What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

What fried fish? No.

Even if there is, it will stick to the pan.

The pot is over, good news and bad news.

The good news is that the death value has increased by another ten points, and it will be credited immediately, so there is nothing wrong with it; the bad news is that she has confirmed one thing.

sister. This thing is so hard, I can't move it. Even if it has already been added, it will not move.

And judging from the damage to his right hand, Xu Tuoran is very suspicious that this Zhong Sijia, like those cards, may have some kind of damage rebound mechanism on his body. The difference is that the card is immune to damage when it bounces back, but he can't protect his head.

Xu Tuoran is a more practical person, if he can't beat him, he just runs with a team of student cubs, and runs with confidence. For some reason, Gu Chenfeng's expression behind him was a bit suspicious of life.

Fortunately, that Zhong Sijia moved slowly, and the movement of footprints extending on the floor was very slow. Fortunately, the solo school committee rushed back not long after, with a black plastic bag in his arms, I don't know what it contained.

"What are you bringing here?" The sports commissioner quickly took the plastic bag, and hurried upstairs while running.

"Paint." The school committee was out of breath, "I saw it in the utility room before..."

She pondered, the most important thing to deal with invisible people is to catch the opponent's movements in time. It would be too passive to rely on black footprints alone. It would be best if it could make the other party visible.

"But I was too anxious just now, I can't move anything else. I only took a can of luminous paint, I don't know if it will help... What is that guy doing?"

Her eyes flicked across the lobby on the first floor. I saw Zhong Sijia's footprints drawing circles on the floor at a very slow speed, and there were even several black handprints on the floor, which seemed to be groping for something.

"I'm looking for his head." Xu Tuoran held his dislocated wrist and urged him in a calm tone, "Don't look, all go up."

other people:…

So isn't your phrase "head off" just now an exaggeration?

For a moment, everyone didn't know which of the two events "Zhong Sijia can still move after losing his head" or "Xu Tuoran was able to knock off Zhong Sijia's head" was more frightening, so they could only run upstairs driven by the desire to survive. .

Several people rushed to the second floor, and Zhong Sijia was still looking for his head downstairs. The squad leader felt a little relieved, and immediately arranged for other people to check the room on the second floor to see if there were any blue objects or marks. After Xu Turan knew what he was thinking, he said, "Go directly to the third floor. The second room on the third floor."

She has been to all the rooms in this homestay, and she has seen the bedrooms on the second and third floors more than once, so she quickly realized that the other bedrooms did not have any blue decorations. Only the second room on the third floor hung a painting with blue paint.

The second room on the third floor is also close to the escape ladder. If you are caught up, you can escape... Everyone immediately went straight to the third floor. Halfway through, the squad leader directed a few people to find out the keys of each bedroom and open all the bedroom doors. Lock it from the outside.

"In this way, it will take more time for Zhong Sijia to check one by one." He explained to others. Fortunately, the boss told them where the key was when they checked in, and it didn't take much effort to find it.

Xu Tueran held his red and swollen wrist to watch. Although he felt that there was nothing wrong with this line of thinking, he had a vague premonition that things would not be that simple.

However, there is no way to have a hunch—at this point, we must try to buy more time.

When they entered 302, Zhong Sijia had just set foot on the stairs downstairs. Time seems more abundant. After Xu Turan entered the room, he sat alone on one side, thinking about how to connect his wrist back, while the sports committee at the side said that he wanted to set up a trap, hugged the paint can, went out again, and rushed back empty-handed after a while, and The others studied the painting together.

It was a thick-colored gouache painting, with yellow sunflowers blooming wildly on the canvas, and the sky covered with dark blue had no sun, only the dark night.

The squad leader thought that this painting would have a mechanism or something, but hung it on the wall and turned it around for a long time, but he couldn't find out why. From time to time, there was a loud noise of Zhong Sijia breaking the door downstairs. The more he listened, the more nervous he became, and the oil painting fell off the wall due to a momentary inadvertent movement.

He hurriedly squatted down to pick it up, and was about to hang it back up again, when he heard a loud noise—thud bang bang bang, it seemed so close at hand!

The sound came so suddenly that almost everyone was taken aback. The sports committee almost jumped up and stuck to the door to listen to the movement in the corridor, before leaning over, Xu Tueran stopped him.

"Over there." She pointed to the corner of the room, "The sound doesn't come from outside."

"..."

The Sports Committee followed her gaze, and it fell on the metal cabinet in the corner of the room.

It was the iron cabinet that scared them to death in the first place, and there was a female ghost sealed inside.

The chains on the outside of the cabinet were entangled in layers, and it was being slammed from the inside, and the talisman paper affixed to the cabinet and the chains trembled, as if it was about to fall from the cabinet in the next second.

These tin cabinets have been quietly staying in this homestay since the "Girl in the Cabinet" incident ended, and there has been no further disturbance. The students were trembling at the beginning, but after that, strange incidents occurred frequently, and they ignored the existence of these metal cabinets. I never expected that this cabinet could actually cheat corpses at this moment, and there was another flutter on the spot.

Fortunately, the game has been pushed here, and the tolerance has also improved. No matter how scared I am, I won't scream like a screaming chicken. They huddled together and looked at the beating cabinet defensively. After a while, they saw that the big lock on the door of the cabinet had not been released, so they were relieved.

The Sports Commissioner patted his chest in a concealed manner, with lingering fears: "What is it doing, it suddenly cheated on the corpse at this time. It's frightening to death."

The others nodded in agreement, but Xu Tuoran suddenly frowned, as if realizing something, he walked quickly to the door and put his ear on it.

The sports committee quickly waved his hands: "It's okay, I just heard it, there is no sound outside..."

"The problem is that there is no sound outside." Xu Turan murmured, his face changed slightly, "Let it be quiet! It is reporting the location to Zhong Sijia!"

The sound insulation of the homestay is average. But now, it was obvious that there was no similar sound outside, only the metal cabinet in their room was making noise, and it happened at this time—except for tipping off the news, Xu Tueran couldn't think of any other explanation.

Besides, even if the female ghost only wanted to make trouble subjectively, such a noisy voice was enough to attract Zhong Sijia over.

Only then did the others realize the problem, and hurriedly blocked the cabinet door. Xiaomi and Gu Xiaoya hurriedly shook off the quilt and sheets on the bed and put the iron cabinet on top. Unexpectedly, the iron cabinet became more excited after the cover was put on, as if it was beating a drum.

"What, what should I do, it can't stop—" Gu Xiaoya was almost dying of anxiety, but she saw Xu striding over in vain, holding a fruit knife and slashing at the big lock on the cabinet twice, but found that she couldn't open it. , turned around decisively, rushed to the wall, and slapped the light switch with one palm—

There was a "snap".

The room suddenly plunged into darkness.

There was silence in the darkness—only when the lights were turned off, someone instinctively let out a low cry, and soon became alert and quiet.

And in this silence, they discovered an astonishing fact.

The tin cabinet was also quiet.

The female ghost, who was still struggling inside just now, seemed to have been pressed the pause button, and she didn't make a sound.

"What, what's going on here?" After a pause for a few seconds, someone said cautiously, "Why is there a sudden silence..."

"I don't know." Xu Tuoran shrugged in the dark, "I also discovered it by accident. When I was alone in the bathroom before, I turned off the light, and this thing immediately became quiet."

"..."

Gu Chenfeng knew that now was not the time to think too much, but he still couldn't help asking: "So why did you turn off the lights in the haunted bathroom?"

Xu Tuoran: "..." It's not what you said, the dark place is convenient for Ah Piao to do things. I need to score points.

"It's all said and done. It's just a habit." She made up for herself.

Gu Chenfeng let out an "oh", thought about it and said, "Then why did you chop that lock just now?"

Xu Tuoran: "..."

Do you believe me when I said that I wanted to drag that female ghost out of the cabinet and give her a forced silence?

"It's just shocking." She said without changing her face, her eyes turned around in the darkness, and she was trying to find something to change the subject, when the squad leader's slightly surprised voice suddenly sounded:

"Hey, hey! You guys, come and see this!"

Xu Tuoran followed the voice, and it was difficult to see the squad leader in the darkness, but he caught a glimpse of a blue light. The blue light floated in the air, shaped like an arrow, pointing to the door.

The arrow was still dynamic, shaking constantly in the air, but the direction it was pointing at never changed—Xu Tuoran observed carefully again, only to find that the arrow was actually held in the hands of the squad leader.

To be precise, what he was holding up was the painting. The painting of night and sunflowers.

I saw the dark blue night that was originally empty on the canvas, but there were dots of bright blue stars in the darkness. Those stars are connected to each other in the shape of arrows, like a movable compass, shaking with the monitor's movements.

"'The blue star will guide the right path'...so that's what it means!" The squad leader was overjoyed, "Let's follow this arrow, maybe we can find the exit!"

—Is the export mentioned in the rules really an export? They dare not think about such questions now, nor can they think about them. This was the hope they had found with great difficulty, and they did not have the courage to break it.

But the school committee soon realized another problem.

"Is this thing only visible in the dark?" She whispered, "That is to say, if we want to use it to guide the way, we have to keep it in a state of no light?"

The oil painting is not small, and it is very difficult to cover it with something alone, and it is not convenient to guide the way; in other words, they probably can only find the way out by turning off the lights along the way.

"My God, isn't this too scary?" Xiaomi couldn't help but said, "And turn off the lights in a haunted house, how dangerous it is!"

"...Not necessarily." Xu Tuoran stared at the words in the squad leader's hand for a moment, but suddenly said, "Speaking of which, don't you think that the lights in this homestay are really too bright?"

Before, I just felt vaguely unwell, but now that I was in the dark, I realized that the light was too bright.

Whether it is the original halls, corridors, rooms, or the elevators and basements that appeared later, they are all lit with bright white headlights, and the light without temperature fills every inch of space as far as the eye can see, forcing and arrogant.

Thinking about it more carefully, a terrifying space that constantly exerts stimulation and pressure on them can actually be lit up like this, which is not right in itself—Gu Chenfeng has already said that people are afraid of dark places.

Most importantly, when she turned off the lights, there was no death alarm sound. In other words, this behavior itself does not bring danger.

Darkness is not dangerous. What about the other way around? Could it be the lights that are in danger that are ignored by everyone?

Gu Xiaoya tried her best to keep up with her train of thought, and tried to give a conclusion: "You mean—in this place, maybe the darkness is harmless?"

"It's just a guess." Xu Tuoran said, "But the female ghost really stopped, didn't she?"

"Whether it's safe or dangerous, we have to try." The squad leader pondered for a moment and made up his mind, "Let's go out when we see the opportunity. I know where the switch is."

"Then hurry up." The sports committee followed the light from the crack of the door, and touched the door, "Before Zhong Sijia hasn't come, move quickly..."

School Committee: "Wait, don't open the door yet! What if he is nearby?"

"Impossible." The sports committee said firmly, "I set up a trap. If he goes to the third floor, there must be movement! It's so quiet now, he's probably still downstairs..."

"Speaking of which, I wanted to ask before." Gu Chenfeng said, "What kind of trap did you set up? I only saw you running in and out with paint cans in your arms."

"Bad. I just took some mops and buckets from the bathroom, added that paint, and made a transmission device." The sports committee was a little proud when talking about this, "The device was pressed between the stairs on the third floor and the second floor. As long as he comes up, he must touch it, and the barrel will make a noise when it touches it, and the paint will splash on him, killing two birds with one stone!"

Since Xu Tuoran was able to attack Zhong Sijia, he reckoned that this kind of physical device should also be able to do it!

"…and many more."

The squad leader suddenly felt something was wrong: "Did you put that device on the staircase we came up from?"

"Yes!" The Sports Committee nodded.

Squad leader: "...Then do you know that there is an escape ladder between the third floor and the second floor?"

Sports Commission:...

Yes, but he forgot.

"...This is a bit embarrassing." Xu Tuoran touched his swollen wrist thoughtfully, "Just because we can't see Zhong Sijia, doesn't mean he is blind."

What is the probability that a normal person, or a monster, will obediently step on it after discovering a trap in the road ahead?

"...Maybe he can't notice us?" The sports committee still held naive expectations, deliberately lowered his voice, "We don't have any female ghosts here to inform us!"

"You don't need to report it, people will find something wrong with this house as soon as they come up." The school committee ruthlessly punctured his fantasy, "Use your brains! This is probably the only room in the whole B&B where the lights are not turned on. It's room-"

As if echoing her words, the corridor light coming in through the crack of the door was suddenly covered a little.

The next second, the bang bang sounded again.

"Is anyone there?" Zhong Sijia's voice came from outside the door, her voice was stiff and weird, "Can you open the door for me?"

The author has something to say:

Xu Tuoran: If you don't help me, get out.