Chapter 5 The Dead Disappear and Insight into the Labyrinth

I really never imagined that someone would fall off the top of his head.

Nima, that's so exciting, isn't it? Who pushed this man down?

Subconsciously looked up, but the staircase above was black, and he couldn't see anyone on the other side at all. Looking down again, the person in front of him was lying on the ground motionless, gurgling blood flowing from the top of his head, he was really dead and couldn't die anymore.

What a dead man?!

It was only then that I realized the seriousness of the problem and retreated in panic until I had to stop when I leaned my back against the stone wall.

Calm down, calm down, this is a ghost village, everyone is dead, it is impossible for anyone to die a second time, there must be something wrong.

, the dead are all in front of you, someone must have killed him, what else could be the problem!

I turned around and ran back to the school building of the Ghost Academy as fast as I could. At this time, in front of the door of the combined classroom, Wu Ming and the two gatekeepers were talking about something. As soon as I saw Wu Ming, I immediately shouted as if I had found the backbone: "Wu Ming, something happened!"

Hearing my shout, Wu Ming turned around abruptly.

"What's wrong?"

"Dead man, someone has been killed in the labyrinth of hell!"

"Killed, take me to see it!"

Wu Ming didn't say a word, and immediately followed me back to the hell labyrinth. But when we reached the center of the second labyrinth again, the ground below the stairs was empty, and there were no dead people at all.

"I'm rubbing, what's the situation!

I was confused. Feeling Wu Ming's puzzled gaze, he hurriedly pointed to the ground and explained: "Just now here, a person fell from above, and his head broke and bled to death here. I'm looking at it really, I don't know why it's gone now, really, I didn't lie to you!"

"Falling down from the upper floor? Yan Shifei, don't be kidding, the stairs in the hell maze are not connected, even if someone really comes down from the stairs on the upper floor. It will also randomly land elsewhere in this layer of the labyrinth. How could it fall in front of you. ”

"I don't know. Wu Ming, Senior Wu, don't discuss the stairs for the time being, I'll just say that someone died here just now. Now the body is gone. You're in charge of this, aren't you?"

“……”

Wu Ming stared at me. The look in his eyes was weird, and I was uncomfortable to see, but the point was that I really didn't lie to him.

"I rub. What kind of eyes do you have, can I still lie to you about the dead?"

"Ahem, classmate Yan Shifei, you calm down first. First of all, you have to know that this is a ghost village, and compared to the outside world, the people here are all dead, even if you see a corpse, don't be surprised, understand?"

"Not ......"

"Listen to me! Secondly, this is the Labyrinth of Hell, and during the beginning of the school year, only you freshmen from other places can enter here. Your situation is not the same as those of us who already have the status of residents of the ghost village, and you are now in the state of 'black households'. If you are recognized, you can live in the ghost village, and if you don't get recognition, you will return to the state in which you died. In other words, here, the slightest accident will lead to your death, so don't run around, you're in danger right now!"

"What, that person was pushed down the stairs and fell to his death just now, it's not that he didn't get recognition at all! Besides, I've always been alive, not dead at all, don't scare me with these things. ”

"I didn't scare you, I don't believe you see for yourself!"

Wu Ming shook his head helplessly, reached out and took out a mobile phone from his pocket of clothes, clicked his fingers on the keyboard a few times, and then handed the mobile phone to me.

I took it and looked at it, and I saw a news message on the screen.

In the early morning of August 22, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurred at the junction of Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou, and the depth and scope of the epicenter have not yet been determined. As of press time, the earthquake had killed 29 people and left eight missing. It is reported that the casualties of the disaster accident are all passengers from Chongqing to Chengdu, the driver of the car changed the route that night without permission, driving into the earthquake-prone area, after the earthquake, the bus fell into the collapsed road, causing a tragedy. Among the missing people are seven college students who went to Sichuan to study, and their families have rushed to the accident site, and we will continue to follow up and report on the relevant accident information......"

A short piece of text news, looking at it, I just feel that the whole world is darkened.

What do you mean, is this talking about us?

Seeing that I didn't speak, Wu Ming reached out and took the phone back, and slowly explained: "Yan Shifei, I can understand your current mood, I have always thought that you are still alive, but this is not the case, the shuttle bus of Tiandao University will not take some living people to the ghost village for no reason." To the outside world, you're just missing now, and when you're allowed to leave here, you're the one who's miraculously survived. But if you lose the opportunity to stay in the ghost village now, then you will be the thirtieth person to die in this news. Do you understand?"

Wu Ming's words pierced my heart like a needle, and I understood for the first time that the people in the desert saw the city, but in the end they found that it was a mirage, a feeling of despair, and the whole person slowly retreated unconsciously and sat on the ground.

"And what's the point of me being now?"

"Well, Yan is a non-classmate, you can't say that. At least you are still alive in the ghost village, and you are only missing from your parents and family, the meaning of your current existence is to give them a hope that you are still alive, and the meaning of the existence of the ghost village is to make it possible for them to realize this hope. Well, that's all it takes, it's up to you to decide what to do next. The reason why I am showing you this news is to tell you that all the people who come here are dead, there is no such thing as who killed whom, only someone loses the qualification to survive in the ghost village and returns to the state before death.

You just told me that you saw someone fall from above. The head was broken and bleeding, which only proved that he had fallen to his death before, and he had recovered his original face in the labyrinth of hell. As for where his body is, I don't know now, and I don't understand why you can see it. But when the freshman assessment is over on August 31, we, the old students, will enter the maze and deal with those who have not passed the assessment, and everything will be solved by then. Running with you, I just wanted to dispose of the corpse in advance to avoid scaring others, who knows that there is nothing at all.

Alas. I've told you enough. I still have a lot of things to do, will you go out with me?"

Wu Ming looked at me, quietly waiting for my answer, but I really didn't want to say a word to him now.

"You're not going with me? and you want to get your friend out? Okay. I respect your own decision. For your sake, I saved Su Qian before you. Here's a hint for you. Assessment of freshmen of the Special College of Tiandao University. There are four levels in total. The first three levels are all about testing your natural abilities or personal qualities in the courses of the respective academy, while the last level of the Hell Labyrinth is a test of life and death.

Each house will only prepare ten maps to get out of the labyrinth of hell. When these maps are taken and the rest of them want to get out, there is another way to rely on luck in addition to luck, and that is to tear up someone's new life card and exchange someone else's death for your life. The method is a bit cruel, but it's part of the assessment. So, if you want to save your friends, then hurry up. ”

After Wu Ming finished speaking, he turned his head to leave, but the last words he said made me unable to remain indifferent.

"Wait a minute!"

"What's wrong?"

"Did you just say tearing up someone else's identity card, the kind of cardboard you gave us before?"

"That's right. ”

"Who else knows about this method?"

"Usually no one knows, unless a house leader or teacher has taken a fancy to a student and tells him in a special way. ”

"So, who tore up his identity card from the dead man I saw just now and made him disqualified from living?"

"Eighty percent of the time. ”

"Okay, last question. That news said that eight people were missing, except for the seven of us who came to Tiandao University, who was the other one?"

"Well, your question is so big. However, as I know, the eighth person was the one who was captured by the police on the Ghoul Path. By the way, the policemen you meet are actually from the ghost village. ”

"Got it, let's go. ”

"OK, good luck. ”

Wu Chao waved his hand to me, turned his head and left, and the surroundings were quiet again.

I don't know who said, "Loneliness enlightens wisdom", I sat alone on the ground, and I felt that the thoughts in my head were extremely clear.

The matter on the ghoul path, no matter what the outcome of the outside world is, is a foregone conclusion, and I can't go back, it's useless to think about it!

Things in the ghost village, the fat man and Wang Fei are safe, don't worry, I just need to find the other four, that's all!

Inside the labyrinth of hell, the dead and the dead compete with each other, and the rules are like this, I can only try to ensure that my own people are safe and sound, and the rest, there is nothing I can do!

And if you want to get out of here, in addition to gathering the map of the Hell Destiny Palace, another way is to "kill". That's right, isn't it murderous to take away someone else's chance of survival? It's just that this method should not be used as much as possible.

As for the corpse I just saw, it only proves that someone like me got such a prompt to leave the labyrinth of hell and did something to someone else. I don't know who got the hint, but I think that since that person has a chance to leave, he won't stay anymore, so the threat is not very big.

But the key question is, where did the dead man go?

I stood up and couldn't help but study the place where the man had just fallen, and there was not even a trace of blood on the ground.

It shouldn't be, am I dazzled?

No way, no matter how dazzled I am, I would never see such a big dead man, and someone must have pushed the man down the stairs, I had to go up and see if I could see anyone standing on the stairs.

With this in mind, I stepped up the stairs, and when I reached the last step, the scenery changed suddenly.

Directly in front of me was a labyrinth passage, and on the far left side of the staircase, there was a narrow passage that separated it from the road ahead, and I could clearly see that from this passageway, I turned left to another staircase.

This...... Can I tell the right way up and down the stairs?

Thinking of this, I quickly stepped sideways onto the narrow aisle and turned to look behind me, where the view below had changed.

Directly in front of me became a small passage leading to the central stairwell of the maze where I had been, and most of the staircase separated by a wall on the left led to an unfamiliar labyrinth.

If it's just the location of the maze in an unknown location, the key is that at the end of the stairs, a person falls to the ground, blood flowing!

I get it, I finally get it.

It's true that the stairs that connect up and down the labyrinth of hell lead people to different places, but I have a god-given eye to make out where the correct staircase is.

And it was true that someone had pushed someone down the stairs just now, but the one who fell downstairs was not the stairwell in the center of the maze, but the place where the stairs led randomly. I just saw what was happening elsewhere with my spiritual eyes, and if I hadn't run back just now, I would have found the body quietly gone.

Knowing all this, I was both excited and nervous.

I was thrilled that I could freely navigate through the Labyrinth of Hell from one to nine without going the wrong way.

Nervously, I found the body of the dead man, do you want to see how he died?

Take a look, at least you have to know who killed him, so that you can guard against that murderer in the future.

With that decision in mind, I descended to the last step of the stairs and reached out to slowly turn the body over.

This is a boy, honest and honest, probably frightened before he died, his eyes widen at the moment, his face is distorted, and his mouth is open as if he is shouting something.

I took a deep breath and fixed my gaze on his eyes, and suddenly the scene around me changed rapidly, and I only felt that I couldn't breathe out a breath in my chest, and I was nauseous and uncomfortable.

When I finally recovered my strength, I turned my head and saw that I was already in a small bedroom.

This...... Where is this?

Huh? I'm still me?

Looking down, he held a pen in his hand, and the notebook touched by the tip of the pen was full of the words "whether to go or not". Of course, that's not the point, the point is that I can get the pen in my hand and continue writing.

I can control this body!

Realizing that I still had my original thoughts, I quickly got up and looked around for the mirror, which happened to be inlaid on the wardrobe in the room, and when I stood there, the person in front of me was the honest face that had died in the labyrinth of hell.

I'm going to be good, this time it's the same as when it became "black charcoal", so who am I now?

Damn, why can't you even remember who you are?(To be continued......