Chapter 39

In fact, according to Xu Ming’s experience, at this time, the stairs are often the best solution.

After all, elevators are also high-risk areas in horror movies.

But her situation at this moment is indeed a bit special - on the one hand, as early as the moment she went out, the whale man in her mind was beeping, constantly reminding her that the direction of the stairs on the right was already full of butterflies; on the other hand, her hands were not very convenient.

- When she closed the door just now, her right arm was obviously rubbed by something. At this time, large patches of blood had already spread along the clothes.

The stairs were winding and there was no light. With one arm already injured, it was too risky to go from there, so Xu Ming thought quickly and decisively followed the principle of running in a straight line, running directly towards the elevator on the other side of the corridor.

"Are you serious?" While waiting for the elevator to go up, the whale man was still asking sincerely in her mind, "Wouldn't it be more terrible if something happened to the elevator?"

It's better to be out of service, just in case it loses control and falls down...

"There are only three floors in this place." Xu Ming gritted his teeth and covered the wound with his left hand, "And don't you still have it!"

"..."

As if he didn't expect her to say that, the whale man was obviously stunned. After a pause, she whispered, "Hey, I didn't realize you think highly of me."

"Yeah, you have good taste."

There was even a hint of flattery in her tone.

... This made Xu Ming silent.

So what does this have to do with taste?

She just thought that the whale blubber itself could grow or shrink, and its hardness was moderate. If something really happened, it should be useful whether it was used to pry open the door gasket or as a gasket...

While she was still thinking, the elevator door had already opened. Bright light hit her face.

Without a second's hesitation, Xu Ming immediately took out the blubber man from his bag and threw him directly inside. He hurriedly said "hold it down", and then, using the light from the elevator, he took out a piece of paper from his bag, smeared it with his own blood, and then tore off the double-sided tape on the back, and stuck the paper on the elevator door.

His movements were a little slow because of his hand injury, but the whole process was very consistent, as if he had rehearsed it countless times in his mind.

The moment he stuck it, the sound of the door of Room 8307 being broken was heard not far away. Xu Ming was startled and quickly got in. The moment the elevator door closed, he felt a surprising wind blowing behind him.

With a snap, the elevator door closed completely. The cabin was completely silent.

The blubber man had stretched himself to the height of an adult, still using the same repeatedly retouched face, with one hand firmly pressing on the elevator door closing button, pressing so hard that his entire knuckles were numb.

After a while, after confirming that there were no other strange movements in the elevator, he slowly withdrew his fingers, with a look of shock on his face.

"So." It turned its head numbly and looked at Xu Ming, "What exactly was that piece of paper just now..."

"It's what's left over from making the sign before." Xu Ming leaned against the wall, hugged her arm and panted. The handbag containing the rule book and the takeout bag of Strange Root were both slung over her right shoulder. Her face had begun to turn pale. "Yu Fei put double-sided tape on the back of the sign."

It's convenient for going out to do door-to-door sales... No, it's for A Jiao to use when picking up tenants.

"Oh." The whale fat man nodded as if he understood, and after a moment of silence, he asked sincerely, "Then may I ask what's the point of writing a seven on a place with only three floors?" "

Self-deception. Covering one's ears and stealing the bell." Xu Ming was very honest.

The whale fat man: "..."

Xu Ming was indeed gambling. In this situation, the hatred on her must be very strong. The only thing she could bet on was whether the other party's hatred for her could overcome his hatred for the number 7.

Of course, just "7" alone would not work. Just like the whale man said, if this was useful, the Rubik's Cube Building would have been full of safe zones.

So she deliberately picked the instruction sheet she had prepared before, because of the signature of "Strange Talk Demolition and Relocation Office" on it. As long as the signature is still there, it means that the content on the paper cannot be modified or erased by outsiders - Xu Ming estimated that this is more effective than graffiti on the spot.

No matter what, at least there is indeed nothing strange in the elevator, and it is quiet outside. So Xu Ming is willing to believe that the paper is more or less effective.

She paused for a while, and with the help of the whale man, she bandaged the wound with tissues and clothes. After thinking for a while, she took out an unused instruction sheet, wrote a big "7" on it manually, and stuck it to her chest.

Then she pressed the elevator. The car soon moved, showing a downward trend.

For some reason, the speed was very slow. But it was going down anyway.

The whale man breathed a sigh of relief, but soon became worried again. Turning around, he saw Xu Ming holding the root in his hand and examining it carefully, and he almost lost his soul.

"Don't take it out!" It said while waving its hands in disdain, "Take it back, take it back!"

Xu Ming: "..."

"Why do you avoid it like the plague when everyone else wants it?" She couldn't help but mutter in a low voice. After a little thought, she handed the egg-shaped object to the whale man: "Hey, why don't you try to swallow it."

The whale man: ...? ? ?

What's wrong with him?

"Absorb it." Xu Ming looked righteous and confident, "Roots can absorb roots, didn't you say so?"

Anyway, her purpose was very simple, just don't let the butterfly get the root again, as for who gets the root, she doesn't care.

On the other hand, she has no idea how to absorb the rule book, so it's better to feed it to the whale man directly. Anyway, it is deeply bound to the rule book, and it can be regarded as one of her own.

Upon hearing this, the whale man looked at her as if she was crazy.

"Do you think you are eating eggs? You just swallowed them with your eyes closed?!" It seemed that it wanted to swallow Xu Ming, "How can it be so easy!"

The commonly used "absorption" is just a figurative description. A more precise way to put it should be "establishing a connection" - but there are many ways to establish this connection, some rely on oral administration, and some physical fusion. The only thing in common is that they all take time. The

so-called "root" snatching between the tree and the dodder is actually just like this.

It's nothing more than the dodder trying to establish a connection with the other party after getting the root. The stronger its connection with the roots, the weaker the connection between the tree and the roots, and the weaker the tree itself becomes. Through this simple distribution method, one increases while the other decreases until it completely replaces the other. The moment the connection between the tree and the roots is severed, it means it has truly taken over.

However, this is easier said than done. The most important reason is that the connection between the tree and the root is natural. As long as the root is still in the area of ​​the monster, the connection between it and the tree will always exist, and it can always provide for the tree. Even if the tree's strength is unfortunately weakened, the degree of weakening will gradually increase over time, and the initial range is very limited.

The process of establishing a new connection and replacing it is relatively long, and it is extremely difficult to avoid the search of the tree during this long period of time.

As for swallowing it now, it is simply not feasible - even if you swallow it, you can be dissected alive and made into a duck on the spot if you are caught.

"So, just give up!"

As they were talking, the elevator had already reached the first floor. The whale man held down the door closing button tightly while turning around to continue to conclude to Xu Ming: "You thought you had grabbed a treasure, but it's actually just a hot potato! Just throw it away as soon as possible."

If it really doesn't work, throw out an A Jiao and let it take them in the opposite direction - at least it can buy them some time to escape.

Hearing this, Xu Ming frowned and didn't say anything for a while.

After two seconds of silence, she squatted down and once again instructed "hold it", then took out a pen and paper from her bag, lowered her head and began to write and draw again.

Seeing this, the fat man thought that she wanted to write something for him again, so he didn't care and just pressed the closing button desperately, while anxiously sensing the situation outside. He took the time to look at Xu Ming, and then he found that she was holding a blank work card in her hand, and she was writing her name on it.

...Wait.

Work card?

The fat man's expression froze.

What work card was she writing at this time? Who was she writing to? Butterfly?

No way? She couldn't see the butterfly itself.

Just as she was wondering, she saw Xu Ming put away the pen and opened the thermal bag where Gen was stored. The fat man's eyebrows moved, and a strong sense of uneasiness suddenly surged up.

She...should just take it out to have a look? Although now is not the right time...

Anyway, anyway, she shouldn't be going to put a card on Gen, right? No one would be stupid enough to give a work badge to an unconscious root, right? Surely not...

Then Xu Ming was seen wrapping the work badge up very seriously.

She did it.

The blubber man: "..."

"So why did you put a badge on it!" It endured it again and again, but at the moment when Xu Ming opened the elevator door and rushed out, it finally couldn't help but roared, and while roaring, it shrank and crawled back into the other party's bag with its hands and feet——

"What's the point of you putting a badge on a stone!"

To get the naming rights first!

Xu Ming was puzzled by its questioning, and said while walking out: "Tied."

The blubber man: "..."

Damn, it's true. It does have this function.

"Didn't you say that?" Xu Ming ran into the corridor in a blink of an eye, pressed one hand on the wall, and began to count the doors while moving forward again, "You said that as long as a new connection is established, the domain master itself will be weakened..."

Whale Blubber: "…………"

No, so I have explained so much, you have made up your mind to pick out what you like to hear, right?

But don't say it, this is indeed an idea - it almost forgot that one of the advantages of a derivative such as a work card is that it can quickly establish a connection with external objects.

However, soon, it seemed to realize something and immediately shook its head.

"No, no. The binding relationship established by the work badge is too weak, and the weakening it causes to the domain master is also very limited... it's useless!"

To be honest, the weakening caused by this binding relationship is not as effective as the random changes Xu Ming made before - after all, that random change not only directly destroyed most of the butterfly's eating routes, but also took away the food it kept in the pot.

But no matter what kind of weakening it is, the effect is too insignificant. At least for Xu Ming, it is not obvious.

If it is placed in a competition of similar levels, this weakening may become the key to victory or defeat, but for Xu Ming and Butterfly, this level of weakening is not enough. No matter how much the tiger is weakened, it is still easy to crush an ant.

"I know." Xu Ming said, "So I have to find a fellow similar to it."

The blubber man: "......???"

Xu Ming did not explain further, but continued to speed up and run forward, counting the doors he passed by while running -

"8105, 8106 - almost there!"

8107. One of the safest rooms in the hotel, and it was also the place where the staff brought the old tenants in before.

As long as you can get in there, you can find the staff -

Xu Ming thought silently, trying to speed up again. Just as he was about to slam the door, he heard the blubber man in his mind scream, and almost at the same time, a strong chill mixed with the sound of flapping wings hit his face -

Xu Ming was startled and instinctively dodged back. Something brushed her chest and then bit her leg.

"Fuck!" Xu Ming screamed instinctively, and after a moment of stiffness, the pain surged up like a tide. The wet feeling spread quickly, and the palm that pressed on it was full of fishy moisture.

The terrible feeling of oppression approached again, and she raised her head angrily, just at this moment, she felt her right shoulder suddenly loosened. She lowered her head in surprise, and found that the strap of the insulation bag had broken at some point, and the insulation bag containing the roots fell to the ground.

She was stunned, and her first reaction was that she had moved too much and broke the strap; the next second, she saw that the bag seemed to be kicked hard by someone, and it slid out a long way, and then she saw a small figure climbing up the clothes in a panic.

"Run, run!" The blubber man's panicked voice echoed in her mind, "It must have given priority to picking up roots, let's run!"

Xu Ming: "..."

So that's it. She suddenly realized.

It should be the blubber man who noticed something was wrong and quickly climbed out to tear off the bag of the thermal bag and kicked it away to prevent the hatred from falling on her.

"..." Xu Ming closed her eyes, and for a moment she didn't know whether to say that this guy was smart or scared.

In her mind, the blubber man was still urging her to run. Xu Ming covered her thigh that was constantly bleeding, and the only thing she could do was to continue moving in the direction of 8107. The good news is that the butterfly seems to be attracted by the thermal bag. Xu Ming can feel that the cold and oppressive feeling is still there, but it seems to be a little weaker than before.

From the perspective of the blubber man, the situation was clearer - in its field of vision, the butterfly's body had already stopped in front of the insulated bag, and was tentatively grabbing it with its thin claws, trying to figure out how to open the bag. After studying it for a while, it finally lost its patience and simply slid its hand outside the insulated bag. When it saw the egg-shaped object inside, it was obviously stunned for a moment, and then it let out a puzzling, angry scream - ???

???

The

blubber man was also confused by this. And just when it wisely retracted its head and began to urge Xu Ming to run away, the situation around it suddenly changed again.

The light and shadow changed, the ceiling light suddenly lit up, and countless chaotic ticking sounds suddenly rang out -

another huge figure suddenly appeared in the corridor.

Then, he threw a backhanded punch to Butterfly, who hadn't reacted yet.

"...Oh my god."

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and unconsciously made a sound of eating melons: "This is going to be exciting."

Xu Ming, who was still struggling to stay away and was almost losing his mind in pain: "..."

She looked up blankly, and naturally saw nothing. In fact, the only change in the environment she could feel was that the light above her head suddenly turned on again, and the sense of oppression that was so close that it seemed to cut her skin suddenly retreated. She looked at the insulated bag that was still lying there, was silent for a while, and suddenly reacted.

"Is the manager of the Rubik's Cube Building here?" She asked the fat man tentatively.

The blubber man, who was busy watching the scene, nodded without hesitation: "Yeah."

"It's already started!"

It's started...

Xu Ming curled her lips because of the wording. Out of caution, she struggled to get the selfie stick out of her bag and hooked the insulation bag not far away.

After confirming that the egg-shaped object inside was still there, she breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the blubber man was still eating melons, she asked casually: "Who has the upper hand?"

The blubber man "hissed" and his tone revealed some hesitation: "This, it seems hard to say."

It is said that Butterfly's strength is absolutely superior, but I don't know if it is because it was weakened by Xu Ming's messy sticks for several times, but now it is actually fighting against the boss of the Rubik's Cube Building on equal terms, and the battle situation is in a sticky state. Instead, the blubber man was dumbfounded.

"By the way, what did you hide in the takeout bag before?" When the blubber man saw her pick up the root again, he suddenly remembered this and looked in the direction of the insulation bag curiously, "I was really scared just now, I thought it would take the root directly."

But he didn't know what he saw, but he was stunned for a moment, looking very angry. It just gave the Rubik's Cube Building an opportunity to attack.

Xu Ming leaned against the wall, panted for a while, and shook his head slowly: "No. There is nothing."

In the bag, there was only the root and the work badge wrapped around the root.

"? Is this true!" The blubber man was even more dumbfounded after hearing this. After a pause, he seemed to think of something, and his tone suddenly became subtle: "Wait, speaking of the ID card..."

"What name did you write on it?"

This time Xu Ming answered immediately: "77."

The whale man: "..."

You are so stupid.

... What else, should I call it Xiao Shuai?

Xu Ming closed his eyes and looked at 8107, which was so close to him. He didn't know what he was thinking of, and suddenly frowned. He slowly withdrew his hand that was about to reach out to knock on the door. After a moment of hesitation, he began to crawl quietly away.

However, her leg injury was quite serious. She couldn't move far after moving for a long time. She only left a bloodstain on the ground, which looked quite scary. On the other hand, the blubber man seemed to be frightened by her condition. He leaned on the edge of the bag again and looked around, as if he was struggling whether to come out to help. He accidentally looked in the direction of the butterfly and suddenly said "Huh".

"What?" Xu Ming raised his eyes immediately, "Did the butterfly win?"

"No, no." The blubber man's voice became strange, "Not only did it not... its condition seemed to be a little bit wrong."

...Abnormal?

Xu Ming frowned, pondered for a moment, and decisively took out his mobile phone from his bag, turned on the camera mode, and tried to look around with the camera.

Soon, under the guidance of the whale man, she finally found the butterfly. Due to her idiotic nature, Xu Ming could not see it clearly. She could only vaguely see the outline of a pair of wings raised high, flapping continuously, as if struggling, and then shrinking and contracting little by little.

Behind it, something seemed to be spinning. Thick black lines were interwoven into grids. Xu Ming carefully identified it and finally saw that it looked like a rotating chessboard.

The chessboard kept spinning, and the wings continued to shrink. Until finally, all the wings were completely gathered together and became a huge, bloated black shadow. From Xu Ming's perspective, he could still vaguely see some wriggling shapes...

"Oh my god." At this moment, the voice of the whale man sounded in his consciousness again, not loud, but full of shock, "It turned into a bug!"

Xu Ming: "...?"

"Bug! Caterpillar!" The whale man explained hurriedly. Through its voice, Xu Ming could even imagine its efforts to gesture, "That butterfly actually turned itself into a big bug. I don't know how it did it... Ah, it seems to be trying to run away!"

"..." Hearing this, Xu Ming couldn't help but purse the corners of his mouth.

Is it "turned into" - or "turned back"?

Taking a restrained breath, she picked up the phone again and looked in the direction of the butterfly.

This time, there was no huge shadow in the camera, and the rotating chessboard was nowhere to be seen. Xu Ming tried her best to look for a long time before finally catching a little moving shadow at the edge of the camera. She slid the screen hesitantly, trying to see if she could zoom in further; but unexpectedly, the moment the camera zoomed in, a pale face suddenly appeared on the screen.

"!" Xu Ming was startled and instinctively put down the phone. The comforting yet sarcastic voice of the Blubber Man immediately rang in his mind: "Look how scared you are! It's the manager of the Rubik's Cube Building! It's your fault that you kept speaking up for her before. You're just being conceited..."

"Okay, at least Butterfly has finally crawled away. You should socialize with her perfunctorily, find someone to help you treat your wound, and then wait to leave..."

Before he finished speaking, his voice suddenly became smaller.

After a while, the Blubber Man's voice was heard again, but this time his tone was full of uneasiness and hesitation:

"Well, did you offend her in some way?

"She's right in front of you, looking at you... For some reason, she looks very angry."

... In fact, Xu Ming could already feel it without it saying it.

The anger and oppression that was so close to him were so similar to those released by the butterfly just

now. However, Xu Ming was not surprised at all.

"You want this." She raised the thermos bag in her hand and looked forward as calmly as possible, "If you want it, just take it. I won't argue with you."

After she finished speaking, the anger in front of her did not weaken at all - for some reason, it seemed to be even stronger.

Now, Xu Ming was finally a little panicked.

"No, are you sure she just wants the root?" In her mind, the annoying voice of the whale man sounded again, "Why do I feel that her anger is directed at you..."

"Impossible." Xu Ming thought without hesitation, "I didn't offend her."

The demolition office shouldn't have any strange talk either - the previous cooperation was obviously smooth.

More importantly, Xu Ming was very sure that the other party wanted this root.

After a brief silence, she simply looked up at the air again and spoke directly: "This root, in fact, was taken out by you at the beginning."

- After the voice fell, there was no response.

Only the whale man whispered in her mind: "What, you are looking in the wrong direction. Her head is now on your right."

Xu Ming:...

Shut up, you will look very stupid like this!

With the thoughts of "it would be too stupid to turn back at this time" and "Qiu Yufei also said that my three-quarter profile is particularly cold and imposing", Xu Ming continued to maintain his original posture and said calmly:

"I was wondering before why the butterfly suddenly attacked at this time. And it looked very unstable... until I found this bag in 8307, I understood.

"It's because its roots were taken away. That's why it's angry and crazy."

It was as angry as the boss of a consulting company who was run away with his roots.

And in the whole hotel, who else could have the ability to take away this root, except the manager of the Magic Cube Building who has been entrenched here?

"Is it crazy? "When the fat man heard her words, he was dumbfounded, "How dare it?"

After the domain master loses his roots, his strength will indeed be weakened, but this weakening will appear gradually and will never be immediate. Under this premise, the other party is undoubtedly seeking death by risking to steal the roots - from the current point of view, this is indeed the case.

The butterfly that lost its roots was furious and attacked the Rubik's Cube Building directly. If Xu Ming had not been present, perhaps all the people in the Rubik's Cube Building would have been wiped out today, regardless of their life or death.

"Wow." The fat man continued to be shocked, "This sister is so reckless."

"No." Xu Ming shook his head, "It should have made some preparations as well. "

The most straightforward example is the scene she just saw.

A giant butterfly gradually shrank back into a worm.

- The rotating chessboard grids easily remind people of the white chess candies they got when they entered the hotel. Combined with the symptoms of the whale man when he first entered the area, and his familiarity with the smell of the white chess candies, certain conclusions are obvious.

"Those candies should have the effect of making the person who takes them go back in time. "Xu Ming guessed, "It's just that some of it is physical time, and some of it is consciousness time..."

When the whale man entered the strange story area, a similar defense mechanism was triggered, so the time in consciousness went back to a few days ago and was trapped in that period of time. As for the butterfly, as the consumer of a large amount of white chess candy, it suffered a physical regression, and it retreated to a very weak time in one breath...

Xu Ming didn't believe that the Rubik's Cube Building had not planned this.

"I understand, to put it bluntly, it's poisoning." The whale man suddenly understood, "Seeing that the poison was almost accumulated, I thought I could take it down in one fell swoop, so I took the opportunity to steal the butterfly's roots first. Unexpectedly, the judgment was wrong, and the butterfly could not be taken down in one go, but was invaded by the butterfly instead! "

If Xu Ming hadn't weakened several waves in advance this time, it would have been a long time before we crashed.

" "Ha, sorry for your guess before that the white chess candies were used for charity." After figuring this out, the whale man couldn't help but sneer again, "I said, no one who can make it to this point in the monster story area is so naive. "

But if it were to say, the opponent's move was not worth it. Not only did it almost flip over, but it also didn't get anything good - Xu Ming couldn't see it, but it could see it clearly. At the moment the butterfly began to shrink, the woman on the Rubik's Cube Building also weakened visibly. It didn't understand at the time, but now after listening to Xu Ming's words, it finally reacted.

To detonate the candy effect accumulated in the butterfly's body, it is estimated that it will cost a lot.

On the other hand, the butterfly is only temporarily weak because of the time reversal. With the existence of roots, it may be able to recover soon. By then, it will only matter who has the upper hand. I'm afraid it's even harder to say.

But then again, speaking of this - Xu Ming, it seems that she really didn't do anything to offend the other party.

Except for running away with the root she found while talking to herself. But she also said that she was willing to hand it over directly, so why was the other party so angry?

Realizing this, the whale man also felt strange. On the other side, after waiting for a long time without a response from the other party, Xu Ming finally couldn't help it.

She lowered her head and simply took out the egg-shaped object from the thermal bag, and tore off the work badge wrapped on it in a few seconds. Then, without hesitation, amid the whale man's screams, she smashed it straight to the opposite side -

With a "bang", the egg-shaped object fell straight to the ground. Xu Ming rubbed his hands on his pants, and for some reason, his tone was also a little angry:

"You don't have to look at me so covetously. I said I don't want it. If I didn't want Butterfly to keep it, I wouldn't take it at all.

"I understand your behavior. If I were you, I would definitely not sit and wait for death. Even if it was just for self-protection, this root must be snatched. I just don't understand why you have to choose this time to act..."

Even if it was just one day later, the few living people still in the hotel would not have done such a vicious thing.

... But on second thought, as long as the rules of this strange area are still in operation, the guests in the hotel will not be cut off. Even if it wasn't them, there would definitely be others who would be affected. So it seemed like it was a good thing that it was their turn.

After all, if it was someone else, they might not even have a chance to escape.

Realizing this, Xu Ming's anger subsided a little, and for a moment she wondered if the other party had deliberately taken action at this time because he knew the existence of the Demolition Office; and on the other end, perhaps he finally listened to her words, and the unconcealable anger on the other side actually subsided gradually. Immediately afterwards

, Xu Ming suddenly felt a chill on his forehead - as if he was touched by something.

A strange feeling surged up in an instant, and there seemed to be a ticking clock in his ears. Xu Ming fell into a brief dizziness, and when he woke up again, he found that the wound on his leg had disappeared.

Not only the leg, but also the wound on his right arm was gone. Even his shoulders were much looser.

"Huh, treatment?" The whale fat man was amazed, "It can do this?"

"..."

Xu Ming seemed to have seen something. She slowly raised her head and turned her sight to her right side. After a moment, she took a breath with restraint.

"No." She looked at the huge figure in front of her and answered slowly in her consciousness, "It should... just reversed my time."

It reversed the time on her body, allowing Xu Ming's body to directly return to the state a few days ago - but correspondingly, the characteristics of idiots were also reset.

So, Xu Ming can see it now.

She can see the huge figure standing in front of her, with her neck almost touching the ceiling.

Its outline actually looks like a woman, and it even wears a complicated skirt; but on its twisted neck, what grows is not a head, but countless wall clocks hanging heavy like fruits, and the one in the middle has long hair.

However, deep cracks are crawling on the clock faces of many wall clocks.

It also has hands, with long and beautiful fingers. Xu Ming watched it reach out and pick up the egg-shaped object from the ground. With a force of its white nails, it actually broke it in half from the middle.

Immediately afterwards, one half was handed to him.

The noisy clock rang, giving Xu Ming a headache. The whale blubber man in her mind gave a timely translation: "It means, this is for you, as a key to come again.

Xu Ming: "..."

What come again? Where? Here?

Do you expect me to be a repeat customer?

Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, and suddenly caught a glimpse of several passing figures out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head subconsciously, and saw several translucent figures with animal heads, wandering around the other end of the corridor in a daze.

They were people who still lived in Butterfly Building.

So... do you hope that I can come again and take more people away?

Xu Ming was not sure if she was thinking too much, and after a brief silence, she nodded.

"Okay. "She whispered.

She wanted to say something else, such as her thoughts on leaving here completely, but the other party did not give her any more opportunities to communicate - almost at the moment of her response, the other party immediately retreated. The huge body suddenly became translucent when it touched the wall, and then it dissolved silently like liquid, leaving only A beautiful round wall clock hung quietly on the wall, ticking in an orderly manner.

Xu Ming couldn't help but take a few more glances at it, and felt that the wall clock was more like an eye.

The corridor fell into silence again, with only the comings and goings of the old tenants not far away, making slight whispers and footsteps. Xu Ming paused for a moment, tried to stand up, and staggered out. When they arrived at the lobby, they saw the time on the clock was already 2:51 p.m.

The actual time was shorter than the agreed 12 minutes.

The door was now open, and in front of the door were several busy workers. Some were moving the clock, some were cleaning, some were looking at the reflection in the clock to fix their broken facial features, or sitting alone in the corner of the lobby, trying to piece together their detached limbs and heads.

When they saw Xu Ming coming, they would subconsciously turn their backs a little. It seemed that they felt that the scene was a little inhospitable.

Qiu Xiaomei, who was in charge of the front desk computer, had also returned to her post. She still had that cold and stern face, but she raised her eyes slightly when Xu Ming passed by.

Then she pursed her lips and nodded to Xu Ming.

"The people inside have already left." She said, "You are the last one."

"...Okay." Xu Ming was stunned as he had never expected that she would take the initiative to talk to him. After a while, he said, "Thank you. "

But the girl at the front desk ignored him again, retracted her gaze, and continued to type on the keyboard.

Seeing this, Xu Ming didn't say anything more. He shrugged and walked out.

Inside the hotel, the time was almost three o'clock in the afternoon; outside the hotel, it was just dawn.

The moment he stepped out of the door, the slightly humid air hit him in the face. Xu Ming squinted his eyes and subconsciously raised his head. He saw that the east was already white, and the morning light was dim, giving people an illusion that the world was being lit up.

The next second, he felt dazed again -

when he woke up again, Qiu Yufei's anxious and relieved face was beside him.