Chapter 162

Lin Qiye and others were running up the stairs when they suddenly stopped mid-climb. Cao Yuan asked confusedly, “What’s wrong? Why stop?”

Lin Qiye stared blankly at the scene before them, hesitating for a moment before stepping aside to reveal half the space behind him. The others could clearly see ahead…

“What the…?” Li Shaoguang exclaimed, eyes wide with disbelief.

Typically, stairs spiral upward, gradually climbing higher floors. After running up one flight, they should reach the second-floor hallway, entering Building Two. However, after everyone ran up one flight, what appeared before them was not the second-floor hallway, but…

A dormitory room!

Yes, after climbing the final step, they found themselves facing a completely ordinary, two-person bedroom. The room was neat and tidy, with bedding, pillows, and cushions arranged neatly. From the skincare products and clothes on the desk, it seemed these two girls had lived here for a long time. However, in this clean dormitory room, there wasn’t a single shadow.

This strange scene was like someone deliberately built the stairs to lead directly in front of this bedroom door. As soon as you climb up, you have to pass through this bedroom.

Could the design of the female dormitory be like this? Some people wondered aloud.

They were all male soldiers and had never been to Building Three, so they didn’t know what it looked like inside.

Impossible. Lin Qiye knelt down, lightly rubbing his hand against the spot where the stairs met the bedroom wall. The two kinds of tiles collided perfectly, forming such a smooth joint that even the construction madmen of the training camp couldn’t achieve this level of craftsmanship…

It’s as if someone took two separate places and pieced them together.

Is this also related to space? Cao Yuan furrowed his brow.

Right, in this building, there must be a mysterious entity skilled in spatial manipulation. Lin Qiye said confidently, If I’m not mistaken, the internal layout of this building has become completely disordered, like a shuffled Rubik’s cube.

He stood up and walked straight into the bedroom, pushing open the door on the other side…

Outside the door, it wasn’t a balcony, but a T-shaped corridor. It was T-shaped because it was formed by two originally connected corridors that had been misaligned and spliced together.

Cao Yuan went to the window, unable to see anything outside. Still just deep blue everywhere. He pushed the window hard, but it didn’t move at all.

That’s the power of mysteries? It’s too weird… Some new recruits couldn’t help but exclaim.

Due to the T-intersection, two opposite paths appeared ahead. The group hesitated at the fork.

Which way leads upstairs? Li Shaoguang scratched his head, suggesting, Maybe we should split up?

This isn’t wise in a building with mysterious entities. Lin Qiye shook his head, continuing, The left path leads to another dormitory. Behind that dormitory is the bathroom, and behind that is a staircase going down.

While the right path goes through two consecutive dormitories and then appears a staircase going up.

Can you sense the path? Li Shaoguan asked curiously.

I can, but there are range limitations. I can only sense a few rooms. Lin Qiye calmly said.

Should we go right then?

No. Lin Qiye shook his head, pointing to the wall in front of him, slowly opening his mouth, This wall behind us is actually several flights of stairs leading up, allowing us to reach the fourth floor directly.

Just when they entered Building Three, he noticed that while his spiritual perception couldn’t penetrate from outside, within the building, he could normally use it.

This means that from the outside, Building Three looks like a space-isolated individual, while from the inside, each room is simply misplaced and doesn’t exist in terms of space isolation.

This means… The walls inside these buildings are all breakable!

Break through this wall?

Yes, but be careful not to damage the structural integrity of the building. Although space is distorted, it doesn’t mean the load-bearing pillars have lost their effect. Once significant damage to the structure occurs… This place might collapse. Lin Qiye seriously warned.

A young man stepped forward, revealing a grayish glow on his palm. Hand it over!

He heavily slapped his palm on the surface of the wall, and the grayish glow instantly covered the wall. After a moment, it corroded out a circular hole large enough for three people to pass through simultaneously, without damaging any other structural components.

The group entered the circular tunnel in order, with Lin Qiye and others at the front. Just as they were halfway through, a sudden anomaly occurred!

The surrounding rooms and walls suddenly moved automatically. The direct path from the T-intersection disappeared, replaced by a bedroom. The staircases behind the walls, which led up, were misaligned, like rotating Rubik’s cubes, moved to unknown locations.

At the same time, Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan et al., who had just entered the first section of the stairs, felt the surroundings change. The left and right walls, which were previously intact, became two empty bedrooms. The stairs in front became walls, and the back hallway turned into a staircase going down…

What’s happening? Li Shaoguan exclaimed in surprise.

Space has distorted again. Lin Qiye furrowed his brow, thinking deeply, Why? Is it because our actions of breaking through the wall caused space distortion, or does it change every few times…

Cao Yuan looked around helplessly, sighing, We’ve separated from the others.

There’s no choice. Who knows what the layout inside will change next… Li Shaoguan shrugged.

Anyway, let’s stay together from now on and don’t stray too far apart. Lin Qiye spoke calmly, If the mysterious entity hiding in Building Three can only do this much, although it’s inconvenient, it’s not a major threat. Its Forbidden Cave is more focused on trapping enemies rather than having killing power.

Right, as long as enough people enter Building Three, breaking through here is just a matter of time. Cao Yuan also realized this, nodding in agreement.

Now the question is… If the mysterious entity can only do this much, what happened to that scream just now? Lin Qiye thought for a moment, shaking his head, Now that we think about it, there’s no decisive evidence, and reasoning is ultimately just reasoning.

Lin Qiye continued walking forward, along with Cao Yuan and the others, passing through countless rooms that had been spliced together. They walked for about five minutes before stopping in front of a door.