Weird Regulator

This is the first time Tongguan has entered the fourth underground floor.

The World Monuments Museum, from the outside, really looks like a giant Rubik's Cube.

It is a slanted hexahedron, with an additional negative fourth layer at the bottom as a storage space.

Therefore, the fourth underground floor is the most special place in the entire museum.

It is the smallest in area and also the most unfamiliar.

There is no structural diagram of the four underground floors of Tongguan, but I just entered it briefly and realized something after walking around.

The layout here utilizes small storage space to the extreme.

Compared with the urgency and panic when Ding Wangshu entered this place, Tongguan carved the route with a rational thinking.

After a simple exploration, I got part of the layout information in my mind.

After entering from the entrance, a long, dark passage is divided into three forks.

On the far left is the rest area for internal staff and some miscellaneous areas; in the middle is the control area of ​​the museum; on the far right is the access to the collection warehouse.

The reason why I feel confused.

First, there is almost no light here, and all the light is illuminated by flashlights, which confuses the sense of space;

Second, these three areas extend in all directions and are connected to each other. Without a structural map, it is easy to lose direction.

Tongguan came to the conclusion after a little observation about this simple structure.

But that's not the key. The purpose of his coming here is to find Fang Shenyan and confirm something.

Although his dislike for Fang Shenyan is getting worse, after all, it is a mission now and he is responsible for the safety of the rest of the team members.

With this mentality, Tongguan walked towards the warehouse area after integrating the layout in his mind.

According to Ding Wangshu's recollection, she ran eastward in the employee area and saw Feng Jiafu's body after stumbling around.

Then Feng Jiafu's body would not be in the employee area, but in the control area and warehouse area.

Calculating the time she spent running, Tongguan believed that the location of Feng Jiafu's body was most likely in the warehouse area.

From this place of death alone, it can be seen that Feng Jiafu's death is probably closely related to the skin.

Tongguan's face became colder and colder. He walked in the dark passage, and except for the sound of footsteps, there was endless loneliness in his ears.

Feng Jiafu's face when he parted appeared in his mind from time to time.

If Tongguan could have stopped it appropriately or changed its plan at that time, perhaps everything would not have been like this.

The ghost didn't appear.

Tongguan was very fast. After eliminating the wrong path, it didn't take long for him to find the location of the incident.

Feng Jiafu's body lay quietly in front of him.

The strong light of the flashlight shone on his body, reflecting a faint fluorescence, which was caused by bone residue.

This man who had been chatting with Tongguan about everyday things on the wall outside the museum died so lightly and casually.

The powerful force of the ghost crushed his weight of more than 70 kilograms into a piece of skin that could be blown away by the wind.

While Tong was concerned and grieving, he moved the flashlight slightly to the left side of Feng Jiafu's body.

There, there was a set of dark blue overalls.

What is noticeable is that this set of work clothes is also stuck to the ground as if it has been run over by a heavy object, as if it is embedded in it.

But apart from this piece of clothing, all the human skin and bone residue were gone.

But even so, it has already illustrated a fact.

Here, there are two corpses, one is a store clerk and the other is a museum staff member on duty.

Ding Wangshu only saw Feng Jiafu. That was because she was extremely frightened at the time and did not dare to look inside.

Now that Tongguan came here in person, he immediately saw this strange "corpse".

This involves a novel conjecture raised by Feng Jiafu before his death:

There are probably staff inside the museum!

Tongguan's eyes were like torches, he looked back and forth between the two corpses, thinking in his mind.

These two simple corpses looked like nothing on the surface, but they revealed an anomaly.

Judging from the method of death, Feng Jiafu and the staff were all killed by "Stephanie's Smile".

Regardless of why the staff's human skin disappeared.

As one of the ghosts of the Painting Gallery, it killed four people in total.

The bald man, the strange girl, Feng Jiafu and the staff.

The deaths of the first two people allowed the painting gallery to have nine exhibition halls.

This is in line with Tongguan's guess about the basic rules of this mission.

But the situation of the two people who died later seems to be different...

"Stephanie's Smile" never appeared again after killing these two people.

Its murderous activities seem to have stopped? !

In fact, Tongguan has to visit this fourth underground floor no matter morning or evening.

As the most powerful ghost in the entire museum, it has been too quiet since the mission began.

So quiet as if it never existed...

Because everything about "Stephanie's Smile" comes from Fang Shenyan.

No one has ever seen this ghost except him.

Therefore, if Tongguan wants to ensure the identity of "Stephanie's Smile" as one of the central axis, he must come and see and ask.

Judging from the current situation, this ghost does seem to exist, and he saw it.

So now, he would find Fang Shenyan and ask him.

But where is Fang Shenyan?

"Stephanie's Smile" disappeared, and Fang Shenyan seemed to have disappeared too.

What happened to this person and a ghost?

Tongguan gradually raised his head. He looked at the passage that continued forward, passed Feng Jiafu's body, and walked deeper.

Walking further inside, the scene didn't change much, except that the flashlight in his hand suddenly went out.

At the same time, Tongguan, a senior clerk, felt an atmosphere that was completely opposite to the silence.

A faint ghostly energy...

It seemed as if something had sealed the supernatural power, but the ghost was too powerful, causing the aura to leak out.

Tongguan's spirit perked up. This supernatural aura that appeared for no reason came from the collection warehouse in front!

For this reason, he started running, and with blurred vision, he ran all the way towards the door of the collection warehouse.

The door of the collection warehouse appeared in front of him, and he could not see anything clearly in the darkness.

But in the darkness, this door shimmered with a silvery light that was too faint to be detected.

When his palm touched it, Tongguan felt a sense of coldness and closure.

"The door is locked..."

Before the phantom ghost appeared, he had spoken with Feng Jiafu. At that time, Fang Shenyan had already led him to try to crack the warehouse door.

This kind of security-level protective door cannot be opened without a specific method.

But Tongguan didn't believe that Fang Shenyan failed, because the bodies of the staff were not far away.

So Fang Shenyan must have opened the door, so is he inside the door?

Immediately afterwards, Tongguan got confirmation. The cover on the combination lock that opened the door was opened, and there was still a vague touch left on it.

This shows that someone pressed the password with a wet palm not long ago.

Tongguan's eyes suddenly froze, and he couldn't help but take two steps back, already having suspicions in his mind.

"Could it be that the current door is locked from the inside?"

"Zizzizi..."

At this moment, the sound of voice reconnection suddenly came from Tongguan's headset.

A man with a deep voice finally made contact with Tongguan through a wireless headset.

"Tongguan, you came later than I thought..."

This voice seemed to be in a position with poor signal. It was affected by the current when speaking, and it was intermittently, and even the timbre changed.

But Tongguan immediately recognized that this was Fang Shenyan, whom he had lost contact with for a long time!

"Are you trapped in the collection warehouse?"

"To be precise, I sealed myself here."

Tongguan's eyes flashed, he was a little surprised by this answer, and asked subconsciously:

"In the end what happened?"

"That painting is more powerful than I imagined. I sealed it with me, otherwise everyone will die.

Do what you think is right and this mission will be over after solving the mystery of space. "

Fang Shenyan's voice became softer and softer, but the interference from the current became more serious, making it almost impossible to hear clearly.

Tongguan read these words carefully. There were too many doubts to explain, but he had to confirm one thing.

So he asked word for word:

"Are you still Fang Shenyan?"

"I will still be Fang Shenyan in ten minutes, if you can't find me in ten minutes.

I will turn into a ghost and everyone will die. "