Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 9 Infinite Maze
"Looks like we need to speed up."

The limit of rewinding to the path of self-destruction is one hour, and the blood bottle given to him by Shangguan Yan is only effective for one hour.

Since you have to go back, it is best to attach all the necessary BUFFs to avoid being caught off guard when encountering emergencies.

Thinking of this, Xia Shou took out the bottle of blood and drank it all up with a gulp.

He threw away the empty bottle, walked through the living room, and continued to move forward along the red line until a door blocked his way.

Because it is upside down, the upper part of the door becomes the threshold.

Xia Shou raised his legs, stepped on the threshold, crawled through the doorway, jumped to the other side, and entered a huge space that was ten times the size of the living room.

At his feet at this moment was the ceiling of the office floor. Dozens of energy-saving lamps were neatly and orderly arranged on the ground at intervals of two meters. There were also central air-conditioning outlets at regular intervals.

Looking up, there are densely packed cubicle workstations above. On each desk is a laptop, printer, and documents. All the arrangements are exactly the same as in a real workplace, as if the real scene has been perfectly copied into this room.

The only difference between here and reality is that there is no one here.

Xia Shou turned his head and looked out the window of the office building, but what he saw through the window was not the cityscape, but another space with a completely different style.

Xia Shou glanced around and saw the classroom, toilet, train station, coffee shop...

These spaces with completely different functions are gathered here and are spliced ​​together without any logic like a scene in a dream.

Here, you can just walk through a window and you can go from a European classroom to an Asian library; you can climb through a door and you can go from a tin house in the slums to the bedroom of a super-rich person.

Although Xia Shou had long guessed that the space inside the Blood Demon's House would be much larger than what was seen from the outside, he did not expect it to be so exaggerated. It was simply an infinite space!
"It's very difficult to find the investigator in a place like this, but this situation is actually beneficial to us. At least the cost of one hundred meters can be easily paid... and besides, we are not here to rescue anyone." Xia Shou said to Alice.

Looking down, I saw the thickest red line under my feet, which had moved from the left side to the right side at some point, and was still moving at an extremely slow speed.

Seeing this scene, Xia Shou frowned.

The effect of [Seeking Death] is to indicate the danger of the road. If the most dangerous end point is a fixed location, then the direction indicated by the red line is the BOSS room and it will not move for no reason.

But now, the most dangerous direction is changing on its own.

That is to say, in this place, the most dangerous thing is not a fixed position, but something moving.

The opponent is not a monster that just stays in a fixed position and waits for prey to come to it, but a predator like a hunting spider that will actively track the traces of prey.

So...will the end of the red line be the Blood Demon?

But what exactly is the blood demon?
Although he had read the relevant information about the Blood Demon's House before coming here, the information actually did not mention what the Blood Demon was.

Ever since legendary investigator Edward lost contact in the Blood Demon House ten years ago, the Bureau's understanding of this strange phenomenon has never deepened.

Although they named this strange phenomenon "Blood Demon's House", they actually knew nothing about what was inside the house. They gave it this name simply because the appearance of the house matched the description in a strange notebook.

However, the shitty thing is, even though this house was recorded in the notebook, due to the crazy writing style of the recorder and the mixed use of a mess of languages, the Control Bureau was unable to learn more information from the notebook. The final conclusion was that this house had existed for at least several hundred years and was extremely evil.

To put it bluntly, the Control Bureau's knowledge of the Blood Demon House is almost blank. However, there is one thing worth noting, that is, ten years ago, the entrance of the Blood Demon House was not upside down.

As for why it has become like this, no one knows.

Xia Shou took a deep breath, withdrew his thoughts, and focused his attention on the red line under his feet.

The first exploration was mainly focused on gathering intelligence.

In any case, it's best to find the legendary investigator as soon as possible.

Since the other party has been able to survive in this alien space for ten years, he must have mastered the method of survival and may also know a lot of special information.

Thinking of this, Xia Shou looked at the soles of his feet again and silently memorized the changes of the red line in his mind.

Since Edward has been able to live for so long, he should have been staying in the safest place, so as long as he reverses the method of using "Self-Destruction", he may be able to find Edward hiding here.

The thinnest red line is the route to the safest location.

"Alice, let's hurry up!"

After saying that, Xia Shou started running on the ceiling of the office.

The larger the scope of the first search, the more beneficial it will be to him, not only in terms of intelligence gained, but also in terms of skills gained.

If he could encounter "nutrients" like the corpse in the living room just now, he would have a better chance of winning when facing the blood demon.

Xia Shou ran nimbly across the ceiling of the office building, awkwardly opened a window, and climbed to the coffee shop on the other side.

Although [Self-Destruction] did not give him any hints, he knew very accurately that he had advanced 56 meters. He only needed to advance a certain distance and the price would be paid. Then he would be free.

Thinking about it this way, this skill is really powerful. Compared with the increased tolerance rate by backtracking, the cost of one hundred meters is simply insignificant.

When Xia Shou walked into the coffee shop, drops of blood appeared on the ceiling under his feet, extending all the way to the back of the load-bearing wall in front.

Xia Shou followed the bloodstains for a few steps and came to the back of the load-bearing wall, where he saw a white and smooth back with beautiful and attractive curves.

The girl standing in front of him had a bloody bandage on her left arm and a nearly two-meter-long wild sword slung across her hip. She had just taken off her bloodstained top and was picking up a brand new white shirt from the ground, apparently intending to change clothes.

The moment she leaned over, she noticed Xia Shou standing beside her. Her eyes swept across his face, but his expression did not change at all. He continued to change his clothes as if there was only air around him and no one at all.

Xia Shouben thought he would be scolded for peeping, but the other party didn't react at all, and didn't even look at him, which made him feel very embarrassed: "Um... Are you from the Control Bureau too?"

Before she finished her words, the girl paused in her dressing.

She suddenly looked up, widened her eyes, and stared at Xia Shou with an expression as if she had seen a ghost.

"You...you you you! Can you see me?" she asked excitedly.

(End of this chapter)