Chapter 37: One Less

When they reached the top of the stairs, the two unfortunate found that they were still facing the hall on the first floor.

Betty turned to look at Anne, "Did I scold hard enough, or did it just not work?" ”

Yi Annie spread her hands and said helplessly: "I also said before, I have heard of these methods, and I have never used them myself." ”

"Cut!" Betty snorted dissatisfiedly, "My image is gone." ”

Iannie poked Betty in the waist, Betty was still angry, shook off Ellenie's hand and ignored her.

Anne stabbed again.

"What are you doing!" Betty turned her head impatiently to find that Anne was staring in the other direction.

As Anne looked in, she saw a figure walking from the left hallway of the apartment building.

It was a young boy, headphones and shaking his head, unaware of his surroundings.

"Hey, you!" Betty waved her hand in surprise.

Presumably because the man was wearing headphones, Betty's voice was not heard.

Just as Betty was about to walk over to say hello, the man suddenly bowed forward and flew up.

Anne and Betty watched in amazement as the man rolled in the air and fell to the center of the hall at the entrance of the apartment building, with white bone punctures piercing his hands, feet, chest and abdomen, apparently not surviving.

After a few more seconds, the man's chest suddenly sank as if something had pressed it, and a mass of red, white and black was squeezed out of the wound in his abdomen.

Frightened, Anne and Betty swallowed back the breakfast they were about to vomit, and the two clasped their hands tightly together, pinching each other's wrists with bruises.

The man stared blankly at the two girls standing at the top of the stairs, and then his body slowly dissipated.

After a few moments, the figure stepped out of the hallway again......

Betty took out her phone and turned on the video recording function, and looked through the camera of her phone, and there was only an empty corridor in front of her.

She put down her phone to look at the real scene, and the man was still shaking his head and getting closer, and after looking at it several times, Betty finally understood the fact that the camera equipment could not capture the ghost.

After a closer look, Betty recognized the person again: "Ah, this person is also the victim of this serial murder." The poor young student was walking on the road when he was hit from behind by a murderer driving a fake police car, and then he was run over again. ”

"Let's find a place where there are no ghosts, and then talk?" Eaanne gasped and pulled Betty into the hallway on the other side, for in about a minute, the student ghost would be dead in front of them again.

Passing by the room they had entered earlier, the female ghost, the first deceased of the incident, was walking towards the door, intending to open it, apparently in a moment she was about to be killed by the murderer.

Anne was about to walk straight into the room, but was pulled by Betty.

Betty pointed to the opposite room, and Anne looked to see how many people were in that room (ghosts?). )。

In the room, four people were sitting on a non-existent sofa chatting, presumably an elderly couple and their children.

Betty whispered to Anne, "They are also victims of this case. ”

Yi Annie's heart sank: "In this way, the ghosts that the other victims of this serial murder incident have turned into may be in this apartment." ”

In order to confirm this suspicion, Anne and Betty continued to walk forward, and sure enough, they saw the other victims in the other rooms, and they were all repeating the moment of their death, which made Anne's heart stop.

All the dead were innocent, and on a weekend morning, they went about their daily lives at home, cooking a good breakfast, chatting with their families, and enjoying the nice weather that weekend...... Suddenly, someone broke into the house and killed him for no reason......

And those who died on the way of the murderer fleeing into the summer city were like this, and no one would have thought that they would die in this way.

Betty also followed Anne in silence, looking from house to house, feeling this unusual experience of seeing ghosts.

Suddenly, a gunshot broke the calm!

In this dreary environment, the loud noise frightened Anne and Betty.

"It's over the hall!"

The ghosts before have been acting in pantomime, and this gunshot seems to be a game-breaker.

The two walked back, and when they reached the hall, they saw a body in a police uniform slumped on the stairs on the left.

Seeing the two of them coming, the body struggled to raise its head to look at them: "How can there be civilians here...... Come on! Get out of here! ”

As he spoke, the man's head hung limply.

Betty and Iannie were taken aback, didn't they say that the killer had already been killed?

When these reporters swarmed in the morning, the murderer's body should be sent for an autopsy!

Just as the two of them were in a state of confusion, the policeman's body gradually faded into disarray, and then slowly disappeared.

The place where he disappeared left a trail of blood, the same dark red that Iannie and the others had seen when they came before.

"He's a ghost, too......" Betty muttered, "but he spoke to us before, right?" ”

Yi Annie nodded: "I suspect that his difference is due to the fact that he died here in the first place. ”

Betty thought for a moment and accepted the reason: "Shall we continue to look around?" ”

Seeing Iannie nodding, they walked together into the corridor on the left that they hadn't been to before.

When she passed by the student with the headphones on, Yi Annie saw the carefree smile on his face, and he didn't even react to what was happening.

On a whim, Anne reached out to pull the man, but her hand ran through the body as if nothing existed.

Betty looked at Anne's movements and shrugged, "It seems that we can't change the fate of these ghosts. ”

The two continued to walk forward, and by the time they reached the end of the corridor on the left, they had seen enough of the series of helpless deaths.

The exit at the end is also sealed by an air wall, and it seems that it is impossible to get out of here.

Suddenly, Betty spoke, "One less." ”

Anne looked at Betty puzzled, "What's missing?" ”

Betty took out her phone and called up the list of deaths in this incident: "Of the 21 dead that have been announced, we have only seen 20 now, where is the other one?" ”

Yi Annie checked the list: "It's true, the boss of the small newspaper office of "Summer City Experience" didn't see it!" ”

At first, the two thought that they had missed it, but after looking around the various rooms and corners on the first floor, they really did not see the death scene of this person.

Anne thought back for a moment, theorizingly, she had seen the deceased's car and heard a gunshot while waiting.

"Didn't he get killed by this murderer?" Anne told Betty what she had seen and heard, and finally analyzed the result.

When she and Wang Yuxin returned to Xia City from Naya City after attending the funeral on Saturday afternoon, the murderer had theoretically been surrounded by the police in the Changhu Park area, so it seemed unlikely that he would have killed people on the highway at that time.

"Hey, it seems that someone deliberately mixed this death into the list of the murderer's dead. Big news! Betty nodded her head.

"But, even if it's big news, we have to wait until we go out first, right?" Anne was a little frustrated again.

"Actually, we still have a way to go." "The staircase to the left where the officer was shot, we never tried. ”

Yi Annie was stunned, indeed, because of the large pool of blood, they both gave up the staircase, intentionally or unintentionally.

"That officer told me to go quickly, so I guess I'm a harmless ghost, right?" Betty asked.

Yi Annie nodded, and the two went back to the hall together.

Shortly after walking up the stairs, a gunshot rang out, and the figure of the policeman staggered above the stairs.

Even though they knew where the police were going, Anne and Betty clung to the side of the stairs, giving up most of the stairs to the officers who were tumbling down.

Not long after the officer's body rolled down, he tried to look up at the end of the stairs: "How can there be civilians here...... Come on! Get out of here! ”

"Huh......?" The two girls standing beside the police officer were stunned.

"So he didn't say that to us?" Betty reacted keenly, "Everybody knows that there is a murderer in the residential construction area of Long Lake Park, and there are still people who dare to come here?" ”

"I always feel that this incident has become more confusing." Anne Yi said.

Ignoring this for the time being, they continued to walk upstairs.

As they ascended the stairs, it suddenly became clear that what they were facing this time was finally not the door of the first floor of the apartment building.

"Hey, you're up too?" Victor beckoned to the two.

Yi Annie looked over, the second floor was crowded with a lot of people, not only were there a lot of people, but the evidence signs on the ground were also much more than the first floor, and the white circles drawn by chalk were also many and large, including several human shapes.

Betty stepped forward to Victor and asked, "What did you guys do when you came up, did you hear any big news?" ”

Victor replied, "No, don't we just come up?" ”

"Huh?" Betty wondered, "Isn't it all two or three hours?" ”

She and Yi Annie encountered a wall of air and ghosts downstairs, and watched the death experiences of so many people one by one, and then looked for a dead person who did not exist. Now that I see so many people, I feel hungry with peace of mind.

But Victor actually told her that they just came up!

Yi Annie took out her mobile phone and saw that the time was really still in the morning, which was not much different from the time they entered the apartment!

Moreover, there is a network......

Betty watched Anne's movements and took out her phone to take a look. Sure enough, it was as if the time that had passed before was completely non-existent.

"Victor, who was the last person when you went upstairs?" Anne suddenly remembered something and asked Victor.

Victor replied without hesitation: "Of course it's me as a young reporter." ”

Looking at Betty's puzzled gaze, Iannie whispered, "It seems that during that time, the two of us were probably locked up in another space by the person I saw walking behind Victor before. ”

Betty nodded thoughtfully.