Chapter 40: The Rules of Strangers and Backwards
When they returned to the gap between the twenty-first and twenty-second floors, Jiang Wan and Chen Qing had also prepared a special strong flashlight.
The 8,000-lumen flashlight is like a flashbang indoors, and he doesn't believe that there can be a place where it doesn't shine?
With this in mind, the two set foot in the area again.
At the moment of stepping here, Jiang Wan and Chen Qing shivered at the same time, and after stepping out of the elevator, the temperature could be clearly felt to drop by more than four or five degrees.
They looked back and saw that the location where the elevator could be opened was actually without a door opening button, Chen Qing frowned, a little worried in his heart.
"The world is suffering, and there is no turning back in the world."
He whispered, perhaps understanding the literal meaning.
"But if there's no turning back...... Where are we going? Not to mention the fact that we found the Backrooms. ”
Jiang Wan frowned, took the flashlight in his hand, and held it in a tactical posture with the pistol.
Her hands were roughly in front of her chest, and the muzzle of the gun was pointing in the direction of the light. It also allows the flashlight to play the function of a red dot at this moment.
Chen Qing listened to her puzzlement, his brows furrowed slightly, yes. If there is no turning back, aren't the entrances and exits of this backroom together?
"One-way street...... Who knows where the exit will be. But after a moment, he shook his head: "No, I should know. Yin Zhengchu told me that he knew of the so-called Foundation-related address.
The Backroom is connected to this, and the place is safe to enter.
Then we shouldn't be trapped here.
And ......"
Chen Qing hesitated for a moment, and his eyes fell on the elevator door behind him.
Maybe it's not like there's nowhere to leave.
There is no turning back in the world, but perhaps turning back does not mean "turning back".
The target's position doesn't have to be ahead of you all the time.
He looked at the pitch-black floor in front of him and greeted Jiang Wan, this floor is very large, as large as the area of Yin Zhengchu's three companies.
The area of several hundred square meters is separated by support columns, forming several areas.
There were three in total, and they walked to the area directly ahead.
That's also the area where the flashlight is easiest to light up after entering.
They walked a few steps, but as they advanced, they were surprised to find that their flashlights could only seem to illuminate a range of up to five meters at a distance.
Beyond this range, the light begins to become unusually faint, until it begins to diffuse into a gray-white light curtain at a distance of about ten meters.
And because the environment itself is mostly black, with the blessing of the two phases, the 8,000-lumen flashlight eventually became an ordinary flashlight.
After walking for about ten meters, Chen Qing began to frown slightly.
Ten steps of position difference, ten meters of space change, he turned his head to ask Jiang Wan, with a little hesitation: "Do you remember where we came from?" ”
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, then naturally turned behind her and pointed the way with a flashlight: "What are you kidding?" Isn't this it? ”
Chen Qing nodded, his face solemn: "I don't feel wrong." Sure enough, there was a problem. ”
"What's the problem?" Jiang Wan frowned, as if she was puzzled.
He didn't make a sound, but pointed to his feet, and there were two footprints under his feet.
One is facing forward and one is facing right.
These two footprints are the same, Jiang Wan smiled blankly: "It's the footprints left by the previous people, right?" ”
But Chen Qing shook his head, he raised his foot, and stamped another stamp next to those two footprints.
Yes, these are his footprints.
They seem to have come full circle.
Chen Qing didn't answer, but took her hand and began to push backwards towards the footprints on the ground.
But after taking three or five steps back, the faces of the two began to become extremely solemn.
Yes, they came back here and added a third companion to the footprints.
"How is this possible?" Jiang Wan's fingertips were a little cold, and she raised her head, hoping to hear a sentence from Chen Qing's mouth.
It can be seen that the other party's expression is becoming more and more solemn, and she also knows that something is wrong.
"We may ......" he looked at Jiang Wan and hesitated for a moment before speaking, "I'm afraid we've already entered the Backrooms." ”
He looked ahead, countless possible ways to solve the maze flashed in his mind, Jiang Wan was on the side, and his face was a lot more stable because of this sentence.
It's fine if you know it's the Backrooms, but if it's just an ordinary floor, it means a lot.
"Let's see if it's due to a visual problem." Chen Qing closed his eyes, and after nodding to Jiang Wan, the two held their arms, closed their eyes, and began to try to walk forward.
After walking for another twenty paces, the two opened their eyes, and what they could see were two extra rows of footprints on the ground.
Yes, they are back.
Chen Qing was not discouraged, and instead tried the second method, he looked at Jiang Wan and said to her: "Try to press the flashlight on the place name, and we will use it to make sure that the route is straight and go again." ”
He bent down and put his fingers on the ground.
Thanks to the fact that no one has set foot here for many years, the dust on the ground easily leaves two fingerprints.
Jiang Wan nodded, and after seeing Chen Qing draw a circle, she put down the flashlight and began to push it forward.
After walking more than seven or eight steps, the two of them saw those marks appear in front of them again, Jiang Wan just wanted to say something, but when she saw Chen Qing, she immediately drew a horizontal bar at the position of her current finger.
And immediately after, he turned upside down and said to Jiang Wan: "Go, go in the opposite direction again." ”
She didn't know why, but she still followed him further.
After walking three or four steps, Jiang Wan could see another line on the ground.
He walked all the way forward, and after the two of them returned to the original point, Chen Qing drew a horizontal bar on the opposite side of the previous horizontal line, that is, the point where he was now.
"Let's go, do it again."
She listened to Chen Qing's words, her eyes were full of incomprehension, what the hell was this doing?
Seeing Chen Qing's appearance, she instinctively felt that the other party already had an answer.
Thinking so, she also followed Chen Qing to take further action.
After the two of them had walked a distance of seven or eight steps, the horizontal line left for the first time had appeared in front of them.
And the horizontal line is on the right at this time.
Chen Qing watched the horizontal line retreat about half a meter back and drew a horizontal line again, and then repeated this action.
Jiang Wan looked as if she understood something, but she was a little puzzled.
She followed Chen Qing, and after walking like this for about thirty or forty times, the horizontal line in front of the two finally became tight.
And Jiang Wan finally saw a glimmer of answer.
"You're looking for ...... The inflection point that made us turn around? ”
Chen Qing laughed and nodded slightly: "It's not too stupid." “
He shook off the blood oozing from the friction on his hands, and the horizontal lines on the ground were already connected.
When you turn around, you will see a horizontal line on the left, but in front of you will be on the right.
He looked to the left and right of his body, and after his gaze turned to Jiang Wan, she also understood what Chen Qing meant.
After repeating this move on the left and right, the two soon found another inflection point.
And when they reached that inflection point, the two began their journey to find the next inflection point.
Yes, it has to be journey-based.
It took them about three to four hours to find the entire eight inflection points.
The inflection point of the two opposite pairs is destined to be a very easy process.
With a sigh, the two finally sat back to back, slumped on the ground and began to rest.
"I have to say...... The rules of this Backroom are really outrageous. ”
Jiang Wan pulled her clothes and evacuated a bit of heat.
But Chen Qing shook his head when he heard this, and sighed: "Actually, it's not difficult to say, but it's not easy to say."
This place is safe, at least it's safe to blast here. ”
He smiled bitterly before continuing, "But what I didn't expect was that that sentence contained not only the meaning of entering here, but also the rules of this backroom. ”
"There is no turning back in the world."
He nodded, not caring if Jiang Wan could see it.
"How did you find out?"
She was a little curious.
"There is no turning back, it means always moving forward, but there should be no turning back in the world, what if your goal appears behind you one day?
So I tried to walk backwards.
But I found that it didn't work.
Since there is no turning back, and we have been returning to the original point, it shows a reason, we are on the wrong path, we have been on the road back. ”
Chen Qing smiled calmly, and then continued: "Look, after we found the way, didn't we come out quickly.
Because we didn't hit an inflection point this time, we never went back.
And that's it!
We fulfilled the rules of this Backroom. ”
They looked back, and the space of more than 300 square meters behind them was still the size of dozens of football fields at the moment, and they looked ahead, and the broken body was in front of them at this moment.
The corpse's body was swallowed up by the wall, and only one hand and one head were fixed to the concrete wall.
His body had long since been ossified, but the bones seemed to have been fixed with cement, so that his body did not detach.
Each of his fingertips remained on the wall, as it was when he was alive.
"What do you think ......" beside Chen Qing, Jiang Wan asked him in a low voice, "Will he have anything to do with the rules of the Backrooms?" ”
Chen Qing let out a "hmm" and nodded indifferently: "But in this building back then...... What the hell is going on. ”
He frowned, and walked over to the corpse, reaching out and touching the corpse's fingers, which were extremely cold to the touch.
He was silent for a moment before he spoke to Jiang Wan, "Let's go, let's take a look at the rest of here." There's no reason for this place to be this corpse. ”