It's almost like I'm a fairy

The seventeenth floor was filled with unintentional laughter.

Qi Tianhe didn't dare to offend these employees too much. With the ghost energy in a balanced state, there was a huge difference in force between him and that river.

"Forbearance is calm for a while." He also persuaded the witch general in the same way.

However, in Wu Jiang's eyes, the opponent's image has completely changed, it's not white cutting black, but white cutting ink.

"As expected of a returner," General Wu sneered, "Deliberately create the illusion of calm and breezy, you also deliberately arranged for Bai Chan to appear in front of me, in order to create the illusion that he is leaving the dungeon. It is connected with the BOSS in the dungeon."

Qi Tianhe tried to find an entry point: "Many are coincidences, listen to me..."

The witch general interrupted: "You still don't want to admit it until now, it seems that you still have unfinished plans."

Pray for Tianhe to give up explaining.

Looking at the row of employees in front of him, he decided to concentrate on climbing the stairs, and said seriously, "I'm going to the eighteenth floor."

The employees looked at each other in blank dismay. They could feel the familiar atmosphere from Qi Tianhe, but they could also perceive that his personality was very different from before.

One of them hesitated slightly and said, "Now is not a good time to go upstairs."

"The cicadas will sing in one minute and 30 seconds." Another employee gave the exact time.

"This is the third cicada singing today..." They seem to be full of expectations for this cicada singing: "It can help you find yourself."

Qi Tianhe's lips moved: "The cicadas sing three times, and the soul returns?"

The staff nodded again and again: "Please be careful. Those who are not firm in their hearts will have their souls crushed in the third cicada. There are often companions in this building who are dying because they can't resist the three cicadas."

From the beginning to the end, the witch general was regarded as air, in order not to embarrass him, Qi Tianhe turned his head: "Come on."

Wu Jiang showed a gentle smile for the first time: "Try to speak as little as possible while I still have reason and before I decide to die together."

The omen before the third cicada crow was very strong, and the lights flickered on and off.Scaring people with a light source is just the lowest routine, Qi Tianhe thinks he is used to it long ago, but this time it is different, when the light changes, accompanied by a faint cry, his heart beats uncontrollably along with it.

Plop, plop...

As if receiving a defibrillator, it was so violent that it seemed that it would jump out of the chest in the next second.

The familiar short chirp echoed in the building, and Qi Tianhe squatted down, clutching his chest tightly, trying to resist the beating caused by the sound.I don't know how long it has passed, but when he was covered in cold sweat, he finally found his normal breathing rhythm.

When Qi Tianhe stood up, his legs trembled a little, and he found that the number of people around him suddenly increased.

Among them were a few familiar faces, employees who had placed "high hopes" on him before, and besides that, there were many strangers who wore the same uniform but had never seen them before.

Looking left and right, Qi Tianhe did not see the figure of the witch general. The seventeenth floor has a new look, with bright tiles, wallpaper with imaginative starry sky pictures, and even the design of the table has small details.

"Another three cicadas ran out of the game, did you try to cut off the power?"

"Didn't you try it on the first day?" The person sitting next to the computer smiled wryly: "It's useless."

"They're coming up! Quick, close the door."

The scene in front of him gradually blurred, and the light and shadow became blurred. In the end, Qi Tianhe could only hear the sound of messy footsteps.

The picture changed again, the white tiles were covered with mottled blood, but the employees in a space didn't have the slightest intention to clean it.All of them stared blankly, mechanically doing the work at hand.

There is no heartbeat, no breathing... There is no doubt that these employees have turned into ghosts after death, like walking dead, and become NPCs controlled by the game.

Qi Tianhe stood among them, but no one could see his existence.

As a transparent person, he began to try to go to other places. At this time, the elevator was still running normally. Qi Tianhe first tried to go to the eighteenth floor, but unfortunately he couldn't press the button.

He was trapped on the seventeenth floor.

The days are boring, and the employees are like a wind-up alarm clock, and they will perform unified actions according to the changes of cicadas.During the day, he was fully armed to hunt and kill cicadas, and during the night, he hid in a cabinet like an ostrich and remained motionless. In addition to studying cicada specimens, he had nothing else to do in his daily life.

Boring and boring, no matter how patient Qi Tianhe was, he couldn't bear it anymore, and passed the boring time by hypnotizing himself to sleep.

On this day, as usual, in a drowsy state, I was awakened by the smell of smoke.

A large amount of black water seeped from the gap between the wall and the floor. Qi Tianhe stood up suddenly and climbed onto the table. However, the black water flowed very fast. In the blink of an eye, more than half of the entire [-]th floor was corroded and pitted.

...This should still be the result of deliberate control.

In the copy of [Story], the black water can easily collapse a hotel.

The water level moved up little by little, and the legs of the table used by Qitianhe to take refuge trembled twice, completely becoming a softened cork and melting into a black ocean.He inevitably entered the water together, as did the surrounding staff.

Everyone soaked in the water together, and the Qitian River seemed to be out of the body, and it was like duckweed in the water flowing with the fluctuations.He turned his head to look at those employees, who were turning into bones and sinking to the bottom of the river.

In the long passage of time, I don't know how long it has passed, the white bones have changed, and began to reshape the body because of the resentment and yin in the water.

Opening their eyes again, the employee awakens to self-awareness.

Heishui changed into a vague human form, standing on the seventeenth floor as if it had been burned by a fire, and accepting the pilgrimage of ghost employees.

"Get out of the control of the rules," Heishui said in a hoarse voice, "Come out of the small world with me."

In the fledgling plot, employees have a strong sense of dependence on this existence that awakens their self-awareness. Unfortunately, they succumb to fear more than dependence.

"Although the president usually doesn't care about things, if he escapes, he will crush us."

The employees are all saying the same thing... you can go, but you have to deal with the BOSS on the eighteenth floor first.

The black water sneered, and began to flow towards the eighteenth floor. The Qitian River was like garbage, and was forced to roll up and flow to the upper floor.

In the empty corridor, there is only one office, which is large and imposing.Almost the entire wall is decorated with books, a long solid wooden table is placed by the window, and a man with long hair is propping his head, looking at the ruins of the outside world.

With the arrival of the black water, the beautiful wool carpet was corroded into a palm-sized black mass, and an invisible thing in the air was burning, and two words involuntarily appeared in Qi Tianhe's mind: rules.

Invisible rules are being eroded.

Until then, the long-haired man finally had a little reaction, and of course it was only a little bit.

He turned his head and had the same face as Bai Chan, but he felt more inaccessible. At least Bai Chan's expression would be a little softer when facing Qi Tianhe.

Just as Qi Tianhe was subconsciously comparing the differences between the two, he suddenly saw Bai Chan picking up a flower with will-o'-the-wisp, probably fed up with the farce, and was about to deal with Heishui quietly.

Small but full of energy.

Qi Tianhe could vaguely feel how tragic the effect would be if this flower exploded.

This should be a certain scene in the past. He tried his best to relax his mind and hid in a corner where he would not be easily affected. By the way, he expressed his appreciation for Heishui's strength, and he was able to be tough with Baichan.

But Heishui didn't notice the will-o'-the-wisp at the other's fingertips at all, instead he shouted sharply: "Surrender, or die!"

The six words echoed loudly in the office.

The echo disappeared, and the area fell into a long silence.Under the excessive silence, Qi Tianhe felt ashamed and almost melted away.

Bai Chan was also taken aback, the flames on her fingertips disappeared, and she looked at the black water with the eyes of a rare animal.

When he was on the seventeenth floor before, Qi Tianhe tried to call the parrot, but there was no response. Now he tried to call the parrot again without giving up, but he still didn't get a response.

On the contrary, Bai Chan seemed to sense something and glanced this way.

Qi Tianhe quickly tightened his thoughts, trying not to think wildly.

The term "I don't know good or bad" seems to be born for black water. He mistakenly took Bai Chan's silence as fear, and manipulated the highly corrosive black air to rush towards Bai Chan. At this moment, Qi Tianhe finally knew why Bai Chan wanted to describe this Rivers are stupid.

It's really stupid.

There is a choking smell everywhere, and the rules of the [-]th floor have been burned away during the fight.

Heishui was finally beaten into submission.

Witnessing the tragic scene, Qi Tianhe began to summarize knowledge points like a normal person. The ability of the highest boss in the dungeon is closely related to the level of the dungeon.

No matter how powerful Blackwater is, it will still suffer if you come to the only 4S copy, and the only thing you can rely on is your special ability.

In the next period of time, Qi Tianhe's daily life changed from watching the black water agitating NPCs on the seventeenth floor to watching the fights.

After repelling the river three times in a row, Bai Chan became impatient: "My patience with fools has always been limited."

Heishui did not give up on bewitching: "When you get out of the shackles of the game, you will find the outside..."

Bai Chan interrupted coldly: "I'm not interested in understanding the world of fools."

Heishui seems to have read some books recently: "Zifeiyu, An Zhiyu's joy, you can make yourself like me, such as shrinking your brain size, and then you can experience my happiness."

"..."

Bai Chan had nothing to say.

The same is true for Qi Tianhe, he would rather fight a certain ghost than watch it any longer.

Unfortunately, everything is still going on.

"Happy?" Bai Chan's smile finally showed emotion, but it was sarcasm. He looked out the window: "The dungeon world has its own rules of operation, destroying newborns and rebuilding, it's the same everywhere."

Heishui couldn't leave his dungeon for too long, and he couldn't take away the well-developed younger brother, and there was also a seemingly super-strong thug, who was full of dissatisfaction.

"Do you want to make a bet?" Heishui asked.

Bai Chan didn't find joy in the blueprint constructed by the other party, but seemed to find joy in Heishui's stupidity: "Tell me."

"If I successfully escape the game's control, you will come and be my thug."

Bai Chan shook her head: "It's not worth it. If you win, I will lose my personal freedom, and if you lose, I won't get any benefits."

Heishui suddenly became much smarter: "You wait."

He salvaged a few white bones from the river, and started to build a box. Heishui was very interested in this, and finally Baichan became very interested: "It's very strong, what are you going to store?"

"Soul." The voice fell, and the black water split part of the Yin Qi on the spot, and the whole office was suddenly gusty.

Qi Tianhe saw a lot of black dots trying to escape, he had a bad premonition, turned his eyes, and there were no hiding cabinets around.In desperation, he had no choice but to take a risk, hanging out the window to avoid being caught.

There were sharp howls in the house from time to time, which made people's scalp numb. Qi Tianhe held on to the window sill, and gradually felt exhausted. After a while, the voice inside gradually decreased.He tried his best to slow down his heartbeat, and couldn't help but glance down.

Everything was reduced to fuzzy black dots, not much different from the abyss. The wind was strong upstairs, and the scratched skin hurt.

Apart from closing his eyes and praying for the wind to stop, there was nothing Qi Tianhe could do.The sky seems to have heard his call, the wind finally died down, he breathed a sigh of relief, his muscles relaxed slightly... When he raised his eyes, there was a black figure lying on the window sill grinning at him.

Qi Tianhe was startled, his fingers shook, and he fell down.

The sense of weightlessness in this posture was particularly strong. He barely opened his eyes in mid-air, and saw a black net, and was salvaged before he realized what it was.

"Almost escaped one." Heishui said to himself.

Qi Tianhe was pinched into small dots and pushed into the box.

Heishui said to Baichan again: "Once I disappear, the box will open automatically. The problem is that according to your strength, you can force it open. You must find a way to prevent this."

Bai Chan squinted his eyes. The power represented by the soul is different, and it contains some laws given by the dungeon.Getting it in your hand can be regarded as a hole card, and the good future you use may come in handy.

He didn't expect Heishui to be so willing to spend his money.

Bai Chan tapped the table with her fingers, and suddenly froze at a point in the void, spit out the word 'forbidden', and the air fluctuated accordingly, isolating a space alone.

"It can be stored here, blood, spells...the way to open it is up to you. Once you force it open halfway, the contents inside will be instantly destroyed by the forbidden power."

Heishui agreed to this method, except for Qi Tianhe, no one knew what opening method he decided to open after putting the box in, including Baichan, of course the latter had the spirit of contract and didn't bother to peek.

In the darkness, he couldn't feel the passage of time, and Qi Tianhe didn't know what was waiting for him next. He thought it would be the same as before, the scene was constantly distorted, and it was another time period when he opened his eyes again.However, after waiting and waiting, he began to count the time, and after counting tens of thousands, there was still no change.

Even Qi Tianhe felt a little flustered at this moment.

There was no sound at all around, and the box was like a nailed coffin lid that could hardly be shaken by one person.If it weren't for relying on constant psychological counseling, Qi Tianhe would have gone crazy long ago.

While waiting endlessly, he suddenly thought of what the former staff of Cicada Cry said: those who are not firm in their hearts will have their souls crushed in the third Cicada Cry.

Once one's sanity is spent and lost in the box, it may really disappear.

"The soul returns..."

Qi Tianhe leaned against the cold inner wall, thinking about how to escape.After an unknown amount of time passed, he suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility... Could it be possible to wait day after day until time flows from the past to the future?

……

When Qi Tianhe was besieged and tortured by darkness, the parrot was standing at the elevator entrance in a daze like a lost child.

The elevator door opened, and it stepped in with its paws, went up to the eighteenth floor and returned to the office.

The parrot is hesitating whether to turn into a human form. In the animal state, Baichan has set up a memory node for himself. He can only hold a few things in his mind, and it will dilute a lot of previous memories. Only in this way can he hide from the game.

Medium and high difficulty dungeons can still be played as a player, but [Cicada] itself is his dungeon.Once it changes back to its original form, it will be captured by the game immediately, and it will not be possible to return to the state of a parrot to help Qi Tianhe before the instance is cleared.

After several weighings, in order to use more power, the parrot is still ready to change back.

A white light flashed, and the parrot on the chair, which was the size of a palm except for the tail, disappeared and turned into a long-haired man.

His attire has changed a lot from normal times. He didn't wear a peaked cap, and replaced his casual outfit with a suit and leather shoes. He looks like an unkind president.

After Bai Chan turned back into a human, the first thing she did was to look for Qi Tianhe in the waves created by the cicadas' singing, but she found nothing.

During the second search, he even saw the witch general, who was in a false illusion. In the illusion, Qi Tianhe forced him to recognize the thief as his father and call him godfather, so he agreed to hand over his subordinates to the witch general, and at the same time prayed Tianhe to persuade himself Sign the equity transfer agreement, so Wu will become the new instance boss.

Bai Chan took a quick look and continued to search for the target, but still found nothing.

"Not in a false illusion," Bai Chan frowned: "That is in reality."

This is not a good thing, it means that the game has discovered the clues.

Although the last two floors have no rules and restrictions, the cicadas are set by the dungeon, which obviously unilaterally increases the difficulty of targeting Qi Tianhe.

"Where will it be..." He stood up.

There is a hint of urgency hidden in the calm eyes, Baichan knows very well what the consequences will be if he gets lost in the real time node, and every moment of delay may be a kind of torture for Qi Tianhe.

He can wake up a person in the illusion, but going to the real node to find someone in person will definitely be banned by the game.

Bai Chan set her eyes on the witch general in the illusion, and gradually made a decision.

……

The witch general knew that everything in front of him was an illusion, but unfortunately he couldn't think of a way to escape for the time being.

A white light suddenly appeared in front of him, and a voice rang in his ears: "If you want to get what you want, just follow the light source, find Qi Tianhe, and tell me his location."

The lingering sound is still there, and the witch general has a complicated expression after hearing it... Isn't it a bit outrageous to open the back door to this level?

On the other hand, the conditions offered by the other party were really good, just looking for someone, this deal was very cost-effective.

The end of the light source is dim, and the props cannot be taken out here.At the same time, Wu Jiang felt that the surrounding environment was desperately pushing him out, and he couldn't move forward at all.Reluctantly, the witch general could only use the most primitive and dangerous method, and shouted in a low voice: "Qi Tianhe?"

The call sank into darkness, and the witch general was gradually repelled to leave this world.

"Tell him..." A voice finally came from the darkness: "Yes..."

Qi Tianhe wanted to say something, but was imprisoned by an invisible force, unable to say those few keywords,

The tone was so weak that it was about to disappear: "Forget it, you tell him that if life is just like the first time you saw it..."

In the next moment, the witch will be completely expelled from this place.

……

On the eighteenth floor, only one person is qualified to go up.

It's hard to say whether Qi Tianhe can survive the three cicadas, and Wu Jiang, as the first to wake up, is considering whether to go to the eighteenth floor.

Not allowing him to think too much, the phone on the desk rang, and there was only one sentence: "Go upstairs."

It was deserted in the office.

Wu Jiang never thought that he would meet Bai Chan in this situation. When the other party appeared as a player before, his sense of presence was not too high. Now he is like an unsheathed sword. body hostility.

"What about people?"

The witch general did not speak.

Bai Chan and Qi Tianhe have a very close relationship. If he knew that something happened to Qi Tianhe, Bai Chan would probably kill him in a fluctuating mood.

Thinking of this, the witch general looked cold and looked for a way to escape.

But Bai Chan didn't have the patience to wait any longer, there was already a faint will-o'-the-wisp floating in his palm.

Seeing this, the wizard frowned, and finally said it: "He asked me to bring you a sentence, saying that if life is just like the first time you see it..."

After the words fell, there was a dead silence in the office, and Bai Chan's body froze there slightly.

The wizard took a step back and prepared defensive props to deal with the next situation where the other party lost his mind due to despair.

"The cicada sings three times, the soul returns..." Bai Chan murmured softly at this time, closed his eyes and didn't know what to think of, and immediately waved his hand, the bone box where the soul was stored back then floated in the air.

The soul of that river is attached to the baby, which is different from death, so the box has remained in its original state for so many years.

"Surrender, or die?"

The box opened in response.

The black mist condensed into a solid body, and Qi Tianhe was in a dazed state. He looked down at his hands and feet in disbelief: "I came out?"

Bai Chan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded: "I considered the box before, but I don't know what the river chose as the opening method at that time."

Qi Tianhe said unhappily: "That idiot still claimed to be a spell. I originally wanted to let the wizard pass this sentence directly, but I was banned."

Looking at each other with a smile, Qi Tianhe rejoiced: "Fortunately, you can understand."

Bai Chan: "If life is just like seeing you first..."

Qi Tianhe raised his eyebrows: "Surrender, or die?"

Low-pitched laughter drifted away, and the witch general behind him was at a loss with defensive props, as if he was watching two psychopaths.