Chapter Twenty-Five: The Invisible Tenant III
"Are you a ghost?" Chen Xiao wrote these words down on the paper.
Soon, the old handwriting was crooked, and one stroke at a time appeared underneath the line.
"No"
Chen Xiao stared at the handwriting that slowly appeared, and touched the path of the stroke with his hand, and found that there were no pen marks.
"Words can be revealed, but paper does not touch anything......"
No one knew what was in the mind of this psychopath, but he began to try to understand the phenomena.
First of all, no matter what this thing is, one thing that can be determined is that "it" can be communicated! And I understand the meaning of "words".
"Another form of human being or some other intelligent being? Is it really the so-called soul? Or is it some kind of higher-dimensional existence? ”
Secondly, "it" can have an effect on the things around it, such as the sound of footsteps, moving objects, and even writing.
But "it" has no substance.
This phenomenon seems difficult to explain with today's science, perhaps because the field of science and technology is not yet perfect, or simply the technology tree ordered by humans is just a deviation.
But for now, let's put that aside and assume that the scientific understanding is correct. One possibility, then, is that "it" has entities, but entities are not here.
"Could it be a staggering of spaces? For example, this room is at the intersection of two spaces or something, as is often written in science fiction novels, and some non-physical things can be connected? Chen Xiao thought.
That is, the sound can be transmitted, but the object that produces the sound is not here. The handwriting can appear on the paper, but it is not written, so the word "no" that appears in front of one's eyes is not a simple ink, but represents a kind of transmission of information, and the movement of the door or table is also produced without the contact of objects, to explain it in a mysterious and mysterious way, that is, "it" is here, and it is not here.
Chen Xiao thought wildly, but his hand didn't stop at all, and as soon as the word "no" appeared, he immediately used a pen to write another paragraph under the word "no".
"You're stupid X!"
......
In the next 5 seconds, Chen Xiao held his breath and was extremely serious.
And yet nothing happened.
"Hmm...... It seems that it is true that you can't touch objects directly? He thought.
At this time, the handwriting on the paper reappeared.
"Come here"
After that, there was an interval of about 1 second......
“?”
A "question mark" appears again after "come over", turning the two words into a question sentence.
Chen smiled for a moment, staring at the handwriting that had just appeared, and his brows were tightly knit.
At this moment, he thought a lot, including the meaning of these two words, where was the past? How to get there? Why did "it" let me pass? Why is that question mark apparently added later? Why ask yourself, whether "it" really understands the meaning of your words, etc., etc., etc.
But as everyone thought, no matter how strange and messy Chen Xiao thought, in the end, he would write it down on paper.
The word "good".
......
......
The tip of Chen Xiao's pen left the page.
Or rather, the page left the tip of the pen, and it disappeared under Chen Xiao's gaze, and he didn't even see how it was gone.
Chen Xiao still maintained a sitting posture, his pen hanging in the air, his eyes between his legs, but what he saw was not the floor of the apartment, but the very old wooden boards, the surrounding light was very dim, the temperature was a little cold, and there was a smell of old wooden furniture.
It was a strange feeling, as if he had been sitting here all along, and everything in the apartment had just been his own imagination.
Chen Xiao raised his head and looked around, this was a very old small bedroom, he could kick the wooden wall on the opposite side with his feet, the door was tightly closed, there was a wooden table on the side, there were a few books on it, and a bunch of bottles and cans, the jars were filled with turbid liquid, it should be soaked in something, but he couldn't see clearly.
And he was sitting on a simple wooden bed at the moment, and he habitually touched the sheets under his buttocks.
The fabric is a little stiff, and the area under the butt is not warm at all, so it looks like I've just sat here.
"Hmm...... Is that what the word "come" means? Chen Xiao muttered to himself.
Immediately after, he raised his hand and gave himself a mouthful.
This time there was really no mercy at all, a crisp sound of "pop"!
"Ah!!!h Chen Xiao was unashamed to pull his throat and howl, and his cheeks were a little swollen.
After wailing, Chen Xiao thought with a serious expression: "Hmm...... I don't know if this is some strange space or a ghost world or something. But at least the basic rules of gravity, sound, etc., are still the same, and the feeling, strength, and coordination of the body are all the same. ”
Chen Xiao whispered, and took out his mobile phone, as expected, there was no signal, he nodded with an expression of "sure enough", and continued to maintain a meditative posture.
Two minutes later.
"Hmm...... Didn't anyone show up? He muttered, then grinned, "...... Peekaboo? ”
Chen Xiao stood up and pushed open the door with his hand, the sound of the wood rubbing against each other was particularly harsh. Outside the door is a dark horizontal corridor, and the line of sight can only be seen about 5 meters ahead, so I don't know how long this corridor is. Chen Xiao didn't rush out, but turned his head, picked up a jar on the table, and looked carefully into it by the light of his mobile phone.
Inside was an undeveloped fetus, only four to five months old, which looked particularly oozing under the light blue light.
"Hmm...... Surprisingly complete, the umbilical cord is very full and has a small placenta attached to it, which seems to have been taken raw while the mother was still alive. Chen Xiao muttered to himself, and laughed a few times with "hey, hey, hey".
Next, he opened a book on the table, but it was full of some unintelligible words, Chen Xiao probably flipped through it, and found that there were several hand-drawn illustrations in it. It's all human tissue, and it's worth noting that there's an illustration with an eye directly linked to the two arms, which are proportionally the size of a sewer cover......
Chen Xiao habitually licked his lips and commented: "The direction of understanding medicine is very strange." ”
After that, he froze in place, and with a very interested expression, he actually read all the remaining books on the table.
......
Since I couldn't read the text, I was just looking for illustrations, so it didn't take too long. About 3 minutes later, Chen Xiao couldn't help it, and spit out with a painful face: "It doesn't seem that this has a unique insight into medicine, it's obvious that the entire technology tree is a little crooked." ”
In these books, at first, he only drew some schematic diagrams of cutting the brain or human anatomy, but later, this person seemed to be committed to combining the various organs of the human body, such as the eyeball with two hands that he had just seen, and in the end, Chen Xiao even saw a circular pattern similar to a summoning array drawn between the dense handwriting on a few pieces of paper.
"Uh...... In any case, this person should be classified as a genius. Chen Xiao put down the book in his hand and said.
At this moment, there was a sound of slow footsteps in the corridor behind him.
Chen Xiao frowned, because he could easily distinguish a person's height, weight, and even gender from the sound of footsteps, but this footstep was obviously a little strange.
"He is about 1 meter tall and weighs only 20 pounds...... And the center of gravity is high. ”
Without even thinking about it, he hid in the corner of the room and stared at the dark hallway with a narrow gaze.
......
"No, can you really make something like that?" Chen Xiao thought in disbelief.
Sure enough, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and in the darkness, a huge eyeball gradually appeared, and the scarlet veins below connected the two arms that were broken from the shoulders, and the bones branched out and inserted into the bottom of the eyeballs, and with every step you could hear the sound of bones churning in the eyeballs.
The corner of Chen Xiao's eyes twitched: "The power of science is really infinite." He muttered to himself and hid himself in the blind spot of his vision.
After a while, footsteps ...... No, it was the sound of hand footsteps slowly moving away, and Chen Xiao quietly poked his head out.
"Hmm...... Except for the hands, there is no focus on it, it is estimated that this thing has no combat power, and it doesn't even have ears, so he must not be able to hear the sound, otherwise he should have heard it in my throat just now......" After Chen Xiao saw such a thing beyond common sense, he didn't have the emotion of being afraid, but hesitated to do it on the spot.
As I said before, generally when it is necessary to make a choice, Chen Xiao's behavior is incalculable, and even he himself doesn't know what he will do, fortunately, this time the chaotic turntable in his mind stopped at the option of "stop and stay", otherwise, it may really stage a drama of a mentally ill person abusing and powerless to resist the little monster hunter.
Chen Xiao walked out of the small bedroom, and he found that this corridor was actually not long, the direction that "Eyeball King" came from was a hall, and the other direction of the corridor was a wooden staircase leading to the upstairs. And at this moment, the "eyeball king" has obviously gone upstairs. Chen Xiao stomped his feet and knocked on the wall next to him a few more times, and there was a very solid and dull "knock" sound.
"Oh...... Basement. Chen Xiao thought, and put his pocket in his pocket, and walked to the hall in front of him.
There was almost no light here, but Chen Xiao's eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, and he saw that on the walls of the hall, there were countless strange symbols, large and small, densely painted with unknown paints, and on the floor, there was a huge circular circle, surrounded by several burned candles.
"Huo~ Is this a story of an otaku who devotes himself to studying black technology in order to summon succubi?" Chen Xiao spit out lightly and took a step forward.
Suddenly, he stopped.
There was nothing in front of Chen Xiao.
But he had clearly touched something......
"Hmm...... So that's it! Chen Xiao said with a smile