Chapter 371: True and False
Like most five-cent special effects and cheap goods, the specimens on the shelves look quite like that at first glance, but after a closer look, you will easily see that they are all plastic products. If you have some medical knowledge, you can still see that the appearance and size of these organs are incorrect.
Neither Zhou Ping nor Han Hong had any knowledge of this, nor did they look closely at the specimens.
After a small disturbance in the heartbeat, they subconsciously avoided looking at the specimens.
There was only one flashlight, Zhou Ping walked in front with the flashlight, and Han Hong could only follow behind.
The two of them had not walked a few steps before they looked back at the door.
Meng Sinan was still hesitating.
In his opinion, Zhou Ping's approach is self-defeating.
But when the communication was cut off, he stayed where he was, and he just sat and waited.
Meng Sinan flipped through his memories and tried to recall, but he didn't come up with any good solutions.
He had something like an amulet on him. But since seeing the haunted house, the amulet has not reacted at all. Thinking about the shopkeeper's act of directly crossing the space to kidnap people, Meng Sinan felt that the talisman on his body would not work at all.
They didn't see a ghost as they ran into something else.
This is not a ghost trick.
Meng Sinan thought about it and walked to the room with his feet raised.
He paused slightly as he stepped over the corpse.
Looking down at the bloodstained white cloth for a few seconds, he squatted down, lifted the white cloth, endured his nausea, and groped on Master Dou's corpse.
Han Hong was startled, "Hey......"
Zhou Ping was also surprised by Meng Sinan's actions, but he had to admit that among the three, Meng Sinan was probably the most daring and careful.
He nudged Han Hong and motioned for them to come over together to help.
Han Hong has a father who is a policeman, but he has not done this business. And his father is not a criminal policeman. He is not like the one complained about in some comedies, who grew up looking at photos of corpses.
Han Hong endured his nausea and approached the corpse, but he couldn't bear to look directly at the various horrific wounds on the corpse.
Meng Sinan's courage was not as big as Zhou Ping imagined. He only searched the pockets of the corpse and had no intention of performing an autopsy.
The light of the flashlight made Meng Sinan see Master Dou's clothes more clearly.
There are not many pockets for clothes.
The three big men searched for it, found two talismans, a brocade bag, and withdrew a string of Buddhist beads from Master Dou's hand, as well as a folding knife that Meng Sinan was looking forward to.
Meng Sinan breathed a sigh of relief.
He was right.
Master Dou, who can say such things as punching and hitting people, not only carries the miscellaneous items prepared by ordinary cultivators, but also the self-defense tools that ordinary people might carry.
Zhou Ping's courage is greater than Meng Sinan's.
When they finished rummaging through their pockets, he also turned Master Dou's body over.
What was pressed under the corpse was revealed.
The thing was still being pinched by Master Dou. The bones of the hand are deformed, and none of them are released.
"What is this?" Han Hong looked at the bloodstained thing and asked with difficulty.
Meng Sinan pulled the white cloth and helped Zhou Ping wipe the small boxy machine clean of the blood. He found the switch, pressed it casually, and saw two tentacles poking out of the small square box, and electric light appeared between the tentacles.
"Shocker?" Meng Sinan was surprised.
"He's ready......," Han Hong said, his tone complicated.
So well prepared, still dead.
Han Hong has a pessimistic view of the future of the three of them.
Meng Sinan couldn't comfort Han Hong.
Zhou Ping said: "He's just an old man. The three of us ......" he shook his flashlight, "three young adult males, there is still a way to give it a go." ”
As he said this, he asked Meng Sinan if he had ever learned martial arts, boxing or anything like that.
He and Han Hong knew each other well, and neither of them had learned this kind of thing.
Meng Sinan hesitated for a moment and said, "I have studied Jeet Kune Do for a year." ”
A year, it's not the kind of 365 days that I study every day, I can only say that I have learned a posture.
"I learned it a long time ago." Meng Sinan added.
The first time he encountered a ghost at that time, it was only when he encountered a powerful bandit. After surviving that crisis, he signed up for a class and wanted to learn something about self-defense. Before that, he thought that he was a boy and didn't have to worry about his safety like his female classmates. There are people in the self-defense training class who come to the school to advertise, fooling the girls to learn to protect themselves, and the boys to learn to be handsome, but he doesn't take it seriously. If you really encounter something, you can always run if you can't beat it, and if you can't run, it's a big deal to give money. Who can run into outlaws all day long? What's more, the security in Yaocheng is not bad, and many Yaocheng people have never even encountered a thief or pickpocket in their lives. As for being handsome, there is no chance.
He didn't dare to tell his parents about the bandits, for fear that they would be worried, and his parents only thought he was a boy and were interested in it, so they enrolled him in a one-year class. As it turned out later, his previous thoughts were not wrong, and he did not meet the "bandits" again for a long time, and he did not have the opportunity to be handsome. The study was hard, and after the one-year class, he didn't sign up again, and he didn't practice much during that year.
Later, knowing what he encountered, he would not waste that money.
Zhou Ping and Han Hong didn't know the twists and turns, but looking at Meng Sinan's body type, they also guessed that he was not the kind of practitioner. They also confessed to Meng Sinan. The three of them only have the physique of ordinary people, and because they have been working for several years, their physical fitness is not as good as before, and they are far less robust than when they were in college.
Run, probably can't run.
Fighting, it may not be possible.
The three of them were silent, casually assigning what they had found, and then entered the herbarium.
Meng Sinan did some research on human organs and saw that those specimens were shoddy props.
In this way, these things should have no doorway, and they won't suddenly turn into weird killing moves.
I'm afraid the crux of the matter is still with the boss.
Meng Sinan thought to himself.
Zhou Ping led the way, and after taking Han Hong and Meng Sinan around the specimen shelf, he saw a skeleton suddenly sitting on the ground. The Skeleton laughed and waved its arms. Something fell from the ceiling and smashed the heads of the three men.
Han Hong hurriedly took out a knife, and it was also the blind cat that touched the dead mouse and pierced an object that fell in the air.
Zhou Ping turned the flashlight around, and saw that the knife was wearing a flat bat, which seemed to be made of felt cloth and other materials, not made into a cartoon style, and looked a little scary.
"......" Han Hong scolded, picked off the bat, and threw it on the ground.
The skeleton laughed again and raised its hands as if to mock the three of them for what they had just done.
Zhou Ping looked weird.
These things look like ordinary haunted house tricks.
Meng Sinan suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.
He had no flashlight in his hand, his phone was out of battery, and he could only see darkness.
"Something is following us." Meng Sinan reminded Zhou Ping.
Zhou Ping hurriedly shone the flashlight over, but found nothing.
Meng Sinan frowned.
He could sense malice.
But that malice is not murderous intent.
He could also sense danger.
But the danger came and went.
Meng Sinan felt that they might have met a madman.
Ghosts can't be dealt with by common sense in the first place.
"Keep going. I just arrived and saw the door. Han Hong urged.
He and Zhou Ping reminded Meng Sinan, who was the last to go, to pay attention to safety. Han Hong also gave the knife in his hand to Meng Sinan.
The electric shocker is in Zhou Ping's hand.
With a flashlight in one hand and an electric stunner in the other, he found the door.
Han Hong reached out from behind him and helped open the door.
As soon as the door opened, they saw cobwebs hanging in the hallway.
The walls and ceilings of the hallways are painted with skewed drawings. Because of the relationship of vision, when people walk in it, their bodies seem to fall down, and the ground under their feet seems to be distorted.
A hole suddenly opened in the wall.
An exquisitely crafted doll stands in an alcove, and a beam of light from above and down illuminates the doll.
This little mechanism is like a flare gun.
Gaps were opened in the walls one after another, and the niches were filled with such dolls, like display pieces, which looked beautiful and exquisite.
Zhou Ping and Han Hong didn't feel deeply, just thought that this was a scary move. However, in this way, the pattern on the wall is no longer complete, and the unpleasant distortion that used to be unpleasant disappears.
Meng Sinan's eyes widened as she stared at the dolls.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed Han Hong in front of him, but he couldn't get past Han Hong and grab Zhou Ping, so he only had time to shout "Be careful".
The voice did not reach Zhou Ping's ears.
Zhou Ping saw that the dolls did not move, so he remained vigilant and took a step forward.
He walked up to a doll, and the light in the alcove suddenly changed. The overhead light is turned off, and there is a light under the doll's feet, illuminating the doll from the bottom up, making the doll's natural smiling expression instantly turn into a cruel smile.
The doll pounced straight out of the alcove.
Zhou Ping had already taken precautions, but he was on guard against these dolls that would suddenly move their eyes and turn their heads to scare and scare people.
Caught off guard, he instinctively raised his hand, and the electric shock device in his hand directly stabbed half of the doll's body as he had rehearsed it in his mind many times before.
Electricity shines.
The doll's body twitched and fell directly to the ground.
But it didn't stop.
It crawled on the ground with difficulty, and stretched out its small hand with five fingers to Zhou Ping.
Zhou Ping stepped on the doll with one foot, stomped his foot hard, and crushed the doll's body.
He broke out in a cold sweat.
When he calmed down, he looked at the dolls in this corridor again, and some of them couldn't take a step.
He turned around and wanted to discuss a solution with Han Hong and Meng Sinan, but when he turned around, he saw the closed door.
Han Hong and Meng Sinan are gone.
Zhou Ping was startled and wanted to open the door, but heard a whisper behind the door.
“…… Zhou Ping is still inside......"
This is Han Hong's voice.
"Didn't you see Master Dou's death?"
This is Meng Sinan's voice.
Zhou Ping's shoulders sank.
Before he could turn his head, he heard a chuckle in his ear.
"They have abandoned you...... Hee-hee......"
"Hee-hee-hee......"
"Haha......"
Zhou Ping turned his head and saw a broken doll lying on his shoulder, which was the one he had stepped on just now.
He tore the doll off his shoulders and threw it on the ground.
The dolls in the alcove were all trembling with laughter, and looked at him with malice.
Zhou Ping stepped back and touched the door panel.
There are no handles on this side of the door.
Zhou Ping pushed hard, and the door panel only shook.
There was another voice behind the door.
"Can't open the door!"
Han Hong's voice was fast and urgent.
He seemed to blurt out, and after saying it, he felt speechless and immediately shut up.
It was quiet behind the door.
The dolls tugged at the edge of the alcove, and their round false eyes seemed to glisten with mockery.
Zhou Ping kept his face calm and tried again, but he still couldn't open the door.
Rush over?
Zhou Ping looked at the other end of the hallway.
It's just a distance of two or three meters, but there are more than a dozen dolls guarding it.
The door at the end of the hallway may not open smoothly.
Zhou Ping was caught in a dilemma.
The broken doll on the ground raised its head again and said tirelessly, "You have been abandoned...... You're outcast...... Your friends have abandoned you......"
Zhou Ping frowned.
The back of his neck was wrapped around the back of his neck by a pair of small hands, and small hands hooked his shoulders and held his fingers.
The body of the doll emerged from the door panel behind it.
"Be our friend. Ignore them. Be friends with us. We will not abandon you. Come with us......"
The dolls said in unison.
The doll in the niche fell to the ground.
More dolls poured out of the niches.
They gathered around Zhou Ping.
Zhou Ping closed his eyes hard.
This is not real!
He didn't know Meng Sinan, but he knew that it was impossible for Han Hong to do such a thing!
If Meng Sinan chooses to give up on him, Han Hong will definitely swing his fist over and run alone to save him!
The dialogue between Han Hong and Meng Sinan is fake, so the doll in front of him may not be real.
This is a simple association, and it is also a self-deceptive idea.
If everything is a nightmare, everything is fake......
If he is still lying on a soft and comfortable bed at home......
Zhou Ping had no way to block the voices of those dolls.
He also heard another conversation behind the door panel.
He ...... He's dead, right? ”
"Wait. When he's dead, we can open the door and see......"
Zhou Ping was in a trance, remembering the legs he saw in the hotel room.
Zhou Ping's train of thought was a little confused.
He tried hard to prove that what was happening before him was false, but there were some things that he could not deny. He can't fool himself.
The conversation between Han Hong and Meng Sinan may be fake.
Not necessarily for dolls.
Master Dou was indeed killed.
No, was Master Dou really killed?
Is that person really Master Dou?
None of them had ever seen Master Dou's true face......
Zhou Ping felt as if there was a fire burning in his pocket, and he was so hot that he opened his eyes violently.
The doll in the hallway is gone.
Zhou Ping lowered his head and saw a broken doll lying on the ground, staring at him with resentment.
"Hee-hee, idiot."
I don't know where the voice came from.
Mocking laughter followed.
The broken doll let out a roar of rage.
Before the sound fell, its already shattered body suddenly turned to powder, leaving only the small clothes it had worn on the ground before.
The laughter came to an abrupt end.
The alcoves in the hallway were gone.
The hallway was twisted again.
"What's going on?"
Zhou Ping turned his head and saw Han Hong looking at the doll on the ground in amazement.
Han Hong and Meng Sinan are both there.
Han Hong still looked like he didn't know why.
Meng Sinan frowned, and his gaze fell on Zhou Ping.
"Are you hallucinating?" Meng Sinan asked, his tone firm.
Zhou Ping nodded, and took out the bag that turned into ashes from his pocket.
He wanted to say something, but the scene in the hotel came to his mind again.
What is an illusion and what is real?
Is the phone call he made to Li Yun real?
Zhou Ping thought like this, and subconsciously wanted to touch his phone.
He was taken aback.
He doesn't have a cell phone on him.
Zhou Ping was dripping with cold sweat.
"I guess, it's all right?" Han Hong asked, raising his foot and kicking the remaining doll clothes on the ground.
"My mobile phone ......" Zhou Ping said, but it was something that was out of touch.
Han Hong looked at Zhou Ping suspiciously.
"My phone, I threw it on the bed. From the beginning, I didn't have a cell phone on me. Zhou Ping said.
Han Hong's mouth opened wide.
Meng Sinan lowered his eyes.
Master Dou still has some skills.
At the very least, his spell can dispel illusions.
Zhou Ping recalled carefully, and then pushed Han Hong and Meng Sinan to return to the room just now, "Master Dou, maybe it's not Master Dou either!" Probably not dead! ”
"No, he must be dead. These are also true. Meng Sinan raised his hand and waved the knife in his hand.
Zhou Ping's movements paused.
"Can you tell what's real and what's hallucinating?" Zhou Ping asked.
"I can't tell it all. I can roughly feel ......" Meng Sinan groaned, looking around, "There are other things besides the shopkeeper. Between them, there may be disagreements. ”
The doll that Zhou Ping had just stepped on was a ghost who had recklessly attacked them.
Killing Master Dou was intentional, attacking them, but it was this ghost who made a claim.
Meng Sinan guessed that they had fallen into the lair of ghosts.
The lair has a nominal owner, but that owner, the shopkeeper, may not be able to control the ghosts under his command.
Meng Sinan lowered his eyes and looked at the small clothes on the ground.
"Let's go. Get out of here. Meng Sinan raised his eyes and made a decision.