A minute passed.
Five minutes passed.
The skull placed upright on the table endured for a long time, but finally couldn't hold back its curiosity.
It moved its lower jaw in a "cracker-cracker" manner, and asked, "How do you feel now?"
Lin You: "..."
"This is the seventh time." Knowing that she didn't care about it at all, she pointed at the window glass with her backhand, "I'll say it for the last time, if you ask again, I'll throw you out of here."
Skull smiled mischievously.
"I'm not curious."
It said: "It's the first time I've seen that just using this kind of water can cause hallucinations. It's much more complicated in our place-what a good research material!"
Does it mean water or she
Hearing the excited tone of the skull, Lin You suspected that if it wasn't for the fact that only one hand bone was still put away, you could see it rubbing its hands expectantly.
"Come on," she said coolly, "Be careful you blow yourself up again, I won't accompany you."
"Scholar's business, can it be considered bombing?"
That piece of bone, which has become so uneasy, asked solemnly.
"Okay," it conceded, "taking a step back, I admit I made myself this way, but what is art? Art is explosions! I'm dying for art—"
Lin You didn't care about the irrational words, and was about to turn around and continue working on her.
"No, no, wait!"
This guy is still struggling desperately, "Go all out, let me have a drink too."
Lin Youxin said that besides her, there are actually people who actively want to see ghosts these days.
But then again, the guy in front of me with only a head had blown himself up to the point of experimentation, and he didn't seem to regret it at all, so it's not surprising that he would make such a request.
"Can you drink water?" she asked suspiciously.
The skull had a good time.
"Try it?"
Lin You doesn't care if it asks for this, since it doesn't cost anything anyway.
She just turned on the kitchen faucet, flushed the glass, and poured in some water.
Lifting the bone, the other party opened his mouth cooperatively. The mouth of the cup was aligned, and it was poured straight in—
"Wow—"
The water trickled down its mandibles and trickled down the floor.
Skull: "..."
"I believe," it said sullenly, "I drank a little."
"It's better to say it seeped in."
Lin You had expected such a result long ago, and now she ruthlessly exposed its self-deception. She put the skull and water glass back together, and opened the balcony door by herself.
Time to figure out how to get it done.
Chu Renmei is not unsolvable, there are two common ways.
First, when she was wrapped in a bamboo mat and died in the wild, she killed the villagers in resentment, and finally stopped because her most beloved junior begged her with the bracelet she used to promise "I will promise you whatever you want". A hundred years later, when the local area was relocated, the beautiful bones of Chu people fell into the pool, and the bracelet was lost in the process.
Find the bracelet and put it back on her hand, maybe it can calm down the grievances-but this has not been done at all, after all, the protagonist was strangled to death before he succeeded.
The second kind...
Chu Renmei was betrayed during her lifetime. If she sees the truth, she will let you go. The survivors in the movie lived to the end because they proved their love. The problem is that this is a single-player script. Could it be that she is going to help the old lady on the road
If this method fails, after much deliberation, only the first method remains. But now that he had already drank that glass of water, Lin You thought it would be better to stay here to meet Chu Renmei once more.
The apartment was too cramped, and she walked back and forth just to make room. After tidying up, she piled up all the bits and pieces she didn't need to the balcony. Anyway, the room looked much empty.
After closing the sliding door of the balcony, and just turning around, she only felt that a blue shadow flashed past her out of the corner of her eye.
In a dark blue dress and long black hair, a woman dressed like this is reflected on the glass door. Without looking at her, he quietly walked behind her without making a sound.
That is-
Lin You suddenly turned around.
-Nothing at all.
She stared at the empty room, where the scarf that was casually placed on the back of the sofa half a minute ago was still hanging there, only the rare skull was startled by the sudden overreaction.
"Why," it met her gaze and stammered, "what's the matter?"
"Did you see anyone passing by?" Lin You asked.
Skull: "No-no."
The next moment, it realized what she was talking about, and immediately looked around up and down.
"Come out?" It can't be said that fear or excitement accounted for more, and the skull kept saying, "Why didn't I see it?!"
Because it's just an illusion
Lin You thought.
Chu Renmei's body is still sinking in the pond, she can't kill people directly, she uses the water she drank to control people's brains. To give a simple example, someone saw a ghost in an elevator and thought he was being strangled by a female ghost, but actually he strangled himself to death when he saw it on the surveillance camera.
It's hard to say whether the skull actually drank it, even if it drank it, it might not be enough for it to see Chu Renmei in the form of hallucinations.
Lin You took a deep breath.
Although it was only through the reflection of the glass, she could still see where Chu Renmei was going.
She got up and was about to take a step when she was stopped by the panicked skull.
"Hey, take me!"
"Are you sure?" Lin You pointed to the door, "I saw her walk in with my own eyes."
Skull struggled for a long time, and finally made up his mind.
"Go, why not go?"
Otherwise, what is it drinking the pond water for!
... Besides, it is even more panicky if it stays in the living room by itself.
Lin You didn't say anything else, grabbed the skull with one hand, pushed open the wooden door of the bathroom and walked in.
She saw the mirror facing her at a glance.
There was nothing wrong with the mirror hanging on the wall. It only reflected her upper body, not even the bone she was holding in her hand. But in this atmosphere, this is exactly what makes one's scalp tingle.
"… how?"
Almost keenly aware of something wrong, the skull asked.
Lin You was silent for a while, then said, "It's a bit cold."
In fact, more than a little.
It's like walking on the street wearing only single clothes in the winter of several degrees below zero, facing the biting cold wind, making people shiver.
She shouldn't be cold.
The sun outside is just right, and you can feel the warmth when you walk around on the balcony. On a sunny day like this, there's only one explanation for that.
— hallucinations.
She pinched her arm hard, not knowing if this would wake herself up.
It didn't help much.
Maybe the cold couldn't be easily dispelled, Lin You exhaled, feeling that it was within her tolerance. She turned her head and looked around.
Although there are too many things in the room, the overall apartment is quite clean. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no dirt at all. Even here, too, it was spotless around every corner.
Since she saw Chu Renmei walk in here with her own eyes, Lin You opened the shower curtain in the spirit of searching to the end.
Unlike what she might face when she was mentally prepared, the bathtub that was only big enough for people to sit in with their knees hugged was empty, and there was no sign of the female ghost anywhere.
"I seem to..." Suddenly, the skull hesitated and said, "I heard something."
The mournful voice echoed in his ears.
"When the man is in the heart, the concubine is heartbroken..."
The voice of the woman singing is full of sadness, and the lyrics are so familiar. It was inevitable, they had only heard it on the radio in the living room more than ten minutes ago.
"... I have a month to know the feeling of grievance..."
It is Chu Renmei who is singing.
—she is coming.
The skull seemed to realize something, "... quick, tell me, it's the radio that's broken and rewinding!"
Lin You was too lazy to complain about rewinding, it was not this voice at all.
If you were a little surprised at the beginning that the other party clearly didn't see Chu Renmei reflected on the glass, how did you hear her singing now, Lin You understood now.
It turned out that it still drank some water, but it was limited to being able to discern something vaguely, but not very keenly. This can be seen from the fact that the skull is still nervously looking left and right. In Lin You's own eyes, there was something popping up where the movement came from.
The skull obviously noticed that she was looking at a certain position, and hurriedly asked, "Where? Where?"
"Look down." Lin You squeezed out a voice.
When he was at a loss, the skull without eyeballs naturally couldn't open his eyes wide, so he could only stare at that place to distinguish.
... Finally, it saw some shadows.
Skull: "Ah—"
Skull: "Ahhh!!"
Lin You pinched her palm tightly, fearing that she would lose control of her body for a while. In a sense, this hoarse scream helped her grasp her sanity very well, so as not to be infected by Chu Renmei.
She remembered this scene from the movie.
Chu Renmei crawled out of the toilet, and the man was so frightened that he rushed out of the toilet.
At this moment, the hand with blackened nails was pushing the toilet lid little by little, and the dark blue cuff could already be seen vaguely. It was pawing on the cushion, trying to crawl out.
Against the backdrop of the snow-white ceramics, Chu Renmei's gray fingers showing signs of decay were even more terrifying.
"..."
Lin You let out a long sigh.
Even if the place is as clean as new, even if it's just a clone in the hallucination, isn't it unhygienic for you to climb the toilet
A force pressed it up suddenly, and the toilet lid, which had already been pushed up by half, fell straight down, and tightly clamped the outstretched hand.
Chu Renmei: "... "
After a brief daze, she began to pull back forcefully.
It can be regarded as earning back the pinched finger, and Chu Renmei hit the ground again. But no matter how hard they tried, the person stepping on it showed no sign of wavering at all.
Lin You stepped on the lid and mercilessly pressed the flush button.