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There was no reply to the call. Lin An thought for a while in the dark and walked upstairs.

Going up from the third floor, the lightbulb in the stairwell kept the player alive. The light was dim and dark, and a gray shadow appeared under Lin An's body.

Along the way up, she could hear footsteps, people walking in front. However, until she reached the fifth floor and spotted a few familiar figures, Lin An still didn't see Jiang You.

At this time, Jiang You was stopping in the stairwell, shining the flashlight on the wall again. The floor number on it still showed the third floor.

This is the third time she has seen the third floor sign on the wall. The first time she saw it was when Jiang You used a small crossbow tied to her wrist to shoot out the light bulb above her head.

After Lin An left with male player No. 11, Jiang You didn't stay in the darkness. She walked upstairs.

However, after Jiang You walked more than twenty steps, and logically speaking, she should have reached the fourth floor, the environment she was in was still dark, with no lights, no dim lights.

The surrounding environment was dark and quiet. When Jiang You moved, she could only hear her own footsteps.

"Ta-ta, tap-ta..."

The flashlight's light couldn't illuminate the entire stairwell, but a circular circle of light shone at Jiang You's feet. As her hands moved, the shadows of her legs illuminated by the flashlight moved in front of and to the sides.

Seeing the sign on the third floor again, Jiang You felt the coldness in the stairwell become even heavier.

Jiang You clasped his hands and breathed out hot air with his mouth. The breath he exhaled condensed into white mist in the light of the flashlight.

It seemed that every time she returned to the same place, the cold air around her body became heavier.

If she continued like this, she would not be able to successfully leave the dark stairwell on the third floor and would freeze to death here.

A breath of hot air warmed her fingers, which had gradually become stiff. Jiang You stopped moving upwards. She thought in her mind, when did she fall into this state similar to a circle in place?

The small crossbow strapped to her wrist had a strong presence. She touched it with her fingers. She probably hadn't left the third floor since the lights above her head disappeared in the stairwell on the third floor.

Is it related to light?

She had not increased the aperture of the flashlight before, because she was afraid that the light would shine on male player No. 11 and help him get rid of Lin An's control, so Jiang You adjusted the flashlight used to illuminate herself to the minimum.

Thinking about it, Jiang You twisted the front part of the flashlight and adjusted the light to the maximum.

The light of the flashlight illuminated the upward steps in front of her, and Jiang You stepped up and stepped on them again.

"Ta-ta, tap-ta..."

Her footsteps sounded lonely in the quiet stairwell.

When he reached the turn of the stairs, Jiang You stopped and shined the light of his flashlight towards the stairs markings above.

The big "3" character shines on the aperture of the flashlight, indicating that under the light of the flashlight, Jiang You still failed to successfully walk on the right path.

The word "3" reflected in the aperture of the flashlight was still, and Jiang You felt that the air around her body seemed to be a little colder.

"Ta-ta, tap-ta..."

The sound of footsteps on the stairs rang in her ears. Jiang You's right hand holding the flashlight suddenly tightened, and her heart beat rapidly.

At this moment, she was standing at the corner of the stairs, motionless and making no sound.

So, who is this voice that has been following her footsteps? In other words, what is it?

"Ta-ta, tap-ta..."

After Jiang You stopped, the sounds behind him did not stop at the same time. The footsteps came up the stairs and gradually approached Jiang You.

Apart from the sound of footsteps, Jiang You didn't hear any human breathing or other human sounds.

Not human.

Withdrawing the flashlight's aperture from the wall, Jiang You moved his stiff fingers and walked up the stairs again, maintaining the same pace as before.

"Ta-ta, tap-ta..."

The footsteps behind him didn't sound very fast. His speed had been relatively stable, and he was following Jiang You. He didn't seem to be aggressive at all, and he didn't mean to pounce suddenly.

Seeing the third floor sign in the stairwell again, Jiang You felt the temperature around her body drop sharply. Every time she walked back, the temperature in the surrounding environment dropped much more than the last time.

She couldn't walk anymore. If she couldn't get out of her current state successfully, she might freeze to death if she walked a few more times in the stairwell on the third floor.

Jiang You's exposed skin felt like it was pricked by needles, with tiny pains rising bit by bit.

The footsteps behind him were unhurried and approaching slowly.

"Ta-ta, tap-ta..."

He did not attack, but the sound of his footsteps ringing in his ears seemed to urge Jiang You to keep going, keep walking, keep walking, and keep repeating this journey. And letting Jiang You circle around the stairwell on the third floor repeatedly was not much different from a direct attack.

But why bother?

What is he afraid of? You can obviously control the stairwell on the third floor, but you have to use such a roundabout way?

The light of the flashlight shone on Qian Fa, and the enlarged aperture illuminated a large area in front of Jiang You, extending upward one by one. On the steps, there was only a little shadow of herself and the shadow of the staircase railing, while the thing behind her was hidden in the darkness.

Suddenly, Jiang You lowered his head and looked at the flashlight in his right hand.

Although the flashlight's light could not illuminate the entire stairwell, it enveloped her in the light as she walked.

Could it be that the thing following her was afraid of the light, so it never attacked. It just followed her, relying on her back to drive her away, making her repeat the same path over and over again. After the temperature in the stairwell dropped, , let her die in hypothermia?

The time she fell into this cycle that she couldn't get out of was after the stairwell on the third floor fell into darkness.

Jiang You blinked, turned her wrist, and the flashlight in her right hand suddenly crossed her body and shined behind her.

A large swath of light moved from in front of Jiang You to behind him, and the regular "ta-ta-ta" sound behind him disappeared instantly, as if the air in the stairwell had solidified at this moment.

After noticing that the movement behind him had disappeared, Jiang You kept shining the flashlight backwards with his right hand and turned his whole body backward.

A pale face appeared not far in front of him. After turning around, three steps in front of Jiang You, there was a face that looked somewhat familiar.

Jiang You remembered the name of that face, Zhu San, who was one of the people who got on the shuttle bus with Director Yang after it stopped in the tunnel.