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Chapter 99 Death Apartment (15)
Strictly speaking, only Cheng Kun had been to the first floor.
The rest of the people only had a relationship with the old man described in the story when they first entered the apartment, and they didn't know anything about the situation in the rooms on the first floor.
In the process of going downstairs, they not only recalled the scenes they found after entering the apartment, pondered over the details they ignored, but also were alert to the dangers that might appear in the corridor at any time.
Like the monster wandering in the apartment, or the prostitute on the third floor.
It's just that this journey seems to be too calm, there are no monsters, and there are no female ghosts between the first floor and the third floor.
After smelling the smell of human flesh and blood from Jiang Zheng's group, Gu Chu's heart has been raised, and his vigilant mind has never been put down because of the calm at the moment. don't know if it is her illusion. His aura seemed to have changed, and there was an inexplicable feeling on his back, but he looked around, but found nothing.
Gu Chu sensed danger, but she didn't know where this feeling came from. This was what frightened her the most.
Liu Lin...
Zhang Fengnian...
Jiang Zheng...
Cheng Kun...
There is also Xu Chaoqiong, who died the earliest and is very likely to be a member of the Fair...
Everyone, every word they said after entering the apartment, every behavior, every expression, was played back countless times in Gu Chu's mind.
"One Hundred Thousand" gave two paths, among them, who else chose evil?
Gu Chu's eyes stayed on Zhang Fengnian and Cheng Kun for a little longer.
Zhang Fengnian, this seemingly unremarkable man, was the first person to mention their lack of food and water, and to lead them to notice the living "food" in the apartment. There was another scene that Gu Chu never ignored, and that was the reaction of everyone present when he discovered Xu Chaoqiong's broken body.
As for Cheng Kun, pay attention to him, also from his description of Chu Xiangru next to Xu Chaoqiong's body.
The words reveal the admiration and admiration that cannot be concealed. In front of so many unidentified and unfamiliar readers, this admiration bluntly puts its own position and fairness on the opposite side.
As for Jiang Zheng, who almost bluntly showed that he ate human flesh, he didn't let Gu Chu spend too much time exploring.
Xu Chaoqiong is a member of the Fair Club, but who said that in a story, there can only be one member of the Fair Club?
Gu Chu lowered his eyes and looked at the steps under his feet.
Even Yu Zhuzhu, who was walking next to her, didn't notice Gu Chu's special attention to Zhang Fengnian and Cheng Kun, because in the eyes of others, the time she spent looking at the two of them for a second or two was fleeting. Going up, it was just that Gu Chu looked around at everyone.
The corridor on the first floor was as dark as ever, and the door of the apartment was tightly closed since they entered. So far, they have only seen the "woman" on the third floor.
There are only a few dim corridor lights in the long and narrow corridor, and the filaments of several bulbs seem to be malfunctioning, which adds to the tense atmosphere out of thin air.
"These rooms can't be opened."
After arriving on the first floor, Cheng Kun pointed to 105, 106 and other rooms that he tried to open, but couldn't.
"108 seems to be a girl's room. I didn't find any clues in this room, but..."
Cheng Kun observed the expressions of several people present, and then continued to speak.
"But I saw the old man in this room, and he suddenly appeared behind me, patted me on the shoulder, and asked what I was looking for."
Although Cheng Kun's expression was calm when describing it, everyone can imagine how scary the scene was at that time, especially Yu Zhuzhu, who had never experienced this, just imagine the kind of bridges that appear in horror movies. Her lips were already white, her teeth were clenched tightly, and Gu Chu, who was standing beside her, could even hear the rubbing sound of Grid.
"But when I turned around, the old man was gone."
Cheng Kun didn't check all the rooms on the first floor. After discovering the old man behind him, he left Room 108 immediately. When he rushed out the door, there was no thin ghost at both ends of the aisle, only the rocking chair was always there. It was swaying slowly, and there was no wind in the aisle, and the leisurely rocking posture was as if something was sitting on it all the time, and its own weight was causing the rocking chair to rock.
So Cheng Kun sat on the rocking chair by surprise.
Of course, he didn't completely lose his mind, but he was just a daring artist, relying on his own means to save his life.
In that rocking chair, Cheng Kun really had some unexpected gains.
At the moment when he lay down, he seemed to be possessed by something, and several fragments flashed in his mind one after another.
They are all fragmentary pictures. From the perspective of "his" eyes, he saw a little girl grow from a babbling baby to a graceful girl.
There are only two father and daughter in the picture, and it seems that only the two of them have been dependent on each other in those years.
In the few scenes of life that occasionally appeared, the living conditions of the father and daughter were also very ordinary. They ate poor food, and occasionally they were a bit meaty... The white peony-patterned sheets he saw in Room 108 were washed. The man sold two loads of newly harvested millet and exchanged them for his daughter. The girl was very happy, but she still complained bitterly that the old man had spent a lot of money, and the little girl had used the bed sheet for eleven years...
These are the few warm scenes in the picture. After that, the girl grew up and went to work outside the mountain with her little sister in the same village. The girl said that she would work hard to earn money to come back, build a house for her father, and give him the elderly. Since then, Most of the pictures Cheng Kun saw were of men working hard in the fields, occasionally looking out into the mountains and looking into the distance.
Because of the difficult mountain road, the postman here will go into the mountain twice a month to deliver letters to the people on the mountain, and to receive a letter from his daughter is the happiest time for a man.
He kept all the letters, and when he was thinking of his daughter, he took out the letters from under the pillow, which had been soaked with sweat and gradually turned yellow due to frequent strokes. In fact, he had only been in the literacy class for half a year, and he couldn't understand it at all. Most of the words above, every new letter sent back, had to be read to him by the volunteer teacher in the village, and then by memory, guessed the few words he recognized and the radicals of some words, and that's it. , to accompany him through the late nights of missing his daughter.
In a few scenes that appeared later, the expression of the man when he turned out the letter from under the pillow began to gradually become restless. He began to look out of the mountain more and more frequently, and anxiously held the postman who only entered the mountain once in half a month. Ask for your own letter.
Cheng Kun noticed that the postman's movements were always shaking his head, and he also noticed that the thick pile of letters had never been added later.
girl lost contact...
The crops in the field were abandoned by the increasingly worried man. Cheng Kun used his perspective to go down the mountain and saw the scene at the foot of the mountain. These scenes also made Cheng Kun affirm the background of this story - the 1990s.
In the fleeting scenes, Cheng Kun followed the owner of the eyes to the city where he worked as mentioned in the girl's letter, and also found the fellow who brought the girl down the mountain to work, but unfortunately found nothing.
His daughter was missing, the police station appeared on the screen, and the man's figure also appeared in the streets and alleys. He held a homemade sign to look for his missing daughter. Unfortunately, he couldn't even provide a photo of the missing daughter. , the only description that can be given is the appearance of her daughter when she just left the mountain village.
Hot summer and winter, countless spring and autumn, until the man closes his eyes forever.
The daughter has never been found. Nowadays, it is very difficult to find missing women and children under surveillance, not to mention that in the 1990s, the girl may have been abducted and taken to another deep mountain and forest to give birth to men who can’t marry a daughter-in-law. , perhaps already dead.
Compared to these speculations, the dead old man may have hoped that his daughter was unwilling to take care of him as a burden. After leaving the small mountain village, he chose to avoid him far away and live happily in another place.
When Zhang Fengnian and Jiang Zheng came to look for him on the first floor before, Cheng Kun just watched the old man's life.
The experience of the other party just matched the sentence mentioned in the story-the uncle on the first floor was waiting for his daughter who did not return home.
Obviously, the uncle was because he couldn't find the ghost of his daughter who was dying. In addition, there were some unexpected gains in these memories.
In addition to learning the background of the story, Cheng Kun also had doubts about the apartment.
The protagonist and the missing girl in the perspective live in a slightly dilapidated village house. The main body is built with stones and wood on the mountain, and it is not the apartment building in front of you at all.
The layout of Room 108, however, just happened to restore the layout of the missing girl's home bedroom. Cheng Kun still remembers the washed white sheet with a peony flower pattern.
It was apparently incorporated into this apartment building for some reason.
Cheng Kun suspected that the prostitute's bedroom on the third floor and the mysterious room on the fifth floor in the story did not belong to this apartment building, but because of some connection, they appeared here at the same time, forming another dimension.
That's why, after they entered the apartment, they couldn't leave, and through the windows, they couldn't tell the difference between day and night.
Although the clues they got were different, at this moment, Cheng Kun, like Gu Chu, had discovered something special about the apartment.
Cheng Kun was thinking about the commonality of these people or things that appeared in the apartment building, and why these things converged in this apartment building.
At first, Cheng Kun thought about whether the girl on the third floor might be the missing daughter of the old man, but he quickly dispelled this idea. After all, the old man and the woman on the third floor often met, and he once asked the woman who went out to help her. He looked for his daughter, and if this woman was the old man's daughter, there was no reason why he should not recognize it.
Afterwards, Cheng Kun began to think again, could it be that the reason for the appearance of the woman is the same as that of the old man?
[The uncle on the first floor is waiting for his daughter who will not return home, and the prostitute on the third floor is waiting for his lover who disappeared]
Is the woman's missing lover with the old man's missing daughter? The two of them eloped together? Or, was it because they were murdered and abducted in the same way?
In Cheng Kun's mind, he recalled the true face of the female ghost on the third floor that he saw not long ago. The death of the other party was extremely miserable, and his body was severely abused. Cheng Kun was more willing to believe that she was also a victim. Maybe she disappeared with the old man. The character who has the same story background as her daughter is right, but in this case, what role is the unidentified lover?
Cheng Kun thought, there must be clues to prove their identities left in this apartment.
"Let's act separately."
After arriving on the first floor, Jiang Zheng spoke first. He dodged his gaze at everyone, with fear, apprehension, and a somewhat erratic guilty conscience.
That's right, as Gu Chu guessed, Jiang Zheng couldn't help being tempted and devoured human flesh when he was on the fifth floor. At that time, he thought that the dead are not as important as the living. He killed him, he was right, whoever imagined, after going downstairs, he found that Gu Chu had already found something to fill his stomach.
Jiang Zheng vaguely felt that he seemed to have made a wrong choice, but now, he could only bite the bullet and go on.
Now among the remaining five people, Cheng Kun, Liu Lin, and Zhang Fengnian, these three people were with him before, in that dark environment, he didn't know who among them was eating human flesh together, but he could For sure, the sound of chewing and swallowing was definitely not the only one at that time.
So he doesn't believe in any of these three people. Although he has found countless reasons for his cannibalism, Jiang Zheng knows in his heart that he can't trust a person who can abandon the morality he has received for decades before the end of the world. Educate a partner who devours human flesh. In order to survive, that person must not be stingy about attacking those around him.
Jiang Zheng himself is such a person, and he is unwilling to stay by such a person's side.
As for Gu Chu and Yu Zhuzhu, these two people did not eat human flesh, but Jiang Zheng always felt inexplicably guilty when facing them, at least for a short time, he was unwilling to get along with these two people.
Is there anyone present who doesn't have his own little thoughts, probably only Yu Zhuzhu, who entered the story for the first time, is relatively innocent.
As for Liu Lin, who also entered the game for the first time, she has been silent since she came down from the fifth floor, and she seems to want to let people around her ignore her. Wanting to cover up their thoughts, few people really can see through.
Therefore, acting separately has become a default consensus again.
After all, they can't trust each other right now.
More than half of the 72-hour survival time has passed. As time approaches, they will encounter more and more crises. They must quickly find the key to the puzzle, which is also the key to saving their lives.
The space on one floor can be very large or small. For life-saving things that may be hidden, this range is very large, but for people with ulterior motives, on the same floor, slightly increase the volume, The distance that can be heard by people at the other end of the aisle seems a bit small again.
But even so, it can't hold back those who have ulterior motives and have already lost their patience.
Cheng Kun checked rooms 150, 106...108, and judged that room 108 was suspected to be the room of the missing daughter of the old man in the story, so some readers who got this clue ran to room 108 immediately, such as Jiang Zheng.
Gu Chu and the others also checked the rooms on both sides of the aisle on this side. Everyone raced against time to search for clues, and to be wary of those readers who were close to them. I really didn't pay much attention to it, after all, it's easy to ignore the clues in front of me if I focus on it.
Cheng Kun came to the corridor at the other end, opened one of the doors and walked in.
coming……
He activated his lithification ability instantly, and turned around quickly.
A flash of fire flashed across the surface of his lithified skin, sparks from the rapid collision between a sharp blade and a rock. His clothes were torn apart, and a white mark was left on his lithified skin. It was a mortal body. This one, Enough to slice his entire chest open.
Cheng Kun's face did not show any waves, on the contrary, it revealed excitement.
The fish are hooked!