Ye Chen looked at the empty elevator and the muscles on his face twitched.
From Uncle Zhang's disappearance, to the locked courtyard door, the opened dormitory door, to the disappearance of the two bodyguards...
During the whole process, there was no opponent, no verbal jokes, but he still felt deeply teased.
Seeing that Ji Xixia's hand was still on the elevator button, Ye Chen pulled Ji Xixia over and said, "Don't get close to me. Let's go up the stairs."
After that, Ye Chen pulled Ji Xia back slowly until the elevator door closed again and the surroundings fell into darkness again. Only then did Ye Chen breathe a sigh of relief and walked away from the elevator with Ji Xia.
The two bypassed the elevator and wandered around the dormitory building.
The dormitory building was dark and silent, and the light from the flashlight could only illuminate the road ahead.
Thick darkness enveloped the two of them, and the sound of footsteps "tapping" could be heard. Every sound weighed heavily and delicately on Ji Xia and Ye Chen's hearts.
Time passed little by little, and Ye Chen walked forward anxiously.
There was a dormitory building with a single-story area of over 100 square meters. Since they had already seen the elevator, the staircase should be nearby. However, they seemed to be going around in circles. More than ten minutes had passed, and they still hadn't found the stairs.
Just when Ye Chen was about to do something, suddenly, a door appeared in front of them.
The dark brown wooden door, with its black lock and handle, looked ordinary and there was nothing unusual about it.
"It should be... the door of one of the suites on the first floor..." Ye Chen said.
After searching for a long time, I didn't find the elevator. Instead, I saw a big door in front of me. Anyone would find it weird.
However, what was even more strange was that in the next moment, there was a slight "click" sound, and in front of Ji Xixia and Ye Chen, the door lock opened automatically and easily.
The door lock was opened, but the doorkeeper did not move, standing there quietly, as if waiting for Ji Xiaxia and Ye Chen to open the door and go in.
Ye Chen frowned and quickly pulled Ji Xixia back a step: "If there is something unusual, let's not go in."
Ye Tian lives only on the third floor of the entire building; the first and second floors are empty.
Even if the door is opened, there is no point in going in, and it is easy to fall into a trap.
Ye Chen said: "Let's go to the third floor as soon as possible."
Then, he protected Ji Xiaxia behind him and left again with Ji Xiaxia.
Although Ye Chen's experience in the supernatural is far less than Ji Xia's, in his heart, Ji Xia is a guest who is younger than him, so he has the obligation to protect Ji Xia.
Before Ji Xiaxia could react, Ye Chen immediately took Ji Xiaxia away in the opposite direction.
The surroundings seemed to be wrapped in thick black fog. The flashlight could not penetrate it and the visible range was only about half a meter.
Ye Chen and Ji Xia were running fast in a twisted dark space.
A few minutes passed in the blink of an eye. When another door appeared in front of them, blocking their way, with a "click", the door lock was opened, as if waiting for them to enter. Ye Chen's face changed slightly, and he became a little calm: "What on earth does it want to do? To tease us and trap us to death?"
The door stood quietly in front of me. Apart from the sound of the door lock being opened, there was no other movement around.
Ye Chen was somewhat impatient. He gritted his teeth and took a step back. After hesitating for a few seconds, he decided to take Ji Xia away first and continue looking for a way out.
At this time, Ji Xia, who had been silent, said: "Ye Chen, let's go in and take a look."
"Okay, there must be danger out there." Ye Chen refused immediately.
"We have been trapped here for nearly 20 minutes. Normally, even a house of 1,000 square meters would have been cleared, but until now, we haven't found the stairs." Ji Xiaxia said, "The passage upstairs should be hidden. Let's go in and take a look. We will be trapped forever."
Ye Chen obviously understood the situation. He glanced at Ji Xiaxia and said, "Then I'll go in. You wait for me outside."
Ji Xia naturally also felt Ye Chen's care.
He said, "I came here to help you, but I don't intend to drag you down. Let's go in together. If we encounter danger, don't worry about me. I can protect myself."
Ji Xia was already like this, and Ye Chen didn't say anything more.
There was no news from anyone and he was trapped for a long time. Ye Chen had lost his patience a long time ago.
The two reached a consensus, and Ye Chen did not delay any longer. He immediately gripped the baton in his hand and gently pushed open the door in front of him.
An orange light came on from inside the room.
The warm tones shone brightly, allowing Ji Xiaxia and Ye Chen to see the scene inside the room at a glance.
Ji Xia opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Each floor of the dormitory building was divided into two floors of suites. Normally, it would be built into a small apartment with two bedrooms and a living room, but what caught their eyes at this moment was actually a luxurious and retro... study
Huge mahogany bookshelves cover two walls, filled with various books and decorative ornaments in an orderly manner.
Below the central landscape painting, the desk is located in the middle of the room, with pens, inkstones, and a wooden photo frame that seems to contain a group photo.
The ancient style and charm are further highlighted by the green vegetation on the left and right sides of the desk, which looks lush and green, and sways without wind.
Ji Xia looked at the study room in confusion, not understanding its significance. Ye Chen, who was standing next to him, had a look of hidden surprise on his face.
Ye Chen murmured: "In the study, what would happen in here..."
"Do you know this study?" Seeing that there was no danger around, Ji Xia immediately asked.
Ye Chen nodded: "The layout is exactly the same as the study room in Ye Chen's old house."
"The study room in the old house of Ye Xu?" Ji Xia asked.
Seeing that there was no danger around, they went to the desk together.
Ji Xia's attention was immediately attracted by the group photo on the table.
It is a large group photo of two families. There are six people in the photo, two middle-aged couples standing in the back and three children standing in the front.
They seemed to be at some masked banquet, dressed both formally and weirdly.
Ye Chen stood beside Ji Xiaoxia and saw that Ji Xiaoxia's eyes fell on the photo. He introduced: "This is an old photo from many years ago. I was still in elementary school at that time, and Ye Tian had just been born..."
Ye Chen pointed at the little boy holding the child in the photo: "That's me and Ye Tian, the two people standing behind me are my parents."
Ji Xia nodded, Ye Chen and Ye Tian looked very similar to their parents, and just by looking at the photo, one could tell at a glance that the four of them were the same person.
His gaze consciously moved away from Ye Xiaoren and stopped on the three strangers.
"You two are Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding. This child is their only son and also my good friend Ding Jialin." Ye Chen said.
It turned out that the couple were the Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding mentioned by Ye Tian before.
Ji Xia looked at the three people in the photo and inexplicably felt strange in his heart.
When taking the photo, the Ding couple did not look at the camera, and both of them only showed half of their faces. As for their only son Ding Jialin, although he was facing the camera, the mask in his hand happened to cover most of his face, leaving only one eye and a mouth.
Ji Xiaoxia knew all three of them, and had never met them before, but for some reason, when looking at their photos, she had a very familiar feeling.
"Are you attending a masquerade ball?" Ji Xia asked.
"More or less." Ye Chen looked at the study and said casually, "That day was Ding Jialin's birthday. He likes clowns and magicians. We wanted to give him a surprise, so we played around a bit."
Ye Chen was thinking, and suddenly he came to the green plants beside the desk: "I remember it."
Ji Xia was still staring at the photo, trying to find the strange feeling in her heart. When she heard Ye Chen's words, she suppressed her curiosity and turned to look at him.
Ye Chen stared at the green vegetation and frowned, "What is restored is the study room of Ye Chen's old house, but it is the current study room."
"When was that?" Ji Xia asked.
"It's from more than a decade ago, probably much older than the photo." Ye Chen looked at the green vegetation in front of him and said, "The decoration of the study has basically not changed for many years, only the plants have changed a little... These two plants were given by Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding. My father raised them for a while, but they died because he watered them too much, and he never planted them again..."
When Ji Xixia heard this, his attention was immediately diverted to Ye Chen.
Someone restored the study room of Ye Xu’s old house in the dormitory building, and it was a study room from more than ten years ago
What is the meaning and purpose of doing this
Ji Xiaxia and Ye Chen were full of questions, but after walking around the study several times, they could not find any more clues.
After confirming that there was nothing unusual, the two had to leave for the time being.
Returning to the darkness once again, Ji Xia and Ye Chen walked forward in silence until they came to another door again.
After what happened just now, the two of them were a little confused for a while. Seeing that the door was already opened, they opened it again and went in.
The white light shone brightly, and after a while, what came into view was no longer a study, but a spacious kitchen.
In the kitchen, there were a lot of kitchen utensils and bowls and chopsticks. Ji Xiaxia noticed that Ye Tian obviously had obsessive-compulsive disorder. The bowls and chopsticks were divided by color, black, blue, a total of four colors, neatly placed. They should be the bowls and chopsticks for the four people, but the pink ones seemed to be particularly abundant, almost enough for the two Ye Tians to use.
Ji Xia immediately looked at Ye Chen.
Ye Chen's voice was a little difficult: "That's right... The kitchen in Ye's old house many years ago, these tablewares are what I used when I was in elementary school, and I have never used the same ones since then."
The kitchen was the same as the study, except that it was built exactly like Ye Xi's old house, with no other abnormalities.
But neither Ji Xiaxia nor Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
This strange situation was not much better than directly encountering a ghost, and with full of questions, Ji Xiaxia and Ye Chen withdrew again.
Then they opened several doors in succession. Without exception, all of them were replicas of the scenes in Ye Xu's old house many years ago, from the study and kitchen to the cloakroom, toy room, etc., all were presented one by one.
Half an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and Ji Xia and Ye Chen came to a door again.
With another "click", the door lock automatically opened in front of Ji Xixia and Ye Chen.
Ye Chen looked at several rooms in Ye Xin's old house in succession. His face was a little numb at this moment. He stretched out his hand and was about to push open the door when he heard Ji Xia suddenly say, "Wait!"
Ye Chen looked towards Ji Xia reflexively.
Ji Xia stared at the door in front of him, his heartbeat quickening subconsciously. Due to nervousness, a thin layer of sweat even appeared on his cold palms.
His mysterious sixth sense was always very accurate. Ji Xia didn't dare to be careless and whispered, "Ye Chen, which door have we opened?"
"Which one?" Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and counted in his mind, "The sixth one."
"Is there anything else in your Ye's old house that has not been presented?" Ji Xia asked again.
Ye Chen thought for a moment and said, "The living room, but the living room of the old house is very large, so it should be difficult to copy it. What's wrong?"
Ji Xiaoxia is also trying to figure out when her sixth sense will appear.
He deduced backwards and said slowly: "Although there is no concept of space after entering, according to the original building structure, there are three floors in a dormitory building, with two suites on each floor, so there are six doors in total."
Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Ji Xiaxia meant.
If we ignore the space, then the sixth door should be the door to Ye Tian’s room.
Thinking of this, Ye Chen became more serious. He withdrew his hand that was originally about to open the door and replaced it with a baton.
However, at this moment, someone heard a "creak", and the door stopped without anyone moving, and was pushed open automatically.