"Yes, this is a pocket dimension."
Lin Sanjiu heard the sound of rubbing stones for the fifth time in the dark.
Regardless of whether Lin Sanjiu probed him indirectly or asked him directly, the answer she got was the same.
She glanced out of the warehouse and saw Ryuji standing outside the dungeon. His head and shoulders were drooping as he muttered to himself, "How could this be? Did I even remember this wrongly? Was working in the Mokugyo Forum always a waste of time?"
It seemed like he couldn't maintain his normal emotions for long. After a few minutes, he would slip back into that "there's nothing left to live for" gloomy state.
"I don't care if it's a pocket dimension or not. Just don't go near it. It's enough to trap one person."
Lin Sanjiu raised her [Ability Polishing Agent] and used it to illuminate her feet. She picked up a broken steel bar and used it to pick up the trash and miscellaneous items on the ground. She felt more and more like a scavenger.
"That corpse … What happened to it?"
"It seems to be someone who died here before the apocalypse. I really want to know the details." She sighed and told Ryuji everything in detail, "If you have nowhere to go, why don't you stay here and help me think of a solution?"
Ryuji sighed helplessly and said, "… … I know. But I'm sure I can't help you. "
"Why are you so depressed?" Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes. She picked up a piece of torn cloth from the ground and threw it away. "How did you survive the apocalypse?"
"Maybe it's because of my ability." Ryuji squatted down outside the cement floor and lit a lighter. He looked at the metal frame on the ground and said, "Oh … This does look like a door frame …"
"What's your ability?"
Ryuji couldn't help hesitating. He let out a long "hmm" through his nose for a while. At times like this, he became more cautious.
"Please, I saved your life," Ryuji sighed.
He sighed and said, "Alright." Then, he said listlessly, "The name of my ability is very long. It's called 'Why bother with a person who seems like he'll gradually die if left alone.'"
"There's such an ability?"
Even though Lin Sanjiu didn't know the details, she could roughly guess what it was. She picked up a few pieces of glass and asked as she examined them, "So, under normal circumstances, people won't make things difficult for you?"
Ryuji snorted through his nose. As if he had lost the motivation to live, he was too lazy to complete a complete sentence. "They won't pay much attention to me … including the duoluozhong."
From a certain point of view, it was a wonderful ability.
Just as Lin Sanjiu turned a few pieces of glass into cards, she heard a clatter coming from the darkness in front of her. She hurriedly raised her [Ability Polishing Agent] and scattered the silver light as far as she could. Sure enough, she saw the curled up person in the light again. He was about ten steps away, and he was moving toward her horizontally. When she was focused on picking up the junk on the ground, the silver light could only illuminate a small part of the floor in front of her. The rest of the warehouse was as dark as the deep sea, so she did not notice when the corpse approached.
Perhaps because it was a dungeon item and not a real entity, even her hypersensory senses could not detect it. Sometimes, it would disappear in the blink of an eye.
Perhaps it was not as easy as she thought to avoid it.
She quickly turned around and distanced herself from the corpse. When she took a few steps forward, she felt something under her boots. She looked down and realized that it was a push-button handle that Mrs. Manas had mentioned before. Judging from its size, it should be on a window. There was a metal plate attached to the handle, and a keyhole peeked out from the darkness like a peeping eye.
"So, there is a lock on a window that requires a key to open?"
"This is a warehouse after all, so it's not strange that we have to protect our supplies …" Lin Sanjiu muttered as she stared at the keyhole, "This keyhole is very small."
"Isn't the key that fell from my pocket small and thin as well? If I use it to test the keyhole on the handle … "Lin Sanjiu immediately took out the small key that was so rusty that she could no longer tell its original color. However, after a few tries, the small key could only poke its tip into the keyhole.
"Could it be that the rust is too thick?" Mrs. Manas suggested, "Why don't you sharpen the key before you try it?"
"Ryuji," Lin Sanjiu shouted as she walked to the edge of the cement floor, "Help me keep an eye on that corpse. I need to go over there."
"Got it," Lin Sanjiu replied weakly from the bushes.
Lin Sanjiu knelt on the ground and pressed the key against the edge of the cement floor. She sharpened the key with a screeching sound. Not only did she have to remove the rust, but she also had to be careful not to break the key. It was a challenge for Lin Sanjiu, who had extraordinary strength.
When she was almost done, she inserted the small key into the keyhole again. This time, not only did it go in smoothly, but when she twisted the key, there was a "click" sound, as if the lock would open immediately if not for the fact that half of the lock was broken.
"It seems like this key is used to open the window," Lin Sanjiu sighed.
It was like putting two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together. So far, it was going well. But what was the next piece of the puzzle and where was it? That was a bit of a headache.
"Why don't you try rebuilding the window?" Mrs. Manas asked, "Aren't there some glass shards? Why don't you see if you can use them as a basis for your description? "
"It's going over —" Ryuji suddenly shouted, "It's not far behind you!"
Lin Sanjiu twisted her body and saw the corpse raise one of its legs from the corner of her eye. When the leg landed, the corpse suddenly enlarged. It was only a few feet away from Lin Sanjiu. Lin Sanjiu could even see the protruding skin of the broken neck. Her heart skipped a beat. She kicked the ground and leaped away from the cement floor.
Perhaps she had used too much force, Lin Sanjiu felt her vision blur. When she landed on the ground again, she found herself back in the pocket dimension, right in front of the corpse. This was the first time she saw the corpse's face. The neck and head were twisted at a 90-degree angle, and the spine protruded from the skin.
A bare, grayish arm stretched out toward her, accompanied by a low moan.
Lin Sanjiu moved quickly. She turned around and ran to the other side of the warehouse, putting some distance between her and the corpse. Ryuji was half-squatting in the grass. His face was pale. When he saw that Lin Sanjiu was close to him, he stammered, "This place is very, very dangerous. How long more do you need?"
"How would I know?"
"Didn't I ask you to solve the mystery of the locked-room murder? Do you have any clues? "
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She turned her head and stared at Ryuji.
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