"This is obviously not a road," Lin Sanjiu said squatting on the ground beside the stairs.

She and Pina didn't spend much time walking back along the same road, and the journey was smooth beyond her expectation. They soon found that if they walked in the opposite direction after entering the door of the floor, they would eventually make a circle and return to the route indicated by the yellow arrow; In this way, there is only another way to try - the staircase that continues to extend downward outside the floor gate.

In the first oneortwo floors, everything was normal.

Under the dim light of the stairwell, there are many dark corners hidden, but in addition, there are only bright red warnings painted on the wall: "you have deviated from the designated route", "please turn back to the designated route immediately"... The further you go down, the denser the warnings will be and the tighter the tone will be.

When the scarlet letter warning became so dense that it was almost shocking, it suddenly broke.

It was against the backdrop of a blank wall that Lin Sanjiu and Pina found themselves unable to go on.

There was no light in the stairwell below. The only light source was the dim light bulb behind them, which felt very unreliable. Darkness and gloom engulfed the next section of the stairs - but this can't explain why the stairs are vague, hovering and undefined like the water stirred by sediment at the bottom of the lake, making people feel that if one step down, they will always be lost in another world of paranoia.

Fools will not go on; Pina, squatting beside Lin Sanjiu, patted her knee and said, "go back. It seems that jiajiatian is wrong. This is not a maze at all."

"The way to continue to move forward should be under that wall," Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and said, "maybe the difficulty of this road is how to move forward. It's strange that Pan Cui didn't pick up the contact... Is it because she found the way and couldn't make a move?"

With some worry, they followed the route indicated by the yellow arrow, and this time they entered the blank corridor again in a proper manner.

Everything was the same as last time. When they passed the coffee room, they looked in quietly and found that the ordinary man was still sitting on the sofa, the computer was turned off and was reading a paperback.

Lin Sanjiu and Pina looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do with this situation. In addition, they were worried that Pan Cui and Jia Jiatian, who were always silent in front of them, simply turned around and left without saying a word - no matter what their reaction to the ordinary person, or whether they reacted, it seemed to have no impact on their journey.

Not long after leaving the coffee room, Lin Sanjiu received a call from another contact.

"Hello, pan Cui?" She immediately picked it up and said hello.

"It's not pan Cui, it's me," but jiajiatian's voice rang out from the connector. He didn't give Lin Sanjiu a chance to ask questions, so he went on to ask, "have you found any results in finding the way?"

"Oh, this shouldn't be a maze," Lin Sanjiu said as he walked. "We searched all the places we could find. There was no other route except the road indicated by the yellow arrow."

"Are you on your way back now?" Jiajiatian asked, "there's something new here, and I can't tell you exactly what's going on, whether there's a new way... In short, you'd better come back quickly."

Apart from sounding a little confused, he didn't seem to be in a hurry, as if the "new situation" was not dangerous; Lin Sanjiu estimated that they were not far away from Pan Cui. He simply hung up the contact, greeted Pina, and rushed over at a faster speed.

In a moment, they crossed the remaining distance and rushed to the last corner of the corridor; When Lin Sanjiu caught the sight behind the corner of the corridor, she stopped the car hurriedly under her feet.

Pina followed her and stopped abruptly; She lifted her eyes and glanced at it, then gave a low exclamation and asked, "isn't it still a dead end here just now? Why is there another hole? No, it's not a hole..."

The last yellow arrow on the route and the wall blocking the way ahead are still the same as before, and have not changed; However, there was a short distance between them. It seemed that the ground suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a slope deep underground.

The angle of the slope is very steep. When people stand on the ground and look at it from a distance, it is like looking at a well; You have to walk a few steps forward before you can see the slope surface in the dark. It collapses violently and falls into the deep.

However, when Lin Sanjiu's eyes were pulled away from the "wellhead" and turned around, her heart suddenly tightened, strode towards the corner of the wall, and hurriedly asked, "Pan Cui? What's the matter with you, are you all right? Are you injured?"

At this time, pan Cui, pale in front, sat on the ground, Leaning softly against the wall.

On the clothes on her chest and on the ground, there were scattered bright red blood spots, which were dazzling compared with the nearby white wall; Jia Jiatian pressed a piece of cloth tightly on the wound on her neck with great strength, which made it difficult for Pan Cui to speak aloud - when Lin Sanjiu rushed over and squatted down beside her, pan Cui could only wink at her, as if to indicate that she was all right.

"It's a skin injury," Jia Jiatian opened the cavity for her. "I checked for her, and only one layer of skin was cut. The depth of the wound was very coincidental. It happened to completely cut the skin, but the throat was intact, and the artery was not broken... Otherwise, her life would be lost."

As he said, he slightly raised the cloth in his hand - Lin Sanjiu realized that it seemed to be jiajiatian's T-shirt, and most of the bottom was stained with blood - checked it, sighed and said, "the bleeding is better, but it hasn't stopped."

"You just take dirty clothes to stop bleeding? What if you are infected?" Pina also rushed over and hurriedly said, "I'm looking for it. I seem to have some disinfection ointment..."

Lin Sanjiu also remembered that there were many first-aid supplies in his card library, and quickly took out a box. She motioned jiajiatian to take her hand away and carefully examined the wound; Jiajiatian was right. The deep and long crack on Pan Cui's neck looked shocking, but fortunately it was not fatal.

She quickly pressed several large balls of hemostatic cotton on the blood and asked, "how did she get hurt?"

"I don't know," Jia Jiatian frowned and said, "I only know that this opening on the ground and her injury happened at almost the same time. I didn't expect that a slope would suddenly open under my feet and almost fell down. When I reacted and stood firmly, pan Cui had fallen to the wall, covering her neck with blood... I was almost scared at that time."

Pan Cui seemed to be heavily pressed by the hemostatic cotton, and a slight pain hum came out of her nose.

"Didn't you see it clearly?" Lin Sanjiu asked her, and then thought that Pan Cui couldn't answer now.

"In a word, help her deal with the wound first," Jia Jiatian seemed to feel that their task would come to an end when they came. He sat aside and said, "fortunately, her injury will not affect our actions and will not prevent us from continuing to walk."

Pina glanced at him unhappily, as if she wanted to say something, but she still didn't open her mouth.

Although jiajiatian's words sound inhuman, they are the reality that several people have to do now: starting from Pina, who first entered, she has only a little more than 22 hours left after waiting, exploring and turning back, and the real danger on the road seems to have just begun.

"Can you keep walking?" Lin San Jiu was a little worried and asked pan Cui, "is it better to have a rest?"

Pan Cui raised her hand, pointed to the slope opening not far away, and compared herself. She should be indicating that she can walk, no problem.

"Well," Lin Sanjiu was not very reassured, and asked Pina to say, "I'll bandage pan Cui's wound, and you can see if there are some mechanisms and concealed weapons nearby. Next time if we get caught again, we may not be so lucky."

Evolutionists living in the doomsday world have rich experience in dealing with trauma; After a while, the work of hemostasis, disinfection, medication and bandaging was all done. Pina also carefully inspected the opening of the slope more than once during this period. Her report surprised the others - not because there was or was not a trap nearby.

"This is not a slope," Pina said, pointing to the ground surrounded by the three people. "This is a pipe... Or a closed slide. Moreover, it is really the way we should go."

"Slide?" Lin Sanjiu glanced deep underground, and indeed saw a vague yellow arrow in the shadow. She reached in and carefully felt around, and found that Pina was right; This ramp is sealed by plastic covers all around, and it is steep downward. If people sit in it, they must slide down very fast.

Lin Sanjiu tried to throw some small things into the slide, but nothing triggered. She couldn't see what it was that might jump out and cut people; Several people gathered together to discuss for a while - Pan Cui could only sign - seeing that it didn't look like there was a trap, she finally decided to slide down.

"I'll go first," Lin Sanjiu suggested. "If there is any danger, I'll deal with it."

"Pan Cui," Jia Jiatian asked, "otherwise you