Strangers

What's in it. "I asked.

"Monster," he said.

"I'm haunted by a horrible monster." He raised his face to me, still staring down, his eyelids were wide open, revealing very strange whites, "You can't see it, it's only when others don't notice it It will appear, it wants to kill me."

"Where is it?"

"Shadow," he said, "in my shadow."

"Oh?" I stood up and looked across the table.Today is overcast, the light from the window on the right is not strong, it only casts a silhouette on the ground, gray and blurry.

The man's voice trembled: "You can't see it. As I said, that thing hides as soon as it is seen by others. It only appears when I am alone."

"What does it look like?"

"It doesn't look like anything, and it looks like everything. It can change into various shapes. Sometimes it has a big head, and sometimes its body is covered with sharp and long thorns."

"When did you find it?"

"Two months ago, in the company, I wanted to take a document. I stretched out my right hand, but the shadow on the cabinet door raised my left hand. I thought it was amazing, so I asked my colleague to look at it. The colleague turned his head, The shadow changed back to the right hand in an instant. At that time, I thought it was because I was too tired from working overtime and my eyes were dazzled, so I didn't care. It’s slowly twisting! Although it’s only a few seconds, I’m sure I’m not mistaken! After that, this situation became more and more frequent, and the shadow’s alienation also intensified, sometimes growing thorns, sometimes claws, sometimes turning into whirlpools, and It seems that I have gradually gained self-awareness. A week ago, I found that the shadow was laughing with a thin mouth open! I was terrified and asked someone to see it, but it never appeared when other people were around. I used my mobile phone , camera, video camera, I can’t use all methods to take pictures of it! Only me, only I can see it! Now its movements have become very flexible, and its appearance is getting more and more creepy! Can come out of the shadows! It will come out, it will come out and kill me! It will kill me in a few days!"

The man curled up and squeezed his whole body into the chair, desperately trying to escape from the shadow, but the black thread cast by the chair legs still connected them with precision and despair.

The logician in the corner put down his book and added without sympathy: "The doctor suspected that the hallucinations were caused by epilepsy, but the EEG showed that everything was normal, and the final diagnosis was a paranoid personality. That is to say, he was lying."

"I'm not lying!" the man shouted tremblingly.

"What do you think?" The logic madman ignored him and asked me.

"I've seen this kind of situation, but..." I laughed and shook my folding fan.

"Money." The madman understood very well.

"How much do you want? As long as you can save me! As much as you want, I will give it to you! As long as you can save me!" The man on the opposite side started up, squatting on a chair and taking out his pockets all over his body. His hands were full of banknotes, coins, and receipts. all over the floor.

"This is information fees. I can't save you. The only one who can save you is yourself." A one-yuan bill rolled to my feet and fell down. "That monster is a rare thing. It has been around since the Qin and Han Dynasties." Recording is called avoiding shadows and invisibility."

"Hiding the shadow and hiding the form, an idiom, refers to concealing without revealing one's traces." The research madman held up the information he had just found on his mobile phone, "This allusion comes from Hou Fangyu's "Southern Province Test Policy II" in the Qing Dynasty, and it cannot be recorded in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

"Because you have reversed cause and effect. It's not that 'Avoiding Shadows and Concealing Forms' came from "Nan Province Trial Strategy [-]", but Hou Fangyu borrowed its name to write 'Moreover, Avoiding Shadows and Concealing Forms'."

"No, 'from' means that there is no record before, which obviously contradicts what you said just now that it was recorded in Qin and Han Dynasties."

"It is believed that there is no record because you are ignorant."

Quiet.

I continued: "You can call this thing whatever you want, the name is not important, whether it is a demon or a demon, it is a kind of life form just like humans, ghosts, gods, etc., or, they are all 'things'."

"Things?" The research madman repeated.

"It seems that you can accept it, 'materialist'?" I put on a mocking expression, "Say 'thing' is just a Chinese character, the stacked strokes have no meaning, all meanings are human understanding, let me call it Let's talk about "things". "Things" have various forms of existence: some are big and some are small; some like yin and some like yang; some are visible and some are invisible; People are harmful, or they have nothing to do with people at all. As for hiding and invisibility... Its abode is the shadow of people and animals, you can't see it, you can only perceive it through its ability to change the shape of the shadow. It absorbs the host's fear Grow up, grow up to be strong enough to 'eat' him, and this so-called 'eat' means pulling the host's soul from the soles of the feet, dragging it into the shadow, turning it into a new shadow-avoiding form, and then drilling into it separately. Into other shadows, multiplying and multiplying. This is the form of its existence."

The man on the other side was stunned.

"In other words, its energy comes from your fear. As long as you are not afraid of it, it will lose its power. When it feels that it has no possibility of eating you, it will leave your shadow to find a new host, but it seems..." I am interested An Ran, "You only have less than two days left, do you want to stay here? I really want to see the whole process of avoiding shadows and eating people."

"Generally speaking, it is impossible for human beings to overcome fear on their own." After the man left, the research madman said, "From the perspective of psychological suggestion, it is better to tell him that this situation is completely harmless."

"From the perspective of species diversity, it doesn't matter if one or two people are eaten by the shadow." , maybe after that, he will find that living in a human form is so boring."

"Your argument is very anti-human." The research madman stared at me.

"Humans are not the only ones in the world, nor are they at the top of the food chain." I retorted.

"As a human being, it is evil to be against humanity."

"It's a crime to destroy the order of heaven and earth." I laughed, "This is a fight to the death between a person and a Hidden Shadow, and I have no right to interfere with their outcome, not to mention that there are not many Hidden Hidden left now." , will probably become extinct soon.”

"why."

"How many people do you think will stop for a moment to pay attention to their own shadow in this era of hurrying?"

☆、Evidence

Wei Yuanyang stopped for a moment, wiped off his sweat, and looked up at the gradually darkening sky: "Fortunately, the driver said he would arrive in half an hour. If this continues, he will really be laying a bed in the mountains."

"It shouldn't be far away." Xie Yu played the role of a detective novelist, pointing to a piece of ground, "The footprints on this soil are still wet, and a villager may have just passed by."

This statement is not false.

After walking west for a few miles, there were indeed scattered residential houses by the roadside, and two or three villagers all squinted at the strangers.

Wei Yuanyang thought there was something interesting, so he quickly picked one person to stop: "Brother, may I ask where this is?"

The man muttered something, with a heavy accent, not quite like the Sichuan-Chongqing dialect.

"What?" Wei Yuanyang didn't understand.

The villagers looked wary and changed their Mandarin with an accent: "Where did you come from?"

Wei Yuanyang pretended to be stupid: "We came here on foot from Simianshan Town, and we got a little lost. How far is it to get to the town?"

The villagers snorted: "There are only mountains ahead, and the nearest town has to go east."

"I said it's the other way around! You just won't listen! Now it's over, why go back!" Wei Yuanyang yelled deliberately.

Xie Yu continued his acting: "We have two choices, one, turn back immediately, and two, stay here for one night and go on the road tomorrow."

"How can I go on this mountain road in the dark? I can't even catch a whole body when I roll down. It seems that I can only make it for one night. Hey brother, is there a hotel in this village?"

"No hotel." The villagers shook their heads.

"Is there a place to stay?" Wei Yuanyang asked, but the villagers ignored him.

The two wandered through the village by getting lost, and not long after they came to a small square with potholes on the stone floor, surrounded by several wooden buildings, and a well to the west, which seemed to be the center of the village.

Wei Yuanyang greeted an old man smoking a hookah by the well: "Master! Let me ask you, is there a place in our village where I can stay?"

"I'm not deaf, so I don't need to be so loud." The old man remained calm and puffed out, "Where did you come from?"

"We came to climb the mountain from Simianshan Town, but we got here by the wrong way."

"Borrowing is fine. There's an empty house over there that hasn't been lived in for a long time. You can stay there for one night, but it's best to leave before noon tomorrow. It's going to rain heavily, and the road will be difficult to walk later." The old man said and carried He raised the pipe and pointed to a stilted building on the mountain wall not far away.

Following the old man's instructions, Xie Yu and Wei Yuanyang went around the cliff and came to the front door of the Diaojiaolou.The door panel has been rotted, and it fell on the ground. The entrance is a small main room, and there is a shrine on the opposite wall.Wei Yuanyang raised his flashlight to take a picture, and the porcelain Guanyin enshrined in it was broken, and half of his body fell to the side.He stretched out his hand to pick it up, trying to put it up against the gap, but just as he was done, he slid down again. After several attempts to no avail, he gave up and put the half of the statue back to its original place.

"This place is good, the terrain is high, and you can basically see the whole village." Xie Yu leaned against the window, holding a military binoculars.

"Where do you think Lao Qi will be?" Wei Yuanyang creaked the floorboards every time he took a step, thinking that the room was so overhanging that it wouldn't collapse later.

"I don't know." Xie Yu adjusted the focus, "You can ask that monkey."

"You are the monkey! I nodded and shook my head!" A shrill voice came from the backpack.

"You are finally online!" Wei Yuanyang pulled it out, "Quickly tell me, where is Lao Qi locked?"

"Chichichi, you really are an idiot. I can't even see it when I pass by. It's the broken tile house in the east of the village."

"No wonder." Wei Yuanyang patted his thigh, "I just said why those people at the door kept staring at me when I walked past."

"Hush!" Xie Yu fell silent.

Listen carefully, the wooden stairs outside the door creaked.

"Someone is coming, you should hide!" Wei Yuanyang opened his backpack.

"It's okay, other people can't see me or hear me." The nodding ghost said.

The two held their breaths and stared at the door, only to see a ball of quilt gradually poking out, followed by a small head.

"Grandfather said it was cold at night and asked me to give this." The girl's clothes and face were not clean, part of the quilt was held in her arms, and the rest was too long on her head.

Wei Yuanyang quickly went on: "Thank you kid, and thank you grandpa. ——By the way, this is for you."

Looking at the piece of chocolate hesitantly, the girl took it for a while, then turned around and ran out the door.

"I didn't expect that uncle to look fierce, but he's quite a nice guy." Wei Yuanyang rolled up the quilt and put it on the straw mat.

"Know people, know faces, but don't know your heart." Xie Yu put away the binoculars, "Let's take a rest first, and wait until it gets dark."

Wei Yuanyang understood what he meant, tidied up the room a bit, Xie Yu sat down on the floor, and continued to read the diary.

This article is called "Little Cage".

"I've been having strange dreams recently." The girl said softly, "In a small gray cage, there is a small gray child."

"The gray child?" I asked.

"It's the kid in the gray clothes, and it has gray skin," the girl said. "It's really very small."

"How small."

"It's like a small bug. I have to squat down very carefully to see it. When I want to touch it, I reach out and find that my fingertips are hundreds of times bigger than it."

"and then."

"It's calling for help." The girl paused. "It said that there are many children like it. They were all locked up and left in a dark and dark place. It kept shouting to me. I kept shouting, the voice was thin and high-pitched, and I was very anxious and a little scared when I heard it."

Looking at me with begging eyes, five pairs of onion fingers restlessly folded on the sarong.

"There are not enough clues." I wrote, "I can't make a judgment based on these alone."

The girl murmured: "I told my cousin about this, and she said that I was under too much pressure to go to school, and suggested that I see a psychiatrist."

"Hmm." I held my chin.

"Do you think I should go too?" the girl asked hesitantly.

"I'm not against a psychiatrist. It's quite useful to solve problems occasionally." I pointed to her hand, "If you don't mind, can you show me all the things in your bag?"

She hummed unexpectedly, and did as she did, and after a while, all kinds of gadgets filled the large table.

"That's it."

I picked up a gray fountain pen.The pen cap is cracked and wrapped with transparent tape.

"This pen has been used for a long time, and I bought a new one recently to throw it away." The girl took it and looked at it in her hand, "But it has been used for a long time, and I am a little bit reluctant."

"That's it," I said.

The girl was taken aback: "Could it be that the child is the fairy that this pen turned into?"

"No. It should be living, um, being locked inside this pen."

"Shut in a pen? Seal?"

"It's not that complicated, it's..." I searched for words between my brows, "Synthesis. Yes, synthesis. It's called a polymer compound in scientific terms. That kid should be what you call an atom."

"How can atoms be children?"

"You should have heard a saying that everything has a spirit." I looked at the substance in her hand, "It is an existence that is more eternal than all living things. In their view, human beings are too short to be worth mentioning. It can span eternity, From a rock in the Sinian period to the tentacles of a trilobite, climbing up a needle of a pine cypress, looking at the scenery of the Triassic period, and attaching itself to the toes of a Tyrannosaurus rex, running barefoot with it, and then following The plankton of the Cretaceous period traveled the sea together, until finally, they came into your hands."

I pointed to the gray pen with the tip of my fan:

"Derived from nature, but also naturalized, it wandered comfortably between heaven and earth, but people kept it in a cage called a polymer compound. It is said that it takes 1000 years for plastic to completely degrade, so in For 1000 years, it was treated like rubbish without dignity, pushed around with big shovels, and finally buried in a smelly, dank and dark place."

After listening carefully, the girl looked at the pen in her hand: "Then how can I release it from the cage?"

"I have to ask someone who works in chemistry." I laughed. "Actually, it doesn't matter. 1000 years is really not a long time for it. The reason why I ask for help is because the place where I will stay next is a bit uncomfortable."

"It's okay." The girl held it tightly, stood up and bowed, "I won't throw it away, I will continue to use it, thank you, fortunately I didn't see a psychiatrist."

"No. A competent psychiatrist will say that it is because you are reluctant to throw it away that the subconscious dream appears." I watched, "There is no right or wrong between these two explanations, the key is which one do you prefer to believe. "

"I believe in the 'atom goblin' who lives in the pen." The girl turned her head, her eyes bent into crescents.

"Atomic Fairy." I followed her words and wrote the title at the beginning of the volume.

"Sure enough." Xie Yu finally found a direct evidence.

"What is it?" Wei Yuanyang gnawed on the compressed biscuit and asked inarticulately.

"The title of the article is Tiny Cages, not Atomic Goblins.—the diary is sure to have two versions."

Wei Yuanyang didn't understand: "So what?"

Xie Yu didn't answer, but felt that there must be some secret behind this matter.

Outside the window, the wind blows blue clouds, and night falls.

The first-quarter moon hanging high in the sky could not resist the darkness in the mountains, the two of them lit up the flashlights, sneaked out of the wooden building, and followed the memory to touch the unremarkable broken tile house.

There are no houses around the tile-roofed house, and it is very lonely. The person guarding the door has disappeared, and the high window above the head reveals a dim light.

Xie Yu gestured to indicate that he was in charge of the watch, and Wei Yuanyang set up two stones and looked into the window.

There were two middle-aged men standing in the room, looking like guards, and a woman sitting with her back, unable to see her face clearly.Opposite them is a man, dressed in black and brown, with his legs crossed, holding a folding fan in his arms, with a smile that is not a smile, and a tear mole on his left cheek is dotted at the corner of his curved eye.

Wei Yuanyang poked Xie Yu, then pointed to the room.

This person is Boss Qi of Zhiguai Zhai.

"Tomorrow is the ninth day of the lunar new year."

The woman with her back to her mouth spoke, her voice was neither immature nor old, and her standard Mandarin was majestic: "Mr. Qi, we are all businessmen, there is no need to beat around the bush. I will contribute the money and you will contribute. Everyone is happy when the matter is resolved. Why bother tearing it up?" It's a shameless act."

"Hmph, you sound like you're being polite." Mr. Qi chuckled, pulling a black bruise at the corner of his mouth.

"I can't please you, so I have to make this bad plan. If you still can't come up with a solution tonight, I don't mind using other methods."

The woman raised her chin, and the two guards ordered him to press his left palm on the table without any explanation.

"Start with the little thumb," she said.

The guard pulled out the machete from his waist and shook it against the light. Wei Yuanyang saw that something was wrong, so he heard "slow down" from the room.

"Changed your mind?" the woman asked.

"Let go first." Mr. Qi said.

The woman nodded, and the guards stepped back temporarily.

Mr. Qi straightened his clothes and squeezed his left wrist: "Tomorrow I will replace 'Human Sacrifice' and enter the Butterfly Cave."

"That's it." The woman seemed dissatisfied.

"What else do you want?" He chuckled.

The woman beckoned to the guard and whispered something. Wei Yuanyang was about to prick up his ears to check carefully, but he heard Xie Yu shout, "There is someone!"

The footsteps were light and chaotic, and a few rays of light swayed on the dark dirt road. Seeing this, the two quickly hid behind the brick-roofed house.

There was a knock on the door: "Sister Lan!"

The door opened: "What's the matter?" It was the woman in the room.

"Two outsiders came in the evening, but they are gone now. They must be his helpers."

"what kind of person."

"Two men, aged 30, found an ID card in their bag, and this strange box, take a look."

"Find these two people and bring them to me."

"We guarded all the roads out of the village, so they couldn't escape."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Nothing."

There was a sound of closing the door, and the footsteps left. The two were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but they saw a light on the wall beside them!

"Come on! They're here!" Someone shouted from the hill above.

"Die, I've been discovered!" Wei Yuanyang turned his head to look, and at some point, a group of villagers appeared on the road, each holding farm tools, and surrounded them eagerly.

Cursing secretly, he clenched his fists: "Xie Yu, I'll block for a while, and we'll talk after you run away!"

Xie Yu didn't answer, but pushed his glasses, sideways dodged the split shovel, and knocked No.1 down with a knee.The villagers in the back roared and slashed at them with a wooden stick. Wei Yuanyang raised his hand to block, and with an elbow, the man also hugged his stomach and fell silent.

In the chaos, it seemed that someone called to stop, but no one paid attention.

Until a gunshot!

"Stop it all!"

In the silhouette cut out by the door opening, Sister Lan is holding a hunting (anti-harmony) gun, and a wisp of white smoke floats from the upward muzzle, appearing and disappearing under the moonlight.

☆, red silkworm

The guard picked up the plastic water bottle and refilled the glass in front of Mr. Qi. The tea juice was already watered down, as if a few tacks were floating in the cold white.

The gate was opened, the two men were let in, and the guard went out and bolted the door from the outside.

"Yo." Mr. Qi saw the comer clearly, smiled and waved his folding fan, "It's true that we never meet again in life."

"What the hell!" Wei Yuanyang slapped the table, "What the hell is going on with you, you are a monster and a curse!"

He Le: "Does it have anything to do with you?"

"Nonsense, my annual leave is covered for this, you have the nerve to say it doesn't matter!"

"Pay you double salary, come and go as you go, don't make trouble for me here."

"Boss Qi." Xie Yu interrupted their choking, "It is impossible for anyone to go back at this point. You have an obligation to explain to us what is going on now."

"Isn't it very clear?" Mr. Qi showed a little impatience, "The situation is that she plans to take you two as hostages and threaten me to kill something tomorrow."

"Kill that monster?" Wei Yuanyang asked.

Mr. Qi did not answer directly: "How did she tell you?"

"She said that there is a cave in the west of Butterfly Village, and there is a monster living in it. Every April, the village must sacrifice a child to it. Otherwise, there will be a drought or a plague that year, and there will be a disaster in the whole village, so she thought I'm looking for you to kill the monsters and eliminate harm for the people."

"That's true." Mr. Qi took a sip of tea, "If you look at it from the perspective of the villagers."

"Any other angles?"

Putting down the teacup slowly, Mr. Qi said: "The Butterfly Village is surrounded by mountains. Xuanwu hides its head, the black dragon has no feet, the white tiger holds the corpse, and the red bird cries. A mountain god, every year on the ninth day of April, it will attach itself to the body of the sorceress, pick a child in the village, and gain power from him, so as to eliminate natural disasters for the village and bring a good harvest.”

Xie Yu grasped the key: "What will happen to the child."

"Send it into the cave, and be with the mountain god forever."

"That's death." Xie Yu concluded.

"You can understand it that way." Mr. Qi didn't explain much.

"Wait, there is a problem here." Wei Yuanyang interjected, "If the village is really in a bad location and is prone to disasters, this is an objective situation. Why don't you tell her clearly?"

"There is no objective subjectivity. This mountain is originally a part of the mountain god. In fact, every piece of land in this world has a corresponding god. In order to gain strength and maintain balance, they will secretly 'eat' humans in various ways. Some Through accidents, and some through serious diseases, in comparison, I think this mountain god is quite frank."

Wei Yuanyang was puzzled: "No matter how frank it is, it can't justify cannibalism."

"What is this?" Mr. Qi retorted, "you humans have to eat, how many of you still call yourself 'cute foodies'."

Xie Yu no longer entangled in this question: "What are your plans next?"

Mr. Qi chuckled, went to the window and called the guard to call Sister Lan over.

"I promised to kill that monster." Mr. Qi said, "But there is a condition."

"Say." Sister Lan.

"Release these two people and send them out of the village at dawn."

Sister Lan immediately vetoed it: "They must detain it, lest you play tricks. Of course, if you kill the monster tomorrow, I will respectfully send the three of you out of the village on behalf of all the villagers."

Mr. Qi sneered: "Don't bargain."

"The initiative is in my hands." Without showing any weakness, Sister Lan ordered the guard with the gun to escort the two of them away.

"Who wants him to take care of him! I am a dignified people's policeman who has become a hostage! I'm so fucking aggrieved!" Back in the stilted building, Wei Yuanyang punched the wooden wall, almost piercing it.

Xie Yu didn't get angry: "Then Sister Lan is right. We injured a lot of people just now and have become hostile to the whole village. In order to avoid retaliation by the villagers, locking them up is the best solution."

"What? You think that woman is protecting us?"

"Otherwise." Xie Yu sat down and rubbed his left shoulder that was hit by a stick.

"By the way!" Wei Yuanyang suddenly remembered, "You're pretty good at it, where did you learn it?"

"Second dan of karate."

"I really can't tell, buddy, I thought you were that kind of scholar..." He quickly replaced the word "nerd".

Xie Yu chuckled, both unhappy at being underestimated and proud at being praised.

Wei Yuanyang sat down cross-legged: "Then what should we do tomorrow? Could it be that we really watched Lao Qi being thrown into the hole?"

"I don't think he's going to kill that thing, as he always does. Another thing that's quite unusual is that he let the woman let us go."

"Why is this abnormal?"

"The Boss Qi I know is by no means the kind of personality who sacrifices himself to save others. I think he expected that the other party would not agree, and deliberately acted out a false appearance of saving us from making concessions, so that Sister Lan thought that he had made up his mind to go kill it."

"Is it so complicated?" Wei Yuanyang scratched his head, "I think he just doesn't want us to get involved."

"It seems that our judgment on him is different." Xie Yu said, thinking of the "Red Silkworm"...

I hate going out.

Such a weather of more than 30 degrees is only suitable for playing the piano and taking a nap in the room, not to mention that there is a noisy and stupid policeman on the left.

"Why haven't you been eaten?" I said.

"Eat? What to eat?" The idiot shifted gears.

"Nothing." I looked out the window.

"Oh, that." The idiot said, "I borrowed a speaker when I went back to the team that day. Lao Zhang believes in Buddhism, so I asked him for a few CDs, went to the haunted house, turned on the speaker and played it all night. Buddhist scriptures."

"One night?" I frowned.

"Yeah. I fell asleep halfway through the night, woke up from the cold, went to the closet next to me and turned over the blanket and got out. Before I lay down, the door opened, and a few people ran in and kept wandering around me."

"That's Kong Rong Rang Li." I said.

He didn't hear: "I thought it was embarrassing to the neighbors, but they kept turning around, making me dizzy. I said what are you doing, and they asked me why I was here. I said someone died in vain, and I Let’s play some Buddhist scriptures to save people. They asked who sent you here, and I said myself. He asked you if you are not afraid of being harmed by ghosts? I said, why did he harm me when I rescued him? Are you heartless.”

"Oh, so they left?"

The idiot scratched his head, said yes, and pulled the handbrake.

After getting out of the police car, a three-story Republic of China mansion lay before him, old and gloomy.

The fool knocked on the door, and a staff member ushered us in.The entrance is a small hall, although the sun is shining brightly outside, the hall is chilly from the cracks in the bricks.

The idiot reported his family name, and the man who was sitting on the sofa greeted him, exchanged some pleasantries, and learned that his surname was Li, he was a fresh graduate, he started his own business with his friends, rented this old house and started a secret room escape game.A few days ago, in order to promote it, they sent out test papers on the Internet to invite people to try it out, but soon they received feedback that some of the testers had symptoms after returning home, ranging from dazed to insane.Boss Li didn't dare to call the police for fear of affecting his reputation, so he entrusted his acquaintance in the police force to find someone to investigate in private.

I laughed in my heart that the classmate was too unreliable. At this time, another man and a woman came in, saying that they had received the experience coupon to try it out.

Boss Li apologized and prevaricated, sometimes evading the problem with the equipment, and sometimes saying that the staff was not in place.The other party refused to let go, saying that he could not just go back after traveling all the way, and Boss Li had no choice but to tell the whole story.

"This is the police officer who came to investigate." Boss Li pointed at the idiot.

Instead they looked at me.

"Look at your outfit, isn't it a Taoist priest?" The man was wearing a plaid shirt, and his words were not without jokes.

"I'm used to it." I smiled.

"Forget it, let's go, it doesn't matter if we don't play." The girl next to him tugged at his arm.

The plaid shirt waved his hand: "Why don't you play when you're here, boss, if you have such an attitude, don't blame us for giving you a bad review when you go back!"

Boss Li was in a dilemma for a while, and looked at me and the idiot: "Why don't you play with them in a team of four? Why don't you take the opportunity to check it out?"

I'm not interested in games, and I was about to refuse, when the idiot patted him on the arm: "Brother Li, just keep your heart in your stomach, and leave this to me!"

Boss Li was overjoyed and hurriedly asked the staff to lead us up the stairs.

Through the corridor, there are two doors in front of you.

"The game lasts for two hours, and there are three rounds in total. Now we will start the first round. Please divide the players into two groups and enter the room." The staff adjusted the headset, "There is a camera device in the room, and we will monitor it at any time to ensure the safety of the players. If required For help, you can press the yellow button on the wall, and we will give an announcement on the radio."

After the voice fell, the plaid shirt pushed open the door on the left.

When I entered the room on the right with Idiot, the lock clicked behind me.

Dark adaptation has not yet passed, and the room cannot be seen clearly, only a deep voice is heard: "It is the 36th year of the Republic of China, you wake up groggy, and find yourself in a strange secret room. You are trapped here, There is an old wooden door ahead, and you know that you must find the key to open it before you can go to the next location to join your teammates. You only have 10 minutes, and look, the woman in the picture frame is smiling at you..."

After the lines were finished, the electronic timer on the lintel started to jump backwards, and I scanned the entire room.

"No problem here." I concluded.

"Come and see, the girl's handkerchief in the picture is embroidered!" the idiot greeted.

"Kick the door," I said.

"Ah?" He turned his head, "Aren't you looking for a key?"

"It's too much trouble, kick the door."

"Old Qi, I've known you for so long and never knew you were so violent."

"You've only known me for three months, don't pretend to be familiar."

"Brother Li will definitely kill me."

The idiot raised his foot and kicked open the door, room two.

After listening to the mysterious background introduction on the radio, the idiot asked me what I knew about this strange incident.

"No." I lied to him.

He oh.

"Find the password to open the door first, those two people will arrive later anyway." I pulled up a chair and sat down, watching the idiot searching up and down, waiting for the thing to be found.

The clock in room one ran out and the door opened.

Seeing that we arrived first, Plaid Shirt muttered, "I just said that these two must be nurses."

The idiot didn't hear it, and enthusiastically introduced the rules of this room to them: "Now we need to find a pocket watch, and the time on it is the password to open the door. Hey Lao Qi, you can help find it too."

"I'm too lazy to use my brain."

Suddenly there was a scream, it turned out that Plaid Shirt was scaring the girl with a prop puppet.

"Hate! Don't do this!" The girl was very angry.

But he thought she was flirting and deliberately lowered his voice: "This house seems to have had a murder. During the Republic of China, several concubines were jealous. One was poisoned to death, one hanged himself, and one had his throat cut by a kitchen knife." , click!"

"Don't scare people." The idiot couldn't see it.

"It's none of your business." Plaid shirt grabbed her, "My own girlfriend, can you control me?"

"Okay, don't quarrel with others." The girl was a little embarrassed, pointing to the underside of the cabinet to change the subject, "Is there something we are looking for?"

Plaid shirt squatted down to pick up the metal chain, and sure enough, he took out a pocket watch, changed the time into a password, and the door opened.

As I was about to walk over, there was a sudden pull on my arm, which made me stagger two steps.

Something fell hard on the ground, shattered.

It's a chandelier.

After staying for a few seconds and recovering, I was amazed: I was actually saved by a fool.

"The decoration here is too unsafe!" Wei Yuanyang shouted into the air.

The staff in the speaker repeatedly apologized: "Didn't hurt you? We'll clean it up right away!"

The idiot looked at me twice: "Are you still alive?"

"Nonsense." I dusted off my sleeves and entered the last room.

Hearing that the last door had to be opened by a mechanism, the idiot looked around and reached for the pendulum clock by the wall.

"Don't touch it indiscriminately, it's too late!" I tapped the back of his hand with a folding fan.

"What did you find?" He came alive.

"The red light is more obvious than before, that thing must be hiding nearby."

"what's that?"

"Hush." ​​I said, "It is said that people have the three souls of heaven, earth and destiny. This kind of thing called the red silkworm only picks the soul of heaven as food. It usually lurks in weird dark places, attracting creatures with strong curiosity to come and touch it. Then it got into his body and devoured the soul of the sky bit by bit like a cannibalism, making him lose his soul and go crazy."

"Then what to do."

"Just control your curiosity."

"I'm talking about those who were 'eaten' before."

"What to do, I ate everything, but I can't spit it out. You ate braised pork at noon, can you spit out a pig now?"

The idiot was speechless, and pointed forward with his chin again, and asked in a low voice: "What about these two? We have to stop them."

"Knowing that it's a haunted house, you still come here to hunt for novelties. You deserve it." I stood aside and watched the play.

"This is not good." The idiot began to overflow with sympathy again.

"If you don't believe me, go and stop it?"

He really strode forward: "Two, please listen to me, there is something in this room, it is...