Chapter 8: Buried in the Flames

The fire burned, and the furious flames spewed tongues of fire that spread rapidly through the cinema.

Qin Manjiang pulled Li Xiyi, turned around and ran towards the exit of the screening hall.

The intense smoke had choked on the mouth and nose.

"Go to the toilet."

Wet your towel or clothes with water and cover your mouth and nose to escape a little bit, otherwise the surging heat wave alone will hurt your respiratory tract and you won't be able to breathe at all.

"Hmm." Li Xi agreed quickly.

When I rushed out of the screening room, the hallway was already filled with smoke, and I couldn't open my eyes at all.

The two of them bent over and covered their mouths and noses, the flames did not know where the source was, and the tongues of fire were already spitting in all directions.

At this moment, I only heard a "bang-".

The ceiling suddenly collapsed!

Before the two could rush to the toilet, they were blocked by the collapsed rubble.

Qin Manjiang turned his head to look around, calm down, he must think calmly.

Although the fire has appeared, it does not mean that there is no way out.

But...... Where is the way to escape the fire?

Qin Manjiang tried his best to think in his mind.

Suddenly......

"Be careful!"

Li Xi pushed it again!

Qin Manjiang stumbled and hit the wall.

Turning his head to look, he saw a slender figure appear in the flames!

It originally looked at Qin Manjiang, and its gaze shifted to Li Xiyi, and it walked barefoot and stepping on the flames.

"Let's go!" Qin Manjiang's heart trembled, he turned over and got up, grabbed Li Xi's arm, and the two immediately pulled out their legs and ran wildly.

But Li Xi's situation is not optimistic, just now he suddenly exerted force, the knife stuck in his forearm fell, and now the blood is gushing, his face is as white as paper, as if he will fall down at any time.

Under the scorching light of the fire, the ground began to change.

The floor was cracking, and the elaborate carpet was now the best fuel, and the smell of burnt was constantly coming from the heat.

There was plastic, wood, fiber, and the smell of burnt flesh...... The smell was unappetizing, unbearable.

The two men bent over and walked through the screening room, where the fire was raging.

"Don't go to the bathroom, let's go downstairs! Now escape from the cinema at least not to be burned! ”

Li Xi shouted.

Qin Manjiang nodded, but at this time, the surrounding walls, ground, and ceiling all began to crack and collapse in a large area under the scorching flames, and these traces were extremely old and dilapidated, not at all like they had just been burned, they were just like ...... When the gorgeous skin is removed, the ugliness of the face is revealed.

At this time, in the flames behind him, the tall and powerful ghost bent down and picked up his machete, and from just now, its eyes were fixed on Li Xi.

Something terrible happened......

That tall ghost actually stuck a knife in his abdomen!

As soon as the tip of the knife reached its belly, it began to wail and scream wildly.

And Li Xi's already pale face almost turned blue at this moment, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead!

He lowered his head and looked at his abdomen, red blood slowly flowing out.

Qin Manjiang hurriedly supported Li Xi, and was about to continue to escape, but when he saw Li Xi, he struggled and said, "Leave me alone, Brother Qin...... You're alone...... There is still a chance to ......"

"Don't ...... Look at it, look at it...... It can be done by harming itself...... Hurt you......"

Li Xi's words were intermittent, but they were quite clear.

Qin Manjiang's heart trembled suddenly, just now Li Xi shouted out to be careful and pushed him away, but at that time, the tall and powerful ghost had just appeared, and it was still far away, so it couldn't hurt him at all.

Li Xi seems to have foreseen the rule that if you are watched, you will be hurt.

Qin Manjiang didn't say a word, I don't know if he listened, he just helped Li Xi up, squatted down, and said:

"Come up, or I'll be burned with you."

Li Xi looked at the familiar and strange person in front of him in a daze, the emotions in his eyes kept surging, and his expression was uncontrollably changing.

He lay on Qin Manjiang's back in silence and stopped talking.

At this moment, a pair of bare feet stepped out of the flames, and it came again.

Qin Manjiang was carrying Li Xiqiao on his back, and his physical strength was not excellent, but he was even more slow at the moment.

But fortunately, the constantly collapsing movie theater caused a lot of obstacles to the tall ghosts, and Qin Manjiang finally rushed to the corridor with his strength.

Just as he was about to go around the stairs and go down to the first floor, he suddenly saw a dark shadow flashing beside him!

It's the imp!

Despite being in the fire, Qin Manjiang still felt a chill.

Although the imp has not attacked anyone, it is better to be cautious and it is better to walk around it.

That being said, if you take care of every step now, it's too late, and the imp is in the way and must pass past it head-on!

The fires on both sides are getting bigger and bigger, and the air that the two of them can breathe is getting less and less, plus their respective injuries, how long can they last?

Qin Manjiang himself didn't know, but he was unwilling to give up like this.

Can't die yet......

At least not just die here.

My sister hasn't woken up yet, the cause of my father's death is a mystery, and my life has just begun.

And also...... promised that as long as he was alive, he would take Li Xi back.

“…… If I hadn't called you for help......"

Li Xi said suddenly.

This sentence made Qin Manjiang stunned.

The crackling flames roasted the flesh and skin, the oxygen in the air became less and less, and the feeling of suffocation became more and more severe.

The tall ghost behind him was running in the hot rocks and flames, but Qin Manjiang's body was already extremely tired.

Li Xi didn't talk much, and he didn't gag anymore, and the ghost gave him a knife with a strange method, although it was not fatal for the time being, but it seemed to have caused a lot of loss of his physical strength.

At this critical juncture, the appearance of that little ghost is even more desperate.

Qin Manjiang couldn't see where his life was.

"Brother Qin, let me go."

Li Xi's words, Qin Manjiang didn't seem to care.

He just carried Li Xijiao on his back and walked forward, all the way.

"Hey! Wise renunciation and blind attachment, haven't you always been the former? Let me go! ”

Li Xi struggled.

"None of us will survive!"

"Then let's die together!"

Qin Manjiang roared rarely.

He was not such a person, and he never spoke so roughly.

After yelling, he continued to be silent, just carrying Li Xiqiao on his back and continuing to walk forward breathlessly.

Li Xi was silent.

Qin Manjiang's firmness was beyond imagination, even if that little ghost was in the way, he would go through it and go to the first floor...... Leave this movie theater, even if you fall into that terrifying darkness, you can find another way.

As long as it's alive.

In a word...... You must never give up.

Three-step ......

Two-step ......

One-step!

When approaching the little ghost, Qin Manjiang suddenly felt a sense of familiarity?

It's not terrifying, it's not infiltrating, if it wants to kill, the two of them have no room to resist now.

But......

After the two of them crossed the little ghost, a gust of wind passed by Qin Manjiang's side, and the sense of familiarity became even more obvious.

This is......

The wind!

The wind that turned the driver's safety tag, the wind that pushed itself deep into the ruins of the movie theater, and the wind that stopped next to him......

The wind stopped in front of him, preventing him from continuing towards the first floor.

Weathered into a pitch-black shadow, it grew limbs and became a child.

Sure enough, it was him...... That kid, the little ghost trapped in the toilet!

He's not the ghost that's supposed to exist in this weird game, he's from the real world!

The little ghost's dark eyes stared at Qin Manjiang and Li Xi, as if he wanted to say something.

The light of the fire shone on his face, making the little imp's expression extremely painful.

Right...... He was burned to death, and he should have been afraid of fire.

"Bang!"

A collapsed boulder was swept out by the ghost, and the fierce flames spewed tongues of fire, burning the bare night sky red.

Qin Manjiang's heart was beating violently, and there was no doubt that human beings had no means to fight against powerful ghosts.

But it is by no means a lamb waiting to be killed.

"Let me go......"

When Li Xi spoke again, it was a tone that Qin Manjiang had never heard before.

He struggled to get off Qin Manjiang's back, and his strength was amazing.

"Go to the first floor, or you really won't have a chance."

Li Xi turned his back to Qin Manjiang and said in a low voice.

Qin Manjiang looked at the little ghost who was blocking the road ahead, preventing them from passing, and trying to prevent them from going to the first floor, and then looked at Li Xi, who was facing away from him and facing the tall and powerful ghost.

His brain was thinking wildly.

No......

Wrong......

There is no need for a dead end.

There must be a way out...... But where exactly?

…… This little ghost.

I suddenly remembered a scene I had seen in Screening Room 3.

The child left a faint handprint on the clean mirror of the city......

There are also small black palm prints on the mirror of the toilet, which is the same as the behavior of the child before his death!

So, this kid ...... Despite being dead, he has not changed.

He, like the rest of the audience who had died, only remained in the theater and did not commit acts of wounding and killing......

He has no grudges, just simply exists.

What really hasn't been put down is the man who didn't die in the fire, but chose to commit suicide.

It's not so much that he hasn't let go of his resentment, it's that he's never forgiven himself.

He resented the rejection of him by the big city, resented his own incompetence, and resented the injustice of God!

So...... The only one who really had the intent to kill was the tall ghost, the child, who had followed him from the real world, wandering between the hallway and the toilet, watching his father go crazy and sink into a demon.

If you think about it this way, if the message in Screening Room 3 is that children can be trusted, then the other information in it must also have key implications.

Miscellaneous ......

Fast food restaurants and clothing stores?

No......

It has since been completely dismantled.

Screening Room 3?

No......

The role of Screening Room 3 is to carry information.

Is it the last compartment?

No, it's not right.

The compartment didn't open until the end.

Wait a minute!

It's the window next to the cubicle!

The tall ghost wasn't burned to death in the movie theater, he stayed outside the cubicle and was about to be burned with his son, but at the last minute, the firefighters broke in the window and saved him from the fire!

That's it!

Qin Manjiang's train of thought was clear, and he instantly figured out all the joints.

The way to live is there, and that window is the only exit from this world, and it is also the knot in the heart of the tall and powerful ghost!

For the tall ghost, that is not the way of life, but the source of pain and resentment!

"I know how to live, let's go!"

Qin Manjiang subconsciously went to pull Li Xi's arm, but this time, he couldn't pull it.

Under the scorching firelight, Li Xi's figure stood straight, as if he had never been injured.

From just now, he has been facing away from Qin Manjiang.

"I know...... It's a ...... way" Qin Manjiang's gaze gradually lost his mind, he had actually noticed the clue, but he didn't dare to think about it deeply.

Until this moment.

The tongue of fire wrapped around Li Xi, and although the wound on his forearm was hideous, not a drop of blood had flowed, and the flesh and blood that had been turned over were pale.

The tall and mighty ghost roared, machete in the midst of the fire, slashing through all the rubble and obstacles, and was rushing towards them.

The imp cowered in the corner, hugging his knees and shivering.

Li Xi turned his head, and black terrifying veins erupted next to his eyes, obviously laughing, but with tears, he said:

"Qin Manjiang, I can't go back."