☆、72 fire

There were only two beds in this room, so it was doomed that someone would sleep on the sofa. Lin Qiushi very consciously showed the good character of respecting the old and caring for the young and giving priority to women, and firmly stated that he could sleep on the sofa, and Cheng Yixie and Ruan Nanzhu could sleep on the bed.

Cheng Yixie was not polite to Lin Qiushi, changed into his pajamas and climbed into bed to get ready to sleep.

Ruan Nanzhu sat by the bed and watched him for a while.

Lin Qiushi was inexplicably horrified by him: "Why are you looking at me?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Because you look good."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Nanzhu: "Would you like to squeeze with me?" He patted the bed under him.

Lin Qiushi refused, saying that he would come over if he really couldn't sleep. Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head when he heard the words, and said hello without forcing it.

In fact, the sofa here is very large and soft, and it is not uncomfortable to sleep on it. Lin Qiushi put a thin blanket on his body, and he set his eyes on the position of the mirror on the ground. At this time, the mirror has been covered with a layer of bath towel, and the bright mirror surface has been covered, and the people below can no longer see the scene in their house. They also checked the other mirrors in the room and found that there were both double-sided and single-sided mirrors in the room, so they took some time to cover all the double-sided mirrors with towels.

This apartment is very new and seems to have just been renovated. Lin Qiushi huddled on the sofa and fell asleep in a daze.

The first night in this world is usually relatively quiet. Lin Qiushi thought he would sleep until the next day, but he didn't expect to be woken up by Cheng Yixie in the middle of the night.

When Lin Qiushi woke up, he saw Cheng Yixie sitting by the bed frowning, his nose twitching constantly as if he was smelling something.

"Yixie, what's wrong?" Lin Qiushi asked in a daze.

"It smells." Cheng Yixie whispered, "...the smell of something being burnt, do you smell it?"

Lin Qiushi was stunned when he heard the words. He tried to move his nose, but he couldn't catch any smell, so he shook his head: "No, I can't smell it."

Cheng Yixie stopped talking, he stood up, walked to the wall, and began to squat down to observe.

This move looked really weird. Lin Qiushi looked at his back and was about to ask a question when he heard Ruan Nanzhu on the bed next to him asking softly, "What's wrong?" Ruan Nanzhu also woke up.

Cheng Yixie was still observing the corner.

The pale golden wallpaper covered almost every corner of the room. Lin Qiushi saw Cheng Yixie get up, walked over to the table and picked up a fruit-peeling knife, then went back to the wall and started scraping the wallpaper.

After a few minutes, the wallpaper was scraped off, revealing an inky black.

Lin Qiushi saw the wall behind the wallpaper through the dim light. He showed a slightly stunned expression: "There was a fire in this room?" The wall was actually charred black, obviously something had happened in this room.

Cheng Yixie began to cough in a low voice, as if choking on something.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at Cheng Yixie's appearance, got up and went to the toilet, took a wet towel from the toilet, and handed it to Cheng Yixie: "Cover it up."

Cheng Yixie took it over and covered his nose and mouth, and the coughing sound eased slightly.

"It seems that there has been an accident in this apartment." Ruan Nanzhu said, "At least there was a fire."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Qiushi actually smelled the smell of burning things. At first, he thought it was his sense of smell, and he looked at Ruan Nanzhu. Ruan Nanzhu nodded at him: "I smell it too."

He quickly entered the toilet, prepared two more wet towels, handed one to Lin Qiushi, and said, "I'll go out and have a look."

Lin Qiushi covered his mouth and nose with a towel and said, "Let's go together, I'll go too."

Ruan Nanzhu did not refuse and walked towards the door.

There was silence outside the house, and it seemed that no one else noticed the strange smell. But as soon as Cheng Yixie left the room, his brows furrowed even more.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at him: "The taste is stronger?"

Cheng Yixie nodded, his eyes wandered the corridor, as if he was discerning something, and Lin Qiushi also vaguely heard some strange sounds, these sounds were very subtle, a bit like a person scratching the door panel... His eyes turned towards the sound He looked in the direction he was in, and at the same time, Cheng Yixie also pointed to the end of the corridor.

At the end of the corridor are big-bed rooms, as if there are only two girls living there.

They walked a few steps over there, and Lin Qiushi was about to walk towards the place where the sound was made, but was stopped by Ruan Nanzhu.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qiushi was slightly taken aback.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't speak, but suddenly raised his head.

Lin Qiushi followed his gaze, only to find that there was a row of mirrors on the top of the corridor, reflecting the entire corridor inside. At this time, the image in the mirror also raised its head, making the same action as Lin Qiushi.

Ruan Nanzhu pointed to the end of the corridor again.

Lin Qiushi understood and looked up from the mirror to the end of the corridor. At this moment, he held his breath, only to see that in the mirror, the end of the corridor was actually burning with raging fire.

The fire sprang out from the crack of the door, and the flame was accompanied by thick black smoke.

Lin Qiushi finally knew where the choking smell came from. He retracted his eyes and glanced at the corridor again, and saw that the end of the corridor in the real world was still engulfed in darkness, without a trace of fire.

"Cough cough cough cough." Cheng Yixie coughed uncontrollably.

Lin Qiushi said, "Will this fire come over?"

Ruan Nanzhu shook his head, "I don't know."

Lin Qiushi looked at the end of the corridor in the mirror. The flames burned even more fiercely. The iron security door seemed to have been baked and deformed. The sound of knocking on the door became sharper, accompanied by a low cry— —There seems to be someone inside that door.

"Help, help..." Someone was calling for help.

Lin Qiushi was not sure whether he could hear the sound alone or whether they could hear it, so he asked, "Did you hear it?"

Ruan Nanzhu and Cheng Yixie both shook their heads, indicating that they didn't hear anything.

But Ruan Nanzhu said, "Although I didn't hear it, I saw it."

"What did you see?" Lin Qiushi asked suspiciously.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "There is one hand in the room." He took a closer look, "There are two now."

When Lin Qiushi was thinking that he didn't see anything, he was lightly patted on the back with a hand. He was frightened into a cold sweat, and when he turned his head, he saw a man and a woman standing behind him. The impression, it should be seen under the apartment before, belongs to the people in the team.

"What are you looking at?" the woman asked.

The two appeared silently, and none of the three of them found out. If they hadn't seen them before, Lin Qiushi would have thought they were ghosts.

Lin Qiushi thought to himself, this ninth door is indeed the place where the Crouching Tiger hides the Dragon.

When Ruan Nanzhu saw these two people, he seemed very calm. He said, "Watch the fireworks."

The woman smiled when she heard the words: "Fireworks?" She said, "Does it look good?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "General."

The woman said, "Prettier than me?"

Ruan Nanzhu also smiled, and he said calmly, "It's better than you, but not as good as me."

The smile on the woman's face disappeared, and her eyes began to show anger. She stared at Ruan Nanzhu's face with a rather unpleasant expression.

The man next to the woman stood up at the right time and briefly introduced himself, saying that he and the woman were brother and sister, his name was Luo Qianshan, and his sister's name was Luo Qianshui.

Luo Qianshan said, "A fire broke out at the end of the corridor?"

Lin Qiushi and the three of them didn't answer Luo Qianshan's question. After all, they were all competitors to a certain extent, and it was not a wise move to provide clues to competitors.

"It's on fire." Luo Qianshui also saw a completely different scene in the mirror and in reality, she looked at Luo Qianshan, "Will the people inside be burned to death?"

Luo Qianshan said, "I don't know."

So they became five people standing in the corridor and continued to watch quietly.

The fire didn't seem to have a tendency to spread outward, and it was limited to that room. Lin Qiushi glanced at the dark night outside the window and yawned a little.

Ruan Nanzhu glanced at him and said, "Let's go, go back to sleep."

Lin Qiushi: "Don't continue watching?"

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Could it be here to watch for one night?"

This is true, and there are two strange people standing beside him. The three of them ignored the siblings and planned to turn around and go back to the room.

Cheng Yixie's sense of smell was a little too sensitive, and because of this, he was coughing all the time because of the smell of the smoke, and his face was very ugly.

Ruan Nanzhu was the last to enter the room. He glanced at the end of the corridor before entering, but frowned slightly.

After entering the room, his first words to Lin Qiushi and Cheng Yixie were: "The things in the room came out."

Lin Qiushi said, "What?"

"People who were burned to death." Ruan Nanzhu replied. The moment before he entered the room, he saw two more figures at the end of the corridor, one big and one small. It seemed that an adult was leading a child. , staring at all the rooms on this floor. It makes people feel uncomfortable when they see it.

Lin Qiushi listened to Ruan Nanzhu's words, but he remembered a hint in the clue: taking the ancients as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall. Does this ancient refer to what happened in this apartment?

The three of them pondered, but the burnt smell gradually faded away.

"Go to sleep first." Ruan Nanzhu glanced at the time, "I'll think about it tomorrow, or my body won't be able to take it."

Then the three of them got on their beds.

To be honest, normal people have encountered these things, and it is estimated that those terrifying images will make it difficult to fall asleep in their minds, but Lin Qiushi now feels that they no longer belong to the scope of normal people. Not only did he fall asleep quickly, but he also slept well and slept until the next morning.

The sun rose, and with a smell of gray, Lin Qiushi was awakened by the light from the floor-to-ceiling windows, and opened his eyes mistily.

"Good morning." Ruan Nanzhu greeted him.

"Well." Lin Qiushi rubbed his eyes, sat up from the sofa, and went to the toilet to wash.

Cheng Yixie seemed to have woken up early. He had already changed his clothes and stood silently by the window looking at the scenery outside.

"Breakfast is on the second floor." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Let's go, I'm really hungry."

The three of them got out of the room and saw that a lot of people had gathered in the restaurant.

Lin Qiushi's eyes swept across the crowd and saw the object he was looking for - the two girls who lived in the big bed room.

They were full of vigor, and they were still talking happily, as if what happened last night had no effect on them.

Lin Qiushi has been observing them, but Ruan Nanzhu's voice, which is like a smile but not a smile, came from his ear. He said: "Look at what others think so seriously, why, is it better than me?"

Lin Qiushi heard the words helplessly: "You are naturally the best looking."

"So reluctant to say it." Ruan Nanzhu took a bite of bread and said, "Those two are here too."

Those two people refer to the brothers and sisters Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui who met on the corridor last night. The two came in from outside, one smiled at Lin Qiushi, and the other looked at Ruan Nanzhu hatefully.

It seems that Luo Qianshui already holds a grudge against Ruan Nanzhu's provocation last night.

Ruan Nanzhu was not afraid at all, raised her chin at her, leaned on Lin Qiushi's shoulder, and said in a loud voice, "Oh, that woman's eyes are so scary, it scares people."

Lin Qiushi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Cheng Yixie seemed to have long been accustomed to Ruan Nanzhu's drama, and nibbled at the bread expressionlessly.

When they were about to eat, the waiter who issued them the room card yesterday showed up with a stack of things in his hand, which should be the travel guide he mentioned.

The waiter said: "I wonder if everyone slept well last night?" He laughed, "This is the travel guide here. After you get it, you must read it carefully." Then he began to distribute it to everyone.

Lin Qiushi also got a copy. After he opened it, he found that it was actually an introduction to some attractions in the city, including the apartment with the appearance of a mirror.

Looking at the information, we can see that this apartment is a local landmark building. It was renovated two years ago. The appearance before the renovation is completely different from the appearance after the renovation. Countless mirrors were pasted on the outside of the apartment, and it looked extra weird.

Lin Qiushi was flipping, but heard Cheng Yixie start coughing low again.

"Cough cough, cough cough." Cheng Yixie covered his nose and said with difficulty, "Something is burning..."

"What?" Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu were very inexplicable, and neither of them smelled anything.

But soon, they didn't need to smell it, because there was thick smoke in front of them - what was burning was a person, one of the girls living in the big bed room.

At first, only some smoke began to rise from her body. When everyone turned their stunned eyes to her, dazzling flames burst out of her body. These flames seemed to emerge from her flesh and blood, but they burned all over her body in an instant.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" The girl let out a shrill cry and started to roll on the ground like crazy, but the flame was burning from the inside out, her rollover didn't help at all, Lin Qiushi grabbed the milk on the table and tried to pour it on the ground. Her body put out the fire, but it didn't work.

In just a minute or two, the girl who was as beautiful as a flower turned into a charred corpse in front of everyone.

"Ouch" Someone vomited out on the spot, and the faces of the others were not very good-looking.

It is said that burning to death is the most painful way to die. Lin Qiushi slowly walked back to Ruan Nanzhu and put down the milk jug in his hand.

It seems that what happened last night is the reason why this girl died.

"Xiaoyan!! Xiaoyan!!" The remaining girl burst into tears, jumping beside the charred corpse, her expression almost collapsing.

Lin Qiushi watched without saying a word.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Are you alright?"

Lin Qiushi shook his head, indicating that he was fine. In fact, he has also seen a lot of bloody scenes, but the scene in front of him is too terrifying... It is indeed the difficulty of the ninth door. On the first night I came in, someone was caught.

"It's disgusting." Luo Qianshui, who was sitting not far away, said coldly, standing up and leaving, "disgusting."

Her brother left the restaurant behind her.

Luo Qianshui's attitude is too indifferent, but in fact, her attitude is the mainstream. When this happened, most of the people in the room were numb. Only in the five-member group with some newcomers, some people were vomiting, and some people showed shrinking expressions.

"I'm so scared, Sister Xia." A young boy said to the leading woman.

The woman called Sister Xia should be the one who brought them in. She said, "Don't be afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of. As long as you are obedient and follow the rules, nothing will happen." She said so.

Although this seems like a perfunctory, it seems that it can only be so, the fear on the face of the young man has not diminished.

Ruan Nanzhu also stood up: "Let's go, go and have a look around."

They left the restaurant and went to the street near the apartment.

Unlike the previous world, this world seems to be open. There are endless crowds on the bustling streets, all kinds of shops around, and buses that can reach other places, and even the currency used is the same as the world they were originally in.

Lin Qiushi looked at everything around him and was really curious: "Can I go anywhere else?"

"Yes." Ruan Nanzhu said, "as long as you come back before dark."

Lin Qiushi: "What if you don't come back?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Then you will be able to see all kinds of strange ways of dying." His words were very firm, and he had obviously seen these situations.

"Is this world complete?" Even though he had restrained himself, Lin Qiushi still had a lot of questions he wanted to ask. He looked at the crepes on the street, "Is something edible?"

"Well." Ruan Nanzhu said, "It should taste good."

So Lin Qiushi bought three of them, one for each person.

Lin Qiushi chose the chocolate-flavored crepe with ice cream in it. He took a bite and thought it was really delicious. He said vaguely, "What's the difference between this world and the real world?"

Ruan Nanzhu said, "The difference? Probably the biggest difference is that there are ghosts in this world." He continued, "I'll go ask about the apartment."

He went to a small shop near the apartment and asked some shopkeepers.

I have to say that the advantages of women's clothing are undoubtedly revealed at this time. These shopkeepers are very friendly towards Ruan Nanzhu. There is even a candy shop owner in his thirties who gave Ruan Nanzhu a box of candy, saying that if he is free in the evening If you can make an appointment...

Ruan Nanzhu bluntly refused his invitation.

I have to say that these NPCs are completely different from the NPCs in the previous doors. They are more like normal humans, and they cannot tell the difference from the real world from their words or behaviors.

Even Lin Qiushi was a little dazed: "Are we really inside the door?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Of course." He glanced at Lin Qiushi, "The higher the difficulty of the door, the greater the coincidence rate with reality, the tenth door I entered before..." He stopped here after speaking. There was a slightly gloomy taste in his eyes, as if he remembered some unpleasant memory.

Lin Qiushi didn't ask when he saw it, he just assumed he didn't see it.

In addition to this, they still inquired a lot about the apartment.

There was a fire in this apartment two years ago, and a family of three died in the fire. It is said that the family of three came to this city for tourism, but this happened...

"Is the apartment burned down?" The place where Ruan Nanzhu heard the news was a small newsstand next to the apartment. This newsstand seemed to be a little old, and the newspaper seller was an old man.

"That's right, it's a whole floor." The old man said, "The apartment was renovated later. The walls outside were covered with mirrors because they were blackened by smoke." He pushed up his glasses and used an old The voice said, "The reflected light is really eye-catching..."

Lin Qiushi thought of the mother and daughter he saw in the mirror, and it seemed that they were the victims of the fire.

"You'd better not live in it, it's haunted." The old man said, "It is said that people cry every night..."

"Which floor is the burned-out apartment?" Lin Qiushi asked.

"The thirty-fourth floor." The old man replied.

The thirty-fourth floor—it was where they lived. It seemed that the key had something to do with the fire.

After walking around outside, it was lunch time, and the three planned to return to the apartment.

It was noon now, and the sun was shining from the sky, hitting the mirror outside the apartment, reflecting a dazzling light. The whole apartment was so bright that it was impossible to look directly at it. The whole building seemed to be caught in a dazzling flame. Lin Qiushi only glanced at it, and tears flowed from his eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu said, "Why are you crying so cute?"

Lin Qiushi glanced at Ruan Nanzhu with red eyes.

As a result, the scene came in an instant. When he arrived at the restaurant, he told Lin Qiushi in front of everyone to stop crying, and he would be responsible for him.

Lin Qiushi: "..." Forget it, you'll be happy.

Cheng Yixie didn't say a word, and pretended to be a background board very wisely. Seeing this, Lin Qiushi strongly suspected that he had also been teased by Ruan Nanzhu many times.

During lunch time, many people did not come to eat here. After all, there are bustling streets outside, and there are many options, so you don't have to squeeze into the restaurant.

However, Luo Qianshan and Luo Qianshui, who had seen them before, were also there, and Luo Qianshui saw Ruan Nanzhu throw two more white eyes at him.

Ruan Nanzhu smiled and took the white eyes, patted his chest and said how he felt like being chased and bitten by a dog.

He almost didn't rush Luo Qianshui over to fight her.

Lin Qiushi once again expressed his admiration for Ruan Nanzhu's skill in teasing her sister, but the word tease has a new annotation on Ruan Nanzhu's body, and rounding is basically equal to provocation. If the angry girl is a bull, then Ruan Nanzhu is the red cloth that makes the bull angry...

The author has something to say: I'm so sleepy every day, I can't wait to sleep for sixteen hours _(:3∠)_