The knock on the door echoed in the empty corridor, and even the heavy rain outside the window could not cover it up, giving Jones a bad premonition.
Not long after, there was a low and chaotic sound inside the door. Standing in front of the door, Jones' heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, and he even instinctively began to take deep breaths to calm down his emotions.
He stared closely at the peephole on the door, and saw a terrifying round eye suddenly appearing there, as if someone was peeping at him with his eyes firmly pressed against the peephole.
In an instant, Jones was shocked by the sight coming from the cat's eyes.
Jones felt a chill running straight from the soles of his feet to his heart. He swallowed and subconsciously stepped back some distance.
There was silence for a moment, the atmosphere was a bit depressing, and there seemed to be no intention of opening the door.
Jones reacted immediately and said, "I'm sorry, we ran into some trouble when we passed by here. Can we come in and ask for a drink?"
He thought he had a lot of people inside. He didn't dare to open the door, so he tried his best to act kindly to dispel the other person's fear.
After finishing speaking, the scene was silent again.
Just when Jones felt a little overwhelmed, the door suddenly opened slowly.
What appeared in front of him was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man.
The top of his head is slightly bald, but there is a tuft of hair stubbornly left in the middle of his head, which is particularly eye-catching in the dim light of the room.
The middle-aged man’s cheeks are thin, but his arms are unusually thick, covered with calluses from time, giving off a strange sense of strength.
Even ordinary people like Jones can detect a powerful aura emanating from the middle-aged man, not to mention that the teammates next to him have begun to frown.
Seeing that the middle-aged man remained silent, Jones thought he was mute.
But the middle-aged man turned around and said, "Come in."
This sentence was very cold and without any emotion.
If you observe carefully, you can even find that the middle-aged man's facial expression has not changed.
It gives people a feeling that he looks very ordinary, but he hides it deeply.
In order to find clues, Jones could only lead people in first.
They had just agreed that three people would go in and two people would respond in the dark outside.
Even if there is a problem, we will not be blamed.
The ones who entered were naturally Jones, a psychotic fighter and a psychopath.
Waiting outside are a mentally ill security guard and another mentally ill patient.
When the three Joneses entered the door, they were a little at a loss.
Although the corridor is dirty and messy outside, it is spotless and tidy inside.
The owner of this house, a middle-aged man, seems to have a mysophobia.
Everything is placed very neatly.
Then the first question arises. The three Joneses have been wearing raincoats. Even if they come here to explore for a while, the remaining rain is still dripping.
And the shoes of the three of them were even dirtier. Not to mention walking around the edge of the cursed lake, they also walked on the mud road for more than an hour, and their shoes were covered in mud.
If he just walked in, he would definitely make the middle-aged man's room dirty.
Jones could tell at first glance that even if this place was not a death trap, it would trigger a situation where the middle-aged man's favorability dropped.
You know, in the world of ghost stories, the level of favorability determines whether the indigenous people will provide help to the chosen ones.
So Jones stopped the two teammates who were about to go in and asked them to take off their raincoats and put them on the 'coat hanger' near the door. But it was this hanger that made Jones feel something was wrong, but something was wrong with him. I can’t tell.
Then I asked the middle-aged men for some shoe covers, which they put on their feet.
Jones knew there must be danger here, but the details also needed to be grasped.
After everything was done, the three of them entered the room.
The middle-aged man lives in a very spacious place with all the furniture.
Jones naturally sat down on the soft sofa. It was okay when he first sat down, but after sitting for a long time, he felt a little hard. The two teammates were also sitting in different places, and they looked around cautiously.
Because everyone feels something is wrong here, but they can’t see it happening.
At this moment, the middle-aged man sat across from several people, and then said to Jones: "Are you a doctor?"
After all, Jones was wearing a white coat, which was a good professional look. recognize.
Jones admitted readily and directly said that he was a doctor at the mental hospital next door, and these two were his colleagues.
When they arrived, the teammates had already changed their clothes. After all, pretending to be a doctor is indeed better than wearing the clothes of a mental patient.
And here, Jones is the only chosen one who triggered a process that was so abnormal that it was so abnormal.
At first, Jones didn’t know what was going on here and just chatted normally with the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man is an office worker. Due to the disaster, he can only survive here.
He talks reasonably well and can describe his professional characteristics in a clear and coherent manner, and does not look like he is lying.
While chatting, Jones found that he was quite easy to talk to and not as scary as he thought.
In a detail that was difficult to detect, eagle-eyed viewers saw that the middle-aged man seemed to have deliberately approached Jones and then smelled him.
But Jones didn't seem to notice and was still chatting with the middle-aged man, trying to get some information.
At this time, the middle-aged man suddenly said: "After chatting for so long, you must be thirsty too. I have some wrapped tea here, let me brew it for you."
With that said, he stood up and went to his room.
Not long after, he brought out an iron can and made tea in the living room.
There were three cups of tea, which smelled very good.
The middle-aged man placed the teacups in front of the tables of the three Joneses.
The psychotic fighter said that he likes to drink cold drinks and will drink them later.
The mentally ill teammate said that he was not thirsty yet and thanked the middle-aged man for his kindness.
It was Jones' turn next to say that Jones actually didn't intend to drink. In a place like this, who knows what the middle-aged man got into the house and whether it was drinkable.
You can’t just eat the food from Kaitan World.
In his mind, he was just scolding his two teammates for being so fast-talking. He said all the excuses he wanted to say, and he still thought of them.
Just as Jones was making excuses quickly, a special process appeared.
I saw the middle-aged man personally bringing the tea cup to Jones, and he seemed to want Jones to drink it.
The scene became tense at one point, and the audience was worried about Jones. Should Jones find an excuse to refuse, or drink directly.
His teammates also seemed to be preparing to take action. If Jones was forced, they could only take action first and then find a way to escape from this place.
The teammates outside the door should have set up a trap now.
Even if they can't defeat this middle-aged man, they can still leave alive.
But no one expected that Jones took it and drank it directly.
The audience and teammates were a little surprised, are you so brave to bet?
If something goes wrong, no one can save you.
Jones is also the only chosen one who triggered the middle-aged man to serve tea himself.
At that time, Jones just felt that the middle-aged man seemed to have no ill intentions towards him.
Next Jones and the middle-aged man began to communicate again.
Seeing that the time was right, Jones said: "You have lived here for so long, have you ever been to the lake next to it?"
(End of this chapter)