Act III. Infinite Corridors

"I beg your pardon for refusing."

Bai Ge said a word and walked down the stairs decisively.

Although he Bai Ge is not the kind of guy who likes to do the most and say no to people who think they are better than him, the current situation is really weird.

Who's going to take away the head of an unknown alchemy puppet!

Ai Lian looked at Bai Ge's departing figure, but did not say anything to stay.

Bai Ge quickly walked down the steps, rounded the corner, and came to the fourth floor.

“?”

At the top of the stairs on the fourth floor, the head of love lies quietly there.

"What a coincidence."

Love said.

"What the hell?"

Bai Ge subconsciously took half a step back and continued to rush down the stairs.

On the third floor, in the same position, the head of love is looking up at itself.

"You can't go."

Love said.

"What's that?"

Bai Ge felt that his cognition had been challenged, and ran all the way to the first floor.

At the staircase on the first floor, the beloved head of an old friend is still waiting for Bai Ge.

He stepped over the head of the alchemy doll and prepared to run out of the school building.

“?”

However, Bai Ge found that the exit of the teaching building was missing.

No, it's not gone.

He looked at the classroom beside him.

It's still the fifth floor!

Ghost hitting the wall?

This is not some supernatural story, where did this evil thing come from.

Bai Ge thought about it, since it was not possible to go downstairs, then simply go upstairs.

He climbed up a level.

"See you again."

Ai Lian said hello calmly.

Meet your sister!

Bai Ge had no choice at all.

"What the hell did you do? Where the hell am I now? ”

He gasped for breath and came to the head of Love, crouching down slightly.

"Although I didn't do it, I can tell you that this is the fifth floor of the school's old school building, which is also a secret room."

"Secret room?"

What kind of new setting is this, I haven't heard of it.

Bai Ge asked rhetorically.

Although he didn't have personal experience, after playing the game for so long, he could roughly know that he was probably under the influence of a certain ascender's ability now.

"Yes, this is a small abyss created by the Ascender, and the Ascender probably set up this mechanism in advance to prevent himself from being discovered, and I triggered that mechanism just now."

The tone of love was unfazed, without the slightest tension that he had only one head left.

"Really, if I had known that this would happen, I would have changed into a combat body, and the strength of this daily use is still too low."

Compared with the previous image of a gentle and kind rich daughter, it seems that this slightly strong character is the real her.

"Well, let's not mention this yet."

Ai Lian's gaze turned to Bai Ge.

"As for you, it's probably just an innocent passerby who happened to be swept in."

"That's why you were blown up?"

Bai Ge asked subconsciously, and suddenly felt that it was a bit rude to ask like this.

Forget it, there's only one head left anyway, and it's not so much exquisite.

"Since you're playing the game, it should be easy to understand, the ability of that ascender is probably to build such a secret room, if you can't unlock the answer to the secret room, then you will be trapped here forever, until the other party senses that the trap has been triggered and rushes over."

Ai Lian did not directly answer Bai Ge's question, but simply explained.

"As for the reason for my attack, I think it was against the rules."

"And what are the rules?"

Bai Ge tried his best to digest the words of love.

"Before I met you, I had tried to leave, but I couldn't get down to the fifth floor like you just did, so I thought of contacting my companion, and when I made a simple attempt, I was hit by an explosion."

Love is explained in an orderly manner.

"So I deduce that one of the rules of this secret room is that you can't contact the outside world."

"As long as you break the rules, it will explode like you just did?"

Bai Ge blurted out.

"Yes, this explosion has a certain delay, but it is very fast, about a second or two, not enough to create enough escape paths, really, I am the worst at this kind of puzzle game."

Ai Lian said indifferently, and looked at Bai Ge again.

"So, when are you going to pick up my head?"

Half of her face was still on the ground, and it was inconvenient for her to speak.

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Bai Ge held his head in love, it was very light, not as heavy as he imagined.

"And how do I know what the rules are?"

Bai Ge looked at the corridor, the originally ordinary corridor was now full of shadows, which made people feel uneasy.

Outside the closed window, there seemed to be bats flying by in the night, making small crushing sounds.

Once you contact the outside world, it will explode, which means that if Bai Ge took out his mobile phone to clear his strength just now, then he would be cold?

That's an exaggeration.

I'm not an alchemy puppet.

If it explodes, it won't survive.

"I've done a little research before, and I can probably come to the conclusion that this is a secret room, and the rules of the secret room are observed."

The words of love were in the clouds, but Bai Ge still captured a little bit of thought.

"You mean, this is a space like the secret room in a mystery novel?"

Bai Ge's words made Ailian's eyes look at him a little more interesting.

"Very smart"

The corners of the mouth of the love with only one head turned up, and under the starlight, this expression that should have been a little scary I don't know why, there is a different kind of charm.

From the second order onwards, in addition to the characteristics of the rank, most of the abilities of the upgrader are derived from the historical fragments of their own names.

The original text of this small abyss is probably the secret room in mystery novels.

Chamber.

One of the most recognizable forms of impossible crime.

Countless mystery writers have interpreted their own secret rooms by various means, some are clumsy, some are ingenious, but in general, most of the secret rooms have certain rules to speak of.

"The first rule is that the Chamber of Secrets is isolated from the outside world within the realm of cognition."

Love said that not being able to contact the outside world is an extension of this rule, and no way to leave the fifth floor whether you go upstairs or downstairs is also part of the rule.

"The second rule is that there must be an uncognitive connection between the Chamber of Secrets and the outside world."

Although it seems impossible to commit a crime at first glance, in fact, there will always be various means to crack the secret room, and the way to solve it is the rules of the secret room.

"As long as these two rules are not violated, there should be no problem with other actions."

Love said.

"In addition, there is another setting that is not a rule, that is, this secret room is constantly shrinking."

"Shrink?"

As soon as Bai Ge asked a question, he suddenly heard a bell.

The dull sound of a bell from nowhere, echoed through the corridors.

Then, Bai Ge clearly saw that the stairs leading to the fourth floor were gone.

It's gone.

"At first, when I found myself trapped, the size of this secret room was the third to fifth floors of the old school building, and then, after a minute, the third floor shrank by a fifth, and then, every minute, the third floor shrank by a part, and then the third floor was followed by the fourth floor, and with this bell, the fifth floor would probably gradually shrink and eventually disappear."

Love said calmly.

"I don't know what will happen to the disappearing part, but it's certainly not as simple as leaving the secret room directly, well, according to the calculation, there will be less than five minutes before the fifth floor disappears?"

"What a joke!"

Bai Ge was a little nervous.

Isn't there a complete lack of time, how can there be time to chat here?

What the hell does you do when you fall in love with this guy?

No, no, no, now is not the time to worry about this.

Bai Ge's brain was running rapidly, and the things listed in love appeared in his consciousness one by one.

Secret Room, Rule, Explosion, Disappearance, Passage, Isolation ......

"Wait, there should be a third rule."

Bai Ge suddenly spoke, pointing to the body parts scattered on the ground.

"The third rule is that if there is a violation of the rules in the secret room, there will be an explosion."

“?”

Love was stunned.

Indeed, the existence that violates the rules will explode, which is something that she has personally experienced, so she subconsciously uses it as a basic setting.

Thinking about it this way, it should indeed be one of the rules of this secret room.

In fact, if this rule did not exist, then the secret room would be unsolvable.

According to normal thinking, if Ai Lian and Bai Ge find a hidden way to leave the secret room that meets the second rule, then this road will become a recognized entrance and exit connecting the secret room and the outside world, making the secret room itself violate the first rule.

At this point, the third rule comes into effect, and the secret room is destroyed due to the violation of the rules, and everyone escapes.

Bai Ge doesn't say anything else, he is really good at this kind of thing of finding loopholes and summarizing rules.

"But if it explodes......"

"Huh? Are you an ascender? ”

Ai Lian looked curiously at Bai Ge, who was thinking.

"In this case, not only did you quickly adjust from your panicked state of mind, but you were also able to quickly and calmly analyze the problem, as a high school student, your psychological quality is really abnormal."

"Has it been discovered?"

Bai Ge smiled bitterly.

"I'm the ascender of the shadow archetype, the most vegetable kind."

The Ascenders are not exactly the same, and under the system called "Archetypes", there are countless small and numerous sub-branches called "ranks".

The types of historical fragments corresponding to the ascenders of different archetypes are completely different, and the ranks that make up the chain of upgrading are naturally different.

For example, the promoters of the creator's prototype are mostly famous musicians, artists, and writers who use historical fragments for promotion.

For example, the upgrader of the hero archetype has all kinds of warriors, warriors, and generals under his name.

Another example is the shadow prototype where Bai Ge is located.

This archetype is full of crimes, thieves, and courtiers, and is the archetype that most serious official institutions avoid.

"Nobody?"

Love whispered the name of the rank of the first order of the shadow prototype, the mortal body.

Yes, nobody.

Bai Ge is now a standard nobody.

According to the official records that can be consulted, as well as the conclusions that Bai Ge has reached by his own attempts.

The greatest specificity of the Nobody rank is that when the Ascended Person commits a crime, the success rate increases significantly, the probability of being detected decreases, and the thinking becomes clearer.

At the same time, the dexterity of the fingers, the tolerance to negative scenes, the vision at night, etc., will also be improved to varying degrees.

"I look forward to heroes, but I am a shadow, it's funny."

Ai Lian thought of Bai Ge's attitude towards those who had ascended in the mobile game, smiled, and looked at Bai Ge's eyes with a bit of playfulness.

"Even though I'm a nobody, cracking this secret room is exactly what I'm good at."

Bai Ge ignored Ai's ridicule, but looked around.

Knock Knock Knock –

Heavy bells rang.

Gadda –

It was as if the space had been folded, and Bai Ge and Ailian saw that at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor, they didn't know when it was gone.

The whole space feels cramped and occluded, and it is difficult to breathe.

"Actually, I already know how to get out of here."

Faced with such a situation, Bai Ge said.