Chapter 9: Afternoon (1)
Shen Luotian sat at the piano and quickly finished a tune. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was a pitch-black piano, the smooth lacquer reflecting the cold light, looking elegant and solemn.
The last syllable of the piano trembled and reverberated through the living room, and two men on the couch looked at him in amazement.
"How?"
Shen Luotian tilted his chin and showed off his face: "It's amazing." ”
"Awesome!"
Ye Tianlang applauded very perfunctorily: "The hand speed is very fast, no wonder the game is so good, but ...... What did you just play? ”
"What kind of bee is it? What's it called, it's quite famous. ”
"Wild bees flying?"
Shen Luotian looked at the ceiling, tried to recall, and nodded to him: "It seems to be called this name." ”
"Good...... It's amazing! ”
Xia Beifeng, who was lying on the back of the sofa, came back to his senses at this time: "Brother Tian, you can actually play the piano, it's amazing!" ”
"He's not playing the piano, it should be called smashing the piano, your ears are fine."
Ye Tianlang looked at the children around him in shock, his eyes full of disbelief.
"But it's really amazing!"
Xia Beifeng nodded to Ye Tianlang seriously, flipped off the back of the sofa, and leaned next to the piano: "It seems that I was not wrong last night, Brother Tian, you are really fast." That one...... Can I touch it? ”
Shen Luotian sat by the piano, lowered his head, and looked at the children beside him with a complicated expression.
I can't, just tell you that I can't do this soon.
Ye Tianlang turned his head and looked at the wall on the other side of the living room, the hand on his knee was clenched into a fist, and an irrepressible smile appeared on his face.
"I can only touch it."
Shen Luotian said in a low tone: "After touching it, let me go to sleep honestly." ”
Xia Beifeng nodded quickly, and cautiously stretched out a finger at the black and white interlaced piano keys.
A crisp high note came out of the piano, and there was a "ding dong" sound, which was very pleasant.
"Sounds good!"
Xia Beifeng's eyes lit up, and he raised his head expectantly: "Can I touch it again?" ”
"I can't."
Shen Luotian raised his hand and pointed to the second floor: "Go sleep for me." ”
Xia Beifeng raised his head, blinked his eyes pleadingly a few times, and finally found that the person in front of him was really a hard-hearted guy, so he had to turn around and go upstairs aggrieved.
"Then can you touch me again when I wake up in the morning?"
Xia Beifeng walked to the second floor, stood at the door of the guest room, looked at the two adults sitting on the sofa downstairs, and asked pitifully.
"It's up to you to behave."
Shen Luotian picked up the gamepad, and his eyes staring at the TV screen lit up surprisingly: "If I'm satisfied, I'll touch it for you again." ”
"Okay."
The child who had been arguing for half the night finally went to bed honestly because of a piano piece that was not beautiful at all, which made the two adults who were not doing their jobs and only wanted to play games breathe a sigh of relief.
"You just lied to him."
Ye Tianlang opened a bag of potato chips while waiting for the game to load, and said casually: "I will definitely not let him touch the piano again tomorrow." ”
"Of course."
Shen Luotian reached out and grabbed a handful of potato chips, and said as a matter of course: "Do you know how troublesome it is to clean up that thing?" My brother has always been like a baby, and he has to be angry even when he falls into ashes, why don't you usually see him have this kind of cleanliness! ”
"After all, it's so expensive, it's normal to cherish a little."
"My family is not short of that money! Besides, he usually can pile up his clothes for half a month without washing, how can he wipe the piano so diligently! “
"It's really not like an instructor, and when I first met him, he used to roll around in the mud and then rush over to us and hug us. At the time, no, even now, when someone tells me that he actually studied piano for so many years, I can't believe it. ”
Anyway, he doesn't have the temperament of an artist at all, but sometimes he does things in the style of a performance artist. ”
"It's really scary to think about it, how did your family endure it for so many years and not beat him to death?"
"Our family is popular for free-range breeding, which is fully satisfied materially, and spiritually wild, just don't break the law...... Besides, no one cares about the two of us! ”
"So you two don't think it's annoying at all, do you? I see! ”
Ye Tianlang pressed the handle and manipulated his game character to go back and forth in the basement of the black hole ~ hole: "But what you just played is really ugly." ”
"Thanks, I'll actually be this one."
"I want to know."
The two characters in the game collided in a corner, and the two immediately stopped chatting and began to press the controller at a rapid pace, pouring bullets at the other character.
The TV screen in the living room was lit until dawn.
Because it was too late the night before, it was already dawn when Xia Beifeng woke up again.
He rubbed his eyes and walked down from the second floor in a daze. was washed and cleaned by Shen Luotian in the bath~ room with his collar, and when he sat at the dining table, the time displayed on the wall clock was already half past ten.
Breakfast is omelette, bread and bacon, and the taste is very subtle between "ordinary and edible" and "a little delicious", so people can neither complain nor be embarrassed to praise, but only say that the last sentence is not bad.
During Xia Beifeng's breakfast, he had to turn his head to look at the piano covered with black flannel almost every ten seconds, and he was never honest when he sat on the stool. It wasn't until he was taught by Shen Luotian to "don't look around when eating" that he lowered his head and quickly ate the breakfast in front of him.
"Where's that brother yesterday?"
In order to show that he was "very sensible", he took the initiative to receive the tableware to the kitchen after breakfast, and even wanted to wash the dishes by hand, but he gave up because he couldn't find a dishcloth: "Doesn't he eat breakfast?" Or gone? You don't play games anymore? ”
"I didn't go, we both played until four o'clock. Then he said that in order to replenish his energy for evening activities, he needed to make up for sleep first, and he could get up at noon. ”
Shen Luotian irritably scooped up the bowls in the water and stuffed them into the dishwasher one by one.
"As a result, I have to do all the work~ to do, and your trouble has been bothering me here."
Xia Beifeng's eyes widened, and he looked at the dishwasher with a low sound in amazement, as if the three views had been refreshed again.
"Brother Tian, aren't you sleepy?"
After cleaning up the kitchen, the child followed behind Shen Luotian and returned to the living room: "What activities do you have at night, are you having fun?" Take me a line? ”
"We're going to a haunted house at night."
Shen Luotian excitedly leaned in front of Xia Beifeng, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "It's very thrilling, it's very fun, do you want to go?" ”
Xia Beifeng was also excited, and replied loudly: "I want to go!" ”
"Okay, then we'll take you."
Shen Luotian stretched out his hand and pressed it his shoulder, and a few weird smiles appeared on his face: "Don't be scared and hug me and cry when the time comes!" ”
"No, it won't!"
The expression on Xia Beifeng's face looked particularly firm: "I won't cry for the sake of a haunted house, even if there is really a ghost in front of me, I won't cry." ”
I believe this, you even dared to beat Xue Qing last night, although you may not know that she is not human.
Shen Luotian looked at him with a smile on his face and didn't speak.
As if worried that his words would not be convincing, the child thought for a while and added: "If there is really a ghost at that time, I will definitely stand in front to protect you!" ”
As he spoke, he stood on the carpet and flew up in the air, looking still presentable.
"How's that!"
"Awesome!"
Shen Luotian clapped his hands twice and sighed: "Then I will wait for you to protect Xia Daxia at that time." ”
"Don't worry, leave it to me!"
Xia Beifeng patted his chest, turned his head to look at the piano on the side, and asked expectantly, "Then can I touch the piano again?" ”
"Nope."
"But ......"
Xia Beifeng raised his voice, and wanted to say something more.
Shen Luotian raised a finger with a smile on his face: "Shh, that very bad-tempered brother Ye is sleeping upstairs, you make him so noisy that he doesn't take you to play at night." ”
Xia Beifeng immediately covered his mouth, and looked up at the closed guest room on the second floor quite fearfully, with a very regretful expression.
Because the breakfast time was relatively late, another person slept until noon, and the final result was that it was already more than two o'clock after lunch.
Shen Luotian somehow took out a set of colored pencils and threw them to Xia Beifeng, coaxing the child to obediently harm his own sketchbook (although the person concerned did not know).
I should have thought about it a long time ago, and found the right way, this guy is actually quite easy to coax.
Shen Luotian looked at Xia Beifeng who was lying in the corner and sighed angrily.
"The place we were going to at night was a hospital that had been abandoned for twenty years."
He turned his head and said to Ye Baiyu beside him seriously: "Of course, you probably know that that place is haunted. ”
"You don't have to remind me again, let's get to the point."
"The text you showed me last night...... Well, that wasn't actually sent to my brother, it was sent to me. It says let me bring that little imp over there and settle things over there. As for why we have to take the imp there, I don't know about this, so I guess it's probably because the imp can lure out what we're looking for. ”
Ye Tianlang nodded and listened attentively to his words.
"That hospital, it was built 20 years ago. After less than half a year of operation, something happened. Don't be surprised, it's not a paranormal event, it's a criminal case. At that time, the doctors and nurses who were on night duty in the hospital, as well as the patients, almost dozens of people, all died~ light. At that time, it was quite a big case. The police were busy for more than half a year, and the final result was that a man carried a knife into the hospital alone and killed all sides, slashing from the first floor to the fourth floor, leaving not a single living mouth. At that time, even the suspects were listed, there were photos, there were DNA, there were witnesses, the evidence was conclusive, and it was a sure thing. However, the end result was that the case became unsolved and sealed, never made public - because of some force majeure. ”
Shen Luotian showed a "you know" expression at Ye Baiyu and sighed.
"Why?"
"Because the murderer is missing."
Shen Luotian looked out the window with a sigh of relief, looking at the falling snowflakes, and didn't know what he was thinking: "I can't see anyone alive, and I can't see a corpse when I die." According to the police's inference, he just walked into the hospital, and then slashed people all the way, but did not come out again, and disappeared out of thin air in the courtyard. The place of disappearance is probably on the roof of the building, there are only footprints on the upper floor, no trace of going downstairs, and he did not jump off the building, which is more strange. ”
"The rooftop?"
Ye Tianlang was puzzled for a moment, and slowly said his speculation: "Could it be that he was picked up by aliens." ”
"Can you be serious! I'm serious about telling you the case! ”
Shen Luotian raised his hand and threw an apple at him: "This is a serious supernatural event, what kind of alien civilization are you talking about!" Besides, if there are extraterrestrial civilizations involved, will they still come to us to solve it? Isn't that a matter on the scientific side! ”
"I need to maintain my materialist stance."
Ye Tianlang took the apple, lowered his head and took a bite: "You know, when this kind of thing happens, I would rather believe that there is a perverted ~ Frankenstein doing experiments, or directly throw the pot on the alien civilization, rather than believe that some supernatural ability is intervening." ”
"Don't run away from reality, hey! I still have to rely on you to watch the children at night! ”
Shen Luotian complained as he pulled out a roll of drawings from under the coffee table.
"I guess my master's bastard told me about this. The old monster asked you to bring me a sentence yesterday, and today he sent me a WeChat message saying that the building plan of the hospital is under the coffee table, and I don't know when he put it in, it's like a puzzle game. Do you know? That guy has always only said half of everything, and he obviously has more clues in his hands than anyone else, but he just refuses to tell us, and he tests us in the name of it. And then what about us? When we arrive at the place, we usually find that this matter is tricky beyond our shallow imagination, and when we are tired of solving the problem, he jumps out and shoots the last shot, and then shows off to us that he has expected it a long time ago, and it is really underwhelming! ”
"This kind of person is really underwhelming."
Ye Tianlang nodded thoughtfully, looking at his expression, he was obviously caught in some bad memories: "Instructor...... Well, your brother used to do this kind of thing a lot, so he must have been influenced by your master. ”
"Basically."
Shen Luotian unfolded a stack of drawings one by one, spread them flat on the coffee table, shook his head and sighed: "Why bother, when is the time for retribution!" When the time comes, you will be the pillars of the country for the next generation because of him, it's really ...... Gee! ”
A rotten aura emanated from the yellowed drawings, and the light blue handwriting and patterns were already very blurred, and the two of them squinted together for a long time before they could vaguely guess the approximation.
"Master, where did you get this kind of primitive architectural drawing! It's really hard! But we don't understand it! Can't you just draw a floor plan? I went here and there were design instructions, I don't care what type of reinforced concrete they use! We don't build houses, who can understand what this thing is! ”
Shen Luotian complained endlessly, picked out the drawings that he felt were useless, and cooperated with Ye Tianlang to draw a hospital floor plan that was easy for ordinary people to identify.
Twenty years ago, the hospital was not as fully functional as it is now, let alone a small suburban hospital with only four floors.
This abandoned hospital has five floors plus a basement.
a basement on the first floor, which serves as a cold room and morgue, as well as several examination departments; The first floor is for registration and emergency; On the second floor, there are several common departments; The next two floors are all inpatient units.
"It's such a small place, where can that murderer hide? Did you fall into a space-time rift and cross over? ”
Shen Luotian said as he compared the drawn floor plan with the architectural drawings given to him by Ye Baiyu.
"I don't know why, I always feel that something is not right, what do you think?"
"It seems to be a little ...... A sense of disobedience. ”
Ye Tianlang touched his chin and looked with him: "At first glance, it seems that there is no problem, but I always feel ......"
He drew a few times on the drawing with a pen: "It feels like the layout of the ward is not normal. ”
"Hmmm......"
Shen Luotian spread out the architectural drawings on the ground, looked at them one by one, frowning and thinking about something.
After more than ten minutes, he clapped his hands sharply, raised his head and looked at the people around him: "No wonder you want to give me architectural drawings, if this thing is directly the floor plan, I really can't understand it." ”
He reached for a pen and drew a few lines on the drawings lined up: "You see these wards that are connected together, the walls are all slanted, it seems that they are trying to make better use of the space, but in fact they are ......"
He raised his head and said in a serious tone: "This is a formation that suppresses the yin qi to prevent something from disturbing below. ”
"So? Is there anything surprising about this? ”
Ye Tianlang raised his eyebrows: "Although I don't want to believe these things, I still read some novels occasionally." Isn't this generally the case, and haunted buildings are used to set up formations, and this kind of thing is strange in an unscientific worldview? Strangely, you didn't think of it in the first place. ”
"You're right, it's not surprising at all, it's very common in our worldview."
Shen Luotian sighed, put away the drawings, and sat up from the ground: "I mean, since we see that there is a formation, then we have to use the few hours before dark to find out what happened there before this hospital was built." Why do you want to set up such a formation, what is it that is pressed underneath...... Having said that, I guess my master knows all these things, but he doesn't want to tell me and wants to test me. So let's go to work now, the time is short, the task is heavy! ”
"I understand when you say that."
Ye Tianlang sighed and took the drawing in his hand: "Remember to help me convey my cordial greetings the next time I see your master." ”
"No problem, I will."
(To be continued.) )