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He put his shirt back on, and the expression on his face was like a smile, yet not a smile. Xiao Hua’s body had been very strictly trained and his movements were very rhythmic, so when he closed the phone and spoke earlier, he looked very capable and self-controlled.

I was a little upset with people who could be handsome at any time. I said to myself, didn’t you say I was the smartest in this generation? I was too innocent. As soon as he said that, he started to crush my IQ and found an excuse to boast about his good looks. And I actually believed it.

“How did you figure it out?” I was particularly reluctant to ask him because I hadn’t noticed anything.

Xiao Hua handed me his phone, and when I opened it, I saw a short message on the screen: You can’t get out. Twenty-three seventeen isn’t a time, but a sign.

The sender’s name was gibberish.

“There must be a fake base station installed here, and my phone’s been hijacked; otherwise, it would be impossible to receive a signal. When I came down just now, I found that the signal here was abnormally good.”

I squatted on the ground with my head in my arms, and said to myself, this brother doesn’t play games according to common sense. I also turned my phone on, but I hadn’t received any texts.

Fuck me, are you looking down on knockoff phones? Wait until I find you. I’ll take you to Huaqiangbei and chop all seven of your fingers off!

“Reply back.” I said: “Tell him to come out and fight one-on-one if he’s got the guts.”

“We still don’t know how serious this matter is, so don’t provoke the opponent. There certainly aren’t any monitors here, so it’ll be easy for them to guess our status if we text back.” Xiao Hua pointed to the stairs. “Now, according to the plot, we should try to climb the stairs.”

Sometimes when I talked to Xiao Hua, I felt like I was talking to myself. He and I were very similar in many aspects, but there were some differences that I really couldn’t discern.

But this similarity also made the tacit understanding between us relatively synchronous. It wasn’t like when Pan Zi, Fatty, and Little Brother made eye contact with each other and would start moving to outflank. Once they made eye contact with me, I would end up tripping and falling depending on the circumstances.

When Xiao Hua and I reached the stairs, he gestured at me not to talk and pointed to the piano. I found that his phone had disappeared, and seemed to be placed on the piano. I nodded at him and knew what he meant.

The two of us walked up the stairs.

The stairs were rubber-painted cement and completely bare, unlike the stairs before that had all the antiques on the shelves. The stair railing was made of iron, and looked very unstable. There was a very dim, open-faced gas lamp placed on every third step, and the light made everything seem gloomy.

If the staircase was going down, I could understand designing such a mechanism as long as there was enough manpower, but this staircase was going up, which was totally illogical.

We reached the area where the door we came in just now should have been, but it had disappeared.

“Did the room move?” Xiao Hua touched the wall.

“This kind of mechanism could only be made at the expense of human lives during the feudal dynasties. After 1900, such a project was basically impossible to achieve.” I told him that it was almost impossible to use cement and steel bars to do such projects, with the exception of those like the Zhang family’s ancient building, which brought together the aspirations of contemporary geniuses and the wisdom accumulated by craftsmen throughout the ages. This staircase could only be a cover, but how could he convince us that it was real?

“Going up?” I asked, “There must have been a change when we went up.”

“Are you considering the problem from Seven Fingers’ standpoint?”

“I’ve been played a lot, so I especially know how to play people.” I said, but it was impossible to really start this game without causing some kind of change. I took a deep breath and started walking upstairs, but Xiao Hua stood where he was.

“We’ll both be careful.” He said. “You go forward three and I’ll follow behind and go four steps much later.”

I looked at my phone and said, “See you in fourteen years.” Once I started running up three floors, Xiao Hua started walking.

“Talk, otherwise we won’t know if one of us disappears.” Xiao Hua shouted from below.

I stared at the stairs and the side walls, trying to find any flaws. “What do you want to talk about?” After a second, however, I shouted, “Truth or dare.”

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