Chapter 11 The Horror Tower
The hallway door opened with a screeching sound of metal grinding - I stiffened with fright, but nothing happened.
It was dark in front of me, so dark that I wondered if I had closed my eyes.
Shi Lingren took a photo of the door of the corridor with his mobile phone.
This is a row of girls' dormitories, and there is a big poster posted on the door of the nearest one, which is the kind of advertising paper, and I can't say anything new, anyway, it's better to look at it with a little color. There are three big words "I love X" written on it with a highlighter, and the last word should have been crossed out.
When I opened the door, the first thing I saw was a mosquito net, which was hung high, like a square golden wire cage. Then a smell of decay arose, with a pungent rancid stench. That kind of corruption goes deep into the bone marrow, as if it were a corpse.
"It's so weird here." I hid behind the Shiling man and spied into this room.
Shi Lingren snorted, "Because all the dormitories here don't have windows." β
"Windows?"
I leaned into the light of my phone and looked around the room. There is a long table and folding chairs at the door, and a refrigerator and cooking table at the back of the room. Some hot water bottles, stationery and other utensils are all standing by the wall.
Shi Ling was right. The other rooms before were small, but they all had windows, but this one didn't even have a window.
Shi Ling slowly walked into the house, and I followed closely behind.
The air became heavy in an instant, as if it had sunk into water.
Shi Ling stared silently around, and there was nothing suspicious in each room at first glance.
"Do you see anything?"
I asked, grabbing the corner of Shi Lingren's shirt tightly.
"Nothing. There's definitely something quirky here, though. He tapped softly as he walked along the wall, all with the sound of tuk-tuk. The wardrobe and writing desk placed next to the wall were all removed, and no secret doors or secret passages were exposed.
Half an hour later, I sat down in my chair as if I wasn't feeling comfortable, looking at Shi Lingren, who was pacing impatiently in the middle of the last bedroom.
"See what?" Shi Ling said, perceiving my gaze.
"No wow. I was thinking, I thought you were cold and cold at all times. There are times when I show my feelings. Or rather, frustration?
I walked down the hallway. What, I was nervous for a long time in vain, maybe everything was disturbed by our mediocrity.
"What do you mean?" Shi Ling also followed.
"Aren't you irritable right now?"
"It's not because it's too much to meddle with someone." Shi Ling crossed his arms. "There are such people in the world. A pretentious demeanor that ignores others actually causes trouble to the people around him. β
"I'm sorry." Before I could retort, unexpectedly, Shi Lingren lowered his eyelids and said, "Indeed, I'm a little irritable. The reason can't tell you. β
"I didn't ask you." I finally retorted. Shi Ling looked back at me in some surprise, and then smiled.
"You're funny."
"It's not fun. I'm worried about Mu Tongtong's safety. β
I leaned against the wall.
"I was talking nonsense just now, I'm sorry, I'm not making fun of you."
"I don't take that kind of little thing to heart." Shi Lingren said, "Speaking of which, I have an official girlfriend." β
"Really?" I looked at Shi Ling in surprise.
"Don't believe me?"
"It's not ...... There are such good people in the world. β
"Oh? Hooked up so soon without graduating? Sure enough, it was resolute! I like it! "I didn't know it was burning - but I laughed. Shi Lingren finally looks like "a normal person of his age", a college graduate student and a counselor who stays on campus, if he has a house in the capital, he can basically talk about marriage.
"Ever thought about it?" I looked at the dilapidated ceilings and cracked walls, "What does it feel like to be in a place like this, if there really are ghosts, and they have lived like this for decades, hundreds of years?" β
"Unthinkable. I wouldn't be able to live without TV and the internet. β
"Good house tone."
"I like it."
"Maybe it's just hitting those girls!"
"Okay." Shi Lingren lifted my collar expressionlessly, "It seems that there are no clues, let's go first." I may have to look for you again tomorrow. β
Ah, the child is shy! Gee...... Shi Lingren looked at me with a dark face, "This murderer may act again, you better be careful." β
I smiled and nodded. Shut up consciously. Or maybe I need to be alone to calm my inner turmoil.
"I know what you're thinking!" He closed the door of each dormitory in order, but he did not move.
I smiled, "You know it's useless for me to think about anything, the most important thing you need to know right now is what the hell is thinking." β
He turned his face and said seriously, "Do you know what a ghost is?" β
Ha! This question is an insult to my writing career for more than ten years! Could it be that those supernatural cartoons were all read in vain?
"People who cheat credit and attendance with psychological illusions and expectant visions!" Let me summarize it succinctly.
"You know what? The people in the world who claim to be ghosts are 100% suspicious and secretly ghostly! β
"Oh?"
"The crowd is full of gold, and the bones are destroyed. If someone honestly says that they see a spirit, they will be ridiculed by their relatives and friends as a daydream, and if they say it is a vision, they will be reprimanded by the public for being a delusion.
People only believe what they want to believe, and there are countless people who think that the other person is a liar as soon as they come up. So, most people who have actually seen hell don't say it like that. β
"You call me a liar?"
"I only know that no matter at home or abroad, the reason why the spirit can't survive forever is because it has its own obsessions,"
For example, the vampire Dracula is revenge, Bluebeard is chaste, the vixen is red-sleeved, and Bloody Mary is obsessed with her beauty and has taken the beauty and life of many young girls. But since Mu Tongtong has made trouble many times and forced Yu Gongyin to death, he should have recovered his memory a long time ago, why do he have to contact you again and again? Is it never-ending in its demands for its own obsessions?
The smile flickered, and Shi Ling approached my face. His gaze became focused. "OK, you know what I think? There is no Mu Tongtong, the girl who was killed and full of resentment, the whole thing was directed and acted by you, first using a weird story to attract the attention of an idiot like me, and then colluding with many people, pretending to be a ghost to make me believe her to expand her influence and make a big news!
In this way, you may be able to sell your supernatural story for a good price. Shi Lingren spread his hands, using what he thought was the most reasonable reasoning to explain. I can only look back at Shi Ling in a daze, I now believe that he is not a yin and yang eye...... He is really a very unromantic and unimaginative person, no matter how weird and nonsensical the incident comes to Shi Lingren's eyes, he has a way to describe it as so boring.
"And what are you going to do, pretentious idiot?" A smile tugged at the corner of my mouth, though I didn't understand what to be happy about.
"What idiots! You'reβ"
"I'll keep you shut."
"How?"
"That's it."
Caught off guard, Shi Lingren nodded, and suddenly pushed me against the wall, and it happened suddenly, and I didn't have time to dodge.
Then he bent down and pressed it against my face. I just saw a pair of big black eyes, and I was dumb -
"Don't!" I subconsciously resisted, and the two of them entangled and pushed each other.
- Suddenly, the wall against his back creaked open like a door.
With a "bang", I fell down with Shi Lingren.
The best is yet to come. There was a staircase going down, and the two of us rolled down the stairs before we could shout. Hitting the ground on the butt is a great blessing in misfortune.
As I gradually woke up, I reached out to touch the warmth on my lips, "Ahem, cough, cough!" It's my ......," the smell came from my snort and I knew it was Shi Ling.
"Shhhh Breathe slowly first. He whispered on my cheek.
I followed his instructions and took a few deep breaths before the discomfort in my chest gradually subsided.
"Are you better?"
"Ah, it hurts......," I said, wondering. Of course it hurt a lot, but I felt as if I wasn't seriously injured or broke a bone. Are you okay? β
For a moment, I couldn't see anything, and I couldn't help but be shocked, and then I found that it was pitch black all around.
"Alive." In the darkness, there was the voice of the Shi Ling man and the movement of his body squirming outward, "It's painful!" β
"What's wrong?"
"Like...... Folded to the leg. He made a pitiful voice.
"Huh? I guess it's a sprain. It's not that easy to break. β
"You don't know how to be considerate!" He complained.
"What the hell is thisβwhat's going on?"
"I see", with the benefit of hindsight.
"It wasn't a problem from the start. No, it shouldn't be a problem at all. β
The so-called escape room usually escapes from a place other than a door, such as a window. This is a natural conclusion. But the designers of the tube tower were prepared from the outset with the means to cover the eyes and ears of the people. Indeed, the lock on this hallway door is very easy to open. In other words, it is possible to break into the locked tower. It's easy to sneak in without being discovered by the girls, and swagger in. No gimmicks are required.
However, the reverse is not the case. This means that it is impossible to escape from a windowless room full of people without playing tricks
- That's right, it can't be.
So...... If the average person's space feels right, because there is not a single window that I just saw. It is thought that there can be no secret passages or secret doors here. Unless you missed it, but ......
The sound of Suo Suo seemed to be Shi Lingren walking to the wall, his ears close to the wall, stretching out his fingers and tapping lightly, and the wall made a tuk tuk sound, which was really deep. "It seems that this wall is a brick wall, very strong, and it is not hollow inside."
After trying, he seemed to take a step back and said in a voice that endured pain, "I have measured the distance between the inner wall and the outer corridor with a total of seven steps at the entrance of the stairway, which means that the distance between the wall and the outer corridor is about four meters two. Entering the dormitory, walking from one end of the room to the other, is a five-step process, and one big step is about sixty centimeters, that is, three meters. The distance between the outer gate and the wall is a normal step, and a normal step is about 30 centimeters.
The wall in the middle is about a meter thick! It's incredible. In general, the interior walls of the room, if they are brick, are about eighteen centimeters thick. Of course, if there's a mystery in the wall, that's a different story! So, what kind of mystery is there in this wall? β
He seemed to reach for a coin and threw it into the darkness. There was a brief silence, only a snap, and it sounded as if the coin hit the wall, but it didn't bounce back. Then there was another snap, the sound was a little lower than the one just now, and the sound came from a lower position than before. Then there was a gurgling sound, like the sound of marbles falling and rolling on the stairs.
My eyes lit up and I roughly understood the construction inside the walls. The two walls have a total of 36 centimeters, and a space of more than 50 centimeters is sandwiched in between, just enough to make a narrow staircase. But where is this staircase? Where does it lead? What's the use? Why build it? I was lost in thought, and then I was struck by a sudden panic.
"Here...... Will it be a place for us to bury our bones? β
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