The First Evolution

At this moment, everyone noticed something. The exploration rate of this place suddenly jumped, from the original 1% to 9%. It was obvious that Max's analysis and reasoning had touched on some secrets of this place.

After receiving this small encouragement, the group of people immediately became energetic. It was obvious that the next direction was clear. They should continue their efforts and dig deeper into why these people in the lunatic asylum committed collective self-mutilation.

The group then continued to the second and third floors to look for possible clues.

Soon, Fang Linyan and the others discovered that there were signs of people living on the second floor. Most of these people were "madmen", that is, mental patients. They were uniformly placed in the southwest room, and their number almost exceeded Thirty people came.

In the northwest corner, caretakers also moved in and occupied six of the rooms.

The living area of ​​these people obviously avoids the eastern area of ​​​​the second floor of the building. It seems that there is an invisible line running across the center. Once it is crossed, something ominous will happen.

And judging from the choices of the caretakers, the most troublesome area should be the southeast corner, so their rooms are arranged diagonally as far away from it as possible.

It is worth mentioning that it was around four o'clock in the morning, but all the mental patients locked in here were in a state of high spirits, with red eyes and very sensitive eyes.

As soon as there is any sign of disturbance, he will suddenly raise his head and look around vigilantly, baring his strong white teeth. His appearance even makes Fang Linyan and others think of mutated zombies!

When Omi was passing by a room, a mental patient inside suddenly jumped out and hit the door with a bang.

Then he scratched the door panel with his fingernails and made a "squeaking" sound. At the same time, he made a "heavy" sound in his mouth, his eyes were scattered, and his eyes were all bloodshot. It looked extremely scary! !

Along with his activities, the mental patients in the other rooms seemed to go berserk at the same time. They rushed to the door together and shook and knocked on the door panel desperately. It seemed that there was a lot of movement.

There is no doubt that such an unexpected situation immediately shocked Fang Linyan and others. The key is that they are now in a long passage with cells for mental patients on both sides.

Therefore, if the guards showed up at the first time, they would definitely be caught. Unless they immediately broke open the door next to them and escaped in, that would also mean having to face the madman inside, which would cause even greater commotion.

However, although these mental patients made a lot of noise, the guards never showed up, as if they didn't hear them.

Everyone in the Legend Team was very shrewd, and they understood the reason after looking at each other in shock for a few seconds.

The goat took the lead and said:

"This kind of riots probably happen often, and the guards are used to it. This is a typical case of crying wolf."

Omi also said:

"If you think about it from your perspective, if I were to be a guard in such a ghost place, I would definitely have more troubles than less troubles."

Crespo laughed and said:

"If a prisoner escapes, the jailer will be whipped and the consequences will be serious. But this is not a prison, and the prisoners inside are not prisoners, so even if something goes wrong, the consequences will be very light."

Fang Linyan frowned at this time and said:

"Crazy people are also human beings. They need to eat, drink, and defecate. If there are a few nights when they can't sleep, that's normal. However, these thirty or so lunatics all stay up past four in the morning and are very sensitive. There must be some reason for this."

When Fang Linyan said this, the faces of the others also darkened.

However, these questions should be put aside for now. As the old saying goes, first search the above ground carefully, and then study it carefully after getting enough clues and information.

Based on the information currently available, the danger level of this "Abnormal Human Research Center" should decrease as the level increases.

The entrance to the negative floor is always guarded by someone, and these people are well prepared and dare not take it lightly.

The first floor once housed mental patients, but unfortunately they are all probably dead.

The second level is obviously much less dangerous, but it still makes the imprisoned mental patients unable to sleep at night and very frightened. On the contrary, the watchers living in the northwest corner are much better. I don't know whether it is because of the location or because they have their own means of avoiding evil.

After exploring the second floor, we soon arrived on the third floor. Surprisingly, the space here was surprisingly small.

To put it simply, after going up to the third floor, you are facing a large office. It is obvious that this is the position of the dean, and there is no one in it.

There is a foyer in front of the office with several stools. Obviously when the dean needs to receive multiple visitors, the visitors who arrive later need to wait on the stools.

There are corridors on the left and right of the foyer, but they are only about ten meters long, and the door is closed at the end.

To put it simply, the layout of the third floor forms a flat-shaped "pin". The upper entrance is the dean's office, there are two large rooms on the left and right, and the stairway is directly below.

Fang Linyan and Vulture came here before. After a brief inspection, they went back to join the rest of the people. At this time, they took the initiative to investigate again, and finally got the result quickly: there was no one on the third floor at this time.

In this case, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to investigate carefully, and soon discovered that the rooms on the left and right were arranged in an office + bedroom layout.

From the furnishings and ornaments in the room, it can be seen that the people on the third floor are usually foreigners. The living conditions are obviously very good, but the bedding and other things are neatly folded. It's like spending the night here.

Not only that, there is another thing in common here: there are a lot of crosses and Bibles!

"They should rarely spend the night here."

the goat said suddenly.

"Then how do you explain the beds here?"

Crespo said doubtfully.

Goat said:

"These foreigners probably stay here for a long time during the day and don't leave until night, so the beds here are all for them to take a lunch break."

"The reason is very simple. You can tell by looking at the furnishings here. There are very few changes of clothes in the wardrobe, and there are no alarm clocks, toiletries, or towels, which are all necessary for getting up in the morning."

Xingyi frowned and said:

"Obviously, these foreigners know that there are huge risks here, so they don't even dare to stay overnight. But why do they insist on stationing here? There must be huge profit motivations."

"If we can find out the reason behind this, we will definitely get additional corresponding rewards."

Max suddenly said:

"No! No! Did you discover something?"

Fang Linyan said:

"you say."

Max said:

"This building is not a spire structure, but has three floors, similar to a warehouse. So it stands to reason that the areas of the upper and lower floors should be about the same."

"However, you haven't noticed that the area of ​​the third floor can be said to be much smaller than that of the first and second floors, not even half. So, what is the remaining space used for?"

After Max said this, Fang Linyan and others noticed this. They were also the ones who did it immediately when they thought of it, and immediately began to explore from the northwest corner. After all, based on the information they had previously obtained, this was the safest direction.

Soon, a wall appeared in front of them. This was a foreign lounge on the third floor. If we only considered the third floor, there would be no problem. However, after on-site measurement, we could clearly feel that something was wrong. .

Walking from the stairwell on the second floor towards the northwest corner, you have to walk a full 211 steps before you reach the edge of the building - the guard's lounge on the second floor.

However, walking in the same direction from the stairs on the third floor, after only one hundred and twenty steps, a wall appeared in front of him.

Obviously, there must be some secret hidden behind this wall. At least one third of the third floor is occupied by this secret.

A group of people searched nearby and found no secret passages or secret doors. Max pressed his palms against the wall, then with a slight exertion, he knew what was going on in his mind, and said to Fang Linyan:

"Boss, this wall has not been reinforced. It can be easily dismantled."

Before Fang Linyan could speak, Omi and Xingyi said at the same time:

"no!"

Then the two women looked at each other, Xingyi made a "You said it first" gesture, and Omi said calmly:

"This kind of place is very evil. There may be some kind of mechanism or formation. If we modify the building structure without authorization, we might cause big trouble."

"It's not like we have no clues to look for now. The guards on the second floor and the mentally ill can all be arrested, asked for their confessions, and collected relevant information. In short, I think it's better not to use violence unless it's absolutely necessary. .”

The goat raised a hand and said:

"Seconded."

Fang Linyan thought for a while and said:

"In this way, two people will work separately. The scope of activities is limited to the third floor. Everyone will go through the suspicious areas where they think there may be clues. If there are any questions, please contact the team channel immediately."

Soon, everyone did what he wanted. What was surprising was that no one wanted Xingyi, so they could only follow him with a pitiful look.

Fang Linyan thought for a while and went directly to the central dean's office, because in Fang Linyan's subconscious, he naturally felt that the superior would know more about the inside story.

To be honest, the layout of the dean's office may be considered fashionable in this era, but in Fang Linyan's eyes, it is very old-fashioned. Because he has come to check it out before, Fang Linyan is not honest when he comes in this time. He politely sat down on the dean's seat.

Feeling the dean's daily life in person may help you find relevant entry points faster and more skillfully.

After carefully looking through the things on the table, Fang Linyan found nothing suspicious. As for whether there were any hidden compartments under the desk and the floor, no need to think about it, this was the domain of vultures, and he would definitely not ignore these hardest-hit areas.

However, Fang Linyan began to have a suspicion that something was wrong, but he couldn't express it for a while, but in his mind, it was like a revolving door of memories of what he had seen before.

"That's right. What's wrong here is not that there are more suspicious things, but that there are less of them!!"

"In the soldier's room, I saw two essential things, tobacco and alcohol. In this era, ocean voyages began to be very boring. Foreign soldiers who were sent to Asia to station themselves were very tired during the long voyage. It was natural to fall into the vices of chewing tobacco and hard liquor.”

"When it comes to hardship, officials would definitely avoid it, but when it comes to enjoyment, these officials must be afraid of falling behind others. Therefore, the possibility that this foreign dean has not been exposed to chewing tobacco and strong alcohol is very low."

"Then, this is no longer a place for him to relax, so as long as we find that place, we should be able to get some valuable clues."

With a clear guess in his mind, and the fact that the vulture Lipul had already searched some hidden corners before, Fang Linyan found the entrance to the secret room without much effort, and it was actually on the ceiling!

The front of the dean's office is the office, and the back is the resting and living area, which contains a bed, a desk and a few simple furnishings.

The mechanism is actually on the bedside table. Just kick the bedside table towards the wall and you can hear the sound of the mechanism chain "clicking, clicking". Then the ceiling opens directly and a staircase above slowly descends.

The reason why Fang Linyan was able to discover this mechanism was entirely because he saw the shoe prints on its surface, and if he looked carefully, there should be more than one kick - he thought in his mind that someone often kicked here! ?

This is the dean's inner room. If nothing happens, who would come in and kick the cabinet? Needless to say, there is a high probability that he did it himself.

In this case, although Fang Linyan didn't find out what would happen if he kicked the cabinet, he did know to try it.

As expected, there was a surprise as soon as I kicked it, and the stairs immediately came down with a "clatter" - who would have guessed that this house that looks like it only has a third floor could actually have an attic with a cave?

For the sake of caution, Xingyi casually used the activation technique to activate a quill next to him, turning it into a little monster with wings and flying up. After walking around in a circle, he screamed "Eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" , indicating that there was no danger, and then the two climbed up the ladder.

As a result, I smelled a strange smell, which was a mixture of fermented alcohol, dirty underwear, and even excrement. It almost made me smoke.

Then he saw the darkness inside the attic, with no windows and no light. After Fang Linyan turned on the flashlight, he found that the space was not very big, only about seven or eight square meters. The most eye-catching thing inside was a large bed. There is also a bedside table.