Chapter Twenty-Eight: Darkness Floods
"it, bang on the door!" Chen Li's face changed slightly, and he glanced at the countdown, there were still two minutes and forty seconds.
"Brother Xiaolong, why did you hit the door? I heard you say that this Humpty Dumpty is not easy to mess with, so let's not mess with him, right? Wang Ying said weakly.
Chen Li didn't explain, and kicked directly on the door.
Because this door had been smashed open by a short and fat man before, the door lock was not easy to make, it was very loose, and it was crumbling under Chen Li's feet.
Seeing this, the inch-headed man also banged on the door to help, although he didn't quite understand why Chen Li was grabbing the room with the short and fat man at this time.
"Bang!"
Chen Li's body slammed against the door hard, the door shook for a while, and he bared his teeth in pain.
"If we don't get into this room after the countdown is over, the lights in the hallway may go out, and then we will be eliminated!"
Chen Li expressed his conjecture.
The inch-headed man and Wang Ying's faces changed, and they worked harder when they hit the door.
But the short and fat man is estimated to be behind the door, and no matter how the three of them collide, the door can't be opened.
"Brother, this is the first round, we don't need to kill each other, right? No one knows what the rules of this game are, at this time, one more person has more strength, you better open the door and let us in! ”
The inch-headed man shouted as he banged on the security door.
"If you want to come in, no problem, throw me your knife or something!" The short and fat man's voice came from behind the door.
Chen Li and the inch-headed man glanced at each other, nodded, and threw the knife in his hand to the ground next to him, making a clang.
"I threw away the knife, can I open the door?"
"Throw it downstairs!" The short and fat man sneered.
Chen Li frowned, so he had to pick up the knife on the ground and throw it downstairs with the inch-headed man's spatula.
Kitchen knives and spatulas fell down the gaps in the stairwell, and the sound of the crash was unusually clear in the empty and empty building.
"Okay, right?" Chen Li asked through the door.
No one answered in the room, and after a while, the security door opened, and the short and fat man stood behind the door with a hammer and looked at the three of them: "Come in, be honest!" ”
The three of them entered the house, but fortunately, the short and fat man did not attack them, but just looked at them coldly and warned: "Don't give me any ideas, if I find that you have a slight abnormality, hehe......"
The short and fat man waved the hammer in his hand, then pulled out a fruit knife from behind him, gestured twice, and licked his lips.
The fruit knife had blood stains on it, and it hadn't dried up yet, as if the stocky man had just killed someone with it.
Chen Li took out his black phone and glanced at it, there was only one minute left in the countdown.
A minute is fast to say, and slow is also very slow, Chen Li and the others waited restlessly, no one knew what would happen after the countdown was over.
"Brother Xiaolong, what should we do now? Do you really want to be subject to this Humpty Dumpty? Wang Ying sat next to Chen Li and secretly glanced at the short and fat man, her eyes a little frightened.
"I don't know." Chen Li shook his head, before he figured out the rules of the game, he could only take one step at a time.
Judging from the current situation, Chen Li's speculation is that the lights in the corridors will go out after the countdown is over, and the darkness mentioned in the black mobile phone message should come, and only the room with the lights on is safe.
As for what was in the dark and what it would be like to be in the dark, Chen Li didn't know, and he didn't want to be curious.
Including the short and fat man, everyone was staring at the black mobile phone, and when the countdown reached zero in the last second, the room was silent, and even the breathing of several people stopped for a moment, and Chen Li could even hear the heartbeat of Wang Ying beside him.
There were no incidents, the lights in the room were still there, and there was no prompt on the black phone.
Chen Li looked at the three of them, walked to the door, and looked outside through the cat's eyes, but he couldn't see anything, the corridor was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.
"Go away!" The short and fat man came to the door, pulled Chen Li open, and stretched out his hand to open the door.
"What are you doing?!" Chen Li held the hand of the short and fat man, and when he saw him glaring angrily, he hurriedly explained: "It may be dangerous to open the door now, we should wait for the next step from the black phone!" ”
"Humph! Let go! The short and fat man raised the hammer with his other hand and shouted at Chen Li.
Chen Li let go of his hand, took two steps back, and looked at the short and fat man vigilantly.
"Go back and sit down, don't move me!" The short and fat man pointed the hammer at the three of them again, but did not continue to open the door.
Chen Li pursed his lips and sat back helplessly.
The inch-headed man lowered his head and said nothing, Wang Ying's eyes flickered, and Chen Li was observing the environment in this room.
Like the room on the sixth floor, two bedrooms and a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom, are also covered with dust.
The doors of both bedrooms are closed, and through the cracks in the doors on the ground, you can see that both bedrooms are lit, as are the bathrooms and kitchens.
"Hey, have you ever gone in and observed?" Chen Li pointed to the bedroom and asked the short and fat man.
The short and fat man snorted and didn't answer Chen Li, but just swept it in his hand with a hammer and glanced at Chen Li.
The short and fat man didn't speak, and Chen Li didn't dare to move, so he had to lie down on the sofa and wait for the message from the black phone.
It's just that half an hour has passed, and the black phone is still stuck in the interface where the countdown returns to zero, without any change.
"Grass! I'm going to wait for a few of you turtle grandchildren to wait slowly, I'm going to go out and have a look! The short and fat man got impatient and walked towards the security door with a hammer in his hand.
Chen Li wanted to stop the short and fat man, but it was too late, and the short and fat man directly opened the security door.
Darkness, Chen Li's previous use of this word, only stayed on the concept of black and dark, and simply understood that where there is no light, it is darkness.
But the moment the security door opened, he seemed to understand better what darkness was.
It's a feeling of darkness and darkness to the extreme, you can't describe it.
It was as if there was another world outside the door, and the lights in the room couldn't be mirrored outside the door.
On the contrary, after the security door was opened, Chen Li clearly noticed that the space near the security door was slowly losing its light.
Cursing in his heart, Chen Li ran to a bedroom without saying anything, opened the door and hid in, and then locked the door again.
Wang Ying was next to Chen Li, and when she saw him move, she followed suit, so she hid in the bedroom with him.
"Ah...... Ahh......hhh Yes!!! ”
The short and fat man tried to retreat, but his legs and feet were swallowed up by the darkness, he lost consciousness, and a scream came from his mouth, and he turned his head in despair to look at the inch-headed man who was still sitting on the side of the sofa.
The inch-headed man watched in horror as he witnessed the darkness engulf the stocky man, including the hammer in the handy man's hand and the fruit knife pinned to his back.
The darkness was spreading, and the inch-headed man trembled his legs, crawled to the door of Chen Li's room, knocked on the door and shouted, "Open, open the door...... Open the door! ”
At this time, how could Chen Li open the door for the inch-headed man, he hid in the corner of the room, squatted on the ground with Wang Ying, and looked at the direction of the door with fear, at a loss.
After knocking on the door for a while, the man seemed to have a better brain, ran to another bedroom, opened the door and hid inside.
The living room was silent, and there was no sound at all.
"Little ...... Brother Xiaolong, what should we do now? ”
Although Wang Ying didn't see the scene of the short and fat man being drowned in darkness, she was frightened by the screaming scream, and asked Chen Li with a pale face.
Chen Li shook his head, forcing himself to calm down, he looked at the crack under the bedroom door, and found that the darkness was seeping into the room, and cold sweat began to flow from his head.
"What happens if you are touched by this so-called darkness?" Chen Li didn't dare to think about it.
The living room seemed to be occupied by darkness, and even the gap between the doors in the bedroom was gradually dimming, and the light could no longer illuminate the space behind the bedroom door.
Although it was slow, Chen Li and Wang Ying could both notice that the darkness was spreading towards a wider place, and they had no choice but to wait for all the space in the room to be filled with darkness, and could only watch the darkness approach and engulf themselves.
"It's all to blame on that Humpty Dumpty, Brother Xiaolong, you told him not to open the door, but he didn't listen!"
Wang Ying complained angrily, at this time, she couldn't think of any countermeasures except for scolding a short and fat man.
"Damn, you'd rather give us a hint of what to do next!" Chen Li clenched the black phone and shook it vigorously, hoping for a miracle.
As the minutes ticked by, the lights overhead flickered and flickered, as if they would go out at any moment.
Chen Li noticed that the darkness had filled nearly half of the room, and it was about to envelop the electric light on the roof.
He was terrified, just now he only thought that the darkness would gradually approach the two of them, but he didn't expect that if the darkness swallowed up the electric light, the room would immediately lose light!
"It's over, it's a luxury to live an extra second this time......"
Chen Li smiled bitterly and sat down, letting him claim to be smart, there was nothing he could do at this time.
One minute, two minutes, ten minutes passed.
The ceiling lamp overhead finally touched the darkness, and the whole room was instantly devoid of light.
Chen Li closed his eyes, and he could feel that his right foot seemed to be submerged by the tide.
He knew that it was not a tide, it was called darkness.
Lost sensation in his right leg from under his knee and had an indescribable pain.
Chen Li gritted his teeth and didn't scream, the green tendons on his head bulged, his fists clenched tightly, and even his nails sneaked into the flesh.
He pulled his left leg back as far as he could, but he knew that it wouldn't help, and in a few seconds, his whole body would be singing a cool song like his right leg.
Time seemed to stand still, every second passed very slowly, and the taste of waiting for death to come was unpleasant, more tormenting than anything else.
"Ding!"
The prompt tone of the black mobile phone suddenly sounded at this time, and it sounded like heaven in Chen Li's ears.
He opened his eyes suddenly, raised his right hand and looked, and a new round of countdown appeared on the screen of his phone!
Dark...... faded.