Chapter 247: Room Seven
Xu Lang threw the backpack that had been soaked in sewage on the ground, touched his dirty hands, and looked at Song Zhuoming with some distress.
In fact, the original outbreak of flooding had already shown signs of resolution an hour ago, and through this period of efforts, the water flow gradually returned to normal.
Xu Lang was busy for an hour, and finally swept all the dirty water left in the room into the gutter.
But the abruptness of this change, the conflict with time, and this particularly strange coincidence made Xu Lang suspicious.
Because the flood started to occur not long before the delivery of the food, and it was resolved not long after the delivery ended, this situation made Xu Lang have to think more.
He didn't quite understand who the people living downstream were, and in fact, it was less than an hour from the time the ditch was blocked downstream to the time the flood was resolved after the food was delivered.
The person downstream seemed to know the situation on Xu Lang's side, and when Xu Lang was about to be unable to solve it, he relieved the blockage in time.
But this kind of coincidence made Xu Lang even more suspicious.
Song Zhuoming looked at the mess in front of him, then looked at the filth on Xu Lang's body, and asked a little inexplicably, "Brother Xu, why did you do this here?" ”
Although Xu Lang's face did not change, his tone was a little distressed, "I once sent a note to the downstream room and asked him to help block the ditch for an hour, so that I can deduce the approximate position where I am being held. Unexpectedly, I don't know what kind of means I used downstream, but I actually blocked the ditch completely, causing the water to explode on my side. ”
"You're also aware that all of our executors are in a linear arrangement from south to north?" Song Zhuoming stepped forward and asked with some surprise.
Xu Lang looked at him and nodded, "Yes, the direction of the water does indicate this." ”
Song Zhuoming glanced at him a little strangely, "You also entered the cave?" ”
"I didn't, and now the price for me to enter the cave is too great." Xu Lang stared at Song Zhuoming with his eyes for a long time, and then the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, "It seems that the newspaper sent you to carry out the task this time, and it should also have a unique intention." ”
Song Zhuoming was not surprised that Xu Lang was able to deduce this, in fact, he came here, and the fleeting surprise on Xu Lang's face and the calmness he showed next were enough to explain everything.
"I'm supposed to have some kind of peculiarity, I'm the only one who can freely enter and exit all the executors' rooms!"
When Xu Lang heard this, he couldn't help but nod. "You're right, I finally ignited hope for this mission when I saw you, I think you are the second batch to enter the mission."
Song Zhuoming gave him a strange look, nodded slightly and did not speak.
"With your character, if you were the first batch, then you should have come here a long time ago, the mission progressed to the second day, and two executors died, both of which are located in the rooms upstream of me, you must be able to help me answer my doubts along the way!"
Xu Lang's accurate inference made Song Zhuoming smile dumbly.
"Yes, I'm here to find you and tell you the information I've obtained."
Song Zhuoming slowly opened his mouth, recalled his previous experience, and finally said it all:
"At that time, the newspaper office turned on the power of teleportation, and the white light was extremely dazzling, and after flashing, I found that my brother Song Zhuoyan and I were teleported into my newspaper room, and I realized that I should not be the first batch.
I waited inside the newspaper office for about six or seven hours, and then I felt a white light all around me, and that's when I entered the mission location! ”
Xu Lang frowned when he heard this, and muttered, "It turns out that you were teleported to the newspaper office on the first day, and at the same time that the first deceased appeared!" ”
Song Zhuoming nodded, "That's true, after I arrived at the mission location, I found myself trapped in a secret room, just like your room, with an iron door and a ditch. But on the first day, I didn't dare to venture into the cave because I had to take care of my brother, so I put it off until the next day, which is today! ”
Hearing this, Xu Lang hurriedly interrupted his narration and said with some confusion: "You want to take care of your younger brother?" ”
Song Zhuoming seemed to have thought that Xu Lang would ask this sentence, and nodded: "Yes, the situation in my room is different from yours, it seems that only there are two people in my room, and my brother and I are detained in the same room at the same time!" ”
"And we are all held alone ......" Xu Lang took over the conversation, his thinking began to extend, and he added in a low voice.
Song Zhuoming looked at Xu Lang's appearance, and after giving him a few minutes, he heard Xu Lang ask him to continue, so he opened the conversation box again.
"On the first day, the situation of Zhuo Yan who entered the mission for the first time was not too good, in fact, if it wasn't for taking care of him, I should have started crawling downstream yesterday.
And not long after the next day arrived, footsteps sounded outside the door! ”
Song Zhuoming rolled his eyes, looked at the two plates near the iron gate that had never been touched by Xu Lang, and continued: "That person brought the same sandwich as in your room, and didn't say anything, as if he had completed the task, and left immediately after delivery."
After taking care of Zhuo Yan and eating the sandwich, I cleaned up for a moment and began to think about the two holes in the north and south of the ditch.
At first, I set my sights on the water inlet in the south wall, but when I got in, there was nothing, just a palm-sized space, and my head just got into it and hit the wall.
When it was dark inside, as if any light source was swallowed up when it got there, I reached out and touched a circular pipe, and immediately I understood that the entrance to the south wall of my room was just a pipe filled with water!
But when I went to the exit of the north wall, I found that the situation inside was completely opposite to the south wall, there was an independent space of about four or five square meters, and the south side of the space was a secluded hole, and there was a faint light in it, as if it was a room downstream! ”
Xu Lang hurriedly stretched out his hand to interrupt his narration, "You mean to say that the entrance to the south wall of your room is just a pipe filled with water, and it is impossible to get into it at all, and inside the south wall is an independent space, but it is a room that can lead downstream?" ”
"Not bad!"
"Then according to you, you should be the uppermost room of all the executors!"
"I'll call it Room One!"
Xu Lang glanced at him suspiciously, and finally focused his gaze on the south wall behind him, where there was a bottomless, dark place, and the water flowed down there and didn't know where it went.
"Go on."
Song Zhuoming looked at Xu Lang's puzzled look, and then looked at the hole in the south wall of the room, retracted his gaze with a little meaning, and then continued: "After that, I came to the second room downstream, but there was no one inside, but after I searched all over, I found the discarded backpack and the hole that had been dug out!"
After I got in, I found He Xiao in the separate space between room 2 and room 3! ”
"He Xiao?" Xu Lang was a little surprised, "What batch is he?" ”
"Second batch! And he had just drilled downstream through the hole, but his way could only go there, and he couldn't get any further!
In fact, I didn't ask, but it can be concluded that the hole in the south wall of room No. 2 must not have been dug by He Xiao, and should belong to the original first batch of executors, of course, he is now dead! ”
Xu Lang nodded, and then pointed to the two wrecks in the corner, "The two dead are here with me, He Xiao was teleported in the next day, so he didn't have the time to dig the hole at all, thinking that this was the original executor in the room, but even if he escaped to an independent space, it was still difficult to escape death!" ”
Song Zhuoming glanced at the corpses that had been piled up in the corner by Xu Lang, one by one only the skeleton remained, thinking that he must have endured great suffering before he died, his heart was cold, and he continued after a long sigh of relief: "After talking to He Xiao, I found that He Xiao is not as incompetent as you told me before, even if he does act as timid as a mouse. ”
"Oh? What about that? ”
"The first time I met him, he thought I was an evil spirit, but after a few moments he regained his composure, and when he came up, he began to determine the location of the room with me, and pointed out that the focus of this mission would be on me.
In short, some of the words he said seemed to be very profound, and some of them I still can't fathom. ”
Xu Lang frowned when he heard this, this evaluation did surprise him a little, and when Song Zhuoming retold the conversation between him and He Xiao in its entirety, he felt even more strange.
It was as if this He Xiao's performance subverted his cognition, when he and He Xiao carried out a nightmare proposal, he had already concluded that this was a hypocrite who was useless and loved vanity, how could he have any ability.
But listening to Song Zhuoming's conversation with He Xiao, He Xiao can always accurately find out the key points of the matter, and occupy a firm initiative in the whole conversation.
This made Xu Lang a little impressed, but he also had a deeper level of doubt.
"This mission restricts internal communications, but not external communications......"
Thinking of this, Xu Lang didn't continue to dwell on this, but asked, "So what happened to you later, and how many people are there in my upstream?" ”
"Counting me and my brother, you have a total of six rooms upstream, that is, 7 people, and you are in room seven! On top of this are me and Zhuo Yan, He Xiao, Cao Yada, Yu Hanhan, Xi Zhengxiang, and the lights in room No. 6 are on the verge of going out, I can't see clearly who the living person in the room is, but when I pass through his room, I don't believe he can't hear the sound, but he still maintains a state of ignorance, maybe this person is not simple! ”
"I'm Room No. 7, but the name of the mission is called Room No. 7 Game ......" Xu Lang thought for a moment and then turned around suddenly, looking at the hole in the south wall, looking at the dark abyss, he had an extremely bad premonition!