Just when the reincarnators fell asleep again, the security guard on the night shift was reading a book in the office.
After turning a page, he looked up at the clock on the wall, it was almost time, he closed the book and stood up, ready to go to the last shift.
Just as he was waiting for the elevator in the lobby, the security guard scratched his neck and remembered the woman sitting at the front desk.
At first, when he remembered this, he told himself hypnotically that it might be that Xiao Qian's child was cured and she came back from leave, but the manager forgot to tell him.
But thinking about it now, he always felt that something was wrong. Although Xiaoqian's hair was also black and long and straight, it didn't seem to be as long as that woman's...
And the woman's every move revealed an indescribable sense of strangeness.
Or... ask Xiao Qian to confirm.
The security guard walked into the elevator. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened Xiaoqian's WeChat, and the editor said, "Xiaoqian, how is the child's illness, are you all right? Also, did you come to work today?"
He considered the words, and finally pressed the "send" button, waiting for the other party's reply.
The light in the elevator hit the screen of the security guard's mobile phone. He didn't feel any difference at first, but after the elevator went up two floors, he suddenly widened his eyes, as if he saw something incredible on the screen of the mobile phone. thing.
On the screen of the phone, where the light was refracted, a silhouette of a woman appeared, standing behind him.
The security guard froze for a moment. When he came in... there was no one else in the elevator.
He turned his head and looked behind him, but there was nothing.
The security guard picked up the phone, he turned off the screen, held the phone high, and looked at it through the screen—
The woman is still there.
She was wearing a red dress and stood motionless next to the security guard.
Is it...
The security guard seemed to immediately think of something, and there was a look of shock on his face. It didn't look like there was something incomprehensible, but more like an emotion like "it turned out to be true".
He turned around and threw himself on the side of the elevator, holding the phone tightly, his eyes shifting between the phone screen and reality.
However, the woman remained motionless, which made the security guard a little relieved.
As long as the elevator opens, he will immediately escape!
Under the expectant gaze of the security guard, the elevator went up one floor after another, but just as he kept raising his head, once, he found that the female ghost in red appeared directly in his sight.
Not through the reflection of the phone screen, but standing directly in front of him.
The phone slipped from the security guard's hands and fell to the ground. He was so shocked that he couldn't even call out. He could only watch the female ghost who appeared in the elevator walking towards him.
…
The early morning sunlight poured in from outside the revolving door of the Cavill Hotel, making the two potted plants placed at the door stretch their branches and leaves more comfortably.
It's just that the other staff in this hotel are not so comfortable now - although usually at this time, the hotel is very quiet and there will be much less guests than usual, but it is obviously different today.
The reason was that a guest found a body in the elevator.
One pass two, two pass three, three pass one hundred, because of the high-pitched scream of the guest, before the hotel manager arrived, many people gathered in front of the elevator, giving pointers.
Even ordinary guests are like this, not to mention the reincarnators.
Ye Zeqing and the others had already gone out and stood at the periphery of the crowd when the first scream appeared.
"What's going on here?" Ye Zeqing asked casually, bowing to a man standing outside.
The man glanced at Ye Zeqing, probably because he felt that he had an extraordinary bearing, but he was not angry with his rude behavior, but said in an exaggerated tone: "It's dead."
"what's the situation?"
"The woman in front wanted to take the elevator out, but as soon as the elevator opened, she saw the body of the security guard lying inside."
Ye Zeqing: "That's it, that's really scary."
He pushed hard to the front and glanced at the elevator: the security guard's face was already blue and his body was stiff, but his face was full of shock, as if he had seen something incredible.
And his mobile phone fell to the ground, the screen of the mobile phone was cracked, and there was a WeChat message from Xiaoqian on it: [Don't mention it, it's still burning, I'm with him in the hospital.]
Ye Zeqing withdrew his hand, he squeezed out of the crowd again, and translated the news he had heard to the rest of the reincarnators.
Xiao Li was not inside, he was in Shen Mizhi's room, Ye Zeqing stood at the door of the room and hesitated for a while before daring to go in. He chose to wait for the other party to wake up naturally.
In the door of that room, Xiao Li didn't hear the noise from the outside world. On the contrary, the room was very quiet, the curtains were half-drawn, the soft sunlight poured in, and the temperature was neither high nor low.
As soon as he opened his eyes, Shen Mizhi noticed it.
The young man was sitting beside the bed, holding a book in his hand, but if he looked carefully, his eyes did not fall on it.
His legs came together naturally, making them smooth and beautiful.
Shen Mizhi straightened up, when he saw Xiao Li woke up, he put down the book in his hand, and his throat moved up and down unobtrusively: "You are awake."
Greeting Xiao Li who has just woken up in this way is something he has been looking forward to for a long time. He even smiles at every ending in his words - if he is like this, any god who knows him in the high-dimensional world will see it. , will doubt their own eyes.
It is precisely because of this that Shen Mizhi had to deliberately calm down his tone, otherwise Xiao Li could easily see that something was wrong with him.
Xiao Li rubbed his eyes. He had slept for a long time, and his eyelids were sticking together. The black eyes that he opened were sparkling, like the sun shining through the shade of a tree, with water marks on the neck of the boy. The arc is just the right slenderness.
"You woke up very early." Xiao Li said vaguely, with a soft, coquettish nasal voice when he spoke at this time.
He is usually not like this, he wakes up very quickly, but for some reason, it was like someone gave sleeping pills last night, and now he can't keep his eyes open.
Ah, too cute, foul.
Shen Mirage's thoughts.
He hadn't slept all night and said nonsense with his eyes open: "It's okay, it's only a little earlier than you."
Xiao Li lifted the quilt and walked into the bathroom. He habitually washed his face with cold water. After forcibly sobering himself, he roughly combed and walked out.
"Are you going to have breakfast?" Shen Mizhi had finished dressing. He looked indifferent and handsome, but what he actually did was quite soft. He glanced at the time and asked.
Xiao Li picked an apple from the fruit basket, and his tone of voice had returned to his usual tone: "I usually don't eat breakfast."
Evening supper is common.
He also handed one to the other party by the way, and Shen Mizhi reached out to take it. He looked at the other party's face still stained with water droplets, and the movement of preparing to go out, and lowered his eyes: "Are you going out?"
Xiao Li has already walked to the door, ready to open the door: "Yes."
Shen Mizhi stood behind him, and at the moment of the door, he had the urge to reach out and press the door of the house, but in the end he put his hand on his side.
—
Room 908.
When Ye Zeqing saw Xiao Li, he was eating the steak packaged from the restaurant, and said narrowly, "Did you sleep well?"
Xiao Li sat down with an expressionless face, and asked without answering, "What's going on outside?"
The elevator has been sealed off, and relevant personnel are investigating.
Ye Zeqing explained the matter roughly, and then pretended to summarize: "I don't know what kind of weird talk the security guard encountered, but I personally think that the crying woman has no time to trouble others."
That is to say, there is a high possibility that a fourth strange story has appeared.
Xiao Li took out the small yellow book and raised the pen to write down something, but he was stunned for a moment as soon as he opened it. A few lines of writing appeared on the small yellow book: [Hair looks black and cold, but it feels tactile to the touch. It's completely different, very soft and warm.]
[I keep thinking about kissing you, wrapping your hair around your fingers, then holding you and possessing you completely. I never thought that it would be so difficult to restrain possession.]
[What kind of person do you like?]
Xiao Li was no longer surprised by the previous words, he bit his pen and wrote a line under the last question: "It's beautiful.]
He turned the page and wrote a few key words about the task at the back.
Riyan hadn't started the live broadcast at this time, but he still held his camera tightly, and used the selfie stick to support it almost all the time to see things through it, for fear that something would appear.
Ye Zeqing asked in disbelief, "Boy, why are you holding this thing all the time?"
"I'm not afraid of ghosts coming, I don't know." Ri Yan smiled apologetically, "The woman who cried before was also, and at first, she could only see it through the camera..."
When he said this, Xiao Li suddenly asked, "—At first you could only see the crying woman through the camera?"
Ri Yan: "Yeah, it scared me to death at first, I only heard his voice and never saw him."
"But when we came, we saw it directly with the naked eye." Xiao Li put down his pen and said thoughtfully, "At first I thought the camera was only useful for Room 909, but now it seems... Crying Woman This bizarre story didn't exist in reality at first, or, in other words, couldn't be seen with the naked eye."
When he said this, Hull translated while guessing, and said in English: "In the eyes of the West, there is a special magnetic field in the camera, and through it, you can see some things that are invisible to the naked eye."
Xiao Li: "Then there are two possibilities now. First, this is a special murder technique of Wei Tan, using the camera to capture his traces, and finally reappearing; second, they can only exist in the camera at the beginning, until the end, they can only exist in the camera. Step by step into reality, out of the medium.”
Hull: "The second possibility, like going from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional world, from flat to 3D?"
"I thought of Sadako. It spreads the curse through a videotape, and finally climbs out of the TV. From the videotape to the real thing, it also crosses a dimension." Ye Zeqing said while cutting a piece of steak and sending it to the mouth , then pushed the steak aside, he lost his appetite.
Reiko: "At present, it seems that several strange stories have not been connected before, and I don't know where the source is..."
Ri Yan listened to the clouds and fog, he pricked up his ears and played with his phone for a while, then said: "I have asked many people, but no one knows the exact source of these strange stories, they are all passed down from person to person, and the source has been found long ago. Not anymore."
Taotie sighed silently: "This is normal, and now if you ask me the specific source of Bloody Mary, I certainly don't know."
Hale walked around the room, and he said a little eagerly: "It's not a problem to sit like this, I'll go outside and ask about the situation—"
As soon as he opened the door, he stayed where he was.
Seeing this, the rest of the reincarnations also stood up and came to the door of the room together, only to see that the outside was no longer the corridor of the hotel, but a small alley instead.
It is like the small alleys in the southern cities, extending in all directions, the ground is full of potholes and stones, the alleys are narrow, and the light that can penetrate is very limited.
And at the moment when the door opened, the interior of the room also changed, becoming one wall after another.
"The fourth weird talk...?" Ri Yan's voice trembled to break the silence. He immediately chose the bullet screen to protect his body, put on a selfie stick, and opened the live broadcast room.
The time in this alley is obviously different from reality. In reality, it is broad day, but here it is close to night, the sky is dark, and the rain is not raining, and there is a light rain falling on everyone's shoulders.
On the edge of the alley are houses with low eaves, made of bricks, but no one is there, and the doors and windows of every household are tightly closed.
There were mountains of stones piled up in the corners, and an old bicycle was parked at the end of the road. It was unlocked, but the chain on it was rusted. The seat was taken away, leaving only a steel pipe.
Xiao Li: "Go forward and have a look."
The reincarnators took a few steps forward cautiously, walked into the alley, and tried to find a way to leave.
The alley seemed even darker, and the houses on both sides blocked most of the light, but what made Xiao Li strange was that there were no street lights on both sides of this road.
Generally speaking, the alleys in the city, especially the ones where people live, will put some lighting things, sometimes lanterns, sometimes street lights.
But there is no such road, and there is a rotten smell in the air.
The light is very dim.
Maybach first took out a flashlight from his pocket. He pressed the switch, and the white light penetrated the darkness, but it hadn't been on for ten seconds. With a cracking sound, the bulb of the flashlight exploded and went out automatically.
The alley fell into darkness again.
Xiao Li thought of a strange story that is also circulating in reality: Lane without Lamps.
According to legend, the no-lamp alley is the only way to approach a massacre field in the old days. The most notable feature of this alley is that street lamps cannot be installed at all. Once installed, the light bulbs will burst the next day, and walking in the alley with flashlights is also a problem. will inexplicably go out.
Will this be the lampless alley in urban rumors
No one knew how to get out of this weird talk, so they had to move forward.
This alley doesn't seem to be long, but everyone actually walked a certain distance. However, just as they were about to reach the end, Xiao Li, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped.
Ye Zeqing has been paying attention to him, he took back his pace in time to avoid the bad luck of crashing: "What's wrong?"
Xiao Li didn't answer, he followed the other party's line of sight, but the sight made him tremble.
There was an old man next to the bicycle that had been parked on the side of the road.
The old man was bald, with his head down, his facial features could not be seen clearly, and he was wearing clothes from the last century.
He was holding the handlebars of the bicycle with one hand, and the other hand was raised sideways as if to show them the way, pointing to the right.
Does this mean... to make them go to the right
Xiao Li observed the old man closely, but before he could react, the old man had disappeared without a trace.
It's as if he's a ghost on the street, showing up on purpose to show them the way.
Xiao Li took two steps forward, and he looked at the end of the road: after exiting this alley, there are two choices left and right, both of which lead to another alley, it is hard to doubt that it will be A never-ending fork in the road.
"Is this a ghost hitting the wall?" Ye Zeqing touched his arm and asked with lingering fears.
"No," Xiao Li denied. "Although they look roughly similar, the details are different. It's more like a... huge labyrinth."
"Have any of you heard this weird talk?" Ri Yan asked the audience with a selfie stick.
[No, what is this place?]
[It looks so infiltrative, the boss protects me.]
[I have never heard of the strange stories you experienced except that of Cavill, and there is no news on the Internet.]
Perhaps it was because they had been delayed here for too long, and several figures appeared one after another on the wall in front of this alley, all with their heads lowered and pointing to the right.
Like a few street signs without emotion.
"These little devils all asked us to go to the right, do we want to listen to them?" Taotie narrowed his eyes carefully and looked at the alley on the right, but he could only see darkness.
"I think it's best not to. Who knows where the ghosts will point you? Maybe... their nest?" Reiko bit her lower lip and stumbled to express her opinion in English.
"But in case this weird talk takes advantage of our mentality..."
Ri Yan looked left and right, and finally leaned on Xiao Li: "Mr. Moriarty, what do you think?"
Xiao Li's response was to take out his phone, and he said naturally, "Wait a minute, I'll ask a professional."
Riyan: ? ?
Xiao Li dialed a number.
Ye Zeqing's eyes twitched, he could roughly guess who the caller was calling, but Hull and the others still didn't know—although Xiao Li had made a ghost call in front of them before, but what he said at that time In the fog, and it was spoken in Chinese, they didn't understand it too well, so Hull took the initiative to ask: "Mo, who are you calling? Don't we have no signal? "
Xiao Li: "Electronic navigation."
Ye Zeqing took the initiative to translate for him, and said in English: "Map of Gaode."
Hull: "... ??"
What the hell
After the "beep", the ghost call connected the phone.
Xiao Li didn't say much nonsense, and went straight to the point: "Can you locate where I am?"
The phone ghost was silent for a moment: "No."
Xiao Li: "Don't be so ruthless, think about our past relationship, we have to talk every once in a while—"
"I mean," said the phone ghost, "I can't locate you. Another force is blocking my signal."
Xiao Li: "Oh? So you really depend on the signal? Then it seems that I have to bring a signal booster with me next time."
The phone ghost stick read: "...the number you dialed has been switched off, please try again later."
The words are not bad, but Li Gui's hoarse voice full of resentment is a thousand miles away from the sweetness of normal customer service.
Xiao Li dismantled it: "You read this yourself, right?"
The next second, the phone ghost hung up the phone.
Xiao Li took back the phone and shook his head at Ye Zeqing who looked concerned.
"Then we can only rely on intuition now." Ye Zeqing said with bitter joy, "Why don't you roll a dice and decide, Ou Huang."
Xiao Li glanced at him leisurely: "Yes, but it's not necessary."
Ye Zeqing: "What do you mean?"
"Listen." Xiao Li nodded his ears.
Ye Zeqing listened attentively for a while, and a faint voice came from the right side of the alley. It was a voice that seemed to be blown away by the wind: "Is there anyone..."
"Help me... ah... it hurts, help me... ah..."
This voice has been repeating this sentence on and off. The voice is not mournful, but it is full of tempting feelings to go to the rescue.
"Don't believe this kind of call for help, it must be a ghost. I met a siren in a dungeon, and once you answer it—" Reiko spoke quickly, trying to make her voice overwhelm the cry for help.
But before she finished speaking, Xiao Li was already refreshed, and suddenly responded: "Where are you, I'm here to save you!"
Reiko: "..."
Her face turned green, frightened.
The author has something to say: Helping Ghosts: Help Me...
Xiao Li: Where are you, I'm here to save you!
Help Ghost: Is that you? No no no (kicks his legs and climbs back) I don't want you to save me