Lin Sanjiu stopped at the edge of the rooftop. She craned her neck and bent her waist to look down. Due to her angle, she couldn't see everything. She could only tell that she was not far from the main entrance. The blurry shadow below her looked like a flower bed that had been swallowed by weeds. Looking down from here, the low bungalows near and far all looked a size smaller.
However, for an evolved human, jumping from a height of five floors would not hurt their muscles or bones at all.
Thinking about it this way, the flashlight might be the only way out of this building...
As Lin Sanjiu thought about this, she turned around to look again.
Along the way, she didn't search the interior of the building carefully. If she left from here, what if Yu Yuan was still inside?
"There are dead ends everywhere," Mrs. Manas said, sensing Lin Sanjiu's thoughts. "From what I see, the area covered by the dead ends is gradually expanding … If you don't hurry up, this place might become a dead end too."
"What kind of danger is it?"
Lin Sanjiu wanted to leave as soon as possible, but she couldn't get rid of the thought that she might be Yu Yuan's only hope to be saved. Her feet felt heavy and she couldn't move. "If I know that there's something wrong with this medical station, I might go back and look for him again …"
"I don't agree!" Mrs. Manas immediately retorted, "When you came up just now, your hypersensory was activated the whole time. I didn't let my guard down for even a second. Be it your aura or the signs, it's obvious that there's no other living person in this building except you! "
Just as she finished speaking in her mind, a heavy thud came from somewhere in the medical station, as if something had been knocked over. "Huh?" Mrs. Manas let out an incredulous gasp. Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath, turned around, and rushed back the way she came.
"What are you doing?" Mrs. Manas couldn't help shouting.
"I heard it. That sound came from the third floor. There must be someone there!" Lin Sanjiu was very cautious. She didn't take a single step out of the building. The light from the flashlight in her hand shook violently as she ran. For a moment, she could not form any words. "Have you forgotten? The third floor happens to be the floor with the infirmary!"
Moreover, the sound was very heavy. It was so heavy that even the people on the rooftop of the fifth floor could hear it clearly. This meant that the object that was hit must be very heavy. One or two hundred kilograms. Wasn't that the weight of a man?
Feeling anxious and hopeful, Lin Sanjiu dashed into the stairwell. She stuck close to the railing as she ran down the stairs to the third floor. The darkness was as thick as the ocean, but the dim light from her flashlight sliced through it. The dim light and shadow intertwined with each other as they were swallowed by the darkness. It was only when she stopped at the last step that the light stabilized.
"Dead end."
When it was reflected in the corridor on the third floor, the words in the center of the circle were still the same.
"Yu Yuan!" Lin Sanjiu shouted. She did not even bother to lower her voice. From her previous experience, as long as she was still standing on the path of survival, it did not matter if the thing in the dark heard her voice. "Are you here? Are you all right? Yu Yuan! "
Her shouts, the light from her flashlight, the air stirred up when she breathed and moved seemed to be swallowed by the dark and silent corridor. Not even a ripple could be felt.
"Something is wrong," Mrs. Manas suddenly said softly after a while.
"What's wrong?"
"You called for him once when you were on the third floor, right? At that time, you didn't dare to make a sound." Mrs. Manas's voice was hard to describe. It was as if she was being suppressed by some kind of pressure and fear. Even though her voice was calm, it sounded as if it would break at any moment.
"Yes, yes …"
"Back then, there was an echo even when you shouted in a low voice. Why is there no echo this time?"
Lin Sanjiu did not know the reason, but she could feel goosebumps all over her body. She quickly aimed the flashlight in front of her. Her gaze went past the words "Dead end" and scanned the surroundings. After the flashlight melted away the darkness, she did not see anything that shouldn't be there. She looked for a while and finally, the light fell on a spot and stopped moving.
After the dark fog dispersed, a three-meter-long glass window appeared in front of her. There was a long, twisted crack on the glass window. The crack passed through a row of words written in spray paint. Lin Sanjiu couldn't see the words clearly in the dark, but she could see words like "Pre-Apocalyptic Medicine", "Herbal Medicine", and "Special Item Medicine".
"This should be the pharmacy."
"Do you think … the voice just now came from here?" Lin Sanjiu asked Mrs. Manas. In this situation, she was very glad that her Willpower image could talk to her.
"I don't know," Mrs. Manas said stiffly.
"Should I go and take a look?" While Lin Sanjiu was asking for Mrs. Manas's opinion, she had already tensed her body and slowly put one of her feet on the floor of the corridor. Her shoe landed on the floor, stirring up some dust. Lin Sanjiu kept her other foot on the safe path. She waited for a few seconds, but nothing happened.
"Maybe that's how that person died," Mrs. Manas mumbled, "He took the flashlight but didn't follow the instructions."
Lin Sanjiu clenched her teeth subconsciously and took her other foot off the stairs. She stood on the spot for a while, like a highly sensitive radar, not daring to miss the slightest movement around her. Step by step, she cautiously moved forward until she was not far from the glass window of the pharmacy.
She didn't get too close to the window. She squinted her eyes and scanned the area behind the glass window with the help of the flashlight. The light wasn't bright enough, so she could only see the vague shadows of some shelves. Just then, she heard a faint cracking sound, and it made her hair stand on end. She almost jumped up from the ground. However, she stopped herself in time because she realized that it was just glass shards that fell from the crack.
"Someone was here just now!"
Lin Sanjiu's heart raced. The glass had just broken not too long ago, so it was still falling. She came here quickly, so the person who made the noise might still be in the pharmacy.
"Huh?"
She stared at the glass window and mumbled a word.
The words in the circle of light on the glass had changed. It was no longer "Dead End" but "Death Warning, Extreme Danger!".
It was the first time she saw such words, but there was still no movement in the pharmacy. Puzzled, Lin Sanjiu looked at the glass window again. This time, she felt as if her body was gradually freezing.
Even though there were countless cracks on the glass, she could still see a layer of white on the glass window.
Half of the white mist disappeared. In less than half a second, the white mist reappeared on the glass window and spread out. Disappear, reappear, disappear, reappear … The white mist on the glass window kept appearing and disappearing according to the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation.
Something was leaning against the window, looking at her. Its breath hit the glass window.
Even though it was dark, Lin Sanjiu could see clearly that there was no one behind the glass window.
"Death Warning, Extreme Danger."
"Quick, quick," Mrs. Manas urged with a trembling voice.
Lin Sanjiu stared at the glass window as she retreated step by step. There must have been someone in the pharmacy just now, but it was probably gone now. Lin Sanjiu didn't know what was behind the glass window. She didn't even know how to protect herself. Other than activating her [Defense Forcefield], the only thing she could do was to rush back to the stairs.
The white mist disappeared. When it reappeared on the glass window, it was at a different location. It was near the crack on the glass window. The crack was just big enough for a head to poke through.
When the white mist disappeared from the glass window again, Lin Sanjiu turned and ran. She ran as fast as she could up the stairs. Before she could calm down, Mrs. Manas screamed, "Keep running! Quick! "
Lin Sanjiu's body moved first. She looked down and saw two words in the circle of light on the stairs: "Dead End".
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