sunk in yesterday

The sound only rang once, but it was enough for both of them to hear clearly, as if deliberately leading them over.

The spiral staircase felt dizzy from top to bottom, so Xia Zhuo had to keep walking up against the wall.None of the rest of the people in the dining room left. At this moment, it seemed that the whole house was so quiet that only the two of them were left.

After actually stepping into the boundary of the fourth floor, Guan Yuzhou looked at the increasingly dim corridor spreading forward, and confirmed with Xia Zhuo softly again: "Are you going to stay with me, or go back to the room and wait for me?"

Since the temperature dropped, Xia Zhuo's tingling scalp has never been comfortable.He did instinctively reject the atmosphere here, especially the series of shadows cast by the weird light on the wooden door made him feel depressed, but he still stuck behind Guan Yuzhou and shook his head: "I don't want to go back alone."

He is not afraid of the time and the sky, and when the surroundings darken, he unconsciously clings to others.

Guan Yuzhou didn't chase him away, and stretched out a hand: "If you feel dark, grab my sleeve."

His nails were neatly trimmed, and his palms were turned upwards. Although he held them slightly, Xia Zhuo could still see the forked marriage line under his little finger.

The left and right aisles look the same at first glance, and the entire building looks like it was copied and pasted after a mirror rotation.

Finally, there was some movement from downstairs. It was the pair of peach blossom eyes and frameless mirror who also came out ahead of time. They were talking while walking upstairs, but their voice was diluted by the distance, and it sounded vague. Difficult to discern.

"Are they coming up too?" Xia Zhuo followed behind Guan Yuzhou, looking back at the place where light and darkness meet on the steps.

The second and third floors are mainly for the guests who come to the house, so the layout and overall design of the rooms are exactly the same.But the fourth floor is different. This is the place used by the owner of the house. There is no number plate like 403 or 404, and the space above is a bit dazzling.

The closest door was locked from the inside, and it was impossible to get in without a key.Guan Yuzhou looked down at the crack in the door below, then stopped him and led him to continue walking, "Don't worry about them."

"Wait." When passing by the third door, Xia Zhuo paused.Without waiting for Guan Yuzhou's response, he let go of his hand, walked to the middle and squatted down in two or three steps, and picked up a strange-looking metal object from the ground, the tip was still stained with red material.

He had never seen this thing before, so he put it in his hand and looked at it, then obediently handed it to Guan Yuzhou, "What is this?"

"It's a curved needle for suturing wounds." Guan Yuzhou looked at the liquid on it, and suddenly squatted down, with one hand propped on the ground, carefully looking for something on the dark carpet.

Xia Zhuo imitated his appearance and stared at the side of the shoes: "What are you looking for?"

"Blood."

It is really difficult to find traces of the same color as the carpet in such a dim place, even with a flashlight on.

Xia Zhuo turned around twice and then drifted away. He simply stood up straight and acted as a sentry for Guan Yuzhou, and entrusted the search work to Guan Yuzhou.

When he turned around again, he saw Guan Yuzhou squatting on the ground and groping around.

Unlike water, blood dries and leaves hard marks on the fibers.Guan Yuzhou didn't intend to see it with his eyes. He touched for a moment near the place where Xia Zhuo picked up the needle, and soon felt a completely different touch from the surrounding softness.

He moved step by step towards the deeper part of the corridor, Xia Zhuo raced to bypass him, not forgetting to try the locks of the surrounding doors one by one, but none of them could be opened along the way.

The last two people stopped in front of the door in the middle of the corridor on the right, and the last small bloodstain disappeared on the carpet under the door.Now there is no house number guide, they don't know what is behind the door at all.

Xia Zhuo shook the doorknob, but the result was still disappointing - the door was undoubtedly locked.

Guan Yuzhou is used to it: "Remember the location, go to other places to find the key first."

"But I have tried all the doors here." Xia Zhuo secretly grabbed the opponent's sleeve again, thought for a while and suggested: "Do you want to look to the left again?"

They were attracted to the right by the sound at first, so that the left had not been there yet.

Guan Yuzhou didn't agree directly, but simply calculated the time.

They left the restaurant at about seven o'clock, and now it's only 08:30.The head of the family came back tonight, but the deacon didn't say when the other party would come back.If they happened to be found on the fourth floor before the owner came back, things might get worse.

However, at this moment, footsteps came from the stairs, and it sounded like there was more than one person.

Xia Zhuo was clever, glanced at Guan Yuzhou, and asked where to hide.

This question is undoubtedly a useless question. The rooms on the right are locked, and they have no place to hide now—unless they lie on the ground to reduce their sense of existence, and then pray that the person who comes up is a patient with severe night blindness. In such a dark environment Neither of them could be seen at all.

Guan Yuzhou told him not to be nervous: "It's okay, it's not an aborigine."

The deacon's footsteps are very light, and he almost walks on his toes.Moreover, the carpet reduced the sound quite a bit. Logically speaking, the footsteps of the visitors would not be so clearly transmitted to their location. Now this kind of sound undoubtedly indicated that the people who came up had deliberately aggravated their footsteps.

Why make noise on purpose?Because the other party doesn't know what's on the fourth floor, if the temptation can attract some strange responses, then they still have room to retreat.

When Xia Zhuo heard Guan Yuzhou's words, he no longer hid behind him, and guessed the identity of the person who came up after a short thought: "It's either Mrs. Bai or the young couple."

Guan Yuzhou ticked off one of the options: "It won't be Mrs. Bai."

A figure appeared at the stairs on the fourth floor, and the answer was revealed—it was Taohuayan and his friend duo.

The two did not deliberately hide, and now they naturally met each other.

Taohuayan raised his arms and greeted without any hesitation: "It really is you, we also said why you two slipped out so quickly, so you came up early... How is the situation on the fourth floor?"

Xia Zhuo has a similar personality to him, and upon hearing this, he waved his arms carelessly: "The doors here are all locked, there is no harvest."

He deceives people very smoothly, and people can't see the flaws at all.What's more, even if they know that he has something to hide, others can't do anything to him.Taohuayan is not stupid, so naturally he will not ask the bottom line, just pointing to the left side of the corridor: "Have you been there too?"

Xia Zhuo walked a distance behind Guan Yuzhou, and answered "No".

The voice of their conversation is not low, but the fourth floor is still surprisingly quiet.The strange-looking shadow never appeared again, not to mention the sound of "boom", even the sound of the wind has been blocked so far.

"Are you going to continue? Let's continue together. We are also here to find out if there is any clue on the fourth floor." Tao Huayan took the initiative to move to Xia Zhuo's side. He obviously had scruples about Guan Yuzhou, but he did not show this scruple clearly , the tone is still the same as usual: "How long do you think the group of people below can delay?"

Xia Zhuo didn't understand what this person wanted to say for a while: "Huh?"

Taohuayan said: "The deacon is still in the dining room, otherwise we wouldn't dare to touch it at this time... I don't know how long it will last if it is reliable."

This time, Xia Zhuo understood why it was not Mrs. Bai that Guan Yuzhou said just now.

Since Guan Yuzhou decided to go to the fourth floor in advance, he must be prepared.It is estimated that after the two of them left early, Mrs. Bai guessed what they were going to do, so she stayed together to prevent the deacon from disrupting the plan.Xia Zhuo staggered, followed Guan Yuzhou to open the doors one by one without looking back, "Regardless of whether you are reliable or not, you have already come up? If you don't want to stay, you might as well go down early to keep safe."

Taohuayan hurriedly pulled his companion to follow, "If we go down now, the dozens of steps will be in vain. Don't go so fast, we can help if something goes wrong, right?"

Xia Zhuo curled his lips and ignored him, but the doorknob in front of him was turned slightly by Guan Yuzhou's wrist. This was the only door that was unlocked so far.

The carpet is close to the bottom of the door, and the sound it makes when it is pushed open is really not pleasant. The dim lights in the corridor can barely illuminate the facilities inside the small half of the door. Large and small machinery and equipment are piled up together. The crowded environment is matched with The unpleasant smell of disinfectant all indicates that this is not a room for people to live in.

The door was pushed open about half a meter with difficulty, and then hit the iron frame conveniently. Before he could stop the force, there was a clang in his ears, and he could vaguely distinguish the shaking of bottles and cans.

Guan Yuzhou saw the light button on the wall, but still only took out the flashlight to illuminate it.The fourth floor is too obvious from the outside of the house. Once they turn on the lights, they are likely to be caught.

The direct light swept towards the corner of the room, clearly illuminating some messy bloody gauze and balls of thread on the ground.Xia Zhuo stepped in right after Guan Yuzhou, and saw the messy shelves of books or utensils behind the door.

Soon the door of the room was closed again, without the illumination of the corridor lights, the surroundings suddenly felt a lot more oppressive.

The operating table has been cleaned, no blood remains on it, and it looks clean.Empty medicine bottles, large and small, were piled up in the pool, and there were also two needle tubes whose needles had been pulled out.

A second flashlight shines through the frameless mirror.Seeing Guan Yuzhou taking pictures of the surrounding facilities, he lowered his wrist and hit the light on the messy carpet.

No one spoke, Xia Zhuo followed Guan Yuzhou to look east and west, and suddenly there was a subtle "gumble" sound in the harmonious silence, like after the water dispenser was used, the air poured into the liquid to make it out of.

The four people in the room stopped at the same time.The frameless mirror raised his wrist and looked at the sound source. The complex and intertwined black tubes in the corner first came into view, and then gradually went up. A glass vessel one person tall was hanging in the air, which seemed to contain green liquid.

Xia Zhuo tugged at the corner of Guan Yuzhou's clothes, "Hey, it seems that there is something soaking in that jar."

They all had vague guesses about what a medical family would put in the glassware.

Centipede python?human organs?Or a pharaoh mummy?

The flashlight with the frameless mirror was raised a little higher, and the white light penetrated straight into the churning liquid, opening a shallow path in the dark green color.

Xia Zhuo's pupils shrank, and the wrist that was holding Guan Yuzhou's clothes suddenly tightened.

At the same time, the people beside him stood in front of him and blocked his sight.Guan Yuzhou told him in a low voice: "Turn around, don't look."