Deep in the Living

Chapter 366 Ticket Check

Connected by shackles, the three people who were trapped inside the gap landed at a crossroads together.

The dim sunset was frozen in place just before setting, and the dim afterglow covered the streets with a yellow shroud.

The composition of air is exactly the same as that of the human surface.

But there is an extra component that is not a gas, something that cannot be seen or touched, but can flow on the surface of the skin.

It feels like suddenly throwing an ordinary person from a bustling, brightly lit area into the morgue in the deepest part of the hospital.

Moreover, arms stretched out from the freezer and touched the surface of this person's body.

No matter how hard you struggle, you can't get rid of this feeling of touch; it will always be there as long as you are in the corner.

Fear Entity

Many people who were called geniuses and once were powerful figures in the city-level investigation bureau, were brought to a corner for the first time and were ready to show their talents.

This "environment" that is completely different from the human world will make it difficult for them to adapt for a long time.

The more you care, the stronger the influence of the fear entity will be, and you will gradually develop auditory and visual hallucinations, and even feel that the streets are crowded with "people" when there is nothing there, making it difficult to exert your due strength.

You Zhen hadn't been to the corner for a long time, so it took her a minute to quickly adapt, but her expression did not change, and she had completed the reconnaissance of the 100-meter range without any abnormal fluctuations.

Just as she adjusted her state and prepared to look at the two newcomers as a senior, intending to take a good look at their miserable appearance.

But I smelled smoke first.
The scene before me was completely different from the miserable scene I had imagined.

Yu Ze had already made a cigarette out of talisman paper and was smoking it vigorously. While holding the talisman paper cigarette in his mouth, he rolled one for Luo Di.

Rody fumbled around in the coat room and finally found the crow colt.

It seemed that Rody was more concerned about the crow than his own condition. After confirming that the crow could really adapt to the corner environment, he took the cigarette and started smoking.

There was no sign of discomfort towards the fear entity on the faces of the two men; they looked more like two old hands.

Luo Di, with the help of the talisman paper cigarette bringing a clear mind, began to observe the surrounding environment.

"This is... the corner?"

They were currently at a crossroads, a real crossroads because it was completely symmetrical on all four sides.

The four directions of east, south, west and north are exactly the same, all corresponding to old train stations. Even the cars parked in the train stations remain exactly the same.

【██ Train Station】

Several large metal characters were placed on the top of the red brick wall of the train station. They were in standard Chinese characters. Although Luo Di had never been to this place, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

He had seen a train station like this in a movie produced in his home country in the 1990s.

When I was in junior high school, I also fantasized about leaving the United States and returning to my former motherland to live a happy life without being disturbed by corners.

Youzhen was also observing, analyzing and explaining:
“It seems that because both of you are Chinese, the corner has also selected a shallow area that suits you... Don’t be surprised, this is the corner.

You can think of corners as the opposite side of the world.

Its internal environment is a replica of the Earth from 1960 to 2000.

The interior of the corner is [blocked] rather than [completely open] like the earth.

Different areas are independent and separated from each other...Any individual who comes to the corner to move around, whether we are humans or monsters, will randomly fall into an area.

There is only one connection port between different areas.

If you can't find the exit, you will be trapped here forever.

The most important point of our exploration experience this time is to try to search the entire area and find the location of the [mouth].

This will be of great significance for you to explore the corners and go deeper into the corners in the future."

"A world with a block structure?"

Rody had already conceived a very appropriate picture at the first moment.

It is as if the surface of the earth is cut into cubes of equal size, each cube is independent of each other and is connected only by a line.

After a simple understanding, Rody's vision returned to the present.

“Are all the train stations on all four sides the same?”

Youzhen nodded. "Yes, the shallow space is not particularly complicated. It is just a mirror effect at the moment, so no matter which train station we choose to explore, it will not affect the subsequent exploration."

Luo Di looked along the street and saw that when the street was beyond the train station, it was shrouded in thick fog. He thought that he would either be unable to get out or would be stuck in a maze and walk back. Youzhen continued, "If you are used to it, we will start exploring.

Don’t think that the [block] we are in is only this big. The sealed building structure of the train station may have extra space, and the outside where we are currently is more like a buffer zone. "

Just as Youzhen was waiting for the two newcomers to ask questions and adapt, she suddenly discovered that Yu Ze, who was smoking just now, was gone.

He had run fifty meters away without knowing when, and got into a car parked on the side of the road, seemingly looking for something.

"Don't leave the team alone. It's dangerous."

Following Youzhen's call,
Yu Ze quickly got down from the passenger seat and returned to the team with an apologetic look on his face, holding a magazine he had just found in his hand.

The mouth under the sunglasses always kept smiling, as if he had found something good.

"Is this the mark of the seam?"

Yu Ze turned the magazine to the third page and saw a dark stripe mark on the paper, which was obviously not caused by printing.

Although there is no spatial induction,
But when Rody saw the black mark, he could feel something, he felt the connection with the human world.

As the team leader, Youzhen was already stunned, "How come you can directly find the mark?"

Yu Ze smiled foolishly, "Haha, I used to be a sensor in the team, and I also liked fortune-telling.

We are in the shallowest corner, only a thin film away from the junction. Therefore, it is easy for me to calculate what is related to the seam, but it is not so easy to calculate if it is deeper. "

"Hmm... Great~ This way, as long as 24 hours have passed, we can leave at any time, and we don't have to bother recording the pattern of the marks appearing.

Even if we really encounter any danger, we can evacuate immediately. "

Exploration begins.

The three-man team walked in front of the train station square, which was also filled with various old-fashioned cars and completely deserted.

There is no danger.

No agent has been transformed into a plant after being eroded by fear.

There were no signs of any monster activity.

The only effect is the omnipresent entity of fear,
Although Rody's condition was stable, the fear entity sticking around his body always made him glimpse some strange illusions.

For example, when passing by a car, he would catch a glimpse of someone sitting in the car waving at him out of the corner of his eye.

When passing by a street lamp, you'll catch a glimpse of something hanging on it out of the corner of your eye.

Even so, Rody did not take another look, after all, the tongue in his mouth had no sense. He silently enjoyed the stimulation and the nourishment of the soil of fear to his brain.

In front of the train station,

The seemingly large red brick building actually has only one entrance and exit, which is large enough to allow at most one person to pass through. The rest of the area is completely blocked with dense red bricks.

Moreover, this only entrance and exit was covered with yellowed and oily windproof cloth strips, making it impossible to peek into the interior of the train station.

There are no glass windows around for peeping into. The whole building seems to reject peepers. If you want to find out what's inside, you have to enter.

Rody went in front,

When I was about to lift the windproof cloth and enter the train station,
Between the strips of cloth,

A pair of bloodless arms that didn't look like those of a living person suddenly stretched out.

One hand holds the ticket clamp, and the other hand makes a gesture of receiving the ticket.
A pre-recorded horn sound came from behind the windproof cloth:

"Please check your ticket and enter!"

Just as Rody was about to lift the cloth further to check the source of the arm, his tongue immediately curled up.

The unknown warning made Rody stop what he was doing immediately, as if something dangerous would happen if he opened it.

Youzhen, who was walking behind and deliberately did not give any hints, showed a surprised expression again. She didn't understand why Luo Di chose to stop. Was he being cautious and timid, or did he really notice something?
Luo Di had turned sideways and looked at the ticket office not far away, then turned to look at You Zhen who was at the end of the line.

"Let's go buy tickets... It seems that what is copied here is not only the environment, but also a certain degree of living rules. If you don't follow them, something very troublesome will happen, right, Miss Zhen?"

"How did you tell?"

"intuition."

(End of this chapter)