Lin Chu felt a little guilty.
When she just left the mission world, she was in a hurry to leave and didn't think about it. But after a few days, her memory gradually returned, and she vaguely discovered that An Xingyu's disappearance seemed, might... seem to be related to her!
When offering sacrifice to the ancestors, she was bewitched by the river of blood, and she almost said in a daze that she wanted to sacrifice herself. At that moment, a sense of horror surged from the bottom of her heart and swept through her body, so she subconsciously changed the object of sacrifice to An Xingyu.
So, would An Xingyu be sacrificed and remain in that world
She didn't dare to think too much.
Lin Chu poured a glass of water for Chu Xiu, but the latter did not drink it. Instead, he carefully looked at the furnishings in the room, especially the notes stuck on the wall.
"You are amazing." He exclaimed sincerely.
Lin Chu smiled indifferently and asked, "What on earth are you here for?"
"Ask about An Xingyu's whereabouts." Chu Xiu raised a report in his hand. "As you know, there were heavy casualties in your mission. Only one person, you, came back alive. It's easy to find the others, but why is An Xingyu missing?"
"If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body. If this matter gets out and reaches the ears of other taskers, your future life will not be peaceful."
Lin Chu knew that what he said made sense.
Anyone who survived multiple missions is definitely not a good person. If they can kill NPCs, they can kill people.
There was no abnormality on Lin Chu's face. She made herself look a little paler, as if she had recalled something bad. She tried to recall it, but still shook her head blankly and smiled bitterly: "If only I knew, I really want to know what happened to him."
Lin Chu's show of weakness did not dispel Chu Xiu's vigilance. He always felt that the other party was lying, but he had no idea what he was hiding.
"I know you don't believe me, but in the end we all got separated. I was lucky to survive. How could I have the energy to care about others?"
The teacup was misting on the table, and Lin Chu's tone was very sincere.
Her performance was perfect, and Chu Xiu couldn't tell whether she was lying or not, but his intuition still told him that this girl was not that simple.
“In that case, could you please tell me about your mission? I couldn’t find it on the website.” This meant that Lin Chu concealed the mission after returning and did not publish it.
This is possible. After returning, some taskers did not want to record their mission process for various reasons and chose to conceal it.
Lin Chu said: "I will sort it out and send it later."
She seemed to recall something sad. She smiled faintly, revealing a half-false sadness: "My best friend died in this mission. I don't want to recall it."
Chu Xiu was... too smart, so it was difficult for her to make up a fake plot in a short period of time and successfully deceive the other party.
Moreover, the opponent's attitude had always been at a stage that was oppressive but not too offensive. In the confrontation between the two, Lin Chu had to respond with a roundabout attitude and respond carefully.
Chu Xiu knew that her best friend should be the man named Yu Xianguang.
There was her portrait in the living room. Calculating the time, maybe the reason why we met her at the police station a few days ago was because of this matter.
"My condolences." He straightened his face, "But An Xingyu's whereabouts are very important to me, so I ask you to tell me in detail."
Lin Chu sat quietly on the sofa and closed her eyes tiredly. After a while, she said, "Okay, I'll organize my words."
Chu Xiu took notes carefully.
Then, Lin Chu began to narrate.
I don’t know if it’s because the mission took too long, but Lin Chu’s narration was a little vague. He couldn’t remember some parts and needed to think for a long time.
"… It was very spooky. We had to run as fast as we could in the amusement park. In a panic, we ran into a wax museum. In fact, at first, no one knew it was a wax museum. It was just that it was pitch black at night and only that one had lights on, so we went in…"
"But... but all the wax figures in the wax museum are our images, with different ways of death..."
Lin Chu slowly recounted the course of the mission, but the experience she described had nothing to do with her actual experience!
She actually made up a story on the spot to deceive the other party.
Chu Xiu didn't hear it, but when he heard that Lin Chu finally found a way to escape from the weird amusement park but she was the only one left, a moved expression appeared on his face.
"So you asked me where An Xingyu went? I really don't know. I just want to know why he disappeared."
Chu Xiu quickly analyzed the situation in his mind, nodded, and said goodbye to her: "I'm sorry to bother you. Thank you very much."
Lin Chu saw him out.
Watching his figure disappear from the balcony, Lin Chu returned to the sofa, fumbled around, and pulled out a bug and a pinhole camera.
She wrapped the two small things in a tissue and crushed them to pieces with her palms.
At the same time, Chu Xiu heard a crackling sound of electric current in his ears, and he knew that his little gadget had been discovered.
The provincial museum is crowded with tourists.
Everyone heard that there would be some of the latest excavated exhibits on display, and many history enthusiasts came to watch. In addition to the New Year's homecoming visitors, many parents did not mind bringing their children to cultivate their sentiments.
Lu Yanli put on a mask and followed the crowd through security check.
The lighting in the museum was dim and photography was prohibited in front of many cultural relics, so he could only observe the excavated artifacts carefully and write down the details.
The collections on display are basically similar in style to the items he saw in the tomb. Bronze, jade, and porcelain artifacts with simple and unique shapes are all displayed in glass walls and illuminated by soft lights.
Since the excavation time was very short, the experts did not analyze much information, and the annotations on the side were not very detailed. Lu Yanli quickly scanned and finished reading it quickly.
After a while, he turned around and went to the bathroom.
In the compartment, Lu Yanli took out a stack of white paper from his bag, and based on the memories in his mind, he quickly drew the image he had just seen with a pencil.
While I was painting, I heard some noise outside the door.
From the sounds, they were the same group of people who came into the hotel last night. Judging from the sound of their footsteps, there were three of them.
Seeing that there seemed to be no one else in the toilet, the three of them started talking without any hesitation.
"Didn't we agree to sneak into the archaeological team? Why did we come to the museum? We looked for a long time but couldn't find anything. It must have been hidden by that group of people." Fei Hongsheng complained.
"Do you think it's so easy to get into the archaeological team? We don't know each other, and we just run in and say, oh, I want to help you dig cultural relics. Do you think they will believe it?" another strong voice responded.
"Okay, stop arguing. You two just keep arguing when you get together. Let's think of a solution. If the newly excavated items are not sent to the museum for exhibition, where might they be sent to?" Jing Tao tried to persuade them to stop arguing.
"What kind of crappy mission is this? We are asked to find a jade pendant. Who knows if it is in a museum or hidden away by someone. We may even have to go to a tomb..." Fei Hongsheng finally shut up and soon started complaining about other topics.
Hearing the word "jade pendant", Lu Yanli looked up sharply.
What jade pendant? Could it be the one he thought of
Their subsequent conversation confirmed Lu Yanli's thoughts. They were indeed here for the Pisces Jade Pendant. The only two jade pendants were in Lu Yanli's hands. I don't know why the jade pendants did not disappear after the world returned to normal.
It was hard to describe Lu Yanli's feelings at the moment. He had been trying to find out if there was a conspiracy behind the mission, such as some kind of manipulation. But he could not find any pattern. Now, his premonition about this conjecture was even stronger.
Why, as soon as he got the jade pendant, someone received the task of finding the Pisces jade pendant? Could it be that something has been silently watching him
Lu Yanli couldn't figure it out, but he knew that there was no way he would let this group of people take the Pisces jade pendant away.
After a while, those people left and Lu Yanli came out of the cubicle.
When passing by the mirror, he suddenly realized something was wrong and his pupils shrank.
After he came out, he clearly opened the cubicle, but... in the mirror, the cubicle doors began to close one after another.
It was as if a pair of unicorn-shaped hands were closing the door.
not good!
Lu Yanli immediately walked out the door quickly.
After a while, a boy about seven or eight years old entered the bathroom.
He was brought to the museum by his mother, and he had to write an essay after he went back. He didn't understand what was so beautiful about a pile of gray copper and iron, and he accidentally broke a particularly beautiful bowl. Because of this, his mother was arguing with the museum staff, and the little boy said goodbye to her and ran to the toilet.
He opened the door and entered the compartment.
But what he didn't see was that in the mirror, the door of the compartment was always closed and had never been opened.
He saw a door that led to nowhere.
After a while, a pale figure appeared out of nowhere at the door handle and slowly opened the compartment door.
Inside the narrow cubicle, the walls, floor and even the ceiling were all splattered with blood and minced meat. It was truly a scene of hell on earth.
Outside the mirror, a breeze blew open the tightly closed door. Inside was clean and tidy, with nothing in it.
No one knew where the little boy went.
Inside the museum, a young mother who had just had an argument with a staff member touched her sore throat and thought: I must beat this brat up when I get back and make her pay for the money.
By the way, didn’t Xiaobao go to the toilet? Where is he
What she didn't notice was that because of her quarrel, many customers left. Soon, more than half of the tourists in the museum were gone, and it became empty.
The staff members didn't know why, but the number of people gradually decreased. In the end, there were only about twenty people left in the museum.
Lightning cut through the leaden sky, lighting up the museum for a moment, followed by loud thunder and heavy rain.
"Ah, what's going on? Why is it raining?"
"I'm dying. I didn't bring an umbrella. It's hard to get a taxi here..."
"Just wait a while, wait until the rain stops before going back. The weather has been very strange recently. It was extremely hot a few days ago, but it cooled down today..."
There was another loud thunder, and most of the lights in the museum went out.
"Ah—" A girl screamed, followed by a noise from all sides.
Was it because lightning struck the power lines
The crowd gathered at the entrance of the museum watched as another bolt of lightning struck. An extremely brilliant light lit up and instantly shot down a distant electric pole.
"The wires are on fire!" they screamed.
At the same time, the lights in the museum finally went out completely, and it fell into complete darkness.
Even the heavy rain could not extinguish the sparking electric wires. The electric poles swayed and slowly fell down, hitting a row of vehicles parked in the parking lot. The car sirens rang out one after another, once again causing wailing from the crowd at the door.
Some of them had their cars inside!
"Yes, what are they doing outside? It's so noisy and they have no manners." The young mother was walking towards the bathroom when she heard a group of people shouting at the door. She frowned unhappily, but before she took a few steps, the light above her head flickered twice and then went away.
It was pitch black before my eyes.
Not only that, there was also the sound of dripping water, as if the waterproofing measures were not done well.
It was really bad. When she got out, she would definitely complain to this museum. What on earth happened? It was leaking
The young mother took a flashlight and walked slowly forward.
"Xiaobao? Baby, are you there?" She moved slowly to the door of the men's restroom.
Strange, how come the puddles on the ground become thicker
I shone the flashlight inside, and it was also pitch black. A strong wind blew in from the window on the other side, making the cubicle door crackle and blowing in a lot of cold raindrops.
"Xiaobao? Are you there?" She raised her voice, "Is there anyone in the men's room? Can I come in now?"
No one answered her, only the cold wind blew in more and more fiercely.
She walked in, stepping carefully on the floor so as not to wet her boots, and looked from room to room.
"Xiaobao? Xiaobao?"
To her disappointment, she didn't see her son until she reached the last cubicle.
"Xiaobao, stop playing hide-and-seek with mommy and come out soon, okay?" She felt uneasy when she couldn't find her son, so she raised her voice again.
She shone the flashlight everywhere, and suddenly, her body stiffened and the blood in her body seemed to freeze in an instant.
She saw...
In the mirror, where is the clean scene? What was blowing in from the window was bloody rain, one long gray shadow after another floating back and forth, and the puddles on the ground... were clearly blood!
She was completely soaked in blood! The water drops that had just dripped onto her face were wiped away carelessly, and now a blood stain was stuck to her face.
The walls were covered with bloodstains everywhere!
Ghost... It's a ghost!
The museum is haunted!!
"Ah!!" the young woman screamed and tried to escape in panic, but a pale hand suddenly stretched out from the cubicle closest to her and pulled her into the cubicle with force.
The door slammed shut with a gust of wind.
The screaming stopped abruptly.
The scream was so loud and shrill that the people gathered at the door naturally heard it and looked at each other in bewilderment.
"What's going on? Who is it?"
"Did something happen? Let's go check it out?"
Everyone pushed each other inside, encouraging each other, and turned on all their flashlights to make the place brighter.
"It's so unlucky that this happened during the Chinese New Year. Fortunately, I bought insurance for my car, otherwise I would have lost a lot of money."
"Does this museum have no backup power supply? Where are all the staff? Why can't I find any of them?"
"That's right, let them turn on the lights? It's pitch dark and too scary."
Everyone gathered together to encourage each other, and the atmosphere became more lively. There was no way around it, the museum's decoration was originally simple and rustic, and once it got dark, it was indeed a bit scary.
The seven people on the mission were among them, and their reactions were greater than others.
Others didn't know, but were they still not clear? The museum was definitely haunted. They wanted to leave quickly, but the leader Jing Tao suggested that they should not leave directly. This had happened before, and people who left the scene early died on the road.
Risks are opportunities, so why not give it a try? What if they find the Pisces jade pendant
Seven or eight flashlights shone back and forth, and the red dots of several cameras on the ceiling disappeared. It seemed that they had run out of power and stopped working.
The staff is not here.
"Hey, you said there are no staff and no cameras now. If we take one or two cultural relics, wouldn't it be a waste? No one has noticed yet."
A man in the crowd asked tentatively.
"This is not a good idea. It's like stealing." Another man advised him.
"Oh, I was just saying it casually. It's just a joke and you don't have to take it seriously." The man from before laughed it off.
But his words made others think about it.
Not long after, another person said, "I heard that this kind of glass usually gives off an alarm. After the power went out, the alarm went off, right?"
"Is it okay? These staff members don't know where to go."
"Yeah, no one noticed anyway."
"Cultural relics are very precious, so we should not take them."
"Didn't you read the report? There are still many things in the tomb. What's on display here is only a small part. Besides, what's the use of cultural relics?"
More and more people became tempted, and in the end, the few who raised objections had to shut up.
At this moment, their goal changed. They stopped looking for the source of the screams and started searching everywhere for something that looked expensive and easy to carry.
Lu Yanli followed the crowd, took a deep breath, and watched coldly as this group of people sought their own death.
He wanted to leave, but he had the same concerns as those people.
Heavy rain, lightning, broken electric poles... all of these prevented them from leaving the museum. If they left rashly, they might encounter even more terrible things.
He walked at the back, looking vigilantly at the entire hall.
There were many small exhibition halls around the large exhibition hall. He slowly walked to a row of display stands. His whole body was tense, ready to escape at any time.
In a small exhibition hall, female screams broke out again.
Lu Yanli recognized the voice. It was the tasker named Cao Yi from the group he met yesterday.
The others ran subconsciously and entered the small exhibition hall.
"What's going on? What happened?"
Lu Yanli stood outside, motionless.
He heard the faint sound of dripping water.
Tick.
It fell on the glass display stand beside him.
Where does the sound of water come from
Before he had time to think deeply, he had already heard Cao Yi's cry of grievance.
"Oh, I saw a shadow, it was white, and it disappeared in an instant. I'm not blind." Cao Yi was so scared that her makeup was smudged. "I came in from the door and saw these cabinets. Then I looked at them one by one, and I felt something on my neck, like hair or something. I turned around and saw a white shadow floating into the wall..."
Beams of light from flashlights shone in the darkness, and everyone's faces seemed blurred.
The atmosphere froze for a moment. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but the temperature in the museum seemed to drop a few degrees and become colder and colder.
"Don't talk nonsense. You may be under too much pressure and saw it wrongly." Jing Tao advised.
"I'm not seeing things! It's real, I saw it with my own eyes. Let's go, this museum is haunted..."
Even if they knew there was something fishy going on in the mission, they couldn't just say it out loud, right? These NPCs were such good cannon fodder, if they ran away, what would they do
Jing Tao wanted to pinch the other person's neck and shake it to see if he could squeeze out some water, but he couldn't do that in front of everyone. He could only glare at the other person secretly, hoping that she would restrain herself and not say anything.
Yi Yun sighed, reached out and patted Jing Tao's shoulder, and shook his head gently at him.
Jing Tao understood her unspoken meaning, his forehead tensed, and he glared at her again.
Yi Yun gave a smile that looked fake no matter how you looked at it: "After all, it's a museum, and it's full of cultural relics, all of which were just dug out from tombs. What if there's something on it? It's possible. It's better to believe it than not to believe it."
What she said was right, but the guilt in her tone made it sound unbelievable.
"Stop pretending. I remember you guys. You are in the same group. You just want to drive us away and take all the money for yourself, right?" One of the men realized he had seen through her trick and said viciously.
Yi Yun shook his head again and again: "No, no, why would you think so? I..."
"You wish! Anyone who sees these things in the museum is entitled to a share! Don't think we're afraid of you just because you're a nobody. If you make a big fuss, I'll call the police and make sure no one gets hurt!"
Now Jing Tao understood what Yi Yun was going to do. He admired her and quickly cooperated: "Okay, okay, you guys have the final say. We won't argue with you, okay? Don't call the police. Hurry and find it yourself."
"That's not bad." The man cursed as he passed by Cao Yi, who still said blankly: "But I saw you..."
Yi Yun's face turned cold, and she pulled her aside, motioning for others to gather around so as not to be overheard. She taught her a lesson rudely: "You are seeking death yourself, don't implicate us! Who knows what is out of the ancient tomb? Now is the time for them to test whether there is a curse on these artifacts. If you keep talking nonsense and scare these NPCs away, we will use you as a test subject?"
She broke it down and explained it to the other party. Cao Yi finally understood and nodded rapidly.
She was a serious newbie, and this was only her second time. She had been helped by someone to pass the test the first time, so she thought it was nothing. She even wrote a horror novel based on her own experience, and gave herself the name of a "beautiful author". Later, she was discovered by one of the taskers, who pulled her into the website, but she didn't take it too seriously. She watched a lot of horror movies, and after she felt that she had built up her courage, she was confident that she could pass.
This was her first close encounter with a ghost and she was so scared that she almost fainted.
No matter how bloody and weird a horror movie is, it is just a movie and it is fake.
She had just experienced what it meant to be walking on the edge of life and death.
Now, Yi Yun gave her the feeling of the boss who led her on the mission. She instantly felt that Yi Yun was so pleasing to the eye, and she didn't even mind the disdain in her tone. When she finished speaking, Cao Yi hurriedly followed her and wanted to pull her clothes to go together.
"Don't follow me all the time." Yi Jun didn't want to pay attention to the other party.
"But... I'm scared." Seeing her calm appearance, Cao Yi felt relieved and said softly.
"Okay, it's up to you." Yi Yun turned around and continued to look around.
Her eyes were not on the objects on display in the museum, but on other people.
She wanted to see what would happen if she took the cultural relics.
Soon, a man who had a conflict with them before picked up a stool and smashed it against the glass cabinet.
The glass cabinet that should have been strong enough to be bulletproof was now vulnerable and shattered to the ground, revealing two glass lamps inside that were almost shattered.
The man reached out, picked up the two beautiful glass cups, and stuffed them into the backpack behind him.
Nothing happened.
Yi Yun's eyes followed him closely.
Unconsciously, the hand behind him gradually became cold. Yi Yun did not notice and still stood in the corner.
If she turned around, she would find that the girl holding her hand had white eyes and her hair was getting longer.
Drop after drop of liquid fell.
The slight ticking sound, so faint when the storm comes, yet so clear in everyone's ears.
"This crappy museum is actually leaking!" The man who took the glass lamp cursed. No matter where he went, he could hear the annoying sound of dripping water, which annoyed him.