Xu Ming', she was lying. She, she didn't seem to want to help us get Xu Ming out..."

"So she... ran away with Zhong!"