Chapter 68. Mad Woman
Even though it was only a soft sound, I heard it carefully. But judging by this sound, it is a sound made by laughter. However, in terms of the rhythm of the tone, it is not really laughing, but similar to a very deliberate voice, and the mood is not joyful, but sneering.
Before I could react to the sudden laughter, my body had already made a move to run forward, and I took a few quick steps towards the middle of the courtyard, and then turned my head to look at Isolation Room 2. There was nothing but the door of the black hole. I even shone a flashlight into the empty isolation cell, and I still didn't find anything.
Shicai's laughter was undoubtedly the voice of a ghost. Because I only have three bed boards in the isolation room, and there is not even a shelter, it is naturally impossible for anyone to hide in it without being discovered. As for why this voice is laughing, I guess it's probably because these past deceased people are basically mentally abnormal, so the pain of death and the tragedy of turning into ghosts after death may not be perceived by these dead souls.
Master was probably a little worried when he saw my unusual behavior just now, and he asked me what had happened through the iron railing. I told Master that I had just gone out and heard laughter coming from the house, and I thought it was the ghost that was going to kill people tomorrow. Master said to me, since you have appeared, you should quickly light the incense of the soldiers and horses, and let the soldiers and horses confirm it. After saying that, Master threw me three sticks of incense through the iron railing. So I hurriedly summoned the soldiers and horses and lit incense. The movement of the smoke unsurprisingly headed straight for Isolation Room 2.
But I didn't dare to enter the house again, for I was afraid that the strange sneer would reappear when I entered, and I knew my personality so well that I would not dare to go in and die without any security.
The trend of the soldiers and horses tells me that at this moment, the No. 2 isolation room is filled with a relatively strong ghost. Because the smoke did not enter the isolation chamber directly, but dispersed directly in the place of the door. It's as if there is an invisible but transparent wall that keeps out the smoke of my soldiers' incense.
This situation seems to tell me that the ghost in this isolation room is blocking my soldiers and horses in its way at this moment, not only blocking it, but blocking it. In other words, my horses don't seem to be playing a role in the ghosts of the house at the moment.
The soldiers and horses are doing things for me, but when I encounter a few unreasonable ghosts, they can't actually do anything. This is a red flag for me, and if I can't even help the rampant army of the same Spirits, I think I'll need to think in a different direction.
I retreated to the edge of the iron railing, told Master about the situation, and told Master that otherwise, the two of us would force our way in together, and if we encountered resistance, we would just clean it up, and save so much trouble. It was supposed to be the simplest and most brutal way to fix things, but it might have made the ghost in the quarantine room feel bad. Although they exist for the purpose of harming others, in the final analysis, they are also killed by murder after all. So the master didn't agree to me to do this, but turned to Long Jiyou and said, The crazy woman who hit the door, can you bring her out alone, I want to say something.
Long Jiyou said, yes, yes, but this woman speaks very clearly, basically can't communicate, and she is aggressive, crazy, and her emotions are not very stable. But the master insisted on looking for her, and Long Jiyou could only take out the key to open the door of the women's house.
In fact, the women's dormitory is the No. 8 isolation room among the nine isolation rooms, and all the female inmates are held inside. After Long Jiyou opened the door, he took one of the unkempt women out into the dam, and the master also walked in at this time, he asked Long Jiyou to leave the dam first, lock the iron door, and just stand far away.
Although this woman looks like a flower child, judging from her age, she is only about thirty years old, and although her hair is messy, judging by the length, she should have been trimmed not long ago. The containment station is not equipped to organize the image of the containment personnel, otherwise they would not all look dirty. This means that the woman must have entered the shelter not long ago, and because someone had done to fix her hair, it means that someone was taking care of her before she arrived at the shelter in the first place.
She just stood in front of Master a little timidly, her shoulders shrugged slightly, and she didn't dare to look at my Master directly, but looked down at the ground behind us slightly. Her hands rubbed their fingers together, and although her feet were in an upright position, her knees were slightly bent, and she looked like she was afraid of me and my master, but she didn't dare to run away.
The Master whispered to the woman, "I heard that you banged on the door today, can you tell me why you did this?" The woman did not answer, turned a deaf ear. Master asked again, I also heard that it's not the first time you've slammed on the door like this, and every time you knock on the door, is it because you see something?
Actually, I've thought about this before, sometimes it's easy for people to think of people who are frightened by ghosts or even have a personal opinion about ghosts as a kind of mental illness. In other words, some seemingly abnormal people will be judged by the world as mental illness by uniform standards, but in fact, people just see things that are different from ours. Originally, when I was having dinner with Master in our restaurant, I asked this woman for this reason, because her act of slamming the door was obviously directly related to the ghost in the No. 2 isolation room, and this direct relationship is very likely that she can see the ghost.
In metaphysics, this is called the yin and yang eye.
People with yin and yang eyes are mostly related to their physique. Excessive weakness can cause the person to be closer to death than a healthy person, so ghosts can sometimes be seen. I've seen ghosts too, and although they look mostly humanoid, they have hideous faces, and they are full of death at first glance, and this kind of death is a natural resistance to the living, even if they are crazy. If this woman really has yin and yang eyes, I can't tell whether she first had yin and yang eyes and was scared into what she is now, or whether she went crazy first and began to be able to see ghosts.
But the woman still didn't answer Master's words, and I was a little anxious and wanted to interject, but Master gestured to me and let me go, and I could only stare dryly from the side. Seeing that she still didn't answer, the master didn't even change her posture, so the master asked in a slightly stern tone, do you know that every time you hit the door, someone will die in that room, are you a murderer, and I will punish you.
At this time, the woman raised her hands to her chest, kept waving them from side to side, and her face was raised, and she was facing the master with a crying face, her mouth babbling as if she was arguing something, and her tone was a little anxious, but none of us understood what she was trying to say. However, judging from Master's reaction after this question, she can understand the meaning of Master's words. This shows that as long as a way is found, there is no problem that cannot be communicated.
When I thought of this, I also followed Master's example and said in a somewhat fierce tone, if you don't tell me why you slammed the door, we will throw you into that isolation room, and the people you killed are inside, and after you go in, they will kill you!
Perhaps my tone was a little more fierce than Master's, and the woman looked extremely agitated when she heard this, her feet began to move in small steps, her hands kept waving in front of her chest, and her head began to shake, as if she wanted to deny it, but she didn't know how to express it. There are some words in her mouth, mostly composed of two or three words, with a relatively obvious accent, if you don't distinguish carefully, you don't know what she is calling at all. She pointed to her head as she babbled gibberish, then to the door of Quarantine Room No. 2, and in her indistinct words, Master and I heard a few words clearly.
"Stuck dead", "bad guy", "hurry up and run", "big mouth".
The woman kept repeating the words, pointing to Quarantine Room 2 and shouting as she did so. In the Sichuan dialect, the word "card" has the meaning of pinching by hand. Therefore, the "stuck dead person" in the woman's mouth should mean strangulation to death. "Bad guy" probably means that she saw the ghost, and because it was scary, she thought it was a bad guy. "Hurry up and run" is easier to understand, it should be what she said to tell the people in the second isolation room to escape quickly, and "big mouth" should be referring to the appearance of the ghost, after all, the previous deceased all died of suffocation, and suffocation will make people open their mouths wide. And because people don't die until the day after the woman goes crazy and hits the door, which means that people are still alive and well at that time, but the ghost was already in the house at that time.
I can't help but think of the sneer just now, in fact, the current situation is very consistent with what the woman said, although there is no dead person in the house at this moment, it is an indisputable fact that the ghost is already there. In this way, the woman's words and my speculation should be saying that she saw a bad guy with a wide mouth and was about to choke another person's neck, and she was afraid, but she wanted to save this person, so she banged on the door.
If that's the case, it's a pity, such a kind woman.
At that moment, Master suddenly walked up behind me, wrapped his arms around my neck, and then reached out and grabbed my throat. He didn't use any force on his hands, but when his rough palm touched my neck, I couldn't help but get goosebumps. Master's understanding of the woman's words should be the same as mine, probably he grabbed my neck to let the woman's picture reappear, and remembered more things, but when I didn't expect it, as soon as the master's action was done, the woman suddenly went crazy and pounced on me.
She started clawing at my face, screaming like I was the ghost of the. I had to cover my face with my hands while struggling to roll over and try to stand up. finally broke free, and the woman was also pulled left and right by Master and Long Jiyou, and stuffed back into the women's house. After closing the door, she grabbed the railing of the door and yelled at me.
Although there was no broken skin on my face, I was still scratched with several marks, and I was shocked, and I turned my head to look at Master, who was looking at me with a little schadenfreude. The thief's slippery eyes seemed to say, you kid, this is cool, right?