Chapter 148: The Window to Purgatory
Guan Tianxiang glanced at his watch: 13:45.
It seems that the operation of the watch is still unimpeded, which has become their only contact with the outside world.
The white time display comforted Guan Tianxiang, and the outside world was still normal.
Toby frowned, stopped curling his hair, took out a piece of chewing gum from his denim shorts, and threw it into his mouth, reminding Guan Tianxiang of the embarrassment caused by thinking about it before.
Everyone stammered and looked at the burning hemp rope that Ah Mao was holding in his hand, and they all showed stunned expressions.
The source of the fire at the hemp rope head has not been extinguished, on the contrary, it seems to be burning more and more intensely.
"Hmm...... Depend on! I don't care about you. After nearly half a minute of silence, Ah Mao still spit out a sentence.
Toby no longer bitterly condemns the filth in Ah Mao's mouth.
She settled in the space of thought, searching for reasonable explanations.
Guan Tianxiang secretly thought in his heart, it would be good if Mei Tao was here, they were the only ones with super reasoning ability here, and in this case, she would not be able to communicate with them in a complementary way. If the ghost Mei Tao is here at the same time, maybe he and Toby will question each other and complement each other, and they will get twice the result with half the effort to find out the truth.
Everything, but also ifs.
Ah Mao, who was holding the hemp rope, looked dazed, and had no intention of extinguishing the fire source at all.
Ash smoke from the fire fills the window, and Elsie anxiously retreats far away, and Toby suddenly runs to the kitchen.
Guan Tianxiang asked himself if he had no strength and asked what the two of them were going to do......
Doubts filled the living room with the rising black smoke.
You need time to calm down too, right?
Guan Tianxiang thought about it, if he hadn't slackened for a while just now, would the hemp rope that bound the backpack be burned and broken?
Everything is also his fault, and the crisis in the back staircase several times before is also a good thing caused by him.
However, what I feel at this moment, if it is guilt, is more confused.
"Damn! What's going on? Despite Mao's rough voice, Guan Tianxiang still wanted to thank him for pulling them back from their confusion to rational discussion.
There was already almost half a meter of rope leaking fire, the toilet became smoky, and Amau suddenly felt nervous, Guan Tianxiang rushed to the wash basin next to him, but there was no water supply for the hose.
Yes, there is no water or electricity.
At this time, Toby carried four bottles of 500 milliliters of distilled water with the caps open, and poured them into the fire without thinking. The water that had been opened during the run spilled all over the floor with the swing of the plastic bottle, even spilling Toby's T-shirt and thighs. Sure enough, the girl was more careful, and she thought more about the fact of water and power outages earlier than Guan Tianxiang.
A minute later, when the last bit of fire was extinguished, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and stood still, silent.
Toby exhaled, and the two plastic bottles stared back at the fog seeping through the window, and were silent for a long time.
"The hemp rope has been burned...... "Ah Mao stared blankly at the hemp rope.
Guan Tianxiang leaned his head towards the window and looked down tremblingly. In fact, no matter which direction you gaze outside the window, you will only see a gray-white fog, and you will not be able to peek into the outside world, or rather, the fog is the world.
It was as if it was the second time he had leaned his head out of the window and touched the space outside.
For the first time, it was chilling. At this moment, he didn't dare to stare left and right, for fear of witnessing some strange and frightening thing again......
His heart couldn't afford anything more ridiculous
How so......
Everyone stared at a puddle of distilled water on the ground, and after the fire was extinguished, a puff of water vapor filled the toilet space. The black hemp rope head still floated with smoke.
"There's a fire ...... down there," Toby stared at the charred hemp rope, which was visibly broken, and the backpack with considerable weight naturally separated from the charred hemp rope and fell down.
However, how can there be a fire source outside? How did it catch fire?
"Damn, why the fuck there's a fire down there?" Despite the fact that the facts were in front of him, Ah Mao still couldn't put on a look of believing in reality, so he just grabbed his hair.
Yes, apart from the fact that there is a fire outside, what other reason can be used to explain the burning hemp rope?
"It's hot outside......" Guan Tianxiang added.
At this moment, Guan Tianxiang's head suddenly stretched out of the window, and there seemed to be some sounds mixed with outside, but it was really impossible to tell why it was making noise at this moment.
I really couldn't see anything, and there was fog all around. Moreover, he felt a little cramped, even breathless, which is not something that can be felt in the house.
And the point is that when he stuck his head out of the window, he gradually felt the slightly warmer temperature outside.
I can't say the actual number at this moment, but a conservative estimate is no less than 37 or 8 degrees Celsius.
The Bay Area is located in the subtropics, and coupled with the heat island effect, the summer temperature in the city can reach up to 32 degrees Celsius, but 35 degrees Celsius may really be a once-in-a-decade occurrence. What's more, is it 37 degrees Celsius, an octave?
Isn't that the temperature that only happens when the desert sun is scorching?
"Actually, I have a very naïve speculation, and I want to ask everyone's opinion." Ah Mao took a deep breath and looked at Guan Tianxiang and Toby who closed his eyes.
"You know that you are naïve, you still have to fucking ask......" Guan Tianxiang stared at him angrily.
"Shut your stinky mouth," Mao grimaced, but then returned to a serious look, "Will it ...... The fog outside is just too humid. ”
"Too much humidity?" Toby listened, and opened his eyes.
"I've had it in the Bay Area before, mostly in the spring...... Why is it spring I don't fucking remember, I'm going to ask the teacher, I haven't taught anything fucking, I've taught two classes since I graduated, it's really fucking it. Mao rubbed his nose.
Toby puffed out his face: "It's possible, when the hot and cold air meet in the spring, and the humidity reaches 100%, it will cause spring fog, just like it is now." ”
"But......" Guan Tianxiang licked his lower lip, "It's very dry outside......"
"That's right, there's fog outside...... It's not exactly a white mist, mixed with a little ash, unlike the mist formed by water vapor. Toby kept his eyes open, "Plus it's so hot outside, it's like it's surrounded by fire outside......
"Will Mei Tao be because of ...... Because he jumped out of the window and was burned to death by the flames on the ground...... Guan Tianxiang put forward his guess in a hurry, "because I remember...... At that time, it was next to the fire door in the ground lobby, where the temperature was much higher than here. ”
"Fuck, it's really hot." Ah Mao echoed casually, his eyes empty.
"Not surprising at all...... Toby snatched the hemp rope from Mao's hand and looked at it carefully, "but why...... Why is there a fire outside and nothing inside the building? ”
Everyone was silent.
"The ghost will not ......go away," Guan Tianxiang suddenly remembered the fire on Milk Luson Street that Toby had mentioned to him last night.
He suddenly remembered the movie "Menglan Shengong" by the male god Zhang Jiahui, in which a woman who resented the troupe burned down the troupe with a fire, causing serious casualties. The ghost of the deceased haunted the troupe, and he took revenge out of resentment, eventually killing most of the troupe's members.
Of course, he didn't have the guts to watch such a horrific movie, and the description of the movie just now was only when he picked up a certain fruit daily newspaper while going to the toilet and happened to look at it by chance.
The description of just a small square was enough to make him tremble for days.
The current situation, if it progresses from the direction of the gods, then it may be because of the revenge of a group of souls who died in the fire against the building, covering the building with thick fog and flames, so that they can experience the pain of the deceased back then.
Surrounded by flames, but trapped by fire doors, there is no outlet.