She was silent for a moment.

"Is that the one who messaged me this morning?" She suddenly raised her eyes to look at the sturdy man, but the latter still maintained a preachy look on his face, and replied without thinking: "What message?" It's not me, are you mistaken? ”

If it weren't him, who would it be?

She thought about things in her heart, and the stout man looked around for a moment, then turned his head and lowered his voice. "What the hell were you doing in the second floor grandstand last night, do you remember? I was the first to come, and I've been standing there looking at you for a while, and you don't realize it. ”

She didn't understand what the stout man meant when he said that he was the first to come, and she didn't have any memory of last night in the so-called second-floor stands.

But she still remembers that she was vaguely hung somewhere by someone in an upside-down posture, looking at the world from an upside-down and completely opposite perspective.

She had vaguely heard a phrase, and she didn't know who said it, or maybe it was just that person who made it up himself. The general meaning of that sentence is that when a person looks at the world in an upside-down position, he will find that everything you think is true is the opposite of what you think is normal.

"I don't quite remember." In the end, she replied like this, I thought that the strong man would make a fuss and say how can you not remember what you have experienced, but she didn't expect the other party to take it for granted. "Of course you don't know, you came after me, you weren't here at that time, how can you remember, I just tried to ask."

"By the way, I came to you to confirm one thing with you." The stout man looked around vigilantly for a long time, making sure that he was temporarily out of the watchful eye of the so-called "crow", and he turned his head in a serious tone.

"I'm just going to ask you one question...... Are you a traitor? ”

She blinked her eyes and subconsciously opened her mouth to say, "I'm not." ”

The emotions in the eyes of the strong man are more complicated. "You know, I have no intention of exposing or accusing you of anything, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you at all now, wouldn't it be much more convenient to get rid of you directly? But I didn't do that, because I sensed that there were some steps that were beyond our comprehension, so I wanted to come and check with you. ”

"I told you before, I was the first to come, and I could see some of the actions of the people above when I stood underneath, and although I didn't see who was in the stands with you last night, you and I still recognized it. When you first arrived, there was a guy wearing a deer's head mask who sent you a special quest, didn't you? I'm like that too, and it's the same person who gave us a bounty. ”

"Although it's strange for me to say that, especially if you're still a traitor." The sturdy man suddenly took two steps forward, she frowned and subconsciously stepped back, and heard the sound of pots and bowls colliding on the dining table behind her.

The two turned their heads to look over, and a man with a gentle temperament sat on a chair, sensing the gaze of the two, and disgust crossed his eyes silently. After all, he didn't say anything, got up and left silently with the overturned plate.

She heard the sturdy man muttering something in a vicious voice, and then, the other party didn't pay much attention to the man, and went straight to what he had said.

"But maybe we don't have to be on the opposite side entirely, we can work together and forge a new path in the impasse."

She stared silently at the sturdy man's seemingly sincere eyes for a while, and there was no superfluous emotion in her heart, just feeling strange.

The other party obviously has more choices, and what's more, his teammates who originally cooperated tacitly sat there a few minutes ago, and they can continue to work together to clear the level, so why bother to come to her again?

Ruling out the possibility that the two of them are stiff, then it can only show that there is something wrong with this person's teammates. The stout man noticed this, but he didn't say anything, just in a state of immobility.

However, there was not much time for her to think about it.

Two minutes later, the building's fire alarm rang out, as if a sharp blade pierced the dead silence, startling almost everyone on the floor.

The stout man looked up vigilantly, silently observed for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief with a faint magnitude.

"It's okay," he said, in a strange tone. "It's just a fire drill, you know, a super high-rise building of this magnitude, and there are all kinds of drills. However, in the absence of a strong enforcer, the inhabitants of this place are gradually lazy and do not take things seriously. ”

She listened silently, and then interjected: "Wouldn't it be counterproductive to conduct such fire drills frequently?" ”

"Who knows," the stout man disagreed. "If it really burns up by then, it will bring about a turnaround in the current situation."

She looked at the look on the face of the person in front of her, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether the person with the crow's mouth was him or herself.

Because just five minutes later, when the smell of burnt smoke and the panic screams of the crowd had reached their floor, no one could think of it as just an innocuous fire drill.

The expression on the strong man's face changed instantly, his face changed unpredictably for a while, and suddenly, as if he remembered some crucial clue, he turned sharply and swept past her and sprinted towards the safe passage.

She stood there and hesitated for a long time, but finally followed in the former's footsteps. Before she could reach a few floors, the acrid smoke made it difficult for her to move forward, and she frowned and covered her mouth and nose with the fabric in her hand, when she heard a woman's voice screaming about four stories above it.

She faintly heard the words "help", "child" and the like.

Raising her eyelids, she glanced at the seemingly endless floor of the upper floor, and without much hesitation, she rolled over neatly, half of her body dangling through the window of the safe passage and looking out. Sure enough, on the upper floor, I saw a bloated woman, her hands clutched on the crumbling fence of the balcony, and a few embarrassed tears washed out on her dirty face.

It seems that he accidentally got stuck in the gap of the railing in the process of trying to jump off the building for help.

She thought for a moment, briefly estimated the distance between the floors, and the other half of her body leaned out of the window completely, tentatively climbing up on the external pipe.

The woman seemed to notice her figure, and her mournful crying stopped for a few seconds, and changed to a tone of implicit hope.

"Please, I'm stuck here, please save me!"

"Find out if you have a place to stay!" She raised her hand to wrap the wet towel around her face, coughed twice, and yelled in the woman's direction. Leaning on the outer wall of the building, it is easy to see that the fire point should be around the twentieth floor, and although the fire is still spreading, it seems that it will take a little time to burn to the upper floors.

The woman looked around with tears on her face, and her whole bloated body was stuck in the narrow gap, looking amazingly embarrassed.

Soaked in the harsh smoke and firelight, she climbed upward, and with some effort threw a rope in the woman's direction. "Got it! You may have to jump off on your own. ”

"I can't do it, I'm stuck here!"

The woman shouted in her direction in a hoarse voice, and the latter kept moving, but climbed a little faster.

Quickly reached the floor where the woman was, and at this moment the crumbling-looking fence had tilted to a precarious level. After a moment's thought, she tied a slipknot between herself with her fingers around the rope, and the other end was tossed to the bars tied to the outside security window.

"Hold on a little longer." She gritted her teeth little by little in the direction of the woman, and finally took advantage of a critical emptiness, and climbed into the small space inside the bay window with one hand. "Don't worry, I'll ...... right away"

The voice stopped suddenly, and at this moment she was half hanging in the air, almost staring at the position behind the woman's flushed face. The woman was oblivious to this, tearfully thanking her incoherently while still trying to wriggle her legs between the railings.

She stared at the woman's movements, past her figure to be exact.

The place she had turned into at the moment was a simple small windowsill, not even a balcony, at most a cramped utility room that had been carved out, connecting the interior of the room to the location of the windowsill. And looking at the position where the woman is stuck, it should be that when she wants to jump off the building to survive, she was accidentally stuck in the gap of the old fence, and if she can't advance or retreat for a while, she will be swallowed up by the heat wave burning behind her.

But what she cared about was what happened after that.

The whole "jungle" building is divided into two parts, Block AB, which is a semi-circular structure, and the room where the woman lives is right in Building B, and you can see some of the residents' rooms in Building A from the window. She still remembers that the room where she woke up in the morning was in Building A on the 55th floor, and that room happened to be within sight of here.

That alone didn't seem to mean much, until she found a vertical telescope in the corner of the space under her feet.

Almost instantly, she felt the cold hairs on her neck stand up, and the bloated woman in front of her was still crying in embarrassment, but she no longer had the same emotions as before.

She untied some of the rope around her waist and stepped to the corner of the space, almost holding her breath and peering through the eyepiece hole. The angle of distance and proximity did not even need to be adjusted at all, and it was aimed straight at one of the windows of the building diagonally opposite.

There were curtains drawn in the window, and the lines on the curtain fabric were familiar to her. Because she had just seen it, the moment she opened her eyes this morning.

It was clearly the window of the room where she lived.

Her throat rolled and she looked away from the telescope and landed on the reddened woman.

The woman's bloated figure wriggled between the fences like maggots, as if she had finally noticed the sight of the person behind her, and as if she had always known that the truth had not been revealed until now.

The woman struggled to turn her head from between the railings, and the next second she was choked by the smoke and coughed violently, and she convulsed as she wanted to cough up her lungs, and said hoarsely, "I can explain it...... I can explain whatever you want to hear, but please, save me first. ”

This man still has a life in his belly.

She stared silently at the woman's embarrassed face, thinking to herself. You should save her, no matter what, there's nothing wrong with taking a hand.

She thought about it many times, but the hands that should have been stretched out did not reach out.

The heat of the flames approached their sides, and she knew that she was the only one who could make a decision, and if she didn't make a choice, no matter what the outcome of that choice would be, she, the woman in front of her, and a child, who had never been masked, would all be killed in the flames.

“…… Do you know who I am? ”

The two pairs of eyes looked at each other for a moment with clear and distinct emotions that seemed to be indistinguishable, and she suddenly spoke, asking an unrelated question. The woman was obviously stunned for a moment, as if she was ready to break the cauldron, but she didn't expect the other party to ask such a strange question in the end.

The woman hesitated for a moment. "I didn't mean to peek at you...... Shall we talk about this later? It's really too late. ”

As soon as the words fell, the woman was surprised to find that the gaze of the person in front of her was extremely complicated for a moment, but it disappeared in an instant, and when she looked at it again, it was dark in front of her, and a force firmly pulled the rope around her waist, and she actually broke the railing and fell down the floor.

The woman let out an exclamation, and her fingers subconsciously grabbed the person who was falling with her. The weight of the two of them was tied to the rope, and the woman cleared her throat, just about to say something, but the next second she saw the person next to her make a silent gesture.

"You look up."

She took the woman in one hand and climbed the outer wall with the other, her eyes never shifting and staring straight at the target location. The woman followed her words and glanced up, and the whole person suddenly began to tremble with horror.

"Crow, Crow......"

She was attached to her, and she could clearly hear the chatter of the woman's upper and lower teeth. It didn't look like a fake, it was genuinely fearful.

She pursed her lips, but didn't say anything.

They soon descended to the bottom amid the sound of fire horns and alarm bells, and the women touched the ground on their toes, trembling and almost kneeling on their knees. A firefighter quickly picked her up and took her down to rest. During this time, the woman glanced back at her, and she didn't say anything, but just followed.

“…… It's a guy who gives me money and lets me spy on you. ”

In the temporary rest area for the wounded in the rear, the woman was wrapped in a blanket from the fire brigade, and sat quietly in place for a while before she raised her head and looked at her, and said.

"Who?"

She asked, but saw the woman shaking her head, and the helplessness on her expression did not seem to be fake.