Chapter 225: Waiting For You
With a clang, a silver medal wrapped in paper was thrown from Anpeipe’s hand, and Shen Yu caught it, unfolded the paper, and looked at the medal. It was the 502 signing agreement, along with a medal engraved with the symbols of snake and egg.
At the same time, the long-awaited prompt sound of the dungeon echoed in his ear.
"Evolutionary creature, reproductive snake metal acquired. Reproductive snake, capable of activating its power as soon as it sees blood, hatching snake eggs on any living creature until the snake eggs break, and the young snakes will devour the internal organs of the host, claiming it is their mother’s nest."
"Reproductive snake, huh?"
Holding the metal in his hand, Shen Yu glanced toward the now silent and Pei Pei in the room, pondering before speaking.
"So, these snake eggs of yours are shut up."
"Some things are not for you to guess."
"Ah, let’s go. Our deal is done. Since you don’t want any other rewards from me, just leave. After tonight, you will know everything you need to know."
Creaking.
As the words ended, the door of room 502 slowly closed again, and Shen Yu frowned, silently stepping back to the elevator, hesitating before not pressing the button for the third floor. He wasn’t in a hurry to share the result of the third deal with Lin Wan.
But in the silence, he pressed the button for the seventh floor.
"You will come, right, Mo Xian?"
A playful smile spread across his lips as Shen Yu clearly understood. Once Mo Xian realised that he had disappeared, he would definitely hurry to find him and steal his order.
With his time leap, Emo Sheen was too arrogant, always thinking that seeing the future meant he could decide everything.
But his opponent was Shen Yu, who had come back from the future.
"I don’t know. How long can you last?"
Clang, clang.
The sound of the elevator moving up continued to echo, and when the elevator doors opened again, Shen Yu once again saw the corridor that made him feel uneasy.
Seventh floor art exhibition.
In the narrow corridor, oil paintings of various landscapes, buildings, and people hung high on the walls. The doors on both sides of the hallway were open, and inside the rooms, more oil paintings filled the walls.
Quiet.
This floor was too terrifyingly quiet.
"Mr. Longjoon, do you need beef, horse hooves, or hot milk?"
Shen Yu tried calling out, and his voice formed an echo in the hall, but no one replied.
T.S.K.
Trying to enter one of the rooms, Shen Yu suddenly heard a scratching sound—a subtle sound of paper tearing.
"It’s here."
His body tensed, and Shen Yu focused his attention on the surroundings.
At the corner of the wall, a slit appeared as if it had been cut with a knife, and under the slit was a deep, dark void.
Scrape, scrape, scrape!
After an unusual sound, another illogical tearing noise followed.
Buzz.
The ground had cracked open suddenly, and right in front of Shen Yu, the ground tore open a crack that quickly approached him.
Hiss, Shen Yu dared not be careless.
He immediately took out a Huajio Mountain incense from his pocket. After lighting the dark red incense, the crack on the ground suddenly halted.
But this came at a cost.
The Huajio Mountain incense burned up rapidly.
In an instant, half of the incense path was already burned away, and the fire point was continuously moving towards the end of the incense path.
"Damn! Is dragon this overpowered?"
Step, step, step!
Holding the Guajiu Mountain incense, Shen Yu stepped back repeatedly towards the elevator entrance.
He tried pressing the elevator button, but just like last time, the elevator screen showed no reaction. There was no elevator coming up from below.
Hiss, hiss, hiss.
Only the last quarter of the incense remained, and suddenly a slashing knife mark appeared in the ceiling above.
A clear white knife scar slowly descended towards Shen Yu’s head.
"Damn! Shen Yu has gone crazy. This client has no information, and he dares to go alone. It’s over. Shen Yu is going to die. Isn’t this familiar? Why do I feel like I’ve seen this before?"
As the barrage exploded, Shen Yu suddenly blew out the incense in his hand, and looking at a hanging painting of the green tree C on the wall, he abruptly reached out towards that painting.
Buzz.
In the next moment, the knife light fell, and a groove exploded in the ground by the elevator entrance.
Shen Yu mysteriously vanished at the elevator entrance.
Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell.
Before him was a dense sea of green tree crowns.
After a moment of dizziness, Shen Yu suddenly appeared atop one of the tree crowns.
His brow furrowed slightly, and after looking at the familiar sight, Shen Yu let out a long breath.
Puff.
"As expected, I guessed right."
Looking down at the intertwined branches and the dense leaves below, he vaguely saw the traces of a giant mountaine jumping among them, and Shen Yu stood still atop the tree crown, motionless.
He actually knew.
Before his head had fallen in the last encounter, he had already seen the tree C painting hanging at the elevator entrance.
At that time, there were two questions haunting Shen Yu’s mind.
First, why couldn’t the elevator on seventh floor be used?
Second, why, after climbing the big tree, did it directly lead to the seventh floor art exhibition?
Now everything had an answer.
It was simple.
The opportunity for the lunch meeting appeared after two days without signing any orders, and the monkey could use the lunch meeting to pull people into the inner world.
This inner world, at first, Shen Yu had thought was the animal world.
It’s the same as working overtime at night and performing the sails dance in the morning.
Yes.
Otherwise, the monkey’s world of the tree sea is a separate world, not the aquatic world of the third floor.
This world, strictly speaking, is a painting of the seventh floor, a world inside a painting.
In the first loop, the monkey brought everyone into the world inside the painting, while Shen Yu and his teammates climbed out from the tree seat, walked out of the world inside the painting, and this painting hung at the entrance of the seventh floor elevator.
So, of course, they would appear on the seventh floor.
As for why there’s no one on the seventh floor and the elevator doesn’t work, Shen Yu suspected, the current seventh floor is also a world inside a painting.
This explains why the attack with the scratching sound happened.
To put it awkwardly, the Treese painting is hanging in the seventh floor painting world, making the Treesy world a painting within a painting world.
To reach the seventh floor, one must find the main painting of the seventh floor, come out from the painting, and reach the real seventh floor.
And Shen Yu simply doesn’t have time to search for this main painting.
He quickly glanced over the current seventh floor, and the hallway paintings were mostly of architecture and portraits, nothing else.
He didn’t have time to check the rooms, because at any moment a blade could drop.
But he didn’t have time to look; someone else did.
And Shen Yu, silent above the tree seat, ignored the mountain demons gathering and staring below.
If he just slightly lifted his foot, there would be a moment of daze, and his head would suddenly stretch out from the tree see painting on the wall.
"Turkey flavoured crispy rice."
What the heck?