Alien Executioner

"Well, it's okay." Gu Zhilan put on the bracelet and looked up at Lalo coldly.

"What's with your attitude? I'm your savior. Without me, you would have been wiped out!"

Lalo snorted. The feeling of being looked down upon made him feel guilty and he felt that his lie had been exposed.

In fact, he didn't know whether the girl's companions were still alive. They all looked like high-level alien species. To be honest, they should have survived Xiao Qi's self-explosion. It was just that they were confused by the explosion for a moment, and were buried under the rubble, so they couldn't react for a while.

This was actually done deliberately by Lalo. He had every chance to escape alone, but he just wanted to leave some scapegoats to delay time. If Gu Zhilan's companions were still alive, the woman dressed as the godfather must also be alive. She was more terrifying than all of them combined.

If it weren't for his favor to that man, he wouldn't have wasted time taking Gu Zhilan away.

"that……"

Lalo hesitated for a while, scratched his head and said, "I seem to be lost. This place is a bit weird. Do you know how to leave?"

“This isn’t the Coster Theater.”

"The theater was blown down, and I took another antique elevator, and when I came out I saw this damn place," Lalo told the truth.

Gu Zhilan was silent for a moment: "I don't remember there being an office building next to the Coster Theater."

"Ah?" Lalo was stunned.

"Within one kilometer of the Coster Theater, there is either a plaza or a parking lot. The nearest large concrete building is the department store. If we just look at the distance of the elevator... we should still be at the Coster Theater. This is inexplicable. Are you sure it's the elevator?"

"It's really an elevator. I remember it right."

"I'll tell you directly, there is only one elevator in the underground theater, and there won't be a second elevator." Gu Zhilan reached out and touched the wall, the cool temperature stimulated her feeling, and she looked up to observe this mysterious place.

"Why don't I understand anything at all?" Lalo looked confused.

"In short, the elevator appeared temporarily and brought you to this place." Gu Zhilan walked down the stairs, and her voice became farther and farther away. "The best way is to find the place where you started. You'd better follow me, otherwise I will kill you."

Lalo chased after him, feeling mixed emotions.

"Why are you trying to kill me? Aren't you here to save me?"

"We can save you or we can kill you. We don't want Xinmin to get your blood. In fact, destroying you was the most correct choice at that time." Gu Zhilan said coldly, "So I'm sorry to disappoint you. What happens to you actually has nothing to do with us."

This made Lalu regretful. It turned out that it was the right choice not to bring her companion out. In fact, she should have left her inside as well.

"If we don't destroy you, we must keep you under surveillance. The blood of the Shoggoth will make the new people very difficult to deal with and hinder our plans."

"What exactly is a Shoggoth?" Lalo wondered.

Those beings that were wandering around like the ghosts of ancient beings disappeared, which made Lalo feel lost for a moment. He felt a great sense of disappointment in his heart, as if the special power that originally belonged to him no longer belonged to him, and he turned back into the cowardly and ordinary low-level alien Lalo.

"I don't know about this. As the head of the flower shop, I have no obligation to tell you." Gu Zhilan stopped and stood in front of the elevator. "Are you sure this is it?"

"You are so young, how can you know what a leader means? He is an extraordinary person." Lalo looked up and observed the details of the elevator's pattern, nodded, "It seems to be this elevator, I can't quite remember..."

"What? You don't believe it?" Gu Zhilan was very concerned about this topic and turned around to look at him coldly.

"It's not that I don't believe it. In fact, I have seen the manager of your flower shop. She is a young woman with big breasts. She likes to wear a white coat and pretend to be a female doctor. If you don't know her, you would think she is the female chief from some mysterious research institution." Lalo described Xu Yanqian's image based on his memory.

"In fact, it was just one time. You invited me to join the flower shop that day." Lalo scratched his head. "Then I was tempted and found a flower shop. The manager happened to be there, but she didn't seem to like me very much. I thought it was hopeless and left."

"So that's how it is. That woman has been paying attention to you for a long time." Gu Zhilan sneered, "You are more special than I thought. I suddenly have a good idea. Do you want to listen to it?"

"Just talk about it. I'm bored anyway. I just need some time to mentally prepare myself to enter this elevator door."

"I will kill you now and disrupt the plans of all forces. This will be very interesting." Gu Zhilan stroked the Devouring Martial Arts bracelet on her wrist with sharp eyes.

"What do you think? Killing you and destroying Xinmin's plan in advance can prevent many things from happening, many...bad things."

La Luo was horrified, because Gu Zhilan's eyes didn't seem to be joking, but rather fierce and sharp, which only came from some kind of determination. He moved away from the distance where he could be killed by one blow. Such an action was very funny in Gu Zhilan's eyes, as she did not condense the Devouring Martial Arts.

"I am your benefactor anyway, but you are repaying kindness with hatred. You could at least wait until we get out and then stab us in the back. Don't be so blunt. It's unjust!"

“The difference between doing bad things and doing bad things behind people’s backs is the difference between having no justice and pretending to have justice.”

"Damn it, I really regret it!"

"It's just a joke. You can't die yet. There's no point in you dying now. It will only make things worse. I don't want her to be corrupted by this dirty world." Gu Zhilan reached out and touched the elevator, and suddenly crushed it. The elevator door that was originally closed slowly opened, like a fleeing monster.

"It's fine if I'm alone..."

Chapter 107: The Wrath of the Shoggoth (Thirteen)

They walked into the elevator and the door behind them slowly closed. The sound of the door closing for a moment made Gu Zhilan realize something was wrong.

She turned around and saw that the elevator door that had been damaged was intact. The moment the elevator door closed, all the bright buttons went out, revealing a blood-like luster. The air was filled with a smell of uneasiness and a hint of blood.

Looking up, three red question marks lit up on the black screen above that displayed the floor.

It seems that this elevator does not belong to the human world. Gu Zhilan was not afraid. She was no longer surprised by the power beyond common sense. She took out her mobile phone and took out a 3D map that she had prepared long ago. An almost endless virtual building was rotating on the screen.

Lalo glanced at it and was very puzzled: "Do you know where this is."

"The medium between reality and the spiritual realm is the dreamland. Currently, only Shang has the power to create and open the dreamland."

Gu Zhilan lowered her head and used the map to determine her location. She was not sure whether this elevator was the starting point of the map. The depth of the dreamland had not been clearly analyzed so far. Dr. Ned had judged that the appearance of the dreamland was not necessarily accompanied by death, and being in an extremely unstable semi-death state could also lead to its appearance.

Lalo still doesn't know what the dreamland is, so he simply doesn't want to learn more about it. He just wants to get himself out of it.

He pretended to be bored and asked casually: "If this is a dreamland, where did you get the map? Can you really believe it?"

Gu Zhilan didn't answer with a cold face, and the elevator door opened.

The three question marks on the black screen above my head slid like a slot machine and finally stopped at a strange symbol.

Gu Zhilan walked out without noticing, looking very anxious. Only La Luo accidentally looked up and saw the symbol.

The symbol is a strange octopus entangled with something like a whale, and there is a half pattern next to it, which looks like a cloud or half a bird's beak.

"What a strange pattern," he muttered as he followed behind.

There was only a faintly glowing passage in the darkness. The passage was very spacious, so spacious that it could not be called a passage at all, but rather a hall. There was a long red carpet extending on the ground and lit candlesticks on both sides. The candlesticks were placed one table after another, emitting a light between red and gold.

The two of them just walked forward, walked along the red carpet to the end, turned and continued walking, found the second elevator, and saw the same scene when the elevator door opened. They walked around for nearly an hour, always lingering in this building.

Gu Zhilan's phone was running out of battery. The three-dimensional image of the building on the screen was infinite up and down. No matter how hard she swiped, she could not reach the top or the bottom. The green dot representing herself kept moving in it. Countless tightly closed red doors were opened, but she could never reach the end.

They were trapped in this strange, maze-like office building with no starting point and no end point. Every time they arrived at a new floor, they would see roughly similar scenes. A new, unopened red door would appear on the map, meaning that there was indeed no ghost wall and the game was not in a loop.

"No, let me slow down."

After opening who knows how many back doors and arriving at who knows how many elevators, Lalo, exhausted, sat on the ground to rest.

Gu Zhilan didn't move forward. She was indeed a little tired, so resting was necessary. She suspected that there was something wrong with the map on her phone, so she stopped to study it for a while.

Seeing the girl in a trance, La Luo felt much more relaxed. It seemed that Gu Zhilan didn't know the whole story. He hated having people who controlled the situation around him. He felt uneasy and thought that something was pushing him deeper into the incident, and the instigator was right beside him.

But he felt that this girl was unreliable. Regardless of whether the map in the phone was real or not, if this was really the so-called dreamland, a supernatural power that surpassed the existence of alien species, why would it appear so accidentally? It just happened to appear in the way that Xiao Qi blew himself up and escaped.

At the critical moment, La Luo happened to take Gu Zhilan away, and Gu Zhilan had a map in her phone!

There seems to be an eye watching everything in the dark. Is that something called fate? He has calculated everything, but who knows what he is going to do?

"Excuse me, is this Mr. Lalo?" The girl in yellow clothes suddenly appeared in front of him, holding a package in her hand.

"To me, it is..."

Lalo responded subconsciously, looking at the familiar girl standing in front of him who hadn't reacted yet, thinking it was natural.

Soon he was dumbfounded! He rolled and crawled to stand up against the wall, staring at the guy who appeared out of nowhere. Damn it! How could there be a third person in this place? He appeared silently, just like a ghost!

He quickly nudged Gu Zhilan with his shoulder, indicating that something serious had happened, but Gu Zhilan did not react at all, standing there like a statue, motionless.

"It would be easy if it was Mr. Lalo, but I finally found you. Your address was really hard to find." The girl pulled her hat to cover her eyes, smiled, and stuffed the package into his hands naturally.

"This is your expedited delivery. The Yellow Team specializes in efficiency. Please remember to give it a good review."

Lalo was at a loss as to what to do. He took the package blankly. The package was a paper box. There was not much weight in the box. It seemed to be a food delivery service. The food delivery service did include delivery. He thought it was only for food delivery in the third district.

But the delivery girl looked familiar, as if I had seen her somewhere before, and she was not a local.

No, no, how could this strange scene be taken for granted? Lalo suddenly regained consciousness and stared at the delivery man.

"How did you get in? Why do you know I'm here?"

"Oh, this is it. I came here by elevator. The backend has your location and real name, and I got to the exact floor. To be honest, I didn't expect an elevator ride to take so long. It was clearly the third floor, but it felt like I had been in the elevator for half an hour." The girl said very sincerely.

La Luo was stunned. This couldn't be the third floor. As far as he could remember, he had followed Gu Zhilan in and out of the elevator at least twenty times. He was tired and thirsty. This strange scene could only be explained by a dream. How could a takeaway girl who seemed to have no reason get in so easily?

He was still very alert. Gu Zhilan didn't move, like a painting with its life taken away, yet so beautiful. The smile of the takeaway girl in front of him became more and more weird, like... a devil deep in a dreamland!

"Anyway, I'm leaving now. This place is so weird, I don't want to stay any longer." The girl looked around and complained, "Are you guys having some kind of company annual meeting? The eerie layout and the seemingly romantic red carpet candlestick tables, I feel like I'm attending a devil's dinner the whole way. I didn't play so trendy when I was a devil before."

Lalo's mind was in a mess: "This is hard to explain... What's in the package?"

"It looks like a watch, a second-hand electronic watch at that. The customer who placed the order is extremely stingy." The girl smiled and turned to leave.

"Wait a minute, what's wrong with her?" Lalo called out quickly.

"She?" The delivery girl looked at Gu Zhilan, tilted her head to think for a while, then shook her head seriously.

"I can't see her. I don't know what you're talking about."

The delivery girl disappeared without a trace, disappearing at the edge of the candlelight, as if she had never been there.

Lalo slumped to the ground with a look of horror in her eyes. When the delivery girl tilted her head, her hat fell off, revealing her familiar blood-red pupils.

"What's going on?" Gu Zhilan's figure was heard.

She looked up and was confused to see the extra package in Lalo's hand.

Lalo tried his best not to show any abnormality, and opened the package with stiff hands. "I just picked it up, it's in the corner, I don't know what it is."

There is really an electronic watch in the box. In addition to the two basic control buttons, there is a third red button.

He subconsciously pressed the button, and both of them were stunned. A faint blue virtual light popped up on the electronic watch, and a huge map of the building appeared before their eyes.

This map is almost exactly the same as the map in Gu Zhilan's mobile phone. The only difference is the closed red doors. There is a green door on each floor, which should be the real exit. This means that they have to go back to the first floor and pass through those green doors one by one.

Fortunately, this strange electronic watch map specially marks the location of the starting point.

"It's really strange, isn't it?" Gu Zhilan vaguely sensed something and looked at him coldly.

"I really picked it up. It's right there." Lalo pointed to the corner.

Chapter 108: The Wrath of the Shoggoth (XIV)

This map is like a godsend, suddenly appearing when they are in trouble. The inexplicable coincidences make people uneasy, as if there is really someone watching them, giving them a hint at the right time. They are like little white mice groping in a maze.

Gu Zhilan pursed her lips and looked around alertly. She noticed that something was wrong with Lalo, but did not say anything. She secretly observed as they moved forward.

The map on the electronic watch showed that we were almost at the end. Those hidden doors hidden in the red doors were indeed a new route. The endless cycle of red carpet scenes was broken, and the new scene became brighter. The sun was shining outside the window, and the documents on the desk were fluttering in the wind, creating a warm and cozy feeling.

It was actually daytime. The route formed by the green doors on each floor divided the world into layers. Gu Zhilan returned along the original route, trying to confirm her judgment.

As we returned to the green door and turned to enter other closed red doors, the scene changed. Candlesticks were burning in the dim light, a red carpet was on the ground, and there was endless darkness outside the window.

Lalo stood waiting inside the green door and saw Gu Zhilan's thoughtful look. He realized that there was indeed something wrong with this place, and it was a big problem.

The Devouring Martial Arts bracelet on Gu Zhilan's wrist dissipated like ashes and condensed into a silver sickle. She raised her head and gazed into the depths, at the end point marked on the map.

In many games, the end often does not represent the exit, but rather an "event", not to mention such a gloomy and strange dreamland, where no one knows what is inside.

Lalo tactfully stepped back to give her space to react, and after more than half an hour of groping, they finally reached the end.

The map suddenly changed subtly, showing three red question marks, exactly the same as the question marks in the elevator.

The question marks rolled up and down like a slot machine, and three bloody fonts gradually appeared.

【The Way of Eternal Life】——

La Luo noticed Gu Zhilan's gaze, raised his head and looked at her, lowering his voice:

"What does it mean?"

"Wrong." Gu Zhilan stopped and gripped the sickle tightly.

Her expression was solemn, and her eyes, which showed disgust towards everything in the world, became sharp. This kind of expression was difficult to change unless she really sensed a fatal crisis.

"We shouldn't have come to this place. There is no exit here. The exit is the entrance. The end point indicated by the map is not the exit at all, but... hell!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud noise in front of him, which shocked Lalo's heart. What was that sound? What was the destination?

He suddenly felt very tired and didn't want to think about it anymore. He was used to being tired. He had always felt so tired, miserable and cowardly in his life.

How could Lalo not know that he was closely related to these things? He always tried to escape, but what was the point of escaping? The power he had finally gained was lost under the bewitching influence of the ancient ghosts. He thought he had become an ordinary person again, but he still couldn't get rid of the damn trouble.

Lalo made up his mind, which might be his final decision. He took off his electronic watch and threw it on the ground, his eyes sparkling:

"Let's go to the finish line."

"I don't think this is a wise choice. If you are willing to die, I won't stop you." Gu Zhilan stood aside and did not stop her.