Chapter Thirty-Seven: Drowning Ghost

  Although I understand it's an illusion, but it feels real, and if time goes on like this, I'll die.

  Tian Qi, Qiu Shen and Yingying are all right, the three of them can swim, they can hold on for a while, but Tian Qi found that Fatso is about to collapse.

  Tian Qi made a great effort to swim to the side of the fat man, then pushed his body outward with force, while signaling to Qiu Shen and Yingying to come together.

  Yingying didn't know what Tian Qi wanted to do, but she was also extremely intelligent and soon the three of them were pushing Pangzi together.

  The water continued to rush in and the suction didn't decrease. Fortunately, Fatso was in the water and finally pushed him out.

  The fat man fell to the ground in an instant, and the three of them saw clearly that there was no water outside!

  Then it was Yingying's turn, because her body was light and she was easily pushed out.

  After Yingying and Paozi went out, Tianqi and Choushen were also pulled out.

  "This time I'm going back, I really need to learn how to swim, no matter what, almost drowned me! But it's also strange, where did the water come from?" Fatso only realized the situation after he came out, and found that water was constantly pouring into the elevator, but in fact, there was no water outside the elevator.

  "It must be an illusion, triggered by the moment the elevator opened." Tian Qi could only make this judgment based on the current situation.

  "It's so clean here, there's nothing at all, except for the walls it's just walls. It seems we should be able to get to the third floor easily, this is just a transition area." Yingying looked around and saw that on the first floor there were some abandoned machines, the second floor really had nothing, with green-painted floors and white walls.

  "Don't you think something is off here? The first floor was pitch black, but it's so bright here." Qiu Shen said with a furrowed brow, he wasn't as optimistic as Yingying.

  Listening to Shu's words, the three of them also discovered that the area here was roughly the same as the first floor, but it was very bright here, and you could see from head to toe. What made people wonder, however, was that there were no lights here.

  Moreover, there were no windows, not even a lamp. Tian Qi remembered that the first floor had windows, and the roof was the same color as the ground. It can be said that in this two-story house, except for the four people who just entered, there were only two colors, green and white.

  "Look! The cargo ladder is gone!" Everyone was observing the environment here and didn't notice the cargo ladder behind, only to realize it when Fatso shouted.

  They disappeared from the elevator going up from the first floor to the second floor, with only white walls!

  "Oh no, the black stick is still in the elevator!"

  Tian Qi suddenly remembered that when he went upstairs, Tian Qi gave the black stick to Qiu Shen, and then the water rushed in suddenly, and the stick was washed away by the water.

  There are too few effective things that can be used to catch ghosts and drive out evil spirits, the black stick has a considerable use, unexpectedly it was lost like this, and the black 'jade' wasn't brought along.

  "Are we trapped?" Fatso said.

  But no one responded to him, and it was so obvious that it didn't need to be said, but instead would affect morale.

  At one point, Tian Qi and Qiu Shen's ideas are the same, that everything in front of them is not real, it's an illusion. They haven't broken through the illusion at all, but just changed from being drowned by illusions to a different kind of illusion.

  Linked Fantasy!

  What needs to be done now is to find a breakthrough in this illusion.

  But it's easy to say, and also need to find where the anomaly occurs. Now even if we know there is an anomaly here, it's very hard to detect, because there is nothing here.

  "If only there was a black stick, using it to knock on the wall or floor might reveal something." Tian Qi used his hand to feel the wall, but apart from being exceptionally smooth and cool, he didn't discover anything.

  Several others also tried, and even Fatty let out a fart against the wall, but there was no reaction at all.

  "I'm exhausted, let's take a break!" The fat boy sat on the ground, but it was icy cold, so he puckered up his mouth and could only crouch.

  Several people searched the area thoroughly, but didn't find anything unusual. There wasn't even a single bump or crack on the ground, it was so smooth, just like it had been carefully polished to perfection.

  "You've noticed it too, right? The space here seems to be shrinking!"

  Tian Qi and Qiu Shen really didn't notice, let alone Fatso.

  "This is easy to handle, walk from this end to that end, see how many steps it takes, and then walk again to see if there are fewer." The fat boy's brain turned 'pretty' fast.

  Yingying is a man of action, and after Fatty finished speaking, she began to take action.

  "I've finished walking, I'll walk again later!"

  Tian Qi took out his phone, ten minutes passed, and Yingying walked through again.

  "My goodness, I was right! Two steps less and the house shrunk!" Yinyin exclaimed as she walked from one end to the other.

  Afraid of making mistakes, Tian Qi and Qiu Shen tested it again separately and found that every ten minutes the house would shrink by two square meters. The entire second floor was about 600 square meters, shrinking by twelve square meters in an hour. In theory, they only had less than 50 hours left, which was more than two days.

  If it were normal times, two days would be enough to do a lot of things, but now they are trapped in this closed floor, their mobile phones have no signal and cannot contact the outside world. Two days passed in a flash, mainly because they had neither food nor water now.

  Tian Qi has seen many movie clips, some giant stones or walls that crushed people into "meat" pancakes, just thinking about it makes one's hair stand on end, before that, it's better to die of thirst or starvation.

  "Fatso, what are you doing?" Tianqi found Fatso taking out the phone and fiddling with it. That was the one Tianqi had given him, his own having been discarded because when Tianqi had passed out, they were in a hurry to carry him into the cargo elevator, and hadn't even gone back for the phone, fearing another accident might happen.

  "What else can I do? I may only have less than two days of life left, I want to leave my last words on the phone, maybe someone will find it after I die."

  No wonder Paozi is pessimistic. Tian Qi just had a bit of a pessimistic mood too, and even thought about which way to die would be less painful.

  "Little fatty, you're being too pessimistic. You're not dead yet, what's the rush? Don't we still have two days left?" It was at this moment that I didn't expect the most optimistic one to be Yingying.

  But optimistically speaking, there is still no solution to the problem at present.

  "Haven't you felt anything unusual?" Chou Shen had the ability to predict, and many times he could feel things in advance, although Tian Qi knew that if he had discovered it, he would have said so long ago, but his subconscious told him to ask again.

  "Hmm, I feel it, but can't put it into words," Qiu Shen said with a furrowed brow.

  He furrows his brow usually in two situations, one is expressing dissatisfaction, and the other is thinking.

  Tian Qi didn't disturb him either, so he simply sat down to think about the contents recorded on the remaining pages of that ghost-catching diary, wondering if there might be some way to crack the case.

  Time is passing away in minutes and seconds, Fatso rarely uses his mobile phone to type messages, he usually makes a direct call when there's something on, but even so, he has left many words of "last words" in the memo of his mobile phone.

  Half an hour passed, during which Chou Shen and Tian Qi turned a few more laps on the second floor, while Yingying was responsible for measuring the speed of space shrinkage, whether it followed the rule of shrinking by two square meters every ten minutes.

  Tian Qi also wanted to let Pangzi go and help Yingying, but when he found that he was really serious about writing his will, he gave up disturbing him. After all, before anyone came up with a solution, no one could guarantee they wouldn't die here.

  "I think we may have fallen into a misunderstanding." Tian Qi stopped and said, his hands were about to swell.

  Tian Qi and Qiu Shen locked in the idea of finding an exit near the wall where the elevator disappeared, because the elevator must not have disappeared, if so, some walls might be hollow or sound different when knocked, but after searching for half a day, they found nothing.

  "What's wrong?" Qiu Shen also stopped his hand.

  "If walls can shrink, why can't they move? Maybe the direction of the wall is also changing, we just haven't noticed it yet," Tian Qi said.

  It's entirely possible that the direction of the wall is slowly changing, and because there are no reference points, they can't feel it. If that were really the case, the original cargo bay door would have been somewhere else a long time ago.

  "Although this way our workload has increased, but can only do so for now." Tian Qi called over Yingying and also interrupted the fatty from continuing to write his will. The four of them began their work of knocking on the wall.

  It was just another sudden incident that plunged everyone into 'chaos', 'confusion' and despair.