With half a day before the mission began, Xu Lang read the mission information several times before heading straight to He Xiao.
He Xiao has not recovered from this bizarre mission for a while. At any rate, he has performed five missions. The selected captain can be said to be the most experienced and longest-lived employee in this group. I haven't heard of anyone who will perform the task alone. This newcomer gave him a lot of shock today.
It wasn't until Xu Lang patted him on the shoulder that he didn't realize it, turned around and smiled at Xu Lang:
"It stands to reason that every time we post a task, we will gather together to analyze the information, but this time the task is quite simple and clear, there is nothing to analyze. When the time is up, the society will automatically send you to the task location.
Rest assured, this is your first mission and the difficulty will not be particularly high. It's just that if you do it alone... you still have to be more cautious and try your best to survive. "
As the good old man in the staff team and the captain, it is indispensable to cheer up the staff before going out on the task.
But in He Xiao's heart, Xu Lang was not optimistic. He had never even had a novice task. It can be said that this newcomer has zero experience. After entering the newspaper, he was asked to perform the task immediately. He was still alone. Although this newcomer seemed a bit special, the chance of surviving was too low and too low.
Xu Lang nodded when he heard He Xiao's words, and immediately asked: "Is there any materials on past missions for me to take a look? I want to study it."
With half an hour left before the mission, Xu Lang has been sitting at this table exactly the same as in his own room for a long time.
Indeed, Xu Lang did not have any experience of facing supernatural events, and was still a little nervous, so he wanted to come to the past mission materials, and wanted to know more or less about the general experience of the mission.
One afternoon’s study was no different from what He Xiao said. Only after many comparisons, Xu Lang realized that there will be word games in some tasks, enticing employees into a dead end. However, the information about the ghost building task he faces is quite clear, so basically this situation won't happen.
Xu Lang glanced at the time, and he was about to enter the task in ten minutes, analyzing 10,000 times is not as good as actually experiencing once, and turned back downstairs without any hesitation.
There were already quite a few people in the hall at this time, and they all wanted to see how this newcomer's special mission would end.
Xu Lang carrying a backpack full of emergency supplies, standing at the entrance of the hall, calmly smoking the cigarette in his hand, this calm attitude impressed many people. For the first time, there were too few employees in this attitude. Too little.
The previously indifferent man walked to Xu Lang's side, side by side with him.
Xu Lang knew that there were more people around him, but did not make a move. Instead, the man spoke first:
"My name is Yan Yan, if you can survive this time, I want to have a chat with you."
Without waiting for Xu Lang to express his opinion, Yan Yan turned around directly. Xu Lang pinched out the cigarette in his hand. He already had some suspicions in his mind about these old employees.
For example, this Yan Yan is not an ordinary character, different from the performance of others, the rationality in his eyes, coupled with the eye contact with He Xiao, is probably a kind of existence like a think tank.
And He Xiao, the nominal captain, seemed to be a good old man, simple-minded but able to survive five missions is definitely not a good person.
There are only seven or eight people in the 15 rooms from beginning to end. Even if they are not full, there are still some hidden characters...
"It seems that the inside of the newspaper is not peaceful."
The pointer on the watch reached 8 o'clock in the evening in five minutes. Xu Lang touched the recorder in his left pocket and brushed it slightly across the right pocket. There seemed to be something in it, but only Xu Lang knew it.
Suddenly a white light spouted from Xu Lang's body, and the whole person was surrounded by the light. In less than a second, Xu Lang suddenly disappeared from the entrance of the hall.
At 19.55, a white light flashed by the dilapidated door of Jingming Building, and a tall figure appeared out of thin air.
"This is the Jingming Building, and it is really dilapidated."
This is a building that has been abandoned for a long time and is about 15 floors. There is no light around the building. The street lights are broken when they reach here. The whole building is completely surrounded by darkness, like a beast, waiting for its prey Enter, and then swallow.
After Xu Lang knew the mission location, he checked a lot of information about the building on the Internet.
Twenty years ago, this building was surrounded by a downtown area, and the housing prices were extremely high. It is said that an ancient coffin was dug out by the developer when digging the foundation. Since then, it has become a haunted house. Missing.
It is also said that an evil spirit in ancient clothes appeared in the Jingming Mansion at night. It is not clear whether the rumors exaggerate Xu Lang, but what is certain is that if you step into this mansion tonight, you will definitely die in nine deaths.
But whether it's task pressure or his own obsession with evil spirits, Xu Lang has no resistance to entering the building. For him, this may be the meaning of his existence.
Immediately after reaching the designated 20 o'clock in the mission, Xu Lang stopped observing, and simply pushed open the door of the building neatly.
And at this time, if someone passes by this building, they will definitely see with horror, on the window of the innermost room on the 13th floor from the top, there is a maggot-faced, rotten evil spirit seeing Xu Lang. The moment he entered the door, he grinned, and there were also maggots that had torn off a few white flowers.
As soon as he entered the building, Xu Lang felt a chill from the inside, not cold but a warning of danger, as if something terrible would happen if he went deeper into the building.
The wind blowing in after pushing the door engulfed the falling ash inside the building in the air, and I felt choked on my throat and dizzy when I took a breath.
Xu Lang shook his head and took out the wolf eye flashlight from his jacket pocket. It was "transformed" inside the newspaper office. Yes, the newspaper office apartment can change anything you want at will. A flashlight is not there. Then, of course, except for highly dangerous goods such as guns and ammunition.
After turning on the flashlight and observing the hall, Xu Lang realized that the interior area was much larger than the exterior area. The hall alone was probably 200 square meters. Although it has been defeated, it is vaguely visible that the decoration is luxurious. Twenty years ago, this kind of masterpiece was rare, but it was a pity that a terrorist incident occurred and I had to give it up.
Looking up and down the environment, Xu Lang soon discovered that something was wrong.
Because he suddenly discovered that a series of fragmented footprints appeared in front of him, and it looked messy, with more than one person.
There was no one to take care of it all the year round, and it was already covered with dust. Only if someone walked by, you could see the trail immediately. It was obvious that there was a group of people shortly before Xu Lang. They hurried into the building and ran wildly in panic.
Xu Lang frowned and felt that this group of people appeared very strange. When he analyzed the past tasks, he found a pattern. Generally, during the execution of the tasks, the newspaper will not add people other than non-employees for no reason, except they are critical. The characters have to appear here.
"Could it be that the key to finding a way out is to find this group of people?"
While Xu Lang took his steps, an idea flashed through his mind like lightning, and there might be another possibility.
"Could it be that someone else was pulled in to perform a novice mission, because I was accidentally introduced into the newspaper, and I had never experienced a novice mission at all. When I entered the newspaper, I was asked to perform the mission immediately. It is so abnormal that the mission this time will not happen? Will it be the newspaper that corrects the chaos and lets me go through the novice task, so that I can return to my normal track?"
The more Xu Lang thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was the highest, because he really didn't feel that he had anything special that would allow the newspaper to be treated differently.
Because the mission has just started, this period of time should be the so-called safety period, Xu Lang did not act rashly, pushing the glasses on the bridge of his nose and starting to analyze the current situation.
"At present, scattered calculations are clues that are helpful to complete the task. There are nothing more than the following:
The first is about the source of the evil spirits in the mansion. According to the Internet, it may be an old evil spirit, and a coffin was dug.
Then this coffin, which I don't know where, is the key item to seal the evil spirits, or is it a way of life to introduce evil spirits into the coffin.
The second is that the group of people before me is very likely to be another team of new employees who completed the novice task. They came to the mansion before me, and the way of life might be on them.
The third is the building itself, there may be clues that are hard to detect, and you can find a way out if you find it. "
When Xu Lang was a detective, he had a habit of summarizing and sorting out the clues in front of him, so as not only to facilitate analysis, but also to make the most reliable judgments about the current situation.
I glanced at my watch, and it has been nearly 20 minutes since I entered the building. I'm afraid the safety period is almost past. Xu Lang thought that the clues he had at the moment were only scale claws. If he wanted to go further, he had to venture into the depths of the building and continue to explore.
Xu Lang didn't think too much, and ignored the elevator beside him, and went upstairs along the stairs. Not to mention whether the elevator will run for a long time in disrepair, even if it is running, Xu Lang will not go to sit.
The confined space means that the chance of escape is reduced. In an iron box like an elevator, Xu Lang will not make the low-level mistake of being blocked by evil spirits.
Walking up the stairs, Xu Lang paid close attention to the environment around him. At present, the power of the evil spirits is unknown. Although it is an ordinary task, he cannot relax his vigilance. He must maintain martial law at all times and flee as soon as there is trouble.
Fortunately, nothing terrible happened on the way to the second floor, but Xu Lang frowned at this moment.
"It shouldn't be
The mission has already started for half an hour, and the safety period should have passed long ago. Until now, I haven't experienced any weird things. Even if I didn't trigger a dead end, the evil spirits should interfere with my actions.
Could it be that this evil spirit will kill with one blow when it appears? Or is it that it is chasing down the group of people before it, so it has no time to control itself? "
Xu Lang temporarily suppressed these oddities and began to search the rooms on the second floor, but in fact, the security doors in this corridor were all locked, and they couldn't be opened without a key, and the corridor was bare and there was no clue at all.
After another round of inspections on the second floor, Xu Lang had to climb the stairs to the third floor.
Just as he pushed open the iron door of the corridor, a bloody severed hand fell to the ground with a "bang", which was no less than a thunder in the quiet corridor.
Xu Lang's face turned pale, and he planted in the same place for less than a second, and rushed to the third floor stairs decisively.
The reason why he chose to go upstairs instead of returning the same way is because the severed hand was held on the handle on the inside of the iron door, which shows that the owner of the severed hand wanted to enter the second floor from the third floor stairwell, but encountered horror. , The wound was uneven, and there were several tendons attached, which was obviously torn off by brute force.
If he breaks his hand to survive and escapes from the stairwell, the evil spirit will definitely chase it out, that is, the evil spirit may be downstairs instead of upstairs.
Of course, Xu Lang didn't know when the owner of the severed hand passed by here. He just guessed that the evil spirits are more likely to be downstairs.
As for why the evil spirits didn't attack Xu Lang downstairs, he could only think of it as the safety period mechanism of the newspaper. After all, the mechanism of the newspaper should override the evil spirits.
These thoughts were just less than a second when Xu Lang was stunned. He ran up desperately, not daring to look back, but he realized that something was wrong as he ran.
Why is the stairwell on the third floor so long? He has been running for about ten seconds. It is reasonable to say that he should have finished running. But now, the stairs in front of him are endless. Xu Lang kept the current speed and sprinted for about ten seconds. The stairs still couldn't finish.
At this time Xu Lang finally felt the horror of the evil spirits. This was an incredible ability that far exceeded human imagination.
He stopped where he was, and his chest was constantly rising and falling, and the empty stairwell had only a "wheezing" panting.
Quiet, quiet is terrible.
Looking around the surroundings, the wolfeye flashlight didn't know when it dropped. The darkness around Xu Lang surrounded Xu Lang. He didn't know when, where a terrible evil spirit would suddenly appear, tearing him to pieces, and consuming them.
Xu Lang's uncontrollable fear flowed through his body, and he thought of the nightmare in Villa 13.
He knows what happened now, and it really is...
"Ghost hits the wall!" (End of this chapter)