Chapter 22: When You Say You Won't Die Today
The figure curled up as if in pain.
This should be the homeless man who was burned to death.
"The name of the copy is humanoid, and I guess it has something to do with the shape we saw." The captain frowned and looked at the ground.
But just looking at the marks on the ground couldn't see anything, Jiang Bei wanted to take out a tool and hit this figure to see if it was solid inside. But there are too many people around, and it's not easy for him to start.
Bai Jiuri stared at the shape on the ground: "Could the danger in the copy come from this figure?" ”
It looked scary but didn't seem to be dangerous, they were almost standing next to the humanoid, and no ghosts had jumped out of it to kill people.
But it's hard to say, maybe it looks harmless during the day, and at night it turns into a ghost and crawls up.
"There's also a staircase over here, which is supposed to lead to the basement." Zhao Tianran found that there was a staircase down next to the gate.
A few people looked down the stairs, but there was no light below, and it was pitch black and they couldn't see anything.
"Go down?" The captain looked at Bai Jiuri.
"Go down." Bai Jiuri nodded firmly, "We must first investigate the entire apartment and figure out where the danger comes from, so that we can formulate the next countermeasures." ”
According to the experience of the Information Integration Department, 90% of the survivors in the dungeon are actively looking for clues to solve the game, and it is easiest to die by waiting and doing nothing.
"Below is the fire point, there should be some clues, but if you go down, you may encounter any supernatural events, so be careful." Bai Jiuri reached out to touch his waist as he spoke, but he felt empty.
He looked at the others in embarrassment: "Do you have flashlights?" I didn't expect to be suddenly pulled into the dungeon with nothing on me. ”
People in the military region must have flashlights when they enter the dungeon, after all, most of the supernatural dungeons are black rumbling places.
Ebetsu pulled out the flashlight on his waist and turned it on, illuminating the stairs leading to the bottom.
They went down with flashlights and soon came to the basement.
The basement of the apartment is as small as the top, and it is estimated that it used to be a warehouse for miscellaneous items, but now it has burned down. The boss didn't rebuild the basement, so it still looks like it has been burned, the walls illuminated by the flashlight are all black, and the ground is full of burnt debris.
Because of the small area, you can see it at a glance, and there are no useful clues.
The only suspicious thing they had found so far was the human figure at the entrance on the first floor.
But no matter how you look at it, it's just a print, and if you pee on the ground, you might be able to draw it exactly the same.
Just as Jiang Bei was pondering the ground drawing, he suddenly heard a loud noise from upstairs.
"Bang"
The sudden noise stunned everyone for a moment, and then they all looked upstairs.
The stairs were too long for them to see the top.
"What's going on? Someone upstairs? The captain lowered his voice.
"It doesn't have to be people." Ebetsu dimmed the flashlight and listened carefully to the movement above.
For a while, everyone didn't dare to make a sound, and only pricked up their ears to listen to the sound upstairs.
But after the loud bang just now, there was no other sound, and after a few minutes there was still silence above, and there was no movement.
It's not a problem to stay here all the time, but the loud bang just now obviously reveals that there is something else unknown on it, and if you go up now, you might run into someone face to face.
Jiang Bei is not afraid to face the ghost, unless the other party is too ugly.
He sneakily touched up under everyone's noses, and gestured to silence the group of people behind him as he walked up.
Touching the staircase on the first floor, he first cautiously looked around and made sure there was no danger before stepping out of the stairs.
It's weird, there's no ghost here, what's going on with that noise just now? Could it be that something that made a noise went upstairs?
Wait a minute?
Jiang Bei suddenly noticed a terrifying change.
The figure huddled by the gate moved.
It no longer cowered by the door, but was frozen in a crawling motion, as if it wanted to crawl forward.
Jiang Bei looked in its direction and saw the door of the king truck on the first floor.
It wants to climb in.
After making sure that the human form was not in danger for the time being, Jiang Bei immediately beckoned everyone to come up and observe together. When the others came up, they also saw its intentions, and their faces were hard to look at.
"How so!" Among them, Wang Truck's expression was the most ugly, and he was almost unsteady.
The figure was only five or six meters away from his door, and he didn't know when he would climb in.
Bai Jiuri stared at the ground: "This thing can actually move......"
"What happens when it climbs in? Will the people inside die? "Yu Yu is not sure.
It was uncertain that they could not tell Wang Truck to go back to the house and see if he would die if the human figure climbed in.
"Don't live on the first floor tonight," Bai Jiuri immediately turned his head to look at Wang Truck, "The rules only let us live in the apartment for seven days, and there is no rule that we must live in our own room, we will all go to the seventh floor tonight." ”
It was five o'clock in the afternoon when they entered the dungeon, and now it was more than an hour later, and it was nearly dusk outside, and night would soon come.
"The danger in the dungeon should come from this moving humanoid, but at the moment, it has no other threat other than moving, and it will kill people only if it enters the house." Jiang Bei also secretly touched it twice, but I didn't see any reaction from others.
If you don't go into the house in this way, you don't know if it will work in the corridor.
"It's hard to say, it's also possible that it won't kill until the sun goes down, what time is it?"
"Six-thirty," everyone came in and adjusted their watches according to the copy time, Jiang Bei put down his wrist, "I guess it won't be long before the sun is gone." ”
"Go up first." Bai Jiuri immediately said, "If the ghost really starts killing people after dark, then it will be too dangerous for us to stay here." ”
Everyone came to Jiangbei's room on the seventh floor together, and gathered around the simple coffee table to discuss countermeasures.
The captain had never entered such a difficult dungeon before, and his head was a mess at this moment: "What should I do now?" ”
It's not a good idea to hide on the seventh floor all the time, and if the ghost climbs up and kills people, everyone will have to finish it together.
"I guess the solution for this quest would be for us to stop the ghost, to stop the humanoid, or to stop it halfway through and keep it from going upstairs. No matter what means it uses to kill people, as long as it is kept in the ground, there is nothing it can do. Bai Jiuri took out a notebook and wrote something down on it.
Jiang Bei took a closer look and saw that he was writing a diary or something.
[On the first day, when we came out of the charred basement, we found that the human figure at the gate could move, and we wanted to climb into the room of the king truck, and on the first night, we decided to live together on the seventh floor to discuss countermeasures......]
"This is a copy record, even if we are wiped out, this record will appear when someone clears the copy in the future, and then the integration department can understand our situation before death based on this." Bai Jiuri explained.
It's good to let everyone know how they died, so that their eyes won't be blacked. Jiang Bei felt that this should not be called a copy record, but a record of last words.
"But how can we stop it?" Wang Truck had already begun to fumble with the furniture in the house, wondering if he could use these things to block the hallway.
This question stumped them, and ordinary barricades would certainly not be able to stop the ghosts.
Jiang Bei's idea was to pick out the human seal and smash it along with the floor under it, anyway, it was not difficult for him to carry tools. But he wasn't sure if it would work, and the rickety woman had said that the owner of the apartment had tried every means to get rid of the mark, but to no avail.
Yu Yu proposed to try it with fire, the ghost was burned to death by fire before his death, and if he made a fire in the corridor, maybe the ghost would not dare to cross over. Of course, it is not ruled out that the ghost was angry and angry, and jumped up on the spot and bit the person to death.
The dog is guarding the door, watching the outside through the cat's eyes, and if a human figure climbs up, he immediately notifies everyone.
Wang Truck also ran to the door from time to time to take a few looks, looking very worried.
"Don't worry. This is a time-bound mission, and the first and second teams to enter this quest all have people who live until the seventh day, and the last person in the third group dies on the sixth day. The first three squads almost survived the level, indicating that the danger was not very high in the first few days of the dungeon. Zhao Tianran comforted him.
Jiang Bei felt that she had a point, if this copy was very dangerous from the beginning, then the first few squads estimated that they would be wiped out in two or three days, but they held out for six or seven days.
Bai Jiuri wrote down everyone's suggestions on paper one by one, and at this time the desktop was already covered with paper: "This is the best, we can have enough time to think of countermeasures." ”
He looked at his watch, and it was already eleven fifty-five in the evening. It was stuffy with so many people in this room, but there were no windows to let it in. There are windows in the corridor below the fifth floor, but the wall of the corridor is almost close to the department store next door, and the windows of the two buildings are also close to each other, and they cannot be opened at all.
The person who built the building probably found out about this halfway through the construction, but he didn't find a way to solve the problem, but felt that since the windows couldn't be opened after the building, then I wouldn't build it directly.
So the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors are really like coffins, and there is not a trace of wind that can penetrate them.
Jiang Bei felt that this might be a plot of the copy, and maybe he would suffocate himself before they were killed by the ghost.
"Dog, didn't that humanoid come up all this time?" Bai Jiuri looked at the dog at the door.
Dog nodded at them.
After making sure it was safe, Bai Jiuri looked at the others: "You also saw it today, the crawling speed of that humanoid seems to be very slow. ”
"That's right," the captain recalled, "it curled up by the door before we went into the basement, where we stayed for about half an hour, and when it came out it changed its movements but barely climbed far. At this rate, it should be difficult to chase us in the building."
"So I'm guessing the ghost's speed will get faster and faster as time goes on." Bai Jiuri's expression was solemn.
So the first three groups of squads will all die on the sixth and seventh days? Because the speed of the ghosts is fast, they can't escape.
"Then we have to find a way to break the game in the first few days." The captain looked very troubled, "But the comprehensive strength of the previous batches of squads is much higher than ours, and none of them have been able to clear the level, not to mention those of us who were accidentally pulled in." We're bringing three new people with us. ”
"The good news is now." Bai Jiuri flipped through the paper in his hand, "At least tonight is safe, the ghost won't be able to climb to the seventh floor on the first day." ”
It's not good news, but it can finally relax your nerves.
"Alas," Wang Truck slumped on the edge of the bed and snapped his fingers, "I won't die today." ”
But before he could finish speaking, the voice stopped abruptly.
Jiang Bei immediately turned his head to look, and the person on the bed had disappeared out of thin air!
It wasn't just King Truck, he looked around and everyone was gone......