Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Ji Jingzhe opened the door and let Gao Mingxuan and his party in.

The three boys with him, a red jersey, a basketball jersey and a yellow jersey, don't know how they can wear three colors in a two-team confrontation sport, and there is a tall and capable woman named Xuan He.

Everyone gathered and looked at the scar on Yutu's arm together.

The wound looked very rugged and irregular. Jade Rabbit and Shuoshu, who had seen many such scenes, couldn't see how it was formed for a while.

At first no one spoke, and finally the yellow jersey said: "I feel...like a bite mark."

Shuoshu: "Bite marks?"

"Well, it was bitten by someone." Yellow jersey nodded, pointing to some parts of the wound, "and it was bitten by someone with very bad teeth, maybe it was an old man...Look at this line, it's a little empty, maybe It was this tooth that fell out. This line, the mark is very shallow, and it may be an outturned tooth; this line, the tooth may have fallen out in the middle of biting."

Yellow jersey raised his head and found that other people looked at him with a very shocked expression. He scratched his head and explained: "My grandma has Alzheimer's disease and has violent tendencies. She bit my dad before, see It's about the same as this."

After his explanation, I don't know if it is a psychological effect, but it is indeed more like what he said, it is indeed a centripetal wound, and the direction of the force is inward, which is in line with the characteristics of a bite.

So... an invisible old man?

Xuanhe said, "Maybe not all of them are old people."

Everyone looked at her, she shrugged: "I'll just say it casually."

Xingmiao: "Then... what will happen if you get bitten?" She looked at Yutu's wound worriedly, and said hesitantly, "...will it become a zombie or something?"

"Bah, bah, bah! No way!" Shuo Shu maintained Qiao Anmeng's character design, and hugged Yutu by the waist, "If my sister turns into a zombie, she will be the first to bite me."

Yutu patted his head: "Understood."

Gao Mingxuan probably wasn't used to lesbians/sexuals/relationships who were still playing tricks in this situation, and his expression was a bit disgusted. He turned to Wei Chi and asked, "What should we do now?"

Wei Chi was looking at the time and location information of other people "coming in" recorded by Yutu, when he looked up and found that everyone was looking at him, he cleared his throat and said, "I found..."

"Snapped."

Slight sound.

Wei Chi felt his heart skip a beat, and his whole body trembled.

The others were also silent, apparently hearing it too.

But no one dared to mention it.

"Crack."

A clearer sound, very clear this time, was the sound of the toilet door lock, and then the door slowly opened.

This sound is the sound of the door lock unlocking.

"Whoa whoa-"

The sound of running water came from the unisex washbasin located outside the toilet.

After a while, the sound of water stopped.

"Drip-drip-"

The sound of the subway leaving the station came from outside.When they were talking just now, another subway had already arrived.

Then there was a minute of silence, nothing happened, and the air of silence ended with someone coughing uncontrollably.

Gao Mingxuan asked hesitantly, "What happened just now?"

Akui pointed to the toilet cubicle closest to the door and said, "At first, the door of that toilet opened."

The red jersey said: "Is there something in it?"

"But, but..." Xingmiao almost cried, "But I went into that compartment..."

Everyone turned to look at her.

"When I first entered the toilet, I went in and unbuttoned the hidden button on my back...it was too tight. Soon...maybe I came out in less than ten seconds, and the door was not locked." She herself was quite devastated, Liushen Wuzhu, "Difficult, could it be that I was next to..."

"But I locked the door." Basketball said, "I locked the toilet door just after I came in, and Luo Yicheng saw it."

Luo Yicheng—the yellow jersey—nodded: "It's locked."

Gao Mingxuan went over to check the door lock, twisted it twice, and said, "The door lock is fine."

The toilet door lock is a common spherical lock. Press the middle button to lock it, and turn it counterclockwise to open the door.But the characteristic of this kind of lock is that it can only be opened by turning from the inside, and a key is needed to open it from the outside.

There must have been no keys just now, but the sound was indeed very similar to the sound of unlocking...

"Then suppose." Gao Mingxuan said, "There is indeed something that was originally in that compartment, opened the compartment door, opened the toilet door, even turned on the faucet, and left... What kind of behavior is this?"

Shuo Shu: "Go to the toilet." He spread his hands calmly under the strange eyes of everyone, "Isn't that right? Enter the cubicle, relieve your hands, exit the cubicle, and wash your hands."

Ji Jingzhe: "Then why didn't it flush?"

Shuoshu: "Maybe you don't like to be clean?"

Ji Jingzhe: "But it washes its hands!"

Shuo Shu: "I have no sense of public morality, just care about my own dignity, and don't care about the disgusting public facilities."

Ji Jingzhe: "It makes sense."

Yellow jersey: "It's not important!"

"No, it's important." Wei Chi said, "If he can turn on the sensor faucet, then it can flush water, it has the ability to flush, but it doesn't flush, there must be a reason."

He pondered for a while, and said: "Either, it has no public morality, or it is..."

Basketball jersey asked: "What is it?"

"I have a guess." Wei Chi said, "They only 'exist' in this world when the subway enters the station."

Everyone looked at him.

"Recall, do all the strange things happen when the subway enters the station?" He asked, and no one answered, but there were no exceptions based on their expressions, "We assume that these invisible things are ghosts, and the subway It's a ghost car, and the world of ghosts and this world only coincide when it pulls in and opens the doors."

He took Xingmao's notebook, drew two lines on it, and pointed to the intersection: "Assuming that this 'toilet ghost' is really going to the toilet, after it finishes using the toilet and flushes the water At a certain moment, the subway came into the station, the two worlds merged into one, and it appeared in our world. It has been washed through the water, and it is a completely normal flow of action to open the door and go out, wash your hands, and get on the subway. "

Xuan He said: "But you... are you really relying on assumptions?"

"Reasonable assumptions, careful verification." Wei Chi said, "Otherwise, do you have other methods?"

Xuan He shook his head, Wei Chi continued: "Moreover, what happened may be repeated."

Yellow jersey: "Why?"

Shuoshu said: "Because we also encountered water coming out of the sensor faucet once before." He briefly talked about what happened to him and Wei Chi when they came to the toilet before, "We also felt very creepy at the time, so we came out quickly."

Yutu: "Yes or no, we can check."

The blue jersey and yellow jersey locked the door again, retreated and squatted in the corner with everyone.

Everyone waited in the toilet for a few more minutes, and when they entered the next subway station, they watched the cubicle door open, the toilet door open, and the faucet come out—all the process was indeed repeated again.

"The verification is complete, let's continue." After the subway left, Wei Chi said, "Suppose, after the subway arrival switch is turned on, we share a world scene with ghosts, but we can't see each other."

The red jersey hugged his arm and rubbed it violently, muttering in a low voice: "The more you listen to it, the more creepy it becomes..."

Wei Chi: "I think the damage is incremental."

Gao Mingxuan: "What do you mean?"

"We." Wei Chi pointed to Ji Jingzhe, Yutu Shuoshu and Ah Kui, "We entered this world at about [-]:[-] am, and at about [-]:[-], we were talking in the subway station. Aoi felt herself being pushed."

Everyone turned to Ah Kui, Ah Kui nodded, and looked at Wei Chi again. She almost ignored this incident, but Wei Chi still remembered it so clearly.

Wei Chi: "I speculate that 'they' have always been physical, but they were not aggressive at the beginning. As time went by, until now...it is [-]:[-], nearly three hours, 'they' have become That’s it.” He raised his hand to signal the door, changed the subject, and said, “But this 'toilet ghost' didn't do anything to us, so I speculate that the changes among 'them' are also carried out gradually."

Everyone looked at him with solemn expressions.

He concluded: "I think this is a gradual entry into the horror world. The time each of us enters is different, which can also explain this. The situation is becoming more and more dangerous. We must find the exit as soon as possible."

Yuan Yueru was about to cry again: "How can I find it!"

Gao Mingxuan asked Wei Chi: "Before the 'toilet ghost' made a fuss, I remember you saying you found something?"

"Time." Wei Chi turned on his phone, which showed the floor plan of the entire city's subway, and opened Xingmiao's account book. There was already a page with many lines and dots drawn on it, vaguely in the shape of a spider web. He put the phone and account book together. Put them together and say, "As of twelve o'clock, 48 people have gathered here, and we have also registered the time and place when they entered 'this world'. It is impossible for everyone to remember clearly, but roughly like this— —I marked the time and place of their entry on the map, and found that it is a radial pattern. There is a center, and the closer to this center, the earlier the time of entry will be. For example, we were here Between the two stations, the earliest entry time is 12:[-]. Yuan Yueru and Lu Su were here at the time, and the entry time was [-]:[-], and Luo Yicheng and you were two stops away from Line [-] The terminal station, the entry time is after [-]:[-], right?"

Yellow jersey nodded.

Wei Chi: "Maybe we can visit this 'center'."

Gao Mingxuan asked, "Where is it?"

"It's between 'Liuhuakan Station' and 'Hongqiao Station', which is between the two stations on Line 10 we took at that time." Wei Chi said, "The data is not accurate enough to establish an accurate model. I don't know if it is at these two stations. It’s not known if it’s on the station, or it’s in between, or maybe it’s not on the subway line, but in an undeveloped stratum.”