Chapter 3 The Ghost Lingers
To be bad.
Li Xi is worthy of being beaten when he sees the excitement, and he can just hit the dead person when he runs into the toilet to hide.
Qin Manjiang got into the cordon and stepped on the ruins of the critical cinema.
The cinema is not big, but it is also a two-story building, the first floor is responsible for ticket sales and some snack service, and the second floor is for watching movies, and after the fire, only the general frame and remnants of the sundries remain.
There is still a burning smell in the air, and there are many water stains left after the fire is extinguished.
In the night, the ruins of the broken walls, blackened by the fire, looked from afar, like people with strange and twisted postures.
Entering the first floor, a clear sense of depression came over me, and the blackened ceiling could collapse at any time, and even collapsed in some places.
"Whatever you do, get out of the toilet quickly."
Qin Manjiang said.
"Someone's coming! Brother Qin......"
Li Xi hung up the phone very abruptly.
Qin Manjiang's heartbeat suddenly accelerated a little.
Something went to the toilet to find him.
Lavatory...... Where are the toilets?
There are rubble and charred walls everywhere, and there is no road in the conventional sense.
Qin Manjiang couldn't find the sign, so he could only guess based on the overall structure of the movie theater, Li Xi was watching the movie on the second floor, even if he escaped from the viewing room and hid in the toilet, he should be hiding in the toilet on the second floor.
As for the second floor......
The elevator has been completely destroyed, and the staircase is barely functional.
Illuminated with a strong flashlight, Qin Manjiang staggered up with his backpack on his back.
The rubble and wire that came out of the branch scratched the calf from time to time, and the skin was quickly broken, but fortunately there was no blood.
In the empty movie theater, Qin Manjiang was alone at the moment.
In a place where there had just been an accident, many people had died, and he knew that there was a strange phenomenon, Qin Manjiang was also a little hairy in his heart.
He always felt that from the moment he stepped into the ruins of the movie theater, he could faintly feel some kind of gaze, not ...... A little earlier, from the moment I got in the taxi, that feeling was there.
From time to time, he stopped abruptly and shone a flashlight behind him, but he didn't notice anything.
After thinking about it, he took out a pair of crosses and a Guanyin pendant from his backpack, and hung them around his neck together.
Anyone can do it, and there is something to show a spirit.
I lit up my phone and glanced at the time, and it was almost ten o'clock in the evening.
The intermittent contact with Li Xi lasted about ten minutes in total.
In other words, the time on his side was 10:40 last night, and there was still more than an hour before the zero hour when the fire appeared.
"Boom—"
In the morning, it was not right, but in the evening, it thundered.
The night is getting darker and heavier, the wind blowing through the city blows in, and the fine rain begins to fall with the night wind.
The wet chill blew into the ruins of the movie theater and hit Qin Manjiang's back, rubbing his body deeper into the depths, as if the wind was also looking for something.
The blackened stones all over the ground make the second floor particularly gloomy, the whole corridor is dark and quiet, there are screening halls on both sides, and the direction of the toilet is clear at a glance, just go to the end.
However, just when Qin Manjiang was about to go to the toilet, he suddenly stopped halfway through!
Wait a minute......
Wrong.
Firefighters have lifted several charred bodies from the rubble of the movie theater in the morning news, indicating that the entire movie theater has been searched by them more than once, otherwise it would not have been possible to evacuate tonight.
In other words, even if it is a movie theater that has had a fire, it is impossible to mess up like this at this moment, and the firefighters must have cleared some roads more or less, so ......
Why does it still look like the fire has just been extinguished?
The creepy feeling slowly crept up Qin Manjiang's back, and the next moment-
"Hum—"
The phone screen suddenly lit up.
It's Li Xi.
Qin Manjiang took several deep breaths before suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, and pressed answer: "Are you okay?" ”
"Scared the hell out of me! The pervert opened the toilet door one by one, and saw me next to him, but he suddenly stopped and left, Brother Qin, do you say that I am a Jiren Tianxiang! ”
If you want to be really auspicious, you won't be trapped there now......
Qin Manjiang no longer thinks about why tonight's movie theater is still an uncleaned ruin, Lao Qin once said that when you plan to do something, don't think about it, otherwise you will think about it more and more, and in the end, your confidence and motivation will be gone.
"What bathroom are you in?"
Qin Manjiang asked.
"The last one, don't you hide here in a movie?" Li Xi said as a matter of course.
"What movie did you watch?"
"Horror movies."
“……”
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, Qin Manjiang used a flashlight to shine around, the toilet was in front of him, and he walked over on the charred gravel, and the air was filled with a stale smell that was difficult to explain.
The light of the flashlight went in, and he found that almost all the compartments were burned out, but it was the last compartment that Li Xi had mentioned, and it still existed crookedly.
Suddenly, he felt a strange push on his back.
It's the wind.
Wind.
Eyes fixed on the last compartment.
He was convinced that he was not at the scene of a fire that firefighters had cleaned up during the day.
So...... If Li Xi had been trapped in the compartment, then Qin Manjiang would probably have found Li Xi's body in that compartment at this moment.
His heart was beating fast, and for a person who lived in an ordinary world, the impact he had received in this day was big enough.
The fire ruins at night, only the sound of wind and the sound of rain, the white noise did not quiet people, but added a lot of eerie silence.
It's a lie to say that you're not afraid, but you're afraid of unknown ghosts? Or are you afraid of opening the door of that compartment and seeing the body of your only friend?
Qin Manjiang does not know.
To outsiders, Qin Manjiang is quiet and indifferent, but those who are familiar with him know that he is very real, and although he is not a moral pacesetter, he is by no means vicious.
"Hoo ......"
Let's go.
Li Xi's phone didn't hang up, his whispered fragments were particularly clear in the dark, he talked about his luck, and said that he was going to have supper together after leaving the movie theater, Qin Manjiang just listened, nodded occasionally, and said "um".
With his phone in one hand and a flashlight in the other, he walked slowly down the toilet hallway, and when he reached the last cubicle, his heart suddenly began to beat faster, and goosebumps appeared suddenly on his arms.
This is out of his control.
Qin Manjiang's muscles in his whole body slowly tensed, and he subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
This position gave him an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
Qin Manjiang used all his strength and kicked towards the door of the compartment with all his strength.
"Bang!"
The door panel burst open, the splashes of dust were particularly clear under the strong flashlight, and the compartment exuded an indescribable strange smell, old, rotten, a breath that had been sealed for a long time because of the lack of air circulation.
"Where's your corpse!"
The compartment opened, and it was empty.
Qin Manjiang breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously asked.
"Huh?" Li Xi didn't know why in the mobile phone, and his voice was a little aggrieved: "Brother, I can't die now." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, you still have an hour or so to live." Qin Manjiang felt a sense of peace of mind when he heard Li Xi's voice.
"Huh?"
"No, why are you here? Didn't you know that this movie theater has always been haunted? ”
Qin Manjiang entered the compartment and took a flashlight to take a picture of it all around, this is a very strange feeling, the person who is talking to him is also in this compartment, but Qin Manjiang is in the present, and Li Xi is in the past.
"Yes, it's a game!"
"Games?" Qin Manjiang didn't know why.
"Huh?"
"What are you doing, every time you have less time, get down to business."
"No, brother, didn't I send you a link the other day? You didn't open it? ”
"Links?" Qin Manjiang suddenly thought of something, "You wait." ”
"Huh? Brother, my life is passing! ”
Qin Manjiang opened the previous chat history with Li Xi.
"Brother Qin, come and play a game!"
"I'm waiting for you here!"
Then below is a link.
Glancing at the time, it was sent two days ago.
At that time, Qin Manjiang was working part-time, and he had indeed seen the information and links, but think about it with his heels, a person who skips school and has to go to work to earn money, will he have the leisure time to click on the link to play games?
So he naturally ignored Li Xi's boredom.
Is the root of all weird events the so-called game?
Qin Manjiang always felt a little unbelievable.
There seemed to be some kind of magic to that link, too, that drew him to click.
This feeling is a bit familiar.
Qin Manjiang suddenly realized something......
His heart raced, and he hadn't been so flustered in twenty years.
No...... Impossible.
His fingers trembled slightly, and the screen went black instantly.
Under Qin Manjiang's gaze, from the blackened screen, a crimson opening gradually appeared, like a cracked mouth, cracking and spreading to both sides of the screen.
Then, a pair of hollow, spiral eyes appeared above the crimson chasm, and the two overlapped with the dark background to form an eerie smiling face.
This face is very disturbing, it obviously exists on the screen of the mobile phone, but it has a three-dimensional sense that it is about to rush out of the screen.
Although it looks weird and terrifying, all this is not the most unacceptable for Qin Manjiang.
What really made him panic, blame himself, fear, and regret was ......
This game, he once clicked on!
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Two years ago, the college entrance examination ended, and the summer vacation.
Qin Manjiang, who was sure that he had been admitted to Fucheng University, bought a new mobile phone, and when he was fiddling with it, a strange link appeared.
After clicking on it, it is the same interface - crimson cracks, spiral pupils, and an eerie smiling face formed by a pitch-black background.
"Boring."
Qin Manjiang's expression did not change, he was not interested in it, but he couldn't turn it off, thinking that he had encountered rogue software and was about to shut down and restart, at this time, his sister came over.
"Brother, are you playing a new game?"
"Show me!"
Qin Xingyi snatched the phone away and studied it with great interest.
Seeing her appearance, Qin Manjiang was busy with other things.
When the phone was returned to him, the link was gone.
He didn't take that to heart either.
However, at this moment, at this moment, the same link, the same picture appears again.
Qin Manjiang felt an inexplicable fear and anger.
It came at me, from the beginning.
Father, sister, and even Li Xi ......
Qin Manjiang stared at the phone screen, and this time, his fingers pressed on that terrifying and disgusting smile.
Damn you......