Chapter 16 Teammates

The forest cat followed Li Ang out of the corridor, watching him shout loudly towards the end of the corridor with all his might, "Hello, is anyone there? Is anyone there? Anyone? Anyone..."

?! What was this operation? Manually creating echoes?

The forest cat's eyes widened, not knowing what expression to make, and could only say softly, "Uh... what are you doing?"

"Calling teammates."

Li Ang said calmly, "Judging from the limbs I found and the lungs you encountered, these special organs may not be that difficult to deal with,

Especially now that there are two of us, we can take care of each other."

"So if the teammates can hear it, that's the best. If they can't hear it, we can try to actively trigger anomalies."

The forest cat nodded, indicating that she understood. "But the sound transmission effect in this corridor is so bad. It doesn't sound very loud even when you shout so loudly."

"Yeah."

Li Ang said thoughtfully, "The room structure of this mansion is winding and roundabout, which is very unfavorable for sound transmission. Calling teammates is useless,

And these woods covering the walls, floors, and ceilings are also strange..."

He held the stone arm and gently knocked on the wooden floor, hearing a muffled thud.

"There's no creaking sound when walking on it. These woods are not only strong, sturdy, and durable, but also have the effect of absorbing noise."

As Li Ang spoke, he smashed the hard wooden boards with the stone arm,

Then he embedded his fingernails into the gaps between the wooden boards, lifted a few planks, and carefully examined them in front of him.

Li Ang muttered, "This wood looks a bit like the strange pine wood I saw in the forest."

The forest cat asked curiously, "Is there a problem?"

"No."

Li Ang dropped the wooden board, told the forest cat to follow him closely, and the two walked quickly in the corridor, smashing open the doors of the rooms on both sides along the way. They glanced inside, confirmed that no one was there, and then went to the next room.

The spatial structure of this mansion was quite strange. Some corridors even sloped upwards and downwards, and some places could only be reached by ladders, slides, or elevators, making it difficult to generalize with "floors."

Even if an ordinary person had a map in hand, they could easily get lost, trapped in the intricate maze-like corridors, and unable to find a way out for a long time.

The forest cat used chalk or something similar to quickly draw straight lines with arrows on the walls at the corners to remind herself which places she had been to and which places she hadn't.

This could not only avoid getting lost, but also provide guidance for later teammates, instructing them to find their way along the arrows.

In addition, she also took out the [Divination Polaroid] camera and raised the flashlight at each corner to take a photo of the corridor.

The two continued to move forward. Along the way, in order to quickly find their teammates, Li Ang also took out a modified speaker and used it to play some brainwashing audio repeatedly.

For example, "Recycling, old refrigerators, old color TVs, old fans, washing machines!"

"Wowotou, four for a dollar, hehe"

"If you could do it all again, would you love me? Love brings happiness, but also torment"

"It's so cold, I'm playing with mud in Dongbei"

"Jianjiang Wenzhou Jianjiang Wenzhou's largest leather factory, Jianglan Leather Factory, is closed! Boss Huang He gambled and whored, owing 350 million yuan, and ran away with his mistress"

These brainwashing audios were played in uninterrupted cycles, sweeping away the gloomy, dark, and terrifying atmosphere in the mansion.

Faced with the forest cat's questioning, Li Ang explained that this was to reduce the wariness of his teammates—if they simply called out names, the teammates would think that it was a monster generated by the system imitating the players, and would not dare to come out.

But if they played this kind of inexplicable audio that only modern Earth had, then the teammates would understand that it was the call of a good comrade.

The forest cat said that she was convinced and had learned something.

It had to be said that this method was quite useful. After the stonemason, who was staying in the specimen display room, heard the brainwashing audio, he hesitated for a moment and followed the sound,

Revealing the player ID from a distance to confirm his identity with Li Ang and the forest cat.

"Brother Li, you really have ideas, your methods are quite wild." The stonemason praised Li Ang, asking the latter to turn down the volume of the speaker a bit, and told them about his experience in the specimen display room and the hallucinations he had seen.

After the three exchanged information, the stonemason said with a gloomy face,

"The Leslie family, who owns this mansion, is definitely not simple. They are likely a family of warlocks who have mastered occult knowledge, using this mansion that originally belonged to the deceased Williams to realize some kind of plan."

"Yeah." Li Ang nodded. "Obviously, the plan has gone awry, so that the mansion is now empty. I just don't know what the relationship between those monsters outside and the mansion is."

"Now we have solved three abnormal organs, and there are still five items left: intestine, kidney, torso, head, and embryo.

These organs can be pieced together to form a human. The Leslie family may be trying to revive something through some kind of ritual."

The forest cat asked, "Also, after the three of us teleported over, we directly encountered an abnormal organ in the room. It can be assumed that E Wu Nian and Dong Feng Po also encountered the same situation.

It's just that we haven't heard the system notification sound yet..."

The forest cat didn't finish her sentence, implying that the other two teammates were likely in grave danger.

"Let's not talk about so much."

Li Ang waved his hand, asked the stonemason to hand over the heart to him, and placed it on the ground with the lungs and limbs, so that the forest cat could take a photo with the [Divination Polaroid].

Unfortunately, there were no abnormalities in the photo.

Li Ang put away all the organs, turned up the volume of the speaker again, and continued to search the mansion with his two teammates.

Hopefully, those two teammates can hold on a little longer...

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"Ha... ha..."

The handsome young man E Wu Nian, wearing a red suit, was now holding a vertical hemp rope with both hands, his eyes were bloodshot, and his handsome face became a bit ferocious.

He was in a dark cargo well.

This kind of cargo well was set in the stone wall, and at the highest point, there was a pulley block through which the hemp rope passed. The manor servants used the cargo well to transport sundries such as clothes, kettles, tableware, and food, avoiding running up and down the stairs and saving time.

In the narrow, confined, and dark space, the flashlight biting in E Wu Nian's mouth was the only light source,

He raised his head and looked at the high part of the cargo well, climbed up hard, and tried not to look at the surrounding walls.

After the teleportation occurred, he had been climbing up this well for more than ten minutes. Obviously, the pulley block and wooden door at the top were clearly visible, but the distance between the two had never shortened.

The walls of the cargo well, which should have been made of thick stone bricks, were constantly oozing blood and gushing out minced meat. As time passed, the entire cargo well was covered with a layer of dark red flesh and blood, covered with white fascia, and black spots the size of human heads.

Gurgle gurgle.

The elevator shaft wriggled, contracted, and swayed, like a... gut.