Artifact Report

Chapter 152 Mai Minghe: Fortunately, Hai Luwei is a person who can be trusted and cooperated with

Sometimes, people's retribution in this life comes too quickly.

Mai Minghe wiped his sweat and when he put down his hands, he found that they were covered with black and gray streaks; he guessed that his face and body were now similar to those of a zebra.

Several small explosions in succession filled her ears with a lingering buzzing sound like flies, but compared with the injury on her foot, it was not a big deal - she carefully placed the burned foot on the ground and let out a breath of cool air.

The life experience of the second life was quite rich. In just a few days, he experienced all the new sufferings that he had not experienced in the previous 86 years.

Before parting with her, Sea Reed gave her a roll of bandage. After wrapping her feet, he put a little weight on it, so that she could barely walk, but not fast and with a limp.

They finally made it to the third floor, but not long after they figured out the rules, a microwave oven suddenly exploded behind them, and the fire burned her shoes. Fortunately, the microwave oven was next to the window, and the shock wave shattered the window, allowing most of the fire to escape through the window. She only suffered minor injuries, which was really a blessing in disguise.

Alas, after the two experiences of "finding faces in restaurants" and "TV reality", she almost formed a fixed mindset, thinking that nest traps can only be solved by intelligence and thinking...

As a result, since going up to the third floor, she and Hai Luwei have become two fish forced to act separately. They have no room to think and can only be bombarded frequently.

No matter how fast your brain works, it can’t stop a bomb!

Mai Minghe sighed and checked the bedroom again.

Wardrobe, pillows, fans, curtains... Fortunately, nothing has started counting down to an explosion, which might give her a break.

Mai Minghe took out the wrinkled rules introduction from his trouser pocket, intending to read it again and find a way out from the lines.

The most striking feature of this shabby place is that all everyday furniture and objects will randomly explode - not to mention the microwave, even the cold pizza left on the kitchen counter will suddenly set off a sausage-flavored fireworks in the house.

There was no trace of what object would explode or what triggered the explosion; even the countdown before the explosion only had three numbers - "three, two, one", boom.

This was something I saw; if I hadn't seen the red countdown numbers on the objects, it would have been like a sudden burst of destruction from the silence.

But how is it possible for a person to keep an eye on everything all the time and not miss anything?
This is not the most unfair thing about the third floor.

After climbing the stairs, instead of entering the corridor, they were sent to the adjacent Room 302. After running and escaping several times, and being bombarded several times, Mai Minghe finally figured out the situation:

It turned out that the partition walls of the apartments on both sides of the corridor had all been demolished, turning them into two huge apartments; inside the apartments, some partitions were still preserved, and traces of the residences of different residents could be seen.

Even the wall was demolished, isn't this for better frying fish?

But even if she wanted to rush into the corridor and up the stairs in one breath, she couldn't do it - the rules prevented her from doing that.

Mai Minghe just found a pen and circled and organized the rules from the paper full of nonsense. These were the rules she was looking at again at this moment.

A. If someone appears within a one-meter radius of the player's residence, the floor beneath the feet of the first person to arrive will explode.

If two (or more) people arrive within one meter at the same time, and there is no order of first come first served, the floor beneath their feet will explode simultaneously.

She remembered that she and Hai Luwei were standing together, reading the letter and discussing. When they understood this rule, their faces changed at the same time - the next second, they hurriedly separated.

At first, they were only a meter apart and were still within each other's sight; but after being driven away by random explosions several times, she didn't even know where Sea Reed was.

B. Any object may explode randomly. Before the explosion, a red countdown number (from three to one) will flash on the object.

C. There is a certain chance that unexploded bombs will appear in the area after the explosion (regardless of the cause).

D. Player residents carrying unexploded bombs will be immune to the effects of random explosions. In other words, they can walk freely on the third floor, and even if an object explodes right in front of their face, they will not be hurt at all.

E. Unexploded bombs that are not picked up will explode after ten minutes. Unexploded bombs that are touched will disappear after ten minutes.

F. When a person carrying an unexploded bomb meets a person without an unexploded bomb within one meter, Rule A becomes invalid; the person carrying the unexploded bomb will be subjected to the double explosion of the ground under his feet and the unexploded bomb on his body.

If both are present, or if there are no unexploded bombs, then Rule A will still take effect; Rule A takes precedence over Rule D.

G. After all twelve unexploded bombs have exploded, the staircases leading to the second and fourth floors will be opened. For example, if someone attempts to force their way up the fourth floor before the conditions are met, every step along the staircase will become a bomb and explode simultaneously.

In this case, not only will the life of the person going upstairs be in danger, but the people behind him will never be able to go up to the fourth floor. The same applies to the second floor.

...Although this set of rules has many clauses, it is quite easy to understand.

But every time he read it and analyzed the rules, Mai Minghe couldn't help but sigh: How vicious.

The third floor is a trap specially prepared for multiple hunters, and it seems that the more people there are, the harder it will be to get through - because every rule contains room for harming others and benefiting oneself.

No, it would be better to say that whether it is a person or a team, getting to the third floor will be difficult for each person; on the contrary, if one person secretly pushes someone else to step on the bomb, exchanging someone else's life for the unexploded bomb, this person will have a great chance of successfully reaching the third floor.

If I had known this would happen, I would have stayed in the corridor on the second floor...

But there is no "knowing in advance" in life.

Mai Minghe crumpled the letter into a ball, wanting to throw it away but didn't, and instead kept it.

Although she and Hai Luwei were separated while avoiding the explosion, they could still reunite by following each other's voices.

Since they went upstairs, a total of seven explosions have occurred. There seemed to be three explosions near Hai Luwei, two near Mai Minghe, and two others, which seemed to have occurred in deserted places. After the two explosions, she did not see any unexploded bombs at the scene.

According to the rules letter, an unexploded bomb is very conspicuous, appearing as a large black ball in the center of the floor.

She had just called out to Hai Luwei, asking him if he had seen any unexploded bombs, but Hai Luwei seemed to have run further away because of the last explosion, and his ears were also deafened by the explosion. With the distance between them, their questions and answers became irrelevant.

"What one million? Who wants to give me one million?"

"I asked you if you saw any unexploded bombs!"

Hai Luwei seemed to have run to the 301 apartment complex across the corridor at some point, and shouted blankly, "Oh, are you talking about one meter apart? That's enough, there's definitely more than one meter between us!"

...Stop shouting, we still have to meet up quickly.

The rules on the third floor of the apartment were very sinister, but it didn't expect that the people going upstairs were itself and Hai Luwei.

Mai Minghe would naturally not risk other people's lives to step on landmines.

As for the sea reed, she had personally felt and judged it with her own eyes as a resident - not to mention that he was not that kind of person, even if he had the intention, he would not be able to do it.

As long as they can trust their companions, they are invincible.

　I celebrated my birthday yesterday, but I didn't get to play or eat. I was tossed around in the bitter wind and rain, shivering with cold, like a grandson. Everyone on the street looked like my grandfather. My throat started to hurt before bed, and I was really worried I'd caught a cold.

　　I finally managed to go to bed, thinking that the day was finally over, but after falling asleep I started to have abdominal pain... All in all, adding up the more than 20 naps I took that night, I only slept for three hours at most.

　　I'm so sleepy, I'll keep this chapter short. I can't stand it any longer.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)