Chapter 25: Doppelganger
Date: July 12, 4:47 p.m.
Rasheng once again came to the gate of the huge stone statue of Tabulun Temple. There was a strong wind blowing overhead, unscrupulous, like an invisible hand, stirring up the branches between the boulders, and the leaves rubbing against each other made a sound, as if countless invisible creatures were whispering inside this stone gate.
The pain of the gunshot wound made every step extremely difficult for him. The black pants could no longer hide the blood stains that had leaked out.
Luo Sheng endured the pain, and the more he accelerated his pace, the more he felt that the extremities of his right leg began to numb, and the peripheral nerves seemed to enter the sluggishness caused by forcibly suppressing the pain.
When you get inside, you won't feel any pain at all, Luo Sheng thought. The more he took a bigger step, he didn't mean that he couldn't get along with himself, but the urgency of time made him have to speed up his pace, and in the severe pain of the wound being pulled open again and again, he hurried to the stone room.
Following the sign of the hot tree roots, he came to the staircase of the stone chamber, and was about to go down, when he suddenly retracted his feet and looked around...... In general, he looked around and checked many times to make sure there were no suspicious people around before he walked down the stone steps safely.
Lighting the candles on the candlestick as usual, Luo Sheng looked at the time, at 16:59, the two futons in the middle of the stone room were still empty, and in another minute, on it, there would be a monk peeling oranges, and another person he didn't know.
Luo Sheng sat on the ground, straightened his injured right leg, and his black pants were penetrated, wet, and a smell of blood wafted out.
Thinking about the moment when the bullet grazed, I couldn't help but sweat on my back, and it hurt so much that I could grit my teeth. Although the bullet did not remain inside, the wound was still too deep, and he had to use medical sutures to close it, and every stitch that pierced the skin almost made him faint, and he bit a roll of towels, but the roots of his teeth still bit out blood...... He swore that he would never want to go through it a second time in his life. Never.
Thinking about the process that was enough to make him peel off his skin, Luo Sheng took a deep breath, and before he could spit it out, the candlesticks that were lit in the stone room were all extinguished at once.
The moment the darkness hit, his eyes suddenly became blind and he couldn't see anything.
Luo Sheng quickly turned on his phone - the time showed 17 o'clock.
He struggled to get up, intending to light the candle again, but as soon as he took a step, there was a sound of "popping" in the darkness, and he couldn't hear what it was, as if someone was fiddling with a stack of ...... between his palms and fingers
Luo Sheng was stunned, the sound was like a ...... "pop" sound again, Luo Sheng suddenly understood, he strode towards the position where there was a candlestick, wanting to light one.
"Please don't light candles."
The sound was strange, almost like a bell ringing in an open valley, coming from all directions, with no definite location. Moreover, the stone chamber is close to a confined space, and it sounds like a powerful sound wave pressing on the top of the head, which makes people dizzy.
Luo Sheng stood still, his fingers stopped on the home button of the mobile phone, and as long as he pressed it, he could emit a light that was enough to see a certain position. He guessed that the other party didn't want him to do that. After much hesitation, he put his phone back in his pocket.
"Please go ahead, just walk like that, ten steps or so, and don't try to see me in the light, if you do, you will regret it, I promise."
The voice continued, still unplaced, as if the stone chamber was a huge mouth, talking.
Luo Sheng thought for a while, he wasn't sure what he was talking about, but his voice was obviously full of irreversible meaning, he took a step forward, and his voice said again: "Very good, go further, don't go more than ten steps, just walk over like that." ”
Hearing this, Luo Sheng's heart tightened, it seemed that this "voice" could see him, in this space without any light.
Is it a monk who peels oranges? He wondered, and there was clearly a thought in his heart that was denying himself. No, what is that? Or rather, who is it?
Luo Sheng counted his steps and walked ten steps as required, so he stood still and said, "What do you want to do?" Originally, he wanted to ask, "Who are you?" But he was sure that the other party didn't want him to ask that, or that he couldn't get an answer when he asked.
"You're hurt."
"Yes." Luo Sheng did not deny it.
"Where did it hurt?"
"Right leg."
As he answered, he felt more blood oozing from the wound bandage, three centimeters above his knee, and felt a stream of heat gushing out of his body.
"This card is for you." As he spoke, Luo Sheng felt a piece of cardboard stuffed into his palm, and he knew that it was a game card, square, half the size of a palm.
"May I ask questions?" Luo Sheng asked.
He waited for a while, and without a voice answering, he asked again, "May I ask questions?" ”……
Still no voice answered him. Luo Sheng took out his mobile phone from his pocket, thought about it, and turned on the flashlight function directly...... With himself as the center of the circle, the distance of three or four meters around is illuminated - empty, only two futons at his feet, empty, even a little dirty.
Luo Sheng turned to look at the game cards in his hand-
Psychic cards, card question: Did the soothsayer find a werewolf? Am I a werewolf?
And on the back of the card, a few words are written -
You are a werewolf.
……
When it was dark, two tall black figures sneaked into a two-story house. An old-fashioned brick house with a street lamp hanging from the exterior wall, sometimes flickering with poor contact.
Both men in black are highly trained agents, walking against mottled and moldy walls, guns in hand, silently, relying solely on their eyes and gestures. This is also a well-trained skill, which is enough for them to ensure the success rate of attacking the target person in a few moments.
These old buildings are in the form of an outer corridor with five rooms on the first floor. The man in black touched the door of the target room, put a long, thin transparent tube under the crack in the door, and took out a syringe-type metal device with a capacity of 300ml from his backpack, then connected the transparent tube and injected a rapidly volatile liquid into it.
About 1 minute later, the man in black picked the lock and entered the room.
As expected, the subject is unconscious on the floor, holding a bottle of disinfectant solution scattered around gauze and sterile cotton. He was wearing shorts, with a bandage on the upper part of his right leg, which was not oozing blood, and it looked as if he had just been treated for the wound.
The two men in black looked at each other, and one of them said into the headset, "Boss, the mission is complete...... Be. ”
After speaking, the man with a bandage on his right leg was stuffed into a black bag, and the two men in black retreated and stood guard outside the door.
At this moment, another man in black walked in, he took out his gun, and patted the bag with the muzzle of the gun.
"Don't blame me, this game, I have to win."
With that, he pulled the trigger...... The muzzle of the gun was silenced, but two people outside the door heard a gunshot.