Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Dead Statue Suddenly Begins to Attack Me
The sound caused everyone present to stop and turn their heads to look at the big machine in the middle.
Before anyone could speak, an eerie murmur came from the machine and interrupted the conversation.
"Squeak-squeak-"
It was like the sound of fingernails scratching an iron plate, and it was getting louder and louder, as if something was about to crawl out of this big machine.
The people in the room were not stupid, and they all reacted immediately and fled the door, running down the corridor until they hid in another room.
There is space in the corridor, if something really crawls out of the big machine, the target of a group of them in the corridor is too conspicuous, it is safer to find a room to hide first.
As soon as Jiang Bei came in, he immediately looked at the whole room.
It was a bedroom, similar in structure to the military dormitory where they lived.
A glass window faced the doorway, and there was a white glow outside. There was a desk stacked with a few thin storybooks and an alarm clock stacked on top of it on the wall next to the door, and across the desk was a double bed, and Jiang Bei bent down to look at the bottom of the bed to make sure there was nothing strange underneath.
After surveying the room, he turned his head and continued to listen for the movement outside the door.
The piercing scratching continued.
The door has been open with a small gap to make it easy to look outside. If a ghost does come to them, they can immediately detect and react.
Fortunately, the sound outside lasted for half a minute before it disappeared, and no ghost ran into the hallway, and they waited quietly for several minutes to make sure that there was really no danger outside before they breathed a sigh of relief.
"You all heard that announcement," Summer said about the message coming from the information launchpad, "it mentions the Vault base, and what other super dungeons ......"
"This Vault base sounds like the name of another safe zone, could it be that message from another human base? But we're in a dungeon, how can we receive signals from the outside world? Wang Sixteen frowned.
The base had made many previous attempts to establish a connection between the inside and outside of the dungeon, but had been unsuccessful.
Theoretically, the copy and the reality belong to two worlds, and there is no way to communicate with each other.
So it's unlikely that the message came from the real world, but the name Vault Base is too much like the name of the Safe Zone. And the message just now also mentions some mobile 'super dungeons', and the more you look at it, the more it looks like a warning from other bases.
"Have you ever heard the name Vault Base before?" Jiang Bei asked Zhao Tianran next to him.
Zhao Tianran shook his head: "I only know that there is a fire base in the south, and there should be other safe zones in the world, but we don't know." ”
No one else had heard of the Vault base either.
That's weird.
I received a message from another human safety zone in the dungeon, and it was a base that no one had ever heard of.
"Maybe this is a hoax set up by the dungeon?" Summer made a reasonable guess, "If we had replied to that message, some paranormal event might have happened." ”
Now the situation is very supernatural.
The information transmitter that should have been devoured and disappeared appeared intact in the dungeon, and a strange message was received.
Li Youcai's face was a little dazed: "If, I mean, what if this information is true?" If it was indeed a warning from other human bases that there were mobile supercopies in the world, wouldn't our situation be even more dangerous. ”
At present, there are four types of dungeons in the base, which are easy, medium dangerous, high dangerous, and extremely dangerous.
So far, people have only found copies that can be expanded, and they have never seen one that moves on its own.
"If this new type of dungeon that can move does appear, then we must clear the dungeon as soon as possible and notify the base to prepare." Wang Sixteen was worried, "If you don't notify in advance, the base will definitely suffer heavy losses in the face of this new type of copy that is completely unprepared, and may even collapse completely." ”
The problem is that they don't know how to clear the dungeon as quickly as possible.
The rule is to let everyone escape, that is, to find an exit. But the last group of people searched for two years and couldn't find a way to escape from here, and they might have to look for a few more years.
If there are any moving super dungeons, it's possible that this thing will arrive at the base and destroy the entire base before they can escape the dungeon.
We have to hurry.
Splitting up searches is much more efficient than when everyone gets together.
The eight of them quickly discussed it and decided to divide into two groups and continue to explore the room on the second floor.
Jiang Bei, Zhao Tianran, Wang Sixteen and Zhao Ziyang are in a group, Xin Yi, A Dog, Xia and Li Youcai are in a group.
Jiang Bei and the others stayed to search for the bedroom they were in now, while Xin Yi took the others to another room next door. The two groups of people are not far apart, and they can hear each other's rummaging and squirming, and if something happens to either side, they can hear the other group by calling out.
Zhao Ziyang stayed at the door to guard the door, and if he found danger outside, he immediately notified the people in the house.
The three of them began to search the room carefully.
Jiang Bei had already swept the room when he came in, and he felt that the most noteworthy thing was the thin storybooks on the desk by the door.
There is hardly any textual information in the dungeons, so these storybooks stand out.
Jiang Bei picked up a copy and looked at it, only to see that the name of this storybook was "Uncle Sun's New Clothes"
He didn't have to open it to know what was inside, and the general story was that the fox stole his clothes while the sun was sleeping, so he couldn't go to work the next day, and the little animals in the forest banded together to help the sun weave a new dress.
When I opened it, I saw that the content was indeed like this.
The reason why he didn't have to read it to know the story inside was because there was a book in the base school.
Children love to listen to stories, and the base has also released several simple storybooks, and this new clothes of Uncle Sun is one of them.
Jiang Bei looked at the remaining storybooks again, and he had read all of them, all of which were inspirational children's books that had been released by the base.
"These books ......" Zhao Tianran also found something, picked up a book and flipped through it, "We all read it when we were children." ”
Not only have I seen it, but I have memorized it backwards.
These are the only storybooks distributed by the base, and when I was a child, my teacher told them the stories in these books every day, so that everyone wanted to sleep when they heard these stories.
"Did there be storybooks in the old contact towers," Jiang Bei was a little curious, "Could it be that these books are also remnants of the real world in copies?" ”
Zhao Tianran flipped through the storybook and shook his head: "The people who work in the liaison tower are adults, so there shouldn't be these things." But it is also impossible to say that there may be children who follow their parents in and leave the book behind. ”
As she spoke, a piece of cardboard suddenly fell out of the page in her hand.
It's a piece of the puzzle.
Zhao Tianran picked up the puzzle pieces that fell on the table and looked at them carefully: "This seems to be the puzzle of the part of the statue of the Virgin on the first floor." ”
"Look at this puzzle, it takes at least a hundred pieces to put it together," Jiang Bei gestured at the puzzle pieces in Zhao Tianran's hand, "We have searched nearly half of the rooms on the second floor before we found three puzzles, and at this frequency, we may not be able to put together half of the pieces we find if we search all the churches." ”
Is finding the puzzle really the right solution for this copy?
And why are there so many things that belong to the real world left in the copy.
"Actually, I'm a little strange," Zhao Tianran frowned slightly, "I think it's a bit of a coincidence, the solution of the copy of the maze is to find a puzzle, and the solution of this copy is too similar if it is also a puzzle." But now we don't have any clues other than the puzzle, so we can only start with this aspect first. ”
"I think the way out probably has something to do with the statue of the Virgin on the first floor," Wang Sixteen, who was searching under the bed at this time, also said, "After all, the name of the copy is the Virgin." ”
But as soon as Jiang Bei came in, he carefully looked at the statue of the Virgin, and even knocked on it.
There is nothing special about it at all, and it is not hollow, only a somewhat inexplicable sentence engraved on the base.
"I create everything, I destroy everything, I save everything." Jiang Bei recalled the words on the pedestal, "This is the words engraved on the base of the statue, do you know what this means?" ”
Both shook their heads.
Zhao Ziyang, who was guarding the door, also spoke a little tiredly: "I see that statue is weird, its head fell off, and Xiang Beibei's head fell with it." Maybe it'll move around when we sleep. ”
As he spoke, there was a sudden sound of heavy footsteps.
Zhao Ziyang paused, and then quickly looked out of the door.
But the hallway was empty, nothing.
The voice was unusually heavy and muffled, and it didn't sound like it was coming from the person next door.
Zhao Tianran held the corner of the table tightly and spoke in a very small voice: "Don't you think this voice seems to come from the first floor?" ”