Volume 1: The Origin of Nightmares Chapter 10: Doom and Contracts (3)
When he came to the door of the public bathhouse, Ding Xiaofan found that the door of the bathhouse was actually locked from the outside, but fortunately, the key was inserted in the door lock and was not taken away.
"Huh, did I lock the door when I ran out of the bathhouse?" he muttered to himself, and opened the door and walked in.
Relocked the door and hung the key on the wall, Ding Xiaofan stripped naked and prepared to take a shower in the shower area. But before he had taken a few steps, he was suddenly stunned. Because through the frosted glass on the outside of the shower area, he clearly saw a figure inside!
To put it bluntly, a public bathhouse is actually a rectangular room of about 40 square meters. The left half is a glass-enclosed shower area, and the right half is a place to rub your back or change your clothes. So as soon as you enter the door, you will have an unobstructed view of the scenery inside.
As if time had been frozen, Ding Xiaofan stood in place and didn't dare to make the slightest movement, except for his wildly beating heart, he was even careful to breathe.
"Is it Xiaofan? What are you doing standing outside? Come in and take a shower together. However, at this moment, the voice of a middle-aged man came from the shower area. Hearing this voice, Ding Xiaofan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and casually responded and walked towards the shower area.
Although he hadn't seen Liu Siye, Ding Xiaofan was still sure that it would be Liu Siye who was standing in the shower area at this time.
Because there were only six of them, including himself. Excluding Liu Lixue, Granny Wang and Liu Lixue's mother, only he, Shen Xiaolang and Liu Siye are men.
And Shen Xiaolang's voice couldn't be so vicissitudes, so it was definitely Liu Siye who spoke just now. Thinking of this, Ding Xiaofan opened the glass door of the shower area without hesitation.
"Ah!" The moment he opened the door, Ding Xiaofan suddenly burst out with a scream, almost fainting from what was in front of him. It turned out that it was not Liu Siye standing under the head of the lotus shower at this moment, but the corpse of a middle-aged man whose eyes had been gouged out!
Ding Xiaofan remembered this corpse very clearly, and he even had face to face with it. That's right, it's the corpse I met in the kitchen of Room 404 in the Secluded Garden, the client surnamed Zhang.
"Ding-Xiao-Fan, let's take a bath together!hahaha!" staring at Ding Xiaofan with empty eye sockets, the male corpse said gloomily.
"No!
Shaking his head desperately, Ding Xiaofan hurriedly turned around and ran out of the door.
"Smack!" As he had done the first time, he slipped and fell to the ground. And this time, his face was buried in a pool of water on the ground by coincidence. The only difference was that this time he couldn't get up......
"Wake up! Hey, Ding Xiaofan, wake up quickly!" In a daze, a familiar voice came from his ears. "Help.... Help!" While shouting, Ding Xiaofan opened his eyes.
Looking at Shen Xiaolang, Liu Lixue and Granny Wang in front of him, he subconsciously straightened up and looked around. "Why am I here? Did you save me?" Ding Xiaofan asked suspiciously, finding that he was lying on the bed in Shen Xiaolang's room.
Hearing this, the three of them glanced at each other, and then, Shen Xiaolang said a little confused, "What the hell are you talking about, after I finished doing the Fa at night, you came here to sleep, and you didn't wake up until now." ”
"What! sleep? Didn't I just take a bath in the public bathhouse here? yes! I did take a bath in the bathhouse, and ...... And I also met the male corpse in Room 404!" In the end, Ding Xiaofan's emotions became extremely excited.
Hearing Ding Xiaofan's words, Shen Xiaolang and the others were suddenly frightened and their faces changed greatly.
"Child, are you having a nightmare?" After his mood stabilized, Granny Wang helped Ding Xiaofan wipe the cold sweat on her forehead with a towel, and asked tentatively.
"Thank you. After thanking him, Ding Xiaofan replied solemnly, "I really went to the bathhouse just now, I remember it very clearly." ”;“ But we don't have a public bathhouse here at all!" As she spoke, Granny Wang took a few steps back in horror.
On this side, Shen Xiaolang and others were surprised by Ding Xiaofan's claim that he had been to a non-existent public bathhouse. On the other side, Ding Xiaofan was even more frightened, his face turned pale, and he rolled out of bed with a strange scream.
"Okay, stop scaring yourself. Anyway, it didn't happen any big deal, so I thought it was a real nightmare. It's half past eleven now, I'll accompany you to the company, don't you still have to go to the company for the night shift?"
patting Ding Xiaofan on the shoulder, Shen Xiaolang tried to use the night shift to distract his nervousness. In fact, there is nothing attractive about night shifts, the main thing is the overtime pay of 200 yuan.
"Night shift? It seems to be fun, I'm going too! Take me there!" As soon as she heard the words night shift, Liu Lixue, who had always been interested in supernatural events and stimuli, immediately put the weird atmosphere behind her, and even cheered excitedly.
"No, it's not that you don't know, as long as it's past twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the outside will become a world infested with ghosts! Moreover, my yin and yang umbrella is still in Ding Xiaofan's house, and I can't protect the two of you at the same time. Waving his hand, Shen Xiaolang immediately objected.
"It's just to wait until the hundred ghosts are rampant! Besides, where are you two going to take a taxi at this time?" As she spoke, Liu Lixue took out a car key with a yellow cross logo from her pocket and shook it in front of the two.
Finally, under Liu Lixue's unremitting hard grinding, Shen Xiaolang agreed to take Liu Lixue to Jinhua Company together. However, the premise is that he is not allowed to move around casually, let alone touch things that Shen Xiaolang does not allow him to touch because of curiosity, so as to avoid accidents.
So in this way, after bidding farewell to the reluctant Granny Wang and Liu Siye and his wife, Shen Xiaolang and Liu Lixue each had a ghost and pulled Ding Xiaofan into the Chevrolet car parked outside the door.
The reason why they are said to have their own ghosts is because they do have their own goals when they go to Jinhua Company. Liu Lixue is for fun, while Shen Xiaolang is worried about Ding Xiaofan's overtime salary.
Of course, at the same time, he also genuinely wanted to keep his friends safe.
Since Shen Xiaolang and Ding Xiaofan couldn't drive, Liu Lixue, the youngest, played the role of a driver. With the roar of the car's motor, the red Chevrolet sped in the direction of town.
"Can you really guarantee my safety? Would you like to stop by my house and bring the parasol?"
After the bathhouse incident just now, Ding Xiaofan, who was sitting in the car, still asked with some concern. Less than five minutes after his departure, he had asked this question for the seventh time.
"Don't worry, even if I don't have a yin and yang umbrella, I can still deal with a few B.-class and A.-class demons. Hearing this, Shen Xiaolang said impatiently, "I said, can't you change the subject?"
"Oh. Nodding, Ding Xiaofan pondered for a moment and said seriously, "That, can you guarantee my safety?"
"Get out!" Faced with Ding Xiaofan's question, Shen Xiaolang thoroughly understood the meaning of the word nonsense.
Shen Xiaolang sat in the co-pilot speechlessly, while Liu Lixue, who was sitting next to him, was in a surprisingly good mood. The reason is that along the way, she has seen countless ghosts with different images, just like watching a horror movie.
Of course, if it weren't for the ghost exorcism spells that Shen Xiaolang had temporarily drawn around the car before leaving, they would have been gnawed by the ghosts they encountered on the way to the point that there were no bones left.
After half an hour of unabated travel, the red Chevrolet came to the place where Ding Xiaofan worked: Jinhua Toy Production Co., Ltd. "It's strange, why is the company still on at such a late hour?" got out of the car, Ding Xiaofan said to himself.
At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, it was the time when Jiang Jin City was forbidden to go out. However, during this golden time period of the night walk of the hundred ghosts, Ding Xiaofan, Liu Lixue and Shen Xiaolang swaggered into the door of Jinhua Co., Ltd.
Here, Ding Xiaofan and his entourage walked towards the company's only lighted reception hall with the same graceful steps as the protagonists of the movie, while at the same time, on the other side, Alin, who was also called by the boss to work the night shift, was patrolling the staff garage alone.
"Damn Ding Xiaofan, I was late for the night shift on the first day! I have to patrol the parking lot alone! I'll go, there is not even a light in such a big parking lot, it's really weird and terrible!" Walking in the garage with a flashlight, Alin kept complaining.
It turned out that Alin was a veteran and was 30 years old this year. But after being discharged from the army, he had nothing to do, so he came to this toy company as a security guard in desperation. Like Ding Xiaofan, he was also deceived by his boss's 200 yuan overtime pay to come here to work the night shift.
While complaining, while walking in the blackened garage with a flashlight, Alin suddenly saw a black shadow flashing silently past him. "Who!" he turned vigilantly and shone his flashlight away. "Meow!", it turned out to be a black cat.
"It scared the hell out of me! I thought it was, this damn cat!" Realizing that it was a false alarm, Arin patted his chest and said. But at the moment when he relaxed, he only heard the sound of "Z!", and his flashlight went out automatically at this time.
Putting aside how Alin did it for the time being, the picture went back to the company's reception hall, where Shen Xiaolang and Liu Lixue were sitting on the sofa in the hall bored and playing with their mobile phones.
"Why hasn't this guy come back from patrolling? Could it be that he was dragged away by the ghosts here!" Turning off her phone, Liu Lixue poked her head out and looked at the corner at the end of the corridor, and said, "However, until now, I haven't encountered a supernatural event!"
"It's best if you don't meet it, if you do, it's too late for you to regret it. With that, Shen Xiaolang took out the compass from the black cloth bag and handed it to Liu Lixue.
Sure enough, the hands on the compass rotate clockwise and counterclockwise, which doesn't look weird. "Huh, is this thing of yours broken?, why does the direction of the pointer rotation keep changing?" Looking at Shen Xiaolang's compass, Liu Lixue felt very surprised.
Retracting the compass, Shen Xiaolang said with a serious face, "I don't know why it's like this, but one thing is for sure, that is, the spiritual power in our vicinity is seriously exceeded." ”
Hearing Shen Xiaolang's words, Liu Lixue frowned slightly, and said curiously, "What is spiritual power?
"The so-called spiritual power is simply the power generated by the sublimation of the soul. The stronger or more the soul, the stronger the spiritual power will be. And then from the manifestation of the deep obsession, it forms what people often call ghosts. ”
Taking a sip of tea, Shen Xiaolang continued to explain, "As for why I know that the spiritual power here is exceeded, it is because my compass has never been so abnormal as it is today. In the past, even if I encountered an A.-class ghost, I wouldn't have reacted so violently, but this time it's likely to be an S.-class nearby!"
"S. No, S. Class, I don't know, but I found out one thing, the company doesn't exist anymore but us. But the security guards will turn off the lights every day, and the situation will never be the same today. With that, Ding Xiaofan sat on the sofa.
Hearing this, Liu Lixue said excitedly, "In other words, you are the only one who comes here to work the night shift tonight." So before we come, all the lights in the company should be in a state of power outage? In other words, we really have a paranormal event?"
"Maybe it's a thief. In addition, it is not excluded that the security guard forgot to turn off the lights. After Liu Lixue finished speaking, Shen Xiaolang immediately poured cold water.
However, at this moment, Ding Xiaofan on the side said with a wry smile: "I also hope that there is a thief or the security guard forgot to turn off the lights." But I just went on patrol, and I found that the company's main electric switch is closed! Moreover, even the electric switch box is locked to death!"
As soon as Ding Xiaofan's words fell, the entire hall suddenly became quiet, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
In that case, the compass's reaction makes sense. I'm afraid, today is mostly more auspicious and less auspicious!" As he spoke, Shen Xiaolang couldn't help but put his hand into the black cloth bag hanging from his waist, and tightly grasped the newly made copper coin sword inside.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, Liu Lixue, who has always been interested in supernatural events. Knowing that she was likely to be involved in a supernatural event, Liu Lixue was not only not afraid, but looked very much looking forward to it.
"Yo! Ding Xiaofan, come to work the night shift with a follower? You don't dare to come alone, so I found a Taoist priest to protect you!" Suddenly, a tall middle-aged man walked down from the second floor and walked to Ding Xiaofan's side.
"Ah Lin, why are you here?, are you also here to work the night shift?" After recognizing the identity of the person who came, Ding Xiaofan asked suspiciously, "Since you are in the company, why didn't I see you when I was patrolling just now?"
Facing Ding Xiaofan's question, Alin scratched his head and replied, "Oh, I was in a hurry just now, so I went to the toilet on the second floor." Hearing this, Ding Xiaofan nodded and said jokingly, "I see, you kid is really lazy donkey grinding and urine!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, Ding Xiaofan immediately felt a tingling of his scalp. Because he clearly remembered that when he was patrolling, the corridor between the first and second floors was obviously locked. And, only the boss has the key.
In addition, Alin had never seen Shen Xiaolang before, how did he know that Shen Xiaolang was a Taoist priest? Thinking of this, Ding Xiaofan couldn't help but feel a chill behind his back. He didn't speak, but turned his head and glanced at Shen Xiaolang.
This story is pure fiction and will be continued