CHAPTER XIII
April 9. Monday. Afternoon, 16:49.
"Do you believe in ghosts?"
For more than ten years as a policeman, no matter what kind of person or what kind of ghost, Ye Xiao had already seen it, but he was shocked by this girl's words. At the same time as she said this, her originally pale face suddenly turned blue and purple, as if a cloud of black smoke instantly enveloped her, and her eyes seemed to be covered with a thin black veil. The sunlight outside the window suddenly disappeared, and the whole ward was dim.
He forced himself not to lose his temper in front of the interrogation subject, but a ridiculous thought crossed his mind - did this girl have already died in the ground, resurrected for some reason, but soon turned into a zombie again?
"I don't believe it!" He didn't want to give the other party a chance to scorn him, so he answered categorically.
"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway."
Ding Zi's face gradually returned to normal, but Ye Xiao's vigilance increased. If you ask in a general way, as before, there will be no result, and the girl will definitely avoid the important and say something inconsequential. It is necessary to grasp the main point, so that she has no room for evasion, and maybe she can find a flaw.
"Okay, you just need to answer the questions!" Without waiting for the girl to answer, Ye Xiao had already asked a series of questions, "Among the survivors underground, there is a young man named Guo Xiaojun, do you know?" β
"It's the rich second generation who wears a Dior suit all day long?"
"Yes- I want to know how he died, if he did."
"Among those of us, Guo Xiaojun was the first to die." Ding Zi's tone suddenly became mature, "On the third day underground, his body was found, in the staff locker room on the fourth floor. The scene was so bloody that he was stabbed dozens of times, and his face was slashed horribly, splashed with blood everywhere, attracting flies. β
"Who did it?"
"Everyone was so frightened that I almost fainted after just one look. The third-rate mystery novelist named Zhou Xuan made some incomprehensible reasoning, and actually said that this was a typical closed room murder case - what TM! I'm sorry, am I being too vulgar? It's a pity that you weren't at the scene, otherwise you would have been able to find out the real culprit immediately. β
"You also look down on Zhou Xuan?"
"It's okay, I just don't think this person is writing mystery novels at all. However, I later found out who killed Guo Xiaojun. β
"Who?"
"Why are you in such a hurry? I'll say that soon. β
Ye Xiao really wants to slap this girl! He suppressed his anger: "Okay, go on. β
"Well, although there was such a brutal murder, everyone only had fear, no sadness or sympathy - my only regret is that Guo Xiaojun's Dior, which is priced at tens of thousands of yuan, is really a pity that he was stabbed into a sieve and stained with blood!"
"What a shocking idea!" The uncle couldn't help but say what he thought of this eighteen-year-old Lori.
"It's not my own idea, it's what everyone trapped in the ground thinks." Ding Zi's expression was extremely serious, and he paused word by word, "Guo Xiaojun is the first person to damn it." He lives in Raphael's furniture* store, enjoys Simmons and sofas, which are said to be imported from Italy, goes to the gym equipment store every day to lie on a massage chair, and pretends to drink a small sip of French red wine every night. Except for the professor who is the commander-in-chief, all the men in the underground perform their duties, or inspect circuit switches, or carry important materials, or take care of seriously injured people, but this rich second generation lies all day long, doing no work, and of course does not need his mental work. But the owner of this building is still working hard all day long, except for the Armani suit, he can't tell that he is the big boss. β
"Understood."
"It's not the hatred of the rich, it's that this kid really owes a beating. Except for the professor, he looked down on everyone underground. Whenever I notice him looking at me with contempt, give him a roll of the eye, or simply two words: stupid! The most stupid thing about Guo Xiaojun is that he doesn't want to collect food by himself, sometimes he goes to the supermarket to get a few breads, and sometimes Zhou Xuan will bring him some food - so I said that Zhou Xuan is also sick in the brain! As a result, in less than two days, others were doing well, and Guo Xiaojun began to starve. When he went to the supermarket to forage for food, he found that the edible food had already been taken away, and the rest was either eaten by cats, dogs and mice, or spoiled and smelly raw cockroaches. He had to go to someone else and pull out dozens of credit cards, which he said could cost tens of millions of dollars, but in the apocalyptic underground, cash was worthless, and the bills piled up at the checkout counters of various stores no longer had to worry about missing a penny. He has long upset everyone, and no one has given him food, even a box of instant noodles. At first, he held on all night, and the next morning he put down the young master's shelf, knelt down in front of us, snorted and cried, and begged for some leftovers, and the Japanese woman gave him a few packets of biscuits to satisfy his hunger. β
This description made Ye Xiao lift his spirits, and he held his arms and listened to it interestingly.
"Okay, let's talk about the others - your school reported to the police that besides you, there is another student who may have disappeared underground, her name is Haemi, and she is your classmate."
"Yes, Haimi is my best friend. On Sunday night, we were shopping at Future Dream Mall when we had an accident just about to get home. We went through nine deaths and finally picked up our little lives. Haemi is a doomsday control and a big fan of Professor Wu. When she saw that the end of the world had really arrived, she was not afraid but was extremely excited. She found a closed small room on the second basement floor of the supermarket as a doomsday survival room, and hoarded a lot of things. β
"What about you? I feel like you're at home underground. β
This point-to-the-point evaluation made Ding Zi a little embarrassed: "I-think about it, how painful it is for a girl to not be able to take a shower and wash her hair for a few days without running water!" I wash my face with a little mineral water every day and brush my teeth only in lather β although the toothpaste collected at the supermarket is enough for me to brush for a lifetime. However, everything can be taken as you like, and I swept all the women's clothing, women's bags, and women's shoes stores upstairs and downstairs. In the women's clothing store on the third floor where I lived, in addition to food and bottled water, there were piles of ZARA, VERO MODA, Ochirly...... I'm sorry, I guess you, a big man, don't know these brands. β
"No concept at all."
"What a dream! I was crazy about collecting everything a girl liked, hundreds of seasonal pieces from various brands, a hundred pairs of StellaLuna, fifty GUCCI bags, a whole woven bag of CHANEL perfumes. As for those first-line luxury goods that cost tens of thousands of yuan at every turn, leave it to Guo Xiaojun. β
"Stop! Let's go back to Haimei. Ye Xiao terminated her memories full of happiness. It is conceivable that in the end of the world, in the huge unmanaged shopping mall, anything can be taken without money......
"Haemi ......" her lips twitched a few times, "she's dead." β
"How did you die?"
"On Wednesday, April 4th, I remember very well that it was Qingming Festival. I went to look for Haemi early in the morning and went to her doomsday survival room on the second basement floor, where I found her lying in a pool of blood at the door. She covered her eyes and shuddered, "It's terrible! There was a hole in her temple, and there was a broken vase on the ground, which must have been the murder weapon. My best friend, I collapsed to the ground in fright, until the crying stirred. β
"Zhou Xuan said that it was a murder in a closed room?"
"If he wants to say that, he's an idiot! However, I found some clues. Dozens of meters away from the scene of the murder, there was a window model, which was a dummy posing in a clothing store. The dummy was male, wearing only a pair of trousers, with a bare upper body, a bald head, and a handsome look. I looked at its pants and saw that it was a window model from the Dior suit store upstairs! β
"The model upstairs? How did you get to the supermarket on the second basement floor? β
"That's right, there's no way anyone who has nothing to do when they're full and has nothing to do, and takes that dummy down. I stared into the dummy's eyesβeven though they were fake, but I had a strange feelingβas if he was looking at me too! This terrifies me! Can you imagine that scenario? I was full of doubts, but I didn't dare to say anything, so I could only bury Hae-mi to the fourth floor underground with everyone. That night, I went back to the second basement floor of the supermarket alone and found that the dummy was gone! β
"You doubt ......" Ye Xiao gasped, he wondered if this girl had watched too many underground horror movies.
"That's right. In the early hours of the morning, I lurked in front of the Dior men's store with an iron rod for self-defense and a sharp dagger to protect against wild dogs and evil spirits. At three o'clock, I saw a figure walk into the Dior store, standing motionless in the window. I dared to approach and turned on the flashlight to point it at the man's face, only to find that it was really a window model! The half-naked dummy on the second basement floor, near the scene of Haemi's murder! When the flashlight was pointed at his face, he opened his eyes all at once! β
Hearing this, Ye Xiao felt that the girl in front of him instantly turned into a female window model, wearing a lady's outfit and staring at godless eyes!
I screamed in fright and fled upstairs, and there were heavy footsteps behind me, and when I looked back, it was the dummy! It rushed towards me like a big living person with strong skills. I yelled for help and ran up a flight of stairs that almost scratched my ankle. At this time, a man appeared in front of me, it turned out to be Yang Bing, a shopping mall security guard, and he rushed over when he heard the voice. It was also the first time he saw the window model actually live, and he was so frightened that he wanted to run away. The dummy grabbed him and pushed him down from the atrium railing. I heard Yang Bing's screams and the sound of the collision on the ground floor. A few more bolts of lightning came at me, and several men came with their own guys. The dummy flashes through the small door next to it. When we ran to the ground floor, we found that Yang Bing had fallen to his death, and in the Dior men's clothing store upstairs, the window model was still nowhere to be seen. β
"Why do you think the dummy moves? Will you still kill? β
"So, I asked you at the beginning, do you believe in the existence of ghosts?"
Ye Xiao admitted that he was defeated by her: "Do you think it was a ghost possessed by a dead underground, allowing these window models to move and kill people?" β
"That's the only explanation!"
"What about motivation?"
"Guo Xiaojun's death can be explained! The upper body of the Dior window model is naked, and the Dior worn by Guo Xiaojun is probably ripped off from it! Therefore, the dummy was full of hatred for Guo Xiaojun, and like us, it was very unpleasant to look at the rich second generation, so he took a sharp knife from the supermarket and killed Guo Xiaojun in the dressing room. β
"Well, your imagination is rich, but what about Hae-mi?"
"I don't know, maybe Hae-mi enjoyed the apocalyptic survival too much, and provoked this dummy wandering in the dark, so he stoned her to death with a vase."
"What's next? Did you catch this dummy? β
Ding Zi's face turned pale: "Next-you can't imagine it." The next day, everyone was on guard, and I didn't dare to sleep anymore, huddled in the corner with a flashlight and an iron bar. By three o'clock in the morning, I saw a dark figure moving in the Victoria's Secret shop. β
"Victoria's Secret?"
"Oh, you don't understand." The senior high school girl had a crimson face, "That black shadow is petite than yesterday's dummy, and it is obviously a woman from the back." In order to find the evil spirits underground, we left some lights on all night. When she turned around, I could see that it was another window model! This time, a young woman, dressed in a Victoria's Secret bikini, walked sexily and amazingly to the opposite store - it was the LAMPO men's clothing store, and the female dummy, dressed only in underwear, smashed the glass of the LAMPO store, came to the male window model, stood on tiptoe and kissed his lips. β
"Wow, that's so romantic!"
The end of the world - even dummies have to be together, let alone real people, Ye Xiao suddenly thought of something.
"However, when I saw this scene at the time, I just thought it was terrifying! Sure enough, the LAMPO male dummy, who was kissed by a bikini female dummy, seemed to be given life and really walked out of the shop window. The two dummies held hands and walked into the depths of darkness - maybe they went to make a little dummy. β
"Ding Zi, are you sure that your mental state is fine?"
"Every word of mine is true, if there is the slightest falsehood, the sky will thunder! That night, when I had the courage to open my eyes again, I found more than a dozen figures in the corridor of the mall, including men, women, tall and short. I thought everyone was out.,The small one is estimated to be Shota.γ However, the way they walked was not normal, and it turned out to be window models from various clothing stores! The youngest came from the upstairs children's clothing store, wearing a brightly colored coat, like a foreign boy of seven or eight years old. Some dummies have sharp knives in their hands! At this time, I heard the screams of a woman from upstairs, and the voice was getting closer and closer, until I was on the floor, and it was the petite shampoo girl Ah Xiang. She ran forward covered in blood, and three window models chased after her, two women and a man, all holding murderous weapons, until the male dummy stabbed Ah Xiang in the back, and the three dummies stabbed her to death. When Ding Zi said this, she couldn't help but shed tears.
"You mean to say that in the middle of the night all the window models in the Future Dream Mall came to life?"
"Yes."
"These dummies have started a killing spree against real people?"
"Yes, many people have died at their hands, some I have seen with my own eyes, and some have heard about them. I can't tell who else there are, but in the end of the world, it's really going to be hell. β
Ye Xiao twisted his trademark thick eyebrows: "The last question, when you were rescued, there was a * in your pocket to testify, it belonged to the female cleaner of the Future Dream Building, what happened?" β
"Oh, I almost forgot about the cleaner. By the sixth day, many had been killed by dummies, and the last seven or eight were left in a state of panic. In those days, I didn't dare to live in a fixed place, and every night I changed places to hide, such as restaurants, photo shops, nail salons, toy stores - in short, there were no dummies. When I hid in a bedding store, I found a woman covered in blood lying on the floor, the female cleaner. At that time, there were no dummies around, and I boldly went up to save her. She grabbed my hand and said that a female dummy had attacked her. Then, she shoved my work card into my hand and asked me to give it to her relatives if I could escape. β
"Didn't everyone think that the end of the world was coming, and it was impossible to escape again?"
"yes, I think it's strange too, maybe she lost too much blood and didn't know what she was thinking about before she died. She died soon after, and I kept her work card in my pocket all the time, and I would have forgotten it if you hadn't reminded me. β
Ye Xiao was silent for half a minute: "Later, what happened to those dummies?" β
"I don't know, I survived to the end anyway. Thank goodness and thank you as well. β
"Now I believe in ghosts."