Chapter 17: The Fire
Without a door, we are locked in this house. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
All the windows here are sealed, and the air is delivered by ventilation ducts and a central air-conditioning system.
The trend is getting clearer, and if you look at it as a game, it seems to have already begun.
Thinking about what the doctor had done in this house, four words came to my head for no reason -- "No one survived."
Today is Wednesday, remember that time, the day of the first accident at the beginning of spring, it was also Wednesday, and I knew that it was not a coincidence... It's "some kind of arrangement"
Walking through a corridor, I noticed that there were murals of ancient Greek gods hanging on the walls, and the pattern here was no longer as "symmetrical" as in the east, but one of the murals on the wall caught my attention.
It was the god of time standing in front of Zeus pointing to the east.
The god of time - Kronos.
I was stirred up like an electric shock, and it turned out that the meaning of that sentence was...
My plan to go further west has stalled, so it is useless to blindly search, the house itself has problems, and the place where there was a door just now is gone, and it takes no more time to find someone in this "unreasonable" change.
The important thing is to follow that "hint" to find it.
The problem was on the "invitation letter", which was sent in the name of the owner of the Wujiang Mansion, perhaps from the person who summoned us here.
I sped up and went back the way I came, and just as I ran back to the door of the room on the third floor, "Kara", and there was a strange sound behind the door.
My hand holding the doorknob suddenly stopped, reason was telling myself not to open the door, holding my breath, I gently pressed my ear to the door...
The sound of "Krakala" sounded again, like the sound of someone dragging a chain, and I did not understand what could be in this room to make such a noise, and in my suspicion, I turned the doorknob slowly, and as soon as a slit was opened, a pungent smoke rolled out of the crack in the door, and I covered my mouth and nose, and it was only after the door was kicked open that I could see what was inside.
The room was on fire, and in the faint flames of the scurrying flames, a jar was lying on the ground and rolling back and forth, with an iron chain tied to it, and I guess that's how the "Kara" sound came from.
Seeing that the fire was about to burn to the door, I was glad that it hadn't been burned when I held the doorknob just now.
"Come out, everyone, it's on fire!"
I turned around and stood in the hallway shouting.
After three seconds, I realized that no one responded to me at all, so I opened a random room and there was no one in it, and I checked several more rooms, but there was still no one... The fear in my heart rises to the highest point at once.
Why? Where did everyone go? The classmates who were still dangling in front of me just ten minutes ago...
I looked at the burning room again, and I didn't intend to put out the fire alone, although I could find a fire extinguisher in the hallway, but seeing that this fire was not something I could control, just as I was about to flee to the second floor, a voice suddenly came from the burning room.
"Nozomi? Nozomi..."
I paused suddenly, and in a hurry, I walked over to the opposite room after the towel was wet, covering my mouth and nose.
"Who is it? Who's in it? β
I shouted.
"Nozomi... Ruriki..."
"Who's in there?"
I asked out loud again, but the voice in response to me was still "Xiao Xi Xiao Xi" kept shouting...
"Nozomi..."
I screamed again, and the voice sounded more and more empty, as if it had come from another world, and in the thick of the smoke, I couldn't see what was going on inside, and the flames were wantonly encroaching on everything in the room, and I tried to look into the smoke for the last time...
"Who's in there? Answer meβ"
Just as he was leaving, in the billowing smoke... Suddenly a hand was stretched out.
"Jingle bellβ"
The bracelet on his hand made a distress cry in a precarious situation.
"Sakura?"
I hurriedly reached out and grabbed her hand, I remember the bracelet, the cherry tree on the bus shook her hand, the bracelet with the bell kept making a crisp sound.
When I pulled her out, the heat wave almost covered my head, and although I was covering the wet towel, I still felt the skin on my cheeks "sizzle" tighten, and there was a kind of hot pain.
"Hold on."
I helped her up, and her body suddenly sank to death, almost the whole body was paralyzed, and all the strength was supported on me.
"Hold on, let's go."
I put her arm on my shoulder and helped her out of the place quickly.
We walked towards the house to the west, and I didn't know how many corridors I passed, and then several halls with murals, and finally I stopped to rest when I felt that the "danger" was already far away from us.
"Sakura!"
I lifted her into the chair and shook her, she moved slightly, and I breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, there is still a reaction." β
I found water in my room, and after I had Sakura drink a lot of water, she licked her lips and could barely make a sound in her throat.
"Nozomi... Thank you. β
"Why do you say such things, it's really not like you."
I wiped her face and checked the rest of her body again, and it didn't seem to be hurt, just a little dehydrated, so I put my mind at ease.
"What happened before? Why is there a fire in the room? Also, the rest of the classmates are gone. β
She leaned limply back in her chair, looked at me with bloodshot eyes, and it took a long time for her to squeeze a few words out of her mouth.
"--He took all his classmates away, and in a short moment, it was terrible..."
"He? Who is it? β
"I don't know, a very tall person wearing a cloak should be human, I don't know very well, because I can't see the face, it's all covered by the cloak, I only see his black shoes, he kicked the door and pulled out the classmates in each room and stuffed them into a bag, that feeling is like catching animals to slaughter, after he came out of the room at the beginning of spring, I don't know why there was a sudden fire inside, and some classmates who fled in all directions were caught by him, and they didn't have time to run, I was scared, but I knew that the most dangerous places were often the safest, So, I found an opportunity and fled into the burning room to hide... After that, I met you, Xiaoxi, if you don't come, I'm afraid I'll be burned inside. β
"All the classmates were captured by him?"
"I don't know, maybe not exactly."
"You said he stuffed his classmates in a bag?"
"Well, a very large bag."
I really can't imagine how big a bag should be for a dozen classmates, I have no idea about that.
"What now?"
The cherry trees are still drinking.
"Now... Go find Momoi and Shui Jing them. β
I'm sure the two of them didn't fall into the hands of the monster who captured the man, and they, like me, weren't in the room at the time.
Suddenly, there was a shrill alarm ringing, which was supposed to be an automatic fire extinguishing device in the house, but the bell sounded a little far away from us, and I suddenly felt a wave of worry in my heart.
- Ruriki, we met in the room at the beginning of spring in half an hour...
That's what Momoi said before the beginning of spring, at this time, is he going to turn back to the worse side? If you go, will you encounter any accidents...
No, no, no... I shook my head, I definitely won't, Momoi has always been very alert, he shouldn't go there anymore when he smells smoke, Shui Jing should be very clever, the more I think about it, the more worried I am about the two of them, and the beginning of spring that I don't know where to go.
"Sakura, can you still walk? We can't stop here. β
"Well, you can go, but..."
"How?"
"Xiaoxi, don't you think this house is a little strange? I noticed a strange phenomenon in my room before..."
Before he finished speaking, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of heavy footsteps from the corridor outside the door.