499 Eye of Anomaly
After Lin Chi revealed the truth, the "Doomsday Hotel" created by Zhen has turned into nothingness and dissipated.
However, this apartment, which is also a fantasy, shows no sign of collapse at all, and is still exactly the same as before.
Lin Chi stood up, wiped his wet body with the torn towel beside him, put on the gray clothes he placed beside him, stood up and whispered to himself:
"It's weird."
According to his inference, the aboriginal people in this space, as well as the residents who have never appeared and do not exist at the Apocalypse Hotel, should be the same group of people.
In Lin Chi's opinion, this apartment should be like the Doomsday Hotel, a dream space created by the treasure.
So the question is, since this place is also an illusory space, why is it still so solid?
Moreover, what exactly did those black-clothed soldiers attacking the apartment exist was also a question that Lin Chi cared about.
Unlike the butchers, the soldiers who launched an attack from the outside of the apartment were not like characters created by Jen's consciousness, but something else.
So, besides the players, are there other guys who are "attacking" Jen's consciousness?
While thinking, Lin Chi turned his eyes to the hospital bed beside him. The poor woman lying on the hospital bed was still completely unable to move. Her body was filled with various tubes, and her internal organs replaced by simple equipment were slowly operating under the glass shield.
Looking at the other party's extremely miserable appearance, Lin Chi stretched out his right hand to grab the iron frame on the edge of the hospital bed and asked, "Do you want to leave here?"
"I want to get back to normal." Jane's voice came from the speakers on the ceiling: "I don't want to continue like this anymore..."
"Then remember what happened after coming here. If you think of something strange, tell me immediately." Lin Chi reminded him again: "Be careful of the 'incongruity'."
——Although this apartment seems to be no different from the "reality" in the game, if it is a virtual space similar to the Apocalypse Inn, it will undoubtedly create a subtle sense of incongruity.
And the sense of incongruity in this space may become the key to waking this NPC out of the nightmare!
It may be that a room is too tidy, or something is missing in the apartment. If you can find the strange things in the apartment, you may find a way to enter the "upper space".
"I'll give it a try..." Jen whispered.
"Well, I'll go to the apartment to investigate, too." Lin Chi said and asked again: "Do you have a breaker here, or something like "master key" that can open all the doors?"
"No, but the apartment's landlord's room is 105, you can go there to find it. He may have the key..." Jen replied.
Even though she knew that all the residents in this apartment except herself were fictional, she still followed the original thinking pattern and temporarily regarded those people as real.
After obtaining the information, Lin Chi decisively left the underground ward and returned to the first-floor corridor where corpses were everywhere, and stood in front of the iron gate of Room 105.
When the soldiers in black attacked just now, they had already used a breaker to open the main door of the room. Lin Chi stepped over a corpse that was lying at the door and strode into the room filled with blood.
He reached out and turned on the light switch on the wall. The incandescent lamp above his head immediately cast a pale light, illuminating the neat living room.
Perhaps it was because of his inner yearning for "cleanness and tidyness", the landlord's house was spotless and all kinds of decorations were extremely neat. Even the housekeeping robot in 2035 could not be so reliable.
There was no stain on the white tablecloth on the wooden table, and the cups on the table were almost completely transparent and so clean that they were incredibly clean. Lin Chi looked down at the shiny floor beneath his feet. Even the soldiers who had entered the room to search could not leave a footprint on the floor.
Looking down at the wooden floor that seemed to be too clean, Lin Chi immediately noticed something unusual. He turned around and returned to the corridor, grabbed a handful of the solidified blood pool under the corpse of the black-clothed soldier with his right hand, and then pressed his five bloody fingers on the floor of Room 105.
The dark red blood marks only appeared on the floor for less than a second, and they completely disappeared without a trace as if they were absorbed by the floor.
“What’s the situation?”
Lin Chi narrowed his eyes and stared at the clean floor as clean as new, looked up at the ceiling, and was immediately shook by the white walls.
This situation will occur in the house, which is obviously very abnormal.
Since there is the "incongruity" that Lin Chi is looking for in this room, then - is this the key to breaking through this nightmare?
Thinking of this, Lin Chi began to search Room 105 as quickly as possible and began to look for available clues in this room. Then, he found a note less than the size of a palm on the wooden cabinet next to the sofa in the living room.
Lin Chi sat on the sofa and looked at the contents of the note paper. He saw a line of small words written in standard printed English: "Rent arrears in Room 204."
"Um?"
After finding the new clue, Lin Chi quickly walked up the stairs to Room 204, but found that the metal security door of the room was locked and it seemed that it could not be opened easily.
——Is the key still with the landlord?
Realizing that he needed to find the key to open the door of Room 204, Lin Chi was about to turn around and go downstairs, but his body suddenly froze.
At that moment, the virtual body, which received the danger signal, stopped in place in an instant, facing Lin Chi, who was facing the end of the corridor, noticed the strange scene that appeared in the shadow at the end of the corridor:
A pair of shiny leather shoes were stepping on the dirty ground at the end of the corridor, and dark trousers appeared on it. The man's upper body was shrouded in the shadows below the stairwell. Not to mention his appearance, he couldn't even see the outline of his body. But just looking at the matching of shoes and pants, he should be an adult man.
Five seconds ago, Lin Chi firmly believed that the indigenous people in this apartment were all fictional characters made up by Zhennao, and they did not exist at all.
But now, the "person" who appeared in front of him did not look like an intruder, but a real apartment resident!
"Who are you?" Lin Chi asked tentatively.
His voice kept echoing in the narrow corridor, but the man standing at the end of the corridor did not answer, but turned around and slowly walked up the stairs and disappeared into the stairwell.
The slight sound of the heels of the leather shoes hitting the ground still lingered in Lin Chi's ears. Seeing that the other party had left, Lin Chi, who noticed some danger, did not catch up with him rashly, but just raised his head and asked loudly:
"Jane, are you here?"
"I'm here." Zhen's weak voice sounded: "What's wrong?"
"Did you see the person standing at the end of the corridor just now?" Lin Chi asked quickly.
"No, I didn't see anything." Zhen replied slowly: "I only see... you just talk to yourself to the other side of the corridor."
Chapter completed!