"Sure enough, I'm back again."
Lu Yanli still remembers the strange corridor he and Lin Chu stepped into after entering the second floor of the wax museum. When they walked through the corridor and stepped from darkness into light, they went to another world.
Now, the statue has been destroyed, and they have immediately returned from another world, which has directly proved that the statue is the source that allowed them to go to another world.
The dim light shone in from the window, and the hideous wax figures were melting, the wax was flowing, and these inhuman dead things seemed to be crying. The temperature in the museum continued to rise, and the unknown murderous monster had disappeared. Only drops of wax fell, and some wax figures were finally melted by the high temperature, fell down, and their limbs were broken and piled up into a mountain.
The air gradually became scorching hot, and he felt like he was about to melt. Sweat continued to seep out, and soon, he was soaked. But he did not leave, but looked around, looking for Lin Chu.
The other person has what he needs.
Not far away, Lin Chu suddenly appeared at the spot. There were still traces of animal-like mutations on her body, and her ears stood up. She was stunned for a moment, then immediately came to her senses.
"Let's go." Lu Yanli was not far away from her. Seeing that she had come back to her senses, he called her to leave together.
Lin Chu looked left and right: "Have you seen Yu Huaiyao?"
"No."
There were no living people in the entire wax museum. The dead and the wax figures with broken limbs and melting were piled together, and it was hard to tell whether they were real or fake. Due to the high temperature, the ceiling made a creaking sound as it broke under the heavy load, and building debris fell down with a crackling sound.
Lin Chu thought again, she took Yu Huaiyao away from another world, so now... he should have returned to another world
Dodging the suddenly falling beams, the two men ran towards the gate. This time, the gate was open and there was no other external force blocking them. When they rushed out of the door, they found that the two evil spirits that were originally walking on both sides of the street had disappeared.
"Zhuang Ci, Lin Chu's whereabouts have been detected."
"What? Where is it?" Zhuang Ci was shocked and immediately went over to look.
On the computer screen, Lin Chu and Lu Yanli, who had long been reported dead by the police, walked out of the door of a store together. After they left, the unknown store gradually disappeared.
"Quick! Let's set off now and meet up with her as soon as possible." Zhuang Ci immediately gave the order, "Everyone must be careful. Be sure to check if there are any statues along the way. If there are any, note their locations and move away immediately."
Lin Chu didn't know that another group of people had entered and were planning to look for him. After they left, even though the evil spirits were not guarding the place, he decided to leave immediately. When he looked back at the street corner, the wax museum had disappeared.
This street had completely become a no-man's land, with blood gushing out of all the houses, and the strong smell of blood mixed with the stench of decayed corpses. Looking up, they could see figures standing in some windows that were clearly not human anymore, staring at them through the curtains.
"Don't you find it strange? This town is completely isolated from the outside world. After entering the tunnel, it is difficult to contact the outside world." Lin Chu said as he ran, "I suspect this is also the different dimension created by that thing."
"But the source has not been found yet." Lu Yanli added.
If they found the statue, they could immediately escape from it after destroying it. Now, even though he knew that this was a different dimension, he couldn't leave.
"Do you have any more of those green fungus spores?" Lu Yanli asked Lin Chu for them. Because the chances of him being targeted were very high, he really needed this item.
Lin Chu took out a small bottle from his pocket and handed it over: "There are only the last two bottles left, and they need to be cultivated again."
They all knew how to cultivate them. Although Lin Chu was not a good person, he still mentioned: "Animals can also be used."
"I understand." Lu Yanli took the glass bottle and put it away carefully.
Xu Xihe sent a message, but never received a response. He used that thing to temporarily escape the evil spirit, but he found that he was being eroded by another kind of weirdness.
When he saw the small statue, he would involuntarily want to kneel down, his thinking would be intermittent and unclear, and he would easily have some extreme thoughts.
That's the horror of it.
It attracts evil spirits and ghosts, making people around it fall into fear, and then appears as a savior. Once people believe in it, they can no longer escape its control.
Xu Xihe sent a message to Zhuang Ci and others again, but still received no response.
Maybe they were trapped somewhere
Xu Xihe didn't think about the bad things. It had been a long time since then, and it wouldn't be easy for them to get into trouble.
Now…
Xu Xihe took down the statue, put it in his backpack and prepared to take it out.
This building is no longer habitable, he has to move to another location.
He walked down one floor at a time. The stairs looked increasingly dilapidated. He heard the sound of something jumping from above. Xu Xihe did not look back but just kept running out.
The temperature in the backpack was getting colder and colder, almost like carrying a piece of ice, but Xu Xihe felt more at ease and strode down the last flight of stairs.
The moment he escaped, he was stunned in shock.
Paper figure.
There are paper figures everywhere.
Paper figures with crudely painted features but vividly depicting hideous and painful expressions were flying in the air, their long, fluttering arms extended, their bright red mouths opening and closing, singing strange songs. After Xu Xihe escaped from the building, many paper figures floated to his side and circled around him.
To be precise, they were circling around his backpack.
Xu Xihe quickly turned his backpack around and put it in front of him, and fled quickly. He had just taken a step when there was a loud noise behind him. Looking back, he saw a bloody corpse exploded into a ball of soft meat on the ground, even the bones were broken, and two eyeballs rolled forward and were run over by the car.
The driver was also a paper man. He gave Xu Xihe an uncomfortable smile through the glass window. His mouth opened and closed. Could Xu Xihe recognize what it was about to say
"Go to hell..."
The paper man repeated three silent words over and over again, then his neck went limp and his entire body drooped.
Xu Xihe had never seen such a strange situation before, as if the whole world was haunted overnight. He held the bag tightly and ran forward. As soon as he stepped onto the zebra crossing, a truck rushed from the intersection.
He was hit, but...
The truck that hit him suddenly became very small, almost like a toy car.
It was not an illusion, it really suddenly turned into a toy car.
There was also a doll wearing a princess dress in the car. The doll with a delicate and beautiful face tilted its head to look at him, stood up, and stretched out its hand to him. There was a flyer in its hand.
"Come to the Psychic Town, do you want to see me?" The doll said in a clear voice, and its eyes made of black glass beads looked at him without blinking. If it hadn't spoken, it would have looked really cute.
"What?" Xu Xihe was very alert and did not take it rashly. He was about to escape, but found himself standing in the middle of the intersection. The front, back, left and right were densely packed with toy cars of the same style, and all the cars were carrying a doll of the same style, with pairs of simulated eyes made of black glass beads staring at him.
"Let's go and see him."
"Go and see him, go and see him!"
"Psychic Town, let's go and see!"
More and more dolls' arms were waving flyers, making a rustling sound like paper being blown.
Seeing that Xu Xihe still didn't move, the dolls burst into tears and begged in their tender voices. Their bright red tears flowed down their faces and soon soaked the ground.
Xu Xihe didn't want to agree, but he had no choice. The blood on the ground suddenly rose to his calves, and a dense crowd of toy cars and dolls floated on the blood. The dolls were still crying, and the crying gradually became shrill, like the hysterical howl of a little girl.
"I'm going to see what's going on!" Xu Xihe couldn't escape and could only compromise.
The moment he reached out to take the flyer, his eyes flashed. When he opened his eyes again, the dolls, toy cars, blood, corpses... all disappeared without a trace. Pedestrians walked normally on the street, and cars drove by, leaving behind a series of horns. He was the only one standing at the intersection, holding the flyer, with a look of disbelief on his face.
If it weren't for the flyer in his hand, he would almost think it was an illusion.
But it was no illusion.
Xu Xihe lowered his head and looked at it carefully.
The flyer was not big, and the whole piece of paper had a very uncomfortable dark red background. The shadow of a small town appeared on the surface, and underneath it was a row of large characters that looked like blood: Welcome to the Psychic Town!
After turning it over, there is another more uncomfortable ghost picture. In the middle is a clown's smiling face, with arms open to customers. Below it is written "Come and enjoy the murder culture festival!"
What kind of murder culture festival is this
Before Xu Xihe could react, a car stopped beside him. He looked up and saw a few lines of large white paint on the black body of the car - Psychic Town Sightseeing Bus. The curtains were all drawn, so he couldn't see inside.
Other pedestrians walked by staring at the strange vehicle as if they didn't notice it suddenly appearing.
This is a must-go.
Xu Xihe calmed himself down and hugged the backpack in front of him tightly. He came to the front door, but before he could say anything, the car door opened automatically.
The man in the driver's seat had his head split open like a watermelon, with red and white liquid flowing all over his body. His two eyes, which were too far apart, stared at Xu Xihe, as if silently urging him.
Xu Xihe had no choice but to step into the car door. There was no one in the car except him. Xu Xihe hugged his backpack tightly, his eyes alert.
After a long time, a girl who was about three people tall appeared at the street corner. She had no facial features and wore a long skirt of unclear original color. She lowered her head and saw a man who was only above her knees. After listening to what he said, she nodded very slowly, took slow steps, and walked in one direction.
That direction was exactly where the bus left.
Wherever she passed, pedestrians' footsteps suddenly stopped and the space opened up inch by inch.
Her hair had gradually become wet, with strands sticking to her back, which made the man who took her away even more anxious.
Once her hair was all wet, she would be out of control, too. By then, it would be really hard for them to turn back.
There was no point in being anxious, he couldn't urge her. If he did, the girl would speed up and lose control just to "go faster".
The man looked around, trying to find a car to take her away. The faceless girl was too tall to fit into a normal car, so he waited for a while and saw a truck passing by, waiting for the traffic light. He went up and called the driver to get off the car, knocked him unconscious, and then led the girl into the car with difficulty and asked her to sit down.
A blood-red figure suddenly appeared on the roof of a tall building on the street.
It was a man whose clothes were soaked in thick blood plasma. He stared at the vehicle below, motionless. After a long, long time, he leaped down and landed lightly on the ground.
The hostility of the town residents towards outsiders has reached its peak. Once they see a suspected outsider, they will even attack him. Especially Lu Yanli, he has been confirmed dead by the police. If he appears again, it will definitely cause a sensation. He decided to disguise himself before taking action, while Lin Chu planned to find Yu Huaiyao in this world to find out what happened.
As for her cell phone, it had been lost long ago, and she only found the time after knocking a random passerby unconscious and then looking through her phone.
You may not know, but they have been in the wax museum for nearly half a month, and the cultural festival is about to begin.
But now, the troupe is gone. They are the only two people who can sing. Lu Yanli still has the marks on his neck, and his speech is hoarse, not to mention singing. So, everything still falls on Lin Chu.
"These two songs are used to summon it. If I sing them rashly, I don't know what the result will be." Lin Chu said, "Anyway, I don't believe it can really bring people back to life."
"Maybe, bringing people from the past or the future to this world counts as well?" At this point, Lu Yanli thought of the two evil spirits who forced them into the wax museum.
One of them once parasitized in his eyes, and the other should be himself who came back from the future on May 1st but was killed by a ghost.
After they meet, no one knows what will happen.
Perhaps, both sides will suffer losses
So, there is still one of my future selves left in the town, and I don’t know where he went.
They finally decided to go their separate ways, Lu Yanli went to find his future self, while Lin Chu planned to find Yu Huaiyao. What she didn't expect was that she would reunite with her companions not long after.
"When did you come in? What happened?" Lin Chu asked.
Zhuang Ci and the others immediately told their own experiences. The others were fine, but Zhuang Ci’s… Lin Chu frowned. Obviously, the development of things was somewhat beyond her expectations.
“According to you, Chu Xian had died a long time ago, but you still met her and read the novel she wrote…” Lin Chu always felt that the story he heard from Zhuang Ci sounded a little familiar.
This kind of thing that was written down became true... Wasn't it the same when she made up a story to deceive Chu Xiu
If Lu Yanli was present, he would definitely be more shocked than Lin Chu, because most of the novels written by Chu Xian were related to his experiences.
Unfortunately, he was not there, but came to another street in the town, intending to use the attraction between the replica of the Pisces jade pendant and the original to attract his future self.
Along the way, many residents wanted to attack him, but none of them succeeded. Instead, the news spread farther and farther, and many people knew that the criminal who had committed the bombing was back!
At once, more local residents rushed to the street where Lu Yanli was. In the sunlight, he still had a shadow, but his pale skin and sickly face made him look nothing like a living person.
Lu Yanli looked around at the people around him who were ready to make a move, but didn't find the one he was looking for. He felt a little disappointed, picked up an axe he had snatched from the hardware store, and strode away. After running for a distance, he disappeared from everyone's sight, and the others couldn't catch up with him.
At this moment, the future self he was looking for was in a house in the town. The future self was holding an axe with blood on the blade, and in front of him, Yu Huaiyao lay on the ground with his eyes wide open, dying with his eyes open.
Lu Yanli, who came from the future, reached out and closed the other person's eyes, then left immediately.
Yu Huaiyao has a camera memory and has seen things he shouldn't have seen. Lin Chu has already reunited with Zhuang Ci, and when they wake Yu Huaiyao up, his situation will be very difficult.
After half a month of rest, the scars on his face have completely healed. If he were to stand next to his past self again, it would be difficult to tell them apart, right
Lu Yanli, who came from the future, found a place to wipe off most of the fingerprints and blood, threw away the axe, swaggered out of the building, and hid in other residential buildings.
Now, we just have to wait for that group of people to settle accounts with their past selves.
As he expected, after Lin Chu and Zhuang Ci and others met up, they realized that they could wake up Yu Huaiyao first, so they immediately looked for surveillance. However, when they arrived at the building, they found that Yu Huaiyao was already dead.
"It was an axe. It was a fatal blow. The murderer was very skilled." An investigator concluded after carefully examining the wound.
This conclusion gave Lin Chu a bad guess, and his eyelids twitched.
"Is there any surveillance? Let's look for it." said Zhuang Ci.
After searching, they found scattered cameras installed in several corners of the building. Most of them were broken, but only one camera in the corner was still working. They saw a familiar figure leaving from the surveillance video, and after zooming in, they could see some blood on his body. After searching for a while, they found the discarded axe.
"Lu Yanli?"
Lin Chu didn't show it on his face, but he was shocked inside.
Is it really Lu Yanli? Why did he kill Yu Huaiyao
"Test the bloodstains and fingerprints again, and try to find the real culprit." It usually wouldn't be done by a local resident. They are now so crazy that they hold a celebration ceremony in public after killing someone. If they were really residents, they wouldn't be so low-key.
Lin Chu knew that Zhuang Ci and others still took the risk to go to the police station, got the equipment, and after several hours of comparison, they finally came to a conclusion.
The fingerprints were indeed Lu Yanli's, and the bloodstains on the axe were indeed Yu Huaiyao's.
But which Lu Yanli is it
Lin Chu didn't quite believe that Lu Yanli would do such a thing. He was indeed cruel, but he was not the type to kill people wantonly without reason.
etc!
Lin Chu’s eyelids twitched.
She once revealed to the other party that Yu Huaiyao possessed photographic memory. Even if his memory was now blurred and tampered with, as long as he was awakened, he would immediately remember all the scenes he had seen.
When Lin Chu thought of this, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
Suppose, suppose it was really Lu Yanli, whether it was him now or in the future, then, what was his reason for killing
What on earth did Yu Huaiyao see that he shouldn't have seen
This question is not known for the time being. Lin Chu suppressed the angry team members. When she returned, the right to speak in the group was immediately handed over to her.
"Don't jump to conclusions yet. When you meet Lu Yanli, don't be anxious and ask clearly."
She looked at Yu Huaiyao lying on the ground again, and suddenly discovered something, so she reached out and lifted him up.
Under him was a book soaked in blood.
Lin Chu flipped through the blood stains and found that it was a picture book with the library logo on it.
This book…
Lin Chu's eyelids jumped. Wasn't this book Lu Yanli's? He took it out from the library when he was using the pseudonym Jiang Bai. It was first taken away by Jiang Yu, and then taken back by him. He has been carrying it with him ever since.
Why is this book here
Could it really be him
If she had been more careful, or had checked the library logo carefully, she might have discovered that the library logo was also painted, not printed. But now that the book was soaked in blood, she would not have bothered to check carefully.
Once the book was completely dried, it would be impossible to find the difference even if we checked it. After all, the library had been completely destroyed, and no difference could be detected with the naked eye.
Lu Yanli from the future was in the building opposite them. He occasionally glanced across but did not show up, for fear of attracting their attention.
That was his plan.
He had been lying from the beginning, and even when facing his future and past selves in this world, he had never told the truth.
He knew very early that when the world was in chaos, multiple identical people could exist in the same space and time.
But when the chaos disappeared, only one of them could survive.