Although the journey was relatively long, the three of us talked and laughed, but it was not as boring as I expected. When we arrived at Phoenix Manor in the north of the city, we took a look at the time, and it was a full day longer than expected. At this time, the students at the school had not yet set off.

After dialing the tutor's phone to report safety, we checked into Phoenix Manor first. It's not bad, we came early, so that we can choose a better room first, so as to avoid the embarrassment of grabbing a room when there are many people.

However, to my surprise, although this Phoenix Manor covers a very large area and is very luxuriously decorated, no one lives here. It may also be because of the relationship that our school has booked in advance, so the Phoenix Manor now seems so empty and silent.

Walking into the hall, we found that in addition to a few luxurious sofas and coffee tables, there was only a bar made of marble, and at a glance, the three of us could not see any signs of anyone in the bar.

Although there was nothing wrong with the furnishings, the colors on the walls of the hall made us extremely oppressive—bright red, so bright red that it was as if fresh human blood had been applied directly to the walls. It's just that this pigment has a little less of a bloody smell than blood.

As soon as we arrived in front of the bar, a chill that invaded our flesh and bones swept from the empty corridor on the left, making the bodies of all three of us tremble involuntarily. Now this feeling really makes us feel like we have entered a haunted house.

And the next person who appeared confirmed our conjecture even more.

As soon as the three of us appeared in front of the bar, a middle-aged man inside the bar suddenly came out from under the bar, looking gray-headed and dirty, with his slightly thin face, it was no different from a corpse that had just been drilled out of the ground.

Although there was some fear in my heart, at least the three of us were also characters who had seen real ghosts, so after seeing the people in this bar, my heart just chuckled violently, and I didn't react much.

"Is there anything you guys have come for something? Our manor has been rented to Jijiang University for an autumn tour for two weeks, so if you want to stay, let's come back in two weeks. As soon as the man opened his mouth, a hoarse voice floated directly out of his mouth, mixed with a strong smell of e-liquid, which made the three of us feel a sense of disgust for this person.

"We are students of Jijiang University, and here are the three of us with student ID cards and boarding vouchers." Smiling bitterly at the man, I handed over the voucher I had already taken from the mentor to the man, and said politely.

"Oh, okay, I'll check you in." After receiving the voucher, the man sat down at the bar and began to check us in, but at this moment, the attention of the three of us was all drawn to a portrait hanging in the front of the lobby.

The portrait depicts a beautiful woman in her thirties, dressed in bright clothes and holding a bright rose in her white palm. But the fly in the ointment was that there were sharp thorns on the bright rose, which pierced into the woman's palm and stabbed out drops of red blood.

But even so, the woman's face was still filled with a faint smile, but within this smile, there was a faint chill.

As for beside her, there was a cat in a quiet nest, covered with a layer of black fur, and a pair of emerald green cat eyes stared closely at the palm above that was dripping blood. And the joy at the corner of the cat's mouth seems to be waiting for the blood to drip down and swallow it directly.

"Okay, this is your room card, it should be a room for four people, but your teacher said that there are only three of you in your dormitory, so I will arrange a smaller one for you, I hope you don't dislike it." As he spoke, the man stretched out his palm and handed us the room card. And when I took the key card, I saw that the man's right hand only had four fingers, and as for where his thumb went, it really made me a little curious.

"Thank you." In a polite response, the three of us were about to turn and walk in the direction of the room, but at this moment, the painting hanging in the main hall once again attracted my attention, and the black cat eyes on the scroll seemed to blink slightly at the moment I looked past.

Seeing this phenomenon, my neck suddenly tightened, and then I looked at the two people next to me suspiciously, and asked in a low voice, "Have you seen anything unusual on the painting?" ”

"No, eh, Ouyang, you can see that kind of thing, so if you see any strange phenomenon, it's normal." With a wry smile, Liu Daring stretched out his arm and grabbed me directly, and then forcibly pulled me in the direction of the room.

At this moment, the man in the bar seemed to sense something, so he said to me who was about to disappear in the corridor not far away: "Don't believe it, don't believe it." ”

With this tepid sentence, the three of us came to the room, only to see that the layout of the room in addition to the sofa, coffee table, bed, there are a lot of daily necessities, so that the luggage we brought is basically useless.

However, the inadequacy of the room is its dark red wall color, which makes the people who live in the room always feel an invisible sense of oppression. I don't know if it's the builder's unique taste, or if it's specifically designed to be like this, but in short, this architectural color can make people feel depressed and restless.

"I really can't stand it, the layout of this Phoenix Manor is really a little incomprehensible, painted with bright red walls, what is this for?" As if feeling the same discomfort as me, Liu Daring sat on the bed and cursed angrily at the strange color of the wall.

And at the moment when he sat on the bed, a strange sound suddenly appeared outside the window, which made the three of us startled.

Looking at the source of the sound, I saw a black cat squatting at the window, and its emerald green cat eyes immediately caught my attention, and immediately reminded me of the strange portrait I had seen in the lobby before.

"Look at this cat, don't you think it's familiar?" I pointed to the black cat that was squatting outside our window at the moment, and immediately patted the two people next to me and asked in a low voice. And after hearing my words again, the expressions of these two people immediately became nervous.

"Indeed, this cat seems to be the one that just appeared in the portrait." While Liu was talking boldly, he also ran to the window, observed the cat's eyes through the glass, and immediately said affirmatively: "That's right, it's this cat, the emerald green cat eyes impress me deeply." ”

"Since this cat is real, it is very likely that the woman in the portrait is also alive in this world?" Extending his train of thought slightly, Xu Kun smiled bitterly and said as if joking.

It seemed like a joke to him, but it seemed to me that it was a very likely thing to happen. In order to confirm the doubts in my heart now, I hurriedly ran to the lobby, only to see that the lobby was empty at the moment, and the man who had just checked in for us was now gone.

And the moment I turned my head to look at the portrait, something that creeped me out suddenly happened. The glamorous woman and the black cat that had just appeared in the portrait had now disappeared from the picture, and all that remained was the dark red rose that was still dripping blood.

Confused, I wanted to go up and see if there was anything strange about the scroll. But just as I was taking a step, the scrawny man suddenly appeared from one side and blocked in front of me, blocking me: "If there are some things that you shouldn't see, it will cause trouble, so I advise you to go back and stay in your room, don't care about anything, and when you go to bed at night, no matter what you see or hear, don't go out of the house, otherwise, if something goes wrong, I won't be responsible." ”

With that, the man reached out and grabbed me and dragged me all the way back to the room. At this time, it is inconvenient for me to go out again.

But even so, the doubts in my heart were still so strong. If the cat is real, then the woman in the portrait is also very likely to exist.

It's just that why the figures of the cat and the woman have disappeared from the picture scroll I just saw, and why is the rose, which should be stationary, just beginning to become dynamic, and it is still dripping blood downward.

"Ouyang, let's go out to eat, when I came just now, I saw a good Western restaurant nearby, and today's special promotion, a steak is only 80 yuan, let's go, I'll have a treat, after eating, let's go to the Internet café for a while." As if to see that something was not quite right with me at the moment, Liu Daring hurriedly stepped forward and patted me on the shoulder, and immediately explained.

As for me, I didn't think much about it, just nodded silently, and then walked out of the Phoenix Manor under their leadership. And as we passed through the lobby, my eyes still subconsciously caught a glimpse of the picture scroll hanging on the wall.

I only saw the woman and the black cat who had just disappeared, but at this moment, they appeared again, but the cat's eyes, which were supposed to be emitting emerald green light, now seemed to have been half affected by something, and they did not appear to be as bright as before.

Self-soothing said: It may be a matter of angle. So I didn't think too much about it, so I relaxed and went to a nearby western restaurant with Liu Daring and them. But just as we left, the thin middle-aged man slowly walked out of the hall, staring at us as we gradually moved away.