I saw that she calmly continued to walk forward, her steps and strides were still uniform, almost making people feel that the pause was just a momentary illusion.

Ren Zhong frowned, could it be that she noticed something?

Why was she there, and why did she stop in front of the mechanism they had set up?

The alarm bell in Ren Zhong's consciousness was loud, and he patted the staff on the shoulder: "Drag the progress bar forward a little, and the picture will be maximized." ”

The staff was a little nervous by Xu Chunqiu's smile, and was slapped on the back coldly, and the reaction was so fierce that they wanted to jump three feet high on the spot.

Heavy duty: "...... Not really. ”

The staff quickly apologized and sped up the movements under their hands.

Immediately afterwards, on the big screen in front of them, the image of Xu Chunqiu after starting from the fourth corner appeared, the picture was specially enlarged, and the expression and subtle movements on her face were all clearly visible.

Her pupils were unfocused, and she couldn't see anything, but her eyes weren't flustered at all.

Her expression was as usual, her gait was even, and there didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary, at least the staff didn't see anything wrong.

Ren Zhong wrinkled his brows and looked at it for a while, and with a "chuckle" in his heart, he said in a deep voice: "She is counting steps." ”

The staff let out a confused "ah", and the doubts in their hearts lingered.

How could he not see it?

I only heard Ren Zhong continue: "Play it again, starting with Du Zigui patting her on the shoulder." ”

The staff let out an "oh" relentlessly, and the surveillance footage returned to before Xu Chunqiu set off from the fourth corner towards the first corner.

"Start counting ...... here" Ren Zhong stared at the black-and-white images on the screen without blinking, silently counting, "That's right, Xu Chunqiu must have noticed something before, so he arranged himself in this position." ”

When she stopped in front of the camera, she walked exactly a hundred steps. ”

The staff looked stunned, he seemed to know what Xu Chunqiu meant when he stopped in front of the surveillance camera.

I know that the mechanism ahead is what you designed, but I will continue to move forward as you wish.

Ren Zhong asked the staff to continue to play real-time monitoring with a complicated face, and it was comforting that after Xu Chunqiu's comical operation, it was not only the staff who watched her every move in the background who were dumbfounded, but also the players who were trapped in the four-corner game.

Lu Xiu stood in the first corner, waiting left and right, estimating that the time was almost up, but Xu Chunqiu still did not appear.

He asked tentatively, "Xu Chunqiu?"

There was silence in the dark space, and he could even hear the echo of his own voice, but there was no response from Xu Chunqiu.

His heart "chuckled", and his breathing suddenly became short: "Xu Chunqiu?"

Still no sound.

Lu Xiu began to panic.

The people in the rest of the corners also began to faintly notice the abnormality.

"Is Teacher Xu here?"

"Qiuqiu, are you in place?"

"Teacher Xu?"

“......”

There was silence.

Lu Xiu slid his Adam's apple and said bitterly, "Xu Chunqiu is gone." ”

Ren Zhong behind the monitoring screen breathed a sigh of relief, although Xu Chunqiu's behavior standing in the last corner was a little out of control, but overall, the design of this mechanism still achieved their expected effect.

Xie Lang was like a leaky ball, and all the courage he had finally mustered leaked out.

"You—do you remember the story Qiuqiu told," she swallowed, "and the children sneaked into the abandoned theater to play games, and one by one they disappeared. ”

Fu Nanxun also panicked: "Impossible, the corridor of this theater building is a circular structure, how could she lose it while walking." ”

"She must have been taken to a separate room by some mechanism in the secret room. Du Zigui reasonably speculated.

"What about Mr. Lu?"

Du Zigui quickly calmed down: "Mr. Lu is still there, and the four of us are here." ”

"Only Teacher Xiao Xu is gone. ”

"So what should we do next, how can we find her?"

Du Zigui pondered for a moment and came to a conclusion: "We can try to go again, and we may be able to find her again." ”

"Can you?"

Xie Lang was still holding on to the wall a moment ago, and when she heard Du Zigui propose to go again, the balance in her heart collapsed, her voice was still trembling, and the words she blurted out were arrogant: "Come on, don't you just come again, I'm not afraid." ”

The people quickly came to an agreement and decided to go through the previous steps all over again.

The remaining four people in the dark corridor each occupy a corner, but the position is very different from the last time the game was played.

Lu Xiu still did not move in the No. 1 position, Xie Lang moved to the No. 2 position, Fu Nanxun replaced Du Zigui in the No. 3 position, and Du Zigui stood in the position before Xu Chunqiu was lost, the last No. 4 position.

"Are you ready?"

A low reply came from the initial starting point, and Lu Xiu was like a taut string, as if because of Xu Chunqiu's mysterious disappearance, his whole person's nerves were highly tense.

He lifted his steps and walked towards Xie Lang in the second position.

His pace was very chaotic, his breathing was rapid, and Mr. Lu, who had always been calm, seemed to be out of order all of a sudden, and all his reason and logic were abandoned, leaving only Xu Chunqiu alone.

In the darkness, his eyes could not see anything, but he seemed to see many pictures.

He saw the surveillance video of the scenic spot that Feng Tusheng showed him, Xu Chunqiu on the Lugou Bridge was pulled by the Weiya rope and fell into the turbulent Yongding River like a dead leaf detached from the branches.

He saw Xu Chunqiu lying on the hospital bed, with a lifeless pale face.

He saw Xu Chunqiu wearing a pinstriped hospital gown, supporting his body in confusion, and looking at himself vigilantly with unfamiliar eyes.

Lots of images crossed his mind like a montage movie, intertwined, hovering, and always lingering.

The feeling of loss was as if a piece of flesh had been ripped off the tip of his heart.

What was the shadow in front of him, how many sleepless nights he had spent, the sky was white, he had seen the first rays of morning light tear through the night countless times, but his world was always a long night.

Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale –

He was breathing heavily, almost tearing in the darkness.

He had already lost Xu Chunqiu once, how could he not be afraid?