Chapter 175: Illusion
Shen Hao reined in his thoughts, and walked towards the closed security door at the entrance of the building with an axe. I don't know if it's because of the isolation iron gate, this security door is not artificially locked on the ground, and it opens with a slight push, Shen Hao flashed in sideways, and when he was about to close the door casually, he suddenly frowned.
"Blood?"
The walls, floors, and ceilings of the current building are covered with a layer of thin ice that emits a faint fluorescence, although it cannot be said to be as bright as day, but the effect of some lighting is still there, and it also avoids the inconvenience of other teammates fighting in the dark.
At this moment, Shen Hao looked at this door, although the light was very weak, but as long as he paid a little attention, he could find that there were some blood stains left on the doorknob, and when he rubbed it with his hand, it was still fresh.
This means that someone has just passed by here, and there is blood on his hands...... Shen Hao looked down at the ground again, and sure enough, he found a few drops of blood on the floor.
Inside the security door was the elevator room, which had been pried open with a gap for people to pass through, and a pool of blood had also been left in the center of the elevator.
Sakura and Ryuichi Kanzaki had climbed up from this gap before, and it seemed that they had been attacked here and that someone had already been wounded. The reason for this judgment is that neither the BM nor the USBM that have been encountered so far have red blood, and if there are no other new enemies here, then the injured person is either Saionji Sakura or Kanzaki Ryuichi.
Shen Hao half-squatted down and checked the traces on the ground. The amount of blood is not too large, but it seems that the range of the splash is not small, and there are already a lot of stains on the security door behind the nearby wall, and there is still a blood trail along the foot of the wall towards the corridor outside.
"Looking at this trace, it doesn't look like they were being dragged along, but it looks like the injured person was chasing something and running outside......" Shen Hao muttered to himself, "But it can't be ruled out that they were chased away by something, right?" But apart from blood, there are no other signs of fighting. ”
Kanzaki Ryuichi's fighting style is not mentioned for the time being, Sakura of Saionji Temple is a kendo master, and she also has the light knife in her hand, one of the four famous swords of the R country, and it is impossible for her to have no ability to resist when attacked. As long as the knife is drawn, then there will be at least one or two knife marks left around, but in this small elevator room, except for some sparse bloodstains, there are no superfluous traces.
"Problematic ......"
Shen Hao immediately became vigilant, he leaned sideways against the wall, and cautiously glanced into the corridor. This floor is the hotel area, the corridor width is not large, and there are many turns, from here, there is a corner not far away, and there is a closed room door opposite, through the faint light of the ice, you can faintly see that there is a bloody handprint on the door.
Shen Hao frowned, and began to walk towards the door. The steel boots creaked against the icy ground, making them louder in the silent hallway.
The exit of the elevator hall was less than ten meters away from that door, and in a moment, Shen Hao was already standing in front of that door. He raised his right hand with metal gloves and compared it on the bloody handprint, which was obviously a lot bigger, the owner of the handprint should be a woman, Shen Hao suddenly remembered the appearance of Sakura in Xiyuan Temple in his mind, could it really be that something happened to her?
Shen Hao subconsciously reached out to push the door, but as soon as his fingers touched the doorknob, a feeling of overpower suddenly jumped from the back of his hand. Shen Hao's scalp exploded suddenly, and he pulled his hand back almost reflexively, but at the same time, he kicked the door hard, only to hear a "bang", and the security door and the door frame were directly kicked out by his violent kick.
This is an ordinary business room, there should be no one to occupy it when the disaster strikes, the doors and windows are locked, so all kinds of furniture in the room are readily available, and the USBM is not eaten up as food.
"It seems that the ice and snow field is only used on the surface of the building and some main passages, and this room is not covered with ice and snow......" Shen Hao turned on the emergency light and shone a few times in the room at random, and indeed did not find any special signs.
"Wait!" Speaking of the ice and snow realm that was dyed by Xinsu, Shen Hao suddenly had a spirit, and he seemed to have ignored something! Yes, it's bloodstains!
Shen Hao immediately turned around and rushed out of the room door, but it was already a step too late, it stands to reason that standing in this position can see the elevator passage opposite at a glance, but now at a glance, there is only an endless corridor. It was as if the outside world had completely changed after entering and exiting this room just now.
"Miscalculated......" Shen Hao slammed his fist on the wall in annoyance, and the ice immediately burst open, revealing the wall that had also been smashed inside.
Shen Hao didn't expect just now that Xin Suran's opening of the ice and snow field was something that happened after the disappearance of Sakura and the others in Xiyuan Temple, if they were really attacked and injured as soon as they got out of the elevator, then the blood stains left behind should be covered by the ice and snow generated later, and they would not be so heavily exposed to the ice.
The bloodstains in the elevator room before, as well as the bloody handprints on the door, and even this room were actually a trap, and I unconsciously fell into the illusion in front of me.
That's right, it's a fantasy. Even the Demon itself shouldn't be able to change the structure of the entire level in such a silent situation. Although the corridors and stairs were indeed transformed into life-devouring "cannibal passages" under the power of the demons when they were downstairs before, the arrangement of those corridors and stairs themselves has not changed. But the corridor in front of me, which seems to have no end, is not so normal, and the biggest possibility is that I have fallen into the illusion arranged by the enemy.
And the way the illusion is triggered should be the strange feeling when I touched the doorknob before. The sensation was so real, as if someone had scratched the back of his hand with a fingertip that was extremely light.
Shen Hao stood in place, calmed his breathing, and walked forward. It stands to reason that the illusion is only a subtle correction attached to the original illusion, and the confusion is generally only the senses of the recruit, and it will not really change the illusion.
The corridor was still unusually silent, and nothing could be heard except for Shen Hao's own footsteps. Shen Hao's pace was much faster this time, although it was not a trot, but the speed was faster than the average person's trot.
Five minutes later, the corridor in front of him still had no end, Shen Hao stopped, looked back at the way he came, but behind him was pitch black, as if the road he came from had been submerged in darkness. As soon as he re-entered the hallway, the light around him had dimmed so much that it was almost impossible to see farther away.
"It seems that it is not only the sense of sight and hearing that has been affected, but also the sense of direction and balance...... "Shen Hao pressed his finger against the wall on one side, gently scraping the ice on it. These magically generated thin ices vaporize as soon as they are detained, and new ice surfaces are immediately generated on the walls.
"The magic of the stingy stain is still valid, uncorrupted by the outside powers...... What's more......." Shen Hao reached out and touched the brand on the back of his neck, muttering, "I don't feel anything, except for USBM, it can attack me when the brand can't be sensed...... Could it be ......?"
"Bang!" A crunch came from a distance, accompanied by a few faint rattling sounds.
Shen Hao raised his head with a different face, "What?" Did I find some clues and change my strategy soon? Shen Hao smiled faintly, and immediately accelerated and ran in the direction where the voice came from.
This time, the corridor ahead was no longer endless, and after only twenty or thirty meters of progress, a fork in the road appeared, and there was a closed door not far to the left and right.
Shen Hao shrugged his nose, and there was a faint smell of blood faintly on the left side, so he no longer hesitated, immediately turned left, and walked towards the door over there.
The handwriting on the "8014" nameplate was faint in the dim light, and just below the room number was a line of red lettering in blood.
The blood was very fresh, and there was still uncoagulated blood sliding down between the strokes. Judging from the handwriting, the person who wrote this sentence seems to be in a hurry, but the font has been deliberately enlarged a lot, as if he is worried that they will not be able to see it.
“たすけて!” This is the meaning of saving lives in the R text, but it is very abrupt that such a blood word appears here so loudly.
"This kind of trap is too uncreative......" Shen Hao shook his head, dipped his hand in the blood stains on the door and sniffed it lightly, but said with a self-deprecating smile, "Sure enough, the sense of smell has also been affected, but it is not done thoroughly, hehe, I am actually measured by the level of smell of ordinary people, it seems that your ability to create illusions is not at home......"
"If that's the case, then that's the end of the game, I'm short on time, I can't waste it here." Shen Hao took two steps back, but this time he held the handle of the axe with both hands at the same time, and the sharp blade of the axe was raised high.
"Speaking of which, I don't like this kind of thing at all, but I'm not afraid at all." Shen Hao, who was behind the mask, grinned, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth, "It's a big deal to spend a little more effort - break it for me!" ”
"Boom-" The tomahawk slashed through a cold light, but instead of slashing at the gate in front of him, it slashed down at the frost-covered wall on one side......