The time goes back to yesterday, before Xia Yuan came to that villa.
When he saw the terrifying scene reflected in the window through the binoculars, his first reaction was to run away immediately, and then go to find clues about the ghost.
However, just as Xia Yuan reversed the car and was about to leave, suddenly...a bloody hand appeared on the front hood of the car!
Before he could react, a smear of black completely covered the window glass.
Xia Yuan's eyes only saw a pair of open mouths, and his whole body was completely swallowed!
And... the Xia Yuan who appeared in front of Ying Ziye and the others after that was actually...
The moment Ying Ziye saw the truth in the mirror, he rushed to the window beside him, and jumped out! Then, without looking back at all, she ran desperately towards the fence!
Ying Ziye studied the scarlet characters repeatedly, and finally came to a conclusion. Scarlet said the ghost would take the form of a "thing" that seemed "very normal" to them. But the problem is that nothing in a haunted house, even ordinary furniture, feels very normal to anyone. The very existence of a haunted house is abnormal enough.
So in that case, it can still be regarded as normal in the eyes of everyone, only the residents.
"Things..." At first Ying Ziye stuck to the literal meaning and was not very confident in her deduction, but then she was relieved. As far as the apartment is concerned, what is the difference between these people and "things"? It's just a toy for torture.
After Ying Ziye came to that conclusion, he considered that Xia Yuan who had gone to the villa in advance was the only one who had the opportunity to switch, and Li Yin also seemed to coincide with her, because he had asked Ying Ziye on the phone at that time: "You Do you feel that there is something wrong with Xia Yuan?"
In fact, Li Yin asked Sachiko Odagiri about this question again, and the latter still said that he didn't feel that way.
Could it be that I guessed wrong
He also took the last step, asked Xia Yuan to answer the phone, and asked him a few questions that only Xia Yuan knew. However, he answered one by one fluently. At that point, Li Yin basically ruled out his hypothesis.
However, just in case, he still warned Ying Ziye not to approach the mirror. After all, it is possible that when Xia Yuan stands in front of the mirror, the true face of the ghost will be revealed. According to his previous experience, some ghosts occasionally show their true colors in the mirror.
Ying Ziye is very dangerous now, and if Xia Yuan is transferred by the ghost, she must be the next to die. To survive, the only way to find the ghost incarnation is to leave the villa early. In the end, Ying Ziye also thought of this hypothesis, and verified it with a mirror.
Ying Ziye grabbed the fence, leaped to the outside of the fence, then took out the car key that Tang Wenshan had allocated to her in advance, and opened the car door parked outside the villa.
She just got into the car, and when she started the engine, she looked aside from the corner of her eye, but... There was no movement.
But it's even scarier...
The car started, and Ying Ziye had just stepped on the accelerator when suddenly, from the rearview mirror of the car... she saw Xia Yuan's car behind her, and that terrifying evil spirit was sitting on the driver's seat of the car!
Ying Ziye stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the car rushed out like an arrow flying off the string!
The roads in the suburbs are very remote, so Ying Ziye only thought of going to the urban area at this time, and if there are more cars, he can find a way to get rid of it.
If only... if only we had found out sooner...
Although the speed is constantly increasing, the car behind is still chasing closely.
But Ying Ziye was not nervous, she saw a law in Li Yin's notes. Generally, on the way back to the apartment, the initial pursuit of the ghost will not be too tight, and the residents have a great chance of escape. And the closer you get to the apartment, the more terrifying the ghost's pursuit will be, and the harder it is to escape.
Now the evil spirit chased her in the same way as humans, and did not show any special abilities, such as suddenly appearing on his car, or clinging to the outside of the car, and it was not as exaggerated as in horror movies. You can catch up with the car by running or crawling.
Before returning to the apartment, she still had a chance to conceive how to escape.
Li Yin's notes said that ghosts cannot be killed by any means. Residents have experimented in the past, pouring black dog blood, hanging a statue of Zhong Kui, wearing a cross, going to Wutai Mountain to ask for amulets consecrated by eminent monks, and buying amulets to exorcise evil spirits, but nothing worked. In the past, another resident bought a mahogany sword and used it to kill ghosts, but he himself died a miserable death.
In short, according to the folklore, there are ways to exorcise ghosts and fight ghosts. The residents have tried all the methods, but none of them are effective. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to kill ghosts. This is exactly the same as those unsolvable horror movies.
And the only "solution" is to escape back to the apartment.
The ghosts all exist ideally, and the residents can only escape in a physically feasible materialistic way. However, there are still people who can successfully escape back to the apartment. To sum it up... Either it was super lucky, the ghost was a little bit slower, and let it enter the apartment, but the possibility of success in this way is too low; and more, because there are other residents as stepping stones, the ghost is killing When those residents died, other residents fled into the apartment.
In other words...
It would be extremely dangerous if only one person survived and fled back to the apartment. Ying Ziye has always avoided such a situation from happening, but now, it still happened.
Even if he was lucky enough to survive by himself, the closer he was to the apartment, the more dangerous he would be. From entering the community, to the alley, to the gate of the apartment, as long as the ghosts ambushed in any place, they would fall into a situation beyond redemption. Especially the alley that must be passed to enter the apartment is quite narrow, only two people can pass through together, and there is no way to avoid it. Li Yin also specifically mentioned one point in his notes. In the past, a resident thought of a way to climb into the wall next to the alley and run back to the apartment, but in the end he found... If he didn't walk on the alley, he could only end up in a dead end , and cannot enter the vacant lot where the apartment is located.
In other words...the only way is to go that alley! There is no way, nothing! And that road can only be walked, there is no other way to exist!
He had been driving for more than ten minutes. Although the car behind him was chasing him closely, he still did not overtake him. However, once you enter the urban area, I am afraid it will be very troublesome.
Li Yin mentioned in his notes that none of the ghosts he has encountered so far is afraid of sunlight or crowded scenes. Even in public places where many people gather, it will still show up, but often only residents can see it.
At this time, Ying Ziye casually glanced at the passenger seat... What caught his eyes was a face with a pair of blood-red pupils, a broken jaw, and the mouth was only connected by a few tendons!
Ying Ziye didn't have time to react, he just felt his body fall, and immediately fell on the cold floor!
He straightened up and saw...it actually appeared on the floor of that haunted villa!
Ying Ziye didn't even frown, he immediately stood up and ran towards the gate of the villa. But... just at this moment, a black dress poured out behind her—
She immediately turned her head to look... and at this moment, the body of the evil spirit suddenly appeared in front of her, and Ying Ziye immediately felt as if his whole body was bound.
Li Yin was waiting in the lobby on the ground floor with some residents. There were a lot of people gathered, after all, most people were very concerned about Xia Yuan's life and death. At this time, the door of the elevator on the opposite side suddenly opened, and a short but pretty girl walked out. She is currently the resident with the shortest stay in the apartment except Ying Ziye. It was Li Yin who lived in the apartment during her stay in Youshui Village. Her name is Xia Xiaomei. She is a very optimistic and cheerful girl who came to K City alone to study at university. Even though he lived in such a horrible apartment, he was not afraid at all. Instead, he said, "Since this is the case, wouldn't it be enough to come back alive every time?"
Is this stupid or naive
She should also be concerned about Ying Ziye, because she and Ziye have a very good relationship these days.
Suddenly, Li Yin saw a figure appearing at the door of the apartment! Li Yin looked there intently, that... it was Ying Ziye!
At that critical moment, Ying Ziye suddenly thought of...
Xia Yuan... probably was killed because he saw this evil ghost. Sachiko Odagiri must have seen that ghost in the mirror, and Tang Wenshan went to the bathroom because he saw this evil ghost disguised as Xia Yuan...
Could it be that…
Was he killed because he saw this ghost
The apartment completely fooled them all! In the instructions written in blood, it was mentioned that "if you find the incarnation of the ghost, you can leave the villa early", in fact, it was to lead them to hell!
Ying Ziye saw something in Li Yin's notes: "The apartment is not simply intended to kill us. Instead, it has given us many opportunities to escape. No matter which bloody word is executed, there is a way to survive. It's just... that won't be stable."
"General residents think that any execution of blood-letter instructions, such as ghosts and curses, is completely incomprehensible, and the only way is to escape back to the apartment. However, this is not the case. Each time the residents will be given a hidden way. It's just that it's not easy to perceive or grasp this way of life. For example, there is actually a way of life in the Youshui Village incident. That way of life is not to get close to Axiu, and that ghost should live in Axiu In the water tank of Axiu, people who were close to Axiu were killed continuously, and finally even Axiu herself was killed. In other words, if you live in Axiu's house, you can't avoid ghosts. As long as you try not to get close to Axiu, you can live. come down."
In this way... If you don't look for the incarnation of the ghost, or if you don't see the ghost, even if you stay for five days, you will be safe and sound.
The means of playing with the apartment also included those few books. Using the sentence in the title of the book to create psychological pressure on them, coupled with the horrific consequences of the previous ghost killing, everyone firmly believed that if the ghost incarnation was not found, they would die in the villa. Therefore... will spare no effort to find out. The apartment is forcing them on a path of eternal doom!
However, Ying Ziye knew the only way out.
Just as the evil spirit was about to reach out to Ying Ziye, Ying Ziye suddenly closed his eyes!
Then... she just stood like that for a long time... nothing happened again.
The ghost, in fact, can kill them only when the eyes can see it. Xia Yuan was the first to bear the brunt, and so were those who followed. As long as the ghost appears within the line of sight of both eyes, it can kill you. But in turn, if the ghost is not seen, nothing will happen. So the apartment asked them to find the ghost incarnation, that is, to "see" the ghost.
So, as long as you close your eyes and don't see that ghost, then nothing will happen.
She then kept her eyes closed and called a taxi before being able to return safely.
Li Yin was extremely excited immediately. Although Xia Yuan's death made many residents marvel, Ying Ziye survived such a critical situation!
After listening to her narration of her experience, many residents said in amazement: "You can escape as long as you close your eyes? It's so simple?"
"It's very simple," Ying Ziye said flatly, "But it's very difficult if you don't notice it."
Li Yin also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I never thought that even I would be fooled by the apartment... I always thought that the way of life arranged by the apartment is hard to detect... I didn't expect it to be hidden in the instructions in blood."
"Not necessarily." Ying Ziye said: "You may have noticed it, but...you dare not bet. After all, ghosts may still take our lives, no one dares to take that risk."
indeed so.
In any case, it was finally all settled.
That night, Ying Ziye had just finished taking a shower and walked out of the bathroom when the doorbell rang. Ying Ziye heard Li Yin's voice: "Are you there? Miss Ying?"
She put on her clothes, walked over and opened the door. Ask: "What's the matter?"
Li Yin was stunned for a moment at first, but then said: "Miss Ying... Do you want a cake? I made a cake."
"I just brushed my teeth," Ying Ziye said, "thank you anyway. I will come to eat tomorrow."