Chapter 41: The Vanishing Man
"That guy must not have run far!"
Wei Fang said indignantly, turned around and walked to the second floor.
The others followed behind Wei Flail with different expressions, and the cuckoo probably didn't follow the others because he was wearing a nightdress.
The second floor was pitch black, and it was the first time he had been to the second floor at night. On the first floor, the light was more abundant, and when I left the dimly lit staircase on the second floor, a dark shadow appeared before going to bed. This is the human illusion caused by the retina not adapting to the darkness, Wei Flais stood on the stairs on the second floor for a long time, and began to slowly see things in the dark.
In addition to the musty smell on the second floor, there was a stench, not the stench of his feet, nor the stench of the toilet or sewer. Wei Flails felt that he had smelled this smell, but because his memory was too long, he couldn't remember it at all at this time, so he simply didn't think about the smell.
The room on the second floor, which corresponded to the room he rented on the first floor, loomed in the darkness, and it was a plain wooden door.
Through the light and brittle feeling of the wooden door, Wei Flails can be sure that this door is the original wooden door of the house in the old building. Its sturdiness doesn't stand up to proven, and with the right tools, a weak woman can easily smash a big hole in the door.
The people who followed followed, and the three of Bai Mengshan fell at the end of the line.
At the front was the good old man Meng Gaozhao, who took a look at the room.
Then I looked at the surrounding houses again and again, and finally confirmed one thing.
"I remember no one living in this house."
A small voice echoed in the silent corridor and sounded in everyone's ears.
Bai Mengshan affirmed Meng Gaozhao's words.
"The house has not been rented out, there is no one in the house, and the door is not locked."
Wei Feng was still hesitating to knock the door open before, but after listening to Bai Mengshan's words, there was no need for this now.
He grabbed the doorknob and twisted it clockwise, and the door opened.
Filling the air was a cloud of dust, and someone turned on the phone's flash.
The house was empty, like a long-abandoned cemetery, and the people who worshiped them were dead and forgotten in the corner.
Wei Fang coughed a few times, and the dust raised up, making the scene in the room a little blurred under the light.
He looked and looked, and didn't understand why there was no one in the house. According to his speculation, even if someone had done something to the devil in such a short period of time, it would have been impossible to get out of this building.
He took a step to go inside the house to take a look, and he thought the man might be hiding in the bathroom.
The curtain next to the window hangs out of the window, and it can be seen that the "ghost" made of the broken mop hangs on a line by it.
Someone stopped his movements, and it was Long Shancheng who spoke.
"Don't move, look at the ground!"
The others, including Wei Flai, involuntarily followed his voice and looked at the ground, the white light shining on the ground where a shallow layer of uniform dust had accumulated.
When Wei Flails heard Long Shancheng's words, he was a little unhappy in his heart.
He could see the footprints on the ground that were evenly printed in the dust, and his ability to think was completely taken away in an instant.
There are two regular rows of footprints here, and it can be seen that the owner of the footprints is the same person. The footprints on the ground were as distinct as the morning star in the dark night sky, revealing the fact that there was indeed a man in the room just now, who made the device with the fastest movements, and left very decisively.
Bai Mengshan glanced at the ground, and there was a look in his eyes that no one could understand.
Then, he said quietly, "Have you noticed that these two rows of footprints are only in the house, and outside the corridor, there are no dust footprints in sight?" ”
This voice seemed to come slowly under the nine shades, and Bai Mengshan's seemingly kind dwarf face seemed to hide the turbulent waves, and the undercurrent in the whirlpool would swallow people if they were not careful.
Wei Fang felt his heart tighten subconsciously, and there was a faint pain in his right chest.
The pain only made him uncomfortable and did not affect his normal movements.
What Bai Mengshan's words meant, everyone present heard his subtext.
The people who have entered this room will definitely get dust on the ground when their shoes step on it, and because he wants to run away in a hurry without being discovered by them, he must evacuate this old building as quickly as possible.
It's ridiculous, it can't exist!
As for the bathroom where the person Wei Leng had imagined hiding in the house, it was even more fantastic.
Both rows of footprints on the ground point to the doorway where they stood, with no footprints leading to the bathroom.
Unlike sand or soil, it is almost impossible to create a uniform layer in a short period of time with a simple and rough tool. The evenly distributed dust in front of you is not an overnight achievement, and time plays a crucial role in it, which can basically eliminate the possibility of artificially creating a layer of ash.
Besides, taking 10,000 steps back, even if this person was really well prepared, with all the tools, and could fake such a flawless scene, then how could such a big person disappear here out of thin air?
The only exit from the old building, as well as the two windows on the first and second floors, were all closed, and even if he had the tools to destroy the place, he would make a loud noise, and the ears of so many of them could not believe that there was not a single one who did not hear.
"He may be hiding in other empty houses, and everyone will look for him separately!"
Wei was blessed to the heart, and this thought appeared out of thin air.
The house that is already inhabited is basically locked, and if that person exists, he will not choose a place to hide after he succeeds, and the risk of being discovered is too great.
It was rare that Long Shancheng did not ridicule Wei Fang, he and the others acted separately and spontaneously searched for the empty room on the second floor.
Wei Feng first searched for the empty room at the end of the corridor, and it was easy to find out if there was anyone in the room. Those doors that don't move are basically empty rooms that no one lives in.
He took his phone and pushed open the dusty door, the layout of all the rooms was not much different, and the scene in the room was even more clear.
The speed of the search is very fast, in fact, as long as you go around the room in the house and the bathroom, you can find the traces of someone at once.
Wei Flails snorted and coughed as he closed the door to the empty room. The others searched the other empty rooms and walked to the room where there were two rows of footprints on the ground.
But everyone's faces were not optimistic, Meng Gaozhao shook his head, Long Shancheng's face was as black as a dark cloud, among the three of Bai Mengshan, Lu Qianqiu's fear was almost engraved on his face, and Bai Mengshan and Hong Yi also had low air pressure.
From everyone's performance, Wei Flail knew that none of them had found that person.
"I didn't find it over there."
"Me too."
"I didn't see anyone."
"We didn't find it."
Wei Flails didn't know what expression to use to face the situation at this moment, his face stiffened a little, and he changed the topic stiffly: "Let's take a look at the device in the room." ”
He was now beginning to wonder if that person was a normal human being, and could it be that it wasn't another warning from the "eyes" against him?
No one else objected, the impact of this night on everyone was no less than the end of the world, and the secret that was deeply buried in their hearts and could not see the light of day was cracked under the influence of this "person". Everyone has a mess of worries and a future they fear, and at this time a seed has been planted in the soil.
After Wei Flail entered the house, he still went to the bathroom to take a look, and as he expected, there was no one in the bathroom. He even looked at the back of the sanitary door and the place above his head, which seemed impossible to hide, but he didn't see anyone.
The ridiculous "ghost" was pulled up as if a fish had been hooked, the old mop head was fresh and dusty, and the baby pink nightdress was put on this broken mop, which looked so weird. The dust that fell on it stained the skirt of the pale pink nightdress, and Wei Flais rubbed the fabric of the nightdress with his hand, this nightdress was really the nightdress that Du Juan worn, and it was also the silk fabric nightdress that he bought with Du Juan to the mall.
The cuckoo walked into the room with a frightened mind, and when he saw the solemn faces of the people, he asked cautiously.
"What's wrong? Did you find the man? ”
No one spoke, and there was a silence around them, an untimely silence that made one feel irresistibly terrifying.
The cuckoo saw Wei Flail standing by the window, and Wei Flail had already taken off the nightdress on the "ghost" and held it in his hand.
Who knew that the cuckoo saw this nightdress, but was shocked, as if he saw some flood beast.
"This ...... This nightdress ......"
She changed into a normal dress, and she was still wearing homely slippers on her feet.
If the cuckoo's smile is as delicate as a flower, then at this moment this flower is like a remnant flower after a storm, and it can't withstand a little setback.
"Did you think of something?"
Wei Flail urged the cuckoo to say.
But he ignored the fear on the cuckoo's face, a gray despair that arose from his inability to face it.
"I threw this nightgown far, far away, and it's back, it's back......"
The cuckoo muttered to himself, his eyes gradually losing focus and focus.
Wei Flais knew that he couldn't let the cuckoo continue this state, so he quickly shook the cuckoo's shoulder.
He shouted in the ear of the cuckoo: "Cuckoo! Don't scare me, you look at me! Tell me, what happened?! ”
The flail's roar worked, and the cuckoo's eyes gradually calmed and cleared.
The fear on her face can be felt by others who are not familiar with the cuckoo.
"You, you throw this nightgown away, it's got a ghost attached to it, and it's going to kill me!"
The cuckoo screamed miserably, and because of the violent movements, the neat hair became messy, and the hair was scattered, like a madwoman.
The existence of this nightdress seems to have caused her endless huge psychological pressure.
At this moment, Wei Flail finally understood that the cuckoo had something to hide from him, and it was related to those inhuman ghosts.