Wang Julin opened his mouth, but the girl had already turned around, and the aura of 'I'm not familiar with you, don't talk nonsense' was almost visible, so he could only suppress the stomach problem and follow her to the bottom of the ladder.

It is an escape staircase-like device, with two tiers of iron hanging from the walls connecting three long staircases, which then lead by a vertical ladder into a circular shaft leading to the top. And under the stairs, there is the door. The door painted with bright red biochemical markers opened a gap, and the darkness in it was unusually deep, as if the eyes that came into contact with it were absorbed into it.

"We ...... Go up, or go this way? ”

Wang Julin looked at the little girl, but found that she had no intention of moving at all, so he had to ask.

It's—judging by the distance, there are domino ruins of buildings above, and a troll roaming. And the quest to explore is likely to be behind that door. The reason why he asked was simply because the ownership of the right to speak is also a manifestation of the strong.

"You choose." The answer was concise and to the point, cold and biting.

Damn,Who said that the three-free girl is a kind of cute attribute? Come out, I promise not to kill you.

Belly sneering, Wang Julin cautiously reached out to pull the door, but the door that seemed to be open seemed to be stuck by something, he had to add some strength to open it, and the piercing creak immediately echoed in the silent underground, like the scream of a monster, making him reflexively jump a step sideways and get out of the way.

Caution is a must - for horror scenes, doors have always been a terrifying thing, completely obscuring the view, and no one knows what will rush out of it, let alone the existence of a malicious setting like 'open the door to kill'. Or maybe the above experience put forward by a novelist is not entirely correct, but at least Wang Julin does not want to risk his life.

Not a single monster rushed out from behind the door, nor did a single bullet come out. Nothing......

So his performance was rightfully rewarded with a sneer. Although it was only a little heavier than breathing, Wang Julin, who had good dynamic vision, still captured the moment when her little eyebrows were raised and her lips pursed. It made him roll his eyes. Then he looked through the door.

The light extended down the simple concrete steps for some distance. Reflecting the not too wide diagonal passage, you can see the ceiling of the passage and the surrounding smoothed concrete walls, there are no special markings, just some dust and dirt, there are metal railings on both sides, which are the most common metal round pipe handrails, and on the wall side are round pipe handrails embedded in the wall, some like the stairwells of old tube buildings.

But it's dark.

Wang Julin turned his head and turned back again, making sure that there was nothing wrong with his eyes - there was light for dozens of meters behind the little girl, but in the passage, the light seemed to be obscured, and it could only spread to the vicinity of the ninth staircase, and the darkness pulled a clear junction at the end of the light, completely enveloping everything on the opposite side. The air smelled a little musty, but there was no fog or anything that absorbed light.

So yes...... Some kind of setting?

If you really encounter any monsters in this kind of place, it will be difficult to escape, such as the licking master who crawled from the roof of the shed......

Shaking his head, throwing the absurd associations out of his mind, he reached out and made a gesture of invitation: "Ladies first." ”

It's not so much 'gentlemanly demeanor' as Chi Guoguo's timidity, but now is not the time to show his courage - in the face of monsters, he, a level 0 'modulator' with bare hands and blood, can't even be called a meat shield. What's more, the light around the girl's body will not be covered by herself, so she doesn't have this preferential treatment for Wang Julin.

The imaginary danger is still not coming.

After descending a few steps, you can see that the staircase is not long, but it is thirteen steps, and a semicircular platform is connected to the front of the passage, and the whole passage has turned one hundred and eighty degrees. Then, when the two of them walked down the floor, they turned the platform...... What appears in the field of vision is a diagonal passage, with metal round pipe handrails on both sides, and the dim light reflects nine of the thirteen cement steps, and when you step down, you will see the semicircular cement platform at the end of the stairs. Turning around the platform, there are thirteen steps on the next floor, as well as a semi-circular platform.

-- Wang Julin noticed many details at the first time.

The staircase, the platform...... Even the mottled walls and rust stains on the iron railings were exactly the same. Every time he turned the platform, he wondered if he was spinning in a circle.

Next level.

One more level.

……

Time passes......

How long has it been gone?

Eighteen minutes have passed on the quest board. And it feels much longer.

The sound of footsteps echoed through the passage, blending, turning into a slight rustle. The voice rubbed against the anxiety in his heart, making it swell...... Wang Julin knew that his breathing was getting heavier and heavier.

It was a sign of fear—even if the passage seemed solid and stable, and there was not the slightest danger, but it could only be felt when you were actually in it—and the deep fear grew over and over again, and the darkness at the end of the field of vision seemed to hide a huge mouth full of fangs. Maybe turn the next corner and it will tear you apart and devour you without leaving a trace.

The steps of the two were not slow, and they had already turned nearly eighty flights of stairs, and it was speculated that the vertical depth should be more than 100 meters. It is rare for a city to have such a deep structure underground, but the staircase passages in front of you still appear layer after layer, as if you can continue to repeat yourself to the end of the world.

Is it spinning in place? Or, there is no end here at all?

Wang Julin's footsteps paused slightly.

There was a voice.

It was a human voice, but it wasn't coming from the girl in front of her—it was high-pitched, so light that it was impossible to tell whether it was male or female, but it was mixed with creepy sobbing and choking. It kept repeating, and it took Wang Julin a moment to tell that it was English, and it seemed that there was "please" and "help" and ...... "down"?

But when he held his breath and tried to discern the location of the voice, it was gone, leaving only the swishing echo of air in the space, clenching around his chest like an invisible hand.

Auditory hallucinations?

No, because when you go down three more flights of stairs, the sound appears and disappears again, and the order of the words is not quite the same, but the sound is still the same sound—if it is a hallucination, then it must be a very realistic hallucination.

So he finally couldn't help but speak: "Do you have ......?"

"What?" The girl stopped and looked at him as if she were looking at a corpse.

So Wang Julin didn't continue to ask.

The other party didn't hear it. So it became risky to tell the truth - the young lady had made it clear that if he hallucinated, 'I can send you straight back to hell.' Right away. What if this auditory hallucinations are a type of hallucination?

So after a moment's hesitation, he continued: "Miss Lucia, ......"

"I don't have that name."

"A name or something is just a code name, I have to call you, don't I?"

“…… Call me Firebee. ”

"Oh, Miss Firebee." Wang Julin nodded: "I want to say, isn't it a little too boring to keep walking like this?" Can you say something? ”

“…… Whatever you want. ”

Wang Julin smiled and opened his mouth...... But only a meaningless whisper.

His pupils constricted like a needle in an instant, and his retina reflected the passage in front of him—at the edge of the light range...... There is a face!

In fact, it was not really a face, closer to a hazy oval outline, miserable white, without a mouth, nor a nose or even hair, and the only reason it was reminiscent of a face was that it had eyes on it. The two eyes were the size of a fist, with a dry and dull gray-white surface, and no pupils. But there was a layer of slightly quivering 'eyelids' on both sides - it seemed to be able to sense Wang Julin's gaze, it blinked, and then 'looked' at him!

The moment I looked at it, the temperature around me dropped suddenly! Inexplicable fear seeped into the muscles and bone marrow, and the sound of a tenfold expanded heartbeat bulged in the ears, as if the whole face was constantly pulsating. He subconsciously retreated, but something suddenly wrapped around his waist and made him unable to move, and a high-decibel scream rang in his ears.

But the scream, like a morning bell, woke him up.

The coldness of fear quickly receded, as it appeared—a warm current rose from his hand and spread throughout his body; And when he looked up again, the face at the edge of his vision was gone, leaving only the gray, mottled walls. As for the ...... that wrapped around his waist It was one of the arms of the 'Firebee' lady, and one of her small faces was already attached to Wang Julin's back. The fawn-like slight tremor made him a little amused for a while.

Although it is said that 'life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills', but what can you say you can do with a little girl......

As she thought so, the little girl stretched out a hand forward.

The thin, pale fingertips suddenly flowed with a shiny.

The luster is very gorgeous, as if it has been coated with a layer of Kodan, but the moment the eye is attracted, it has become a scorching dazzling! Piercing forward like a flaming sword, lighting up the darkness! A scorching storm followed! Wang Julin hurriedly raised his hand to cover his face, but he still felt as if his whole face was being scraped by a hot knife, and even his eyebrows and hair were about to burn!

Everything that has been described has happened so quickly......

In fact, from the sight of that face to the outbreak of hot wind, the total was no more than two seconds. And when the red light was dim, Wang Julin raised his head from his arm and saw a staggering scene.

The tiny sparks are scattered outward with the hot and dry air, and the center of the field of vision is a large dark red ...... Where that face was originally located, the cement wall was burned out of a shallow pit half a meter square! The half-melted substance cooled and solidified into black glass, slowly merging back into the darkness.

That's what veterans are capable of? Isn't it? Human laser cannon......

"That thing...... Gone? ”

“…… Well, it's burned out. ”

Surprised, the snort from behind made him cry and laugh a little, and the young lady finally let go of him, but then he threw two fierce glares: "You didn't see anything just now!" ”

"Yes, yes, I don't see it."

"Don't laugh!"

“…… Don't laugh. ”

"Be serious!"

“……”

This young lady, no matter how fierce and vicious she is, is it so easy to restore the image that has collapsed?

Of course, the belly slander can't be exported-this girl is not a good stubble, even if the firepower just now is casually exerted a fraction, it is enough for him Wang Julin to eat and walk away, so rubbing his hot face, he tried to change the topic: "Miss Firebee, this situation is very dangerous." Psychologically and neurologically, the fear valley theory deals with the instinctive weakness of the human body......"

As a freelancer, communicating with people is a long-forgotten skill, so even he knows that the topic is really hard to turn around, and luckily, it is quite successful.

"Valley of Fear?"

It is the defect of human basic cognition, the mismatch between expectation and reality, and the comprehensive reaction of cognitive emotions - holding two contradictory views at the same time will cause human cognitive impairment, and failure to solve this contradiction immediately will give rise to negative emotions. To put it simply, something that is a little bit like something but not very much like it is very frightening and terrifying, and you see all the hybrid monsters in human history, such as demons, Chimera, zombies, or human-faced dogs, have endured because humans simply can't resist this reaction. ”

"Why aren't you scared...... Valley of Fear? ”

“…… I was unresponsive. ”

The big hat of psychology and neurology was covered, and the little girl's expression finally relaxed slightly, so she coughed lightly, and Wang Julin continued to persuade and listen: "Well, in short, don't care about these details, the key is this difficulty." There's also that big monster out there, it seems like it's all very advanced mutants, right? Is every newbie task so difficult? ”

Of course it couldn't be that hard—otherwise Miss Furry Bear wouldn't have been so surprised when the big tentacle monster appeared.

The question is, whether this is an accident or not.

"Newbie missions are generally simple, even with side quests." Firebee whispered, "However, this time someone probably caused the blame. ”

"You mean...... Other 'moderators'? ”

Wang Julin's brow furrowed - the answer was expected by him, but it was undoubtedly the last thing he wanted to hear.

If there is anything more dangerous than monsters, it is only people...... And judging from the other party's statement, the enemy is obviously not one, and it is deliberately aimed at his own side.

"There is not necessarily only one group of people in each 'world', and many tasks are carried out at the same time in the same world, and it is normal to interfere with each other."

She stopped.

During the conversation, the two walked down the two-story platform, which was still exactly the same ordinary platform, and the 'face' was nowhere to be seen. But now, on the platform on the next floor, there is a corpse lying on its stomach.

Mummy.

If the anatomy he learned when he was in school had not been forgotten, Wang Julin judged that this man was a man, probably forty to fifty years old, and had been dead for at least half a year. The dry, ventilated environment causes the soft tissues to completely decay, leaving only a layer of dry skin that covers the bones. If you look closely, you can see that he is also missing an arm, and the dry cortex curls around his shoulders, as if to prove that it is not an old wound, but something that was torn off while he was still alive.

But other than that, the clothes on his body are relatively intact, a dusty white coat, or lab coat, which somewhat reveals the secret of his identity.

Head outward...... An unlucky guy who escaped?

He hesitated, trying to continue to confirm the cause of death and its relationship to the monster. Miss Firebee, however, did not seem to have such patience—she went down and reached out and picked up a note from the corpse's hand. After taking a look, he threw it to Wang Julin.

The note had been crumpled, but the handwriting on it was legible with a thick marker.

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"I wipe, the old driver who used the rope to start the car is real?"