Chapter 119

Mo Yi frowned slowly and looked at the corridor in front of him with a serious expression.

The air was filled with the smell of old carpets and the rotten smell of wood, accompanied by the faint smell of blood coming from the room behind me, mixed into a disturbing atmosphere, spreading in the long corridor of dead darkness.

He walked out slowly for a few steps, and the broken carpet under his feet could not hide the despair moans that came out of the floor.

The cracked ground was covered with spider-web-like traces, extending from the door to the end of the darkness of the corridor. It looked like tentacles poking out from the shadows were deeply engraved on the dusty ground, slowly poking out from under the carpet.

Mo Yi used a flashlight to roughly circle the corridor, and the cold light beam illuminated every strange detail.

He pursed his lips, and the lines between his eyebrows became deeper and deeper.

It is unlikely to enter the illusion - in order to deprive the players of their sense of reality and to let them unconsciously follow the guidance of the illusion into the path of no return, the illusion in this dungeon will try to make the player feel that they are already confused, rather than making drastic changes to the environment in the dungeon like now.

Then, if it weren't for the illusion, a copy would have undergone such drastic changes without warning...

Another possibility jumped into Mo Yi's mind, causing him to speed up his pulse and breathe rapidly—

The opening of the side plot.

This is the most optimistic and most likely guess now.

Jiang Yuanrou is an experienced veteran player. If she can understand the prompts Mo Yi gave her when she was in the corridor just now and realize that the key clue of this dungeon is her experience in the last dungeon, it will not be very difficult to start the side plot.

In addition to the traces in the room just now - Jiang Yuanrou may have entered that room and found the key clues. In addition, she had met Edwin who was locked in the room, so she would only have more clues than him, not less than him...

Wait, that Edwin who was locked in the room!

Mo Yi's eyebrows were slightly stunned. He frowned and stared at the terrible current situation in the corridor, and an indescribable uneasiness arose in his heart.

He subconsciously clenched the flashlight in his hand and rubbed his cold fingertips against its hard metal shell.

Mo Yi took a step and walked towards the direction he had just arrived. His steps were rapid, and the sound of footsteps echoed in the empty corridor. The surrounding walls gathered the echo of his steps, which sounded particularly restless.

He walked through the long dirty and dusty corridor, turning the forks in the corridor.

Mo Yi became more and more frightened as he walked.

The walls in the corridor seemed to be shaken by some powerful force, becoming twisted and skewed, with shocking cracks like spider webs spreading above the head. The entire corridor seemed to be twisted by a pair of hands, and the ground became bumpy.

Finally, he came to the corridor when he left.

The wall lights that were originally lit in the corridor have been turned off. In front of them is a bottomless darkness, and the darkness is filled with heart-wrenching silence, which makes people always wonder if there is something hidden in the depths of the darkness.

Mo Yi took a deep breath, and a layer of cold sweat appeared in his palm. He adjusted the flashlight in his hand, and then walked towards the depths of the corridor without hesitation.

The lights were in a mess, and the more you walked in, the worse the scene in the corridor was - bricks and dust falling from the ceiling were scattered on the ground, dirty wallpaper rolled up and exposed the cold gray walls, and the entire corridor was filled with a smell of disaster.

Mo Yi's eyes stayed on the wall on the right for a few seconds.

There was a big mirror there, the blurry mirror was covered with dust, and the surface of the glass was covered with messy and dense cracks.

In one corner of the mirror, through the heavy dust and dense cracks on it, a broken and blurred palm print could be seen on the surface of the glass - this should be the "window" that Edwin asked him to see before.

He looked inward and saw another corridor and blood-red door. Only his own image was printed in the center of the cracked mirror. The light in his hand was the only light source in the corridor, leaving small spots of light on the mirror that broke into countless pieces.

Mo Yi moved his Adam's apple, his throat was dry, and a burst of scorching pain appeared as his movements.

He breathed slowly, then turned his head to look at his side-

Although he was mentally prepared, Mo Yi still took a breath when he saw the scene in front of him.

The wall of the house that closed Edwin was completely twisted, and the door panel was squeezed out of the door frame and shattered into several pieces scattered on the ground. The iron panel was lying in the dust not far away, leaving only half of the wooden board at the door shaft, shaking and hanging in the air.

The black twisted door frame grinned at Mo Yi, revealing a silent and sarcastic laugh.

Mo Yi only felt that his breath was stuck in his throat, his mind was a little dizzy, and he was a little suffocated for a moment.

...The door is open.

Before his chaotic mind could react to the situation in front of him, he saw a pale hand stretching out from the door without warning, pulling Mo Yi's arm suddenly, and then pulling him into the door!

Mo Yi felt dizzy in front of him, and he hit the cold and hard wall heavily behind him. The twisted surface hurt his waist and back, causing an unbearable pain.

His hands clamped his arms like iron hoops, making him unable to move against the wall.

Mo Yi subconsciously wanted to struggle, but only heard a familiar voice coming to his ears:

"It's me, don't speak out."

Jiang Yuanrou?

Mo Yi's eyes widened slightly due to surprise, and forgot to resist for a moment. A force pulled the flashlight away from his hand. Then, a slight "click" sound was heard, and the light column of the flashlight disappeared instantly, and his eyes suddenly fell into a darkness without any light.

There were only two people's messy breathing sounds left in the darkness.

Jiang Yuanrou's breathing was slightly trembling. She leaned close to Mo Yi'er's ear, lowered her voice and said quickly:

"I now understand the connection between this copy and the previous copy..."

She paused and added in a low voice: "Thank you."

Mo Yi concentrated his breath in the darkness, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked in anger, "Have you opened a branch copy?"

Jiang Yuanrou's breathing suddenly stopped, and then she said hurriedly: "...Yes, but I actually don't think of that time..."

Halfway through her words, she suddenly stopped and added in a serious tone:

"It's not that now, it's not the time to talk about this, we have something more important."

Then, before Mo Yi could speak, Jiang Yuanrou said quickly:

"This copy is the same person as the boss in the previous copy. Both are Edwin. Edwin's father is a serial murderer. He locked all the victims in his basement for torture. When he was a child, Edwin was also the object of his father's perverted desires. Later, his father was arrested and imprisoned in a mental hospital, and he was also sent to a host family to grow up."

Mo Yi listened quietly, his eyes falling into the darkness thoughtfully—

According to the prompt, "the upper is the lower", although this layer is the uppermost layer, it should be the deepest layer of Edwin's consciousness, which is the killing corridor of his father when he was a child, so the boss on this layer is Edwin in his childhood.

Only Jiang Yuanrou continued:

"Edwin's host family was not good to him, and the mistress's abuse of him was not as direct and rude as his father, but treated him in another cruel and concealed way..."

She paused and added: "I think it is precisely because of this extreme patriarchal and maternal division that Edwin later split into two personalities, one man and one woman."

Mo Yi leaned against the wall and listened quietly. The cold touch of the wall behind him invaded the texture along the thin clothes. He could almost feel Jiang Yuanrou's palm trembling slightly while stuck next to him. He only heard her speed up and continued:

"What I just said was summarized based on the clues I found in the previous copy, and what I found in this copy completed Edwin's subsequent experience-"

Mo Yi frowned slowly, interrupted her and asked in a low voice:

"Wait, can you tell me what you experienced in the last copy now?"

Jiang Yuanrou's facial contour looked a little blurred in the darkness. She glanced at Mo Yi, then shook her head hurriedly, and nodded again:

"You can't say that... This game does not allow communication to be made by the dungeons that players have experienced before, but after opening the side plot, these two dungeons have been merged by default, and the game will naturally not prevent players from communicating clues in the dungeons they are in."

She paused and continued, "This is the only benefit of me opening the branch line in advance."

After saying that, Jiang Yuanrou did not wait for Mo Yi to react and continued to talk about the topic just now: "Edwin was admitted to medical school later. His choice to treat mental illness was very extreme, so he was stopped by the hospital, so he chose to return to his father's old house and conduct experiments in private-"

Mo Yi pursed his lips and recalled the mountains of corpses piled up in the room just now.

Only Jiang Yuanrou continued:

"Later, for some reason, Edwin gradually changed from using extreme methods to treat mentally ill patients, and later he was arrested and diagnosed with a schizophrenia."

As soon as Jiang Yuanrou finished speaking, a familiar metal sound came from her ears:

"Dangdang Dangdang! Congratulations to player No. 02 Mo Yi for unlocking this escape game hidden plot

The side mission is opened, and completing the side mission will reward you with generous points. Please continue to work hard!"

Hearing the metal sound in the air, Jiang Yuanrou seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. She let go and pressed Mo Yi's palm, took a few steps back, and then said in a deep voice:

"In this copy, the top is the bottom. We now seem to be close to the ground, but in fact we are getting deeper."

Her words suddenly stopped, then turned her head and looked deeply at Mo Yi:

"If we want to leave Edwin's spiritual world, we have to go back-"

go back?

A ridiculous idea flashed through Mo Yi's mind.

Before he could ask, Jiang Yuanrou stared at him in the darkness and whispered:
Chapter completed!