Embers Ad Infinitum

According to the predetermined plan, Shang Jianyao didn't stay too long on the third floor and went straight to the fourth floor, which the owner of the room should not have covered in his first exploration.

When he walked up the stairs that seemed to have been copied and pasted, and arrived at his destination, he found that the light coming from the outer windows of the rooms on both sides had dimmed a lot.

This seems very logical, because the starting time of this psychological shadow is when dusk is approaching and darkness has enveloped the earth. At this moment, there is no problem in the deeper night.

But Shang Jianyao discovered that not only was there no bright moon hanging high in the night sky outside the window, but there were not even stars, and it was completely dark.

Logically speaking, such an environment should be invisible, close to the state of "Pangaea Creatures" after turning off the lights at night, but in fact, there is still a little light shining into the food company from nowhere, making the outlines of different things appear faintly in the darkness. .

"It seems that when the subconscious mind of the room owner perfected this scene, there were some minor problems in some details..." Cyborg monk Shang Jianyao took out a pipe from nowhere, brought it to his mouth, and took a few puffs.

The pipe disappeared, and he turned on the flashlight and walked slowly along the corridor to the other end.

What he had just discovered indicated that he was currently in a memory of the room's owner's second exploration of the food company.

After walking for a while, Shang Jianyao suddenly felt something in his heart and shined the flashlight into a room next to him.

There is a figure in the room, wearing a white women's shirt and a small blue suit, looking like the "professional woman" who should be on the second floor at this time.

Under the light, Shang Jianyao found that she seemed older than when he met her before.

Although at first glance, her black hair has not changed and she still looks like she is in her early twenties, her cheek muscles have relaxed to a certain extent and her nasolabial folds have become deeper.

Just when Shang Jianyao was trying to "retain" the other party and prevent her from escaping hastily, this "career woman" turned her bloodshot eyes and turned her gaze to Shang Jianyao.

Different from the fear, fear, panic, and rush she showed during the previous two encounters, she was calm, silent, and numb at this time.

"That's right!" Shang Jianyao patted the side of the flashlight with his left palm, making a clanging sound.

This is what he imagined the big BOSS to be like.

The next second, the "professional woman" opened her mouth and made a voice like a drake:

"leave here."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly turned dark.

He could see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing, think nothing.

He was completely unconscious, not even dreaming.

After an unknown amount of time, Shang Jianyao slowly woke up and once again saw the vehicle being pushed open at the front door and the billboard smashed to the ground not far away.

He was back where he started.

"The owner of the room still failed in his second exploration..." Shang Jianyao muttered to himself.

What he just experienced should be what the room owner encountered when he explored the "Tieshan City Second Food Company" again, otherwise the experience would not be so clear and completely different from the first time.

——If it is just subconscious self-improvement without corresponding experience, then Shang Jianyao believes that he will inevitably repeat the last encounter, with his body stiff, his mind frozen, and hitting the wall by himself, because this is the most natural, worry-free and energy-saving way. "repair".

After feeling the state of his body and finding that there were no remaining problems, Shang Jianyao did not rush out of "522" room and return to reality, but lurked into "Tieshan City Second Food Company" again.

This time, he not only passed the first three floors in one breath, but also went directly to the fifth floor without stopping too much on the fourth floor.

He wanted to see if the owner of the room had explored the place for a third time.

The layout of the fifth floor is not much different from that of the second, third, and fourth floors, but the light coming through the window seems a little brighter, as if the light has returned.

Taking advantage of this environment, Shang Jianyao turned off the flashlight and relied purely on natural light to observe the rooms on both sides.

They were hung with signboards, belonging to different companies respectively. Shang Jianyao, who was familiar with old world entertainment information, was not surprised by this and easily understood what was going on:

"Tieshan City Second Food Company" obviously couldn't use up this building that belonged to them, so they rented out the fifth floor and above to others.

"Xiangsheng Technology", "Baihai Petroleum Tieshan City Office"... In order to identify the names of those companies clearly, Shang Jianyao turned on the flashlight.

As the yellowish light beam swayed, he saw a white skeleton in a room in front of him from the corner of his eye.

The white bones were shiny and moist, with no trace of rotten flesh hanging on them, which looked very strange.

At the same time, it was wearing a white shirt and a small blue suit.

Seeing this, the cyborg monk Shang Jianyao turned the Six Consciousness Pearl and whispered the Buddha's name:

"Namo Anuttarasamyaksambodhi, beauty will eventually turn into bones, everything is empty, consciousness is true."

After finishing speaking, Zen Master "Pudu" bowed seriously and slowly approached.

After careful observation, he found that inside the suit, on top of the white shirt, there was an employee ID card wrapped in plastic film.

There are photos, names and positions on it:

"Liu Lu

"sales Manager

"Job number: 100482"

Cyborg monk Shang Jianyao squatted down and tried to search the pockets of his blue suit.

The red light in his eyes stained the bones with blood.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed before his eyes.

It was a thick, smooth tentacle with strange patterns.

This tentacle stretched out from the pile of bones!

Almost at the same time, Shang Jianyao felt a surge of secret gazes, coming from all directions.

He instinctively looked around and saw dark holes one after another on the wall. There seemed to be various eyes staring inside the holes.

Shang Jianyao pushed hard on his knees and jumped up.

He ran towards the outside window of the room without looking back.

During this process, he noticed the changes in the bones from the corner of his eye.

It took out a piece of human skin from nowhere, put it on itself, and turned back into the "professional woman" it was before.

The only difference is that her clothes now seem to be painted on her skin, and dark tentacles are constantly coming out from underneath, extending towards Shang Jianyao.

Bang, bang, bang! Shang Jianyao ran out of the metal texture.

He jumped, broke through the window, and jumped from the fifth floor.

As a cyborg monk, he accurately landed on the narrow window sill protruding from the fourth floor, and then jumped down one after another, quickly descending into the alley behind the food company.

Before he could stand still, he looked up and felt as if the whole building had come alive. It was shaking and creaking, opening windows one after another, as if opening its mouth.

In the clanging noise, Shang Jianyao couldn't find human consciousness at all, so he had no goal of using props and awakened person abilities. He could only take big steps and continue running wildly.

He made a half circle and returned to the starting point along the same path.

Whoosh whoosh... After such a period of tossing, even the cyborg monk Shang Jianyao breathed heavily.

Calm and rational, he quickly made a decision:

"Exit first and come back after you have a good rest."

…………

The gray-green Jeep was parked next to the burning bonfire, and the windows reflected the flickering flames.

Jiang Baimian and Long Yuehong, who were attentive and on high alert, saw Shang Jianyao open the door and walk out.

"How is it?" Jiang Baimian asked.

Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief:

There doesn't seem to be any big problem...

Shang Jianyao walked towards the bonfire, came to the side of his companions, and described the experience exactly.

"The owner of the room seems to have explored the food company more than three times..." Jiang Baimian felt inspired after hearing this.

The second time he fell into a coma and returned to the starting point when he woke up. The third time he was so frightened by the changes there that he ran away.

Long Yuehong frowned slightly, feeling something was wrong.

After a few seconds, he came up with an idea as if he was unsure:

"The anomalies within the food company don't seem to be very malicious to the owner of the room?"

Otherwise, the owner of the room would not have had a second, third or even fourth chance to explore, and would have died long ago.

The simple truth is that his body was stiff and his mind was frozen. If he hit his head against the wall with just a little more force, he probably wouldn't be able to wake up. Or, after he passed out, the power behind him didn't throw him back to where he started, but instead threw him away. In an area where "unintentional people" gather, he has no future.

"It seems so." Jiang Baimian nodded, "The owner of the room should have discovered this later, otherwise he would not dare to explore there again and again."

Shang Jianyao then laughed and said:

“That’s why I had the guts to just wake up and go back into the food business.”

Jiang Baimian continued his analysis:

"From the details you observed, there was a long time interval between the first, second and third explorations of the room owner. The strange woman named Liu Lu grew older step by step, and then died and turned into white bones.

"What will happen next?"

"She is resurrected?" Shang Jianyao's thoughts are always unusual.

"That would be terrible." Jiang Baimian did not comment too much on this "possibility" and instead said, "You fell into a coma during your first exploration today. Does this look like 'consciousness deprivation'? During the second exploration, we encountered a ghost story-like scene. Does this look like some kind of application of 'Six Paths of Reincarnation'?"

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

Long Yuehong said sincerely:

"It is worthy of being one of the holy places of Buddhism..."

Shang Jianyao then pointed at the jeep:

"I'm going to take a nap and try again later."

"Okay." Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and said, "Try to go to the sixth and seventh floors."

…………

Near midnight, Shang Jianyao woke up and entered the "soul corridor" again.

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