white night syndrome

Chapter 9 009. Ouroboros

"Then, welcome to my 'White Nightmare', dear Mr. Li Ming. "

Accompanied by the reverberation of the voice, a pair of invisible hands gently covered Li Ming's eyes, and the black tide surged up, as if he had lost all senses. In the end, only the sound of liquid falling on the ground echoed in his ears.

Li Ming pursed his lips and stood on the spot without moving, but the light wind blowing beside him had already made him feel that the person around him disappeared at some point.

"White nightmare...?"

From the series of actions just now, it can be fully seen that Watanabe wants to lead himself here, and then drag him into the so-called nightmare.

Although he didn't often go to the hospital to check the patient's condition, Li Ming also heard from the informant Jiang Wenkan that the white dream of the patient's symptoms can be triggered with other people.

Well, that may be the case now.

What makes Li Ming a little hard to understand is, since the two of them triggered the white dream, why is Watanabe not in this dream?
"Sure enough. Just relying on my own reasoning and speculation, it is still difficult to understand the principle of this kind of thing that should not exist in reality."

Li Ming thought so, so he gave up contemplation, the most important thing right now is to find a way to escape from here.

He closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, Li Ming had already adapted to the darkness, and turned his eyes around——

"It's fog again."

In the narrow space of the elevator, thick black fog rolled violently. It was because of the abnormal color of the fog that Li Ming temporarily lost his vision in this area.

Li Ming was a little annoyed.

Vision is deprived, hearing is disturbed by the noise of dripping liquid, and the sense of touch can only touch the cold wall
It is also very strange to say that in such an environment, Li Ming, who hates dazzling things, yearns for light so much, and even thinks it would be great if there is sunshine.

"Wait, the elevator room should be the same as the corridor in the hospital. It has emergency lighting equipment."

Thinking of this, Li Ming relied on his own memory to feel for the wall in front of him, trying to find the switch.

"Tick, tick."

The liquid was still falling down, Li Ming had a premonition that something bad would happen if the unknown liquid continued to drip on the floor.

"bumped into."

The buttons in the elevator room are grooved or raised, so Li Ming quickly touched the button he wanted to touch.

"Snapped!"

The red light turned on instantly, and the rolling black mist dissipated immediately when the light appeared.

With the help of the still slightly dim light, Li Ming finally saw the whole picture of the elevator room clearly. There was a puddle of liquid where Watanabe was standing just now, and the liquid showed a strange red color.

Under the illumination of the light, the two are almost integrated, making people feel the boundless fear even more.

Li Ming frowned, dipped a little liquid with his fingertips, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, and the strong smell of blood penetrated into his nose instantly.

"Cough cough."

Being hit by such a smell, Li Ming coughed instinctively.

——Although he already had a near-accurate guess when he saw this liquid, but with a fluke mentality, he chose to try it himself.

"Tick."

The viscous liquid almost wiped his face and dripped down again. Li Ming took a step back subconsciously, then raised his head to follow the source, his pupils shrank suddenly——

A corpse was fixed on the top of the elevator by a specially shaped dagger. Due to the force of gravity, the whole corpse presented a strange and distorted shape. It looked as if its back was glued to the ceiling, and its limbs were all hanging down towards the same place. In one direction, the left arm was twisted into a twist.

His neck was broken, but his head didn't fall off. If you look closely, you can see that there is also a steel bar inserted between his eyebrows?

"This kind of auxiliary is specially used to fix the concrete wall." Li Ming pursed his lower lip and continued to squint his eyes, trying to see the whole body of the corpse in front of him clearly.

The bright red blood slid along the skin of the corpse and fell to the ground, which was the sound accompanied by the liquid dripping to the ground just now.

But turning his gaze to the face of the corpse, Li Ming was startled and quickly took a step back.

Because he knew that corpse, it was Naotsu Watanabe who just got on the elevator with him and wanted to murder him.

After comparing the position where Watanabe just stood and the fixed position of the corpse, we can find some clues that are completely consistent.

Could this really be Watanabe's body?
Just as Li Ming was meditating, strange patterns and numbers suddenly appeared on the button panel of the elevator, the display screen used to play advertisements.

Accompanying this was a noisy mechanical sound——

"Ding! Welcome to the "White Nightmare" elevator. Please select the floor you are going to on this screen within a limited time. "

"Ding! Please note, if you do not select the floor you are about to go to within the time limit, you will encounter death."

"Ding! Please, please, please be careful, if you, Guoguo, didn't choose the floor you're going to go to within the time limit, if you didn't, you would—(*noise)"

The sound coming from under the screen made Li Ming feel uncomfortable.

After the sound, he turned his gaze to the screen again, and the number "300" counting down and a white Ouroboros pattern appeared on it, and there were no other options to choose from.

The ouroboros, which glowed slightly white through the display screen, was mixed in the red color of the elevator room, making it extremely conspicuous.

"Does the number three hundred mean three hundred seconds?"

Li Ming rested his hand on his chin as if in deep thought, the increasingly strong smell of blood and his bewildered mentality made him a little irritable.

After I stretched out my finger and touched the cold screen, there was no response except for leaving moist and fading fingerprints.

The air became stagnant again, Li Ming became more and more anxious, this feeling of wanting to do everything possible to escape from this place but being powerless, just staring blankly is really too uncomfortable.

"—I need to do something."

"What do I need to do to break this impasse!"

"Ouroboros, the primordial creature in the state of self-eating, has a perfect structure, connected head to tail."

"Ouroboros represents self-reference and infinite loop, just like the phoenix, which regenerates itself in self-burning, and is generally used to express the meaning of "infinity" and "infinity."

Time, 150 seconds left.

Li Ming's brain was running fast, and he was still searching for the answer he should have.

"Ouroboros represents infinity, so in other words, I will be trapped here forever?! Is that the meaning!!"

A nameless anger welled up in his heart, Li Ming stood still, his brows were filled with anger, he really couldn't continue to think, facing the electronic screen directly, the thoughts just now had become his shadow.

"No, it can't be like this—"

Accompanied by the emotional outburst, there was a muffled sound.

"boom!"

　Calvin, Calvin, Calvin, let's start with a chapter today and stay stuck until now.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)