1TWITF[C Chapter 37

Chapter 37

When Lu Yanli opened his eyes again, he was facing four people, three men and one woman.

When the four of them saw him wake up, they all smiled, but in the eyes of the wary Lu Yanli, this smile was no different from that of a bandit.

In the eyes of the four, he had recognized early on that Chu Xiu was the leader of the four.

After saying that, he continued to lower his head and peel the apple.

Shi Yan then briefly introduced the rules of the game, and when she finished speaking, she unsurprisingly saw an incredulous expression on the man’s face.

If it was just playing between friends, he might not have cared, but kidnapping someone and forcing him to play, wasn’t that clearly telling him there was a problem?

Indeed, all four of them were holding knives and peeling apples, and the trash can was filled with long apple peels, as well as a pile of peeled apples that had oxidized over time.

“Of course.” The smile on Shi Yan’s face was extremely sincere.

Thus, the number of people sitting together practicing peeling apples became five.

What the five people didn’t know was that outside the door, pale figures were gathering at the door. Without exception, all of them were people who had died today because of the elevator incident, but no one would know they were already dead. Because once discovered, it meant that the discoverer would also die.

However, these five people did not know, and no one had any intention of going out. Therefore, they maintained this posture for a long time, and as time passed, the pale and cyan faces became increasingly ferocious and resentful, and they could no longer be considered human beings.

Midnight was approaching, and a cold wind blew in.

“Strange, the windows are clearly closed.” Ye Shengke walked to the window, couldn’t help but wonder, turned around and sat back down.

If he could open the window and lean out, he would see a girl in a blood-stained school uniform clinging to the outer wall of the hotel, slowly climbing towards the window, but he didn’t do that, and missed this opportunity.

An inexplicable cold wind?

The corners of Lu Yanli’s mouth twitched, barely agreeing.

With him in the lead, the five people transferred to the other party’s room one by one, and when they opened the door, the hallway outside was quiet, with only the floor lamps emitting a dim warm light. Lu Yanli obediently opened his own door.

“Okay, now you complete it alone, we will be waiting for you next door, there is surveillance in front of the mirror, don’t try to play tricks.”

This sentence sounded like hoping that they would still have a chance to see him safe and sound later, which made people very uncomfortable. Lu Yanli didn’t say anything, calmly took the items, and entered the bathroom.

The four of them closed the door and went out.

Speaking of which, if it weren’t to prevent the situation where someone was swapped by a ghost, they wouldn’t have had to go in and out together.

And wait by the side for Lu Yanli?

What a joke!

Inside the hotel room, a computer screen showed the surveillance footage in the darkness.

The man sat in front of the mirror, with only a sliver of light from the hallway floor lamp sneaking in through the crack in the door. Whether it was an illusion or not, his face looked particularly pale in the mirror.

He followed the rules of the game and lit the white candle placed in front of the mirror.

He looked very frightened, not daring to look at himself in the mirror at all, only lowering his head and turning the knife.

The apple peel was getting longer and longer, and the image in the mirror was also…getting clearer and clearer.

Nothing, just a man peeling an apple in front of the mirror.

Finally, he completed it.

The fruit peel did not break from beginning to end, in a dim place, and there was nothing unusual, even the image in the mirror was very normal, and did not jump out a bloody mess like they had imagined.

The man named Lu Yanli obviously breathed a sigh of relief, quickly withdrew from the bathroom, and came to the hallway to knock on the door.

The four people in the room couldn’t tell whether they were fortunate or disappointed. However, it was better not to attract a fierce ghost. If they really attracted one, they wouldn’t know what to do.

“It seems that today’s game may not have too much risk.” After saying this, Shi Yan laughed himself.

A knock on the door sounded, and Ye Shengke got up to open the door.

“Don’t rush.” The room card was flipped in Chu Xiu’s hand, “We still have four people here.”

Lu Yanli didn’t say much, pursed his lips, and simply went into the room and sat down, watching Shi Yan leave.

Randomly decide the order, the second person is Shi Yan.

The surveillance screen was dark, and her figure appeared, she closed the door, sat in front of the mirror, and lit the candle in the same way.

Just now after Lu Yanli finished the game, he didn’t blow out the candle.

Then, who blew out this candle?

As soon as she thought that there might be something in the room, maybe it was staring at her intently in some corner, Shi Yan couldn’t help but feel a chill.

But…the task had to be completed.

It was only at this time that she realized that her hands were trembling a little, and she almost couldn’t hold the knife steady.

It’s okay…didn’t Lu Yanli come out safely just now?

As the apple peel was peeled off little by little, she suddenly shivered.

Not because of fear, but because her body perceived the constantly decreasing temperature.

Why…why is it so cold?

She didn’t dare to think too much, she could only sit stiffly in place, and couldn’t help but speed up.

Hurry up…don’t break it…

Faster…

If she continued to stay in this room, there would definitely be some unpredictable terrifying consequences!

Shi Yan had never believed in her intuition so much as she did now.

Finally, Shi Yan also peeled the apple without any danger, she breathed a sigh of relief, quickly opened the door, and turned around to return to the room after confirming that everything was safe.

The moment she went out, the white candle placed in front of the mirror went out instantly!

Back in the room, to Shi Yan’s surprise, the other four people were a little silent.

“What’s wrong, was there anything in the surveillance just now?”

Ye Shengke’s face turned pale, pointing to the computer screen: “Senior sister…just now when you were peeling the apple, there was a woman in white, she, she kept blowing air on your neck.”

As he said that, he operated the mouse and moved the surveillance screen back a bit.

On the dark screen, there was a white long-haired figure behind her, standing in front of the mirror, on the face covered by long hair, a pair of eyes were staring at the woman in the mirror from the messy hair.

Suddenly, Shi Yan’s face also turned pale!

She really…summoned something out!!

That female ghost was just blowing air on her, no wonder she felt so cold.

“Then…what do we do next?” Shi Yan looked behind her in panic, “She didn’t follow me, did she?”

Ye Shengke shook his head: “No, she went into the mirror.”

But the ghost has already come to the door, and it is not necessary to think about it, the next task will be extremely dangerous!

Next…who will go?

There is a real female ghost in the mirror!

Chu Xiu made the final decision: “Let’s change rooms and continue.”

They booked a total of four rooms, at worst, they would leave the hotel after playing the game, as long as the things summoned didn’t follow them, what did these NPCs matter?

The others had no objection, Lu Yanli acted as an invisible man, and considering the impact of the picture just now was also very large on him, he was not in a hurry to get back the room card, and said directly: “Now I can go, right?”

His face was also a little pale, the picture just now was too shocking, obviously giving his long-held science a heavy blow.

Chu Xiu: “I said, you can only leave after the four of us are finished.”

After saying that, he turned and left the room.

Not many micro-cameras were brought, they couldn’t go back to that room to take them out, so they agreed with each other that if anything abnormal happened, they must explain it to everyone.

Next, it was Nie Yunzhen’s turn.

This time, the candle did not go out, and the air was filled with a fruity fragrance. Nie Yunzhen looked at the utensils he needed and started to work skillfully.

However, when he peeled the apple peel halfway, the image in the mirror suddenly developed in a strange direction.

Those extremely terrifying pictures immediately stopped his hand, and a strong sense of tremor surged into his heart.

The apple peel cannot be broken!

He stabilized his mind and forced himself to continue peeling, but the speed of his hands became slower and slower, and his eyes involuntarily turned to the mirror.

He saw his head beingzhāi, plucked off by a ghost, and then thrown into the basketball hoop and stuck. When stuck in the basketball net, his eyes were still wide open, his face full of horror.

Is this…is this telling him that he will die?

In the next second, the picture flashed, showing the scene of the hotel lobby, but the hotel lobby in the mirror was not as calm as it was seen during the day. From the elevator entrance on the side, a steady stream of pale and stiff corpses and limbs emerged, instantly covering the entire lobby, and swallowing all the people still present.

Afterwards, those limbs and corpses poured back into the elevator entrance, just like pulling out the piston of a bathtub filled with water, and soon disappeared.

The apple peel in his hand was peeled to the last bit.

Nie Yunzhen gasped and slowly put down the knife.

The mirror image disappeared, showing his pale face.

Why…can this game let him see the future?

The picture in the mirror, which day will it be? When did it happen?

No, no matter what, he must leave immediately.

He couldn’t stay in this hotel any longer.

Nie Yunzhen left the confined space and reunited with a few people, and in front of Lu Yanli, he shook his head, indicating that nothing had happened.

The last one was Ye Shengke.

Lu Yanli seemed not to look at him much, but in fact, he was secretly vigilant.

Is the white-clothed female ghost sitting on his neck still there?

The white-clothed female ghost, could it be the one who blew air on Shi Yan’s neck just now?

Lu Yanli did not show any abnormality, and the others did not notice it either. Only Ye Shengke, who had been silent a lot recently, greeted everyone and turned around to go out and enter another room.

The moment he entered the door, Ye Shengke once again remembered his good friend, and remembered his cry before his death.

He will never be able to forgive himself, he is a coward! A complete coward!

If he can go back alive this time, he will go to his friend’s grave to apologize properly.

Ye Shengke picked up the knife.

The candlelight flickered.

The longer the apple peel, the clearer the picture in the mirror. And what he saw was…

The fruit knife, with a clang, fell to the ground.

After a few minutes, Ye Shengke returned to the room, and he also shook his head: “There is nothing abnormal.”

The task is a total of seven days, and now it is the second day, and there are no casualties?

Everyone didn’t know whether they believed it or not, Chu Xiu said: “No abnormality is a good thing, it’s late now, everyone go back to rest, and continue tomorrow.”

The task on the third day was even more bizarre and incomprehensible, and they had to take good care of their spirits.

Hearing this, everyone said goodbye one after another, but Ye Shengke’s room was used to summon ghosts just now, so he decided to stay in the same room with Chu Xiu, even if he slept on the sofa.

“Room card.” Lu Yanli reached out to Chu Xiu, concise and to the point.

Chu Xiu didn’t waste any words and returned the room card to him: “Are you sure you still want to go back to live now?”

“I can change hotels, right?” Lu Yanli retorted.

Tsk, change hotels…

They lived on the thirteenth floor, whether it was the stairs or the elevator, there would inevitably be some surprises after midnight.

Chu Xiu didn’t stop him, and watched Lu Yanli leave.

“Ye Shengke, do you think our task tomorrow will be as smooth as it is today?” He looked at Lu Yanli’s leaving back, his eyes suspicious, but his tone was still calm.

Ye Shengke shook his head, rarely with a bit of worry: “It’s hard to say, but the most important thing is that tomorrow’s task only requires the four of us, and we can’t find anyone else.”

It is said that after playing this game for a certain amount of time, there will be a long period of time when the sound of coughing is not heard, which means that one person has been walking all the time, and there are people standing in all four corners.

Then, what is the extra one…?

Chu Xiu said: “The task is arranged like this, let’s take it one step at a time.”

The night was even deeper, the entire hotel was quiet, and even the front desk girl kept yawning.

Unexpectedly, tonight was exceptionally calm, so calm that it was a bit abnormal. Before long, the sky gradually lit up, and the sun rose.

It was not even dawn, and a figure walked down from the thirteenth floor.

His pace was fast, his feet did not stop, as if he was very familiar with this hotel, and he quickly found the monitoring room. He knocked out the security guard guarding the monitoring room, went in himself, and searched for something.

That person was unexpectedly Nie Yunzhen!

Last night, when he saw the scene in the mirror, he realized that he might have seen a scene from the future.

In the future, his head would bezhāi, plucked off and thrown into the basket by the ghost like throwing a basketball, and then he would rot there until he turned into white bones.

He doesn’t want to die! And can’t die!

Nie Yunzhen widened his eyes and slowly found the information he needed from the monitoring.

He heard yesterday that a man surnamed Wen lost something important after checking into the hotel, this person was very angry and had been questioning the hotel staff. This was also the reason why Chu Xiu was able to trick Lu Yanli into opening the door in the name of a police search, because someone in the hotel did lose something, and it caused a lot of trouble.

But he later learned from the security guard that the man brought back a very evil thing, said to be an idol brought back from abroad, wrapped tightly, but for some reason it disappeared.

And that Mr. Wen, he had knocked on the door to ask in the morning, and the message revealed by the other party inadvertently made him sure that his daughter was Wen Qing!

They witnessed Wen Qing’s specialness with their own eyes, could it be related to her father?

If he could find this idol…

Nie Yunzhen took a deep breath and continued to search the monitoring carefully.

Suddenly, his eyes froze.

A person with a blurred face entered a certain room on the second floor, his pockets were bulging, vaguely revealing a corner of a red wooden idol.

Could this be it?

Before leaving, he rearranged the security guard into a posture ofpāshuì, sleeping on his stomach on the table. In this way, when he wakes up, he will only think that he fell asleep.

Immediately afterwards, he raised his foot and turned to the front desk, after casually eliciting information, he knocked out the front desk girl and got the room card.

Everything was so smooth, so smooth that it was unbelievable, he smoothly came to that room on the second floor, and quietly opened the door with the room card, the other party was still sleeping with his head covered, and on the bedside table – it happened to be placed that red idol.

At the first glance, Nie Yongzhen was attracted by the idol.

It was like a maidservant, standing quietly, but the blood red color and the strange wood made people unable to help but associate it with words such as twisted and weird.

He had no doubt about what the security guard said, this idol…maybe it really had some special abilities.

“I want to check out.”

“Okay, please wait a moment.” The server smiled sweetly, her attitude was friendly, and her hands were fast.

After Lu Yanli completed the check-out procedures, he walked straight out, the revolving glass door of the hotel reflected his figure.

He suddenly moved in his heart.

Because…on the glass door, standing at the front desk was unexpectedly a white skeleton.

He pretended not to see it and quickened his pace to leave the hotel.

The front desk staff was still maintaining a beautiful smile, standing motionless behind the desk.

Then, her eyes rolled upwards, and through the ceiling, she stared straight at a little mouse upstairs.

*

In a certain old-fashioned community in the city, the buildings were old and the houses were lined up.

Inside one of the rooms, blood was dripping, and three corpses were lying on the ground.

Suddenly, the eyelid of the girl moved slightly.

Just looking at her pale and blue skin, no longer undulating chest, and no good flesh all over her body, it was hard to believe that she was a living person. However, her eyelids just moved, seemingly trying to wake up from her sleep.

In the small room, the shattered idol fell on the ground.

And on the shrine, there unexpectedly appeared a new idol, the same blood red, with a distorted face, which made people feel cold in their hearts.

“Kill…kill them…”

“Avenge Yun Qian…”

“They…all deserve to die!!”

The girl whispered, and suddenly, her eyes opened sharply.

“Xiaomi? Xiaomi?!”

“What’s wrong with you Xiaomi?! Who did it!!”

“Qingqing ah, what’s wrong? Why are you so sad so early in the morning?” Grandma walked out of the room.

“Grandma–”

As soon as she saw her grandma, Wen Qing couldn’t help but cry, she didn’t know what she was wronged about, but she was just very sad, she threw herself into her grandma’s arms and choked up and said, “Xiaomi, Xiaomi is dead.”

“What, what?” Wen Qing looked at the old man’s face in disbelief.

Grandma was still as kind as before, but at this moment, this face…made her feel a little chilly.