Chen Chen was the first to hear these footsteps. This body of his had long become non-human, so naturally, his perception was far superior to that of ordinary people. Before the other two had noticed, Chen Chen had already locked on to the location of the footsteps.
The footsteps had appeared in the mall and were slowly approaching the second floor.
"Patter, patter..."
For some reason, to Chen Chen, there was an inexplicable strangeness to the footsteps. It was like the most rigorous robot, completely devoid of the vitality unique to humans. Instead, it carried a sense of death, as if the person walking in the corridor was not a living person at all, but a corpse that had been dead for a long time...
As the footsteps got closer and closer, gradually, even Zhao Shanhe could hear it.
Suddenly, Zhao Shanhe's breathing stagnated slightly. He sat up directly from the bed and at the same time, tilted his head, silently trying to distinguish the sound.
"Boss..."
Jenny was the last to hear it. After hearing the footsteps, she suddenly shivered and sat up directly. Zhao Shanhe, on the other hand, raised a finger and made a slight shushing sound, signaling Jenny not to make a sound.
The current situation was unclear. If the footsteps were disturbed, no one could predict what would happen next.
"Patter, patter..."
The footsteps finally reached the door. At the same time, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny stood up abruptly, fully on guard. Only Chen Chen remained sitting in place.
However, a strange thing happened. The moment the footsteps reached the door, it was as if they had reached their destination. They suddenly disappeared!
The footsteps disappeared without a trace as if they had never appeared. The entire world fell into a deathly silence again.
However, an invisible pressure had shrouded the entire staff dormitory.
Chen Chen's psionic energy had enveloped the entire dormitory and at the same time, he was highly concentrated. If anything happened in the dormitory, he could instantly erupt.
However, when this standoff dragged on for ten minutes, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny began to hesitate.
This was because they found that the footsteps outside the door did not follow up as if the person outside the door had left, leaving only an empty corridor.
However, naturally, the two of them would not believe that the person had left because there were only footsteps coming in but no footsteps leaving. The only possibility was that the person was still standing outside the door, silently waiting for something.
What were they waiting for?
In this subspace countercurrent world where even the corpses had disappeared, the sound of footsteps could be heard outside the door. Facing the unknown was far more stressful than facing the aliens. At this time, Jenny was already drenched in cold sweat, and she was about to collapse.
About twenty minutes later, the confrontation seemed to have ended. The footsteps outside the door sounded again, but this time, the sound was slowly moving away.
The footsteps had left.
Jenny and Zhao Shanhe only heaved a sigh of relief after the footsteps had completely disappeared. Zhao Shanhe wiped his cold sweat with lingering fear. "Damn it, the footsteps actually stopped in front of our door for so long!"
"The enemy actually didn't rush in?"
Jenny was glad to hear that. "I wish it would just rush in. At worst, you can just use the Civilization Monolith, but it just stood there for more than 20 minutes. It's so unbearable."
"The enemy didn't rush in not because we hid well, but because we didn't trigger its pattern."
Zhao Shanhe said, "Also, the Civilization Monolith isn't omnipotent. Every time I use it, it puts a heavy burden on me and requires a lot of time to recover. In the subspace countercurrent, it's best to use it as little as possible."
The two of them communicated in low voices. Chen Chen did not say a word. He only listened to the conversation between the two of them and absorbed the clues.
Obviously, everyone understood that the footsteps outside the door were definitely not from a human.
However, just as the three of them gradually let their guard down, suddenly, they heard an abrupt sound coming from outside the door —
"Knock knock, knock knock!"
This voice appeared extremely abruptly, causing the three of them to jump in fright. Zhao Shanhe's cheeks even twitched, and a creepy feeling seeped out from his back!
The footsteps had clearly gone far away. Who was it that was knocking on the door?
Chen Chen felt a chill run down his spine. He simply controlled his psionic energy and tried to use it to seep out through the gap of the door. When his psionic energy seeped out, he found that there was no one outside the door!
"Knock knock, knock knock!"
The knocking on the door continued, and it gradually became a little hurried.
At the same time, Chen Chen even heard the familiar footsteps coming from a distance. The footsteps carried a deathly stillness as they came toward him unhurriedly.
This time, even Zhao Shanhe heard the footsteps. A fierce look suddenly appeared on his face. He took a step forward and directly used his force to open the door!
"Buzz!"
The door opened with a loud bang. The low sound echoed for a long time and at the same time, it also revealed an empty corridor outside the door!
However, at this time, the knocking on the door stopped abruptly.
For a moment, the three of them froze in place. The hostility that was about to erupt was suddenly stopped.
That knocking sound, did he come in? Or did it leave?
"What's going on?"
Jenny muttered in a low voice. Her force kept sweeping the corridor outside the door, but she saw nothing. Still, this feeling of torment was getting stronger and stronger.
"Click, click..."
The footsteps at the end of the corridor were getting closer.
At this critical moment, Chen Chen raised his eyebrows slightly. He seemed to think of something and his expression suddenly changed. Then, he waved his hand again!
"Boom!"
The door closed again!
"What are you doing?"
Jenny questioned Chen Chen angrily.
"Shh..."
However, Chen Chen raised his index finger and made a shushing gesture. Then, he silently listened to the changes outside the door.
"Click!"
The footsteps outside the door came to the closed door again, and then, just like before, there was complete silence.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
This time, the footsteps outside the door stopped for about ten minutes before leaving again, walking toward the other side of the corridor.
It was not until the footsteps were far away again that everyone silently breathed a sigh of relief.
"Didn't you guys notice?"
Chen Chen said in a low voice, "The knocking just now seemed to come from inside the house."
Hearing Chen Chen's words, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny were shocked.
"The sound of the knocking was much clearer. It didn't seem to come through the wooden door at all. Instead, it seemed like the sound of knocking came from inside the door."
Chen Chen slowly explained, "So, when the door opened, the guy who knocked on the door had already left. It's just that we were affected by the footsteps and subconsciously thought that the knocking came from outside."
Jenny's expression suddenly changed when she heard this.
If the previous knocking really came from outside, then did it not mean that the three of them were actually in the same room as the other party?
Thinking of this, Jenny and Zhao Shanhe's expressions kept changing. It was extremely interesting.
"No, I have to give it a try."
Suddenly, Zhao Shanhe shouted in a low voice. He raised one hand, and suddenly, a palm-sized black slate appeared in the palm of his hand. The black slate floated in the palm of his hand, and at the same time, an undetectable wave directly swept through the entire room!
However, that fluctuation did not touch anything.
Seeing this, Zhao Shanhe's expression eased slightly and he retracted his palm.
Silently watching Zhao Shanhe's actions, Chen Chen shook his head and simply continued to empty his mind, silently conserving his strength.
However, he was also secretly vigilant in his heart. He did not expect that his Field energy would be blocked here and his psionic power would also lose its effect. He could not even detect what was knocking on the door.
He did not know what the knocking on the door and the footsteps were. Could it be as Zhao Shanhe said, an unknown memetic effect?
Chen Chen did not know.
Next, the three of them gradually discovered that the footsteps seemed to have a fixed frequency. Every hour or so, the footsteps would pass through the corridor outside the door and then stay outside for a little more than ten minutes.
At first, the three of them still maintained their vigilance, but as the number of times increased, they gradually relaxed. After all, the other party never broke in, so it was useless to worry.
Time passed by. Jenny, who had just recovered from a serious illness, did not hold on for long. She lay on the bed and fell asleep, leaving only Zhao Shanhe and Chen Chen with their eyes closed, silently staying in the chair.
Gradually, the night passed, and the sky gradually brightened.
The reason why Chen Chen could feel that it was dawn was that he was sitting under the window. Although his eyes were closed, he could still feel the sky gradually brightening from the initial darkness. Finally, the first ray of dawn in the morning shone through the window and the curtains into the room.
"It's six o 'clock in the morning the next day..."
Chen Chen silently calculated the time. With his brain power, he could estimate the time at every moment even without looking at his watch. The error would not exceed five minutes.
At the same time, Jenny also woke up. She sat up directly from the bed and her spirit was obviously better.
"Get ready. After this round of footsteps passes, we can continue to set off."
Zhao Shanhe instructed in a low voice, then took out some food from the package on the side, handed some to Jenny, and faced Chen Chen.
Chen Chen shook his head. His body was made up of more than five thousand prisoners on death row, which had long exceeded the scope of ordinary people. It was a piece of cake for him to go without food and water for a few days, so he directly refused Zhao Shanhe.
Seeing this, Zhao Shanhe was not surprised, but just silently ate by himself.
It was just that before breakfast was finished in the morning, the footsteps that had been echoing all night came again...
Listening to the gradually approaching footsteps, Chen Chen's heart moved again. Previously, he had already tried to use his psionic power to peer through the gap of the door to see who the owner of the footsteps was, but before things got to the worst, Chen Chen was worried that his psionic observation would lead to some kind of potential crisis, so he had not put it into action.
Still, now that they were about to leave, Chen Chen naturally did not want to miss it.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen took advantage of the fact that the footsteps had not reached the door of the dormitory to use his psionic power little by little through the gap of the door...
Psionic power was the same as Field energy, both were invisible and intangible forces. Although the penetration ability of both was not strong, not even able to penetrate a steel plate one or two millimeters thick, a gap of a few millimeters could not stop him. It was just that the process of probing was a little difficult.
At this time, as a trace of psionic power began to explore and began to cover the corridor outside the door, the footsteps gradually approached.
"Patter, patter..."
Chen Chen held his breath and tried to explore deeper into the corridor, then made contact with the owner of the footsteps for the first time.
However, when he "saw" the owner of the footsteps, Chen Chen was suddenly stunned.
Outside the door, it turned out to be a robot with a body covered in large patches of rust, almost scrapped!
The robot was covered with a large amount of skin sewn together by a large amount of dead skin. As the skin had rotted, it could only hang on the outer shell of the robot like a cloak. The surface was densely covered with holes, and rusty metal bones could be faintly seen under the holes...
"This..."
Chen Chen looked surprised. He did not expect that the thing that had been wandering outside the door all night was not the strange meme he expected, but an old and dilapidated machine!
Chen Chen had never seen the model of this robot before. He could only see that it maintained a general human form, all with two arms and two legs, and a head. If it were not for the layer of creepy dead skin on the surface, Chen Chen would even think that he had entered some kind of alien ruins.
No wonder this footstep sounded cold and without the slightest trace of human, because this was not the footstep of a normal person at all...
However, Chen Chen did not rashly approach it. He only used his psionic power to observe it. At this time, it came to the door of Chen Chen's dormitory again and stopped, as if it was trying to scan the inside of the door.
However, its body was too old, and the original life detector and other tools had probably been scrapped long ago. So, it could only stand quietly outside the door and wait for ten minutes before turning around and walking towards the other side of the corridor.
After the footsteps faded away, Zhao Shanhe sat up and stretched slightly, then said to Chen Chen, "The footsteps just left. Based on the pattern of the night, it'll take about an hour and a half to return here. This should be enough time for us to enter 'Air Force One' and enter the real subspace."
Chen Chen nodded slightly. After that, Zhao Shanhe carefully opened the door and was the first to leave the room, then left the mall.
He wondered what the robot was?
Although Chen Chen was a little curious, he knew that now was not the time to find out, so he still followed Zhao Shanhe out of the mall.
A few minutes later, the three of them arrived in front of the crashed Air Force One.
As soon as they arrived, Chen Chen sensed that the black mist here was extremely thick. Even the range of his psionic power began to shrink from a radius of twenty meters to eighteen meters.
At the same time, Chen Chen silently observed the plane with his psionic power. At this time, the surface of the plane, which should have been brand new, was now covered with vines that looked like blood vessels.
These plants existed by absorbing the black mist. They were growing and spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they were trying to completely wrap around the damaged Air Force One.
Zhao Shanhe did not stop. Instead, he seemed to be used to these vines and climbed directly into the crack.
"Keep up!"
Zhao Shanhe whispered, then reached out and pulled Jenny, who was unable to move, up.
Seeing this, Chen Chen frowned slightly. He controlled his psionic power to lift himself up, then took a step into the cabin...
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