Yunjin Road on Sunday afternoon was not as busy as usual, but because of the new subway station at the intersection, the traffic flow was still not smooth, and the horns were blaring, which made people very irritable.
Zhou Xu had just finished making up his class from school, and he didn't want to go home for the time being, so he was hanging out on Yunjin Road with his friends.
Several other people were discussing where to go with great interest. He was in no mood, tossing the earphone cable and kicking the stones on the ground as he walked.
This sluggish state has lasted for two or three days, and this is what happened when he came out of the cage. Therefore, it is also a disadvantage to have a good memory. I have seen exciting things, and then I go back to the ordinary daily life, and I can't do anything.
He only got into the cage once, and he was a little addicted. It's a pity, no one took him to the second round, because he didn't let him.
There are so many lines in the Zhang family, whose child doesn't have special schoolwork? Only him, learning the most ordinary things all day, surrounded by a group of ordinary people, and always making up lessons on weekends.
He clearly knows a lot of things, but he can't say anything at ordinary times, and it is easy to be regarded as a neurotic. His suffocating personality really suffocated him.
As long as he thinks of this, the more he complains about Zhang Biling.
"Hey!" A few friends suddenly pushed Zhou Xu, and after frightening them, they said with a giggle, "What are you doing, Daxian."
"Fuck, don't squeeze me, it's so hot." Zhou Xu said.
He has a temperament that likes to show off, and when he really can't hold it back, he will pretend to talk about things like dot matrix magic and hexagrams, or change some rumors of ancient and modern judges into ghost stories and use them as bragging.
His friend liked to listen to it, but felt that he was being naughty, so he nicknamed him "Daxian".
"Hey? Daxian, didn't you just listen to us?" said Sun Siqi, who had the best relationship with Zhou Xu.
"What did you say?" Zhou Xu asked.
Sun Siqi: "Old Lu said that Wanda has opened an immersive escape room upstairs. We want to go and see it. What do you say?"
Zhou Xu: "Okay."
He's actually not very interested, but who cares, as long as he doesn't go home, he can go anywhere.
"Hey, that's just right!" Lao Lu handed over his phone, "There are quite a few themes in the store. I searched on Dianping and I think these are all good. Isn't your sixth sense special? Come, come, hold high Your holy hand, blindly pick the most exciting one for us."
What Lao Lu opened was the photo album on his mobile phone. He took screenshots of a few that he was interested in, and let Zhou Xu look at the pictures and pick them.
Zhou Xu flipped through it a few times and picked the last one: "That's it."
Lao Lu took it and said, "Damn! You're really interesting. The first few pictures are the secret room pictures I took. You just chose not to open the door."
Zhou Xu frowned: "I don't know, why the hell did you put the picture in it if you didn't open the door?"
Lao Lu: "I just searched and saw that the store information was missing, so I took a screenshot. But you don't know? You don't know this store?"
Zhou Xu glanced at his mobile phone again, and three big characters were written on the picture: "Sanmidian... What's wrong with this one?"
Sun Siqi had obviously heard of it, and explained to him: "This store used to be in the underground city in front of Wanda. The girls in our class talked and said it very well. I remember that a few wanted to try it out. If something happened to that store, it was closed."
Zhou Xu: "What happened?"
Sun Siqi thought for a while: "It seems that one of the clerks has a mental problem, and the other one fell from the building later."
Zhou Xu was thoughtful, and inexplicably thought of going to the cage.
It was Lao Lu who ran on him: "Aren't you a great immortal, you don't know this?"
Zhou Xu said unhappily, "Go go go go."
Sun Siqi said roundly: "Don't say it, if he doesn't know this and just clicks on this picture, it's really clever. It's really the most exciting."
Several other people giggled and joined in.
There was a commotion when two men passed by across the street. Zhou Xu glanced over there, and said without looking back, "Wait, I'll go to the opposite side."
"Why are you going?" Lao Lu and the others asked.
"Family." Zhou Xu pointed out, and people had already crossed the street.
Given how often he ran into so-called family members on the street, others had taken it for granted. He turned his head and continued to discuss the theme of the secret room.
"Dadong!" Zhou Xu jumped in front of the two men with a posture of falling from the sky. Called the black-skinned little brother first, and then greeted the other square-faced man: "Rat brother!"
The two of them were hell in the daytime, and their faces hurt when they saw him.
Dadong's real name is Zhang Xiaodong, and the mouse's real name is Zhang Hao. One learns puppet art, the other learns formation, and is level, so the rotation has to be right.
The Zhang family's often rotating juniors, as long as they know Zhou Xu, can't wait to cover their faces and walk away. Because he often collided with Zhou Xu on the street, and then the arrogant child would clamor to join them and ask them to bring him into the cage.
Who can bear this.
"Xiao Xu." Dadong let out a smile, "Well, you don't have class today?"
"Just finished, come and walk around." Zhou Xu asked, "You guys take turns? Bring me!"
Crazy to take you.
Dadong hurriedly said, "Not today. It's really not possible today. Sister Lan has sent a job. We have to keep an eye on it these few days."
Hearing Sister Lan, Zhou Xu became even more excited: "Auntie?! What's the job?"
"It's not in the cage." Dadong said vaguely, "It's just staring at the individual."
Zhang Yalin was slapped by the tracking talisman at home, and immediately called and told Aunt Zhang. Seeing that the tracking symbol was scrapped, the aunt was no longer polite, and simply let the Zhang family's juniors on duty all stare at the Shen family villa.
As long as the two apprentices of Shen Qiao go out, they will follow them. If there happens to be a small cage, they will find a way to bring them into the cage, and then observe and observe.
Dadong and Mouse came all the way from the Shen family's side, and they are really in a hurry now.
When Zhou Xu heard that he was not in the cage, he said disappointedly, "Oh, staring at people? How about—"
He turned his head and glanced at it, all the friends were gone, only a good old man, Sun Siqi, was still waiting by the side of the road. He thought for a while, and was about to say, "Forget it," when a gust of wind swept across his ears.
He turned his head abruptly, and Dadong and the mouse had already run away. The mouse waved at him from a distance and said, "Next time, I will definitely take you next time!"
Go to yours!
Zhou Xu thought to himself, why don't you talk about the next time! The results of it? !
He returned to the street angrily, opened his mouth and asked Sun Siqi, "Is there any dynamite growing on my face?"
Sun Siqi: "?"
"Run away when you see me." Zhou Xu scolded for a while and asked, "Where are the others?"
Sun Siqi pointed in Wanda's direction and said, "They passed first."
All a virtue.
Zhou Xu was sulking for no reason, and when he was about to reach Wanda, he suddenly changed his mind: "I'm not going, you go."
Sun Siqi: "What are you doing?"
Zhou Xu took out his mobile phone and searched for the store address of "Sanmi Store", "I will go to that closed store to see."
He intuited that there was a cage there, but he didn't know if it had been removed. Originally, he wanted to talk to Dadong and the mouse, but now that he is angry, he will ask them to get out of the way, and he will go by himself.
Sun Siqi was bewildered by his clear thinking: "Are you going to Sanmi Store? Why are you going there? The store is closed, what are you looking at?"
Zhou Xu: "Watch the door."
Sun Siqi: "..."
Zhou Xu always went his own way, facing the map and walking towards the underground passage.
Sun Siqi tangled for a while, sent Lao Lu and the others a WeChat message, and followed Zhou Xu down the stairs.
There used to be a large underground shopping mall, selling miscellaneous clothes, shoes, bags and accessories, as well as a supermarket.
As a result, this underground passage has always accumulated water, and it has to be sealed and drained from time to time. The supermarket closed down not long after, the underground shopping mall was completely empty, and the store was closed and the cabinet was withdrawn.
A huge area has become an abandoned vacant lot.
Because it was eerie and wet. I don't know which ghost shop owner thinks the atmosphere here is suitable, so he took the whole site down and opened an immersive horror secret room.
This store has a story in total, and the name of the story is the same as the store name: Sanmi Store.
So later, when we talked about "Sanmi Store", it referred to both this store and this underground area.
There were piles of uncleaned rubbish on both sides of the stairs, and grass even grew in the corners.
The traces of rain a few days ago were still not dry, and the water trickled down the stairs, forming a small puddle at the bottom. After a while, the sound of dripping water would sound, echoing hollowly at the bottom.
As soon as Zhou Xu went, he felt gloomy and miserable, and it was like two worlds from the ground.
He was wearing short sleeves, obviously there was no wind, but he had goosebumps all over.
"Is no one going through this underground passage?" Zhou Xu said.
"Is no one going?"
"Go?"
"What?"
The whole sentence echoed faintly three times.
Zhou Xu: "…"
Sun Siqi: "Since Sanmi Store closed, oh no, since it opened, no one has left here."
"Someone's gone."
"People are gone."
"Yes."
…
Zhou Xu doesn't want to talk anymore, this fucking atmosphere is too full. He was actually very empty in his heart, but he desperately wanted face, so he had to bite the bullet and turn in.
The signal is so poor here that the pointers on the map have started to spin around. Zhou Xu clutched his mobile phone and supported himself by the screen light.
The passageway across the street goes around the outside of the store, and there are large posters on the wall, from one end to the other, there is no bloody picture, only a pair of eyes from the crevice of the cabinet, under the bed, and above the toilet cubicle. , behind the curtains, in the mirror... all kinds of places that make people daydream come out.
When people walk in the passage, they feel that the eyes on the poster are always behind them, silently staring at your back.
Too fucked up.
Zhou Xu scolded in his heart, but said on his mouth, "It feels okay."
Sun Siqi laughed dryly and boasted, "You are so brave."
Zhou Xu: "That's it."
shit.
"You said before that this store is very god-like, where is the god?" Zhou Xu lowered his voice so that the echoes would be smaller.
"There are many props and ornaments in the secret room of his house, which were collected from all over the country. It is said that they have been rumored to be haunted." Sun Siqi said.
Zhou Xu: "…"
What a stupid shopkeeper to be able to do such a stupid thing
There's finally a breakpoint in the middle of the poster, where there's a door. A yellowed plastic curtain hangs.
"Go in through that door." Sun Siqi said.
Zhou Xu calmly took a breath, opened the curtain and went in.
Sure enough, facing the big characters "Sanmidian".
Zhou Xu thought that he would see a glass door with a lock, and the store was piled with unused things, covered with dust everywhere. Who knows that there are glass doors, but they are not locked...
People are open.
The store is not completely dark, but a few faint lights are on. There was a long-haired girl sitting behind the cashier. She was very strange. Her face was turned around, but her eyes were half a beat.
When she slowly moved her eyes to look at Zhou Xu and Sun Siqi, she grinned and said, "Come to play the secret room?"
Sun Siqi was about to urinate on the spot.
"Didn't you say it's closed?" Zhou Xu said.
"Ang." Sun Siqi's voice trembled.
"Close the door? Us?" The girl stared at them with dark eyes and said, "No, who said the door is closed? I'll ask if the secret room is okay. You sit down first."
Zhou Xu's mind went blank, she asked to sit, and he and Sun Siqi really sat down on the sofa.
The girl grabbed a walkie-talkie and asked, "Xiaohua, Xiaohua, can you play?"
The walkie-talkie rang for a while, and a hollow male voice sounded from inside: "Come on, let them wait for a while and wait for the guests in front to finish."
Zhou Xu calmed down a bit when he heard that there were guests in front of him.
"Will it reopen?" he asked softly.
After a long time, Sun Siqi said, "It's possible."
But whether it's open or not, I don't really want to play. Sun Si thought.
In fact, Zhou Xu thought so too, but he didn't know how he could open his mouth without revealing his timidity.
The girl put down the walkie-talkie, picked up a bag on the table, and ate the contents. That thing was raw and brittle with brittle bones. The other party's lips were bright red, and the pale cheeks were bulging halfway, crunching and chewing.
Sun Siqi lost her soul and whispered, "She eats like fingers."
Zhou Xu: "...that's chicken feet with pickled peppers."
Sun Siqi: "The phoenix claws don't seem to be that big."
Zhou Xu: "Don't talk!"
The girl vomited out a bone, suddenly remembered something, and said to Zhou Xu, "Oh, our secret room starts with 8 people. Now there are not enough people, so we have to wait."
Zhou Xuxin said it was great! Just wait for this step.
"Not enough people?!" Zhou Xu tried his best to hide his elation, and pretended to be regretful and said, "Forget it, let's go to another place to see, now we won't be able to wait—"
Before the word "person" was spoken, the plastic door curtain was pulled open.
The doorbell with a different key in the cash register rang, and the girl smiled and said, "Hey, you two are so lucky, isn't there someone here?"
Our luck is poisonous, which idiot is here at this time
Zhou Xu scolded in his heart and turned to look...
Rely on, thanks for asking!
And the old man in his shop.
Xie Wen was a little surprised when he saw the situation inside the door. He raised his eyebrows, glanced around the store, and finally landed on Zhou Xu: "Why are you here?"
Zhou Xu: "...let's play."
"I really know where to go." Xie Wen said, and the phone suddenly vibrated. He ignored Zhou Xu, lowered his eyes and opened the screen.
He first clicked on the information of the general meeting, which consisted of two words: Boss
Xie asked: "?"
He switched back to the previous interface, only to realize that Xiao Zhao had sent him a message an hour ago, saying that Wen Shi and Xia Qiao were going out, but they were not allowed to follow.
In addition, Xia Qiao also sent him a message 40 minutes ago: Boss Xie, we just passed by Xiping Garden, the store door is closed, haven't you gone to the store
Xie Wen thought about it, and replied to Xia Qiao: I just saw it, Lao Mao and I went to the supermarket to buy something.
He didn't tell Wen Shi about the matter of looking for the spirit. Talking about getting involved too much... He couldn't leave.
After Xie asked, he asked Xia Qiao again: Why did you and your brother come out
When Xia Qiao received the reply, he was following Wen Shi to Yunjin Road. He looked at a small paper bird leading the way in front of him and thought: That's a long story.
Wen Shi initially wanted to go out because there were two girls at home who were staring straight at him.
So he went to the backyard, picked up the kitten that had been in the carton for three days, put it in his pocket, and showed his head. Then he left "something" and left.
Fortunately, Xia Qiao ran so fast that he caught up with him. Lest the ancestors want anything and nothing and get lost in the modern city.
They went to the hospital first and learned that Lao Song had been discharged from the hospital, so they went to Wangquan Wan Ancient City again.
During the day, the ancient city of Wan is not so gloomy and dark. Although it is still gray, it is somewhat alive. Mrs. Xu was still stepping on the sewing machine at the corner, and there were actually two customers eating at the rice noodle shop.
Opposite them, the stationery wholesale store that had been closed for a long time reopened, and Lao Song sat behind the cashier. He didn't look very good, and he was still a little puffy, but his hair and clothes were neat and tidy, not as dejected as in the cage.
Xia Qiao stood on the side of the rice noodle shop and saw Wen Shi walk across the corridor to the wall of the stationery shop and put the kitten in his pocket on the ground. Then he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed and waited.
The kitten stumbled into the stationery store, and after a while made a few soft calls.
The old Song who reconciled the account raised his head, pulled out his chair and looked around. After a while, he fished out the kitten from under the shelf.
He knows Wan Gucheng very well. He knows which store belongs to whom and what it keeps. This kitten should be wild and somehow crashed into his shop...
Maybe fate.
Lao Song had never raised such a small thing, so he was a little helpless when he was holding it. He turned around twice, found an empty cardboard box, filled it with foam, put the cat in it, and placed it next to his desk.
Then he hurried to Mrs. Xu's side, raised the tone and asked, "Madame, have you ever raised a cat? Can such a big kitten only be fed some milk powder?"
Madam Xu nodded: "Ah. What cat? Which female cat gave birth to you?"
Lao Song scratched his head: "I picked it up."
Mrs. Xu: "Do you support it?"
Lao Song: "Keep it up."
…
Xia Qiao saw his brother standing up from behind the wall, holding the collar to let out the air, and came along the corridor.
He patted Xia Qiao when he passed by. He didn't stop, got up the escalator and said, "Let's go."
This was the end of the matter, Xia Qiao wanted to take Wen Shi to the franchise store next door to have a look and buy a mobile phone. Who would have guessed that as soon as he went downstairs, the paper bird that was released in the hospital came, with a trace of the spirit of the time.
So they followed the paper bird all the way to Yunjin Road, and walked down a section of stairs that had been useless for a long time to the underground passage.
Xia Qiao obediently gave his brother the phone again, and said, "Brother, why did Boss Xie ask us to come out?"
Wen Shi glanced at the screen and just saw what Xie Wen had sent before, so Yi Hulu said: "Just say it and buy something."
Xia Qiao: "..."
The last time he went to Xiping Garden, he should have known that his brother really didn't have the heart to make excuses.
But he also thought about it, it is impossible to tell others about finding a spiritual sign. So Xia Qiao honestly typed and replied: We also came out to buy things.
In order to appear more real, Xiaoqiao added: In the e-shop, show my brother his phone.
After a while, the information Xie asked came back. Xia Qiao respectfully turned it over to Wen Shi, and saw that the message read: OK, see you in the evening.
Zhou Xu stomped in the Sanmi Store like a mallet, watching Xie Wen calmly send messages to people, while having a heart attack, he found an opportunity to speak.
After Xie Wen sent the message, he put away his mobile phone, and then politely asked the cashier girl: "How do you get in here?"
The girl was still chewing on that white stuff, crunching. She spat out another bone and said, "Eight people come in, you have four in total now, wait a little longer, and you can collect enough."
Zhou Xu took the opportunity to say: "The ghost knows how long it will take, forget it, let's-"
Before the word "go away" was uttered, the doorbell rang again.
The plastic door curtain was lifted for the third time. Xie Wen and Lao Mao, who were said to be shopping in the supermarket, turned their heads and met Wen Shi and Xia Qiao, who were said to be looking at their mobile phones.
Going to the supermarket: "… "
Buyer of mobile phone: "… "
The cashier girl dutifully counted: "There are two more."
After speaking, there was another ding dong sound, and the plastic door curtain was lifted up for the fourth time.
Zhou Xu was already numb.
He turned his head reluctantly, and saw two people who came in after Wen Shi - one with black skin and one with square face, none of them, it was the Zhang family who was entrusted by Zhang Lan and dumped Zhou Xu on the street. Junior, Dadong and Rat.
Fate, amazing.