Chapter 102: The Trumpet of Salvation
"Ah Xiang."
Mei Tao's emotionless voice pulled Guan Tianxiang back from the corpse nightmare back to the real nightmare.
The same level of trembling is just the difference between reality and fantasy.
Or is the current world just an illusion? How do they determine that the edifice they are in is a real space, or just a strange world imagined in Guan Tianxiang's consciousness?
Guan Tianxiang remembered watching a set of Sherlock Holmes movies before, and the most impressive thing was that he went to the cinema alone to watch it, but that was not the point. The film depicts Sherlock Holmes in his own palace of consciousness, and the author's experiences in that space are nothing more than fantasies about his own insaneness.
Sherlock Holmes has such an imaginative attainment because he has taken certain drugs, could Guan Tianxiang now also because he has been injected with some strange chemical, so that he has the ability to fantasize, and experience the unreasonable trembling and weirdness in a coma?
Guan Tianxiang first slipped away from the hell of thousands of corpses, opened his eyes suddenly, and gasped for breath rapidly. Mei Tao sat beside him, staring straight at him.
He slowly recovered from the thrilling nightmare and subconsciously looked at his watch: 20:39.
Here, perhaps only the time when the watch is still rolling can be used as proof that the world is still normal.
I finally slept for a while just now, but Guan Tianxiang was still exhausted. The overwhelming shock just now consumed too much physical strength and spirit, and now I feel a strong tiredness when I relax a little, perhaps because of the lack of rest last night.
Or the only thing that can be thankful is that Guan Tianxiang's damn right heel seems to have recovered a lot, at least it doesn't hurt anymore, and the back injury before is not serious, at least there is no pain now.
Guan Tianxiang yawned lazily and looked around at the situation. Elsie and Ah Mao fell asleep, and Ah Kin also held the smoke door against it, maintaining a half-asleep state.
Ah Mao leaned against the wall, muttering incoherent words in his mouth, saliva flowing from the corners of his mouth, believing that he was dreaming of opening his mouth.
Elsie curled up on her side, her head resting on her hands, and she slept soundly.
At this moment, she seems to be no different from an ordinary girl.
"They're all asleep." Mei Tao said in a low voice.
Guan Tianxiang turned his head to stare at him, silent, because Guan Tianxiang didn't know what he meant by waking Guan Tianxiang up.
"Actually, I don't have confidence in us to escape...... Mei Tao lowered his head, and his original earth-colored appearance was suddenly injected with a little helplessness. This is the first time Guan Tianxiang has seen him look so lacking in self-confidence, and he can't help but feel funny.
"How could it be......" Guan Tianxiang responded with the most confronting words.
"There are a lot of speculations, I'm not sure, but it's hard for me to believe that we can get out......" Mei Tao stared at his left ring finger, but didn't habitually move it, "If the people outside are going to save us, why haven't they moved for so long?" ”
He is right that under normal circumstances, if there is any emergency, such as a fire, the firefighters are there early in the morning and have launched a fire extinguishing and rescue operation, but under normal circumstances.
Under normal circumstances, firefighters should arrive within half an hour to carry out fire extinguishing and rescue operations, not to mention that the 23-storey building they are in is located next to Langham Place on Ruson Street, in the heart of Kowloon City......
Countless hours have passed now, and it is a ridiculous joke that no one has come in to carry out a rescue operation.
If even Mei Tao, a cold and indifferent ghost who has always specialized in "capturing the track of reason", feels helpless and powerless, then it can prove that this matter can no longer rely on the so-called "rationality" of daily life to escape......
An ominous premonition arose—there was no such thing as an exit in the underground lobby, and being able to escape was just food for the spirits they had been relying on.
Perhaps, they really fell into another dimension, otherwise how could the building they were in be in a mysterious white fog?
"Don't be discouraged, I hope that tomorrow, give yourself a little applause" Guan Tianxiang recited a large number ......of old-fashioned comforting sentences that sounded extremely disgusting, but even he couldn't convince himself, and of course Mei Tao, who was in the snow cream, didn't react.
"Forget it, don't talk about it." Mei Tao obviously wanted to talk to Guan Tianxiang now, so that the incomparable pressure that had been stalking them for two days could be vented, but he had found the wrong person.
Guan Tianxiang can't even take care of himself, how can he comfort the hearts of others?
They were silent for a moment, and the two men, who were not embarrassed, were silent for a moment, and in the embattled, they sighed silently at the helplessness of fate, which was really a man's romance.
"Ah Xiang," Mei Tao said suddenly, "I remind you of two things. ”
Guan Tianxiang turned his head and stared at him seriously, because even if he didn't have a shocking secret to reveal, his next words would definitely be important.
He approached Guan Tianxiang and lowered his voice: "If I go crazy, get rid of me immediately, don't hesitate, I'm already dead from that moment." ”
"Huh? ......" Guan Tianxiang hesitated for a moment, but he immediately leaned closer, and said in a voice that could not be quieter: "Ah Jian is a very mysterious person, unfathomable, but more dangerous than him, it is Aixi, you have to be careful of her." ”
Guan Tianxiang smiled dryly, not knowing how to answer for a while.
No one knows better than him how dangerous Isie is.
Mei Tao bit her lower lip with a solemn expression, as if she was thinking about how to describe this strange woman: "This girl ...... Know more than you think. ”
Guan Tianxiang turned his head to stare at the girl in the yellow pajama dress, she turned her back to Guan Tianxiang, sleeping sweetly, at least on the surface.
For Guan Tianxiang, Ice's background is unreasonably complicated, from the incident of the head outside the window to the appearance of a stuffed doll thrown out of the window at her home for no reason, and then the Jerry brothers accused of being a murderer...... Everything made Guan Tianxiang try to stay away from her, and did not treat her as a member of his companions.
However, Guan Tianxiang's impression of her is full of contradictions, and on the weird back, Guan Tianxiang also recalls her low sobs in the kitchen, the two pieces of duct tape on her face, and her ......
Guan Tianxiang really couldn't figure out the true meaning of the facts, who Ai Xi was, where he came from, and what his purpose was, Guan Tianxiang could only make blind guesses in the fog in confusion
"Get down." Mei Tao didn't wait for Guan Tianxiang to react, and had already pressed him to the ground.
What happened?
A series of hurried footsteps came from outside the smoke-proof door on the 10th floor, and through the window on the door, Guan Tianxiang vaguely witnessed a large group of people running the stairs outside the door, although he could not see their faces clearly.
"Don't go!"
"Catch up with him!"
The shouting of the men outside and the barrage of screams woke everyone up. Ah Jian immediately bounced up, and Mei Tao gestured for him to stay still.
Everyone saw that the momentum was wrong, and they all maintained absolute silence, until the shouts and footsteps gradually left them, Mei Tao said: "I think, the corpses outside should have been killed by these people." ”
Elsie hid her face with her hands, frowned, and put on a panicked look.
"Do you remember when we were about to descend the stairs when we heard a series of footsteps? I think it's these people, and they probably started the massacre, because I noticed that most of the corpses outside had knife wounds. Mei Tao swallowed his saliva.
"Most of them are wounds on the mouth." Ash added.
Slaughter? Why slaughter them?
Aren't people here supposed to be finding a way out of here, and why do they want to hurt the innocent? Who are they? Cultists?
Guan Tianxiang broke out in a cold sweat and smiled bitterly.
Everyone sits in the same boat, for a community with a shared future, but they want to kill each other, but they are powerless or turn a blind eye in the face of a more severe crisis.
This building may be a microcosm of society.
The so-called aberration is nothing more than a naked presentation of the absurdity and desolation that has been happening in society, if they are now strange to the never-ending killing in the edifice, sorry, their original life was a killing.
Did they leave their original world, or did they learn about their world?
Mei Tao said expressionlessly: "But it's okay no matter what, we all have to go on." ”
"Damn, it's fucking dangerous." Ah Mao's pale face confirmed the fear in his heart.
"That's better—" Mei Tao suddenly stopped, closed her eyes tightly, and showed a look of concentration.
"What are you doing? Wow......" Ash lost her voice and shut up as she heard it too.
Guan Tianxiang also heard it.
That voice, just as Guan Tianxiang was sleeping at home, would come from the busy street from time to time.
Guan Tianxiang heard the clarion call for salvation coming from the window of the back staircase, the voice was small, but it was so uplifting.
It was the sound of a fire engine.