Chapter 2 Doghouse

Chen Ke wanted to find some clues through the black man just now, but he was a little disappointed. Except for a wallet with three 100-dollar bills, the black man had nothing else on him.

Not even a spare magazine! This puzzled Chen Ke. After all, he should have a spare magazine, right?

Chen Ke groped towards the end of the dark corridor, deliberately moving along the left wall, his footsteps light and silent, and the luminous sight of the Glock 17 was emitting green fluorescence.

Somehow, Chen Ke always felt a cool breeze blowing slowly, as if an invisible thing was passing by him.

An inexplicable sense of panic slowly climbed up his heart, and the chaotic and crazy emotions tried to swallow up his reason. Chen Ke cheered up and focused on the sight.

With a gun in hand, what is there to be afraid of?

He gave himself courage and continued to walk to the end of the corridor.

The corridor was not long. Except for the door he came out of, the doors of other offices were all closed. After turning a corner, a ray of light appeared in front of him.

Chen Ke looked and saw that it was the floor indicator light of the elevator. There was a double-opening door next to it with a green indicator light on it, indicating "emergency passage", which was the stairwell.

The elevator should still be usable. Just as he was thinking about whether to go down the stairs or take the elevator, a strange shadow slowly entered Chen Ke's field of vision.

The shadow looked like a dog. It came out of the door of the side safety stairwell. Its body size was about the same as that of an adult husky, and its pace was as elegant as that of an old woman.

Chen Ke took a deep breath, squatted down slowly against the wall, and aimed his crosshairs at the dog's head.

This dog gave him an extremely strange feeling.

The dog's subsequent behavior confirmed Chen Ke's guess. It was unknown whether it had discovered Chen Ke, but it just walked slowly towards the elevator.

It raised its head and sniffed at the shadow where Chen Ke was, then squatted in front of the elevator door, and then stretched out its paw and pressed the down button.

This is a dog that can call the elevator.

The floor indicator light of the elevator lit up, 8th floor.

The sound of the elevator shaft operating echoed in the quiet corridor, and Chen Ke squatted there watching the dog waiting for the elevator. He wanted to pull the trigger several times, but his subconscious told him that this dog was not something that mortals could deal with.

When the elevator door opened, the white light in the elevator illuminated the dark corridor, and the sudden light made Chen Ke squint his eyes.

The dog walked into the elevator and squatted facing the elevator door.

Only then did Chen Ke see the face of a white old woman on the dog's head.

It smiled at Chen Ke and pressed the floor button, and its eye sockets without eyeballs were dark.

The dog's smile seemed to come from the abyss, and just a glance made Chen Ke feel like his soul was being sucked away.

He gasped for air because of the fear he could not suppress. His hand holding the gun kept shaking. His fingers were too stiff to pull the trigger. His thoughts of closing his eyes were interrupted by an inexplicable force.

At this moment, a line of orange words popped up in his vision:

"Using life to replace lost sanity."

"-10 minutes"

"-10 minutes"

"-10 minutes"

...

When the elevator door slowly closed, everything returned to calm and the corridor darkened again.

In just a few seconds, Chen Ke lost more than 40 minutes of life, and he had only 3 hours and 10 minutes left of the 4 hours of life he had accumulated.

He gasped for air and stood up with the help of the wall. Sweat broke out on his palms and forehead, and his back was also wet.

Chen Ke truly felt that the fear just now had taken something away from him. If it had not been at the cost of his life, he might have gone crazy now.

It was impossible to take the elevator. He didn't want to run into the dog again when he got out of the elevator, and who knows what else there is in this building.

He decided to try his luck in the safe passage. Just as he was thinking this, a white man suddenly came out from the passage door.

The white man had short brown hair, was about 180 cm tall, wore a blue top, brown trousers, and held an iron-gray pistol.

When the white man saw Chen Ke, he first showed a trace of panic. After confirming that the other party was a person, he immediately changed to a serious expression of official business.

Both parties aimed their guns at each other's heads almost at the same time. Chen Ke could clearly feel the strong murderous aura from the other party.

"+15 minutes"

"+15 minutes"

"+15 minutes"

"+15 minutes"

...

"Trained? Huh? What are you doing here in the middle of the night? Who are you?" the white man asked.

The white man saw from Chen Ke's gun-holding posture and reaction that Chen Ke was not an ordinary person, and his expression became more serious.

"Are you Miles?" Chen Ke suddenly asked.

"No, no, my name is Parker..." The white man shook his head. As soon as he finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned, as if he realized something, and angrily said: "Hey you! What tricks are you playing!"

"Listen, man, I don't know what's going on here either. Why don't we put our guns down and figure out what's going on here?" Chen Ke said.

He guessed that this white man named Parker was not in the same boat as the black man before, and Chen Ke was now eager to communicate with another living person in order to obtain information that he could use.

Besides, he had only been here for less than half an hour, and he didn't want to kill anyone he caught.

"I don't think you're clueless. You yellow-skinned people always like to play tricks. Whether it's doing business or anything else... you can't trust them at all! Who are you?!" Parker was not very understanding.

"Damn it, I'll say it for the last time. Let's put our guns down together and figure out what the hell is going on here. If you call me yellow-skinned again, I swear I will shoot all the bullets in the magazine into your back garden!" Chen Ke said angrily.

The two of them stared at each other for a while, and after a few seconds, Parker slowly lowered the muzzle of the gun a little, and his arms slowly dropped.

Chen Ke's life span fluctuated like the stock market in a few minutes, and the life count changed from 3 hours, 9 minutes and 23 seconds to 4 hours and 5 minutes.

Compared with the black man before, Parker provided half the life span per unit time. Chen Ke deduced that he was bare-handed and pointed at by the black man with a gun before, so the added life span was more, but this time both sides had guns, and the threat was not as great as before, so the added life span became less.

It seems that the more ruthless the person who wants to kill you is, the more life you will extend.

"Tell me, what happened here." Chen Ke asked.

"What? You... you really don't know? This building has a psychic explosion effect and has become a psychic explosion space." Parker looked incredible.

It seems that this situation is very common in this world, like some kind of common sense.

Psychic explosion effect? ​​Psychic explosion space?

Chen Ke suddenly thought of something and asked, "Is this a game?! Just like... Horror Paradise?!"

"I don't know what you are talking about, man, is your brain broken... You don't look like an employee working in this building, maybe this gun is not yours... The ejection port has been changed to the left, but you hold it with your right hand..." Parker pointed at the gun in Chen Ke's hand and shook his head.

Chen Ke glanced at the gun in his hand and had to admire Parker's keen observation. The black man was left-handed and changed the ejection port on the gun to the left, so as to avoid the shell hitting his face or blocking his sight.

As they were talking, the elevator started to move again. The two looked at the elevator and were speechless.

"Did you encounter a dog with a human face when you came up from the emergency passage?" Chen Ke asked.

"No, are you talking about a human-faced dog? Did you encounter that thing? Is there that thing in this building?" Parker said in surprise.

"Yeah, when I ran into it, it just walked out of the door you came out of and took the elevator down... Maybe it forgot something and is taking the elevator up now..." Chen Ke said while looking at Parker, and found that his face turned pale.

Maybe he suddenly realized that he was so close to the monster before and felt scared?

As if there was some kind of tacit understanding, the two of them slowly moved to the entrance of the safe passage, got into the door, and groped downstairs.

"That's a human-faced dog, man. If it's a fair duel, I'm not afraid, but if it's a sneak attack, it's very tricky. They will tear your face and turn their face into the victim's. Moreover, this monster has a strong mental power and can directly attack the reason and perception of living people. Without special protective equipment, it is difficult to deal with it."

Parker's gun is hung with a tactical flashlight, which can illuminate the dark stairwell, so he leads and Chen Ke follows behind. As he walked down, Parker explained the human-faced dog to Chen Ke.

"Things are worse than expected. The human-faced dog is not a very powerful monster, but it is a C-level monster that can affect the minds of normal people. This means that the psychic burst effect of this building is stronger than I expected."

The two looked at the double doors of the emergency exit on the first floor, and a ray of orange light leaked from the crack of the door. Parker turned his head and said, regardless of whether Chen Ke could see his expression in the dark, "This means that we are in big trouble. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time. There is a psychic tunnel in the lobby on the first floor that can leave here. We must move quickly."

Chen Ke and Parker pushed open the door together. The bright orange light in the lobby on the first floor made it difficult for the two to open their eyes. In the blur, Chen Ke saw a large group of white strips on the floor of the hall squirming, and from time to time there was a low barking of "woof woof woof".

A suffocating sense of mental oppression came over him. Chen Ke looked closely and saw more than a dozen white human-faced dogs leisurely pacing on the floor of the hall, and some were lying on the service desk licking their fur.