Chapter 433

Registry of the dead.

The bright red and dazzling five words disappeared in a flash, and when Wen Jianyan looked at it again, there were only three words "Registration Office" on the thin paper, and the two extra words had disappeared without a trace.

The previous image seemed to be just his illusion, and everything was as usual.

If it was half an hour ago, Wen Jianyan might suspect that he was wrong.

But it's different now.

Indeed, even now, he is suffering from hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. When walking, there are always shadows flickering at the edge of his vision. Faces and figures from memory appear around him from time to time, whispering something besides him. Words no one outside can understand.

The shadow of the past is always by his side, disturbing his concentration all the time. Even now, it is difficult for Wen Jianyan to completely distinguish the illusion from reality.

But at the same time, he gradually realized something...

Only after the San value is lowered, can I have a glimpse of the true side of this dungeon.

That being the case, Wen Jianyan would rather believe in the malicious text that he just vaguely glimpsed than in the non-existent.

According to Su Cheng's divination just now, no matter whether the visitors leave their names on the roster or not, the threat waiting for them will not be reduced. If so, why take risks?

Tangerine Tang tilted her head and thought for a while: "Okay."

Anyway, she has no particular preference for following the rules, and since someone suggested not to do so, she is naturally happy to relax.

"What's next?" Tian Ye asked in a low voice, "Upstairs?"

"Yes." Acropolis standing beside him replied in the same low voice.

According to real-world experience, the principal's office they are going to will most likely be on the highest floor of the administration building.

And this is clearly stated in the copy.

[Please do not go to the third floor area without authorization]

And they are obviously not prepared to comply with this.

In other words, not only did they not register visitors on the first floor this time, they even didn't intend to abide by the rule of "do not go without authorization".

The lobby on the first floor of the administrative building was dark and dull, with the gray glass doors wide open, as if they didn't care about the intrusion of these uninvited guests.

There was a dead silence from inside to outside, and there was no movement in the whole building.

Everyone held their breath and continued to go deeper inward without making a sound.

According to the layout picture posted on the wall of the hall, if you want to go upstairs, you must go through the corridor on the first floor to reach the fire stairs at the end.

The administrative building is not the same as any other area in Yuying Comprehensive University. It is difficult for other areas to be forcibly broken through from the outside if the preconditions are not met. However, it should be the administrative building at the core of the instance. Not the same.

As long as you find it, you can directly enter.

According to experience, such places are more dangerous.

Therefore, even though up to now, they haven't encountered any existence that can be called a threat, they still maintain the highest level of alert, always alert to everything around them.

The corridor was very dark, with tightly closed windows on the left, and rows of closed offices on the right.

There was also no light in the office, and the door was extremely quiet, as if no one was there.

The group moved forward cautiously.

However, contrary to their attitude of facing the enemy, nothing happened when they passed through the corridor on the first floor, let alone any monsters attacking them.

It was as quiet as an unreal dream.

Soon, the fire escape stairs appeared in front of their eyes.

It was suffocatingly dark inside.

On the screen wall opposite the door in the stairwell, there seemed to be a piece of rusty iron sheet nailed to it, it was black, and it was hard to see what was written on it.

Hugo took out his mobile phone, raised his arm and approached, the screen of the mobile phone emitted a faint light, illuminating the iron sheet on the wall.

【First Floor: Club Activities Office】

"..."

Several people startled and looked at each other.

They coincidentally thought that on the Monday after entering this dungeon, at the "Association Recruitment" venue that was inaccessible except for the marked anchors, and on the eve of the end of the club's recruitment, the "senior sister" took the anchors away. The building I entered...

Is it here?

This administrative building?

"Let's go." Hugo withdrew his gaze and said in a low voice.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, this is not what they should think about now. What they should really think about is how to enter the principal's office on the third floor and successfully obtain the props inside.

As long as this can be done, no matter how far the dungeon has been decrypted, they are considered to have completed the task, and they can directly choose to exchange their qualifications and leave.

However, just after taking two steps into the stairwell door, Hugo, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped.

"how?"

Acropolis asked in a low voice.

"There is a door," Hugo's voice came from the front, "and it's locked."

Wen Jianyan raised his eyes, looked over the shoulder of the field in front of him, and looked into the stairwell door - the light in front was too dark, but thanks to the glasses and props that Orange Tang lent him, he could see clearly, deep in the stairwell door, In front of Hugo lay a heavy iron door, which was locked deeply, completely blocking the way to go upstairs.

Tian Ye: "Why don't we switch sides..."

After all, there are two fire escapes on the first floor.

"It doesn't make sense." Hugo shook his head, "One side is like this, and the other side has no reason not to be locked."

He took something out of his backpack and started to do something with his head down. Wen Jianyan vaguely heard the sound of metal collisions coming from ahead.

However, soon Hugo raised his head:

"no."

"The master//key won't open."

The key mentioned by Hugo is not a low-quality gadget used by thieves to break into the house in reality, but a prop in the nightmare, and the level will definitely not be low.

"Hey."

Tangerine Tang snorted softly, stepped forward, stretched her hands and feet, and said:

"Useless things, let me dismantle them."

"It's useless." Hugo shook his head and stopped her.

None of this can open the door. It can only prove that its lock itself is part of the rules, so it cannot be forcibly broken by something other than a copy.

"Besides," he glanced at Tangerine Candy, seeming a little disgusted, "You're making too much noise."

Tangerine Candy was provoked by him and almost went into a rage: "You say—!"

"Hush."

Hugo raised his hand to his lips, "Be quiet."

Although they violated two of the three rules, it still doesn't mean that it is wise to make loud noises in the corridor.

"..."

Although Tangerine Tang was upset, she was still scruples about this, so she had to swallow her anger, and could only give Hugo a vicious look, and turned her head away.

At this moment, there was a light cough from behind.

The voice was very soft, as if it was only made to attract their attention.

A few people paused and turned their heads to look.

Wen Jianyan stood behind him, his complexion was not much better than before, but his spirit seemed to be better, at least he didn't need support to move like before.

"A lock that cannot be unlocked must be matched with a key specially prepared for unlocking it, isn't it?"

His voice was very soft, and he was weak with insufficient energy and blood.

"However, the first floor is really too big." Wei Cheng frowned, shaking his head and said, "We don't have many time gates, if we want to do a sweeping search, I'm afraid we won't be able to find the principal's office before the ideological and moral class is over. .”

Wen Jianyan: "Who said we need a blanket search?"

On the side, Hugo, who had never made a sound, said slowly: "What do you mean?"

"The guard's room." Wen Jianyan said briefly.

"..." Several people were taken aback.

really.

In the real world, the guard room is generally equipped with keys for each door lock.

This is the most normal logic of thinking. If they were not in the dungeon, or hadn't been in the dungeon for so long, this would probably be the first thing they thought of.

However, here, the thinking patterns of all of them have been alienated along with the dungeon, so this direction, which should be the easiest to think of, was subconsciously ignored by them...

But is the answer to the question really that simple?

Hugo: "You guys wait here, I'll be back soon."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and prepared to go back, but a voice soon came from behind: "Wait a minute."

Hugo paused and turned his head to look.

Wen Jianyan came forward from behind and said slowly, "I'll go with you."

"..."

Hugo frowned, as if he wanted to refuse.

However, Wen Jianyan seemed to see through his concerns.

"Don't forget," Wen Jianyan raised his hand and nodded his eyes, "how did we get here smoothly."

That's right, his current state is indeed very bad, and his san value has dropped below the normal baseline, but this also gives him an equally important advantage—that is the [truth] of the instance.

Hugo stared at him steadfastly, while Wen Jianyan looked back without saying a word.

The young man's face was pale and cold, like a marble without temperature in the darkness, showing a kind of solidity and tenacity that refused to give in.

After a few seconds, Hugo looked away.

He loosened his mouth: "Okay."

Su Cheng frowned.

Wen Jianyan seemed to have thought of this a long time ago, he turned his head slightly, and smiled: "Don't worry, Hugo has such a high force value, it might be safer for me to follow him than to stay here."

"..."

The semi-long-haired prophet abruptly halted his pace.

He stared at Wen Jianyan with dark eyes, nodded restrainedly, and said:

"careful."

Wen Jianyan nodded: "Of course."

Hugo stood not far away and waited. When he saw Wen Jianyan approaching, he took a step forward, turned around and walked back. The two walked away one after the other, and their backs quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Tangerine Candy slightly turned her face to the side, looked at Su Cheng: "Hello."

Su Cheng withdrew his gaze and looked down: "...?"

He looked the same as before, but he seemed to be a different person.

"Be careful of your emotions," Tangerine Tang tilted his head, looking at him casually, "everything that goes too far will lead to bad things."

She raised the corner of her mouth and showed a grinning expression:

"Although I shouldn't say this, Nightmare's anchors can easily go to extremes—an anchor with greater potential is more likely to go crazy. This is common sense."

Su Cheng remained calm: "What? I don't quite understand."

"It's fine if you don't understand." Tangerine Candy looked back with no interest.

She doesn't rarely worry about family affairs in other teams.

*

On the other side, Wen Jianyan and Hugo went forward together and returned along the same road.

The same as when we came here, there is not much change in the corridor, and there is no new threat. The door next to it is closed, and there is a death-like silence everywhere, only the regular and monotonous footsteps of the two can be heard. .

Previously, because they were worried that a certain door would suddenly open and a fatal crisis would strike from it, they all moved forward by the side of the window.

However, because she saw the writing on the screen wall outside the stairwell door, Wen Jianyan ventured a little closer to the side of the office on the way back this time.

Soon, Wen Jianyan saw that at the closed door of the office, there were similar iron plates on the wall as on the screen wall.

He held his breath, and again took a few cautious steps forward.

In the deep darkness, vague words could be vaguely seen.

【Teacher's Office】

【Society Member Office】

Later, the names outside the office gradually became more specific.

【Painting club activity room】

【Literary Club Activity Room】

【Dance club activity room】

…

It seems that, just like the anchors who follow the normal route, members of the club also have different clubs to choose from, and each club here is also corresponding to the elective courses of the dungeon.

Obviously, his previous guess was correct. Different choices at the beginning of the dungeon will lead the anchor to touch different sides of the dungeon and come into contact with completely opposite mechanisms.

This also explains why they have almost gone through the entire process so far, but there are still many buildings that cannot be entered.

...The volume of the open copy of Yuying Comprehensive University is really ridiculously large.

Suddenly, Wen Jianyan stopped walking, and his eyes fell on one of the closed doors, and the words on it immediately attracted his full attention.

【Film club activity room】

"..."

Wen Jianyan narrowed his eyes.

From the looks of it, the weasel should have joined this club, and that's why they appeared as enemies of ordinary students in the movies they experienced.

While he was contemplating, suddenly, Hugo's voice came from the side, interrupting his thoughts:

"correct."

Wen Jianyan paused and turned to look.

Not far away, Hugo turned to look at him. Through the thick darkness, Wen Jianyan couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but he could still feel the scrutiny of the other party.

"You give me a familiar feeling," Hugo asked, "Have we met before?"

"..."

Hearing this, Wen Jianyan's heart tightened slightly.

In a sense, they did.

But the problem is that the side they met happened in the [Prosperous Hotel], inside the box garden of the gate line of the past time.

This time gate is too troublesome and sensitive on the one hand... More importantly, Wen Jianyan is self-aware, and the role he plays in that time gate is not pleasing.

If you want to be a long-lived liar, the first essential is not to have too much contact with your victims.

"Really?" His face remained calm, "Maybe it's hit-a-piece."

Hugo looked at him fixedly, but didn't say anything.

Wen Jianyan looked as usual.

He wasn't very worried, and even if Hugo really connected himself with the image in his memory, it would be more beneficial to him.

After all, the timeline when Hugo entered the Xingwang Hotel happened before Wen Jianyan entered the Nightmare. At that time, he was still chic in the real world. How could it be related to what happened in the dungeon?

Soon, the hall appeared before their eyes again.

The gray door was open, and there was endless darkness outside, and the entire hall was as silent as a tomb.

The two walked straight to the guard room.

The guard's room was as empty as when they left.

Wen Jianyan turned on the flashlight and looked in through the half-opened window. The furnishings inside were simple, with only wooden tables, wooden chairs, and a small cabinet.

The closed door is on the other side of the room door.

"Is there anything unusual?"

asked Hugo.

Wen Jianyan: "No."

Hugo nodded.

He came to the closed door and took out the prop key again, but before inserting the key into the lock, Wen Jianyan stopped him:

"I'll try."

"?"

Hugo turned his head and glanced at him, as if asking silently.

"Although you are rich, you can't waste it." Wen Jianyan's voice was still weak, and he smiled, "I have a hunch that there will be no additional conditions for the opening of this door...it's just a very ordinary door .”

Hugo took a step back and got out of the way.

Wen Jianyan stepped forward, lowered his head and fiddled briefly, and after a slight metallic sound, the door in front of him slid open silently.

He turned his head, as if surprised: "Wow, it seems that my intuition is very accurate."

Hugo: "..."

[Integrity first] The door of the live broadcast room:

"As expected of you, no matter how weak your body is, it's still easy to slip the door and pick the lock."

"Laughing to death, I can't even fix Hugo."

It's more about intuition than experience.

After entering the nightmare, he has fought against the locked door not once or twice, and he has already figured out some basic rules. Since the window of the guard room is half open, they can even climb in through the window if they want to. In this way, there is a high possibility that the door lock of the guard room is just an ordinary lock.

It doesn't even matter.

It never hurts to try.

"Wait for me outside."

Seeing that the door opened, Hugo left a word, then turned around and walked towards the door very neatly.

Wen Jianyan nodded and stayed outside the door.

Although he kept a relatively safe distance from the guard room and would not be affected even if something happened, his nerves never relaxed and he remained tense all the time.

Suddenly, without warning, Wen Jianyan felt a chill hit. The coldness came without warning, like a cool wind blowing silently behind his head, making him shiver subconsciously.

"...!"

Wen Jianyan subconsciously raised her head and looked towards the guard's room.

Through the narrow window, subtle noises could be heard in the darkness, and Hugo could vaguely see the back of Hugo looking for the key.

Other than that, no visible threats were found.

But, for some reason, he still felt very uneasy.

"did you find it?"

Wen Jianyan couldn't help asking.

"Not yet." Hugo's voice came from inside the door.

...just an illusion?

Wen Jianyan moved his fingers, and his palm was already sticky unconsciously.

Sen Leng's chill didn't disappear, but gradually deepened with the passage of time, making him more and more uneasy.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something suddenly.

Wen Jianyan turned her head gently, and looked at the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the hall without any trace.

The light of the flashlight flickered slightly, and his standing figure was reflected in the mirror, as well as the empty doorman's window—no.

After the window is not empty.

Wen Jianyan choked for breath.

In the blurry mirror, through the half-opened window of the guard room, apart from Hugo, a hazy black figure could be seen, as if sitting on a chair, motionless, without any sound, when looking past , almost makes people think that it is just their own hallucination.

Wen Jianyan turned her head abruptly and looked into the guard's room.

Inside the narrow space door, Hugo was the only one.

He opened the cabinet and seemed to be examining something.

No second person.

But…

Wen Jianyan paused, then turned to look in the mirror again.

Behind the window, a figure stood upright, it seemed a little more solid than before.

Wen Jianyan's pupils shrank slightly, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back.

When he was watching just now, that shadow was clearly sitting!

"Hurry up, we should go." Wen Jianyan lowered his voice and said to Hugo in the guard room.

"…immediately."

Hugo's voice was deep and urgent.

Obviously, not only did he understand what Wen Jianyan meant, but he was also aware of the imminent danger, but even so, he still chose to take the risk.

Wen Jianyan heard his heart beating wildly, he turned his head, and glanced at the mirror beside him.

Compared with when I just stared at it, the dark shadow changed its position again.

Not an illusion.

It moved away from the window and started walking towards Hugo.

"Now!" Wen Jianyan suddenly snapped.

The moment his voice fell, the black shadow in the mirror suddenly paused.

Immediately afterwards, it began to turn around slowly and little by little, and did not stop until it was facing Wen Jianyan.

The hall was dark, and the shadow didn't have a complete picture, and couldn't see the facial features clearly, but Wen Jianyan knew that it was "seeing".

A creepy coldness surged up.

At that moment, he felt his hands and feet were cold, and his eyes were dizzy, as if something invisible had grabbed his neck, making it difficult to breathe.

In the next second, hurried footsteps sounded.

Wen Jianyan was a little slow to react, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the voice.

It's Hugo.

He had already left the guard room and rushed in front of him.

Hugo looked calm, but his eyes looked serious. He reached out to grab Wen Jianyan's arm, and his voice was deliberately lowered:

"Walk."

Wen Jianyan was pulled by him and almost fell down.

Seeing this, Hugo didn't say anything, dragged his arm, pulled him directly onto his shoulders, and ran forward half dragging and half carrying him, completely unable to see that he was still carrying the weight of an adult man on his back, almost It can be regarded as walking like flying.

Unlike Su Cheng, Hugo also has his own style of dragging people -

Straightforward and rude, efficiency first.

"Wait, wait a minute," Wen Jianyan was stunned, but he still struggled to speak: "Key, key..."

"It's here."

Hugo answered simply.

As he spoke, he opened his hand, and saw a bunch of cold keys appearing in his palm, which were heavy and looked like there were many of them.

Seeing this, Wen Jianyan heaved a sigh of relief.

— Yes, reliable.

The hall was once again empty.

There was a dead silence in the darkness.

However, in the mirror, the figure in the guard room did not disappear with them. The mirror reflected its figure, which looked particularly eerie.

It walked out of the guard room step by step with slow and stiff steps.

*

On the other side, Tangerine Candy and the others waited boredly.

Soon, a rush of footsteps came from the corridor, quickly approaching in their direction. Everyone was startled, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.

Soon, two figures appeared in the darkness.

It's Hugo who walks like a fly, and Hugo almost turned Twain into a brief statement.

"You don't want to die!" Tangerine Tang frowned angrily, gnashed her teeth and lowered her voice, "Running so fast in the corridor? Forgot the second rule?"

"rest assured."

Hugo let go of Wen Jianyan's wrist, and put down the young man who had been dazed by him. He looked at Orange Candy and explained concisely:

"I used props before running and nothing would be disturbed."

This is why Hugo is in charge of running, and Wen Jianyan is in charge of being a large and weak pendant dragged by him—because his props can only work on himself, eliminating the sound he makes.

So Hugo can only come and run, and Wen Jianyan can be carried on his back.

He raised his hand and threw the key to Tangerine Candy: "Hurry up."

"What's the rush?" Tangerine Tang rummaged through the key chain, looking for a key that could match the iron door on the first floor, and said without looking back, "Come here if you have the ability."

Hugo stopped talking, he turned and walked towards Wen Jianyan.

"…fine."

Wen Jianyan leaned against the wall with one hand, shook his head with a pale face, avoiding Su Cheng's hand that came over.

He took a breath, as if he had finally recovered.

"What did you see just now?" Hugo looked at him.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, and then briefly explained what he saw.

After hearing the presence of the second shadow in the guard's room, Hugo's expression became obviously serious. He was aware of the danger in the guard's room just now, but he didn't fully understand what the danger was. Obviously, if it wasn't Wen Jian said that he might be about to have a head-on conflict with that unknown thing.

Not to mention what the outcome of the frontal conflict would be, at least it saved him the time and resources he might have spent in dealing with the crisis.

Hugo lowered his eyes, pondered for a few seconds, then nodded and said, "Thank you."

"…fine."

Wen Jianyan shook his head and said weakly.

He reached into his pocket and took out the small transparent capsule box. With slightly trembling pale fingers, he took a red pill from the box and stuffed it into his mouth, swallowing it with difficulty.

It has been almost ten minutes since he took the medicine last time, and Wen Jianyan can already vaguely feel that the wound on his neck is gradually becoming itchy and painful, as if he is about to wake up again.

He shook the box: "It's time for me to thank you."

Hugo nodded.

He took out a small cloth bag from the system backpack, opened it, and carefully sprinkled the off-white powder inside on the ground, spreading it evenly.

Like ashes, like burnt paper ashes.

Wen Jianyan watched his movements with lowered eyes.

Noticing Wen Jianyan's gaze, Hugo explained: "It's used to cover up our tracks so that things in the guard room won't chase us out."

After speaking, he stood up, rewrapped the cloth bag, and put it back in the backpack.

Hugo: "The time it can last is not very long, we'd better get out of here as soon as possible."

He turned his head to look at Tangerine Candy: "How's it going?"

"Shut up." Tangerine Candy was not polite.

Although her mouth was not forgiving, her movements did not stop for a moment. Soon, she finally found a rusty iron key. After inserting the key into the keyhole, she only heard a "creak", a slight There was a sound of metal clashing, and the iron door of the stairwell door, which had been tightly locked, was opened.

"Walk."

A group of people walked into the stairwell door.

Holding their breath, they moved forward cautiously, and soon reached the second floor.

However, when they were about to reach the third floor, they encountered another locked iron door.

"etc."

Tangerine Candy said.

She turned on the flashlight, lowered her head, and rummaged through the key chain, making a clattering sound, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find the second rusty iron key.

Tangerine Candy didn't believe in evil, so he poked every key in and tried, but it was useless.

There is not a single key that can directly open the door of the stairwell on the third floor.

"Tsk," Tangerine Candy twitched the corner of his mouth and sneered, "Classic."

Wen Jianyan was not too surprised.

He knew that these dungeons would not allow them to take shortcuts and go directly from the first floor to the third floor through the stairwell door.

Hugo turned his head to look at the exit on the second floor beside him:

"Go out and have a look first."

Everyone nodded.

As soon as they walked out of the stairwell door on the second floor, everyone realized that something was wrong.

According to the layout plan, the fire exits are at both ends of the first floor. However, after they walked up to the second floor through one of the fire stairs, they found that the whole layout seemed to be upside down. After they came up, the wall should have been located It becomes a corridor, and the location of the corridor becomes a wall.

Suddenly, Wen Jianyan noticed something. He turned on the flashlight and pointed it at the screen wall in front of him.

The faint light spot of the flashlight moved up slowly, and stopped on a piece of iron embedded in the wall.

On the iron sheet, there are a few words that are not very clear:

【Second Floor: Student Union Office】

Seeing these words, everyone's heart skipped a beat.

After seeing the real purpose of the second floor of the administrative building, the cold and pale faces and cold and dull eyes of those "student union members" reappeared in their minds, making them feel chills behind them.

[Integrity first] The door of the live broadcast room:

"I'm going, my friends, I'm getting goosebumps."

"I finally understand why the prophet's card is a tower... This place is **** like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den!"

"Why don't you withdraw... If you leave now, at least I think there is still a high possibility of returning alive."

"? Are you serious up front? We finally got to an interesting and unfamiliar area, so we're leaving now? Are you just kidding? Hurry up and charge me!!"

"In that case," Wei Cheng said slowly while staring at the words on the wall, "the key to the third floor should be kept by the student union?"

"Guess so."

Tangerine Candy fixedly stared into the distance, and replied gloomyly.

According to the urine nature of the nightmare dungeon, it is estimated that there will be no second possibility.

While several people were talking in low voices, Wen Jianyan carefully took another step forward, turning his head to look into the corridor.

In the next second, he felt his hands and feet became cold again.

"…look."

he whispered.

They were startled, turned their heads together, and looked in the direction of Wen Jianyan's line of sight.

Not far away, in the dark corridor, there were a few faint lights.

The light was dim and red, but it was real.

It leaked out from the gaps in the doors and windows of the office, smeared on the cold ground, like scarlet snakes, swimming in the darkness in the distance.

Obviously, although some members of the student union maintain discipline in the ideological and moral class, the office of the student union is not empty...

Contrary to the community activities office on the first floor of the administrative building, this floor is heavily guarded and full of crises.

Looking at the scattered lights in the distance, everyone couldn't help but froze, and the atmosphere dropped to freezing point.

Shit, too see you.

It really doesn't give people a way to live!