“That guy left?” Shang Jianyao jumped three feet high, his tone full of joy.
The return of the fluorescent light to its normal brightness meant that he was the only one left in and around the room.
“Left?” Jiang Baimian was quite surprised.
In her opinion, since the room was so strange, things wouldn't be so easy to solve.
Shang Jianyao said excitedly:
“I'll try to open the door. Contact me again in five minutes.”
Why does the latter half of that sentence sound so familiar... Jiang Baimian thought for a moment before remembering that it was very similar to certain lines from old world entertainment materials.
Shang Jianyao concentrated and walked towards the door.
He stretched out his right palm and twisted the handle hard, but the door remained motionless.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
He turned his body and slammed into it with force, but it was like tickling the wooden door.
“Still can't open it...” Shang Jianyao looked around, as if a ghost was hiding in the room.
At this moment, the fluorescent light dimmed again, giving the feeling that the voltage in this area was unstable.
This brightness was significantly lower than the normal level of a "New World" powerhouse!
Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly became sharp, and the electric sparks in his eyes gathered more and more.
The next second, a huge, illusory vortex seemed to appear in front of him.
This cast a shadow over the entire room, and the terrifying suction pulled Shang Jianyao, staggering him and making him fall towards the vortex.
At the same time, his "head" throbbed, showing symptoms of "Heartless Disease."
The suction was extremely terrifying, and even Shang Jianyao's mental strength could hardly resist it.
In a flash, Shang Jianyao suddenly disappeared.
His entire consciousness escaped into his Mind Room!
Before Shang Jianyao could catch his breath, he felt a chill on his ankle.
He quickly lowered his head and saw the deep blue, almost black ocean coming from nowhere, constantly rising, and it wouldn't be long before it submerged the entire "131."
Shang Jianyao didn't escape towards the door. He knew that entering the Mind Room from the "New World" wouldn't allow him to go to the corridor.
He went straight to the cubicle, jumped, and dived into his "Sea of Origin" in a very standard fish leap posture.
In the illusory sea composed of faint light, Shang Jianyao's figure had just emerged when he saw the surface of the water beneath his feet turn pitch black.
The pitch-black waves crashed into the air, and the water level rose higher and higher, threatening to submerge everything here.
Shang Jianyao's mouth was wide open, and he murmured to himself:
“Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?”
While exclaiming, he quickly ascended, chased by the pitch-black sea water and huge waves, with nowhere to escape.
After escaping for a while, the sinister and venomous Shang Jianyao shouted:
“Every man for himself when disaster strikes! Let's break up!”
“As if breaking up would let you escape,” the honest Shang Jianyao pointed out relentlessly.
They began to quarrel.
The sinister and venomous Shang Jianyao saw that the situation was bad and quickly explained:
“I plan to hide in Xiao Chong's crack, but not climb all the way through.”
This was the same trick as before to avoid memory deletion.
“What if the sea water doesn't stop rising?” the righteous Shang Jianyao asked urgently.
The sinister and venomous Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation:
“Then enter Xiao Chong's Mind World!
“Anyway, it's death either way, so of course I'll choose the one with a glimmer of hope!”
After all, Xiao Chong was their good friend.
“I didn't expect the cowardly and timid you to be so decisive at this time,” the honest Shang Jianyao always said what was on his mind.
The sinister and venomous Shang Jianyao "hmph"ed:
“Because there's no turning back.”
During the exchange, Shang Jianyao arrived in front of the crack representing Xiao Chong.
Without hesitation, he drilled into it and stayed at the junction.
A few seconds later, the deep black and illusory sea water surged to this height.
Its upward trend suddenly stopped.
It stopped without warning.
Then, the water level quickly dropped and returned to normal in no time.
Shang Jianyao poked his head out of the crack and watched carefully.
After a while, he jumped out of the crack and laughed:
“Xiao Chong is indeed the childhood version of ‘Zhuang Sheng’!
“No wonder he's my good friend.
“It feels so good to have a Year Guardian backing me!”
He put his hands on his hips, laughed to the sky, and looked like a petty man who became arrogant after achieving his goals.
The honest Shang Jianyao reminded his colleague:
“Xiao Chong never promised to help us fight against this kind of thing.
“We were just taking advantage of his prestige just now.”
“What's wrong with taking advantage of his prestige? If anyone doesn't believe it, they can follow me to Xiao Chong's Mind World. At worst, we'll die together!” The reckless Shang Jianyao looked excited. “I told you, being direct only has advantages and no disadvantages. While we can still wear Xiao Chong's tiger skin, let's quickly do the things we should have done but haven't done yet!”
“Are you not dying fast enough?” The sinister and venomous Shang Jianyao scolded angrily.
In the midst of the argument, they left the "Sea of Origin" and returned to the cage-like "New World" room.
The brightness of the fluorescent light had returned to normal at some point.
Shang Jianyao "tsk"ed, walked to the door, and once again stretched out his hand to grasp the handle.
As he twisted and pulled, the wooden door, which had been motionless and seemed to be integrated with the wall, opened, and the corridor outside was illuminated.
“Hahaha.” The reckless Shang Jianyao laughed with his hands on his hips. “I told you Xiao Chong's tiger skin was useful!”
He looked eager to try.
…………
“Relying on the deterrence of Xiao Chong's crack to overcome the 'weirdness' in the room...” Jiang Baimian ended her communication with Shang Jianyao and muttered to herself.
She felt that the matter itself was not a problem. It was reasonable and the development was logical.
What was important was what exactly was the origin of the "weirdness" that made Shang Jianyao have to escape and made it difficult to effectively resist.
Was it a bug in the rules of the "New World" itself, or was it the presence of someone?
If it was the presence of someone, then the strength and level shown were higher than that of ordinary "New World" powerhouses. Even if it wasn't a Year Guardian, it should be on the level of "Truth" or Wu Meng.
Thinking of this, Jiang Baimian shook her head and temporarily suppressed the matter in her heart.
She was undoubtedly relieved that Shang Jianyao was able to escape like this.
First, she was happy for him, and she herself was relieved. Second, she didn't have to risk attacking the corresponding building and could slowly investigate according to the planned plan.
In the previous communication, Jiang Baimian had obtained a new mental shield. Seeing that dawn was approaching, she quickly pushed open the heavy black door and walked out of the tunnel.
After closing the double door, she used the darkness before dawn to hide her human consciousness and once again sneaked into the small city that was suspected to be the real "New World."
After spending a little time, as the sun slowly rose, Jiang Baimian arrived at the place where she had experienced the symptoms of "Heartless Disease" last night, that is, at a building less than thirty meters away from the outermost light of the tower.
At this time, the light had gone out.
Jiang Baimian tentatively took a step forward, and the familiar throbbing feeling in her head reappeared.
She quickly retreated.
“It's not a matter of distance after all,” Jiang Baimian sighed softly.
This time, she moved Shang Jianyao's body a distance closer to the tunnel exit, but the boundary of her activities did not increase as a result.
In other words, there were only two directions she could take to go further: first, Shang Jianyao was improved, and second, she herself accommodated the other her and entered the "Mind Corridor."
Without time to think about this problem, Jiang Baimian hid in the building next door and monitored the area near the tower.
Since she couldn't go deeper, she would observe in secret.
After a while, the "Heartless Ones" began to become active. They came out from different places and did different things.
Some of them repaired circuits, some watched over the tracks, and some used electrical appliances to cook food...
This stunned Jiang Baimian. If those guys weren't like "living dead," she would have thought she had entered a normal human city.
Thinking of the No. 1 Swamp Ruins, Jiang Baimian believed that these "Heartless Ones" should have had a whole set of thoughts implanted by someone to maintain the normal operation of this small city.
In a flash of thought, she saw several "Heartless Ones" approaching here and heading towards the outer periphery of the tower.
When they passed nearly twenty meters past the building where Jiang Baimian was hiding, their figures suddenly disappeared.
Those "Heartless Ones" disappeared in front of Jiang Baimian's eyes without any warning, as if they had evaporated from the world!
Jiang Baimian's gaze suddenly froze.
…………
"New World."
Shang Jianyao, who had found nothing in that room, returned to the street.
He walked with his head held high and strode towards the tower.
After arriving at the intersection, Shang Jianyao casually glanced around and found that in a shopping mall-like building, four lights were lit on different floors.
They were all unusually weak, significantly lower than the strength of normal "New World" Awakened.
Shang Jianyao "hehe" smiled:
“Is that a hospital?”
After looking for ten seconds, his expression suddenly became excited:
“That's where Guan Yanhu is!”
This was the location he had calculated.
ps: Asking for double monthly tickets at the end of the month~