With the coming of the end of the world, many professions have disappeared and human civilization has been devoured by a huge catastrophe.
Although the inherited flame was eventually preserved in the tower, the harsh living environment and the large number of people being blocked outside the tower meant that much of the civilization that people knew no longer existed.
All the essence or dregs passed down by our ancestors are gone.
The tower had indeed ushered in a new era, and the people who came and went, with the help of the tower’s own technology and the education they had received, were able to save this new civilization from having to take many detours.
But there seems to be a sad gap with the past era, and no one cares about those disappeared skills that are no longer relevant to survival.
Seven hundred years ago in Baichuan City, there was such a craftsman whose Shudu puppet show, which was earlier than shadow play, won people applause.
But unfortunately, in the apocalypse, such means are far less useful than being able to drive, swim, and use a gun.
Especially when the end of the world came, his keratitis became more and more serious, he gradually lost his vision and became a blind man.
Even healthy people cannot survive in such an environment, let alone a blind person
No one knows what happened in the end. In this strange apartment, many people disappeared mysteriously and many people died for no reason.
However, this blind man lived a very good life, and no one knew why he was able to beg for so much food outside.
The peeper once thought about stealing the food, but he did not act and instead leaked the news.
So someone came to steal food that day.
The blind man never closes the door, as if he himself doesn't know that he has hoarded so much food, which has become a fatal temptation to others.
But the peeper never knew what happened to these people later. Every time someone entered the blind man’s house, they never came out again, and all the images were black.
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Seven hundred years later, the house welcomed another intruder.
The puppet's neck turned 270 degrees, and its body twisted stiffly. In the darkness came a clicking sound, as if a dislocated bone was being corrected.
The dead puppet slowly came to life.
Not only that, those "limbs" hidden in boxes, under beds, and in bathrooms also started moving one by one.
They crawled like worms. The puppet limbs that seemed ordinary when I first spied them now came alive with blood dripping...
The intruder finally realized that these limbs were human limbs! They had been lying quietly in this room before, looking like the remaining limbs of a puppet.
But at this moment, in the darkness, they revealed their true appearance, exuding a rotten smell and began to slowly piece together.
But the person who spliced them together had long forgotten what they originally looked like: a strong man's head and body connected to a child's limbs.
A middle-aged woman's head was attached to a young man's body...
Many accessories that cannot be distinguished as "puppets" or "real people" are constantly combined.
In front of a puppet, they were like a group of guards.
If it were a horror movie, the director would definitely give a slow-motion shot of this process, accompanied by scary and tense music.
Then he would definitely scold the actor for showing a horrified expression.
Yes, the actor Bai Wu did not show any horror expression, and even seemed to want to laugh, so this scene in the night suddenly lost its horror atmosphere.
"Before you start your performance, I need you to understand one thing. These things around you are intimidating, but they can't scare me. And they don't have much fighting power. So it seems that these people should be those who broke into your house and tried to hurt you or rob you. But they all became puppets in the end."
Bai Wu said:
"I didn't find you the first time I came here. Apparently you have the ability to hide, and I don't have enough information about you. Even if I believe there is a monster above my head, it still won't show up. It's like I believe there is a monster above my head, but the monster that makes me look up never shows up."
"But now it's different. I already know your full appearance. The rule of believing in something makes it impossible for you to hide from me. You showed up relatively late, and compared to the previous two strange stories, I had some expectations for you, but you were actually affected by laughter."
The puppet in the darkness actually felt a trace of fear. The aura emanating from this human made it feel dangerous.
"Who are you… ?"
Its sound was very mechanical. Bai Wu thought that if this place was not used as a rest area for prison inmates, it would be nice to use it as a horror house.
"My name is Bai Wu, and I'm a ghost remover. Two ghosts have died in my hands."
As he spoke, Bai Wu took out the skin that was sewn on the face of the elevator killer monster, as well as the hair and severed wrist that were stained with the long-haired human trafficker monster.
Seeing this scene, all the corpse puppets froze and stopped making any horrifying moves.
Bai Wu continued:
"You can try to fight me, but you'd better consider whether you are stronger than the previous two monsters."
The puppet didn't speak, but it was indeed weighing things.
"I can only tell you that you have been in the apartment for seven hundred years. You have never seen the outside world. The water out there is too deep. You can't grasp this thing."
He took back the two iconic items of the ghost story and took out the axe instead. Even in the dark, this figure made the puppet ghost story feel the fear between life and death.
The moment the puppet saw the axe, he stopped thinking.
For seven hundred years, several ghost stories have been scheming against each other, but without a tenant, nothing can go on. Finally, a tenant is found, and he is still so tough. It suddenly thinks that times have changed.
Now the tenants are more like ghost stories than they are ghost stories.
They have all become half-desire, half-evil beings, and their greatest wish is to be able to expel the other five ghost stories.
Seeing that someone was able to defeat the ghost downstairs, the puppet certainly did not dare to confront him head-on. He even had something to ask for, so he continued to speak in a mechanical and stiff tone:
"I... and... them..."
"Stop, reality cannot be run at double speed, your speech speed is too slow. Since you can control corpses, you should be able to control their speech as well."
These corpses were spliced together at random and looked extremely disharmonious, but Bai Wu was right. The term for puppets was "heart-to-heart connection", which was a kind of absolute control.
A kid with a bun hairstyle and a muscular body, who looked like the corpse of Nezha, suddenly spoke:
"I'm different from the others. I don't hurt anyone."
"There are so many corpses, and you've messed them up, and you tell me you didn't hurt anyone?"
Bai Wu acted as if he was going to punish the other party immediately, so the puppet urgently controlled another female corpse. This corpse looked harmonious, but the feet were installed in the place of the hands, and the hands were installed in the place of the feet.
"Seven hundred years ago, stealing food was murder. They wanted to kill me and be made into puppets by me... It made sense. I was just protecting myself... and they... were driven by resentment."
Bai Wu did not refute this statement too much. Even if he wanted to be a judge, seven hundred years was already past the statute of limitations. Moreover, there was no reference to the right and wrong of seven hundred years ago.
Coming out of the tower, he had seen a lot of good, bad and evil people. Whether they were useful to him and whether they could share the same interests in the future were the important criteria for Bai Wu to decide whether to keep the other party alive.
"What you said does make sense. Compared to the two ghost stories I solved, your behavior is relatively mild. How about this, I can not kill you. I know you want to drive them away, and I can even help you do it."
The puppet is not stupid, and knows that Bai Wu must have some request:
"what do I need to do?"
"I have obsessive-compulsive disorder and like to collect things from dead prey. Although I won't kill you, I still want to collect something representative of you, so that it can be regarded as if I have killed you. This is a privilege, so don't be ungrateful. After all, other ghost stories don't have such treatment."
You are different from the other five bitches. You are the most special one to me.
Although Bai Wu's idea is very strange, this trick is very useful in the situation where the six ghost stories are independent of each other.
Finally, the white mist took away the head. The head of the puppet. Puppet Ghost Story is similar to Mummy Yin, with an entry similar to Weakness Transfer, where the limbs can be disassembled at will as long as the weakness is not exposed.
Half of the six ghost stories were solved, and the sky was completely dark.
The white fog began to move towards the upper floors. What can be confirmed at present is that these six ghost stories seem to have become evil with special physiques due to special rules. Once certain conditions are met, they will become a kind of power attached to themselves.
Bai Wu is still looking forward to what abilities the three ghost stories of elevator killer, human trafficker and living puppet will bring. It must be related to their own abilities.
There are still some powers in this world beyond sequences and entries.
Until now, Bai Wu still believes that the builder of the tower encourages people to leave the tower, and he still regards the world outside the tower as a treasure house.
As long as you keep exploring outside the tower, you will be able to find various powers to arm yourself.
The ninth floor of the apartment.
He did not find any useful clues in the entire eighth layer of white fog. When he reached the ninth layer, he saw a red door again.
The door is still open.
Although a carpet search may seem stupid sometimes, it has to be said that it is very useful when the scope is not large. There are many strange stories in this apartment, and the strange things are countless, but even among the six strange stories that stand out, what happened in the house is outrageous enough. You have guessed what it is, right
Bai Wu did guess the riddle given in the notes.
"So it seems that the peeping Tom is just a weird thing, but not a weird story?"
Many of the props in this room are very old, giving me a feeling of when I was a child, especially the large-headed color TV, which immediately gave me a sense of age.
This room is the room where the TV horror story takes place. It is extremely conspicuous because it only has a TV. When Bai Wu looks at the TV, he actually feels like he is looking at some kind of giant embryo.
He originally thought that the peeper was related to the evil "I'm watching you". But now he found out... the peeper was just a minor character.
In the pitch black, he stared at the TV and said:
"The peeper on the seventh floor must have been eaten by you, right?"
"It's somewhat ironic. He was spying on everyone, but he didn't know that someone on the TV was also spying on him."
The darkness was suddenly torn apart by the light, and in the dark room, the TV suddenly turned on.
The notes given by the eyes are strange—
There's no need for me to give any explanation this time, just enjoy the show.
The TV screen was no longer filled with snow and no signal, but was playing a strange program.
The magical reality of seven hundred years ago began to unfold before Bai Wu's eyes.
The first scene shows Bai Wu watching TV.
The white fog outside the TV is watching TV, and the white fog inside the TV is also watching TV, but fortunately it is not an endless loop like two mirrors. In the TV within the TV, the content is a woman watching TV.
And the TV screen that the woman was watching showed a man watching TV.
Bai Wu felt like it was a nesting doll-like scene.
And within the TV within the TV, the TV that the man was watching, there was another woman watching TV.
The TV that the woman in the innermost part is watching is a man. Coincidentally, this man is the man who is watching the woman.
But in the last TV show, the man had a cruel smile on his face.
It was a bit confusing, but Bai Wu seemed to feel what the TV wanted to express.
"Fortunately, my eyesight is good enough. If my eyesight is not good enough, I really can't see so many things clearly..."
There is no doubt that what Bai Wu saw was a picture within a picture within a picture... a picture within a picture. A series of overlapping scenes.
This is a very abstract way of expression, but he vaguely guessed the capabilities of this TV.
At this time, the TV started to change channels constantly.
First, it was the news program that said the word "I", and then it was the talent show that said the word "be".
The programs kept changing, including environmental protection charity programs, advertisements, movies, animations... In the end, all the words were connected together to form a sentence.
Dozens of programs were switched, and fortunately Bai Wu had the standard memory of the Survey Corps and recorded everything.
"I was possessed by a spirit and given thoughts. My master did not change his mind, but he did... He and she killed my master."
Bai Wu's guess was confirmed:
"So your ability is to see through people's hearts? This ability is too strong..."
"No. Absolutely. Yes."
Four different programs responded to four words.
Bai Wu found it very interesting that this TV could actually ask questions to him. He really wanted to say: Magic mirror, magic mirror, tell me who is the most reliable person in this world.
Of course, the TV is not a magic mirror, it is just a spiritual object with certain thoughts.
Bai Wu guessed that television has the ability to see through the thoughts of some people.
It can be seen from the pictures on TV that Bai Wu is watching TV, and Bai Wu in TV is watching TV.
This means that, from the perspective of this TV, Bai Wu is thinking about the TV in his heart—
The TV show tells the story of a woman who is thinking about a man in her heart, so what the woman sees on TV is a man.
The man was thinking about another woman, so another woman appeared on his TV screen.
Another woman also thought about this man, so this man appeared on the TV screen that this woman watched. She hoped that this man would do something evil.
Then the man smiled evilly.
Obviously, television can express some of people's thoughts in an abstract way.
This ability is good. Although it has nothing to do with combat, it is better for obtaining intelligence than having an eye that only speaks half the words.
However, Bai Wu was not sure whether this ability would change when it came to him.
"Your mistress is married to a man, and as the manager of this apartment, she is the person who has lived in this apartment the longest. She is in charge of this temporary doomsday shelter."
"She liked this man in her heart, and the two of them lived together, but the man cheated on her and fell in love with another woman. Let's call her a mistress. The mistress may really like this man, or she may just want a place to live. In short, she hopes that the man will drive your master away."
"Television" responded to the white fog in another way.
The man grabbed the woman’s head and slammed it into the TV, causing the screen to completely shatter.
And at this time something strange happened.
The man wanted to drag the woman out, but he found that he couldn't do anything. The TV looked small, but it suddenly gave the man a feeling that there was a bottomless abyss inside...
For some unknown reason, he did not choose to drag the woman out, but pushed her in.
The body of an adult was hidden in the TV, so he fixed the TV screen and everything looked... normal.
He was also very open-minded... He didn't feel offended.
Of course, the man died not long after.
In the eyes of the monitor, this scene looks like a man putting a woman into the TV. So the monitor is very suspicious... Doesn't this person think it's smelly
But he had no idea... The woman's body was not placed in an ordinary TV.
"The man cheated on his wife, killed her, and then brought his mistress to live with him in her house. If I were such a cuckold and got killed, and had to watch them committing adultery on TV every day, I would be angry too."
Bai Wu tried to empathize with the TV, but the TV ignored him.
Because of how Bai Wu deceived the other three evil people, it, as the real observer of the entire apartment, would not be deceived by Bai Wu.
Bai Wu also thought of this.
However, he formulates different tactics for different objects and meets different needs of different customers. As an honest man, he speaks differently to different people.
You can see the world inside, but can you also see the world outside
"You possessed a spirit, but you also became an evil being... This doesn't make sense. So, you should be one with the mistress inside you... Well, the two of you are one."
"I admit that I do have something to ask of you, but the future is limitless. Do you plan to stay here forever? Do you hear the laughter outside? This laughter has an impact on you as well. Rather than letting your mind be devoured, you might as well follow me."
Bai Wu seemed very sincere and repeated the same words again:
"I'll help you solve the other five ghost stories. You've killed a lot of people in this apartment building, but I guess these people must have something in common, right?"
"There are no tenants in the apartment. Why don't you come with me to take a look outside the apartment? There are a lot of scumbags out there, and I hate scumbags."