sinovels Chapter 20
Chapter 20
morning of the third day.
After Mr. Zhang went to work, Zhang Jiu and Wang Xin went to the seventh floor together. The two of them walked together, which at least gave each other courage.
"You will talk to Xiaoyue later, mainly asking about her and Mr. Zhang, you help me hold Xiaoyue, I'm going to check on their adopted child."
Zhang Jiu nodded in response. Seeing Wang Xin's pale face, she asked curiously, "What's wrong with you, didn't you rest well last night?"
Wang Xin looked in the mirror and was startled. He saw his pale face, and the two black eye circles were more obvious.
After being awakened by a nightmare last night, Wang Xin couldn't fall asleep again. He tossed and turned, and finally made a decision.
That child cannot stay.
Different from Mr. Zhang, Xiaoyue is a very simple girl. She greeted them to sit down in the living room, and then went to the kitchen to prepare tea and snacks for them. Zhang Jiu took the initiative to help her in the kitchen and closed the kitchen door.
Wang Xin took the opportunity to come to the baby room.
The walls of the room were specially painted pink, and there was a crib against the wall. Wang Xin stood in front of the bed, his gaze fell on the baby in the mosquito net.
The baby girl wrapped her fingers and looked at Wang Xin with a pair of big eyes. Wang Xin felt a chill run down his spine. Those eyes were exactly the same as the woman in the dream!
He gritted his teeth, made up his mind, bent down and picked up the baby on the bed...
In the kitchen, Zhang Jiu was helping and inquiring about the two of them. Xiaoyue was not on guard, and she would say whatever Zhang Jiu asked.
It turned out that Xiaoyue was an only child, and Mr. Zhang was born in a poor family in a rural area. He was the only college student in the village, so her parents did not agree with her being with Mr. Zhang, but Xiaoyue did not dislike his family background.
The two met on the university campus, and upon graduation, under the instigation of Mr. Zhang, Xiaoyue got the certificate with him.
"My husband is very kind to me. He bought me breakfast every day when we were in school, and we talked on the phone for hours."
Xiaoyue said to herself: "What I want from my partner is to treat me well. When I was a child, my parents were busy with work and often left me alone at home. Once I got sick and had a fever, I fainted in the room and stayed in the room all day. No one found out, how I wished that someone could always be by my side at that time, bringing me water and medicine.”
In order to be with Mr. Zhang, Xiaoyue moved out of the house without authorization.
Later, in order to supplement the living expenses of the two, she often asked her family for money, but when talking about Mr. Zhang, Xiaoyue still had a happy smile on her face.
Zhang Jiu listened silently, and the doubts in her heart were finally solved. It turned out that the rich girl Xiaoyue lived in this haunted building for love.
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, although...is this really happy?
Even though he thought so, Zhang Jiu said, "I'm so happy. We were together when we were studying. Are you each other's first love?"
Zhang Jiu just asked casually, but the smile on Xiaoyue's face suddenly froze.
"...he was my first love."
Zhang Jiu's eyes lit up when he saw Xiaoyue hesitated to speak.
"What do you say? He liked someone else before?"
Xiaoyue hesitated for a while. Although she didn't say it, she still had it in her heart. Usually, no one said these things. Now that she was asked, Xiaoyue's brain became hot, and she said: "I My husband used to have a first love girlfriend who was said to be from the village next door to his house, she didn't go to school and stayed in the countryside all the time."
Zhang Jiu saw that Xiaoyue was so easy to talk, she thought for a while, and said deliberately: "Then your husband broke up with her after entering the city, right? Many people are like this, who can stay outside and go back?"
Hearing what she said, Xiaoyue was really angry, her almond eyes widened, "No! My husband said that his first love girlfriend had an accident, and the house at home caught fire and burned to death. He was very sad at the time. He is not the one you said. Kind of people!"
Zhang Jiu was taken aback, burned to death?
In horror games, this kind of death is definitely not as simple as an accident!
At this moment, both of them heard a dull impact sound from outside the window.
The movement came from downstairs, and Xiaoyue immediately lay down on the window and looked down.
Wang Xin ran out from the back room. He opened the kitchen door, grabbed Zhang Jiu's sleeve and rushed out.
Zhang Jiu didn't understand, so, "Eh? What's the matter? Why did you run?"
Wang Xin didn't answer, but just dragged Zhang Jiu all the way to the stairs.
The two clearly heard a woman screaming from Room 703 behind them.
Wang Xin slammed the fire door shut, then turned around and said to Zhang Jiu:
"I threw that kid to death."
"what?!"
Zhang Jiu's eyes widened. She thought that Wang Xin was just going to see if there was any abnormality in the child, but this time, he actually threw the child to death.
"why?"
Zhang Jiu didn't know the kid's weirdness yet, Wang Xin didn't have time to explain, he couldn't care less.
Although he didn't know how to deal with the female ghost, since the female ghost appeared after the child came, he had to kill the child now, otherwise he would not be able to protect the NPC when the female ghost became stronger and stronger.
After throwing the child down from the seventh floor, Wang Xin was still uneasy. He went down the stairs to the first floor and went straight to the place where the child fell. He had to see the child dead to be at ease.
However, after searching around the apartment building, what he couldn't believe was that the ground was clean, where was the child's body?
No body was found, not even blood.
Zhang Jiu followed behind Wang Xin, and was looking at him with the eyes of "Don't you have a mental illness?"
The glare of the sun made people feel dizzy, and Wang Xin froze on the spot, as if falling into an ice cave.
......
"What are you doing?"
Noticing something strange outside the building, Lin Sheng found it out, but the atmosphere in front of him was clearly not quite right.
Wang Xin's lips were trembling, and he couldn't say a word. He seemed to have a mental breakdown, and he was trembling all over in the sunny day.
Fortunately, Zhang Jiu was able to tell Lin Sheng what happened just now. Lin Sheng was also surprised when he heard that Wang Xin threw the child from upstairs.
"Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Zhang Jiu shook his head, "He told me, but there is nothing downstairs, I wonder if he is hallucinating."
Looking at Wang Xin who was out of his body, Lin Sheng felt that he should not have lied, but for some reason, the child's body disappeared.
"What happened to you?"
Zhang Jiu recounted everything that happened in 703. Lin Sheng guessed that something must have happened when Wang Xin was alone with the child. Otherwise, why did Wang Xin, who was fine yesterday, suddenly do such extreme things today?
Zhang Jiu said: "Maybe he was under too much pressure. Didn't the fortune teller say that the child would bring misfortune? Wang Xin didn't have time to prevent the two from adopting, and Mr. Zhang's risk value has remained high. Maybe Wang Xin can't bear it." Pressure, this is the impulse to act."
To be on the safe side, the two decided to search around the building carefully. They wanted to see people alive and dead bodies. If something like this happened, Mr. Zhang and Xiaoyue would definitely come to them right away. How would they explain it to others?
After throwing your child down, the child disappeared out of thin air?
That Mr. Zhang still has to make a fuss.
Weeds are overgrown behind the apartment building, and it is very far from the window where the child was thrown, but the possibility of someone hiding the body here cannot be ruled out.
The two went to the back of the building and searched carefully. They didn't want to find the child, but found a lump of dirt on the grass.
The soil bag should be newly filled, and there is no vegetation on the surface. Zhang Jiu and Lin Sheng looked at each other. They both smelled an unpleasant smell, and the source was here.
Was buried so soon?impossible?
There is only one way to prove their guess.
Lin Sheng pursed his lips. It's not easy to ask a girl to stand out at such a time. He asked Zhang Jiu to stay and look at the dirt bag, and went to find a shovel by himself.
The wet soil was lifted up little by little. Lin Sheng shoveled for a while and then stopped to catch his breath. Poor physical fitness is just a bad thing. Lin Sheng wondered in his heart, when will he be able to synthesize an item that can permanently improve physical fitness?
After resting for a while, he shoveled down again, and the soft touch made him stop his movements.
"Dig it!"
Zhang Jiu was afraid that there was a child's corpse inside, so he didn't dare to touch it. He just squatted down and observed carefully. Lin Sheng slowly pushed the soil away with a shovel. After a while, a strand of white hair emerged from the soil.
The thing under there was obviously not a child, and the two of them felt relieved a little. However, although it was only the tip of the iceberg, Zhang Jiu somehow felt that the hair looked familiar, so she boldly kicked it with her foot.
The soil loosened and fell down, and there were several broken cat corpses in the mound. After seeing the whole picture, Zhang Jiu was shocked and sat down on the ground.
"Ahhhh!"
That strand of white hair was the kitten she had fed before. The kitten, which was alive and kicking yesterday, had been chopped off by someone, and its white fur was covered with mud and blood.
More cat corpses were buried here in disorder. They obviously did not die naturally, and there were still bloodstains left on the cross-section of the wound. Looking at this horrible scene, Lin Sheng really couldn't bear it.
What kind of person can be so determined to kill innocent little animals?
"Dang bang~"
There was a sound of a bowl falling to the ground behind him, Zhang Jiu and Lin Sheng were startled, and turned their heads together.
Zhao An stood behind them in a daze, and the cat food bowl in his hand fell to the ground.
Zhao An's gaze passed between the two of them and landed on the overturned mound of dirt. Seeing those cat corpses, he seemed to be terrified. Before the two of them could speak, he turned his head and ran away.
......
This was the first time Lin Sheng met Zhao An. Zhang Jiu told him that when he met Zhao An before, he was feeding stray cats downstairs. Among the residents of this building, Zhao An was probably the only one who had come into contact with those stray cats.
"Could it be...he did it?"
Zhang Jiu had goosebumps all over his body. The pile of cat corpses was horrible. Some cats had their heads ripped off, and some had only a severed tail. If Zhao An killed all these cats, then he would be too scary.
Especially when I think of the day when Zhao An invited me to his house to pet cats...
It is said that many perverted serial killers started their evil deeds by abusing small animals. Thinking of this, Zhang Jiu shivered, secretly glad that he had escaped.
"If I'm not wrong, the residents in this building are not good people." Lin Sheng said to Zhang Jiu while throwing off the dirt on his body, "It goes without saying that the boss of the slaughterhouse, the fortune teller on the eighth floor always gets together with him. Plotting something together."
"That Mr. Zhang also has a problem. Listening to what you said from Xiaoyue's mouth, I think the female ghost I saw in the elevator may have something to do with his ex-girlfriend."
"You mean... the female ghost is his dead ex-girlfriend?"
Zhang Jiu didn't expect this. Lin Sheng waved the shovel to fill up the soil again, and said while working:
"I guess, that female ghost always makes the elevator stop on the seventh floor. It must have something to do with 703. It just happened that today you asked about Mr. Zhang's ex-girlfriend from Xiaoyue. She was burned to death and then turned into a ghost. That's a good way to say Got it."
Zhang Jiu thinks what he said makes sense, "Besides, I don't think Mr. Zhang is as good as Xiaoyue thought, maybe it's because of my villainous heart, but the rich girls I've heard of marrying are not as good in the end. One ended well."
Zhang Jiu flattened her mouth, "If her husband is really good to her, why would she let her live in this kind of place? If it's like this, Xiaoyue's family needs to subsidize it. The two of them are not doing well. If Mr. Zhang killed him before If you ever have a girlfriend, then it is very likely that you will kill Xiaoyue for money!"
"Heh, if he dares to do it, I will..."
Halfway through Zhang Jiu's speech, Zhang Jiu suddenly realized that Mr. Zhang's life was tied to Wang Xin's. If he did something to Mr. Zhang, Wang Xin would definitely stand up and obstruct him. Then the two would stand on opposite sides …
Can only hope that doesn't happen.
After filling the soil, the two were going to find Chen Qi to ask Zhao An what was going on.
"So... Zhao An is more likely to be a bad guy?"
Lin Sheng nodded, "It's better to be on guard first, besides, I want to find an opportunity to get everyone together, the game has been going on for the third day, we should share the clues we each found. The residents of this building are not unrelated, and perhaps some new discoveries can be made by brainstorming."
Zhang Jiu agreed with Lin Sheng's proposal very much, but when she thought of Wu Zian and Dai Yi, she sank down again, and could only complain in a low voice: "Since Wu Zian became the captain, she doesn't care about us, she really doesn't care about other people. Dai Yi is also very cold, always ignoring people."
"Hey, I was glad that I met two big bosses at first, who knows which one is not easy to talk to."
The two walked towards the security room while talking, but after entering, they found that there was no one in the security room.
"Where did Wang Xin go?"
"I was sitting at the gate just now." Zhang Jiu looked around immediately, thinking of Wang Xin's lost look, where could he go after such a short time?
"Let's wait here."
Lin Sheng originally planned to wait for everyone to come back to exchange ideas with each other, but he soon realized that the surroundings were a bit too quiet.
Zhang Jiu didn't reply for a long time, and stood motionless by the window.
Lin Sheng called her name again, but the other party still stood there blankly, his eyes fixed on a certain place, turning a deaf ear.
"Zhang Jiu, what's wrong with you?"
"Zhang Jiu?"
Lin Sheng turned to Zhang Jiu, and saw that the other person's face was full of astonishment, as if struck by lightning, Lin Sheng couldn't move her, so he had to follow her gaze.
Three people approached not far away, chatting and laughing, Lin Sheng narrowed his eyes, and when he saw their faces clearly, he also froze immediately.
Outside the gate of the building, Mr. Zhang's family was walking towards this side. They were so close that Lin Sheng and Zhang Jiu could hear their laughter and laughter. Xiaoyue was still wearing her home clothes. Although she didn't know when she went out, But the weirdest thing is not her.
A half-grown child was bouncing between the two of them. She wore two braids and her big eyes were black and round. Mr. Zhang took her by the hand and blamed her dissatisfiedly:
"Ruirui, don't run around!"
Lin Sheng:!
How can it be?
That child is Ruirui?
Lin Sheng felt his scalp go numb, Zhang Jiu turned her head slowly, the panic in her eyes clearly told Lin Sheng that all this was not fake.
The child smiled brightly next to Mr. Zhang like a flower, but Lin Sheng only felt chills in his eyes when he saw it.
Even if Wang Xin had hallucinations and didn't kill the child at all, that's not right!
Lin Sheng remembered that the child was still just a baby in swaddling clothes, how could he be able to walk and dance after not seeing him for a long time?
Watched by the dumbfounded eyes of the two, Mr. Zhang's family went upstairs with happy smiles on their faces.
When the figures of the three disappeared completely, Zhang Jiu squatted down and hugged his knees, still unable to recover from the shock.
"......is that a lie."
Lin Sheng swallowed his saliva, and pinched his thigh severely.
The pain made his mind much clearer, and a terrible idea appeared in his mind——
The child is not human, so it cannot be explained with common sense, but Wang Xin attacked the ghost, and now, the ghost has returned.
"It's not good, I have to find Wang Xin quickly!"
Up to now, some of the secrets in the building have surfaced. Lin Sheng searched for Wang Xin while pondering in his mind, trying to unravel cocoons from the chaotic information.
The players learned from the newspaper that there were five missing cases nearby, and all the missing persons were women, all around 20 years old.
Whenever there is a disappearance case, the slaughterhouse will work overtime. The slaughterhouse may be related to the disappearance case, or it may even be the way for the murderer to destroy the corpse.
On the first day of entering the game, the boss of the slaughterhouse had an unhappiness with Mr. Zhang. The boss of the slaughterhouse conspired with Mr. Dong, a fortune teller. Dai Yi overheard them talking about Mr. Zhang. The boss of the slaughterhouse might want to kill him. But old man Dong thinks "no need to bother".
Lin Sheng guessed that old man Dong's judgment was based on the fortune-telling for Xiaoyue. Xiaoyue was pure-hearted. Judging from Zhang Jiu's temptation, she was probably deceived by Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang's ex-girlfriend died in a fire. That fire may be related to Mr. Zhang.
And then there's that kid.
When he first came back from adoption, the child was wrapped in swaddling clothes, but his eyes were a little strange. Later, Lin Sheng encountered a female elevator ghost, and then Wang Xin threw the child from the seventh floor while Xiaoyue was not paying attention for some reason. , but the players did not find the child's body.
However, not long after, the child not only came back safe and sound, but even grew up a lot.
......
Zhang Jiu found the missing Wang Xin in the stairwell leading to the underground.
"When did you come back? You scared us to death, couldn't you let us know before you left!"
Just now seeing that weird child on the seventh floor, Zhang Jiu felt lingering fears, thinking that if Wang Xin hadn't made up his mind, such things would not have happened.
Zhang Jiu was so frightened that she was about to have a heart attack. She pressed her heart and said with a displeased expression:
"How much effort have we spent trying to find a child for you? It's good for you to leave as soon as you say, you really have no conscience!"
Wang Xin stood on the stairs with his back to the two of them. Although Zhang Jiu muttered accusations, he remained indifferent.
"Wang Xin, that child is back."
Suddenly, Wang Xin was shocked. He turned his head and glanced at the two of them, then ran down quickly and disappeared at the corner of the stairwell in an instant.
Wang Xin's figure disappeared into the stairwell, Lin Sheng immediately chased after him, followed closely by Zhang Jiu.
After going down to the negative floor, Wang Xin looked back at the two of them, then turned around and entered the slaughterhouse.
Lin Sheng reached out his hand to stop Zhang Jiu who was about to chase, "Wait, what happened to him?"
Zhang Jiu was so tired that he was out of breath, "I don't know, I ran away suddenly, there was obviously nothing behind us."
Looking at the plastic door curtain that Wang Xin had lifted, Lin Sheng's heart pounded. Why did Wang Xin suddenly run into it? Could there be something inside?
The two of them came to the door of the slaughterhouse slowly. The last time they came to look for the boss of the slaughterhouse, although the players were all there, they did not enter the assembly line workshop. The voice refused to approach.
Lin Sheng slowly opened the curtain. Fortunately, the slaughterhouse didn't start work today, which made him feel a little relieved. He probed in and took a look inside, and the space inside suddenly appeared in front of him.
This slaughterhouse adopts a semi-automated assembly line operation. After the start of work, the livestock are squeezed into the narrow passage and lined up on the conveyor belt. The process of slaughtering and bloodletting still needs to be carried out manually by employees.
After that, the pigs will be hoisted high with foot hooks and moved to the next process along the assembly line until a whole pig is disassembled into pieces of meat.
Zhang Jiu shrank behind Lin Sheng, looking at everything in front of him vigilantly.
Pointed hooks, blades, stainless steel surfaces reflect a cold luster, and tan blood stains can be seen splashed on the bezel, which makes people dare not think much...
Were all the missing young girls sent here?They were obviously about the same age as her. Thinking of this, Zhang Jiu trembled slightly, and she didn't dare to move forward.
"Shall we go back?"
Lin Sheng thought the same way. Regarding Wang Xin, he thought he had done his best. The two had helped him find a child, and now they chased him to the slaughterhouse.
In the dungeon, every player should be responsible for his own actions. Wang Xin's reckless rush will not only put himself in danger, but may also hurt his teammates.
Lin Sheng lowered the curtain and said to Zhang Jiu, "I don't want to go in either, let's go."
The two hit it off immediately, and turned around to leave, but at this moment, Wang Xin, who had disappeared, suddenly appeared in front of them. Lin Sheng was terrified, and saw Wang Xin standing with his head down, less than one meter away. His shoulders trembled, as if crying.
Zhang Jiu didn't dare to make a sound, watching this weird scene, she suddenly felt that the Wang Xin in front of her didn't look like the original one...
Wang Xin raised his head slowly, his face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot, Lin Sheng's legs felt a familiar sense of restraint again, exactly the same as the last time he met a female ghost in the elevator!
"I'm stuck inside."
Wang Xin opened his mouth suddenly, a look of sternness flashed in his eyes, and after he finished speaking, he pushed Zhang Jiu and Lin Sheng into the workshop.
The door in front of him was slammed shut, and Lin Sheng got up immediately after regaining consciousness in his legs, but it was too late, no matter how hard he tried to shake the iron door, it would not budge.
The cold voice of the system suddenly sounded at this juncture.
[Player Wang Xin dies
Number of players remaining: 5
Current ranking: Mr. Zhang > Slaughtering Factory Boss > Mr. Dong > Zhao An > Xiaoyue]
Zhang Jiu was taken aback. Why did Wang Xin, who was still in front of him just now, die suddenly?
Realizing what was going on, Lin Sheng and Zhang Jiu suddenly fell into indescribable fear.
The one just now is probably Wang Xin who has been possessed by a ghost...
The surrounding area was quiet, only the sound of the two people's rapid breathing, all this happened too fast, being locked up in the slaughterhouse by ghosts, Zhang Jiu almost collapsed, she didn't dare to think about what would happen next, right here At that moment, a woman's weeping sounded from behind the two of them, and Lin Sheng, who was still knocking on the door, stopped immediately.
The woman cried very sadly, and the mournful wailing echoed in the empty workshop, which made Lin Sheng's scalp explode.
There was no way out in front of him, he could only turn his head inch by inch.
The lights of the slaughterhouse suddenly turned on, and there was a sound of machines running, and the assembly line was started.
The crying disappeared, and there was nothing behind Lin Sheng. He looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned.
The signal to start work could not be more obvious, standing here is not an option, Lin Sheng pulled Zhang Jiu over, and the two found a place to hide, Zhang Jiu stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, and waited until he calmed down completely. Let go.
From the place where the two are hiding, they can have a panoramic view of the entire assembly line. They can only see live pigs being hummed and pushed into a long and narrow passage by the machine. At the end of the passage is the slaughtering place. Waiting everywhere, accompanied by a weak electric sound, the live pig suddenly stiffened, and then fell down in a daze.
The animals that were electrocuted to death were hung on hooks by a special person, and a man in a blood-stained apron held a bloodletting knife and stabbed it firmly into the pig's neck.
As soon as the knife was pulled out, blood poured out immediately.
From time to time, someone walked past the hiding place of the two. At first, Lin Sheng was so nervous that he held his breath, but later, he gradually realized that the two of them seemed unlikely to be discovered by these staff.
Because when one of them suddenly bent down in front of the two, the person who should have spotted them didn't look sideways, picked up the things on the ground and left.
There seemed to be voices coming from outside the door, Lin Sheng pricked up his ears, and then whispered to Zhang Jiu beside him:
"Did you hear...?"
Before Lin Sheng finished speaking, Zhang Jiu immediately nodded frantically.
Seeing this, Lin Sheng had a complicated look on his face. It seemed that he had not experienced auditory hallucinations, but the player's own voice really came from outside the door.
"Hello, we are the security guards of the apartment. We want to find the owner of the slaughterhouse. Is he there?"
"No, there was no complaint, we were just... a routine fire inspection."
"Show me the shift schedule."
......
Lin Sheng saw an unbelievable look in Zhang Jiu's eyes. To be honest, he felt the same way now. The voice outside the door was clearly the voice of the players when they came to find the boss of the slaughterhouse on the first day!
"Is this a scene reenactment?"
I'm afraid there is only one explanation. They were both in the boss's office that day, but now they are in the slaughterhouse. Time cannot be traced back, so it can only mean that the two of them are now in an illusion.
In order to verify his judgment, Lin Sheng gritted his teeth and got out from under the table.
really!The staff who came and went as if they couldn't see him, continued to do their work as usual.
With his mind firmly in mind, Lin Sheng boldly walked around the slaughterhouse. The pigs that had been slaughtered just now had their hair removed, and someone was standing at the work station with a sharp knife to open up the belly, and then stretched the entire forearm into the cavity. Inside, pull out all the viscera.
Zhang Jiu frowned, the bloody smell in her nose made her nauseous, seeing the scene of slaughter with her own eyes, I am afraid that eating meat will not be good in the future.
At this moment, Lin Sheng sharply saw a corpse with a different shape suddenly appearing on the assembly line, with pale skin and black hair... After seeing the whole picture clearly, Lin Sheng froze.
"Dai Yi is really right."
On the conveyor belt, a female corpse suddenly appeared among the pig corpses, her limbs were bent at strange angles, blood flowed from her eyes, ears, and nostrils, and her disheveled hair was stuck to her face, without a trace of decency. Word.
The staff put the foot hooks on the ankles of the female corpse with a cold expression, as if they were familiar with it, and the other ends of all the foot hooks were fixed on the conveyor belt on the beam, like a magic carpet in a ski resort, pulling The body was hung up.
Lin Sheng raised his head, and saw a woman hanging high among a row of pig carcasses moving at a constant speed, like a dissonant note, with her big head down, her arms dangling in the air like soft noodles, blood pouring from the The corners of her eyes overflowed, dripping down.