Volume III Second Floor. Abyss Chapter 106. Two o'clock in the evening in the afternoon
"Really? What monsters do you see? Have you regained your abilities? Can you sense the monster? Listening to Tang Ling's words, Lu Shang asked about Tang Ling's situation with some urgency, within a few hours, they wandered around this maze as they wanted, and they didn't see any shadow of a monster, and now someone finally said that they had seen a monster, and there was finally a small breakthrough in a blank cognition, and it was impossible for Lu Shang not to be excited.
Tang Ling nodded and shook her head, remembering what she had just encountered, she grabbed Tang Yong's clothes a little timidly, hesitated for a while, and said to Lu Shang slowly: "I don't know how to perceive monsters, I just saw a little girl, in that sunflower doll, she asked me to help her, and wanted me to play with her." ”
"Little girl? Sunflower dolls? Tang Ling, are you sure? We didn't see any little girls just now. ”
The people around were confused when they heard Tang Ling's words, and they didn't understand what the little girl in Tang Ling's mouth had to do with the sunflower doll, and when everyone was thinking about it, Liu Ruyan, who was hanging on Lu Li's body, was secretly looking at Tang Ling, his eyes were full of doubts and exploration, and he also took a little child to discover the fun of new games.
"I don't know how to say it, I was looking at the doll very strange, so I was very curious and looked at it for a while, but suddenly the surroundings became so scary, there was a little girl who kept talking in my ear, and she was still pestering me, not wanting me to go."
Thinking of Tang Ling, who was powerless to resist because of the sudden appearance of the illusion just now, her whole body trembled uncontrollably, and she hurriedly hugged Tang Yong's neck and shrank into his arms dependently.
"Is it because you saw the doll that you saw the little girl? Is it a doll that makes you feel uncomfortable? Lu Shang thought for a while and asked.
"Yes." Tang Ling nodded hurriedly, then stretched out his hand and pointed behind Lu Shang, "Just like those dolls behind you." ”
A gloomy coldness rushed to Lu Shang's back in an instant, and he quickly turned his head to look at the people lying in all corners, eye-catching and indifferent dolls, cute costumes, weird smiles that occupied most of his face, and buttoned eyes, which were obviously godless but seemed to be observing them in a faint way.
"It's the same with the dolls around me."
After listening to Tang Ling's words, everyone felt that something was wrong, from the scene when they entered the second level, to the time they had been moving in the maze for so long, there were dolls everywhere, all kinds of dolls, animals and plants in the human shape, the difference was the style and dress, but the same was the same smiling face, because it had just ended a life and death ordeal, and after staying in the dark space for too long, all of a sudden it was in this fairy tale style, looking at the place where there was no threat, the sun and blue sky above the head were reassuring, Unlike the first level, which suddenly puts people into desperate survival mode, everyone's vigilance is constantly decreasing, so they naturally ignore the weirdness of these dolls.
Now after Tang Ling said this, everyone has reacted, they are not safe, still in this terrifying survival game, the person who designed the game will not be so kind to arrange a level for them to relax, everything is not so simple.
His vigilance will be so low, Lu Shang shook his head a little self-deprecatingly, the more these dolls around him looked at the more frightened, Lu Shang said to the others: "I don't know what danger these dolls are now, but it's not a way to stay where you are, let's try not to look at these dolls." Everyone has also been on the run for so long, and it must be very tiring, so let's go find a relatively safe place and take turns to stand guard and rest. The exit of the labyrinth is not in a hurry, and the most important thing now is to recharge your energy. ”
The others had no objection and nodded in agreement. Tang Ling motioned for Tang Yong to put herself down and let her go by herself, and stood back on the ground again, Yan Yan on the side saw it, and quickly let go of the hand that grabbed Wang Fanglu, ran to Tang Ling's side, and looked around vigilantly, causing Tang Ling to look at him strangely several times.
After discussing the next arrangement, everyone slowly left the place.
"Fanglu, what are you looking at? Time to go. ”
Qiu Yanling shouted to Wang Fanglu, who had been staring at the dolls on the ground. Wang Fanglu reacted for a long time, looked at Qiu Yanling as if she had suddenly woken up, patted her chest in shock and said, "Ouch, you really scared me, what's wrong?" ”
"It's time for us to go. And don't look at these dolls anymore, didn't Lu Shang's kid just now say that these dolls are very crazy? ”
"Ouch, I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed, I was fascinated by thinking about things just now, and I didn't notice what Lu Shang was talking about. Actually, I don't look at these dolls much, but the bear doll at my feet looks a bit like the one I lost when I was a child, and I was curious to take a few more looks, thank you for reminding me, I don't look at these dolls anymore. ”
Wang Fanglu glanced at the bear doll lying at her feet again, looked away with some disgust, and then smiled at Qiu Yanling, chatted with her with little talk, and the group slowly left.
Not long after they left, the bear doll that Wang Fanglu had been staring at just now, lying on the grass, leaning against the wall, the dark button eyes turned, and then its head rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, and the fabric was wrinkled a lot because of the large twist, the little bear's head was facing straight in the direction where Lu Shang and his party left, and the dolls around it also slowly began to turn their heads, all following the bear in the direction where Lu Shang and them left, and at another corner of the maze, A snow-white mass was bouncing and moving......
The day overhead began to slowly darken, the brilliant sun was slowly engulfed in black, the blue sky was gone, the white clouds disappeared, the light was dim, the night came silently, and everyone looked up in surprise to watch the night fall.
"It's strange, it's two o'clock in the afternoon on my phone now?"
Zhang Ziang took out his mobile phone, looked at the time of two o'clock on the screen, raised his head in disbelief, looked at the dark sky, and said uncertainly: "Is it too dark this day?" ”
Tang Ling raised her head like everyone else, looked at the dark sky, a little distracted, and suddenly flashed in front of her eyes the flies flying in the air in the previous level, mice and insects running in the grass, and in the blurred picture, there seemed to be a flash of red light on their bodies. Maybe it was her own fear that added a filter to those monsters, Tang Ling shook twice, and when she was a little disgusted with her imagination, her back was cold.
It's not like the slight coolness of the wind blowing, it's the biting cold of being suddenly locked in the ice cellar, grabbing her ankles and climbing her body, little by little, straight to the heavenly spirit cover. Tang Ling's whole body froze, she could hear her violent heartbeat, and the sound of rapid breathing. A cold gaze that was hard to ignore, like a snoop locked in the jungle by the gaze of a tall beast lurking in the shadows. Who's watching her? Wrong. It's looking at them.
Tang Ling swallowed his saliva, pulled Yan Yan, who knew nothing beside him, absorbing the warmth from his hands, with a little courage, slowly moved his steps, walked behind Lu Shang, and hesitantly grabbed the corner of Lu Shang's clothes.
Lu Shang, who felt that his clothes were being ripped off, lowered his head, saw Tang Ling, who was staring straight at him, with a face full of fear, and pleaded with him with difficulty: "Leave, get out of here." ”
"It's not safe here, take out the flashlight, we need to get out of here quickly."
Without a trace of doubt and hesitation, Lu Shang hurriedly said to the people around him who were still looking at each other, then rubbed Tang Ling's head soothingly, took her cold hand, bent down and whispered beside her, "Let's tell us which way to go later, okay?" ”
"But ......"
"I believe in you." Lu Shang smiled firmly at her, then turned his head to Yan Yan beside Tang Ling, and ordered solemnly, "Protect my sister." ”
Then he stood up, took out a flashlight, and illuminated the road a certain distance ahead, Lu Shang shook the hand that held Tang Ling, and asked softly, "Let's go?" ”
“…… Good. ”
Under Lu Shang's 100% trust in her, Tang Ling's worries and hesitations gradually disappeared, she took a deep breath, then nodded firmly towards Lu Shang, and began to point out to Lu Shang what she thought was the right path with her own feelings.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, after an hour of moving, Tang Ling took a group of them to a spacious meadow, surrounded by entrance corners leading to other places, and there were not necessarily any strange dolls in this open space, more than an hour of hurrying and hurrying, plus Tang Ling made one or two errors of judgment on the way and went in the wrong direction, and finally they succeeded in reaching the place that Tang Ling intuitively thought was not a little dangerous.
"Great job." A group of people could finally rest at ease, Lu Shang rubbed Tang Ling's head and praised.
Tang Ling touched her head, there was still the temperature of Lu Shang's palm on it, she felt a little warm in her heart, looked at Lu Shang, and asked curiously, "Why, will you believe me?" ”
"Maybe it's like you wanted to believe me."
Lu Shang thought seriously for a moment, as if he had thought of something, he replied with a smile, he squatted down to look at Tang Ling, and thanked Tang Ling a little solemnly: "I haven't had a chance to say it, I hope it's not too late now." Tang Ling, thank you for helping us in the first level, thank you for saving my life. Rest well. ”
Although Tang Ling has now forgotten the help he provided to them in the first level to kill the monster, and others may not have been able to notice, Lu Shang still clearly remembers that at that time, he was affected by Zhou Ye's words and was out of proportion, so that when the mouse pounced on him, when he thought he was going to die, a force knocked the mouse away, and that person was Tang Ling, she was out of breath, just standing there needed the help of Yan Yan, at that moment, Lu Shang was really grateful to Tang Ling, this eleven-year-old little girlWithout her help, he wouldn't have survived until now.
Helping a stranger without such a bottom line is something that a person like Lu Shang can't do, everything he does is based on interests, all for the people he cares about, so for Tang Ling from the beginning, he can actually firmly say that he is willing to help when Tang Yong and Qiu Yanling oppose and hesitate, this pure kindness and trust, Lu Shang is ashamed of himself. He no longer treats Tang Ling as an ordinary child, she is his partner, no different from everyone else.
He also clearly saw that Tang Ling was under great pressure along the way, in order to try her best to help all of them survive, she had to constantly perceive those monsters without gaps, to prevent upcoming monsters, and to try her best to reconnoiter the movements of nearby monsters, she had always been afraid that if she couldn't help others, it would drag them down, in fact, she had already helped them too much, Tang Ling had already become the backbone of this team, just like him. Even if she lost her memory and entered the second level, Tang Ling was the first person to notice the abnormality around her, she may not even realize it, she subconsciously kept her spirit tense, wary of everything around her, testing everything around her, worrying about sudden disasters and accidents.
And now, Tang Ling can rest for a while.
There are many things that have not been said, and the current situation cannot make Lu Shang continue to sigh. He rubbed Tang Ling's head again, pulled her and Yan Yan and handed them over to Qiu Yanling, and began to discuss the arrangement of taking turns to stand guard with the men in the surrounding team.