Chapter 21: The Truth

5th Floor, Room 506.

Bai Feiyu rummaged through the room, but couldn't find the slightest useful clue.

In fact, because Su Wanyu died on the ceiling of this room, this room has already been turned upside down by the police, and no corner has been spared, and the police have not found anything suspicious, let alone her with only a pair of naked eyes?

At this moment, the faint sound of footsteps sounded in the hallway outside the door.

Bai Feiyu's breath stagnated, and he didn't make any movement.

Slowly, that footstep came.

"It's me, open the door."

Duan Xu's voice sounded outside the door.

Bai Feiyu had an extra heart and didn't open the door as soon as possible, after all, there had only happened before that Duan Xu was deceived by a ghost to open the door.

"It's really me, you have a total of eight holes in the upper."

Duan Xu's voice sounded again.

"Squeak-"

The door opened.

Standing at the door, sure enough, it was Duan Xu with a camera.

Seeing the camera, Bai Feiyu guessed probably.

"Is Wang Yuli dead?"

She looked at Duan Xu quietly.

Duan Xu entered the door, closed it casually, and said, "It's dead." ”

He sat back on his desk, looked at the camera in his hand, and asked, "If it's you...... Will you give your life for someone you don't know? ”

"No, it won't."

Bai Feiyu's answer did not hesitate, but after hearing Duan Xu's question, she seemed to understand something.

"You went to save him in danger?"

"No......" Duan Xu shook his head, "He's saving me." ”

Duan Xu subconsciously pressed the button on the camera and whispered: "I have always believed that the world is fair and cruel. This is especially true in the adult world, where if you want to be fed and clothed, you have to work; If you want to win attention, you must have your own excellence; And in this ghost place, if you want to live, you need more physical strength, mental power, and a firm heart. You said...... Why was a person of Wang Yuli's type picked by the train? What did it like about him? That kind of person should live a mediocre life, and then slowly regret the mistakes of his youth before he dies. ”

"yes, so he's dead." Bai Feiyu's answer was ruthless.

"That's right." Duan Xu didn't know what he was thinking, he looked out the window, "But he at least died as a human being, if people like you and me keep living, and when death comes, we may not be able to be considered human beings." ”

"What do you mean?" Although Bai Feiyu heard his vague meaning, he was still dissatisfied with Duan Xu's slander.

"It's not interesting, you pack up your salute, we're going to get ready to run."

Duan Xu said suddenly.

"Get out of here?" Bai Feiyu glanced left and right.

"yes, get out of this apartment."

Duan Xu said as he handed the camera to Bai Feiyu.

Bai Feiyu took the camera inexplicably, looked at the screen, and suddenly his pupils shrank.

This is...... Photos of the basement.

However, the human figure in the photo is extremely terrifying, it is simply five charred corpses!

"This ...... Is it Luo Feng them? ”

Even Bai Feiyu was frightened at the moment.

Duan Xu nodded and said, "On July 9, 2036, they all died, and the Blue Sky Apartment caught fire, burning all nine households, including Tan Meifeng, to charcoal. ”

He tilted his head and moved his nose: "Do you smell the air?" It's the breath of burning. And also...... The walls with abnormal temperatures, the excess carbon dioxide including this one, and the fact that the apartment is getting bigger and the staircase is distorting, this is what it feels like to look at other objects in the heat wave, and what we see, feel, and encounter now is the reflection of them before they died. ”

"Wait, you mean, they're all ghosts? We've been on the ground floor with ghosts before? Then why didn't they kill us? Bai Feiyu asked puzzled, her thoughts were confused by Duan Xu's words.

If all the people in this apartment are ghosts, is there any point in looking for their knots?

Isn't this a game of death?

"Because they don't realize they're ghosts." Duan Xu took the camera back and hung it around his neck.

"I saw a document on the second floor, which was a log written by Zhao Yu. He mentions that the two of them once played a boring game together called Wishing Flowers, and after that game, his wish was slowly coming true. ”

"Wish?" Bai Feiyu looked at Duan Xu and asked.

Duan Xu looked down into her eyes and said, "Zhao Yu's wish is to gain superpowers. ”

"Stealth, perspective, mind reading, through walls, change, great power...... The abilities he gained increased over time. When I first saw this diary, I thought he was crazy, but now combined with this photo, he is not crazy, he is just gradually becoming a ghost, don't you think, those are the abilities of ghosts? ”

Duan Xu's voice made Bai Feiyu a little creepy.

But...... If it was just from what happened and what this photo showed, Bai Feiyu had to believe that what Duan Xu said was likely to be true.

She was silent for quite a long time, but Duan Xu didn't urge her, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

Finally, Bai Feiyu chose to believe Duan Xu's judgment.

"There's an invisible wall around this apartment, and we can't get out at all."

"And how did we get in?" Duan Xu walked to the window and looked down.

Bai Feiyu didn't understand what he meant, but she had other questions: "If we don't stay here for five days, even if we escape, the train won't come to pick us up." The information I have tells me that if I escape the mission site before the end moment, the consequences will be even more dire. ”

Duan Xu looked at the sky without looking back and asked, "Who said that the mission time is five days?" ”

Bai Feiyu was stunned, isn't this what you said?

"Miss Bai, I've been talking about a time, July 9, 2036, haven't you noticed that the time we arrived yesterday is also July 9, 2036? We were trapped on the day when the Blue Sky Apartment burned down and everyone was burned to death, and although everything in the apartment seemed to be intact and the people seemed to be alive at the moment, it was just an illusion created by some strange force. The more we stay here, the more likely these dead people are to realize that they are ghosts, such as Yi Hao, such as Zhou Mingcheng, such as ...... Tan Meifeng. ”

"I'm just trying to figure out now what Zhou Mingcheng meant when he said wrong before he died, and why he told us to run away." Duan Xu stuck his head out of the window, looking at the sky as if looking for something, "In the last moment before 'dying', he realized that he was a ghost, and that was the last word that his human consciousness spoke. ”

"Wait!" Bai Feiyu suddenly thought of a question, "Who is that person?" If they were all dead, who was the ghost that Minami saw at that time? Why did he kill Zhou Mingcheng and them? ”