Lao Yu immediately sounded the alarm in his heart, he quickly sat up from the bed and walked to the door, because it was too quiet, he could hear faint footsteps in the corridor against the door panel.
Only the sound of one's footsteps...
Lao Yu fought a fierce battle with himself in his heart. Judging from his experience and intuition, if he let it go, Xia Wei would definitely die now, but if he is strong, there is an unpredictable risk waiting for him outside the door...
To save or not to save, in the nightmare world everyone is in danger, no matter what choice he makes, no one will blame him, everything is up to him.
Just as he struggled and weighed, several screams came from the corridor.
It's Xia Wei's voice!
"Who the hell are you... don't, don't come here, don't come near me—"
Lao Yu's movement of twisting the door handle stopped, and he saw a stronger light than before from the crack of the door.
His heart skipped a beat, this was... the light of a candle.
Under the domination of the desire to survive, Lao Yu stopped his movements, and dodged to the side to avoid being touched by candlelight.
He believes that the most sensible and correct way to do now is to silently pray for his unfortunate roommate.
But just when he thought that Xia Wei was going to die, there was a louder noise in the corridor. The door of 101 next door seemed to be pushed open, followed by the sound of messy and fast footsteps, and Xia Wei's panicked screams continued—
"Put it out, put out the candle now! I don't want to be a candle!"
"Stay away from me...I'm not sure you guys are..."
The light in the corridor gradually dimmed.
Chi Nan and Ye Chang live in 101. If the door opened just now... Lao Yu put his ear to the door again to listen to the movement in the corridor.
To be honest, Lao Yu was relieved to hear that Xia Wei could still speak, and it was not easy to have a life to live.
"Who are you? Why did you just..."
"We didn't want to hurt you, it should have been my shadow who moved his hands and feet just now." It was Ye Chang's voice.
"It's you... No, it's not you... It seems to be Chi Nan... the one who wants to make me into a candle..." Xia Wei's voice became lower and lower, replaced by intermittent sobbing, "What, what's going on... my hand ...not conscious..."
After confirming that the light had disappeared from the crack of the door, Lao Yu opened the door with confidence: "What's going on?"
He turned on the flashlight he carried, and the cold white light different from the candle illuminated the three people in the corridor. When he saw Xia Wei's current situation clearly, Lao Yu gasped—
Xia Wei fell to the ground, the back of his head was shivering against the wall, and his left hand on the ground was gone... To be precise, it turned into a piece of wax with red impurities in the yellow...
Chi Nan and Ye Chang stood by Xia Wei's side, and they were a little helpless in the face of the vigilant and hostile Xia Wei.
"What the hell is going on?" Lao Yu walked out of the dormitory after making sure that the risk was gone, and checked Xia Wei's situation more closely.
Xia Wei's arm has become the "special and precious" wax block shown by the female foreman, and his heartbeat and pulse are still there, and the temperature and touch of other parts of the body are also normal. This is half waxed and forced to terminate Phenomenon…
"I was deceived and was almost turned into a human candle..."
Xia Wei hugged her waxed arm, and couldn't care about the boy's face, sobbing and crying.
Lao Yu squatted down and directly reached out to touch his waxed part.
The touch is very strange, it has the smooth feeling of candles, but because it has just been waxed, the temperature of human skin still remains on the wax...
Lao Yu quickly withdrew his hand: "Who is the one who deceived you, do you see clearly?"
Xia Wei nodded and shook his head: "The voice was Ye Chang's, but I caught a glimpse of his face... It seemed like... Chi Nan..."
"What? Ye Chang's voice, Chi Nan's face?" Lao Yu didn't understand the confused words, and confirmed it again.
Xia Wei whimpered and said, "I don't know... I'm also very confused... But this was indeed the case just now... The two of them seem to fit together!"
Chi Nan glanced at Ye Chang, and Ye Chang just happened to look over, so Chi Nan saw himself in his lens.
He thought that the appearance of his body was not like Ye Chang.
Lao Yu was helpless and speechless: "Did you fall asleep..."
Xia Wei clasped his arms and cried and didn't speak.
"It should be the shadow that attacked Xia Wei." Chi Nan said.
Lao Yu looked at Ye Chang with complicated eyes, the other party's lips pursed into a straight line, and he didn't seem to intend to defend anything.
So Chi Nan explained to him: "Ye Chang and I were dealing with Ren Zhu in the house, and when we heard the movement in the corridor, we came out and saw a figure grabbing Xia Wei."
Lao Yu looked over keenly: "Is it the missing shadow of Ye Chang?"
"Well," Ye Chang replied, "I can still recognize my shadow. It should be because it couldn't move me, so it moved Xia Wei's hand."
His words can be regarded as denying the testimony of the witness Xia Wei - the shadow that attacked him, has Ye Chang's voice and Chi Nan's face.
Don't let people believe this kind of thing, it's very troublesome to wipe the shadow's ass.
Fortunately, Chi Nan didn't take Xia Wei's stupid words seriously, and only began to sort out secretly in his heart to speculate that after the shadow of the sleepwalker was completely alienated, if it achieved the 'achievement' of waxing its body, it would look like a relief sculpture. The shadows of Gu Xiao and Baichuan confirmed this by appearing on the ghost wall to eat the candlelight worship of the locals.
But if the body successfully extinguishes the human candle before being waxed, then his alienated shadow will betray and even attack other people's bodies to create more human wax.
In other words, Ye Changyin, who was lurking in the dark, has become one of their biggest threats.
Chi Nan hesitated for a while and didn't say his guess, but he was experienced and observant, and he also speculated about this set of rules almost at the same time. He looked at Chi Nan: "What do you think should be done?"
Chi Nan didn't speak, but Ye Chang took the initiative to say, "There are only two ways I can think of now to deal with uncontrolled shadows."
He paused, as if he was making up his mind, and finally looked at Chi Nankai's mouth, "The first method is to let it completely wax me. Based on the experiences of Bai Chuan and Gu Xiao, we can guess that after waxing the body, The shadow should be sealed in the ghost wall, so that it can't kill at will."
"Another way is that the existence of the shadow needs to rely on the body. If the body dies... the shadow may not be established."
The air instantly solidified, and under the cold white light, Ye Chang's eyes were hidden behind the lenses, and the expression on his face became blurred.
Lao Yu raised his eyebrows slightly: "What do you mean, you are willing to die yourself so as to suppress the shadow's activities?"
Ye Chang nodded firmly: "If you can stop it."
Lao Yu was silent for a moment: "The truth does make sense, if you voluntarily..."
"It's not the time yet," Chi Nan interrupted Lao Yu, "In order to prevent more victims from appearing, you can hand it over to Ye Chang in the future when you need to kill the candle."
After a pause, he added: "After all, there is still a possibility that extinguishing the candle will cause the shadow to be taken away, so that more victims will appear."
"What about Ye Chang's shadow?" Lao Yu asked rhetorically.
Chi Nan was silent for a moment before speaking: "Try to be cautious about him and things related to him."
"What about yourself? You live in the same room with him, which is more dangerous than any of us." Lao Yu asked Chi Nan again.
Chi Nan shook his head: "It's good, I'm staring at him, and I can deal with any situation in time."
Speaking of that, Chi Nan glanced at Ye Chang, and the moment their eyes met, he even felt that Ye Chang smiled at him.
But he felt that he had read it wrong. In this case, even if he didn't change his mind like Ye Chang, he probably wouldn't be able to laugh.
"Thank you, Brother Nan." Ye Chang said to him.
At that time, the two girls in 109 were finally awakened, and the young mother in 105 also opened the door, Lao Yu gave them a complicated look, and he was sure that the three ladies had listened to their conversations. Danger only exposed.
Dysonson asked Xia Wei in confusion: "I remember everyone locked the door before going to bed. How did Ye Chang's shadow get into your house? Without light, the shadow should not be able to move without authorization. How did it bring you? In the hallway?"
Xia Wei's face changed slightly and did not speak, Wu Ying continued: "We just want to find out how the shadow does this, so that we can take precautions."
The corners of Xia Wei's lips twitched. He never intended to be embarrassed: "What else can I do? Brother Ye's voice appeared outside my room in the middle of the night and invited me to sleep. Can I refuse?"
Everyone: "… "
They all looked at Chi Nan subconsciously, Chi Nan stood blankly, not knowing why he was talking about Ye Chang, but everyone's eyes were focused on him.
Xia Wei shrugged and continued in a self-deprecating tone, "How do I know it's a shadow? It's across the door, and I didn't expect the shadow to imitate the voice of the main body, it's really exactly the same, even the behavior... The shadow He was wearing something like a black trench coat, wrapped tightly, but he didn't cover his face, and when he turned around... I saw it as Chi Nan in a blink of an eye."
"It's probably because the light is too dark, my eyes are dazzled." Xia Wei wiped his eyes with his remaining hand, and wept elegantly and sadly.
Ye Chang glanced at everyone secretly, but fortunately, everyone believed in Xia Wei's dazzling remarks.
Chi Nan looked at the ground in silence, he noticed that the shadow that Xia Wei cast on the ground at this moment was incomplete and missing an arm.
That is to say...the waxed body parts, will the shadow disappear with it
Lao Yu complained about Xia Wei: "The fucking world is dying, why do you still think about sleeping?"
Xia Wei: "...I just think about death and I don't know who will come first tomorrow, I'm so shameless." He hugged his waxed arm, sobbing and crying, "Who would have thought that the shadow could evolve. The ability to imitate voice actions..."
This is indeed beyond everyone's expectations.
The young mother who had been silent for a while suddenly spoke up, her voice very calm: "From now on, everyone must lock the doors and windows, and don't trust the voices of your companions, no matter how close you are, these alienated shadows can imitate and act, so they should There is a certain ability to think.”
Everyone looked at her in astonishment. This mother was too deep and unfathomable. Before, she made a fuss like a newcomer, but now she is calm and keen like an experienced sleepwalker.
Lao Yu glanced at her, but he didn't ask any more questions, and added: "Also pay attention to blocking the light source."
Ye Chang: "And the shadow should be the one who can best understand the body's behavior and way of speaking... Brother Nan, you must be careful with me."
He looked at Chi Nan, and Chi Nan only slightly corrected, "Well, I will be careful of your shadow."
That night, Ye Chang's shadow had tormented everyone enough. After the panic, Xia Wei stopped crying and began to nagging that if he had the life to go out, he would learn a handicapped craft to live a life. I wanted to comfort him a few words, seeing him like this saves effort.
The rest of the people went back to the dormitory, and after confirming that there was no abnormality in the room, they all locked the doors and windows tightly, and covered the window glass with quilts and towels to prevent light from entering the room.
In the case of complete darkness, shadows cannot exist, and they can relax a little.
After returning to the house, Chi Nan looked thoughtful, and Ye Chang took the initiative to ask, "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"
Chi Nan tilted his head unconsciously: "I was thinking about what happened to that mother."
Ye Chang also thought about it with him, and said, "I guess it should be that after Rui Rui passed away, she came to the nightmare world to revive her daughter to do quests, but after her wish was fulfilled, there was something wrong with her memory during this period..."
His expression became focused, "Maybe she also has an additional wish, such as...forgetting the desperate days of losing Ruirui, erasing painful memories, etc. Generally, people who have experienced pain experience will have this choice. In this way, it makes sense that her memory disappeared after resurrecting Ruirui, and Ruirui, as a resurrection product, automatically inherited her mother's experience and ability during this period of time in order to protect her mother who shielded her memory by herself."
Chi Nan: "So in Ruirui's setting, she is an old sleepwalker who has passed countless books, and the mother who resurrected her is a newcomer who knows nothing?"
Ye Chang nodded: "But with Ruirui's disappearance, we forced my mother to recall the loss of her daughter. Whether she wants it or not, the memory is more or less back, but it may be intermittent. , like a badly connected radio."
Chi Nan nodded in agreement, but didn't speak. Ye Chang looked at him for a few seconds and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Do you think it's unreasonable?"
Chi Nan shook his head: "A little curious, how did you think of this."
Ye Chang froze for a moment and smiled: "According to the rules that Brother Cha told me before, I guessed randomly."
Chi Nan: "…"
"However, my answer has always been accurate, trust me." Ye Chang said.
This is the fourth day that their group of volunteers came to Candleman Town.
Two of the ten sleepwalkers were completely waxed, and one was waxed with a hand. Although he became disabled, his life was temporarily preserved. The little girl named Rui Rui has disappeared and has not been heard from so far, and her mother is now in a split state of half awake and half confused, which is unpredictable.
At dawn, it was rare for Chi Nan to get up early and wash up to go out with Ye Chang.
Lao Yu looked at Ye Chang behind him holding a sharp steel chisel, and said strangely: "...What are you going to do?"
"Do an experiment." Chi Nan said.
The old man had seen Chi Nan's previous actions, and suddenly became interested, put on his coat and followed: "Where are you going? Take me with you."
"Go to the ghost wall to see." Chi Nan said again.
Lao Yu is even more strange: "What are you doing with the steel chisel when you go to the ghost wall?"
He had an inconceivable association, "You guys won't be digging your feet, right?"
"Well," Chi Nan nodded lightly, "I just don't know if the wall is strong or not."
Lao Yu: "… "
Ye Chang: "It's alright, it's time to exercise, and the weather is good this morning."
Lao Yu: "...Fuck you, are you serious?"
Chi Nan: "Well."
Lao Yu: "...good guy."
Tucao returned to Tucao, Lao Yu still followed them to the ghost wall.
"Where do you want to start digging?" Lao Yu asked.
Chi Nan: "First look for an extra hand."
Hearing this, Lao Yu knew that Chi Nan was looking for the shadow of Xia Wei's waxed arm last night. Although he didn't know Chi Nan's ultimate goal, Lao Yu had a hunch that it would be a good decision.
But when he looked at the criss-crossing black shadows on the ghost wall, he had a headache... These ghosts' limbs and torso overlapped and overlapped, and it was hard to tell them apart. To find the extra arms and eyes, I was afraid that I would be blind. Not sure which hand is the new extra...
Before Lao Yu said his rants, he saw that Chi Nan asked Ye Chang to take another panorama of the ghost wall, and then he opened the mobile phone album to compare and observe the picture taken two days ago, and played the scene. Version "Everyone Comes to Find the Difference"...
It took less than five minutes for Chi Nan to find an extra arm on the wall where the shadows overlapped: "Here, it should be Xia Wei's hand."
He pointed to the lower right corner of the ghost wall and said.
Ye Chang nodded and played with the steel chisel very skillfully: "Brother Nan, lean on the side, I'm afraid the gravel will splash on you later."