Volume 3 The Place of Confinement Chapter 43 The Sense of Ritual
Xu Lang stood up from his chair suddenly, of course he understood what it meant to be missing a person at this time, that person must be more than lucky.
Xu Lang will not be so excited about the death of a person, and the first victim in a key mission will usually reveal some clues, or the opportunity for the evil spirit to kill or be killed because he found a key clue.
If he was killed silently and without any value by the evil spirit, and there was no clue left, Xu Lang would never accept it.
He hurriedly inspected the 7 executors present, and at a glance, he knew that she was the one who was missing!
That's right, it's the only woman among the executors, Jiang Hui.
Xu Lang frowned and looked at the old man who was always standing on the edge of the crowd like a waiter, and he was expressionless at this time, not knowing what he was doing.
Isn't he?
Lu Xiaozhi also discovered that the missing person was Jiang Hui, and he bounced up from the chair with wide eyes, "Jiang Hui, it's Jiang Hui, she... Where is she? It's not going to just die! Do you die if you don't do anything? ”
Cheng Guoguo whispered a few words of comfort on the side: "Don't be so excited, her death may be able to give us some clues, but it doesn't mean that we will also die." ”
When Lu Xiaozhi heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he grabbed Cheng Guoguo's collar viciously: "A human life, is it so worthless in your opinion?" That's our companion! ”
Cheng Guoguo was also a little angry, "I comforted you with a few kind words, but you still beat you up", and he opened his teeth and mouth to scold back.
Nameless on the side actually knocked Lu Xiaozhi's arm off first, and kicked him to the ground: "Say this useless nonsense again, I'll pull out all your teeth next time." ”
Li Feng looked at the scene at this time, his eyes were rolling, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Zhu Zixing, who has always watched the play, is also very scared in his heart, he died on the first night of the mission, or died silently and inexplicably, his face was also ugly, and he kept thinking in his heart, why Jiang Hui died.
Lu Xiaozhi covered his hot stomach at this time, fell to the ground and wailed, Xu Lang looked at these silently.
This mission separates everyone, which hinders the progress of the mission and the collection of clues, and Jiang Hui has an accident inexplicably, what has she experienced?
Xu Lang frowned and looked at the old man on the side, at this time the old man was motionless in a daze, as if he couldn't hear or see the infighting among the executors around him, and Lu Xiaozhi was indifferent when they said about the dead just now, standing next to the table like a wooden man.
"Could it be that Jiang Hui's accident has something to do with him?"
But Xu Lang was actually not sure whether Jiang Hui was dead or not, after all, he just didn't come down for breakfast, although it stands to reason that Jiang Hui, a person with low psychological tolerance, would definitely not be left alone if she could get together.
Therefore, the probability of this situation is too low, basically Jiang Hui can't survive, but the clues still have to be seen.
Xu Lang coughed and said to the executors: "Jiang Hui's situation is still uncertain, maybe he just didn't wake up." Let's take a look. ”
Lu Xiaozhi and Ruan Fei shook their heads directly, joking, who knows if the evil spirit will be in Jiang Hui's room, although they sympathize with Jiang Hui's life, but they also cherish their own life, of course, they don't know the news that the old man is an evil spirit yet.
Li Feng hesitated and didn't speak, Zhu Zixing beat the drum in his heart, but finally gritted his teeth and raised his hand, expressing his willingness to go.
Then Nameless and Cheng Guoguo both expressed their participation, Li Feng heard that these veterans were going to go, so he hurriedly opened his mouth, and was about to say that he was willing to go with him, but Xu Lang made a final decision first, "It's decided, I'll go with Nameless and them, Li Feng, you can take care of the others." ”
Hearing this, Li Feng's face suddenly sank, Xu Lang's approach was to completely exclude himself and stay with these two wastes. Thinking of this, Li Feng lowered his head and hid the malice in his eyes.
Xu Lang accurately captured the change in Li Feng's expression, but he didn't pay attention to it at all, this kind of villain who is incapable but incapable, insidious, he has seen too much, and directly chooses to ignore it, anyway, he will play Li Feng to death sooner or later.
Thinking of this, Xu Lang and the others were about to go upstairs to find Jiang Hui, but at this moment, no one expected that the old man who had been standing in place would open his mouth and say to Xu Lang in a low and hoarse voice: "I'll go with you to find it." ”
Originally, Xu Lang and the others were already leaving, but when they heard this, they stopped urgently, and they were shocked, no one thought that this evil spirit old man would suddenly participate in the actions of the executors at this time.
Nameless and the others fell on Xu Lang's body, with anxiety in their eyes, what should I do?
Li Feng and the other three newcomers who stayed behind were also stunned, it was really helpless to stay with this gloomy old man, if he followed Xu Lang upstairs, then the three of them would be much safer, Li Feng even smiled at the corner of his mouth.
Xu Lang slowly turned around, looked at the old man, and pretended not to hear clearly: "What did you say?"
The old man patiently replied, "I will go up with you." There was firmness in his tone, as if Xu Lang would get angry if he didn't allow him.
Xu Lang's face was a little ugly, and he glanced at Nameless and the others, and then nodded to the old man.
Then he pulled Nameless and the others to walk quickly towards the stairs, looking back at the old man's position as he walked, the old man's speed was not fast, just like a normal old man, and Xu Lang and the others had some distance at this time.
Xu Lang hurriedly whispered to the three people: "I have information, that is, we can't let the old man know our real name, if we know, there is likely to be a terrorist incident." ”
"Now, I am No. 1, Cheng Guoguo is No. 2, Nameless is No. 3, and Zhu Zixing is No. 4. Lu Xiaozhi and Ruan Fei have already informed the old man's name, I don't know what will happen, we will pay attention to it when the time comes. ”
Let's go to Jiang Hui's room to take a closer look at whether she died because she exposed her name. ”
In fact, Xu Lang said this is also a double insurance, because he doesn't know whether the person who carved the words on his table is helping him or harming him, so he simply observes first.
Let's see what happens to these executors whose names are revealed, and then make a decision, before that, it's still to be on the safe side, and use code names to be commensurate.
Because Jiang Hui most likely had already suffered an accident, at the dinner table, Xu Lang said her name without concealment.
Everyone nodded, but as they spoke, Xu Lang inadvertently glanced at the old man behind him with his spare eyes, but found that the old man behind him was nowhere to be seen?
Then Xu Lang hurriedly turned his head and aimed behind him, and the old man who had disappeared just now reappeared behind them again, in just half a second.
The old man took difficult steps at this time, holding on to the stairs and said to Xu Lang and the others: "You guys slow down, I can't keep up." ”
Xu Lang frowned, is it an illusion? But in my heart, I felt that the half second when the old man disappeared was not so simple.
Now is not the time to think about these, Xu Lang and the others hurriedly went up to the 3rd floor, Zhu Zixing said: "When I went out, I noticed that there was no movement in the room next door, and that may be Jiang Hui's room." ”
Xu Lang and the others nodded, walked to the door of the room, and glanced at each other one by one, Xu Lang took the lead in holding the handle, and turned down only to find that it could not be twisted at all, and the door was locked at all.
Feeling the resistance of the door lock, Xu Lang frowned, and looked back at the old man who was about to catch up, at this time the old man was holding a bunch of keys in his hand, and raised it to them.
"Could it be that this old man knows that Jiang Hui has locked the door, so he will come with us?"
This will work, the old man finally rushed over, and several executors tacitly agreed to give up a door, and the old man did not speak, did not look and directly took out a key and stabbed it into the door lock.
With the sound of squeaking, the door clicked open, and Jiang Hui's room was not very bright due to the dark yellow window flowers.
As soon as the door opened, Xu Lang and the others immediately smelled a choking smell of blood, and hurriedly covered their noses and retreated two steps, no one expected that Jiang Hui's room would be so terrifying.
Seeing that the room was slightly dim, mixed with the smell of blood, it looked filthy and depressing, Xu Lang was the first to see a large amount of blood sprayed on the bed, floor, and wall, this level of bleeding was completely killed by torn limbs.
Jiang Hui's fate was so miserable that it chilled the hearts of all the executors present, what did she go through, she would be so cruelly tortured and killed.
But all this, for the old man who walked in the front, he turned a blind eye, and there was no expression on his face, Xu Lang noticed this, and he believed more and more that his previous speculation was wrong.
An evil spirit is an evil spirit, and how can there be harmless?
Xu Lang and the others also began to enter the room one after another, and the fear that penetrated into people's hearts began to haunt them, Zhu Zixing was in the worst state, he had begun to break out in a cold sweat, and he had retching, and even Xu Lang was a little hairy.
The most calm of the four executors was Nameless, Xu Lang couldn't help but start speculating about what his previous profession was, and he was physically immune to this kind of occasion.
Completely entering the room, Xu Lang immediately realized that something was wrong, Jiang Hui's body was gone!
Why is that? What is the purpose of the evil spirits in hiding the corpse? Does it have something to do with the way of death?
Xu Lang peeked at the old man again, and found that after he entered the room, he stood at the door and did not move, not hindering the actions of the executors in the slightest.
Without thinking about it anymore, Xu Lang approached the bedside, judging from the scene, Jiang Hui should have died on the bed, a mixture of various unpleasant smells rushed straight to his nose, Xu Lang covered his mouth and nose and slowly leaned over.
At first glance, the empty frame above the head of the bed is also gone!
Xu Lang clearly remembered that when he was talking to Jiang Hui before, he was told that there was also an empty mirror frame in her room, why did it disappear at this time?
He suddenly figured out a little, and the effect of the empty frame turned out to be like this.
The empty frame corresponding to each room is not a self-portrait of the owner of the house at all, but a posthumous portrait belonging to the executors!
Last night, Nameless saw a portrait in the hallway, which was undoubtedly a victim of the evil spirit, and once killed by the evil spirit, the empty mirror frame in the room would put the portrait of that person before his death, and mark personal information.
This is an evil spirit that uses killing as an art and has a high sense of ritual!