Chapter 271

In front of the courtyard, the light of two lanterns, one white and one red, gradually went out, and the decayed old gate slowly closed in front of the eyes of the four, and finally closed completely with a "click". At the moment of closing, the boundless darkness behind it suddenly surrounded.

The familiar mechanical prompt sound echoed in everyone's ears:

[Changsheng Mansion... Zizi... The main task of the dungeon has been completed, the dungeonclose close]

The system's broadcast sound seemed to be disturbed by some invisible existence, repeated unnaturally, and finally broke suddenly.

In the next second, the eyes of the four people blurred, and when they opened their eyes again, the courtyard shrouded in a strange red light had completely disappeared, and what appeared in front of them was the familiar, gray floor.

"This is"

Qi Qian withdrew his subconscious defensive action, straightened up, and looked around in astonishment.

The air is covered with gray mist, like a layer of soot and confetti floating, and there is a square courtyard above the head. Looking up, you can see tall buildings stacked on top of each other. to the end.

The core, the "fifth floor", which does not exist in theory, will automatically close and disappear after the [Ultimate Main Mission] is completed.

And these anchors, who didn't belong anywhere at all, were sent back to the beginning, which was the first floor of the Changsheng Building, strictly speaking.

"What's going on?" Su Cheng frowned.

He and Wen Jianyan have cooperated the most times, and have also played many ultimate main missions, so he immediately discovered something was wrong, "Why is there no countdown to close the instance?"

It stands to reason that after completing the ultimate mainline task, the countdown to the dungeon closing will sound in the dungeon, generally speaking, it is one minute.

But this time was different. After the mission ended and the announcement started to freeze, the system's sound disappeared completely, as if the mute button had been pressed.

And they were not sent back to that white space, but directly returned to the first floor of the dungeon.

This...is not quite right.

Wen Jianyan lowered his head and glanced at himself.

Well, the appearance has not recovered, and I am still in the original state of wearing a wedding dress.

This is nothing, after all, he has already lost his horse in front of the captains of both sides, and there is no need to continue pretending.

His focus is on...

Since his current appearance has not recovered, no matter what the reason is, it means that Nightmare's control over this dungeon is weakening, or has been weakened

"Well."

This is, Tangerine Tang standing aside swayed, and an indistinct muffled hum came out of his nasal cavity. It disappeared into the air in just a short moment. If you don't pay attention, you can hardly catch it. .

Wen Jianyan was startled, and subconsciously turned her head to look.

The little girl lowered her head halfway. Due to her short stature, he couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, but he could see her pale face. With almost no need to think deeply, Wen Jianyan immediately understood the reason.

Turn back time.

Even among the nightmares with many talent categories, it is really too heaven-defying and terrifying, even the rarest offensive talent cannot match it, so its activation must also require a lot of price, Wen Jian Yan even had to think that Orange Candy's low teeth, which were too incompatible with other anchors, might also be related to her talent.

Every man is innocent and conceives his crime.

What's more, such a terrifying, even subversive talent will naturally be hidden tightly and airtight.

Wen Jianyan had no doubt that if they hadn't been pushed to the limit when they were on the fifth floor, Orange Tang probably wouldn't have used her talent.

For everyone other than Wen Jianyan, the sudden extra three minutes would most likely be regarded as a system failure or other more reasonable reasons. Few people would think of it as the effect of orange candy talent.

Obviously, Tangerine Tang is not prepared to expose the specific form of his talent to others.

Unless the limit is really reached... Otherwise, the other party will not show half of the show.

Wen Jianyan looked away without saying a word.

He moved closer to Orange Candy calmly, and secretly let the other party lean against him by covering up the overly wide Xifu cuffs.

Tangerine Candy's pupils shrank, and her figure froze suddenly, as if the bowstring would be broken in a second.

She raised her head suddenly and looked at Wen Jianyan in astonishment.

The young man didn't look at her. From the angle of Tangerine Candy, he could only see the sharp jaw line of the other party. The face that was three to four points similar to "Wen Wen" showed no superfluous expression, as if that Overly considerate small gestures are not the same as what he made. ""

I don't know if it's the thought of coming to the other party to cover up the entire dungeon, cheating them all the way, or because they realize that their secrets have been exposed, or, even if it has been carefully separated by a layer of sleeves, it still cannot be ignored Physical contact... Tangerine Tang gritted her teeth, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her already pale and blue face became even uglier at this moment.

She stared at Wen Jianyan's side face without saying a word, as if she wanted to chop him up with her eyes.

Suddenly, at this moment, a series of messy footsteps sounded, and everyone raised their eyes and looked in the direction of the sound.

It's their teammates.

Zhang Yu, An Xin, Wei Cheng and the others strode towards this direction with expressions of nervousness and surprise on their faces.

"team leader!"

"team leader!!"

It seems that on the trail that entered the fifth floor before, these anchors who did not take out gift money in exchange for invitation letters were indeed sent back to the original place. After Wen Jianyan and the other four were also sent back here, the scattered teams finally reunited.

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"Captain! Are you all right!" Tong Yao greeted him with a concerned expression.

Zhang Yu followed closely behind, obviously full of questions: "After you entered the fifth floor, what's inside, what happened and the notification sound just now... have you really completed the ultimate main mission?"

An Xin blinked, looked around, and suddenly turned pale with shock:

"Wait, what about Wen Wen, wouldn't she"

While Qi Qian's team was exchanging information with each other, Wen Jianyan turned slightly and handed the orange candy to the members of their team.

It seemed that the members of the opponent's team immediately realized that something was wrong with their own captain, they quickly surrounded him, and quickly returned the orange candy to their own team. Tangerine Tang took a steady look at Wen Jianyan.

The other party cleverly controlled the angle, blocking the sight of others, so that no one could notice her strangeness.

She withdrew her gaze expressionlessly, and gave a low "cut".

the other side.

"You guys are too noisy," Qi Qian was a little bit agitated by his team members, "you have to ask questions one by one..."

"anyway,"

At this moment, a strange young man intervened at the right time: "It doesn't matter what happened on the fifth floor before, the most important thing is why we haven't returned to the anchor hall now."

Everyone was taken aback, and all their eyes subconsciously fell on Wen Jianyan.

They seemed to realize that at some point in the team, there was a strange man dressed strangely, and Qiqi suddenly became vigilant.

"Hey, are you_

An Xin narrowed his eyes, with a slightly hostile look on his face.

"Ah, don't you know me?"

The young man looked at An Xin, tilted his head, slightly narrowed his amber eyes, and suddenly smiled.

On his face, the calm and rational look of a bystander disappeared, the corners of his mouth and eyes were slightly curved, and the original sharp and rigid lines were softened, obviously it was just a few unnoticeable twigs. The rhythm is controlled and adjusted, but the temperament seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The masculine traits were completely erased, and his smile appeared gentle and embarrassed. The face that was only three to four points similar to "Wen Wen" in appearance now became seven or eight points similar.

The air was strangely quiet.

Wen Jianyan blinked: "No, I thought we had a good relationship."

In an instant, the audience was dead silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the young man in the red wedding dress in front of them. Their faces were frozen together, frozen on a strange expression, as if they couldn't accept the facts in front of them.

Qi Qian looked at his team members and the expressions on their faces that were exactly the same as his previous self, slowly revealing an indescribable expression. how to say

At once

This kind of thing is really hard to accept! Right!

An Xin stared blankly at Wen Jianyan, her eyeballs were motionless, and the expression on her face was completely frozen.

He opened his mouth and said dryly:

"Wen, Wen Wen"

"Hey." Wen Jianyan responded with a smile.

An Xin cracked.

Before he recovered from the shadow of broken love, a gloomy voice suddenly came from behind: "Ah, it really is you.

"Wen Jianyan raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the voice.

In a very inconspicuous place behind everyone, stood a very familiar figure.

Withered and thin face, gloomy eyes, and half-empty sleeves.

It's Musen.

His clothes were covered in blood, and he looked much more haggard than when we parted last time. Although he was standing, his posture was very strange, as if he was tied by some invisible rope, and he could only walk forward with the crowd. .

Wen Jianyan quickly realized the reason for this scene.

It seems that the female household in red did not succeed in killing Mu Senthis is normal, Musen Biyi is a senior anchor, and Mu is still the key protection object of Shenxun. The spell on his body has a time limit. As long as the spell disappears, it will return to the fifth floor again. Mu Sen is unscrupulous in doing things, and he has teammates on the same team who can be pushed to the back by him. Naturally, Mu Sen There is a high probability of surviving.

However, the existence of the female corpse in red obviously posed a great threat to them.

So although Mu Sen survived, his vitality was also seriously injured.

He left the fourth floor and entered the fifth floor. At this moment, he happened to collide with Zhang Yuweicheng and the others who were sent back from the courtyard, and he was caught without any surprise.

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Mu Sen raised his dead gray eyes, clenched his teeth, his haggard face was slightly distorted, and strong hatred almost overflowed his eyes.

"That's great, you remember me."

Wen Jianyan put on a smile on his face. He walked over, leaned over slightly, and looked at the other person's face carefully.

"...You shouldn't be in the dungeon." Mu Sen's expression turned hideous uncontrollably, "They"

"If I don't enter this dungeon, how can I see your beautiful expression.

Wen Jianyan smiled and moved closer.

"as well as"

He tilted his head: "They"

"..." Mu Sen's expression became even uglier, as if he was going to tear Wen Jianyan into pieces with his eyes, he clenched his teeth, as if he was not going to say a word.

"The captain asked me to give this to you."

Wei Cheng stared at Wen Jianyan with complicated eyes, then suddenly raised his hand and threw something over.

Wen Jianyan raised his hand to catch it, and looked down.

It was a small dusty cloth bag, and something inside collided with each other, making a crisp clanging sound.

It was Mu Sen's set of wooden signs.

"Thank you." Under Mu Sen's increasingly hostile eyes, Wen Jianyan smiled even more.

He shook the bag in his hand and said, "It's a pleasure to do business with you."

"Next, he will be handed over to us, you have no problem."

Acropolis said.

Hearing the previous conversation, he quickly understood that Wen Jianyan spent a huge amount of points and chose to enter the dungeon with an appearance that was so different from his real face, probably because of this Mu Lin. After breaking away from their team and trying to be the first to attract customers to their store, the rift between them has nothing to do with Wen Jianyan.

"Of course."

Wen Jianyan had already got what he wanted, so he was naturally eager to let others take the trouble of Mu Sen out of his hands.

Acropolis nodded at him.

Immediately afterwards, the group turned around and walked into the distance.

Mu Sen's two legs were forced to move away, and he followed behind them crookedly, but his hateful eyes always fell on Wen Jianyan.

However, this was no longer Wen Jianyan's concern.

Qi Qian on the side said: "You just said that the important thing is why we haven't returned to the anchor hall now, what do you mean?" "Literally."

Wen Jianyan put the cloth bag into his pocket, looked at Qi Qian, "Don't you think something is wrong with the sound that the system broadcast just now?"

Qi Qian frowned: "Indeed."

"If I'm not wrong, the Nightmare's control over this dungeon has been weakened. If you open your live broadcast interface, you will find that although the live broadcast has not been disconnected, the props in the system store are no longer available."

The nursery rhyme on the side was stunned, and opened his live broadcast interface.

Everything was as Wen Jianyan said.

"Although Nightmare's control over the copy has weakened, it still firmly controls the streamers."

Wen Jianyan looked at Su Cheng:

"How much time is left until the specified time limit for this dungeon ends"

Su Cheng lowered his head and looked at his watch: "Less than ten minutes."

"That's right.

This dungeon will be a time-limited dungeon for a reason, not only because [Changsheng Building] is an endless loop, it should also be a double insurance for the anchor in it, so as to avoid this situation from happening now.

Wen Jianyan paused, then continued:

"Although we can't end the copy early, we should be able to return to the anchor hall when the time limit is over."

Qi Qian narrowed his eyes, showing a thoughtful expression.

Wen Jianyan added:

"Don't worry, after the ultimate mainline mission is completed, this dungeon will not cause any harm to us for the time being, and you can take a good rest for the rest of the time."

"After finishing speaking, he turned around, walked towards the distance, and said lightly:

"I'm going to look elsewhere."

Su Cheng nodded at Qi Qian and the others, then turned around and hurriedly followed Wen Jianyan's back.

"Where are you going?" Su Cheng stepped up a few steps, walked forward side by side with Wen Jianyan, and asked curiously, "Didn't you just wait for the time to end?"

"I have a guess that I want to verify.

"Wen Jianyan said without looking back.

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He walked straight to the nearest shop.

Soon, the shop with the closed door appeared in front of the two of them.

Staring at the tightly closed glass door, Su Cheng still felt a little anxious: "Wait, wait, you don't want to go in, do you?"

"Can't get in."

Wen Jianyan took the time to glance at Su Cheng and said.

"We are not 'customers' here, nor are we 'employees' here. Even if we want to enter, we may not be able to enter."

"Then you are..."

Su Cheng frowned suspiciously.

Wen Jianyan didn't answer, but just took out the mobile phone from his pocket, turned on the flashlight, stuck it on the glass door of the shop, and shone inward.

Something weird happened.

The darkness that could not be dispelled by light has now become extremely ordinary.

Under the swaying light of the flashlight, the dark store became slightly brighter, and rows of shelves could be vaguely seen.

really.

Wen Jianyan narrowed his eyes.

The most terrifying "darkness" in [Prosperity Building] actually does not belong here, but belongs to the fragments of the witch candle sealed here. In fact, before entering the fifth floor, he had already made some related guesses.

Although Wu Zhu often uses the "darkness" he controls as strange tentacles, but... as a human being who has had close contact with those tentacles, Wen Jianyan can feel that the seemingly invisible existence is not ordinary, just Because of the witch candle, it appears harmless.

Once they lose the control of their masters, they will become as terrifying as the darkness in [Prosperity Building].

This also proved his guess from the side.

[Changsheng Building] This copy is very special.

Whether it is for nightmares or for witch candles, it is special.

Wen Jianyan didn't know the specific reason yet, but he felt that he was very close to the truth.

If you start thinking about it from the aspects you already know.

First of all, [Prosperity Building] exists independently, and it is not a copy "made" by Nightmare.

Nightmare divided the lady in red, who was the core source of power for the entire dungeon, into pieces and sealed them in other places, and then placed a piece of Wu Candle as a substitute on the fifth floor, and then took [Prosperity Building] as her own. Yes, let it become a copy of itself, and that terrifying darkness should be the "important part" that Wu Zhu said.

That's why the Changsheng Building became so terrifying.

Now, the fragments have been taken back by Wu Zhu, and the Changsheng Building has naturally returned to its original state.

Wen Jianyan stood outside the glass door, moving slowly.

The light of the flashlight moved with his movements, and finally fell on the counter, illuminating the motionless figure behind the counter.

Su Cheng on the side took a sharp breath:

"That is-

Wen Jianyan moved his wrist and illuminated the figure's face with the light of the flashlight.

Pale face, scarlet cheekbones and lips, high smile.

It sat motionless behind the counter, as if it belonged here.

"It's a paper man."

Wen Jianyan said slowly.

He stared at the paper figurine, which looked even more terrifying under the dim light, and said, "It seems that they are the real shop assistants here."

[Changsheng Building] is a complete precision closed loop.

Although those "customers" do not have the ability to think, they are all horrible ghosts without exception. [Changsheng Building] is responsible for guiding them through the four floors and sending them into the graveyard to sleep and die.

The "female corpse in red" in the fifth floor is the core driving force of the whole machine, and is the most powerful ghost artificially created.

The "paper man" is an employee, a necessary part responsible for guiding Li Gui to continue to improve.

And they are all human beings who swore a death oath with blood and stationed here with their lives.

Almost like the gatekeepers of hell.

However, with the intrusion of the nightmare, the female household in red was divided and sealed, and a machine in the Changsheng Building was damaged, so it was able to "anchor" into it and replace the paper figurine as an employee.

Otherwise, the entire mechanism could have functioned on its own without the sacrifice of any innocents.

And the anchors, of course, cannot complete the task as well as the paper dolls.

They will fear and die, so, naturally, there must be countless ghosts who cannot complete the reincarnation of the fourth level and stay for a long time.

So...where do they go?

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, turned off the flashlight of the phone, and put it back in his pocket.

The answer is imminent.

-world.

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