Chapter 499: High-Rise Building
Qiu Xuan's eyebrows twitched for a moment.
"Betrayers don't have to complete the main story, but the condition for clearing the Proving Ground is to use the main story-related events to kill all their peers in the same field, and when there is only one executioner left in the field, it will automatically represent the clearance."
The man wearing the deer head mask was businesslike an emotionless NPC except for the mistake at the beginning, Qiu Xuan paused for a while, raised his eyes and said, "Is this a mandatory task?" ”
"You can choose not to accept it," the deer-headed man said. "Then the moment your peers successfully complete the main line and get out, it will automatically determine that you have failed the task and clear it."
Qiu Xuan's back molars touched and bitten.
After that, he didn't drag his feet past Qiu Xuan and turned around and left. Qiu Xuan stared at the back of the deer head who was about to walk into the chaotic crowd for a while, and suddenly raised his hand and jumped down from the fence on the second floor.
Her movement was no small amount, but the music on the dance floor below was so loud that people in all sorts of bizarre masks danced to the rhythm that no one noticed that someone had jumped from the stands on the second floor.
Qiu Xuan brushed aside a few animal masks that had come up, and collided with the long-nosed tengu head-on, and when he finally got rid of everyone, he couldn't find the man in the suit wearing the deer's head mask in the crowd.
She pursed her lips, her face uncovered and out of place in the various gorgeous and grotesque masks.
"Afu."
Someone patted Qiu Xuan on the shoulder from behind, and she turned around to see a bloody rabbit mask straight in front of her. The rabbit paused, and a pair of hands stretched out and lifted it, revealing Ryuzo's face underneath.
"It's really you." Long San frowned, his face was hidden in the changing colors under the light ball above his head, and the whole person looked a little weird. "What the hell was going on before? Who was the man who appeared later, and how did Asafel suddenly seem to be a different person? In desperation, I saw with my own eyes that the portal had opened! But he was shut up by the saint. ”
"Chiara is saving us."
Qiu Xuan didn't want to explain too much to him, but said, "If it weren't for her crossing the desperate situation and sending us to the next testing ground, you wouldn't be standing here talking to me now." ”
Long San's expression didn't seem to know whether he believed it or not, and under the spotlight, he glanced at Qiu Xuan deeply, and finally didn't say anything.
"Do you see the others?"
Qiu Xuan quietly changed the subject, "Are they still the ones who survived in the Glory Trial Ground before?" ”
"It should be, I seem to have seen Bai Yina Sven scum in the crowd just now, and judging from the current situation, it is very likely that the people who will be recruited are the same people as us."
Qiu Xuan nodded, and before she could say anything, the next second someone patted her shoulder from behind. This time, when I turned around, I saw a woman dressed as a bloody bunny girl.
The woman tilted her head at her, and a bright red liquid like blood was left from her fleshy eyes, which frightened Ryuzo, who was not mentally prepared, for a moment.
"Why did you come to the prom like this? Didn't Professor Qian see that you went to buy something for the masquerade two days ago? Is there something going on at home? It doesn't matter, everyone is a neighbor, you must tell everyone if you have any difficulties, you understand. ”
The woman dressed as a bunny girl opened and closed her red lips, and words of concern appeared to her mouth.
Qiu Xuan raised her eyes to look at the other party's pupils from the hole in her terrifying mask, and she couldn't see anything special under the flickering lights, but her tone seemed to be caring, but in fact, it gave people the feeling that she was showing off in a high position.
By taking advantage of the so-called suffering of others, he secretly ridicules the other party in order to exalt himself.
Qiu Xuan didn't care about her sarcasm, but a key word in the previous paragraph caught her attention.
When a woman says "everyone is a neighbor", does she mean that she and her identity in this testing ground are a pair of neighbors, or is it ...... The vast majority of people present were neighbors.
"My clothes are dirty, I just went to change them."
Qiu Xuan tried her best to control her words and said, "It's really not breathable here, I want to go." ”
The woman glanced at her obliquely.
"Well, since you don't want to say it, I don't have a lot of it, don't you. In short, if you have difficulties in the future, come to us, don't be shy, can you help, right? ”
Qiu Xuan was noncommittal.
It wasn't until the woman dressed as a bunny girl made a presence here that she brushed her hair and twisted around to get back on the dance floor. His gaze shifted from Qiu Xuan, and he paused on Ryuzo's violent rabbit head mask for a moment, and opened his mouth to make an expression of sudden realization.
"Brother Long is you!"
She squeezed Qiu Xuan away and came to Long San, "Didn't you like to wear this kind of thing before, saying that it was bloody and scary, but you look good in this mask!" ”
Ryuzo was stunned, "Uh, it's okay." ”
It seems that she and Long San also "know".
Qiu Xuan felt more and more that something was wrong, and after thinking about it for a while, he simply left Long San to entangle with the woman for the time being, and crossed the hall where the demons were dancing one after another, and touched the location of the exit.
Compared to the staggered laughter in the lobby, the safe passage is as silent as a morgue.
"Why don't you take the elevator?"
The location of this floor is the second or third floor of a building, Qiu Xuan is leaning out through a small window in the safe passage to look, and the next second someone is talking behind him. This time, the person behind him didn't wear that strange-shaped mask, and the clothes on his body were also biased towards the clothes of ordinary people on the street when he usually went out.
It was a young man who looked quite gentle, and he was carrying a briefcase in his hand, as if he had just returned from work.
"Is the elevator malfunctioning again? I haven't heard anyone mention it from the property. He stood on the outside of the entrance and exit of the safe passage and tentatively pressed the elevator door, and found that there was nothing to do. It's weird, it's okay, you can sit. ”
"I'm just out to breathe." Qiu Xuan was silent for a while, and followed his steps to the door of the elevator and waited. She glanced at the 51st floor where the elevator had stopped before the young man arrived.
It also means that this high-rise building has a height of at least fifty-one floors, and according to the words of the woman just now, it is very likely that these people live in the same building.
"Alas, it's a pity, if it weren't for the fact that I had to work overtime in the unit today, I wouldn't have missed the opening."
A few minutes later, the elevator stopped on the second floor. Qiu Xuan followed the footsteps of the office worker into the elevator, saw the other party neatly and skillfully press the number "73", and then leaned aside and complained.
Qiu Xuan noticed that according to the number displayed on the button, the floor they were on was indeed the second floor, and the highest floor number was written "100", which meant that the building had a total of 100 floors.
It's a veritable skyscraper.
"Eh, aren't you going up?" Soon, the young man rubbed his eyes and saw Qiu Xuan standing in the other corner of the elevator indifferent. He thought that the other party was too lazy to come over from the other side, so he shook his head helplessly, raised his hand and pressed the "55" floor for her on the operation page. "It's really ...... to say that someone else will help you press it."
He knows which floor he lives on.
Qiu Xuan's eyes instantly became a little alert, and her first reaction was that this young man knew her main identity, and the relationship between the two was definitely not unfamiliar. Either that, this young man accidentally got on the elevator with "Afu" and happened to see the floor where the other party lived, or ...... He is following "Afu" behind his back.
However, the latter conjecture is most likely impossible, after all, if it is a real person with bad intentions, he will not rush to expose his identity at this time and express that he knows the information.
"I'll put a bag and change my clothes later, and then I should be able to catch the fireworks show." The young man said this, and his tone finally sounded less tired, "I heard that the big residents on the top floor tonight specially invited the top fireworks team to come over, and the big money is really, I heard that just a bunch of fireworks will cost tens of thousands, and we people can be regarded as borrowing light." ”
"Oh yes, why are you going back at this time?" The young man suddenly thought of something and turned his head to look at Qiu Xuan. "You don't watch the fireworks? After that, you have to share the cake, don't you like to eat sweet the most? ”
Qiu Xuan is now sure that this person must know the identity of the task she drew herself.
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Personal preference for this relatively personal thing, unless the character of "Afu" is so sweet that everyone knows that she likes sweets, otherwise it has to be something that familiar people will know.
And this young man obviously looked like he had just returned from outside, so he could rule out suspicion for the time being.
Except for him, everyone Qiu Xuan has met on the road so far may be the one who hung her upside down on the second floor of the inner hall before.
The man's purpose was clearly not to kill...... However, it is not easy to say, it is very likely that the process of preparing for the murder was interrupted by someone or something, so he left the scene in a hurry to stop for the time being.
"I'll go up and change my clothes, too." Qiu Xuan explained simply, "Change it and come down." ”
"Okay, let's go together!"
The young man said, "Oh, but will you girls take a little longer?" It's okay, I'll wait for you at the elevator door, and tell me when you're ready. ”
"Yes."
Soon the 55th floor arrived, the elevator door opened in front of them, Qiu Xuan hesitated for a second, and walked out of the elevator space. The young man stood inside and waved at her, and said with a light smile: "Then I'll see you." ”
"Hmm."
The door closes, and the floor on the digital display continues to rise.
Qiu Xuan stood in front of the elevator and waited for a while, confirming that the final number had indeed stopped at the 73rd floor that he had pressed earlier. And she observed for a while, and the floor stopped at seventy-three for the time being, and there was no change after five minutes.
She jotted down the number before turning and exiting the elevator.
There are two houses on the left and right sides of the corridor, which adds up to four households on the 55th floor.
Qiu Xuan first walked to the door of the apartment closest to the elevator, she stuck to the door and listened carefully, and found that there was no movement inside. I listened to the door panels of four households in a row, but except for the innermost one, which seemed to have a faint snoring sound, nothing else moved.
Also, at this time, there is a party dance going on in the hall downstairs, so everyone who can afford to attend should go to it.
According to the words of the previous youth, it is very likely that the organizer of this grand event is celebrating the birthday of the high-rise residents, so they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hold this party and dance.
At present, the location of the floors where each household lives is divided according to money or power?
This point is doubtful for the time being, and it is confirmed that there should be only one family on the 55th floor at present, Qiu Xuan took it out of his pocket, felt out a door, opened it, and tried it one by one.
Her card, which had been in her pocket at the beginning, was a solid purple card with no information on it. It's not clear if there is any difference between the door cards of the residents on the floor, and further exploration is needed.
When I got to the second house, the door of the first house I had just passed opened open.
Qiu Xuan stood still, and the door was opened by a woman wearing a shower cap, her face was still covered with algae mud mask, and the black piece couldn't see the real appearance underneath.
"What do you want to do?" The woman spoke, her tone sounding very impatient, "You just got the door of my house, are you crazy?" I thought my husband was back, it's really ......."
She muttered something, her mouth slurred by the barrier of the mask. Qiu Xuan was just about to find some excuse to leave, when she heard another male voice faintly coming from the room.
"Who? Did I order the takeout arrive? ”
"It's a neurosis." The woman replied angrily, while turning her head again and glaring at Qiu Xuan with fierce eyes. Qiu Xuan felt a little funny, because her eyes were wrapped in two black circles like pandas, and they were not fierce, but looked a little silly.
"Don't let me know you're out talking nonsense, do you hear?" She warned, "If I hear someone outside about it, then whether you said it or not, I will assume that you said it." Thou shalt not henceforth have good fruit to eat. ”
Qiu Xuan probably understood what she meant.
"Okay, I won't say it."
"Hmph, count you as acquaintances."
The woman slammed the door shut, and soon there was another commotion inside. Qiu Xuan listened for a while, then raised her feet and walked to the second house on the left.
This is the only one left.
Sure enough, with a drip, the keycard was matched correctly and the door opened.
A smell of old decay came to my face, accompanied by a faint smell. Qiu Xuan tried to turn on the central control light, and pressed it several times, but found that it was useless no matter what, and she didn't know if the circuit was damaged or she was already in arrears.
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