Hush!secret

A normal birthday banquet should be lively, full of gongs and drums, and people's voices, right?

Chu Rui sat up and didn't dare to move. The living room was full of guests, but it was so deserted that it made people feel cold from the bottom of their feet.

There are no greetings, no congratulations, no blowing, singing, and firecrackers. On the big round tables, there are men, women, and children with earthy or pale faces. They seem to be smiling, and they seem to be expressionless, as if they don’t exist in this place. The same as people in the world.

"Damn, are they alive or dead?" Gan Xiaoxiao asked quietly.

Players sit at a table next to the main table, almost surrounded by puppet-like people.

Huang Yi leaned over to explain to her, staring at Gan Xiaoxiao with leery eyes all the time: "Normal, npcs, extras like these without a plot line, are just here for a cutscene, and the system won't spend more data on them."

Gan Xiaoxiao leaned against Chu Rui's position, feeling very uncomfortable with Huang Yi's familiarity.

"That's Mr. Luo!" Mr. Luo sitting on the main table doesn't look very young, he looks about 40 years old, beside him are sitting three older men from left to right, followed by Luo Qinhu .

Women and children do not go to the table, they should be in the side hall.

The people at the main table all looked ruddy and seemed to be alive. After the main table was full, there was finally popularity and conversation in the living room. They talked loudly and regarded other people as nothing.

Huang Shanshan picked food for herself: "Sure enough, npcs don't have human rights... We have been here for three days, and we have no clue at all. We thought the birthday banquet was the main task, but now it seems that nothing happened, and we have to spend a lot of time. go down?"

Huang Yi said displeasedly: "What are you in a hurry for, there will definitely be clues for us."

"Young Master! Come down quickly!" A woman's shout suddenly came from outside.

Huang Yi clapped his hands: "Look! What I said, there must be clues!"

A few people rushed outside with the people at the main table, Chu Rui glanced back, the guests at the other tables were still sitting quietly, eating the food on the table.

Chu Rui only took one look before turning around and following the crowd.

On the hydrangea tree in the courtyard, the boy that Chu Rui saw yesterday was lying on the tree, his coat sleeves were caught by the branches without realizing it, and he was grabbing something forward with a strange expression on his excited face.

"Lei'er! Come down, Lei'er!" Master Luo shouted anxiously with his arms open.

"It's fun...hahahaha" The boy waved his arms and didn't know what he was doing, his eyes flicked blankly, and suddenly his feet slipped, his arms were hanging on the tree, and his body was dangling in the air.

The boy was so frightened that he burst into tears and dragged his arm vigorously. He heard the sound and looked down, saw his own father standing under the tree with his arms outstretched, saw a group of people watching under the tree, and then he saw something, the eyes The boy wandered around again, trying to reach out, but his arm was hooked, so he couldn't reach it anyway. He tugged and tugged, frowned, and let out a scream.

The boy was caught off guard and fell from the tree. His arm was torn and his remaining arm was still hanging on the tree.

The petals all over the ground were soaked red with blood, and the boy's head fell to the ground, and he died in full view.

"He...he's dead!" Gan Xiaoxiao was surprised, "Just kidding..."

Sun Feng wondered, "Where does the tree branch come from so strong that it can break a person's arm!"

Zhou Xiyu: "An eight-year-old child doesn't have the strength to break his own arm."

Happy events turned into mourning, and the yard was full of wailing.

Chu Rui noticed the second young lady in the corner. She covered her mouth delicately with a handkerchief, hiding in the dark and not daring to come out.

Everyone's expressions were serious, only Shang Zhongli not far away raised his left eyebrow and stared at the hydrangea tree, wondering what he was looking at.

Shang Zhongli turned his head to meet Chu Rui's gaze, turned his head and left without saying a word, Chu Rui looked again, avoiding the crowd attracted by the scene in the courtyard and followed Shang Zhongli.

"Why are you following me?" Shang Zhongli stopped impatiently when he walked to the back garden and asked him.

Chu Rui looked around, and after confirming that there was no one there, she took two steps towards Shang Zhongli, who took two steps back in disgust.

Chu Rui: "..."

Helpless, Chu Rui asked him in a low voice: "Did you see the shadow?"

Shang Zhongli stared at him, his eyes made Chu Rui get goosebumps all over: "What are you looking at me for!"

Shang Zhongli used a suspicious tone: "Can you see it?"

Chu Rui nodded. He saw the boy on the tree trying to catch the black shadow in front of him. After seeing him hanging on the tree, the black shadow floated below him and waved to him. The strange thing is that Chu Rui paid attention to the other people present. People, none of them seemed to see the shadow.

"Who are you?" Shang Zhongli's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he questioned.

Chu Rui didn't take it seriously: "Chu Rui, state-owned enterprise administrator."

Shang Zhongli stared at him for a while, then hummed: "Don't try to play tricks in front of me." After he finished speaking, he turned and left, Chu Rui noticed that the direction he left was Xiyuan.

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Luo Tanghu looked sad, and Chu Rui greeted him. He tried his best to show more energy, but he was still powerless.

Luo Tanghu: "Brother Chu laughed, it's such a happy event... Now I have to bother you to stay and attend the funeral."

Chu Rui: "Since I came to visit, there is no reason to leave after the happy event."

Luo Chenhu finally showed a little smile: "Brother Chu, you really understand righteousness."

Chu Rui walked to the window and looked into the courtyard: "Didn't you see Second Miss all day today?"

Luo Chenhu: "Are you talking about Wan'er? My daughter's family hasn't left the cabinet yet, but she likes to sit outside with hair in a daze, and her body is not good. Brother Chu laughed."

Chu Rui shook her head: "Exercise more, ventilate more, it's good for your health!"

The wording was too modern, Luo Tanghu didn't understand: "Huh?"

Chu Rui smiled: "Nothing."

It gets dark very quickly in the game, and Chu Rui doesn't feel sleepy at all. As long as he plays this game for a minute, his nerves will be tense for a minute. These days, he has to be extremely sleepy to barely fall asleep. His mentality is too uncomfortable. alright.

There was no mobile phone signal during the game, Chu Rui took out backgammon from her bag out of boredom, played chess with herself, and replayed what happened in the past three days in her mind.

Not long after, a woman's scream came from the corridor.

Chu Rui shook the hand holding the chess pieces, and quickly ran outside with the bag on her back.

Gan Xiaoxiao ran outside his room, grabbed his arm, and hid behind him: "Shadow! Shadow!"

The cry startled the others.

They came out of the house and saw that it was Gan Xiaoxiao who made the sound again, and Sun Feng complained a little: "Little girl, can you stop screaming, it's really scaring people to death in the middle of the night!"

"There's a shadow!" Gan Xiaoxiao was wronged and still in shock.

Zhou Xiyu asked: "You always say that there is a shadow, but no one has seen the problem except you!"

Gan Xiaoxiao grabbed Chu Rui's sleeve: "Really, I didn't lie to you!"

Chu Rui glanced at the people in the corridor and interrupted them: "Where are the brothers and sisters surnamed Huang?"

Only then did everyone realize that two people were missing.

Sun Feng: "Aren't you in the same room as Huang Shanshan?"

Gan Xiaoxiao shook her head: "I'm in the room, just about to go to bed, Huang Shanshan... I didn't see her."

Chu Rui looked down at Gan Xiaoxiao's baggy pants, then turned her head away.

"What's the smell?" Sun Feng asked.

There was a smell of rust in the air.

Shang Zhongli narrowed his eyes slightly: "It's human blood."

"Huh?" Sun Feng turned pale with shock.

"Let's go and have a look." Shang Zhongli said to Gan Xiaoxiao.

Shang Zhongli walked in front, and four people followed him.

The smell came from Huang Yi's room. When he opened the door, a strong smell of blood came over his face.

There were two corpses lying on the ground, each with a large blood hole on their chest, bleeding continuously as if pierced by something with a diameter of one centimeter.

"It's Huang Shanshan and Huang Yi!" Sun Feng shouted.

"Shut up!" Shang Zhong reprimanded him displeasedly. Sun Feng was really afraid to speak when he was stunned by this inexplicable and intimidating young man.

Chu Rui stepped on something, he picked it up and saw it was a mobile phone, the screen saver of the mobile phone was smashed, and the mobile phone page could still be vaguely seen.

"Four-eyed boy, what are you looking at?" Sun Feng pointed to Chu Rui and asked.

Chu Rui immediately put away her phone, and shook her head under Shang Zhongli's suspicious eyes: "No...nothing...what?"

Shang Zhongli: "Count me!" He had already noticed that Chu Rui seemed to stutter when he was nervous or frightened.

Chu Rui pursed her lips and said nothing.

"Look, I just said that there are really black shadows. They must have been killed by the black shadows!" Gan Xiaoxiao was crying. She was already scared, but now she was even more scared.

Zhou Xiyu: "It seems that we need to be more careful. It's better not to be separated. Let's stay together at night and take turns to watch the night."

Zhou Xiyu's suggestion was agreed by everyone, and everyone gathered in Chu Rui's room. His room was the closest to the stairs, so it was convenient for him to escape in case of an accident.

Chu Rui pulled Gan Xiaoxiao outside: "What were you doing before you ran out?"

Gan Xiaoxiao's words flickered: "I didn't do anything, didn't I say it, I'm going to sleep!"

Chu Rui handed her the mobile phone she found in her pocket: "This should belong to Huang Yi."

Gan Xiaoxiao took the phone and opened it, her face flushed red: "You...you read it?"

Chu Rui nodded without any sense of crisis: "Yes, you should destroy it, it's not good for your reputation to spread it..."

In the room, Zhou Xiyu and Sun Feng were discussing what happened in the past three days. Shang Zhongli was resting on the chair, and suddenly there was a slap outside, followed by Gan Xiaoxiao's voice.

"rogue!"

Chu Rui covered her face and followed Gan Xiaoxiao into the room. Both Sun Feng and Zhou Xiyu were looking at him: "Okay brother, when are you still restless with other little girls now!"

"Who is restless!" Chu Rui helplessly defended herself.

Shang Zhongli, who was resting on his back, sneered: "He is a womanizer in the first place, he is timid, but he is daring."

Chu Rui only felt the snow in June and could not complain: "I didn't do anything!" He glanced at Gan Xiaoxiao, who snorted and entered the room.

Chu Rui was dumbfounded.

Before Gan Xiaoxiao ran out, she was going to the bathroom. Huang Yi took a sneak shot of Gan Xiaoxiao going to the bathroom. When the black shadow appeared, Gan Xiaoxiao hurried away without pulling up her pants. Except, Chu Rui found Huang Yi’s sneak shot on her mobile phone on the ground He told her that she was secretly photographed out of kindness, so why did he label him as a lecher!

Chu Rui is extremely wronged!

and many more……

its not right!

Chu Rui suddenly thought of something.

How did Huang Yi secretly photograph Gan Xiaoxiao in the next room when he was in his room?