241. Chapter 241 Another world deep in consciousness
"Don't! Don't! I'm going! I'm going!"
The man who was coerced finally understood the situation. He might not die if he went in to explore the way, but he would definitely die if he stayed here and refused to leave.
Yue Laosan and Lard were still a little dissatisfied with this gentle leader, but after seeing Wen Jiahao's ruthlessness at this moment, the two desperadoes were also quite frightened, and they quickly followed the same example and killed the woman lying on the ground.
He was also forced into the door of the "Mirror Maze".
Lighting a cigarette, Wen Jiahao walked up to Li Mengnan and said calmly: "I know you have been waiting for me to do this. In fact, even if you don't force me like this, I plan to abandon those two useless trash
But...but you'd better not use the same method a second time, otherwise even if we die together, I will definitely drag all of you to hell."
After speaking, Wen Jiahao turned around and returned to his team. Obviously, he just came to inform, not to ask for Li Mengnan's answer.
Li Mengnan smiled noncommittally. It seemed that this Wen Jiahao was not out of control, but just didn't want to cause unnecessary internal friction.
At present, the last three remaining members of the opponent are the core members. It is obviously impossible to use their hands to explore the next time.
At this moment, a woman's shrill scream suddenly came from the door of the Mirror Maze.
"Ah——! Who are you! Let me go! Help! Help..."
The woman's cry for help was still echoing, and the man's frightened shouts and curses also sounded.
"It's all fake! You can't lie to me! Go to hell! Go to hell! Ah——!"
After several sounds of glass breaking, the original deathly silence returned to the door.
The cigarette in Wen Jiahao's hand fell to the ground, his face was extremely ugly. Yue Laosan and Lard beside him also subconsciously clenched the handles of the knives in their hands, and bead-sized beads of sweat continued to roll down from both sides of their foreheads.
This path exploration operation was a complete failure, and two lives were exchanged for only two almost meaningless sentences.
But at least one thing is certain, there are also extremely fatal dangers in this "mirror maze".
"There's no point in waiting like this. Let's go in together."
Li Mengnan led the team up to Wen Jiahao and others and gestured in the direction of the "Mirror Maze".
Wen Jiahao could only nod his head bravely. Faced with this unreasonable and unknown situation, he had no better way. He could only hope to share the danger with the number of people.
As for abandoning the mission and escaping, Wen Jiahao had thought about it, but his reason told him that this was a more dangerous option than continuing to perform the mission.
Since HX Research Institute threw them into such a terrifying and dangerous place, how could it not prepare a back-up plan to prevent them from escaping?
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Unlike the colorful lights outside, there are no lights in the mirror maze.
A beam of flashlight light shined through, and the huge space lit up. Countless figures were faintly reflected behind the randomly refracted light, forming an extremely bizarre scene.
"The road here is narrow and it is inconvenient to walk together... You go to the right, we go to the left, each depends on his destiny."
Wen Jiahao expressed no objection to Li Mengnan's arrangement, and quickly disappeared into the maze on the right with Yue Laosan and Lard.
"Here, change the weapons in your hands."
Li Mengnan turned around, and several half-meter-long machetes appeared out of thin air in his originally empty hands.
"Where did you get the knife?"
Guo Debiao and others were surprised and happy. At this time, having a handy weapon would undoubtedly increase their chance of survival. However, they could not figure out where Li Mengnan got these weapons.
Li Mengnan smiled and said nothing.
These machetes are naturally illusions created by his magic, but in this dream world, illusions also mean reality.
It's a pity that his illusion can only create "objects" here, and he cannot fully control everything like in his dreams.
These are the rules of the dream world, and no matter how powerful the illusionist is, they cannot change them.
Li Mengnan knocked hard on the surrounding mirrors. They were very strong. Although it was not impossible to smash them, it would probably take a lot of effort.
"Okay, I'll open the way in front, Mr. Tian will cut off from behind, and the others will follow in the middle... Except for Mr. Tian and me, everyone else's flashlights will be turned off."
The mirror maze itself is not big, but the arrangement of the mirrors inside is quite complicated. As I walk, I often find that there is a dead end in front of me, and I have to turn around and go back again. Li Mengnan and his group wandered around in it for about ten minutes, and only
But it's a short way forward.
"Guo Debiao, bring me a bottle of water."
Li Mengnan turned around and asked Guo Debiao for water. The water he touched was indeed hard.
It's a mirror.
"Guo Debiao! Sister Lian! Hao Yiming! Mr. Tian!"
Li Mengnan suddenly had an ominous premonition. Although he could see the existence of these people in the reflection of the surrounding mirror walls, he could not get their exact location at all, and he did not even know which image was them.
"Boss, I'm with Hao Yiming!"
"I am myself, and I don't know where I am now..."
Responses from Guo Debiao and others were heard all around. After many reflections from the mirror, the sound was extremely messy, and it was still impossible to determine the source of the sound.
"This maze is more complicated than I imagined. I don't know when I can get out. I can't find you one by one. Now you can only rely on yourself..."
Before Guo Debiao and others responded, the sky above the mirror maze suddenly echoed with the screams of Wen Jiahao and others, and then Hao Yiming seemed to have encountered something, and suddenly screamed in fear and sat on the ground.
"Hao Yiming? What's going on?" Li Mengnan's heart sank and he asked.
"I...I don't know, someone seemed to have touched my shoulder just now! Brother Guo, is that you?"
"Shit! I'm in front of you. When did I touch you?"
At the same time, Ke Cailian suddenly screamed in terror, pointed in the direction of the mirror, and stammered: "Hao Yiming, you... your back! No, not the back, but all the places around you!
"
Although everyone does not know each other's position, they can still vaguely see each other's environment through the refraction of the mirror.
In the image of Hao Yiming reflected in the mirror, a part of the shadow suddenly made a completely different movement from its own body, reaching out to grab Hao Yiming sitting on the ground as if it was injected with life.
"Hao Yiming, run!"
Guo Debiao was the closest to Hao Yiming and could see it most clearly. Those shadows were like Sadako in the movie "The Bell", crawling out of the surrounding mirrors one by one, with evil smiles on their faces, rushing towards them.
Hao Yiming.
Guo Debiao dropped his spear and drew his machete, and chopped down three or four shadows in succession, but in the end he was unable to save Hao Yiming's life. He watched helplessly as he was dragged into the mirror by his own shadows and gradually disappeared.
Almost in the blink of an eye, everything returned to silence, and Hao Yiming's image no longer appeared in the surrounding mirror walls, as if this person had never existed in this world.
Ke Cailian covered her mouth and tried not to scream, but her frightened eyes betrayed her heart deeply.
Hao Yiming's disappearance was obviously just the beginning, and then the shadows of Guo Debiao, Ke Cailian, and Tian Laogen in the mirror wall began to move strangely.
The three of them were either furious or frightened and used their weapons to fight back against the shadows. They kept running away and soon disappeared from Li Mengnan's sight. Only vague echoing noises could be heard.
Li Mengnan spread his fingers and pressed them on the mirror in front of him. All the shadows within his sight made the same movement at the same time, and none of them showed any similar changes.
"Sure enough, those shadows are just the materialization of inner fear... Because I don't have the emotion of fear, they will just be normal shadows."
Based on the special circumstances that happened to him, Li Mengnan seemed to realize the essence of this "mirror maze", but it was a pity that he realized it a little late.
Li Mengnan shook his head regretfully, turned around and was about to continue looking for an exit from here, but the moment his eyes swept across the mirror, his pupils suddenly narrowed.
Because there is a person in the mirror who shouldn't be here.
Xue Yue Ling Xin.
However, this Xue Yue Lingxin seems to be a little different. There are no countless images of him constantly reflected in the mirror. Instead, he only appears in the mirror wall facing him, as if he is standing behind him.
But Li Mengnan knew very well that there was no one behind him.
"Who are you anyway?"
Xue Yueling in the mirror smiled sweetly, her face as beautiful as ever.
"Xiaonan, this is such a strange question... Who else do you think I can be? Of course I am still me."
"Why are you here?"
"You asked another strange question... I remember I told you before, in fact, I have always been by your side and never left."
Xue Yue Lingxin in the mirror took a step forward, put her chin on Li Mengnan's shoulder, and gently hugged his waist from behind, acting in an extremely intimate manner.
But from the perspective of a bystander, there was always nothing behind Li Mengnan, and the scene was extremely strange.
"What on earth do you want to do by following me like this?"
"Because I really can't live without you."
"absurd!"
"Remember the story you once told? - There was a woman who bought a bed in a furniture store. After moving home, she discovered a problem. Every time a train passed outside, the bed would follow the train.
The frequency vibrated violently, making it difficult for her to sleep.
So she called the maintenance man at the furniture store to explain the situation. The maintenance man didn't believe it, so the woman asked him to lie on it and feel it for himself.
At this moment, the woman's husband came back. When he saw a strange man lying on the bed, he immediately became angry. He rushed up and grabbed the furniture repairman by his collar and shouted, "Why are you sleeping in my wife's bed, you bastard?"
On the bed?
The furniture repairman explained fearfully and cautiously, "If I said I was waiting for the train in bed, would you believe it?"
Li Mengnan fell into silence for a long time.
Of course he remembered this story. He had read it in a book and told it to the two sisters Xue Yue Lingxin and Xue Yue Lingsha like a treasure.
But when Xue Yuelingxin tells this story now, it is obviously not as simple as recalling the past. Li Mengnan is very clear about the message behind this story - what you think is a fact may not be true, and what you think is fake may very well be.
real facts.
"I need an explanation."
Li Mengnan noticed an unusual meaning in Xue Yue Lingxin's subtext. He began to try to calm down, temporarily put aside his complicated feelings for Xue Yue Lingxin, and took the initiative to communicate with her.
Xue Yue Lingxin's charming face showed a hint of regret, she shook her head and said, "I can't explain it to you, you need to find it yourself."
"Since you don't plan to tell me everything, why do you appear in front of me again and again to remind me of these things?" Li Mengnan said coldly.
"Because you're already trying to understand these things."
Li Mengnan seemed to realize something and said in disbelief: "You mean the memories and emotions sealed in my mind?"
Xue Yueling was noncommittal, but that silence said everything. After a moment, she sighed softly: "Believe me, those things are not what you want to know, so don't try to unblock it, never.
"
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Just as suddenly as she appeared, Xue Yue Lingxin disappeared without any trace.
Li Mengnan took out his paper and pen and drew a brief diagram as he moved forward. He finally found the exit of the "Mirror Maze" while stumbling against walls.
What he didn't expect was that there was someone who came out earlier than him.
You can pick lotus.
"Sister Lian, how did you come out?"
Li Mengnan found it difficult to understand. When he last saw Ke Cailian, he, Guo Debiao and others were also being chased by his terrifying shadow. He didn't think that Ke Cailian had the kind of luck to be able to run the right route at once.
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Hearing someone coming out from behind, Ke Cailian, who was kneeling on the ground and panting hard, fell forward in horror, turned around and pointed the machete at Li Mengnan with both hands, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
"Sister Lian, don't be afraid, it's me."
Li Mengnan quickly turned off the flashlight, but only then did Cai Lian see clearly who was coming. The machete in her hand clattered to the ground, and she threw herself into Li Mengnan's arms and cried loudly.
"Mr. Tian is dead! He helped me block those shadows, and then he was dragged into the mirror... I was so scared that I closed my eyes and waited for death. Then the shadows stopped moving. I didn't dare to open my eyes to see, so I just used it like that.
Walking out with your hands..."
Just as people often suffer from so-called selective amnesia when they encounter a severe trauma that they do not want to face, similarly, when people are extremely fearful, there is a certain chance that the brain will stop associating relevant information.
Ke Cailian is lucky, she happens to be the kind of person who escapes reality by giving up thinking. Without the source of fearful information, those murderous images will naturally cease to exist.
However, this chance is too low. The possibility of having such a lotus-picking lotus among volunteers is probably the limit. The fate of other people in the maze will only be disastrous.
At the same time, Li Mengnan became more and more confused about this mission. The HX Research Institute threw them into this almost fatal dream without any prompting. What purpose did it want to achieve? Is it just to let them escape?
Are these monsters killing them for fun?
Bang——!
The door at the exit of the mirror maze was suddenly knocked open by a strong force. Wen Jiahao, who was as bloody as a man, stumbled out, missed the step and rolled down the steps. He lay on the ground instead of wailing, but instead he was mad and haha.
laughing out loud.
"I'm out! I'm finally out! It's not that easy to kill me!"
Wen Jiahao's ferocious face covered with blood scared Ke Cailian. She subconsciously hid behind Li Mengnan and said in fear: "This man... is he crazy?"
"No, he's not crazy."
The so-called madness, or mental illness, is actually caused by partial consciousness sinking into deeper levels in the brain, resulting in incomplete consciousness.
In dreams, human consciousness is completely sunk in the deepest part of the brain, and there is no such thing as incompleteness.
Therefore, no matter how much pain the person in the dream suffers, he cannot go crazy or become comatose.
"Dead... all dead..." Wen Jiahao struggled to hold up his body, looking at Li Mengnan and Ke Cailian not far away with dull eyes, he laughed miserably and said: "You two continue
Let's go forward, I just want to be alone here..."
"Li Mengnan, he..."
"Let's go." Li Mengnan put his arms around Ke Cailian's shoulders and shook his head regretfully: "He has given up."
After glancing at the backs of Li Mengnan and Li Mengnan as they turned away, Wen Jiahao took out a crumpled, blood-stained cigarette from his pocket, lit it and held it in his mouth, looking up at the dazzling and charming starry sky.
"If there weren't those monsters, this would be a really nice place! It seems like it's been a long time since I looked up and looked at the stars above my head like this... hmm? That's it?"
A huge black shadow fell from the sky, blood spattered, and Wen Jiahao's headless body fell heavily to the ground.
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"Holy shit! Is this HX Research Institute trying to trick Brother Death? How could such a monster be released!"
Facing the giant dog as high as a small mountain in front of him, and the black female figure behind him that twisted weirdly from time to time, Li Mengnan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and couldn't help cursing in his heart.