Chapter 221: A World of Difference
But Li Qiang was still a little puzzled.
"Then why can't Li Qiang see it normally? Do you have to go to this building to see it?"
Mr. Bai said without looking back:
"How can you be sure that the people you usually see are real people and not ghosts?"
His words once again made Li Qiang's words creepy.
Mr. Bai took a step forward, stepped out of the room, and entered the hallway.
It turned out that the room was at the end of the hallway, and there was some faint light coming from the other end, which seemed to be the staircase.
Li Qiang subconsciously glanced into the room twice, but the room was still empty. Maybe the ghost is gone.
But Li Qiang's heart can't be at peace, is that the boss lady really dead? . Two days ago, Li Qiang was still eating pies and drinking mutton soup in her shop, and she was disgusted with her sloppyness, remembering the leek leaves on her burnt front teeth.
So what happened in the past two days?
Li Qiang followed behind Mr. Bai and walked forward tentatively.
There are dormitories on both sides of the corridor, but the situation inside is very different from the one Li Qiang just came in.
In fact, the furnishings of each dormitory should be the same. A table and several bunk iron beds.
In the other rooms, however, the tables had been burned to ashes and scattered in the center of the room. The iron beds were also burned and twisted, crooked, and looked strange.
Li Qiang walked tentatively along the corridor like this. Sunlight streamed in through the windows of the south quarters, through the doors that had been burned to ashes, casting a dim light in the hallways.
Almost every room is the same, and there are no differences. Li Qiang kept walking forward, and saw that he was about to come to the other end of the corridor, and there was indeed a staircase in front of him.
Li Qiang looked up at the stairs in front of him, and always felt that something was wrong.
Li Qiang climbed up to the second floor, and it stands to reason that this staircase should lead to the upper and lower floors respectively.
But this staircase only goes down, but it doesn't look like it goes up......
When Li Qiang was frowning and pondering, suddenly in a room to Li Qiang's left, there was a ticking of hands......
I have seen a ghost just now, and it stands to reason that Li Qiang should not be afraid of anything.
However, the corridor was very quiet, and suddenly there was a sound of ticking water, which startled Li Qiang again.
Li Qiang quickly turned his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from.
It turned out that to the left of Li Qiang, there was a water room.
What surprised Li Qiang even more was that Mr. Bai, the old boy, didn't know when he was already in the water room, he was bending over, staring at a faucet, thinking carefully about something.
Li Qiang stepped in and asked him in a low voice:
"When did you come in? Why didn't you move?"
He didn't answer Li Qiang, but just stretched out his finger and put it to his lips, signaling Li Qiang not to speak.
Li Qiang looked around, these water houses were not big, and the circle against the wall was a pool made of cement, and there was a faucet every short distance. But those faucets have long since rusted, and there must be no water inside.
The pool is also dry, but in the opposite position of each faucet, there are dark brown water stains.
The sound just now was the faucet that Mr. Bai was staring at. He's dripping, not fast.
Look at the faucet, it's already fully open. Presumably, this is the residual water vapor in the water pipe, condensed together, and then fell out.
Mr. Bai stared at it for a while, walked quickly to the door, and stepped out in one step.
He turned his head and stared at Li Qiang like that, and didn't speak.
His eyes were straight, which made Li Qiang feel a little frightened, so he turned his head and asked him:
"Why are you looking at Li Qiang like this?"
But before Li Qiang's words fell, he heard a bang, and the faucet, which was originally only occasionally dripping, suddenly turned on.
And it was a very stressful one, dripping on the cement pool, splashing in all directions, making Li Qiang all over.
Li Qiang subconsciously dodged to the side and tried to get out of the water room.
But as soon as he came to the door, Mr. Bai pushed Li Qiang violently.
Li Qiang was completely defenseless, and he used a lot of force. Li Qiang staggered back a few steps, and one of them didn't pay attention, and fell to the ground with an ordinary thud.
Li Qianggang wanted to ask him, what was this for. But I suddenly found that in the faucet, the water that flowed out of the water had turned a pale yellow color, and a pungent smell wafted up.
"Gasoline?"
Li Qiang exclaimed. How can gasoline flow out of the pool?
Just when Li Qiang was stunned, the gasoline flowing out of the faucet had filled the entire pool and spread out, spilling on the floor of the water room.
Almost all the faucets were turned on, and they all sprayed out such gasoline, and in the blink of an eye, Li Qiang's feet did not forget a thick layer, and the depth of gasoline was rising rapidly, and it had passed by Li Qiang's ankles.
There is no door in the water room, but at this moment, there seems to be an invisible door blocking the gasoline in the house.
The gasoline formed a smooth section in the direction of the door of the house, and Mr. Bai stood outside the door, staring at Li Qiang expressionlessly.
The gasoline rose higher and higher, and it looked like it was past Li Qiang's knees.
Li Qiang was a little anxious, if he continued like this, even if Li Qiang was not smoked to death by the strong smell of gasoline, he would be drowned.
So Li Qiang ran to the door of the house quickly and jumped out hard.
Only a sound was heard, and Li Qiang seemed to have hit an invisible glass. Suddenly, I felt that Venus was popping up in front of me, and my nose was pantothenic.
It's over, it seems that Li Qiang is trapped in the house, Li Qiang wheels your fist to smash the glass in front of you. But he was very hard.
In fact, Li Qiang couldn't see the appearance of glass at all, maybe it was just a wall of air.
But Li Qiang could clearly see Mr. Bai standing outside the room, with one hand behind his back and the other hand tucked into the crossbody pocket he was carrying, as if he was clutching something.
His face was grim, and he looked more nervous than Li Qiang.
"Get Li Qiang out......"
Li Qiang shouted at him, but he didn't react in the slightest, and it seemed that he couldn't hear it.
Just when Li Qiang was in a hurry, all the faucets stopped at once, and the room instantly returned to its original quietness.
The silence lasted only a few seconds, and with the sound of rushing water, the water on the ground returned to the pool and into the tap.
Everything in front of me is like a film playing backwards at this moment, repeating itself in the opposite direction. After a while, all the gasoline had been sucked dry, all the faucets had been turned off, and only the one was left, which began to drip again.
Li Qiang panicked, as if he hurriedly left here, but when Li Qiang came to the door of the water room again, he suddenly found that there were many people in the house.
Of course, Li Qiang's way, they are not people, according to Mr. Bai, they should be ghosts that only Li Qiang can see and "resonate" with Li Qiang.
Li Qiang, this is daylight......
The group of people didn't pay attention to Li Qiang, they were just busy in front of the pool by themselves.
Some of them are carrying a basin of clothes, leaning their waists against the washboard, and are washing their clothes one by one. The clothes rub against the washboard, making a grinding sound.
There was also a man shirtless, wiping his body with a wet towel, his physique and his muscles were sharp.
There was also a woman in her early twenties, who was petite and wore a white dress.
She was tilting her head sideways, combing her hair with a brown wooden comb with a broken tooth.
Her hair was wet and apparently freshly washed.
Li Qiang knew that they were all ghosts, and since they appeared in front of Li Qiang like this, this must be what they looked like before they were alive. It seems that they should all be workers in this garment factory. This floor should be their dormitory.
Li Qiang stood at the door like this, the fear just now was gone, but there were bursts of sourness in his heart.
Li Qiang knew that when the building was demolished, a fire broke out and almost all the workers were burned. It's been a long time, and it's still not clear who did it.
The souls of these workers are aggrieved and trapped in this building.
Who would have thought that before the catastrophe happened, they would be as defenseless and leisurely washing as they were in front of them.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise downstairs, as if something had exploded. The whole building shook a little. The people in the room were swayed crookedly, and they barely stood firm on the edge of the cement of the pool, and some fell directly to the ground, dizzy from falling.
The girl in the white dress who combed her hair fell beside Li Qiang, the brown wooden comb, took off her hand, and fell far away.
So the whole water room was a mess in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, the red flames crawled in along the window like a python with its bloody mouth open. In an instant, the people in the room were set on fire......
The fire ignited all at once, without warning, and before the poor people could react, they were immediately engulfed in red flames and turned into one fireball after another.
They waved their arms and struggled hard, and rushed to the door of the water room, but another flame poured in from outside the door, and in the blink of an eye, the flesh of these people was scorched, and it emitted a foul smell.
In this way, Li Qiang watched these people turn into white bones. The bones burned again, turning into piles and piles of ashes.
Soon, everything in sight was gone, the people were gone, the ashes that had been burned were gone. The water room has changed back to its original state.
It's still the dry water room, it's still the row of rusty water dragons.
Li Qiang stood in the water room in a daze, and it took a long time to come to his senses, everything that happened just now was shocking, and Li Qiang still felt palpitations.
Li Qiang didn't know why Li Qiang saw these in broad daylight, not to mention that now Li Qiang didn't wear glasses, and what he entered was not a dream of others.
Could this be the truth of the fire in this building?
Li Qiang turned his head and looked at Mr. Bai. He had already retreated to the door and looked at Li Qiang like that.
His face was a little solemn, as if thoughtful.