God knows what Xu Rendong experienced.

In the next three hours, he encountered seven or eight different monsters, and finally filled all the blank pages in the employee profile.

The unknown markers on the map have all been resolved, but the imaginary hidden rewards have not appeared. Xu Rendong held the folder in his hand and confirmed that he had seen the monsters on every page, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Lian Qiao: "The end is almost here, come on."

Xu Rendong nodded slightly and pushed open the door of a room according to Lian Qiao's instructions. This is what appears to be the central fan control room, with huge fans whirring. Overhead is a crisscross of ventilation ducts and cold water ducts. The pipes were all rusted, and the yellow rust water kept dripping, making puddles all over the ground.

Lian Qiao was suddenly excited: "The ventilation pipe! I want to drill!"

Xu Rendong: "???" What's wrong with drilling ventilation pipes?

There are still a few hundred meters from the end point, and you should turn left at the next intersection. However, Xu Rendong looked around, but did not find the next door or passage.

Dead end?

Lian Qiao: "This should be a straight road." He zoomed in on the map on his phone and confirmed the location again, "Look, this ventilation duct is right in front of you."

Xu Rendong looked back and came in through the door, facing a wall. According to the straight road indicated by the map, if you don't take the ventilation duct, you can only make a hole in the wall and get in.

He pulled a chair footrest and climbed on it. The fan on the ventilation duct was still spinning, whistling, and the hot wind was blowing.

Xu Rendong came to the console, pulled down the wrench, and stopped all fans. He climbed onto the chair again, removed the fan on the ventilation duct, and turned on the flashlight to look in. It was pitch black inside, bottomless. The diameter of the pipe is not too small, just enough for an adult to get in. But once you're in, it's hard to turn around and get out.

Just imagining crawling in the pipe, Xu Rendong felt a burst of depression, and could hardly breathe.

Lian Qiao said, "So kind, hahahahaha."

Xu Rendong: "Where is the kindness?" It's obviously scary.

Lian Qiao: "I remembered a certain escape game... That game is super scary! The battery will run out at every turn, and I'm so nervous. But as long as I get into the ventilation duct, it's safe, and the monsters in the back are not I will continue to chase you. So when I see the ventilation ducts, it's like seeing my own mother, kind!"

No wonder I want to drill when I see the ventilation duct, it turns out to be a harbor of love.

Xu Rendong was about to climb in, but Lian Qiao stopped him: "Wait, don't worry. I think you can go back first, take a rest, and come with your teammates. Although the map There's nothing wrong with it, but there may still be a mechanism in the pipeline."

Xu Rendong glanced at the time, only to realize that it was already six o'clock, and he actually stayed in the underground labyrinth all night. Even Joe didn't say it, but after reminding him like this, he realized that he was exhausted both physically and mentally. He has encountered too many dangers along the way, and he was completely supported by adrenaline. At this time, the tight string in his mind loosened, and he was extremely tired.

He exhaled a long breath: "Listen to you."

Lian Qiao: "By the way, I can't help but want to ask you about what happened just now..."

Xu Rendong: "What?"

He moved the chair back into the distance, restarted the fan, and tried to restore the control room to its original appearance. After doing all this, he saw two words appear on Lian Qiao's phone:

"Butterfly."

Xu Rendong recalled how the butterfly was flying in front of her eyes, and the bitterness came back to her heart. He really didn't want to talk about this, so he turned the doorknob, lowered his head and said, "Don't you say go out and talk?"

Lian Qiao: "Oh...then you have to compensate me!"

Compensation? Compensation for what?

Apologize to death?

Xu Rendong smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say.

Just as he raised his head, a cold light hit him. He didn't even have time to see what it was, only to feel a sharp pain in his eyes. As soon as his eyes darkened, he immediately lost consciousness.

…

I don't know how long ago, Xu Rendong woke up in severe pain.

It was foggy and hard to see. The pain all over his body was terrifying, as if every inch of bone had been smashed by someone with a hammer, the pain was so painful that he didn't even have the strength to struggle.

He tried to keep himself awake and blinked hard. Tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and his vision finally became clearer. He lowered his head to see why it hurt so much. The sight before him shocked him.

Ripped open.

The skin below the sternum to the pubic bone was cut with scissors, pulled to both sides, and fixed in the flesh with paper clips. The entire abdominal cavity was completely exposed, and the tender red intestines were slowly squirming, like a newborn snake. As he breathed more and more intensely, the flesh-red snake gradually slipped out of the abdominal cavity and stacked on the roots of his thighs. Bleed all over the place. Only then did he notice that his legs were tied with ropes, and his hands were tied behind him.

As his shoulders were folded in the exact opposite direction, his joints had been dislocated, the shoulders were sunken unnaturally, and both shoulders were hanging loosely. However, the pain of dislocation is nothing compared to the wound on the stomach.

The pain was too intense, and the picture in front of her was too stimulating, Xu Rendong's brain fell into a complete blank, unable to think at all. He raised his head blankly and looked around, not knowing where he was. He saw a huge pair of scissors on the ground, and a tool hammer beside it. There was a man in white, covered in blood, standing in front of him, with a mask on his head and a long beak on his face.

It turned out to be the beak...Xu Rendong thought in a daze.

Beak noticed his movement and tilted her head slightly: "You're awake."

There seems to be something wrong...so strange...what's wrong...

Xu Rendong blinked slowly, he saw the bird beak crouching down in front of him, and reached out to wipe the cold sweat on his face.

"I wanted to wait for you to wake up, but you've been dizzy for too long, and I can't wait." A dull voice came from the beak mask.

It's weird...what's wrong...

The gloved fingers of the bird's beak brushed the corners of his eyes, stopped with interest, and stroked his eyes: "Little rascal, it's not a good habit to lie from the beginning. I thought your eyes were born so beautiful, but they were just props."

Eyes? ...that's right, it's the eyes...

Xu Rendong finally understood what was wrong. It turned out that the vision of his left and right eyes had resumed synchronization, and Lamia's eyeballs were gone.

It's better if he's gone... Even Joe didn't see the tragic state of his being cut open.

There was a sting in the face, and the beak was poking his cheek with a small pair of scissors. Xu Rendong instinctively turned his head, Doctor Bird's Beak straightened his face, stared straight at him with dark eyes, and asked him, "Are you afraid?"

Xu Rendong did not speak, he felt that his vitality was gradually disappearing with the loss of blood.

Doctor Birdbeak suddenly put his hand into his stomach, stroked his stomach, and asked again: "Are you afraid?"

The delicate viscera is directly touched by the glove, the feeling is indescribable. Xu Rendong opened his mouth and wanted to ask what he was doing. The next second, he heard a click, and a sharp pain suddenly came from his stomach!

"Uh..." A moan squeezed out of his throat, Xu Rendong's eyes were black with pain. The sound of clicking in his ears kept ringing, and the pain in his stomach became worse and worse, making him wish he would die immediately.

After a long time, the terrifying voice finally stopped.

A sigh of pleasure came from the mask. Doctor Bird's Beak held up a flesh-red object with both hands, and asked happily, "Now, are you afraid?"

When Xu Rendong saw what was in his hand, his pupils suddenly shrank!

It was—his stomach!

Because he hasn't eaten for a long time, his stomach is only the size of a fist, and it lies softly in the palm of Doctor Bird's Beak, like a hairless mouse.

Doctor Birdbeak held small scissors and cut open his stomach in front of him. The stomach bag was folded open to reveal the empty interior. The folds of the gastric mucosa are filled with yellow, viscous fluid, presumably stomach acid. The air was suddenly filled with a strong sour smell.

Doctor Bird's Beak carefully examined his stomach, and "tsk" in dissatisfaction. Xu Rendong watched helplessly as Doctor Birdbeak threw his stomach on the ground like a piece of garbage.

"Are there any butterflies..." Dr. Birdbeak muttered to himself, and suddenly poked Xu Rendong's face with scissors.

Xu Rendong was about to faint, and the pain on his face made him wake up again.

"Hello." Dr. Birdbeak asked, "Why is it a moth, not a butterfly? You were the one who was with Zhang Xiaoxiao at that time? Why is there only moths and no butterflies in her stomach?"

Consciousness begins to blur from massive blood loss. Xu Rendong struggled to understand his words. Zhang Xiaoxiao? Moth? Butterfly? The brain is completely unable to think, he can only try to write down what the bird's beak said.

"Where is the butterfly?" Beak asked again.

Concentration is getting worse. Xu Rendong's eyes gradually drifted away, and his senses and consciousness began to gradually drift away from him. Dr. Birdbeak stared into his eyes, and seemed to finally realize that he was dying, so he sighed in disappointment, turned around and picked up the stomach on the ground, and tossed it in his hand.

After playing for a while, he suddenly remembered something, took the scissors again, and cut Xu Rendong's intestines a few times. Fortunately, Xu Rendong no longer felt pain at this time, his soul was breaking away from his body, and he was about to be liberated.

Just when he felt fortunate, the corner of his eye swept to something, and the last trace of his remaining consciousness was instantly riddled with holes and could not be peaceful.

On the table facing him, there is an eyeball.

Lamia's eyeballs.

—the entire process of his death, even Joe saw.

The author has something to say:

Don't play with your phone while playing a copy.

Note: Ventilation duct: refers to "escape outlast".