Chapter 10: Death
Su Yun walked to the top of the stairs.
The invisible barriers of yesterday are no longer there.
Su Yun touched the iron bar at the top of the staircase, and his heart settled down a little.
The devil knows what else awaits him downstairs.
He was mentally prepared that he wouldn't be too surprised even if the rest of the people were all lying on the stairs.
He held on to the escalator and went downstairs.
Soon, he smelled an even stronger smell of blood.
He secretly said in his heart: Sure enough!
Someone must have died again!
His eyes were fixed on a tug in the staircase
The stairway here was completely enclosed, and he could only see the towering walls on both sides and the flower boards on them.
There was still a light at the top of the staircase, so he could see the steps, but the light in the depths of the staircase was destroyed, and it was unclear if it was man-made or broken.
In his sight, he could see bloodstained footprints on the steps, presumably the blood stains left by the "madman".
The footprint was broken at the fourth or fifth step, replaced by a large splash of dark red blood on the tenth step, the area between light and darkness.
The blood stains were scattered in an explosive manner, and a little splash was also on the walls, which looked very horrific and terrible.
Su Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, didn't stop long, and continued to explore the past towards the depths of the dark staircase.
He didn't have any lighting, so everything had to be fumbled in the dark.
Drawing on the experience of the previous "madman" predecessors, Su Yun was especially careful about his feet when he walked on the stairs to prevent him from rolling down directly with his head like this madman.
If this madman's empowerment wasn't in terms of physical enhancement, Su Yun should have been able to step on his corpse at the end of the stairs.
Every few steps, Su Yun would stretch out his legs and kick a few kicks into the air in front of him to prevent any vicious traps or obstacles from being placed in the stairway, and then gently test the next step with his toes to make sure that there were no obstacles placed on the steps.
In this dark groping, Su Yun finally stepped on the corpse of the "madman" gentleman.
As he expected, the corpse was displayed at the end of the stairs, and Su Yun stepped over the corpse in the darkness and came to the flat ground at the end of the stairs.
The entire downstairs seems to be pitch black, without any lighting, and it is possible that someone has vandalized it.
He fumbled a few steps ahead, but he didn't expect to kick something soft on his toes!
It seems to be round.
In line with the idea of comprehensive exploration, Su Yun reached out and touched this soft thing.
Who knew that as soon as he stretched out his hand, he touched a piece of liquid that was still warm.
In the dark, he didn't know the color of the liquid on his hands, but he now estimated that it was most likely red.
Su Yun jumped up from the ground in fright, and leaned against the wall behind him.
In the air, there was a smell of blood that was so thick that it could not be dissolved, as if the entire floor of this floor was covered with blood.
He rubbed his hand on the wall a few times, and walked away with trepidation.
In this dark situation, he could not tell what was going on with the gentleman who died next to Mr. Mad at the end of the stairs, and what his identity was.
He could only continue to grope his way forward.
Since there was no light, Su Yun couldn't determine the topography of this level, so he just kept groping along the wall, trying to find a location like a light switch.
But alas, he did not find anything similar.
He turned a few corners along the wall, and in one of the corners he found a fire extinguisher, which he held in his hand, and opened the safety bolt, ready to be used as a counterattack weapon.
In his mind, little by little, he sketched the terrain of this layer.
Finally, he touched a door, and quickly located a doorknob on it.
He tried to unscrew the door, only to find it locked.
Su Yun's heart came up with two choices.
One was to smash the door open with a fire extinguisher, which was made of wood, and it didn't seem difficult to smash it open if he wasn't afraid to make a noise to attract people to it.
The other is to ignore the door and continue to explore the topography of this level.
In the end, after intense inner deliberation, he decided to slam the door.
On the one hand, he didn't want to sneak all the way in this darkness anymore, knowing that there were any traps set by others behind him, and on the other hand, the door was locked, and there were only two possibilities, one was that the door had not been explored, and the other was that someone had entered and locked the door.
Whatever the case was, Su Yun felt that he needed to go in.
He took a deep breath, then raised the fire extinguisher in his hand and slammed it down against the wooden door.
"Bang"
The fire extinguisher smashed on the door, and the door was noticeably loose.
However, a voice came from inside the door.
"Don't smash it."
Su Yun heard this voice, and his heart chuckled, and then, the sound of chains sliding came from inside the door in front of him, and the wooden door slowly opened.
A bright yellow light peeked through the door, revealing a library-like place.
The one who opened the door for him was the "director" Moriarty in purple pajamas.
Moriarty looked Su Yun up and down, looked at a few blood stains on Su Yun's body, and then suddenly asked, "What's your name?" β
Su Yun was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "I'm Su Yun, didn't we introduce ourselves to each other yesterday......"
Moriarty interrupted Su Yun's words with a wave of his hand, then turned around and walked towards a desk in the library, and said, "No need, I'm just testing you." β
"Why tempt?" Su Yun wondered, "Sister Ola upstairs is the same, asking me what my name is, what happened to me?" Why did so many people die? β
Moriarty turned around, put his finger to his lips, and made a silent motion.
"You want to know the information? Aren't you a source of information? You don't even know this? Instead come and ask me? Why am I giving you information? I've done it all, I don't cooperate with you, you see, you have no role at all, as a source of information, you actually ask this and that. β
Faced with Moriarty's series of questions, Su Yun really didn't come out of anything, and he secretly planned in his heart.
Wait and get as many messages as possible, then immediately commit suicide to trigger the backtrack, directly enter the password of Eight-Nine-Three-Three, be the first to walk out of the room, and then see what is going on, if possible, he will find a way to save Socrates' death.
Moriarty found a table next to the bookshelf and read a book on the table, on which he sat and read.
Su Yun began to inspect the library.
It's a small library, most of which are scattered books, and it's more of a personal library than a library.
The books on the shelves have a clear tendency, most of them are scientific books, covering all angles of science, from literature to geography, from chemistry to Olympiad, from philosophy to dictionaries, most of the scientific fields are included here.
Su Yun briefly glanced at the bookshelf, then came to Moriarty's table and began to observe what books Moriarty was reading.
I saw Moriarty reading a book called "Geometry of the Universe", a thick one, with a dictionary spread out around it, and some auxiliary reference books, all related to literature.
Su Yun stood by and watched for a while, then stood behind Moriarty and said coldly, "How on earth are you willing to tell me the information you have?" β
Moriarty said without looking back: "Intelligence is valuable, especially the information that has been derived after my brain's reasoning, it is even more valuable. I came to my conclusion based on what I saw, why give it to you and what good can you give me? β
Su Yun asked, "What do you need?" β
Moriarty said: "I don't think you have anything to offer me, so I'm not going to make an intelligence deal with you, if you're going to smash the fire extinguisher in your hand on my head, then please." β
Su Yun was suddenly broken by Moriarty, and he was a little flustered, he did have a moment just now, he wanted to smash this Moriarty unconscious, tie him up and torture him.
Su Yun said coldly: "There are so many people dead outside, but you are reading a book calmly here, and you know that there is something wrong when you see it." β
"You're trying to avenge them? Someone dead outside must have something to do with me? That's your reasoning? β
"They're all dead, but you're alive and well, that's your suspicion." Su Yun said.
Moriarty sneered, turned his back to Su Yun and said, "Do I have to die violently like them on the spot to clear my suspicion?" Why don't you suspect the 'female ghost' upstairs? Why don't you doubt yourself? We're living well with each other, so who are you to doubt me? Just because I'm calmer than you? β
Su Yun was speechless by him.
Moriarty continued: "Everyone has their own ability to solve the puzzle here, if you think you can solve it with the fire extinguisher in your hand and your pig brain, you can smash me to death here, and then go alone to solve the puzzle left by the Eight Directions Wisdom Game." β
Su Yun thought for a moment and said, "I'm not sure if you're friend or foe. β
"I'm here to participate in the Octagon Wisdom Game, don't be so naΓ―ve, okay, I'm here for the final victory, you ask me if I'm friend or foe? How shall I answer you? Moriarty asked rhetorically.
"Since you and I are not friends or foes, and you can't help me, why are you talking so much nonsense?"
Moriarty flipped the pages of the book and said calmly: "If you want to do it, you will do it a long time ago, you don't have to talk to me so much, you still want to get some information out of my mouth, don't you?" β
"Your choice determines my actions!" Su Yun had his back to the time node, so he didn't panic too much, and let go of the mile measurement road.
Moriarty said as he read the book: "Then you can do it!" β