Chapter 122 Chapter 122
Chapter 122
Afterwards, Ollie had a hard time remembering how he felt.
He only remembered that it was as if someone had played a prank on him and used cold artificial blood to replace his own blood in a very short time.
My whole body is cold.
By the time he reacted, this two-meter-tall sturdy man, who looked like he could definitely fight ten people on the battlefield, let out a short scream like a poor little girl.
Fortunately, he immediately covered his mouth and told his companions who had gathered around him that he had just accidentally seen the mural behind him.
"That thing is really scary. It's so detailed, but it's covered with the same black thread. If you don't know anything, you might think it's some kind of cult sacrifice ritual."
Ollie spoke jokingly to his companions.
Although the team members were quite skeptical of Oli's reason, seeing that Oli's face was just filled with excessive fear, they finally gave him a perfunctory hug.
Ollie bumped shoulders with his companions, but his eyes were counting the team members.
'One, two... nine, plus me, that makes ten.'
After counting, Ollie looked at the nine companions in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little confused.
If the companions in front of me are all my own people, then whose shoe prints did that one pair leave?
It couldn't possibly be those of the three expedition members. Military shoes have special marks on the soles. Even if this kind of military boots are sold, the trademarks must be removed.
Ollie thought hard but couldn't figure it out. His companion lost patience as he looked at him thinking and said.
"Alright, alright, it's just a mural. Why are you so scared? When the main force sets out, ask the captain to ask the superiors for you to just destroy all the murals and everything will be fine."
Ollie listened to his companion's words and immediately suppressed his emotions.
They are still exploring the ruins, and they are medieval ruins. Who knows, maybe the previous scene was the effect created by the escape room program in the Middle Ages?
It is not uncommon for instruments from the Middle Ages to still be in use.
Ollie thought about it and followed his companions to the gate.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Frank gave a few instructions to the drone, and the drone originally responsible for lighting also flew upwards, then turned on the high light mode, illuminating the entire place.
Then Frank saw something he had never seen before.
Shown before them.
It is a medieval town.
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At first glance, this town is just an ordinary medieval town. Any large-scale escape room would be scarier than this one.
There were only a few small advertisements posted on the cement wall, unlike some escape rooms that create psychological fear, where the advertisements are not densely pasted in places where all players can see them.
But even though there were no flyers, the players present only felt a chill when they looked at the town in front of them.
The streets of this medieval town are quite spacious, paved with black material that should be asphalt. There are some illegally parked vehicles on the side of the road, with the tickets still on the cars.
The buildings on both sides were arranged neatly and the windows were closed, but they could see the unpaid merchandise on the checkout counters in the stores with their excellent eyesight, as if the customers and clerks were just out temporarily.
There was an indescribable silence in the air, as if this town was alive, and as if everything in this town was quite normal and they were just overthinking it.
Ollie and the others subconsciously moved the lighting drone towards the town so that they could see the place more clearly.
Don't worry about alerting the enemy. They have already explored and there is no living organism on this planet, not even silicon-based organisms.
The drone illuminated the street even more clearly, which made the soldiers even more nervous.
Oli and the others recognized that the shop on the corner in front should be a medieval coffee shop. The tables and chairs were arranged in an orderly manner, but there were only some leftovers on the cups and plates, which should be moldy objects like cakes, or something that had become soft and paste.
Everything in the town seemed normal, yet there was an indescribable weirdness. It seemed as if the people here were just there, still chatting and laughing, still busy running around, but in an instant they all disappeared, leaving only the empty streets and the silent air.
But it must be said that after seeing the moldy body, the team members were relieved. They were afraid of seeing something normal, like a freshly taken cake.
——If that thing appeared here, they would have no choice but to run away against their superiors’ wishes.
A whole, fresh cake appeared in a relic that had not been opened for thousands of years - this kind of thing looked like the beginning of a horror movie.
Although they now feel like they are indeed in a horror movie.
But Frank didn't care about whether the cake was small or not. He just thought it was normal to see that puddle of stuff.
What he cared more about was this medieval town itself.
"How could these medieval people build houses in caves? This obviously doesn't make sense..." Frank murmured.
They have played medieval escape room games, even some large-scale escape room games, and they also understand the taboos that medieval people had when building houses.
Building a house in this kind of cave is completely inconsistent with the normal construction habits of medieval people and the technological level at that time.
They usually build houses in the expectation that they are sturdy and durable. However, building a house in a cave, not to mention the drafts all year round, the problem of moisture alone is impossible to solve.
So the small town in front of us seems quite strange.
The players present couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and Ollie became even more suspicious after what had happened before.
"Captain, do you want to report this to the starship and see how they plan to handle this?" Ollie said in a trembling voice.
Looking at the team members in front of him who were already holding on, Frank had no choice but to open the channel on the starship and contact his leaders.
After hearing his report, the marshal discussed for a while and then let them continue exploring.
Frank hung up the phone with a wry smile and shook his head at his teammates.
The team members immediately understood what their superiors meant and wrapped the soft clothing on the exoskeleton a little tighter.
"It's okay. We just need to not go to strange places. We can collect some textual information and let the higher-ups handle the rest. We have explored the route clearly enough this time."
Frank turned off the starship communication and spoke to the team members.
The team members listened to Frank's words, sighed and nodded.
"Boss, I feel like we're just trying to kill ourselves like the beginning of some interstellar slasher movie."
Ollie looked at his companions nodding and felt a bad premonition growing in his heart, and he finally spoke in a trembling voice.
"What are you thinking? There are minors on the starship right now. If it's a plasma film, we won't be able to pass the inspection at all."
Frank quickly comforted Ollie and led the anxious team members into the town.
The town looked similar to what they had seen before, as if people had suddenly disappeared.
Whether it is a supermarket, a hair salon or a cake shop, everything looks empty.
The only sound in the entire town was the sound of the ten of them's shoes hitting the asphalt.
But fortunately, as time passed, the team members gradually became braver.
The team members who originally only used drones to shoot now dare to explore the town through gloves.
Anyway, I will have to be quarantined and disinfected when I return, so I might as well satisfy my curiosity now.
So the team members carefully explored the entire town, and apart from bringing back some brochures, they didn't dare to touch anything else.
I was afraid of triggering a mechanism or getting tricked.
Fortunately, these team members were lucky and all brought back the brochures and flyers safely.
Oli had the most things in his hands. He was lucky enough to find a small pedestrian street. There were huge amounts of brochures and flyers on the table next to him, all of which Oli packed up and took back.
Frank sorted them out directly. Although he couldn't understand the text in this place, couldn't he understand the comics?
For some reason, all the flyers for this small town that appeared on the market had comic strips on them, but it was precisely because of this that Frank and the others understood some of their meaning.
But... Frank always felt something was wrong when he looked at the flyer in his hand.
Is there too much religious worship here?
Frank's hands were shaking a little as he looked at the familiar temple that appeared more than ten times in the comic strip, as well as the various comic strips on the flyers that showed people kneeling and worshiping in front of the temple.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like a scene from a horror movie!
Frank held his breath and finally calmed down to compare several flyers, and discovered something a little devastated.
In this comic strip, the temple is not the focus.
——But those whose black lines have completely covered their faces.
Without exception, all of these people were praised as successful heroes. They gathered in a house, on the stage in the center of the pointed-roof house. Even though their faces were covered with black lines, Frank and his friends could still feel the enthusiasm of these people from the leaflets.
Even on several other leaflets, Frank saw these people with black lines on their faces, with some people kneeling beside them, and they were flying in the air.
Frank immediately collected the flyers. Now was not a good time to look at the flyers as he had a camera on him. It would be better to let the professionals analyze this kind of religious belief slowly and they, the little guys, should not get involved.
Fortunately, they still got some news.
"It seems that we'd better stay away from the house on the flyer when collecting information."
Frank said with a trembling voice.
But the team members present understood what he meant, and under their control, the drone finally found the only house with a pointed roof in the entire town.
Then...
Frank and all the team members immediately walked in the opposite direction of the house.
——It’s as if there’s a ghost chasing me from behind.
*
Gu Youxing kept a pretty face, watching the expedition team turn around and leave on the holographic screen, and said to 777: [They are indeed much smarter than those mercenaries. Look, they have learned to stay away from danger.]
777 looked at these soldiers with a bit of helplessness: [Those mercenaries were not prepared. Isn't it normal to be scared to the point of having a knot in your brain? ]
[It's still a bit too fragile. If the mural behind it had been revealed, this team would have probably died on the spot.]
Gu Youxing said a little helplessly.
If people really die, it would be a loss. After all, hundreds of thousands of people go missing every day in this world. But if he wants to gain emotional points, he still has to keep these people alive to play a greater role.
[Host, please give them a chance to live. However, host, this expedition team has accurately identified your traps. When they encounter strange things, they turn around and leave without giving you a chance to deceive them. What will you do next, host? Give up on them or...]
777 asked curiously.
[I won't give up. I have almost forgotten how many pits I have buried in this ruins since I built it. There will always be one that suits them. ]
【Besides——】Gu Youxing gestured to 777 to look behind him.
Behind 'Ethan' is a chaotic technical team and Harrison who is rarely serious, while on the screen is the scene that the expedition team members are exploring.
But there is a problem with the BGM this time.
The technician who was playing the screaming audio into the communicator collapsed instantly when he saw that the person on the other end seemed to hear nothing and just scratched his ears.
【Their communication signal is in my hands.】
*
Ollie and his friends, who knew nothing about it, followed Frank and began to scan other streets little by little, and from time to time confirmed the distance between them and the drone placed above the pointed-roof house.
But maybe it was because of the shock, but Oli felt a little dizzy and nauseous, and even had tinnitus.
Fortunately, the captain is worthy of being the captain and is reliable at critical moments.
The captain simply asked him to close his eyes, turn off all channels and turn on silent mode. Sure enough, the world became quiet and Ollie returned to normal.
Nothing strange happened along the way, and as the church was getting farther and farther away from them, Ollie's tinnitus symptoms also eased.
Although the other team members didn't say anything, their long sighs of relief showed that they were relaxed.
They even found a roadside cafe to sit in after looking for a few books.
As their bodies leaned against the backs of the chairs, all ten people sighed with satisfaction.
Although the exoskeletons on their bodies can help them reduce the weight, they still consume their own physical strength.
Ollie also relaxed in his chair.
He tilted his head back and looked at the other companions' positions in their chairs.
Some were sitting on their chairs like him, forming an upside-down C, some were curled up, and some were even slamming the table, claiming that the waiter did not provide adequate service.
Ollie looked speechlessly at his colleague who was banging on the table and demanding the waiter to take the order - he was really driven crazy this time.
However, Ollie felt something was not right as he watched.
He carefully observed his colleague but found no problem. After all, his movements, clothes and everything else were normal.
Even the radiation protection suits are clean.
Wait a minute...
Is the radiation protection suit clean?
Ollie keenly sensed that there was something wrong with this, but he couldn't figure out what exactly was wrong.
In the end, it was Frank who noticed Ollie's anxiety, and Ollie expressed his doubts.
"Captain, this medieval ruin is so clean."
Ollie's words instantly woke Frank up.
As a veteran adventurer, doesn't Frank know how dirty those ruins are?
But from the moment they entered the town, the streets, tables and chairs, and even the moldy cakes they saw were all free of dust.
It was as if this relic was equipped with the most advanced air purifier in the interstellar age.
but……
Frank probed and the empty equipment list on the instrument panel proved that there was no such advanced stuff here.
Frank's face turned pale as he got the test results. He pulled his teammates together and walked towards the mural.
"Hurry, hurry, we can't stay here any longer. This is not a place for us to stay right now!"
Frank led his team to sprint forward.
Although the team members were a little confused, they still subconsciously followed their captain's footsteps.
After Frank explained the whole story in the team channel on the way, several team members immediately accelerated and almost overtook Frank.
And Frank was still talking.
"The clean ground and houses indicate that someone is cleaning them every day, and the number of people is not small. There may even be other creatures that are difficult for us to understand."
Frank said this, but before he finished he saw the several illegal vehicles parked on the side of the road. He gritted his teeth and increased the speed of the exoskeleton again.
Seeing this, the other team members also sped up.
As expected, hard work pays off. They finally saw the vehicles that violated the traffic rules, and even the places where the tickets were posted were exactly the same.
Frank saw the doorway from a distance, which was one and a half meters wide and four meters high.
At this time he sped up again, and the exoskeleton flashed red light. This level of speed increase was already quite harmful to the human body, and it made Frank curl up painfully in the exoskeleton.
Fortunately, all the efforts were worth it. They finally rushed into the doorway, and the red light on the exoskeleton allowed them to vaguely see the delicate murals covered with black lines.
However, the team members and Frank did not straighten up. They were too injured from running before, and the road was also very long, so they'd better rush out in one go.
And the prerequisite is that they must be able to rush out in one breath.
Frank and the other team members were gasping for breath, curled up and waiting for the pain to pass, while Ollie, with difficulty, turned on his own physical examination equipment to let the exoskeleton scan himself.
"The health report issued by the exoskeleton system can be used as evidence. After all, this is considered a work-related injury. I have to tell Frank and the others later..."
Ollie thought about it, and then he saw his report card coming out.
"My physical condition is fine, but I just did some intense exercise and injured 3% of my bronchial tubes, which requires treatment..."
Ollie was looking at the report below, but when he raised his eyes inadvertently, he saw his current height and weight.
310cm.
50kg.
Ollie subconsciously felt that there was something wrong with the machine, and he tried to raise his hand and pat the exoskeleton to see if it would make it work properly.
But when Ollie tried to stretch his body, he found that he couldn't stretch no matter how hard he tried.
He even felt that the clothes that had once fit him well were now so tight that he couldn't breathe.
——Until Ollie asked the intelligent computer to provide a mirror.
Then he almost screamed.
Ollie suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked in the mirror at his haggard face, which was deformed by excessive bone growth.
Even the voice became hoarse like a monster.
"Ollie, what happened?"
The voice was full of concern, but that still couldn't hide the fact that it was just as hoarse and unpleasant as Ollie's.
Ollie turned his head slowly, just in time to see the creature that should be 'Frank' asking him with concern.
"Are you okay Ollie?"
His companions also gathered around him, but the sight of so many ugly and terrifying faces frightened Ollie's brain into becoming even more clear.
"You...didn't you feel anything was wrong?"
Ollie asked in a hoarse voice.
But everyone present said no, even Frank was comforting the frightened Ollie, saying they would be out soon.
"It will be fine once the body pain is over."
Frank said with a smile, but Ollie felt cold all over.
He subconsciously took a step back and turned on the searchlight to help Frank wake up. However, after turning on the light, Ollie realized a problem.
——This doesn’t seem to be the narrow mural passage.
There was no way there was any way two three-meter-tall monsters could stand side by side!
Ollie looked at the more exquisite and more terrifying portraits on the wall, and he slowly raised his head.
On the obviously pointed ceiling, the murals were quietly lying there.
Look downward.
“Aaaaaaaaaah!!!”
The inhuman screams reached the sky.
*
Ollie, who had fully sobered up, immediately realized that the road they were running on was not the road leading to the mural gallery, but the road leading to the pointed-roof house!
There were cars parked illegally on the roadside, but there was no gate here! But he seemed to have been blinded by something and ignored this!
When Oli realized this, it was as if a switch was turned on, and the tinnitus in his ears suddenly turned into a familiar language.
"#￥%#%& You can finally hear me, Corporal Ollie, we have transferred the authority from Frank to you, now immediately initiate emergency procedures, they can no longer operate the exoskeleton! Now immediately!"
The marshal's voice came from his ears, and Ollie immediately followed the marshal's voice.
Frank and the others didn't understand what was happening and were knocked unconscious. The exoskeleton took them directly to the mural gallery.
This time, Ollie finally saw the turnstile in front of the corridor.
But he still didn't take it lightly.
This relic hasn't changed at all, but they have become this horrible state. If the relic were to move...
Ollie's curled up body suddenly trembled, and his eyes became more terrified.
However, when they were brought to the temple hall by the exoskeleton, Ollie's worst fear happened.
——The temple door is slowly closing!
Oli gritted his teeth and immediately started at top speed, sending out the first nine people including himself.
However, Frank's foot was caught because of the last bit of distance!
Ollie's blood immediately flowed back, and he sent the eight exoskeletons to the ascending channel and immediately returned. Fortunately, the power of the two exoskeletons finally pulled Frank out.
"Boom!" Along with the sound of the gate closing, Oli, who was about to enter the ascending passage, seemed to hear the unwilling roar of the temple and looked back as if possessed by a ghost.
It’s still the same temple, and the same plants.
And there were still fourteen pairs of footprints on the ground walking towards the temple.
——But the fourteenth pair was stepped on when he went back to rescue Frank.
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On the starship, the conference room was silent as they watched the ten team members who had turned into four-meter-high pillars on the holographic screen.
Finally, a voice broke the deadlock.
"I told you, high-level psychics, don't get involved in this incident."
The blond young man tapped the pen in his hand on the table again and again.
"Oh, there are ten more crazy people."
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