Chapter Twenty-Nine: Desperate Survival
There was a heavy wheezing sound in the room, a voice of relief.
Immediately there was a scream, from Chen Li's mouth: "Ah!! ”
"Brother Xiaolong, are you okay?" Wang Ying supported Chen Li behind him and asked in a worried tone.
She had been hiding behind Chen Li, and her body had not been touched by the darkness just now.
"My legs ...... My right leg ......" Chen Li held his right leg with both hands, and let out a muffled snort in his throat, enduring the severe pain and no longer screaming.
The room was still dark, but he could barely see, Wang Ying also put one hand on Chen Li's right leg and pinched his thigh: "How is it?" Does it hurt? ”
"Small, calf!" Chen Li shook his head and said.
Wang Ying gently touched Chen Li's calf again, but Chen Li didn't react, stared at his right leg with wide eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "You rub it for me with some force." ”
Wang Ying agreed, and gripped Chen Li's calf with her heart, but no matter how she kneaded it, Chen Li could only feel the pain from the bone marrow, and couldn't feel the feeling of Wang Ying's touch.
"I don't feel it, but ...... It hurts......" Chen Li was helped up by Wang Ying, his right leg didn't use any strength at all, he could only jump and walk on one foot.
"Brother Xiaolong, what should we do now?" Wang Ying asked with a crying voice.
She was frightened, if the black phone reset countdown was a little late just now, she was afraid that she would not be able to escape death.
"Look, find the next room with the lights on." Chen Li said in a tired tone: "The countdown is only six minutes this time, you have to speed up!" ”
Because he had to endure the pain coming from his right leg, Chen Li felt very difficult to say a word now.
"Hey, are you two alright?" The voice of the inch-headed man came from the living room, which sounded a little trembling, and it seemed that he was also frightened.
"We're fine, come and help, Brother Xiaolong's foot is injured!" Wang Ying hurriedly replied.
The inch-headed man ran into the room, helped Chen Li in the dark, and walked out of the bedroom with Wang Ying left and right.
Although he was not worried about Wang Ying and the inch-headed man, Chen Li had no choice but to believe in the two of them now and let them support him.
The lights in the corridor have been lit up, this time there is no need for Chen Li to say, Wang Ying and the inch-headed man also know that as soon as the countdown is over, the light will be extinguished again.
They were now on the eighth floor, and after glancing at the room opposite, there was no light, and they walked upstairs.
After going up to the ninth floor, there was still no room with lights, and when I looked at the countdown again, it was only five minutes.
"You hold him, I'll go to the tenth floor to have a look!" The inch-headed man frowned and looked at Chen Li, let go and ran upstairs.
"Brother Xiaolong......" Wang Ying was a little unsure of her mind and looked at Chen Li.
"Wait for him to come down, if he doesn't come down, it's the tenth floor, let's just go up again." Chen Li sighed and sat down on the ladder.
As soon as he sat down, the inch-headed man ran down, and said at the same time: "It's not a room on the tenth floor, I'll go downstairs first, and you guys will follow behind." ”
As he spoke, the inch-headed man crossed over Chen Li and Wang Ying and went down to the eighth floor.
"Brother Xiaolong, I'll help you up." Wang Ying held Chen Li's armpit hard, helped him stand up, and then walked towards the eighth floor.
didn't stop on the eighth floor, the two came to the seventh floor again, but because Chen Li was inconvenient to walk, when Wang Ying and he arrived on the seventh floor, there were only four minutes left in the countdown.
In the room on the seventh floor where there was no light, Wang Ying was about to help Chen Li continue to go down to the sixth floor, Chen Li broke free of her hand: "Wang Ying, don't worry about me, you go down by yourself, there will be not enough time for a while." ”
"Then how can I do Brother Xiaolong, if you hadn't protected me just now, it must have been me who was injured now, I can't leave you alone!" Wang Ying shook her head and stubbornly helped Chen Li to continue downstairs.
Chen Li sighed lightly, slightly moved in his heart.
I didn't expect to meet such a kind-hearted girl in this desperate game.
I seemed too suspicious before?
On the sixth, fifth, and fourth floors, none of the rooms were lit up, and there were still two minutes and twenty seconds left in the countdown, and Chen Li and Wang Ying were anxious in their hearts.
But just as they were about to descend to the third floor, there was a knock on the door downstairs.
It's an inch-headed man!
He found the room with the lights on!
"Quick, let's go down!" Chen Li's face was overjoyed and shouted to Wang Ying.
Wang Ying was also overjoyed, nodded and helped Chen Li to continue walking, and came to the third floor.
There was no one on the third floor, and there was no room with lights on, and the knocking on the door was supposed to be coming from the second floor.
Wang Ying was about to continue walking, but Chen Li called out to her: "Wait, be careful." ”
"He's not going to be like Humpty Dumpty, is he?" Wang Ying hesitated.
"Maybe, he found the room and didn't call us, but banged on the door himself, we should be careful." Chen Li shook his head and said.
"Hey, are you guys down? Hurry down, this door can't be opened! The inch-headed man's voice came from downstairs, and his words were very impatient.
Wang Ying glanced at Chen Li, saw him nodding, and helped him down the second floor.
"The lights are on in this room, but the door won't open, and the Humpty Dumpty man's hammer is gone, what will I do this time?" As soon as the inch-headed man saw Chen standing down, he pointed to the lighted room on the right and asked.
"This lock is all rusty, it shouldn't be hard to break open, right? Do you try again? "Chen Li didn't have a good way.
"It's useless, I don't know how many times I bumped it before you came down, and I couldn't hit it at all." The inch-headed man shook his head.
Chen Li frowned slightly, and quickly thought about how to open this door.
If you can't open the door, even if you find this room, it's useless.
As soon as the countdown is over, if you still stay in the corridor, you will inevitably die.
"Screwdrivers, there's a screwdriver in that room on the sixth floor!" Wang Ying said suddenly.
"I'll go up and find it!" When the inch-headed man heard this, he pulled his legs and ran upstairs, time waits for no one, they must hurry.
"Right under the coffee table in the living room!" Wang Ying shouted at the inch-headed man who had disappeared.
"Got it!" The inch-headed man's voice came from upstairs, and it sounded like it had reached the fourth floor.
After waiting for a while, with fifty seconds left in the countdown, the inch-headed man ran down panting.
"Quick, pry the door!" Chen Li shouted.
The inch-headed man didn't delay, and the screwdriver was aimed at the edge of the door and inserted, prying vigorously.
Because the building has been abandoned for a long time, the quality of the security doors is not very good, and the door locks are rusty, so although there is only one screwdriver, there is hope to pry the door open.
"You can't do it, hurry up! There are only thirty seconds left! Wang Ying looked at the black phone, looking a little anxious.
"Don't make a noise, you can do it!" Cold sweat began to break out on the man's head, and he knew that if he couldn't pry it open, everyone would die here.
Twenty seconds, fifteen seconds......
Ten seconds, nine seconds, eight seconds, seven seconds......
Wang Ying looked desperate, and Chen Li smiled bitterly.
"Smack!"
The door lock is opened!
"Get in!" The inch-headed man looked overjoyed, kicked the door open, grabbed Chen Li's arm, and dragged him into the room very brutally.
Wang Ying followed, and after she also came in, the inch-headed man hurriedly closed the door and locked the door.
"Hu ......" threw the screwdriver to the ground, and the inch-headed man showed a smile on his face: "It's okay, I almost died." ”
Chen Li and Wang Ying also smiled, picking up a life, no one was unhappy.
The countdown went to zero, and this time no one went back stupidly to open the security door, and the three of them sat on the sofa in the living room and waited boredly.
"By the way, what time is it?" Chen Li suddenly thought of a question and asked the two.
Wang Ying took out her mobile phone and glanced at it: "Seven and six." ”
"The game starts at six o'clock...... That is, the countdown is reset every hour? The time of each reset countdown is reduced by ......"
Chen Li opened his mouth to analyze, and his face gradually became ugly.
If that's the case, as the total time of the countdown decreases, not to mention that his right leg is injured and he walks very slowly, even the inch-headed man may not have time to find and open the next door.
"Put the screwdriver away, I'm sure I'll have to use it in a while." Chen Li sighed and said to the inch-headed man.
The inch-headed man nodded, walked over and picked up the screwdriver, and when he walked back to the sofa, he noticed something hanging on the wall of a bedroom, and his eyes lit up and said, "Look! ”
Chen Li and Wang Ying looked in the direction pointed by the inch-headed man, and their faces moved.
A wooden board was nailed to the wall, and on the board there was a table listing the room numbers of the building, as well as the occupants.
In addition to these, what made several people happy was that there was a bunch of keys hanging under the wooden board!
I counted them, and there were exactly twenty, corresponding to the keys to each room from the first to the tenth floor, and there was a label on them.
"It's so much easier to have the key!"
All three saw a glimmer of hope and waited for the next round of countdowns to begin.
At 7:59, Chen Li's eyes were fixed on the black mobile phone screen, and he counted silently in his heart.
But when eight o'clock came, the expected countdown reset did not appear, and the black phone still stayed at the screen where the countdown returned to zero.
"What's going on?" Chen Li didn't understand, didn't it reset once an hour?
Wang Ying and the inch-headed man glanced at each other, and they didn't know when the next round would be played.
At half past eight, the black phone did not respond, and it was not until nine o'clock that the black phone finally rang and a new round of countdown began.
This time, it's only three minutes!
"Let's go! You two go upstairs, I'll go to the first floor first!" The man grabbed the key, opened the door and ran to the first floor.
Chen Li was also unwilling to delay time, so he asked Wang Ying to help him walk to the third floor.
Before they reached the third floor, the inch-headed man ran past them, leaving only one sentence and rushed directly to the fourth floor: "There is no first floor, you look at the third and fourth floors, I will go directly to the fifth floor!" ”
I have to say that the method of the inch-headed man at this time is feasible and the most time-saving, that is, he himself is a little tired.
Chen Li and Wang Ying agreed, and when they reached the third floor, they bent down and looked at the crack in the door, and there was no light in the two rooms, so they continued upstairs.
"Don't look for it, it's on the fifth floor, you guys come up quickly!"