Chapter 24: The Fifth Layer of Despair
Su Yun gradually felt that the speed of his descent slowed down, and then his feet gradually stepped on the ground.
The eyes grew brighter, and a dim yellow light came on overhead.
He looked around, and it was a familiar stairwell again, but this time the stairwell was obviously different from the second floor leading to the third floor.
In front of him must be the stairwell from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.
The staircase leading to the fifth floor looked cold, because from the lower floor, there was a cold light, which was very different from the dim yellow light of this floor.
I don't know how much time he spent in the real world for the previous part of the experience, and I don't know how much time he was left to explore the next layer.
Step by step, he walked downstairs.
He didn't know how many floors there were in this building, but according to this, the time flow rate of each floor should be doubled, so the number of floors in this building should be limited, otherwise even if the process of cracking in the middle was skipped, it might not be enough time to walk down.
According to Su Yun's estimate, this building is only ten floors at most.
He walked to the end of the stairs.
Take a look.
It's exactly the same as the first floor!
The only difference is the overhead light.
As well as stairs that did not go down.
The light on the first floor is dim yellow, while the light on this floor is ice blue.
The ice-blue light illuminates everything in cool tones.
None of this is the point.
The point is, Su Yun saw a very, very strange picture.
Eight doors, all but the one that represented him, were open.
At the eight doors, except for the one that represented him, sat an old man with gray hair and a wrinkled face.
When the old men saw him come down, they looked at him and smiled strangely at him.
Su Yun's heart suddenly jumped wildly.
Because he clearly saw that these old men were vaguely the other seven contestants!
It's just that now they have become extremely old.
Socrates, Tianyu, Zhou Yi, Xu Youyou, Ora, Moriarty, and a bearded man he has never met.
Their faces were faintly recognizable, but they were all very old.
"You're here!"
The seven people spoke in unison and said to Su Yun in the same hoarse voice.
Su Yun retreated in the direction of the stairs, but quickly hit the spatial barrier.
Retrograde driving is not allowed on the floor.
This damn rule is still in effect at this level.
Su Yun looked at the strange smiles of the seven looking at him, and panicked indescribably in his heart.
He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of this unknown weirdness.
Without hesitation, he reached out and slammed his hand on his death hole.
"Huh"
Su Yun felt the sky spin for a while.
It's not what it feels like to die!
Su Yun, who had experienced countless deaths, judged it for the first time.
But when he woke up, he was already in a familiar bed.
This is his bedroom!
He was the first to open his eyes, and he judged it.
It's just that something seems wrong!
He turned his head and saw an old face resting on the head of his bed.
There was a strange smile on this face, and it looked straight at him with hollow and deep eyes.
"Ahh
Su Yun immediately jumped up from the bed, and he immediately found that his door was not closed!
His room, beside his bed, to be exact, was filled with old men with eerie smiles.
"What are you doing?"
Su Yun almost screamed and shouted.
None of the seven smiling old men spoke, just looked at him with slightly dull expressions.
After a long time, one of the old men pointed upstairs and said in a hoarse voice, "You...... Finally...... Came down from above......"
Su Yun looked at the old man and suddenly recognized him as Socrates.
Socrates at this moment is no longer what Su Yun was when he saw it before.
His face was wrinkled, and his eyes were cloudy, and he looked like he was half dead.
Su Yun forced this courage and said to the elderly "Socrates": "How do you ...... It's like this. ”
The old Socrates' eyes were slightly trance-like, as if he was rummaging through very distant memories.
"I ...... I don't remember much longer...... We...... Our souls...... Imprisoned here forever. ”
Su Yun's eyes widened suddenly.
He seemed to understand something.
The soul was imprisoned downstairs.
What about the body upstairs?
A body without a soul?
Crazy?
In his mind, it all connected in an instant.
What he saw and heard suddenly became clear at this moment.
Why are there so many crazy cases!
It turned out that everyone was imprisoned below.
The body that has lost its soul above will naturally go crazy.
"You...... How long have you been here? One day? Two days? Half a month? ”
Socrates held out his shriveled finger and pointed to the window.
Su Yun hurriedly went over and opened the curtains.
It didn't matter if he pulled the curtains, and when he opened the curtains, Su Yun was shocked.
I saw that the window glass was covered with dried blood.
These blood stains are densely packed, constituting one "positive" character after another.
Seems to be counting.
The blood has dried up and turned black, and I don't know how long it has been solidified.
"One day...... A ......" Socrates finished his words in a vague voice, and then fell into a smiling state of obscurantism.
Su Yun looked at the blood words on the window, and suddenly felt a panic of being imprisoned forever.
He struggled to pick up the bedside table and slammed it down against the window.
"Phew"
One time.
"Phew"
Two clicks.
"Phew"
Three times.
"Don't knock!"
A shout suddenly came from behind Su Yun.
Su Yun turned his head, but saw Xu Youliang tilting his head, half-salivaing, scolding him.
He stepped forward, grabbed Xu You's collar, and said, "You're still awake, aren't you?" ”
Xu Youyou glared at him and said, "Hurry up and lie down and dream, the time here is too long, if you don't dream, you will go crazy!" ”
With that, he twisted his head to the side, a strange smile on his face again, and saliva ran down the corners of his mouth.
Su Yun looked at the smiling crowd around him, and suddenly felt that he was about to collapse.
What's going on?
Isn't this a game of wisdom in the eight directions?
Why did it become a spiritual cage for all?
Why did you appear in such a ghost place?
He continued to pick up the bedside table and slammed it against the window.
"Wow"
The bedside table suddenly smashed against the window and turned into a pile of sparse and rotten wood.
Su Yun immediately rushed out of the room and came to another room.
Then, in amazement, he stared at the blood-colored word "Zheng" in the room that filled the ceiling, walls, and windows.
And the exact same pile of rotten wood in front of the window.
It's even covered in dust!
"It's not true!"
Su Yun held his head and told himself desperately.
It's fake.
It's an illusion.
It's a demon.
It's something that can't happen.
He rushed to the other rooms and saw the same blood-colored word "Zheng" all over the room.
These are the traces they use to count the days, with blood.
It's just that the number of days they stayed here is obviously far beyond the "positive" word left here.
After staying for more than a certain number of days, most people choose to fight the monotony of life with deep sleep.
Everyone's flesh is driven by instinct for unknown reasons, and sits at the door every day.
The building is like a demon cave that devours everyone's souls and leaves them to sink in eternal silence.
In Su Yun's mind, he gradually made up the truth of the matter.
He took a few steps back in some panic.
Faced with this strange situation, his backtracking ability was actually unable to play any role.
After he committed suicide, he still couldn't get out of this layer, and he couldn't go back to the previous time node, but directly triggered the reset.
He crouched in the doorway, covering his head, his brain spinning.
Why are the seven top wise men trapped here?
So how do you leave?
Day after day, waiting for your body to die of old age?
It's terrifying, isn't it?
Su Yun suddenly felt that his legs were a little weak, and he propped his hands on the wall to keep himself from falling.
He looked at the obscure guys in his room.
These guys are undoubtedly the most intelligible people in all dimensional spaces, and even in the entire space-time sea.
The collective decision they make together is likely to be the optimal solution.
The most important thing is that Su Yun himself can't find a better solution now.
The entire fourth floor should have been searched more than once, and the doors of the eight rooms were not locked, and in such a long time, I am afraid that the textures on the walls have been thoroughly studied by them.
Therefore, there is a high probability that this layer will take time!
Everyone's souls are imprisoned in this place, so the bodies above have fallen into madness, but the time point of everyone's madness is different, and because of this, he can see that some people are crazy, and some people are still normal.
Those who behave normally in the upper layers should be late in the time when they touch the fourth layer, so they are awake most of the time.
For example, Zhou Yi, because of his extremely strong ability to divination, he can basically calculate the second and third layers of movement immediately, so he should be the first to go crazy.
Socrates, he didn't have a special way to get information, so it wasn't until Su Yun walked down with him that his soul began to be imprisoned.
However, what made Su Yun most incomprehensible were Moriarty and Ora.
"Director" Moriarty seems to have the ability to obtain information similar to or even stronger than Zhou Yi, because every time he goes out, if Su Yun is excluded, he is the first in Euler, he is the second, and Zhou Yi is the third, and there is no reason why he has not been able to reach this level for so many days.
Could it be that Moriarty's performance after going crazy is more subtle?
Could it be that when he saw it, Moriarty was already faintly insane?
No wonder Socrates suspected Moriarty of being a secret son of the Land of Turmoil.
Socrates, it seems, saw through Moriarty's crazy side.
Then there is Sister Ora, she has been sitting at the door of the first floor, and she has never moved, even if Zhou Yi provokes her, she has never chased her down, how did she get imprisoned here?
Or is it that one day in between, something unknown happened, and someone brought Euler to this level?
Besides, why were you the last to get here?
The answer to this question, Su Yun attributed to the unique mechanism of the fourth layer.
Maybe he stayed on the fourth floor for too long, which is why he arrived on the fifth floor so long later than the others.
Between the fourth and fifth layers, the way time is calculated seems to be a little different.
And the mechanisms such as the upper three layers resetting every day and everyone's timeline confusion do not seem to affect the fourth and fifth layers.
Su Yun made such a judgment.
If that's the case, then he has to hurry into a deep sleep, and being so late for so long must mean that he will be much behind the others.
The point is that there is still no way to make up for this backwardness by backtracking.
Su Yun rarely encountered a problem that backtracking could not solve.
He dressed himself and fell asleep in a comfortable position on the bed, and soon he fell asleep.
After Su Yun fell into a deep sleep, the old people around him suddenly opened their eyes and looked at Su Yun in unison, with a strange smile on their faces......