Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Murdered Investigation Team
Looking at the name of the company on the work card, I feel a little familiar, think about it carefully, my brain can't help buzzing, I think of this name, I damn, isn't this the travel company where Sister Yang is located?
In an instant, I understood the identity of these dried corpses, the inspection team, the inspection team! These two are employees who disappeared after the company sent them to the city!
I remembered the company secrets that Sister Yang told us, the first team to be sent to Suoming Town to investigate, weren't they just two people? I remember that Sister Yang said at the time that the two people of the first expedition team set off two years ago, and judging from the style of their clothes and the degree of dryness of their bodies, these two should be the two company employees of the first expedition team.
However, how could they die here, this is the mirror world of the ancient town, could it be that they also noticed the abnormality of the ancient town at that time and wanted to escape, but accidentally broke into this mirror world when crossing the stone bridge?
Looking at the two corpses with hideous faces, I couldn't understand it, the death of the corpses was so weird, this way of dying with the water of the whole body drained, it must be extremely painful, what did they encounter?
With a heavy heart, I continued to rummage through the corpses, including their backpacks, but this time I found nothing else useful.
I sighed, and my heart became heavier and heavier, until this time, there were more and more mysteries hanging over my heart, and the strangeness of the ancient town that we knew before now seemed to be only the tip of the iceberg, and the real mystery was far more than I imagined. I collected the work card I found on the body and retreated out of the backyard.
Back at the staircase in the lobby, I looked upstairs in the dark sky, and after a little hesitation, decided to go up and have a look. The lobby is not as good as the upstairs, although this mirror world has been turned into ruins and scorched earth, but the moonlight is very good, the view is very wide, and the light is very good. Because the door on the first floor of the inn was burned badly, the moonlight from the outside could shine inside, but the second floor was not. The third floor was burned the hardest, but the fire did not completely burn the third floor, so the second floor sandwiched in the middle was the most well preserved, the floor slab was not burned through, the light naturally could not penetrate, and it was so dark that it was a mess.
My flashlight had been thrown aside when I was carrying the body, and I hadn't crossed the bridge, and the only thing I had on me that could light up was my phone.
Because there is no signal in the ancient town, and there is no electricity, the mobile phone is completely useless in this place, so it has not been used much in the past few days, and the power consumption is very small, and about two-thirds of the electricity is left in this fashion.
I took out my phone, turned on the flashlight on the back, and walked cautiously up the stairs. The staircase was not affected by the fire, and it looked intact, but because of the damage to the overall structure of the wooden building, and the fact that it had been abandoned for a long time, some of the floor slabs had been corrupted, and it seemed that there was nothing at all, but it was broken immediately when I stepped on it, which was very dangerous, and I was like walking on thin ice, and I had to carefully test for half a day every step I took, and it took a lot of time to go upstairs.
Most of the slabs on the top of the second floor were blackened, but the situation in the building was not bad. I first opened the room closest to the staircase, which was the one where Boss Li lived in the real world.
The room was similarly smoky, and although nothing was damaged, it was pitch black everywhere. The light on my phone wasn't bright, so I walked around the room and didn't notice anything at all.
Just as I was about to leave, there was a sudden squeak outside the room, and it turned out to be the sound of the door of the room being opened, and the direction of the sound seemed to be on the second floor, the direction where the doctor and I lived.
My scalp exploded, the hair all over my body stood up, I didn't have time to think about it, I hurriedly went out of the room, raised the mobile phone to the direction of the end of the corridor, but the light of the mobile phone was too weak, it was not clear at all, but vaguely, I did see the door of the end of the room flashing, like that, as if someone had just run out of it, and when the door was opened, the force was too great, causing the door to be flashing all the time.
I took a deep breath and was so confused that I didn't know how to react, so I stood there for a long time. It wasn't until the door stopped shaking that I suddenly woke up, and subconsciously wanted to go downstairs and leave immediately, but just as I turned around and was about to take a step, the wooden door squeaked again, and the frequency was several times faster than just now, as if something was holding on to the wooden door and kept opening and closing.
I didn't dare to move now, the movement of the wooden door was obviously for me to pass, and God knows if I would anger the things over there if I ran away. After much deliberation, I decided to go over and take a look, because if these things really want to harm me, just do it, there is no need to do more, on the contrary, if I don't go, it may really limit me to danger.
Sighing, I walked over cautiously.
Luckily, I didn't see anything until I reached the door, and the wooden door, blackened by the flames, stopped shaking, and the doorway was hidden, leaving only a small gap.
Looking at the crack in the door, I felt weak in my heart, for fear that as soon as the door was opened, a terrifying grimace would appear in front of me, and I hesitated to open it. Then an even more bizarre scene appeared, the door that was hidden opened by itself, my outstretched hand suddenly froze in the air, and a chill rushed from the soles of my feet to the Tianling cover in an instant, and my heart almost jumped out of nervousness.
My eyes widened and I stared intently at the door that opened a little bit, there were no grimaces, no zombies, all I saw was a hollow and deep darkness. I breathed a sigh of relief, and took a picture of it on my phone, and found that the situation inside was similar to the one just now, and the whole room was blackened by flames.
Since the thing kept suggesting that I should come, there must be something unusual in this room, and if I didn't go in, I was afraid it wouldn't stop, so I had to go inside.
The same pitch black, because of the strange appearance of the wooden door, I know that there must be other things here that I can't see, under the tension in my heart, I am not in the mood to check every corner carefully, so I hastily took a circle, and found nothing, I hugged my hands and bowed around the room, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know which ancestor fingerprint, I have come here according to your request, and I have found it, but there is really nothing in it, if you have anything to tell me, there is a dream of Lyoto, this place is really not suitable for a long time, I will withdraw first, and I hope that the spirit will not stop ......"
Saying that, I didn't care if it was dirty or not, I knelt on the ground and kowtowed firmly to the room, got up and was about to leave, but I didn't expect that as soon as I walked to the door, the door slammed shut by itself.
I secretly complained in my heart, knowing that the other party would not be able to let me go easily before achieving my goal, so I had to look for it again in the room.
However, to my great frustration, this time I had clearly searched very carefully, but I still found nothing, and there was nothing in the whole room except for the blackened furniture.
What's going on? Am I mistaken, the other party brought me here not to tell me anything, but to keep me here?
Thinking about it, I felt that there was really such a possibility, and then I suddenly remembered the two corpses in the backyard downstairs, and the dried corpse behind the counter in the lobby that made me feel very familiar, and said to my heart, could it be that their souls were still gone, and I saw that there was finally a person who broke into this place and wanted to keep me with them?
Damn, if that's the case, things will be a big deal, not to mention whether you can find a way out of the mirror world, even if there is really a way to leave, being trapped in the inn will only have to wait for death.
At this time, the red rope tied around my waist was caught by the door, I tried to pull, but it didn't work, I was worried that the rope would collapse too tightly and the door would break it, so I hurriedly let out some of the red rope wrapped around my fingers. A startling scene happened, as soon as the red rope was released, it immediately shrank out of the door, apparently some kind of force was pulling the red rope at one end of the outside.
I was ecstatic in my heart, one end of the red rope was tied to me, and the other end was in the doctor's hand, and at this time, this change occurred, could it be that the doctor saw that I had not gone back for a long time, and began to try to pull the red rope? If this is the case, and I can feel the power of the doctor here through the red rope, doesn't that mean that I can get out of this mirror world just by walking to the end of the red rope?
The sudden change made me feel more anxious to leave the inn, but what did the invisible thing want to do?
I forced myself to calm down, only by calming down my mind can I correctly analyze the situation in front of me and find a solution to the problem, the more chaotic I will only lose my inch, but in this place I always feel that there is a disturbance that can make me upset, so that I can't calm down at all.
What to do? In my anxiety, I suddenly remembered a scripture that my grandmother had taught me, which I only read every time I performed the witch boy worship ceremony, which was very mysterious and had the effect of calming the mind. I sat cross-legged and began to recite the scripture in my heart, and sure enough, as the voice of the scripture echoed in my heart, the inexplicable distraction disappeared, and the irritability that shrouded me was dispelled little by little, and after ten minutes, after reciting the scripture, the emotions of restlessness, restlessness, and fear were completely replaced by peace and tranquility.
I stretched my body with great satisfaction, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and my mind was clear. It was at this moment that a very strange feeling rose up in me, and I could not capture the source of that feeling, but I was sure that it must have existed before, but it was only muffled by the anxiety in my heart, and now that my mind was clear, this strange feeling suddenly became extremely clear.
It was a feeling of being spied on, as if there was a pair of eyes staring at me in some corner of the room that I couldn't see.
That's how it feels! I felt a sense of horror, suddenly noticed the source of that gaze, suddenly looked up, and suddenly found that on a log pillar beside me, there was a dried corpse, like a humanoid spider, just the hollow eye sockets of the dry corpse were staring straight at me, and the corners of the mouth were weirdly upturned, revealing an extremely strange expression.
I didn't dare to move when I looked at each other for a long time, and my clothes were already soaked in cold sweat.
However, after waiting for a long time, the dry corpse was still motionless, I began to have doubts, and slowly tried to move my body, but the dry corpse on the pillar still did not react at all, and with the change of my angle, I found that the dry corpse was not lying on the pillar by itself, but was nailed to the pillar by a wooden sword, but just now because of the angle, I did not see the wooden sword inserted in the back of the dry corpse.
Knowing that this thing was not a living thing, I immediately went limp, and after a long time of slowing down, I finally recovered, and walked under the log with my mobile phone to take a photo, and immediately made a new discovery.
It turned out that there was more than one dried corpse in this room, and the dried corpse on the pillar was actually nailed to it by another corpse, and there were three corpses in the room in total.
Although the face of the dried corpse on the pillar is no longer distinguishable, it can be seen from his clothing that this person should have died in the last year or two, and this person's identity is still a little unusual.
The reason why he is not ordinary is because he is not from Shenzhou, but a foreigner. The man's hair was blonde, he was tall and very burly, and his skin, though dehydrated, still looked whiter than the skin of the three dried corpses I had seen before.
Foreigners, who have died here in the last year or two, reminds me of another expedition team that Sister Yang said, which was a team that the company spent a lot of money to invite, with only five people, but all of them were not ordinary people, including a foreign exploration expert.
If this alone does not confirm the identity of this person, the other two corpses are the strongest proof of this.
As I said earlier, the foreigner was nailed to the column with a wooden sword by another person, and the other person was on the opposite side of the column, that is, on the wall panel of the room against the corridor. It was also a dried corpse, but the man looked far less terrifying than the corpse of a foreigner, but on the contrary, it gave me a sense of peace.
I think maybe it's because the man is also a Taoist priest!
That's right, the corpse opposite the foreigner, dressed in a green robe, was pierced through his chest by the hands of another corpse behind him, which may be the cause of his death. The corpse behind the Taoist priest also has a short sword made of copper coins in his chest, which seems to have been nailed into the wooden board behind him, and the Taoist priest's right hand is maintaining a movement of throwing things out, and his left hand is pointed at the eyebrows of the corpse behind him with a sword finger, and between his fingers and the eyebrows of the corpse behind him, there is also a yellow talisman.
As for the corpse behind him, it was different from all the corpses in the inn, it was a fresh corpse, burly, with a flat head, a blue face, and the fangs at the corners of his mouth were more than three inches long, obviously a zombie, and a very powerful zombie.