Quick Wear: Passerby A's Counterattack Revised Plot

En: “Can’t get out?”

Shi Qi: "Yes, a little bit. Do you have any solution?"

En: “Yes!”

Shi Qi: "What method?"

En: "Find the people who came in with you... Of course, it's possible that they've already entered the dungeon. You can try first."

"Looking for teammates?" Shi Qi repeated in a low voice, "Okay, but I have to figure out one thing first—"

She suddenly raised her hand and drew a line in the air with her fingertips. The golden light curtain turned into countless thin lines, instantly covering the entire corridor like a spider web.

"——Is the place we are in now virtual or real?"

Thin lines of light curtain silently sank into the walls, floor and ceiling, like permeable ink, outlining a three-dimensional grid in the blink of an eye.

After a moment, all the golden threads rebounded at the same time, leaving wisps of black mist at the ends, like blood vessels that were forcibly pulled out.

"The results are out."

Shi Qi folded her fingers together, and the golden thread gathered into a golden ring, which hovered in her palm. Within the ring, black mist surged violently, but it could never break through the thin layer of golden light.

【Test conclusion:

Space coordinates - none.

Timestamp – None.

Physical constant - Deviation rate 97.8%.

[Judgment: Currently in the "copy boundary layer", commonly known as the "rift corridor" - a redundant buffer area between reality and the copy.

All directions are blocked in a loop, and unless you find an anchor point or trigger a hidden exit, you will always return to the starting point.

"It's indeed a gap." Shi Qi flicked his fingers to disperse the ring, then turned his head to look at En, "Little guy, did you know this a long time ago?"

En squatted in the corner, hugging his knees. He tilted his head and smiled a harmless smile. "All I know is that this isn't an exit for 'outsiders,' but a secret door for 'insiders.'"

"Insider?" Lin Yi frowned. "Who are you referring to? Gu Yu and his weird group? Or—"

Before he could finish his words, the half-closed door at the end of the corridor creaked open by itself.

There was no light behind the door, but a deeper darkness, like a rectangular black hole cut out by a knife.

At the same time, a sharp electric sound suddenly came from the ceiling:

[Ding—Detected that the number of people stranded at the "Instance Entrance" is ≥ 3, initiating the recovery process.]

【Recycling method: Please submit "identity verification" within 60 seconds——

If the submission fails, it will be considered as "abnormal data" and deleted. 】

"Authentication?" As Lin Yi spoke, a blood-red input box suddenly appeared in front of him:

【Please enter your real number】

Numbering?

Lin Yi was stunned.

Lin Yi: "Qiqi, what's the number? Do you know?"

Shi Qi stared at the line of blood words, tapped his fingertips lightly in the air, and golden light suddenly wrapped around the input box, as if to forcibly disassemble it.

"Number? They want—"

Before she could finish her words, the light thread was suddenly rebounded, and a dark red arc of electricity exploded along her finger bones, making a crisp "crack" sound. Shi Qi narrowed his eyes, shook his numb fingertips, and smiled:

"So it's a forced reading of the soul mark... No wonder it hurts."

En snapped his fingers nearby, and the blood frame immediately seemed to be erased, blurring the words into a mess before re-composing a new question:

【Please enter "your original name"】

Lin Yi was confused: "My original name was Lin Yi..."

The blood frame flashes, the judgment fails, and the countdown jumps from 60 seconds to 45 seconds.

"That's not the literal meaning," En reminded. "It's asking—'the first identity code you entered into the system,' including the hidden characters."

Shi Qi raised his hand, and the invitation letter was displayed before his eyes again. "Is this the thing?"

"So this is it!" As he spoke, Lin Yi took out his invitation letter.

En's eyes widened in shock. "How come you two still have invitations?"

Shi Qi said: "Hasn't this been there since the beginning? What's so strange about it?"

En: "It's so rare because it existed in the beginning and still exists now."

【Countdown 00:44】

The blood frame suddenly enlarged like an enraged beast, almost sticking to Lin Yi's face.

[Invitation detected, secondary verification started——]

[Verification failed: Invitation letter holder ≠ original ID code binder.]

The scarlet font suddenly exploded, turning into countless fine needles that pierced Lin Yi's pupils.

Lin Yi groaned, and tears of blood instantly flowed from his left eye.

Shi Qi's golden light curtain expanded with a "hum" sound, blocking all the blood needles.

"I see." She whispered, "This crappy invitation isn't a pass at all, it's a shackle number."

She touched the back of the invitation with her fingertips, and the four silver characters "Doomsday Survival" twisted into a string of dark gold characters:

EX-β07: Lin Yi (Bound by:???)

"The binder has been erased." Shi Qi narrowed his eyes, "In other words—"

En suddenly raised her hand and interrupted her in a crisp voice: "Sister, there are only thirty seconds left in the countdown."

He turned his palm over, revealing a rusty copper key. The key's teeth marks exactly matched the characters on the back of the invitation letter.

"Try this?"

Shi Qi raised his eyebrows: "Where did you get it from?"

En smiled obediently and said, "I dug it out from the wall. It fell out when you were taking the door apart just now."

【Countdown 00:29】

Lin Yi didn't bother to ask any more questions and pressed the copper key into the blood box.

boom--

All the light bulbs in the corridor exploded, and darkness poured down like liquid.

The health frame exploded into pieces of light, then reassembled into a new line of prompts:

[Authentication passed: 'EX-β07' temporary unbinding successful.]

[The dungeon entrance is being reorganized...]

【Two-way channel will be opened in 3 seconds.】

"Two-way?" Lin Yi had just pronounced these two words when the floor beneath his feet suddenly collapsed.

The feeling of weightlessness lasted only a moment—

pat.

The three of them landed in a corridor going in the opposite direction at the same time:

The lights are bright, the walls are snow-white, and the smell of disinfectant is pungent.

At the end was an electronic door with a flashing green sign:

【Madhouse·Ward 0】

[Administrator: Gu Yu (deregistered)]

En whistled. "Congratulations! We've been picked up by the 'deregistered' NPC."

Lin Yi stared at the doorplate and suddenly realized something: "Wait, Ward 0...is not for patients, it's for experimental subjects."

Shi Qi had already walked to the door, raised his hand to take the invitation letter and swiped it lightly on the access control -

drop.

The door opened.

Inside is a row of nutrient capsules, with identical "enes" soaked in light green liquid.

On top of each cabin, there is a yellowed label:

【EX-a01】【EX-a02】……

The last empty cabin had a label that read:

EX-β07 Lin Yi (to be implanted)

For the first time, a crack appeared on En's face, revealing a coldness that was not typical of a child.

"It turns out I wasn't lost, I ran away."

He turned to look at Lin Yi, his voice low:

"Brother, are you ready to return your body to me?"