Chapter Fifty-Eight: Entering the Strange Tower
I thought about it for a moment and said, "I'll call Old Man Liu's daughter again." ”
"Okay." Xiang Feng said.
I pulled out a tissue, wiped my mouth, and just pulled my phone out of my trouser pocket, it rang on its own.
"Who called?" Xiang Feng asked.
"It's... Old man Yang's number! … Feed? ”
"Hey, Xiao Leng..."
Uncle Yang's voice.
"It's me, it's me, are you all right?"
"Okay, uncle, I miss you, I went out of the mountain overnight to find a place with a signal, and called you, aren't you very moved?"
"It's a must, it's so moving, I'm about to cry when I'm moved."
"His grandmother's, still crying, I can see and laugh about the same, I can't see bullying your uncle, just fool me, right?" Uncle Yang scolded with a smile.
"How is that possible?" I laughed, and then turned to the topic, "What the hell is going on in that village, and the people in the village?" ”
"Alas...," Uncle Yang sighed, "What the hell, such a big village, so many people, it's gone." Your master said that it was dominated by a mysterious force, and it was in that and another space, and what space was not space, uncle, and I didn't understand. Your master is investigating to see if the mysterious power is natural or artificial, and he is still trying to find a way to find the entrance to that space, and if he can find it, he will be able to enter and see the village. But the village disappeared without a trace, and I don't know where to start, and my master is worried..."
"Worried?"
"Yes, alas..."Uncle Yang sighed again, "I don't eat or drink every day, I sit on a hill not far from the village, staring blankly in the direction of the village, I sit for a day, and after a few days, people have lost a lot of weight, yesterday, my cousin and I forced him off the mountain, and he couldn't stand steadily, as soon as we let go, he slipped out of the ground..."The more Uncle Yang said, the deeper his voice became, "By last night, alas..."
"What happened last night?" I asked hurriedly.
"Alas...," Uncle Yang just sighed.
"What happened to my master last night?!" I asked again.
Uncle Yang smiled, "Don't worry, with Uncle I'm here, how can I make your master not eat or drink?" I'm just going to try it to see if you kid has filial piety..."
I was angry and funny, "The stinky uncle who has no discipline, fooling the little pot friend..."
"His grandmother's, are you still a little pot friend?" Uncle Yang scolded with a smile, and then said, "To be honest, it's true that your master is worried, he said that those villagers, our clansmen, are not dead, they are still alive, otherwise, uncle, where would I be in the mood to laugh with you." However, those villagers can't get out of that space, and after the food is gone, they can hold on for a few days, so it's impossible to say..."
"Are all the vanished villagers still alive?"
"Yes, that's what your master said..."
I glanced at Xiang Feng, and couldn't help but think of the girl on the 'ghost building' last night, the girl and her boyfriend, also mysteriously disappeared, somehow entered the building, but couldn't get out, looking at her thin appearance, it should have been a long time without anything to eat, hungry, could it be said... Could it be that that building, like the nameless mountain village in Taihang Mountain, is dominated by the same 'power' and has also entered another space? …
"Hello? I said Xiao Leng, why is it distracted? ”
"Huh?"
"Okay, my cousin's phone is running out of battery, so I won't tell you yet."
"Good..."
Hanging up the phone, Xiang Feng and I were both silent for a while, and then I dialed the phone number of Old Man Liu's daughter. The woman really didn't know about the process of Boss Ling's building being demolished, and she didn't know who the person in charge of the demolition was...
"Ah Leng."
"Huh?"
"I feel that if we can unlock the secrets of that building, it may be helpful to Master and them." Xiang Feng said.
I thought about it for a moment and nodded, "Let's go." ”
Leaving this small restaurant, Xiang Feng and I went to the small supermarket again.
"You're asking, who was in charge of demolishing that building back then?" The fat man in the small supermarket said.
"That's right."
"I don't know." The fat man said, "After all, it's been a long time. ”
"That..."I thought for a while, "Big brother, your rental building is just across the street from Boss Ling's building, the process of demolishing that building back then, big brother must have seen it, can you tell us about it?" ”
"The process, in short..."The fat man gestured with his hand, "Demolish the building, there must be a protective net on the periphery, so as not to fall down broken bricks or something, and hit people passing by." In addition to the protective net, a double layer of protection is added. ”
"Double protection?"
"Well, on the outside of the protective net, a layer of rainproof cloth is added, and the cover is so tight that outsiders can't see the process of demolishing the building at all. Later, after the protective net and rain cloth were removed, the building was gone..."
Xiang Feng and I glanced at each other, there must be a ghost in this. Could it be that the disappearance of that building was caused by man? And that person is the person in charge of demolishing that building back then? …
Coming out of the small supermarket, I looked at the overcast sky.
"Ah Leng."
"How?"
"How long did it take for that building to disappear last night?" Xiang Feng said.
"Probably, about fifteen minutes."
"Hmm."
"Shall we inquire about the person in charge of the demolition of that building back then? But how do you inquire and to whom do you ask? ”
"Don't inquire."
"Oh?"
Xiang Feng looked at me, "Uncle Yang told you on the phone that the reason why Master couldn't enter that space was because the village disappeared without a trace, and there was no way to start, right?" ”
"That's right..."
Xiang Feng raised his eyes to the sky, and my heart suddenly moved, "I see, do you want to find a way to enter the building when it reappears tonight?" ”
"Not bad." Xiang Feng said, "I think that couple should have seen the building appear, because they were curious, so they ran out to see, but they accidentally bumped into it and somehow got in." If they can get in, we should be able to get in too. They're trapped inside, and we don't necessarily can't get out..."
"Yes, we are sorcerers."
"It's only fifteen minutes, and if we can't get in during the fifteen minutes that the building shows up tonight, then we'll have to wait for tomorrow."
I clenched my fist with a 'clatter' and said, "Let's try!" ”
"Okay, let's go, let's go back to the car and sleep for a while..."
People like us don't think about regularity at all, and often act at night and make up for sleep during the day.
When I returned to the yard of the 'Ling's Lighting Factory', I drilled into the car, and I couldn't sleep at all thinking about what I was going to face at night. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, I fell asleep until I was woken up by Xiang Feng. Looking outside, it was already late at night.
"Ah Leng, don't sleep, eat something, and get ready to go."
After a hurried meal of something that Xiang Feng had bought, we took our bags and left the factory to the alley. Like last night, the wind twisted the lock with wire, and we walked into the rental building, and following the sewer pipe on the second floor, we came to the courtyard behind the building. Squatted under the eaves of the back door and waited quietly.
I thought to myself, why does that building, appear so suddenly every night at one to one o'clock? When did this begin? … And I thought, what if that building doesn't show up again tonight? …
Time passed minute by minute, and the torment of waiting made me feel that time was extremely slow. Inside, anticipation, nervousness, excitement... Mixed tastes. Finally, it's one o'clock...
Xiang Feng 'brushed' the compass out of the bag, and the two of them filled the two pants pockets with various magic weapons and rune paper. I couldn't bear to blink my eyes, staring at the yard in front of me this time...
Suddenly, the shaking reappeared, and with the shaking, the building slowly revealed...
"Let's go!"
I shouted to the wind, and then rushed over with the compass, I followed, raised my eyes and looked up, the window on the second floor was empty, I didn't see the girl last night, I thought to myself, is she already starving? …
When I came to the building, I went into the 'wall' of the building, and I followed. The two of them walked around inside, came out and went in, and then circled the building again, but never found any 'entrance'.
Panting and stopping, I looked at the time, fifteen minutes, half of it had passed, what should I do? … In my anxiety, as soon as I looked up, I saw a person standing in the window on the second floor, it was the girl from last night, she was not dead, she was still alive! It's just that it looks even more pale and weak than last night...
Like last night, she was shouting something to us with her arms outstretched... I suddenly had an idea, and said to her word by word, "You, yes, how, what, in, go?" ”… I hope she can read what I'm talking about through the shape of my mouth...
When I finished shouting a second time, the girl suddenly pointed to the rental building behind us and made a jumping pose...
There was a flash of lightning in my heart, "I understand, Ah Feng, come!" ”
I jumped around the wall to the sewer pipe, and climbed up first... Human potential is limitless, and I climbed to the second floor at a speed that I would not normally imagine, and then rushed out and threw myself into one of the rooms on the second floor.
'Squeak' opened the window, I climbed up to the ledge, looked down, and then looked at the building. I saw that the building began to shake again, and it looked like it was about to disappear. I gritted my teeth, sank to the soles of my feet, closed my eyes, and jumped over...
I don't know what's going on, I just feel like a feather falling down like a feather. When I put my feet on the ground, I opened my eyes and saw myself standing in front of a building, surrounded by fog. Depending on the situation, I succeeded, and I came to another dimension. After waiting for a while, Xiang Feng didn't see Xiang Feng, and it seemed that Xiang Feng didn't have time to jump over before the building disappeared...
I looked at the building in front of me again, took a breath, and cautiously touched the wall with my hand... The cold, hard touch told me that this building was no longer an 'image', but a real existence...
The door was open, like a black hole in the mouth, and when I stepped into the door with the first step, a thought crossed my mind, what would be waiting for me inside...
(Have a great weekend to all)