Chapter 231 Theme Competition: Fortune Apartment (6)
Chapter 231 Theme Competition: Fortune Apartment (6)
Previously, in the hallway, the team members created a space and locked Xu Zhongtian inside, making him wander around in circles.
Now Zhang Cheng and Qi Hui need to utilize the existing space to arrange these rooms in a new order and build passageways.
Because they had never tried it before, Zhang Cheng and his companions couldn't think of it for a while.
During the experiment, Shi Qi had a new idea.
“Connecting the mother’s and the girl’s rooms together, letting them devour each other, makes it difficult to maintain stability even if the situation is not broken.”
"That makes sense, but how do we find two rooms now? Are we going to try them one by one? That's too dangerous."
Zhang Cheng felt a chill run down his spine just thinking about how he felt, but Shi Qi and Qi Hui both thought it was feasible.
"It seems this is the only way to do it for now. Choose one of the rooms as a fixed point, and then keep walking outwards with the doors open until you find another room."
Mark the rooms along the way and create pathways; it's a bit troublesome, but it should be feasible.
Qi Hui added, "I've been here for a while now. The rooms here shouldn't be endless, otherwise I would have a hard time entering the same room repeatedly."
It seems that whenever someone enters, the room they were in is copied into the game, which is why the error messages mention the newly created room.
"There's another problem: what if we encounter it again during this process? We probably wouldn't be a match for it."
Shi Qi couldn't be sure whether to find Gu Shijiu first or encounter the ghost first.
Zhang Cheng and Qi Hui both looked at him in surprise: "We can mark a separate space to hide temporarily."
While it's impossible to maintain this state for long, avoiding it for now shouldn't be a problem. "Hey, weren't you trained? How come you don't know how to do this?"
Shi Qi touched her nose without explaining.
Zhang Cheng and Qi Hui exchanged a glance, but said nothing.
The group acted immediately, and to prevent newcomers from closing the doors, Shi Qi even dismantled all the doors along the way.
The operation went relatively smoothly. Half an hour later, they found the girl's room and began marking it as a starting point.
An hour later, they finally encountered Gu Shijiu, who was wandering around like a headless fly.
Occasionally, a terrifying sense of oppression would appear around them, and Zhang Cheng and his team would quickly construct an independent space before it manifested.
You can actually dodge it.
After an unknown amount of time, the group finally saw the locked room again.
When the two rooms are marked together, it's clear that there's some restlessness in the room where the mother is.
There is a seal outside my mother's room, which is very similar to the ritual that Xu Zhongtian performed when he committed murder.
It seems that Xu Zhongtian was indeed misled by it at that time.
Gu Shijiu took the lead, prying open the seal with a baseball bat and then throwing in a dead monster.
The monster had only had half of its body inserted when a purple blood vessel fell from the sky and pierced its skull.
"Wow, this vein looks even more impressive; it's purple," Gu Shijiu exclaimed.
The blood vessels peeked out from behind the half-open door, much thinner than the red blood vessels of the other monsters, like tentacles.
The surface contracted slowly a few times, and the pierced monster quickly deflated, like a balloon that had been punctured.
Numerous blood vessels emerged from behind the door, their insect-like mouthparts opening one after another, reaching into the monster's body.
Moments later, the monster was completely gone, saving Shi Qi and the others the trouble of burning the corpse.
Gu Shijiu remarked, "This mother looks extremely hungry."
After the blood vessels finished feeding, they did not shrink back, but tentatively touched the surrounding walls.
A few minutes later, a withered hand gripped the doorknob and pulled the door open completely, revealing the mother to everyone.
Her skin clung tightly to her bones, and there wasn't a trace of moisture or fat on her body, making her look like a zombie.
Her belly was frighteningly large, and those purple veins were protruding from under her belly.
"No wonder Xu Zhongtian kept looking for the key. It turns out his wife was pregnant, yet he still only gave him three keys," Shi Qi guessed.
"The noisy little brother the girl mentioned?" Qi Hui's face darkened, as if she had just thought of something.
"The child probably wasn't born. There are no records of it. All we know is that Xu Zhongtian's family consists of three people."
The girl was likely already affected by it at that time, and her consciousness was not quite clear.
Ignoring their speculations, Mom walked past them without looking at them.
Withered feet tread on the ground, leaving black marks with every step.
Because of the markings, she did not discover the presence of humans.
Even so, the strong, fishy smell and oppressive feeling so close at hand still made Zhang Cheng and Qi Hui's stomachs churn.
Soon, the mother arrived at the marked end point, the door of the girl's room.
The dilapidated classroom door blocked her way, but her mother did not hesitate, raised her wrist, and went inside.
A surprised voice came from inside; it was a little girl calling for her mother.
However, the sweet child's voice disappeared the next second, replaced by various screams.
Shi Qi closed her eyes.
I wonder how Xu Zhongtian would feel if he knew that he had personally sent his family into this so-called eternal life.
Gu Shijiu was curious about the battle inside, but after glancing at Shi Qi, she didn't go in and quietly took his hand.
“They were no longer human when they became chang, they just retained some human memories.” Qi Hui sighed.
As they spoke, only one roar remained in the room; the outcome was decided.
Mom opened the door with a smile; she looked much better than before.
His face regained color, and his skin became smooth and fair.
However, the situation did not collapse, and their previous guesses were wrong.
“No.” Shi Qi opened her eyes and said softly, “She has another child, and now she has two more.”
"Huh?" Gu Shijiu seemed to understand somewhat, but not completely.
Before Shi Qi could explain, a huge ball of flesh suddenly burst out of the door, trailing countless thin blood vessels behind it.
The mother stood in the doorway with a cold face, her flat stomach staring at the ball of flesh with an unfriendly expression.
Gu Shijiu was utterly shocked: "What is this thing?"
"This is the mother's child. The blood vessels we just saw are from this fleshy ball. He ate the girl and other monsters."
The mother probably wanted to raise him until he was older before feeding him, but she didn't expect him to have a survival instinct and escape after gathering his strength for so long.
Shi Qi pulled Gu Shijiu along, chasing after the meatball.
Gu Shijiu was baffled by this turn of events: "Can't you just eat the meatball yourself first? Why raise it up?"
"Well, maybe I was born with a breeding gene," Shi Qi replied as she ran.
Even if raising them is useless, I always feel that it would be better to raise them until they are grown up and then eat them.
Gu Shijiu hit the fleshy ball with his baseball bat several times, but this thing was different from the previous ones; it was not affected by the force.
Zhang Cheng, who had been trailing behind, threw a knife at him: "Here you go!"
Gu Shijiu took the knife, aimed it at the bouncing flesh ball, and stabbed it down hard.
The ball is fine, but the knife is broken.
Suddenly, a loud bang sounded behind her. Gu Shijiu didn't have time to think and quickly stepped aside.
A strangely shaped knife flew from the direction of the mother and cut a long gash in the flesh ball.
The next second, a baby's piercing cry suddenly came from inside the space, making everyone dizzy.
The knife continued its work, finally cutting open the ball of flesh.
Only then did everyone notice that a huge purple blood vessel was connected to the hilt of the knife, and this blood vessel was several times larger than the girl.
The ball of flesh lost its elasticity and fell to the ground with a thud, remaining motionless.
The mother, standing behind the door frame, laughed.
She stared straight at Gu Shijiu and the others, her lips slightly parted, but she didn't say a word, only shedding a tear of blood.
Suddenly, the world around us began to shake, like an earthquake, and the entire space seemed about to collapse.
As expected, their prediction was correct; a single fulcrum cannot construct the entire situation.
The wall was like a piece of cheap glass that had been struck by a heavy hammer, with the edges slowly becoming rough.
Immediately afterwards, the cracks spread rapidly like a spider web, cracking and breaking inch by inch, making a cracking sound, and countless fragments fell down.
The ground beneath my feet shook violently, making it difficult to stand, as if I were a small boat adrift in a raging sea, about to capsize at any moment.
Gu Shijiu hadn't felt this kind of motion sickness in a long time, and she almost threw up from the swaying.
Fortunately, someone caught her from behind.
The floor shattered like a biscuit, and a feeling of weightlessness instantly washed over me.
The next second, she and Shi Qi plummeted into endless darkness before the astonished eyes of the others.
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