Born in the dark, Ended in the dawn

Wei Lan picked up the phone carefully, with the receiver close to her ear, waiting for the other party to speak first.

"Hello? Ah Ying? Why haven't you answered your calls these days? What is the voice message you left me? There is no sound at all. Don't make fun of me to scare people."

A middle-aged man's voice came from the other side of the phone. His tone was full of enthusiasm. He should be someone who was very familiar with the deceased, but he didn't know that the person he was looking for was already dead.

It was a false alarm. Wei Lan exhaled foul breath, cleared his throat in a low voice, and said to the man on the phone in an official tone, "Hello, are you a friend of the head of the household? I am a policeman. I have some questions and I hope you Cooperate with the investigation."

The short beep sounded an obvious sign of rejection, and Wei Lan held up the receiver dumbfounded and didn't know how to react. What's the situation with this man?He actually hung up on the police so simply!

Seeing Wei Lan's dumbfounded appearance, Li Anran burst into laughter, "Is there something wrong with this man? As soon as he heard it was a policeman, he immediately hung up the phone."

Wei Lan nodded heavily, "It seems that it is necessary to check the call list of this phone."

After packing up the things to be taken away and simply restoring the room, Wei Lan picked up the toolbox and was about to reach out to open the entrance door when the phone rang again with an annoying ring.Wei Lan shrugged, and reluctantly walked over to answer the phone, maybe the guy just now felt that his behavior was very rude, so he called back to apologize.

"Hi, hello." Wei Lan still greeted politely in an official tone.

Zizi, Zizi.

There was a weak current sound from the other side of the phone, and there was a whirring sound that seemed to be caused by the wind blowing the microphone, but no one spoke. Wei Lan frowned, "Is anyone listening?" After waiting for a long time, there was still no answer.

"Could it be a junk call? Or a harassing call?" Yin Hang leaned next to Wei Lan and listened to the voice on the phone together.

After a long time, when Wei Lan was about to hang up the phone, someone finally spoke.

"Hello, hello." The voice on the other side of the phone was clear and slightly hollow, as if speaking in an open place, with some faint echoes.

Finally someone spoke, but the sound of the electric current was getting louder and louder, making people's eardrums itchy. Enduring the discomfort, Wei Lan squeezed the receiver and continued to ask, "Are you a relative or friend of the head of the household?"

After a while, the clear voice spoke, but it was a question, "Excuse me, is anyone listening?" Wei Lan's brows tightened even more. He and Yin Yin who was close at hand could hear the voice on the phone. Hang looked at each other, and the other party's eyes were full of shock.

"Brother Wei, this seems to be your voice." Yin Hang took the phone in Wei Lan's hand and held it to his ear.

There was another voice on the phone, "Are you a relative or friend of the head of the household? Excuse me... are you a... friend of the household...?" The voice was covered by the loud electric current, and the sentences became intermittent. The last sentence Strangely repeated.

Yin Hang's face became more and more ugly, and he didn't want to listen to it anymore. The repeated intermittent sentences scratched people's hearts like ghost claws, clammy, itchy and painful.

There was a piercing long chirping sound, which made Yin Hang throw the phone out suddenly, and his eardrums were tingling.The overhead lights flickered a few times and then went out, and the whole house was plunged into darkness.The other side of the phone also fell silent, and there was no more sound.

Wei Lan grabbed the phone and slammed it back on the base. All of this was too weird, and it severely overturned his cognition, "Go, get out of here."

Lu Wei grabbed the red beans and rice in the bag and threw them around. He pulled Li Anran, whose legs were trembling with fright, and rushed out of the gate. Wei Lan walked last, carefully glanced at Jing Jing's phone lying on the wall, and then closed it heavily. door.Several people ran downstairs quickly, floor after floor, until their calves became sore from running, and Wei Lan discovered a serious problem. They were still on the ninth floor and hadn't left.

Fortunately, I didn’t hit the wall when I went upstairs, but I made up for it when I went downstairs. Wei Lan looked at Lu Wei who was still throwing red beans, and couldn’t bear to hit him, but for the safety of several people, he still had to ask For a moment, at least I have a bottom line in my heart, "Xiao Wei, is your red bean sprinkle really useful?"

"Ah? I don't know." There was some trembling in Lu Wei's voice, and he must have been quite frightened. "I heard from the old man that throwing beans to drive away ghosts, and rice seems to be an offering. Let ghosts eat rice instead of people."

"Like?" This word was enough to make Wei Lan's mood fall to the bottom, and the last bit of hope was shattered, and Lu Wei said such deceitful words in such a serious manner, "Obviously your beans are not very useful. We're still stuck here."

Lu Wei lowered his head and looked at the ground beans in some trouble, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, raised his head and looked up the stairs, the almond eyes behind the metal eyes were shining brightly, "Since we can't go down, we can try to climb up, It stands to reason that the ghost hitting the wall is not completely aimless."

No one rejected this proposal. It’s okay to try a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Besides, Wei Lan originally planned to go to the roof to investigate, but was so troubled by the phone call just now that he only focused on running for his life and forgot about the investigation. Could it be that this ghost hit the wall to force him to the roof on purpose?

As if responding to his thoughts, a gentle cool breeze blew across Wei Lan's cheeks, leaving a hint of elegant fragrance in the air, which was clean and refreshing, and washed away the damp musty smell in the corridor, "Then let's go Let's see if there are any surprises."

The whole building has 13 floors. Sure enough, after climbing four floors, I saw the door leading to the roof. The door was open, as if to welcome their arrival.

Without squinting, Wei Lan followed the direction of Li Anran's finger and walked straight to the guardrail. The strong flashlight was covered by cardboard to prevent the light from shining too far away and disturbing the residents in other buildings.The metal guardrail eroded by rain was stained with rust, and it was difficult to get fingerprints on it. A few long hairs were wrapped around the railing and swayed in the wind.

"What is this?" No one responded to Wei Lan's question, and he didn't care.There are brown traces on an upright railing, extending downwards, but because there are too many rusts on the railing, it is difficult to find these traces mixed in.Wei Lan stretched out his hand, held the railing imaginarily, and simulated the movement of sliding down, yes, this is not suicide at all, but homicide, but this 'it' may not be caught and brought to justice.

The cotton swab dipped in the reagent rubbed against the brown trace, and a chemical reaction took place in a short while, which undoubtedly confirmed Wei Lan's guess that there was blood on the railing, evidence that a 'suicide' had tried to resist.

"Hiss!" Wei Lan couldn't help gasping for the sudden stabbing pain in his palm. Several blood holes of different shades were oozing out of his open palm. Stimulated, the air around his body began to stir. Although this thought was very strange, Wei Lan was sure that he felt the change in the air. The fresh and cool air just now became dim, and more damp and musty smell permeated in. Breathing in The lung lobes make people want to cough.

"Anran, you..." Wei Lan, who turned around and was about to speak to Li Anran behind her, suddenly closed her mouth and looked at the guy in front of her vigilantly.

This guy was standing where Li Anran was just now, still stretching out his arms and pointing in the direction of the guardrail, exactly the same as Li Anran who was pointing the way. His long hair hangs low, covering his face.There is no Li Anran, no Yin Hang and Lu Wei here, only Wei Lan and the woman who kept her posture motionless on the empty roof, maybe it is not a person at all, and the door behind it has been closed at some point. locked up.

"Hey" a strange sound came from the female ghost's throat, like a clogged pipe, hoarse and unpleasant, its head was raised slightly, revealing a sharp and thin chin, the corners of its lips curled up with a strange loneliness, a smile that was not a smile, it seemed A chill runs down the spine.

Wei Lan really felt a chill down his back at this moment, not because of the female ghost, but because of the cool air surrounding him, the high-density air surged around him, as if he was touching him intentionally, like a slight Cool lips pecked at the sensitive skin.

"Hey... die..."

"What did you say?" Wei Lan wasn't sure if the female ghost was talking to him, and regretted it as soon as she asked. She always felt that talking to a ghost was not the right choice.

Sure enough, upon hearing Wei Lan's question, the female ghost's whole body began to tremble, her mouth opened wider, and more "cluck" sounds came out of her throat, and her voice gradually became clearer, forming sentences that people could understand .

"Everyone will die... run away... but... all go to die..." The voice stopped abruptly, and the female ghost suddenly raised her head to look at Wei Lan, her hollow gray-white eyes stared viciously, with her bloody face on her face, He rushed towards Wei Lan at an extremely fast speed.

Instinctively took a step back in panic, wanting to dodge. At the same time as he took that step, Wei Lan felt a chill in his heart. It was over. His lower back hit the guardrail in pain, causing him to break out in a cold sweat. The invisible momentum dragged him backwards.

The stabbing pain in his lower back made him lose the strength to resist for a moment. Following the momentum, he jumped out of the guardrail, but was stopped inexplicably, giving him enough time to react, and barely grabbed a piece of paper while spinning around. The root railing is used as a life-saving straw.

Looking at the railing he grabbed, Wei Lan couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it was a trick of nature, isn't this railing the same railing covered in blood!Now, the bright red blood that flowed from him covered the previous traces, making him look even more bewitching and creepy.Wei Lan struggled to raise his other hand, and tried to grab the other railing. He really wanted to call for help, but he really didn't have the strength to yell now, and he didn't dare to distract himself.

The railing couldn't bear the weight and shook and creaked.The body is so heavy, why is it so heavy?It's like...something grabbed my foot!The clammy coolness stretched up from his ankles, wrapping around his legs so tightly that he couldn't use their strength to survive.Wei Lan didn't dare to look down, he was afraid of seeing something he shouldn't see, and if he accidentally let go of his hand, he would really be finished.

The icy touch on the ankles was like hands climbing upwards, and they had already climbed up his back. His body was getting heavier and heavier. The strong musty smell mixed with the stench of blood forced Wei Lan to hold his breath and grit his teeth. Tight as hell.

The air became restless again, as thick as fog. The faint white mist swayed and condensed together, forming a faintly visible figure. The body of the white figure blended with the disintegrated mist, making it difficult to distinguish.

The cool touch on his wrist made Wei Lan feel goosebumps. Then, he felt that he was being pulled up. He looked at his wrist blankly. There was nothing there, but the pulling force It was indeed coming from the wrist.

Wei Lan felt like his body was like a rope used in a tug-of-war. One was pulled up and the other was pulled down, and it was about to be torn apart. The pain in his joints made him grin his teeth, and he couldn't care less about thinking too much. The figure who grabbed him said, "Don't pull hard, your waist is about to break!"

The moment the jaw was opened, the coolness penetrated into the mouth, the white mist seemed to be more condensed, and the coolness stirred in the mouth as if it had an entity. Before he could figure out what happened, there was a sharp pain on the tip of his tongue, and then the bloody smell filled his mouth, and the coolness receded.

Lying grass!Wei Lan cursed in her heart, what is going on?