Chapter 336: The Spiral Staircase of Love
Pale lights illuminate the area.
The surroundings are completely different from what they used to be.
Instead of the familiar campus, it has become a clutter of abandoned buildings, with nearly collapsing cardboard boxes in the corners, the floor covered in heavy dust, and even the handrails of the stairs rusted and almost broken.
If there were no lights, there would be no fingers here.
Chu Changge's electric light illuminated everyone.
Gu Mian didn't see the fat man.
Coco was looking at the direction where the fat man was originally standing with his eyes slightly wide, and his expression was very stunned.
Gone.
The fat man is gone.
Disappeared into thin air, without even making a sound.
007 didn't expect someone to have an accident so soon, a man appeared on her forehead, and her breathing became heavier: "Did it be a ghost?" ”
Gu Mian didn't speak.
Chu Changge shook his head at Gu Mian with a flashlight: "I didn't hear the sound, and I didn't find any clues." ”
Gu Mian frowned, and walked back to the corridor just now, only to see that this place had also undergone earth-shaking changes, it was no longer a long corridor, but a wide floor.
It's pitch black.
It was as if they had been moved to another building in an instant.
Chu Changge followed over and swept it with a flashlight: "No one." ”
Gu Mian looked at the empty floor and was silent for a while before he spoke: "Now there are three possibilities, one, the four of us were moved to this building, and the fat man stayed in the school alone; Two, the fat man moved with us, but not nearby; Three, he died. ”
Hearing the last hypothesis, 007 and Coco were both cold on their backs.
"We need to figure out where this is," Gu Mian said as he turned around and walked towards the stairs, "Leave this building first and go downstairs." ”
007 nodded slightly with Coco, and then quickly followed.
Gu Mian was at the front, and Chu Changge was holding a flashlight at the end.
The staircase is steep and dangerous in the dark.
Gu Mian said as he went downstairs: "Everyone pull up to avoid disappearing suddenly." ”
The fat man who fell at the end suddenly disappeared before, and now it is Chu Changge who is at the back.
Gu Mian heard 007 and Coco behind him agree, and then, Coco's voice came: "Then I'll pull your clothes, right?" ”
This was said to Gu Mian.
Gu Mian did not speak, indicating acquiescence.
He sped up and descended the stairs, but it seemed to be a very tall building, and the stairs turned several times without reaching the end.
Just when he was turning the fourth corner, Gu Mian heard Coco, who had been quiet behind him, suddenly let out a rapid shout: "Wait a minute! ”
He looked back.
The flashlight was still there, illuminating the surroundings, but there was already nothing behind Coco, and when I looked back, it was Chu Changge, who was holding the lamp and was looking at it.
007, gone.
Coco looked behind the empty body, gritted his teeth and trembled fiercely: "We are ......"
Gu Mian asked Chu Changge behind him with his eyes, and Chu Changge shook his head slightly, indicating that he had not found anything.
Gu Mian frowned again, and paused for a few seconds before speaking: "Stop for a while." ”
What is certain is that their group has been targeted by ghosts, so they will disappear one by one.
But disappearing does not mean death, the oni can only kill one person a night, but now they have disappeared with two companions.
Coco grabbed Gu Mian's hand tightly and looked at the stairs below, which spun and swirled downward, and finally disappeared into the darkness, like a giant beast with a wide mouth, waiting for its prey to throw itself into the net.
Fine sweat appeared on her forehead: "If this continues, the three of us will disappear one by one, right?" ”
Gu Mian looked at Coco, who was slightly flustered: "That's right, but now I have a guess." ”
"What?" A little nervous, Coco didn't expect Gu Mian to suddenly say such a thing, and couldn't help but look at him.
Gu Mian looked at the stairs below that had disappeared into the darkness: "Everything has a certain law, including now. ”
"Regularity?" Coco doesn't seem to understand.
Gu Mian retracted his gaze: "Since we started to go downstairs, someone has disappeared. ”
Coco understood: "So the disappearance is related to going downstairs?" ”
"Quite possibly, maybe we can try the other way around." Gu Mian raised his head as he spoke, looking at the top of the stairs.
The staircase above was also hidden in the darkness, and even though this was the way they had come, when they looked back, there seemed to be an unsettling element hidden in the darkness.
The three of them were silent for a while, and after half a minute, Coco spoke a little uneasily: "Then we ...... Try it back? ”
"Well," Gu Mian nodded, "You turn back." ”
Hearing this, Coco was a little stunned: "What about you?" ”
"I'm going down," Gu Mian said as he looked at Chu Changge, "I'm down, you go up, starting from the separation, I call the name of one of you every twenty seconds, and then you answer, if the voice is gone......
Gu Mian paused for a moment when he said this: "It means that I have disappeared, if my voice has not disappeared after ten times, then you can stop, I will go upstairs to find you." ”
Hearing this, Coco's face turned even paler: "Why do you want to do this?" ”
Gu Mian put his hand behind his back and took out a small flashlight from the guitar bag: "In this way, I can confirm my guess, this is an important clue." ”
As he spoke, he twisted his flashlight and shone it down the stairs below.
The pitch-black staircase below was illuminated, and Coco followed the flashlight to look down, as if there was no end.
At this time, Chu Changge had already turned sideways, he looked at Gu Mian, and did not object to his thoughts: "Is there anything else you want to add?" ”
Keke looked at Chu Changge with some incredulity: "Did you really let him go downstairs alone?" ”
Chu Changge looked at her and nodded slightly: "Remember to agree when I call your name later." ”
With that, he turned around and walked upstairs with his feet up.
Ke Ke only hesitated slightly, then followed closely, and when she turned back to look at Gu Mian, she only saw a back figure going down the stairs.
Gu Mian didn't have a watch.
There are no tables in the game supermarket that you can bring into your dungeons.
So he could only rely on his own mental arithmetic to calculate these twenty seconds.
He carried a flashlight and slowly descended under the light, and there was a sound of footsteps getting farther and farther above, it was the sound of Chu Changge and Coco.
After walking through the first flight of stairs, Gu Mian stopped, it was time.
He raised his head and looked up: "Chu Changge? ”
The sound echoes through the staircase, and it is hairy.
Half a second later, Chu Changge's voice, which also reverberated with reverberation, came from the darkness above: "It's still there." ”
After hearing the echo, Gu Mian lowered his head and walked towards the dark staircase.
Coco had already known Chu Changge's real name in the compensation list for the hide-and-seek copy, so there was no need for Gu Mian to shy away from it.
The footsteps above had grown farther and farther away, almost gone.
After another twenty seconds, Gu Mian looked up, paused for a moment and then spoke: "Coco?" ”
When Coco heard her name, she tilted her head in the direction of the handrail a little nervously, and quickly agreed: "I'm here." ”
Chu Changge, who was carrying the lamp in front, did not stop, still going upstairs continuously, and in the dark, his silent back was a little weird.
Coco was a little uneasy.
After twenty seconds of silence, Gu Mian's voice came from below again, but the sound was not loud anymore, and they were getting farther and farther apart.
"Chu Changge?" Coco heard Gu Mian's third call from below.
Chu Changge answered again, and then walked upstairs.
"It's getting farther and farther away, I don't know if I'll be able to hear it clearly next time." Coco nervously waited for the next call.
Another twenty seconds passed.
This new call came as promised-
"Coco."
Hearing his name, Coco subconsciously responded.
But no sooner had her voice come out of her throat than she realized something was wrong.
The voice...... It was coming from close to his head, and it wasn't Gu Mian's voice.
Right in the back, right behind the scalp!
Fear suddenly spread to all limbs, and the hairs on his back stood on end.
In this terrifying moment, something suddenly occurred to her.
If you keep going downstairs, there will be one less, and if you go upstairs, it won't ...... One more!