Lu Yanli stayed in that hotel.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know why.
As he browsed the news he searched for, several familiar faces appeared on the computer screen.
Why... does he feel familiar
It wasn't that he had seen it before, but that this scene seemed familiar, as if he had sat in a hotel and browsed the same news before.
The vigilance he developed from living in a strange world for a long time made him subconsciously realize that something was wrong.
What's wrong
He glanced at the time displayed on the computer desktop and subconsciously began to recall.
Lu Yanli didn't have the habit of keeping a diary. He relied on his brain to recall everything, because in this world, it was too easy for ghosts to tamper with audio and video materials or paper materials. Blindly believing in what he had recorded would only blind him. As for memory... although ghosts also had the ability to tamper with memory, if one day he couldn't even remember the past, he might as well just get lost.
What did he do today
He left the hotel to send off a lost kitten, and when he arrived at the hotel, he saw the strange reflection of the front desk clerk on the glass door...
No, that's not right, this is not like him.
If it was before the world changed, he might have done something like this. But now, why would he send a kitten home for no reason
What about yesterday? What happened yesterday
Yesterday, he… He sent a cat home, and when he returned to the hotel, he was forced by four people to play a ghost game, in which the woman summoned a ghost…
Lu Yanli took a few deep breaths.
So why didn't he remember it? No, that's not right. No one erased his memory. He just subconsciously rationalized the weirdness of the incident. Otherwise, according to his level of caution, he would never have lived here again if he knew there was a ghost in the bathroom mirror.
After all, this is not like the world he lives in. When these outsiders come in, even if he does nothing, he may be dragged into the most terrifying and bizarre events.
So is he the only one participating in the game, or are there other people participating in the game
What secrets does the black cat hold
Lu Yanli glanced at the clock.
In a few hours, it will be midnight.
If the memory is correct, will that group of people come to see him tonight
"The game tomorrow night will also be very strange. It will be held in the elevator." Ye Shengke said.
They were on their way back to the city, the car was driving very fast, Nie Yun was really anxious, he wanted to go back and find the statue as soon as possible. The others didn't say anything, just chatted while looking out the window at the night.
“Actually, every day’s game is scary, but tomorrow night’s…” Shi Yan frowned and didn’t say the rest of the words.
Thanks to various horror movies and their daily experience, they knew that when doing their tasks, they should try to avoid scenes with things like mirrors, toilets, and elevators that are prone to supernatural events, especially elevators.
As a confined space, if any supernatural phenomena occur in the elevator, the people inside will not be able to escape no matter what.
Shi Yan once did a mission that was also related to the elevator. When the elevator broke down, they finally used the rules to stop the killing of ghosts and opened the door of the elevator, but the elevator was stuck in the middle of two floors. Shi Yan climbed out first and then tried to pull her companions. But when her companions were only halfway out, the entire elevator suddenly fell down.
At that time, she was still holding her companion's hand, with blood splattered all over her head and face. She only held the upper half of her companion's body in her hands, while the lower half fell along with the elevator to an unknown place.
The moment the elevator fell, she saw... a woman in red with a twisted body lying on the top.
It was the female ghost in red who cut the elevator rope.
Since then, Shi Yan has developed a great psychological trauma about elevators. She would walk up the stairs whenever possible. Although there is a risk of getting stuck when walking up the stairs, it is better than being stuck in an elevator.
"Senior sister, are you afraid?" Ye Shengke asked.
Shi Yan took a few deep breaths and said, "What can I do if I'm afraid? I don't have to do it."
If you don't look at her trembling hands at this moment, and only look at Shi Yan's expression, you might think she is very calm.
Only Shi Yan herself knew that every time she looked at the elevator, she would think of her companion whose lower body fell down with blood all over it, and the female ghost that might appear on the roof of the elevator.
"It's okay, we're all together." Ye Shengke comforted her.
At least, the risk is lower when people gather together, right
Ye Shengke thought uncertainly.
Shi Yan's worries did not ease much. She frowned and said, "Although we did not encounter any danger in the hotel yesterday, we have summoned a ghost. Are you sure we want to go back to that hotel today?"
Hearing this question, Ye Shengke also had some doubts.
Nie Yunzhen said: "Since there was no danger yesterday, why not give it a try today? Maybe we can find some clues."
He said it with confidence, but of course, what he was thinking in his heart was another matter.
Nie Yunzhen has always been bold, so it is not surprising that he has such an idea. Shi Yan had to turn to Chu Xiu for help again.
Chu Xiu just said coldly: "Go."
After saying that, he closed his eyes and ignored it.
The morning light was dim and the sun gradually rose. Just before the sky became completely bright, they arrived at the hotel where they had stayed yesterday.
"Tonight's game is related to the elevator. Why don't we just take it and try it when we go upstairs today?" Chu Xiu said after getting off the car.
His gaze stayed on Shi Yan for a while longer. Shi Yan knew that these words were meant for her. She nodded and agreed, but the expression on her face looked a little reluctant.
After entering, the four of them came to the elevator door. It was obviously an ordinary elevator, but Shi Yan had an expression as if he was facing a great enemy, as if there was some ferocious beast from the abyss in front of him.
"Let's go." The elevator descended to the first floor and stopped steadily in front of them. Chu Xiu walked in front, chose the position closest to the door, and stood still. The emergency button and the elevator button were at his fingertips.
The other three entered one after another.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator door slowly closed. The air inside seemed to solidify, exuding endless coldness.
Shi Yan tightened her nerves.
Fortunately, nothing happened on the way to the thirteenth floor, which was beyond her expectation. It seemed that her vigilance along the way was unnecessary.
Ye Shengke was the last one to exit the elevator. After he walked out, he turned his neck and did a simple stretch.
Strange, why does my neck feel a little sore
Ye Shengke didn't think much about it and followed the others back to the room.
Inside the monitoring room, security guard Xiao Li was drowsy. On the computer screen in front of him was surveillance video cut into more than a dozen segments.
In one of the images, four people were taking the elevator upstairs. What was shocking was that there was a woman in white sitting on the shoulders of one of the men!
However, Xiao Li didn't notice it. He nodded his head and finally fell asleep on the table.
"We can get more people to play in today's game. Who should we look for?" After arriving at the hotel safely, Nie Yunzhen asked while facing the dim morning outside the window.
In fact, he wanted to rush to the monitoring room downstairs and check the whereabouts of the statue. He had previously suspected that it was stolen by the other three people, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that it was not realistic.
Although everyone's clothes had pockets, it was still a bit difficult to fit such a long statue in it, let alone hiding it somewhere. He was the one driving the car the whole time, and when he was the first to come out of the building where they were playing the four corners game, he searched the car carefully but did not find it.
So, where will the statue be
The four of them discussed for a while, including where they should go to find a scapegoat.
This game did not require a certain number of players, nor did it stipulate that they could only play one by one. Therefore, they planned to find one or two NPCs to act as shields without any burden in their hearts.
"Or maybe it could be the man from yesterday. If the person we call is an idiot, he might be a hindrance." One of them suggested.
Judging from the opponent's performance yesterday, the man who lives next door to them is obviously a good teammate.
"But he has already seen our faces, and it will be difficult for us to trick him into opening the door."
"It's okay, just find someone to open the door." There was no fluctuation in Chu Xiu's tone, and the others understood what he meant as soon as they heard it.
Nie Yunzhen volunteered, "Why don't you go find someone to open the door first?"
Of course, he just wanted to sneak into the monitoring room now. Even if he was discovered, he could find an excuse that he intended to destroy the surveillance.
Chu Xiu nodded, then pulled out a gun from his waist and handed it to the other party.
This was beyond Nie Yunzhen's expectation. He picked up the gun and actually gained some courage. He put it in his waist and made an OK gesture with his other hand, "Let's go!"
After saying that, he went out excitedly.
Just after turning a corner, someone suddenly covered his mouth and nose with a towel from behind. Nie Yunzhen reacted incorrectly at first. He immediately stopped breathing and struggled desperately, trying to shout out, while constantly trying to turn his head to see who it was. But the person behind him was too strong, and Nie Yunzhen could not resist. Even though he had tried his best to hold his breath, he accidentally inhaled the gas on the cotton cloth, and then he fainted.
…
About twenty minutes later, Nie Yunzhen brought an unconscious man back to the room, but this man was not Lu Yanli, but another older man, well-dressed, with a faint blood stain on the back of his head.
"Who is this?" Shi Yan was surprised.
"There's nothing I can do. Lu Yanli refused to open the door. Even asking a woman to knock was useless. I don't know if he fell asleep or for some other reason, so I just randomly pulled someone."
"Then he..."
Nie Yunzhen waved his hands: "What can he do? He was knocked unconscious. Don't worry, he knows his limits and won't die."
The middle-aged man who was knocked unconscious and brought into the room was actually Wen Qing's father who lost the statue!
Nie Yun really hoped to force the other party to reveal the whereabouts of the statue in this way.
At this point, he also understood that it would be very difficult to keep the whereabouts of the statue a secret and play games with the three of them. It would be better to let them look for it together.
But I can't be the one who reveals it actively, otherwise, they will know that I had intended to embezzle the money before.
Of course, he had already gone downstairs and deleted all the surveillance footage long before that. They had no evidence to suspect anything.
Not long after, the middle-aged man woke up slowly. After he blinked twice, his eyes suddenly widened with a look of horror.
"Shh - you'd better not talk, otherwise I can't guarantee that your hands won't shake." The leading man raised his gun and pointed it at his forehead.
The middle-aged man swallowed and nodded under the gun, indicating that he understood.
On the side, Nie Yunzhen asked: "What's your name?"
"My name is Wen, Wen Zhengxin. Please don't kill me. I'll pay you whatever amount you want..."
"Don't be afraid, Mr. Wen, we don't want money. As long as you stay here and play a game with us at night, we will let you go back." Shi Yan smiled and said softly.
"Ah? What, what game?" Wen Zhengxin's throat was dry and he stammered.
"Well..."
Thinking that there were five of them going together that night, Shi Yan didn't bother to explain so much to him. She frowned and said coldly, "You don't have to worry about it. Just take the elevator with us tonight and keep your mouth shut."
The game on the fourth night was called Another World.
Take the elevator from the first floor to the roof. When the elevator reaches the roof, stay in the elevator and do not get out. Then press the button for the second floor. When it reaches the second floor, stay in the elevator and continue to press the button for the second-to-last floor. When the elevator reaches the second-to-last floor, do not get out and press the button for the third floor...
Similarly, when you reach the middle floor, the elevator door opens again, and that is another world. You can choose to go out or not. If you want to return to your own world, you need to reverse the steps just now.
A woman may enter the elevator midway. Remember! Do not look at her, do not talk to her, and pretend you did not hear anything she said. If you do something you shouldn't do, she will most likely leave you in that world forever.
Shi Yan repeated the rules silently in her mind again and couldn't help but shiver at her own imagination.
Really... is there another world
When thinking of this question, Shi Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly. Isn't this world just another world to them
Speaking of which, this game is also very strange. There is no limit on the number of people, but it allows them to play together.
What will happen if five people are confined in the small space of an elevator
Wen Zhengxin saw that Shi Yan looked unhappy. He knew what to do and immediately shut up and nodded: "Let me make a deal first. Let me go back as soon as you finish the game."
Nie Yunzhen stared at his expression carefully.
The other party had a fearful look on his face, but he didn't take it too seriously, perhaps because he didn't realize the danger of this game. Shi Yan didn't want to explain the game for a simple reason, but Nie Yunzhen couldn't do that, because he was counting on this man to get scared and confess about the statue.
"It's okay, I'll explain it to you later." Nie Yunzhen showed a good-natured smile at this moment, and brought a stool to sit in front of Wen Zhengxin, "Perhaps, you have heard of a game called Another World?..."
As he explained, Wen Zhengxin's eyes widened little by little.
Next to them, Lu Yanli put on headphones, and their conversation could be heard through the headphones.
That was the monitoring device he had placed on Wen Zhengxin in advance.
When he was returning the kitten, he accidentally saw the family portrait on the table at Wen's house. Now he was living in this restaurant, and he happened to meet Wen Qing's father. Similarly, four taskers also moved in. He didn't think it was a coincidence, so he had already made some moves on Wen Zhengxin.
Then, just as Nie Yunzhen was leaving, he used his Kung Fu to knock the other person out and hypnotize him, and asked about the game that needed to be done in this mission, as well as their original plan.
If it was any other game, Lu Yanli would still be somewhat confident that he could give it a try, but this game... he was not sure.
Therefore, he asked Nie Yunzhen to find Wen Zhengxin and let Wen Zhengxin come to play.
He wanted to know, as Wen Qing's father, did this man have some unknown secrets
"No! You can't do this. Don't just seek death." Wen Zhengxin was terrified after hearing the rules of the game. "Even if you seek death, can you please not drag me into it?"
"What are you talking about? There are no ghosts these days." Nie Yunzhen lied calmly, "As long as you cooperate, we will ensure that you return safely."
Wen Zhengxin just shook his head: "You are so bold that you dare to play with anything. Some things... some things are simply not something that humans can touch."
After he finished speaking, the other three people looked over with curious eyes.
Chu Xiu walked up to him again, looked down at him, put the gun to his forehead and asked: "What do you mean by that sentence just now? What do you know about this?"
"Oh..." Wen Zhengxin was so frightened that his legs went weak, and he accidentally fell to the ground while sitting. "Nothing, nothing! Yes, nothing..."
As long as he doesn't say it.
As long as he can go back safely, he can...
"You have five seconds to organize your words." Chu Xiu pulled the safety pin and aimed at him again. His eyes were extremely cold, as if he was looking at a dead person.
"five."
"No... You can't do this."
"Four."
"Murder is illegal. If you kill someone, the police will definitely come to your door..."
"three."
"Say it! Say it!" Wen Zhengxin screamed, his chest heaving violently, his forehead wet with sweat.
Chu Xiu took back the gun.
"The story began a few years ago. At that time, my daughter had just got a black cat, and she loved the cat very much..."
Shi Yan suddenly interrupted: "Wait, what's your daughter's name?"
With the same surname Wen, she suddenly thought of a possibility.
Wen Zhengxin was stunned: "Wen, Wen Qing."
As soon as the name came out, the four of them looked at each other, and saw something incredible in each other's eyes.
Could it be a coincidence
They did a good job of concealing their actions, so Wen Zhengxin didn't notice anything special and continued talking.
"… Later, my business was not doing well, so I worshipped a statue of a god at home. Actually, I didn't believe in this at first, but… what happened to my daughter was too unbelievable, so I had to believe it. I and the child's grandmother prayed to the gods everywhere, but it was useless. I didn't dare to throw the cat away, so I finally invited a statue of a god and let her live there, worshiping it day and night, and then…"
Outside the window, it is now bright.
Lu Yanli glanced out the window, thinking back to what he had just overheard.
Countless pieces of information were running through his mind, and he vaguely felt that he seemed to have missed something.
Black cat... statue... underworld road...
Perhaps, he should go to the Yinming Road to take a look.
There was no sound in the next room anymore, and all the questions had been asked. Lu Yanli took off his headphones and walked out.
Yinming Road, at the end of the intersection, in an abandoned building.
A person is going around in circles stubbornly.
He walked and walked, and after passing through who knows how many circles he had, he came to a door that smelled of metal, and suddenly said, "Game over." Then he suddenly opened the door and rushed out!
This person is Chu Xiu.
He didn't even look back, and ran very fast on the road in the middle of the dense forest.
As expected, it was already daybreak, and he had been walking for half the night.
There was no car at the door, which meant that the other three people had already driven away. These three people would not abandon me easily. I could only speculate that someone pretended to be me and went with them.
Of course, the worse outcome would be that all three of them died and the car was moved away, but Chu Xiu felt that this option was still a bit far-fetched.
Therefore, it is now certain that there is a ghost around the three of them.
But now, there are three of them around me.
As he was walking around the room, he suddenly realized that he had been walking for a very long time. And every time he walked to the next corner, he could feel the aura of the people standing there becoming more and more sinister.
Chu Xiu didn't hesitate at all. He was very fast, but unlike when he came yesterday, he ran in another direction.
At the same time, the map he had found and the journey he had taken yesterday emerged in his mind.
It took a very long time to get here by the main road. If he had run alone, it would have taken him the entire morning. It would be better to try his best and break through from another direction.
As he ran, the surrounding scenes quickly receded, and then his pupils shrank.
There is a tree on the side of the road ahead, but that's not the point. The point is that the tree is the only one with green leaves among the bare branches around it, and on the branches of the tree, a black cat that has been dead for a long time is hanging on a thin rope.
No, not just one... but many, many!
The entire tree was covered with bloody black cat corpses, swaying gently in the wind. Some had just died, while others had already decayed, exposing their white bones.
Even though Chu Xiu had rich mission experience, he had rarely seen such a strange scene.
He subconsciously wanted to turn around and run, but he gritted his teeth and rushed forward.
To his relief, nothing had happened. He just passed by the tree filled with the rich aroma of a dead cat.
As he was running, he could hear the sound of a car horn in the distance. Chu Xiu didn't care about that anymore. His tired limbs regained their strength after hearing the car horn. He rushed forward again and waved at the car.
The car really stopped, about a hundred meters in front of him. Chu Xiu ran over, panting, getting closer and closer, and then his expression froze slightly.
It was Lu Yanli? Why was he here
What he didn't know was that Lu Yanli was also extremely shocked.
There is a Chu Xiu here, so whose voice was that he just overheard in the hotel
Chu Xiu took a quick look and saw that he had a shadow under the sun and did not look like a ghost, so he quickly ran forward, opened the back door and got in.
"Could you please take me away? Turn around and go back." Chu Xiu said politely.
If he ignored the muzzle of the gun pointing at the back of Lu Yanli's head.
Lu Yanli was silent for a while and started the car. However, he did not turn around as Chu Xiu said. Instead, he stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward.
"you… "
Lu Yanli sneered: "Shoot if you have the guts."
He now stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the speed of the car immediately soared. If something happened to the driver at this time, there would definitely be a car accident.