despair! despair! despair!
Xiao Xuan’s footsteps echoed in the empty stairwell, and every step revealed the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart.
The wooden handrails of the stairs glow coldly in the dim light. Wherever the fingertips touch lightly, you can feel the slight unevenness. They are some scratches, as if someone has struggled in despair and tried to grasp. Something, but was dragged up ruthlessly.
Although these traces were deliberately repaired, the horror and tragedy underneath could not be concealed, which made Xiao Xuan's heart tighten.
Because there were similar marks on the wooden cabinet in the room where he was.
Then he can basically be sure that something terrible must have happened in this building.
As he climbed step by step, the surrounding light seemed to be changing quietly, becoming darker, as if even the air had solidified.
An inexplicable chill rose up from his spine, and the male protagonist always felt like something was peering at him from the dark. The feeling of being watched made his bones tremble, but he could not stop.
Otherwise there is a ‘teammate’ behind him who can barely be trusted, and his body may be shaking uncontrollably now.
Finally, he came to the second floor.
After just a few steps, it felt like a long time had passed.
The second floor was eerily quiet, as if time had stopped.
However, the slightly tidy floor in the corridor revealed traces of someone living here.
If no one lived there, it wouldn’t be so clean.
After Xiao Xuan and the ball-headed girl looked at each other, they began to explore the second floor.
At this moment, Xiao Xuan, who was walking in front, was heartbeating faster, taking every step carefully for fear of disturbing the terrifying creatures here.
Because they were so close, they could hear each other's breathing.
When Xiao Xuan walked through two corners, a strange light attracted his attention.
Not far away, a door was ajar, and the light coming from the crack in the door formed a sharp contrast with the darkness of the corridor.
Xiao Xuan often reads ghost stories and knows that there should be clues as to why such things happen.
He approached cautiously, and as he continued to approach the room, there was a faint "crunching" sound in his ears.
It was the sound of wooden furniture moving on its own without being touched, which was chilling. .
When he finally stood in front of the door, he looked through the crack in the door and saw a chair quietly placed in the center of the room. Sitting on the chair was an old man with dull eyes.
The old man was rocking the chair slowly, muttering to himself, his voice low and vague, as if he was telling some unknown secret.
Xiao Xuan held his breath, concentrated his energy, and tried to hear the old man's words clearly, but the distance was too far and he couldn't hear what the old man was saying.
Everything in the room was eerie except for the lights.
Many things inside are covered with white cloth. It really doesn’t look like a place for living people to live.
At this moment, Xiao Xuan’s heart was filled with complex emotions.
Because he felt that the clues were right in front of him, but contacting this old man would definitely trigger some danger.
As a novice Chosen One, it is actually very difficult to be able to take the step of fear.
Not every chosen one is like Zhang Yangqing, who dares to make the world of ghost stories his home.
At this moment, Xiao Xuan actually had the idea of escaping from here immediately, which made him feel a little confused.
After pondering for nearly 37 seconds, Xiao Xuan took a deep breath, mustered up his courage, and slowly opened the ajar door.
The old wooden door made a dull noise, and the old man inside seemed to notice someone coming in.
Xiao Xuan discovered that the old man's eyes showed a look of 'surprise' when he looked at him just now, and then instantly returned to a 'dirty' look, and his eyes gradually began to become cloudy.
If it weren't for Xiao Xuan's very strong memory, he would have doubted whether the old man's look just now was his illusion.
Following Xiao Xuan, the meatball-headed girl walked in, and the two of them came to the old man.
Only then did they realize that in front of them was a paralyzed old woman. Her limbs were arranged strangely, her mouth and eyes were crooked, and there was drooling at the corner of her mouth. In addition, there were some food residues on the ground and some dirt on the clothes.
Except for the area covered with white cloth, there were no other danger signals in the room.
There is no smell of blood or decay that is common in the world of ghost stories.
In the room, several people just stared at each other.
Xiao Xuan took the initiative and said: "Old man, are you a resident here?"
The paralyzed old lady did not answer him, but kept talking to herself.
No matter how Xiao Xuan asked, or even asked the old man to blink or nod, the old woman had no reaction.
At this point, it seems like the clue has been broken.
Just when Xiao Xuan was about to uncover the white cloth in the room, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.
The door was opened quickly, catching both people in the room off guard.
The tension has risen to the extreme, and both Xiao Xuan and Wan Zitou Nu feel that death is coming.
A young girl came in, a little fat. She said with a gloomy and wary look: "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?"
The voice was very depressing, as if the other person would immediately kill someone if she answered incorrectly.
This is no joke, Xiao Xuan noticed the killing intent in her eyes.
In order to avoid misunderstanding, Xiao Xuan hurriedly explained: "It's like this, we were lost in the fog in the mountains, a middle-aged uncle."
He told what had just happened. He told it once, that is, the experience the prickly-haired young man told him.
In fact, he has not experienced it himself. As an actor, he can only work hard to play his own role.
After saying this, he said that he was very hungry and could he please trouble the fat girl to get him something to eat.
“Oh, that’s my dad you’re talking about. Since he brought you here, you can rest here for the time being. I don’t know how to make food. I always wait for dad to give it to me. , there is food in the refrigerator in the kitchen on the first floor. If you want to eat, you can make it yourself,
But in exchange, you have to make one for my grandma. My grandma is a very picky eater. She vomited all the food I fed her. It’s true.”
The fat girl said. Some complaints were made, and the eyes revealed disgust for the paralyzed old woman.
But when she heard that it was her father who brought these people here, the killing intent in her eyes disappeared.
After saying that, the fat girl left the room and didn't care about Xiao Xuan and the others.
Xiao Xuan judged that the fat girl said this was her home at the beginning, which proved that she lived here.
Since she gives permission, it is probably not a big problem for the expedition team to move the food on the first floor.
The ‘condition of death’ here is that you have to let the paralyzed grandma eat. If the paralyzed grandma doesn’t eat, he may be in danger.
Xiao Xuan roughly deduced the conditions for surviving tonight.
But when he first stood up, he always felt that something was wrong, that he seemed to have missed some key information.
Seeing Xiao Xuan standing there thinking, the ball-headed girl did not disturb him.
Next, Xiao Xuan’s pupils dilated, and he finally remembered something.
He asked the girl with the round head to stay where she was, then came to where the fat girl was standing and looked carefully at the shoe prints.
Then, in an area where the paralyzed old man couldn't see, he secretly took out the hair from his pocket, compared it with the old lady's hair, and then looked at her shoes.
At this moment, Xiao Xuan finally understood that the death trap tonight was food!
(End of this chapter)