The surrounding environment is completely different from before.
It is no longer the familiar campus, but has become a messy abandoned building, with nearly collapsed cardboard boxes lined up in the corners, the ground is covered with thick dust, and even the stair railings are rusty and almost broken.
If there were no lights, it would be impossible to see anything here.
Chu Changge's electric lamp illuminated everyone.
Gu Mian didn't see the fat man.
Coco was looking at the direction where the fat man was standing with slightly wide eyes, with a very surprised expression.
Disappeared.
The fat man disappeared.
It disappeared into thin air without even making a sound.
007 didn't expect someone to have an accident so soon. A man appeared on her forehead and her breathing became heavier: "Is it done by a ghost?"
Gu Mian said nothing.
Chu Changge held up a flashlight and shook his head at Gu Mian: "I didn't hear the sound, and I didn't find any clues."
Gu Mian frowned and walked back into the corridor. She saw that this place had undergone earth-shaking changes. It no longer looked like a long corridor, but a wide floor.
It was pitch black.
They seemed to have been moved to another building in an instant.
Chu Changge followed and scanned with his flashlight: "No one is there."
Gu Mian looked at the empty floor and was silent for a while before speaking: "There are three possibilities now. One, the four of us were moved into this building, and the fat man stayed in the school alone; two, the fat man moved here with us.
, but not nearby; three, he is dead.”
Hearing that last hypothesis, 007 and Coco felt a chill go down their spines.
"We have to figure out where this is," Gu Mian said as he turned around and walked towards the stairs, "leave this building first and go downstairs."
007 and Coco nodded slightly, and then quickly followed.
Gu Mian was at the front, and Chu Changge was at the back holding a flashlight to light the way.
The stairs are very steep and even more dangerous in the dark.
Gu Mian said while going downstairs: "Pull everyone up to avoid disappearing suddenly."
The fat man who was at the back suddenly disappeared, but now the one at the back is Chu Changge.
Gu Mian heard 007 and Coco agree behind her, and then Coco's voice came: "Then let me hold on to your clothes?"
This was said to Gu Mian.
Gu Mian said nothing to show her acquiescence.
He sped up and went down the stairs, but it seemed to be a very high building. The stairs turned several times without reaching the bottom.
Just when she turned the fourth corner, Gu Mian heard Coco, who had been quiet all the time behind her, suddenly shout urgently: "Wait a minute!"
He looked back.
The flashlight light was still there, illuminating the surroundings, but there was nothing behind Coco. Looking back, he saw Chu Changge, who was holding a lamp and looking over.
007, disappeared.
Coco looked at the empty place behind her, gritted her teeth and trembled violently: "What are we..."
Gu Mian asked Chu Changge behind her with her eyes. Chu Changge shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't find anything.
Gu Mian frowned again and paused for a few seconds before speaking: "Stop for a moment."
What is certain is that their group has been targeted by ghosts, so they disappeared one by one.
But disappearance does not mean death. Ghosts can only kill one person a night, but now they have lost two companions.
Coco tightened her grip on Gu Mian's clothes and looked down at the stairs, which spiraled downwards and finally disappeared into the darkness, like a giant beast with its mouth wide open, waiting for its prey to fall into its trap.
Sweat broke out on her forehead: "If this continues, the three of us will disappear one by one, right?"
Gu Mian looked at Coco, who was slightly flustered: "Yes, but now I have a guess."
"What?" Coco, who was a little nervous, didn't expect Gu Mian to say such a thing suddenly, and couldn't help but look at him.
Gu Mian looked at the stairs below that were submerged in darkness: "Everything has a certain pattern, including now."
"Rule?" Coco didn't seem to understand.
Gu Mian withdrew her gaze: "Since we started going downstairs, people have disappeared."
Coco understood: "Does that mean the disappearance is related to going downstairs?"
"It's very possible, maybe we can try the other way around." Gu Mian said as he raised his head and looked up the stairs.
The stairs above were also hidden in the darkness. Even though this was the way they came, when they looked back, there seemed to be disturbing factors hidden in the darkness.
The three of them were silent for a while. After half a minute, Coco said uneasily: "Then let's... try it later?"
"Yeah," Gu Mian nodded, "turn back."
Hearing this, Keke was a little surprised: "What about you?"
"I will go down," Gu Mian said while looking at Chu Changge, "I will go down, and you will go up. From the moment we part, I will call one of you by name every twenty seconds, and then you will answer,
If the sound goes away..."
Gu Mian paused for a while when she said this: "It means I have disappeared. If my voice has not disappeared after ten times, then you can stop for a while and I will go upstairs to find you."
Hearing these words, Coco's face turned paler: "Why do you do this?"
Gu Mian reached behind her back and took out a small flashlight from her guitar case: "This is how I can confirm my guess. This is an important clue."
As he spoke, he turned on the flashlight and shined it on the stairs below.
The dark staircase below was illuminated, and Coco followed the flashlight and looked down, as if there was no end.
At this time, Chu Changge had turned sideways. He looked at Gu Mian and did not object to his idea: "Is there anything else you would like to add?"
Keke looked at Chu Changge in disbelief: "Are you really going to let him go downstairs alone?"
Chu Changge looked at her and nodded slightly: "Remember to agree when I call your name later."
After saying that, he turned around and walked upstairs.
Coco only hesitated slightly, then followed closely. When she turned back to look at Gu Mian, she only saw the back of Gu Mian going down the stairs.
Gu Mian has no watch.
There are no watches in the game supermarket that can be brought into the copy.
So he could only rely on his own mental arithmetic to calculate the twenty seconds.
He held a flashlight and walked slowly downwards under the light. Did he hear the sound of footsteps getting farther and farther above? It was the sound of Chu Changge and Coco.
After walking through the first flight of stairs, Gu Mian stopped. It was time.
He raised his head and looked upward: "Chu Changge?"
The sound echoed continuously in the stairway, which made people hairy.
Half a second later, Chu Changge's voice, which also echoed, came from the darkness above: "Still."
After hearing the echo, Gu Mian lowered her head and walked towards the dark stairs.
Coco already knew Chu Changge's real name from the compensation list of the Hide and Seek dungeon, so there was no need for Gu Mian to avoid it.
The footsteps above were getting farther and farther away, almost disappearing.
Twenty seconds later, Gu Mian looked up, paused for a while and then said, "Coco?"
When Coco heard her name, she nervously tilted her head toward the armrest and quickly agreed: "I'm here."
Chu Changge, who was holding a lamp in front of him, did not stop and continued to go upstairs. In the darkness, his silent back was a little strange.
Cocoa was a little uneasy.
After twenty seconds of silence, Gu Mian's voice came from below again, but the sound was no longer loud, and they were getting farther and farther apart.
"Chu Changge?" Keke heard Gu Mian's third call from below.
Chu Changge responded again and then walked upstairs.
"It's getting further and further away. I don't know if I can hear it clearly next time." Coco nervously waited for the next call.
Another twenty seconds passed.
This time a new call came as promised——
"cocoa."
Hearing his name, Coco subconsciously responded.
But as soon as her voice came out of her throat, she realized something was wrong.
That voice... came from close to his head, and it was not Gu Mian's voice.
Right at the back, right behind the scalp!
Fear suddenly spread throughout his limbs, and the hair on his back stood up.
At this terrifying moment, she suddenly thought of something.
If you keep going downstairs, there will be one less person, but if you go upstairs, there will be... one more!
