As elsewhere, when he looked up, he didn't know where he was because of the gloomy environment, but when he looked closely, he found something different, and through observation, he quickly noticed a dark location more than ten meters in front of his line of sight...... There seems to be a staircase!

(Huh?) Staircase! ）

Seeing that there were stairs, Liu Zhengkun's heart suddenly became lively, but just as Liu Zhengkun was thinking about where to hide next, suddenly, there was a voice behind him without warning!

A flat-spoken voice of inquiry:

"Are you going to stay here forever?"

"Ah!!h

The voice came from behind Liu Zhengkun without warning, and this sudden voice was no accident that scared Liu Zhengkun on the spot! First, there was a series of screams full of trills, and the whole person crawled off the ground with a rolling belt, and was about to run wildly, but in the next second, a hand was quickly stretched out from behind him, and then tightly covered the bald man's mouth.

"Woo! Woooooo ”

"Shhhh

Hearing that the voice was somewhat familiar, Liu Zhengkun hurriedly turned around and looked closely, only to find that the owner of the voice was not a stinger, but a person, or a person standing in front of him at the moment, a person with gold-rimmed glasses who was putting his fingers to his mouth to silence him.

The person in front of him, Liu Zhengkun, knew him, he was not an outsider, he was one of the veterans of the team, and he had the impression that this person should be called Zhao Ping.

Sure enough, after confirming that there was a human non-stellar behind him, Liu Zhengkun's heart, which had originally mentioned his throat, fell back again, nodded to indicate that he was not shouting, and the other party also let go.

"Director Liu, don't come unharmed?"

Seeing that Liu Zhengkun had regained his composure, as soon as he let go, Zhao Ping took the lead in greeting him with a smile on his face.

"Whew! Yuan, it turned out to be Zhao Ping, you scared me to death, do you know that you almost scared me to death just now, this person is scary and sometimes scares people to death, do you know? ”

Liu Zhengkun was afraid and began to complain, but after listening to the other party's words, Zhao Ping, not only did not apologize at all, but continued with the corners of his mouth raised: "Hehe, what is the matter, Director Liu, your officialdom has been spanning for decades, what wind and waves have you not experienced?" Are you afraid of moths? What are you kidding, I guess nothing else in this world except for the Anti-Corruption Bureau should be taken into your eyes, right? ”

Zhao Ping's face was full of smiles when he said this, but it was so harsh and uncomfortable in Liu Zhengkun's ears, it was obvious that the other party was mocking himself!

Thinking of this, inadvertently, the bald man's eyes couldn't help flashing a trace of viciousness, and it was fleeting.

Getting back to the point, let's not talk about the ridicule just now, in fact, it was very unexpected to meet the veteran Liu Fangkun himself in this dead and uninhabited place, first automatically ignored the other party's ridicule, and then asked the other party: "Zhao Ping, why are you here?" Are you separated from the others like me? ”

Zhao Ping shook his head after hearing this and replied: "No, I think you may have misunderstood, according to my guess, this should be the mission to deliberately break up our group and place them in different locations in the ancient castle, because only in this way can it be in line with the nature of a game of hide and seek." ”

Liu Zhengkun is a cadre of a state-owned enterprise, and his comprehension ability is not bad, he nodded silently after listening, but at the same time of nodding, a pair of eyes quickly turned in his sockets without the glasses man noticing, and then made a look of horror and continued: "Ah! By the way, you have to be careful, there are crabs in the hall of this castle! I almost got caught by that thing just now! ”

Sure enough, it was the same as Liu Zhengkun expected, as soon as he heard that there was a scorpion nearby, the man with glasses in front of him immediately changed his face suddenly, and then asked in a panicked tone, "Is there a sting?" That...... Do you know the specific location of the malignant? ”

Zhao Ping said, Liu Zhengkun did not hesitate to raise his hand and replied in the opposite direction where he was chased by the mantis just now: "That's the place, I was chased here by the mantis just now." ”

Zhao Ping was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said to Liu Zhengkun: "Since you fled here from the east side, doesn't that mean that the mantis are not nearby, the mantis are on the east side, and the west side of the back hall of the ancient castle is safe at present!?" ”

"That's right, that's what I meant!"

"Well, then, why are we still here? Hurry up and find a place to hide in the west, as long as you hold on until dawn, you can go back alive. ”

Zhao Ping, who was beaming with joy, immediately turned around to leave after saying this, trying to rush to the west direction, but before he could take a few steps, Liu Zhengkun behind him suddenly sat on the ground and groaned, covering his heart with his right hand, and his whole face actually showed a look of pain!

"Oops...... Woo......"

Seeing the middle-aged man's reaction, Zhao Ping was immediately shocked.

"Director Liu, you ...... What's wrong with you? ”

Confirming that the other party looked at him with a puzzled face, Liu Zhengkun, who looked extremely uncomfortable on the ground, panted and explained while maintaining a painful expression: "Hey, it's a bad problem, in fact, my heart has always been bad, I have a heart disease, I am most afraid of being scared, I usually carry a heart-saving pill with me, but since I came to the cursed space, I have forgotten this stubble, and the medicine on my body has long been eaten up, and I have just been chased by the mantis...... Finally, I still got sick...... Woo......"

As he spoke, Liu Zhengkun's expression became more and more painful.

"Heart disease! This, what can I do? ”

is still as expected, as soon as he heard Liu Zhengkun say that he had a heart attack, and saw that the middle-aged man was about to die, the man with glasses was further panicked, and he looked completely at a loss.

As for Liu Zhengkun, who was becoming more and more painful, at this moment, the middle-aged man was also like seeing it, his whole body trembled, but he still couldn't speak clearly: "Whew, whew!" You also know that this heart attack will definitely die without medicine, I can't do it, young man, you don't have to worry about me, huh, huh, you better go quickly, go to the west of the hall to find a place to hide, I, huh, huh...... I...... I can't do it......"

After the last sentence was put down in pain, the next moment, Liu Zhengkun lay on the ground with his eyes rolled on the spot, completely motionless.

"Hey, Director Liu? Director Liu? ”

Seeing that Liu Zhengkun was not moving, Zhao Ping was taken aback at first, shouted to no avail, stretched out his hand to test the middle-aged man's snort, and hesitated in place for a moment, but soon, the glasses man still left Liu Zhengkun, and then ran towards the west side of the back hall without looking back.

Dada!

But just when Zhao Ping's back gradually disappeared into the darkness on the west side, a 'miracle' happened.

On the ground, Liu Zhengkun, who had just died of a heart attack, opened his eyes again! Not only that, but after waking up, the middle-aged man's face did not show a trace of pain at all.

quickly got up from the ground, and then showed an undisguised vicious expression in the direction of the west, and whispered in his mouth: "Idiot, I was chased here by the mantis from the west side, and the direction you are going to now is really a mantis!" Dare to sarcastically mock me, I want you to know what ginger is or old spicy! ”

"Boy, just wait to run into the scorpion and be killed!"

After reciting this sentence in vicious words, Liu Fangkun walked straight to the front and walked to the stairs leading to the second floor not far away, yes, after all, there are stalks on the first floor, for his own safety, Liu Zhengkun plans to go to the second floor, and then find a safer place to hide again.

After a few moments, the middle-aged man drifted away, and soon disappeared into the stairs ahead.

It's just that......

Just as Liu Zhengkun rushed along the stairs to the second floor, a figure, a figure who had run to the west not long ago, but quietly returned.

At this moment, the figure stood in place while looking up at the front, staring at the back of Liu Zhengkun who was about to disappear at the corner of the stairs, first raised his hand to support the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and inadvertently, the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a smile.

………

In the main hall on the first floor, He Fei is still walking silently in the dark environment.

The lack of light leads to the low visibility of the internal environment of the ancient castle, of course, it is true that human beings are very adaptable, maybe he has been in this dark environment for too long, He Fei has become more and more accustomed to the dark environment, although the vision is still limited, but on the whole it does not prevent him from observing the surroundings.

Yes, He Fei is constantly moving, and he also doesn't dare to stay in a fixed place for too long, so during this time, he has been walking and stopping, resting for a while and walking for a while, so repeatedly observing the surrounding environment, the first floor of the castle is too big, if the vision is clear, it will be fine, but unfortunately the dark environment has caused him to be unable to explore this area, and the sense of crisis in his heart has always existed, which also makes He Fei can only use this way of constantly shifting positions to consume time, and try his best to persist until the end of the task.

At least for now, That's what He Fei intended.

Just as he was silently walking and pondering something in his mind, suddenly, a series of sounds came nearby, a series of strange sounds that were faint but incomparably clear in this silent environment:

Whoa, whoa...... Whoa......

The sound, similar to friction, similar to iron dragging on the ground, as soon as the sound came out, He Fei, who was originally walking, stopped in an instant, and immediately confirmed the direction of the sound......

There's a cloister ahead!

And as the sound appeared, the string of friction sounds seemed to be getting closer and closer to him!

Groov!

He Fei's heart tightened, although he was shocked in his heart, his movements were not slow at all, he didn't think about it, and immediately dodged to the side, hiding behind a fireplace on the right.

Whoa, whoa...... Crash......

The sound came from far and near, and the result was indeed the same as He Fei's guess, the sound was indeed coming from the opposite side, gradually, as the sound gradually approached, it was getting closer and closer to He Fei's hiding position, the atmosphere began to be depressed, and cold sweat began to flow out, this sense of horror and oppression can be imagined! Having said that, He Fei still didn't run away as if he had made up his mind, and the whole person was still motionless and curled up behind the fireplace, the reason was very simple, he could faintly feel that although the unknown thing was coming in the direction of him, it didn't seem to find him, if he chose to run away because he couldn't bear the pressure, then this is undoubtedly equivalent to taking the initiative to expose, no different from throwing himself into the net!

Sure enough, the result was really guessed correctly by the young man, and after passing through He Fei's hiding position, his voice became smaller and smaller, and he gradually moved away, but, somehow, although the other party didn't realize that he was just walking slowly, He Fei frowned, as if something was bothering him, first gritted his teeth, and then slowly got up from the ground as if he had made some kind of major decision, turned his head and looked at the rear......

Throw the sound in the direction of departure.

Desperately open his eyes wide, with the help of the faint candlelight, under his eyes, he saw an extremely tall humanoid black shadow in the distance! Although he couldn't see the figure clearly due to the distance and the darkness of the environment, there was one thing he could see clearly, and that was the thing that the black shadow was dragging in his hand......

A giant axe that is exaggeratedly large!

Eventually, as the black shadow continued to move, the huge black shadow of the hand-dragging giant axe quickly disappeared into the darkness behind it.

(It turns out that's how this noise came from...... ）

It wasn't until he confirmed that the black shadow had completely left, and with a long breath, He Fei left the fireplace and walked forward again.

Half a minute later, He Fei came to a corridor, originally this was just an ordinary corridor, and others might walk straight through, but He Fei was different, because he had been observing the environment, when entering the corridor, he Fei still found some things, some things that were very likely to be ignored in the eyes of ordinary people, for example, there were several oil paintings hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor.

As an aside, He Fei has an instinctive concern for oil painting, an instinctive reaction that he developed after experiencing the mission in the small town of Crosso.

Because it is the first time to pass through here, coupled with the thinking of the well rope, it is natural that these oil paintings have also attracted the attention of young people.

It's a pity that because the cloister is located at the far corner of the hall, the already dim candlelight around it can't shine here at all, to put it more bluntly, this happens to be the least well-lit place in the entire hall, so it is impossible for He Fei to see these oil paintings with the help of candlelight.

Of course, if you don't plan to see it clearly, there is another way, He Fei first took out the cat's eye flashlight, but at the moment when he was about to press the switch button, he hesitated, yes, the mission information said that the mantis in this mission do not have strong abilities, but this does not mean that the mantis will not be sensitive to light, if you turn on the flashlight in a separate room, it is fine, but if you use the flashlight in such an empty hall...... In case, if he was discovered by the mantis and locked himself, God knows if he was still alive at that time.

(The flashlight didn't work, it was too risky, and the wall candlesticks were too high for me to reach...... Do you really want to give up watching the content in the painting? ）

It's easy to give up, it's safe to do so and there will be no risk of exposure, but somehow, He Fei has a feeling in his heart at the moment, that is, if he doesn't look closely at these oil paintings, he will feel as uncomfortable as losing something important! Because he vaguely felt that these oil paintings in the cloister were very important, and it was even very likely that they were related to this supernatural mission!!

(In that case, well!) ）

Smack.

In the end, after a battle between heaven and man in his mind, intuition defeated worry, curiosity defeated fear, thinking of this, He Fei made up his mind, gritted his teeth, and turned on the cat's eye flashlight.

As soon as the flashlight was turned on, a bright pillar of light instantly shone on the oil paintings hanging in the cloister.

However, just as He Fei moved his vision to the oil painting on the wall with the bright light, the next moment ......

He Fei, who saw the content of the oil painting clearly, was stunned.

The whole face was also inadvertently filled with horror.