After finishing this statement, which was almost a challenge, Li Yuebai watched Gao Chengyu's phantom gradually disappear before his eyes, turning into sand particles and floating in the air.
The first floor regained its silence.
Without hesitation, Li Yuebai walked directly to the steps, stepped on them, and walked up step by step.
At the end of the steps, there is an open door, and the inside of the door is dark, and nothing can be seen clearly.
In the darkness, there was a strange cry.
cry
Li Yuebai frowned, puzzled in his heart, unknowingly quickened his pace, walked through the thick black fog at the door, and walked into the second floor.
The second floor looked the same as the first floor, it was empty everywhere, and there was a crow sitting on the window hole, maybe it was the same one just now.
The biggest difference is that there is an extra girl in the corner.
The girl looked only five or six years old, with her back to him, facing the corner of the wall, wearing a delicate and lovely dress, with her hands raised to cover her face, crying tremblingly, her cries echoed There is no difference between the other little girls that Li Yuebai usually sees—other children cry because they did not buy the beautiful clothes, did not eat the cake they wanted, and did not go to the amusement park they wanted to go to, but when they cried, they would cry. Coaxed or reprimanded by their parents, no one would come to this weird tower alone in the middle of the night, crying against the corner alone.
Li Yuebai approached a little bit, and after seeing the girl's figure and clothes clearly, he felt that his heartbeat had stopped.
This is the girl caught on camera.
After Ye Qing turned into a vampire, he drove away from the underground garage of the community. The last scene captured by the camera was him grabbing the girl who had a lot of blood splattered on her body, and left behind the girl who was covered in blood. teddy bear...
This scene, Li Yuebai will never forget it for the rest of his life.
According to the follow-up investigation by the Municipal Bureau, this girl was Xiao Wan—Xiao Wan who was hijacked by a female vampire in the same underground garage, and her mother even called her.
For a moment, Li Yuebai couldn't figure out why Xiaowan appeared here.
Xiaowan heard the footsteps behind her, and slowly stopped crying, and turned around.
The moment she turned her head, Li Yuebai wanted to avoid seeing her, but he held back.
Fortunately, nothing strange happened, the girl's face was cute and normal - big eyes, long eyelashes, cheeks and nose were flushed from crying, messy tear stains made the whole face wet.
"Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow …”
"Xiao Wan?" Li Yuebai hurried forward, knelt down, and wanted to wipe her tears, but realized that his hands were too dirty and covered with dust, and he didn't have any handkerchiefs or tissues on him, so he couldn't do anything at all. .
"I'm so scared..." Xiao Wan cried so hard that she almost lost her breath.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Li Yuebai comforted him with a gentle voice.
He didn't have anything on him that could really comfort the girl. Except for the gun, he only had a bottle of drinking water. In desperation, he could only take out the water and pour a bottle cap, trying to help the girl clean the dirty With small hands and a small face, he dared not really do it.
He was afraid that the water would directly penetrate the girl's body and fall to the ground, and then the girl would disappear into the air and cease to exist.
Li Yuebai suppressed the messy thoughts in his mind, quietly took out the parchment and took a look - nothing was shown on it.
Li Yuebai simply wrote the question directly on the parchment—what is she? Is it a phantom
Parchment didn't answer.
Not long after, new footsteps sounded.
Li Yuebai stood in front of the girl, turned around, and once again saw the most familiar person—Ye Qing.
It was still the fake Ye Qing on the first floor, he was walking towards the girl step by step.
Seeing Ye Qing, the girl burst into tears and laughed, "Brother Policeman!"
Indeed, from the very beginning, Xiaowan liked Ye Qing more than Li Yuebai, because the person who sent her home was Ye Qing, and Li Yuebai had splashed too much blood and was too aggressive , and not close to her.
"Don't come here." Li Yuebai collected himself and looked at the false Ye Qing warily.
"Why not?" The fake Ye Qing didn't care about his protest at all, and still approached step by step: "When I became a vampire, you didn't kill me, so shouldn't this be the result you were waiting for?"
Li Yuebai took a deep breath, and hugged Xiao Wan's shoulders. Her body was warm and soft, as if a slight pinch could kill her. It was this feeling that made him want to try his best to protect her. .
But the touch on the hand quickly disappeared, Xiaowan's body instantly disintegrated into a phantom, and then quickly condensed into a solid body, using this method to avoid his control, and walked towards Ye Qing unconsciously.
"Vampires have mind control ability, but villa doesn't." Ye Qing smiled: "So she will only listen to me."
"You..." Li Yuebai got up and rushed forward, trying to separate the two, but found that his hands could not touch their bodies at all.
"Brother Policeman." Xiao Wan raised her head hopefully and tugged at the corner of Ye Qing's clothes: "You can save me, can't you?"
Ye Qing bent down and touched her head, a smile that didn't look like Ye Qing at all: "Yes."
In the next second, he hugged the girl, then moved closer to her neck, and bit her.
The girl's body trembled violently, and began to struggle in his hands, her slender arms were waving desperately to push him away, but she couldn't do it at all, she let out shrill cries and screams, but it was useless. Soon, her struggling movements became smaller and smaller, and her voice became weaker and weaker. The originally rosy complexion soon turned pale, and her soft body gradually became stiff.
I don't know how long it took before Ye Qing left the girl's cold body and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
The girl was thrown into the corner of the wall in a strange posture, her eyes were wide open, her face was full of panic and fear, her skin was gray and pale, very terrifying.
During the whole process, no matter what Li Yuebai did, he couldn't stop Ye Qing's actions. It's like not being in the same time and space.
On the parchment, the writing of the answer finally gradually appeared: she is not a phantom, she is a dead soul left in the world, repeating the process of her death over and over again.
Li Yuebai realized that he did not know when he had already pulled out the pistol in his arms, aiming the gun at Ye Qing.
"Shoot, you should have shot a long time ago." Ye Qing looked at him coldly: "If you shoot on the first floor, then what happened on the second floor will not happen."
That's right, if she hadn't let Ye Qing go in the museum, Xiao Wan wouldn't have died...
Li Yuebai felt his hands trembling.
Finally, he put down the gun: "It's not your fault."
"If it's not my fault, whose fault is it?" Ye Qing narrowed his eyes: "Your?"
"..."
"Do you know how many people's blood I sucked after Xiaowan?" Ye Qing didn't intend to let him go, pressing him step by step, pointing in the upward direction: "The next six floors are all like this The content is more cruel and unbearable every time... So... why don't you kill me?"
"No." Li Yuebai gritted his teeth and put the gun back into his arms.
As long as he shoots and kills Ye Qing, what he insisted on in his heart will be gone, and he will fall into the control of the vampire.
Phantoms are just phantoms, and what really tortures me is not the phantoms, but the facts that have already happened.
"If you insist, please keep going up." Ye Qing bowed and disappeared.
The stairs leading to the third floor opened.
Every next level is hell on earth.
Li Yuebai has seen many human imaginations of hell in books and documentaries - mountains of corpses and seas of blood, pans of oil, guillotines... Yan Mo imps, flames, tongues pulled out... everything is repeated here.
On each floor, Ye Qing used some kind of cruel method to kill a person or a group of people, then sucked their blood dry, and then challenged Li Yuebai: Why didn't you dare to kill me
It's not his fault, it's not his fault... Li Yuebai repeated it in his heart over and over again, until he couldn't understand what this sentence meant.
until the seventh floor.
"Is he so important in your heart?" False Ye Qing stood in the thick blood all over the floor, with a mocking smile, playing with a bleeding head: "Is it because of him that you are now?" , Abandon all the principles in your heart?"
may be
It is the law of this universe that people cannot be resurrected after death, ashes return to ashes, and dust returns to dust.
But I can use the existence of the dormant vampire body to change his life against the sky and bring him back to life.
So, he became such a vampire, who had to turn into a demon in order to survive.
Even so, I can only stand in the distance, do nothing, not stop him, and not reveal any news about him.
Gu Xisha has always been a person with a clear distinction between good and evil, and advocates eliminating evil and doing everything.
Li Yuebai himself, of course, has always hoped that innocent people can be protected.
But is the current practice really running counter to this principle
Maybe, but there's no other way to go.
Now it is the seventh floor, as long as you persist, you will win.
"I won't kill Ye Qing." Li Yuebai stood in the blood all over the floor, staring at the fake Ye Qing opposite: "Don't waste your time, get out of the way."
"You won." The fake Ye Qing clapped his hands and made a helpless gesture: "You have passed the test, please continue to move forward."
For the seventh time he disappeared into thin air.
This is the seventh floor.
Li Yuebai looked around, but only saw an upward staircase.
The seventh floor is already the top floor, why can it go up? Could it be that the exit is at the top of the tower
In any case, the torment of phantoms and undead is over.
Li Yuebai wanted to leave, but his legs were as heavy as lead.
His back was already soaked in sweat, and he felt very uncomfortable, all his strength was exhausted in the psychological struggle.
Even though he clearly knew that the scenes he saw were phantoms, but as long as he thinks that Ye Qing might have actually done these things, but he just didn't see them... he will be overwhelmed by a heavy sense of guilt.
There is no way to atone for so many sins.
If he had to watch those phantasms again, maybe he would actually break down and have a schizophrenia and depression and do all these crazy things...
Fortunately, it's over.
Li Yuebai tried his best to gather his mind and stepped up the stairs.
At the end of the stairs, there is still a doorway hidden in the darkness.
Go out through this doorway, maybe you can see the night sky, maybe you can see the stars when you look up, maybe you will find yourself standing on the top of the tower, overlooking the city in chaos—maybe not, the Seven Star Building has only seven floors, compared to the city It is too short, even though it is located on the hillside, it cannot overlook the city.
The moment he passed through the doorway, Li Yuebai closed his eyes.
He imagined it thousands of times, what he would see when he opened his eyes—maybe it was Gao Chengyu and his flailing men, maybe there was nothing, maybe...
But he didn't expect everything in front of him.
In front of me was an empty tower room, without any decoration or furniture, just a large empty room with a winding staircase leading to the upper floor, the walls were black masonry, and a window was opened on the wall. There is no glass, just an empty window hole. A crow is parked on the window sill, making a shrill quacking sound, and a piece of parchment is pressed under the crow's claws.
Li Yuebai stepped forward, picked up the parchment, and there was a line of words on it—Welcome to the first floor.