Just as Lin Qiye and the others were running quickly up the stairs to the second floor, they saw the scene before them and suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong? Why aren't you moving?" Cao Yuan asked, puzzled.
Lin Qiye stared blankly at the scene before him. After a long while, he stepped aside, clearing half the space so that everyone behind him could clearly see what was in front of him...
"What...what the hell is this?" Li Shaoguang stared wide-eyed, saying incredulously.
Generally, staircases spiral upwards, gradually ascending to higher floors. After climbing one floor, you arrive at the second floor. Entering the second-floor stairwell, if you turn around, you'll see the staircase leading to the third floor...
But after everyone climbed the stairs to the first floor, what appeared before them was not the second floor corridor, but... a dormitory room.
Yes, after climbing the last step of the stairs, they were in front of an ordinary double room.
The dormitory was clean and tidy, with the bedding and pillows neatly arranged on the bed. Judging from the skincare products and clothes on the table, the two girls must have lived here for a long time, but there was not a single person in the clean dormitory.
This bizarre scene is as if the staircase was deliberately built to the door of this dormitory room during construction, so that anyone going upstairs has to pass through this dormitory room.
"Was this how the girls' dormitory was designed?" someone in the crowd asked suspiciously.
They were all male soldiers and had never been inside Building 3 before, so they naturally didn't know what it looked like inside.
"Impossible." Lin Qiye squatted down, his fingers gently rubbing the joint between the stairs and the dormitory. The two completely different tiles collided and fit together perfectly. "The joint is too smooth. Although the construction madmen in the training camp are highly skilled, they couldn't possibly have done this..."
"It's almost as if someone cut two separate parts and pieced them together."
"Is it also related to space?" Cao Yuan frowned.
"That's right, there must be a 'mysterious' being in this building who is skilled in spatial teleportation," Lin Qiye said confidently. "If I'm not mistaken, the layout inside this building is completely messed up, like a Rubik's Cube that has been scrambled."
He stood up, walked straight into the dormitory, and pushed open the door at the other end...
Outside the door, instead of a balcony, there is a T-shaped corridor. It is T-shaped because it is made up of two sections of corridor that were originally connected and then spliced together in a staggered manner.
It's like when you're playing a building game and accidentally adjust the direction of a section of the road incorrectly, making it perpendicular to the previous section, which looks very awkward.
Cao Yuan walked to the window, but there was no view outside, only a deep blue expanse. He pushed the window hard, but it didn't budge.
"Is this the power of 'mystery'? It's too bizarre..." A new recruit in the crowd couldn't help but exclaim.
Because of the T-junction, two completely opposite paths appeared ahead, and the group stood at the fork, hesitating.
"Which way leads upstairs?" Li Shaoguang scratched his head. "How about we split up?"
"There's something 'mysterious' in this building, so splitting up now is definitely not a wise choice," Lin Qiye shook his head and continued, "The path on the left leads to another dormitory. Behind that dormitory is the toilet, and behind that is a staircase leading down."
"The one on the right, after passing through two consecutive dormitories, features a staircase leading upwards."
"You can sense the path?" Li Shaoguang asked in surprise.
"Yes, but there are limitations; it can only sense a few rooms," Lin Qiye said calmly.
"So we should go to the right?"
"No." Lin Qiye shook his head, pointed to the wall in front of him, and slowly said, "Behind this wall are several sets of stairs leading upwards, which will take us directly to the fourth floor."
Upon entering Building 3, he discovered that while his mental perception could not penetrate the building from the outside, it could be used normally inside.
This means that from the outside, the three buildings appear as a single, spatially isolated entity, but from the inside, each room is simply misplaced and there is no spatial isolation between them.
This means that... all the walls inside the building can be broken down!
"Break down this wall?"
"Yes, but be careful not to damage the building structure here. Although the space is disordered, it doesn't mean that the load-bearing pillars here are useless. If the damage to the structure is too great... this place may collapse," Lin Qiye said solemnly.
From the crowd, a young man stepped forward, a gray light emanating from his palm. "Leave it to me!"
He slammed his palm heavily onto the surface of the wall, and the gray light instantly covered the wall, corroding it in a short time to create a circular passage that could accommodate three people at the same time, without damaging the other building structures.
The group entered the circular passage in order, with Lin Qiye and his group at the front. Just as the group had passed one-fifth of the way through, a sudden change occurred!
Suddenly, the surrounding rooms and walls began to move automatically. The straight road at the T-junction was instantly removed and replaced by a dormitory room. The upward staircases behind the walls were all misaligned, like a spinning Rubik's Cube, and moved to some unknown place.
At the same time, Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and the others, who had just entered the first section of the staircase, felt their surroundings change. The walls on the left and right sides had turned into two empty dorm rooms, the staircase in front of them had turned into walls, and the corridor behind them had turned into a downward staircase...
"What happened?" Li Shaoguang asked in surprise.
"The space has become disordered again." Lin Qiye frowned, deep in thought. "Why? Is it because our act of damaging the walls caused the spatial distortion, or does it change every so often...?"
Cao Yuan looked around and sighed helplessly, "We've separated from the others."
"There's nothing we can do, nobody knows if the layout here will change again..." Li Shaoguang shrugged.
"In short, let's try to stay together and not stray too far apart," Lin Qiye said calmly. "If the mysterious creature hiding in Building 3 can only do this much, although it's troublesome, it doesn't really pose a significant threat. Its forbidden area is more focused on trapping enemies and doesn't have much destructive power."
"That's right. As long as enough people enter Building Three, breaking through here is only a matter of time." Cao Yuan also understood this point and nodded in agreement.
"The problem now is... if this mystery can only do this much, then what about the scream just now?" Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, shook his head, and continued walking forward.
Thinking about it now is useless; without decisive evidence, reasoning is ultimately just reasoning.
The three continued forward, passing through numerous rooms pieced together, and after about five or six minutes, finally stopped in front of a door.