Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 733: Goat Horns
"Have you called enough?"

Unable to stand the other party's thin and long tone, Zhou Yu raised his right hand and waved it twice.After seeing his gesture, Cai Ji closed his mouth very cooperatively, and fell limply on the wall next to him.

"You, you..."

The appearance of two people side by side obviously shocked him greatly, this trembling guy even forgot the exit that was close at hand.He kept trembling his lips, not knowing whether he was going to ask how the two came together, or why they appeared in the men's room.

"Why are you here?"

There was no time to talk nonsense with the other party, so Zhou Yu asked straightforwardly.The current situation is quite special, and the possibility that the other party was deliberately sent to the two of them cannot be ruled out.

"I...I...what the hell can I do! You are! What are you doing here!"

Seemingly awakened by his question, Cai Ji shouted in a broken tone.Regarding this, Zhou Yu really had no mood to explain, he directly took out the switchblade.

"I'm here to work!" Cai Ji was startled by this action, and he shouted while pulling the name tag on his chest.Only then did Zhou Yu notice that he was wearing something similar to a restaurant uniform.After confirming that it was a chance encounter, he ignored the other party and walked towards the exit of the men's toilet with Hongye.

"Wait! You two are here..."

Perhaps they were regarded as some kind of murderous group preparing to slaughter the mall, but Cai Ji chased them while trembling.

His ugly voice, which began to become high-pitched when he was nervous, stopped abruptly after stepping out of the toilet.Outside the door is a completely enclosed square dark space.Except for the green light emitted by the emergency lights, the space is dark, just a bare concrete box.

"...probably a fire escape area for the mall."

Before Cai Ji fainted from shock, Zhou Yu said simply.Large buildings usually have fire-resistant refuge areas, and high-rise buildings require special refuge floors-the superstitious saying that "old buildings will seal the 14th floor" is the real answer.For buildings with a height of about 14 meters, the [-]th floor is usually close to the middle section, which is a suitable location for setting up a refuge floor.

"Indeed." Hongye nodded in agreement, then looked around and said, "This is the first time I've entered this kind of place... so it looks like this inside."

"It should be different in each place. Some arson floors will be decorated with heat insulation materials, so they won't be so simple."

While wandering around the room, the two used conversation to determine each other's orientation.While talking about the internal structure of the fire zone, Cai Ji's voice sounded again.

"What do you care about fire prevention or not! Why did the toilet come to this kind of place! You two...you two..."

Hearing that he was out of breath, Zhou Yu finally couldn't ignore him.He turned his head to call Hongye, and asked, "Why did he follow in? Didn't it mean that ordinary people seem to be normal?"

"Well... because he is a slightly talented person."

Hongye looked back at Cai Ji again.She stopped suddenly, and asked with a little surprise: "Aren't you the young man from that night?"

"...Did you just recognize him? I thought you already knew who he was."

"Just now I didn't pay much attention... Well, that makes sense. He should have a talent for insight, so he could see the secret alley that Aosier hid that night."

"So, is he useful now?"

"It's completely useless. Zhou Yu, when it comes to insight, your body is much stronger than his. You can also see what he can see."

"Leave him alone, then."

While the discussion was going on, Zhou Yu felt a crack with his hand touching the wall.

"There is a door."

He tried to push and pull.With a creak, the door disguised as a wall opened to the outside, and the dazzling light shone into the room, making it difficult for people to see the scene outside clearly for a while.

With no sense of danger, he immediately stepped into the light.Hongye followed steadily behind her.

"Wait! Don't close the door! Don't let me stay in here!"

Probably because he didn't want to place orders in such a strange situation, Cai Ji, who knew they were dangerous, also rushed out at the last moment.

However, as soon as he ran out of the fire room, he stayed where he was, tongue-tied.

The building in front of me can no longer be called a room at all. Instead, the outer wall is a cylinder, and the inner wall is a spiral glass staircase.The entire space is completely transparent, and the stores and customers at the other end can be seen through the outer wall.The people outside the glass were talking and laughing, as if they were completely unaware that there was an unbelievably tall glass wall standing a few steps away.

The three of them seemed to be specimen bugs in the glass tube standing in the middle of the building.

Faced with such a scene, Cai Ji's thinking completely stopped.He slammed into the wall and slapped his hands hard on the transparent glass.

"Hey! Hey!!!...fucking! Hey!!!"

Pedestrians in twos and threes walked in front of them.Laughing and talking to each other.

"Hey! Open the door!! There is someone here!! Help!! Hey!!!"

Cai Ji screamed and slapped the transparent, infinitely high wall frantically, but no one noticed him even though he was only a few steps away.The strength of the panic wore off quickly, and he slid down exhausted to his knees on the floor.The floor here is also completely transparent.As long as you look down, you can see the situation in the underground parking lot, just like standing on thin ice overlooking the abyss.He just stared blankly at the scene below.

"...Hongye."

Seeing Cai Ji's actions, Zhou Yu called out to his companions.

"Well, I know. This place must have been designed by Osir a long time ago. It is conceptually separated from ordinary areas, and this place is similar to the 'inside the bone'."

"Bone?"

"It's just... well, if you think of the mall as a human body, this is the inside of the skeleton, but there's no marrow here, it's the hollow. We're in the hollow of the bone."

Zhou Yu nodded.He understands this phenomenon as a model-like state. From their perspective, the transparent walls may have "textures" from the outside.Naturally, the voices on both sides were also completely isolated.

"So, what to do?" he asked. "Are you going up?"

"...That's the only way to go."

The only way in front of him is to spiral up the stairs.Even knowing that this must be a trap designed by someone, there is no other way to choose.The two climbed up the steps one after another.

Before turning the first spiral, Zhou Yu glanced at Cai Ji who was kneeling on the ground: "Do you want to stay there forever?"

The other party didn't answer, so Zhou Yu continued to climb up.After walking more than ten steps, he saw Cai Ji standing up silently through the glass steps under his feet.

The three of them divided into two groups and climbed upwards with a spiral distance.

Transparent spiral stairs, there is no intermediate rest platform at all.It pulls straight from the ground floor to the height, like a giant tree in the atrium running through the mall.When climbing, not only the mall can be seen everywhere, but even the section between the wall and the ground can be seen.When it was the most exaggerated, a pedestrian walked straight towards them, so from both sides of the cylindrical space, they could see the internal structure of the person, the beating heart, and the blood rushing.

This scene is indeed like observing the human body from the perspective of the bone.

The stairs are very gentle, with only about five centimeters of height difference between each step, but after climbing about 800 steps, Zhou Yu also felt out of breath.

He took out his phone and checked the time, it was already 10:30.

"...Hongye."

"what happened?"

"The man said our time is until the moon sets, right?"

"Um……"

"Tonight's moon is a crescent moon... If the calculation is correct, a moon of this shape will completely fall below the horizon around midnight. So the betting game does not end until dawn."

Therefore, they have been tricked.

It was too late to realize it until now, but he didn't yell at the short fat man's rhetorical tricks, but silently accelerated his climbing speed.

After all, where does this endless staircase lead?
Zhou Yu looked up, and the overlapping glass structures refracted brilliant lights, converging into an extremely tiny spot of light at the end of the spiral.

The sight, he suddenly realized, was like being inside an animal's horn, toward the tip, trying to get out.

(End of this chapter)