On the morning of the fourth day, the fire alarm bell rang throughout the building, intermittently.

After Guan Tianxiang and Ai Xi confirmed again, there was no one else in this unit.

They didn't spend the night figuring out where the occupants of the unit were. Because, they had already assumed that they would be killed. It felt like there were no other survivors in the entire building.

Toby didn't come back, and they didn't hear the meow again, but it's time for them to face the harsh reality.

At 06:34, they woke up Ah Mao, who was still talking in his sleep, and he seemed to be still reading the dream words.

The rest, a team of only three people.

Guan Tianxiang, the timid only man, the impulsive fart boy Ah Mao, and the mysterious girl Aixi. Ah Jian, who is superb in martial arts, Shanmu, who is talented, and Mei Tao, who is clever and calculating, also left them.

This combination may not be the worst match, but it seems that the chances of survival are much lower than they should be.

"Xiang, remember to cherish every minute and second of survival."

Toby's words are still deeply imprinted in his mind.

Yes, they have lost so much in this battle. Different companions died one after another, and Guan Tianxiang could no longer give up on himself like this......

Guan Tianxiang had to cheer up and try not to be tired.

He has made too many mistakes that cannot be repaired...... If he can't save the lost sheep, he should make amends now.

The early morning light is still bright, illuminating the units on the 15th floor. The fog seeped in through the cracks in the glass windows, and because the openings were quite large, the sound of the fumjets outside the windows was louder and even ...... Noisy.

What the hell is that sound coming from......

"Damn, what the fuck are we going to do now?" Ah Mao rubbed his eyes, obviously not sleeping well. If you lose fir and Toby in a short period of time, how can you sleep peacefully?

"I'll go find something to eat in the kitchen...... "Elsie slowly stood up and walked towards the kitchen. Yes, they haven't eaten for a long time, and if they don't replenish their energy, they will really be physically exhausted.

This time, Guan Tianxiang didn't plan to beware of Ai Xi poisoning the food. He no longer had the strength to pay attention to the risks......

"What the fuck are we going to do," Mao's dark circles revealed the fact that he had insomnia last night, "Should we go to the rooftop now?" ”

It is possible that three of the four have already been tried in the exit, except for the rooftop. According to common sense, that's their only chance of life......

There was a sound of opening and closing the kitchen cabinet in the kitchen, and Elsie in the kitchen suddenly said, "Actually, what is happening now is very messy...... Why don't we sort it out......"

Yes, it may not be wise for them to only manage what reasonable escape methods there will be. They couldn't even figure out why they were involved in the killing, what was going on here, how the game worked...... And how can you beat the game stewards and find a way out of here?

Guan Tianxiang stood up and found a pen and paper on the shoe cabinet: "Why don't we sort it out, how does this work here......?"

"Didn't Toby sort it out before? Does anyone remember? Ah Mao looked at the two of them, and at this time, Ash came out from the kitchen with a package of blue Jiaming brand life bread: "I remember. ”

Guan Tianxiang handed the paper and pen to Aixi, and at the same time stared at the Jiaming brand life bread in front of him...... Well, it's one day before it expires, and it's an unopened pack of eight.

Ah Mao found strawberry jam from the refrigerator where the power was cut off in the morning, and they were like hungry ghosts, and they didn't care about new things that were not fresh and expired. They gobbled up, while Elsie grabbed a piece of white bread in her hand, writing without stopping in her right hand.

Unexpectedly, Ice's memory is also quite good, Guan Tianxiang stared at what she wrote on the white paper, and vaguely remembered that Toby had indeed said these doubts.

Toby's crying smile loomed in his mind......

After five or six minutes, Elsie spoke, and only then did he take a bite of the bread of life in his hand: "It seems like it's three o'clock...... First, count the number of people. There is a force that we call him a game manager, a game manager...... Game managers have counted the number of people. The elevator does not operate normally, but stops on each floor, and the alarm bell and so on are used to attract people's attention to this floor of the elevator and facilitate the calculation of survivors. ”

"This fucking is very clear, Mei Tao and Toby have said that this can be ignored." Ah Mao wiped the bread scraps from his mouth.

"Second, contact with the white mist. Aunt Wang calls every household, "go downstairs" in the elevator, etc., and the water and power outages are all directed to the residents to go to the back stairs...... And Cedar said that the fog is divided into fog outside the window and fog inside the window, and the fog in the back staircase may be a little special, and the game manager is deliberately inducing us to come into contact with the white fog. ”

"Wow!" Guan Tianxiang shouted at the touch of an idea, and his voice was even noisier than the fire alarm outside the door, which frightened the two companions.

"Silly Xiang, what the fuck are you doing?" Frightened, Ah Mao cursed repeatedly, but Elsie was silent.

"You finish talking first......" Guan Tianxiang's heart beat faster and he gasped, unable to sort out his messy thoughts for a while.

Elsie bit her lower lip, her watery eyes showing puzzlement, "Hmm." After that, the fog in the window will cause people with bleeding wounds to be abnormal, and people who are abnormal will have illusions......"

"Another point, Jerry used his mobile phone to record that the lobby is dangerous, and told us not to go to the lobby......" Ah Mao added, nervously grabbing his hair again.

Counting the number of people...... Induce guests to go back up stairs...... Distorting fog ...... The lobby is dangerous......

Ah Mao and Ai Xi continued to wander around these topics, and Guan Tianxiang didn't listen to them at all. First, because the inferences they say are repeated and the same, and secondly, because a strange idea is sprouting in their minds......

Counting the number of people...... Induce guests to go back up stairs...... Distorting fog ...... The lobby is dangerous......

"Damn! Fuck, what's going on right now. Mao took out his pistol and played with it at a loss.

Counting the number of people...... Induce guests to go back up stairs...... Distorting fog ...... The lobby is dangerous......

Ai Xi looked at Guan Tianxiang: "Ah Xiang, are you okay, you seem to be very-"

"That's right!" Guan Tianxiang shouted again, this time so frightened that Ah Mao's six gods threw the pistol to the ground, his mouth full of swearing.

Counting the number of people, inducing guests to go back to the stairs, the aberration of fog, the lobby is dangerous.

Toby is smart and careful, but she still misses this step. She calmly summarized the main suspicions, but did not paint a complete picture with the suspicions.

Of course, the current Guan Tianxiang is just a touch of inspiration after all.

"What the fuck are you doing? If you call it believe it or not, I'll really shoot you. Mao angrily retrieved the pistol.

"If you listen to me, you won't shoot me with one shot."

"I want to hear about it."

So, Guan Tianxiang told them about the chain that suddenly appeared in his mind.

First, the game manager wants the guest to go to the back staircase space, and the motivation is likely to be to expose the game participants to the white fog, which can be aberrant.

Second, the game manager has to count the number of guests through the elevator, and the number of guests does not increase under normal circumstances, which is obviously motivated to calculate how many people have lost their lives at different times.

It's not hard to understand the connection.

Of course, they assume the existence of game managers, but if the space of the 23-story building is a different space without conscious control, they really can't understand it rationally, and all inferences are meaningless. Only by believing that there is a force behind the control can we continue to think about it.

Normal guests do not have the sense of lethality and killing, and there must be external forces to cause them to kill each other. In the end, what factors will reduce the number of guests in this building?

Yes, distorting fog.

The game manager should want to make the residents lose their rationality and kill each other by exposing the guests to the fog of aberration, and then count the number of people through the elevator to observe the speed of the death of the guests under the aberrant white fog.

As for the motive behind it, it is to abuse them, to entertain them, or even to have no motive, it is not known for the time being

"Wait, you don't seem to be right, it seems like it's unless it's not, but then why is the lobby dangerous?" Ah Mao interrupted Guan Tianxiang's words.

"Hmm......" Guan Tianxiang, who was rarely able to make a great speech smoothly, was suddenly confused by Ah Mao, and hurriedly lowered his head and thought......

Right.

"Fog outside the window and fog inside the window are different, according to Shanmu. Fog in the window...... It should be able to cause the person with a wound to become abnormal...... Isn't it...... It is possible that the fog outside the window does not cause the person to be abnormal...... So game managers are going to trap us in this weird space...... Avoid our exposure to these aberrations ......"

"That's why the game administrators really won't let us leave......," Ash said with a pale face.

"Wow," Mao looked around, "Then why did Jerry go to the lobby?" ”

"Hmm......" Guan Tianxiang, who had poor expression skills, sorted out what he wanted to say, "Let's go down to the fire door in the lobby on the ground floor...... I can't open that door...... Hmmm......"

Probably, the lobby is locked down at all. The agile MMA lightweight champion Jerry broke into the lobby that had been locked down, only to be punished by the game administrators, who were forced down again.

What a creepy blockade......

"To put it simply, the ultimate goal of game managers is to make us deranged, and then observe the speed of our death after we are deranged......" Ash gritted her teeth, her face pale.

Why haven't these doubts been summarized before? As long as you think about it a little, you can already connect these four weird things...... They are thinking too carelessly......

"Speaking of the lobby is not safe...... Ah Mao stared at the ground, his eyes blank, "Did we first receive a ......call from the lobby at Brother Yiqi's house?"

It is very true. At that time, there was a "poof" metal collision sound on the phone, but no one answered. Then, Guan Tianxiang shouted and asked who the other party was, and the strange sound stopped, and then the sound was turned off.

The feeling of horror rushed into his heart again, Guan Tianxiang couldn't help but shudder while thinking about it.

"I'm sorry...... I've heard you say there's a call from the lobby, but I haven't heard of it......" Ash looked up at Guan Tianxiang.

Because Guan Tianxiang was haunted by a sense of terror at the moment, he couldn't react at all, so Ah Mao described the strange voice on the phone on his behalf, and he was not wrong.

I didn't expect that Aisi's words would be so shocking next.

"Scared...... Why didn't you say it sooner......"

"Why? Do you know what this call is......" Ah Mao stared at Guan Tianxiang with a stunned face, and then turned his head to look at Ai Xi with a pale face.

The girl at the moment once again gave Guan Tianxiang a little mysterious feeling: "Jerry...... Didn't I say I called you in the lobby......"

"yes...... That—" Mao's words stuck in his throat, and he must have understood that something was wrong.

At that time, Jerry left a recording of the phone hidden in the back staircase, and a sentence suddenly came to his mind: "I went to the lobby and tried to call you on the lobby phone, and then ...... a second later"

As an upright righteous brother, Jerry believes that he will not lie to them. He said he had called them for a second, implying that the phone in the lobby had been answered. As the owner of his own unit, it is impossible for Jerry to hit the wrong unit.

Guan Tianxiang finally came to his senses and couldn't help but give himself a slap.

They were at Jerry's house, and they only took calls from one lobby.

He still remembers glancing at his watch at 3:14 a.m. when the strange phone ringing in the lobby.

Jerry's recording was recorded after dialing the lobby phone to them, and the recording time, if I remember correctly, was 3:17.

The time is just right......

Ah Mao was surprised: "But why didn't Jerry talk to the stupid Xiang on the phone......"

"Probably...... If you say something, it will cause murder, didn't Jerry say that the lobby is not safe......" Ash only heard the content of the phone call at this moment, but he immediately cracked the suspicions, Guan Tianxiang and Ah Mao really have to reflect carefully......

"But in the end, Jerry was still discovered by that dangerous thing......" Guan Tianxiang muttered to himself, could that "dangerous thing" be the game manager? Or a pawn for game managers? Are those "pop" metal crashing sounds made by game administrators?

What kind of monster will make a "poof" metal collision sound......

In the next second, an extremely loud strange sound came from the entire building. The three of them didn't have time to scream, they just looked at each other, their eyes blank.

Why is that sound so weird......

No.

Calm down and listen, it's a mixed sound, and one source of it is the sound of fire alarms.

The other one is inside the house.

If memory serves, this is the fourth time Guan Tianxiang has heard this voice.