【020】 Twisted Soul

Seven miserable white faces, covered in blood, they all looked at Zhong Kui expressionlessly. One of them, an older woman, slowly lifted a hand and pointed at his back......

Behind...... He looked in the direction the woman in the mirror...... It's a wall, and the surface of the wall is a wall brick! What's behind the wall tiles? He looked back again and wanted to ask something...... With a bang, the mirror surface of the geometric diagram of the seven puzzles automatically disintegrated and shattered.

Dizzy! What rhythm is this? Zhong Kui was so depressed that he looked at the wall tiles behind him again. It doesn't matter what he is, pry it open and take a look, and then say, the idea pops up, and he does it. He didn't know where to get a hammer and a crowbar, and after a clang, he made a mess of the clean bathroom.

Pry open wall bricks, revealing gray-brown bricks. Strangely, the pried open wall bricks seemed to have just been newly built, fresh cement mortar. It didn't take much effort to pry it open, just gently and skillfully pried it open.

The more this is the case, the more strange Zhong Kui feels. If there is something strange, then there must be a problem. At the same time as he found the problem, he was very motivated, so when he was excited to focus on prying the gray brown bricks, he didn't hear the sound of music coming from his backpack.

After the gray-brown brick was pried open, a black hole was revealed, what is this? He paused for a moment, then looked into the hole. Suddenly, a foul smell wafted out of the hole, almost forcing out the fermented stuff in my stomach.

Struggling to control the spasmodic esophagus, holding your breath, the probe reaches into the hole to see. At the place of his probe, there are steps one by one, and the smell should be wafting from the bottom of the stairs.

Zhong Kui shrugged his shoulders and glanced at the backpack in the bathroom that was resting outside the hole, expecting no unrelated people to come in. He swooped down and entered the prying open cave, how could there be a staircase in this cave?

As he walked down the stairs, he had a vague sense that something was wrong. The staircase goes down the stairs and looks like a basement.

The bottom of the stairs was dark, and if it weren't for his third eye being able to penetrate the dark environment, he would have to prepare a flashlight or something to see the situation below.

Zhong Kui kept going down, trying to restrain the invasion of that strange smell as he went. The further he went, the more uncomfortable his stomach felt like a river overturning into a sea, and the strange smell was so strong that it almost made him vomit.

It took ten steps before he stepped on the ground. When you look at it, you can see what this bad smell is! The scene that catches the eye is simply miserable...... The bones of a pile of people were piled together, and judging by the absence of rotting black hair at the skull, it was not difficult to see that the dead were women.

Cover your mouth and nose and continue to look around, it is clearly an old basement. The basement was spacious, and the whole basement was filled with a suffocating smell of blood, and the walls were old and weathered, and it was shocking that the walls were stained with blood, like a wall made of a lot of blood.

Something terrible must have happened here, he could clearly feel the crisp cracking of the blade piercing into his skin. A scream rang in my ears, and a mouthful of blood-foaming viscous liquid sprayed on the wall.

If I'm not mistaken, this was once a slaughterhouse, a riot site for the slaughter of the mentally ill...... Listening, smelling, feeling, all this, his heart trembled.

Looking at the pile of rotting bones, he secretly promised to give them an explanation, a good place to live.

The women in the mirror were sure that they were them, and Zhong Kui had the idea of going out to find Ran Qin as soon as possible and tell her about the situation here, so that these miserable souls could rest in peace.

At this moment, in an unknown location in the basement, a weak sigh was heard. In this still, nerve-wracking atmosphere, the sigh was like a flat ground explosion, which frightened the ghost hunter instinctively.

“…… Help me......"

"Who?" The weak cry for help is so familiar! Zhong Kui asked in surprise. When he asked, he scolded himself for being a fool, if the other party had the strength to answer, did he still need to ask himself?

Searching for the source of the sound, he hurried over, thinking as he went. This cry for help seemed to have been heard there, and after thinking about it for a few seconds, it suddenly dawned on me: "Damn! Didn't you come to City A this time for this cry for help? ”

I confused this cry for help with Xiao Ming's cry for help before, and almost forgot about it. He thought carefully and listened to the cries for help, but he didn't hear them again, he was in a hurry, and walked a few steps, his eyes widening his distance.

But Zhong Kui looked through all the corners and corners, and saw no injured person except for a mess of tarpaulins that had rotted and were still gray on them......

Could it be that there is something in the tarp? The idea came out, proving that his brain is still not stupid. grabbed the corner of the tarpaulin and lifted it, and the tarpaulin kicked up a burst of choking dust, and a few mice and some tawny cockroaches ran out in unison. These insects parasitic in the human environment, Zhong Kui is not used to seeing them.

He was surprised that there was really a clue under the tarpaulin.

A bloodied body curled up on the ground, unable to distinguish hair from face, blood sticking to clothes...... I don't know if it's a dead or alive body, I don't know how long I've been giving the rats and cockroaches, maybe the rats and cockroaches are waiting for something!

Zhong Kui didn't have time to think about it, and reached out to find out if there was any breath of life in this body. When he placed his index finger lightly on the neck of this body, the weak and intermittent bounce gave him a burst of ecstasy, and this person had ...... to be saved.

Holding the fluttering body that seemed to be about to crack, he cautiously walked out of the basement. Because he didn't have time to look at the man's face, he didn't know if the man was male or female, but he felt that it should be a woman.

It was very overcast, gray, and without a trace of color. When Zhong Kui took out this body, when he was outside the hotel, he saw clearly that this body was none other than Xu Qian, who he was looking for. Seeing her pale face like a dead man, my heart was broken with guilt.

Softly called her name, "Xu Qian...... Wake up......"

He knew that she was fighting with death, rats, and cockroaches to the end with a tenacious will. I remember that there is a saying called mental power, and Xu Qian used mental power to sense Zhong Kui.

It was her willpower to survive that moved the ghosts in the basement, and they wanted to help her escape from her doom. It happened that Xiao Ming saw a white shadow, and then saw seven female shadows in the bathroom again when he appeared in the mirror, and he was frightened to relapse and convuls.