The radio equipment began to hum, and the sound was like an old man with a mouthful of phlegm in his mouth, making a feeble whine when he was struggling, and it was very uncomfortable for the listener.
Lin Qili inserted a piece of pure music as written in the manual, and then said to the microphone on the main console: "Welcome to the late night radio, I am today's host, it's a pleasure to meet you, now let me We listen to the first call."
Since she didn't know whether the first caller was a human or a ghost, Lin Qili's hand when she clicked on the call trembled slightly, but this did not damage her accuracy, and they soon received the first call.
"Cough, host, can you hear me?"
It was a male voice, somewhat hoarse, played through the microphone fairly clearly throughout the office.
Sounds like... a normal person.
Lin Qili breathed a sigh of relief, and she responded, "I can hear it, very clearly."
The hoarse man said over the phone, "That's good, huh, host, can you listen to me?"
"Okay, this is the meaning of the existence of late-night radio," Lin Qili softened her voice, "what do you want to say?"
The man was a little out of breath for some reason, and he gasped: "Huhu, I... I want to tell you a story, do you know there is a game called 'call ghosts'?"
The game of recruiting ghosts is related to ghosts and gods as soon as you hear it.
Lin Qili's spirit tightened again: "I haven't heard of it, can you be more specific?"
The man said: "That game of recruiting ghosts is at midnight, standing in a dark alley, walking towards his shadow alone, calling his name as he walks, shouting thirteen times, you can see two shadows, One of them is the invited ghost."
"Huh, I tried this game, just last week..."
"This game was told to me by my brother, he told me that the ghosts he recruited can fulfill one of my wishes - yes, I have a wish, I want my ex-wife to remarry me, host, do you have anything A wish you want to fulfill?"
Lin Qili smiled bitterly: "My wish is to live in peace."
"Huh, then our wishes are different. I... I love my ex-wife very much, we are junior high school classmates, I was very inconspicuous in junior high school and was often bullied, but she always helped me secretly. Later we got married, but gradually Yes, she despised me for being poor, cowardly, and worthless. She left me with her daughter, didn't answer my calls, and cut off all contact between us. In order to get her back, I did this trick game, and sure enough A second shadow appeared."
"I told it my wish and it didn't respond to me, hoo, it went away. I was disappointed at first, pretty disappointed, and I went home and it was business as usual, but then something strange happened to my house."
"It... seems to be coming home with me. When I get home, I like to grab a bottle of beer first, huh, and drink it down. But that day I opened the beer and went to answer my brother's call, and after I came back, , I found... that beer was empty."
When the person said that, the panting became more and more serious. Lin Qili was afraid of missing some details, so she had to interrupt him: "Sorry, what are you doing?"
The other party responded: "Ah, yes, I am going upstairs, I will try my best to control it."
"Anyway, at first I thought I was wrong, so I threw the beer in the trash and opened another bottle. After drinking the beer and watching the football game, I went to bed, and the fans who were sleeping turned out to be When I was confused, I turned to the left and grabbed something."
Lin Qili twisted her fingers.
The audience is still narrating: "I... hugged a dark shadow, but... I have no one else in my house except myself! When I opened my eyes to confirm, it disappeared."
"The shadow was cold and sticky, as if it had a layer of scales."
"I was so scared at the time, I was shaking and didn't dare to fall asleep. Until the next morning, I had to go to work after staying up all night, but when I went out, I seemed to see another dark shadow flashing in my house. passed."
"I didn't dare to think about it at the time, so I went to work in a hurry. When I just got off work, I thought of the dark shadows at home again. I didn't dare to go home. I go home."
"I went home in a very uneasy mood, and asked my friend to push the door first, but the house was empty, as if it was my illusion in the morning. I told my friend about it, but my friend laughed at me I was wrong, and I also comforted myself like this, where is there a ghost in this world? Maybe the shadow of the day is also because of the misalignment of the light."
"At ten o'clock that day, my friend left. After he left, I was busy cleaning up a messy table, but just as I was going downstairs to throw away the garbage and was about to enter the door, I saw that dark shadow... entered me. bedroom."
The man heard that he was not breathing at all when he spoke. He seemed to be standing somewhere and paused deliberately: "Host, can you understand how I felt at that time?"
Lin Qili: "Yes, quite capable."
For a reincarnator like them, it is more than capable, it is simply empathy.
Kudo was sitting closest to Lin Qili, lying on the table with a piece of paper in front of him, frantically recording the story told by the first listener on the paper.
Xiao Li was closest to the door of the office. He propped himself on the chair with his elbows, holding his face and listening to the story casually.
Shen Mizhi didn't sit down, he leaned against the wall and looked at him openly.
The male audience continued: "I don't know what I was thinking at that time. I was extremely frightened and at the same time didn't dare to run away. I could only move into the bedroom little by little, trying to see what was inside..."
"This time, I saw it, and it didn't hide from me - I saw it learning from me, sticking its head out of the bedroom bit by bit, making eye contact with me."
The reincarnators could simply imagine the scene at that time: in the dark bedroom, strange shadows, and the exact same movements.
"Until then, I didn't see what it looked like. It looked like a four-legged lizard, with a black body and a long tail. After seeing me, there was an excited look on his face. ."
"I was so frightened that I couldn't move my feet, I was almost scared to pee, I could only watch it crawling out of my bedroom and slowly approaching me."
"Can you guess the ending? The host?"
Lin Qili has a bad ending in her heart. Ordinary people encounter ghosts, how can they escape? This first listener, there is a great possibility... is a ghost!
Lin Qili didn't answer him, and the male audience laughed: "In the end, it bit my head off, and I merged with it. That's a wonderful feeling, I can feel the sight of black. The pain was excruciating, and I could feel it...the deliciousness of the head entering 'my' mouth, a taste that I will never forget."
"This is my story, hosts, in order to repay you for listening to my story, can you please turn your head?"
As soon as his words fell, Lin Qili stood up from the chair instantly—
Because of this sentence, it didn't come from the phone, but from the office door!
All the reincarnators in the radio office suddenly looked towards the source of the sound and saw a face on the unlocked glass door.
The face seemed eager to peek inside from the outside, and it was so tight that its nose was squeezed to the left, leaving greedy saliva on the glass.
"I'm going upstairs..."
- At this time, Lin Qili suddenly remembered what the first audience member had said at the beginning.
He was on the stairs leading to the fourteenth floor from the first moment he connected to the radio!
As soon as the live broadcast of the radio station started, they were stared at by such a ghost, which made the reincarnators feel uneasy. Moreover, as they had analyzed before, in this closed office, once the way was blocked, the only option was to jump out of the window. This one option - and here is the fourteenth floor.
Chu He subconsciously leaned towards the window.
The rather bleak moonlight, lined with neon, shone through the window, and frosted the floor like a dead man's face.
"It's useless, I saw you... I already remembered your faces! And... You look so delicious."
The ghost outside the glass door drooled.
The glass door was not locked, but for some reason, the ghost was just looking at everyone's face through the door and never came in.
Xiao Li walked towards the door, his action caught Kudo's attention, he frowned imperceptibly, thinking that he had never heard the name "Herculi" among the reincarnators, but he can live in the current reincarnation. How could someone be so reckless? Doesn't this have to be the first to die
Ye Zeqing noticed his friend's expression, he arched his shoulders and attacked him: "What is your expression?"
Kudo pushed his glasses: "Is Hercule dying? Is he really a senior? Or a newcomer to the family that your grandmother asked you to bring? I would say, it is better to give up as soon as possible for a newcomer with such aptitude."
Ye Zeqing sighed: "No, you don't know anything about Hercules."
Xiao Li had already arrived at the door of the glass door. He pushed open the glass door to the right, letting the ghost lying on the door pounce.
Xiao Li looked at him: "Why don't you come in and have a look, so you can see more clearly."
The ghost outside the door: "..."
- He had never heard such a strange and deadly request.
In fact, he really wanted to satisfy the other party, but he looked at Xiao Li, who was in front of him, and always felt that something was wrong.
... Obviously he is the ghost, right
Why is the person in front of him not only not afraid of him, but also there are two people looking at him with compassion instead of the panic and fear he thought
The scene was deadlocked.
The ghost seemed to be coveting the reincarnators, but it just refused to come in.
Is it...
Kudo relaxed the frown that was originally frowning. Could it be that Hercule did this because he saw the truth of his life
The ghost will not start killing until the hint of survival is given.
This is why most of the dungeon worlds give plot characters and title CGs. Missions often give life hints in the plot characters' death-defying actions, but the reincarnators often don't understand it all at once, and they need more clues to infer from it. Get the truth.
And now it's obvious that only the first Specter call is made, and the life reminder has not been given yet, so this ghost is like the fright at the beginning of a ghost movie, to scare the reincarnations, and it's not time to officially kill.
Kudo (thought himself) figured out this part, and he said in a tone of admiration: "Your friend is really brave."
Even if you can see clearly that ghosts don't kill people, it's not bad to have the courage to face ghosts.
But then, Kudo looked at the scene at the glass door, he was silent for a moment, took off his glasses, wiped the lenses, and put them back on the bridge of his nose, what caught his eye was that scene—
Xiao Li took a step forward, but the ghost actually took a step back.
Kudo: ? ?
Is this character... reversed? It's okay to know that ghosts won't take the initiative to kill people and open a door, why do you have to go further now
Xiao Li has already walked out of the office and into the dark corridor: "How did you know about this radio call?"
The ghost was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help but take a step back.
Xiao Li followed a step.
A strand of hair slowly extended from his pocket and wrapped around the ankle of the first listener.
Since this person insists on courting death, it is better to fulfill him!
The ghost's shadow slowly elongated in the corridor, and his face changed from a normal person's appearance to a dark shadow, and it looked a bit like the four-legged lizard he described on the phone before.
He stuck his head out, approached him with the same posture as Xiao Li, slowly opened his mouth, and wanted to bite off the other's head.
The person in front of him looks fine-skinned and tender, and it must taste delicious. He has to taste it carefully and slowly. Don't eat it all at once, just lick it first.
The black shadow stuck out a slender tongue. His tongue really looked like a lizard. There were two bifurcated sections at the tip, and a stench filled the air, sweeping towards Xiao Li's face—
Then a force gripped his tongue.
Immediately another hand picked up a stapler, turned his tongue in a circle, and pinned it together.
"Mmmm-"
It hurts ah ah ah!
Lizard Shadow wants to cry!
Where did the stapler come from? !
His eyes bulged out, bloodshots spread on them, and he looked at Xiao Li in disbelief.
Xiao Li shook the stapler in his hand at him. It was taken from the pile of debris piled up in the corridor. Not only the stapler, but also the mouse, book, staple remover and other office utensils.
fuck.
The ghost covered his mouth.
Looking at this scene, Kudo couldn't help but touched his tongue: "Old Yan, how do you feel?"
Ye Zeqing dead fish-eyed: "Instead of asking me, you might as well ask how the shadow on the opposite side feels."
Kudo asked curiously, "What did you sense?"
Ye Zeqing: "In addition to the pain, there is... He has regained the feeling of being bullied at school."
Kudo: "..."
Do you still miss it
Lizard Shadow was in pain, and he instinctively wanted to attack, but the ghost that merged with him was stimulated. He was cowardly by nature, and his first instinct was to run away when encountering such a thing.
Therefore, when Xiao Li thought he would attack again, he was instructing Tan Li to get the nail remover, but the next moment, the ghost that looked like a black shadow of a ferocious lizard turned and ran, rushing to the stairs In a short time, he just crawled around and disappeared into the safe passage in a blink of an eye.
Xiao Li: "... ??"
Careless.
... I wanted to take it down for that guy.
It's good that I didn't even ask the original question.
Xiao Li scratched his face, he threw the stapler back into the junk pile, returned to the radio office, and closed the door: "Let's continue."
Lin Qili looked at him, Will looked at him, and Kudo looked at him—
Xiao Li saw that there was no one in front of the console, and the phone was already ringing "beep beep", he sat in front of the radio station, put on the headset, and answered the call: "Then let me come."
The call is connected.