Chapter 21: Illusions and Places to Leave

"Yo, I'm back." Chen Qing smiled and waved his blood-stained hand to greet Jiang Wan.

He looked at the blood on his fingertips, and he shuddered as he held the bullet in his mouth.

"I'll tell you where the smell of iron came from." Chen Qing shook his head and spit out the bullet in his mouth.

In the moment after getting out of the illusion, the pain reached Chen Qing's nerve endings.

He felt the pain coming from his fingertips, the itching from the growth of his muscles doubling the pain.

After the pleasantries, his mind gradually calmed down with the pain.

He looked at Jiang Wan, took a deep breath, and his face was a little solemn: "It's an accident." ”

But Jiang Wan's face was a little pale, she looked at Chen Qing's wound, and her fingers tightened her sleeves.

"Your wound ......" she was silent for a moment, seeming to blame herself.

If she hadn't pushed Chen Qing out, if she hadn't believed the words of the illusion, maybe Chen Qing wouldn't have suffered these injuries.

"The wound is not the main problem." He showed his wound that was close to healing, and continued to explain to Jiang Wan, "I told you earlier...... The other person can only control one person, but what I didn't expect was that it could split a person into the senses. ”

He shook his head and continued to Jiang Wan: "If a person's world is made up of five senses, he will split a person's five senses into two people. Through different influences, the effect of one plus one is greater than the sum of its parts.

Think about it, if the person who just lost your sight was you, and at the same time you lost your hearing. In your illusion, I became the one who left. Do you dare to keep up?

Or the moment the dawn really comes, you see me leave the classroom. Do you dare to keep up? Do you dare to follow my footsteps outside the house? ”

He smiled, and Jiang Wan's expression became solemn.

Yes, if you don't know when the hallucinations will end, no...... Maybe even this moment is an illusion?

She looked at Chen Qing's face, and her face turned pale.

Maybe he's standing in front of the doorway, maybe he's dead in the hallway.

Anything possible...... Actually coexist in this paradoxical situation.

She took a deep breath and pinched her arm, while Chen Qing looked at it, her eyes widened, and she didn't know what to say.

"Why?"

"Uh...... Try to see if you're hallucinating? ”

He was stunned for more than half a second before he shook his head: "You don't have to worry about it like this...... After all, the Backrooms...... There is no mortal end in itself. ”

He smiled and continued to explain to Jiang Wan: "The rules and rules are safe and sound as long as you abide by them.

As far as we can see, the Backrooms are a separate space, and they can't learn about the outside world beyond the barriers of space.

At the same time, if the entity wants to create a sufficiently realistic illusion, most of its content must be 'ordered', and most of the modified senses will be placed on the person.

But that gives us a chance, doesn't it? In a properly ordered world, a person who is influenced by his senses cannot act strangely or say strange things. ”

Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, thinking about what strange words were.

But after thinking about it for a moment, she understood what was coming out of the other party's mouth.

If Chen Qing suddenly asked her what she would eat tomorrow night, she would only be stunned for a moment and then answer. But in the illusion, how could Chen Qing ask her abruptly.

Because that's the "rule".

The "Rules" require that these entities must have the intent to kill two people.

In the illusion, he would not suddenly make a few strange requests to Jiang Wan, and he would not be unable to answer some things that only the two of them knew.

"Success is also a fantasy, and defeat is also a fantasy." She sighed, and Chen Qing on the other side smiled: "Yes." The limitations of the illusion itself are very problematic, it is false after all, it can modify what we hear, or what we say, but it cannot allow us to hear the 'real' voice. ”

The moment his words fell, the darkness of the entire classroom was dispelled, and they looked out the window, and the old man with the corners of his mouth turned hideous.

They were nestled in the corner by the windowsill, and they grabbed the window with their slender arms, looking at the two people in the room.

They bared their teeth and left marks on the windowsill with their withered fingertips.

But no matter what they did, no matter how long they stayed there, no matter whether they could appear in the corner of Chen Qing's field of vision, they could no longer pose a threat.

They could only do that, only to show their faces, praying that the two young men would not dare to take a single step.

But Chen Qing looked at them and smiled crookedly.

"Did you ever fight a spider as a child?" Chen Qing didn't look back, but he was already on the way to the corridor.

"Spider fighting?"

"Yes, fight the kind of spider with long hands and long legs and a weak body."

He picked up the chair and stool on the side, and in Jiang Wan's stunned gaze, he threw it at the old man outside the door.

"Hey! You're really fighting!! ”

"Shhh Yes!!! ”

The old man's wailing voice was particularly sharp, but it was often only a few sounds, and Chen Qing's stool was patched up on their heads.

"Hey! No! Respect people! She shouted over and over again, but Chen Qing's movements were dancing faster and faster.

He copied the stool in his hand like a god of war, even if there was no technique in the movement he wielded in his hand...... He is also like a god of war.

The old men with thin arms and legs couldn't even raise their hands to fend off the stool's attack.

They only tried to resist with their mobile phones, and the moment they lifted them, they were broken off by the stool and fell on them again.

Their limbs shattered and snapped under the violent impact of the stool, and the skin that was supposed to be attached to the bones was as pitiful as paper, and in just half a second, the broken limbs were detached from their bodies.

They didn't even have time to run, and their short bodies fell to the ground, and they were trampled by Chen Qing and blood overflowed.

"Hey...... Feed! Chen Qing! ”

Jiang Wan, who was in the classroom, was shocked, she hesitated, this terrifying scene even made her slow down her pace.

But Chen Qing outside the house wouldn't wait for her, he chased those physical creatures all the way, and even chased to the corner at the end of the corridor, at the end of the can't dodge, Chen Qing's face had a smile.

"You're brave." He smiled and slapped the handle of the stool in his hand, but the old man was pressed against the wall with his whole body, not daring to move.

He raised the stick in his hand, and was about to swing it down when the old man fell to his knees, and a sickening wail came out of his mouth.

He kowtowed, stabbing the back of his head with his skeletal hand, and he churned, pulling out a clear crystal and slime from his palm.

Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, the old man was not dead, he could still respectfully hand the crystal to Chen Qing.

"Oh? Buy this thing for your own life? He was happy, and Jiang Wan in the house also followed.

"It's ...... What the situation. ”

Chen Qing didn't answer, but was muttering to himself: "Come to think of it, their bodies don't matter." ”

He looked at the spar in the other party's hand, and did not hesitate much, when it was included in the bag, and then the old man wanted to leave from the side of the two.

Seeing its body move slightly, Chen Qing also laughed and followed its figure.

Seeing that the aisle that should have been an empty seat was blocked by Chen Qing, the old man was not annoyed, but just nodded, with a smile on his face.

He took Chen Qing's hand and led the two to the opposite end of the corridor, at this end, there were also two classrooms, but the difference was that there were no blackboards in the two classrooms here, and there were no traces left by these old men.

"It seems...... None of the students had ever been here to get food......"

As he spoke, he saw a slight trace on the doorway.

It's a triangle......

The old man pushed open the door and pointed to a dark vent in the southwest corner of the classroom, squeaking and drawing something.

Jiang Wan didn't understand, but Chen Qing showed an intriguing smile.

"Oh? You can leave through here, right? ”

It nodded, constantly comparing and drawing, wanting Chen Qing to enter.

He ignored it, but the steps under his feet were also walking towards the destination step by step.

"Let's go in from here, can we leave?"

Jiang Wan asked Chen Qing.

"I guess so." He turned around, and the old man at the door smiled even kinder.

Its appearance was so distorted, and its form was so terrifying.

He looked at the old man with the same smile on his face.

He took three steps and two steps, walked up to the old man, smiled respectfully, and thanked him: "You can go, thank you so much for your efforts." ”

She listened, but she felt strange.

Thank you for this...... It's also here......

She was wondering when she saw Chen Qing take out the blood-stained wooden stick from his pocket.

She watched as the old man turned around, and she watched as the blood splattered everywhere in the doorway.

The transparent liquid, mixed with blood and brains, stained the ceiling red, and also made Jiang Wan's face change suddenly.

Even if it no longer looks like a human, it still looks like a human.

She trembled a little, but hesitated to ask Chen Qing, "...... you Aren't you willing to let him go? ”

Chen Qing turned his head and smiled: "No, when did I agree to its request." Didn't I say a word from beginning to end? ”

He muttered, ignoring the twitching limbs on the ground broken under his feet, and even more ignoring Jiang Wan beside him, he entered the ventilation duct one step ahead.

The moment he first entered, his eyes adjusted to the darkness.

It's a delicate experience, and it often takes a long time for the human eye to get used to moving from bright to dark.

But here, he can see right away.

"The rules of this place?" He frowned, and after four or five steps of climbing, some food scraps began to appear in the ventilation ducts.

Instant noodle bags, bread bags, and some food that has rotted but has not produced flies.

They pile up on the edge of the pipe, but leave a path to pass.

"Oh? Zhang Lan: They used to live here. ”

He muttered in a low voice, and Jiang Wan also followed from behind.

Although she still has some mustard in her heart, she has to wait until she is safe to say anything at a critical moment.

The two of them were silent, and after climbing all the way to an upward corner, and after about four or five minutes of climbing, they climbed to the end.

At the end of the pipe, after Chen Qing pushed the baffle open, the smell of sunlight and grass began to appear on the tip of his nose.

"This is ......," he muttered under his breath, the world in front of him had completely changed.