Every once in a while, Lin Sanjiu would ring the elevator alarm, and it was so shrill that it almost pierced through the air. Lin Sanjiu was so shocked that she almost poked her finger into Puppeteer's eye again. She turned around and tore down all the doors on the outer layer of the elevator. The door on the inner layer of the elevator wasn't too badly damaged, but it was slightly bent out of shape. Like a blacksmith, Lin Sanjiu knocked on the door with her metal knuckles for a while before the door finally closed.
The moment the door closed, the elevator began to move upward. As the elevator moved upward, the edge of the elevator slowly revealed the dark elevator shaft above. She took two steps back and looked around nervously. She saw that the corpse that had been turned into a puppet was still holding the skinny man down. Bohemia was also standing beside her and nodding at her. Only then did she let out a sigh of relief.
"How can the elevator go up without anyone?" Bohemia retracted her gaze from the screen and looked at the skinny man beside Puppeteer's feet. "No wonder he insisted on coming in. He really can get out."
Now that Lin Sanjiu thought about it, she realized that the NPC did include a few important rules in his words. However, the things that she should be aware of were all diluted by his nonsensical words. For example, the NPC said, "If there are people who are not supposed to be there when the elevator starts to move, you will be disqualified from leaving the hospital." However, he did not mention what would happen to those who were not qualified to leave the hospital. He also did not mention whether the discharged patients would be exempted from punishment if they were not in the elevator.
"The elevator is going up by itself now. Will it affect our exit?" Bohemia pressed the button. Even though the button for 'Up' lit up, she was still a little worried.
"I don't think so," Lin Sanjiu answered as she walked toward Puppeteer. "When you guys came in, didn't you wait for the elevator to descend? After the last group of people left, the elevator should have stopped at the top floor until the next group of people arrived. I don't think there's any difference in the current situation. "
Lin Sanjiu was not far from Bohemia, but she had to raise her voice a few times before she could finish her sentence. There was nothing wrong with the skinny man's eyes. Of course, he had already seen Puppeteer and sensed the latter's combat power. However, he was not afraid at all. His rationality seemed to have snapped a long time ago. As he struggled under the corpse's grip, white foam flew from the corner of his mouth and he cursed. He laughed, swore, cried, and begged. Sometimes, his voice was so ear-piercing that Lin Sanjiu's face twitched.
Even though Puppeteer was one of the people who had cursed Puppeteer before, Puppeteer merely tilted his head in the direction of the skinny man. His expression was serene, and he did not move an inch as if he did not hear anything.
… Was it because he couldn't see, so he was unwilling to make a move?
When Lin Sanjiu recalled his quiet response, she quickened her pace. She dusted her hands clean and took out her handkerchief. "I'm going to start." She wrapped her fingertips with a handkerchief again and said, "Open your eyes wide and don't move."
Puppeteer snorted coldly.
The moment she touched his eyeball through the silk handkerchief, a warm, round, and smooth sensation flashed across her heart. Then, he shivered a little. In reality, Puppeteer's body did not move, but Lin Sanjiu could vaguely feel that something under his skin and inside his body had been touched. It was as if even the teenager hiding inside did not expect to be touched. Puppeteer had always given Lin Sanjiu a lifeless, abyss-like impression, but it suddenly came alive for a moment. Then, it disappeared.
When Lin Sanjiu removed the "photo" from the second eyeball, Puppeteer did not show this kind of reaction. Like a stone statue, he only blinked his eyes slowly after the "photo" was removed. Then, he swept his gaze across the crowd.
"Tell me," he lowered his head to look at the skinny man, but his question was directed at Lin Sanjiu, "What happened?"
"Do you remember that you asked me to follow you closely?" Lin Sanjiu retorted, "Look at me. How far away was I from you?"
Puppeteer was silent for two seconds before he answered, "Very far. It was as if you were planning to kill yourself behind me."
'There's no need for me to voice my hope, right? '
"In fact, I was only a few meters away from you at that time. When you asked me to follow you closely, I thought it was strange." Lin Sanjiu gulped, "My guess is that this guy has the ability to copy a part of the real world and paste it in the air, just like how he takes pictures. That way, people will think that they are looking at the real world when they see the image in the picture."
Even the thin man's screams gradually stopped at this moment.
"He took a picture of me going up the stairs and 'pasted' it at a place far away from the staircase. Then, he took a picture of an empty staircase and 'pasted' it behind you to block the real me." Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment before she turned to the skinny man and asked, "Are your 'pictures' separated into inside and outside? From the outside, it looks like a picture, but from the inside, you can't see anything? "
The skinny man kept his mouth shut, but Lin Sanjiu had already gotten the answer from his expression.
"I think that's the reason. When I looked up at you, I didn't see anything strange. However, from your point of view, I was standing on an empty staircase, and there was a Lin Sanjiu far away. " She looked around the crowd and said to the other two people, "That's why Puppeteer told me to follow him closely. This guy seized the opportunity he created and quickly moved the 'me' in the picture in front of me, so I followed him closely. At that moment, I heard him telling me to move further away. I should have been more careful, but … I still moved further away. "
After that, she kept a distance of seven to eight meters away from Puppeteer, which was large enough for a few people to fit in. Puppeteer was satisfied with this distance because the "Lin Sanjiu" photo was right behind him. Truth be told, the real Lin Sanjiu did not know that there was a photo of Puppeteer and the others going up a flight of stairs in front of her. On the other side of the photo, there was a photo of an empty flight of stairs in front of Puppeteer.
That way, when Puppeteer turned around, Lin Sanjiu would be a few meters behind him, and the staircase was empty. In Lin Sanjiu's eyes, everyone in front of her was going up the stairs at the same speed, and even the light fishes were circling back and forth in a rhythmic manner. No one knew that after the skinny man adjusted his position, Lin Sanjiu was actually getting further and further away from the rest of them.
"After that, did you look for us in the staircase alone?" Bohemia shuddered. In some aspects, she was more sensitive than others. She subconsciously sensed Lin Sanjiu's state of mind at that time.
Even though it had dissipated, when she recalled the fear she felt in the staircase, she still felt as if a brush of ink was drawn across her heart. The tip of the brush swept across, and the dark ink gradually spread out on the spot where it had been. Lin Sanjiu did not want to talk about that part of her feelings. She nodded and asked the skinny man, "But there are still many things that I don't understand. Your picture can't block out the sound, but the staircase has absorbed all the sound, so you could sneak in and do something. You needed someone to pretend to be one of us so that you could hide in the corner of the elevator. There was a dead body here … Do you know the situation inside the staircase very well? "
The thin man chuckled.
"Know?" He widened his bloodshot eyes as if he was about to burst out of his skin. "You asked me if I know anything? I've been in here four times, and during that time, I've found a way to install numerous' cameras' in this stairwell. I've been staring at this stairwell day and night for eight months … Now, you're asking me, "he raised his voice and mimicked Lin Sanjiu's tone," Do you have a good understanding of the interior of this stairwell? "
Lin Sanjiu folded her arms and stared at him for a few seconds. "You're lucky that you managed to get out of here unscathed after coming in four times."
The skinny man shut his mouth immediately.
"So, when did you sneak in?" She had used her Higher Consciousness to hold the door open, but she did not feel any vibration from the wire.
The skinny man lay on the ground and took two heavy breaths. He rolled his eyes up and smiled at her, bubbles flowing from the corner of his mouth. "Aren't you very smart? Don't you have the ability to counter me? Since you're so powerful, why don't you think about it? "
"Ah, the elevator is here," Bohemia suddenly called out.
Lin Sanjiu turned her head and saw that the elevator was slowly descending from the elevator shaft. When she turned her head again, her vision blurred for a moment. Even with her dynamic vision, she couldn't see clearly what happened at that moment. When she felt a gust of hot, fishy wind brushing past her face, hair, and shoulder, she pulled herself together and stared at the wall across the hall.
She could no longer see the shape of the skinny man.
It was as if a deranged abstract painter had crushed flesh and bones to make paint and splashed a blood-red painting on the wall. Life was twisted into unrecognizable fragments, turning over the color of death from the inside out. Blood slowly flowed down the wall, and with a "plop" sound, half of his forearm fell into a pool of blood, and a few of his fingers trembled in the air.
Even though Lin Sanjiu did not plan to let this man go, she was still stunned for a few seconds. She had seen Puppeteer kill before. She had seen him kill many people, but she had never seen him lose control like this. Not to mention, he was the one who caused the man's death.
Puppeteer swept the non-existent dust off his fingers and walked into the elevator.
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