章 15: Chapter 15: Welcome to Building 3
When you talk to humans, speak their language; when you talk to ghosts, speak theirs. From a young age, Bai Wu had practiced this skill under his father's influence.
Finding a common ground of knowledge as a breakthrough point, he swiftly gained others' trust.
When Bai Wu read the note mentioning an alternative way to pass through, he guessed that the personalities of these Evil Fallen must be quite extreme.
"It's my first time seeing an Evil Fallen commit suicide," Wang Shi said cheerfully.
"Is it because the Evil Fallen we encountered before were simply predators?" Shang Xiaoyi was somewhat curious about these intelligent Evil Fallen.
Although everyone understood that Evil Fallen were transformed from humans, after seven hundred years of countless excursions outside the tower, people had learned one thing: never regard Evil Fallen as humans.
"Brother Wang, the key is inside the Evil Fallen's stomach. After looking around, it seems you're the only one suited for the job," Bai Wu reverted to his normal state.
The others hadn't yet shaken off the image of the evil mastermind behind the scenes.
Wang Shi said:
"I thought our team had only one actor, but it turns out you're also a movie star, huh."
Wang Shi didn't move, as there was a more suitable candidate for dissection.
Humming a cheerful tune, Lin Wurou walked toward the corpse of the Evil Fallen.
Everyone brought something with them when they ventured beyond the tower; Bai Wu brought an electric rice cooker while Lin Wurou brought along a set of knives wrapped around her waist.
At this moment, she unwrapped the set of knives from the outer layer of her belt, a total of eleven blades of various sizes.
The others were already accustomed to this, but Bai Wu was rather curious:
"A row of knives for dissection—dissection is an art. Don't ever think a chainsaw will do, unless you like splattering plasma. This set of knives will let you dissect a corpse as delicately as if you were eating French cuisine. Unfortunately for the sissy, these knives have yet to house a Spirit Possession."]
Unlucky, recalling the expression on Lin Wurou's face when he picked up the camera, suddenly felt that Lin wasn't so bad.
Thinking back to the initial remarks about Lin Wurou and the various behaviors of these people, Bai Wu came to a conclusion:
Hmm, only Yin Shuang and I are normal in this team.
The air was filled with the stench of blood, and Wu Jiu's group waited patiently for Lin Wurou to "cut the cake."
Lin Wurou worked quickly; although the set of knives didn't have Spirit Possession, their material was not ordinary.
Before long, she extracted the key.
"A key that can enter the next level, you must be very curious why the doors in this world can only be opened with keys? Use your brain, and you'll find the answer."]
What does that mean?
Bai Wu had indeed pondered this question. From the top floor to here, he noticed many floors were damaged, the cell doors were twisted, so Wu Jiu should be able to force his way into the entrance of the third building.
No, I overlooked something; the events in this hospital may have happened before the Era of the High Tower…
Before and after the Era of the High Tower, the world outside the tower was different.
Before the era arrived, a hospital was just a hospital, but now, the hospital is merely a scene outside the tower.
And scenes cannot be destroyed!
Just like in GTA5, even if you install the Thanos Mod and snap your fingers followed by a few hundred rocket launchers, the palm trees remain unaffected.
Ever since Bai Wu could see remarks with his eyes, he always had the feeling that the world outside the tower was constrained by some strong rules.
That's why after seven hundred years, the city still has intact facilities, and the sewage system still works.
That's why after seven hundred years, the Evil Fallen inside this hospital still cannot destroy it…
So it seems that some of the doors of the world outside the tower cannot be forcibly entered; you must find the key.
"Alright, it's finally done."
Lin Wurou's voice interrupted Bai Wu's thoughts.
Looking back to where Elijah had fallen, his body was no longer visible.
The cranial cap, liver, spleen, stomach, heart, skeleton, the several arms on his back... all of Elijah's parts were neatly arranged.
Bai Wu noticed that the Evil Fallen's stomach was very special.
Perhaps Elijah was special, having a stomach but no intestines, more like a heart, connected by numerous large blood vessels, converting digested material into energy, transported to different locations.
Lin Wurou, looking at the neatly arranged "fragments" on the ground, was as happy as an eighteen-year-old girl.
This behavior was something Bai Wu had seen during his previous life as a detective; some psychotic killers had their unique styles of murder.
Among them were those like Lin Wurou, who cut the body into many parts and then scrambled them like a puzzle.
"Let's move on now that it's done. We'll head to the next floor," Bai Wu said, uninterested in Lin Wurou's arrangement.
However, his impression of the team had improved a bit.
In playing the role of Teacher Elijah and conversing with Elijah, Bai Wu was convinced that these people could also deduce some of the child's past to a certain extent.
But everyone remained composed and did not overflow with sympathy.
In his previous life, when Bai Wu helped the police solve cases, he often heard the public say how pitiable the criminals were and how they had their reasons.
He couldn't understand why.
"Why do we need to go below?"
With Elijah's death, Shang Xiaoyi confirmed that there were no longer any traces of Evil Fallen in the building.
"Since it's an exploration, it's natural to check every area," Bai Wu replied.
There were still a few points of doubt Bai Wu had not resolved.
For instance, why was Elijah so fixated on cell number twelve?
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Why does he never leave this building?
Did he and Little Pitiful from the fourth building have some kind of agreement?
Or is it that... Evil Fallen cannot leave a specific area?
On the way to the bottom floor, Bai Wu asked this question:
"Captain, why don't these Evil Fallen choose to leave this building?"
"Not sure, no one knows the answer to that question, at least current literature on leaving the tower doesn't mention Evil Fallen migrating en masse from one area to another. We can tentatively consider it a kind of constraint."
A constraint, huh?
This could explain why Elijah doesn't leave, so the scene cannot be destroyed... And the creatures in the scene can't easily switch scenes?
"But since we haven't found a principle to support this constraint, we can't treat it as an absolute rule. When investigating outside the tower, we still need to be highly vigilant," Wu Jiu seriously warned.
Bai Wu nodded in agreement with Wu Jiu's caution. Although his boss was not one to joke, he was indeed very responsible.
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The eighteenth floor did not have many prison cells; it was like a beast-fighting arena that had one particularly exquisite cage meant to imprison the most powerful beast.
The whole eighteenth floor was this exquisite cage, with Elijah as the wild beast within.
The layout of the bottom layer was simple, a large blank area with walls covered in scratches left by Elijah.
Bai Wu looked at these scratches and found they did not match the blood-colored patterns he had seen in the first building, confirming that Elijah must have been here for hundreds of years... never having left.
He suddenly thought about some irrelevant things.
Along the way, Bai Wu had only seen sanitation areas in the first building, with none in the second.
Combining this with the dissection scene Lin Wurou had just analyzed, he confirmed the conclusion given in the notes: Evil Fallen do not need to excrete.
What a pity that in his past life, no human could evolve into such an advanced body. Otherwise, it would resolve the regret many feel discovering that their idols also have bodily urges.
Stopping the bizarre thoughts in his head, Bai Wu's gaze swept over the room.
Most of the notes in different places were of no value, but Bai Wu still found some clues.
Although there were no prison cells on the bottom floor, the notes finally mentioned something that interested Bai Wu where room number twelve of each floor would correspond.
[An obstinate guy, he is The Twelfth Disciple, which is why he always favored this number.]
Here came another puzzle.
"He" must be referring to Elijah. The disciple corresponds to a mentor, which must be the teacher that Elijah ardently worships.
So does that mean the teacher has at least twelve high mutations of Evil Fallen under him? Considering that Elijah was sent to the hospital... Bai Wu faintly felt that the teacher might also be plotting something horrifying.
It was like Holmes had encountered Moriarty.
Bai Wu developed a deep interest in this teacher, even overshadowing Little Pitiful of the fourth building.
After fully exploring the second building, the group began to make their way back the way they had come.
During this process, everyone was silent, and Bai Wu also discreetly observed for a while, making sure they hadn't noticed anything unusual.
"Based on the story Liu Mu told earlier, it's better not to tell anyone about sequence values below two hundred..."
The owner of Sequence Seventy-Five was taken to the sixth floor and then disappeared without a trace, while Taotie was ranked at Seventy-Six...
Especially since I have a Sequence Twenty-Four inside me...
Although the information from Prayle's Eye isn't necessarily serious, it can always find clues to break through the situation.
Especially when the Spirit Possession of the camera occurs, it provides me with precise timing, which is beyond the scope of deduction.
With these eyes, I can greatly increase my survival rate outside the High Tower. Conversely, once the sequence is exposed, it will also certainly attract a lot of trouble.
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At the entrance to the sky corridor of the third building, Shang Xiaoyi was the first to step forward. After carefully sensing for a while, he frowned and said:
"The entire third building... seems to have no Evil Fallen either."
Wu Jiu didn't rush to act, instead, he looked towards Bai Wu. Bai Wu gazed at the entrance to the third building, his earlier conjectures now affirmed.
[In the four buildings of the Ninth Hospital, only this one is inhabited by people. However, all the people have died, leaving behind many boring records. But I must warn you, Little Pitiful has started to notice you, and she has left some little puzzles for you in the third building. You've got a sequence, so you can choose to leave at the right time—at least you won't die; or else... do you plan to keep delving deeper (don't choose this one)?]
"Open the door."
Bai Wu took the content inside the brackets in the notes as a joke. With Wu Jiu there, they should be able to get away if necessary.
From the previous deductions, Bai Wu understood that after the onset of The Era of the High Tower, Elijah had been restricted by the rules outside the tower and was unable to leave the second building.
Therefore, Little Pitiful must be the same, unable to leave the fourth building.
Wu Jiu took the key and opened the entrance to the third building.
At the end of the sky corridor stood a sign that read no entry.
Bai Wu initially thought there might be some trick to this sign, so he watched it for a while, but the notes didn't contain anything of value:
[See, I told you not to choose this one, right? The sign reads 'no entry' in four characters. As an adult who follows rules and understands courtesy, I believe you will adhere to the rules.]
Since it was a floor where people lived, the third building naturally had an elevator. Bai Wu walked past the long corridor and dining area to the elevator entrance.
The notes popped up again.
[Here comes the first choice Little Pitiful left for you. This building is filled with her resentment. Don't think it's just a little trouble like in the first building. I can give you a hint: First head to the third floor, and from there it's up to you. Moreover, take good care of your companions, because if you get lost on this floor... you might not be able to find your way back.]
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