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Chapter 91 Death Apartment (7)
On the other side, Zhang Fengnian and Jiang Zheng walked straight to the first floor after escaping the room on the third floor.
As guessed before, it seems that the three locations mentioned in the story have some important clues hidden. Although the two of them did not find the life-saving things hidden in the prompts on the third floor, they found the true face of the woman on the third floor. It cannot be said that there is no gain at all.
Now that woman may return to the room on the third floor at any time, and they can continue to check in another place.
Among the fifth and first floors where there may also be important clues, the two chose the first floor without thinking.
Under the circumstance that the two are currently of equal importance, the first floor can also monitor the frequency of the prostitute leaving the apartment from time to time, and find out the time pattern of her departure, so that she can be searched more carefully when she is not in the future. s room.
The apartment was very quiet at this time, and there was no sound coming from the fourth and fifth floors. Zhang Fengnian and Jiang Zheng didn't know if the two couples were in trouble. After all, they each had a new person with them.
Zhang Fengnian glanced up as he passed the stairs, as if he could vaguely see a swaying shadow, not very humanoid.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Zheng urged him to go down. Although there is a risk of being stabbed in the back when doing tasks with experienced and old readers, when a crisis comes, the two can share the pressure from unknown dangers, which is safer most of the time.
Jiang Zheng saw him stop and looked up, thinking that Zhang Fengnian didn't want to go downstairs with him, so he couldn't help urging.
Zhang Fengnian withdrew his gaze and silently raised his feet and walked down, but his brain was spinning frantically.
What was the image that flashed by him just now?
Is it an illusion?
Zhang Fengnian thought of the last sentence in the story, the object that floats in the apartment and will harvest life at any time. Could it be that thing?
The swaying shadow he saw just now seemed to be walking towards a higher place.
Is it the fourth floor or the fifth floor?
Zhang Fengnian didn't stop walking down. No matter which floor the thing went to, he didn't mean to go up to help. On the contrary, he hoped that a group of people on the fourth and fifth floors could face the thing.
Old readers have the means to save their lives and will not die easily. Two newcomers are a bit risky, and they may sacrifice one.
But after dealing with it, you can probably know what kind of thing they are facing.
Now that he didn't know the depth of that thing, Zhang Fengnian didn't want to be the first person to meet it, so he chose to shut up, pretending that he didn't see the scene at all, and walked to the first floor silently go.
On the first floor... just one Cheng Kun...
Zhang Fengnian was thinking about things in his heart, and his attention was naturally less concentrated. After Jiang Zheng who was walking in front of him suddenly stopped, Zhang Fengnian did not stop in time, and put it on him directly.
"Fuck!"
Without waiting for Zhang Fengnian to frown, he heard Jiang Zheng, who was hit by him and stumbled a few steps forward, cursed secretly.
Obviously the other party didn't stop for no reason, Zhang Fengnian bypassed him and looked forward.
I saw Cheng Kun sitting on the rocking chair that the old man was lying on when they first entered the apartment during the day.
The rocking chair swayed and swayed. Maybe Cheng Kun's body was too tall and strong, and the rattan rocking chair was a little overwhelmed and made a creaking sound.
Cheng Kun closed his eyes tightly, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Jiang Zheng and Zhang Fengnian did not dare to rush forward to test his breath, and their expressions were a little solemn.
"clatter"
After another squeak, there was the crisp sound of the feet that had been suspended in the air suddenly landing.
Jiang Zheng and Zhang Fengnian subconsciously took several steps back, looking at Cheng Kun warily.
"Why did you come down? Why are you looking at me with this expression?"
When Cheng Kun opened his eyes, he was startled by Jiang Zheng and Zhang Fengnian who suddenly appeared not far away.
Shouldn't these two be checking on the third floor? How did he come to the first floor? He still doesn't know how much impact the scene of him sitting on the rocking chair with his eyes closed had on the two of them.
Cheng Kun left the rocking chair, straightened his trouser legs after standing up, he left that strange room not long ago, and after he came out, he was inexplicably attracted by this slowly shaking rocking chair placed on the aisle.
There was a voice in his heart urging him to sit up, Cheng Kunyi was so bold that he really sat up.
He felt the temperature of his body drop, as if something heavy was pressing on him, making him gradually out of breath, but before he could fight back, it might be because of the sudden appearance of Jiang Zheng and Zhang Fengnian, that kind of The feeling is gone again.
It was also because of this sudden change that Cheng Kun opened his eyes and found Jiang Zheng and Zhang Fengnian not far away.
If these two people hadn't appeared, I might have caught that old man who was elusive.
Cheng Kun kept his expression on his face. Before he found a clue through this discovery, he would not share it with others.
"Did you find any clues on the third floor?"
Cheng Kun chose to take the initiative.
"Nope, what about you?"
Jiang Zheng secretly thought about Cheng Kun's strange behavior just now, and also concealed what he found on the third floor. The piece of minced meat he picked up on the floor has now been transferred from the palm of his hand to his trouser pocket, and no one else knows the existence of that thing.
Zhang Fengnian remained silent, but looked at Cheng Kun with deep meaning in his eyes, and then at the reclining chair behind him.
There must be something wrong with this recliner!
What is it?
Is that thing coming?
Why is there a human limb in the bucket that I kicked over just now?
Perhaps it was because of holding her breath for too long that she was about to lack oxygen. In Yu Zhuzhu's mind, only these questions kept flashing over and over again, but she only asked questions, her dizzy brain was completely incapable of thinking.
Moreover, as a newcomer without special abilities, she was in the dark at this time, and the source of all her perception was hearing and smell, and she couldn't see anything, so she naturally had no way of knowing the source of the crisis.
But people are like this, the more unknown things, the more fearful they are.
If it wasn't for Gu Chu's distracted attention to her, and timely removing her hands covering her nose and mouth, she might have become the first person in "One Hundred Thousand" to hold her breath and suffocate herself to death for fear of attracting the attention of ghosts. reader.
It may be because only the brain subconsciously controls the arm in the later stage. The muscles of her arm covering her mouth and nose are already stiff. Fortunately, Gu Chu is strong enough to break it apart.
Judging from Gu Chu's experience of entering the "Hundred Thousand" stories several times, ghosts do not always find people through breathing, they have their own set of rules of behavior, and ghosts in different story backgrounds are also different. Yu Zhuzhu judged the ghosts in "One Hundred Thousand" through real-life film and television dramas, and she might not be acclimatized.
At this time, under Gu Chu's actions, Yu Zhuzhu also realized that she seemed to have done something stupid just now. She was glad that the environment here was dark enough, otherwise Gu Chu would definitely be able to see her face so hot that she could fry eggs on the spot.
How embarrassing!
Fortunately, she didn't know that Gu Chu could actually see her series of reactions in Gu Chu's eyes, but in Gu Chu's eyes, it was not a shameful thing, and at the moment she only divided One percent of her energy was devoted to her, and the remaining ninety-nine percent was all preparing for the thing that was getting closer.
At this time, if Yu Zhuzhu raised her head and looked to the side, she could see a pair of eyes that glowed scarlet even in the darkness, staring at the stairs around the corner.
It's getting closer!
On the ground at the top of the stairs, she saw an elongated shadow!
It was the few lights from the fourth floor scattered into the corridor, and the shadow was slowly elongating and fading, which indicated that it was getting higher and higher, and the ordinary naked eye could not see the reflection on the ground at all, that is, Zombie eyes can distinguish this faint color difference.
Huge, twisted, with no regular shape!
It doesn't look like a silhouette!
The strong smell of blood filled the whole room, which made Gu Chu's zombie instinct boil to the peak. She sensed a huge resentment, and it seemed that she could hear countless screams. Chaos, no order at all, in the last world, Gu Chu used to resolve the crisis by absorbing resentment, but the resentment he sensed just now, because of its chaos, made Gu Chu intuit that he could not be the same as sucking resentment. Overcome it.
Getting closer, getting closer!
Until a second ago, it stopped at the top of the stairs, and Gu Chu's muscles all tensed up, waiting for it to step on the last step.
Compared to Gu Chu, Yu Zhuzhu couldn't see or hear, and the fear in her heart intensified. All kinds of scary ghost images from the ghost movies she had watched all appeared in her mind in turn.
She felt the tension in Gu Chu's body. At this moment, Gu Chu's reaction had become a way for her to judge the situation.
Is that thing coming?
Yu Zhuzhu could hear her violently vibrating heartbeat, the pounding sound seemed to be beating a drum, and the next second either her heart was broken, or it jumped out of her throat. This kind of torment of unknown death was really It is to boil people.
five minutes...scared
ten minutes...scared
Fifteen minutes... a little scary
Twenty minutes... I'm afraid I'm tired
Yu Zhuzhu counted the time in her heart, and she didn't dare to doubt whether there was a problem with Gu Chu's judgment, but she felt that the scary thing was quite patient and didn't jump out after such a long time.
After another ten minutes, Yu Zhuzhu was so relaxed that she started to move her hands and feet. Standing so tensely all the time, her legs and feet were sore and numb.
Her mentality has changed from being afraid of seeing something scary at the beginning to hoping to see that scary thing soon.
Gu Chu's patience is better than hers. When catching drug dealers before, she once stayed in the ventilation duct for seventeen hours without eating or drinking. This amount of time was just a drop in the bucket.
She was just thinking, why didn't that thing come up?
Is it because of some restrictions, or because... there are more terrifying things in this layer...
Gu Chu woke up instantly, and began to look around the room without any light. She didn't have any strange sensations. Did she think too much, or that thing hadn't appeared yet?
After another twenty minutes, the thing that had been stagnant at the top of the stairs began to move, but instead of stepping on the last step, it slowly retreated. Gu Chu watched the shadow at the entrance getting shorter and shorter until it disappeared .
Is it safe? Yu Zhuzhu felt that Gu Chu's tight body was gradually softening.
She also relaxed a little bit, but before she could take a comfortable breath, the sound of explosion in her ear scared half of her souls away again.
"Boom—"
There was a sound of a sharp weapon chopping heavily on the flesh and bones, and the flesh and bones were split open.
"Boom—boom—boom—"
It seemed that he had come to the side of the butcher shop in the vegetable market. The pork guy took a sharp bone chopping knife and chopped up the piles of pork with skin, flesh and bones.
This voice came from this room, from somewhere around them.
Yu Zhuzhu was dumbfounded by this sudden shock. There was still no end to it, and it stopped for a second before another thing appeared. This feeling of being on and off was the most irritating.
This time, Gu Chu is not much better than her.
Because she didn't see anything, voices seemed to be coming from all directions.
There is no image, and there is no resentment and evil atmosphere, just the sound of chopping flesh and bones.
Could it be an echo of something that once happened in this room?
The human body stump in the bucket that was kicked over by Yu Zhuzhu, and the strange sound of chopping meat, if you connect the two, can you guess that someone once chopped up one or more people in this room? The body, the sound of chopping meat was left at that time...
Let's expand a little further. Have the uncle's long-awaited daughter on the first floor and the lover of the prostitute's waiting lover on the third floor all been chopped up, and the bodies are hidden in these buckets?
Gu Chu felt that there must be some clues that she had overlooked.
She listened to the uninterrupted sound of chopping flesh and bones in her ear, and kept Yu Zhuzhu in place, while she walked to the edge of the buckets, lifted the lids of the buckets, and reached into the buckets.
Yu Zhuzhu vaguely guessed what she was doing, but the voice in her ear and the thing she touched when she kicked the bucket just now made her tremble. She moved her toes forward and backed away.
An arm!
A sole!
An eyeball!
Gu Chu could almost pick up these things without changing his face and identify them.
The strange thing is that there are a lot of mildew spots on the walls and the ground of their room, and the water in the bathtub and the squatting pit has even grown algae, but the body parts in these buckets are still very fresh.
It's like it was just split!
This idea flashed through Gu Chu's mind, but he didn't have time to catch it.
Forensics can judge whether the owner of the corpse is a man or a woman by observing the distribution of muscle, fat, skin and skeleton in a special part of the corpse with the naked eye. This can also be done by experienced criminal police.
Gu Chu endured the desire to swallow and fished out a lot of corpses, some without features, and the rest of the corpses that could be slightly distinguished were all from female victims.
If according to her previous guess, the daughter waiting for the old man and the lover waiting for the prostitute were actually killed by the owner of this room, then where did the body of the male victim go?
Gu Chu looked at the remaining large buckets, which might be in those buckets that had not been checked.
The sound of chopping flesh and bones in the ear continued, and the sound became more and more deafening, and even made people inexplicably produce a kind of, the next second, the sharp bone-chopping knife would chop on himself.
With almost every split, Yu Zhuzhu's body trembled.
She heard the sound of Gu Chu flipping the buckets, and she seemed to be checking the contents of the buckets.
Yu Zhuzhu bit her lower lip, did she just wait?
After hesitating for a long time, she finally took a step forward and groped to Gu Chu's side, then touched another bucket of water that had not been opened, held her breath, endured nausea and fear, and fished out a pile of meat from it block, and then forwarded it to Gu Chu.
She also didn't know what Gu Chu did with these corpses. Anyway, they were experienced readers, and they might have some special ability to get clues from these corpses.
She's such a scumbag, it's good to be responsible for the fight.
When she saw Yu Zhuzhu coming over, Gu Chu was stunned. After realizing Yu Zhuzhu's intention, she wanted to say that she would come. Afraid of nausea and fear, she took out the corpse from the bucket and handed it to her hand. With shaking hands and feet, Gu Chu swallowed what he wanted to say.
Now that she has been selected by "One Hundred Thousand", Yu Zhuzhu has the courage to face it, which is a good thing for her.
This time, she thought she helped her and stopped her, which was not good for Yu Zhuzhu's growth.
So two people began to divide the labor, one was scooping and the other was in charge of identification. After all the corpses in several buckets were salvaged and distinguished, Gu Chu still did not find any evidence that some of the corpses belonged to male victims.
Could it be that she thought wrong, the lover waiting for the prostitute has nothing to do with this story? Or, the man who disappeared was actually the murderer behind the scenes?
Not long after the last corpse was picked up, the sound of chopping flesh and bones in the room disappeared. Judging from the literal clues of the story, this may mean that the night has passed and dawn has come!
Facing the corpses that had piled up into hills, because the ground was too broken, Gu Chu, who was not a forensic doctor, couldn't put them together completely, but judging from the parts with obvious features that she had just handled, there were at least three. more than one victim.
"It's over, is it over?"
Yu Zhuzhu asked reluctantly, the scary voice was finally over, and the corpses in the bucket had been fished out. It was obvious that she was starving to death, but at this moment Yu Zhuzhu couldn't have any appetite at all.
She just wanted to find a place to take a bath, but in this closed room, there was no drinking water to quench her thirst, so where could the water come to give her a bath?
Gu Chu glanced at the pile of corpses, and did not intend to put them back into the bucket. Knowing that Yu Zhuzhu could not see the way, she walked over, took her hand, and left the only room on the fifth floor, facing the building. Go down.
When I walked to the middle of the stairs on the fourth and fifth floors, there was a faint light. When I walked to the corridor on the fourth floor, the originally dim light was in Yu Zhuzhu's eyes, just like the scorching sun, and the eyes that stayed in the dark for a long time couldn't stand the strong light. The stimulation, while closing the eyes, the tears could not stop secreting.
It took a while for her to adjust to the current brightness.
The little girl's first reaction was to raise her arms.
"vomit"
The food in the stomach has long been digested, and all the spit out at this time is stomach acid.
Although she had already made psychological preparations, Yu Zhuzhu felt disgusted and collapsed when she saw the blood plasma and minced meat on her arms and some dark and slender hair.
The mentality that was being held back collapsed at this moment, crying and vomiting at the same time, looking so miserable.
"It's okay, vomit, I'm fine, let me, vomit—let me vomit for a while."
Yu Zhuzhu waved at Gu Chu, her throat hurt because of the surging stomach acid, and her eyeballs were congested and swollen because of forced vomiting.
For a moment, she thought that instead of living in this place, she might as well just die.
But this thought just flashed by, why did she die? If she was going to die, she committed suicide when she first entered the game. Now she has stayed up all night, soaking her hands in the corpse water for several hours, her skin is wrinkled, and her nose is so smoky that the pungent smell is about to fail. Why is she To die after having suffered so much and overcome those fears.
Yu Zhuzhu wiped her mouth with a fairly clean cloth, and when she stood up again, her eyes were a little weaker and stronger than those who were reborn from the ashes.
"Where are we going now? Should we find someone else to join?"
After calming down, Yu Zhuzhu asked Gu Chu.
Because there is no watch or mobile phone, unless you have been reciting counting in your heart, it is difficult to judge the approximate time just by feeling, and now Gu Chu can only judge by the clues provided in the story.
Assuming that the sound on the fifth floor would end late at night, at least ten hours had passed since they went upstairs and when they left the fifth floor, which is one night.
"Let's take a look first."
Gu Chu glanced at the doors on the fourth floor, they were all closed, and there was no sound. Xu Chaoqiong and Liu Lin who had checked the fourth floor didn't seem to be on this floor.
When Yu Zhuzhu was about to go downstairs, Gu Chu asked her to wait first.
She went back to her room 403. Everything in the room was the same as when she left. Gu Chu's eyes stayed on the doorknob for a moment. This momentary pause didn't even bother Yu Zhuzhu, who had been paying attention to her. Find.
Gu Chu walked back to the room and picked up the sheet on the ground that she thought dirty before throwing it on the ground.
"Wipe it."
Compared with the unknown old dirt and mildew on the sheets, it seems that their hands are now more dirty.
Yu Zhuzhu didn't dislike it either. She and Gu Chu each grabbed a bed sheet and wiped off the blood and flesh from their hands. Some blood and flesh were embedded in the nails, and some blood stains had dried out, not so easy. Wipe it off, but after a busy job, it doesn't look as disgusting as before.
Gu Chu was thinking about a problem while wiping.
Her hair tied to the doorknob was not broken, that is to say, the doorknob had not been turned.
But didn't Xu Chaoqiong and Liu Lin choose to check the room on the fourth floor? Is it because she knew that 403 was her room, so she just skipped this room?
She can't guess.
Gu Chu concealed this discovery, not because she was jealous of Yu Zhuzhu, but because it was not necessary to tell the discovery now, and she wanted to hear what Xu Chaoqiong and Liu Lin had to say after the meeting.
For Liu Lin, the woman she had seen on the promotional posters of Kaizhong Science and Technology Park, Gu Chu was always a little skeptical.
Judging from the clues she found before entering "One Hundred Thousand", Liu Lin is very likely to be Wang Ting's new identity after a facelift, regardless of age, identity, or even the face she obviously used a knife.
The corpse case encountered in real life has not yet been solved. In "One Hundred Thousand", a story similar to the dismemberment case was tossed out, and Liu Lin happened to be selected as a newcomer by "One Hundred Thousand" in this story. It's too coincidental.
After 70% or 80% of the dirt was wiped off, the two left room 403. The corridor on the fourth floor was still empty. Neither Xu Chaoqiong and Liu Lin were heard. Maybe they really weren't on the fourth floor.
Gu Chu pricked up his ears to listen, and after confirming that there was no sound, he chose to go downstairs with Yu Zhuzhu.
After all, the two of them spent too much time on the fifth floor trying to identify all the corpses. During such a long time, the others might have already checked the site they selected and ran to find some other people to meet.
According to the urine nature of "100,000", one or more people will die every day, and most of the deaths occur in the middle of the night. Now, one night is likely to have passed. Among the remaining five people, don't know if anyone died. , Thinking of this, Gu Chu accelerated the speed of going downstairs again.
When walking to the turn of the stairs from the third floor to the second floor, Gu Chu who was walking in front suddenly stopped.
The two people who were supposed to be on the fourth floor appeared in front of them.
Xu Chaoqiong's head was cut off, her eyes were completely split, her mouth was open, and her face was in an extremely distorted state, as if she had seen a terrifying picture before her death. The blood water that came out soaked the entire stone brick, and some blood water dripped down the edge of the stairs drop by drop.
Liu Lin hugged her head and curled up in the corner. The high heels on her feet had long since escaped and hid. She didn't know that she was kicked and kicked there. She seemed to have been frightened. Shaking non-stop, the whole person is embarrassed.
Gu Chu and Yu Zhuzhu were several meters away from her, and they could hear the chattering sound of her upper and lower teeth chattering.
Yu Zhuzhu was someone who had seen the big scene not long ago, but when she saw the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but vomit. She vomited psychologically. In fact, she could only vomit and vomit, but couldn't even spit out a little stomach acid.
Just touching so many corpses with my own hands, and seeing with my own eyes a person I had spoken to and had contact with died in such a tragic way in front of me are two completely different feelings.
Moreover, Xu Chaoqiong's identity is a bit special. She is the first old reader who took the initiative to comfort the newcomers after entering "One Hundred Thousand". Her attitude towards her and Liu Lin is kind and gentle, just like the friendly elders in real life. people feel close.
Her death made Yu Zhuzhu difficult to accept.
There was the sound of footsteps going upstairs from below. It was Cheng Kun and his group. They were standing on the stairs on the second floor. They saw the blood dripping down the stairs. They accelerated upstairs and quickly found Xu Chaoqiong's body. , as well as Liu Lin, who seemed to be completely frightened, and Gu Chu and Yu Zhuzhu who were standing on a higher step.
The three were silent, and no one expected that the one who died on the first night was not a newcomer, but an experienced reader.
Zhang Fengnian subconsciously thought of the strange image he saw when he went downstairs before.
Is it that thing?