Strange Story of Strange House

Lou Qi paused at the stairs for a while, his eyes casually scanned the entire corridor and corridor, and then led Lin Chi to move on.The closer you get to the end of the corridor, the heavier the Yin Qi becomes, and a concrete cloud of dark Yin Qi rolls and wriggles in front of the door of bedroom 502.

Lin Chi reached out and grabbed Lou Qi's sleeve, and in a low voice gave a general description of what he saw and heard yesterday, and finally asked, "What are you going to do now?"

"Go ahead and have a look." As he said, Lou Qi stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of bedroom 502.There was still a bloodstained scene inside. Bao Ni was humming and sitting beside the bed embroidering flowers. When Lin Chi entered the door, she just looked up and looked at each other. Although she was mentally prepared, she suddenly saw two blood holes staring at each other. Looking at himself, Lin Chi was still a little timid.

He subconsciously shrank behind Lou Qi, for fear of disturbing these innocent girls.

"Tsk, what a hell." Lou Qi raised the corner of his mouth, and strode into the bedroom.For trespassers, Han Xia held the black and rotten baby with a vigilant expression on her face. As long as they made any move, she would immediately pounce on them.And Feng Yao carelessly hugged Li Qian's hand and gnawed happily...

The two sides stalemate for a while, Han Xia saw that Lou Qi didn't seem to move, so he relaxed his vigilance.And at this moment, Lou Qi suddenly raised his hand, and a silver long knife appeared out of thin air in his hand.Holding the long knife, he chopped off Han Xia's head with a dashing and handsome movement.Han Xia, who lost her head, fell to the ground with a bang, and the baby in her arms was thrown aside and shattered into several pieces.

Feng Yao saw Han Xia fell to the ground with a knife, and realized that the lethality of the trespasser was obviously beyond her ability to resist. She threw the stump in her hand towards Lou Qi, and took advantage of him to dodge to avoid it. He snatched the clay pot from Lin Chi's arms, and fled out the door quickly.

"Oops!" The spell cannot be used within this domain, so Lou Qi can't sneak Feng Yao back as easily as usual.But to get rid of this curse once and for all, clay pots are essential.Lou Qi quickly made up his mind, he handed Lin Chi a dagger, and said, "Find a place to hide, I will come back to pick you up later, protect yourself." After finishing speaking, he chased him out.

Lin Chi tightly held the dagger in his hand, and slowly walked towards the interior of the dormitory. He subconsciously avoided Bao Ni, who was the only one in the room who still retained her attack power. Temporarily avoided, but then he remembered his purpose of coming today - to find Ye Bai and ask about the situation.

After leaving Bao Ni for some distance, he called Ye Bai's name in a low voice.Soon, a response came from the bathroom: "Lin Chi? Is that you?"

"it's me."

The bathroom door was opened a crack, and Lin Chi saw Ye Bai's pale face, his eyes full of horror.

"Are you okay? How did you hide inside?"

After confirming that it was really Lin Chi, Ye Bai came out of the bathroom.Lin Chi noticed that although she was still in shock, her clothes were clean and tidy, presumably she hadn't been attacked yet.Ye Bai glanced around the dormitory, and then hugged himself tightly: "Before, they just did their own things, but today, Xiaoyao suddenly ate Qianqian's hand. They obviously wouldn't attack each other before." Yes, I don't know why this change happened... I had to hide first..."

"You did the right thing, you protected yourself very well." I had to admit that Ye Bai's perception of danger was unexpectedly keen.For this, Lin Chi was not stingy with his praise. He hoped that this could make Ye Bai relax a little bit. After all, if Ye Bai was still in a state of shock, it would not be of any benefit to his next plan. Ye Bai asked something valuable.

Ye Bai nodded obediently, and having a normal person by her side made her feel a lot better.But at this moment, Lin Chi felt his ankle being held by someone...

He lowered his head, and a slender hand tightly grasped his ankle.Following the slender arm, he saw a headless torso, which was Han Xia whose head was cut off by Lou Qi just now.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Chi kicked Han Xia's hand away, grabbed Ye Bai, and rushed towards the door.Now that these girls have started to attack their roommates, this dormitory is no longer safe for him or Ye Bai, he must take Ye Bai out of here as soon as possible, find a place to hide and return to Lou Qi.

But just when they were about to break out, Bao Ni who had been sitting by the bed quietly embroidering suddenly appeared in front of them.Bao Ni tilted her head slightly, with a confused expression on her face. She grabbed the skirt of her pajamas with both hands. If it weren't for the two bloody eye sockets on her face, she would look like an innocent girl.

She with sound limbs was more difficult to deal with than Han Xia who had lost her head. Lin Chi blocked Ye Bai behind him, holding the dagger tightly, waiting for the opportunity to fight back.At this moment, Ye Bai who was shrinking behind him suddenly said, "Nini, let us go, please."

Bao Ni was taken aback, as if she was still reacting to Ye Bai's words, but Han Xia behind her was already struggling to stand up.Seeing that Bao Ni was shaken, Ye Bai stood up decisively to face her, and said persistently: "Nini, I'm Ye Bai, do you remember me? I'm your best friend, let us go! Let Han Xia hurt me, okay?"

Bao Ni stared blankly at Ye Bai's face, although Lin Chi suspected that she couldn't see it at all.But after a while, she actually moved away.Lin Chi saw the timing, pulled Ye Bai and ran out of the dormitory from the gap between Bao Ni and the door.

Although he escaped from the dormitory, Lin Chi didn't know where to hide.There are rooms everywhere, but because the doors are locked, people have nowhere to hide.In desperation, Lin Chi dragged Ye Bai downstairs, since there is no place to hide in the dormitory building, he should hide outside.

"Lin Chi, did you hear something?" Ye Bai's voice interrupted Lin Chi's thinking. He listened attentively, and at some point behind him, footsteps sounded.

Lin Chi's first reaction was: Is Lou Qi here?But he quickly denied this idea. As the footsteps got closer, Lin Chi heard a girl's charming laugh, a distorted laugh with a trill, echoing in the empty stairwell, unspeakable weird.

"Hee hee hee...hahahaha..."

As the sound source approached, Lin Chi turned his head and saw that it was Han Xia who was chasing him.If it wasn't for the inappropriate timing, Lin Chi would have complained about it, his head was gone, what the hell was he laughing at!However, perhaps because of the loss of her head, Han Xia simply gave up walking upright. Her limbs twisted and she crawled quickly on the ground, and caught up in a blink of an eye.

He picked up Ye Bai and ran, three steps at a time, and arrived at the gate of the dormitory in a short while.But he was surprised to find that they were blocked in the dormitory by an invisible wall.

Perhaps it was because the domain was forcibly opened, and its scope was far from as wide as yesterday, but confined to the dormitory building.

There is no way out, and there are chasing soldiers behind.Not allowing Lin Chi to hesitate at all, he made a decisive decision and took Ye Bai into the dormitory office on the first floor, moving a table to block the door.

As soon as she entered the door, Ye Bai collapsed on the ground in an instant. When she realized that she couldn't leave the dormitory building, her emotions had already started to collapse. She has worked very hard to endure it till now.

She covered her mouth tightly, tears kept flowing, but her eyes were firmly open—she didn't even dare to close them.Lin Chi knew that the girl was terrified.

Although there will be no such terrible memories during the day, once midnight falls, she will have to face her familiar roommates turned into monsters beyond recognition.

After crying for a while, Ye Bai curled up against the wall, his tears still couldn't stop, but his mood was a little more stable than before.At the moment of life and death, no one has the right to be willful.

Lin Chi walked up to Ye Bai, knelt down and patted the girl on the shoulder, comforting her silently.But who would have thought that this move broke Ye Bai's remaining strength, the girl bit her lower lip tightly, and finally cried out: "Why... why did things turn out like this... why was it me... I didn't open that thing, right...Nini and the others wouldn't be like this...It's all my fault...It's all my fault..."

"It's not your fault." Lin Chi didn't know how to comfort the girl in front of him, so he could only repeat again and again, "It's not your fault..."

Looking at the crying Ye Bai, Lin Chi couldn't help thinking, what should he do to get out of danger?He calmly analyzed the current situation - the domain now isolates the entire dormitory building from the outside world, and it is impossible to get in and out, and Lou Qi has no idea where Feng Yao led him to, and Han Xia outside the door is still staring at the dormitory. watching them.

"Ye Bai, stop crying, be stronger, we have to figure out a way together, Han Xia is still outside..." As if to confirm his words, there was a sudden loud knock on the door.Ye Bai stopped crying immediately and looked at Lin Chi helplessly.

Although the door was slammed and banged, it didn't budge.Han Xia soon realized that this method was futile, so she began to hit the door panel heavily with her body. This time, not only the door panel, but even the table that was against the door began to tremble slightly.

--Oops!In this case, the door cannot resist for too long.

Lin Chi looked at Ye Bai who was trembling in front of him, she was a big burden to him in her current state.Reason told him that if Ye Bai escapes alone, the survival rate is much higher. Moreover, in this realm, even if Ye Bai dies, he can be resurrected the next day.But he is different, he failed this time, as long as he is still alive, he still has a chance to save Ye Bai, he can always save Ye Bai.He also understood that this was indeed the best choice, but what he said was quite different. He said, "I will protect you."

Yes, he had to protect her.As a man, even if he is immature and not strong, he absolutely cannot watch someone he knows, his classmate, a weak girl, die like that in front of him.

Having made up his mind, he clenched the dagger in his hand, and while defending, he quickly thought of a solution.

He couldn't put his hope on Lou Qi, after all they changed places, Lou Qi didn't even know he was here.Even if he could find it, it would take time, and he didn't have that much time to wait.

Since waiting for rescue is useless, what else can be done?

At this moment, Huaiyin's face suddenly flashed in his mind.He patted his head helplessly, he couldn't even count on Lou Qi who was so close, and he was thinking about Huaiyin who was far away in Yunlou.

Wait, Huaiyin...

Suddenly, he had a flash of light.

That day, when he took the pot back to Yunlou to meet Huaiyin, Huaiyin once mentioned the method to break the curse.

What did Huaiyin say that day...

By the way, he said...

"I told you before that everything has its own door. No matter how complicated or simple the curse is, as long as you find the opening, you can break it."

"What is an array eye?"

"It's what you think is the most special place. It's often the most abnormal or the most normal place among a bunch of abnormal things. Destroy it and you can crack it."

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So, in this matter, what is the most special?

Is it Cao Yike who was frightened crazy?Or the clay pot that carried the curse?

No, when he and Chen Feng came yesterday, the clay pot was placed in the cloud building, and Cao Yike was not in this domain, so the eyes of the formation would not leave the domain.So, what is the most special in this field?

Lin Chi lowered his head and said to Ye Bai who was sitting paralyzed on the ground:

"Ye Bai, listen to me, we must break this curse. Only in this way can you and your roommate be saved."

"Curse?" Ye Bai tilted his head to look at Lin Chi, obviously unable to react, "You mean..."

"Yes, curse." Lin Chi paused and organized his words, "The moment you opened that pot, you were cursed."

Ye Bai gave Lin Chi a complicated look, and then fell silent.Outside the door, Han Xia's impact became more and more violent, and Lin Chi had to push all the large items in the room to block the door.

"What to do?" asked the silent girl suddenly, "What to do to end this?"

"Find the eye."

"Array eyes? What is an array eye?"

"Ye Bai, please recall carefully, what is the most special thing about this matter? What is the most abnormal place, or is there anything normal among a bunch of abnormal things, this place or this thing is often the The eyes are incompatible with everything around them."

"That day, Yike took the pot back to the dormitory, saying that a friend she met online bought it for her. She told me that the pot's name was Changsheng.

"Because there was a class in the afternoon, Yi Ke didn't have time to open it after she got it back, so she put it under the table. Later, something seemed wrong with the club's application, so she went to find Chen Feng and didn't go back to the dormitory with us. The rest of us The five of us went to the cafeteria to get meals together. Xiaoyao said before that the pickles she brought from home would go bad if she didn’t eat them, so we took the meals back to the dormitory to eat.

"When I entered the door, Xiaoyao was busy changing clothes. Everyone seemed to have something to do, and I was the only one who was idle, so Xiaoyao asked me to get pickles. The pickle jar was under the table, and that...clay pot was there too, I didn't pay attention Look, just pick up the clay pot.

"When it was opened, there was a strange fragrance, so I took a peek, and then... saw a hand, a dry hand.

"I remember screaming and they all came around and then the hand was gone and we looked at it and it just disappeared! After that, I don't remember."

"Then do you remember what happened next?"

"Later... Later Yi Ke came back, Nini lost her eyeballs, Xiao Yao was gnawing on her arm, Han Xia was holding a dead baby as a treasure, Qian broke into several pieces... Yi Ke was frightened crazy , and you know what happened afterwards..."

"Then what do you think is a formation eye?"

"The most abnormal thing in this matter is the clay pot, the most normal..." Ye Bai suddenly laughed in a low voice, "Isn't it me who is the most normal? It was obviously me who opened the pot, but in the end it turned out to be It's because I have nothing to do... Lin Chi, what should I do after I find the eye?"

Lin Chi looked at Ye Bai, a trace of unbearableness flashed in his eyes.

Ye Bai was puzzled at first, looking at the silent Lin Chi, her eyes slowly widened.

"Are you... going to kill me?"

"No! How is it possible!"

"Why? Why me? What did I do? I didn't hurt anyone or hurt anyone, why me?" Ye Bai murmured brokenly, Lin Chi took a step forward and held her shoulder tightly, bowing his head. roared—

"Calm down Ye Bai, no one is going to kill you. It's the clay pot, not you!"

"Really……"

"Really, trust me. Listen, now we have to find a way to get out, find that clay pot, and destroy it to make it all over. Be strong and think of your best friends who are still waiting for us to go Save! You will become their hero." In order to prevent the extremely excited Ye Bai from hurting himself, Lin Chi had no choice but to push the girl into his arms, restrain her hands, and kept saying comforting words, trying his best to soothe her emotions .After a while, he felt that the body in his arms was no longer trembling, so he let her go.

"feelling better?"

"Yeah." Ye Bai nodded weakly, "Let's go out and save Nini and the others."

"Okay, then I'll go and move things away."

Lin Chi put the dagger on the ground, and then removed the things blocking the door one by one. Ye Bai sat on the ground silently, looking at the dagger not far away, and then at Lin Chi, with a flash of hesitation in his eyes. And unwilling.

She slowly crawled towards the dagger, Lin Chi was so busy moving things that he didn't notice the movement behind him at all.Ye Bai held the dagger tightly, with a sharp blade, he could see the silver light flashing past.She touched the dagger with her hand, looked at her reflection on the dagger, her complex expression was reflected on the smooth surface of the knife, she tried to smile, looked at Lin Chi's defenseless back, and raised the dagger— —

"How could it not be me..."

When Lin Chi heard a muffled groan, Ye Bai was already lying on the ground.The girl inserted the dagger into her abdomen, and blood slowly seeped out, gradually staining her clothes red.

Lin Chi rushed over to support her: "Ye Bai, what are you doing! You said it wasn't you, why do you still... blame me, I shouldn't have told you these things." Lin Chi panicked and wanted to He stopped Ye Bai's bleeding, but he didn't know where to start.

Ye Bai shook his head weakly: "How could it be...it wasn't me..."

"..."

"I know, the clay pot has always been in your hands. If it was really a hole, you would have solved it long ago. You wouldn't wait until now, and you said you would take me to deal with it... I know, you are just comforting Me, how could it not be me, I opened the clay pot, but the curse was fulfilled on them... How could I have escaped... If I was not the enemy, why didn't they attack me... Really because If the relationship is good, what is going on with Yike... I know, I am very smart..."

"say no more……"

"Lin Chi, do you know... The thing I regret the most is that I didn't tell Yike to run away when she came in... These days, I don't feel well at all. Nini and the others can still recover during the day, but Yike... ...Is she going to get better..."

"It will be fine, it will be fine."

"That's good... destroy the eyes, the curse will be broken, right? We are all free..." She gently pulled the corner of her mouth, and her body began to become transparent a little bit. She didn't care, but reached out to touch it The corners of Lin Chi's eyes were wet, "I have something to say, I have to give it back to you... Lin Chi, I will protect you... I will protect you instead..."

Lin Chi watched Ye Bai in his arms disappear completely, and the space twisted violently again. He knew that everything was over.

When he came back to his senses, he found himself kneeling and sitting in front of the dormitory building.The dormitory area was bustling with people before midnight, and Lou Qi was standing beside him.

Lou Qi glanced at the withered hand that reappeared in the pot, and sealed the pot again.

"It's over." Lou Qi said in a low voice, he stretched out a hand, trying to pull Lin Chi up, but Lin Chi used the strength of that hand to wipe his tearful face without hesitation Buried in Lou Qi's arms.

"It's too embarrassing to cry in public." Lin Chi explained this hug.

Although he knew in his heart that Ye Bai would not really die, and even though he knew that she would forget all about it tomorrow, it was still hard for Lin Chi to accept her generous death in such a gesture.The last sentence she said seemed to hit Lin Chi's tears, and the tears couldn't stop at all.

"It's all right." Lou Qi accepted his hug a little helplessly, he was not used to having physical contact with people at all, and his whole body was stiff.Although this is the second time they have hugged.

"Ye Bai committed suicide in front of me. She said that she was so smart that she knew she was the enemy. She also said that she wanted to protect me...I'm really useless..."

"Don't think so. If you didn't insist on helping them, this curse would torture her for a longer time. You give good causes, and she repays you good fruits. It's you who fulfilled her."

"What happened to that curse? It has no cause and effect, but it still happened to them. They have never done anything, so why should they be tortured because they accidentally opened the pot?"

Lou Qi glanced at the pot, but didn't answer.

——Longevity Jar, the ancients once believed that the hands of the dead were cut off, male left and female right, sealed in clay pots after antiseptic treatment, even if the body rotted, the soul could be attached to the clay pot to obtain eternal life.

Later, it gradually evolved into a curse. The person who cast the curse abandoned the clay pot, and the person who picked up the pot and opened it would respond to the curse and become an evil thing that was neither human nor ghost.As the curse deepened, the scope of activities and tyranny of the evil thing also expanded and deepened, and it began to reap human lives.

Although in the cursed realm, the cursed are immortal, but the persecuted are truly dead.And the person who cast the curse can harvest the soul with the longevity jar.

Compared with those who died, Cao Yike's luck was actually pretty good. At that time, the clay pot curse started, and her roommates still had their own thinking, so they didn't hurt her who lived together day and night.Now that the curse is broken, the influence on her will also be weakened. As long as she is treated properly, she will slowly recover, which is a blessing in misfortune.

Thinking of this, Lou Qi frowned.What is hidden behind this incident?Who is plotting what kind of conspiracy?

The front of the dormitory building was not a good place to talk, and Lin Chi lost control of his emotions, so Lou Qi had no choice but to take him to a dark place, break through a dark gate, and return to the noodle shop from the Yin Road.

Although there are all kinds of remnant souls scattered on the Yin Road, the speed is indeed much faster.

Shrinking the ground into an inch, a skill that has only been seen in books, is not a problem at all on the Yin Road.It usually takes about 10 minutes to walk from the dormitory area to the west gate, but it takes less than 1 minute to walk from Yinlu.

Lin Chi followed Lou Qi into the door with red eyes, and Dan Qing was overjoyed when he saw it: "Oh little guy, what's wrong?"

Lin Chi shook his head, depressed.Lou Qi glanced at him, and told Danqing to pour him a drink.Then he handed the pot to Ya, and finally asked Lin Chi, "I'll take care of the pot, do you have any objections?"

Lin Chi glanced at the pot with appreciative face, and shook his head like a rattle.Lou Qi smiled and asked Ya to take the things away.The gentle and considerate Danqing not only brought water to Lin Chi, but also gave him a bunch of delicious food.

The delicious food somewhat calmed Lin Chi's out-of-control emotions. Seeing that he had recovered and started eating, Lou Qi was relieved.Thinking of the little guy crying with his head buried in his arms, Lou Qi's usually calm heart felt a little strange.

"I'll take you back after dinner, don't do such a dangerous thing next time."

"it is good."

After sweeping away all the food, Lin Chi got up and waited for Lou Qi to send him back.Dan Qing came out, rubbed his soft hair, and said: "Go back and sleep well, and come to the store for dinner tomorrow, and my sister will cook for you. You know, my sister's craftsmanship is much better than that of a paralyzed crow. But he doesn’t know how to greet guests, so he is the chef.”

"Thank you Danqing, I have caused you trouble again today."

"It's all right." Danqing smiled, then turned to Lou Qi and said, "Boss, send the little guy back."

"Ah."

The two walked along the path to Yunlou. Although it was almost midnight, the outside of the west gate was still bustling with vendors selling all kinds of snacks in the night market pushing small carts and hawking goods.Lin Chi followed Lou Qi through it, looked at the tall and straight figure in front of him, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I just think, Lou Qi, you are so beautiful, you feel as if you are not eating fireworks. Logically speaking, you should be incompatible with this kind of place, but I didn't expect that there is no sense of disobedience at all."

Lou Qi: "..."

"Thank you for today's matter. If you hadn't come, I don't know how it would end."

"You're welcome."

Lou Qi was reticent, Lin Chi was not in high spirits, and the two quickly fell into silence.The night breeze, with a cool breath, quietly blows on the face, quiet and peaceful.