Buddhist player

Su Qun breathed white breath into his palm and stood up from the stairs.

Because his phone battery was low, Bai Chen gave him some instructions and then asked him to hang up the phone. The rest of the communication was mainly through text messages.

This place is very strange. Although the network is useless, the communication can still reach the outside world, which can be described as malicious.

"...It should still be some time, right?"

Peeking out, Su Qun glanced down the corridor.

Although the professionals at the police station gave him a cold suggestion to commit suicide, they also provided him with all the information they knew about the disaster. Whether he could escape it or not depended entirely on his own luck.

However, despite this, the information the other side actually possesses is very limited. After all, the sample size is too small, and most of the people trapped here previously found it difficult to remain calm, let alone transmit useful information to the outside world.

What he knows now is that everyone who accidentally enters this space will encounter a monster in the corridor three to four hours later, and will be slowly tortured to death by the monster like a cat playing with a mouse, which is commonly known as torture and murder.

The narrow stairwell offered no place to hide, and the monster itself was not something an ordinary person could handle. Therefore, anyone who strayed into this space was essentially already doomed.

This is why the police advised him to commit suicide, because that way he could at least suffer less.

"Most disasters have their own set of rules, and to survive them, you must be bold enough to explore them..."

While muttering the words Bai Chen had told him before, Su Qun picked up the takeout that had long since gone cold and walked down the corridor to the floor below.

According to the information provided by the police, the monsters always emerged from the lower levels and then slowly explored upwards, which is why he stayed on the upper levels.

Now, however, he wants to do the opposite.

Whether it was because the sky was getting darker or because of the building itself, the lower he went, the darker the corridor became. Before, he could still make out the situation in the corridor with the light from the windows, but when he got to the tenth floor and down, the corridor below was basically pitch black and he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.

Darkness surged like a tide, engulfing everything below.

Looking down into the darkness, after a moment's hesitation, Su Qun took a step back.

"No, even if I die, I'll die with a full stomach."

With this belief, Su Qun retreated half a floor and began to enjoy the takeout that had long since gone cold. He had already drunk the cola, and what remained was a whole fried chicken, a few roasted chicken legs, and taro balls. Although the food had gone cold, it still tasted quite good.

After a few minutes of whirlwind eating, he even let out a satisfied burp...

"Alright, that way even if we die, it won't be a loss."

Satisfied, Su Qun patted his stomach and, after getting up again, very considerately collected the trash and put it in a bag, then casually hung the whole bag on the stair railing.

After doing all this, without any hesitation, he stepped directly into the darkness below.

In an environment of impaired vision and absolute darkness, other senses are amplified infinitely. Even though he deliberately suppressed the sound of his footsteps, he could even hear his own heartbeat.

A few minutes later, he arrived at the first floor again.

But just like before, the door to the first-floor hallway remained tightly closed, as if it were welded firmly to the entire space. No matter how hard he tried, the door frame did not budge.

"Hmm...looks like I'll have to go back up again?"

Looking up, Suqun instinctively gazed upwards.

As he walked down the stairs, he followed Bai Chen's advice and deliberately counted the number of stairs, hoping to reach a completely new level or perhaps find that a new staircase had appeared on a particular floor. However, nothing unusual happened when he actually walked down the stairs.

The stairwell itself is normal; there is no extra floor or extra steps on any floor.

Everything he had done before seemed to have been in vain.

However, Su Qun was carefree and didn't care. After resting for a while, he prepared to go up again.

This time, however, he had only gone up half a floor when a strange, hoarse sound came from upstairs.

Although the sound was very faint, in this absolutely dark and silent environment, even the slightest sound could be amplified infinitely.

"This is... the door is open?"

After listening intently for a while, Suqun immediately perked up.

Thinking about it carefully, since the monster still needed to slowly climb the floors to chase after these unlucky guys, it means that the thing must have a physical form and could not have appeared out of thin air.

Therefore, the most likely source of the other party is one of the locked doors in the stairwell.

"Judging from the source of the sound, it's probably coming from the second or third floor upstairs..."

While rapidly calculating in his mind, in order not to reveal his position, Su Qun bent over and climbed upstairs almost on all fours.

Given his bizarre crawling posture... it's hard to say whether he or the thing slowly walking upstairs is more like a monster.

Just as the police shared with him, the thing climbed the stairs at a snail's pace, but its footsteps were incredibly heavy, as if it were carrying a heavy bundle on its back.

It was precisely because of this that Suqun had to slow down his crawling speed, and it took him more than ten minutes to finally find the stairwell door from which the thing had come out.

The door frame was ajar, and faint moonlight shone in from outside, bringing a sliver of light to the absolutely dark corridor. A faint sense of normalcy wafted from behind the door.

Sitting in the hallway, leaning against the wall, Su Qun breathed a sigh of relief.

...Who would want to die if they could live?

Although he was worried that the noise from opening the door would attract the monster, since it was just a few floors above, he could escape if he waited patiently for the monster to go up a little higher.

"A narrow escape from death is sure to bring good fortune. Looks like I do have some skills after all."

Suqun tidied his hair with his hands, looking smug.

"Oh, right, let me know you're safe first."

As if remembering something, Su Qun took out his phone from his pocket, and after some deliberation, he wrote down his experience in a text message and sent it out.

But soon, Bai Chen's reply poured cold water on his enthusiasm.

"Oh, congratulations, you've successfully passed the first hurdle."

The host group: "???"