Chapter 7 Fire Gossip Cards
The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was likely, and at the same time I looked to the rest of the glass bulletin board to see if there were any other clues.
A few minutes later, I retracted my gaze with some disappointment, there were indeed many notices and documents on the bulletin board, and the time of publication on them was shown fifteen years ago, but unfortunately, these documents no longer had clues related to this matter, but one of the announcements of "Notice on Doing a Good Job of Coordinating with Master Tiantong to Clean the Whole Building" made me quite interested.
It's not that there's anything special about the content of the bulletin, it's very simple, it's just a notice, and it doesn't deal with the soul's research project. What really makes me feel a little unusual is the timing of this announcement, the other documents in the glass bulletin board were all published before August 14th, except for this notice, which was released a month later.
More than a month has passed, and the rest of the documents in the bulletin board have not been updated, which is extremely abnormal for a building with a large number of teachers and students attending classes every day, and the only possibility is that the accident happened shortly after August 14.
But what the hell is this Tiantong master, why did the school invite him to clean the building area a month after the accident, and what kind of trouble is this?
I became more and more confused in my heart, but I also knew that I didn't have time to study these at this time, I looked at the time, and found that more than fifty minutes had passed since I came in.
The gate of the corridor entering Area A was not locked, I pushed it open with a little force, thinking that Yang Mengqing had already arrived at Area A first, and it was normal for the door to be unlocked, but I don't know if this door was originally unlocked, or was destroyed by her later.
As soon as the door of the corridor opened, a faint light came through from behind the door, which suddenly made me a little unable to react.
If you walk in the dark for too long, you will crave the light, which is very appropriate for me at this moment, but sometimes behind the light, there is often a greater danger.
Maybe I knew in advance that Yang Mengqing might be in Area A, so after seeing the light coming from the corridor, I subconsciously thought that Yang Mengqing was there, and the light over there was emitted by the lighting equipment in her hand.
Thinking of this, I couldn't be more excited, and without the slightest hesitation, I rushed towards the hall at the end of the corridor.
After entering the hall of Area A, I found that things were far from going as smoothly as I imagined, the spacious central hall was empty, I didn't see Yang Mengqing, and the light I just saw was not a flashlight or mobile phone lights or other lighting equipment, it came from a circle of candles that were slowly burning on the paraistra of the corridor around the hall.
There are many candles, one every thirty centimeters, alternating red and white, and the entire central hall encloses the entire central hall, like a place of prayer for some of the oldest ceremonies in Europe.
The candle flame jumps, the flame is cut very low, so although there are many candles, the range illuminated by the candlelight is not large, except for the vicinity of the cloister, the entire central hall, and even the area above the second floor are very dim, under the background of the candlelight, the invisible high-rise area seems more mysterious and terrifying.
I looked around carefully, and I really didn't find any trace of Yang Mengqing, and I didn't have the heart to think about who put so many candles here, I just wanted to shout Yang Mengqing's name, but I immediately thought of the headless corpse in front of the gate of the administrative building, and the voice in my throat was swallowed by me again.
It is definitely not a wise move to shout in this place, there are so many candles around, the situation in the hall is simply clear, in case there is something else in the building, under my shout, it will be exposed immediately.
Since I can't shout, I can only look around to see if Yang Mengqing's girl left me any clues, since she told me her location in the email, and then ran to another place, if she left by herself, there will definitely be a new email or leave where she is going next in the location she told me.
Thinking of this, I hurriedly checked my mailbox, only to find that there was no internet at all, and there was no signal.
This situation is something I never expected, originally I thought that Yang Mengqing could send me an email in the laboratory building, then there must be a signal here, so although I was also worried along the way, but not to the point of fear, after all, if it really reached the point of desperation, I could still call the police for help, no matter how bad it was, I would not lose my life, but now, I am really a little panicked.
Since I can't get the mail, I can only hope that there will be clues in the hall.
I didn't hesitate any longer, and began to search carefully along the side of the hall, I checked it very carefully, especially the handwriting, but the candlelight in the area away from the handrail of the cloister was very weak, and I thought that it would always be good to save some electricity in case of trouble, so I didn't use my phone to illuminate it.
Looking at the guardrails around me with so many candles, I thought it would be a waste to light them like this, so I reached out and picked one up.
That's when something strange happened, something strange happened that I didn't expect.
As soon as I picked up the red candle, the flame of the wick was extinguished without warning, and I wondered in my heart, but I didn't think much about it, but I thought it was too big for me to extinguish the candle. But when I took the candle in my hand to another burning white candle next to me and lit it, the red candle in my hand was not lit, but the white candle was suddenly extinguished.
I didn't give up, and continued to use the red candle in my hand to borrow fire from nearby candles, but in the end, without exception, all the candles I tried to borrow fire were extinguished.
I felt that something was wrong with the situation, so I dispelled the idea of continuing to light the red candle, and reluctantly turned on the light of my mobile phone and began to continue the search.
The area of the hall is not small, and it is very difficult to find it, and I slowly feel that something is wrong, how can I feel so hot, as if I have been put into a big oven, and my body is starting to sweat.
It's a little weird, the temperature around me seems to be a lot warmer than when I first came in, and it's getting hotter, hotter...... Finally, I couldn't help it, and I was about to take off my coat, but suddenly I caught a glimpse of the place behind me where I had extinguished the candle and burned silently, and the fire had spread, and what was even more strange was that the blazing flames were actually blue.
I was taken aback, no wonder it was so hot, it turned out to be a fire, but how could this flame be this color? absolutely
I didn't have time to think about it, so I rushed over, took off my clothes and wanted to put out the fire. As soon as I approached, a heat wave immediately came, I took a few steps back, I was so anxious that I was about to catch fire, unlike ordinary buildings, the buildings in the β area are not the kind of cement and concrete structure, the fence around it, and the floor of the hall are all wooden, if this is completely burned, there will definitely be an accident!
The fire must be extinguished! I was anxious, so I tore up my clothes and went to fight the flames, but it was completely useless, the blue flames were different from ordinary fires, and they could not be extinguished, and the more I fought, the more the flames burned, and finally even the clothes in my hands were devoured.
The fire was completely out of control, the temperature around me rose sharply, and I felt that the heat began to rise above my head, and I couldn't help but sigh, knowing that there was nothing I could do, so I gave up the idea of continuing to put out the fire.
At this time, the entrance to the corridor had been blocked by flames, and it was impossible to rush out in the face of this extremely hot blue flame, so I quickly retreated to the staircase in the center of the hall, intending to take refuge on the upper floors.
Just as I was about to go upstairs, suddenly, there was a very sharp and strange sound in the fire area, followed by another explosion, as if something had exploded, and then I saw a scene that I couldn't believe at all.
I saw that in the sea of fire, a monster that looked like a thousand-year-old tree root, wrapped in raging flames, rushed out, its size was very large, it was a foot high, its body was wrapped in flames, its two eyes showed a strange blood red, and a bark-like strange face was extremely long, it was simply a monster.
As soon as the flame monster came out of the sea of fire, its eyes immediately stared at me, and it did not hide the greed and bloodlust in its eyes, and it made me feel cold.
Before I could think about how this monster had come to be, the flame monster had already rushed towards me with a raging flame, and my face turned green at this scene, and without thinking about it, I jumped out of the other side of the hall that was not yet on fire.
Almost at the moment when my body jumped out, the flame monster reached the staircase where I was standing just now, and a terrifying scene happened, although the flame monster pounced, the marble staircase it touched actually burned, and the blue flame outside the flame monster's body could even burn stones.
I looked at this scene in shock, and said in my heart, if I give it close, I'm afraid it will burn out in an instant,, who can tell me what the hell this is?
The flame monster's reaction was very fast, the first time it was empty, and immediately turned to look at me again, the two eyes flashed red, I said bad in my heart, I ran away, but my speed couldn't outrun the flame monster at all, I only felt a hot back, that long-lost death warning suddenly appeared in my heart, I didn't think about it, I hurriedly changed direction, and pounced in another direction.
The sudden turn made my body lose balance, and I rolled on the ground for a long time, and then I saw the flame monster rushing to the guardrail around the hall along the direction I had fled before, I thought that the guardrail was going to burn, but I didn't expect the flame monster to stop at a meter away from the guardrail, looking like that, it seemed to be a little afraid of the candles on the guardrail.
Seeing this, my heart moved, and I suddenly had a guess.
Dodging the flame monster's extremely fast attack twice in a row, I know that I have reached the limit, and if I do it again, I will most likely not be able to dodge the attack, so I simply put my heart sideways and gamble!
I jumped up from the ground with a carp, and instead of looking at the flame monster, I spread my legs and continued to run, only this time I had a goal.
The temperature behind me rose again, and it was getting hotter and hotter, and I was extremely nervous, but the speed under my feet was not slow at all, until I was almost close to the edge of the guardrail, my back had been burned by the heat and there was a hot pain, and I quickly pounced to the right, avoiding the attack of the flame monster at the last moment.
After I suddenly avoided it, I realized that it had reached the guardrail, and tried to stop, but it was too late, and I saw that it hit the guardrail all at once, and then the candles that burned quietly on the guardrail suddenly burst into flames, and the flames on the flame monster dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, all the flames in the place where it had burned before also swept towards the flame monster restlessly, burrowing into its body, but it was quickly absorbed by the candles on the guardrail.
The flames of all the candles above the guardrail increased significantly, and the candles I had extinguished were rekindled one by one.
Seeing this scene, I finally understood what was going on, and at the same time secretly regretted my recklessness.
These candles in the hall of Area A are actually equivalent to a seal, they sealed the fire monster in Area A, because of my ignorance and recklessness, I removed one of the candles, resulting in the mutilation of the seal, and then I extinguished a lot of candles one after another, which released the sealed flame monster.
It's also surprising to say, the flame monster seems to be the flame of these candles on the guardrail, the candle can seal it when it is completely burned, and it gets out of trouble after the candle is extinguished, but because the number of candles that are extinguished is limited, although it is powerful, it is not impossible to deal with.
Thinking about this, I can't help but be glad I wasn't stupid enough to put out all the candles, otherwise it wouldn't have ended.
The candle flame continued to absorb the flames of the flame monster, and soon, all the extinguished candles were rekindled, but the monster did not disappear, although it was much weaker, but it was still terrifying.
At this time, I suddenly remembered the candle that I had placed on the floor of the hall casually, and I rushed over to it, but fortunately, the candle was not consumed by the fire just now, and I hurriedly put the candle back on the guardrail.
Suddenly, the candles in the whole hall dimmed, as if they were about to be extinguished, and startled me, but the next moment the candle flame returned to normal, and the candle I put back was also lit, and I breathed a long sigh of relief.
The flame monster had vanished, and the hall had regained that mysterious tranquility, but where the monster had disappeared, there was an extra palm-sized copper gossip card.
I picked up the gossip card in amazement, looked at it carefully, and found that it was engraved with complex patterns and symbols, all of which I couldn't understand, and the only thing I could identify was a big "fire" word in the middle of the gossip card.