【011】 The engraving of Sima Ling
"Why did Gu Kangming kill these people? How did he kill these people? Sima Ling thought as she ran, she ran off the overpass and ran into the street park surrounded by green trees, which was usually empty because of the rain.
Sima Ling's sports performance was not good, and the high heels under her feet made her suffer a lot, she struggled to bypass the benches and swings on the stone road, trying to run through the park back to the back door of the school, but the heel of her uncompetitive left foot "snapped" in two, and almost broke her foot.
Sima Ling was angry and anxious, she wanted to take off her high heels and run barefoot, but she heard footsteps not far behind her, so she had to hide behind the half-human-high grass, and she didn't even dare to come out.
Through the grass, Sima Ling could only see the stalker's trouser legs and leather shoes, both of which were very textured pure black, for a moment or two, Sima Ling thought that he was likely to be a false alarm, maybe the other party was just a passerby who happened to pass by the street park, because the taste and pace were obviously not similar to the obese Gu Kangming.
"You don't have a chance." Deserted Night stopped in the middle of the park clearing and looked around, "Get out of your hiding place and let me finish this trouble I have to do—I am tired of you humans always using me to kill each other." ”
"You humans?" Sima Ling scolded in his heart, "Could it be that this perverted killer thinks he is a Namek? ”
"Won't you come out?" Araya sighed, "Do you still cherish your humble and short life?" I wanted you to be less miserable, but now it seems that I can't do it. ”
Suddenly, the objects at the feet of the deserted night came under an invisible weight, and the cans discarded by the visitors turned into crumpled masses after a crackling noise, and even the waste paper and fallen leaves seemed to have turned into lead and iron, clinging to the ground, and no night wind could blow them.
The eerie range gradually expanded, at first limited to a few inches around Araya, and then the radius expanded to 1 meter, 2 meters, and the swing lanyard farther away was also stretched straight.
Sima Ling was so nervous that she couldn't breathe, she remembered the scene she had just seen on the overpass, and she also remembered the victims of the bizarre murder - would she herself follow in their footsteps and become a bloody decorative painting embedded in the pavement?
A sudden burst of rain fell from the sky, and the sound of "bang-la-la" startled Sima Ling with a shiver, either she was wrong, or the raindrops really sparked on the bluestone pavement.
Sima Ling quickly woke up to the fact that the heavy rain that only lasted 5 seconds before stopping was originally just small droplets of water hanging on the willow leaves, and there was a force that caused them to fall to the ground with an acceleration of several times their own weight, and their lethality was by no means weaker than the rubber bullets used by the riot police!
A falling drop of water grazed Sima Ling's knee, immediately cutting a gap between her stockings and skin, and she burst into tears in pain, covering her lips so that she didn't scream.
Next, this kind of "artificial rainfall" appeared for the second and third times, and the high-speed water droplets continued to hit Sima Ling in front of and behind him no more than an inch, causing the bluestone pavement under his feet to shake, as if a small earthquake had occurred.
She hadn't been so scared since her parents divorced for the first time. Unfortunately, after meeting Nanke at the school gate this morning, her right hand had been experiencing an indescribable soreness, and now this soreness had turned into an unbearable burning pain.
"Damn Xiao Nan! What chemicals did you get on my hands? Sima Ling secretly swore in his heart: "If I become a ghost, the first person I want to scare is Xiao Nan!" And then it's my fussy mom, and then it's my dad who locks himself in the studio all day......"
At this time, the rain stopped, probably the water droplets on the willow leaves ran out, and Sima Ling just wanted to take a breath, but there was a louder noise overhead.
"Crackling" between the sounds, the slender willow leaves have been torn off the branches, there is no elegance of the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, but as if falling lead, if the raindrops just now are two shuttle rubber bullets, this time the willow leaves are 10,000 Xiao Li flying knives.
The first Xiao Li flying knife shaved off a lock of Sima Ling's hair, and the second flying knife unbelievably pierced the bluestone road by at least 4 inches, and she knew in that thousandth of a second that she had no hope of escaping.
"There are so many places in the world that I haven't been to!" She thought sadly, "Farewell, the Grand Canyon in the United States, the pyramids in Egypt, and the deacon tea shop in Japan!" ”
For some reason, the burning pain in her right hand also reached its peak at this moment, and Sima Ling felt that the blood vessels on the back of her hand might have burst, because she had a pleasure of releasing the pressure. When the dark curtain fell, the surroundings suddenly fell silent, and all the hustle and bustle of the world was cut off, as quiet as heaven.
"Is this death?" Sima Ling thought, "I thought it would hurt a lot!" ”
She opened her eyes and looked around, and was surprised to see a high, glowing white wall in front of her, and her front and back, her left and right, her head and feet were completely white—she was clearly in a huge white labyrinth.
"Labyrinth? Why Labyrinth? Sima Ling muttered to herself suspiciously, then she found a flashing green arrow under her feet, she followed the arrow for two steps, and when she came to a fork, the arrow changed its direction, it seemed that this arrow would always point to the correct route out of the maze, Sima Ling didn't think too much (anyway, she thought she was dead), the process of following the green arrow forward was a bit like playing a dance mat game, and she even gently hummed "I'm_not_Twenty" by French singer Ellie.
"You can't escape, even if you're a marker, it's useless." The voice of the deserted night came from somewhere behind him, and Sima Ling was so frightened that he swallowed back the French lyrics he had just sung. She turned her head and didn't see the tracker, but judging by the sound, the distance between the other party and herself would not exceed 50 meters in a straight line.
"Isn't this strange place the afterlife?" Sima Ling sped up to follow the green arrow, and re-noticed her broken heels and injured knee, on the back of her right hand, two bright points of light began to swim in reverse like a snake, and the two golden silk threads that dragged out finally depicted a simplified symbol with an obvious meaning of "labyrinth".
Sima Ling didn't know that this luminous symbol was an engraving triggered by Nanke, known as the Minoan Labyrinth. The owner of the Engraving can drive both friend and foe into the Labyrinth of Subspace, a labyrinth of indestructible materials from Greek mythology, where only the owner of the Labyrinth can see the arrow at his feet and follow the hint to find the only exit.
As a privilege, the Engraving owner can also cheat in this maze game by opening a second exit to get out of the maze. The positions inside the subspace labyrinth correspond to the real world one-to-one, just like the front and back of a piece of paper, and when you get out of a certain point of the labyrinth, you will return to the corresponding position in the real world.
"What is this glowing symbol? Why do I have this thing on my right hand? In front of him was a seemingly endless white labyrinth, and behind him there was the sound of footsteps approaching in the deserted night, Sima Ling's mind was a mess, "What should I do?" What to do? My right hand, it feels so weird...... It's all Xiaonan's harm! I...... I have to be beaten by Haibian before I can get angry! ”
While cursing Nanke while running for his life, when he reached a corner of the labyrinth, Sima Ling suddenly felt a strange and familiar aura coming from behind the wall. "What's going on? This feeling...... It's like Xiao Nan's bastard is staying in the next room......"
She subconsciously touched the wall, the maze symbol on the back of her hand seemed to vibrate, accompanied by some kind of metal chorus, the wall in front of Sima Ling was originally as smooth as jade, and there was not even a crack, but at this time, a secret door suddenly appeared, and the black hole outside the door was empty, and I don't know where it leads.
Sima Ling only hesitated for a second before jumping in.
"What's in it! It can't be worse than it is now! ”