Newland City-State·Core Island

"What, someone opened the door and went out into the street?"

Kodo looked at the walkie-talkie in his hand blankly, "How many people are there? Where are they? How could they not listen to dissuasion and take to the streets?"

"There are a lot of people," a rustling reply came from the intercom. "There are them in every neighborhood on the five islands. I don't know why they took to the streets. We are now asking the gendarmerie to persuade them to go back."

Kodo raised his head, leaned against the window and took a look outside, and sure enough he saw a few figures wandering outside the building.

"Did you ask them why they suddenly took to the streets?"

Chen Lin on the side suddenly leaned over and asked into the intercom.

The walkie-talkie seemed stunned for a moment, and then the voice became quieter. It seemed that the person reporting the report was running, and then there was a low voice of conversation. After a while, a breathy reply came from the walkie-talkie,

"I just asked, and most of the people who came out said they heard the calls of missing relatives, or saw their lost pets outside the door."

"Missing relatives and pets?"

Kodo asked with some confusion.

"Yes,"

The intercom responded, "That's what they said."

Chen Lin thought for a moment and whispered, "Maybe it has something to do with the disappearances caused by West."

"But this time it's not West..."

Kodo answered subconsciously, but he soon realized that West's incident may not have anything to do with what they are experiencing now.

So he picked up the intercom and started asking other important questions, "Has anyone entered the world on the other side of the door because of the door?"

The intercom paused and seemed to be asking. After a while, the other party replied, "The gendarmerie said that some people reported missing, saying that their family members disappeared as soon as they went out, while some people had no one at home. It seemed that

There are many people missing, but it’s so chaotic here now that they haven’t counted the specific number of possible missing people.”

"Let them give priority to persuading those who take to the streets to go home," Kodo quickly ordered. "These people are easily attacked by monsters wandering on the streets outside, and it will affect our actions to clean up the monsters."

"OK!"

The person on the intercom nodded.

Kodo cut off the communication. He looked up at Chen Lin and said with some annoyance, "It looks like some kind of weird creature or weird object that is 'bewitching' people staying at home to go out."

"Perhaps it's the work of the 'inner ghosts' hiding in the city-state."

Chen Lin thought.

"Are we going to go down and investigate now?"

Kodo stood up, put his hands on the table, and glanced out the window, "More and more doors are opening, and the monsters we face are getting stronger and stronger. The people below may not be able to support it, but if we

If we go down, there will be no one here."

"We really should go down,"

Chen Lin beside him said in a deep voice, "And the speed must be fast."

"Why?"

Kodo looked at him.

"We have to act like there's always someone here, or at least act like there's someone behind us."

Chen Lin looked at him and responded in a deep voice, "We have been hiding up there, but it will make the people hiding in the dark wonder if there is something fishy here and the whereabouts of those two people."

Having said this, he paused, "Of course, if the other party can mobilize this weird 'bewitching' power, they may already know our true and falsehoods. This is the worst case scenario, so after we go down, we still have to do a good job

Self-preservation.”

"Things are getting worse,"

Kodo sat back on the chair, raised his hand, held his forehead, and pinched his forehead. After a moment, he put his hand down and sighed, "I hope those two can succeed."

"I hope so."

Chen Lin looked at the starry sky outside the window and sighed.

They all know that the hope of success is slim, but at least, there is a hope.

Kodo was also staring out the window.

The glass under the dark night reflected the night scene outside the window while also reflecting his face.

The blurry 'mirror reflection' with messy hair was sitting in the window, staring out the window at Kodo, who looked exactly like him, with a serious and sad expression.

It raised the corners of its mouth, revealing a deep smile.

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underground palace

"There should be a gate here."

At the end of the dark corridor, at the narrow elevator door, He Ao stopped and looked up.

Feiya raised the flashlight and shined it above her head.

A faint light shone above the two people. Green vines climbed all over the wall, and between the gaps in the vines, an alloy gate embedded in the wall was vaguely visible.

"There is one,"

She nodded slightly in surprise, "What is the purpose of setting this gate here? Is it to block something?"

"It should be some kind of emergency safety device,"

He Ao glanced back behind him. At the end of the deep and dark passage, he could vaguely see the faint lights on the top of the commercial street outside the passage. "There should be more than one gate in this passage."

Feiya turned the flashlight light and looked over the heads behind the two people.

Not far away from the two people, through the gaps between the sparse vines, you can vaguely see a few things that look like gates. Further back, the top of the entire corridor is covered by dense vines. What?

Can't even see clearly.

Then she turned back and looked at the claustrophobic elevator room ahead, with only one entrance to the passage where the two of them were.

She didn't realize how special this place was at first, but after He Ao mentioned the existence of the gate, she gradually realized something.

She raised her head and looked at He Ao, "Are these gates used to isolate the elevator? Once any dangerous situation occurs, the gates in this passage will lower themselves to isolate the elevator from the outside world? But what is the purpose of this design?

What? To isolate the first floor from the connection below?"

"To be precise, maybe it's to 'protect' the first layer,"

He Ao walked into the claustrophobic elevator room, looked at the dimly lit elevator screens, and said slowly, "Do you remember what Carlin told us? There is no way to go from the second floor to the third floor.

There is a direct elevator from the first floor to the second floor, but you have to go through a corridor with a gate and go down another passage.

"If there is a fourth floor in the underground palace, I estimate that the fourth floor cannot be passed through the passage from the second floor to the third floor, and we need to find another passage.

"In terms of work convenience and efficiency, according to our previous speculation, if the first floor is a living area, then at least one of the following floors should be a work area, or even all of them.

"If a worker living on the first floor wants to work on the lower floors, the most efficient way is to build an elevator directly to the lower floors.

"Since the person who built this underground palace did not choose the most efficient method, but instead made twists and turns to cut off the direct communication between the floors, it can only mean one thing. He has a reason to do this.

"Just like workers entering dangerous areas need to pass through a buffer zone and wear appropriate protective equipment, these deliberately 'extended' passages downstairs may be an artificial buffer zone. When necessary, these passages

The gate can also be lowered to serve as a 'defense line' surrounding the first-floor living area."

"Are you saying that the lower floors of the underground palace were very dangerous in the original design? So they have to be isolated from the first floor of the 'living area'?"

Feiya walked to He Ao, "Is this why the underground palace is more dangerous than other places in the ruins? But where do these dangers come from?"

As she spoke, she used a flashlight to scan around the surrounding elevator room. There were nine elevators in this elevator room, five of which were still dimly lit. There was an open corridor door in the corner near the corridor, and dense vines flowed from it.

Spread out.

"Extraordinary creatures and extraordinary items are just like the 'warehouse' where we store extraordinary items. Anything is possible."

He Ao said softly.

Of course, ordinary extraordinary items and extraordinary creatures can be found everywhere, and they would not be left alone in a seemingly isolated place like the underground palace, so I am afraid there are some deeper secrets hidden here.

While speaking, He Ao reached out his hand and quickly pressed the buttons on all five lit elevators.

Carlin said before when he came here that the five elevators here can be used, and the corridors can also be used, but now it seems that the corridors are covered with vines, and it may be a bit troublesome to pass through.

"Do we need to look at every elevator?"

Feiya looked at He Ao in confusion. At this moment, the five elevators all showed upward arrows.

"No,"

He Ao shook his head. He lowered his head and glanced at the blood stains in front of a certain elevator. Then he turned around and found an elevator that was not lit. He inserted his sword into the gap in the elevator, and then he exerted force hard, and there was a 'bang' sound.

Pry open the elevator door,

Then he looked down at the inside of the elevator shaft and said, "Let's go down from here."

With that said, he jumped straight down.

Feiya was stunned for a moment, and then jumped down with He Ao.
To be continued...