Chapter 53: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada (Part II)

The light of the horse lantern has completely disappeared at the other end of the passage. Finley was silent, and slowly took two steps back, but still facing Jin Shaolan head-on.

A strange atmosphere began to fill the air, and the two felt that this silent confrontation had lasted for a while, but reason told them that it was only a moment or two of silence. Jin Shaolan had already tried her best to control her dry throat and said again:

"There's a problem, Pilkin, if everything is ok then there's no way he's going to disappear—"

In his mind, he sketched a map all the way through. He made this judgment by comparing it to his in-game memories of "Medivan's Cellar". Pilkin's disappearance makes him realize that there is a silent danger around them as much as the darkness around them, and that they are walking in danger without realizing it.

Finley was silent for another moment.

"Doctor, I don't think you're worried about getting separated from Captain Pirkin, are you?" He looked at Jin Shaolan with heavy eyes and said slowly. "I don't know why, though. But I don't have the 'confidence' of you.

"If you don't want to go, I hope you don't have any other plans to 'need me along'.

"Treat yourself.

"Captain Pilkin is in the front room, and I think he warned us not to get too far from him."

After saying these words, he slowly walked towards Jin Shaolan.

Under the light of the tactical flashlight, Jin Shaolan, who was opposite him, had a pale face and a blood-red robe, which gave this originally gentle and elegant Oriental an extra sense of murder. In Jin Shaolan's eyes, Finley's figure was half-hidden in the darkness, and the tactical flashlight in his hand emitted a bright white light, and he couldn't see his face clearly, only the lenses of his gold-rimmed glasses glowed with a cold reflection.

Apparently, Finley insisted that Pilkin had moved on. Although it was not clear why Finley was so determined, Jin Shaolan was silent, and his slender figure stood straight. He refused to allow Finley to come close to him, and stretched out his palm to first gesture to the corner of the room, then spread his palm and gestured to the corner on the other side of the diagonal, signaling Finley to retreat to the corner first, so that he could retreat to the other end of the room, and then go their separate ways.

Finley stopped again. He hesitated, not taking the next step. There was again a faceless silence between the two. Just as he hesitated to make the decision to accept the other party's proposal, Pilkin's somewhat rigid and anxious voice came again from the dark side of the passage:

"Juniper berries? Teacher? ”

Before the others arrived, the anxious voice had already penetrated through the rippling echo:

"Hey, are you still there? Not in danger, right? ”

The tense strings in Jin Shaolan's heart became relaxed. The fatigue that followed the tension affected him slightly, and he exhaled with his eyes half-open. Maybe he was overthinking, after all, in this "fog" Karazhan, he was not the only one who suddenly realized the possibility before, for example, Pilkin, who repeatedly explained that they had to keep up, may also be blocked by factors such as "fog", and he didn't notice that the team of the three had been disjointed. Thinking so, he also half-turned and gestured to get out of the way of the passageway.

However, at the moment when he relaxed, Jin Shaolan's vision suddenly found that Finley who was standing opposite was discolored. The electronic engineer wearing a pair of gold-wire glasses suddenly threw Jin Shaolan to the ground with agility that did not conform to his elegant image, and the two of them fell together on the musty ground and rolled out several times.

In just a few seconds, the light of the horse lantern has moved to the mouth of the passage. It was indeed Pilgin who came out, and he called their names with a worried look on his face. "Juniper berries! Teacher! He cried out, "Where are you?" ”

Finley covered Jin Shaolan's mouth tightly. Cold sweat trickled down the side of the bridge of his nose, and the gold-rimmed glasses fell somewhere in the tumbling just now. "Pilkin" ignored them, and looked around with a lantern while continuing through the cellar, as if looking for "the two men who had disappeared behind him at some point."

Jin Shaolan just had the idea that "the fog blinded Pilkin's perception and made him unable to notice his partner", at this moment, the incident happened suddenly, his mind was still following this line of thought, in addition to "what's going on" and "what is Finley guarding against", the thought that came to his mind was "Could it be that Pilgin has been completely affected by Karazan's vision, so even if the two of them are in front of him, he can't find out", but Finley sent him a message through the Nightmare Mark: "Doctor, you are right." There is a problem with Pilkin! ”

Jin Shaolan admits that he is a naïve intellectual who has been in a peaceful society for a long time and lacks real vigilance, because it is only at this moment that his mind tells him that "it turns out that the object of his vigilance is Pilkin". However, despite being a bastard with many shortcomings, Jin Shaolan has an advantage, that is, he never produces "I told you a long time ago!" "I said yes!" A kind of stupid idea, this man is completely pragmatic like a Chinese among Chinese, and he has quickly thought about their situation. At this point, Nightmare Space sent him another scene, which was presented from a first-person perspective.

What the owner of the perspective brings to him is a vision that only presents a few colors of blue, blue, yellow, and purple, and the lines are erratic and unrealistic, making people feel as if they have stepped into the world of Picasso's "Blue Period" oil paintings such as "Two Sisters" and "Breakfast of a Blind Man", and it is like an old-fashioned film with a red channel hidden in RGB mode.

"He" carefully followed Pilgin about five to seven meters apart, "seeing" him enter his current room and turn left into the passageway, and follow all the way to the next basement, which is quite spacious. As Pilgin walked slower and slower out of the door, the owner of the view was left in the passage in order not to get too close. Then the apprentice squad leader patted his head, turned around and hurried back to the road he had come from, because the space in the passage was cramped, and the owner of the perspective could not dodge, and collided directly with Pilkin.

The next moment, a strange cold "came"—because Jin Shaolan only received this picture and not the "party", even if he felt that he was experiencing it through the "perspective" like a "bystander"—Pilkin ran straight into the owner of the perspective, and "he" inevitably watched the old-fashioned face of the apprentice squad leader quickly enlarge in front of his eyes, followed by his eyes and eyebrows...... The strange chill came at this time, like the icy cold of jumping into the water in late autumn - even touching the surface of the water until it submerged in it......

Everything in front of him quickly appeared from the moment the coldness was generated, and a large number of "snowflakes" like noise on the TV screen quickly appeared, and quickly increased and occupied the entire field of vision, and this coldness only lasted for the blink of an eye, and the final scene was when the owner who "penetrated" the body of "Pilkin" and the vision appeared behind him. The "eyes" suddenly opened up again, and in an instant, dense "snowflakes" filled the whole world.

There is no doubt that the "Pilkin" in front of him, like those "restless shadows", is a cold void made of energy.