Hidden Corners

It was dark all around.

I can't see my fingers.

In the darkness, only the breathing of the two could be heard.

"We... came in?" Big Bear asked in a low voice.

"Is there even a question? How long have you been with me? Big bear, you can't just grow your chest without your brain." Rainbow Sugar lowered her voice and said dissatisfied.

"It would be nice if you were here." Big Bear replied softly.

"Hey." Skittle Candy snorted unhappily, but also knew that this was not the time to fight.

She fumbled for the watch in her hand and tapped it lightly.

A bright white light shines from the watch on her left hand, like a ball, covering a few meters around them.

Thick shadows were projected behind the two of them, stretched very long.

Skittles looked forward through the light.

In front of her, the quiet gray and black stairs went down all the way to the corner.

There are eight steps in total.

She and Big Bear are standing on the first level.

Skittles took a deep breath and looked left and right with the watch light.

Both sides are pale walls.

She looked up again and saw the same white wall above her head.

"The fully enclosed stairwell is a bit abnormal. In the real prototype, where can such a stairwell without windows be created?" Big Bear said from the side, as if to relieve tension by talking.

"Who knows. I've made enough preparations this time. Looking at my custom-made large light source with super lumens, the theoretical use time can reach 148 hours! It can also be manually charged, and I also brought a spare battery." Skittles sneered.

"Last time the light source was too dim, and I couldn't see anything clearly. This time I called it dark!"

She looked back through the light.

Behind is a rectangular flat land, connected to the upward stairs.

Light can only hit the white wall and cast shadows.

Couldn't see the upstairs steps that turned a corner.

From where the two of them were standing, it seemed like a terrifying monster might rush out of that corner, in the darkness upstairs.

"What shall we do now?" Big Bear asked.

"Test the previous plan to see which one can be successful. There are almost certain rules for the dead angle of stairs and the method of escape. Maybe ours belongs to one of them." Rainbow Candy bit the lollipop in his mouth calmly. , moved the backpack to his chest and hung it, then unzipped the zipper, and took out everything he had prepared in advance.

"First, try to make marks on the wall, and then look for patterns based on the marks."

"The stairs are all the same, how to mark them?" Daxiong asked doubtfully.

"Sensors, with enough sensors and signal amplifiers, I can expand our detection range to a distance of dozens of floors up and down.

I can detect any movement from the terminal here. " Skittles answered seriously.

"You should know that in this world, there is no truly infinite staircase.

So as long as we find infinite change points, we can find the law. "

As she spoke, she took out a fist-sized silver-white box.

A word is engraved on the surface of the box: Weibang Energy.

"Look at the good things I asked my dad to buy." Rainbow Candy lifted the lid of the box and poured it out.

Immediately, a large area of ​​dense silvery white spiders rushed out of the box.

Each of these tiny spiders is the size of a fingernail.

They are all silvery white, all made of metal, and there are three tiny monitoring eyes on the head, which can check various situations around them.

A large number of small spiders separated and crawled upstairs and downstairs, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

Only faint and small crawling sounds could be heard gradually going away.

"Amazing! Weibang Energy's latest spider detection robot!" Daxiong applauded lightly.

"This one cost my father more than thirteen million yuan, which is extremely expensive. But it's very useful!" Rainbow Candy said proudly.

"The terminal is the box."

She pulled up the lid of the metal box and pulled out a solid black screen.

The screen slowly lit up, showing the distribution of a total of 199 mechanical spiders.

"It also has the ability to automatically explode and attack! Hey, expensive is expensive, but the sense of security is exploding!!" Rainbow Candy's mouth curled up.

In the darkness she can't see.

A large number of small silver spiders rustled and crawled downstairs quickly.

I don't know how much faster than she went downstairs by herself.

It takes about an hour to go down to the 200th floor.

The first spider in the front suddenly paused, raised its mechanical compound eyes, and looked down the stairs in the darkness.

In the hazy darkness, a fuzzy black figure, wearing an old and dirty black dress with disheveled hair, slowly walked deeper downstairs.

In the dark, the compound eyes of the mechanical spider seem to be unable to scan any traces with infrared night vision, but the motion capture can detect the outline.

So the smart chip makes a quick decision.

Snapped.

A tiny light shot from one of the spider's raised forelegs and fell into the darkness ahead.

Although the light was very faint, it was such a light.

In an instant, the blurry figure who was going downstairs stopped suddenly.

The figure froze slowly, turned around slowly, as if attracted by the light, turned and walked upstairs.

Step by step.

Not long after, she crossed the side of the mechanical spider.

Without a sound, the lights on the mechanical spider's head dimmed, and the electronic reflections in the compound eyes automatically extinguished and disappeared.

It seemed to have lost its energy, completely stopping in place, no longer moving.

At this time, although the spider had stopped, the blurred figure did not turn around again, but continued to walk upstairs.

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In the bedroom.

Li Chengyi stood in front of the door, stretched out his hand, and grasped the handle.

"Are you sure you can open it?"

"Brother, don't worry! I've met it several times, and it's fine!" Estherine replied earnestly later. "The safe house generally stays the longest, although it will be replaced every once in a while. But as long as you avoid the black hand, you can leave quickly."

"You haven't been out, have you? How do you know?" Li Chengyi asked.

"I heard from a big sister who came here before. She used this method to get in and out many times. But in the end... it still disappeared." Iserine looked a little sad.

"That is to say, there will be more troublesome dangers in the future? The black hand is just the beginning? Right?" Li Chengyi said.

"Yes." Etherine nodded.

After getting the answer, Li Chengyi knew in his heart that he had to get out of the blind spot as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Skittles enters a dead end during this period of time, it will be really dangerous.

Skittles is different from him, the omen is likely to be only once. The second time it will go straight to the dead end.

So. must be as soon as possible!

The method of hiding under the bed and waiting for the outside world to change three times, although effective, is too late now.

Holding the doorknob tightly, turning on the phone light, Li Chengyi took a deep breath. After the second evolution, the wisteria scale clothes automatically merge with the clothes on the body.

Crash.

Cold air pours into the room.

He flung open the door.

"Eseline, hide away." Li Chengyi said calmly.

"Yes!" Although there was no translator and she couldn't understand Li Chengyi's meaning, Estherine quickly understood and got under the bed.

Looking outside at the rich dark corridor.

Li Chengyi slowly raised his foot and stepped out.

Snapped.

In an instant, he accelerated and rushed into the corridor like the wind.

The stairs in the dark are still the original floor stairs. That is to say, the old-fashioned style of the botanical garden accommodation building.

Iron railings, square windows, gray and white steps.

Under the light of the mobile phone, Li Chengyi hurried downstairs, almost jumping down the nine steps.

Turn around and go downstairs.

Turn around and go downstairs.

call!

Suddenly a black hand grabbed at him head-on.

In the dark, Li Chengyi was short, bent over, and the golden sword in his hand flashed across the side of the black hand in an instant.

Without a sound, the Black Hand was split into two, dissipated, and merged with the darkness.

After finishing these, Li Chengyi retracted his sword and continued to move forward. He was fully concentrated, and his super physical fitness strengthened by Hualinyi was fully reflected at this time.

This kind of strengthening is not just like modern drugs, which can only strengthen a few aspects, but vision, hearing, reaction speed, strength, physique, defense, all-round without side effects.

The floors in the darkness were being crossed rapidly one after another.

ten floors.

Twenty floors.

Thirty floors.

A series of black hands were cut by the golden sword, collapsed and disappeared.

finally.

On the forty-fourth floor.

In the darkness, a petite figure in a scorched black dress stood at the exit door of the final stairwell, blocking the exit door.

The door is arched, black and made of metal, which is not the style of the Li Chengyi Botanical Garden accommodation building at all.

There was a faint white light from outside through the crack of the door.

But it was this door full of hope that was blocked by a petite human figure covered in scorched black.

hiss.

The humanoid hands drooped, and a pair of jet-black palms were rapidly growing out of the cuffs.

Looking at the human form, Li Chengyi's footsteps also slowed down.

"Who are you?" He vaguely felt that the other party was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't tell who it was anyway.

"." The human figure raised its hand, and bright red flesh grew rapidly on its body.

Not long after, her face returned to a pale but familiar face with a smile.

Blonde hair and blue eyes, except for the thick layer of white powder smeared on the face, the rest is exactly the same as Etherine.

"It really is you." Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes and recognized the other party.

He had long suspected that the terrifying figure he encountered in the Prototype Mukesa Town of the Dead End might be related to the Black Hand.

Now it seems that he guessed right.

"Brother." This different Estherine raised her head and spoke softly, which was actually in the standard Yi language.

"Can't you stay here forever, stay here with me?"

"Iserine, you shouldn't be the same Iserine just now, are you?" Li Chengyi asked in a deep voice.

"I am the part she abandoned. All the pain, all the resentment, is here with me." Estherine gently raised her hand and tapped her cheek.

"It's the same with my sister last time. Obviously, as long as she stays with me, she can stay here safely without worrying about other dangers."

Estherine said softly.

"Obviously I'm here, no one can hurt her! Why, she is too, and you are too!! Why do you all do this!"