The anti-theft doors on both sides of the passage were closed tightly, and Shen Jize tiptoed to the door to listen. Lu Rong nervously held the corner of his clothes, opened his mouth to say something, Shen Jize put a finger on his mouth: "Shh."
After listening to several rooms in a row, the room was very quiet, as if no one was there, but he decided not to open the door to see.
What if? What if there is another ghost like that lying on the ground again? What if there is more than one, and the room is full, as if in class? There are many more to beat one, and sooner or later you will show a grimace to scare people.
He stopped listening to those rooms and walked to the end of the passage, and two similar passages appeared in front of him, one on the left and one on the right.
"I've already passed this way just now." Shen Jize was about to turn to the right, but Lu Rong tugged at his sleeve: "Don't go this way."
"Then you turned around again?"
Lu Rong shook his head: "No, I walked back."
Can you come back while walking? Shen Jize was puzzled, so he led him to the right: "Go and see, and find out what's going on first."
"That... that..." After being led for a while, Lu Rong finally confessed honestly: "There are other roads ahead, I'll keep going to the right, maybe I'll turn around and go back."
After he finished speaking, he was a little ashamed, but Shen Jize didn't laugh at him, as if he didn't hear him, he picked up an iron rod from the base of the wall, waved it twice and said, "Let's go, let's not keep going around in circles."
When two more passages appeared in front of him, Shen Jize chose to go left.
This passage is somewhat damp, the rough cracks in the concrete floor are full of water stains, and the walls are covered with dark green moss, making Lu Rong's skin feel sticky and slippery.
A gust of wind came from nowhere, bringing with it a chill that was not seen in summer, and both of them shivered.
Tick, tick.
The faint sound of dripping water came from the end of the passage, which made the surroundings even more silent.
Lu Rong clung to Shen Jize, and the two held hands tightly. Shen Jize licked his dry lips and asked, "Rongrong, have you ever been in this building before?"
"Come in." Lu Rong rolled his eyes and looked around.
"Is that the same as now?"
Lu Rong shook his head and denied: "It's different, only the beginning is the same, a straight passage, but there are not so many roads."
Shen Jize's voice was a little tense: "Don't be afraid, this is just a dream, it's normal that it's different from the buildings you saw before."
"I'm not afraid." Lu Rong put his forehead on his arm and arched: "I'm not afraid when my brother is here."
There are no street lights in the front section, and it is gray and indistinct. It seems that there is something hidden in the darkness, dormant and moving secretly.
Shen Jize felt guilty, so he stopped and said, "There's nothing to see ahead, let's turn back and go another way."
"En." Lu Rong nodded obediently.
"I'm not afraid. Look, it's pitch black there. The light clusters that went out must not be there. It's useless to go there."
After Shen Jize finished speaking, he stared at Lu Rong heavily, as if to see whether he believed it or not, so Lu Rong could only emphasize his tone: "Yes!"
The two held hands and turned back, but before they had taken a few steps, there was a loud noise in front of them, and thick smoke and dust rose from the dust on the ground. Shen Jize pulled Lu Rong back quickly, and after the smoke cleared, he found an iron gate running across the middle of the passage, sealing the road tightly.
Shen Jize was stunned for a moment before asking: "Can you see where this door came from?"
"I didn't see it clearly, it seems to have fallen from the top." Lu Rong said.
The two approached the iron gate, observed it for a while, and then pushed it with their hands. But the iron door didn't move at all, as if it was welded into the wall, the door was smooth, and there was no handle or anything like that.
"Brother, I'm a little scared." In the silence, Lu Rong turned to Shen Jize and put his arms around his waist.
Shen Jize forced himself to be calm: "Don't be afraid, isn't this a dream? Anything can happen in a dream, and it's not surprising that there is an extra door for no reason."
"But we said earlier that this wasn't a dream—"
"That's my nonsense, it's just a dream." Shen Jize interrupted him hastily.
The two hugged each other without speaking, their respective heartbeats were intense and clear, accompanied by the sound of dripping water in the distance.
If Shen Jize was here alone, he would have been terribly frightened, but he looked down at Lu Rong's soft hair, and suddenly he felt courage in his heart.
He can't just stop here, Fluffy is still there, Fluffy can only rely on him, he has to find a way to get both of them to leave safely.
"Hairy, this won't work, we have to find the light ball to get out." He said.
"Then... do we still have to go forward?" Lu Rong raised his head from his arms and looked deep into the dark passage.
Shen Jize said: "You wait for me here, I'll go and have a look first."
"I want to go with you." Lu Rong grabbed his arm.
Shen Jize looked down at the fingers on his arm, the fingers were slender and white, as if they would be broken if he exerted a little force, he said, "You just wait here, I will go alone."
"No, I don't want it." Lu Rong immediately let go of his arm, and wrapped his arms around his waist again, hanging on his body like an octopus.
Shen Jize said: "I am a man, and you are a child. The child should stay where you are and wait for me."
"But I'm also a man." Lu Rong looked at him with wet eyes.
Shen Jize said: "I'll be in sixth grade soon, and your second grade has just ended."
This hit the nail on the head, Lu Rong opened his mouth, unable to argue.
Although there is only a three-year difference between eleven and eight years old, there is an insurmountable gap between the upper grades and the lower grades.
In the minds of the senior students, there is no difference between the children in the lower grades and the children in the kindergarten. In the eyes of the lower grades, the upper grades are the top of a mountain that can only be looked up to.
Shen Jize, with Lu Rong hanging on his body, moved aside with difficulty, and stood behind a raised wall post.
"Be obedient, just wait here, and I will come back after I find the way." He said seriously.
"But I don't want to be obedient now." Lu Rong raised his head and pleaded.
He was a head shorter than Shen Jize, with a childish look on his baby fat face. The hair is brown under the light, soft and thin, like the fetal hair of a newborn.
Shen Jize explained patiently: "What if my brother wants to run away? You can't keep up, and a monster jumped out to protect you. Isn't my brother's fighting power weakened? Aren't we both going to die?"
Lu Rong thought in his heart that he could turn into a deer, run fast and fight, but he dared not say these words.
"Just wait for me here, and I will come to pick you up." Shen Jize said again.
Lu Rong's body froze suddenly, and his breathing became a little short. Shen Jize silently went to break the hands on his waist, but failed to do so after several attempts.
"Release." He whispered.
The corners of Lu Rong's mouth curled down stubbornly, his eyes were red, and he looked like he was about to cry, but he didn't let go. Seeing his appearance, Shen Jize's heart softened immediately, but he hardened his heart and did not intend to change his mind.
"You just stand here and watch me. If there's anything wrong, can you help me?" He whispered helplessly, "I'm afraid you'll be in danger. There's an iron gate here, and you can't get through anything behind it." Come on. My brother is not going far, and I will come back to take you a part of the way every time I explore, okay?"
After a while, Lu Rong barely nodded his head, and slowly let go of his hand.
"I'll be back soon, don't be afraid." Shen Jize took off his arms around his waist, dragged the iron rod and walked two steps, then stopped and turned his head, "Back back, hide behind the pillar."
Lu Rong took a step back, his body was hidden behind the wall pillar, his head was still sticking out. Knowing that he wouldn't listen, Shen Jize gave up and walked straight into the passage.
When he walked to a place where there was no corridor light, he slowed down, holding the iron rod tightly in both hands, and vigilantly watched the movement of the anti-theft doors in front of him and on both sides.
There was a layer of wet sand on the ground, and the soles of the sneakers made a slight rustle on it.
He couldn't help but looked back again, and saw that Lu Rong had come out from behind the pillar, and was standing in the corridor, facing this direction, looking like a small ball.
Shen Jize regained his courage. He took a deep breath, turned his head and strode forward, looking for the light group that left this ghost place.
The young man was thin and slender, but in Lu Rong's eyes, he was tall and mighty. He kept looking at Shen Jize's back, and did not turn his eyes after he disappeared into the depths of the darkness, until his eyes began to feel sore and swollen. Only then looked back.
He was still worried, always feeling that there would be something terrible ahead that would hurt his brother. He hesitated and took a few steps forward, stopped, paused for a while, then took a few steps forward, and stopped again.
After a few times, he didn't stop any longer, and quietly followed in small steps.
After walking for a while, Shen Jize finally got used to the dark environment. With the help of the light coming from nowhere, he could distinguish the outlines of objects in the passage, and avoid the sand piles and cement boards against the walls.
His palms were full of sweat, and he couldn't even hold the iron rod, so he had to change hands constantly, rubbing sweat on his clothes.
If it was normal, he might shrink in place, and he would never dare to go to the light group alone.
But as long as he thinks of Lu Rong, he will suddenly feel proud, and feel that he must be taken out no matter what.
With a swish, the lights came on.
Shen Jize was so stimulated by the light that he half-closed his eyes. At that moment, the iron rod in his hand was almost thrown out, so he quickly grabbed it.
But just as he got used to the light, the light went out again. One light and one dark, so that his vision fell into complete darkness.
Shen Jize stood still, not daring to move, he pricked up his ears to listen to the movement around him. Fortunately, the suffocating darkness only lasted for a few seconds, and the lights turned on again.
After waiting for a while, after confirming that the lights were no longer off, he looked towards the source of the light source. It's a channel light above the head, and the line next to it makes a slight crackling sound. It should be a bad connection, so it's bright and dark.
This section of passage is the same as before, the walls are covered with wet moss, and the ground is fine sand mixed with water, but it is closer to the sound of dripping water.
Shen Jize walked forward quickly with the help of the light, and when he saw that the passage was at the end of about twenty or thirty meters away, he was secretly excited.
After exploring this section of the road, he turned around to pick up Lu Rong. The child must be very anxious waiting there, maybe he might cry.
As a result, silently, the light disappeared instantly. He tried to open his eyes wide, but he could only see the darkness as thick as ink.
Shen Jize didn't go forward rashly, and stood there waiting for the light to turn on. He listened to his own breathing, and the sound of dripping water within walking distance.
There is water here, so is there a water pipe? If you walk along the water pipe, will you be able to find the light cluster
While thinking wildly, the lights turned on again, he squinted his eyes to adapt, and then moved forward.
As a result, as soon as he took a step, his feet stopped, and his whole body seemed to be nailed in place, unable to move any more.
A woman in red was hanging upside down on the top of the passage, her pale face was only half a meter in front of her, her pupilless eyes were looking at him.
The woman's long hair was hanging in the air, and the blood flowed through both sides of the nose, and then dripped down the hair to the ground.
Tick, tick.
A sticky, scarlet pool formed around his feet.
This was the most terrifying scene Shen Jize had ever seen in his life. He forgot to shout, escape and breathe. His heart seemed to stop beating, his mind went blank, and his soul flew out of his body.
The woman slowly twisted her body upwards, and in a strange posture, she was attached to the top of the passage like a gecko. Then he slowly leaned out his upper body towards Shen Jize, and that bloody face got closer and closer.
Shen Jize finally came to his senses and tried to escape, but his body seemed to be imprisoned by invisible hands, unable to move at all. His fingers were also stiff and uncontrollable, the iron rod fell to the ground with a bang, and Gululu rolled to the wall.
The woman stretched out her skinny hand, and a chill reached Shen Jize's neck, grabbed it, and slowly clenched it.
Shen Jize couldn't move, he could only watch helplessly, and heard the slight creaking of bones from his neck.
Maybe in another second, or less than a second, his neck will be cut off by this woman.
He couldn't tell what was going on in his mind at that moment, maybe he was so frightened that he no longer had any thoughts.
But at this moment, a black shadow swiftly passed by his side, and with the heavy impact of the sound, the strangled neck loosened, and the confinement of the body disappeared.
The lungs were filled with oxygen again, and the temples were throbbing. Shen Jize staggered back a few steps, coughing violently while clutching his neck.
The light suddenly brightened, illuminating the surroundings brightly, and he looked up while coughing.
Fighting ahead, a dexterous familiar figure leaped high, with its front hooves curled up in front of its chest, its hind hooves stretched out, its head slightly lowered, and a pair of small silver horns poked at the woman hanging on the top of the passage. .
——It was the little white deer that I had seen twice.
The woman was obviously afraid of the little white deer, so she let go of her hands and landed lightly from the roof, avoiding the blow.
After the deer landed, its hind hooves pawed on the ground, ran to help, and ran into the woman again.
The woman's figure changed and drifted quickly, the deer hit the air, but it raised its hoof at the moment of interlacing, the red pattern on its leg lit up, and the left hoof hit the woman's back with a snap.
"what-"
The woman let out a miserable howl that didn't resemble a human being. A hole the size of a fist was exposed at the hit part, and the edge was scorched black as if it had been burned, and it was still smoking.
Shen Jize stood against the wall, watching the scene with a pale face.
The little deer braked and stabilized its forward momentum, and four long marks were dragged out on the wet sandy ground.
It swung its tail and turned to face the woman, with its four hooves slightly apart, its head drooping, its round eyes pressed into a horizontal knife shape, and the eyeballs stared fiercely upwards.
The woman in the red shirt was obviously angry and frightened, the blood from the side of her nose kept dripping down, and her cloudy white eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets, making her look even more terrifying.
Seeing her like this, Shen Jize avoided his eyes, picked up the iron rod that had started to fall, and clenched his hands tightly.
In the blink of an eye, the woman in red suddenly disappeared from where she was. Shen Jize quickly pressed his back against the wall and looked around vigilantly.
Swish!
The bright light was covered by a piece of black, it was long hair, and thousands of strands of hair stabbed the deer like steel wire.
"Be careful." Shen Jize yelled.
As soon as the little deer put its head down and touched its horns, its whole body was entangled with hair, wrapped tightly, and turned into a small ball.
Shen Jize was startled, and was about to charge up holding the iron rod. Before he had time to take a step, he saw that the tightly coiled black silk began to smoke, and some parts of it burst into flames, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt hair.
After a heart-piercing howl, the woman in red appeared at the top of the passage.
She crawled as fast as a spider, and then swooped towards the deer, her long nails shining blue and black in the air.
Unafraid, the deer jumped into the air at the same time and hoofed.
After a series of crackling sounds, the woman fell from the ceiling to the ground, rolling and howling, with several almost piercing holes in her chest.
After getting up, she frantically rushed towards the deer, as if she wanted to die with it.
But she seemed to have encountered a sulfuric acid deer, wherever it touched. Green smoke was rising from all over the body, and there was a sizzling sound of burning flesh.
Ten fingernails soon became bald, and her hair was long and short like a crazy woman. Black holes had been made all over his body by the deer's savage collision and hooves, and his red shirt was also in tatters.
Shen Jize felt relieved and continued to watch the battle with the iron rod in his hand.
The woman suddenly turned her head towards him, her face was still ferocious and terrifying, but he was no longer so scared. Just as she was approaching with a roar, he raised the iron rod in his hand and slammed it heavily on her chest.
Shen Jize used all his strength, and the rebounding force of the iron rod made his wrist numb. Although the stick did not cause any harm to the woman, she also took a few steps back.
The woman was about to rush up again, but she suddenly trembled like an electric shock, opened her mouth wide and shook her head in pain, and Shen Jize could see the two rows of white teeth in her mouth.
The deer was standing behind her, pressing her silver horn against the bend of her leg, where a burning black hole was rapidly growing and deepening.
The woman struggled to fly upwards, and then fell heavily to the ground. She was completely frightened, and she didn't dare to stay here any longer, so she limped and fled in the direction of Shen Jize.
Seeing her approaching, Shen Jize didn't have time to think about it, and swung another heavy stick. The little deer just caught up with her and hit the horns again.
Zizi—
The woman was able to escape, and under Shen Jize's astonished gaze, she was like a piece of melted chocolate, twisting and slowly turning into a pool of black water.
Both Shen Jize and Xiaolu stared at the pool of black water and panted, huffing and puffing like pulling two small bellows, tiredness was the second priority, and more importantly, they were too excited.
The surrounding scene has changed at some point, the eerie and cold feeling has disappeared, the sticky moss attached to the cement wall is gone, and the wall and floor have returned to dryness.
Shen Jize looked at the little deer, and was about to say something, when he saw it running over in small steps, kicking, straightening up, hugging his leg with its front hooves, sticking out its little pink tongue, and continued to pant.
"Xiaobai, are you okay?" He lowered his head and asked.
Hearing the sound of Xiaobai, Lu Rong quickly raised his head and found that his brother had become so tall, and then realized that he is still a deer now.
His body froze, he slowly retracted his front hooves, put his back behind him, took half a step back, looked left and right, pretending nothing happened.
"Xiaobai, thank you, I'm going back to pick up my brother now, and you're going to—"
Before Shen Jize could finish his sentence, Xiao Lu's eyes widened and he raised his front hoof to cover his open mouth. Then he turned his head to look at him again, without any warning, suddenly ran back along the passage.
"Xiaobai." He hurried forward a few steps to catch up.
But Xiaolu ran out of the passage without looking back, and the white figure disappeared around the corner.