Chapter 7 The Way of Life
Time goes back to yesterday, before Xia Yuan came to that villa.
When he saw the horrific scene reflected in the window through the telescope, his first instinct was to run away immediately and look for clues to the ghost.
However, just as Xia Yuan was reversing and preparing to leave, he suddenly ...... A bloody hand appeared on the hood in front of the car!
Before he could react, a touch of black completely enveloped the window glass.
Xia Yuan's eyes only saw a pair of gaping mouths, and his whole person was completely swallowed up!
Whereas...... Xia Yuan, who appeared in front of them after this, was actually ......
The moment Ying Ziye saw the truth in the mirror, he rushed to the window on the side with an arrow and rushed out! Then, without looking back at all, she desperately ran towards the fence!
Ying Ziye repeatedly studied the blood characters and finally came to a conclusion. The blood word says that the ghost will incarnate as a "thing" that appears to them to be "very normal". But the problem is that anything in a haunted house, even like ordinary furniture, doesn't feel very normal. The very existence of a haunted house is abnormal enough.
In that case, it can still be regarded as normal in the eyes of everyone, only the residents.
"Stuff" ...... At first, Ying Ziye was stuck to the literal meaning and was not very confident in her reasoning, but then she was relieved. For apartments, what is the difference between these people and "things"? It's just a toy to play with torture.
After Ying Ziye came to that conclusion, considering that there was a chance to transfer the contract, only Xia Yuan, who went to the villa in advance, and Li Yin also seemed to coincide with her, because he asked Ying Ziye on the phone at that time: "Do you feel that there is something wrong with Xia Yuan?" ”
In fact, Li Yin asked Oda Kiri Sachiko about this question later, and the latter still replied that he didn't feel that way.
Could it be that I guessed wrong?
He also took the last step, asked Xia Yuan to answer the phone, and asked him a few questions that only Xia Yuan knew. However, he answered them all one by one. At that point, Li Yin basically ruled out his own assumptions.
However, just in case, he still warned Ying Ziye not to approach the mirror. After all, it is possible that Xia Yuan will reveal the true face of a ghost as soon as he stands in front of the mirror. According to his previous experience, some ghosts occasionally appear in the mirror, revealing their true colors.
Yingzi Ye is currently very dangerous, and if Xia Yuan is transferred by a ghost, then she must be the next to die. The only way to survive is to find the ghost incarnation, so that you can leave the villa early. And in the end, Ying Ziye also thought of this hypothesis and used a mirror to verify it.
Ying Ziye grabbed the fence, jumped over, and went outside the fence, then took out the car keys that Tang Wenshan had pre-assigned to her, and opened the door of the car parked outside the villa.
She had just gotten into the car and started the engine before she looked out of the corner of her eye to the side, but ...... But there was no movement.
But it's even more terrifying......
The car started, and Ying Ziye had just stepped on the accelerator, when suddenly, she ...... from the rear mirror of the car Seeing Xia Yuan's car behind him, the terrifying demon was sitting in the driver's seat of the car!
Ying Ziye stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the car suddenly rushed out like an arrow from the string!
These sections of the road in the suburbs are very remote, and Ying Ziye only thinks about getting to the city at this time, and there are more cars to find a way to get rid of it.
If...... It would have been nice if I had found it earlier......
Although it continued to speed up, the car behind it was still in hot pursuit.
However, Ying Ziye was not nervous, she saw a law in Li Yin's notes. In general, on the way back to the apartment, the initial pursuit of the ghost will not be too tight, and the residents have a great chance of escaping. And the closer you get to the apartment, the more terrifying and difficult it will be to escape the ghost's pursuit.
Now the demon actually pursued her in the same way as a human, and did not show any special abilities, such as suddenly appearing in his car, or clinging to the outside of the car, and not as exaggerated as in horror movies, just by running or crawling can catch up with the car.
Before returning to the apartment, she still has a chance to imagine how to escape.
Li Yin's notes say that ghosts cannot be killed by any means. In the past, the residents experimented, splashing black dog blood, hanging clocks and statues, wearing crosses, going to Wutai Mountain to ask monks to open the amulet, and buying exorcism charms, all of which worked. Once upon a time, there was a resident who bought a peachwood sword to cut down ghosts, but he died a miserable death.
In short, the folklore has tried all the methods that can exorcise ghosts and fight ghosts, and none of them have worked. So, if you want to kill ghosts, you can't do it. This is the same as those unsolvable horror movies.
And the only "solution" is to escape back to the apartment.
The ghosts are idealistic, and the occupants can only escape in a materialistic way that is physically feasible. However, there are still people who can successfully escape back to the apartment. To sum it up...... Either the ghost was a little slower and let him into the apartment, but the chances of success were too low; More often than not, because there are other occupants as stepping stones, and when the ghosts kill those occupants, others flee into the apartment.
Other words......
It would be extremely dangerous to escape back to the apartment if only one person survived. Yingzi Ye has always avoided such a situation, but now, it still happens.
Even if you are lucky enough to survive now, the closer you get to the apartment, the more dangerous you become. From entering the neighborhood to that alley to the door of the apartment, as long as the ghost is ambushed in any place, it will be in a situation from which there is no return. In particular, the alley that must be passed to enter the apartment is quite narrow, and only two people can pass through together, so there is no way to avoid it. Li Yin also mentioned in his notes that in the past, a resident thought of a way to climb into the wall next to the alley and run back to the apartment, but in the end he found ...... If you don't walk down the alley, you'll end up at a dead end, and you won't be able to enter the open space where the apartment is located.
Other words...... The only way to go down that alley! There is no way at all! And that road can only be walked, there is no other way!
I have been driving for more than ten minutes, and although the car behind me is in hot pursuit, I have never overtaken myself. However, once you enter the city, I am afraid that it will be very troublesome.
Li Yin mentioned in his notes that none of the ghosts he had encountered so far were afraid of the sun's rays or crowded scenes. They can be seen even in public places where many people gather, but they are often only visible to the occupants.
At this time, Ying Ziye casually glanced towards the passenger seat...... What caught my eye was a face with a pair of blood-red pupils, a chin that was broken, and only a few tendons connected to the mouth!
Before Ying Ziye could react, she only felt her body fall, and then fell to the cold floor!
Straighten up and look at ...... It actually appeared on the floor of that haunted house!
Ying Ziye didn't even frown, he immediately stood up and ran towards the gate of the villa. But...... Only at this moment, a black dress poured out behind her-
She immediately looked back...... And at this time, the demon's body appeared in front of her, and Ying Ziye immediately felt as if her whole body was restrained.
Li Yin was waiting in the lobby on the ground floor with some residents at this time. There were a lot of people gathered, after all, most of them were very concerned about Xia Yuan's life and death. At this time, the elevator door on the opposite side suddenly opened, and then a short, but very good-looking girl walked out. She is currently the shortest occupant of the apartment except for Yingzi Night, Li Yin stayed in the apartment during his stay in Youshui Village, named Xia Xiaomei, is a very optimistic and cheerful girl, and came to K City alone to study at university. Even living in such a horrible apartment, he was not afraid at all, but said, "In this case, isn't it okay to come back alive every time?" ”
Is this called stupidity or naivety?
She should also care about Ying Ziye, because she has a very good relationship with Midnight this time.
Suddenly, Li Yin saw a figure appear at the door of the apartment! Li Yin looked there deadly, the ...... It's the night of the Yingzi!
At that moment, Ying Ziye suddenly thought of ......
Xia Yuan...... I'm afraid that he will be killed because he saw this evil ghost, Oda Kiri Sachiko should have seen the ghost in the mirror, and Tang Wenshan went to the bathroom because he saw this evil ghost disguised as Xia Yuan......
Could it be ......
Will you be killed because you see this ghost?
The apartment completely fooled them all! In the blood letter, it is mentioned that "find the incarnation of the ghost, and you can leave the villa early", which is actually to lead them to the path of hell!
Ying Ziye saw a little bit in Li Yin's notes: "The apartment is not just about killing us. Instead, it gave us a lot of opportunities to escape, no matter which blood word was executed, there was a way to survive. It's just that...... That won't be fixed. ”
"The average resident thinks that any execution of the blood instructions, ghosts, curses, is completely insolvable, and the only way is to escape back to the apartment. However, this is not the case. Every time, the residents will be given a hidden way to survive, but it is not easy to detect or grasp this way of life. For example, the Youshui Village incident actually has a way out. That way of life is not to approach Ah Xiu, that ghost should live in Ah Xiu's water tank, constantly killing people who are close to Ah Xiu, and finally even Ah Xiu himself is killed. In other words, if you live in Axiu's house, you can't avoid ghosts. And as long as you try not to get close to Ah Xiu, you can survive. ”
So to speak...... If you don't look for the incarnation of the ghost, or if you don't see the ghost, even if you stay for five days, you will be safe.
The means of playing with the apartment also include those books. Using the sentence in the title of the book to cause psychological pressure on them, coupled with the terrifying consequences of the previous ghost asking for their lives, everyone firmly believes that if they don't find the ghost incarnation, they will inevitably die in the villa. Therefore...... will do whatever it takes to find out. The apartment is persecuting them down a road from which they will never recover!
However, Yingziye knew the only way to survive.
Just as the evil ghost was about to stretch out his hand to Ying Ziye, Ying Ziye suddenly closed his eyes!
Then...... She just stood like that, and after a long time...... Nothing happened again.
The ghost, in fact, can only kill them if they can see it with their eyes. Xia Yuan bore the brunt of it, and so did the people who came after. As long as the ghost is in sight, it can kill you. But on the other hand, if you don't see that ghost, nothing will happen. So the apartment asks them to find the ghost incarnation, that is, they want to "see" the ghost.
So, as long as you close your eyes and don't see that ghost, then you'll be fine.
She then kept her eyes closed and called a taxi to get back safely.
Li Yin was suddenly extremely excited, although Xia Yuan's death made many residents amazed, but Ying Ziye was able to survive in such a critical situation!
After listening to her story, many residents were stunned and said, "Just close your eyes and get away with it?" How simple is that? ”
"It's very simple," Ying Ziye said lightly, "but it's hard not to notice." ”
Li Yin also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't expect that even I was deceived by the apartment...... I've always thought that the way to get out of the apartment arrangement is hard to detect...... I didn't expect it to be hidden in the blood indication. ”
"Not necessarily." Ying Ziye said: "You may be aware of it, but ...... You don't dare to bet. After all, ghosts can still take our lives, and no one dares to take that risk. ”
That's true.
In any case, everything was finally settled.
That night, Ying Ziye had just finished taking a shower and walked out of the bathroom, when the doorbell rang. Ying Ziye heard Li Yin's voice: "Are you there?" Miss Ying? ”
She put on her clothes and walked over to open the door. Q: "What's the matter?" ”
Li Yin was stunned for a moment at first, but then said, "Miss Ying...... Craving cake? I made a cake. ”
"I just brushed my teeth," Ying Ziye said, "but thank you anyway." I'll come and eat it tomorrow. ”
"Well, okay...... Well, I'll wait for you tomorrow......"