The second floor was brightly lit, and the corridors were empty.
Baili Xin glanced at the noisy card table downstairs and did not choose to continue exploring the second floor. Instead, he went straight to the third floor and returned to his room.
He first locked the door, then walked to the window and locked it.
s419m: My dear host, Mrs. Zhang just told you to "lock the doors and windows". Is there any weird thing under the windows
Blissin: It’s possible.
s419m: It's still early now. Is there anyone following you? Why don't you take this opportunity to investigate the house
Baili Xin: Waiting for that little black-haired monster.
s419m: But the little black-haired monster hasn't appeared yet. Are you sure this is the venue for the second game
Baili Xin: If not, how do we explain that there is a Baili Xin here who has the same name and looks like me
Actually, when I went to the police station last night, I just wanted to find where I live. It was a pleasant surprise to find my "family". I guess even if I didn't take the initiative to look for them, the gears of fate would have brought us together.
s419m: That’s true.
Because there were surveillance cameras, Baili Xin did not change into pajamas. Instead, he simply cleaned up the clothes he had worn during the day and went to bed.
The distance of three floors and the closed door completely blocked out the sounds from downstairs and nothing could be heard.
Time passed little by little, and Baili Xin waited quietly.
During this time, he opened the system and tried to contact Zhou Guang and Li Cangshan through private chat.
But every time I send a message, the dialog box is a red circle and a small exclamation mark, and it prompts that the message has failed to be sent.
The color of the three of them's portrait frames did not change to the red color they had when they entered the dungeon, but remained white to indicate a safe state.
However, the avatar frames of Zhou Guang and Li Cangshan did not turn gray, so there should be no problem.
…
Time is like sand between fingers, passing by slowly and unnoticed.
The card game must have ended, as sporadic footsteps were heard outside the door.
There were faint sounds of footsteps, and after a moment the sound of a door opening was heard, and then they disappeared again.
The surroundings became quiet again.
After a long time, time slowly came to twelve o'clock.
"Snapped."
"Snapped."
"Snapped."
"ah!"
The sound of something slapping and a slight scream of a boy came into his ears. The sound seemed to be very close to Baili Xin, yet very far away.
Baili Xin had not slept yet. He sat up from the bed in the dark, looked around, and quickly found the place where the sound came from.
Directions to the bathroom.
Baili Xin silently turned on the light.
The moment the light was turned on, the clapping and shouting stopped abruptly, and the room fell silent again.
Baili Xin: "..."
So, is there any tradition in this world that "turning on the lights will scare away ghosts"
After thinking for two seconds, Baili Xin put on his slippers and walked into the bathroom.
There was no change in the bathroom, it was the same as the last time I came in.
He walked slowly along the edge of the bathroom, stroking the wall with his fingertips as he walked.
Soon, he came to the huge perspective mirror.
The "person" behind the mirror can see him, but he cannot see anything behind the mirror.
With his fingers perfectly aligned with his reflection in the mirror, Baili Xin stood quietly in front of the floor-length mirror for a full five minutes before turning off the bathroom light and returning to the bedroom.
After turning off the bedroom light, Baili Xin got back into bed.
The darkness came again.
"Snapped."
"Snapped."
"Snapped."
"ah!"
Half an hour later, the slapping and screaming sounds started again.
This time, Baili Xin did not turn on the lights or wear slippers.
He walked barefoot on the wooden floor and walked into the bathroom quietly in the dark.
When he was checking the room and bathroom just now, he had already memorized the layout and route of the room. Even though he could hardly see anything now, it did not affect his walking in the dark.
He walked very smoothly along the way, without stepping on any obstacles or making any noise.
As we got closer to the bathroom, the slapping sounds and male screams became clearer.
“It hurts.”
"stop."
“Please.”
“It really hurts.”
Hearing the boy's cry for mercy, Baili Xin was stunned for a moment, and his eyes hidden in the darkness flashed with some obscure light.
This voice seems to be doing something...
Things with color.
He hesitated for two seconds and finally went into the bathroom.
The curtains were all drawn, there was no light in the room, and the bathroom was pitch black.
The boy's begging for mercy became louder, but it was not coming from the bathroom, but seemed to be coming from a wall.
He followed the sound and slowly walked to the wall where the sound came from. He raised his fingers slightly and his fingertips touched the cold and smooth surface.
It's that floor-length mirror.
The sound came from behind this floor-to-ceiling mirror.
Baili Xin put his ear to the mirror and listened attentively to the sound coming from the other side of the wall.
Coming here, many sounds that were originally vague become clear.
The "pa pa" sound should be the sound of a whip, and every slap would be met with a male voice begging for mercy in a crying tone.
The male voice begging for mercy sounds very young, probably a young man.
The young man's voice was mournful but contained a certain extreme joy, and his tone gradually changed as the whip cracked.
Baili Xin: "..."
Is it a human or a ghost
Baili Xin listened for a while.
The sound of the whip cracking gradually disappeared, and then turned into a low roar mixed with a heavy breath.
The voice coming from the back was also a man's.
The young man before seemed to be in pain, but this pain did not refer to physical pain, but inner despair.
He must have suffered a severe psychological blow. He cried out heart-wrenchingly and begged for mercy again and again, but never received any response.
Baili Xin stood up in the dark, and the voice continued.
He took two steps back and accurately found the light switch in the pitch-black darkness.
As he pressed his finger, the dark and cramped room was instantly filled with light.
The moment the room lit up, the young man's screams and pleas for mercy stopped abruptly.
The room became quiet again.
Baili Xin looked at the floor-length mirror. The mirror surface was bright enough to reflect a person, and there was only a misty handprint on it.
That was left by my hand on the mirror just now.
Baili Xin walked to the floor-length mirror. Even if he put his ear to the mirror, he could not hear any sound.
He stared at the floor-length mirror for a long time, until the misty handprints on the mirror disappeared, then Baili Xin stepped back to the switch and turned off the light.
The bathroom was dark again and Baili Xin couldn't even see anything.
He just stood silently beside the switch, waiting quietly without moving.
Another ten minutes passed.
The voice from the other side of the wall sounded again.
Baili Xin walked barefoot to the floor-length mirror again and listened again.
There was no more sound of whipping this time, but what remained unchanged was the young man's miserable cry for mercy.
"stop."
"I can't hold on any longer."
"Please let me go."
Soon, a voice responded to the young man.
But unlike the clear voice of the young man, the voice on the other end was muddy and sounded like the current sound of a speaker with noise added.
"Okay, I'll let you go."
"Let me be happy for a moment and I'll let you go."
"You are really good-looking."
Then came the young man's desperate cry.
Baili Xin frowned.
Even though the voice had been processed, Baili Xin could still hear the greasiness and filthiness in it.
He forced the young man to do the most humiliating act.
The electric current's victorious laughter and the young man's screams as he was trapped in hell formed a sharp contrast. Baili Xin retreated to the switch and turned on the light again.
The room lit up again and the sound disappeared.
Baili Xin stared at the ordinary-looking perspective mirror for a long time, then turned off the light again.
Ten minutes later, the sound rang out again.
The screams and pleas for mercy seemed to become an eternal existence.
After listening for a while, Baili Xin closed the bathroom door and walked out.
He returned to his bed in the dark. The closed bathroom door didn't seem to block out much sound. Baili Xin could still hear the young man's cries for help.
The young man's voice kept coming into my ears, gradually overlapping with the hysterical voice in the dream.
The young man's voice was the same as the voice that Baili Xin had dreamed of.
I originally thought that the scream would disappear as the night passed, but after only half an hour, the young man's scream disappeared.
The dark bedroom fell silent again.
But the silence did not last long, as there was a sudden knock on the door.
s419m was startled. Oh my god, I was scared to death. Host, who is knocking on the door outside in the middle of the night
Baili Xin: Probably not a human.
s419m shuddered: Huh
Baili Xin: There were no footsteps, the knock on the door came suddenly.
s419m: Damn, this house is really not clean.
The knocking on the door was like a violent storm. The force was knocking and pushing the door hard at the same time, as if it was eager to break in.
Baili Xin never opened the door.
The person knocking on the door might have felt bored, so the knocking stopped after a few minutes.
s419m breathed a sigh of relief: My Lord Host, this ghost brother has finally left. Can't we have a good sleep tonight
Before the system's voice disappeared from his mind, a slight sound came from the window.
s419m shut up instantly.
"Squeak, squeak."
Baili Xin looked towards the window. It seemed like something there wanted to push open the window and come in from outside.
Fortunately, Baili Xin locked the doors and windows before turning off the lights, so that thing couldn't get in even if it wanted to.
The thing apparently realized that the window was locked, and it stopped pushing tentatively and started banging on it violently.
"Snapped!"
"Snapped!"
"Snapped!"
One after another, the glass was slapped and made a series of noises.
There was a violent shaking sound coming from the window, and the cracking sound was like a hammer hitting s419m's forehead again and again.
s419m wailed, "Oh my god, this is the third floor. My Lord, I am sure this thing is definitely not a human. What the hell is this?"
Baili Xin chuckled helplessly and asked, "How about I go over and lift the curtain and take a look?"
s419m trembled. Really? Are you serious? Ah, the glass is about to shatter. It shouldn't be going to break through the window anytime soon, right
There was no expression of fear on Baili Xin's face, he just looked towards the window curiously: I'm here, what are you afraid of
s419m: But isn't your power suppressed? Should we be a little more timid? Stay safe to save our lives.
Just when Yi and Yi were arguing about whether to lift the curtain, the sound outside the window suddenly stopped.
Just like in the night of terror, these haunted sounds came and went quickly.
It was quiet again.
At this time, Baili Xin had already lost all sleepiness and even had some interest.
He even began to wonder if there would be another haunting.
"Hee hee hee."
A familiar voice suddenly sounded above his head. Baili Xin knew without even looking up that the little black-haired monster had come.
Baili Xin turned on the light in the bedroom, and immediately heard the scream of the black-haired little monster, "Ah! You damned human! How dare you murder me!"
Baili Xin spread his hands to show his innocence: "I didn't do it, please don't wrongly accuse a good person."
The little monster covered his eyes and flew around in the air, cursing as he flew, "My eyes, my 999 titanium alloy eyes, my beautiful big eyes. You suddenly turned on the light and tried to blind my eyes, damn, cunning human!"
Baili Xin had a very innocent expression, "."
s419m: Damn, why is this little monster so short-tempered? If we were not on the same track, I would have sprayed it to death for you, host!
The little monster covered its eyes and wailed for a long time before it finally recovered. It slowly landed on the bed, stretched out its slender arms, pinched its waist with one arm, and pointed at Baili Xin's nose with the other arm, cursing: "Look at my eyes! Damn human, I won't let you go!"
Baili Xin looked into the little monster's eyes. Its big, crystal clear black eyes had red eyelids and even the black eyeballs were a little red, as if it had just cried.
If it wasn't cursing now, Baili Xin would still think that this little monster was a little cute.
Baili Xin: "You came to see me, is it because the second game has started?"
He found a topic and brought the conversation back on track.
The little monster was angry, but after Baili Xin's reminder, he remembered the purpose of his visit. He pinched his hands and said arrogantly: "That's right, I'm here to announce the second game!"
"You are so lucky that you found the venue for the second game without my guidance."
"Humph, but you almost destroyed the playground!"
"Fortunately, I arranged the venue in advance and exchanged information, otherwise you would not have the opportunity to participate in such an exciting game!"
Baili Xin: "What does information sharing mean?"
Little Monster: "It's about perfectly integrating your character with the game. Without this information integration, you are just a stranger to them."
"Humph, otherwise how can you be called a lucky person? You really make me envious!"
Baili Xin's mouth twitched slightly: "."
I'll give this envy to you, I'm not worthy of it.
Little Monster: "You have finished reading the early plot. Now I am going to announce the rules of the second game!"
Baili Xin interrupted the little monster again: "How many games do I need to play before I can leave here?"
Little Monster: "It's almost there. There are five games in total. As long as you win all five games, you can leave with the prizes we provide."
Baili Xin: "There are prizes? What are the prizes? It can't be a pile of scrap metal, right?"
The little monster's eyes widened. "What a piece of junk! Our prize is something you can't even ask for, you stupid human!"
"Stop interrupting! I'm going to start announcing the game!"
"Players also heard some sounds in the previous synopsis, including the strange begging sound and the knocking sound outside the door window."
"Players are given three days to find out the source of the noise and the secrets this family wants to hide."
"After three days, if you can clear the level, you can enter the next level of the game. If you cannot, you will need to stay here forever. As for what will happen to you here, please refer to the crying young man at the beginning."
"Hehehe, this level of the game is not easy."
"You cleared the first game by luck. I don't believe that goddess of luck will be on your side again, hehe."
The little monster rubbed his hands together and said, "I'm really looking forward to your expression when you beg for mercy. I can't wait. Hehe, hehe."
"I will come back in three days. Please don't let me down."
Along with a strange and sharp laugh, the little monster's body gradually became transparent and slowly disappeared from Baili Xin's sight.
s419m: Damn, this monster is so arrogant. If I had a physical body, I would tear its head off immediately!
Baili Xin turned off the light and the room fell into darkness again.
There are two game missions announced by the little monster.
The first is to find the source of the sound.
The second is to find out the hidden secrets of this family.
First of all, the source of the sound.
There are three sources of sound tonight.
The first was the sound coming from the bathroom, the second was the knocking at the door, and the third was the sound coming from outside the window.
s419m said: Host, isn’t the one knocking on the door and the one knocking on the window the same ghost
Baili Xin: Let’s count it as two first. We didn’t see the source of the sound with our own eyes. We can’t conclude that the knocking on the door and the knocking on the window are the same person just because they didn’t occur at the same time.
The second task is to find the secret hidden by this family.
The obvious fear on the faces of the woman and the man when they came to pick me up early this morning, Mrs. Zhang's hesitant expression, and the undisguised malice in the face of my adoptive brother when he faced me.
They all have secrets and are deliberately hiding something.
First of all, why are middle-aged women and men afraid when they see themselves
There are two kinds of fear: one is the fear of the person himself, and the other is the fear and shock of the event happening.
They are either afraid of the person "Baili Xin" or afraid of the fact that "Baili Xin appeared".
After a day of getting along, he could probably rule out the first guess.
That is the second type. They cannot accept the fact that "Baili Xin appeared".
For them, this incident was more of a shock than a surprise.
Either "Baili Xin" had done something to them before running away from home, or they had done something to "Baili Xin".
When encountering such a thing, the easiest guess to come to mind is: they killed "Baili Xin".
So when "Baili Xin" appeared before them again, they only felt fear, not joy.
But could the answer be so simple
And this is just my own speculation and has not been verified.
Perhaps Mrs. Zhang would be a breakthrough. She seemed to know a lot of things and had some good intentions towards me.
This can be seen from the fact that she took the initiative to remind herself to close the doors and windows.
But it is not ruled out that Mrs. Zhang is playing the emotional card to make him have such an illusion.
The other one is the big brother Fei Yinuo.
The family relationship in the Fei family is very delicate. The father is not like a father, and the son is not like a son.
What is the reason for this chaotic family relationship? Is this also a secret they want to hide
It seems that this house is not big, and there are a lot of things that need to be taken away.
Baili Xin simply sorted out his thoughts. It was already three o'clock in the morning.
Everything around me became quiet, and sleepiness immediately overwhelmed me.
Baili Xin yawned and fell asleep.
He slept until dawn. When Baili Xin opened his eyes, the watch on the bedside table showed seven o'clock in the morning.
Baili Xin turned over.
Suddenly his expression froze, he turned his head again, and sat up.
He stared at the bedside table for several seconds before taking the watch from the bedside table and looking at it with complicated eyes.
watch.
Gunmetal black watch.
The watch he handed over to the police station early yesterday morning.
Now he lies quietly beside me.
Touching the cold metal texture of the watch strap with his fingers, Baili Xin couldn't figure out why the watch was lingering around, so he casually stuffed it into his backpack.
After going into the bathroom to wash up, Baili Xin smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes and walked out of the room.
When he went out, he happened to meet Da Zhuang and the others walking out of the room. Da Zhuang and the others seemed to have slept very well. The three of them looked refreshed and radiant.
"Good morning." Baili Xin took the initiative to greet.
"Good morning," Dazhuang stretched lazily, "I slept really well yesterday. I haven't had such a comfortable sleep in a long time. It's worthy of being a rich family's home. Even the bed is different from the one I usually sleep in."
Mr. Mouse couldn't agree more, "Me too, I didn't have any nightmares last night, I fell asleep as soon as I hit the bed."
Baili Xin: "Did you hear any knocks on the door last night? It was about one in the morning."