The girl recounted the frightening incident that happened to them last week: "We had a car accident at the same location as the bus that the man who was killed by the marble chandelier just now was on. When I heard the rumor, I felt that it was dangerous, so I pulled my friends away. I was so happy at first, but who knew that two of my friends had died one after another."
"It can't be an accident." As if remembering the fear she had felt during this period, the girl said excitedly, "It was definitely a long-planned murder! We were beyond human control and were played around by the god of death. We thought we had escaped death, but who knew there was no way out. Do you know how my two friends died? One of them was bitten to death by a dog! Do you know how ridiculous this is? He didn't die in a car accident, but died at the hands of a mad dog. In just one week, two of the five people who escaped by accident are now dead, all of them died in 'accidents'."
Chen Yang said as he took out his cell phone from his pocket: "So you started investigating the car accident a month ago, and then found out about the man who was just killed by the marble chandelier, trying to find a way to save yourself?"
The girl nodded: "Yes. We need to find the order of death and then break the rules."
Chen Yang paused: "Break the rules?"
The girl said affirmatively: "That's right. In Final Destination, it is mentioned that death has an order. As long as we break the order and change the rules, we can survive."
Chen Yang: "If there really is a god of death, and he wants to kill you, why would he be trapped by the order of death?"
The girl choked up and stammered, "That's what it said in Death."
Ma Shanfeng shook his head and sighed, "This is reality, not a movie. If I really wanted to create an accident to take your lives, how could I be trapped by the so-called order of death? Besides, isn't the order of death determined by the 'God of Death' you mentioned? How can you ensure that you can break the rules and escape successfully?"
Hearing this, the girl and her two companions turned pale and looked desperate. She murmured to herself, "What should we do? We don't want to die." She looked up and saw Chen Yang and others who were calm and composed. She was curious, "Aren't you afraid of death? I just observed that he was almost killed several times. He must have been targeted."
Kou Xuanling, who was mentioned, raised his head and smiled confidently, "Don't be afraid, my lover and friends will save me." Lu Xiuzhi clenched his hand and whispered, "I will definitely save you."
Chen Yang opened the death calculator app and said to the girl and the other two people, "Tell me your birth dates and I'll calculate them."
The other two people looked skeptical. The girl holding the camera was skeptical but still told them her date of birth and said, "I don't know how to calculate my birth date."
Chen Yang shook his head: "It's okay, I can calculate it." Just tell me your date of birth. "Do you know the time of your birth?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, then responded, "I know." Then she said a time, probably around early morning.
Chen Yang calculated her birth date and entered it into the death calculator. Zhang Qiudao asked, "Are you trying to calculate their date of death?"
Chen Yang shook his head: "No. I just want to calculate their luck. Judging from their faces, they don't seem to be short-lived, so I want to know if it's their luck that has brought them into conflict with that evil spirit."
Kou Xuanling: "Which app can also tell fortunes?"
Chen Yang said without even looking up: "Yes. Go to the app settings and click on the mode change, and it will become a fortune-telling app." The death calculator is just a mode of the app, used to test the date of death, but human life is ever-changing, and maybe you can live a hundred years if you just grab a ray of hope. So the death calculator is only a measure of the great catastrophe that will come.
Zhang Qiu said, "Whatever it is?"
Chen Yang: "It calculates everything. It's pretty accurate."
As soon as he finished speaking, the others took out their phones and opened the app to switch modes. Zhang Qiudao was testing his marriage, Kou Xuanling was testing whether he could successfully upgrade to the Three Caves and Five Thunders Heavenly Master. Ma Shanfeng and his wife were testing whether they could achieve their dreams recently, but they quarreled over this.
Aunt Ma grabbed Ma Shanfeng's ear and asked, "Did you hide any private money?" Ma Shanfeng stiffened his neck and answered no, then asked her what her relationship was with the old man who danced square dance with her in the community, "If they had no relationship, why would you want to advance to the community party with him?"
While they were arguing, Wei Xuan took their phones and typed in what he wanted to ask, then said in surprise: "It's really accurate, almost the same as the hexagram I calculated myself."
Ji Jiang leaned over to see what Wei Xuan was calculating, and the hexagram showed good luck. She smiled and said, "Congratulations, young master." Then she asked if she could calculate it. Wei Xuan handed her the phone and asked her to calculate it. Ji Jiang had a lot of questions in her mind, and her thoughts turned around and around until she finally wanted to ask if Wei Xuan's aesthetic taste could be saved. As a result, the hexagram showed bad luck, and Ji Jiang was immediately pale.
Wei Xuan swung his legs, not noticing Ji Jiang's collapse. She tested whether the fact that she had asked a classmate to write her homework for her would be exposed and known to Chen Xiaoyang one day. The result was auspicious, so she was very happy.
Lu Xiuzhi said to Kou Xuanling, "Let me calculate it."
Kou Xuanling: "What do you want to be?"
Lu Xiuzhi stared at him and said, "When will you marry me?"
Kou Xuanling's cheeks were slightly hot: "It's useless to calculate these, anyway, I have the final say."
"So when do you think it will end?"
"Not now anyway."
The ears were full of "calculate, calculate", and several people present felt that they were about to forget the word. The girl and her two companions felt very embarrassed. They thought that Chen Yang and others were in the same situation as them, but they didn't know that he was a fake Taoist priest, and even his Amway was particularly fake.
Chen Yang looked up and knew that the three people in front of him regarded them as liars. He did not feel offended and said nonchalantly: "I encountered a calamity recently, but it was not a fatal calamity. I have avoided it. But there is still a small calamity now, and it should not be life-threatening. Do you know the birth dates of your two companions who died unexpectedly?"
The girl looked alert and smiled awkwardly: "I'm not sure, sorry to bother you. We also need to check out, so we'll leave first." Her other two companions had already turned around and left, complaining in a low voice as they walked.
Without even looking up, Chen Yang called out to the girl, "What's your name?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, then answered: "Zheng Xiaoyu."
Chen Yang told Wei Xuan her birth date and then asked Zheng Xiaoyu: "What are the names of your two deceased friends?"
Zheng Xiaoyu didn't react and answered directly. After blurting out what he had done, he realized what he had done. He felt a little uneasy at the moment. He hurriedly stood up and walked a few steps to leave when he heard a calm and gentle voice behind him.
"Wei Xuan, can you figure it out?"
"No problem." Wei Xuan closed her eyes, put her hands on her chest and made a strange gesture, muttering some strange, difficult and complicated words, even her accent was incomprehensible to others. After muttering for a while, she suddenly opened her eyes: "Chen Xiaoyang, I figured it out."
"how?"
"It's not my fate."
The doll leaned over to Chen Yang's ear and said with disdain and jealousy: "I can count, too." Chen Yang touched the doll soothingly, and the doll was coaxed into happiness. Zheng Xiaoyu looked over reflexively, and saw only an ugly and weird doll. The doll was completely different from the exquisite doll that Wei Xuan was holding in his arms, but it made her feel scared.
Zheng Xiaoyu stared at the doll, and suddenly saw the doll's strange black eyes move, which instantly made her feel creepy. But when she looked again, she found that it was just an illusion. She was dazed for a moment, and heard Chen Yang's voice: "Your friend was not destined to die, but died unexpectedly, which means that you are likely to be targeted by the spirit with independent consciousness."
“…What kind of evil spirit?” Zheng Xiaoyu heard this incomprehensible term as soon as he came back to his senses.
Chen Yang paused: "In your understanding, it means 'Death'."
Zheng Xiaoyu sat down again, and after a moment of silence, he said, "So you believe in the existence of the god of death, and it is hiding around us, staring at us, and ready to kill us by accident at any time."
Chen Yang did not deliberately explain the difference between the "God of Death" and the evil spirit. In any case, in Zheng Xiaoyu's opinion, the simple word "God of Death" would be easier for her to understand. He only said: "You are not destined to die."
Zheng Xiaoyu smiled bitterly: "But the sickle is already hanging at my throat."
"It's not that there is no other way." Chen Yang spread his hands and asked her for the camera: "Didn't you take a clear photo just now? Let me see it. Find the evil spirit and kill it, then you can survive."
Zheng Xiaoyu's eyes widened, as if she had heard something out of the ordinary: "You want to kill the 'God of Death'? How is that possible?"
Zhang Qiu said: "Learn more about the Taoist ghost and god system in China. There is no 'God of Death' in China, only ghosts and gods. The gods and demons are not 'God of Death' either. Just because you can't kill them doesn't mean others can't kill them."
Zheng Xiaoyu smiled awkwardly: "Let's look at the photos first." She quickly opened the camera and played back the photos. "In fact, I took photos of the previous deaths that seemed to be accidental. And I've been encountering accidents a lot recently. Sometimes I encounter two accidents in one trip. I felt strange, so I took photos."
Chen Yang took the camera and pressed the button to play back the previous photos and enlarge them. The others gathered around to look, but the parties involved, Kou Xuanling and Lu Xiuzhi, did not come around. Wei Xuan squeezed into Chen Yang's arms, and Da Pang jumped onto the back of the sofa and put his head close, almost drowning the baby.
Du Shuo pointed to the hanging board on the photo and said, "Enlarge this a little more."
Chen Yang enlarged the photo as he was told. The hanging board was originally where the marble chandelier was hung, and there were several expansion screws on it. Zheng Xiaoyu took a total of five photos, some of which were overexposed, and some of which had the aperture not adjusted correctly. Only one photo was the best, but after enlarging it, the hanging board was still empty.
Wei Xuan said curiously: "Nothing. Huh? It seems like a screw has fallen off."
As soon as he finished speaking, a metal expansion screw with a sharp tip rolled down in a corner of the hotel lobby that they didn't know about. Du Shuo: "The photo above was taken before the accident happened. Click to see the floor."
Chen Yang seemed to have thought of something and found the photo he had taken earlier. At that time, the man had not yet been crushed to death by the marble chandelier. He was holding a knife in his hand and looked angry. There was a puddle of water on the floor, and the man did not notice it and fell down. Zooming in on the puddle of water, the marble chandelier on the ceiling was reflected on the surface of the water and the smooth floor.
There was an indistinct black shadow lying on top of the marble chandelier. Wei Xuan asked, "Devil?"
Chen Yang: "It should be a demon." The demon pulled out the expansion screws on the marble chandelier, causing the 100-jin chandelier to crush and kill the man who intended to murder him. After killing him, it ran away.
Ding ding dong.
A sound so quiet that it was inaudible to human ears rang out on the floor of the hall. An expansion screw rolled and stopped at the foot of the soft chair. A child clapped his hands and laughed, kicked the expansion screw away, and laughed happily when he saw it rolling. The parents next to the child picked up the child and kissed him twice, and smiled softly: "Why are you so happy, little baby?"
The hotel had already cleaned up the lobby, the police were constantly coming in and out, and more and more people were checking out. People who had just booked a room were still unaware of the situation and were sitting in the reception area waiting.
At this moment, the hotel returned to its former tranquility, like a calm lake. An expansion screw rolled into the lake, without splashing water, but it still destroyed the tranquility of the moment, and then it was like knocking over a domino.
The businessman was talking on the phone and did not notice that an expansion screw suddenly appeared on the smooth ground beneath his feet. His leather shoes kicked the screw, and it continued to roll forward.
Zheng Xiaoyu's other two friends, Cheng Xi and Ding Sheng, walked towards the elevator. Cheng Xi said as they walked, "They pretended to be really good. They even told fortunes by just entering your date of birth. They're even less professional than the blind fortune tellers in the alley. At least they can pretend to be blind."
Ding Sheng looked worried: "Will we die?"
Cheng Xi: "Do you believe what Zheng Xiaoyu said? I tell you, this is just an accident. There are many coincidences in the world, and when these coincidences are connected together, people think they have found a pattern. In fact, what pattern is there? The probability of these coincidences is only 0.1 in a billion, so small that it can be ignored."
Ding Sheng: "What if we are in this 0.1 billionth probability?"
Cheng Xi rolled her eyes: "Why don't you say you won the lottery? The probability of that is at least higher than this." When she rolled her eyes, she didn't notice the cleaning car in front of her, and accidentally bumped into it, causing her face to frown in pain. She kicked out of anger, but ended up kicking the heel of her high heels in and couldn't pull it out. "Ding Sheng, come and help me."
Ding Sheng took out her high heels for her. Cheng Xi put them on and walked a few steps before spraining her heel. She looked down and found that the heel was broken. She was so angry that she simply took off her high heels and walked barefoot. She threw the broken heel into the trash can and complained as she walked to the elevator: "Sixth floor? What a hassle."
She didn't notice that the broken high heel fell out again after being thrown inaccurately, and stopped after rolling a few times. The expansion screw rolled in front of her and stopped 30 centimeters away from the elevator door. The cleaning lady came out of the toilet, put the towel in her hand on the cleaning cart, and pushed the cleaning cart towards the elevator. She didn't notice the round and thin high heel under her feet, and she slipped when she stepped on it, and fell towards the cleaning cart. The cleaning cart was pushed hard and pushed towards Cheng Xi who was about to enter the elevator.
Cheng Xi screamed, feeling even more disgusted by the dirt on her clothes, and pressed against the elevator. She was furious, not caring about the elevator door that was about to close behind her: "Do you have eyes? How do you see the road?"
She stepped back subconsciously, pushing the cleaning cart away, and stepped on a sharp screw with her bare feet, which stung her so much that she subconsciously kicked the cleaning cart. She accidentally pulled the unstable vacuum cleaner on top, and the handle of the vacuum cleaner hit her head, causing her to stumble back. The elevator, which was supposed to reopen after touching the person, closed mercilessly, holding Cheng Xi's upper body and gradually rising, lifting her off the ground.
Cheng Xi screamed in terror, and Ding Sheng hugged her lower body and shouted for help. Zheng Xiaoyu heard the scream and looked back, and immediately screamed: "Cheng Xi!!"
Chen Yang and the others' expressions changed, and they ran over the sofa very quickly. They opened the elevator and dragged Cheng Xi out. Cheng Xi was injured and was still in shock, but the elevator was still rising. When Chen Yang saw the elevator door sewn together, he saw a black shadow reflected in the elevator door.
The hotel manager rushed over upon hearing the noise and fainted. The marble chandelier safety accident had just happened, and now there was another elevator accident. He no longer wanted to face reality.
The author has something to say: Second update tonight.
I originally thought that elevator accidents were caused by clothes, ropes, hair, etc. being caught in the elevator, until I looked up elevator accidents and watched the videos. It was so scary, it was impossible to prevent. There were several videos where the elevator door hadn't even been closed when the foot was stepped on, and the elevator went up or fell down!!!
Then when the elevator is about to close, don't try to pry it open or clamp it with your hands. Sometimes it won't sense it and will just clamp it and drag it up or down.