Chapter 11: The Ghost of the Old Building (3)
"Oops! β¦β¦ Why are you hitting me? Qi Zhen's wail, which was comparable to "ghost crying wolf howl", sounded again, he covered his red cheeks on both sides, and the expression on his face was even more bitter than a bitter melon: "You guys...... Did you two take the wrong medicine? Do we have a grudge? They all hit people in the face, how will I see people tomorrow? β
Chang Qing and I stood in front of him, and we didn't refute, just covered our faces with our hands, but we mainly covered our ears, and at such a close distance, the taste of "magic sound piercing the brain" was really uncomfortable!
"Your voice...... How...... Ahem, that's so ugly! After a while, Chang Qing let go of the hand covering his ears, habitually pulled a handful of hair, and complained about Qi Zhen with a wry smile.
"You're embarrassed to say it! If you hadn't hit me inexplicably, I would have screamed so badly? Qi Zhen glared at us angrily.
"Hmph, who told you to look like dementia, we thought you were ...... just now The ghost has hooked the soul! Not to be outdone, I glared back at him, I really didn't know what to do.
"What the hell? β¦β¦ People are alive...... She's a pretty girl! β
"What? Female?! "This time it was Chang Qing's turn to scream in unison, the decibel is so high, just look at Qi Zhen's busy rubbing his ears and jumping to the side, not to say that it is a "crackable golden stone", it can probably be said to be a "crackable eardrum"!
ββ¦β¦ And say that my voice is ugly? The voices of the two of you are not far behind, a hundred times more terrifying than the screams of ghosts! Qi Zhen immediately retorted.
"Did you see clearly? I just went out the front door...... Is it really a girl? I ignored his sarcasm and hurriedly asked.
"Of course I saw it clearly! I can also see very clearly, she, wearing a flowing white shirt, tall figure, long hair shawl, bright eyes and bright teeth, radiant and radiant, what a beauty! Watching Qi Zhenqiang squeeze out a look of intoxication and admiration that was incommensurate with his age, it was very funny.
But Chang Qing and I looked at each other, and we only saw deep worry in each other's eyes. Because the figure we just saw going out the front door was obviously a man! Although the light was dim, he was fleeting, and he didn't have time to take a closer look at his appearance, but he could see that he was a boy with short hair, wearing light blue clothes and pants, and his figure was only a little taller than Qi Zhen, not tall. The problem is that when we rushed in, there was no one else in this large classroom except Qi Zhen; The only person who went out of the front door in the blink of an eye just now was the so-called white-clothed beauty in Qi Zhen's mouth, the blue-clothed boy in our eyes.
Why is it completely different from what we see from Qi Zhen?
"Hey, hey! What are you two doing? β¦β¦ You look at me, I look at you, don't say a word, eyebrows? Qi Zhen finally finished "intoxicated", turned his head and saw me and Chang Qing in a daze, and the nature of "Living Treasure" was revealed again.
"Phew, pass on your size!" Dogs can't spit ivory out of their mouths'! β¦β¦ Do you want to go home? Simply, you stay here and wait for the beauty! I spat him angrily.
The conversation between me and Qi Zhen woke Chang Qing up, and he quickly looked around the large classroom, and the gloom in his eyes became even thicker. He pushed Qi Zhen and said, "It's dark!" Let's get out of this building! β
"Got it, let's go! β¦β¦ This is only the second floor, don't you leave this building when you go down the stairs? What's the hurry? Qi Zhen muttered and walked out from the door, turning his head to look around as he walked, his eyes rolling wildly, probably still thinking about the beautiful woman he saw just now.
I followed behind him, looked at his strange appearance, unconsciously pursed my lips, and scolded in my heart: "I always think about beautiful women at such a young age, what an out-and-out 'living treasure'!" β¦β¦ What a beauty, eighty percent are female ghosts! β
As if sensing my belly, Qi Zhen turned around and grinned at me: "Hey, are you scolding me in your stomach?" Why are the bases of my ears red? β
I rolled my eyes at him in disgust.
He was bored, so he had to laugh at himself: "Scold, scold!" Hehe, all the eldest lady will not have a good temper! β
At this time, I didn't even bother to roll my eyes, and walked out of the empty classroom.
Darkness finally came, and the sky in front of the old building was dark and dreary, but it revealed a large abnormal red halo, like a black and ugly monster, but it was smeared with a bright red and gorgeous rouge, which only increased its blackness and ugliness!
The curved corridor was already shrouded in darkness, and it was only by the reddish light that the three of us barely managed to reach the staircase a dozen steps away from the classroom. I walked in the middle, looking up at the red halo as I walked, it was already dark, naturally it couldn't be the afterglow of the sunset, and it didn't look like a sunset. The more I looked at it, the more uneasy I felt, as if something was wrong. Chang Qing followed closely behind me, and he also looked up at the blush frequently, his eyes were a little confused, as if he was thinking about something. Qi Zhen was still in the lead, and seeing that he had reached the top of the stairs, he stretched out his left hand to hold the cement handrail, and raised his foot to step towards the first step.
"Wait! β¦β¦ Don't go down yet! I suddenly shouted Qi Zhen.
He withdrew his foot and looked at me blankly.
I stepped forward to look at the staircase, and the outline of the staircase was dimly visible in the glow of the red light. I don't know if it's because of the dampness or my delusion, but when I looked over, I saw a large blue-gray and dense mist floating above this staircase, sometimes thick and sometimes light, sometimes gathering and sometimes scattering, and ethereal. The feeling of uneasiness intensified, this staircaseβsomething was wrong! I stared at the mist, pondering.
Qi Zhen couldn't wait, he pushed Chang Qing: "Hey, aren't you urging you to leave?" Now that they're at the top of the stairs, why don't you let them go? β
Chang Qing frowned, looked at me thoughtfully, and shook his hand at Qi Zhen: "Don't make noise!" β¦β¦ She seemed to see something, something wasn't quite right with the stairs! β
"What's wrong? Isn't it just a staircase, with steps, handrails......"
Armrest? That's right!
"I knew something was wrong! β¦β¦ There shouldn't be a staircase here at all! It dawned on me, "We didn't go up this 'staircase'!" β
"Not taking the stairs? You don't mean to say that we flew up, do you? Qi's eyes widened in shock.
"Of course not! β¦β¦ I think, I get it too! Chang Qing's eyes suddenly brightened, and the original somewhat confused color was swept away, and he nodded to me and continued, "When we go upstairs, the storage room is on the right side of the stairs, and the large classroom should be on the left side of the stairs!" β
"So when we go downstairs, the stairs should be on our right! But now you see, this staircase ...... "I pointed with my finger, and in the hazy red halo, the staircase appeared on our left!
"Wow! I just ...... Didn't you almost step on it? The devil knows where it will lead! β¦β¦ Ahh What bad luck! β¦β¦ Then let's hurry up...... Let's look for the original staircase! Don't look at Qi Zhen, who usually looks like he's making a fuss, when things got to this point, he calmed down and groped the right wall to find the stairs.
Chang Qing and I glanced at each other, and followed closely behind to find the only way out. Strange to say, when we all retreated to the right wall, the "staircase" on the left quietly disappeared, and even the red halo in the sky disappeared. But we, too, are plunged into real darkness and there is nothing left to borrow light from!
For a long time, the three of us kept groping in the dark, except for the walls and walls, as if there was no end!
"What bad luck! After walking for so long, why is there nothing but walls here? Are we on the Great Wall? Qi Zhen held back for a long time, and finally couldn't help but complain.
"The Great Wall? If that's the case, I'm not in a hurry! I smiled bitterly, I was afraid that what we encountered was the so-called "ghost hitting the wall", forever going around on the same part of the road, never finding the end, that would be bad!
"Now I regret not bringing a few more flashlights! As long as there is a little light, I will definitely find the staircase exit! There was chagrin and self-reproach in Changqing's voice.
"Don't regret it, you're not Zhuge Liang, how can you foresee the current situation? β¦β¦ However, if we continue to look for it like this, we ...... "I wanted to comfort Changqing, but in the end, I was a little discouraged."
"Found it, I found it!" Qi Zhen, who was walking not far in front of us, suddenly shouted.
"Did you find the exit of the stairs?" Chang Qing and I both had a light in our eyes, and we rushed forward together.
I saw Qi Zhen standing there looking at us triumphantly, and there were actually two windows on the wall beside him. Both windows are small, and together they can only accommodate one person in or out. The window was about half a meter above the ground, there was no glass on the window, and the wooden window frame rattled when the wind blew it gently, thinking that it had been badly eroded by the years.
"It wasn't a staircase! It's just two windows! "I'm disappointed.
"Hey, I said Miss, having a window means we can leave this ghost building...... The old building is gone. Better than nothing, right? Qi Zhen was very unhappy when he saw that we reacted coldly.
"Leave? How to leave? β¦β¦ Oh, we jump through this window? There was a palpable sarcasm in my voice.
"What's not to do? Otherwise, we will be here all the time in the dark, and we won't be able to find the exit tomorrow! Qi Zhen retorted angrily.
Chang Qing didn't rush to express his opinion, but walked over, carefully held on to the window frame, and went out to check.
After a long time, Chang Qing turned around and said to us, "It's dark outside, and I can't see what's down there after looking at it for a long time." If there is a hard concrete floor underneath, we may break our legs if we jump like this! β
"How? Dangerous, right? I'll just say it's a bad idea! I pursed my lips and snorted.
"So, maybe there's a soft dirt floor down there? I remember that there was a muddy floor between the old building and the concrete walkway, and according to the orientation, it should be in the ...... Let's go down the window! Besides, we're on the second floor now, just over two meters above the ground, so it's better to take a risk than to be trapped in this endless wall, right? β
I thought about it and remembered it. Between the old building and the concrete walkway, there was a piece of land that used to be a lawn, but later it turned into a muddy field because of the low terrain, a lot of water, and no one to manage it. When we visited the school, we freshmen muttered as we watched that the good lawn had turned into a muddy pond, which was really a waste.
Seeing that Chang Qing and I didn't make a sound to refute, Qi Zhen guessed that we all acquiesced to his words, so he got carried away again: "Haha! You agree with what I said! What do you think? Admire me, don't you? Of course, my idea is extremely clever, otherwise, how could others call me 'Little Zhuge '? β
Oh my God, in terms of his virtues, he dares to call him "Zhuge in vain"? If Lord Kong Ming knew underground, he would definitely be so angry that he jumped out of the coffin and slapped him twice! I cursed in my heart. But scolding and scolding, calm down and think about it, Qi Zhen's words are not unreasonable, rather than being trapped here with nothing to do, it is better to take a risk!
ββ¦β¦ All right! Even if your idea is okay! Now, who jumps first? I asked, "Who jumps first", but my eyes stared at Qi Zhen, who called him the idea? Of course, it should be up to him to prove the feasibility in practice first!
"This ...... This hey, hey! β¦β¦ Of course, I ...... first Demonstrate! In the dark, I saw my eyes shining with cold light, glaring at him very viciously, the meaning was self-evident, he had to roll up his sleeves, shook his head in a chic manner, and was about to jump down with his hands on the window frame.
"Slow down!" Changqing, who had been silent, pulled his clothes.
"What? You're going to jump first, huh? Okay, you go first! Although Qi Zhen said it very easily, if he really wanted to jump from the second floor, his heart would inevitably be tingling, and now Chang Qing grabbed him, just giving him an excuse to retract.
"It's not. I've been thinking about it just now, starting from the time we left the storage room on the second floor, this hallway ...... It always feels weird to me! Chang Qing habitually pulled a handful of his hair, and his tone was heavy, "Qi Zhen, you have been walking for so long, don't you feel that there is something missing in the corridor?" β
Even I'm confused now, the corridor is already empty, what can be missing?
Qi Zhen lowered his head, thought for a while and replied, "No!" What else is in the hallway besides the walls? β
"Alas! How did you forget, as soon as we went up to the second floor, we saw ...... on the ground?"
"Iron locks?! By the way, there's a big old-fashioned iron lock on the ground! Qi Zhen suddenly thought and looked around, "The lock is shiny, it stands to reason that we shouldn't be invisible!" β¦β¦ Strange, gone!"
"Not surprising at all! We can't see it, there are only two possibilities. One possibility is that after us, someone also went up to the second floor of the old building and took the iron lock from the ground. However, this is very unlikely, and we encountered it as soon as we entered the storage room...... The odd thing is that if someone comes upstairs after us and gets the lock, they will be trapped just like us, but since we walked out of the storeroom, nothing else has been found...... Person! β
"Why not? I saw a very, very beautiful girl in white, don't you ......see it too" Qi Zhen immediately retorted, remembering the beauty, what a "living treasure"!
"What beauty? Such a ...... The old building that has been abandoned for many years, where will there be the beauty you said? Oh, female ghosts, probably there! I couldn't help but poke Qi Zhen's forehead.
She was right! β¦β¦ None of what we see today is people! Everything that comes across can be ...... Phantom! "Evergreen affirmatively supported my claim.
"Whatever you say, do as you say! β¦β¦ Such a beautiful girl, I prefer to say that people are ...... What a pity! Even if it's so beautiful, it would be nice to appear a few more times! Alas! Alas! Alas! Seeing Qi Zhen's face of regret and sighing again and again, as if he wished that the beautiful female ghost would appear in front of him immediately, Chang Qing and I only smiled bitterly.
ββ¦β¦ Hey, I almost forgot, you're not done yet! What is the second possibility? Regretting and sighing for a while, it was probably because he finally remembered our current situation, and Qi Zhen came back to his senses and asked Chang Qing the second possibility.
"The second possibility is that although we entered the storage room on the second floor, we were not on the second floor from the moment we walked out of the storage room!"
"Not on the second floor? Where's that? Qi Zhen didn't understand for a while.
"I don't know. Maybe it's the third floor, maybe it's the fourth floor, or even ...... Maybe it's the rooftop of the roof! Chang Qing turned his head to look at the two windows, his tone heavy and bitter. Now Qi Zhen also understood, if it was really as Chang Qing speculated, we walked out of the storage room and went to the corridor on the third or fourth floor, or the rooftop of the roof, naturally we would not see the iron lock on the corridor on the second floor.
But then our adventure plans can't be carried out! Who knows how high those two windows are from the ground, 6 meters? 9 meters? Or 12, 13 meters? Jumping from such a high place, if you want to be safe and sound, it all depends on luck, and the premise is that the bottom is indeed the muddy ground that Qi Zhen said!
"So, is there another possibility? For example, we were still on the second floor, and the iron lock was trapped in us...... Something taken away? Or, the iron lock itself is ...... What do you mean by phantoms, but what do not exist? Qi Zhen was silent for a while, and actually put forward his own hypothesis seriously.
ββ¦β¦ I do not know. Maybe...... It's possible! Chang Qing tugged at his hair and walked up and down the window, not sure that his guess must be correct.
Even if your hypothesis is true, how can you test it? β¦β¦ Why don't you jump in and try it first? "I got irritable.
"This ...... This ......" Qi Zhen also stood up, what he just said was just his own speculation, who knows whether it is right or wrong? What will happen when you jump, only God knows! Is it safe and sound? Broken hands and broken feet? Or is it a life?
The darkness showed its power to the fullest, and in the night sky, not only could not see the moon, but even the stars in the sky were nowhere to be seen, and there seemed to be only a thick chaos left between the sky and the earth! At this time, the human nature of longing for light is revealed, and we look at the dark sky and think: how good it would be to have a little light, even if it is just a glimmer like a firefly!
"Come and see...... It seems to be ...... below A light is on! Qi Zhen suddenly shouted.
"Lights? Isn't it you...... Blinded? "I was skeptical, and I looked in. At first glance, I immediately looked like a clay sculpture, wooden on the spot.
"Huh? It turned out to be a lantern! However, this light ...... It's kind of quirky! Chang Qing leaned over and also looked at it, but his tone was not happy, but seemed to have hidden worries.
"Ahem, whatever! As long as it glows! β¦β¦ I don't know who actually came to save us with a lantern? Is...... It's small and elegant! Probably sensing that there was hope of salvation, Qi Zhen began to babble nonsense again.
"But who is it? β¦β¦ Yes! Ahh That one...... Lantern Floating...... It's fluttering up! Ghost...... There are ghosts! Before Qi Zhen's frightened words fell, a white lantern flew in lightly through the window.