Chapter 16: The Corridor Horror
"Don't panic." Lu Qing spoke: "Personally, I am more inclined to Wen Qiao's conjecture, most of the residents in this building should be just ordinary humans. As for memory tampering, I don't think it's something that the power of the ghosts in this building can do. It should be that the space forcibly intervened in the modification for the sake of this mission. ”
He paused: "You see, the three TV reporters who disappeared in the building before, as well as the large and small murders that have occurred in this building in the past 30 years, have all been reported on the Internet. If it were as Loyco said, then none of these cases would exist. The reason why the bodies of the residents who were killed this time will disappear, and the memories of the occupants and other witnesses have been altered, should be done by the space to protect us. ”
He passed the picture to everyone and then advised: "Only a few of us have preserved their memories, and that alone is enough to prove my point." Now what we have to do is to memorize all the households on this list, and once a household disappears, then we can find out as soon as possible. This is very important, and it may be possible to infer a life path from these events. ”
In the morning, Lu Qing and Li Wenqiao had already visited most of the residents, and with his own excellent memory, he had already memorized all the residents. However, he still wants to train others as much as possible, so that they don't develop the bad habit of relying on him for everything.
"You mean, maybe there's some pattern to the devil's killing? For example, the room number of the resident, or the number of people......" Chen Shuo quickly understood what he meant.
"That's right, unless we trigger a dead end ourselves in the early stage, most of the time, we're safe. Although it is a bit cruel, the deaths of these residents often hide some clues, and the space is arranged in this way so that we can find out the clues of life as soon as possible. Lu Qing affirmed his idea.
There was a knock at the door, "Heo? Anybody home? I'm Mrs. Li from 204. ”
Li Wenqiao heard the sound and quickly opened the door for her. "Mrs. Li, hello."
"Well, today you asked me to find the contact information of the landlord, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened to the booklet where the business card was stored, so I can't help you......" Mrs. Li said slightly apologetically.
"Oh, it's okay, I'm sorry!" Although Li Wenqiao was a little disappointed in his heart, he was not surprised. It seems that everything is as Lu Qing said, and the space has indeed deliberately concealed all the information about the second floor.
"Do you live with your boyfriend?" Mrs. Li glanced curiously into the room. Li Wenqiao's face was flushed: "No, I live with my friends, and the boy lives upstairs in the morning, and we are all colleagues......"
"Well, then I won't bother." Mrs. Lee was carrying her bag and seemed to be ready to go out.
"Are you going out?"
"yes, it's almost time for the child to get out of school, I'll pick her up."
"Okay, you go slowly." After Li Wenqiao closed the door, he sighed.
The clues were interrupted again, and there was so little they could know about the second floor. "Actually, it's not completely clueless." Lu Qing looked at everyone: "There is another person, maybe he knows something." ”
"You mean......" Li Wenqiao and Tang Tian immediately reacted: "That mysterious man who lives in 201? ”
"Yes, didn't Mrs. Li say it, before she moved in, the man in 201 already lived in this building, so he must know something, or it is because he knows something, so he has been seriously stimulated, resulting in closing the door now! Therefore, it is necessary for us to start from him and look for clues! Lu Qing's words made everyone suddenly brightened, and when they heard him say this, everyone realized that this man was indeed suspicious.
"What if, I mean, what if this man is a ghost......" Qian Jie put forward her most worrying point.
"I don't rule out the possibility of what you said." Chen Shuo also agrees with her.
"Otherwise, we can write a note and stuff it behind her door and see if he responds." Li Wenqiao came up with this idea of a compromise.
"I think it's OK." Lu Qing found paper and pen and wrote down all the questions in his heart on paper. After writing it, everyone carefully checked it, and after making sure that there was no problem, they came to the door of 201. Lu Qing bent down, half-stuffed the paper into the crack of the door, and then symbolically knocked on the door a few times.
Soon, everyone saw that the note in the crack of the door had been taken away. "Great, it looks like there's someone!" Qian Jie was very happy. Of course, to be on the safe side, they left the second floor and chose to gather in 303 Lu Qing's house. Tang Tian couldn't always get together with everyone because of his work, so he went back to the security room directly.
"Captain, can I stay with you at night, I really don't want to go back......" Luo Yike has been staying with everyone for most of the day, and the thought of going back to live in that empty room after dinner is really unwilling.
"But the mandate dictates that you must stay in your room after ten o'clock." Chen Shuo reminded him.
"I know what you're worried about, everyone faces the same risks in the mission, so don't feel like you're the most dangerous." Lu Qing comforted him.
Because the residents have been slaughtered by the ghosts, no one has the heart to cook, hastily soaked a few bowls of noodles, after eating, everyone gathered in the house, and the time was unconsciously seven o'clock in the evening.
"Let's go back quickly, it's too late, I'm afraid there will be movement in the corridor." Lu Qing said it very tactfully, but the others also understood what he meant. "Captain, can you send me back......" Roy knew that he was a man, and it was embarrassing to say this, but compared to life, it was obvious that the latter was much more important.
"No problem, then I'll send you up first." Lu Qing got up and said to Chen Shuo, "You can send the two girls back." ”
Chen Shuo nodded, and then walked downstairs with Li Wenqiao and Qian Jie. The sensor light on the second floor has been repaired by Lu Qing in the afternoon, and the light in the building is full at this moment, which also reassures the two girls a lot. When passing by 201, the three of them took a closer look, but unfortunately did not receive a response.
"Thanks, go back quickly." Li Wenqiao said to Chen Shuo before closing the door.
"Hmm." Chen Shuo nodded symbolically at the two of them, and then turned to leave.
"Rest early and call me if there's any movement." After Lu Qing sent Luo Yike back to the house, he was just about to leave, but he stopped him.
"Captain...... That, can I call you Brother Qing? "Roy is hesitant." Okay, what's the matter? Lu Qing turned around and asked.
"Thank you, we were too narrow-minded before, and we shouldn't have doubted you like this." Luo Yike scratched his hair a little embarrassed, and thanked him sincerely: "I can see that you are a very enthusiastic and good person, so I hope you can live forever, in short, thank you!" ”
"It's okay, everyone is on a team, and it's okay to take care of each other." Lu Qing smiled with relief, and then turned around and went downstairs. There seemed to be something wrong with the sensor lights on the fourth floor, and when he reached this level, the light bulb suddenly flickered, and then it fell into darkness.
Lu Qing was very alert, and the moment the light went out, he took out his mobile phone and immediately turned on the flashlight. The corridor in front of him was quite normal, and there were no terrifying ghosts as imagined. But he still cautiously stepped down the stairs, looking around from time to time. When he sent Royco up before, he could faintly hear the sound of the TV coming from the other rooms, but at this moment, it seemed that all the sounds had disappeared, and only his footsteps echoed in the dark corridor, and even his own breathing and heartbeat could be heard clearly.
Something is wrong, Lu Qing can be sure that he should have encountered a supernatural phenomenon. Although I still have a prop in hand, this prop can only be used once in the mission, and now the mission has only started for one day, if Miao Yuxue is summoned at the beginning, then how to deal with it in the next six days?
It shouldn't be so dangerous at first, unless you trigger a dead end. After Lu Qing made up his mind, he put away the props and walked towards the third floor at a faster pace. At this moment, he suddenly felt a chill behind him, and it seemed that a pair of resentful eyes were watching him in the dark corridor behind him!
Lu Qing didn't look back directly, he just ran away, and now it would take a few seconds to open the door back to the room, and the powerful ghost behind him obviously wouldn't give himself a buffer of time...... He suddenly had an idea, and ran straight downstairs. What he was going to was the security room, where Tang Tian and Wang Sheng were there, and it should be safer.
Second floor...... Ground floor...... I saw the light in the security room! Lu Qing couldn't help but be overjoyed, and directly pushed open the door and rushed in. And Tang Tian also looked at himself with a panicked expression: "Are you okay?" I just saw ...... in the surveillance."