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Secret room, alone, which one?

This question is easy to answer.

The two immediately locked the dean's office from the inside and began to explore the terrain.

Compared with last night, the dean's office has not changed much, except that there are a few fewer newspapers on the newspaper shelf, and there are fewer items in the drawer of the bookcase.

But the terrain and furnishings of the dean's office are really simple: a large desk in front of the window, a newspaper shelf, a water dispenser, and a small sofa on the left; a large bookshelf on the right, and a few ornaments.

Such a "simple" room layout cannot hide people.

That is to say...

Xuelu was shocked: "There are other rooms hidden in the office, and the door is open, so the 'secret room' can't be done!"

Previous experiments have proved that two connected closed rooms are not considered secret rooms, and only a single purely closed room can trigger the killing rule.

Xuelu fiddled with the valuable ornaments, and fiddled with every book on the bookshelf, trying to find the darkroom switch, but found nothing.

"The dark room is in an open state, so it can't be a secret room..." Xuelu looked up at the ceiling in embarrassment, his neck was sore, "Is there an attic? There is no small door that is open?"

Huo Lvxing said suddenly: "I found it."

"where?"

Under the cover of the wide desk and armchair, there is a small square door just below the desk, with a crack open!

The color of the small door blends in with the tiles, and the interior is pitch black. If it wasn't for the flashlight hitting the front, it would be impossible to tell that there is a door here.

Huo Lvxing pushed away the armchair and opened the small door. Under the light of the flashlight, the scattered dust flew fiercely.

"Cough..." Huo Lvxing slapped his hands impatiently, his brows furrowed involuntarily, "I'll come in later, the air inside is very bad."

Even with the small door open, the ventilation is still poor.Xuelu forcibly pushed Huo Lvxing away: "Don't stand here, it's so choking."

Huo Lvxing is obsessed with cleanliness, Xuelu knows it.

From the first meeting, the man's leather gloves have not been taken off.To be honest, this outfit is very handsome, tailoring, workmanship, high-quality leather wrapping big knuckles, it has a different sense of asceticism.

So when he found the small door just now, Xuelu thought that Huo Lvxing would ask him to open it, but unexpectedly, Huo Lvxing opened the door directly.

He was in a complicated mood. On the one hand, he felt grateful, and on the other hand, he felt a little uncomfortable.

...Having been a teammate for less than a day, Huo Lvxing is too gentle to him, isn't he too kind?

He Xuelu is not ignorant, he has done so many things to anger him, and he is so considerate, so is the sternness and arrogance he shows are illusions?

If he is so good to former class enemies like him, wouldn't it be better to treat others?

The more she thought about it, the more blocked Xuelu's heart became.

"Be so kind to strangers... Be careful not to suffer." He couldn't help complaining in a low voice, "It's obvious that you look very fierce, why is it this kind of personality... Fortunately, it was me who met me, and someone else would have kicked their noses. .”

Huo Lvxing didn't hear the rest of his words clearly, but he heard the first half of the sentence clearly.

The big hand rubbed the curly hair that felt aggrieved for some reason: "You are not a stranger."

"I just want to cheapen my teammates," Xuelu pouted, "It's a metaphor."

Huo Lvxing shook his head amusedly: "What are you thinking? Our relationship..."

He paused.

Yes, what is their relationship?

As Xuelu said, a stranger?It seems to be closer.Cheap teammates?It doesn't sound right again.

But going one step further, close teammates, good friends, good brothers?That would be even more wrong.

Logically speaking, they are just temporary "partners", the kind that are temporarily reached.Pushing forward another dungeon, he was still an unstoppable arch-rival, he missed the capture by accident, one ran, the other chased, and finally caught up to this dungeon.

However, they have done a lot of intimate things.

Xuelu got angry at him, complained, and even confide in him.

Huo Lvxing also hugged him, hugged him, and even kissed him.

From this point of view, they should be very close.

On the side, Xuelu didn't know what Huo Lvxing was doing when he suddenly froze, he just thought that this stinky man had a long reflection, his cleanliness finally broke out, and he felt uncomfortable all over.

He saw that the dust had almost dissipated in the column-shaped light of the flashlight, so he picked up the flashlight and prepared to go down.

There was a length of rope ladder hanging under the small door, Xuelu pulled it hard, it was very strong, feel free to go down.

But he was still sloppy.

As soon as he dropped his whole body weight on the rope ladder, he stepped down a step, and there was a light touch from the rope ladder on his right hand——

Immediately there was a violent sense of weightlessness.

"what!"

"Xuelu!"

Huo Lvxing rushed forward and stretched out his arms: "Grab me!"

Fortunately, Xuelu held it firmly with his left hand. After exclaiming reflexively, he put his whole body weight on his left arm and stepped firmly on his feet.

The precarious rope ladder made a big turn, and slowly stabilized under Xuelu's control.He let out a long breath to relieve the palpitations, then raised his head and gave Huo Lvxing a soothing smile.

Judging by Huo Lvxing's anxious appearance, if the opening of the small door was not too small to carry two people in, he would bump into Xuelu if he jumped down, so he probably would have jumped down to pick them up.

"It's okay, it's probably because the material is old and the right side is broken." Xuelu comforted him, seeing that he looked worried, as if he took the danger on himself, and said, "Fortunately, I came down, I was light, so one side was broken .If you come down, you'll be thrown."

Huo Lvxing shook his head, as if he wanted to say something, but he just sighed: "It's good that it's okay. Go down quickly, before it breaks."

Xuelu responded with a grin, and quickly descended.

It's not that he overreacted just now, the height of the basement is deeper than expected.

At least three meters five, or even four meters high.

Such a height is actually somewhat abnormal.Even the above ground part of the hospital has no floors higher than three meters high, and this basement is the basement of the dean's office on the fifth floor, that is to say, this room is part of the fourth floor.

Except for the sweeping and killing last night, Xuelu hadn't explored the fourth floor carefully yet. He wondered what part of the fourth floor is directly below the dean's office. Is there such a blind spot?

Not impressed.

The damp musty smell stimulated his sense of smell, and he couldn't help but sneezed a little. There was also an indescribable smell of disinfectant, which was contradictory and abrupt.

He shook the flashlight and explored the hidden space.

About four or five square meters, there is a folding camp bed in the corner, which is full of mold and dust.There is a table next to the bed, and there is a rectangular dust dividing line on the table: there were items the size of B5 paper on the table before, and they were taken away.

There is some garbage piled up under the table, including metal cans, mineral water bottles, and puffed food packaging bags.Xuelu looked it over carefully, and found that the latest shelf life was 1977.

There is a huge canvas bag at the end of the bed, stuffed with bald toothbrushes, tooth cups, ink bottles, pens and other sundries in a mess, but there are no items such as notebooks to keep information.

——More than 20 years ago, someone lived here for a long time. Before leaving, he may have been in a hurry, or maybe he didn't care, and he didn't pack up his things.

The most conspicuous thing in the whole room was the wall facing the bed, covered with dense photos.

Thirty or forty?The photos are regularly arranged in groups, marked with white paint pens and red markers, with circles and dots.

Most of the photos are landscape photos, such as volcanic eruptions, cliffs, aurora, craters, lush forests, or eerie forests...like clippings from magazines, or printing after downloading from the Internet.

The remaining [-]% ​​were portraits. Xuelu thought he would find photos of himself or other NPCs, but to his surprise, he didn't recognize any of the people in the photos.

The subjects of the portraits are various, some are in white coats, some are in private clothes or hospital clothes.Some are ID photos, and some are snapshots, or life photos.

There are also no characters or numbers written on the wall, only lines and circles, used to connect portraits and scenery.

"What rules..." Xuelu scratched her head in distress, "551, is this some sort of password?"

551 cannot answer such profound questions.

"Hey wait... I have an impression of this eerie forest," Xuelu found out, "I saw it in a dungeon before. This is the 'suicide forest'. People have committed suicide in it for decades, no I know whether it’s the herd mentality or the ghost... But how to explain the others, this old man is connected to the crater, the blonde is connected to the forest, the doctor with beer belly is connected to the volcanic eruption, and the elementary school student is connected to the cliff? Random connection?"

He couldn't find a clue for a short time, and asked 551 to take pictures of the wall and other suspicious items in the basement, and then peeled off all the photos on the photo wall and put them in his pockets to prevent later players from finding them.

Before leaving, he tried to find other exits in the basement, whether it could be connected to other rooms on the fourth floor, but failed.

Xuelu carefully grabbed the rope ladder and climbed up. This time he learned how to behave, and stepped on the last step to stabilize for a while before going up.When he was more than one meter away from the small gate, Huo Lvxing stretched out his powerful arms, motioning for him to grab it.

He looked at Huo Lvxing's gloomy face, fearing that he would be unhappy, so he obediently extended his hand to him.

The man pushed hard, and Xuelu was easily lifted up, supported the floor, and walked out the small door.

"It's hot, stuffy, and stinky down there. You're lucky you didn't go, or you'd go crazy. Oh, by the way, there are quite a lot of clues. I can't figure it out. Take a look..."

Huo Lvxing didn't answer, but just wiped off the dust on Xuelu's body bit by bit with a handkerchief.

Xuelu thought it was because he was obsessed with cleanliness and thought she was dirty, so she obediently let him do it.

He took a big breath of fresh air, fanned himself with his hands, and signaled 551 to show Huo Lvxing the photos he took.

After the power outage, there was no air conditioning, and the heat of the hot summer swept in.Because of the heavy rain yesterday, it was barely cool, and it didn't make people feel irritable, but in the past day, the temperature couldn't be suppressed.

Temperature will be the second terrible killer.

So many corpses that cannot be processed, at this temperature, will rot and stink within two days, accompanied by a large number of bacteria and viruses.Without cold storage, the ingredients will quickly spoil, deteriorate and become inedible.And there's one last, serious issue that's been neglected so far: excrement.

Water resources are scarce, a large number of people are stranded, and excrement is difficult to deal with. In addition, the hospital is separated from the outside world. It is not known whether the sewer system can still function normally.

Xuelu was thinking about the next action plan endlessly: setting fire, sowing discord, and framing have all been used, so how to make trouble...

Huo Lvxing suddenly said, "Xiaoxue, take a look at this man."

Xuelu interrupted her thoughts and moved her face closer.

Huo Lvxing pointed to a slender man with red hair and blue eyes, with a handsome and sunny appearance, in his early twenties.He was dressed in the costume of an intern doctor, gestured V in one hand, and held a middle-aged female doctor in the other, taking a group photo like an intern and a mentor.

Xuelu had no impression of such a number of NPCs or players.But Huo Lvxing said, he stared hard at the facial features, trying to find out what makes this person different from ordinary people...

A guess flashed in his mind, and Xuelu opened his eyes wide: "I'll go, it won't be what I thought! He is Matilda?!"

Xuelu almost forgot that the glamorous red-haired big sister is actually a man. It seems that this photo is a photo of Matilda's female clothing boss who exposed her nature or changed her gender!

Xuelu took out the original photos from his pocket, and compared them again and again: "The mole on the earlobe...is him right. In other words, these portraits are not unrelated to NPCs!"

With this beginning, the following reasoning is much easier.

That black-haired, black-eyed Asian boy with white skin in a primary school uniform is Xie Huating.And the white coat with a beer belly is exactly the same as the facial features of the security guard Xiao En.It is difficult for the remaining people to find matching characteristics, but according to the hair color and eye color, they can correspond to almost the same.

But there are still many doubts.

"The black-haired backs and profiles in these snapshots... can't be seen as male or female," Xuelu murmured, "only Meimei, Dangshan and I can't find a match. There is also this gray-haired old man. Can't figure out who it is."

In addition to the four people who couldn't be seated according to their numbers, there was another unexplainable point: why the security guard Xiao En would wear a white coat after middle age.As the saying goes, every industry is like a mountain. Although some industries can be self-taught with hard work, it is not so easy to enter the medical field.

In this regard, Xuelu suspects that the "parallel world" factor has been added.

Xuelu looked at the photos over and over again, and suddenly, she saw a strange color - on the back of the photo of the white-haired old man, a line of words was written crookedly with a colored pen!

[I will detonate the hydrogen bomb. 】

There is no beginning and no end, and I don't know what to say.

551's rabbit ears were knotted in worry: "Is this old man a scientist? Or a radical terrorist?"

Xuelu flipped through the other photos, but the back of the other photos was blank.

The thread is broken again.

"The photo of the old man is attached to the landscape photo of the 'crater' with a pen... Could it be that the photo is not a trace of the crater, but a hydrogen bomb explosion?"

Huo Lvxing shook his head: "The trace left by the hydrogen bomb explosion is not like this. It is indeed a crater with a diameter of no more than ten kilometers, which is not large."

"Ahhh!" Xuelu scratched her curly hair irritably, "So, this pile of things has a ghost connection with the 'Eighth Judgment Day' again!"

Seeing that he was unhappy, Huo Lvxing comforted him: "It's fine if you don't want to investigate. This is the task of the third camp and has nothing to do with you."

"That's not what I mean, the investigation is fun..." Xuelu shook her head, "It's just that the clues and results can't draw a clear logical chain, it's hard."

Immediately, he was relieved: "However, this is the charm of solving puzzles and reasoning!"

"Being haunted...is the charm?"

Seeing the rare confusion on Huo Lvxing's stern face, Xuelu giggled and explained: "Take the clues that seem irrelevant and disorganized bit by bit, sort out the subversive truth, and then draw out the truth. There will be a great sense of accomplishment at the moment of conclusion!"

551 also nodded: "That's the feeling of stealing money little by little, and then saving a huge sum of money, which amazes everyone!"

……

Xuelu felt that he had been connoted, and punched 551.

He coughed lightly: "In short, I just enjoy the process of exploring, reasoning, and solving cases! It's like this!"

Maybe Xuelu didn't know it himself, but when he talked about something he was interested in or good at, his whole demeanor changed.

The calmness and vigilance caused by the pressure of work disappeared, and was replaced by the enthusiasm of young people with a sense of innocence.

He has a very cute little problem. When he is excited, his eyes will open extra big. His beautiful eyes are like swimming fish, and his thick eyelashes are blooming. A pair of pupils are full of you opposite him. Full of passionate emotion.

Huo Lvxing's heart beat again and again.He subconsciously wanted to cover his abnormally warm chest, but held back again.

Years of concentration allowed him to listen carefully to Xuelu's chatter while questioning what was wrong with him.

"You're right," he heard himself echoing Xuelu softly like a sleepwalker, "trying hard to intersperse the 'irrelevant', trivial things that no one finds useful, and the final result...is a It’s been a really great, very fulfilling thing.”

In fact, at that moment, what he thought of was himself and the little villain in front of him.

Can they also bear fruit?

He looked out of the window involuntarily, and the light from the flashlight in the room faintly illuminated the scenery just outside the window.

It was a giant tree, at least a hundred years old from the look of its sturdiness, and it was shaking strongly and violently in the strong wind brought by the barrenness.

When wandering outside, he was deeply impressed by this giant tree: a small seedling grew next to its feet.The species are obviously different, presumably grass seeds blown from elsewhere.

In the wind and rain, many trees and flowers were blown off, but the young seedlings survived tenaciously because they were tightly relying on the giant trees.

He wondered wildly, is it because of this little seedling that the giant tree persists like this?

The aimless suffering, the endless eternal night, but the fate accidentally brought the weak, newborn seedlings who could not survive without protection, and the giant tree had a goal not to give up.

Will Xiao Miao know?

But even if he knew the silent love of the giant tree, how would Xiao Miao respond?

Is it gratitude, or...?

"Brother Huo? Brother Huo!"

In front of him, the pretty little villain waved lightly in front of him: "Come back to your senses. We've wasted too much time here, let's go."

Huo Lvxing focused blankly in front of his eyes, and subconsciously grabbed the hand that was especially fair in the dark, slender as if its bones were soft.

Softer than seedlings.

His generous big hands wrapped around his small hands tightly, letting the warmth pass through.

Xuelu froze, struggled for a while, but couldn't break free.

"Brother Huo, what happened all of a sudden?"

Huo Lvxing hoarsely said: "It's okay."

He stared at Xuelu's blank expression for a long time before letting go.

As if to cover up, he slammed the small door on the floor, pushed a low cabinet to cover it, and then strode out of the office: "Let's go."

Xuelu didn't know what was going on with him, she just followed him obediently as if his cleanliness episode wasn't over yet.The author has something to say: Xiao Miao: It's not gratitude, it's love.