Fan Luming's heart skipped a beat, his fingers trembled, and he almost dropped the flashlight.
However, he immediately restrained his emotions, and turned his head towards the window as if unintentionally. Sure enough, he saw a small white shadow in the corner of the window glass, which stayed for about three seconds before disappearing again with a "swish".
Fan Luming took two deep breaths silently, calmed down the turbulent emotions in his heart, then raised his head casually, turned around, and said lightly to Teacher Dagen and his sister:
"I'm done here, let's go, let's go to the next exhibition hall!"
The younger brother of the Fan family's tone was very normal, but both Mo Tiangen and Fan Hemian opened their eyes wide.
However, the change in their expressions only lasted a second, and they quickly suppressed the waves in their hearts, and continued to search each exhibition hall one by one as before.
At 3:58, Mo Tiangen and his siblings from the Fan family had inspected a total of twelve exhibition halls on the fourth floor of the West Hall.
Everything went smoothly and no problems were found.
"Oh, tell me, are we guessing wrong?"
Teacher Dagen stroked his clean-shaven chin, and made a phone call with Ji Thrush in the East Hall:
"Maybe the things lurking in the museum are not usually hidden in any container, so we search the exhibition hall in this way, so we can't find them at all."
"Well, you're right."
Ji Thrush's clear and youthful voice came from the other end of the phone.
It's just that his ending sounds a little breathless, but it's not obvious. Only Mr. Dagen, who is wearing a Bluetooth headset, can distinguish it. What should be done with the time."
Mo Tiangen and the Fan family siblings also thought it was a good idea.
So the three left the exhibition hall on the far right on the fourth floor and headed for the stairs.
They walked down the "Z" shaped stairs slowly.
When he reached the second floor, Mo Tiangen, who was at the front, suddenly stopped in his tracks without warning.
"what happened?"
Fan Hemian, who was walking behind him, almost bumped into his back, was startled, and slammed on the brakes, "What's wrong?"
She put her hand on Mo Tiangen's shoulder from the higher step, and looked forward.
"Look at this."
Teacher Dagen turned his head and took a step aside, with a very solemn expression, "I think we found it."
As he spoke, he shone his flashlight on the floor, signaling the Fan family siblings to pay attention.
The museum has been closed for two full months, and because most of the accidents were caused by museum staff, even the cleaners are afraid to come to work.
As a result, a layer of dust has accumulated on the floor, and people walking on it will leave lines of clear footprints.
Teacher Dagen and the siblings of the Fan family were wearing the sneakers that the game party put in the villa at this time. They were of the same style, and of course even the shoe prints were the same. The only difference was the size.
However, at this time, the three clearly saw that there was a completely different line of shoe prints on the stairs.
Judging from the size of the shoe print, it should belong to a man. The pattern is neat and the edge is close to the foot. It looks like a leather shoe.
"Look, this man's shoe prints are superimposed on our footprints."
Fan Luming turned on the flashlight, squatted down, and took a closer look, "He came upstairs after us."
Then the light of his flashlight flickered to the side, and shone deep into the corridor, "People are going that way."
The three of them looked at each other and chased in the direction where the footprints disappeared.
"Little bird, little bird, we found something here!"
Mo Tiangen said to Ji Thrush on the other end of the phone:
"We're following now, and you guys hurry over here too!"
"it is good!"
Ji Thrush on the other end of the phone responded immediately, and then added a warning, "Be careful!"
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Teacher Dagen and the Fan family siblings trotted all the way, followed the extra footprints in the corridor and turned around two exhibition halls.
When they thought that the target of the owner of the footprints was the third exhibition hall, they found that they turned suddenly at a corner and turned into the bathroom!
The three of them exchanged glances, nodded to each other, and then followed the stranger's footsteps and turned into the women's toilet.
The museum's toilet is quite spacious, divided into two floors, with six compartments on each floor.
As soon as the three of them walked into the toilet, they smelled a pungent smell of blood.
"Look..."
Fan Luming's scalp was numb, and he scanned the last room in the second row with the flashlight, "There..."
His words got stuck in his throat, and he just didn't have the courage to say the second half of the sentence.
Because, the three of them clearly saw a pool of red and black blood oozing from under the half-closed partition door.
To be honest, although the experience of the first two nights was very horrifying, with specimen corpses and dry bones at the bottom of the river, it was a test of everyone's psychological endurance, but it was not as shocking as this fresh blood.
Because it's all too real.
It looked like a living murder scene, and it was hard not to let young people like them who grew up in peaceful times feel uncomfortable instinctively.
If they didn't know that they were still in the "24 o'clock" game, they would have been unable to control the urge to call the police on their mobile phones.
"Okay... I'll go and see..."
Teacher Dagen took a deep breath, and gave himself about 30 seconds of mental construction. Then he mustered up the courage, stepped forward two steps, and kicked open the door panel of the compartment.
Everyone saw a young man in his thirties half sitting and half lying on the floor.
He leaned his back against the wall, with one hand hanging on the water tank and the other hanging by his side. One thigh was scarred, and a piece of flesh was missing at least the size of a palm. The blood from the wound had stained his lower body red, and the blood was still running down The trouser legs flowed to the floor, even to the outside of the cubicle door.
The scene was better than what he imagined, Mo Tiangen heaved a sigh of relief, bent down and tried the man's breath.
"Great, the person is still alive."
Teacher Dagen turned his head and said to the Fan family siblings.
Fan Hemian and Fan Luming also came over at this time.
The three of them observed the environment of the compartment, and only then did they understand what was going on.
They never imagined that although a few people spent three hours carefully searching every container in every exhibition hall, the monsters in the museum did not hide in the bottles and jars this time, but hidden in the toilet tank.
It seems that tonight's victim came to the museum after a few people. Whether it was lured or controlled by the monster, he entered the toilet cubicle, cut off the flesh and blood from his thigh, and fed it to the animal hidden in the water tank. thing.
Then the victim, like the previous ones, wanted to move the water tank and break it into pieces, but the water tank was too heavy for him to lift, so he fell to the ground in such a strange half-sitting and half-lying position, unconscious past.
"so… "
The three of them looked at each other again, and then focused their gazes on the water tank behind the toilet together, "Maybe, that thing... is still in it?"
Although I finally found the clue after tossing all night, it still takes some courage to probe to check the water tank.
At the critical moment, Mr. Dagen stood up again.
He first dragged the unconscious man out of the toilet cubicle, put him aside, then pulled out the folding stool hanging from his waist and put it in front of him, ready to guard against possible attacks at any time, then moved his steps carefully, approaching Tank, stooped to look in—
The water tank is empty.
There was neither water nor pieces of meat thrown in by the victim, only some dark liquid adhered to the cement of the box wall, which seemed to be dried blood.
Mo Tiangen: "..."
It's like opening a closet door, thinking that there will be a miserable white Toshio squatting inside, but it turns out to be empty. The heart that hangs in his throat thumps down, but it is not comforting—because, this It usually means that Brother Junxiong will suddenly appear in another unexpected place when you are not mentally prepared!
"Wait, watch this!"
Fan Luming cried out in shock.
Mo Tiangen turned his head and saw the younger brother of the Fan family squatting beside the door of the cubicle, using the light of the flashlight as a guide to shine on the edge of the door frame, "Here, there is a row of small footprints!"
He hurried over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a row of small plum blossom marks.
Judging from the direction of the footprints, the little thing should have come out of the compartment and passed against the wall. The first few prints were even stained with reddish-brown blood.
"Is it cat?"
Fan Hemian's throat twitched.
Mo Tiangen nodded, "That's right, it's a cat!"
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"what?"
On the other end of the phone, Ji Thrush's voice was very surprised: "You mean, what we are going to deal with tonight is actually a cat?!"
This time, the panting sound in his words was more obvious, obviously in the midst of rapid running.
According to Xiaoniao himself, he and Ren Jianmo are on their way now, they have already left the east hall and arrived at the lobby on the first floor, and they will arrive soon.
"That's right!"
Teacher Dagen, Fan Luming and Fan Hemian were also running at this time.
They followed the cat paw prints and returned to the fourth floor.
"We are chasing it. We have already reached the fourth floor. I hope it hasn't run outside the museum yet!"
In just these few words, Fan Luming had already spotted the target with sharp eyes.
"Look!"
The younger brother cried out loudly, "There, there is a cat!"
Mo Tiangen and Fan Hemian turned their heads quickly, but only saw a fluffy yellow-brown tail flashing quickly and disappearing at the corner of the corridor.
"Catch them separately!"
Teacher Dagen opened his hand, made a "V" gesture, then turned around quickly, ran wildly, and chased in the direction where the cat's tail disappeared.
Fan Luming and Fan Hemian understood what he meant, turned their heads quickly, turned around the stairs, and intercepted the escaped cat from the other side.
Fortunately, when they inspected the exhibition hall earlier, they had confirmed that the windows of the entire floor had been closed and locked. As long as the cat couldn't escape from the stairs, it was a catch in a jar, and they would definitely catch it.
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Saeki Toshio is the little boy in "The Grudge", the son of Kayako~