Chapter 055: Deep Love Between Husband and Wife
Fang Ling did not answer.
Although Fang Ling did not answer, Su Ming felt relieved.
If there was any danger, Fang Ling would definitely stop him immediately, but if he didn't stop him, then this behavior was probably not risky, and this lack of danger should have been confirmed.
"Let me do it." Su Ming said, "You come back."
"No, I'll do it!" Xia Xiaoyu said stubbornly.
Su Ming sighed helplessly and said in a tough tone: "I said I would come, so I will come!"
Xia Xiaoyu was stunned, tears streaming down her face, and she looked at Su Ming with a moved look on her face.
She obediently climbed back to the stairs, took off the safety device on her body, wiped her tears, and put it on Su Ming, remaining silent throughout the whole process.
For Xia Xiaoyu, this might be a time of affectionate farewell, but for Su Ming, it is the peak moment of embarrassment.
Firstly, this atmosphere of life and death was not right. Secondly, there was no risk for him to go down because he had the insurance of super intuition.
He would definitely climb up before encountering danger.
"I'll go down from here and you take the stairs. I may not come up in the dark later, but if you just keep walking, you should be able to meet me."
Su Ming put on the restraint device, climbed to the other side of the railing, and looked at the darkness below him.
"etc!"
Su Ming was about to let go when Xia Xiaoyu called him again. He looked up at her in confusion.
Before he could react, Xia Xiaoyu held his cheeks and gave him a deep kiss.
“…”
After a long time, Xia Xiaoyu relaxed her mouth and looked at him affectionately.
"Be careful." Xia Xiaoyu warned softly.
Su Ming lowered his head silently, feeling very complicated.
This feeling is hard to describe. It feels like I have taken advantage of someone I didn't want to take advantage of, and I feel very unhappy.
That saying is indeed true. If you do something shameful, as long as you don't feel ashamed, it is others who will be embarrassed.
Su Ming feels this way now. When he thinks about Xia Xiaoyu recalling this scene after she wakes up, he feels ashamed for her.
Su Ming let go of the railing with both hands, slid his body down, stepped on the cold concrete wall with his feet , and swung down slowly.
He placed one hand on the rope lock at his waist and used the other hand and his feet to keep his balance on the cold concrete wall.
Every time Su Ming jumped lightly, the rope lock loosened and tightened. As the depth decreased, the light of Xia Xiaoyu's flashlight above his head disappeared, and he was completely immersed in darkness.
Su Ming tried to shout Xia Xiaoyu, but there was no response.
They must have separated, he thought.
More than ten seconds passed, and according to conservative estimates, he had slid down more than ten meters, but he kept descending along the wall and didn't see the next circle of stairs at all.
Su Ming frowned. According to the curvature and angle of the spiral staircase, the height between the two flights of stairs could not possibly exceed five meters, but he still hadn't reached the next flight of stairs.
Su Ming looked down at the thick darkness below and chose to climb up.
There is no point in continuing to lower the rope; you will never reach the bottom.
Ten minutes later, Su Ming climbed up the stairs again, and sure enough, Xia Xiaoyu was gone.
Su Ming climbed over the railing, packed up the rope, and continued to walk down. This time he was alone.
He walked and walked, resting when he was tired, eating when he was hungry, and drinking water when he was thirsty.
Then... he discovered something interesting. He had been here for so long, but he didn't feel like going to the bathroom.
So far, he has drunk five bottles of water. After drinking so much water, it should be circulated internally, but it doesn't.
Interesting... Can it interfere not only with a person's spirit but also his physiology?
So, what happens if you don’t eat when you’re hungry?
I don't know how much time had passed, maybe an hour, maybe three hours. Su Ming felt hungry and thirsty, but he didn't eat or drink immediately. Instead, he endured the hunger silently.
Although the feeling of hunger was increasing, it didn't seem to have any substantial impact on his body.
After being hungry, Su Ming felt his steps were weak, but he was still able to go downstairs, and even the intervals of fatigue did not change much.
Su Ming guessed that even if he didn't eat and kept walking here, he wouldn't starve to death, but would just continue to suffer mental torture.
In other words, Fang Ling let them reach the bottom before the food was eaten up just to relieve their physical torture.
Thinking about it this way, Fang Ling was quite considerate. At least he asked them to bring dry food and water.
He continued walking down, and after an unknown amount of time, he slowly began to feel that something was not right with the situation around him.
In the darkness around him, it seemed as if there were invisible eyes watching him, which was creepy. Faintly from the deepest part of the stairs, he could hear a faint voice... vaguely making out it was a girl's voice.
He started too.
Should I say it's finally started?
Su Ming stopped and listened for a while, and felt that it was not an auditory hallucination.
He continued walking forward, walking on the unchanging stairs for an unknown amount of time. The "sense of attention" around him became stronger and stronger, and Su Ming developed a strong resistance.
Are you afraid?
If the thought of not wanting to go on is fear, then he has indeed begun to feel fear.
To be honest, he didn't want to go down. Even though he knew that these illusions would only scare him a little and wouldn't cause him any harm, Su Ming still didn't want to go down.
His current mentality is like a dog's instinctive resistance to tigers. Even if it is just a toy tiger, it is afraid.
In this unsettling situation, Su Ming's super intuition began to take effect, and he felt the guidance extremely strongly.
'There's nothing going on, you're hallucinating!'
His super intuition seemed to be sending him a signal like this, and the signal was extremely strong. Except for those few times in the subway station, he had never felt such a strong prompt.
The key point is that this time it lasts longer than ever before. It is not a short reminder, but more like a continuous and strong guidance.
This feeling is very strange and hard to describe, but it is by no means a wonderful experience. This kind of counterintuitive guidance is as weird as this staircase.
…
At the same time, in the Analysis Department of Investigation Bureau 7, there was silence.
Everyone watched the picture on the big screen quietly.
It is now evening, time for dinner, but most of the researchers have not eaten yet. They stare at the data on the screen without blinking.
Su Ming's depth has exceeded two hundred meters!
But his actions remained the same as when he had just entered the staircase, as if he was not affected by the illusion at all!
Fang Ling was stunned. He didn't know whether Su Ming was hallucinating but still remained calm on the surface, or whether he was not hallucinating at all.
