Urban Oddities: Soul Contract

Chapter 8 Room Escape

"Ming Hai, eat more green vegetables." Mother put the plate in front of Huo Minghai, took out a big pile and piled it in his bowl.

"Mom, I'll fix it myself."

"You've lost weight, don't be picky eaters." The mother touched her son's face and patted it lightly, "You still have acne."

His mother seemed to be addicted to taking pictures, she took them again and again, Huo Minghai said helplessly: "Mom, stop taking pictures, your face is almost swollen."

The mother didn't seem to hear it, and continued to shoot, her strength was getting stronger and stronger, her face was aching, and Huo Minghai finally opened his eyes.

An ancient blue and black sword lay beside him, slapping him with tassels.

Du Jiajun on the lower bunk was woken up, rubbed his eyes, and looked at Huo Minghai who had fallen to the ground.

"What happened?"

"..." Huo Minghai pointed at the upper bunk tremblingly.

Du Jiajun lay on the edge of the bed and looked over, Chu Ganjiang had moved to the middle of the bed, the handle of the sword was resting on the pillow, the sword body was covered with a quilt, he seemed to be asleep peacefully.

"It turns out that you took up too much space and squeezed it." Du Jiajun said, "It is an ancient sword spirit with a regular schedule. In terms of aptitude, it is still a senior. Do you understand respecting the elderly?"

General Chu's tassels tapped on the railing: Who the hell is old? !

Huo Minghai tugged on Du Jiajun, and said in a small voice: "...can you get it off...isn't there a wooden box?"

Du Jiajun asked General Chu: "How about going back to the box to sleep?"

Chu Gan pretended not to hear, and retracted into the quilt, only showing a tassel outside.

"It doesn't want to." Du Jiajun spread his hands.

Huo Minghai: "..."

There was still more than an hour before the alarm clock rang, Du Jiajun seized the time to catch up on sleep, and Huo Minghai, who was struggling, dared to sleep with a sword, he was startled and sleepless, so let's go online.

After logging in to QQ, the latest information popped up. Huo Minghai casually clicked to close it as usual. Only Su Mu’s hawthorn avatar was on in the middle of the night. Su Mu didn’t need to sleep. He was available 24 hours a day. He would be online when he was free, and switch when he was working Into a busy state, maybe the current time is distributing packages?Huo Minghai had no choice but to hide QQ, click on the web to search for some small games to pass the time.

In the leaderboard, a small room escape game took the first place.

The game is actually very simple. It is to find various clues in the game to escape from the secret room, operate the mouse, test reasoning and judgment, and this small game called "Fear Research Institute" is made according to real scenes. The screen starts with a distant view, lightning and thunder A deserted building was illuminated against the backdrop of the background, and at the same time, the opening music came from the earphones.

The camera zoomed in, came to the main entrance, and a frame for filling in the name popped up. Huo Minghai typed in the word Huo Huo, and a line of white words appeared on the screen: "On X month X, it rained heavily. Huo Huo came to Lingshan to avoid the rain. Institute of Biotechnology..."

After entering the door, the picture was a hall, and the white words appeared again: "When Huo Huo entered, he found that he couldn't go back the same way..."

The game has officially started!

According to past experience, click every corner of the screen, as long as you collect the quest items and put them together, you can pass the level. However, the mouse is about to explode, and there is no change in the screen. Instead, the corners are dark. In the corridor, the camera changes, and a deep corridor appears in the frame. There are closed doors on both sides of the corridor. Huo Minghai clicks on each door once, but none of the doors can be opened. Click on the stairs in the corner, the camera switches, somewhere The portrait of an angel hanging on the wall suddenly shed blood and tears. At the same time, a silhouette of a human figure appeared on the stairs. The picture was too dark for Huo Minghai to see clearly, and the camera switched back to the stairs.

Huo Minghai once played a game that used the hourglass to count the number of mistakes. Every time he clicked on a wrong place, the screen would switch to the hourglass.

"I can't go up these stairs..." Huo Minghai retreated to the corridor screen, continued to click the mouse aimlessly, clicked and clicked, the camera switched, came to the middle of the corridor, went to the office with the door number 171, opened the door, and the file The documents were scattered all over the floor, and the portrait of the angel shed blood and tears was hanging on the wall. There was a lighted computer on the table, and a small incense burner next to the computer. Ming Hai opens the cabinet and gets a document. When he finds a profile of a girl named Qi Qiaoling, the camera suddenly changes again. The blood and tears on the angel's face extend again. At the same time, on the stairs, feet wearing embroidered shoes come out of the shadows.

"Damn it, it's a good thing I didn't wear headphones!"

Huo Minghai clutched his frisky heart, glanced at the file, clicked again, the book was closed, and there were no small props to take. After searching, Huo Minghai came to the computer. On the computer was a document, the same as the one in the file. It's Qi Qiaoling's information. Huo Minghai didn't understand what this Qiaoling had to do with the escape from the secret room. He turned his eyes to the incense sticks and lighters next to him. Suddenly, a figure passed through the small window on the door!

Huo Minghai wiped his sweat, it was really exciting, just watching the screen without sound effects is like watching a horror movie, no wonder this game is so popular!

The incense burner can be moved, get three pieces of paper with numbers printed on it, 206 is arranged from left to right, the next clue is on the 2nd floor, room 06!

When returning to the scene, I clicked the keyboard by mistake, the keyboard moved away, and a piece of paper was pressed underneath, and a line of words was scribbled:

"Remember to burn incense, watch out for phone calls, watch out for traps!"

Huo Minghai didn't wear earphones and couldn't hear the phone ringing. When he saw this piece of paper, he didn't dare to call the phone, but helplessly, the phone was in the corner of the screen. Sure enough, the angel shed blood and tears again, and the embroidered shoe had already walked out of the stairs and came to the corridor. In an instant, Huo Minghai found that this staircase was exactly the one he passed by just now!

The camera switches back to the office.

The stairs over there are impassable, so is there another staircase on the other side?

Just go upstairs to 206, Huo Minghai thought, opened the door, both ends of the corridor were pitch black, at this moment, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

"Wow ah ah ah ah!!"

The mouse was thrown, the cup was knocked over, the power cord was kicked, and the computer instantly went dark.

Du Jiajun: "...going to work."

Huo Minghai's face was flushed, and he covered his thumping heart with sweat.

Du Jiajun: "Remember to call me when you watch a short movie next time."

Huo Minghai: "..."

The game has not been cleared. Huo Minghai has been thinking about it all day long. When the guests came down to pick up the package, he couldn't help but click on his mobile phone to surf the Internet. The strange thing is that the mobile phone did not find any information about the Institute of Fear. Instead, a few news pictures popped up come out.

Huo Minghai felt that the environment in the picture seemed to have been seen somewhere, and was about to click in. The customer came to pick up the package. After signing for it, Huo Minghai rode on the car and drove to the next place. He went around and forgot about the news. Well, the sun was setting, and all the people on the list had been delivered, but there was still a small package in the package basket.

The sender's name and address were both empty, and only a series of contact numbers were filled in. Looking at the receiving address, it was far away, at No. 11, No. 3309 Street, Labor [-]th Road.

Maybe I forgot to put it in the list?

Huo Minghai turned the car around and drove towards Laodong 11th Road. Laodong 3309th Road is very remote, and no pedestrians can be seen on No. 3309 Street. It was his first time to come here. When he found No. As night fell, Building [-] was immersed in darkness, with no lights at all.

When the phone was connected, Huo Minghai asked, "Miss Xiaohua?"

"Zizi... um... Zizi..."

"You have a package, please come and get it."

Miss Xiao Hua's signal seemed to be poor, her voice was intermittent, saying that she was busy on the second floor, and asked Huo Minghai to send it in directly.

If it was early in the morning, if Huo Minghai clicked on QQ consultation, he would find a piece of news that several corpses were found outside the gate of Yuanshan Pharmaceutical Company. Every once in a while, corpses of "natural death" will appear outside the gate of the village. Netizens discussed that it is because of bad feng shui, gathering Yin Qi, which the human body cannot bear, and being summoned by the soul when passing by.

As a result, Yuanshan Pharmaceutical Company has become an evil place that everyone avoids in this area.

"Let me just say, it's really unlucky that the building has been abandoned for so long!" The aunt held the newspaper in one hand and rubbed the mahjong with the other.

"I'm going to move and live next door. I'm afraid it will be bad if I get bad luck."

"I'm ready to move too."

"Hey, tell me, why did everyone in such a good company suddenly disappear?"

"Who knows, are you bankrupt?" The aunt turned her head and yelled at her daughter who was lying on the window sill, "Good girl! Don't look! The window is closed, and the air conditioner is gone!"

The little girl pointed out the window and said crisply: "A big brother went in."

"Haha, it's impossible! My good girl is obedient, close the window!" The aunt put the newspaper aside and concentrated on building mahjong.

"Even if I come a little closer, wow, that Yin Qi is so scary." The poker players discussed again.

"Don't be scary!"

"Really! That place is so strange!"

"That's right, it's been deserted for so long, why hasn't it been demolished?"

"Who is willing to tear it down? You can earn a fortune by renting it out!"

"That's not right." A poker player said mysteriously, "Do you know? A group of demolition teams once came, and some evil things happened. They were either injured or sick, and the project was suspended. Move that piece of land!"

While talking, the topic returned to mahjong. The little girl lay down on the window sill feeling bored, and watched Huo Minghai, who knew nothing, walk into the building.

Through the glass door, a very small hall could be seen inside, and a corridor stretched from the side of the counter. It was pitch black and obviously no one was there.

Not only did the building's house number fall off, but even the advertisements on the counter were not intact.

A frightening silence enveloped the unfamiliar building. When Huo Minghai was hesitating whether to enter, his cell phone rang.

"Zizi... haven't... come in yet?" Miss Xiaohua was obviously impatient.

"Miss... I'm at the door, can you come down and get it?"

"I'm busy!" Miss Xiaohua got angry, and she almost complained about you without sending me a word.

"Right now."

Huo Minghai pushed open the glass door, a musty smell wafted into his nostrils, the only sound of Huo Minghai's footsteps in the empty corridor, as the sky darkened, the corridor gradually became invisible, Huo Minghai wondered, what do you say A girl, how can she work alone in this kind of place?But after thinking about it, maybe there are her colleagues on the second floor, and it's a bit dilapidated, so it's still an office building, isn't it?

He turned on his phone, thinking about looking for the stairs, when suddenly... something caught in the light reflected the light!

Huo Minghai's brain exploded, his heart was pounding, and he shone the light back to that position.

A small plate marked 171.

Office number 171!

As if to prove something, Huo Minghai pushed the door open.

The archives were scattered all over the place, there was a portrait of an angel on the wall, there was a computer on the table, there was a small incense burner next to the computer, and the filing cabinet with the talisman paper was ajar.

This... how is this possible? !

Huo Minghai suddenly noticed a neglected detail. The building has a front door and a back door. He walked through the back door. If he came in through the front door, wouldn't it be exactly the same as in the game?

The more he thought about it, the more something went wrong, Huo Minghai ran away with his legs, and threw himself in front of the glass door. The moment he touched the doorknob, his heart sank.

The door was locked at some point!

"When Huo Huo went in, he found that he couldn't go back the way he came..."

Nightmarish white words suddenly appeared in my mind.

Cold sweat broke out, gathering into bean-sized beads of sweat and dripping down his chin.

what is the problem? !

Huo Minghai desperately wanted to call his cell phone for help, but...

Signal column is empty!

In this building, there is no signal!

——The game has officially started!

Inexplicably, such a sentence came to mind!

"No...it's not really...it's just a coincidence..." Uneasy, Huo Minghai returned to Office 171.

——Remember to burn incense, watch out for phone calls, and watch out for traps!

Remove the keyboard, and there is no scribbled reminder note.

There was half a piece of incense left beside the censer. When it was lit and inserted into the censer, a figure suddenly passed by the half-covered door. Unfortunately, Huo Minghai lowered his head and did not see him. When he removed the censer, his heart almost stopped !

Three sheets of paper with numbers printed on them, 206 from left to right!

The next clue is on the 2nd floor, Room 06!

"Damn...damn...what the hell is going on?!" Huo Minghai subconsciously looked at the angel hanging the painting, and was so shocked that he took a step back. Extend down!

No...it shouldn't be like this!

"Snapped!"

The sound of something falling.

A thick file fell out of the filing cabinet and lay on the ground.

The angel's blood and tears stretched a little further, Huo Minghai gritted his teeth, picked up the document without flipping through it, he felt that this document might be an important thing, and the document is so thick and heavy, it can be used as a brick at a critical moment, right?

Miss Xiaohua didn't call again, instead the landline on the desk rang, and the incoming call was a series of mobile phone numbers.

catch?No answer?

——Remember to burn incense, watch out for phone calls, and watch out for traps!

However, in reality, there was no reminder note, so Huo Minghai picked up the microphone, but at such a moment, Huo Minghai woke up suddenly.

Isn't the phone number of the incoming call your own? !

Turning over the phone, the displayed interface is actually in a call state!

"what--!"

The angel's blood and tears stretched out again. In the panic, Huo Minghai suddenly understood that maybe the reminder of the angel's hanging painting was not the so-called progress of making mistakes in the game, but...

As time goes on, some kind of danger is approaching, getting closer!

The sudden thought made Huo Minghai shudder.

In horror movies, the most frightening moment is often the moment when the ghost is about to appear but has not yet appeared, which makes people nervous and frightened. Whenever this happens, Huo Minghai always minimizes the window, and now...

The angel's blood and tears have extended to half of the screen, danger is coming!

The girl wearing embroidered shoes confirmed her location with the phone, and she was walking this way!

Time is running out! ! !

Huo Minghai's brain became hot, and he took down the hanging picture of the angel. The hanging picture looked scary, but it was a reminder anyway!At the critical moment, after the file is smashed, you can still smash the picture, can't you?

The remaining incense has been burned, so no one can stay in the room!

but……

His mother once said that incense ashes are dirty and have the effect of warding off evil spirits. Huo Minghai fished out the incense ash, wiped it on his arm, and rushed out the door with hanging pictures and documents. He knew that in the depths of the corridor, The girl in embroidered shoes was coming, but he must not go there anyway, so he had to run towards the back door. At the corner of the wall, he was lucky to find the stairs leading to the second floor.

——Remember to burn incense, watch out for phone calls, and watch out for traps!

Careful...Trap?

Room 2 on the second floor, is it really a clue?

Just as he was thinking, when he lowered his head, he caught a glimpse of the angel's blood and tears stretching out again.

"Damn!" Huo Minghai wanted to cry, but he ignored the stairs, rushed to the glass door, found a chair, and slammed it hard on the glass door.

boom! boom! boom!

The chairs were crooked, and there was no trace left on the glass door.

Looking back, there is a white shadow looming in the depths of the corridor.

The girl in the embroidered shoes has come to the middle of the corridor!

Go upstairs! ! !

The voice in his heart was clamoring, Huo Ming rushed to the stairs like the wind, and rushed up three steps at a time.

The layout of the second floor is the same as that of the first floor. Room 206 is in the depths of the corridor. Huo Minghai quickly passed the doors, kicked open office No. 206, rushed in and locked the door immediately.

Like, safe?

——Remember to burn incense, watch out for phone calls, and watch out for traps!

The office seemed to have experienced a fight, the tea cups and copper incense burner were broken on the ground, and the archives were scattered all over the place.

Something seems wrong?

Behind the overturned desk, there was a trembling breathing, thin and full of depression.

Here, someone?

"Who?"

"Ugh..."

The girl in white huddled behind the desk and kept trembling. Huo Minghai's arrival seemed to scare her a lot (Huo Minghai was also frightened by her), but when she confirmed that Huo Minghai was human, tears finally shed fell down.

"Help... help..."

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