Chapter 223 Transforming Community Experience (Thirty-Two)
As Zheng Wanqing said, the three of them bringing two unconscious people undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of their actions.
Fortunately, Guo Guo had already got his arm back, so by piecing together the three of them, there were still two with intact limbs, two without injuries, and two with strong mobility... They moved to another safe room across the long corridor, and only then did the angry roar of the ghost who realized that it had lost its prey be heard from the other side of the wall.
"Now the question is, how do we wake him up?"
Although the illusion had ended, Bai Zhi did not wake up immediately like Tang Xinjue, but remained in a coma.
The most difficult thing was that there were too many unknown factors here, and they couldn't rashly bring the person back to the surface - what if they couldn't leave in a conscious state, and their consciousness would be trapped here forever? Not to mention that the person was missing two arms.
During the short break, Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo simply made a simple construction roadmap on their clothes based on their exploration experience.
It can be clearly seen from the picture that, starting from the entrance of the underground shaft where they came in, the deeper they go, the corridors are like lines that continuously radiate and spread, making the space bigger and bigger, and then slowly narrowing back, and finally converging on the stairs at the end that cannot go down but only up.
Tang Xin Jue studied these routes: "If we assume it has two exits, one is the direction we came from, leading to the food court in the entertainment center; the other is the stairs at the end of this floor, which may lead to the interior of the transformation community."
Judging from their position, they should be closer to the latter now.
"But Zhang You is still waiting for us in the food court, so we have to go back the same way when we leave."
Tang Xin Jue drew a longer route.
"And if we return, there's a high probability that we'll have to face the human body splicing monster head-on."
Guo Guo took a deep breath. "Student Bai has the limbs it wants, and you have the head it wants. Then aren't we the equivalent of walking laser lights?"
This undoubtedly maximizes the presence in front of ghosts, and a tough battle is inevitable.
Before Tang Xinjue could answer, he suddenly heard two faint coughs. The room suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes turned to the same spot:
On the ground, Bai Zhi's eyelashes trembled twice and he opened his eyes.
He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. At first, his eyes stared blankly at the outside world. After a few seconds, his pupils gradually regained focus.
"You guys are? ...I remember now."
The boy wanted to stand up, but found that he had lost his arms. His body lost balance and fell down. His chin hit several identity cards, leaving a bloody mark on his jawline.
When he saw the name on the ID card, the color on Bai Zhi's face seemed to fade, and the corners of his mouth were pursed into a tight straight line.
606: “…”
If this continued, they were worried that Bai Zhi would spit out blood and faint again. Fortunately, he was very quick to accept the situation and had already found his balance and sat up before being pulled up.
His eyes swept across the room, pausing for a moment on the unconscious Awan's face. Bai Zhi then spoke slowly, "You saved me."
Tang Xin Jue: "You also helped me in the illusion."
Bai Zhi shook his head. "No, it's not equal. After we were trapped, Awan followed with the sole purpose of wiping us out completely. She would never let us go. Meanwhile, my arms disappeared, indicating that my hiding place had been discovered by the ghost that specialized in harvesting human bodies—yet considering all this, I'm still alive."
——And yet Awan lay here. It goes without saying who rescued her from the dangerous building.
He didn't spend too much time on the same topic. Instead, he calmly returned to the present moment as if nothing had happened.
"You guys must be in a hurry too. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"The truth." Tang Xinjue said.
What they wanted to know was what exactly happened between Awan and the previous batch of candidates, and more about the truth of this copy.
"Okay." Bai Zhi said without hesitation. "But this may take up some time. I think we should move to a safer place first."
As the victimized candidate who had been tricked into this building earlier, Bai Zhi had a better understanding of the environment. They returned to a place, and 606 immediately recognized it as the place where Guo Guo was initially imprisoned and where Tang Xinjue was tricked by the illusion monster.
There were two downward staircases on both sides of the corridor intersection, and there was a narrow stairwell hidden under each staircase.
"Every ghost usually stays in its own room. This is the territory of the monster that can control the illusion. Ghosts weaker than it will not come in." Bai Zhi explained.
In terms of individual abilities, the Illusion Monster could be considered the most powerful ghost monster on this level. If it weren't for the restrictions imposed by Li Xiaoyu and his group's plan, Zheng Wanqing and the others wouldn't have found the opportunity to kill it.
Bai Zhi suddenly asked, "By the way, when and where did you eliminate the illusionary monster?"
After receiving the answer, his expression relaxed. "That's not bad. You may not understand yet, but this place is like its [habitat]. The farther the place of death is from the [habitat], the slower the resurrection will be..."
"……resurrection?"
606 caught this keyword and his expression changed.
Will the ghosts that died in this building automatically resurrect?
Bai Zhi gave a bitter laugh, "Otherwise, how could so many candidates fail here... Of course, its resurrection property isn't limited to ghosts and monsters. Even humans, as long as they're willing to sacrifice everything, have a chance to be resurrected."
He looked at the two staircases, the winding steps leading down were shrouded in opaque darkness.
"...But by then, there will be no possibility for us to fight side by side anymore."
Tang Xinjue realized something: "Here, the downward stairs lead neither to the university town nor to the transformation community, right?"
Bai Zhi shook his head and said cryptically, "You can't talk about it while you're in it."
He then added the patterns of the ghosts that frequently patrolled the area based on Zheng Wanqing and Guo Guo's findings. They quickly came up with the most suitable time to escape:
"In ten minutes, a spider monster will crawl through this corridor. Then, right after that, the human splice monster will come from the other end. It will choose a corridor at the staircase to enter."
Tang Xin Jue concluded, "As long as it doesn't take the corridor leading to the underground well, we can set off when the distance between us is almost as far as possible."
Unless the ghosts can pass through the wall and rush back to catch people, it is impossible to catch up with them.
"But your arm..."
Guo Guo's eyes wandered hesitantly to Bai Zhi's empty sleeves. He wasn't sure if he could still climb down the well without both arms.
"It doesn't matter. Once we leave that gate, all the candidates' abilities will naturally recover." Bai Zhi said calmly, "I'll have a way then."
When recalling his own experience during the ten-minute break, Bai Zhi's tone was as calm as if he was speaking from a third-person perspective, and he tried his best to pick out information that would be useful to several people.
Basically consistent with Tang Xinjue's previous inference, Bai Zhi's dormitory had indeed received the "Transformation Community Invitation Letter." The only difference was that they didn't wait until a dungeon was over before using it, but used it immediately.
"We received a message earlier, telling us that we would be facing an entrance exam soon, so we chose to enter the reward dungeon first."
However, they did not expect that the transitional copy that was originally used to accumulate strength would turn into a deadly pit full of dangers.
Bai Zhi: "Our initial landing point was in a place called Block 1. Before we could figure out the situation in the dungeon, we ran into a few seriously injured students. They said they were the last batch of candidates to come in."
Dormitory 303 immediately began treating them, but their injuries were too severe, and their bodies were reduced to nothing but skinny bones. Even with Bai Zhi's healing ability, their hearts couldn't bear the strain.
In the end, only one person survived.
Someone he would never save if he could turn back time.
Bai Zhi was silent for two seconds before continuing his story in chronological order. Later, they followed Xiaowan's instructions and went to the office to get their ID cards. After learning about the casino's instructions, they headed straight there, staggering their time with Tang Xinjue and his group.
The sudden change in the situation began here. By then, Bai Zhi and the others had already noticed that the actual situation in the dungeon was different from what was advertised, so they were on high alert and activated all their protective abilities and props upon entering the casino.
Then he just happened to block an attack.
The attack did not come from the casino, nor from the residents of the copy, but from Awan, the candidate who had just been "rescued".
Bai Zhi: "She possesses a special ability called [Deception]."
This ability is quite tricky because when it is cast, the target is unaware that they are being attacked.
——But what’s more coincidental is that there is a protective prop in their dormitory called the [University Town Anti-Fraud Center].
Bai Zhi felt a little regretful: "That's a prop displayed in the form of an APP. It's a pity that I don't have hands now and can't open the phone. Otherwise, I only need to review the case and you can see the specific information."
In short, Awan had encountered many ghosts while walking at night, but she hadn't expected her attack to be discovered so quickly. After the shock, she immediately turned and ran away. As the four of them chased her, they were led into an unfamiliar alley.
Just when they were about to catch the person, Awan did something, and suddenly a group of ghosts were summoned from the alley and surrounded Bai Zhi and his group.
Hearing this, Guo Guo suddenly opened his eyes wide:
"She can summon ghosts? Isn't she a test-taker?"
Bai Zhi: "We didn't think this through at the time."
But what is even more puzzling is that the candidate clearly had no opposing stance, so what on earth made Awan resort to any means necessary to kill him?
It wasn't until the phantom monster emerged from the summons that the reason was finally revealed to them.
