1TWITF[C Chapter 154

Chapter 154

“It’s very dangerous outside. If you go out, you will definitely be devoured by them.”

It claimed that there was no one else in the research institute, but since the outside world had fallen into the apocalypse, would the people from the institute still remain on the ground? Since that brain wanted to keep him here, it meant that he must have some special use for it.

“And I think cooperating with it is not bad now.” The “it” Lu Yanli was referring to was the statue.

He said this just to see what the brain could do besides command.

Lu Yanli had already opened the door and walked out.

Unlike when he came, he entered another slightly different passage, a corridor as white as snow without a speck of dust, with rows of identical doors on both sides of the wall.

The brain didn’t speak anymore.

The room was pitch black, barely illuminated by the corridor light shining through the door. In the faint light, Lu Yanli could see the things inside the door clearly.

Lu Yanli had seen these cabinets before. When they mistakenly entered the wax museum in the town, they were trapped in the cabinets, with fierce ghosts behind them. Afterward, they heard a roar similar to that of a ferocious beast coming from outside the cabinets.

“What are these cabinets? What’s inside?” Lu Yanli asked.

The brain didn’t answer him, making his question sound like a self-questioning. He looked around for a while and stepped into the door.

As soon as he took the first step, he frowned. The floor in this room was very strange. Light footsteps on it made a violent sound, creating an effect like an earth-shattering tremor. He came to the first cabinet by the door, hesitated for a while, and still reached out and opened the door.

“There’s nothing?” He asked again, “What exactly are you hiding?”

As he spoke, he opened the second cabinet. There was still nothing, and like before, the cabinet fell down when it was opened.

No fierce ghosts, no cold aura, no one hiding in the cabinets. The brain still didn’t answer.

The third, the fourth… it was still the same.

In the midst of the huge noise, he suddenly heard a slight vibration coming from a certain direction.

There’s something there!

Without thinking, Lu Yanli ran over, following the sound to the corresponding cabinet. His hand was already on the cabinet door, about to open it…

Wait! The person hiding in the cabinet!

Lu Yanli suddenly realized something was wrong.

Afterward, he dialed Ximen Yuan’s phone and led the monster over there.

So, his current behavior is…

A real monster? Or the future self?

His hand remained on the cabinet door. After a long while, he still opened the door forcefully.

Lu Yanli didn’t believe the brain’s implication. He wanted to see if Ximen Yuan was inside.

The cabinet was empty.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t empty. There was a pool of blood that hadn’t solidified, and half a burning candle.

At the same time, he heard the sound of another cabinet door opening not far away, as if something was running out of the cabinet.

He suddenly wanted to laugh, and he really laughed out loud, but there was no smile in his eyes, only filled with coldness.

The moment he pushed open the door, a pool of blood from an unknown creature surged to his feet. He adjusted to the darkness for a while before he could see the furnishings in the room clearly.

Opposite the room, there was a stepped display stand, placed against the wall. Each layer of the display stand was filled with paper figurines, with pale faces and scarlet lips curved upwards. Blood was flowing out continuously from under the display stand. Taking a closer look, the paper figurines’ empty eyes were staring at the man at the door.

Those paper figurines had no eyes.

The display stand was very high, shaped like a pyramid. The paper figurine at the very top was no different from the other paper figurines. He gestured and found that he could reach it. So he really reached out and grabbed that paper figurine.

Lu Yanli closed the door and found that the blood stains on his body had disappeared, as if his behavior of stepping on the blood-filled ground just now was an illusion.

There was no darkness in the third room, it was brightly lit, and it looked very normal. Lu Yanli was stunned instead.

Lu Yanli glanced at the other clocks and found that they were not marked with numbers either.

But strangely, the time on each clock in the room was different. The ticking of the second hand was chaotic and irregular. Lu Yanli tried to read the seconds in his heart, and sure enough, he found that the clocks in the room were not accurate, some were fast and some were slow, like a pile of broken clocks.

The largest clock was the most “accurate,” except that its hands were running backward.

Lu Yanli watched with his own eyes as its second hand ticked backward. When it ticked backward from the counterclockwise direction to the top position that should have been marked with 12, it stopped for a second, and the next circle was clockwise again.

This is very strange.

Lu Yanli stared at it, and unknowingly he had walked up to it, watching the second hand spin without blinking his eyes.

It’s like… time has stopped in place, only spinning in a loop.

Lu Yanli reached out. Just as the second hand cycled clockwise to the 12 o’clock position and paused again, he forcefully broke the second hand in the clockwise direction——

The second hand was stuck, it seemed to be in a stalemate, Lu Yanli had no intention of letting go, and twisted the second hand forcefully in the clockwise direction.

He didn’t believe that everything was brought by him, and he didn’t believe that he couldn’t change it. If this clock was the same as he thought, and was related to that incident, he insisted on correcting it.

One notch, two notches, three notches…

Finally, Lu Yanli noticed the power that the second hand was naturally moving in the clockwise direction. He let go and watched the hands slowly Sketch the plaid downward.

Tick, tock, tick…

What Lu Yanli didn’t know was that after he closed the door, all the clock hands in the room suddenly spun wildly, and the ticking sound was more chaotic than before. And the largest clock that he had finally corrected, the second hand retreated frantically.

In his memory, there were too many times he was taken away by his mother to apologize to others because he beat other people’s children, accidentally smashed other people’s windows while playing football, and so on. He recalled the memory, which may or may not be true, and smiled to himself.

The fourth door stunned him as soon as it was pushed open.

“Why did the door suddenly open? Husband, go close it.” The kitchen door diagonally opposite opened, and a woman walked out with a dish. She was the woman in the wedding photo, older.

“Xiao Yu went to take the test today. The teacher said before that he has a good talent. It is estimated that he will be selected.” The woman who was no longer young smiled and was a little worried that was not easily noticeable. “But, investigators are too hard, and…”

She hesitated for a while and didn’t say it.

“It’s good to be able to make some contributions, let him choose for himself.” The man comforted her, “I think he is very suitable, maybe he can bring some surprises to the research institute.”

“Besides, not all investigators will have accidents. Look, aren’t I doing well?”

“I’m still very worried, he’s so young, he hasn’t even reached adulthood, even if he’s smart…”

Lu Yanli listened to their conversation, looked around, and found no photos of An Xingyu. After the couple finished eating, the male and female owners got up and went to work, and the house was empty.

He heard the brain’s weird laughter. The other party didn’t answer directly, but just smiled and told him to wait, which made him feel even more uneasy.

Not long after, the male and female owners returned home separately. After waiting for a while, the child of this family came back. The moment the key was inserted into the lock and turned, the three of them looked at the door together.

Outside the door, stood a teenager wearing a school uniform, but his face—was blurred, and he couldn’t see his facial features clearly.

This is not An Xingyu at all!

“Haven’t you noticed yet? Do you find them very familiar?” The brain said, “You used to want to be a human because of them. You said you wanted to try to experience human emotions.”

“Especially family love.”